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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
Is The U.S. Military Is Officially Preparing A False-Flag Alien Invasion!?
http://youtu.be/swjR00H2Jm0 A member of the U.S. Air Command with special clearance of White House, spoke earlier this Sunday, during an interview apparently aired only by Australian MSM, about the official plans of the U.S. military to fight a hostile alien invasion....
Corrupted Companies Supporting Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
H.R. 3523 - Letters of Support AT&T Boeing BSA Business Roundtable CSC COMPTEL CTIA - The Wireless Association Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association Edison Electric EMC Exelon Facebook The Financial Services Roundtable IBM Independent Telephone &...
Obama Executive Order on National Defense Resources: Peacetime Seizure of All U.S. Resources
Executive Order on National Defense Resources Preparedness: What It Actually Claims In March 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order titled "National Defense Resources Preparedness" that significantly expanded the claimed scope of executive authority over...
Ben Breedlove: The Teenager Who Described His Near-Death Experiences Before Dying
A Teenager's Account of What He Experienced When His Heart Stopped In December 2011, eighteen-year-old Ben Breedlove of Austin, Texas posted a video to YouTube that would be viewed millions of times. Using handwritten note cards held up to the camera, the teenager...
Was Nikola Tesla Murdered by Nazi SS Agent Otto Skorzeny
The Mysterious Death of a Visionary Inventor Nikola Tesla stands among the most extraordinary minds in human history. Widely regarded by modern scholars as "the father of physics," "the man who invented the twentieth century," and "the patron saint of modern...
16 Suppressed Facts About Iran the US Government Downplayed for Decades
The push for military confrontation with Iran has been a recurring theme in Western foreign policy for decades. Yet a closer examination of historical context, intelligence assessments, and geopolitical realities reveals a far more complex picture than the one...
INFOGRAPHIC: Monsanto Overlapping Corporate & Governement Interests
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Alien Dentures: Eww Put Those Back
Arizona HB 2549: The Electronic Speech Censorship Bill That Threatened First Amendment Rights
Arizona HB 2549: Criminalizing Online Speech In 2012, the Arizona legislature passed House Bill 2549, a measure that would have expanded the state's existing telephone harassment statute to cover the internet and all electronic communications. The bill's language was...
Bain Capital and Chinese Surveillance: How Romney-Founded Firm Profited from Mass Monitoring
In December 2011, a fund managed by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, acquired the video surveillance division of a Chinese technology company. The newly formed entity, Uniview Technologies, claimed to be the largest supplier to China's...