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The Cashless Society Has Arrived
By Robert Samuelson It’s one of those vast social upheavals that everyone understands but that hardly anyone notices, because it seems too ordinary: the long-predicted “cashless society” has quietly arrived, or nearly so; currency,
Read More »School adopts fingerprint canteen
EDP 24 Fingerprint recognition systems and mathematical algorithms may sound like something from a hi-tech spy film. But for pupils at a Lowestoft school, they are to become simply part of the daily routine
Read More »Big Brother Goes Auto
The threat of cameras combined with artificial intelligence By Mike Elgan Privacy activists have been lamenting increasing surveillance by cameras and warn of abuse by authorities who have access to them. But two additional
Read More »U.S. Government Targetting Sick 9/11 Workers
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News The U.S. government has yet again shown their complete lack of human compassion as they try to prevent three ground zero workers from getting the treatment they need for
Read More »Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data
SCOTT SHANE New York Times For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the
Read More »CIA Release Info On 70s Misdeeds
Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s “Skeletons” File, Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975, With White House Memcons on Damage Control National Security Archive
Read More »Afghan air strike kills dozens
Al Jazeera An air assault by Nato-led forces has killed at least 25 Afghan civilians, police officials said. Twelve members of one family were believed to have been killed in the joint Afghan-foreign forces
Read More »The New World Order Tracking Device: RFID
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News The Bermuda Government are issuing vehicle owners with credit card sized stickers containing a RFID chip and it is expected that every vehicle in Bermuda will carry one
Read More »Teacher calls for CCTV in classrooms
By Cara Simpson A TEACHER who was unfairly dismissed wants to see CCTV in classrooms – to protect teachers. John Whitehead, aged 51, of Lime Tree Park, Coventry, was sacked from his job at
Read More »US mulling Guantanamo closure
Several White House officials have reportedly claimed that Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo prison. George Bush’s top national security and legal advisers were reportedly to discuss the move at
Read More »Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq
By Paul Mitchell WSWS Lawyers are claiming that the British government approved a systematic policy of torture of detainees in Iraq. The claim follows a ruling on June 13 by the Law Lords in
Read More »The CIA’s torture teachers
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House. By Mark Benjamin There is growing evidence of high-level coordination
Read More »Detailed Report of CIA’s Wiretapping of Americans and Dirty Tricks To Be Unclassified
Ryan Singel Wired In its first 25 years, the Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter by plotting assassinations, funding behavioral and drug studies that included “unwitting participants,” opening U.S. mail, creating dossiers on nearly
Read More »White House wants spying lawsuits tossed
By PAUL ELIAS The Bush administration on Thursday asked a federal judge to toss out lawsuits seeking to unearth information about the U.S. telecommunications industry’s alleged participation in a warrantless government eavesdropping program. Five
Read More »New Study: No Boeing 757 Hit the Pentagon
By Jim Fetzer A study of the black box data provided by the government to Pilots for 9/11 Truth has confirmed the previous findings of Scholars for 9/11 Truth that no Boeing 757 hit
Read More »Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri Alternet Not long before Lynndie England ever stepped foot in Iraq, long before she became the poster-child for torture, she was a whistleblower at Pilgrim’s Pride chicken factory in Moorefield, W.Va.
Read More »China Drop Iraq’s Debt In Hope Of $700m Oil Deal
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News China has announced the cancellations of the debt owed from Iraq to the Chinese government and have promised to aid the reconstruction of the country and help rebuild
Read More »Only Tools and Forces…
By Flamesong “On September 11th, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center didn’t fall in the order that they were hit. What if things didn’t go according to plan?” - Flamesong, ‘Only Tools
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