Monthly Archives: June 2013
Swiss banksters aid in money laundering, tax evasion
A French judge on Thursday placed UBS AG, the Swiss parent company, under formal investigation on suspicion that it illegally sold banking services to French citizens that helped them to set up secret accounts abroad. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/ubs-under-investigation-for-tax-evasion-in-france/?ref=world The Swiss bank also was identified as an ‘‘assisted witness,’’ a less serious status, in a concurrent investigation of […]
US domestic surveillance program laid bare
Imagine if the government required every American to report to the government every night who they spoke to, or texted, for how long, and from where. People would be furious, but that’s precisely the information the N.S.A. is collecting from telecom companies. And it’s precisely why the government desperately wanted to keep the practice a […]
US attempts to sidestep domestic surveillance issue
The federal government admits to have been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas for nearly six years from the nation’s largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/nsa-verizon-calls.html?pagewanted=all The confirmation of the classified program came just hours after government officials acknowledged a separate seven-year effort to sweep up records of telephone calls […]
Alternative media uncovers domestic spy program
Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and longtime blogger, published an article in the British newspaper The Guardian about the existence of a top-secret court order allowing the National Security Agency to monitor millions of telephone logs. An N.S.A. program, Prism, that has gathered information from the nation’s largest Internet companies going back nearly six years. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/business/media/anti-surveillance-activist-is-at-center-of-new-leak.html?pagewanted=all […]
US secret surveillance program becomes public
The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?hp The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, […]
Potential GMO spread alarming
Even with extensive precautions, gene-altered plants turn up in unwanted places regularly enough that farmers have come to consider a few of them weeds, and even a threat to their livelihood. Experts say the boom in so-called transgenic crops should prompt even more careful evaluation of future varieties with an eye to the prospect that […]
NWO looks to build global DNA database
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they had agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/health/global-partners-agree-on-sharing-trove-of-genetic-data.html?ref=world Millions more people are expected to get their genes decoded in coming years, and the fear is that […]
Your WiFi can see you
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognise human gestures based on how they affect wi-fi signals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22780640 They say the WiSee system offers a “simpler, cheaper” alternative to Microsoft’s camera-based Kinect and other specialist gesture sensors.The team say a wireless router can be used to detect related changes in wi-fi signals […]
US regulatory agency allows dangerous infant research
The federal Office for Human Research Protections announced on Wednesday that it would suspend action against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which it said in March did not adequately inform parents about the risks to their premature infants of enrollment in a large research trial. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/health/watchdog-halts-action-on-researchers.html?ref=us At the center of the uproar, which has […]
TSA profiling in misguided security effort
As a result of the T.S.A.’s ineffective oversight of the program, it “cannot ensure that passengers at U.S. airports are screened objectively,” The T.S.A.’s “behavioral detection program” is supposed to rely on security officers who pull aside passengers who exhibit what are considered telltale signs of terrorists for additional screening and questioning. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/us/report-says-tsa-screening-program-not-objective.html?ref=us It is […]
As US lifts sanctions, Myanmar kills muslim women
At least three women from the Rohingya minority were killed when police fired on protesters in Burma’s Rakhine state. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22780085 The women – one of whom was pregnant – were protesting because the authorities were planning to move them to another temporary camp. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims remain displaced in the wake of […]
Mind controlled robots
Researchers have harnessed the power of thought to guide a remote-control helicopter through an obstacle course. The demonstration joins a growing number of attempts to translate the electrical patterns of thoughts into motions in the virtual and real world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22764978 Those thoughts, such as that of making a fist with the left hand, are then […]
UK sprays aerial poison on forest
Birds, bats and rare insects were affected by UK Forestry Commission aerial sprays to kill a moth larvae. It was the first aerial spraying of its kind in the UK and was considered more effective than ground treatments as the caterpillars are attracted to leaves at the top of the trees, the Forestry Commission said. […]
Despite decriminalization, black pot smokers still targeted
Black Americans were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested on charges of marijuana possession in 2010, even though the two groups used the drug at similar rates, according to new federal data. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/marijuana-arrests-four-times-as-likely-for-blacks.html?ref=us This disparity had grown steadily from a decade before, and in some states, including Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, […]
Two countries left for Coca-Cola and capitalism to conquer
Coca-Cola has opened a bottling plant in Burma – the first time it has had a production facility there for more than 60 years. The world’s largest soft-drink maker is one of the first US firms to invest in Burma following Washington’s decision to suspend sanctions against the country. There are now only two countries where […]
Afghans shot protesting deaths at US base
Soon after family members found what they believe are the bodies of the last three people still missing out of 17 Afghan men detained by an American Special Forces team in Wardak Province, another tragedy found them: they said one person was killed and another was critically wounded on Tuesday when Afghan Army troops opened […]
NATO to assume security role in Nothern Africa
Libya has been bedeviled by instability since a NATO air campaign helped topple the country’s longtime dictator. Now NATO is sending a team of experts to Libya to assess how the alliance can provide security assistance. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/world/africa/nato-to-send-team-to-libya-to-assess-security-aid.html?hp&_r=0 The overthrow of Colonel Qaddafi’s autocratic government has left the new government struggling to fill a security vacuum. […]
US Supreme Court backs DNA database for citizens
“Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your D.N.A. can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna-samples.html?ref=us The point of D.N.A. testing as it is actually practiced, he said, is to solve cold cases, not to identify the suspect […]
The China political experiment suits globalists
Shuanghui is a $7 billion behemoth that is the dominant sausage maker and pork processor in China. The company is now seeking to complete the biggest Chinese acquisition ever of an American company. Behind the bid was a group of savvy investors and global deal makers who hold a substantial stake in the Chinese company: […]
Dirty Babylon 
Sheeple renounce 4th amendment
People were not upset to learn that the government might be tracking their telephone calls, Facebook posts and Yahoo accounts. The news that the government might be looking in too was often something short of a surprise. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/many-americans-appear-resigned-to-surveillance.html “If people think the government hasn’t been monitoring whatever they want to, whenever they want to they […]