Daily Archives: August 1, 2007 »
The ‘medical miracle’ that brought near-vegetative brain back to life
By Mark Henderson The mother of a man who was left in a near-vegetative state by a serious assault spoke yesterday of her joy at the “medical miracle” that has allowed him to speak
Read More »Police DNA database ‘risks criminalising non-offenders’
By Ben Russell People are being added to the Government’s national DNA database at the rate of more than one a minute, figures from the Liberal Democrats have revealed. Their research showed that 547,020
Read More »BAA denies seeking blanket ban on airport protest
By John Vidal BAA backtracked yesterday from trying to get one of the widest-ranging injunctions ever sought in Britain and denied it was trying to stop 5 million members of the National Trust and
Read More »Government Technologies Reduce National Security
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A German hacker and security consultant, Lukas Grunwald, has again demonstrated how Governments are enforcing insecure technology that puts our security, identity and privacy at risk, while claiming
Read More »Haneef linked to MI5 probe
By Renee Viellaris, Ian McPhedran and Margaret Wenham FREED terror suspect Mohamed Haneef was regularly in contact with Islamic radicals under surveillance by Britain’s top spy agency MI5. Highly classified intelligence reveals the former
Read More »Reviewing Linda McQuaig’s “It’s the Crude, Dude”
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Linda McQuaig is a prominent, admired, and award-winning Canadian journalist writing about vital issues of concern to everyone. She was a national reporter for the Toronto Globe and
Read More »Secret evidence keeps terror suspects in UK
By Joshua Rozenberg Two suspected Algerian terrorists cannot be deported for reasons that are too secret to disclose, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Evidence heard behind closed doors suggests that the human rights
Read More »Special ‘fingerprint’ lamps to boost crime fighting in Kensington
By Ian Morgan Scenes of crime officers in Kensington and Chelsea will have more state-of-the-art equipment to help track down criminals thanks to council funding. The forensic team, based at Kensington Police Station, is buying
Read More »The CIA proposed that I assassinate Fidel in Chile, Veciana confesses
Founder of Alpha 66, identified as an accomplice in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy Granma International It was the CIA that informed Antonio Veciana Blanch, 10 months ahead of time, of a visit to
Read More »Report: White House says spying broader than previously admitted
Reuters The Bush administration’s top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition. Director
Read More »Bush-Brown summit: Tensions but no policy shift by Britain
By Chris Marsden There is a scene in the film Love Actually when the newly elected Prime Minister played by Hugh Grant finally takes a stand against the president of the United States after
Read More »Banks guilty as charged
COMPUTER COCK-UPS THAT SINK CUSTOMERS Mirror Much of the misery created by rip-of f overdraft fees is caused by banks’ blunders. Customers are often pushed into the red by computer cock-ups and shoddy service.
Read More »Impeachment as Political Solution to Iraq War
By James Rothenberg It has become cliché to say that this Iraq war cannot be won militarily. Equally comfortable with this admission are hawks who would turn on a dime if they thought the
Read More »Police want ‘Tesco jails’
By Richard Ford Police and retailers are backing proposals for short-term “Tesco jails” for shopping malls and major sporting venues as a way of speedily dealing with shoplifters, drunks and football hooligans. Mobile units
Read More »Police chief singled out over De Menezes shooting
By James Macintyre Two years after police shot dead the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, it finally appeared that some criticism would be levelled at the authorities last night, after the apparent leak
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