August 2, 2011

The days of having to cart your cocktail to the ladies room may be over: two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.

Professor Fernando Patolsky and Doctor Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University's school of chemistry say the sensor can tell you in real time whether your…

August 2, 2011 by Deborah Braconnier

According to a new study which will be presented August 4 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, technology has made it possible to identify and gain the personal information of strangers by using facial recognition and social media profiles like Facebook.

The study, led by Alessandro Acquisti from Carnegie Mellon…

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Survivors and relatives of those killed in the 7 July bombings in 2005 have dropped…

Top prosecutors in Mexico resign en masse

Senior federal prosecutors in 21 of the country's 31 states and federal district step down, and it's not clear if they were forced out or quit in rebellion.

Mexico's Atty. Gen. Marisela Morales addresses a news conference in June. (Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters)…

Anders Behring Breivik used eBay traders across the world including the UK. Photo: JEFF GILBERT

Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.

Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy…

For those of you who understand false-flags, media blackouts and absurd conclusions force-fed by TV News, you may want to sit up and pay attention.  Our government (in the US) is holding hearings on fighting cybercrime.  Who knows what the intent is here, but it will probably mingled in between many facts and serious points of discussion on all parties.  It's the "not so true" stuff that concerns me.…

UPDATE:  We're anticipating that a version of PROTECT IP will be introduced in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, so we've pulled together this video to remind the world about what makes it so awful.  Please check it out and pass it on:

We need to rally more opposition to this bill -- please use the form…

Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to the Watergate grand jury, a federal judge yesterday ordered the first public release of the transcript about…

On The Eve Of Destruction

By Jim Kirwan

That Which Is Too Fearful To Speak: The Demise of the Consumer Economy

The consumer-debt-based economy is doomed; good riddance. It was nothing more than an elaborate cargo cult based on marketable anxiety.

The consumer-debt-based economy is toast, but everyone's too terrified by its demise to acknowledge this reality, never mind consider a new model. The entire creaking economy is based on a…