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VIDEO: THE WHOLE POINT OF VAULT 7 — GETTING YOU USED TO BIG BROTHER
Wikileaks has released the first of its highly anticipated “Vault 7″… and the documents prove that the CIA not only has an enormous arsenal of lovely hacking tools and malware at its disposal, but the agency also has…

REP. KUCINICH: “WE ARE SLIDING DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TOWARD TOTALITARIANISM, WHERE PRIVATE LIVES DO NOT EXIST”
The White House has been pretty mum on the Wikileaks’ Vault 7 release and the idea that the CIA can exploit all of our internet-connected devices to turn them into covert surveillance tools inside our own homes. The…

Scrubbed From Textbooks — The US Government’s National Experiment in Extermination
In desperation to make effective the floundering Prohibition on alcohol, the U.S. government — unable to convince the public consumption of booze constituted a moral transgression — intentionally poisoned the supply in a last-ditch attempt to enforce State-mandated…
It’s a “No Brainer” — House Approves Bill To Stop Feds From Watching Porn on Taxpayer’s Dime
(RT) A House committee on oversight has approved prohibiting federal employees from using government computers and devices to watch pornography on the job. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee unanimously approved House Resolution 680, entitled the “Eliminating Pornography…

Leaked Docs Show FBI Investigated Ties Between Mafia, Masons & Vatican In Assassination Plot
FBI documents recently published by Muckrock show that the FBI was investigating ties between the Vatican, Freemasons and the Mafia. The investigation involved an assassination plot against a Vatican official named Roberto Calvi who was involved in a…

WikiLeaks Just Exposed the CIA for Hacking TVs, Here’s How To See If They Got Yours
Earlier this week, WikiLeaks released what it claims to be the largest ever release of confidential documents on the CIA. This dump is the apparent motherlode, which the transparency organization allegedly obtained from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence…

Troubling New Data Shows Most Scientists “Can’t Replicate” Peer Reviewed Studies
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. —Albert Einstein For some time, a dilemma in the scientific community known as a “reproducibility crisis” has been an issue of concern.…







