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RINF Film Screening: Iraq for Sale – The War Profiteers

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24 APRIL, 7:30PM, TRINITY COMMUNITY CENTRE, LANCASTER, FREE ADMISSION Map IRAQ FOR SALE Corporate Traitors Blackwater, CACI, KBR/Halliburton, and Titan Stealing from American Taxpayers, Highlighted as War Profiteers in Film LANCASTER – Robert Greenwald’s much

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Many Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike

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More than a dozen detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are on hunger strike to protest their treatment and are being force-fed, a media report said on Monday quoting military officials and lawyers for detainees.

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U.K. Bans Sailors From Selling Accounts of Iran Ordeal to Media

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Scott Hamilton The military personnel have been banned from selling stories to the media pending a review of the existing rules which allowed news organizations to pay two of the 15 naval crew freed

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Bush hits new approval rating low

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U.S. President George W. Bush is setting a new record for low job approval rating with 62 percent of Americans giving him a failing grade. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll telephone survey of 1,008 adults

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CCTV cameras get upgrade at police request

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Via Bruce Schneier Philip Johnston Police and the Home Office are planning a significant upgrade of the CCTV network in a move that will deepen concern about a lurch towards a “surveillance society”. New

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Walmart Spied On Protesters

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prwatch.org In 2006, Wal-Mart “had a long-haired employee infiltrate an anti-Wal-Mart group to determine if it planned protests at the company’s annual meeting. … The company also deployed cutting-edge monitoring systems made by a

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Now you too can become Big Brother

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VOLUNTEERS in Nantwich could be recruited to help monitor the town’s CCTV cameras to put more police back on the beat. The town’s Labour group chairman Peter Cameron said: “The use of volunteers would

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