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Officers routinely lied to obtain search warrants 4 hours, 51 minutes ago By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice ...
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The Spies From Auntie Beeb This one is for the Brits on this forum that might. […] Thread Started By: Nostalgia Chevron's involvement connected to HR abuses in Burma: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:17 New Delhi - The US ba. […] Thread Started By: Nostalgia Celeb Moms. These celebrities pose as good moms and are rated. […] Thread Started By: sanju123 See most recent forum posts ![]() |
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Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes? Friday, May 9th, 2008 By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the ... Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades Friday, May 9th, 2008 By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge ... UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food Friday, May 9th, 2008 By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone ... Peak Food: Blaming the Victims Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Nafeez Ahmed | I've already written about this in previous posts under the 'hidden holocaust' theme, but am prompted to re-address this issue given the way it's been dealt with by mainstream media and ... Ex-MI5 chief warns over detention Thursday, May 8th, 2008 BBC News | MPs should work together to agree a detention limit for terror suspects and ensure the matter is not a political football, a former MI5 chief has said. Ministers want to be ... Britain throws away £10bn of food every year Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Martin Hickman | Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and ... The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies Thursday, May 8th, 2008 PR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about "the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying," citing Burger King Corporation's spying on the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the ... |
Judge May Make CIA Torture Memo Public Friday, May 9th, 2008 AP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ... U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat Friday, May 9th, 2008 By Gregg Zoroya | More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.
This ... BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash Friday, May 9th, 2008 By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity.
In the latest scandal ... The Challenge Of Modern Slavery Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US ... Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By William Fisher | As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in ... Does Organic Really Mean Organic? Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances to be used in foods and beverages that are labeled "organic." At the same time, the ... US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains “Surge” Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Jim Lobe | Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight ... |
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By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 By Marjorie Cohn | What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that ... More: General |
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Ewen MacAskill | The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month. The involvement of an ex-Guantánamo detainee ... More: War & Terrorism News |
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Damien McElroy | Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted ... More: War & Terrorism News, Political News |
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