A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children’s biometric information being culled without their parents’ permission, TheLedger.com reported.
In May, parents of students in the Polk County School District received a letter stating a pilot program would track bus riders using each child’s iris.
Parents could opt out, but by the time they learned about the program, the company charged with gathering the information had…
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Added by jim on June 17, 2013 at 4:21pm —
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Recently my child experienced firsthand the kind of victim disarmament indoctrination America’s public school system is teaching our children.
Melissa Melton
The school went on lockdown mode without even bothering to inform me, her parent, and while it turned out to be nothing at all, the impression left on my child that day will not soon be forgotten.
In 2005, a federal court upheld that our nation’s public schools trump parent rights:
Parents and…
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Added by jim on June 16, 2013 at 5:30pm —
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HONG KONG - In a show of protest against U.S. surveillance programs and in support of whistle-blower Edward Snowden, several hundred people marched Saturday to the U.S. Consulate General and the offices of the Hong Kong government despite drizzly weather.
"I think it's not acceptable for the (National Security Agency) to spy" on everyone, said Patrick Cheung, who has been upset by claims former NSA contractor Snowden made about the agency's data gathering from U.S.-based Internet…
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Loretta Sanchez
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Loretta Sanchez
A House Democrat said information revealed about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs are "the tip of the iceberg," Daniel Strauss of The Hill reports.
"I think it's just broader than most people even realize, and I think that's, in one way, what astounded most of us, too," Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) told C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" after a classified briefing with national security…
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The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government. We must be alert to the … danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farewell Address
January 17, 1961
In 2011, when we noted that Everything You Do Is Monitored, we weren’t embellishing or fear mongering.
This is as real as…
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Added by jim on June 14, 2013 at 7:00pm —
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A proposed law on the verge of approval by the Belgium parliament would allow children to decide for themselves whether they should be euthanized (“killed”) by medical personnel. Currently, Belgian law limits euthanasia to persons 18 and older, but with the rise of autistic children thanks to biopesticides, GMOs and vaccines, nations are increasingly trying to figure out what to do with all these children who have been permanently damaged by the medical and biotech industries.
The…
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In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer genes which the company says no one else can research or even detect without paying it a royalty. Click here to read the complete ruling.
"Myriad did not create anything," said Justice Clarence Thomas. "To be sure, it found…
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Added by jim on June 13, 2013 at 5:05pm —
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The National Security Agency contractor who came forward claiming to be the source of leaks about vast government surveillance programs set off diplomatic intrigue Monday by holing up in Hong Kong and hinting at seeking protection in Iceland.
The reporter who broke the story for the British newspaper The Guardian said that he did not believe American authorities had been in touch with the contractor, Edward Snowden, 29.
“I don’t believe they know where he is or how to…
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Added by jim on June 12, 2013 at 9:52pm —
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Ron Paul fears NSA leaker assassination
June 12, 2013
As the hunt continues for Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who outed himself last weekend as the source of top-secret leaks about U.S. surveillance program, some people have concerns about his fate.
"I'm worried about, somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile," said Ron Paul a former Texas congressman who twice ran for the Republican presidential nomination, in…
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Added by jim on June 12, 2013 at 6:59pm —
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an inspiring group of artists -- including Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, Christoph Waltz, Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman -- are taking a bold stand alongside members of the Global Zero movement just like you in a powerful new video calling for a world without nuclear weapons:
there is one thing that scares me more than anything its Nuclear weapons.
most people think a nuclear bomb is the only thing to fear NOT TRUE. A nuclear reactor will do just as much damage if…
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Added by jim on June 12, 2013 at 8:24am —
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This is an older post but I think it's worth a re-post:
Title: Tuna carrying radio active material across Pacific
Source: ABC Australia, Pacific Beat
Author: Wayne Shields
Date: July 15, 2012
Dan Madigan, Stanford University: [...] so in 2011, the fish we measured — because we didn’t know what we’d see and we weren’t really convinced we’d see anything — we only measured 15 fish, and what was amazing was that we found it in all 15 bluefin tuna that we looked…
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The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 resulted in the tragic accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and subsequently uncontrolled release of radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere. This review article attempts to compile and interpret data collected by various national and international monitoring networks in response to the Fukushima releases across the northern hemisphere. The majority of the releases occurred during the period March 12–22 with a…
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Added by jim on June 12, 2013 at 7:29am —
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Give them an inch and they will take a mile. That is how power-hungry tyrants interpret any law.
The PATRIOT Act and the FISA court led to the blanket wiretapping of every American citizen and a PRISM lens into all Internet activity for the NSA.
Now we are supposed to trust this Peeping Tom government by giving them more authority for "cybersecurity" with the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)?
As George W. Bush once eloquently said with his…
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Added by jim on June 9, 2013 at 3:25pm —
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In the aftermath of the PRISM spying scandal, the first and logical response was an expected one: lie. The president did it, and so did the various companies implicated in the biggest US surveillance scandal ever exposed. To wit:
•Zuckerberg: “Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers.”
•Google CEO Larry Page: “We have not joined any program that would give the US government – or any other government –…
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Added by jim on June 9, 2013 at 12:05am —
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Something is wrong. Very, very wrong.
Our economy is, as it has been for many years, on the brink of collapse. They may not have announced it officially just yet, but recent data suggest that we are most certainly in another recession (we may never have actually gotten out of the first one). While official statistics indicate there is very mild economic growth, the fact is that the growth is coming from monetary expansion driven by the Fed. As more money is slammed into the system…
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Added by jim on June 8, 2013 at 3:17pm —
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By Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
A former Air Force drone operator who says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people remembers watching one of the first victims bleed to death.
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Added by jim on June 6, 2013 at 12:35pm —
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Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama
• Read the court order in full here
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing,…
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