Snowden-dokumenter afslører dansk partnerskab med NSA. “United States of Secrets” - Trailer. Aired: 05/13/201402:56Rating: NR How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
In FRONTLINE’s “United States of Secrets,” a two-part series from Michael Kirk and Martin Smith premiering May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret... More. "No es cierto que el Liceo de Taoro sea una sociedad elitista" Entrevista > GABRIELA GULESSERIAN | La Orotava Su candidatura fue consecuencia de un vacío institucional que se generó ante la renuncia del anterior presidente y también candidato en las elecciones del Liceo de Taoro, Francisco Javier García Núñez, debido al rechazo mayoritario de la asamblea a comprar unos terrenos anexos al edificio.
Y aunque no pensó que iba a ser apoyada por la mayoría de los socios, lo cierto es que desde el 14 de marzo, la plancha que encabezó el arquitecto Fermín García Morales resultó la elegida para dirigir la institución. Los miembros de la nueva Junta Directiva tienen entre 37 y 44 años de edad y una formación variopinta, pero también un entusiasmo enorme de llevar a cabo todas las peticiones que les transmiten los socios y de situar al Liceo como una referencia cultural en la Isla. - ¿Cuáles son sus prioridades? - Hablando de espacio y como arquitecto, ¿no cree que el edificio principal está desaprovechado? - Abrir la sociedad era uno de sus compromisos. The U.S. Navy Just Announced The End Of Big Oil And No One Noticed - Surf’s up!
The Navy appears to have achieved the Holy Grail of energy independence – turning seawater into fuel: After decades of experiments, U.S. Navy scientists believe they may have solved one of the world’s great challenges: how to turn seawater into fuel. …The new fuel is initially expected to cost around $3 to $6 per gallon, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which has already flown a model aircraft on it. Curiously, this doesn’t seem to be making much of a splash (no pun intended) on the evening news. This technology is in its infancy and it’s already this cheap? I expect the GOP to go ballistic over this and try to legislate it out of existence. There are two other aspects to this story that have not been brought up yet: 1. If we pull out massive amounts of CO2, even if we burn it again, not all of it will make it back into the water. 2. And if we “leak” the technology? Why this is not a huge major story mystifies me.
Russia and China announce decoupling trade from Dollar - The End for the USA is nigh Russia has just dropped another bombshell, announcing not only the de-coupling of its trade from the dollar, but also that its hydrocarbon trade will in the future be carried out in rubles and local currencies of its trading partners - no longer in dollars - see Voice of Russia Russia's trade in hydrocarbons amounts to about a trillion dollars per year.
Other countries, especially the BRICS and BRCIS-associates (BRICSA) may soon follow suit and join forces with Russia, abandoning the 'petro-dollar' as trading unit for oil and gas. This could amount to tens of trillions in loss for demand of petro-dollars per year (US GDP about 17 trillion dollars - December 2013) - leaving an important dent in the US economy would be an understatement. Rising Seas - Interactive: If All The Ice Melted. NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained. Two factors opened the way for the rapid expansion of surveillance over the past decade: the fear of terrorism created by the 9/11 attacks and the digital revolution that led to an explosion in cell phone and internet use.
But along with these technologies came an extension in the NSA’s reach few in the early 1990s could have imagined. Details that in the past might have remained private were suddenly there for the taking. Chris Soghoian Principal technologist, ACLU NSA is helped by the fact that much of the world’s communications traffic passes through the US or its close ally the UK – what the agencies refer to as “home-field advantage”. The Snowden documents show that the NSA runs these surveillance programs through “partnerships” with major US telecom and internet companies. The division inside the NSA that deals with collection programs that focus on private companies is Special Source Operations, described by Snowden as the “crown jewels” of the NSA.
Jeremy Scahill. The New American. Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines.