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EU visitors to have fingerprints taken
Rory Watson and David Charter BRUSSELS Every visitor to the European Union would have to provide fingerprints before being allowed to enter, under plans unveiled yesterday to clamp down on illegal immigration. The move
Read More »Business spies for FBI eyes
By Jerry Mazza In George Bush’s mania to outdo George Orwell’s 1984, we bring you more than 23,000 members of private industry working quietly with the FBI and Department of Homeland Insecurity under the
Read More »Bin Brother is watching you
Eye-spy binmen will soon be knocking on doors in Wolverhampton – to tick off residents for not recycling their rubbish. Officials are keeping records on which households do not put out their recycling boxes
Read More »Bush Spy Bill Stance Called Fear-Mongering
President: U.S. Could Face Attacks That Would Make 9/11 “Pale By Comparison” CBS President Bush, in remarks meant to spur House Democrats into accepting a controversial new bill that would expand the government’s ability
Read More »Wanted By The FBI: Everyone’s Data
By LEONARD PITTS JR. In the beginning was the fingerprint. It was in the 19th century that scientists realized the ridged whorls on the tip of the finger constituted a unique marker that could
Read More »9/11 accused can seek compensation
Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian wrongly accused of training pilots involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, should be allowed to claim compensation, the Court of Appeal ruled. Mr Raissi, a pilot, was
Read More »Banking with Hitler during World War II
thecounterpunch This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the Anglo-German banking Cartel (notably the Bank of England controlled by the Rothschild and the Chase National Bank controlled by the Rockfeller as
Read More »4 million Iraqis struggling for food – UN
The Irish Times Four million Iraqis are struggling to feed themselves, and 40 per cent of the country’s 27 million people have no safe water, the UN said today. Iraq has annual economic growth
Read More »US judge blocks CIA flight case
BBC A US judge has dismissed a case alleging that a subsidiary of Boeing illegally helped the CIA fly terror suspects abroad on rendition flights. The American Civil Liberties Union brought the case against
Read More »US Senate votes to ban waterboarding by CIA
Irish Sun The US Senate has voted to prevent the CIA from using torture-like waterboarding and other forms of coercion on prisoners, completing work on a bill already passed by the other chamber in
Read More »UK Legalizes Taser Use On Children
LRC The Brits have taken a giant leap ahead in the race towards totalitarianism. The police have been given permission to zap all violent suspects, even if they are unarmed and even if they
Read More »Jose Padilla Brings Torture to Trial
Can a DOJ lawyer be held accountable for advocating the inhumane? By Doug Cassel When on Jan. 22 a federal court judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years in prison for conspiracy to commit
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