Expert: Obama’s ‘bogus’ student data proposal won’t fix privacy problem he created

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An edu­ca­tion ana­lyst says Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s call for stronger pro­tec­tion of stu­dent dig­i­tal data is “bogus.” The pres­i­dent ear­li­er this week pro­posed a new Stu­dent Dig­i­tal Pri­va­cy Act aimed at pre­vent­ing com­pa­nies from sell­ing sen­si­tive stu­dent infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed in schools and from using such data to tar­get adver­tis­ing to chil­dren, accord­ing […]

County schools’ ROP gets $35K grant

FA NOTE: Com­mon Core? — The Brain­wash­ing of Kids to Accept Water Scarcity SAN BERNARDINO CALIFORNIA— The San Bernardi­no Coun­ty Super­in­ten­dent of Schools’ Region­al Occu­pa­tion­al Pro­gram has received a $35,000 grant to sup­port new high school class­es that address water issues in California. The pro­grams are expect­ed to devel­op new stan­dards-based mod­el cur­ricu­lum that pro­mote […]

‘Unprecedented Mobilization’: Hundred Thousand Rise Against Irish Water Tax

FA Note: Around the world water is being collectivized through “privatization”. The goal is to get water out of the hands of individuals. Control the water – control the people. Via centralized water people will be forced to live where and how those in control desire. Centralization of water means you will live where you […]

Ditching US dollar: China, Russia launch financial tools in local currencies

A bank clerk counts Chi­nese yuan ban­knotes at a branch of Indus­tri­al and Com­mer­cial Bank of Chi­na in Huaibei (Reuters/Stringer) and Russ­ian ruble ban­knotes (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin) Chi­na and Rus­sia have effec­tive­ly switched to domes­tic cur­ren­cies in trad­ing using finan­cial tools as swaps and for­wards, as they seek to reduce the influ­ence of the US dol­lar […]

Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Weath­er as a Force Multiplier:  Own­ing the Weath­er in 2025  A Research Paper Pre­sent­ed To Air Force 2025 by Col Tamzy J. House Lt Col James B. Near, Jr. LTC William B. Shields (USA) Maj Ronald J. Celentano Maj David M. Husband Maj Ann E. Mercer Maj James E. Pugh August 1996 ———————————————————————————- Dis­claimer 2025 is a study designed to […]

Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things

John W. White­head, Founder, the Ruther­ford Institute “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spy­ing on me through my phone’ any­more. Even­tu­al­ly, it will be ‘My phone is spy­ing on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Amer­i­cans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expe­di­en­cy and com­fort deliv­ered by way […]

US School Forces Girls to Follow Islamic Dress Code on Field Trip

A school dis­trict in Col­orado is com­ing under the wrath of the com­mu­ni­ty for telling school girls that they may have to sub­mit to sharia-com­pli­ant rules regard­ing cov­er­ing their heads and ankles on a field trip to a Mus­lim mosque. Accord­ing to WND, Dou­glas Coun­ty School Dis­trict con­firmed that such Islam­ic law will be enforced […]

Going Round the Farris Wheel

Michael Farris: More Disturbing History  and Ques­tion­able Associations Since the post yes­ter­day, “Far­ris’s Fer­ris Wheel…”, a num­ber of indi­vid­u­als have sent addi­tion­al links with more research and back­ground infor­ma­tion on the dis­turb­ing activ­i­ties of Michael Farris. Below are some fur­ther items for read­ers to explore. Again, read this your­self and draw your own con­clu­sions. Warn­ing: […]

The Islamization of American Public School Children

Many his­to­ri­ans have com­pared our cur­rent plight to that of the Roman Empire in its fall-apart days. Like the Romans, we are falling because we became com­pla­cent and stopped doing the things that build a pow­er­ful civ­i­liza­tion. We, as Amer­i­cans, are fail­ing to see where we are at in our own his­to­ry. Our gov­ern­ment has […]

Update on the Lawsuit to Stop the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) from Taking Away Local Control

Judge Grillo’s tentative ruling is against local autonomy, however, the Judge is in possession of the information he requested at the hearing and has not yet made a final ruling. Anticipation builds as to what the Superior Court will do… On Fri­day Novem­ber 7, Alame­da Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Eve­lio Gril­lo issued a ten­ta­tive rul­ing deny­ing […]

Congress authorizes federal government to collect and use all private communications by U.S. citizens

A House Repub­li­can is crit­i­ciz­ing a piece of leg­is­la­tion just passed by Con­gress as gross­ly uncon­sti­tu­tion­al because it essen­tial­ly gives the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and local law enforce­ment “unlim­it­ed access to the com­mu­ni­ca­tions of every American.” As report­ed by InfoWars.com, Rep. Justin Amash of Wis­con­sin said he found a pas­sage in the Intel­li­gence Autho­riza­tion Act for […]

It Doesn’t Matter Who Does the Lobbying: Trade Agreements Aren’t the Place for Internet Regulations

The Asso­ci­at­ed Whistle­blow­ing Press released por­tions of draft text pro­posed by the Unit­ed States for the Trade in Ser­vices Agree­ment (TISA) this week, reveal­ing some alarm­ing pro­vi­sions that indi­cate how tech com­pa­nies have been involved in influ­enc­ing a secret inter­na­tion­al deal. The lan­guage of the leaked treaty shows pro­vi­sions that could impact pri­va­cy online, and […]

Facebook Atlas: Giving Advertisers Invasive Maps of Your Life

Kather­ine Albrecht (l),  Liz McIntyre ® Face­book Atlas: Giv­ing Adver­tis­ers Inva­sive Maps of Your Life   Face­book has qui­et­ly intro­duced a new ser­vice for adver­tis­ers called “Face­book Atlas,” and we’re giv­ing it a “thumbs down” because it’s not good for your privacy. Like an atlas, it offers a col­lec­tion of maps, but these maps show the where­abouts […]

Buffett’s Smart-Grid Idea Takes Over Your Washing Machine

(Bloomberg) — Vin­cent Thorn­ley, head of Siemens AG’s U.K. smart-grid research, talks about the role of smart grids in the future of ener­gy where a net­work can run house­hold appli­ances when pow­er is abun­dant and cheap. He spoke with Bloomberg’s Alex Webb in New­cas­tle, Eng­land. (Source: Bloomberg) FA Note: The Smart Grid is pro­mot­ed as […]

BREAKING: United Nations Makes Major Move… This Is THEFT

FA Note:  The brouha­ha about cli­mate change has ALWAYS been about wealth redis­tri­b­u­tion: THEFT. Unit­ed Nations cli­mate nego­tia­tors found them­selves at an impasse dur­ing a ten-day con­fer­ence in Lima, Peru this month when the world’s sec­ond-largest econ­o­my — the Unit­ed States — refused to sub­si­dize the car­bon diox­ide emis­sion reduc­tions of the world’s largest econ­o­my — China. […]

A Global Tax? UN Debates Requiring Members to Report ‘GHG’ Emissions

Cathie Adams, Texas Eagle Forum President Such data is a pre­lude to imple­ment­ing a mas­sive redis­tri­b­u­tion of glob­al wealth. Will the Unit­ed Nations wield its unproven claim that green­house gas emis­sions cause cli­mate change to require each of its 193 mem­ber nations to mea­sure and report GHG emis­sions — a pre­req­ui­site for a glob­al car­bon tax? […]

Sen. Sessions: ‘Super-Elites in Washington and Wall Street Dream of World Without Borders’

FA Sum­ma­ry: Agen­da 21 seeks the abo­li­tion of bor­ders and the eco­nom­ic equal­iza­tion of peo­ple across the world. After twen­ty years of imple­men­ta­tion the plan is working! Sen. Jeff Ses­sions, R‑AL In a speech deliv­ered on the Sen­ate floor Fri­day as the Sen­ate was debat­ing a 1,603-page gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill that will per­mit Pres­i­dent Oba­ma […]

CIA Chief (Petraeus): We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher

More and more per­son­al and house­hold devices are con­nect­ing to the inter­net, from your tele­vi­sion to your car nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems to your light switch­es. CIA Direc­tor David Petraeus can­not wait to spy on you through them. Ear­li­er this month (March, 2012), Petraeus mused about the emer­gence of an “Inter­net of Things” — that is, wired […]

Over 700 Million People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Surveillance

There’s a new inter­na­tion­al sur­vey on Inter­net secu­ri­ty and trust, of “23,376 Inter­net users in 24 coun­tries,” includ­ing “Aus­tralia, Brazil, Cana­da, Chi­na, Egypt, France, Ger­many, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indone­sia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mex­i­co, Nige­ria, Pak­istan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Swe­den, Tunisia, Turkey and the Unit­ed States.” Amongst the find­ings, 60% of Inter­net […]

Think Concept, Concept, Concept

New arti­cle by Mary Thompson Mary Thomp­son has just post­ed a new arti­cle on NewsWithViews.com “Think Con­cept, Con­cept, Con­cept,” and it is a must-read! In this arti­cle Mary shares more of her mem­oirs. This is infor­ma­tion that the young gen­er­a­tion needs to know. Below are just a few fas­ci­nat­ing paragraphs: It is this writer’s con­tention […]

Why Rockefellers Aim at Destroying Farmers Worldwide?

FA Note:  The realities of agribusiness, as described below, put the lie to the need for “Sustainable Agriculture” as promoted by Agenda 21. Local farmers are told they must eschew any mechanized equipment, even a small tractor, for instance; and each community may only raise (and expect to eat) what can be produced in their […]

RI Regional Plan Strips Property Rights

With an area of 1212 square miles, Rhode Island is the small­est of the fifty states, but is about to take one of the biggest leaps in the nation.  The RI Divi­sion of Plan­ning is advanc­ing a HUD sup­port­ed sus­tain­able devel­op­ment plan that cre­ates a sin­gle region out of every coun­ty, city and com­mu­ni­ty in […]

The Government Owns Over 623 Million Acres. Why Does It Need More?

Insa­tiable ­– that would seem to be the word that best describes the appetite of some in Con­gress and their friends in the envi­ron­men­tal community. Con­gress has added over 450 pages to the defense autho­riza­tion bill to des­ig­nate wilder­ness, cre­ate new parks, des­ig­nate Wild and Scenic Rivers and fund Nation­al Her­itage areas – things that have […]

Global Censorship Chokepoints – Tracking Internet Censorship Proposals Worldwide

About Global Chokepoints Glob­al Choke­points is an online resource cre­at­ed to doc­u­ment and mon­i­tor glob­al pro­pos­als to turn Inter­net inter­me­di­aries into copy­right police. These pro­pos­als harm Inter­net users’ rights of pri­va­cy, due process and free­dom of expres­sion, and endan­ger the future of the free and open Inter­net. Our goal is to pro­vide accu­rate empir­i­cal infor­ma­tion […]