William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance. On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for […]
Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal’s job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates. Now, as students complain, taunt and sometimes cry out for help on social media, educators have more opportunities to monitor students around the […]
What comes ‘after America’?
D.C. insiders drop hints of erasing borders, unifying with Mexico NEW YORK – In recent weeks, both General David Petraeus and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D‑Calif., have woven into public speeches the theme of combining the United States, Canada and Mexico into a single, North American Union. “After America, there is North America,” explained Petraeus, […]
Why Are Armed “International Security” Personnel Now Arresting American Citizens?
Very recently I came across a scenario in the streets of Hollywood, California. The big scene seemed a bit striking to the average person walking by as it was the middle of the day in a crowded busy Hollywood street. A closer look caused me to be even more intrigued — there was a gentleman […]
EDITORIAL: Strange priorities at the VA — Washington Times
The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand. The department early on set […]
Rasmussen: Common Core Support Plummets Among Parents with School-Age Children
A new Rasmussen poll finds that support for the Common Core standards among American parents with school-age children has dropped dramatically. The telephone survey of 1,000 adults conducted June 21–22 found that only 34 percent of American adults with children of elementary or secondary school age now favor requiring all schools across the nation to […]
Secret trade agreement covering 68 percent of world services published by WikiLeaks
The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks on Thursday as the transparency group’s editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Fifty countries around the globe have already signed on to the Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA, including the United States, […]
States Fighting Obama EPA’s Global Warming Decrees
July 5, 2014 When the Obama administration failed in its bid five years ago to have the Democrat-controlled Congress create an unconstitutional cap-and-trade regime targeting carbon dioxide to fight “global warming,” it waited a few years, then imposed the radical scheme by executive decree. Rather than foisting it directly on businesses and individuals, Obama’s new presidential […]