If a chronic thief and a liar and a con artist told you what other thieves were doing, would believe him? Perhaps if you were crazy. The CIA states that Russia hacked the US election campaign in order to sway the vote to Trump. In my previous article, I mentioned how, according to the latest Read More…
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We Are Becoming The Internet, The Internet Is Becoming Us
The Internet is a military creation that has now become an essential part of communication in the modern world. Melissa Dykes explains the impact this is having on our relationships, our minds, and how we receive information. But it’s also a two-way street where we give information that is used for surveillance, targeted advertising, and Read More…
Trump’s Attorney General Vows War On Encryption
Jeff Sessions has been approved as Attorney General by the Senate Judiciary Committee and his confirmation is now a foregone conclusion. But he is a proponent of the phony war on drugs, a supporter of mass government surveillance, and has vowed to mandate encryption backdoors for “national security.” Today we talk to Derrick Broze about Read More…
Actual Hacking: Every Reporter Needs To Understand Sharyl Attkisson’s Case Against The US Government
Sharyl Attkisson was a star investigative reporter for CBS News. After two decades at the network, she resigned on March 10, 2014. Among the controversial stories she covered: the Fast and Furious gun-walking program, in which the government “purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns Read More…
Google Permanently Bans 200 “Fake News” Sites
The crackdown has begun. In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained 1) Ads for illegal products; 2) Read More…
Declassified Report Claims Putin ‘Ordered’ Campaign to Erode Faith in US Election — By Telling the Truth
After months of hyperbolic assertions Russian State actors — and possibly even President Vladimir Putin, himself — undertook a coordinated campaign to meddle in the U.S. presidential election to throw the vote in favor of Donald Trump, three intelligence agencies have finally proffered alleged proof to back their claims. However, the report — claiming Putin Read More…