bored, looking for enlightenment(obviously in the wrong places)
She asked for paper - but all they offered was plastic. A Pennsylvania woman is now suing the McDonald's franchise that refused to pay her by check and instead insisted on employees using payroll debit cards.
Via Common Dreams, political cartoonist Ted Rall foresaw exactly where we would be today in a piece written in 2006: Several months ago employees of Verizon, the company that enjoys a monopoly on local telephone service where I live, confirmed that m...
Bloomberg came out with quite a bombshell last night, discussing how lots of tech companies apparently work with the NSA and other government agencies, not to pass data on users over to the government, but to share exploit information, sometimes...
With Obama in the White House, progressives have acquiesced to spying programs.
The escalating build-out of the American surveillance state since 9/11 can't be attributed to any one factor. There have been several contributors, most of which have used the omnipresent "threat" of terrorism as leverage to increase...
The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department's inspector general's office until her retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protecti
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden worked for a private company that got 98 percent of its $5.8 billion last year from the taxpayers, who are the same folks being spied upon. - 2013/06/11
Scientists have released video of an 8-foot-long, shimmering oarfish taken about 200 feet below the ocean surface -- and it is breathtaking.
Nearly a dozen days after the fact, Alberta's tardy energy regulator has reported that a ruptured pipeline owned by Apache has spilled nearly 60,000 barrels of contaminated water near Zama City, Alberta.