Thursday, February 7, 2013
Bill O'Reilly Defends NBC Drone Coverage Claim by Denying his Statements
2/7/13 - After writing last night about how Bill O'Reilly erroneously claimed NBC has ignored the drone strike Justice Department memo that NBC actually released, I was looking forward to seeing how O'Reilly could possibly explain away his claim tonight. Well, at the tail end of his program tonight, O'Reilly responded to the criticism by 1) attacking his critics, and 2) denying he said... what he said.
TVNewser was "tipped off" to the fact that O'Reilly would be responding tonight., and boy, did he respond in true O'Reilly fashion. He sighed as he explained how he has succumbed to "more deceit from the far left," saying that "these loons have been trying to marginalize me" ever since he's been on the air. He explained why he wasn't so incredibly wrong about NBC News not covering the story, even though they broke it. "Last night, I talked with Bob Beckel about the difference in analysis on the subject of waterboarding as compared to killing people with drones... I put forth that NBC News and other media places, they were hysterical over waterboarding, but muted over President Obama's drone attacks, at least until yesterday. "Immediately the far-left machine cranked up. 'O'Reilly didn't say that NBC News broke the drone memo story. He's a deceiver!' True. I didn't say NBC broke the memo story because we weren't talking about that. Waterboarding versus drone strikes. So once again, we have a propaganda campaign designed to make ignorant people on the left even more ignorant."
So Bill O'Reilly's defense is basically "I never said NBC News broke the story because I wasn't talking about whether or not they covered it, but HOW MUCH they covered it." Which would be acceptable, were it not for that fact that he actually DID insist at various points that they have said nothing, nada, zip about drones.
BREAKING 2013 Obama Declares War on the United States U.S. Government Killing American Citizens !
From drone strikes to torture techniques - tough questions are ahead for Barack Obama's nominee for CIA head, at his confirmation hearing in the Senate. John Brennan is widely seen as an architect of U.S. drone strategy. In an effort to avoid scrutiny around Brennan's candidacy, the U.S. President has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of American terror suspects abroad. That's after years of keeping it secret. BOTH PARTIES are bought out by bankers intrest and continue to bail out other countries , and continue to shred our constitution and bill of rights -_- .. i cant believe people still have to play the "WAKE UP" drum .. it was also funny when all this was a "conspiracy theory", when it turned out to be the complete truth.. remember kids,Mainstream media is state media
Automation: Destroying Jobs or Creating Productivity?
Robots and computers have made astonishing progress at acquiring what we've long considered fundamentally human capabilities. Machines are beginning to understand language. They can listen, they can speak, they can read, and they may even be able to write. They're getting better at visual pattern recognition; computers can tell the difference between your face and your dad's face, and they may be able to look at a biopsy slide and tell the difference between a cancerous cell and a healthy one. Computers might even be able to "reason" the way humans can. Perhaps they'll soon sit in judgment when you appeal your traffic ticket. We've seen robots take over many jobs that require routine activities and manual labor, but what impact will they have on high-skilled workers, including medical professionals, lawyers, scientists, and journalists? Which jobs are most vulnerable to the "robot invasion," and which jobs will the robots be unable to touch? (Hint: not many.) Should we be happy about the robots -- after all, they'll probably make our jobs easier -- or should we be worried? And if the robots are coming, should we try to stop them?
Alex Jones Show: Thursday (2-7-13) Full Show
Anonymous Hacks into Federal Reserve
As officials in Washington continue to discuss and warn about cyber-attacks, members of Anonymous claimed to have breached a computer system that the Federal Reserve uses to communicate with bankers in emergencies such as natural disasters and potential acts of terrorism. On Super Bowl Sunday, members of the group tweeted that they had compromised 4,000 bankers' credentials from the Federal Reserve.
"Now we have your attention America: Anonymous's [sic] Superbowl Commercial 4k banker d0x via the FED," the group tweeted, using the @OpLastResort handle on Twitter.
"The Federal Reserve System is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," A Federal Reserve spokesman said in a statement.
"The exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve System," the spokesman said.
According to officials, the user data from the Emergency Communications System was compromised, but no financial or monetary policy information was on the system that was breached.
According to federal law enforcement officials, the FBI has opened an investigation into the incident. An FBI spokesperson declined to comment.
Recent activity from Anonymous and the reference to Operation Last Resort concern the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet developer and activist who started the website Reddit. Swartz was indicted by the Justice Department in July 2011 on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
Swartz allegedly had downloaded vast information from JSTOR, an online library of academic and scholarly journals and articles that are available for a fee. Swartz believed the articles in JSTOR should be disseminated free of charge. Swartz committed suicide on Jan. 11, 2013 as he believed he was going to be facing a lengthy prison term -- possibly as much as 35 years.
Last month, Anonymous hacked the website of the United States Sentencing Commission, also in response to Swartz's death.
The case has garnered the attention of Congress, with members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee writing to Attorney General Eric Holder about how the Justice Department handled the case.
The Justice Department has agreed to brief the committee on the Swartz prosecution, but no date has been set on the briefing, according to a Justice official.