TheWatchTowers.com: May 2015

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Germany provides NSA with staggering 1.3bn pieces of metadata per month - report

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Germany’s BND intelligence agency sends enormous amounts of phone and text data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online reported, adding yet another layer to the spy scandal embroiling the German government.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Chelsea Manning rewrites the Espionage Act

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Former intelligence analyst Manning has drafted a 31-page bill to re-establish protections for freedom of speech and the press that have been challenged by the Justice Department in recent court decisions involving whistleblowers and journalists.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Asteroid a MILE wide to hurtle past Earth in 48 HOURS – A COLOSSAL asteroid hurtling through space is feared to be one of the biggest EVER to threaten a collision with Earth | BREAKING NEWS

A COLOSSAL asteroid hurtling through space is feared to be one of the biggest EVER to threaten a collision with Earth.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Decorator catches ghostly doctor on camera while exploring haunted hospital

A woman exploring a derelict hospital was left stunned after a photo she took in the spooky building appeared to show the ghostly figure of a doctor.

Jamie-Leigh Brown, 21, was walking the abandoned corridors of St Thomas’s Hospital in Stockport – which closed down in 2004 – when she took the chilling picture.

1,000 Europeans still missing after quake in Nepal: EU

“We don’t know where they are, or they could be. They are missing but we don’t know what their status is,” she added.

The EU official also confirmed that 12 citizens of the 28-nation bloc died in Nepal after the massive earthquake.

Footage shows the moment the devastating earthquake shatters Nepal

Langtang is a trekking region to the north of Kathmandu that has been hit by a huge avalanche and mudslides, while Lukla is the jumping-off point for walkers and climbers making the nine-day trek to Everest base camp.