Cory Doctorow BoingBoing.net Tue, Nov 19, 2013 Doctor Beet was alarmed to notice that his LG TV was showing him ads on its home screen; he investigated and discovered a hidden, undocumented setting to switch off collection of his viewing habits. Still suspicious, he monitored the packets flowing from his TV’s network interface and... »
Archive for November 20th, 2013
LG TV phones home with your viewing habits, names of files you screen, even if you tell it not to
“It’s Going To End Ugly Unless The PBoC Changes Its Attitude To Liquidity”
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 11/20/2013 The big trouble in massive China that we discussed here is weighing heavily on the liquidity in the debt-fueled nation. As The FT reports, several banks have had to delay or dramatically reduce Chinese bond issues as the impact of a tight onshore credit market begins to be felt.... »
Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees
By JAMES GORDON MEEK, CINDY GALLI and BRIAN ROSS ABCNews.com Nov. 20, 2013 Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and... »
Obama Plotting to Train Islamic Libyan Forces as Chaos Mounts
by Alex Newman TheNewAmerican.com Monday, 18 November 2013 As Libya continues its deadly spiral into lawlessness and bloodshed — most recently illustrated when Islamist militias gunned down protesters in the capital city of Tripoli last week, or when the “prime minister” was kidnapped last month — the Obama administration has a new plan to... »
Another Day Brings More Historically Terrible Poll Numbers For Obama And Obamacare
BRETT LOGIURATO BusinessInsider.com NOV. 20, 2013 Another day, another “record low” for President Barack Obama in a new poll. This time, it’s in a CBS News survey released Wednesday. Obama’s approval rating sits at an all-time low of 37%, a 9-point drop in only a month. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, is 57% — the... »
A Few Signs That The Market’s About To Crash
CHARLEY BLAINE, BENZINGA BusinessInsider.com Nov. 20,2013 Let’s assume you think the stock market is about to stumble, and stumble badly. How can you see the top coming? Some argue the top is already staring everyone in the face. The Dow Jones industrials were up 21.15 percent for the year as of Thursday’s close, with... »
Retailers Brace For Weakest Holiday Season Since ’09… Stock Market Crash is Coming?!
Investmentwatchblog.com November 20th, 2013 SNIP Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is dangling a 32-inch flat-screen TV for $98, down from $148 last year. Sears Holdings Corp. has waived layaway fees and its Kmart chain is introducing a rent-to-own program. More than a dozen retailers are opening earlier, or for the first time, on Thanksgiving Day. Among... »
Police Shoot and Kill Man Watering His Lawn
by: Kevin Lake FreePatriot.org November 19, 2013 The shoot first and ask questions never attitude of many law enforcement officers (LEO’s) working within the United Police State of America has gone too far. This time, they’ve gunned down a man for watering his lawn. Back in 2010, neighbors of Long Beach, California (are we... »
The Threat From the Military and Secret Police
By Jack D. Douglas LewRockwell.com November 20, 2013 Sacred Monarchs have been overthrown by military leaders throughout all 5,000 years of statism. Caesarism is ancient. Bonapartism is the modern version of Caesarism. We see it happening every day in the world’s media. The Egyptian Army and secret police just overthrew the first elected, democratic... »
Father Arrested For Trying to Pick Kids Up From School
“You don’t need a reason as a parent to go get your children, they are our children” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com November 20, 2013 A father was arrested for attempting to pick his kids up from school in a startling new example of how the state is increasingly treating children as its own... »