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Visitors to Japan to be fingerprinted
Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo Millions of visitors to Japan will be required to have their photographs and fingerprints taken from next month as part of new immigration procedures meant to help prevent terrorist attacks.
Read More »Security consultant slams ID cards
Gemma Simpson The Home Office has defended the ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale — a one-time confidence trickster made famous by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can —
Read More »Doctor: G Bush has symptoms of presenile dementia
It is an article of faith with millions of Americans, most of them on the left, that George W. Bush is stupid. Many reasonable people think his policies are ill-advised, but millions more insist
Read More »Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming “This government does not torture people.” Again he lied. Once secret US Department of
Read More »UAW Sellout at GM and Chrysler
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News The September and October United Auto Workers (UAW) GM and Chrysler agreements are just the latest examples of union leadership surrender and betrayal. It’s an ominous sign of
Read More »Nobel Hypocrisy
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Alfred Nobel was a wealthy nineteenth century Swedish-born chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, armaments manufacturer and war profiteer who remade his image late in life by establishing the
Read More »Promised Social Change in Ecuador
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Raphael Correa was elected Ecuador’s president last November and took office January 15 promising social change. He’s the country’s eighth president in the last decade including three previous
Read More »VIDEO: The Fascist Blueprint
It can happen here Naomi Wolf on “The End of America” It not only can happen here, it is happening here. Mussolini created the blueprint (with inspiration from Lenin), Hitler elaborated on it, Stalin
Read More »Will George W. Bush Stay in Power after 2008?
With so many political pundits in a nervous tizzy about the future political plans of Russian President Vladimir Putin, too few are scratching their thinking domes over a far more pertinent question: Will George
Read More »9/11 And Other Optical Illusions
Peter Zaza There’s a wonderful optical illusion which involves a graphic of a ballerina spinning around on one leg. It’s called “The Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion” This illusion elucidates a very important principle concerning
Read More »Straitjacket Bush
The president’s warmongering remarks on the Iranian threat suggest he is psychotic. Really. Rosa Brooks Forget impeachment. Liberals, put it behind you. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shouldn’t be treated like criminals who
Read More »Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism
So who is BUSH – Mother Teresa?? By Helen Nugent Islamist extremism is similar to “rising fascism in the 1920s and 1930s”, Tony Blair said last night in his first major speech since
Read More »More than 755,000 on US terrorist watch list
AFP The US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000 names and continues to grow, the US Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The list exploded from fewer than 20 entries before the September 11,
Read More »The Politics Of Absolute Power
The following commentary was written by Philip S. Golub and appears in the Le Monde diplomatique English-language edition for October 2007. Mr. Golub is a journalist and lecturer at the University of Paris VIII.
Read More »VIDEO: Martin Bell – Media Censorship & War Criminals
Books by Martin Bell: A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy Through Gates of Fire: A Journey into World Disorder The Truth that Sticks: New Labour’s Breach of
Read More »NSA To Recruit Children
Wonkette Hey, kids! Have you ever wanted to listen in on the conversations of other people without them knowing it? Create codes that allow spies in the field to get information about enhanced interrogation
Read More »Police to get power to spy without warrant
Andrew Clennell POLICE and other investigative bodies will be able to bug or track people for up to five days without needing a warrant, under legislation the State Government describes as “the biggest ever
Read More »Cannabis proven effective in treating neuropathic pain
Debra Kain Smoked cannabis eased pain induced in healthy volunteers, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR.) However, the researchers found
Read More »Plan to ‘hijack’ bus passes as ID cards
By Mark Howarth A CROSS-BORDER spat erupted last night over new Home Office plans for compulsory ID cards in Scotland. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the UK government is considering fast-tracking the project
Read More »La. Lawmaker Says Targeted by FBI
By CAIN BURDEAU A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn’t give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and
Read More »Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
It’s not every day that there is something concrete you can do to save democracy in one powerful stroke and make sure your kids don’t come of age in an American in which we
Read More »Blair emerges as candidate for ‘President of Europe’
By Andrew Grice Tony Blair has emerged as a possible candidate for “President of Europe”, a new post created by the treaty approved by EU leaders at their Lisbon summit. The former prime minister’s
Read More »Ian Blair misled over Jean Charles de Menezes
By John Steele Britain’s most senior policeman was under fire last night after a scathing report revealed he was deliberately kept in the dark by his senior officers after the shooting of an innocent
Read More »CIA VETERAN: ‘YOU CAN’T MAKE UP SOME OF THE STUFF I’VE SEEN’
CIA veteran Valerie Plame Wilson was never supposed to be famous. For 20 years it came naturally to her to lie to her friends and family about being a spy. (She says none of
Read More »BBC Boycott
First, they axed Ozzie soap Neighbours. Then, they edited film footage of the Queen to make her look like a mardy old minnow. Now, the BBC plans to recover a £6 billion “shortfall” by
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