The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever. According to documents obtained through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by ACLU offices across the United States, law enforcement agencies are tracking the whereabouts of... 

Thanks to archival photographs taken with the help of Hubble telescope, scientists found out that Neptune had 14, not 13 satellites, as was previously believed. The new satellite was discovered by American scientist Mark Showalter of SETI non-profit research institute network that is engaged in the search for extraterrestrial life. The specialist studied more than 150 images taken by the telescope... 

Police in Los Angeles and Oakland clashed with pockets of violent protesters intent on wreaking havoc following the verdict in a high-profile court case that saw the killer of a black youth declared ‘not guilty.’ A number of protesters were taken into police custody Monday night after the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly shortly before 10 pm on Monday night in the Crenshaw district. The scene... 

Search engine Yahoo has won a court case to release NSA records and potentially prove it resisted handing over customer data to US authorities. The ruling could clear Yahoo’s name following allegations it collaborated with the NSA to spy on citizens. The US Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court ruled that data, pertaining to a 2008 order for Yahoo to hand over customer information to US authorities,... 

Cops allowed Trayvon demonstrators to seize control of major street for three hours. One of the questions to emerge out of last night’s unrest in Oakland, where crowds protesting the George Zimmerman verdict turned violent and seized control of a major street for three hours, is why police withdrew from the area and allowed drivers to be terrorized. According to a report by ABC 7, protesters had... 

A stunning Ministry of Justice (MOJ) report on the just concluded Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman US criminal show trial, that has captured nearly all of the worlds attention over this past month, alleges that this case was “directly engineered” from the highest reaches of the Obama regime for the sole purpose of further dividing an already fractured American public towards an end still not able... 

In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s recent revelations, the Obama administration may be willing to backtrack on some of its more notorious surveillance policies, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told reporters. The long-time member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that privacy and civil liberties advocates could be on the verge of “making a comeback” due to the blowback caused... 

United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigns from her federal role on Friday in order to head the University of California school system. Following an initial report from Reuters suggesting Sec. Napolitano was set to resign, the Los Angeles Times reported early Friday that the former two-term governor or Arizona will exit her role with the Obama administration in lieu of job... 

Oceans are heating, not the atmosphere. Oceans put water into the air for creating rainfall. The warmer the oceans, the more rainfall there is someplace else. Oceans have been warming since the last ice age ended 20 thousand years ago. In fact, oceans constantly acquire heat, and only the melting of glaciers cool them back down. The sun’s energy heats the surface of the oceans to a significant... 

Just a week ago (4th of July), the Google-owned company Motorola released its first ad announcing the hotly rumored Motorola X smartphone flagship which is said to revolutionize the smartphone industry, in Apple iPhone-style. Not only that, but Google decided to build the highly expected Motorola X in the US, Texas, a former Nokia factory which was acquired by Google’s Motorola. This will be... 

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) A prominent U.S. senator has called on the administration of President Barack Obama to attack Syrian “airfields, airplanes and massed artillery.” The influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Mich.) who has returned from a fact-finding trip to the Middle East, also expressed support for... 

The Stuxnet virus that decimated Iranian nuclear facilities was created by the NSA and co-written by Israel, Edward Snowden has confirmed. The whistleblower added the NSA has a web of foreign partners who pay “marginal attention to human rights.” In an interview with Jacob Applebaum published in German daily Der Spiegel on Monday, Snowden stated that the US and Israel were behind the computer... 

Here are 20 foods that offer the most benefits pound for pound than any other foods on the planet. They not only show up on our massive list of Superfoods they also make it onto plenty of top tens across the Internet, and several have long been known to provide plenty of nutrients and good things for the body. There are a few that you might not be familiar with, so consider this your introduction,... 

US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden Fugitive US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden says the United States and Israel created the Stuxnet computer virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear energy program. In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published on Monday, Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport since June, said the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Israel... 

Severe thunderstorms hammered Toronto Monday, leaving cars stranded throughout the city and over 300,000 residents without power. The Canadian city was hit with a month’s worth of rain in just one day, with approximately 3.5 inches of rainfall beginning at 4:00 pm EST. Commuters were soon stranded in traffic, with public transit enduring long delays. Environment Canada, the national weather service,...