VIDEO: DEA misled Congress about deadly 2012 attacks in Honduras

(RT) An investigation has found that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about a series of fatal incidents in Honduras in 2012, including the shooting of four civilians in the central American country.

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WikiLeaks’ Assange defies warnings, will publish any evidence of corruption

(RT) Responding to comments from newly elected Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno warning Julian Assange not to ‘interfere’ in South American politics, WikiLeaks’ founder said Ecuador can be “confident” that any evidence of corruption will still be published.

Speaking at a ceremony at the Cochasqui archeological site in the Northern Andes on Thursday, President Moreno “respectfully” called on Assange “not to interfere in Ecuadorian politics, nor in the politics of its allies.”

“His status does not allow him to talk about the politics of any country, let alone ours,” he said, according to CapitalNews.
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Posted on Friday, May 26, 2017 / 0 comments / Read More

Police strike leaves 90 dead, Brazilian city in chaos

(Post-Gazette) At least 90 people are reported dead in a wave of violence in the Brazilian city of Vitoria after the police force there went on strike.

The number of registered murders had risen to 90 since military police stopped patrols on Saturday, Globo reported, citing figures received from a police union.

The mood in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo remained tense Wednesday as armed forces continued patrolling the streets for the fifth straight day.

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Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2017 / 0 comments / Read More

VIDEO: The "Muslim Ban" Chaos And Confusion Explained

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Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2017 / 0 comments / Read More

Brazil's Senate indicts Rousseff, opens impeachment trial

(Reuters) Brazil's Senate voted early on Wednesday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process that has stalled Brazilian politics since January.

With the eyes of the world on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, senators in the capital Brasilia voted 59-21 against the suspended leftist leader in a raucous, 20-hour session presided over by Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski.

A conviction would definitively remove Rousseff from office, ending 13 years of leftist rule by her Workers Party, and confirm that interim President Michel Temer will serve out the rest of her term through 2018.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Ecuador warned to end Assange asylum by ex-foreign minister after DNC leak

(RT) Ecuador is being urged to end its asylum of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange by one of its most prominent diplomats, following the recent leak of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails.

José Ayala Lasso, a three-time foreign minister and the first UN Human Rights Commissioner, made the claims in El Comerico.

He insists that allowing Assange to “influence political activities” with the release of 20,000 DNC emails, which the former diplomat claims was done with “technical support from Russia”, is detrimental to the South American country’s image.

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Reds under the beds: Democrats have now accused Trump, Stein, Intercept & WikiLeaks of being Russian agents https://t.co/mnwGWJ1uZ4

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016

Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Princeton Study Exposes Weird New Ways Sites Are Spying on You

(NBC News) Stop "clearing your cookies."

The classic advice for protecting yourself from internet tracking doesn't work very well against the newest breed of sophisticated snoopers who are spying on you using everything from your iPhone's battery status level to the kinds of fonts installed on your browser, Princeton researchers say in a massive new analysis of 1 million web sites, the largest of its kind.

The "trackers" find out what kind of person you are, and then serve you targeted ads. If you visit those sites, data about you is gathered up and resold to other marketers. You read the news for free (sometimes) and someone gets paid to write it, and funny cat picture sites get their server costs covered.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Contamination Between GM and Non-GM Crops, Exposes Failure of Policy

(Global Research) A recent study by USDA scientists shows that genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa has gone wild, in a big way, in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This feral GE alfalfa may help explain a number of transgenic contamination episodes over the past few years that have cost American alfalfa growers and exporters millions of dollars in lost revenue. And it also exposes the failure of USDA’s “coexistence” policy for GE and traditional crops.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) has long maintained that genetically engineered (GE) crops can co-exist with traditional and organic agriculture. According to this “co-existence” narrative, if neighboring GE and traditional farmers just sort things out among themselves and follow “best management practices,” transgenes will be confined to GE crops and the fields where they are planted.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Snapping up cheap spy tools, nations 'monitoring everyone'

(AP) It was a national scandal. Peru's then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out. Then, a top congressman blamed the spy agency for a break-in at his office. News stories showed the agency had collected data on hundreds of influential Peruvians.

Yet after last year's outrage, which forced out the prime minister and froze its intelligence-gathering, the spy service went ahead with a $22 million program capable of snooping on thousands of Peruvians at a time. Peru — a top cocaine-producing nation — joined the ranks of world governments that have added commercial spyware to their arsenals.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Pokémon Go: Who owns the virtual space around your home?

(Guardian) When a virtual space overlaps a real-world space, then whose space is it, and who controls what is created as a result? The success of augmented-reality game Pokémon Go has forced this question into focus. Since its launch less than a week ago, groups worldwide have struggled with the game’s unforeseen ramifications.

Washington DC’s Holocaust Museum has asked Pokémon Go players to stay away: the museum was designated a Pokéstop, where players can pick up items like Pokéballs and revives, forcing its communications director to point out that playing a game inside a memorial to victims of Nazism is “extremely inappropriate”.

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Posted on Monday, August 01, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Assange: We have more material related Clinton

 

(VIDEO) After releasing thousands of hacked DNC emails, Wkileaks founder Julian Assange says he has more material on the Clinton campaign.

Posted on Monday, August 01, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Clinton amnesty endangers U.S., 'cartels, Islamic extremists' set to invade

(Washington Examiner) National Border Patrol Council Thursday warned that the Democrat's plan endangers Americans and that drug cartels and Islamic extremists are eager for her to win so they can invade the U.S.

"Clinton's call for amnesty in her first 100 days and expanding these dangerous policies demonstrates her deeply alarming willingness to sell out the security of American families to advance her political or financial interests. Her immigration plan is not only dangerous for all American families,"

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Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Office workers must exercise for an hour a day to counter death risk

(Telegraph) Office workers must exercise for one hour a day to combat the deadly risk of modern working lifestyles, a major Lancet study has found.
 
Research on more than one million adults found that sitting for at least eight hours a day could increase the risk of premature death by up to 60 per cent.

Scientists said sedentary lifestyles were now posing as great a threat to public health as smoking, and were causing more deaths than obesity.

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Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Goldman Sachs Admits it Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis

(Fortune) Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has agreed to a list of “facts” in addition to paying $5.1 billion to settle a lawsuit related to its handling of mortgage-backed securities leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

It’s a definite improvement on the DoJ settlements of a few years ago when Wall Street firms were able to get away with saying they “neither admit or deny the charges.” But it’s unlikely to quell critics that say the government hasn’t done enough to punish bankers in the wake of the financial crisis. Just like in past settlements, no individual bankers have been charged with wrong doing.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Oculus allows Facebook to monitor users’ movements and use it for advertising

(The Independent) Oculus Rift appears to collect information on the people wearing it and send all of that back to other companies, according to its terms and conditions.

Oculus, the virtual reality firm which was bought out by Facebook in 2014, is sending the first versions of its consumer headset out to users. But some are already pointing out terrifying parts of the terms of service that people sign up to use it.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Here’s Why 19 Countries In Europe Just Completely Banned GMOs

(Collective-Evolution) The global resistance against Genetically Modified Crops is growing at an exponential rate. A few years ago, you were almost ridiculed for suggesting that GM foods could be a problem, and now scientists and researchers are presenting information that has 19 new countries joining an already long list of nations to completely ban, or have severe restrictions on, GMOs — as well as the pesticides that go with them.

These countries will not allow genetically modified crops to be grown in their country. The opt-out countries are requesting that biotechnology companies exclude their territories from GMO seed sales, and some countries, according to RT news, are simply putting things to a halt until more research is conducted.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

Treasury Dept. tries again to stop companies from giving up U.S. citizenship

(Washington Post) The Treasury Department on Monday took aim at U.S. companies moving their headquarters overseas to lower their tax bills, issuing aggressive new rules intended to make such moves less profitable and throwing a potential wrench into Pfizer’s recent $160 billion proposed deal to combine with Allergen and become an Irish company.

This is the third round of rules the Obama administration has issued over the last two years to stop the flow so-called inversions, in which U.S. companies are technically bought by foreign firms to reduce U.S. taxes.

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Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

What are the Panama Papers? A guide to the biggest data leak in history

(Guardian) The Panama Papers are an unprecedented leak of 11.5m files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca. The records were obtained from an anonymous source by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ then shared them with a large network of international partners, including the Guardian and the BBC.

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Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

VIDEO: 'Corporate media show only what they want from Panama Leak'

(RT) The world’s media has been pointing at one person following a massive documents leak from a Panama law firm. But that person, President Vladimir Putin, wasn’t even mentioned in the data leak. Former British ambassador and human rights activist Craig Murray joins RT to discuss this issue.

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More

World figures deny wrongdoing as 'Panama Papers' expose tax avoidance

(Reuters) Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies.

The "Panama papers" revealed financial arrangements of global politicians and public figures including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan, and the president of Ukraine.

While holding money in offshore companies is not illegal, journalists who received the leaked documents said they could provide evidence of funds hidden for tax evasion, money laundering, sanctions busting, drug deals or other crimes.


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Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 / 0 comments / Read More