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Cellphone, internet outages reported across the U.S.
tag:12160.info,2017-06-20:2649739:Topic:1694471
2017-06-20T02:34:51.710Z
Central Scrutinizer
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<div class="entry" id="article-entry"><div class="updated-time"><p>Last Updated Jun 19, 2017 10:16 PM EDT</p>
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<div><p><strong>TUCSON, Ariz. --</strong> If you're having trouble making calls or connecting to the internet on your cellphone, you're not alone.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/35698092/widespread-cell-phone-internet-outages-reported-across-country" target="_blank">CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD-TV reports</a> several major cellphone providers -- including …</p>
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<div class="entry" id="article-entry"><div class="updated-time"><p>Last Updated Jun 19, 2017 10:16 PM EDT</p>
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<div><p><strong>TUCSON, Ariz. --</strong> If you're having trouble making calls or connecting to the internet on your cellphone, you're not alone.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/35698092/widespread-cell-phone-internet-outages-reported-across-country" target="_blank">CBS Tucson affiliate KOLD-TV reports</a> several major cellphone providers -- including <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/" target="_blank">Verizon</a>, <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/sprint/map" target="_blank">Sprint</a>, <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/" target="_blank">AT&T</a> and <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map/" target="_blank">T-Mobile</a> -- were having service issues on Monday.</p>
<p>The website <a href="http://downdetector.com/" target="_blank">downdetector.com</a>, which compiles users' reports of outages, posted maps highlighting a number of different areas with problems:</p>
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<li><strong>Verizon </strong>outage map: <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/" target="_blank">http://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/</a> </li>
<li><strong>T-Mobile </strong>outage map: <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map/" target="_blank">http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map/</a></li>
<li><strong>Sprint </strong>outage map: <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/sprint/map" target="_blank">http://downdetector.com/status/sprint/map</a></li>
<li><strong>AT&T</strong> outage map: <a href="http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/" target="_blank">http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/</a></li>
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<p>Spectrum customers were also having difficulty Monday, <a href="http://wncn.com/2017/06/19/eastern-nc-reporting-widespread-cell-phone-and-internet-outages/" target="_blank">CBS affiliate WNCN-TV in North Carolina reports</a>. Officials from the company said a backbone fiber line was cut in the city of Wilmington and more than a dozen crews worked to repair the line.</p>
<p>The station also reports that Sprint customers were also affected which officials attributed to an issue with a local exchange provider.</p>
<p>A Verizon spokesperson issued a statement to WNCN explaining that a connectivity issue caused service interruption for some customers in the cities of Wilmington, Jacksonville and New Burn in North Carolina.</p>
<p>"Our engineers worked with our vendor partner to resolve the issue and service was restored by approximately 3:30 pm Eastern this afternoon," Verizon said in a statement.</p>
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Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus
tag:12160.info,2014-12-30:2649739:Topic:1525884
2014-12-30T22:07:13.183Z
Tara
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<p>It's an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out. But it also allows them to commit new forms of crime.</p>
<p>No, we're not talking about the internet, we're talking about fungi. While mushrooms might be the most familiar part of a fungus, most of their bodies are made up of a mass of thin threads, known as a mycelium. We now know that…</p>
<p>It's an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out. But it also allows them to commit new forms of crime.</p>
<p>No, we're not talking about the internet, we're talking about fungi. While mushrooms might be the most familiar part of a fungus, most of their bodies are made up of a mass of thin threads, known as a mycelium. We now know that these threads act as a kind of underground internet, linking the roots of different plants. That tree in your garden is probably hooked up to a bush several metres away, thanks to mycelia.</p>
<p>The more we learn about these underground networks, the more our ideas about plants have to change. They aren't just sitting there quietly growing. By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network. This "wood wide web", it turns out, even has its own version of cybercrime.</p>
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<p>Around 90% of land plants are in mutually-beneficial relationships with fungi. The 19th-century German biologist Albert Bernard Frank coined the word "mycorrhiza" to describe these partnerships, in which the fungus colonises the roots of the plant.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet?ocid=fbert">http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet?ocid=fbert</a></p>
Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser Doubles-Down on Internet Privacy by Partnering With Tor Project
tag:12160.info,2014-11-12:2649739:Topic:1516179
2014-11-12T23:03:41.806Z
Tara
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<p><strong>Mozilla Firefox is taking a huge stand for internet privacy. Let’s face it: privacy is one of the major forces pushing many cryptocurrencies forward. For example, <a href="https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/darkcoin-price-rising/" title="Darkcoin Price Rising">Darkcoin</a> and <a href="https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/anoncoin-price-yet-recover-dump/" title="Anoncoin Price Yet to Recover from Dump">Anoncoin</a> are two projects focused directly on keeping transactions as private as…</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mozilla Firefox is taking a huge stand for internet privacy. Let’s face it: privacy is one of the major forces pushing many cryptocurrencies forward. For example, <a href="https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/darkcoin-price-rising/" title="Darkcoin Price Rising">Darkcoin</a> and <a href="https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/anoncoin-price-yet-recover-dump/" title="Anoncoin Price Yet to Recover from Dump">Anoncoin</a> are two projects focused directly on keeping transactions as private as possible. Even Bitcoin builds on the back of private financial lifestyle philosophies. Privacy is important and its impact reaches out further than finances alone.</strong></p>
<p><strong>More Here: <a href="https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mozilla-firefox-internet-browser-doubles-internet-privacy-partnering-tor-project///">https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mozilla-firefox-internet-browser-doubles-internet-privacy-partnering-tor-project///</a></strong></p>
Protests planned outside White House and in other cities in ongoing battle over creation of internet ‘fast lanes’ by cable and telecoms companies
tag:12160.info,2014-11-06:2649739:Topic:1514794
2014-11-06T01:19:18.892Z
Tara
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<p>Protesters will gather outside the White House and in a dozen US cities on Thursday to demonstrate against a “hybrid” solution now being considered to end a stalemate over regulating the internet.</p>
<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently <a class=" u-underline" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/15/net-neutrality-fcc-open-internet-regulation-utility">redrawing its rules</a> for regulating the internet after a series of court defeats at the hands of…</p>
<p>Protesters will gather outside the White House and in a dozen US cities on Thursday to demonstrate against a “hybrid” solution now being considered to end a stalemate over regulating the internet.</p>
<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/15/net-neutrality-fcc-open-internet-regulation-utility" class=" u-underline">redrawing its rules</a> for regulating the internet after a series of court defeats at the hands of cable and telecoms companies that effectively hamstrung its ability to oversee the industry.</p>
<p>Protests are <a href="http://popularresistance.org/internet-emergency" class=" u-underline">planned</a> in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, on Las Vegas’s boulevard, Federal Plaza in Chicago and at the headquarters of Comcast, the largest cable company, in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>“What President Obama’s FCC chair is reportedly pushing is not a compromise, it’s a sham. Nearly four million internet users submitted comments to the FCC against having fast and slow lanes on the internet, but this proposal explicitly opens the door for them. Worse, it’s based in overly complicated and untested legal theories that are likely to fail in court,” said Evan Greer, campaign director for Fight for the Future which is organising the campaign alongside Popular Resistance, Free Press and Reddit.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/05/net-neutrality-protest-hybrid-fcc-solution">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/05/net-neutrality-protest-hybrid-fcc-solution</a></p>
12160: Facebook, Google, MSM, Eugenics, Censorship and the Progressive Agenda
tag:12160.info,2014-08-13:2649739:Topic:1494823
2014-08-13T23:41:30.086Z
Don Mashak
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" width="750"></img></a> Recently Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook admitted to experimenting on its users without their knowledge. The nature of these experiments smells of Progressive Eugenics. This writer informed his followers of Mark Zuckerberg’s experiments on Twitter using the following Tweet:</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">Caught working on #Progressive #Eugenics Agenda again; Facebook…</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/111140350?profile=original" width="750"/></a>Recently Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook admitted to experimenting on its users without their knowledge. The nature of these experiments smells of Progressive Eugenics. This writer informed his followers of Mark Zuckerberg’s experiments on Twitter using the following Tweet:</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">Caught working on #Progressive #Eugenics Agenda again; Facebook Says It’s Sorry.We’ve Heard That Before <a href="http://nyti.ms/1mBqRKp" target="_blank">http://nyti.ms/1mBqRKp</a> @TweetCongress</p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;">Don Mashak on <a href="http://twitter.com/dmashak" target="_blank">Twitter as @DMashak</a></p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;">“Facebook offered up an apology to its users on Sunday, after it came to light that the company had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html?_r=0">manipulated the news feeds of more than half a million people</a> so it could change the number of positive and negative posts that appear from their friends. Facebook’s in-house data science team carried out the project, it said, as a way to examine the “emotional impact of Facebook” on its users. Along with two university researchers, the team published the results of the study in an academic journal.”</p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;">“Google, too, <a href="http://macography.net/the-list-of-google-apologies-google-apologizes/">is familiar</a> with issuing its own apologies, not the least of which includes an admission of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/15google.html">inadvertently grabbing personal user information</a> from unlocked wireless networks.”</p>
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<p>You can learn more about the Progressive Movements foundations in Eugenics in these three articles:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1220" target="_blank">Eugenics & the Progressive Movement</a></li>
<li><a href="http://youtu.be/vvDAf78ren4" target="_blank">Progressive Movement & its Racist Eugenics Fabian Roots</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/345274/progressive-racism-paul-rahe" target="_blank">Progressives, President WoodrowWilson, Eugenics & Scientific Racism</a></li>
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<p>This writer can only describe this activity of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook as creepy, Orwellian and terrifying. And yet, as this more recent article reports, this appears to be just the tip of the “creepy” Progressive Eugenics iceberg:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">10 Other Facebook Experiments On Users, Rated On A Highly-Scientific WTH Scale <a href="http://onforb.es/1ni0HRS">http://onforb.es/1ni0HRS</a></li>
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<p>Yet this is not the only way Facebook, Google and the Main Stream Media (MSM) are complicit in advancing the Progressive Agenda. To being with, one must remember that Progressive Philosophy specifically maintains that Educated Elites have superior knowledge to the alleged ignorant masses and should be free to act because of their superior knowledge. However, in America they run smack into long standing traditions of individualism and the Democratic Process. And so the Progressives have to dance around this alleged intellectual superiority of the Educated Elites.</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em><u>The real mass media are basically trying to divert people. Let them do something else, but don’t bother us (us being the people who run the show).</u> Let them get interested in professional sports, for example. Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems or something like that. Anything, as long as it isn’t serious. <u>Of course, the serious stuff is for the big guys. "We" take care of that.</u></em></p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm">Noam Chomsky 1997</a></p>
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<p>Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, also called for controlling the flow of information to the masses. Level 6 of his 8 <a href="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b0/db/b0dbc515171fa31726d7571ae9a1a08b.JPG?itok=c_PmWig1" target="_blank">Leverls of Control to transform a Society to Socialism</a> calls for:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>5) EDUCATION: Take control of what people read and listen to, take control of what children learn in school.</em></p>
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<p>Yet, news is not a priority to most Americans. Each of us rank and file Americans is preoccupied with our lives and a job that we need to sustain our life style. And therefore, we must prioritize activities with what is left of our limited free time. </p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;">Aristotle</p>
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<p>As a result, for the vast majority of us, only the news that is easiest to find and/or stumble upon, is the information we receive. And, as we have seen, our government and MSM uses their control of the information WE THE PEOPLE, to our detriment:</p>
<p>To make matters worse, the Progressive President Barack Obama Administration began pressing for even tighter control of the flow of information to the Public in 2012 and earlier this year:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://rt.com/usa/white-house-systems-order-142/#.UxfHYoY05g8.twitter" target="_blank">2012 - White House gives Homeland Security control of all communication systems</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">2014 - FCC Wants To Spy On Newsrooms <a href="http://youtu.be/XJ31Jx9ZlLg" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/XJ31Jx9ZlLg</a> Pls wake up America-More #Progressive Agenda, causing your submission by controlling info</li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">2014 - <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/08-1" target="_blank">38 Journalism Groups Urge President to Stop Excessive Controls on Public Information</a></li>
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<p>From these three sources and this writer’s two recent articles that immediately follow, this writer asserts as fact that our government is trying to control the information the masses recieve:</p>
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<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/is-progressive-common-core-simply-pure-evil" target="_blank">Is Progressive Common Core simply pure evil?</a></li>
<li style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/who-establishes-truth-america" target="_blank">Who establishes Truth in America?</a></li>
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<p>Before the Internet became well established, the elite MSM had pretty much perfected control of the flow of information to the masses.</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>The elite media set a framework within which others operate. If you are watching the Associated Press, who grind out a constant flow of news, in the mid-afternoon it breaks and there is something that comes along every day that says "Notice to Editors: Tomorrow’s New York Times is going to have the following stories on the front page." The point of that is, if you’re an editor of a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio and you don’t have the resources to figure out what the news is, or you don’t want to think about it anyway, this tells you what the news is. These are the stories for the quarter page that you are going to devote to something other than local affairs or diverting your audience. These are the stories that you put there because that’s what the New York Times tells us is what you’re supposed to care about tomorrow. If you are an editor in Dayton, Ohio, you would sort of have to do that, because you don’t have much else in the way of resources. If you get off line, if you’re producing stories that the big press doesn’t like, you’ll hear about it pretty soon. In fact, what just happened at San Jose Mercury News is a dramatic example of this. So there are a lot of ways in which power plays can drive you right back into line if you move out. If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long. That framework works pretty well, and it is understandable that it is just a reflection of obvious power structures.</em></p>
<p style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm">Noam Chomsky 1997</a></p>
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<p>The net effect of this framework is that the elite at the top of the news and information pyramid control the flow of information to WE THE PEOPLE. In current parlance, the Elite MSM "Spammed" America's news distribution network. As a result, those of you with.....</p>
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<p>In Closing:</p>
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<p>Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.</p>
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<p>If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even if this article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same “livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.</p>
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<p>And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our #Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of our time, money and energy.</p>
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<p>Finally, this article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I, Don Mashak, seek no leadership role. I, Don Mashak, seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” <a href="http://amzn.to/kbRuar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/kbRuar</a></p>
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NSA Spying Hurts Cybersecurity for All of Us Say Privacy Advocates
tag:12160.info,2014-07-09:2649739:Topic:1482374
2014-07-09T00:03:29.108Z
Tara
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<h2 class="article-excerpt">The surveillance debate has focused on the legality of spying on Americans but some say the biggest danger is in the methods the NSA uses</h2>
<p>Privacy advocates Monday slammed the National Security Agency for conducting surveillance in a way they say undermines cybersecurity for everyone and harms U.S. tech companies.</p>
<p>“We have examples of the NSA going in and deliberately weakening security of things that we use so they can eavesdrop on particular targets,”…</p>
<h2 class="article-excerpt">The surveillance debate has focused on the legality of spying on Americans but some say the biggest danger is in the methods the NSA uses</h2>
<p>Privacy advocates Monday slammed the National Security Agency for conducting surveillance in a way they say undermines cybersecurity for everyone and harms U.S. tech companies.</p>
<p>“We have examples of the NSA going in and deliberately weakening security of things that we use so they can eavesdrop on particular targets,” said Bruce Schneier, a prominent cryptography writer and technologist. Schneier referenced a Reuters report that the NSA paid the computer security firm <a target="_blank" href="http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/21/privacy-activists-sour-on-rsa/">RSA</a> $10 million to use a deliberately flawed encryption standard to facilitate easier eavesdropping, a charge RSA has denied. “This very act of undermining not only undermines our security. It undermines our fundamental trust in the things we use to achieve security. It’s very toxic,” Schneier said.</p>
<p>In the year since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s first leaks, attention has focused on the Agency’s surveillance itself, fueling debates over whether it is legal and ethical to spy on American citizens or to eavesdrop on the leaders of allied countries. NSA policies that intentionally undermine cybersecurity too often get left out of the debate, said panelists Monday at a New American Foundation event titled “National Insecurity Agency: How the NSA’s Surveillance Programs Undermine Internet Security.”</p>
<p>“If the Chinese government had proposed to put in a backdoor into our computers and then paid a company $10 million to make that the standard we would be furious,” said Joe Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “That’s exactly what the NSA has become: the best hacker in the entire world.”</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://time.com/2966463/nsa-spying-surveillance-cybersecurity-privacy-advocates-schneier/">http://time.com/2966463/nsa-spying-surveillance-cybersecurity-privacy-advocates-schneier/</a></p>
Dozens charged in child porn case in NYC area... the defendants include a police chief, a paramedic, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader
tag:12160.info,2014-05-21:2649739:Topic:1469684
2014-05-21T12:59:59.088Z
Tara
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<p>NEW YORK — A five-week investigation has resulted in charges against at least 70 men and one woman in the New York City area in what officials called one of the largest-ever roundups locally of people who anonymously trade child porn over the Internet.</p>
<p>The defendants include a police chief, a paramedic, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader. Federal officials planned to announce the arrests at a news conference later Wednesday.</p>
<p>Authorities say advances in technology and computer…</p>
<p>NEW YORK — A five-week investigation has resulted in charges against at least 70 men and one woman in the New York City area in what officials called one of the largest-ever roundups locally of people who anonymously trade child porn over the Internet.</p>
<p>The defendants include a police chief, a paramedic, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader. Federal officials planned to announce the arrests at a news conference later Wednesday.</p>
<p>Authorities say advances in technology and computer capacity have allowed child-porn collectors to more easily amass vast troves of disturbing images and to exchange files with each other directly. The New York effort resulted in the seizure of nearly 600 desktop and laptop computers, tablets, smartphones and other devices containing a total of 175 terabytes of storage.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/dozens-charged-in-child-porn-case-in-nyc-area/2014/05/21/f2580812-e0e3-11e3-9442-54189bf1a809_story.html?tid=socialss">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/dozens-charged-in-child-porn-case-in-nyc-area/2014/05/21/f2580812-e0e3-11e3-9442-54189bf1a809_story.html?tid=socialss</a></p>
Netflix CEO Wants Free 'Net'
tag:12160.info,2014-03-21:2649739:Topic:1436743
2014-03-21T03:24:52.227Z
Tara
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<p><a href="http://variety.com/t/netflix/" id="auto-tag_netflix" name="auto-tag_netflix">Netflix</a> CEO Reed Hastings agreed to pay <a href="http://variety.com/t/comcast/" id="auto-tag_comcast" name="auto-tag_comcast">Comcast</a> for direct connections to the cable giant's Internet networks. But he isn't happy about it.</p>
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<p>The exec issued a call for a "strong" form of…</p>
<p><a href="http://variety.com/t/netflix/" id="auto-tag_netflix" name="auto-tag_netflix">Netflix</a> CEO Reed Hastings agreed to pay <a href="http://variety.com/t/comcast/" id="auto-tag_comcast" name="auto-tag_comcast">Comcast</a> for direct connections to the cable giant's Internet networks. But he isn't happy about it.</p>
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<p>The exec issued a call for a "strong" form of <a href="http://variety.com/t/net-neutrality/" id="auto-tag_net-neutrality" name="auto-tag_net-neutrality">net neutrality</a> that would prohibit <a href="http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-and-comcast-cut-internet-connection-agreement-1201117512/" rel="nofollow">broadband service providers like Comcast</a> and AT&T from demanding payments from content companies like Netflix.</p>
<p>In a blog post published Thursday, Hastings argued that a new form of net neutrality is needed that "prevents ISPs from charging a toll for interconnection to services like Netflix, YouTube or Skype, or intermediaries such as Cogent, Akamai or Level 3, to deliver the services and data requested by ISP residential subscribers."</p>
<p>Instead, according to the Netflix topper, "they must provide sufficient access to their network without charge," Hastings wrote.</p>
<p>"Netflix believes strong net neutrality is critical, but in the near term we will in cases pay the toll to the powerful ISPs to protect our consumer experience," Hastings wrote. "A few weeks ago, we agreed to pay Comcast and our members are now getting a good experience again. Comcast has been an industry leader in supporting weak net neutrality, and we hope they'll support strong net neutrality as well."</p>
<p>Read More Here: <a href="http://www.realclear.com/tech/2014/03/20/netflix_chief_hastings_comcast_and_other_internet_providers_should_provide_free_access_to_content_companies_6258.html">http://www.realclear.com/tech/2014/03/20/netflix_chief_hastings_comcast_and_other_internet_providers_should_provide_free_access_to_content_companies_6258.html</a></p>
12160: Did Minnesota Government just declare war on its Citizens?
tag:12160.info,2013-12-11:2649739:Topic:1375369
2013-12-11T03:28:07.232Z
Don Mashak
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<br></br> By now, all Americans should be becoming proficient at reading<br></br>
between the lines of the statements of Government officials and the<br></br>
Major Media. The lies and duplicity used to pass Obamacare have laid<br></br>
bare for all to see, the…
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<br/> By now, all Americans should be becoming proficient at reading<br/>
between the lines of the statements of Government officials and the<br/>
Major Media. The lies and duplicity used to pass Obamacare have laid<br/>
bare for all to see, the absolute lack of integrity of virtually every<br/>
aspect of our government. As those who follow this writer on Twitter<br/>
@DMashak know, this writer has encouraged his fellow citizens to learn<br/>
to play Chess so they can see a “few moves beyond” the governments and<br/>
the complicit Major Media’s daily propaganda. This article is an<br/>
exercise in political Chess.<br/>
<br/>
Last week a nebulous <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/minnesota">Minnesota</a> Capital <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/security">Security</a> <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/committee">Committee</a><br/>
of dubious authority voted to increase security at the Minnesota<br/>
Capital. Amongst their plans is a near doubling of the guard. This<br/>
writer asks, “What should we read between the lines?”; “What comes<br/>
next?”<br/>
<br/>
How can Minnesota local major media fail to ask the most fundamental<br/>
question: “Why?” Why does some Minnesota Government Committee<br/>
(authority and nature unknown) deign it necessary to tighten security at<br/>
the Minnesota Capitol? Does it strike anyone else as odd that the press<br/>
wouldn’t ask this question?<br/>
The following 2 articles are representative of the reporting of the Minnesota Major Media on this subject:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br/> <b><a href="http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2013/11/committee-moves-toward-tighter-capitol-security/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Committee moves toward tighter Capitol security</a></b><br/>
<a href="http://t.co/6GgcDrl75I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://t.co/6GgcDrl75I</a><br/>
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<b>MN security advisory panel suggests more notification by people bringing guns into Capitol</b> <a href="http://strib.mn/1jF287b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://strib.mn/1jF287b</a></blockquote>
<br/> This writer’s read is that if this security committee had its way,<br/>
there would be metal detectors and a doubling of the guard on the draw<br/>
bridge over an expanded moat surrounding the Capitol Castle to protect<br/>
the aristocrats from the peasants who are too dumb to know what’s good<br/>
for them. (Sarcasm, literary license).<br/>
It just seems to this writer that government should exercise the<br/>
logic of the decision making process common to business and most of us<br/>
allegedly ignorant peasants(per Progressive Dogma).<ol>
<li>Identify the problem;</li>
<li>Determine if the problem interferes with the goals of our organization;</li>
<li>Determine the cause of the problem;</li>
<li>Determine the Importance of the problem;</li>
<li>Consider various solutions proportionate to the importance of the problem;</li>
<li>If the Importance of the problem merits the resolution of the<br/> problem, select the proposed solution that most economically and<br/>
efficiently addresses the problem;</li>
<li>Implement the selected solution.</li>
</ol>
<br/> This writer has read and/or watched several local reports on<br/>
this mysterious Capitol Security Committee, and has not found a single<br/>
reporter asking the most relevant questions? What instigated this<br/>
desire to double the Capital Security Force, install metal detectors and<br/>
ban permitted gun owners from carrying their guns at the capitol?<br/>
<br/>
Is there not one person in Minnesota Major Media who thought to ask<br/>
“Why?” before we spend millions of dollars to turn the Minnesota Capitol<br/>
into a fortress? Without knowing the why, how can any Minnesota citizen<br/>
make observations and use their reasoning to determine truth for<br/>
themselves. (Pursuant to the Natural Law, upon which this country was<br/>
founded)<br/>
<br/>
Further, with headlines such as the following floating around, don’t<br/>
our elected officials have some obligation to exercise due diligence to<br/>
prevent the general public from losing their right to feel secure in<br/>
their persons?<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br/> We are preparing for Massive Civil War, Says DHS Informant:<br/>
<a href="http://youtu.be/nXg2WsNCrW4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/nXg2WsNCrW4</a><br/>
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Poll: 29% Registered #Voters Believe #Armed #Revolution May Be Necessary in Next Few Years <a href="http://goo.gl/1Hin47" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/1Hin47</a><br/>
<br/>
Bloomberg Poll Shows Americans Waking Up to Government Fraud<br/>
<a href="http://goo.gl/0vbcZg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/0vbcZg</a></blockquote>
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<br/> Or maybe it is the Minnesota Government’s strategy to scare WE THE PEOPLE into submission?<br/>
But as this writer has already pointed out, the major media isn’t<br/>
asking the questions and Minnesota Public Officials are not returning<br/>
this writer’s phone calls. The closest thing we have to an explanation<br/>
came from its chair Minnesota Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon.<br/>
Apparently she saw some metal detectors in some Federal Government<br/>
buildings and thought “Why not?” (Lets just hope Lt. Governor, does see<br/>
the communist manifesto and proposed replacing the Constitution with<br/>
it?)<br/>
<br/>
And for those Second Amendment folks who are relieved that they haven’t banned the guns yet...<br/>
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<br/>
Please wake up America.<br/>
<br/>
Those were my thoughts.<br/>
<br/>
In Closing:<br/>
<br/>
Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.<br/>
<br/>
If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact<br/>
your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of<br/>
repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the<br/>
local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even if<br/>
this article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still<br/>
likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training<br/>
junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same<br/>
“livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.<br/>
<br/>
And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our<br/>
#Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money<br/>
for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time<br/>
without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of<br/>
our time, money and energy.<br/>
Finally, this article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common<br/>
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Keep Fighting the Good Fight!<br/>
<br/>
In Liberty,<br/>
<br/>
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China asks U.S. to explain Internet surveillance
tag:12160.info,2013-06-17:2649739:Topic:1229307
2013-06-17T23:17:26.706Z
mystery
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<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/china" title="Full coverage of China">China</a> made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community.</p>
<p>Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data.</p>
<p>"We…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/china" title="Full coverage of China">China</a> made its first substantive comments on Monday to reports of U.S. surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community.</p>
<p>Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data.</p>
<p>"We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and give the international community the necessary explanation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing.</p>
<p>The Chinese government has previously not commented directly on the case, simply repeating the government's standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking attacks.</p>
<p>A senior source with ties to the Communist Party leadership said Beijing was reluctant to jeopardize recently improved ties with Washington.</p>
<p>The explosive revelations of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying programs were provided by Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor currently holed up in Hong Kong, a China-controlled city.</p>
<p>Snowden told the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's main English language newspaper, last week that Americans had spied extensively on targets in China and Hong Kong.</p>
<p>He said these included the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the site of an exchange which handles nearly all the city's domestic web traffic. Other alleged targets included government officials, businesses and students.</p>
<p><span>Be aware my Firefox add on tells me this is being monitored.</span></p>
<p><span><span>you can continue reading at: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-usa-security-china-idUSBRE95G06R20130617">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-usa-security-china-idUSBRE95G06R20130617</a></span></span></p>