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Privacy Doesn’t Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You
Information Week The headline practically says it all. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is being sued by a Pittsburgh couple for posting images of its house on the Internet in Google’s Street Views pages. Google responded,
Read More »DNA database ‘criminalises’ the innocent
By Andrea-Marie Vassou | The DNA profiles of people who have committed no crime should be removed from the national DNA database (NDNAD), a report has said. The Citizens’ Inquiry report, overseen by the
Read More »Bush Orders Revamping Of Intelligence Gathering
By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 31, 2008; Page A02 President Bush ordered a major restructuring of the nation’s intelligence-gathering community yesterday, approving new guidelines aimed at bolstering the authority
Read More »Nancy Pelosi Hasn’t Been Paying Attention
The Progressive | There she was on The View on Monday, and Joy Behar, a good progressive, actually asked her a decent question on why she wasn’t pursuing impeachment. Pelosi’s response was unbelievable: “If
Read More »Leave it in the ground!
Earth First | A new open cast coal mine site is about to get under way in beautiful Derbyshire unless we stop it. Lodge House site which is east of the village of Smalley and
Read More »British NASA hacker to face U.S. trial
LONDON (Reuters) – A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against extradition to the United States, where he is accused of “the biggest military
Read More »BP hits a record but warns of Russia risk
BP reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a British company but warned of the risks of doing business in Russia and promised to fight to defend its interests there. Soaring oil and gas prices helped
Read More »Inspector questions Blackwater contracts
By Joseph Neff | A high-stakes dispute that flared Monday between Blackwater and the federal government boils down to a definition: Are the hundreds of Blackwater guards protecting diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan employees
Read More »Al-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA
legitgov.org | It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ at the CIA! Abu Khabab al-Masri ‘died’ in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the ‘mainstream’ media announces the re-killing of another ‘key al-Qaeda operative’ by a
Read More »Afghan air war grows in intensity
By David Wood | WASHINGTON – Daily airstrikes by U.S. and allied fighter-bombers in Afghanistan have almost doubled since last summer, according to U.S. Air Force data, a trend that reflects increased insurgent attacks
Read More »Strike on Iran still possible, U.S. tells Israel
LA Times | WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials reassured Israel’s defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington
Read More »Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western | The British sociologist T.H. Marshall described citizenship as the “basic human equality associated with full membership in a community.” By this measure, thirty years of prison growth concentrated among the poorest in
Read More »‘All Citizens Must Be Equal’
Guardian | “When we’re inside Sadaka Reut, I believe that everyone is good to each other,” said Lena, describing her Arab-Israeli summer camp. “But then we go out on to the street, and it’s [a
Read More »Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement
Huffington Post | For five years the Bush administration has played wack-a-mole with the American people as to why we are in Iraq, with a new justification quickly spawning after the hollow core of the
Read More »BNP Clive Jefferson, YouTube, and incitement to violence
Via Lancaster Unity With the infamous case of Sheppard and Whittle in the news it doesn’t seem like anti-fascists have to dig very deep to find links to organised far right groups and violent
Read More »Human rights groups say torture widespread in Palestinian jails
Karin Laub And Dalia Nammari, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM, West Bank – Majdi Jabour was beaten to the point of passing out by the Fatah-allied interrogators in the West Bank who accused him of
Read More »Amnesty claims its website is being blocked
JOURNALISTS working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org, the Amnesty International website, the organisation claimed today. A number of other websites are also reported to have been blocked,
Read More »Rights Groups: Peacekeepers Not Doing Enough for Darfur Civilians
By Tendai Maphosa | A report by a group of African human rights agencies says the joint African Union – United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region is not providing sufficient protection to
Read More »Should we trust DNA?
SFGate | The role of DNA testing in the justice system has seemed unassailable – who can argue with the odds of two people sharing the same genetic markers being, in some cases, as
Read More »Climate Camp Is Back!
By Joss Garman | It provoked an absolute storm. CNN’s ticker screamed that Britain was ‘under siege’ from environmental activists. Sky News dubbed it ‘the world’s most organised protest’ and the New Statesman ‘the
Read More »Trading away the Planet for Profits
By Joseph Zacune | During the climate talks in Bali last December, NASA scientist James Hansen presented new data showing that serious climate change impacts are already happening more rapidly and at lower global
Read More »Justice report faults illegal use of politics in hiring federal prosecutors, judges
RAW STORY | A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Read More »The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights
By Heidi Stevenson | You might think you have the right to vote. You might think your vote counts. You might think that there’s a problem here or there, but that they’re the exceptions.
Read More »Make Small Changes in Your Diet to Dramatically Improve Your Health
How important is your diet to your overall health? A recent study suggests that a healthy diet can add as many as 14 years to your life. This mindset is largely ignored by most
Read More »The Bush Admin’s Biowarfare Agenda
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: – spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament
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