Britain Government mislays personal details of half the nation
The personal details of half of Britain have been mislaid by the government, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Tuesday, in another major blow to an administration reeling from the Northern Rock banking debacle.
The Conservatives accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government of laying 25 million people open to identity theft and bank fraud, ridiculing its management of the country.
Scientists turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells
Separate teams of scientists on two continents on Tuesday revealed they have created stem cells from human skin cells - a development that could eventually allow researchers to sidestep the contentious moral issues that have hobbled early studies in the promising field.
Debate moderators overlook key questions
Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties' presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates' views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other civil liberties concerns.
President Putin rattles nuclear sabre at Nato
President Putin accused Nato yesterday of threatening Russia’s security and ordered the military to place the country’s strategic nuclear arsenal on a higher state of alert.
HAARP
Informative video on HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program)the new weather modification and mind control Star Wars Defense Initiative (SDI)weapon of the US military. HAARP is capable of creating weather like hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis and earthquakes. It is also capable of altering peoples moods.
Former Aide McClellan Blames Bush, Rove in CIA Case
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by President George W. Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials.
Global crash imminent, warns expert
Even as emerging markets like China, India and Brazil careen ahead at voracious growth rates, the speculative "bubbles" arising in the markets could cause a major global recession, cautioned Robert Shiller, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University, at yesterday's event.
Protesters Arrested at Gonzales UF Speech (With Video)
In his first appearance at a university since resigning in August, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was met at UF on Monday with a mixture of cheers, boos and scattered interruptions by protesters, two of whom were arrested.
Supreme Court Will Decide Challenge to District of Columbia Handgun Ban
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" in nearly 70 years.
Las Vegas crowd roars for Ron Paul
Paul, a 72-year-old country doctor who once ran for president as the nominee of the Libertarian party, is as surprised as anyone at the roaring crowds and millions in donations his campaign has attracted. Referring to a supporter's sign that read "Dr. Paul cured my apathy," he said, "I have to say, you've cured me of my skepticism, and I thank you for it."
US prison system 'costly failure'
The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to the taxpayer, researchers say.
There are more than 1.5 million people in US state and federal jails, a report by a Washington-based criminal justice research group, the JFA Institute says.
Monopoly "Money"
William N. Grigg
Bernard von NotHaus, the creator of the Liberty Dollar, is optimistic that he and his associates will have the benefit of “a spectacular trial” for the supposed crime of providing customers with something of value – platinum, gold, silver, and copper coins in exchange for something innately value-less the decorated ragpaper and junk metal slugs the Regime insists we treat as money.
RFID tagging ethics needed
This issue needs to be discussed more widely by the technology industry, employers and government policy-makers to closely consider the many implications of human RFID tagging.
The three deaths came one week after a video surfaced of a Polish immigrant writhing in pain at Vancouver International Airport moments after being Tasered by Canadian police. The 40-year-old man died a short time later.
Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers
'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower, Risking Jail, Says American Media Has Refused Her Offer to Disclose Classified Information, Including Criminal Allegations, Information Concerning 'Security of Americans'
Charges Several Mainstream Publications Have Been Informed of 'Full Story' by Other FBI Leakers Nearly a Year Ago, Have Remained Mum...
In the U.S. of A., we are all suspects now
By Robyn Blumner
So here it is, a dragnet bigger than one's brain can conceive, the ultimate Big Brother. Government computers watching what millions of us do on the Internet, plucking out for a further look-see anything that they find suspicious.
In 2005, the president assured us that his surveillance program was "consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution." It was a lie. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so abjectly terrified by the dozens of lawsuits the program has spawned.
Shooting reignites Iraqi furor; U.S. issues apology
A U.S. military convoy opened fire on a column of cars Sunday morning, killing at least two Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq and igniting a new round of anger over the apparent loss of innocent life.
Police charged that the shootings were unprovoked and said six people, including two Iraqi policemen, died in a barrage of bullets.
Twenty Thousand Protest at Fort Benning: Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials
In what has become the nation's largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA, on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
Fort Benning is the site of the internationally notorious US Army training school for Latin American military and security personnel. For decades it was called the School of the Americas (SOA) - it is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). The school has graduated hundreds of military officers who have led or participated in nearly every human rights atrocity in the hemisphere. Organizations across the world, including Amnesty International USA, have called for its closure since discovering copies of torture manuals used at the school.
Pioneering 'heat wave' gun may be used in Iraq
American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorise the deployment of newly-developed heat wave guns to disperse angry crowds or violent rioters.
The Economy's $2 Trillion Worry
The subprime spread continues: A Goldman Sachs report says the overall impact of mortgage losses on economic activity could be huge
London ritual dating from 1919 sets price of gold
When gold reached dizzying heights above $800 a troy ounce in recent weeks, it cast a spotlight on a ritual that has taken place in London for the past 88 years.
Twice a day, representatives of five banks pick up the phone to trade physical gold and arrive at the London "fixing" price, which then becomes a benchmark for gold around the world.
In a scenario reminiscent of cattle round-ups, the state's attorney has issued summons to more than 1600 parents of children who have not provided certificates of immunization for their children. But instead of toting a cattle prod, this state's attorney chooses to wield a syringe to keep the "herd" in line.
FBI appalled at CIA veterans's defense of agent Nada Nadim Prouty's lies
In the wake of Nada Nadim Prouty's guilty plea to lying her way into U.S. citizenship and sensitive FBI and CIA jobs, operatives of both agencies disagree whether she breached the government's trust, or just showed poor judgment.
For many in the buttoned-down FBI, a fellow special agent tarnished the bureau's image and betrayed them by living the lie that she was a law-abiding naturalized citizen from Lebanon.
FBI's Forensic Test Full of Holes
Hundreds of defendants sitting in prisons nationwide have been convicted with the help of an FBI forensic tool that was discarded more than two years ago. But the FBI lab has yet to take steps to alert the affected defendants or courts, even as the window for appealing convictions is closing, a joint investigation by The Washington Post and "60 Minutes" has found.
Powell: Iran is a long way from having nuclear weapon
Iran is a long way from acquiring a nuclear weapon and is "foolish" for not investing its resources in its people instead of a nuclear program, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
"I think Iran is a long way from having anything that could be anything like a nuclear weapon," Powell told a gathering of bankers, businessmen and diplomats.
Covering up corruption in Iraq
As if the calamities that befell Iraq courtesy of the Bush Administration were not enough, we now learn that the Bush administration is trying to cover up one of its many failures: its own assessment of the extent of corruption in Iraq, described by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
US and Israel 'face up to' Iran bomb
America and Israel are secretly drawing up plans to deal with an Iran that has acquired nuclear weapons, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Teheran's two arch-foes are preparing for what they have long declared is an unacceptable scenario, as the prospects for air strikes to cripple Iran's nuclear network fade, and China and Russia undermine efforts to forge an international sanctions regime.
Bush's Clever Cognitive Dissonance
By Robert Parry
Nigeria Takes On Pfizer over 'Killer Drug'
The Nigerian government is taking on Pfizer, the world's biggest pharmaceutical company. It accuses the company of using a meningitis epidemic to test an unapproved drug on Nigerian children. Eleven children who participated in the tests died and others were left with disabilities.
Kucinich Takes Iowa, New Hampshire and 45 Other states in National Grassroots Democrat Poll. Unfortunately, the owners of our media have chosen Hillary
In Iowa and New Hampshire, widely regarded as bellwether states because of their early positions in balloting, Kucinich scored stunning victories over former Senator John Edwards, Senator Barack Obama, and touted front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton. The real story is not about Ron Paul's alleged poll spammers, but should be how someone such as Bootlicking, Pro-War, Pro-Amnesty For Illegal Aliens, Pro-Socialized Medicine And The Expansion Of Government, Anti-Second Amendment, Mrs. New World Order candidate Hillary Clinton became the alleged Democrat front runner for President that the media and some polls keep telling us she is. Someone appears to be rigging and spamming the polls and news, but I don't believe it's Ron Paul supports we should truly be concerned with.
Some of Paul’s opponents have espoused radical views on national defense. Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani have been criticized for advocating pro illegal aliens policies prior to 911 which is a critical issue since many of the 911 terrorists were here illegally.
CNN Pre-Planned & Censored Every Question at Dem Debate!
"CNN ran out of time and used me to "close" the debate with the pearls/diamonds question. Seconds later this girl comes up to me and says, "you gave our school a bad reputation.' Well, I had to explain to her that every question from the audience was pre-planned and censored. That's what the media does. See, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted.
** The audience is planted in your favor
** The questions are planted in your favor
** The questioners are your supporters
** The after debate spin room includes 2 former staff members and 1 current campaign analyst
The Breakdown of the FBI Anti-Terror Team on 9/11 (With Video)
A brief but important NBC News report broadcast during the morning of 9/11 indicated how the FBI was rendered useless in its ability to respond to the kind of attacks that were taking place. Shortly after 10:00 a.m., correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported: "This very interesting information ... from the FBI: They have been operating a massive exercise from their hostage rescue unit. All of their top teams, about 50 personnel, helicopters, equipment, were in Monterey, California for the last two days, scheduled to fly back today commercially. So all of those people are out of place."
9-11 families hope to deflate Giuliani's heroic image
"He's portraying himself as a false hero of 9-11,"said Sally Reganhard, whose son, Christian Reganhard, was a probationary firefighter who was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. "He's not talking about the story of the failure of his administration, and that has to be told, because we have to protect this country."
World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US
Experts in the field of psychiatry and child development from all over the world attended this year's annual conference in Washington with the agenda aimed at ending the mental health screening programs put in place by the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission and the mass-drugging of children with psychiatric drugs.
Another Mystery About 911
This is the NY Port Authority Chief of Police saying that he had just managed to get out from one of the WTC buiding basements after the collapse of the towers.
Only he doesn’t have one spec of dirt or dust or one scrape or scratch visible… and he has to ask someone else what building that they were in.
He is the Port Authority Chief of Police and he doesn’t know where he just was?
Something very odd about this video….
