Obama to Call For New Tax Increases
Will use State of the Union address to target top earners, investment, inheritance.
NSA develops cyber weapons, ‘attacker mindset’ for domination in digital war – Snowden leaks
RT.com | Mass surveillance by the NSA was apparently just the beginning.
‘Blue Lives Matter:’ Demonstrators march in ‘Sea of Blue’ rally to support police
DailyMail.co.uk | Hundreds marched to the U.S. capitol Saturday in a rally to support law enforcement.
Elon Musk is trying to bring the Internet to space
SpaceX CEO wants to build satellite network high above Earth.
DEA halts huge secret ‘Parallel Construction’ data program
Reuters | Agency collected international U.S. phone records to create database primarily used for domestic criminal cases.
Middle class decline looms over final years of Obama presidency
For the middle class the scars of the recession still run deep…
British Secret Service, MI5, Looking For Spies that can ‘sit for substantial periods of time’
UK security service’s advert for surveillance officers stresses need to be happy with periods of inactivity – until ‘it all starts happening.’
French terrorists were primed for trouble from the start, analysts say
‘In 2011, U.S. intelligence tipped off French counterparts that Kouachi might have gone to Yemen for training with Al Qaeda’s local affiliate…’
Anger After Indonesia Executed 6 People for Drug Trafficking
“…a form of assertiveness of Indonesia’s government that we will never be in compromise with the perpetrators, dealers and drug syndicates,” attorney general said.
Washington State Senate bans open-carry guns in public gallery
“We’re just noting that open carry is a form of demonstration and it’s no different than carrying a placard or something else of that nature.”
Papal text says man betrays God by destroying the environment
Pope offers thoughts on the environment and climate change.
David Cameron Responds to Pope: There is a right to cause offense
“If someone says something offensive about Jesus… I don’t have a right to wreak my vengeance upon them.”
German police ban anti-Islamic rally citing terror threat
Police said “concrete threat” called for would-be “assassins to mingle among the protesters…”
‘Anti-racism’ protests to continue in Oakland
Protests expected to continue around San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday.
Update: Three New Earth-Size Planets Found “Nearby”
Earth-sized planet in habitable zone circling star just 150 light years from Earth.