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Federal Government Reverses Fluoride Stance After Scientific Data Reveals Health Risks
How Federal Agencies Were Forced to Lower Fluoride Recommendations Water fluoridation was introduced across the United States in the 1940s, originally conceived as a method to repurpose industrial waste from aluminum manufacturing. The waste product was expensive to...
Inside Facebook Content Moderation: Outsourced Workers and Privacy Risks
The Hidden Workforce Behind Social Media For hundreds of millions of users, Facebook is a mundane experience — status updates about commutes, friend requests from long-lost acquaintances, and an endless stream of baby photos. With approximately four billion pieces of...
The Rise of the Hacktivist
Rise of the Hacktivist: From /b, to Scientology, to the Arab Spring, Through HBGary up to LulzXmas
FLASHBACK: Testimony on CIA Heart Attack Gun
http://youtu.be/HmoRkhwHrR4 A CIA secret weapon used for assassination shoots a small poison dart to cause a heart attack, as explained in Congressional testimony in the short video below. By educating ourselves and others on vitally important matters like this, we...
How Ithiel de Sola Pool Predicted the Digital Copyright Crisis in 1984
A Scholar Who Saw the Digital Copyright Crisis Coming Ithiel de Sola Pool was a political scientist and communications theorist at MIT whose work in the early 1980s anticipated with remarkable accuracy the copyright conflicts that would define the internet age. His...
Space Station Passes Over Stormy Africa
http://youtu.be/GxH3Pnknhps This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken December 29, 2011 from 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on a pass from over central Africa, near southeast Niger, to the...
Government Secrecy and the Hidden Architecture of Unaccountable Power
The Culture of Secrecy in American Government Government secrecy has long served as a mechanism to shield not only legitimate national security operations but also institutional misconduct, financial crimes, and policy failures from public scrutiny. The boundary...
Sapelo Shell Ring Complex: Ancient Georgia Settlement Predating the Pyramids
The Sapelo Shell Ring Complex: A Pre-Pyramid Settlement On Sapelo Island, located six hours southeast of Atlanta off the Georgia coast, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement that predates the Egyptian pyramids. Known as the Sapelo Shell...
Speech-Jamming Gun: The Device That Can Silence You From 100 Feet Away
Japanese researchers developed a handheld device capable of disrupting a person's ability to speak from distances of over 30 meters. The device, which resembled a directional gun, exploited a well-documented psychological phenomenon known as Delayed Auditory Feedback...
WikiLeaks Cables Exposed US Trade Retaliation Against Nations Opposing Monsanto GMO Crops
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal US Trade Pressure Over GMO Crops Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks exposed a pattern of the United States government pressuring foreign nations that resisted genetically modified crops produced by Monsanto and other biotech companies. The...
How the FBI Turned Anonymous Leader Sabu Into an Informant
The Unmasking of Sabu: When Anonymous Met the FBI In March 2012, the hacking world was shaken by the revelation that Hector Xavier Monsegur — known online as "Sabu," a prominent figure in the hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec — had been secretly working as...
Orange County Sheriff Kills US Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr. In Front Of His Children
http://youtu.be/Evg4xppTEPg Marine Sergeant Manuel Loggins Jr. was shot and killed by an Orange County Sheriff's deputy in the parking lot at San Clemente high school. According to the Sheriff's department the deputy watched Loggins crash through
U.S. Special Operations Surveillance Plane Crashes in Djibouti, Killing Four Airmen
In February 2012, a U.S. Air Force special operations surveillance aircraft crashed near Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, killing all four service members on board. The single-engine U-28A had been returning from an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in...
Judge Naomi Buchwald: Corrupted By Monsatno
On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v. Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Her ruling to dismiss the case...
Hacking History: Anonymous & Wikileaks Correlated
CIA Fast and Furious Operation Armed Mexican Drug Cartels
A wave of investigative reporting in 2011 revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply entangled in the U.S. federal government's notorious "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-walking program, while multiple agencies simultaneously facilitated narcotics...
Federal Agencies Accused of Blocking Border Patrol Access
Security analysts and former enforcement officials raised alarms in early 2012 that federal land management policies were effectively creating safe corridors for smugglers and unauthorized border crossers across vast stretches of the American Southwest. Multiple...
FBI Sting Operations: Manufacturing Terror Plots to Thwart
Over the course of the past decade, a troubling pattern emerged within American law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly announced the disruption of domestic terrorism plots — plots that, upon closer examination, the Bureau itself had conceived,...
Appeals Court: No Forced Decryption
Privilege Against Self-Incrimination Applies to Act of Decrypting Data San Francisco - A federal appeals court has found a Florida man's constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the first time...
How the USDA Fast-Tracked Monsanto GMO Seed Approvals
USDA Announces Accelerated GMO Approval Process In a move that raised serious questions about food safety oversight, the USDA announced plans to dramatically speed up the regulatory review process for genetically modified seeds produced by companies like Monsanto....
Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After WikiLeaks Disclosures
Nobel Nomination for the WikiLeaks Source In February 2012, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Manning had been accused of orchestrating one of the largest leaks of classified information in American military history, providing...
The 2012 Wave of Global Banking and Government Resignations Explained
A Wave of Banking and Government Resignations in Late 2011 and Early 2012 Between late 2011 and early 2012, an unusual concentration of high-profile resignations occurred across the global banking sector and government leadership. While executive turnover is a normal...
Anonymous Delivers Stratfor Intelligence Emails to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks Publishes Millions of Stratfor Intelligence Emails On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks launched the publication of The Global Intelligence Files — a massive trove of more than five million internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence firm....
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MAP: CIA Interventions Since World War II
invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing "news" … economic and political sanctions ... death squads …...
THROWBACK: Ron Paul Confirms CIA Drug Trafficking
http://youtu.be/SBh_hzU-jdI Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report concluded that members of the U.S. State Department “who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking…and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received...
Italian Police Seize Trillion in Counterfeit US Treasury Bonds
Record $6 Trillion in Counterfeit US Treasury Bonds Seized In February 2012, Italian police announced the seizure of fake US Treasury bonds with a face value of approximately $6 trillion, making it one of the largest counterfeit securities hauls in history. The amount...
The NSA – Behind The Curtain
By Deep_Thought Say hello to Mr Computer... As promised, today we will take an in-depth examination of the NSA's global intelligence gathering network. What you are about to read will come as an eye-opener and represents the current state of the NSA's capabilities....
US Soldiers Seen Using Invisibility Cloaking
http://youtu.be/7zKQe-1BUFQ US Solders video taped using see-thru camouflage aka invisibility cloaking which the government has denied for years.
The Monsanto Executive Who Became Obama’s Food Safety Czar
The Monsanto-Government Pipeline The appointment of former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor to a senior food safety role in the Obama administration raised serious questions about corporate influence over federal regulatory agencies. Taylor, who had served as...