So we have now learned a few more things going on about the NSA surveillance. We will not repeat the information what is already published somewhere. Instead we will present some thoughts about how these programs affect national security, America’s reputation in the world and the like.
For instance, the PRISM program is supposed not to target US citizens at home or abroad. Continue reading
Now it is official. Kind of. At least we know now.
The NSA has been collecting phone call records on every call, local international, whatever, of every customer, US citizen or not.
So far this has been confirmed for Verizon customers, Continue reading
We got another transcript of a phone conversation from WikiLeaks.
It is again between BFFs North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and former NBA Star Dennis Rodman. As you know they met earlier this year and have been best friends ever since. Every once in a while both talk to each other on the phone. This particular call just happened very recently.
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We got another transcript from WikiLeaks.
This time it is a conversation between BFFs North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and former NBA Star Dennis Rodman. Continue reading
Who says we don’t have spies in North Korea?
Our friends from Wiki Leaks have passed us a transcript Continue reading
Let the competitive peeing contest begin.
Earlier this week it was announced that a minor league baseball team will install video games Continue reading
An update on this
The parliament in Cyprus has rejected the deal that would impose a levy on every bank account – even after the government proposed to exempt account with less than €20000. There wasn’t even one member of the parliament voting for it.
Now I read a comment in the Continue reading
Is this the end of the euro?
In an unprecedented move, the European finance ministers this past weekend decided a bailout plan Cyprus – Continue reading
Guns are hazardous to health. The NRA, too.
Heavy lobbying from the NRA caused the funding of the research of gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control to be cut in 1996 . Because, the NRA Continue reading
So it may have been fraud – or close to fraud – after all.
Or at least questionable.
Following up on a general comment we made earlier we now are learning more Continue reading