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London’s CCTV network is a waste of cash
£200 million and can’t solve crime By Nick Farrell LONDON’S 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV network, which costs £200 million, might as well be cardboard boxes on the end of sticks. According to an analysis of
Read More »Mr Bush, Mandela is still alive
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader’s death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in
Read More »WE ARE RULED BY POLITICS OF FEAR
Britain is becoming a surveillance society ruled by the technology and the politics of fear, the Liberal Democrats have warned.Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said the Government saw no limits to the use of
Read More »More than 1000 biometric scanners will be used as part of biometric visa scheme
The Home Office has signed a $4.4m (£2.18m) deal with supplier Cross Match Technologies to provide 1,385 biometric devices at government buildings based in foreign countries. The Guardian scanners will be used to take
Read More »Sanity in Tiny Nibbles
The abyss between “crime against humanity” and “we’ll have to look into this” may be all but unfathomable — deep as a mass grave — but sometimes we have to trust the process. I
Read More »Iran has plan to take out Israel should they attack Iran
Nazila Fathi A SENIOR Iranian military official has warned that Tehran has prepared a plan to attack Israel if Israel bombs Iran. “We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with
Read More »Syrian official: Damascus eager to respond to Israel flyover
Senior Ba’ath official tells Arab-Israeli reporter there is growing consensus among Syrian leadership for need to retaliate to reported Israeli violation of Syrian airspace Roee Nahmias A senior official in the ruling Syrian
Read More »Arabs push through nuclear vote against Israel
AFP Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution at the UN atomic agency clearly aimed at Israel, calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency
Read More »Southern US race row resonates across America
A protest against perceived injustice in a southern US town has brought tensions over racial equality in America to the surface again. Tens of thousands of people from across the country took part in
Read More »Reviewing Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and London Guardian that’s syndicated internationally by
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