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USDA: US food prices to post biggest rise in 20 years

2008-08-21

U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday

U.S. Navy Ships Head To Georgia

2008-08-21

Two U.S. Navy ships, including a guided missile destroyer USS McFaul, and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter are getting underway to transport humanitarian assistance supplies to Georgia, U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said on August 21

New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers

2008-08-21

New guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to open an investigation of an American, conduct surveillance, pry into private records and take other investigative steps 'without any basis for suspicion.'

'America's Outrageous War Economy!'

2008-08-21

Pentagon can't find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on 'national defense'

Two Women Sentenced To Re-Education In China

2008-08-21

Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of “re-education through labor” after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates

Syria Signs Defense Pact With Russia

2008-08-21

Syria sought to revive its security alliance with Russia today, when President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of military agreements, raising fears that the new Cold War that has erupted in the Caucasus will spill over into the Middle East

Russia sends aircraft carrier to Syria

Homeless Get Cleaned Up With Free Haircuts For DNC

2008-08-20

It seems to be a first -- don't move the homeless, clean them up. That was the work of one salon and the recipients didn't even seem to care if the Democrats were coming to town. Sly's Salon at 17th and Grant was offering free haircuts to the homeless Monday.

California Health Department Licenses Big DNA Testing Companies

2008-08-20

Genomic testing companies scored a major victory yesterday when the state of California licensed Navigenics and 23andMe, the high-profile standard bearers of the testing industry, to do business in the state.

79 Million Americans Struggle to Pay Medical Bills

2008-08-20

Working-age Americans are facing mounting problems when it comes to affording health care, a result of what analysts are calling a "perfect storm" of economic woes

Declassified Old Documents Shed New Light on AIPAC Espionage Prosecution

2008-08-20

More than one thousand documents released under Freedom of Information Act filings reveal details of a secret battle that raged between founders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and top US law enforcement officials

Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland

2008-08-20

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

Missile Strike Reported In Northwest Pakistan

2008-08-20

Missiles destroyed a suspected militant hide-out near the Afghan border Wednesday where foreign insurgents were known to frequent, killing at least five people, Pakistani officials said

Airline Captain, Lawyer, Child On Terror Watch List

2008-08-20

The American Civil Liberties Union estimates more than 1 million names have been added to the watch list since the September 11 attacks

U.S. Sending 12,000 to 15,000 Additional U.S. Troops to Afghanistan

2008-08-20

The Pentagon will be sending 12,000 to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, possibly as soon as the end of this year, with planning underway for a further force buildup in 2009.

U.S. Government Holding International Travel Information for 15 Years

2008-08-20

GERALD FORD: FBI INFORMANT DURING WARREN COMMISSION HEARINGS

2008-08-20

Exclusive: Gerald Ford, JFK and the FBI

U.S. Economy Hit By Surging Inflation

2008-08-20

Wholesale inflation soared in July, leaving U.S. prices rising at the fastest pace in nearly three decades

Homebuilding in US at 17-Year Low
Bigger Financial Shocks Loom Consequences to Impact for Years
Merrill Lynch, Wachovia at Risk of Failure

MSNBC: Bush creating 'embryonic police state'

2008-08-20

"Now that the Democrats were nice enough to fold up on FISA," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said, "the issue is all contained now. Right? Not exactly."

Vaccines Found to Cause Diabetes in Children

2008-08-20

Two new studies showing that vaccines increase the risk of diabetes have been published in the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal

Medvedev Vies With Putin in Word War

2008-08-20

Russia dismisses Nato's 'empty words' as it stands firm in Georgia
Staring Down the Russians
Russia smashes Georgian army, sends NATO message
Russia closed the border with Georgia and Azerbaijan
Syria: Time ripe for Russia military ties
Britain Warns Russia Over Military Operations in Georgia
Moscow accuses Israel of arming Georgia - day before Assad arrives for big arms purchases
US: Russia must return any US equipment

Advisor to FBI in Anthrax Investigation Says Attack Was False Flag Terror

2008-08-20

Francis Boyle - has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government

The Codex Alimentarius Commission "Codex" Gains More Control Of Global Food Supply

2008-08-19

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) is the international food standards setting body recognised under the World Trade Organisation Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as being the reference point for food standards applied in international trade. Its objectives are protecting the health of consumers and ensuring fair practices in food trade.

Arctic Ice Grows 30 Per Cent In a Year

2008-08-20

Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could be “ice free” this summer as a result of global warming have been embarrassed after it was revealed that Arctic ice has actually grown by around 30 per cent in the year since August 2007

Wounded NATO Grapples with Russia

2008-08-19

An arduous balancing act will be required of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she sits down with her NATO counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday to formulate a response to the Russia-Georgia conflict: On the one hand, she'll be looking to crack the whip against Moscow, and push back against Russia's humiliation of a Western ally in the Caucasus; on the other hand, she desperately needs to restore a fraying European consensus, and to rally the continent behind U.S. policy. Never easy at the best of times, accomplishing those tasks in the wake of Russia's game-changing military offensive last week looks more difficult than ever.

Large U.S. Banks May Fail Amid Recession, Rogoff

2008-08-19

Credit market turmoil has driven the U.S. into a recession and may topple some of the nation's biggest banks, said Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

Russia’s financial crisis of 1998 plotted by IMF

2008-08-19

As it turns out, the default, which hit Russia ten years ago, was not merely a consequence of the ungifted economic policy of the Russian government during the second half of the 1990s

The Real New World Order

2008-08-19

On Sept. 11, 1990, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed Congress. He spoke in the wake of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, the weakening of the Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein

Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon

2008-08-19

The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 35-ton-plus truck

Face scanners could replace passport officers at UK airports

2008-08-19

The machines will scan a travellers' face to compare them with the images on their biometric passports and open an automated gate when a match is registered

Japan To Label Goods Carbon Footprint

2008-08-19

Japan is planning to label consumer goods to show their carbon footprints in a bid to raise public awareness about global warming, an official said Tuesday

Russia Seizes U.S. Vehicles

2008-08-19

Russian soldiers today held blindfolded Georgian servicemen at gunpoint and commandeered US Humvees in a dramatic sequence of events in Poti, a key Black Sea port

Financial Fears, Soaring Inflation Hit Wall Street

2008-08-19

Stocks fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday as financial shares declined on renewed credit worries and a report showed inflation is still a threat to the economy, despite the economic slowdown

UK: CCTV Cameras Spying On 100s Of Classrooms

2008-08-19

CCTV monitors classrooms at one in 14 UK schools, according to a survey

India, ASEAN agree to create EU-like free-trade area

2008-08-19

India and the 10-nation Association of South-East Asian Nations have reached a free-trade deal in goods that aims to create a European Union-style single market.

U.S. report says poorest countries record greatest population growth

2008-08-19

A report released on Monday said that the world's poorest countries have the greatest population growth.

IMF introduces new procedures to monitor members' economies

2008-08-19

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published new procedures on how it would monitor the economic policies of member countries.

49 babies die during clinical trials at All India Institute of Medical Sciences

2008-08-19

As many as 49 babies, many of whom had not even celebrated their first birthday, have died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) while being subjected to clinical trials for testing new drugs and therapies over the last two and a half years.

Russia’s Georgia Campaign and the Expansion of NATO

2008-08-18

Many are drawing analogies between the U.S.-led attack on Yugoslavia in 1999 and the Russian attack on Georgia earlier this month. Most, including Russian officials, do so to highlight the hypocrisy of Washington’s criticism of Russia’s action

‘OPEC may cut output as oil prices set to fall further’

2008-08-18

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may decide to cut the cartel’s oil output quota as the price of crude risks falling under 100 dollars a barrel, energy consultancy CGES said Monday.

Rice: Russia's Military Actions A Dangerous Game

2008-08-18

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow on Monday that it was playing a dangerous game with the United States and its NATO allies

Sandcastles Banned In Italy

2008-08-18

When in Capri, don't wander off the beach in a bikini. If you go to the sea in Eraclea, near Venice, remember that building sandcastles is forbidden. And don't even think about mowing your lawn at the weekend in Forte dei Marmi

Russia Looks To Send Navy Fleet To Caribbean

2008-08-18

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Russia has expressed interest in sending a naval fleet to the Caribbean. He said Venezuela would welcome the visit

Venezuela's Chavez backs Russia in Georgia conflict

2008-08-18

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday praised Russia's military actions in Georgia, describing Moscow's offensive as a necessary response to U.S. aggression

German Politicians Attack Schroeder for Siding With Russia

2008-08-18

Schroeder heads Nord Stream project, which is heavily connected to Gazprom

U.S. Mint Suspends Gold Coin Sales

2008-08-18

Wall Street Pulls Back As Financials Fall

2008-08-18

Wall Street retreated Monday after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years on concerns that the government might need to bail out the mortgage financiers. Weakness in the overall financial sector sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 175 points

Iraq Moves Against U.S. Backed Sunni Fighters

2008-08-18

The Shiite-led government is cracking down on U.S.-backed Sunni Arab fighters in one of Iraq’s most turbulent regions, arresting some leaders, disarming dozens of men and banning them from manning checkpoints except alongside official security forces

Moscow Accuses U.S. TV Of Gagging Victims

2008-08-18

Moscow has accused an American TV network of bias after a channel broke off from a live interview with victims of Georgian violence in South Ossetia. A 12 year old girl and her aunt were describing how Russian soldiers saved them from the Georgian attack – but were bizarrely cut off after just two minutes

Congress Details Massive Use Of Contractors In Iraq

2008-08-18

A new report says the United States has spent about $100 billion on private contractors to support operations in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports from Washington

Military Funding Mind Reading Science

2008-08-18

Here's a mind-bending idea: The U.S. military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts. The hope is that the research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in hospitals.

U.S. & Allies Contemplating Action Against Russia

2008-08-18

The United States on Sunday accused Russia of stalling its military pullback in Georgia, but the Bush administration is not rushing to repudiate Moscow for its actions.

VIDEO: Georgian President Eats Tie On Live TV

2008-08-18

The BBC has recently aired a TV report, in which Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ate his tie

Cops Impose Curfew In Hartford

2008-08-18

Police took 16 young people off the streets on the first night of a curfew crackdown in response to escalating violence, officials said

Teachers Worried About Hidden Spy Cameras

2008-08-18

A survey of nearly 250 primary and secondary school teachers by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that 84.6% have CCTV in their school and more than half (52.9%) said it made them feel safer.

Security Officials To Scan DC License Plates

2008-08-18

Homeland security officials in the Washington area plan to dramatically expand the use of automated license plate readers to prevent possible terrorist attacks

Breaking Up Banks Questioned As Losses Mount

2008-08-18

America's biggest banks have suffered unprecedented losses from the ongoing credit crisis, and that's made some investors question whether the big financial conglomerates should be broken up in order to survive

Ohio Enacts Usury Law

2008-08-18

Ohio, having dealt a blow to its payday loan industry by enacting a usury law, is teeming with charges of deceit in a petition drive to reverse the law

Russian General Says Georgia May Commit False Flag Terror Attacks

2008-08-18

Nogovitsyn: Mercenaries working for Georgians may disguise themselves as Russians

Rice to visit Poland to sign missile shield deal

2008-08-18

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she would travel to Poland in coming days to ink a deal on installing US interceptor missiles on Polish territory

Musharraf resigns as Pakistan president

2008-08-18

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced Monday that he will resign, just days ahead of impeachment in parliament over attempts by the U.S.-backed leader to impose authoritarian rule on his turbulent nation

Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War

2008-08-18

The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis

U.S.: Russia-Georgia Conflict Could Hurt U.S. Space Program

2008-08-18

The U.S. government must now decide whether it will overlook Russia's skirmishes with Georgia

U.S.: Russia-Georgia Conflict Could Hurt U.S. Space Program

2008-08-18

NATO to back Georgia

2008-08-18

Washington called an emergency meeting of the 26 NATO foreign ministers to review ties with Moscow and discuss help to Georgia, a former part of the Soviet Union which won its pledge of eventual alliance membership at an April summit in Bucharest

WMD Exercise In San Francsico

2008-08-18

But there I was Saturday morning, along with several hundred firefighters, police officers, Army National Guard personnel, and members of other local, state, and federal agencies for a large-scale exercise designed to help train all these emergency responders how to deal with a major terrorist attack involving suspected chemical weapons or other bio-hazards

South African Free Trade Area set to enhance economic growth

2008-08-18

It is official, the Southern African Development Community is now a Free Trade Area (FTA). It's a historic step toward the vision of a fully integrated economic region.

Brave Old World

2008-08-18

In a world without America, the strong do as they will, and the weak suffer as they must.

Teen finds MSG slows brain cell growth

2008-08-18

A Calgary researcher is getting ready to publish a groundbreaking study that links a popular food additive to reduced growth in the brain cells of snails -- work that could have major implications for children's health.

Deaths of 14 children could be linked to GlaxoSmithKline trial drug

2008-08-18

Authorities in Argentina are investigating whether there is a link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine. The children took Synflorix as part of a clinical trial run by the British pharmaceutical company Glaxo-SmithKline.

UK Spy-in-the-sky paves way for road pricing

2008-08-18

Motorists are being warned they may face "pay as you drive" road taxes as ministers launch the first ever trials of a scheme that could see them charged for every mile they drive.

U.S. opens way for trial of 6 Blackwater guards

2008-08-18

WASHINGTON: U.S. prosecutors have sent letters to six Blackwater security guards involved in a Baghdad shooting last year in an action that could lead to criminal indictments, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

City defends ’secret jail’ built for DNC

2008-08-17

Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention

The Russo-Georgian War and the Balance of Power

2008-08-17

The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted

U.S. Taxpayer to Pay for Georgia’s Wrecked Economy

2008-08-17

INTERVIEW-US Treasury considers help for Georgia's economy

Rounded up into torture camps: the ‘undesirables’ China doesn’t want you to see

2008-08-17

In China, the camps bear the slogan ‘Re-education Through Labour’. (It’s a peculiar irony that Beijing has been so determined to use the English language to welcome the world, that street signs even bear the chilling words.)

The Average Briton Is Being Recorded 3,000 Times Per Week

2008-08-17

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s citizens.

“The Dollar Is Strengthening Because the U.S. Is Leading the Economies of Other Countries Over a Cliff”

2008-08-17

The new narrative forming among the Goldilocks crowd is that US economic supremacy reigns once again, as manifest in a reawakened "King Dollar".

US to take over Afghan mission

2008-08-17

The United States is planning to take control of all military operations in Afghanistan next year with an Iraq-style troop surge after becoming frustrated at Nato’s failure to defeat the Taliban

Report: Russia may arm Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads

2008-08-17

New Russian threat comes in response to war in Caucasus, US-Poland deal for missile defense shield in Europe. According to Sunday Times, nuclear warheads could be supplied to submarines, cruisers and fighter bombers of Russia's Baltic fleet based between Poland and Lithuania

Free Trade and Labour in a Scientific Society: The Scientific Outlook Part 8

2008-08-17

This article will explore the changes to free trade and labour in the scientific society as discussed in Bertrand Russell’s 1931 book The Scientific Outlook [1]. This includes the removal of competition and the choice between pre-determined work or prison

Ukraine Offers Satellite Defense Co-operation

2008-08-17

The proposal, made amid growing outrage among Russia's neighbours over its military campaign in Georgia, could see Ukraine added to Moscow's nuclear hitlist. A Russian general declared Poland a target for its arsenal after Warsaw signed a deal with Washington to host interceptor missiles for America's anti-nuclear shield

Readjustments in Pipelineistan

2008-08-17

Georgia has long been viewed as an alternative -- indeed, the only alternative -- to trans-Russian transport of Central Asian oil and gas to western markets

VIDEO: News crew crashes Denver’s DNC ‘concentration camp’

2008-08-16

The following video was aired by Denver’s CBS 4 News on August 13, 2008.

After Georgia, Moscow issues nuclear warning to Poland

2008-08-16

A senior Russian general has revived fears of a new Cold War by threatening Poland with a possible nuclear strike, as the President of Georgia bowed to the inevitable and signed a ceasefire the terms of which were dictated by Moscow

Defense Spooks: Let's Control Enemy Minds

2008-08-16

Forget performance-enhancing drugs for soldiers, the next frontier is performance-degrading drugs for our enemies. Rick Weiss at the Science Progress blog has just written a nice post about a just-released 150-page report from the National Research Council and the Defense Intelligence Agency that argues that the military needs to do a better job keeping up with neuroscience: in part so it can learn how to make our enemies stupider

Feds Include Local Police in Snoop “Continuum”

2008-08-16

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years

L.A. Program to Give $2.2 Billion to Mexican Trucking Firms

2008-08-16

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach boast of bringing in 40 percent of the nation’s imported goods, and plans to cut emissions at each port have been highlighted in mainstream news programs and the cable TV show “America’s Port.”

Turkish president predicts a “New World Order”

2008-08-16

Turkish President Abdullah Gul predicted “a new world order” of joint international action, in an interview published in Britain on Saturday

BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities

2008-08-16

The BBC video here was aired two days before Russia intervened to stop Georgia’s ethnic cleansing operation in South Ossetia. It needs to be viewed by Bush, Condi, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, little Billy Kristol and all the neocons and their associated slavering bloggers and newspaper columnists calling for war against Russia, a nation bristling with thermonuclear weapons and an increasing desire to use the tactical variety of nukes against the United States, or rather its servile little clients such as Poland that are installing U.S. missile “defense systems” on Russia’s borders.

UK: Fat children ‘should be taken from parents’ to curb obesity epidemic

2008-08-16

Grossly overweight children may be taken from their families and put into care if Britain’s obesity epidemic continues to escalate, council chiefs said yesterday

VIDEO: 12-Year Old On Fox Tells Truth About Georgia

2008-08-16

Subprime pain sweeps the world

2008-08-16

MORE than 100 local councils, charities, churches, hospitals and nursing homes across Australia are sitting on a $2 billion black hole after buying subprime investments structured by Wall Street banks during the bull market but which are now potentially worthless.

We Are Change Colorado Check Out DNC Detention Camps and Break Exclusive Footage

2008-08-16

At it again trying to show everyone the tyrannical government oppression, We Are Change Colorado exposes the detention camps built for the DNC protesters. We Are Change members attempted to go into the camp to get exclusive footage and talk to the guards but were strictly warned to stay away

VIDEO: Sky News uses footage of ruins of South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, says it is Georgia’s key town of Gori

2008-08-16

Sky New lies giving ruins of South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, for Georgia’s key town of Gori, which they say Russian bombed.

The Pentagon’s alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine

2008-08-15

There is alarming evidence accumulated by serious scientific sources that the US Government is about to or already has ‘weaponized’ Avian Flu

Nuclear war by miscalculation

2008-08-15

Russia went into Georgia to essentially deliver a message. There are more than 1,000 US military special forces in Georgia doing exercising, training Georgian troops, before Georgia launched the attack on Ossetia on 8 August. There are 1,000 Israeli troops at least, private security firms and military advisors, including advisors who are upgrading the Georgian air force in an installation near Tbilisi

Bush Sends U.S. Military To Georgia

2008-08-15

Washington's plans don't include sending combat aircraft or warships, but the move brings the US military into close proximity with Russian military forces, which are reportedly continuing to advance ever deeper into Georgian territory despite a declared cease-fire

Maoist guerrilla chieftain takes power in Nepal

2008-08-15

Members of Nepal's parliament have overwhelmingly elected the Maoist leader Prachanda as the country's new prime minister

Foreclosures soar despite efforts to help

2008-08-15

The magnitude of home foreclosures appears to be overwhelming the efforts of lenders to help distressed borrowers keep their homes

Civil liberties: Outrage at New York police plan to track vehicles

2008-08-15

The Big Apple is turning into Big Brother, civil liberties groups have warned in response to a new plan from New York city's police chiefs to photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan and hold the details on a massive database.

Thumb Print for Ammo Sales in California

2008-08-15

A new pilot program is requiring merchants to collect identifying information from people buying ammunition, requiring to submit his driver's license and a thumbprint to complete the sale in compliance with a recently enacted ordinance

NYPD Monitors Ring Of Steel Plan

2008-08-15

Commissioner Ray Kelly said New York could learn from London's so-called "ring of steel", a security and surveillance cordon which surrounds the city with concrete barriers, checkpoints and thousands of video cameras

VIDEO: Saakashvili Defends The New World Order

2008-08-15

Russia Seizes Arsenal Of U.S. Weapons

2008-08-15

Russian forces have seized a "large arsenal" of U.S.-made weapons in the western Georgian city of Senaki including hundreds of assault rifles, a military spokesman said Friday.

Russia: Poland risks attack due to U.S. missiles

2008-08-15

An agreement that will allow the United States to install a missile defense battery in Poland exposes the ex-communist nation to an attack, a Russian general said Friday

Saudi Should Drop Dollar Peg If Gulf Currency Delayed, IMF Says

2008-08-14

Saudi Arabia should drop the riyal's peg to the dollar and consider ``alternative exchange rate regimes'' if inflation persists and the Gulf single currency is delayed, the International Monetary Fund said

Court Rules Saudi Arabia Immune In 9/11 Lawsuits

2008-08-14

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday

Georgia conflict could revive big military spending

2008-08-14

Georgia conflict could revive big military spending Analyst recommends defense issues, but others say clash will be brief

Consumer Prices Rise at Double the Expected Rate

2008-08-14

Consumer prices shot up in July at twice the expected rate, pushed higher by surging energy and food costs. The latest surge left inflation running at the fastest pace in 17 years

Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device

2008-08-14

Across the country, police are using GPS devices to snare thieves, drug dealers, sexual predators and killers, often without a warrant or court order

Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain

2008-08-14

Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers' brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders.

Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point

2008-08-14

• 1 in 3 of UK's honeybees did not survive winter and spring
• Pollination of fruit and vegetables at risk

A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain

2008-08-14

Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon's primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday

'Gitmo On The Platte' Set As Holding Cell For DNC

2008-08-14

CBS4 News has learned if mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver. Investigator Rick Sallinger discovered the location and managed to get inside for a look

McCan Adviser Was Lobbying For Georgia

2008-08-14

John McCain’s top foreign-policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, is a leading expert on U.S.-allied Georgia — and was a paid lobbyist for the former Soviet republic until March, in the run-up to what has become a major battle between Georgia and Russia

Green Beret says leader shot, mutilated Afghan civilian

2008-08-14

The leader of an Army special forces team grinned as he held the severed ear of an Afghan man he suspected of being an insurgent after he shot him and left his body in the desert, a Green Beret testified Tuesday

Israel: Iran war not okayed by US

2008-08-13

Israel's defense minister says the regime has not received approval from the US to carry out a strike against Iran's nuclear sites.

Neocons Call For U.S. To Launch War With Russia

2008-08-13

Today the New York Times reports that Russia is escalating its war with Georgia, “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia” and even bombing parts of Tibilisi, the Georgian captial

UKCouncil snoopers to get new powers to seize phone and email records - with taxpayers footing the £50m bill

2008-08-13

Council snoopers will be given even greater powers to pry into our phone, email and internet records - landing the taxpayer with a bill of almost £50million

The terrific joys of laser beams shooting from planes: a PowerPoint presentation

2008-08-13

US Air Force tells the New Mexico Optics Industry Association about laser-planes

Russia's Novolipetsk Steel to buy U.S. John Maneely for $3.5 bln

2008-08-13

Under the deal, Novolipetsk Steel will acquire the U.S. steel pipe and tube producer from a group of shareholders, including global private equity firm Carlyle Group and the Zekelman family, on a debt free, cash free basis

India's poor urged to 'eat rats'

2008-08-13

An official in the Indian state of Bihar has come up with a new idea to encourage low caste poor people to cope with food shortages - rat meat.

Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report

2008-08-13

* News * Science The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including 'pharmacological land mines' and drones directed by mind control

Largest Naval Deployment Since 1991 Heads For Persian Gulf

2008-08-13

Kuwait activates emergency war plan as three U.S. warships steam towards Iran

Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the “biggest environmental disaster of all time”

2008-08-13

In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone “seriously wrong”

US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability'

2008-08-13

An airborne laser weapon dubbed the "long-range blowtorch" has the added benefit that the US could convincingly deny any involvement with the destruction it causes, say senior officials of the US Air Force (USAF)

FCC Commissioner: Fairness Doctrine Could Lead To Government Regulation Of Web

2008-08-13

McDowell says reinstated powers could be tagged on to net neutrality debate by leading Democrats

Arctic cold war as US sends a ship to claim riches under the ocean

2008-08-13

A US Coast Guard cutter will depart for the Arctic this week as part of a race against Russia to claim the vast spoils of oil and natural gas below the sea floor that both nations are scrambling to exploit.

Russia seeks emergency meeting with NATO

2008-08-12

"This morning the Russian mission to NATO made a decision to put forward a proposal to NATO leaders for an extraordinary Russia-NATO council," Dmitry Rogozin told a news briefing, adding that Russia wanted the meeting at ambassadorial level on Tuesday.

Israeli Has $1 Billion Invested in Georgia

2008-08-12

The Israeli-Georgia connection is estimated to be worth $1 billion, according to a former Georgian ambassador to Israel

Russians move Medium Range Ballistic Missile Launchers into South Ossetia

2008-08-12

The SS-21 Missile launchers are relatively small compared to bombs that have already been used against Georgia by the Russian air force. However, this move does indicate Russia is potentially upping the game from a conventional weapons war to a tactical nuclear weapons war

The next wave of mortgage defaults

2008-08-12

Prime mortgages are starting to default at disturbingly high rates - a development that threatens to slow any potential housing recovery

Iran Warns Against Surprise Attack

2008-08-12

Iran's Defense Minister Mohammad-Najjar has warned that its response to a surprise enemy attack would be a greater surprise for the aggressor

U.S. Cities Would Be Locked Down In Flu Response

2008-08-12

The federal government would need to quarantine infected households and ban public gatherings to contain pandemic flu, according to a computer simulation study conducted by researchers from Virginia Tech and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Fed Auctions Another $25 Billion To Banks

2008-08-12

The Fed announced Tuesday that the money would be loaned at a rate of 2.754 percent

1/3 Owe More On Homes Than They're Worth

2008-08-12

Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home valuations

NYPD's Operation Sentinel To Track Everything

2008-08-12

The initiative, called "Operation Sentinel," is aimed at preventing terror attacks. With the use of cameras and radiation sensors, police plan to track anything and everything that enters the Big Apple

GAO: Most U.S. Corporations Don't Pay Income Taxes

2008-08-12

The Government Accountability Office is set to release a report that says most U.S. corporations pay no federal income taxes

Beijing Plans Labor Camp Tours For Press

2008-08-12

Russia Halts Military Action In Georgia

2008-08-12

Georgia Says Bombings Continue...
Ossetians Say West Is Behind Conflict...

Israeli Media: U.S. Sending More Arms To Georgia

2008-08-12

The United States is sending fresh supplies of weapons to Georgia from its base in the Jordanian port of Aqabah. That’s according to the Israeli newspaper – Maariv

U.S. to hit $100 billion mark on private contractors in Iraq

2008-08-12

The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects the Bush regime’s unprecedented level of dependence on private firms for help in the war

Auditors question Blackwater $100 million in contracts

2008-08-12

Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor whose provision of private security in Iraq has been under scrutiny, and its affiliated companies may have improperly obtained more than $100 million in contracts meant for small businesses, according to federal auditors

Cheney: Russian Offensive Will Not Go Unanswered

2008-08-12

Releases $250K For Emergency Aid In Georgia
Bush Warns Russia To Pull Back
Georgia Overrun By Russian Troops
Zbig: Russian Invasion Like Stalin's Invasion Of Finland

Scientists stop the ageing process in an entire organ

2008-08-11

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says

Neocons Call For U.S. To Launch War Against Russia

2008-08-11

Video: Arkansas Town On Lockdown

2008-08-11

China To Overtake U.S. As Largest Manufacturer

2008-08-11

China is set to overtake the US next year as the world’s largest producer of manufactured goods, four years earlier than expected, as a result of the rapidly weakening US economy

FDIC Fund Strained By Bank Failures

2008-08-11

The failure of IndyMac Bancorp Inc. and seven other banks this year may erase as much as 17 percent of a government insurance fund and raise premiums for all banks, from Franklin National of Minneapolis to Bank of America Corp

Cheney Threatens Russia Over Georgia

2008-08-11

US Vice President Dick Cheney has threatened Russia after the country was forced to reply Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia’s region

U.S. Arms Cache Found in Kyrgyzstan

2008-08-11

The U.S. embassy in Kyrgyzstan has found itself embroiled in scandal after the country’s interior ministry announced that a hoard of U.S.-made weapons has been found in a house in Bishkek rented by U.S. citizens

Civilian Genocide, Dead Americans Cost Of U.S.-Russia Proxy War

2008-08-11

The truth behind who is primarily responsible for the bloodshed unfolding in South Ossetia and surrounding areas has been buried by the western corporate media

Freedom and Equality in a Scientific Society: The Scientific Outlook Part 7

2008-08-11

South Asia must go for quick transformation:"Imagine a New South Asia" (INSA)

2008-08-11

Colombo declaration had called for creating the 'regional customs union' by 2012 and the 'economic union' by 2020

A new, prosperous life for FTAA

2008-08-11

The failure of the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization in July provides a clear and present opportunity for nations of the Western Hemisphere to revive talks for the creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas.

FDIC Fund Strained by Bank Failures May Have to Raise Premiums

2008-08-11

U.S. sets bear trap in the Caucasus

2008-08-11

The master plotters in Washington and London will keenly watch how Dmitry Medvedev’s leadership handles the crisis.

Jewish Georgian minister: Thanks to Israeli training, we're fending off Russia

2008-08-11

Jewish Georgian Minister Temur Yakobshvili on Sunday praised the Israel Defense Forces for its role in training Georgian troops and said Israel should be proud of its military might, in an interview with Army Radio.

The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular

2008-08-11

The war in Georgia escalated dangerously last night after Russian jets reportedly bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West.

US refuses to relax its grip on World Bank

2008-08-11

America is stubbornly defending its right to pick the next boss of the World Bank, despite mounting pressure from a coalition of 10 developing countries demanding an equal voice for the poor in decision-making, leaked papers reveal.

Asean, India agree on FTA; to create EU-like market

2008-08-11

India and South Asian trading block Asean have reached a free trade deal in goods, ending three years of talks aimed at creating a European Union-style single market, only much larger in terms of population- over 1.5 billion.

University of California scientists bend light to create the invisible

2008-08-11

Researchers funded by the Pentagon have managed to make material that has the potential to bend light around objects to make them invisible

Georgia declares cease-fire in breakaway province

2008-08-10

Earlier Sunday, Georgian troops retreated from South Ossetia, overwhelmed by Russian firepower as the conflict threatened to set off a wider war

The medal table will demonstrate the new world order – with China on top

2008-08-10

Gold medal tables throughout the modern Olympic era have offered a fascinating snapshot of global power – coupled, it must be said, with home advantage

Baroness Thatcher’s son paid handsomely to promote murderous dictatorship

2008-08-10

Sir Mark Thatcher used his mother’s name to help secure a deal worth up to £300,000 a year promoting an oil company connected to the despotic regime in the central Asian country of Kazakhstan

Did U.S., Israel Provocateur S. Ossetia Conflict? Does the Sun Come Up in the Morning?

2008-08-10

Dead civilians in South Ossetia. But you will not hear much about it on CNN or Faux News. Because they are too busy reporting ad nauseam about the extramarital shenanigans of CFR darling John Edwards

Remote-control warriors suffer war stress

2008-08-10

Predator operators prone to psychological trauma as battlefield comrades

Kuwaiti Govt Finalizing War Emergency Plan

2008-08-10

The government is finalizing its emergency plan this week in order to ensure that the country is protected from foreign dangers in case the regional situation escalates and a war breaks out between Iran and the USA

Greenspan Says Federal Company Would Best Ease Crisis

2008-08-10

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the government should create a company like the Resolution Trust Corp. to sell off the assets of any failing financial institution, while limiting taxpayer losses

Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery

2008-08-10

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks

Russia Prepares for Naval Blockade of Georgia

2008-08-10

1,500 dead as Russian troops raid Georgian town
Georgia declares state of war with Russia
The Russian Conflict In Georgia Could Make War With Iran More Probable
Fighting with Russia spreads to cities across Georgia
War between Russia and Georgia orchestrated from USA
VIDEO - USA behind Georgia - Russian War

Analysis: energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict

2008-08-10

The conflict that has erupted in the Caucasus has set alarm bells ringing because of Georgia's pivotal role in the global energy market

CERN Super Collider Begins Testing This Weekend

2008-08-10

The Large Hadron Collider, soon-to-be the world's most powerful atom smasher, begins testing this weekend.

Did the U.S. Prep Georgia for War with Russia?

2008-08-08

Georgia and Russia are careening towards war. And the U.S. isn't exactly a detached observer in the fight. The American military has been training and equipping Georgian troops for years

Putin Says `War Has Started,’ Georgia Claims Invasion

2008-08-08

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said ``war has started'' over the breakaway region of South Ossetia as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili accused its neighbor of a ``well-planned invasion.''

Pentagon closely monitoring Georgia situation

2008-08-08

Pentagon officials say the roughly 130 U.S. troops and contractors in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have all been accounted for, and there are no plans to pull them out in the face of a military clash between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia

Evidence of U.S. Military Presence in Georgia

2008-08-08

The U.S. and Russia began “military exercises” on either side of the Caucasus mountains last month

Drug prices up 100% — or higher

2008-08-08

Drug companies are quietly pushing through price hikes of 100% — or even more than 1,000% — for a very small but growing number of prescription drugs, helping to drive up costs for insurers, patients and government programs

Video Reports on Conflict in Georgia

2008-08-08

Flash Back: Chechen Mujahideen offer to help Georgia in its standoff with Russia

2008-08-08

Georgia pays price for its Nato ambitions

2008-08-08

Two key events well beyond Georgia's borders have triggered Russia's fury

Iran urges China, Russia to resist US

2008-08-08

An Iranian cleric calls on China and Russia not to bow to Western demands to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia

2008-08-08

Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax

VIDEO: Russia Enters Georgia; 1,000 Reported Dead From Fighting

2008-08-08

South Ossetia's rebel leader Eduard Kokoity said there were "hundreds of dead civilians" in the main town Tskhinvali.

VIDEO: Georgia 'under attack' as Russian tanks roll in

2008-08-08

Georgia's president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.

Russia, Georgia troops battle along border...
Georgia says Russian aircraft bombed its air bases...
Caucasus in crisis: Georgia invades rebel region...
Georgia invades breakaway South Ossetia province; Russia sends in tanks...

Georgia: Russian Planes Shot Down

2008-08-08

Georgia claims it has shot down two Russian warplanes as violence escalates in the breakaway province of South Ossetia

Bush backs Georgia's territorial integrity

2008-08-08

President George W. Bush pledged U.S. support for Georgia's territorial integrity and has been updated regularly on the crisis involving Russia in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, the White House said on Saturday

Georgian President requests U.S. support in war with Russia

2008-08-08

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili stated that Russia started war with Georgia

Legislators tell school kids to celebrate homosexuality

2008-08-08

Only a year after banning all negative messages about homosexuality in public schools throughout the state, the California Legislature now is ordering school children to celebrate "gay" lifestyle choices.

Mayor wants federal probe after SWAT raids house, kills dogs

2008-08-08

Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme

Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

2008-08-08

This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees

'2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf'

2008-08-08

Two additional United States naval aircraft carriers are heading to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Kuwait Times

RFID goes prime time in Beijing Olympics

2008-08-07

Radio frequency identification technology will be facing one of its first major tests during the Beijing Olympics, taking care of ticketing for the estimated 3 million athletes, journalists, and spectators.

IRobot introduces new Negotiator robot

2008-08-07

Bedford-based iRobot Corp. has released a new robot for use by police officers and other public safety officials.

Privatisation and the World Bank

2008-08-07

WHATEVER else one may say about the World Bank, its mantra is certainly uncomplicated: privatise, privatise, privatise. In a world of cynicism and shattered faith, it is almost reassuring to have such a powerful institution that maintains the same line for decades. But this should come as no surprise. If the World Bank was truly about poverty reduction, it might have to accept the fact that its formula has failed in country after country.

Army Recruiter Threatens High School Student with Jail Time

2008-08-07

As the wars drag on in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military is increasingly desperate to get recruits. A story involving an Army recruiter in Texas last week has now led to a bipartisan call for an investigation.

Blackwater Makes Rifles!

2008-08-07

Blackwater Worldwide announces the creation of a new product - the BW-15 Rifle! Designed by our expert armorers, this exquisite weapon can be modified and built to your personal specifications! Your choose the barrel, you chose the sights, you choose the rail system.

Russia to move rockets to EU border if Poland hosts US missile shield

2008-08-07

Russia threatened to deploy bombers and short-range missiles on the Polish border if Warsaw agrees to host elements of a US missile defence shield on its territory.

Man Held On Charge Of Threating To Kill Obama

2008-08-07

A man is being held in Florida by federal authorities on charges of threatening to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama

Your Role In Reporting Terror Threats

2008-08-07

DVD Explains Signs Of Terrorists Behavior
DHS Wants Your Help To Spot Terrorists

Government Employees Caught Dealing Oxycontin

2008-08-07

Fifty-six government employees — including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants — were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday

Trillions Lost In Recent Economic Failures

2008-08-07

The Fed claims economic problems are minor, expansion was overrated, we inherit the subprime debacle, leading financial institutions turn into insolvent zombies, labor stats highly questionable, the general public is deprived of the economic truth, we were told it wasnt so bad.

Secret EU Security Draft Proposes Sharing Vast Amounts of Intelligence and Information on Europeans with the U.S. to Form “Euro-Atlantic Area of Cooperation”

2008-08-07

Soviet Union 2.0.

US Mortgage Crisis: Fannie and Freddie. Give Away the Farm

2008-08-07

Last week, Congress passed a housing bill that gave the Treasury Department a blank check to inject billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars into mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, snatching them from insolvency. To accommodate this blank check, Congress obligingly raised its debt ceiling by $800 billion. Ouch!

FBI: LA hospitals used homeless in medical fraud

2008-08-07

For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.

Thought Crimes Agenda Already Being Implemented

2008-08-07

The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards implementing a provision of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 otherwise known as the thought crimes bill

Anti-War Website Operator Threatened By Armed Thugs

2008-08-07

Information Clearing House editor victim of home invasions, warnings to “stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!”

Introducing The USS New York - Made From Steel From The Towers Of 9/11

2008-08-07

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions th at include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Judge: Denver can restrict protests at convention

2008-08-07

Protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Denver can be restricted to fenced-in areas, federal judge ruled on Wednesday, saying that security needs outweighed curbs on their rights.

FEMA suspends TopOff, SAIC drops out of competition

2008-08-07

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended a procurement for the upcoming Top Officials (TopOff) 5 national disaster drill to investigate allegations of improprieties in the contracting process, said FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison

Teenager Accused Of Being A Terrorist

2008-08-06

The allegations revealed yesterday were the latest development in an expanding investigation that has engulfed the family of three that lives on a leafy street that a neighbor calls the "Leave It to Beaver" community

NRA accused of paying mole in gun-control groups

2008-08-06

A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two antiviolence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs

VIDEO: WITNESSES ALLEGE POLICE BRUTALITY IN DEATH OF TASERED MAN

2008-08-06

A Pennsylvania man has died after being tasered by local police, and the Civil Rights section of the FBI's Pittsburgh office has now opened a preliminary investigation

Vision 2015: Consolidation of U.S. Intelligence Into Global Intel Network

2008-08-06

The Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and The Council on Foreign Relations has made public a twenty eight page document called ‘Vision 2015’ which outlines a plan to integrate the entire United States intelligence network into a global intelligence community.

Border Agent Held At Gunpoint By Mexican Military

2008-08-06

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist

Ron Paul: Washington's Intervention Addiction

2008-08-06

One problem with politicians is that when problems they create come to a head, they typically feel this irresistible urge to DO something, rather than to UN-do something, or to simply back off to avoid exacerbating the situation

Colonel Anderson Refutes False Allegations Against Dr. Ivins

2008-08-06

Colonel Arthur Anderson is the chief of human use and ethics at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the bioweapons facility where Dr. Ivins worked and where the anthrax strains were apparently obtained by the anthrax killer

Pentagon to test unclassified alternative to Talon

2008-08-06

The Pentagon, which closed its Talon intelligence database nearly a year ago amid concerns about domestic spying, will soon begin testing an unclassified alternative for tracking possible threats to U.S. military bases, officials said on Tuesday

Russia mulls arms in Belarus to counter U.S. shield

2008-08-06

Russia may consider deploying strategic bombers or station tactical missiles in its close ally Belarus as a counter-measure to a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, Moscow's envoy to Minsk said on Wednesday

SPOOF: VIDEO - Pentagon Unleashes 'Spokesdrone' on Hapless Journos

2008-08-06

Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act

2008-08-06

Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig details government plans to overhaul and restrict the Internet

Morgan Stanley Freezing Home-Equity Credit Withdrawals

2008-08-06

Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest U.S. securities firm, told thousands of clients this week that they won't be allowed to withdraw money on their home-equity credit lines, said a person familiar with the situation.

FBI said to have stalked Ivins' family

2008-08-06

Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims

‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes

2008-08-05

New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports

Greenspan warns more banks may be bailed out

2008-08-05

Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, has warned that more banks and financial institutions could end up being bailed out by governments before the credit crunch is over

French leaders accused of complicity in Rwanda genocide

2008-08-05

The two-year investigation said France helped the extremists who carried out the genocide and even took part in some of the killings

US and NATO protecting Afghan drug trade

2008-08-05

The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military. In recent developments, British occupation forces have also been found involved in promoting opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements.

Scientific Technique and Human Reproduction: The Scientific Outlook Part 6

2008-08-05

This article will examine the application of scientific technique to the reproduction of human beings including the separate breeding techniques to be applied to the “governing class” compared with the “working class” as discussed in Bertrand Russell’s 1931 book The Scientific Outlook

VIDEO - Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother’s All-Seeing Eye

2008-08-05

Everyday objects become “searchable” as if they were part of the interconnected world wide web. In this interconnected internet of things, scientific management and surveillance of people and the environment we inhabit becomes possible, and marketers’ ultimate dreams come true

Journalists Beaten By Chinese Police

2008-08-05

A reporter and photographer from two Japanese news organisations were detained and beaten by Chinese police as they were covering yesterday's terrorist attack on a police station in Xinjiang province, the organisations said

SAIC to supply NGA with geospatial-intelligence products

2008-08-05

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $15.9 million contract to assist the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Nano-coated bullets to trace fingerprints

2008-08-05

U.K. researchers are developing a coating for bullet casings that sticks to the hands (or gloves) of anyone handling it and is very difficult to remove. The idea is to give each bullet a "fingerprint" that can be traced to a given crime

Military use of robots increases

2008-08-05

Robots are increasingly taking over more soldier duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, with predictions that as much as 30 percent of the U.S. Army will be robotic by 2020. WUSTL computer scientists who work on robots say the machines still need the human touch

US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan

2008-08-05

Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy within the country, saying this goes against the grain of the Washington-led global war against terror

Air Force Wants Next-Gen 3-D, No Glasses Allowed

2008-08-05

Don't tell the makers of the new Journey to the Center of the Earth. But the Air Force thinks today's 3-D technology is pretty lame. Instead, the service wants a new 3-D visualization tool, based on holograms -- with no chunky glasses allowed

Russia looks to renew its influence in Cuba

2008-08-05

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for Russia to regain its influence with Cuba, a former Cold War ally of the Soviet Union, Russian news reports said Monday

DoD Looked At Ancient World For Empire Tips

2008-08-05

In the summer of 2002, the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) published an 85-page monograph called "Military Advantage in History". Unusual for an office that is headed by Andrew Marshall, the Pentagon's "futurist in chief," the study looks back to the past—way back

Israel’s Secret Police Pressuring Sick Gazans to Spy for Them in Exchange for Medical Treatment

2008-08-05

Israel's secret police are pressuring Palestinians in Gaza to spy on their community in exchange for urgent medical treatment, according to a report released today by an Israeli human rights organisation

China Locks Down Kashgar After Attacks on Police

2008-08-05

Police locked down Kashgar, cut Internet access in China's westernmost major city and detained journalists after an attack yesterday by members of the Uighur ethnic group killed 16 officers, according to media reports

McDonalds Can't Maintain Dollar Menu

2008-08-05

McDonald's Corp. is testing modifications to its popular $1 double cheeseburger, and higher prices for the sandwich, as it prepares to change its Dollar Menu by next year

Bush Ordered Fake Letter Linking Iraq To 9/11

2008-08-05

A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq

Water Cannons Fired At Bush Protesters

2008-08-05

Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip

Roubini: Hundreds Of Banks Will Fail

2008-08-05

The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini told Barron's in Sunday's edition

National Guard Warns Soldiers Of Chemical Exposure

2008-08-04

Senate hearings in June revealed sodium dichromate was used at a water treatment plant near Basra, Iraq between May and September in 2003

DHS Claims Authority To Steal Private Property

2008-08-04

The Department of Homeland Security more popularly known as the Department of Homeland Enslavement has now come out and stated that they have the authority to confiscate people’s personal property including laptops, electronic devices and even paperwork at the border without any probable cause

Iran threatens to shut Gulf shipping lanes

2008-08-04

Iran has warned it is ready to shut down the shipping lanes of the Gulf as it boasted of a new missile system designed to "prolong" war at sea.

FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Court Order

2008-08-04

The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday

VIDEO: Military Coverup of Deadly Vaccinations

2008-08-04

A second, far larger wave of U.S. mortgage defaults is building

2008-08-04

The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is building with alarming speed

Roads, Airports Being Sold To Private Investors

2008-08-04

Cash-strapped U.S. state and city governments are likely to sell or lease more highways, bridges, airports and other assets to investors desperate for stable returns after being frazzled by the credit crisis

Worst inflation in 27 years trumps tax rebates

2008-08-04

The windfall of cash from Washington in June got eaten up by the worst inflation in 27 years, Commerce Department data showed Monday

U.S. WARNS ISRAEL: Joint Chiefs Chairman Says Another ‘Liberty’ Will Not Be Tolerated

2008-08-04

Recently appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israel’s military establishment how “important” it was that “history not repeat itself ”—referring to Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in June, 1967

Italian Army Deploys to Cities; Mayor Bans Public Gatherings of Three or More People

2008-08-04

The anti-gathering laws were enacted as thousands of soldiers were due to take to the streets of Italian cities for the first time on Monday under a controversial move by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to fight crime.

Could a Pill Replace Exercise?

2008-08-04

Good news for couch potatoes. There may be a pill that lets them watch their TV and get their exercise, too—without moving a muscle. Scientists have found a drug that mimics the effects of a workout by, among other things, increasing the body's ability to burn fat.

'Greenshirt' youths urged to inform on eco-crimes

2008-08-04

In a recent series of ads aimed at school children, a leading British energy company has assigned a controversial summer project: police their family's global-warming crimes.

If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?

2008-08-04

WANT to vet a baby sitter? Need to peek into the background of a prospective employee? Curious about the past of a potential date? Last month, PeopleFinders, a 20-year-old company based in Sacramento, introduced CriminalSearches.com, a free service to satisfy those common impulses.

Microsoft admits monitoring 30 billion electronic conversations to confirm 'Kevin Bacon' theory

2008-08-04

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances

Biodefense Labs, Bad for Our Health

2008-08-04

Research into largely-theoretical bio threats has sucked up money from tackling real killers, like tuberculosis. In fact, the biggest threat may be from the proliferation of biodefense labs, packed with largely-untrained staffs; an accident or a malicious insider was more likely to cause serious damage than nearly any bioterrorist.

Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope

2008-08-03

The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago.

Is the DEA Contracting Blackwater?

2008-08-03

So disconcerting, apparently, the L.A. Times pulled this particular photo from its slideshow and fed it into the memory hole.

The Hidden Anthrax Letters Suspect

2008-08-03

The FBI knows of a man who was caught entering the lab where the Anthrax used in the letters was kept, after he had been fired for a racially motivated attack on a co-worker. So, why is the FBI wasting its time with Steven Hatfill?

Revamp of U.S. Spy Agencies Shifts Power

2008-08-03

The overhaul was described by two senior administration officials as the most significant of its kind in more than a generation

McCain: U.S. Neighborhoods Need Iraq-style “Surge”

2008-08-03

Appearing before the Urban League this week, John McCain revealed his plan for imposing a military dictatorship in “high crime neighborhoods” in the United States. An ABC News “blog” provides all the details necessary to send a chill up our spines

9/11 Activist Says Sticker Incident Was Blown Out Of Proportion

2008-08-03

PRE CRIME: Police Seizing Guns Before Crime Is Committed

2008-08-03

Using a unique state law, police in Connecticut have disarmed dozens of gun owners based on suspicions that they might harm themselves or others

Israel Ready To Attack Iran Without U.S. Permission

2008-08-03

Report: Karadzic Was Protected By U.S.

2008-08-03

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his "deal", the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source

IOC Faces Heat Over Internet Restrictions

2008-08-03

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Saturday faced mounting questions over Internet censorship, days before the Beijing Games, despite earlier pledges that its use would be unfettered

Man Charged With Placing 9/11 Stickers On A Plane

2008-08-01

U.S. Government Seizes Laptops Without Suspicion of Wrongdoing and Shares Personal Data Files with Private Companies

2008-08-01

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed

Google Says Privacy Doesn’t Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You

2008-08-01

The headline practically says it all. Google is being sued by a Pittsburgh couple for posting images of its house on the Internet in Google's Street Views pages. Google responded, in court no less, that complete privacy simply doesn't exist in today's world and the couple should stop crying about it

Stressed banks borrow record amount from Fed

2008-08-01

Banks borrowed a record amount of funds from the Federal Reserve in the latest week as the year old credit crisis took a persistent toll, while the commercial paper market continued to contract, signaling tough conditions for short term borrowers

Chief suspect in US anthrax attacks found dead

2008-08-01

Where’s the best dead biologists list these days?

Md. mayor's dogs killed by SWAT after cops deliver pot

2008-08-01

SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there

Pakistan denies ISI behind Indian embassy attack

2008-08-01

The New York Times reported for Friday's editions that American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence were involved in the July 7 attack in the Afghan capital

Venezuela to Nationalize Spanish Bank

2008-07-31

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he will nationalize one of the nation's largest banks, Banco de Venezuela, owned by Spain's Grupo Santander

Consenting to be Abused: The problem with "voluntary" roadside searches

2008-07-31

If I approach as you pull into a parking space and ask if you'd mind my rummaging through your car, the chances are at least 90 percent that you'd decline. But if a police officer stops you with the same request, the chances are higher than 90 percent that you'd agree. Something about that badge makes citizens eager to be helpful.

Salmonella outbreak linked to irrigation water on a Mexican farm

2008-07-31

Peppers were apparently the perps in the salmonella outbreak that sickened some 1,300 people in the U.S. and Canada since April. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it traced the responsible bacterial strain—Salmonella Saintpaul—to a Serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated with it

The Army's Banana Peel Weaponry

2008-07-31

The Army's new XM1063 artillery round will "suppress, disperse or engage personnel" over a wide area and "deny personnel access to, use of, or movement through a particular area, point or facility."

For Sale: High-Tech, Lethal Weapons

2008-07-31

Private military companies are expanding their offerings to clients with the latest in high-tech weapons

Fusion centres realise full potential of “astral soup”

2008-07-31

Once they’ve set up the fusion centre (or the ring of astral soup as we’d call it this side of the Atlantic as per my theory) there’s nothing to stop them ramping up the service. For this they deploy a technique they call “mission creep”, so it tackles all sort of anti-social and suspicious activity

U.S. jobless claim rise to highest level in 5 years

2008-07-31

The number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in five years, reflecting in large part a new government outreach effort to locate people eligible for benefits

Greenspan: Housing No Where Near Bottom

2008-07-31

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said falling U.S. home prices are ``nowhere near the bottom'' and the resulting market turmoil isn't showing signs of abating

Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence business

2008-07-31

Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm's latest foray into private intelligence. "They're marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations," he recently told an interviewer.

BBC Fined For Deceiving Viewers

2008-07-31

The BBC Trust, which holds the corporation to account, said it regretted that the fine would lead to a loss of licence fee payers' money

VIDEO: Thug NYPD Cops Beat Already Restrained Man Senseless

2008-07-31

The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at a man's legs with a baton

Cheney, Neocons Considered Killing Americans in Pretext to Attack Iran

2008-07-31

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran

Plutonium mishap draws stern rebuke

2008-07-31

A 62-page report details the spread of contamination at a Boulder lab and the lack of handler training. Some material got to the sewer.

Economic Rebound Not As Energetic As Hoped

2008-07-31

The country didn't get the energetic rebound in economic growth hoped for from the government's tax rebates in the second quarter, and the economy jolted into reverse at the end of 2007, raising new recession fears

IMF Chief Calls For More Economic Integration In North Africa

2008-07-31

The US Federal Reserve unveiled a barrage of measures yesterday to lend stressed financial institutions more funds, and for longer periods, as it stepped up its drive to limit the fallout from America’s housing slump and the global credit crunch.

Brain Mechanism Can Turn Off Trauma of Bad Memories

2008-07-31

The brain mechanism that turns off traumatic feelings associated with bad memories has been identified by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, who said their finding may lead to the development of new drugs to treat panic disorders.

Report: U.S.-China trade displaced 100,000 Ohio jobs

2008-07-31

Little more than half a decade since China entered the World Trade Organization, a resulting trade deficit has triggered the loss of more than 100,000 jobs in Ohio, says a report from the Economy Policy Institute released Wednesday.

US to help Israel detect Iranian missiles

2008-07-31

The United States will soon link Israel up to two advanced missile detection systems as a precaution against any future attack by Iran, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday.

Afghanistan importing drug experts

2008-07-31

As if we needed more bad news from Afghanistan. Afghanistan's drug lords are now recruiting foreign chemists to help refine raw opium into heroin

Eastern Counterbalance?: Will EATO eat NATO?

2008-07-31

According to the Christian Science Monitor's Fred Weir, Dmitry Medvedev has a plan to avert a new cold war. Last month in Berlin, Medvedev proposed the formation of a new European defense pact which would include not only Europe but the countries of the former Soviet Union as well.

Study reveals signs of toxicity of GE maize approved for human consumption

2008-07-30

Laboratory rats, fed with a genetically engineered (GE) maize produced by Monsanto, have shown signs of toxicity in kidney and liver, according to a new study

The New York Times: Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable

2008-07-30

On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians

Colorado 'fusion center' to step up intelligence gathering during DNC

2008-07-30

Federal and state law enforcement officials will increase intelligence operations during the Democratic National Convention, overseeing an information war room that will be staffed around the clock with analysts who access a dozen databases while receiving reports of "suspicious activity" — activity that some civil libertarians claim could be nothing more than engaging in anti-war protests or photographing federal facilities that could be targeted for terrorist attack.

Collapse of WTO talks ushers in ‘New World Order’

2008-07-30

The breakdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations signals a “new world order” in which the West can no longer unilaterally impose its will on the rest of the world, Norway’s foreign minister said Wednesday

Another Al-Qaeda Operative Reported Dead Twice

2008-07-30

As originally revealed by the Citizens for Legitimate Government, the corporate controlled media has now reported yet again that the U.S. government has killed the same Al-Qaeda operative twice.

Bush drug warrior crashes pot press conference

2008-07-30

President Bush's drug warriors must really, really want to protect their ability to throw non-violent marijuana users in jail.

'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead

2008-07-30

A US military plane equipped with a powerful laser has moved a step closer to becoming a viable weapon

Desperate Haitians Eating Mud

2008-07-30

People in Haiti have become so desperate for food that many are eating mud, U.N. officials said

How Wall Street Wrecked Your Retirement

2008-07-30

US Billion-Dollar Bankruptcies Highest Since 2003
IMF Says End of U.S. Housing Slump `Not Visible'