Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are… Continue
By Mark Levine, AlterNet. Posted July 9, 2009.
Shock: It seems the FBI cares more about protecting its illegal surveillance methods than following leads to stop terrorism.
The recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum serves as a stark reminder to us all that murderous racial and religious hatred still endures in America. One would expect the FBI to infiltrate and prosecute individuals and organizations that… Continue
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Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers
By Noah Shachtman | May 13, 2008
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to — and "full control" of — any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries’ information infrastructure completely undetected."
The government is growing increasingly interested…
WASHINGTON, Jul 2 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from the Pentagon itself.
The new twist in the charge is that it is being… Continue
The government of New Zealand has ordered an initial supply of 300,000 doses of H1N1 shots, according to a statement issued Monday – that in spite of the ongoing criminal investigation into Baxter’s contamination of 72 kilos of vaccine material with live bird flu virus in Austria this February, and in spite of the evidence that the “swine flu” is an artificial (genetic) virus that was deliberately… Continue
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By Matthew Shaer | 07.08.09A series of attacks on computer networks in South Korea and the US was apparently the work of North Korean hackers, several news agencies are reporting today. The attacks, which targeted the White House, the Pentagon, and the Washington Post, among other high-level institutions, are raising concerns that the long-simmering conflict with North Korea is expanding into a dangerous new theater.
According to Seoul’s National Intelligence Service, the “attacks… Continue
Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks,… Continue
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Detectives will be required to consider accessing telephone and internet records during every investigation under new plans to increase police use of communications data.
The policy is likely to significantly increase the number of requests for data received by ISPs and telephone operators.
Just as every investigation currently has to include a strategy to make use of its subjects' financial records, soon CID officers will be trained to always draw up a plan to probe their… Continue
Great one of the assholes who is screwing with food and making it less safe is going to protect us. Sure, that will work perfectly. He would be MY first choice. I bet there will be a bigger push for genetically modified food if he is chosen. More restrictions on independent farmers also. Thanks Obama.
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Fox to Guard Henhouse? Former Monsanto VP May Be Named To Head FDA Safety Working Group
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Cant wait until they justify these laws for when keeping us in prison. If this happens, it sets the precedent for local government. They have already been using the Patriot Act, which was supposed not to be for US citizens, on us. Thought crimes. They cant prove which one of these men will go back to fighting, so I bet they will just keep them all. Which way does America's moral compass point? I'm glad I didn't vote for him. Of course if the votes are rigged, it didn't matter if I had. Remember… Continue
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In aluminum cans, the very toxic brain chemical aluminum fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government-approved toxic soup imaginable. With the strong association between aluminum, excitotoxins, aluminum fluoride complexes and Alzheimer's disease, it would be completely irresponsible to encourage people to consume this toxic mixture.
Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
By Matthew Day in Warsaw
Published: 4:37PM BST 02 Jul 2008
The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious… Continue
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI called for a new financial order with “real teeth” as Group of Eight leaders prepare to discuss ways out of the worst recession since World War II.
“Profit is useful if it serves as a means toward an end,” he wrote in a letter to Catholic bishops worldwide published today. “Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks… Continue
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People campaigning for a better world should also demand a social salary. A social salary is an extra income apart from one's labor or capital, paid to everyone. It is not a bribe. It is not a reward for good behavior. It is your right. It's similar to the European proposal for a Basic Income.… Continue
Scientists have come up with a unique strategy for protecting corals in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. @nikolajcw meets an oceanographer to see how man-made...