Category: Government Money
British spy agency has access to global communications, shares info with NSA
British spy agency has access to global communications, shares info with NSA (Photo: Reuters) The British spy agency GCHQ has access to the global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories...
Number Seven: NBC News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video
Deceptive journalistic practices at NBC News show no sign of slowing down. This latest attempt to selectively edit audio/video in order to benefit Barack Obama represents the seventh such act of willful, intentional journalistic malpractice. NBC...
Skype’s secret Project Chess reportedly helped NSA access customers’ data
Skype, the web-based communications company, reportedly set up a secret programme to make it easier for US surveillance agencies to access customers’ information. The programme, called Project Chess and first revealed by the New York Times on Thursday,...
It takes an army: Tens of thousands of workers roll out Obamacare
(Photo: Wikipedia) From the chief actuary at the California health insurance exchange that President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law established to the legions of call center staffers who will help people trying to buy insurance through such state exchanges,...
Million-strong anti-govt protests sweep Brazil
Million-strong anti-govt protests sweep Brazil A hundred cities across Brazil have seen a fresh wave of mass protests while the first death has been reported among the demonstrators, in the state of Sao Paulo....
EPA won’t confirm fracking pollution tie, tells states to do their own investigation
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding plan to have independent scientists review its finding that hydraulic fracturing may be linked to groundwater pollution in central...
Obama commits to tough push on global warming
(Photo: Wikipedia) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of...
Stocks Tumble With Bonds as Gold Slides in Global Rout: “Bernanke driving in a fog”
Stocks tumbled, with the benchmark index of global equities sinking the most in 19 months, and bonds fell around the world after the Federal Reserve said it may phase out stimulus and China’s cash crunch worsened. Gold led commodities...
How Syria’s Islamists govern with guile and guns
(Photo: Wikipedia) (Reuters) – The Syrian boys looked edgy and awkward. Three months ago their town, the eastern desert city of Raqqa, had fallen to rebel fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s government....