Edward Snowden's NSA Revelation List

Edward Snowden

National Security Agency (NSA): leaked

Edward Snowden is a former CIA technical assistant and contractor who fled from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Russia after leaked loads of classified documents on surveillance in the U.S and around the world possessed originally by the National Security Agency (NSA).Through tactics he has yet to reveal he was able to gain access to information about government programs intended to monitor phone records and internet activity to establish patterns of behavior consistent with terrorism or other crime. Below are parts of the information that Edward Snowden leaked :

NSA Spying Programs

1) Prism Program
PRISM is the NSA effort to collect massive amounts of data from internet companies such as email content, search histories and file transfers tied to potential terrorism or espionage suspects. The PowerPoint presentation confirmed that the NSA is able to directly access the servers of "major US service providers,” describing collaboration with tech companies like YouTube, Skype, Google and Apple. Google, Apple, and others in the tech industry
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2) Tap Smartphone Data
The NSA can access con­tacts lists, SMS, user loca­tion and more on the three most pop­u­lar mobile platforms.Spanish media reports that the NSA monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month
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3) XKeyscore System
Xkeyscore programs gave the government the ability to access nearly all digital communications.
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4) Boundless Infomant
Boundless Informant is a tool that allows the NSA to compile and track the “metadata” it collects around the world. In the month of March alone, nearly 3 billion pieces of information were collected from US networks and 97 billion pieces worldwide
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Top 10 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions #1

1) Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. She and her husband, Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. Together, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and she received another one, for Chemistry, in 1911. Her work with radioactive materials doomed her, however. She died of a blood disease in 1934.

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2) Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King (1848-1896)

Otto Lilienthal

Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established previously by Sir George Cayley. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favourably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical. He died of injuries sustained when his glider stalled and he was unable to regain control; falling from about 50 ft, he fractured his neck.

Nikola Tesla Missing File

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Nikola Tesla was the famous greatest genius in the 20th century. He was born in July of 1856 in Croatia.He came to the United States in 1884, and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the "Tesla coil, "is still used in radio technology today. He invented many famous and influential works such as Rotating Magnetic Field ,Ac Motor,alternating currents and Radio. He also  claimed to invented the death ray which he called teleforce that could kill pigeons from four miles away and could kill a mouse enclosed in a "thick walled metal chamber"

Top 10 Incredible Sideshow Freak #2

1) Ella Harper – The Camel Girl

Ella Harper was born with an extremely rare condition that essentially consisted of a pair of knees that bend backward.  Her preference to walk on all fours resulted in her nickname "Camel Girl". In 1886 she was featured as the star in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, appearing in newspapers wherever the circus visited.

2) Isaac W. Sprague - The Human Skeleton

Isaac W. Sprague was born on May 21, 1841 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. According to one of his early cabinet cards, he was a normal and active child until the age of twelve – when he began to rapidly lose weight. His concerned parents, alarmed by his weight lost, forbade young Isaac from high energy activities. Despite this, the boy continued to loose weight and his now terrified parents took Isaac to the best doctors they could find. Unfortunately the doctors were also baffled and Isaac continued to wither away despite a healthy appetite.

3) Josephine Clofullia – The Bearded Lady of Geneva

Josephine Clofullia  was a Swiss-born bearded lady who toured with P. T. Barnum's "American Museum".She was born covered with fine fur and she was bearded by the age of two. Today her condition is know as hirsutism, which is a variant of hypertrichosis. However, local doctors were baffled by her condition and most were hoping the young girl would simply ‘grow out of it’. It was recommended that she be taken to doctors in Geneva when she was older. At the age of eight her parents did just that however, by that age, her beard was already over two inches long.

4) Lucia Zrate - The Mexican Liliputian

Top 10 Incredible Sideshow Freak #1

1) Myrtle Corbin – The Four Legged Lady

Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle's extra legs resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus, which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other. Myrtle died on May 6, 1928.

2) Lionel – The Lion Faced Man

Stephan Bibrowsky was born in Poland in 1890 to normal parents. He suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic disease that covers the entire bodies of the subjects with a thick coat of fur. Only about 50 cases of the disorder have been documented since the Middle Ages. In the case of Lionel, six-inch-long hair covered his body. He was discovered by a German man named Meyer when he was four years old and became famous throughout Europe where he gained the nickname of Lionel the Lion-Faced Man. When her mother was pregnant, said the story, she saw her husband lacerated by a lion. He then traveled to America where he was a featured attraction with Barnum and Bailey. He died in 1932 in Italy.

3) Wang – The Human Unicorn

Wang is the human unicorn of Manchuria, China, had a 33 centimeter (13 inches) horn growing out out of the back of his head. He was found by a banker, on a farm. The banker took a snapshot of Wang and sent it to Robert Ripley in 1930. Ripley offered Wang money if he would come to Ripley's famous Odditorium, but Wang was never heard from again.