Daily Archives: July 9, 2008 »
Chief constable defends ‘trivial’ use of CCTV
By Robin Turner | USING CCTV cameras to spy on dog owners who fail to clear up their pets’ mess is perfectly acceptable, Wales’ most controversial police chief claims. In his blog, the outspoken
Read More »Charities ‘should be subject to human rights’
guardian.co.uk | Human rights and freedom of information legislation should be extended to cover charities and social enterprises that deliver public services, such as care homes, a report said today. The government already contracts out
Read More »Online Activists Keep the Pressure on Obama
By Ari Melber | If Obama is lucky, he will continue to benefit from these energized, sophisticated activists who support his candidacy while they press his hand. He responded. While most Americans settled into a
Read More »UK workers campaign against ID cards
PT | Representatives of the UK’s aviation workers say they are being used as political pawns to further the UK government’s controversial ID cards programme. The British Air Transport Association (BATA) says aviation
Read More »Blair Advisers Oppose Brown’s Terrorism Plan in House of Lords
By Kitty Donaldson | Two of Tony Blair’s former ministers and his top domestic security official said they will vote against anti-terrorism laws proposed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the upper chamber of
Read More »Iran blames West for ‘artificially’ raising oil prices, says war threat is a ‘joke’
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia | Iran’s president again took aim at the West, blaming the U.S. and Europe for “artificially” raising oil prices and dismissing as “a funny joke” fears that his country could come under attack.
Read More »New Law is Urged on War Powers
Los Angeles Times | A bipartisan commission Tuesday called for a new law to require the next president to ask Congress for formal approval of any decision to go to war and force the
Read More »US war crimes court to resume at Guantanamo
AP | U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay resume this week even as new legal challenges could throw the system into further turmoil. Five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, including alleged mastermind
Read More »Judge to Bush admin.: Guantanamo is top priority
AP News | A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention,
Read More »Ex-MI5 chief attacks 42-day plan
Baroness Manningham-Buller tells the Lords why she is against the plans (video) The former head of MI5 has dismissed government plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held to 42 days as
Read More »Call for Brain Scans of Presidential Candidates to Detect Mental Health Problems
By David Gutierrez | A neuropsychiatrist who runs a chain of private brain-scanning clinics has issued a call to scan the brains of presidential candidates in an opinion piece published in the Los Angeles
Read More »Bush signs G8 deal to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
guardian.co.uk | George Bush today paved the way for his successor in the White House to strike an historic deal on climate change when he finally signed up to a G8 statement vowing “to consider
Read More »All should urge US, UK to dismantle their nuclear weapons
Kuala Lumpur | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that the governments and nations should urge the US and Britain to annihilate their nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the D8 summit
Read More »Iraq insists on U.S. withdrawal timetable: official
By Ahmed Rasheed and Mohammed Abbas | Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government’s national security adviser said
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