C. Mitchell Shaw, Author at Gem State Patriot News

December 9, 2018 No Responses

Mastercard and Microsoft Want to Take Control of Your Identity

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — Concerned about privacy being eroded by Big Brother? Forget National I.D. — Mastercard and Microsoft have just unveiled a plan to aggregate people’s personal information and cobble it together into “digital identities” to...

June 9, 2018 No Responses

Merkel Calls for EU to Lead the World As It is ‘Reorganized’

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — During Wednesday’s meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Munich, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the opportunity to take a cheap shot at President Trump while calling for the European U...

May 20, 2018 No Responses

Anti-American Cleric Slated to Win Iraqi Election

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — A decade and a half after President George W. Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr — the anti-American Shi’ite cleric who led his follower...

March 9, 2018 No Responses

David vs. Goliath: New Social Media Site ONEWAY Takes On the Giants

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — In the world of social media, Facebook and Twitter are the twin Goliaths. They dominate the social media market. They also systematically censor posts and use manipulative tactics to influence the ways us...

October 6, 2017 No Responses

Tails 3.2: Privacy, Security, and Anonymity on the Internet Just Got Easier

— Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com — The operating system Ed Snowden used to communicate with journalists when he revealed the size and scope of NSA surveillance in 2013 received a major update Thursday. Tails (which stands for The Amnesic.....

May 14, 2016 No Responses

North Carolina’s Bathroom Battle over States’ Rights

— Reprinted with Permission of The New American — As North Carolina finds itself in the cross-hairs of the federal government, the Tar Heel state seems ready to stand its ground against federal intrusion into what is — at most...

November 14, 2015 No Responses

Microsoft: Windows 10 Reports on Users; Can’t Be Stopped

When Microsoft released Windows 10 on July 29, the new operating system was already mired in controversy due to the way it monitors users’ activities and reports back to Microsoft. Many news sites including The New Americanwrote about the spyware...