BioMosaic, which tracks foreign-borne disease threats in the United States, works by merging three separate data tools into a single app for guiding decisions at the time of an outbreak. … Read More
FBI director admits domestic use of drones for surveillance
The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. … Read More
Despite Irrefutable Evidence of Toxicity and Death, Monsanto’s Friends at the EPA Raise Allowable Glysophate Levels
The Environmental Protection Agency has looked over the situation, and in their infinite wisdom, raised the safety threshold of glyphosate that is allowed to be in consumable goods. … Read More
US to hold direct peace talks with Taliban
http://www.youtube.com/v/e0rX6iK06VI?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Link: US to hold direct peace talks with Taliban
China – Dissident’s wife addresses open letter to president after brother is jailed
A open letter to President Xi Jinping by Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, was posted by her lawyer on Twitter on 14 June, five days after her brother, Liu Hui, was sentenced to 11 years in jail in the latest evidence of the government’s harassment of the families of dissidents. Liu Xia has been under house arrest since October 2010, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to her husband, who has been serving an 11-year jail sentence on a subversion charge since (…) … Read More
China reclaims world’s fastest supercomputer title
The United States no longer plays home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. That title is now owned by China’s Tianhe-2 (also known as the Milky Way-2) supercomputer which recently produced 33.86 petaflops per second in Linpack according to the Top 500 Supercomputer Sites. … Read More
21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls? Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting? The following are 21 facts about NSA snooping that every American should know… … Read More
