Daily Archives: August 22, 2007 »

CIA ‘launches Facebook for spies’

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 2

BBC New ways are needed to share information, US officials say The CIA is to open a communications tool for its staff, modelled on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the Financial

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Liberal Democrats launch attack on Brown’s ‘surveillance society’

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 0

By Colin Brown Liberal Democrat leaders are to mount an attack on Britain’s “surveillance society” that threatens to wreck Gordon Brown’s hopes of a cross-party consensus on measures to tackle the threat of terrorism.

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Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Report

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 1

By Karen Gullo The Bush administration violated U.S. law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled. District Judge

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Psychologists in denial about torture

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 0

By Amy Goodman This weekend, the American Psychological Association rejected a moratorium that would have prevented its member psychologists from participating in interrogations at U.S. detention centers at places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and

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Former Chief of NIST’s Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 0

By Alan Miller James Quintiere, Ph.D. James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation

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CIA blew chances to spot 9/11 threat, says report

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 1

· Information on hijackers kept from key personnel · Former director George Tenet criticised for failings Ed Pilkington in New York Wednesday August 22, 2007 The Guardian George Tenet. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty   As

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Local ID Cards would be another move towards a ‘database state’

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 0

New Labour think tank, the New Local Government Network, today calls for ID cards to be introduced and policed by town halls. Conservatives have attacked the proposals as another move towards a ‘database state’

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Ian Brown – Illegal Attacks

Mick Meaney August 22, 2007 0

(Feat. Sinead O’connor) So what the fuck is this UK Gunnin’ with this US of A In Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan Does not a day go by Without the Israeli Air Force

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