Top Spying Experts Explain Why You Should Oppose Spying … Even Though You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

by WashingtonsBlog

 

Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny”

Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program – has repeatedly explained that just because you “haven’t done anything wrong” doesn’t mean you can’t be severely harmed by spying:

The problem is, if they think they’re [...]

Donald Trump has already spent $1million in research for a possible presidential run in 2016

Donald Trump is bringing his name back into the political fray again by spending $1million on research to see if he should run for president in 2016.

‘The Donald’ has publicly speculated about running for the White House in every election since 2000, so his possible interest in the next race comes as little surprise.

That said, the fact that he has spent so much money on the election even though it [...]

WTF! Massachusetts police officer fired after calling Boston Red Sox star Carl Crawford a ‘Monday’

John Perreault heckled black outfielder during game
Term ‘Monday’ can be used as racist insult like ‘n*****’

A Massachusetts police officer has been sacked after shouting a racial insult at Boston Red Sox star Carl Crawford.

The black outfielder was signing autographs before a game in New Hampshire when he was branded a ‘Monday’ by a heckler in the stands.

The comment was traced back to off-duty officer John Perreault, who has a history [...]

Who owns your Facebook page? New blow to social network site as it pays out $10MILLION to just five users for putting adverts in their Timelines

Lawsuit brought by five Facebook users in California who charge that they were misled by the company’s terms of use
‘Sponsored stories’ seen by users when a friend ‘likes’ a product or place
Seen as more turmoil for Facebook, which has struggled since its botched initial public offering last month

Facebook has agreed to dish out a whopping $10million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users’ rights [...]

Bill C-38 protest has 13,000 websites going dark across Canada this June

Andy Radia
Yahoo Canada Politics
May 29, 2012

When it comes to politics, Canadians are generally an apathetic bunch. Often, a controversy will brew and within a week or two we forget about it and move on.

It appears Bill C-38 is one issue we’re not willing to let go.

Saturday is the one month anniversary of the introduction of the so-called omnibus budget bill, a 425-page bill that amends 60 different acts, repeals a [...]

Bill C-38: “In the last 12 months I have seen clearly the rise of tyrannical policies and the application of such mind and state control that the people of Canada , unless they soon react, will find themselves slaves to a corporate and political domination…”

via Yahoo News:

When it comes to politics, Canadians are generally an apathetic bunch. Often, a controversy will brew and within a week or two we forget about it and move on.

It appears Bill C-38 is one issue we’re not willing to let go.

Saturday is the one month anniversary of the introduction of the so-called omnibus budget bill, a 425-page bill that amends 60 different acts, repeals a half dozen others [...]

To catch an iThief: Woman whose iPhone is stolen on Disney cruise outs ‘snatcher’ after it automatically posts pictures he took to HER cloud account

Woman on Disney Cruise alleges that phone was stolen
She found ‘thief’ out after he took pictures on her phone, which synched with already-set up iCloud
Application syncs all documents to all personal devices

 

A woman whose iPhone went missing on a Disney Cruise was able to catch the alleged thief after photos he took with her phone began popping up in her ‘cloud’ – the feature that stores and syncs all personal [...]

Tattooed stars like Johnny Depp and Lady Gaga would be unemployable in Osaka, mayor of Japanese city warns

If some of the world’s biggest names in show business ever consider a career change they have been told not to do it in Osaka.

Movie stars such as Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, pop sensation Lady Gaga and our very own footballer David Beckham have been warned they would not be employed in the Japanese city.

Why? Because mayor Toru Hashimoto has said that he would not employee people with tattoos [...]

Obama Loses West Virginia Delegates To Prison Inmate

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/obama-loses-west-virginia-delegates-to-prison-inma#HTWF2

“An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president in the Appalachian heartland.

With 96% of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, Keith Judd was holding steady at 41% of the vote and had won ten counties.”

NOONAN: HE’S BECOMING ‘CREEPY’… Suffers ‘worst week’ of presidency…

Something’s happening to President Obama’s relationship with those who are inclined not to like his policies. They are now inclined not to like him. His supporters would say, “Nothing new there,” but actually I think there is. I’m referring to the broad, stable, nonradical, non-birther right. Among them the level of dislike for the president has ratcheted up sharply the past few months.

It’s not due to the election, and it’s [...]