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Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards
Executives with the search engine want to start a discussion about international privacy standards which work to protect everyone’s privacy on the Internet. By Thomas Claburn Privacy today is the exception; Google on Friday
Read More »McDonalds Starts RFID Trial in Korea
Evan Schuman McDonalds is experimenting with the ultimate line-buster in South Korea, where customers purchase food on their cell phones, which then ring when the order is ready. But this trial is much more
Read More »Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq
By Barry Grey President Bush’s nationally televised speech, delivered Thursday evening from the Oval Office, was the low point of a week of lies and absurdities designed to justify the United States’ bloody colonial
Read More »Hundreds held in US anti-war march
Nearly 200 protesters have been arrested during a march in Washington DC held to demand the return of troops from Iraq and the impeachment of George Bush, the US president. Organisers said 100,000 people
Read More »E-numbers adviser paid by supermarket giant
Jo Revill The Observer A scientist with a leading role in the decision over whether food additives are damaging children’s behaviour is also a paid consultant to Tesco and Unilever, companies whose brands use
Read More »Iraq conflict has cost 1.2 million lives, claims civilian survey
Peter Beaumont The Observer A startling new household survey of Iraqis released last week claims as many as 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq – apparently lending weight
Read More »Gitmo “Illegal Briefs” Investigated
Smuggling Concerns Raised When Prisoners Are Discovered Wearing Contraband Underwear Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp found two prisoners sporting unauthorized underwear, and the U.S. military is investigating to determine how they got
Read More »‘Water boarding’ torture banned by CIA
The CIA has banned the controversial interrogation technique known as “water boarding”, which simulates drowning to persuade suspects to talk, ABC News reported on Friday. ABC said it had been told by former and
Read More »Thousands of foreign nationals’ fingerprints taken
Tom Young And more than 8000 have been turned back thanks to biometrics, says the government The government has collected fingerprints from more than 700,000 foreign nationals applying for UK visas since last September.
Read More »National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation
By Alan Miller Official Explanation a “Fraud” World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., has severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation, “I suggest that those of us aware
Read More »U.S. Navy ‘Top Gun’ Pilot Questions 9/11
By Alan Miller U.S. Navy ‘Top Gun’ pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad, started questioning the official account of 9/11 within days of the event. “It just didn’t make any sense to me,” he said. And
Read More »Greenspan attacks Bush on economy
The former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has said President George W Bush pays too little attention to financial discipline. In a book to be published next week, Mr Greenspan
Read More »PUT BUSH ON TRIAL
By Jon Leyne The supreme leader of Iran has launched a scathing attack on United States President George W Bush. Speaking at Friday prayers, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was sure President Bush would be
Read More »9/11 Truth Festival presents the case for an “unimpeachable” investigation into 9/11
By Camille S. Indybay To mark the 6th anniversary of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance held a two day festival on September 10 and 11th at
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