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Pentagon Proposal to Disguise Military Spies as Civilian Businessmen
Pentagon Pushes for Military Operatives Under Commercial Cover The Pentagon submitted a formal proposal to Congress seeking expanded legal authority that would allow U.S. military personnel to operate overseas under the guise of civilian business activities. The...
How Senate Bill 1813 Could Allow the IRS to Indirectly Revoke Gun Rights
Senate Bill 1813 and Its Hidden Implications for Gun Owners In 2012, the U.S. Senate passed Bill 1813, officially titled the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act." While ostensibly a transportation bill, analysts who examined its 1,676 pages identified...
Smartphone Vibrations Transmitted Through Bone Could Replace Door Keys
Sending Digital Keys Through the Human Body AT&T Labs computer scientist Brian Amento demonstrated a prototype system that turns a smartphone into a biometric door key. The mechanism works by transmitting inaudible vibrations from a phone, through the user's skeleton,...
Mysterious Witness Deaths: 10 Key Figures Who Knew Too Much
Throughout history, individuals who possessed critical firsthand knowledge of significant events have met untimely and suspicious ends. Whether they were eyewitnesses to assassinations, insiders within government intelligence programs, or journalists exposing...
Psilocybin Quiets Key Brain Regions Linked to Depression
When people describe a psilocybin experience, they often reach for words like "mind-expanding" and "consciousness-altering." Scientists at Imperial College London decided to look inside the brain during these experiences to understand what was actually happening at a...
Owe The IRS? Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in...
The CARET Program: Alleged Reverse-Engineering of Extraterrestrial Self-Executing Technology
The CARET Program: An Alleged Insider's Account of Reverse-Engineered Extraterrestrial Technology In June 2007, an anonymous individual using the pseudonym "Isaac" released a detailed account of his alleged participation in a classified 1980s program called CARET...
FBI Communities Against Terrorism Flyers Turned Everyday Businesses Into Surveillance Posts
The FBI and Department of Justice produced a series of 25 flyers under the "Communities Against Terrorism" initiative, designed to be distributed to businesses across a wide range of industries. These documents instructed employees and business owners on how to...
Why Anonymous Was a Protest Movement, Not a National Security Threat
The U.S. Government Framed Anonymous as a National Security Threat Beginning around 2011, U.S. government agencies began classifying Anonymous — the decentralized online protest movement — as a potential threat to national security. General Keith Alexander, who led...
Five Documented Facts About Power, Surveillance, and Secrecy in America
The Private Prison Industry in the United States The American prison system has long functioned as a profit-driven enterprise. Private corporations operate over 200 correctional facilities across the country, and many of these companies are publicly traded on the New...
GMOs and the Myth of Feeding the World: What the Numbers Actually Show
The Nine Billion Question As global food prices have reached record levels, triggering unrest and political instability in multiple regions, one projection dominates the conversation: by 2050, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion, up from just...
FBI Surveillance of Peaceful Environmental and Anti-Fracking Activists
FBI Investigation of Anti-Fracking Activists In March 2012, reporting by the Washington Post revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as potential security threats. Rising Tide North Texas,...
Wall Street Corruption Beyond Goldman Sachs: Conflicts of Interest Exposed
The resignation letter heard around the financial world in March 2012 put Goldman Sachs under an uncomfortable spotlight, but the predatory behavior it described was never confined to a single institution. The entire Wall Street ecosystem operated on a model where...
Did Eisenhower Meet With Extraterrestrials? The Claims and Evidence
The Persistent Claim: Eisenhower Met With Extraterrestrials One of the most enduring stories in UFO lore involves the claim that President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly met with extraterrestrial beings during the 1950s. While no definitive proof has ever surfaced to...
The Science of Intelligent Energy: How Your Thoughts and Feelings Shape Reality
The development of a human being represents one of nature's most extraordinary engineering achievements, a process so intricate that it challenges our deepest understanding of biology, energy, and consciousness. At the center of this remarkable design lies an organ...
Simon Parkes: The UK Councillor Who Claims Lifelong Alien Contact
A Local Councillor's Extraordinary Claims Simon Parkes, a Labour Party councillor elected to Whitby Town Council in North Yorkshire in February 2012, made headlines by publicly claiming to have experienced hundreds of encounters with extraterrestrial beings throughout...
9/11 Insider Trading: Put Options and Financial Evidence
Did individuals with advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks exploit financial markets for profit? An investigation into put option trading, surveillance software, and the paper trail that regulators chose not to follow. PROMIS Software: The Intelligence...
How Monsanto Lawsuit Threats Killed Vermont GMO Labeling Bill
When Vermont legislators considered a bill requiring mandatory labels on genetically modified food, they ran into an obstacle that had nothing to do with science or public opinion. Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant, threatened to sue the state if the...
Israeli-Linked Firms Wiretap America for the NSA
The NSA's Massive Expansion After 9/11 In a period of extraordinary growth, the National Security Agency embarked on a construction spree that reshaped the American intelligence landscape. NSA Director General Keith Alexander traveled the country inaugurating one...
Kandahar Massacre Investigation: Did Sgt. Robert Bales Act Alone or Were There Accomplices
The Kandahar Massacre: Official Narrative vs. Afghan Eyewitness Accounts The question is as old as American military controversies themselves: was a horrific act of violence the work of a single disturbed individual, or were there accomplices who have never been...
Homeland Security Repeatedly Detained and Harassed Filmmaker Laura Poitras
A Filmmaker Detained Dozens of Times at U.S. Borders Laura Poitras, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose work examined the consequences of the War on Terror, was subjected to systematic harassment by the Department of Homeland Security every time she returned to...
How Data Mining Works: Techniques, Privacy Risks, and Why It Matters
What Data Mining Actually Is and Why It Matters Data mining is the process of using automated algorithms to discover meaningful patterns, relationships, and anomalies within massive datasets. It sits at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and machine...
Soldiers With No Name: The War Zone Documentary on Anonymous and Commander X
Greek Television Produced a Major Anonymous Documentary In March 2012, the Greek television program War Zone aired a two-part documentary titled "Soldiers With No Name," offering one of the first in-depth television examinations of the Anonymous hacktivist collective....
Facebook Secretly Read Smartphone Users’ Text Messages in 2012
Facebook Caught Accessing Users' Private Messages In early 2012, an investigation by The Sunday Times of London revealed that Facebook had been quietly reading the text messages of smartphone users who installed the company's mobile application. The social media giant...
Michigan Invasive Species Order Targets Heritage Pigs on Family Farms
In the spring of 2012, Michigan's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rolled out a sweeping Invasive Species Order (ISO) that effectively reclassified heritage-breed pigs — the same animals small family farms had raised for generations — as illegal "feral" wildlife....
How Law Enforcement Used Commercial Tools to Crack iPhone Passcodes
How Law Enforcement Bypassed iPhone Passcodes A four-digit iPhone passcode might deter a casual snoop, but in 2012, law enforcement agencies had access to commercial tools that could crack that security in remarkably little time. A Swedish firm called Micro...
‘Government’ as explained to an Alien Visitor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUS1m5MSt9k An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government",...
CIA & Mossad Death Squads Exposed In Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWItcSRrM8 "We want the Syrian Army to come into Homs." "We want the Syrian Army posted on the roofs of the houses, with helicopters and tanks." "Stop these snipers from killing us." ~ The Residents of Homs, Syria. Moscow has accused...
Qorvis Communications: The DC Lobbying Firm That Managed PR for Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
Qorvis Communications, a Washington D.C.-based public relations and lobbying firm, built its business around some of the most controversial clients in international politics. Founded in 2000 through the merger of three smaller firms, with powerhouse law firm Patton...
Ben Franklin’s Unlearned Lesson of 9/11: The Theory of ‘Duh’
Disarming Innocent People, Does Not Protect Innocent People