So the big question everyone wonders is: does the NSA read my e-mail? Based on the public statements of the former director of the National Security Agency, Justice Department attorneys, and others involved in NSA operations—as well as confidential information provided to the authors and verified independently by officials read in to the programs—here is how to tell if the NSA spies on you: The National Sec ...

Words to Avoid Online If You Don't Want to Join the Government's Watch List   The US Department of Homeland Security has released a list of the keywords and phrases the agency monitors online to find potential threats. Obviously posting "Al Queda" and "dirty bomb" online will get the government to start looking at you real closely, but "pork" and other oddly normal words are also on the list. In respon ...

An FBI incident review team from Washington, D.C., is in Orlando today, a day after a Russian man who knew Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot dead by an agent. Federal and Central Florida law enforcement agencies are still collecting and processing evidence from the shooting scene at a condominium complex on Peregrine Avenue, near Kirkman Road and Universal Orlando, where Ibragim Tod ...

Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? by Cassius Methyl Intellihub.com May 23, 2013 FEMA , the Red Cross, and the department of homeland security are now using taxpayer money to educate children i ...

She won the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award A high school student from California has created a way to charge cell phones completely in just 20-30 seconds. Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California, recently won the $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for her fast-charging device. The device uses an improved supercapacitorthat can store a lot of energy into a small space using a nan ...

Imagine exchanging recipes in the form of a piece of software instead of typed instructions on a website, and eating pizza with crickets on it instead of pepperoni. This could be the future of long-term space travel, and even everyday life. Anjan Contractor, who own Systems & Materials Research Corporation, has created a universal food synthesizer that uses a 3D printer to make food -- and he just recei ...

  In 1770, British sea captain Lieutenant James Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, claiming the territory for England. But a new expedition led by an Australian anthropologist is seeking evidence of ancient explorations that may have taken place far before Cook and his fellow European explorers ever arrived on the continent. The expedition, led by Ian McIntosh, a professor at Indiana Universit ...

Citizens overwhelmingly reject dumping toxic fluoride chemicals into the water supply Mike Adams Natural News May 23, 2013 Voters in Portland, Oregon solidly defeated a city-wide water fluoridation measure yesterday, with 60% of the voters saying “NO!” to the practice of adding toxic fluoride chemicals to the water. The result is a huge victory for www.CleanWaterPortland.org and all the men, women and child ...

A secretly drafted bill to block release of photos, tapes of 911 calls and death certificates related to the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre could be acted on in the General Assembly as early as the end of the week, officials said Wednesday. Family members of victims would have discretion over release of some of the records. A draft of the bill was released Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Dannel P. M ...

Fed Chairman Bernanke and weak Chinese data rattle markets. Japan's Nikkei tumbles over 7 percent - its biggest one-day fall in two years - shedding over 1,000 points. Europe deeply in the red too   ...