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GeneralAirport Scanners Do Virtual Strip SearchTuesday, June 10th, 2008 By Thomas Frank | Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at ...
Potential Future HyperinflationMonday, June 9th, 2008 By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Walter "John" Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading, but you won't find him in the mainstream. At least not often. He runs a "Shadow Government Statistics" site with an electronic by-subscription newsletter. Anyone can access some of his data and occasional special reports. They can also assess his reasoning. In his ...
Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security DealMonday, June 9th, 2008 By GARY LEUPP | Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a “security pact” with Washington by the end of July. (The pact, including a status-of-forces agreement, would be signed by the U.S. president but not constitute a treaty requiring Congressional approval.) U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has been feverishly ...
Have Government officials broken EU rules?Sunday, June 8th, 2008 IC Wales | QUESTIONS have been raised over whether European rules are being broken in the running of a new £92m business grant scheme. The concerns follow a meeting at the Holland House Hotel in Cardiff on Thursday, when senior Assembly Government officials briefed members of the Welsh business community about the new system.
Someone who attended the meeting, who did not ...
Rome Food ConferenceSunday, June 8th, 2008 IPA | As government leaders from around the world meet at the U.N. food conference in Rome, nonprofit organizations have also been meeting there. The following analysts are available for a limited number of interviews and are in contact with others in Rome from around the world:
FLAVIO VALENTE
Secretary general of FIAN [Food First Information and Action ...
Committee calls for database prudenceSunday, June 8th, 2008 Kable's Government Computing | The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says that decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to increase surveillance of people ...
Profiting from Iraq’s occupationSunday, June 8th, 2008 By Harry Cohen | The British in Basra are unpopular and mostly ineffective. The last survey of Basra residents by BBC Newsnight indicated that 86 per cent believe British troops have had a negative effect on the Iraqi province since 2003. More than half felt the troops presence had actually increased the overall level of militia violence over the ...
Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of war crimesSunday, June 8th, 2008 By Barry Grey | The Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Thursday on the Bush administration’s use of phony intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq is yet another exercise in damage control, aimed at concealing the full scope of the criminal conspiracy to drag the American people into a war of aggression.
The 170-page report was released a full ...
Iraq: New US plan for total controlSaturday, June 7th, 2008 Socialist Worker | Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military bases and US personnel given green light to kill. George Bush is ending the pretence that Iraq is a “democratic state”. He is imposing new “security accords” that will strip the country of its sovereignty and allow it to be used as ...
Chavez Revamps His Intelligence Services: The Corporate Media ReactSaturday, June 7th, 2008 By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can't be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela's decades old intelligence services. It's long overdue and urgently needed given the Bush administration's tenure winding down and its determination in its remaining months to end the ...
US Walks Away from UN Human Rights CouncilSaturday, June 7th, 2008 Human Rights Watch | A decision by the United States to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council amounts to an abandonment of human rights defenders and victims, Human Rights Watch said today.
The United States announced today at its daily State Department briefing that it will only participate in debates at the council when absolutely necessary and it feels compelled to do so ...
Hunger strike as protest to Guantánamo chargesSaturday, June 7th, 2008 By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
Last Friday, it was revealed that he was ...
10 reasons why organic can feed the worldSaturday, June 7th, 2008 By Ed Hamer & Mark Anslow |
1. Yield
Switching to organic farming would have different effects according to where in the world you live and how you currently farm.
Studies show that the less-industrialised world stands to benefit the most. In southern Brazil, maize and wheat yields doubled on farms that changed to green manures and nitrogenfixing leguminous vegetables instead of ...
The First Signs of “Peak Gas”?Saturday, June 7th, 2008 By Andy Rowell | Consumers the world over are beginning to protest at the huge gasoline prices they are paying at the pump. But whilst the world goes crazy over the oil prices, there are worrying signs about what is happening in the gas market that could also spell disaster.
But it’s the oil price that is currently attracting all the attention. Last ...
Spying Telecoms Receive Billions in Government ContractsTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 By Kurt Opsahl | The telecoms who are being sued for their cooperation in the government's illegal warrantless surveillance program have received billions in government contracts. According to Washington Technology magazine, Verizon received $1.3 billion, Sprint $839 million and AT&T $505 million in federal prime contract revenue for fiscal 2007, for a total of $2.6 billion. While the companies have been government ...
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