Monthly Archives: June 2007 »

Cheney opts out of secrets order

CW June 25, 2007 0

Democratic senators yesterday chided Vice President Dick Cheney for declaring his office exempt from sections of a presidential order involving matters of national security. Republicans, more cautiously, said the matter deserves review. At issue

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British Government Destroying Freedom of Information

CW June 25, 2007 2

Robert Verkaik The Independent Ministers must scrap controversial plans aimed at preventing the public obtaining damaging or embarrassing information about the Government and other public bodies, a parliamentary committee says. Members of the Constitutional

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RINF Podcast: Chemtrails and Weather Modification with Andrew Johnson

CW June 25, 2007 1

RINF Alternative News [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download as MP3 Chemtrails Dossier  Weathering the Weather

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Johnston in new ‘bomb vest’ video

CW June 25, 2007 0

The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have released a new video of him in which he is wearing what he says is an explosives vest.    In the tape, Mr Johnston says his

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Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse of America as we know it

CW June 24, 2007 0

By Mike Adams NewsTarget The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy where corporations control both the government and

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School lessons plan to prepare children for terrorist attack

CW June 24, 2007 0

LYNDSAY MOSS The Scotsman CHILDREN could receive school lessons preparing them for a terrorist attack as part of guidelines being developed in Scotland. The guidance could also lead to TV educational campaigns informing the

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Congress Set to Uncover Truth about NSA Spying Program

CW June 24, 2007 0

ag-IP-news The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced in a press release that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas related to the National Security Agency (NSA)’s domestic spying program, setting the stage for

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Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to hang

CW June 24, 2007 0

SINAN SALAHEDDIN and OMAR SINAN Associated Press Writers Saddam Hussein‘s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and

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Journalists Witness American Torture

CW June 24, 2007 1

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Two German journalists have stated that they witnessed prisoner abuse while on patrol with troops from the North Carolina based 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. Reporter Wolfgang Bauer

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Revealed: Blair’s secret plan to sack Gordon Brown

CW June 24, 2007 0

The Independent An explosive Cabinet Office document reveals that the departing Prime Minister had no intention of making a ‘smooth transition’ of power to Gordon Brown. Political Editor Marie Woolf reveals the detailed plans

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9/11 Victims’ Mother: Giuliani is Part of the Problem

CW June 24, 2007 2

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Growing criticism of Rudy Giuliani is reaching breaking point with even more victims’ families speaking out against his ill gotten gains from the tragic events of 9/11 including

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Road To The New World Order

CW June 24, 2007 1

By Michael Nield RINF Alternative News A ‘new world order’ is a vision long shared by political leaders, industrialists, and intellectuals around the world. ‘Peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law’, what

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Australians Fear Cities Becoming Like Great ‘Orwellian’ Britain

CW June 23, 2007 0

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Melbourne residents are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing level of surveillance on their day to day business and have likened the increase of CCTV cameras to the

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Bush domestic spying program flawed

CW June 23, 2007 0

By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers The former chief judge of a secret national security court took a swipe Saturday at the administration’s recently halted domestic spying program and said he insisted from the outset

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E-vote ‘threat’ to UK democracy

CW June 23, 2007 0

British democracy could be undermined by moves to use electronic voting in elections, warns a report. The risks involved in swapping paper ballots for touch screens far outweigh any benefits they may have, says

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Ashcroft Tells of Surveillance Disputes

CW June 23, 2007 0

By Paul Kane washingtonpost.com Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft told the House intelligence committee yesterday about disputes in the Bush administration over aspects of its domestic surveillance program, which peaked in the March

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Pentagon sends another detainee to Guantanamo

CW June 23, 2007 0

Kristin Roberts Reuters The Pentagon said on Friday it sent a suspected commander of an al Qaeda-affiliated group to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, increasing detainee ranks at the facility as some U.S.

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The Cashless Society Has Arrived

CW June 22, 2007 0

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,

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School adopts fingerprint canteen

CW June 22, 2007 0

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

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Big Brother Goes Auto

CW June 22, 2007 0

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

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U.S. Government Targetting Sick 9/11 Workers

CW June 22, 2007 2

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

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Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data

CW June 22, 2007 0

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

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CIA Release Info On 70s Misdeeds

CW June 22, 2007 0

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

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Afghan air strike kills dozens

CW June 22, 2007 0

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

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The New World Order Tracking Device: RFID

CW June 22, 2007 6

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

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