Edward Snowden: Apple iPhone with Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You

I think we know this already..

BUT there seems to be more than we know.. no?

Edward Snowden: Apple iPhone with Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You

Bin Laden 'demon toy' and three other wacky CIA plots

The Washington POST reveals: The CIA cooked up an Obama Bin Laden ‘demon toy’.. the theory: An n Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath.. It was meant to scare Afghanistan children and their parents..

Bin Laden 'demon toy' and three other wacky CIA plots

Be careful if you re-tweet

The CIA is now on Twitter.. Their first tweet saying they could neither confirm nor deny its their first tweet exploded in popularity.

Don’t tell me for a second you wouldn’t excrete a brick if they followed you.

Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers, violating Constitution and breaking the law

Head of intelligence panel said agency appears to have violated Constitution and federal laws.

Dianne Feinstein didn’t make much of a stink about the AP being spied on.. or innocent people’s cell phones.. or other nations.. or anyone.

But …. THE SENATE COMMITTEE? 

Now they went too far, eh?

Let’s not forget Senator Dianne said in October: Spying on Americans was acceptable.

That was then. This is now…

Maybe the Senate Intelligence Committee had a ‘come to God’ moment on intelligence issues.

Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers, violating Constitution and breaking the law

Which is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?

This Florida online paper perfectly sums up the horror that is drugs, particularly bath salts, in the once great coal region of Pennsylvania ..This is a great article, written from looking in from the outside. Dennis Maley, the author,  grew up in Schuylkill County PA, or as residents term it the “skook” .. He penned this article about a trip back and a sad view of how bath salts and other hardcore drugs have destroyed the last remaining goodness that was the county.

A few points from Maley:

I grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, or the Skook as it’s affectionately known. It is an area that has suffered through a long history of problems with pervasive drug addiction. In that way, it’s no different than a lot of small, economically-depressed places that have fared poorly in the post-industrial economy. The stories are the same, but for some reason, the drugs are often different, perhaps reflecting the particular brand of desperation most prevalent in any particular geographical region.

He goes on..

I’d been hearing the tales for a long time, but by that last trip home the scope had become unthinkable. One after another, I heard dozens of stories about the ranks of friends and acquaintances who’d jumped to the dark side and become a “salter.” It wasn’t just the usual suspects either. Smart people with good jobs and intact families saw their lives quickly circle the drain before nose-diving down the pipe and into oblivion. 

I myself have known people, or known of people, who suddenly lost their way and changed their entire personality due to drugs.. It’s a horrible thing, too. The zombie look that the face gets is frightening.. 

Another point from the author:

All of it felt surreal. I was without a frame of reference. This many people couldn’t be off the grid, living some underground life as fiends with an insatiable craving for some drug you bought in a head shop with cartoon pictures on the box. Then it happened … I saw one.

She was a formerly gorgeous girl, five years my junior and daughter of a family friend. Her face was hollowed out so deep that it called to mind the Skeletor character from the horrible live-action movie, based on the He-Man cartoon. Her once full lips were now pencil thin and scabbed over on at least half of their surface area. The doe-eyed baby blues I remembered as her most striking feature had narrowed into slits, leaving her with only a permanent expression that seemed to drip with cynicism. Then there was the assortment of scabs and open cuts dotting her face. Her teeth looked like they’d begun rotting in place and her once-curvy body had thinned to the point that I might have missed her, had she been standing sideways rather than facing me straight on. 

I have seen the people he is describing.. I have seen beautiful young and hopeful people become destroyed because they made a choice to do some hardcore horrid things.  

While you see the coal region close up every day, looking at it from a new perspective always gives you a fresh look.. Reading an account from someone who left before the bath salt and meth fad began here is striking.. Everything that was is gone. Things that were stable are not..

As the Coal Speaker has followed for years, you never know where you’ll find a meth lab in the area..  The Coal Speaker has also began documenting what I feel will be the ultimate demise of the area: Closed malls, schools, hospitals, and hope. Deep down, beyond all the facts and headlines, there is something else happening.

When I was a high schooler at the now defunct Cardinal Brennan High School in the roaring 90s, life was fine. Kids did bush parties—late night beer fests in the middle of corn fields or in hideouts in the woods. That was the test of a teenager… beer. Miller or Coors.. toxic sure… but things changed.

These days drugs are rampant.. And if you think the cops are immune you’re pretty naive to how things work.

There seems to be a disconnect—county leaders don’t realize just how fast and how much the area changed.. They don’t get the immense change that happened. And most don’t realize how much bath salts, meth, and other hard core drugs are responsible.  War has come to our towns.. The drug war. And sobriety is losing.

Don’t get me wrong. The drug was has failed. But let’s not forget how it was meant to fail—the CIA has been busy beavers.. 

I feel like I am digressing.
Back to this article..

Despite your belief about drugs and whether we should jail people for them…there is something very rotten at the core of Schuylkill County. 

And I fear the when Krocodil makes its debut in the region.. Then the real zombie look will be en vogue.. 

Which is Worse: A Bath Salt Epidemic or a Zombie Outbreak?

CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

I am speechless.. just utterly speechless..

CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

CNN reports an Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack

CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack. Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.

This is very interesting to say the least.. CNN has uncovered this information now.. almost one year since the entire thing went down in 2012 prior to the Romney/Obama election..

Equally important is what else CNN says concerning the CIA: They are going to great lengths to keep whatever it was they were doing on the ground a secret..

MORE from CNN:

Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency’s Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.

We can make assumptions .. but those assumptions of what the clandestine efforts that CIA is and was making in this regard are probably incorrect. Maybe.

You can read the CNN story for yourself, but this other quote is noteworthy and should be read carefully:

Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency’s missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency’s workings.

The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.

It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.

In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”

Another says, “You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation.”

I am sure the snooze media will exhibit due diligence and follow up on this story..

Michael Hastings sure would have..

Hmm…maybe he was…?

Nah..

CNN reports an Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack

Russia won't extradite Snowden to US

Pootie Poot goes against Barry.

The thrilla that will never make it to Manila..

Pretty interesting world tension developing..

Russia won't extradite Snowden to US

So what do YOU think the punch line was?

Former CIA agent reveals torture in new book: “I had to psychologically dislocate a detainee”