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The Internet is a surveillance state

CNN, by Bruce Schneier Original Article

Posted By: ruready?- 3/16/2013 9:10:45 PM Post Reply

I´m going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks. Two: Hector Monsegur, one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement, was identified and arrested last year by the FBI. [snip] And three: Paula Broadwell,who had an affair with CIA director David Petraeus, similarly took extensive precautions to hide her identity.

House panel tells judge: Justice´s
offer in Fast & Furious settlement
a ´grave disappointment´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 9:10:19 PM Post Reply

The Justice Department and a congressional committee disagree on the pace of their talks to settle a lawsuit over congressional efforts to get records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled gun-tracking operation. In a joint filing Friday night, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told the judge in the case that a settlement offer it received from the Justice Department this week was a "grave disappointment" and that a settlement is not possible. "The parties are very, very far apart," lawyers for the GOP-led committee wrote. "Indeed, they are not even

FDR, Obama and the need for opposition

Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article

Posted By: davesenior- 3/16/2013 9:06:26 PM Post Reply

Some time ago, a reader presented me with a yellowed newspaper clipping from 1936, which seems to grow more relevant every day.It is a syndicated column by Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun and was written just after the re-election of FDR.[SNIP]Kent’s column is a welcome reminder that the horror conservatives feel today at the willful blindness of their fellow citizens is nothing new. Indeed, I am more and more impressed by the similarities between our current regime and that of Roosevelt.President Obama, although from a very different background than FDR,governs from almost the same sense of privilege.

Kissinger Sees Little Hope for
Mideast Peace, Arab Spring

Bloomberg, by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 3/16/2013 8:05:06 PM Post Reply

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says there is little chance of any breakthrough in stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, as President Barack Obama visits Israel next week on his first trip there since taking office. “I’m not optimistic” about reviving peace talks, in large part because of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties in the region that aren’t inclined to support a “just outcome” with Israel, Kissinger said in an interview airing this weekend on Bloomberg TV’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.”

Obama asks Congress for $2 BILLION for
energy research as he predicts cars that
drive from ´coast to coast without a drop
of oil´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 7:31:38 PM Post Reply

Envisioning cars that can go ´coast to coast without using a drop of oil,´ President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline. Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices. Citing policies that already require automakers to increase gas mileage, he said he expects that by the

Socialists ready to make power
grab of world citizens’ money

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 3/16/2013 7:25:19 PM Post Reply

Get your money out of the banks.Due to an “emergency deal reached today in Brussels”, a one-time 9.9% tax is to be levied on Cypriot bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros effective Tuesday, March 19. Virtually overnight and with no warning of any kind, the emergency tax deal was imposed on the people of Cyprus without vote or debate. People ran to ATM machines today only to discover that the taxed amount of their cash had already been frozen. Monday in Cyprus is a national holiday, the first day of Greek Orthodox Easter.

Remarkable time-lapse video
captures comet PanSTARRS
racing the moon across
evening skies of Georgia

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 7:24:16 PM Post Reply

Comet Pan-STARRS dazzled stargazers while streaking across the skies of North America and Europe on Tuesday with a newly released time-lapse video capturing its flight. The video captures the white comet gently soaring alongside the moon at a similarly leisurely pace as they both drop into the horizon over Atlanta, Georgia. PanSTARRS was the talk of the world this week with stargazers in the northern hemisphere having finally had their chance to view the first of two comets set to blaze through the skies in 2013. Scroll down for video.

U.S. Immigration Extends
Casper Aussie´s Visa

Casper Star-Tribune, by Kyle Roerink Original Article

Posted By: Husker Infidel- 3/16/2013 7:10:50 PM Post Reply

Australian expatriate Ashley Fuller received a call from the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services on Thursday. He was expecting the worst. Fuller’s visa was set to expire Friday. The Casper small-business owner and father of three had been fighting to stay in the country for 25 years. A public outcry erupted when folks in Wyoming found out in a Star-Tribune story on Monday that Fuller was in danger of deportation.

Violence in Iraq goes up
despite US pull out, as freed
prisoners rejoin militias

Telegraph [UK], by Colin Freeman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 3/16/2013 6:48:18 PM Post Reply

In a blow to hopes that the pull-out would remove the key catalyst for bloodshed, figures show that death rates have actually gone up since the last American soldier left Iraqi soil in December 2011. Last year, some 4,570 civilians were killed, compared to 4,147 in 2011, according to the Iraq Body Count, the independent organisation that has analysed death rates in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003.[Snip] The upsurge in violence has been attributed mainly to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has made a comeback in the past year after being put on the back foot during the US-led

Palin Electrifies CPAC Crowd

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 6:40:14 PM Post Reply

Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin repeatedly brought a jam packed crowd to its feet during her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday. Palin covered everything from overpaid Washington D.C. consultants, gun control and crony capitalism to New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s recently shot down big gulp ban. As Townhall readers know, elections are always on our minds and the next one was on Palin’s mind today as she advocated for an outside-the-beltway approach to the future. “The next election is 20 months away, now is the time to toss the consultants,”

Rand Paul wins The Washington
Times-CPAC 2013 Straw Poll

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 6:38:47 PM Post Reply

Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll Saturday, and Sen. Marco Rubio was a close second, easily outdistancing the rest of the field and signaling the rise of a new generation of conservative leaders who will take the Republican Party into the 2016 election. Mr. Paul won 25 percent of the vote, and Mr. Rubio collected 23 percent. Former Sen. Rick Santorum was third with just 8 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who was not invited to speak at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference —

Palin delights CPAC crowd
with string of Obama one-liners

Washington Post, by Aaron Blake Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 6:35:33 PM Post Reply

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) delivered a blistering attack on President Obama on Saturday, using a string of one-liners to rile up a raucous crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington. Palin hit Obama on everything from gun control to transparency and likened his administration to a TV reality show. At one point, she even alluded to a years-old controversy over a House member shouting, “You lie” at Obama during a major address before Congress. “Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama: You lie!” she said.

Sarah Palin Holding a Big Gulp
Is the New Statue of Liberty

New York Magazine, by Dan Amira Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 3/16/2013 6:14:45 PM Post Reply

If Sarah Palin understands anything, it´s the theatrics of a speech, and she can get a crowd riled up better than pretty much anyone in the GOP. That´s how it went this afternoon at CPAC, where she launched a fusillade of caustic zingers at President Obama, Washington, and the professional political consultant class. At no point, however, was the packed audience louder than when Palin stuck it to the man by whipping out a Big Gulp full of "pop" (soda) from behind the podium and posing for the cameras while taking a big, freedom-loving sip. Outside the ballroom afterward,

Palin mocks Obama and
Rove in CPAC speech

USA Today, by Paul Singer Original Article

Posted By: Vastrightwingconspirator- 3/16/2013 4:12:35 PM Post Reply

Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin mocked President Obama, GOP consultant Karl Rove and the mainstream media in a folksy speech to a gathering of conservative activists outside Washington Saturday. During her address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Palin accused Obama of failing to lead, instead maintaining a permanent campaign approach of demonizing the opposition. True leadership, she said, means "ending the poisonous practice of treating members of different social, ethnic and religious groups as different electorates, pandered to with different promises."

The problem with drones

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 3/16/2013 3:18:58 PM Post Reply

The New York Times says that the administration has decided to build missile defense systems to defend against possible nuclear missile attacks from North Korea. (Snip) It’ll take two years to get the defense sites up, though. The administration was apparently relying on China to defend it; to ‘handle’ North Korea. Now that this has failed it is building a “bullet to hit a bullet”: missile defense. (Snip) Too bad the North Korea’s handlers let Obama down. The more basic question is: why didn’t this strategy work? Maybe they couldn’t pay the handler’s rate.

Ambitious Texan-French public
art project across Houston opens
doors to new opportunities

CultureMap [Houston, TX], by Joel Luks Original Article

Posted By: Four_Leaf Resident- 3/16/2013 3:03:51 PM Post Reply

In the not-so-distant past, the 1994 American-French film Stargate spawned a television series, comics and video games and ran over and over again on some network akin to Lifetime, on a kind of channel you tuned to when nothing better is on. Whether it´s the film´s provenance or the premise that deciphering symbols could connect seemingly dissimilar worlds, there´s a comparable element of connectivity and alignment — minus the science fiction, ancient Egypt component — when considering the proposition of the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts collaboration with Paris collective 9éme Concept.

Day One of CPAC 2013

Canada Free Press, by Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 3/16/2013 2:49:07 PM Post Reply

As novice to the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) media pool, I was excited to attend. As we approached the venue in Maryland, the Gaylord hotel, the multitude of buses were discharging throngs of young people dressed in their best, happy and excited to be there. Security was tight everywhere and nobody could sneak in without a pass. I was pleasantly surprised that the majority of attendees were young people under the age of 30. The theme was a perfect fit: “America’s Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives.” In the Potomac Ballroom, the American Conservative Union chairman,

CPAC 2013: Palin tells
conservatives: Rebuild the
country, not the party

Washington Times [DC], by Ralph Z. Hallow Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 2:34:31 PM Post Reply

“We’re at CPAC not to rebrand a party; we’re here to rebuild a country,” said former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, in a speech that shows for many conservatives she’s still a rock star of the right. Before the former Alaska governor spoke, Ted Cruz in a surprise move introduced her, hours before he was slated to be the featured closing speaker at CPAC. Her funniest line referred to Christmas gifts exchanged by her and her husband: “You got the rifle; I got the rack,” a double entendre

Dr. Carson hints a White House
run, exciting conservatives

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 2:27:44 PM Post Reply

Dr. Ben Carson -- who during his speech at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies -- hinted Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run. Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson resumed his sharp critique of Washington and the rest of the United States, which included his vision on how to fix the country’s problems. “Let´s say you magically put me in the White House,” Carson, a Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, said to a loud applause. The remark was a bit unexpected, considering Carson has said

Ted Cruz steals podium to
intro Palin: She ‘drives the
mainstream media bat-crap crazy’

Washington Examiner [DC], by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 3/16/2013 2:21:58 PM Post Reply

Just when CPAC attendees expected Sarah Palin to take the stage for her speech this afternoon, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stole the podium to give her a second introduction. “The mainstream media wants us to be timid and hide in the corner and the mainstream media is absolutely convinced that women cannot be conservatives,” Cruz said. “And if they are [conservatives], they especially cannot shoot really big guns and hunt grizzly bears. Let me tell you, that’s why Gov. Sarah Palin drives the mainstream media bat-crap crazy.” Cruz then rattled off a list of Palin’s successful endorsements —

Ted Cruz hits back
at Joe Scarborough for
‘willfully ignorant’ remarks

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: sparky86- 3/16/2013 1:53:16 PM Post Reply

On his Friday program, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough ranted against junior Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for questioning the constitutional merits of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s gun control proposals. “I don’t mean to go on and on here, but I am so shocked that he would continue to use his seat in the judiciary committee to just mislead millions of Americans and put forward a willfully ignorant position on what the Constitution says and what it does not say,” Scarborough said.

Brooklyn Neighborhood Is
´A Powder Keg´ After
Teen Killed By Police

Business Insider, by Michael Kelley Original Article

Posted By: JackBurton- 3/16/2013 1:06:27 PM Post Reply

Hostility has been mounting this week in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, after two plainclothes police officers fatally shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray after he allegedly pointed a revolver at them on Saturday night. On Monday a group of about 130 people were marching toward the 67th Police Precinct station when about two dozen young protesters splintered off — drawing riot police — and trashed a Rite Aid. Tuesday the crowd was mostly calm, but on Wednesday — the same day Gray´s autopsy showed he had been shot seven times ...

Sen. McCain doesn´t think
he´ll change his views on
same-sex marriage

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Megan R. Wilson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 12:52:10 PM Post Reply

While GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio announced he had a “change of heart” about the issue of same-sex marriage, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he doesn’t see himself following suit. Portman on Thursday became the first sitting Republican senator, and one of the highest-profile members of the GOP, to support same-sex marriages. The shift happened, he said, after his son, Will, came out to him as gay. On Friday, McCain told CNN´s Anderson Cooper that he wouldn’t be changing his mind, as the issue is at odds with his beliefs.

Supporters rally to defense
of ´Obama phone´ program

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Brendan Sasso Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 12:41:47 PM Post Reply

Republicans have targeted a federal phone subsidy, widely referred to as the "Obama phone" program, as a prime example of wasteful government spending. But supporters of the program are coming to its defense, arguing that it is crucial for ensuring that needy people are able to communicate with their loved-ones and call for help in an emergency. "Allow me to set the record straight," said Mignon Clyburn, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission, in a speech on Friday. "Without this program, 15 million low-income families would literally be choosing between feeding their children or going without a

Obama doubles down
on alternative energy

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Carlo Muñoz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/16/2013 12:30:53 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is doubling down on the administration´s plan to reinvest federal oil-and-gas drilling revenues into next-generation alternative energy technology, unveiled during his State of the Union address last February. "After years of talking about it, we’re finally poised to take control of our energy future," Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday, comparing recent increases in gasoline prices "to getting hit with a new tax" at a time when American´s can least afford it. "The only way we’re going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift

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