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Obama to Citizens of Ferguson: Carrying a Gun ‘Undermines Justice’
With National Guard now stationed in Ferguson, Missouri as the riots and protests there continue over the shooting death of an unarmed teen by police, Obama held a press conference where he said that
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New App Reveals How Your Smartphone Can Spy on You Without Permission
Your Android phone can be turned into a microphone without your permission or knowledge. All that’s needed are the gyros in your phone that measure orientation. Stanford researchers have shown how to rewire them
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Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise is on the run from the law, but is unable to avoid detection because everywhere he goes there are constant retina scans feeding his location
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Ferguson cops beat innocent man, then charged him with bleeding on their uniforms
The officer-involved shooting death of teenager Michael Brown this week and the subsequent protests across the United States have rekindled interest in another case of alleged excessive force blamed on the Ferguson, Missouri Police
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Martin Armstrong Warns “We Are Witnessing The Collapse Of Democracy”
Part of the war cycle is just the general feeling or attitude shifts due to economics. We seem to be headed for such a fateful turn. The police domestically have turned militaristic
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5 Big Brother Technologies for Tracking and Surveilling Children
Without much of a mentionable public debate about the implementation of police state surveillance and tracking technologies in our society, we are quickly moving into an era where personal liberty and privacy do not
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DOCUMENT: Homeland Security Predicts Rise of ‘Anti-Government’ Violence
A leaked document from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis predicts increased “anti-government violence over the next year.” The document says the inspiration for violence is Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville standoff
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Ferguson shooting: US police armed with 93,763 new machine guns
If Ferguson, Missouri, looks like a war zone, that may be because its police force is armed to the teeth with military equipment. In photographs from this week’s protests, officers can be seen toting
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Google Is Following You: This Is How To Turn It Off
Google's location data from my move to New York. If you have a Gmail account or use any of Google's apps, there's a good chance Google has some of your location data stored in its
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Elon Musk Says Artificial Intelligence Could Be ‘More Dangerous Than Nukes’
When Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, comments on the future, ears in the tech space perk up. But a weekend mini-rant from the futurist drew the attention of even some non-techies
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Many Americans Renounce Citizenship, Hitting New Record
It may seem like a drop in the bucket, especially when droves want to immigrate to America. Still, the newly published names of individuals who renounced their U.S. citizenship or terminated long-term U.S. residency
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Police Can Seize Your Property With Little Reason; Opens Door to Corruption, Say Experts
Congressman Timothy Walberg and Sen. Rand Paul introduce bills to reform federal asset civil forfeiture laws Under civil asset forfeiture laws in the United States, police can seize your property if they can connect it,
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Israel identified as top spying threat to US in NSA document
A newly published US national security document shows that the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2007 singled out Israel as a top spying threat to the United States
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The overcriminalization of American people
Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing
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Google tipped off police over emailed child abuse images
Google’s system to automatically scan for child abuse images extends to email, a US detective has revealed, using it to help police arrest a man in Houston A tip-off from Google about the contents of
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NULLIFICATION: GET TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS NOW
With more than half of the primaries over and nearly every single incumbent, both parties, having won, if the trend continues, we will end up with virtually the same U.S. House of Representatives. The
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Are you Ready for Nuclear War?
Are you ready for war—including possibly nuclear war—between the United States, Europe, and Russia? That is the question that everyone should be asking him- or herself in light of the developments since the destruction
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‘Pocket drones’: U.S. Army developing tiny surveillance tools for the next big war
Future U.S. Army soldiers sent into combat may have a brand new tool at their disposal: the pocket drone. The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts is developing a “pocket-sized
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5 Online Privacy Tools You Can Start Using Now To Bypass NSA Surveillance
Now more than than ever, we need to be smart about how we communicate online. The NSA’s PRISM program is continuously collecting all of our personal data from the world’s top online services including
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Hunger in America: 1 in 7 rely on food banks
truther August 20, 2014 0When Mary Smallenburg, 35, of Fort Belvoir, Va., opened a package from her mother to find cereal and ramen noodles, she burst into tears. Without it, she wouldn't be able to feed her four
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