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Is Windows 8 a Trojan Horse for the NSA? The German Government Thinks So

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“The German Government is now deeply suspicious that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology built into a growing number of Windows 8 PCs and tablets is creating a gigantic back door for NSA surveillance, leaked documents have suggested. During TCG meetings, German officials appear to have expressed concern about the potential for abuse but were ‘rebuffed,’ Zeit claims. The documents also refer to the NSA having representation at the meetings and the statement ‘the NSA agrees’ in the context of leaving the technology in its current (presumably unreformed) state.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa.html

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‘Data is the new oil’: Tech giants may be huge, but nothing matches big data

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“‘Data is the new oil,’ declared Clive Humby, a Sheffield mathematician who with his wife, Edwina Dunn, made £90m helping Tesco with its Clubcard system. Though he said it in 2006, the realisation that there is a lot of money to be made – and lost – through the careful or careless marshalling of ‘big data’ has only begun to dawn on many business people. About 90% of all the data in the world has been generated in the past two years (a statistic that is holding roughly true even as time passes). There are about 2.7 zettabytes of data in the digital universe, where 1ZB of data is a billion terabytes (a typical computer hard drive these days can hold about 0.5TB, or 500 gigabytes).”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/24/data-is-the-new-oil-tech-giants-may-be-huge-but-nothing-matches-big-data/

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Can Bitcoin make a good first impression with top federal agencies?

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“The discussions are to involve many of the country’s top law enforcement and financial agencies, including the FBI, the Secret Service, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. Also attending will be officials from the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, National Credit Union Administration, Money Transmitter Regulators Association and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors would also be in attendance, a Treasury official confirmed. Congress has also asked the Obama administration for information on its plans for regulating digital currencies.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/26/can-bitcoin-make-a-good-first-impression-with-top-federal-agencies/

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Bitcoin lobbyists meet-and-greet with Homeland Security and other agencies

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“FinCEN, the Treasury agency that issued guidance about how US law affects Bitcoin, is hosting the summit. The agency has been in talks with the Foundation for months to organize the event. According to the Foundation, attendees will include high-level representatives from FinCEN, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security. The Foundation will also be meeting with legislators on Capitol Hill separately tomorrow.”

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/26/4657950/bitcoin-lobbyists-host-meet-and-greet-with-homeland-security-and

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NSA Funding N.C. State University Lab

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“North Carolina State University just secured a $60.75 million grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to build a massive campus lab for the study of data analytics.
The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) is expected to create 100 jobs in the area; those actually working in the facility will need government security clearances. The NSA reportedly chose the university because of the latter’s extensive work in data analytics. While a portion of its research will remain unclassified, the bulk of it—including personnel numbers and facility details—will remain firmly under wraps.”

http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/nsa-funding-n-c-state-university-lab/

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India to launch Save Gold Campaign to convince consumers to deposit gold

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“India’s bullion industry is set to revive its gold deposit scheme in a bid to mobilise gold coins and bars lying idle. The Save Gold Campaign (Swarna Bachao Abhiyan) is hoped will mop up some of the gold currently lying fallow with individuals, banks, high networth individuals, charitable trusts and even temple trusts, that is estimated to be as much as 25,000 tonnes. The consumer would take sealed gold and authenticity certificate to the bank, which would issue a deposit certificate for a valid period, ranging from one and a half to three years. After the said period, the depositor would get the gold back with interest as promised by the bank.”

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-whats-new?oid=201507&sn=Detail

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The USDA Is Pushing Food Stamps Like a Drug Dealer at a Grade School

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“Last year the USDA targeted Spanish speaking citizens (and non-citizens) with a radio ‘novela’ – which was basically a soap opera outlining how the lives of the characters improved as soon as they went on SNAP.  In many locations, outreach programs are taking place – people don’t even have to go down to the benefits office to sign up.  They can find out if they are eligible right in the grocery store parking lot.  The USDA is spending an additional THREE MILLION DOLLARS not on providing food, but on providing outreach to convince people to accept benefits that folks never realized they ‘needed’.”

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-usda-is-pushing-food-stamps-like-a-drug-dealer-at-a-grade-school-08152013

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The Eric Holder Memorandum on Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Explained

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“In short, the Holder Memorandum directs prosecutors to prevent application of mandatory minimum sentences for a select group of less-culpable defendants. Isn’t this A good thing? Yes, with a but. It’s a good thing that the Jane Does of the world can be sentenced according to the judge’s discretion and not according to mandatory minimum sentences. A lot of low-level, unsophisticated, and hapless mules and mopes and dupes will get far lower sentences, which is both just and less expensive for you, the taxpayer.
But I’m not happy that the methodology for the change is a fairly dramatic expansion of prosecutorial discretion.”

http://www.popehat.com/2013/08/13/the-eric-holder-memorandum-on-mandatory-minimum-sentences-explained/

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‘Eminent Domain for the People’ Leaves Wall Street Furious

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“Richmond became the first California city last week to move forward on a plan that has been floated by other California municipalities to ask big bank lenders to sell underwater mortgage loans at a discount to the city (if the owner consents), and seize those homes through eminent domain if the banks refuse. The city has committed to refinancing these homes for owners at their current value, not what is owed. City officials launched this process by sending letters in late July to 32 banks and other mortgage owners offering to buy 624 underwater mortgages at the price the homes are worth, not what the owners owe.”

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/07-4

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How to Use Public Health to Control Everything

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“The early focus on a holistic public led to the movement of ‘racial hygiene’ which appeared in 19th century Germany. A historian of public health, Dorothy Porter, explains that the movement considered ‘the health, not only of individuals, but of the race as a whole.’ The trend was also called ‘social hygiene,’ and spread to other countries. It reached its zenith under the Nazis. In his fascinating book, The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert Proctor mentions some Nazi slogans: ‘You have the duty to be healthy,’ ‘Food is not a private matter,’ ‘Your body belongs to the nation.'”

http://lfb.org/today/how-to-use-public-health-to-control-everything

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