Disinformation, propaganda and making the truth sound like a lie or the lie sound like the truth is not a new trend. It’s as old as the Garden of Eden when Hawah – or as others may know as Eve – was told, “You will not die, you’ll be like a god, knowing good and evil.” This was a face […]

The possibility of drones being fitted with firearms and explosives has forced the NYPD to crack down on illegally operated drones in NY parks, with the potential of placing their pilots on the NYPD watch list. According to CBS New York, the NYPD’s deputy chief for counter-terrorism, Salvatore Di Pace had this to say about […]

(NaturalNews) Sometimes President Barack Obama can’t get out of the way of his own hypocrisy. In December, the Chinese government implemented a “controversial” new counterterrorism law that some see as a means of tightening Beijing’s already tight control over the media and threaten intellectual property of foreign technology companies. As reported by Agence-France Presse: The […]

Since 2012, the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has been recording passenger’s private conversations. The buses were retrofitted in 2012, without the knowledge or approval of the legislature: “Nearly 500 of its fleet of 750 buses now have audio recording capabilities. Officials say the devices can capture important information in cases of driver error or an attack or altercation […]

A leaked document has revealed that Google’s London-based company, DeepMind, was given access to 1.6 million patient records by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), including a list of patient names and medical history. The records were disclosed as part of a collaboration with DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence company, which will enable them to create […]

Officials are demanding that the U.K. government disclose information about a confidential flight through Scottish airspace, which many suspect was intended to capture whistleblower, Edward Snowden. The plane took off from the American east coast on June 24, 2013 after Snowden moved from Hong Kong to Moscow. The plane was part of  contentious U.S. “rendition” missions. […]

Most folks I know are honest, hard working and watching their pennies. This is the opposite paradigm from the Federal Government. But you knew that already. Between 1975 and 1987, Wisconsin Senator namely William Proxmire rooted out a few boondoggle government programs and awarded them what he called the Golden Fleece Award. He called out the […]

Migrant-related crime, mostly in the form of assaults – and most of those in the form of sexual assaults against women – are getting out of hand in Europe, thanks to the inability of Left-leaning governments who created the problem due to generous immigration policies, even though they will not admit there is one. In […]

More information about the increasingly unpopular Common Core Curriculum is beginning to reveal itself, and it isn’t pretty. Not only does this new curriculum attempt to standardize education on a national level; it also appears that there is a massive data collection system in place to track our children’s educational progress as well as their […]

The Taliban has had an app removed from the Google Play Store, with the app’s content presumably contravening Google’s user policy. (Article by Gordon Hunt, republished from https://www.siliconrepublic.com/gear/2016/04/05/taliban-app) The Taliban app removed from the Google Play Store was in the Pashto language, and it featured things like official statements by the group, or promotional videos. It […]

Police in the United States are increasingly using a “scoring” technique to assess citizens’ potential threat levels, with critics of the assessment methodology seeing little difference between them and police in communist China. As reported by the Washington Post, a recent scenario that played out in Fresno, Calif., is indicative of just how pervasive America’s […]

In the Information Age of social media, with constant cyber threats to privacy and at a time when our federal government and local police departments increasingly keep us under unconstitutional surveillance, there is a shocking number of Americans who willingly surrender their personal information to just about anyone who asks for it. This phenomenon was […]

Congress just passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) recently, sneaking it through in a budget bill to prevent a government shutdown before the holidays. As reported in Wired, “CISA had alarmed the privacy community by giving companies the ability to share cybersecurity information with federal agencies, including the NSA. … That means CISA’s information-sharing […]

Though promising as a crime-fighting tool (albeit with several privacy concerns), license plate scanners could soon be utilized by the state to deter prostitution — in a totally creepy and intrusive manner. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez recently put forward a proposal which entails setting up cameras in places frequented by prostitutes, in hopes of […]

Renault-Nissan has confirmed plans to release more than 10 autonomous cars by 2020. The vehicles will be equipped with cutting edge technology that is “ installed on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices,” reads the Renault-Nissan statement. According to the Franco-Japanese company’s official statement, all ten vehicles will be launched in markets like the United […]