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Anonymous Hacktivism: Why the Movement Is More Myth Than Menace
Anonymous Claims Another Government Data Breach In late May 2012, the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous once again declared victory over a federal institution. Individuals aligned with the movement announced they had extracted 1.7 GB of data from a Department...
Oldest Blood Cells Ever Found Discovered in Oetzi the Iceman
Ancient Blood Cells Discovered in 5,300-Year-Old Mummy In a breakthrough for both archaeology and forensic science, researchers announced the discovery of intact red blood cells in Oetzi, the remarkably preserved body of a man who died approximately 5,300 years ago in...
Study: Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than People Who Watch No News
University Study Finds Fox News Viewers Score Below Non-News Watchers A nationally representative study from Fairleigh Dickinson University confirmed what an earlier New Jersey-focused survey had suggested: Americans who relied exclusively on Fox News for current...
How Manufactured Consensus Shapes Collective Perception
The Architecture of Manufactured Consensus Modern societies operate within frameworks of shared belief that few individuals ever pause to examine. The information systems that shape public understanding, from broadcast news to entertainment media, function not merely...
Dr. Richard Crowe
Professor Dr. Richard Crowe, 60, died May 27 in an off-road accident in Arizona. Dr. Crowe came to UH Hilo 25 years ago and helped launch the University's undergraduate astronomy program with his numerous publications and co-authored works which added significantly to...
10 Genetically Modified Foods in Your Grocery Store and Why They Raise Health Concerns
The relationship between government regulatory agencies and the biotechnology industry has raised persistent questions about food safety oversight in the United States. When former Monsanto vice president Michael Taylor was appointed as senior adviser to the FDA in...
Breitbart Coroner Technician Found Dead of Suspected Arsenic Poisoning
LA County Coroner Technician Found Dead on Day of Breitbart Autopsy Release On April 20, 2012, veteran Los Angeles County coroner forensic technician Michael Cormier was found dead at the age of 61. His death coincided with the same day that city officials released...
RFK Second Shooter Witness: FBI Altered My Testimony
Eyewitness Challenges Official Account of RFK Shooting As a federal court prepared to evaluate a legal challenge to Sirhan Sirhan's conviction for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, a long-overlooked witness came forward with a dramatic claim: she heard gunfire from two...
Citizens United Super PACs and Dark Money in 2012 Elections
How Citizens United Reshaped the 2012 Campaign Finance Landscape The 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission fundamentally transformed how money flowed through American political campaigns. By the time the 2012 presidential race was...
Leonie Industries: Pentagon Propaganda Contractor Caught Targeting Journalists
Pentagon Propaganda Contractor Caught Targeting American Journalists In May 2012, the co-owner of Leonie Industries — a Pentagon propaganda contractor that had received at least $120 million in Defense Department contracts since 2009 — publicly admitted to...
Federal Surveillance of Occupy Wall Street: Inside the DHS Monitoring Campaign
When the NYPD cleared the Zuccotti Park encampment in downtown Manhattan in November 2011, many observers declared the Occupy movement effectively finished. Mainstream media coverage dwindled, and commentators attributed the decline to what they characterized as a...
Be Your Own Therapist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasIq4E9nNg We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing without question that happiness and suffering come from “out there.” In reality, Buddhist teachings explain that they come from the way we perceive and...
Bradley Manning Whistleblower Case: The Fight for Military Transparency
The Charges Against Bradley Manning PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, faced accusations of releasing classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. Among the materials attributed to him was the...
Understanding the Windows XP RPC DCOM Exploit and Its Security Lessons
Understanding how attackers exploit operating system vulnerabilities is fundamental to cybersecurity defense. One of the most historically significant examples involves the Windows XP RPC DCOM vulnerability, which demonstrated how a single unpatched buffer overflow...
Secrets of the CIA: Full Documentary
http://youtu.be/4RXPJmqkxmI This documentary explains how CIA pioneered, developed, manipulated prisoner abuse, sold drugs, changed regimes and killed millions of people worldwide Secrets of the CIA documents exactly what the title suggests it would. With $50...
U.S. War Veterans Throw Service Medals at NATO Summit in Chicago Protest
Veterans Renounce Service Medals at Chicago NATO Summit Nearly 50 U.S. military veterans gathered at an anti-NATO rally in Chicago on May 20, 2012, and threw their service medals into the street in a dramatic act of protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....
FBI Supplied Explosives in May Day Bridge Plot Against Ohio Anarchists
The May Day Bridge Plot: FBI Arrests Five Self-Described Anarchists On April 30, 2012, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested five individuals in Ohio on charges of conspiring to destroy a bridge near Cleveland. The arrests of Douglas L. Wright (age 26), Brandon...
Polish Beekeepers Dumped Thousands of Dead Bees at Ministry to Protest GMO Crops
Polish Beekeepers March on Warsaw With Dead Bees On March 15, 2012, more than 1,500 beekeepers and anti-GMO activists marched through the streets of Warsaw, Poland, culminating in the dramatic act of depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of...
Government Bulk Ammunition Purchases Sparked Civilian Shortage in 2012
Reports of Government Bulk Ammunition Purchases Surface in 2012 In early 2012, ammunition dealers across the United States began reporting that the federal government was purchasing massive quantities of military surplus ammunition, particularly in 5.56mm and .223...
CIA Drone Program: The Secret Everyone Knew but No One Could Officially Acknowledge
The CIA's drone strike program operated as one of the worst-kept secrets in American national security — acknowledged by senior officials in public statements yet shielded from legal scrutiny through claims that the program's very existence could neither be confirmed...
FBI Raids Barrett Brown Home in Escalating Anonymous Investigation
FBI Raids Home of Anonymous Spokesperson Barrett Brown In April 2012, federal agents executed a search warrant at the Dallas home of Barrett Brown, a journalist who had become the unofficial public voice of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. The raid marked a...
Terahertz Scanner Chip Could Turn Mobile Phones Into See-Through Imaging Devices
Terahertz Technology Turns Phones Into See-Through Scanners Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas developed a microchip capable of capturing images through walls, wood, plastics, and fabric using a previously untapped portion of the electromagnetic spectrum...
How the U.S. Government Harassed Filmmaker Laura Poitras at the Border for Six Years
Border Searches Without Warrants: A Growing Threat to Press Freedom Among the most troubling government overreach of the post-September 11 era was the practice of detaining American citizens at border crossings and airports without any suspicion of criminal activity....
Surveillance Cameras Now Powerful Enough to Read Text Messages on Phone Screens
Modern Surveillance Cameras Can Read Phone Screens From a Distance Surveillance camera technology has advanced to the point where operators can zoom in on individuals in a crowd and read the text displayed on their phone screens. This capability was demonstrated...
The Underground – A Hidden Reality and The True Story of Phil Schneider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWGsO0F3b8 Phil Schneider died in 1996. Previous to his death he had been on tour across the United States speaking out about various subjects including his involvement with building a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico for...
Monarch Mind Control: Origins, MK-ULTRA Connections, and Programming Techniques
Monarch programming refers to a reported method of covert psychological manipulation said to have evolved from the CIA's documented MK-ULTRA program. According to researchers and alleged survivors, the technique relies on inducing severe trauma to fragment a subject's...
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging – Full Movie (Documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlH9sV0lHU This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term...
Complete Guide to Anonymous Browsing: Tor, Encryption, and Operational Security
Digital privacy has become one of the most pressing concerns of the modern era. As surveillance capabilities expand across both government and corporate sectors, understanding the tools and techniques for maintaining anonymity online is no longer a niche interest — it...
James Casbolt Project IBIS: Examining Claims of Secret Space Programs and AI Warfare
Background on the Project IBIS Claims In January 2012, James Casbolt — also operating under the name Michael Prince — submitted a second installment of his testimony to Kerry Lynn Cassidy of Project Camelot. The material, titled "Life Extension: The Chronicles of...
Anonymous: Message to the NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGGmczY_WhA This is a message going out to you, the Holders. We are Anonymous. You know who you are. The men behind the curtain, the overlord pulling at the strings of your puppets. You hide and you plan and you scheme in the dark...