Department of Justice: drone strikes on American citizens are legal because Obama and Holder said so
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie In a court filing this week, Justice Department lawyers claimed that the Obama administration’s drone strikes that have admittedly killed four American citizens are constitutional in part simply because Eric Holder and Barack Obama said so. While this might seem absurd to the point that it seems [...]
Obama defends massive surveillance program as former Justice Department prosecutor files lawsuit
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie President Barack Obama has come out today in defense of the massive surveillance program run by the National Security Agency (NSA) involving both direct access to the servers of Internet giants and ordering Verizon to hand over the records of all phone calls in the U.S. Meanwhile, [...]
New secret files reveal NSA has direct access to systems of top U.S. Internet giants for data mining
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Thought yesterday’s revelation of Verizon being ordered to hand over records for all U.S. calls to the National Security Agency (NSA) was bad? Think again. Today documents were unveiled showing that the NSA and FBI are directly tapping into the servers of nine of the largest U.S. [...]
Document reveals Verizon ordered to give NSA information on all U.S. phone calls in its system
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A top secret court order issued in April but just now revealed shows that the National Security Agency (NSA) is currently collecting detailed telephone records of all of the millions of American customers of Verizon wireless on a daily basis. The order, obtained by the Guardian, shows [...]
University of Minnesota researchers unveil a drone controlled by thoughts via brain-computer interface
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The latest in mind-controlled robots comes from researchers at the University of Minnesota who have unveiled a drone controlled by the user’s thoughts. While robots controlled by brain waves have been around for a while, this is apparently the first drone that has been controlled by thoughts [...]
Monsanto sued by Kansas wheat farmer over release of unapproved GMO wheat in Oregon
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A wheat farmer in Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto alleging that the infamous agricultural giant is guilty of gross negligence for not containing the unapproved genetically modified wheat which was recently discovered in Oregon. The farmer, Ernest Barnes, said that Monsanto’s GMO wheat has put [...]
Supreme Court approves warrantless DNA sampling, likens it to fingerprinting and photographing
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Law enforcement can now force suspects arrested for serious crimes to give samples of their DNA without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday. This is surely going to be a controversial decision, as their ruling siding with Monsanto over patents on “self-replicating technology” in [...]
Google-owned Motorola reveals stomach acid-powered tablet that turns your body into a password
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Regina Dugan, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) and current head of Google-owned Motorola’s research division, introduced a prototype “vitamin authentication” tablet which turns your entire body into a walking authentication token. “We got to do a lot of epic shit when I was [...]
14-year-old put in chokehold by police, charged with felony after giving police ‘dehumanizing stares’
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A 14-year-old was reportedly choked by Miami-Dade police and charged with a felony count of resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct, all for giving police “dehumanizing stares,” clenching his fists and appearing threatening. Unfortunately, it’s not all that rare for teens to be brutalized or even [...]
