Published on 9 Jul 2012 by TheYoungTurks
Billionaire Ira Rennert’s Helibuses is making waves in the Hamptons, and things have taken an ugly turn. Frank Dalene has started an anti-helicopter group because of the damage he claims Rennert’s helicopters are doing to the popular vacation spot for the wealthy. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss this first world problem in depth.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/hamptons-ira-rennert-mansion-heli…
Without much coverage from the mainstream media, a shadowy international trade regulatory agency known as the World Trade Organization (WTO) decided last month that country of origin labels are unlawful.
The ruling may seem banal but its impact will be wide-ranging, affecting not just meat labels but labels many food products including fruit, coffee and vegetables. In the near future, you won’t be able to tell were much of your food comes from. Health regulators also won’t be able to discover the origin of whatever bacteria or disease might hitch a ride along with your burger or your veggies.
The ruling follows the theme of other, similar findings by the tribunal against dolphin-safe labels (meant to protect dolphins) and the U.S. candy cigarette ban (meant to prevent children from becoming addicted) as the global trade regulatory body works to dismantle national laws it deems stand in the way of unrestrained global trade.
The case began with a dispute over U.S. meat labeling requirements passed in 2008, a law that Mexico and Canada did not like because U.S. consumers might refuse to buy meat and produce from Mexico. The U.S. could be sued because it is a member of both the WTO and NAFTA.
Read More:http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/new-world-order-mystery-meat-the/
THE official file on the mysterious disappearance of a plane off the Victorian coast has all but ruled out pilot Frederick Valentich staged an elaborate hoax.
It has also revealed that government officials requested an investigation into Mr Valentich’s claimed UFO sighting, which he was detailing before the 20-year-old virtually vanished.
A widespread search which scoured the coastline from Torquay to Warrnambool was called off without any sightings of aircraft wreckage or Mr Valentich.
The file said by the Government to have been lost or destroyed has been uncovered and reveals that parts of aircraft wreckage with partial serial numbers were found five years after the plane and pilot vanished in 1978.
In the ensuing decades, only a brief summary of the investigation and a transcript of the air-traffic control conversation had been released.
That revealed Mr Valentich’s last words were “It is hovering and it’s not an aircraft” before his plane disappeared over Bass Strait on October 21, 1978.
The young pilot reported seeing a UFO before his plane virtually vanished off the Victorian Coast.
Read More:http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2012/07/10/336381_news.html
CLEVELAND – If you saw an unidentified flying object that defied your logic and common sense, yet you knew without doubt that you had seen something truly bizarre and unexplainable, would you tell anyone?
A local UFO group — one of the oldest in the country — asked people to come forward and share their experiences. Organizers said they got a great response.
“It’s the first time we had an event like that, just taking reports,” said Aaron Clark, co-director of The Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP).
Clark is no wild-eyed guy living in a fantasy world. He has a scientific mind. He works as a lab technician for a reputable organization. Yet the stigma of publicly “believing” in UFOs prompted even him to think twice about identifying where he works. He requested his place of employment be withheld from this story.
Still, Clark is active in the local UFO scene. Once a month, he and other people he calls credible, gather to hash out what’s out there.
“The numbers of reports that keep coming in, no matter how much people want to say ‘this stuff doesn’t exist,’ there are incredible numbers of credible people who keep giving reports,” Clark said.
He points to the turnout at Sunday’s meeting at the library in Brecksville, which took place on the anniversary of the Roswell incident.
CUP organized the meeting to encourage people to share what they have seen, but cannot explain. The group wants these people to know they are not crazy, and they should not feel any stigma talking about what they’ve seen.
The stories some people shared took an hour to tell. Most of the people who came forward to share had their UFO experiences in northeast Ohio.
Roger Marsh is a UFO writer, author, playwright and independent filmmaker. He is director of public relations for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and editor of the monthly MUFON UFO Journal. As Tremont Avenue Productions he produces stories of passion, resource and mystery. Contact him.
An Oklahoma witness in Tulsa County reported watching a “bright, missile-shaped object with a black band in the middle” about 6:45 p.m. on July 8, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside on a deck facing south when the object was first noticed.
“While looking straight up I noticed a very bright, reflective object with a black band in its mid-section traveling from north to south directly over our house,” the witness stated. “It was below the clouds at this time (there were different levels of clouds at this time).”
The witness first thought the object was a jet.
“At first glance I thought it was a jet liner but then realized that it was too low and did not have wings (that were visible). It didn’t match up at all with the thousands of jet planes I’ve seen while watching the skies. I heard no noise being produced. It kept a fixed speed as far as I could tell and never changed course while in my view.”
The witness described the object.
Read More:http://www.examiner.com/article/missile-shaped-ufo-with-black-band-reported-over-tulsa-county
Last week, Verizon filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit laying out their various and sundry complaints against the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order, which put net neutrality regulations in place for Internet service providers. The telecom giant is suing to have the FCC’s order thrown out, and one of their legal arguments is raising more than a few eyebrows. Verizon, per the court document, considers itself your Internet editor. Or your Internet editor-in-waiting.
It goes like this: the Open Internet Order says that Verizon, as a provider of broadband Internet, can’t block or slow access to (legal) online content because they disagree with its message or are being paid by an outside party to do so. This is essentially how the internet has operated since its inception, and the Open Internet Order is intended to prevent ISPs like Verizon from becoming gatekeepers. Verizon, however, argues that it has the constitutionally protected right to decide which content you, as a Verizon customer, can access — that it is no different from a newspaper editor:
Broadband providers transmit their own speech both by developing their own content and by partnering with other content providers and adopting that speech as their own. For example, they develop video services, which draw information from, and are then made available over, the Internet. Many also select or create content for their own over-the-top video services or offer applications that provide access to particular content. They also transmit the speech of others: each day millions of individuals use the Internet to promote their own opinions and ideas and to explore those of others, and broadband providers convey those communications.
In performing these functions, broadband providers possess “editorial discretion.” Just as a newspaper is entitled to decide which content to publish and where, broadband providers may feature some content over others. Although broadband providers have generally exercised their discretion to allow all content in an undifferentiated manner, Order ¶ 14 (JA__), they nonetheless possess discretion that these rules preclude them from exercising.
Read More:http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/09/verizon-wants-the-freedom-to-edit-your-internet/187003
The head of the U.S. spy agency that eavesdrops on electronic communications overseas sought on Monday to reassure Americans that the National Security Agency would not read their personal email if a new cybersecurity law was enacted to allow private companies to share information with the government.
The House of Representatives in April approved a bill that would allow the government and companies to share information about hacking. But the White House and key Senate Democrats back a broader approach.
Critics have raised privacy concerns about the sharing of such information, concerned it would allow the National Security Agency, which also protects government computer networks, to collect data on American communications, which is generally prohibited by law.
“The reality is we can do protection of civil liberties and privacy and cybersecurity as a nation,” General Keith Alexander said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
But to help protect the private sector, he said it was important that the intelligence agency be able to inform them about the type of malicious software and other cyber intrusions it is seeing and hear from companies about what they see breaching the protective measures on their computer networks.
“It doesn’t require the government to read their mail or your mail to do that. It requires them, the Internet service provider or that company, to tell us that that type of event is going on at this time. And it has to be at network speed if you’re going to stop it,” Alexander said.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Spy Chief: US Won’t Read Americans’ Email for Cybersecurity
(07-09) 15:28 PDT San Francisco – Law enforcement demands for cellphone records are skyrocketing, prompting serious questions about the appropriate safeguards for digital surveillance in the mobile age.
Carriers responded to some 1.3 million requests for subscriber records from police departments and other agencies last year, according to documents from nine carriers provided in response to a request from Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.).The story was first reported in the New York Times, whose earlier article on the issue prompted the Congressional inquiry.
AT&T alone received more than 260,000 requests in 2011, up 62 percent from 2009, according to its response. It rejected fewer than 1,000 of the information demands last year.
AT&T stressed that it doesn’t market this service to law enforcement and that it merely charges money to defray its costs. It collected more than $8 million servicing the requests last year, but said that amount likely didn’t cover its expenses.
Obviously, there are appropriate circumstances for requesting cellphone data, including emergency circumstances like finding stranded hikers or kidnapped children. I’m also in favor of AT&T quickly turning over information to law enforcement in the case of stolen phones – especially mine. And, of course, there are criminal matters where the preponderance of evidence justifies prying into a person’s communications.
But the concern lies in the fact that cellphones, particularly smart phones, can provide incredibly detailed pictures of our lives. The location information alone can map out our daily routines and hint at our affiliates, political leanings, shopping patterns, even health. Data in our apps can reveal reading habits, personal photos, finances and more.
Published on 9 Jul 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel
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