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The Taliban rise again?
The Taliban now control most of Afghanistan – and may soon share power, says robert fox President Karzai of Afghanistan has announced that six years after the Taliban were driven out of power in
Read More »The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes
The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail The Bush Rules of Evidence By Robert Parry In the history of the American Republic, perhaps no political family has
Read More »Bringing the War on Terrorism Home
Congress Considers Methods to Disrupt Movements in the United States Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to ‘Disrupt’ Radical Movements in the United States From the November 25, 2007 issue By
Read More »ID cards must be scrapped now, say MPs
By Philip Johnston The future of Labour’s identity card project was increasingly in doubt yesterday as MPs called for the scheme to be scrapped following the loss of the child benefit records. Even Labour
Read More »Canadian man dies 4 days after being Tasered
A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store, police said. He was the third person to die in
Read More »Tasers a form of torture, says UN
TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America. “The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a
Read More »Flight logs reveal secret rendition
Stephen Grey THE secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British citizens, to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Despite widespread criticism
Read More »A Generalized Meltdown of Financial Institutions
Reality has finally caught up to the stock market. The American consumer is underwater, the banks are buried in debt, and the housing market is in terminal distress. The Dow is now below its
Read More »Halliburton Concentration Camps Already Constructed
On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country’s security, not just by the enemy, but also
Read More »Additives ‘a risk to children’s health’
Parents have been warned to remove food additives linked to hyperactive behaviour from children’s diets by the EU’s leading expert on the issue. Dr John Larsen, who heads the European Food Safety Authority’s panel
Read More »Japan opposition stands ground on Afghan mission
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan’s opposition stood firm Thursday against resuming a naval mission supporting the US-led “war on terror” in Afghanistan as a ship returned home from the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
Read More »Incompetence Shall Set Brits Free from Database Hell
The lesson of the Great Data Loss is not that the Brit government and the civil service are incompetent (although they are), but that in a market economy the government can’t hire competent IT
Read More »Time to break free
The Middle East’s oil exporters should end their currencies’ peg to the dollar IN THE past week Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has damned it as a “worthless piece of paper” and China’s premier, Wen
Read More »Depleted Uranium Dust May Kill You
DU May be Causing Global Contamination There are those who believe that the widespread use of Depleted Uranium in weaponry is creating a cloud of low-level (but hazardous) radioactive particles around the world, causing
Read More »Liar cop Blair survives no-confidence vote
Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has won a vote of confidence by members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. The UK’s most senior officer was facing censure after his force was found guilty of health and
Read More »Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request
By Ellen NakashimaFederal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges
Read More »Keating: US able to wage Iran war
Admiral Timothy J. Keating claims the US is more than prepared to wage war on Iran if Washington chooses to launch a military strike. “I don’t think our capability has diminished at all,” Commander
Read More »Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist
Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist Gluttony and greed kill more than the sword. —Italian proverb Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821
Read More »Rumsfeld Torture Case Dropped in France
PARIS (AP) – A Paris prosecutor has thrown out a complaint against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture in Iraq and at the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer for
Read More »Loose Change Final Cut Press Conference
This is the official press launch for Loose Change Final Cut. The film is the third and final version of the most downloaded and watched movie in Internet history. The movie explores the events
Read More »Now for ID cards – and the biometric blues
Ben Goldacre Sometimes just throwing a few long words about can make people think you know what you’re talking about. Words like “biometric”. When Alistair Darling was asked if the government will ditch ID
Read More »Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good
By Ralph Lopez Missing from the debate over expanding NSA authority in the War on Terror is the simple question, beyond our reflexive desire for privacy: why is expanding this authority such a bad
Read More »Data loss sends a chill down the spine
The Guardian The government is disingenuous in suggesting that biometric data will protect information related to ID cards. The information to be held in connection with the ID card scheme includes not only name,
Read More »VIDEO: Driver Tased For Asking Why He Was Stopped
Man who refused to sign speeding ticket because he did not understand what it was is tased and arrested by officer who then refused to read him his rights Steve Watson Infowars.net A man
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