Daily Archives: April 19, 2007 »
Plans to tag the elderly ‘smack of Big Brother’
Jon Land Plans to tag old people so they can be tracked by satellite received a mixed reaction today. Science Minister Malcolm Wicks said technology could be used to help families keep tabs on
Read More »Wolfowitz’s World Bank deputy tells him to quit
Richard Adams Paul Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank may be decided today by the bank’s governing board, after he was abandoned by the Bush administration and faced a revolt led by
Read More »CIA recruiting at Virginia Tech
For the second time this year, the Central Intelligence Agency will be coming to Virginia Tech to recruit students. And for the second time this year, they will be met with protests from students
Read More »Yahoo! sued for divulging data
A Chinese couple backed by a rights group has sued Yahoo! for divulging information that helped the Chinese government prosecute the man for his internet writings. Wang Xiaoning was jailed for 10 years last
Read More »Court hears how ‘personal’ Bush-Blair note was ‘leaked’
Ben Russell A Cabinet Office communications officer went on trial yesterday, charged with leaking a secret record of talks on Iraq between Tony Blair and George Bush to an MP’s researcher. David Keogh passed
Read More »Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs
Nearly 200 people have been killed in a string of attacks in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad – the worst day of violence since a US security operation began. In one of the deadliest attacks of
Read More »Campus killer sent media videos
The student who killed 32 people in the United States’ worst shooting rampage paused between shootings to mail video clips, photographs of himself brandishing weapons and profanity-laced writings to news network NBC, police say.
Read More »A Watch List Is Born
Ryan Singel Prior to the airline hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration’s “no-fly list” contained 11 names. Soon after the attacks, the Transportation Security Administration was created, and given direct authority
Read More »Is The Federal Government Spying On What Medicines You’re Taking?
ONE OF THE MOST STARTLING side stories in the Virginia Tech saga came from ABC News which reported yesterday: “Some news accounts have suggested that Cho had a history of antidepressant use, but senior
Read More »New US Postal Rates Undermine Small Publications
Stephen Lendman The US Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees the right of free expression including a press free to do it in. Jefferson, Madison and Congress wanted information easily and cheaply disseminated to the public
Read More »New Documents Expand View of Informants In Oklahoma City Bombing
J.M. Berger FBI and investigative documents filed in court yesterday shed new light on protected government informants within the militia and white supremacist movements around the time of the Oklahoma City bombing. Attorney Jesse
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