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Corrine Federer got more than a picture of Muiderslot Castle as her Netherlands UFO photo and video went viral. The 43-year old resident of Amsterdam was visiting the historic fortress with her mother on May 25, taking snapshots with a High Dynamic Range camera. HDR images usually consist of three exposures melded together simultaneously to create a full spectrum light image, she explained when interviewed by the Huffington Post. This particular image consists of five exposures from Corrine′s Nikon D800 camera. Ben Hansen, a former FBI field investigator and host of the SyFy Channel series, ′Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files′, told the HuffPo that the photo is not fake, though he does think it may be an insect. For many years, people have claimed to see UFO sightings described as flying ′rods′, which some ′experts′ believe are an unknown species of insect. In the second image, adjusted by way of its gray-scale, we can clearly see that the UFO is certainly something. But what?

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Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who outed the U.S, government data-snooping programs, has gone public. The NSA leaker is in Hong Kong and admits that he was the source for the UK Guardian story that blew the lid off of the Obama administration domestic spying activities. Snowden, 29, is a former CIA/NSA employee who currently is a private contractor for the NSA. At least, he was up until he revealed the details of the National Security Agency programs of PRISM and Boundless Informant. He has also begun telling other tales, such as a CIA operation to recruit a Swiss banker in 2007. In order to get the banker to cough up the secrets of the Swiss banking system, a CIA agent got him drunk and set him up to be arrested for drunk driving. Then the agent bailed him out and successfully recruited their new banking spy.

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The big happening this past weekend, the Bilderberg meeting for 2013, was held at The Grove Hotel, an exclusive golf resort in Hertfordshire, near the town of Watford, England. The four-day conference had some 140 attendees, the cream of the crop of politics, finance, media and academia. The Bilderberg Group has always been a subject of controversy, often seen as puppet masters, or as the chief puppets for the real masters who hide in the shadows of global power. Some of those attending this year may surprise you. David Petraeus, former head of the CIA joined another retired Obama cabinet member, Timothy Geithner. Of course, it wouldn′t be a Bilderberg meeting without Henry Kissinger and good-egg Donald Graham of the Washington Post. Nor would it be any fun without the heads of Goldman Sachs, Barclay, HSBC and other major banks. Even Bill and Hillary Clinton dropped by for a visit with David Rockefeller.

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With the ongoing debate over the Obama administration and the NSA snooping scandal, the basic question is whether trading privacy for security is a fair trade? Is the presumed added protection worth the loss of freedom? Those of us whom are not Low Information Voters recall what Benjamin Franklin said on the subject. ″They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.″ Barack Obama and his National Intelligence Director, James Clapper, see things differently. They think that trading privacy for security is just fine. Clapper is more upset about the National Security Agency program, PRISM, being leaked and made public than how it has been spying on all, and I mean ALL, Americans. But the spying does not stop just there.

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In the Season 4 finale of Sons of Guns, entitled, ′Last Round′, the fate of Red Jacket Firearms seems to be in serious doubt. Will Hayden appeared to be losing it as his company struggles with more financial problems, such as being unable to pay invoices. Meanwhile, the local sheriff wants a new sniper rifle for his officers and what was supposed to be a simple project to customize a Remington 700 turned into a competition with Vince Buckles and his new gun shop, Mesa Kinetic Research. To further complicate matters, Kris Ford and his wife Stephanie give Will short notice that they need two weeks off to do an 8-state promotional tour for their new company. So how did it all shake out last night on the Discovery Channel? Is this just the end of the season for Sons of Guns or is it finished as a series? Let′s find out.

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Big Brother Barack Obama spoke yesterday on the NSA phone surveillance scandal, side-stepping a reporter′s question by telling the American people to trust the government. But that may be a lost cause now since the UK Guardian broke the story of the National Security Agency mining the meta-data records of Verizon Communications and their 120 million customers. Then the Wall Street Journal confirmed my prediction from two days ago that other phone services, AT&T and Sprint, were also part of the NSA data-mining program. Then the UK Telegraph reported that the NSA has a program known as PRISM which is mining data from the Internet, including not only emails, but also chat-room conversations, web browsing and even your log-in information. Then the Washington Post reports that the NSA is also data-mining credit card transactions! So, our government is using laws intended to monitor international terrorism to domestically spy on over 300 Million Americans! We are still at just the beginning of the snooping scandal with more facts sure to come.

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Today is National Doughnut, or Donut Day 2013. It doesn′t really matter how you spell them, so long as they are delicious and FREE! Yes! Free doughnuts are available today at Krispy Kreme, as well as at Dunkin′ Donuts, where you must buy a beverage to get your free donut at participating stores. Historically, National Doughnut Day has been celebrated since 1938 during the Great Depression. Begun by the Salvation Army in Chicago to raise money, this tasty holiday was started to honor the women who served doughnuts and other food items to American soldiers in France during World War One. The first Friday in June is the day to get your free doughnuts. Along with Dunkin′, Tim Horton′s and Kangaroo Express are also offering free donuts with any purchase. LaMar′s Donuts, like Krispy Kreme, is offering one free donut per customer with no purchase while supplies last. Also, Lamar′s, along with Entenmann′s, are donating part of their sales to the Salvation Army. So buy, eat and enjoy since you will be helping others, especially storm victims in Oklahoma.

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The UK Guardian reports that the Barack Obama White House has been busy, authorizing the National Security Agency, NSA, to snoop on millions of Americans whom use Verizon Communications phone services. Using the FISA courts as laid out in the Patriot Act, the Obama administration has obtained the ′metadata′ on all domestic and international phone calls placed by Verizon customers over at least a three-month period of time. The data includes the phone numbers called, the caller′s number, as well as the serial numbers of the cell phones used plus the dates, time and durations of each call. Needless to say, this raises many privacy issues, not to mention if other phone companies were also ordered to turn over their records? Some question if this is another sign of the Obama White House overreaching, pushing the limits of the law well beyond its intended purposes?

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