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Court: Telecoms never challenged NSA orders

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PressTV.ir - 9/18/13

 

Telecommunications companies have never challenged the US government's orders to turn over records in the National Security Agency's spying program, according to a secret court's opinion that was signed last month and released Tuesday.


A Justice Department official confirmed the validity of the court’s opinion that no telecom company has challenged the legality of an order for records.

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New Iraqi Protest Movement Targets Corrruption

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Al Monitor - Harith Hasan, 9/11/13

 

Protesters demand that the pensions of parliamentarians be canceled during a demonstration in Kerbala, Aug. 31, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed)

 

The fact is that Iraq is a rentier country where the political elite oversees the distribution of oil revenues in a way that serves its interests. An equitable relationship between taxation and representation does not exist in rentier states, where the ruling elite practically turn into owners that distribute the wealth as it sees fit, while the people become dependent on donations from the rulers.

Corporate Propaganda – Fox News Sells Fracking as ‘Incredibly Good for Our Environment”

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Waking Times - 9/16/13, Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer

 

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Recently on Fox News, Alex Epstein, the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, and author of the book, Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet, argues in favor of hydraulic gas fracturing, or fracking, as it has become known. This is the technique of extracting natural gas and oil from layers of underground shale rock by pressure-injecting an undisclosed mixture of water and chemicals deep into the ground.

 

Golden Eye-style energy beam is developed by Nato scientists

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The Telegraph - Richard Gray, 9/12/13

 

The researchers, who are working as part of Nato’s Science and Technology Organisation, have also demonstrated it can disable jet skis and drones.

An energy beam that can be fired to disable vehicles and electronic devices has been developed by Nato scientists.

The device uses an intense pulse of electromagnetic energy that can be directed at a moving vehicle to interfere with the electronics on board.

More: Telegraph.co.uk

 

The Grand Illusion

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The Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album by Styx, released on July 7, 1977. It launched the band to stardom, spawning the hit singles "Come Sail Away" and "Fooling Yourself", and selling over three million copies in the US.

 

NSA director inherited Star Trek digs

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The Washington Post - Emily Heil, 9/16/13

 

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We’ve been hearing a lot about that Star Trek-esque command center run by now-NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander when he was leading the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.

But while the spy chief seemed to enjoy a  Captain Kirk-worthy facility at Fort Belvoir, Va., which was reportedly the creation of a Hollywood set designer, it turns out that the command center was already in place when he took the job. It was built, sources tell our colleague Ellen Nakashima, in 1998. Alexander took over the post in 2001.

More: Washington Post.com

 

Manipulating the Market: Major Players Received Data Earlier

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Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi, 9/05/13

16 Major Firms May Have Received
Early Data From Thomson Reuters

The Thomson Reuters headquarters building in New York City.
The Thomson Reuters headquarters building in New York City.
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Rosenblum learned that his employers at Thomson Reuters, who had a contract with the University of Michigan to release the data, were releasing the data in three "tiers."

 

This is all spelled out explicitly in the contract between Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan, an excerpt of which was ultimately included as an exhibit in Rosenblum's wrongful termination suit:

 

48 Percent Of Americans Believe UFOs Could Be ET Visitations

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Huffington Post - 9/11/13, Lee Speigel

 

48 percent of americans believe in ufos

A HuffPost/YouGov poll reveals that 48 percent of adults in the United States are open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet -- and just 35 percent outright reject the idea.

"It's always been intriguing to me how we act as though only kooks and quacks and little old ladies in tennis shoes believe in flying saucers. And it's never been true, at least for 30 or 40 years," said former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who was the original civilian investigator of the events surrounding the legendary Roswell, NM, UFO crash of 1947.

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