Daily Archives: December 13, 2007 »
Identities will never be safe
Phil Booth When, not if, the projected ID cards database is leaked, it will make the HMRC scandal seem trivial.The scheme is designed to move data between government departments. That is what “identity management”
Read More »Who is Jack kidding?
Liberty and the state: The erosion of our freedom is all about opinon polls and crass populism Helena Kennedy Ah, the boys are at it again. Somewhere in the back rooms of government there
Read More »US repatriates 15 from Guantanamo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. announced Wednesday that it has sent 15 prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison back to their home nations. The military transferred 13 men to Afghanistan and two
Read More »Pelosi and Harman Aided and Abetted 9/11 Cover Up
George Washington’s Blog House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi is blocking efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney, or to take any other real steps to save America. One of the grounds for impeachment is that
Read More »Secret prisons may give CIA out in tape probe
Matt Apuzzo Federal courts had prohibited the Bush administration from discarding evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics. Normally, that would
Read More »The price of ID infamy
Rob Merrick SHOULD I go to jail rather than carry a hated identity card – and will I be able to get myself locked up, even if I try? Those questions have been following
Read More »Holyrood puts ID cards plan under scrutiny
UK Government plans to introduce compulsory ID cards were set to go under the spotlight at Holyrood today. MSPs were also to discuss the controversial issue of DNA retention during a Liberal Democrat-led debate
Read More »Afghanistan: The Dollar Line
Chimes of Freedom The Battle of Musa Kala is supposedly over and the city is once more in the hands of NATO forces. There has been a virtual news blackout about the manner in
Read More »UK Police Confronted Over “Common Purpose” Links
By John Blacker and Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News The following is a freedom of information act request to Lancashire Police made by John Blacker, RINF science correspondent, to provide details of Lancashire Constabularys’ connections
Read More »Bush Vetoes Kids’ Health Bill Again
Rejection Of New SCHIP Bill Marks The President’s Sixth Veto This Year President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in
Read More »CIA director knew about destroyed tapes in 2006
By Pamela Hess, Washington THE CIA’s Michael Hayden, pictured, knew of the terrorist interrogation videotapes at the centre of controversy more than a year ago, he said yesterday. Mr Hayden knew “the fact of”
Read More »Databases brim with our personal details
Thinktank reveals risks people are taking for financial incentives Andrea-Marie Vassou The average British adult unknowingly has their personal details recorded on around 700 databases with many different organisations, according to one thinktank. In
Read More »Blackwater Mercenaries on the USA-Mexico Border
By Nancy Conroy In San Diego County, California, a firestorm has erupted over plans to build a Blackwater mercenary training camp in the hills behind Potrero, a remote area east of the city.
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