Archive for July 13th, 2013

by Mike Masnick TechDirt.com Fri, Jul 12th 2013 Last year, well before all of the revelations concerning the NSA’s surveillance program, reporter James Bamford, who has a long history of reporting on the NSA’s questionable activities, revealed the details of the NSA’s massive data center in Bluffdale, Utah, which it was building to host... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 07/13/2013 The global fallout from the Snowden affair continues to reverberate following the latest news that four Latin American countries – Brazil, Argentina, Urugay and Venezuela – announced on Friday they would recall their ambassadors from the countries that blocked their airspace to Bolivia’s Evo Morales following false rumors he... »

WashingtonsBlog.com July 13, 2013 Most Americans Still Don’t Know that Federal Reserve Banks Are Private Corporations The country’s most powerful “agency” – the Federal Reserve – is actually no more federal than Federal Express. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1928: Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there... »

Investmentwatchblog.com July 13th, 2013 Unnamed U.S. officials tell CNN that Israel struck Russian-made missiles in Latakia, Syria last Friday. A series of explosions last week at a critical Syrian port was the result of airstrikes by Israeli warplanes, multiple U.S. officials told CNN on Friday. Regional media widely reported the predawn explosions at Latakia... »

RINF.com July 13, 2013 People are shocked by the scope of secret state spying on their private communications, especially in light of documentary evidence leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. While the public is rightly angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for... »

Financialstandard.com.au Friday, 12 July 2013 Gold may yet reach US$3000 an ounce, despite recent downward trends and a current level of around the US$1,200 mark, according to ETF Securities’ Graham Tuckwell. Speaking at an event at the ASX marking 10 years since ETF Securities launched the world’s first gold exchange traded product (ETP), Tuckwell... »

Sgtreport.com July 11th, 2013 Michael Savage Talks About A 60 Year Old Woman Brutally Attacked By Police Because She Wanted To Withdraw Cash From Her Bank Account. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SCQrJ2_FDfA »

Investmentwatchblog.com July 12th, 2013 Why did 2008 creep up on so many people? Weren’t there plenty of economists out there “preaching to the choir” at that time? Weren’t there plenty of signals? Weren’t there plenty of practical conclusions being made about the future? And yet, the world was left stunned. The truth is, human... »

Blacklistednews.com July 12, 2013 Will the nation’s largest public university system be militarized? And will stop and frisk be nationalized? The disturbing possibilities. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has announced that she’s headed to California, where she’ll be the president of the University of California school system. Twitter is already aflame with... »

By Helen Murphy Reuters.com Wed Jul 10, 2013 (Reuters) – Colombia called for answers from Washington on Wednesday after revelations the United States had spied on the Andean nation, its closest military ally in Latin America, as anger mounted in the region over U.S. intelligence gathering. Colombia’s foreign ministry said it “registered with concern”... »