The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 By James Bamford Email AuthorMarch 15, 2012 | 7:24 pm | Categories: Crypto, Cybersecurity, Miscellaneous, NSA, Paranoia, privacy, Surveillance The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to […]

EDITORIAL: Germany proposes a Drudge Tax – Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/12/germany-proposes-a-drudge-tax/ EDITORIAL: Germany proposes a Drudge Tax – Washington Times. Government seeks to impose fees on news aggregators By THE WASHINGTON TIMES -The Washington Times Monday, March 12, 2012 European politicians are on the hunt for new sources of revenue as the continent’s fiscal situation worsens. The level of desperation is clear in the latest […]

Fed Unveils Doomsday Scenario for Banks

http://www.cnbc.com/id/46709890 Published: Monday, 12 Mar 2012 | 5:37 PM ET By: CNBC.com and wires The Federal Reserve released its “worst-case scenario” bank stress test criteria Monday and said it will release full results Thursday at 4:30 p.m. ET.  The Fed will look at how the nation’s 19 largest banks would survive a world with a […]

DON’T give us a break! Swiss voters say no to six weeks’ paid holiday fearing move would put economy at risk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113711/DONT-break-Swiss-voters-say-weeks-paid-holiday-fearing-economy-risk.html Swiss voters have rejected an increase in their annual paid holiday over fears it would put their economy at risk. Polls closed last night on several national referendums, including one pushed by a union to raise the minimum holiday from four to six weeks. Two-thirds of voters reportedly rejected the proposal, which would have […]

Obama Birth Certificate and Selective Service Card Faked, Joe Arpaio Concludes

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-birth-certificate-selective-card-faked-joe-arpaio-003800373.html By Carol Bengle Gilbert | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Thu, Mar 1, 2012 2012 just started looking a lot like 2008 all over again.   Controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., declared President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and Selective Service card fakes Thursday, according to the Washington Times. Arpaio says his investigators used law […]

Vatican City could be hub for money laundering, says U.S.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112159/Vatican-classed-likely-involved-money-laundering-Yemen-Algeria-North-Korea.html By Nick Pisa UPDATED:19:22 EST, 8 March 2012 Drug enforcement chiefs have for the first time identified the Vatican as a possible centre for money laundering from criminal activity. The report by the American State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy lists the Holy See as one of 68 countries including Yemen, Algeria and North […]

Mormon Church shuts down whistle- blower’s access to list of people posthumously baptised… but says it is to ‘protect’ Jews and Catholics not hide the names

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112157/Mormon-baptism-dead-Church-shuts-access-list-people-posthumously-baptised.html By Meghan Keneally UPDATED:12:39 EST, 8 March 2012 Officials from the Mormon church have shut down outsider access to their database that lists the names of people they have baptised, as their practice of posthumously baptising famous individuals of other faiths has drawn much criticism. Though church leaders say the reason for the crackdown […]

More wives bring home the bacon as their husbands suffer from the ‘mancession’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111605/More-wives-bring-home-bacon-husbands-suffer-mancession.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:19 PM on 7th March 2012 The number of wives earning more than their husbands has been increasing for years with the pace accelerated further by the recession, according to a survey. Nearly 38 percent of wives earned more than their husbands in 2009, according to the […]