By Michael Lewis / http://www.bloombergview.com (Updates fourth paragraph to include reference to ProPublica article containing Carmen Segarra’s allegations.) Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the...
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https://www.techdirt.com from the words-mean-something dept We’ve written before about how the NSA uses its own definitions of some fairly basic English words, in order to pretend to have the authority to do things it...
Read MoreBy The Associated Press Howard Bischoff, Daniel Heglund, Robert Leaver (AP Photo/FDNY)NEW YORK (AP) — Three retired firefighters who worked at ground zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be...
Read MoreBy BRENT KENDALL / http://online.wsj.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that he was “very concerned” about new steps Silicon Valley tech giants were taking to strengthen privacy protections...
Read MoreBen Grubb / http://www.smh.com.au Attorney-General George Brandis praised the laws being passed. Photo: Andrew Meares Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and...
Read MoreRobby Soave| http://reason.com A Huntsville, Alabama, public school superintendent says that after taking a friendly call from the NSA, he decided to start secretly monitoring students’ social media activities. The school...
Read MoreHealth Impact News Editor Glenn Greenwald, a journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, and author of three New York Times best-selling books on politics and law, has been working with NBC News in publishing a series of...
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In this video Luke Rudkowski talks to celebrity Sting at the 2014 climate week in...
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Nafeez Ahmed / http://www.theguardian.com Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow...
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Omar Robert Hamilton / http://www.stopwar.org.uk On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas...
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Written by JOSEPH COX / http://motherboard.vice.com With all the conspiracy theories surrounding...
Read MoreBy Megan McArdle http://www.bloombergview.com In mid-September, some Washington Redskins fans agreed to go on “The Daily Show” to defend the team’s name. In the course of negotiating their appearance, the fans asked...
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Editor’s note: the UK and US governments failed to get public and parliament/congress approval for...
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By John Vibes / http://thefreethoughtproject.com This week, cellphone video appeared online...
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Geez, how much more in bed with Obama and the NSA can Facebook get? My suggestion: If you have...
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In this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Barcelona Spain to meet Miguel Celades who was the offical...
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http://awdnews.com/ The Saudi foreign Minster called his American counterpart, demanding him to...
Read MoreBy Colby Itkowitz http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (Mark Lennihan/AP) In May, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general disclosed that a senior-level employee was caught spending as much as six hours of his day...
Read MorePeter Suderman| http://reason.com When President Obama first announced that he had authorized a new round of airstrikes in Iraq, he attempted to reassure the public that the attacks would not lead to another war. “I know...
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