Obama: Nobody is Listening to Your Telephone Calls
President Obama today defended the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet records,
asserting that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls.”
Obama, who spoke during at event in San Jose, California, said security officials “are not looking at people’s names,
and they’re not looking at content,” but rather at phone numbers and the duration and frequency of calls.
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by WashingtonsBlog
You know about the Boston terror attack.
There have also been terrorist incidents in which no one has been hurt in California and Washington D.C.
Specifically, CNN reports that an envelope containing the lethal poison Ricin was mailed to Capitol Hill. It was addressed to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, but was intercepted at the U.S. Capitol’s off-site mail facility in Washington.
And CBS San Francisco, ABC 7, KTVU, NBC Bay Area, the San Jose Mercury [...]
Home buyers are spending more of their incomes on houses than now than they ever did before the housing bubble.
In Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose, California, the median house price is nearly seven times the median income.
However, because of historically low interests rates, consumers are making lower mortgage payments, so they aren’t feeling the higher prices.
Real estate watchers fear that this could be creating a new housing bubble.
The [...]
Can anyone explain these UCC filings for 14,300,000,000,000 which were filed in California and Maryland against the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AND OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITIES?
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/67199426?access_key=key-2dc…
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/67199957?access_key=key-2g5…
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/67199969?access_key=key-bc1…
The links are to the saved PDF copies of the original documents I discovered on the net and all three sets of UCC filings are related to the initial filing in San Jose California on July 28th of 2011 in favor of the United States Treasury 1789. [...]
San Diego, California
Breakeven horizon:
3.6 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
14.0
Median list price:
$369,000
Median rent price:
$1,750
Source: Zillow
Seattle, Washington
Breakeven horizon:
4.0 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
13.4
Median list price:
$290,000
Median rent price:
$1,270
Source: Zillow
Boston, Massachusetts
Breakeven horizon:
4.3 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
13.4
Median list price:
$347,900
Median rent price:
$2,000
Source: Zillow
Los Angeles, California
Breakeven horizon:
4.3 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
14.2
Median list price:
$399,000
Median rent price:
$1,850
Source: Zillow
New York, New York
Breakeven horizon:
5.1 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
12.8
Median list price:
$389,000
Median rent price:
$2,600
Source: Zillow
San Francisco, California
Breakeven horizon:
5.9 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
16.0
Median list price:
$519,000
Median rent price:
$1,960
Source: Zillow
San Jose, California
Breakeven horizon:
8.3 years
Price-to-rent ratio:
18.9
Median list price:
$590,000
Median rent price:
$2,050
Source: Zillow
businessinsider
Initially, Cisco updated their privacy policy to give them the right to keep track of things like how much traffic goes through your router and which websites you’re looking at.
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http://www.neowin.net/news/cisco-locks-users-out-of-their-routers-requires-invasive-cloud-service
Definition: Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment.
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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 [...]
From Bloomberg:
On Friday, President Barack Obama spoke about why the economic recovery has been so slow. People are focusing on his gaffe – saying “the private sector is doing fine” – and Ezra Klein admonishes us to focus on the president’s substantive point, which is that job losses in the public sector have undermined the recovery overall.
Unfortunately, Obama didn’t mention a major barrier to job growth in the public sector [...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to include Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S III smartphone in its request to block sales of Samsung products in the U.S.
Samsung released the Galaxy S III in the U.K. on May 29 and U.S. carriers have announced they will start selling the smartphone in the U.S. on June 21, Apple said in a court filing.
Apple has obtained the Galaxy S III [...]
A pauper’s graveyard containing around 1,445 pine coffins has been unearthed in San Jose, California.
The makeshift cemetery was discovered accidentally in February by construction crews working to expand the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
The pine boxes date back to between 1875 and 1935 and the bodies are believed to belong to patients whose families could not be found or could not afford proper burials, according to NBC Bay Area.
The Santa Clara County said [...]
Shea Olivia Shaw, 17, suffered traumatic brain injury from the collision
Walking home from party with boyfriend when she was hit by vehicle
A girl who was involved in a hit and run which left her with a brain injury remained in a coma 16 months later.
Shea Olivia Shaw, then 15, was walking home from a party with her boyfriend on January 8 last year when she was hit by the driver [...]
AFP
Asians are the fastest growing race group in the United States, reflecting a surge in immigration from the entire region over a decade, the US Census Bureau said Wednesday.
As part of an ongoing analysis of the data it reaped from its 2010 census, the federal agency said those who identified themselves as Asian alone, and not mixed race, grew by 43.3 percent from a decade earlier.
That was more than four times faster than the rate [...]
MARCH 19–Over objections from the Department of Justice, a judge has lifted a Twitter ban on 14 accused members of “Anonymous” now under indictment for their alleged roles in a coordinated online assault against PayPal, an attack prosecutors contend was carried out via the social networking site.
Ruling on motions filed by several defendants, Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal stated that since government lawyers did not sufficiently link “allegedly criminal activities to use of [...]
Cleanup crews are performing a major makeover on a house in San Jose, California – after the mountain of rubbish outside grew tall enough to be seen from space.
Pictures snapped by Google Earth satellites show the property, 226 S. Claremont Avenue, from above – and reveal the enormous refuse heap in all its glory.
The extreme cleaning process began on Tuesday following a vote by the Santa Clara County Board of [...]
(CBS News) SAN JOSE, Calif. –The economy is slowly improving, but many cities are struggling under a mountain of debt, much of it in pension obligations to people like policemen and firemen. The city council in San Jose, California voted yesterday to put a measure on the ballot that would slash the pensions of its union workers in June. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy explores the issue.
San Jose Mayor Chuck [...]
(TSG) JANUARY 13–An alleged “Anonymous” member under indictment for participating in an online attack against PayPal wants a federal judge to allow him to use Twitter, arguing that he is unfairly being prohibited from participating in discussions of the 2012 election cycle, including discourse initiated by President Barack Obama, who has recently vowed to personally post tweets to the social networking site.
In a motion filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, [...]
The second of two GPS trackers found recently on the vehicle of a young man in California.
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant, a young man in California has come forward to Wired to reveal that he found not one but two different devices on [...]
(Reuters) – A turf war between the Hells Angels and a rival motorcycle gang that erupted outside a California Starbucks shop last year has left several men dead, wounded or missing in three states, stirring fears of more bloodshed.
Ranked by law enforcement as the most severe clash of two California-based biker groups in nearly a decade, the spate of violence turned deadly last month when it spilled into Nevada with [...]
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest networking-equipment company, may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, according to two people familiar with the plans.The cuts include as many as 7,000 jobs that would be eliminated by the end of August, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t final. Cisco is also providing early-retirement packages [...]
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) has cut its income taxes by $7 billion since 2005 by booking roughly half its worldwide profits at a subsidiary at the foot of the Swiss Alps that employs about 100 people.
Now Cisco, the largest maker of networking equipment, wants to save even more — by asking Congress to waive most federal taxes due when multinationals bring such offshore earnings home. Chief Executive Officer John T. [...]
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