"It May Come To A Military Coup": Ukraine's "Nazis" Threaten To Overthrow Government

"It may come to a military coup." That rather ominous assessment of the political situation in Ukraine comes courtesy of a Right Sector fighter who spoke to FT last week.  Like Saint Mary (the militia which recently pledged to create a "Christian Taliban" and insists that "Moscow must burn"), The Right Sector is one of the many volunteer battalions fighting to rout the Russian-backed separatists operating in eastern Ukraine.  As discussed...

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Ex-British prime minister named in child sex abuse investigation

LONDON — Britain’s police watchdog said Monday that it is investigating claims that authorities dropped a sex abuse case during the 1990s that contained an allegation against the former Prime Minister Edward Heath. Heath, who died in 2005 at 89, was named by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which said the probe will look at Wiltshire Police’s investigation into an alleged claim of child sexual abuse made in the 1990s. “It is alleged...

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Global spy system Echelon confirmed at last – by leaked Snowden files

I stepped from the warmth of our source's London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool; the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy north London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three hours inside, drinking Chianti and talking about secret surveillance with our source, and now we stood on the doorstep discussing how to get back to the south coast town where I lived. Events...

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DHS 'front' companies want your kids irises and fingerprints

Colleges and elementary schools want your child's irises! Virginia Commonwealth University is the latest school to record your kids biometrics. VCU announced last week it had added two iris cameras to their campus dining hall. "Students won't need their ID to enter the dining center anymore," said Stephen Barr, the director of campus services who oversees VCU Dining Services. "With iris identification, it’s as simple...

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When Two Engineers Hacked LA’s Signal System, Wreaked Havoc On Streets

It may be over nine years since it happened but security experts have not learned their lessons giving hackers enough room to expose and prove how computerized and Internet-connected control systems are vulnerable to exploitation. In August 2006, traffic in Los Angeles came to a halt when two traffic engineers, Kartik Patel and Gabriel Murillo, hacked into the city’s Traffic Surveillance Center and disabled the signals on four busy intersections...

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Bin Laden plane crash witness: “It does not make any sense”

The images show the doomed private jet flying low above Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire. Moments later, it crashed into a ball of flames in front of horrified onlookers. These pictures were taken by aviation enthusiast Geoff Pierce, 56, who described what he witnessed as “deeply distressing”. He described how the jet came into land “too high and too fast”. “I have been an aviation enthusiast for more than 30 years and I have never seen anything...

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