Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions
The New York Times | 13 August 2013
Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name…

America’s Nation-Building at Gunpoint
Los Angeles Times | 13 August 2013
An Army colonel assesses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…

Google: Gmail Users ‘Have No Legitimate Expectation of Privacy’
RT | 13 August 2013
As tensions worsen among privacy-focused email users…

DARPA Fears Big Data Presents Big Threat
Slashdot | 14 August 2013
The military agency is looking for ways to measure the security risks of publicly available datasets…

Vietnam Offers Free Courses in Marxism and Ho Chi Minh Studies
BBC News | 14 August 2013
Vietnam is to waive university fees for philosophy students who agree to take courses…

Egypt Declares National Emergency
BBC News | 14 August 2013
Egypt has declared a month-long state of emergency after scores of people were killed…

Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
Paul Craig Roberts | 13 August 2013
Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state…

Arid Southwest Cities’ Plea: Lose the Lawn
The New York Times | 11 August 2013
This is how officials here feel about grass these days: since 2009…

Testifying in Front of the US Judiciary
Spark Fun | 13 August 2013
Late on a Friday afternoon, SparkFun got a call from Joe Keeley…

Gaius Publius: IRS is Using NSA Data Too. Who in Town Isn’t?
Naked Capitalism | 10 August 2013
This is no longer an NSA data, or DEA data story…

Another Secure Email Service, Silent Circle, Is Shutting Down
Gizmodo | 09 August 2013
Silent Circle, an email provider which guarantees end-to-end secure email…

Old System (Debt) vs New System (Equity): Catherine Austin Fitts
Giza Death Star | 11 August 2013
This subject is one that has been more or less a major theme or interest of mine…

News and Views From the Nefarium August 8 2013

YouTube | 08 August 2013
Joseph talks about the latest in electronic and cyber warfare, the new arms race with Russia…