NSA at work: Do you have a secret “social profile?” NSA at work: Do you have a secret “social profile?” By Jon Rappoport October 2, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com Do you know a grape grower in France? An activist in England? NSA may have built an extensive social profile on you. The NY Times reports (9/28): “NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of US Citizens.”. It’s a long piece, and it’s pinned to the idea that the NSA can track US residents who are connected to “foreign citizens of interest.” Presumably this means the foreign citizens are suspected terrorists. As is often the case with the NY Times, the real nuggets are buried down deep in the story. Do NSA’s foreign targets have to be suspected terrorists? Boom. Get the picture? By implication, that means NSA could shape a social profile of any American with serious or casual ties to these politicians, business people, and activists. Next topic: When the NSA shapes a social profile of an American, how far can they go? Well, emails and phone records, right? How do you like it? But don’t worry.
Eric Schmidt: "We Know Where You Are. We Know Where You've Been. We Can More Or Less Know What You're Thinking About." (GOOG) Google CEO Eric Schmidt really has a knack for expressing relatively benign ideas in a way that makes him and his company look incredibly creepy. The Atlantic has posted video of the full interview in which Eric talked about 'the creepy line', and it is chock full of unsettling sound bytes. In particular, he had the following to say on privacy: With your permission, you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. That sounds absolutely terrifying. Check it out: Join the conversation about this story » See Also:
98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC (NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has once again been caught removing pertinent but indicting information about vaccines from its website. This time it involves the infamous polio vaccine, up to 98 million doses of which have been exposed as containing a cancer-causing virus that is now believed to be responsible for causing millions of cancers in America, according to the CDC. The information was posted on an official CDC fact sheet entitled Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine, which has since been removed from the CDC's website. Fortunately, RealFarmacy.com was able to archive the damning page before the CDC ultimately removed it, presumably because SV40 has been receiving considerable attention lately due to its connection to causing cancer. You can view the link to the original CDC page on SV40 and polio vaccines, which is no longer active, here: Sources for this article include:
Operation Sleeping Giant FISA Judge To Yahoo: If US Citizens Don't Know They're Being Surveilled, There's No Harm A legal battle between Yahoo and the government over the Protect America Act took place in 2008, but details (forced from the government's Top Secret file folders by FISA Judge Reggie Walton) are only emerging now. A total of 1,500 pages will eventually make their way into the public domain once redactions have been applied. The most recent release is a transcript [pdf link] of oral arguments presented by Yahoo's counsel (Mark Zwillinger) and the US Solicitor General (Gregory Garre). Zwillinger opens up the arguments by questioning the government's methods of determining who should be placed under surveillance. Why I show this to you is because I think it's a perfectly fair question for you to ask the Solicitor General of the United States how a name gets on this list. From this arbitrary beginning springs a wealth of errors. [REDACTED] of the accounts we have been given do not exist. The government's response begins by denying that US persons' data is retained. MR.
Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily (NaturalNews) Japan's nuclear watchdog has now declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a "state of emergency." Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it's now clear that TEPCO has engage in a two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude. "I believe it's been leaking into the ocean from the start of the crisis two-and-a-half years ago," disclosed a 12-year TEPCO veteran named Suzuki-san (SOURCE) "There are still reactor buildings we haven't gotten into yet," said another worker named Fujimoto-san. Just how out of control is the situation at Fukushima? "The workers' exposure above the neck was found to be as much as 10 becquerels per square centimeter," reports Bloomberg.com How exactly did highly radioactive water manage to find its way to a bus stop in the first place? To fully grasp the extent of the TEPCO denial, realize that only recently did the company finally admit that radioactive groundwater has been leaking into the ocean. P.S.
Getting Off The Globalist Chess Board: Safe Haven Relocation By Brandon Smith & Stewart Rhodes Special Note: This is the second part in our ‘Getting Off The Globalist Chessboard’ series. Go here to read Part I. As we noted in part one of this series: “To put it simply, America is nearing a checkmate scenario. Ideally, it would be grand if enough Americans across this nation would decouple from the fraudulent fiat system so that they and their communities could be sufficiently strong, independent, and resilient enough to weather the coming storm and walk out the other side free. Through this effort, we greatly improve our own chances, and equally important, the chances of our communities and our country. We also need to face the reality that an economic collapse is very likely to come before such a renaissance of preparedness will see the light of day. Some might say that in times like these, uncertainty reigns supreme. This is not to say that astounding strides have not been made. 5) Barter markets will become a foremost concern.
Australia’s metadata grab will create modern-day Stasi files Until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the East German state security service – the Stasi – conducted surveillance and kept files on a third of the country’s population. One of those people was activist and dissident Ulrike Poppe, whose communications and activities were spied on by Stasi operatives constantly for 15 years. Much of the data that is contained in Poppe’s Stasi files, compiled during the Cold War, would today be considered “telecommunications metadata”. From locations, movements and meetings to relationships, affiliations and associates. Today it can be easily gleaned from the mass aggregation and retention of data collected and processed by the telecommunications companies that facilitate almost every interaction, communication and action we make. Just like the spying perpetrated by the Stasi, metadata retention is a form of surveillance that is unacceptable in a democratic country. Blanket data retention is no less than state-sanctioned mass surveillance.
Emoji for Facebook Emooji is a lightweight and easy to use software utility that enables you to quickly add fun-looking emoticons in all the comments you post on Facebook, in just a few clicks, so you can impress everyone with your smileys. The application comes in a single EXE file, but functions as a browser extension. As such, after you run the installer, you will be able to use Emooji both in Google Chrome (you need to enable it first) and in Firefox.
Survival Friday: 50 Excuses For Not Prepping As smug as we may feel about our own prepping efforts, sometimes there is still a tendency to procrastinate a bit with one thing or another. I am not pointing any fingers, mind you, since I too fall victim of being overwhelmed by it all. The disorganized array of my food storage is just one case in point. I still don’t have a good inventory so what do I do? Still, for the most part, I keep plugging away, knowing that the economy is in shambles in spite of what our leaders say. Things, to me, are unsettling yet most people I know still see no need to start prepping at all. That brings me to the topic of today’s article: “50 Excuses for Not Prepping”. A while back, Michael Snyder came up with this list of excuses that people use when they say there is no need to prepare. 1. I don’t need to tell you that the vast majority of people simply assume that things will always work themselves out or that they will magically be immune to whatever crisis or calamity is headed our way. Gaye
To Nobody's Surprise, Australian “Terrorism” Law May Be Used for Copyright Enforcement As we foreshadowed, a new law requiring mandatory data retention by ISPs was introduced into the Australian federal parliament last week. In the few days since then, there have been claims and counter-claims about whether data obtained under the new law would be limited to use in fighting major crimes (such as terrorism, as the government originally claimed), or if it could be used to target citizens who download and share files online. The current party line, from flip-flopping Attorney-General George Brandis (whom some may remember from this train-wreck interview in which he attempted to define “metadata”) is that the new laws “can't be and they won't be” used to prosecute file sharers, because copyright infringement is only a civil offense. Except, of course, when it isn't. The only solution is the obvious one—not to require the collection and retention of the data in the first place.
Turmeric and myrhh protect against lead toxicity (NaturalNews) Lead is a ubiquitous industrial chemical and a potent neurotoxin. As such, lead toxicity remains a major public health concern worldwide. Fortunately, research suggests that turmeric root and myrrh can significantly mitigate lead's toxic effects on the body. In a study conducted by researchers from Alexandria University Research Development in Egypt and published in the journal Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology in 2006, mice were divided into five separate groups. One group was fed only a normal diet (negative control), while another was fed the same diet plus 0.5 percent w/w toxic lead acetate (positive control). The other three groups were also fed the lead acetate-supplemented diet, plus an additional 1 percent myrrh powder, 1 percent turmeric powder or 5 percent turmeric powder. Reducing lead damage Among its other functions, GST interacts with GSH to help detoxify cells. The benefits of healing plants Sources for this article include: