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Wells Fargo Meeting Today With Philly Homeowner Who “Foreclosed” On Them (Here’s How He Did It)
(Kyle Cassidy) Wells Fargo is meeting today at noon with the Philadelphia homeowner who "foreclosed" on them, The Consumerist has exclusively learned. Patrick says he "received a call from upon high" late yesterday and that he now has an appointment, "with a very...
Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)
The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500...
Occupy Wall Street Strategy: Five Tactics That Built a Movement
The Occupy Wall Street movement had been going strong for over a week in September 2011, and its profile was rising rapidly across both independent and mainstream media. Despite early skepticism — including my own — about whether a small group of demonstrators could...
Breaking down the Black Budget
Dwight Eisenhower “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” – quote...
Awesome Marine Takes On 30 Cops In Wallstreet Faceoff 2011 “EPIC”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=By8MDDwNIvEA
A risky currency? Alleged $500,000 Bitcoin heist raises questions
Bitcoin, the decentralized virtual currency whose value has skyrocketed in recent weeks, faced a key test Monday as a veteran user reported that Bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from his computer. Ars Technica was unable to independently...
How Wall Street Donations Shaped the 2012 Presidential Race
The relationship between Wall Street money and electoral outcomes has been one of the most persistent features of American politics. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics consistently showed that candidates who raised the most money won approximately 90 percent...
Robin Hood Tax: How Occupy Wall Street Fell Into a Global Finance Trap
A protest movement that never managed to settle on a unified set of demands was always at risk of being steered toward objectives that served the very financial elite it claimed to oppose. That is precisely what happened when the Occupy movement embraced the so-called...
17 Expert Warnings That Predicted the Global Financial Crisis
In late 2011, warning signs of an approaching worldwide economic meltdown were impossible to ignore. Western nations had accumulated sovereign debt at levels never before seen in modern history, while financial markets operated like overleveraged gambling operations...
Why Nationalizing the Federal Reserve Could Transform America
Returning monetary authority to the federal government ranks among the most consequential economic reforms available to the United States. Such a move would free the nation from perpetual borrowing, create pathways to dramatically lower taxes, and set future...
How Big is the U.S. Debt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w-8fXzwQE&NR=1
George Carlin – Spreading The Truth
George Carlin tells it like it is.. "HEY! Wake Up! The corporations OWN YOU!"
‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’
#OccupyWallStreet - 'The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors' Last updated on October 11, 2011 at 9:47 am EDT by in5d Alternative News by Gregg Prescott, M.S. . www.in5d.com www.maya12-21-2012.com www.HolisticCancerResearch.com October 1, 2011 - TAMPA,...
The Montauk Project: One Man’s Story Featuring Stewart A. Swerdlow (1/3)
Red-hot ice cube by induction heating
I ran into a cool demonstration of non-contact heating. Huettinger, a German manufacturer of induction heating generators showed this ice cube running red-hot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwaPP9cxT4&feature=player_embedded
Cymatic experiment
A sandy mixture will form various shapes and patterns naturally through the vibration of sound & frequency. Finally SOUND can be SEEN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiSCBXbHAg
Anonymous To NATO: You Mad Bro?
Hello This Is Anonymous... This Message Is For You North Atlantic Treaty Organization... In Recent News On Your Report... Information and National Security" from General Rapporteur Lord Jopling of the UK discusses the potential good of social networks for...
Why gadget makers wield a ‘kill switch’
Phones from Google, left, and Apple have "kill switches" built into them that allow the companies to remotely delete software. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Apple, Google and Microsoft all have kill switches built into their phone software Google has used the capability only in...
When Secret Sats Spy on Us, Monsieur Legault Spies Back
From mysterious robotic space planes to giant spy satellites the size of school buses, space is teeming with secret American hardware meant to gaze down on insurgents, terrorists and, well, everybody on the third rock from the sun. For mere proles like you and me, it...
What is Visual Cryptography
Visual Cryptography is a special encryption technique to hide information in images in such a way that it can be decrypted by the human vision if the correct key image is used. The technique was proposed by Naor and Shamir in 1994. Visual Cryptography uses two...
Verifying Claims of Full-Disk Encryption in Hard Drive Firmware
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:16:11 +0100 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen[at]leitl.org> To: cypherpunks[at]al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Verifying Claims of Full-Disk Encryption in Hard Drive Firmware ----- Forwarded message from Tom Ritter...
Utah’s $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way
CAMP WILLIAMS — Thursday's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah's reputation as a technology center. "This will bring 5,000...
Unlike: Why Facebook Integration Is Actually Antisocial
Facebook really changed things up last week. Oh sure, it's as disrespectful of my privacy as ever, but now it's enlisted the entire web to help. So I'm done with anything that requires a Facebook login. Facebook made some big changes in terms of how things look and...
TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker
Donate $25 for two DVDs of the Cryptome collection of files from June 1996 to the present 16 April 2011. A sends: Roger Dingledine writes that the US Navy uses Tor for open source spying: http://idtrail.org/files/Dingledine%20-%20Tor.pdf 28 March 2011. Add comments...
The Surveillance Catalog
Where governments get their toolsRandom Document Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The...
The Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone
When the pilotless, wing-shaped warplane lifted off a runway at California’s Edwards Air Force Base for the first time on the morning of April 27, it was like the resurrection of the dead. The Boeing Phantom Ray — one of the most advanced drones ever built — came...
The People’s Skype – Distributed Voice & Voting for Occupy Movement
A phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement call 917-719-2006 The People's Mic works well for small General Assemblies, but in larger GAs, multiple echoes of the speaker's words is hard to follow. The People's Skype can help! Call...
How Australia Telstra and Optus Launched Voluntary Internet Censorship
Australia's Largest ISPs Agreed to Voluntary Web Censorship In 2011, Australia moved closer to becoming one of the few Western democracies with active internet content filtering when its two largest internet service providers — Telstra and Optus — confirmed they would...
Security flaw found in feds’ digital radios
Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security are designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children's toy, CNET has learned. A GirlTech IMME, Mattel's pink instant-messaging device with a miniature keyboard that's...
Scientists Read Brain Using MRI Machine And Recreate Movies Subjects Watched
Scientists demonstrate the ability to use an MRI machine to read brainwaves and brain activity and recreate movies watched by test subjects. I previously reported on scientists demonstrating the ability to upload, download and transfer memories and learned behavior...