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Voters arrive during the first day of early voting at a Travis County mega voting site Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

Leaked FBI Alert: Hackers Penetrated US Election Systems

Archives for August 2016

In ‘Tacit Admission’ Of Cruelty, DHS Says It Too May End For-Profit Prisons

“Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporation.”

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Immigration Overload-Nogales

On the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) "important and groundbreaking decision" to phase out the use of private prisons, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just signaled that it may follow in those footsteps—a move that would heed human rights advocates' call for the agency to end "prison profiteers in our inhumane

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European Governments Want To Combat Terrorism With Prison Segregation, Solitary Confinement

‘Prisons will never provide the solution to the problem’ of terrorism, The Guardian warns in an editorial. ‘But it is right to expect the prisons not to make the problem worse.’

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Guantanamo Hunger Strike

AUSTIN, Texas --- British and French prisons may soon employ controversial methods like solitary confinement and 'terrorist-only' units in an effort to curb radicalization efforts in prisons and to keep inmates from turning to terrorism. Compared to their overall populations, England, Wales and France disproportionately imprison Muslims. A study

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Israeli Think Tank: Don’t Destroy ISIS; It’s a “Useful Tool” Against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria

Head of a right-wing think tank says the existence of ISIS serves a “strategic purpose” in the West’s interests.

Salon
By Salon
ISIS

According to a think tank that does contract work for NATO and the Israeli government, the West should not destroy ISIS, the fascist Islamist extremist group that is committing genocide and ethnically cleansing minority groups in Syria and Iraq. Why? The so-called Islamic State “can be a useful tool in undermining” Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and

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Venezuela’s Maduro Accuses US of “Imperialist Attack” Against Latin American Leftists

Recent turmoil faced by progressive governments in Brazil, Bolivia, and Venezuela point to “an imperialist attack against all,” Maduro says.

Common Dreams
By Common Dreams

Venezuela's leftist president Nicolas Maduro told a crowd of supporters Saturday that the turmoil of recent months in progressive Latin American countries are the result of "an imperialist attack on all," teleSUR reports. "It's an imperialist attack against all. From Venezuela we will fight the coup of the oligarchy." —Nicolas Maduro In his

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Rudi Giuliani: Hillary Controls Entire Media Empire That Masks Her Secret Illness

Just a few days before Dr. Drew sounded the alarm about Hillary Clinton’s health and had his show cancelled by CNN, former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani warned that the media doesn’t address her bad health because Hillary controls the media.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Commerce, Calif. A State Department audit has faulted Hillary Clinton and previous top U.S. diplomats for poorly managing information and slowly responding to new cybersecurity risks. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served the city on the day that 9/11 struck and formerly was Hillary’s chief rival in her bid for the US Senate, struck once again about Clinton’s rumored health issues which have become a major talking point after video footage where it appears the former Secretary of State suffered a seizure in front

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Leaked FBI Alert Admits Hackers Penetrated US Election Systems

The fact that the FBI is now admitting to the vulnerability of the election should raise serious concern for Americans. Before 2016, talk of vote rigging, or hacking elections, remained on the fringe — in spite of whistleblowers showing the easily provable insecure nature of electronic voting machines.

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist
This May 3, 2010 file photo shows a "vote here" sign near a polling place open for early voting in downtown Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

On Monday, an official FBI alert from August 18 was leaked to Yahoo News. The alert stated the FBI had uncovered evidence showing that at least two state election systems were penetrated by hackers in recent weeks. The FBI quickly issued warnings to election officials across the country to ramp up security on their systems. It appears from the

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