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UK: Local government cuts hitting poorest areas hardest, figures show
Cuts average 25.3% in 10 most deprived areas of England, and 2.54% in 10 least deprived areas. The most deprived communities in the country are bearing the brunt of government cuts while more affluent areas are escaping relatively unscathed, according to an analysis of official figures. [...]
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GCHQ chief to step down by year’€™s end following Snowden leaks
The head of GCHQ, Britain's electronic intelligence agency, will step down by year’s end, the Foreign Office said. Officials denied his departure was linked to public outrage over mass surveillance revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [...]
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Top lawyer to MPs: GCHQ mass surveillance largely illegal
A substantial part of the GCHQ's dragnet snooping program is most likely illegal and was approved by government ministers despite breaching human rights and surveillance laws, a legal analysis requested by British MPs has found, The Guardian reports. [...]
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Obama’s Abuse of Power
The President and his Administration continue to disregard the Constitution. Senator Ted Cruz is one of the few politicians in Washington D.C. you can actually believe wants to restore the rule of law and limited government by reining in an absolutely out-of-control political cabal led by President Barack Obama. [...]
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Steve Jobs, Google CEO plotted “€˜gentlemen’s agreement”€™ to keep wages down
Two of the most powerful people in the technology world secretly and perhaps illegally coordinated business strategies in which they agreed not to poach each other’s employees, thereby keeping salaries low, according to emails unveiled in federal court. [...]
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Unbebiebable! MSNBC cuts Congresswoman during NSA LIVE to report… Justin Bieber
A US government privacy board dubs the NSA'€™s phone calls hoarding illegal and calls to shut... wait, it'€™s Justin Bieber. And so the Congresswoman being interviewed was dumped mid-sentence to report the "breaking news"€ of Bieber's DUI arrest. [...]
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NSA is after industrial spying -€“ Snowden to German TV
The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an interview to German TV. [...]
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China passes India as world’€™s leading gold consumer
China has outpaced India in terms of gold consumption in 2013, with people there increasingly investing in the precious metal, according to the Thomson Reuters GFMS Gold Survey. The influential report says Chinese demand increased by 32 percent within a year, reaching 1,189.8 tons in 2013, which marks a fivefold increase since 2003, says the Financial Times. [...]
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Veteran Gay Conservative Activist Leaves GOP—Calls Party “Hopelessly Out of Touch”
Jimmy LaSalvia denounces Republican "culture of intolerance." Gay political activist and longtime Republican, Jimmy LaSalvia, did not merely leave the GOP last week. He loudly denounced his former party for its "culture of intolerance" and predicted it will never "win another Presidential election." [...]
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Independent panel denounces “€˜chilling”€™ NSA program as illegal, demands end
An independent review board has labeled NSA hoarding of phone data "€˜illegal"€™, adding that while it poses a serious threat to civil liberties, it was unable to find a "€œsingle instance"€ of a threat to the US where the program made any difference. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released an acerbic report stating that the statute upon which the NSA program was [...]
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Man who tried to arrest Tony Blair awarded more than £2000
Despite failing to arrest Tony Blair for "€˜crimes against peace"€™ last Friday, the London barman who attempted the citizen's arrest has been rewarded with a quarter of the bounty for keeping the issue of double standards alive in the media. [...]
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Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government’s Ever Sent
"€œDear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance." That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian [...]
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A new poll says these nations are the top 4 threats to world peace. Guess who’s number one.
The global survey, conducted by WIN/Gallup International, polled residents in 68 countries on everything from the global economy to politics and living conditions. According to the poll, 24 percent of the surveyed countries ranked the United States as the greatest threat to world peace today, followed by Pakistan at 8 percent, China at 6 percent and four countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Israel [...]
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Washington State Moves To Block NSA Surveillance
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea (R) has introduced a “Fourth Amendment Protection Act" that would block all unlawful NSA surveillance and lay the groundwork for other states to follow suit. House BIll 2272 (PDF), which also received bipartisan backing from Representatives Taylor, Moscoso, Overstreet, Scott, Blake, and Condotta, would codify Washington State’s refusal to allow the federal gover [...]
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Chelsea Manning awarded 2014 Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence
€‹The former US Army intelligence analyst who was found guilty of releasing the largest set of classified documents in US history will be honored in absentia for her role in exposing the dark nature of civilian casualties in Iraq. [...]
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Ex-cop acquitted of beating homeless man to death now wants his job back
One of the former California police officers acquitted this week of beating to death a mentally ill homeless man wants to get his job back on the force. He and his partner were fired amid the investigation back in 2012. [...]
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Science – Latest Technology News and Pictures
The US military is testing a radical "smart rifle" that can automatically aim itself, it has been revealed. The army is believed to have acquired six $27,000 "smart rifles" from Texas firm Tracking Point. It uses a built in Linux computer to aim at a target, and can even "lock on" top targets and automatically track them. [...]
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€‹US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA
Lawyers from the Justice Department have urged a judge to halt a lawsuit against the NSA's spy programs. This comes after the judge'€™s previous ruling that the NSA'€™s collection of metadata was likely unconstitutional and "almost Orwellian" in nature. [...]
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Bill Moyers: Trans-Pacific trade pact is death for democracy
While most of us are in the dark about the contents of TPP, which Obama aims to seal by year end, corporate lobbyists are in the know about what it contains. Obama and the rest of the neoliberal (“free-trade”) Democrats are dying to implement it, and the Republican servants of the same fine CEOs are not far behind. [...]
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