Facial recognition tech is rocketing ahead of laws that can control it

“Many Americans don’t realize they’re already in a facial recognition database,” Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Wednesday in a hearing on the technology. Addressing Senator Al Franken and the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Lynch pointed out that there is a painful disconnect between how little personal [...]

How to Stay Safer Than the First Lady

Maintaining a high credit rating and keeping personal funds safe does not always seem like a challenging goal. When bills are paid on time and accounts are checked on a monthly basis, it is easy to assume that the credit rating will fall into place. Unfortunately, identity theft is a reality that impacts many lives [...]

Australian journalist wins prestigious award for exposing flu vaccine scandal

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MB Comment: Natasha Bita, a journalist for The Australian has just won a Walkley Award (the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) for an in-depth article series on the CSL Afluria flu vaccine, a shot that caused convulsions in one percent of Australian infants who received it. To put this vaccine scandal in perspective, the [...]

Auschwitz Survivor on Palestine

Auschwitz Survivor on Palestine

Auschwitz survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer talks about the differences between the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews and the Palestinians today. Meyer expresses in impassioned terms his dismay at what he sees as the moral collapse of contemporary Israeli society and the worldwide Jewish community as a whole. Meyer is a member of “A Different Jewish [...]

The Genetic Social Network: Facebook has your Personal Information; Now Google wants your DNA

Facebook has amassed a gigantic database of human intelligence from its millions of users. This information has been used by police in the arrest of suspects, and is milked by marketers. What if a similar system gathered genetic information? In 2005 it was revealed in a book called The Google Story that Dr. Craig Venter, [...]

Podcast Reports: Mystery Booms, Trayvon Martin, Personal Accountability, and the New World Order

The Intel Hub News Brief | Over the weekend we released three new Intel Hub News Brief podcast transmissions that covered a variety of topics including the Trayvon Martin shooting, mystery booms, personal accountability and more.              

Mark Passio on Personal Responsibility, the Police State, and More

The Intel Hub News Brief | On this edition of the Intel Hub News Brief Popeye talks with researcher and radio host Mark Passio. They get into the subject of personal responsibility in regards to the military and police committing violent acts on innocent people and the mindset of the public as a whole that [...]

Facebook spies on phone users’ text messages, report says

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Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported. Other well-known companies accessing smartphone users’ personal data – such as text messages – include photo-sharing site [...]

Hospice patients being sent letters urging them to return to work

Whitehall blunder: The Department for Work and Pensions has been sending back-to-work letters to the dying THOUSANDS of dying people are being sent letters urging them to consider getting a job, it has been revealed. The Department for Work and Pensions writes to everyone claiming the new Employment Support Allowance suggesting that they see a [...]

San Francisco activists call for closing of Bank of America accounts

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From FaceBook: IF ANY OF YOU STILL WANT TO KICK BANK OF AMERICA’S @$$ FOR ALL THE MONEY THEY’VE STOLEN FROM US 99%, THEN COME ON VALENTINES’ DAY 2012, AND TAKE YOUR HARD-EARNED BUCKS OUT OF THIS PREDATOR’S COFFERS! THIS IS WORKING! GO HERE ON FACEBOOK TO LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE THERE: TURN UP [...]