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Fingerprinting, ID cards part of Kids Day
By NICOLE GERRINGMARINE CITY- Children had their faces painted, ate free pizza and cookies and tried their skills on a rock climbing wall at Belle River Elementary School on Saturday afternoon. But their parents
Read More »The continued exploitation of 9/11
By As’ad Abdul Rahman Like other colossal events, the attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington, have significantly transformed many countries. The events of 9/11 have had devastating repercussions on the
Read More »Shelter eyes fingerprint scans, ID cards for homeless
Sarah Chapman A Calgary homeless shelter is considering a high-tech security system that would require fingerprint scans and photo ID cards from people looking for a warm, safe place to spend the night. A
Read More »Syria strike: US shared intelligence with Israel
By Leonard Doyle Before it bombed Syria, Israel provided the US with intelligence suggesting that North Korea was secretly supplying Damascus with nuclear technology, The Washington Post newspaper claimed yesterday. However, there is considerable
Read More »How Chinese Military Hackers Took Over A Nuclear-Armed B52
By William Thomas The story sounded like a sequel to “Dr. Strangelove”. Leaked by the Pentagon’s news service, Military Affairs to quell scuttlebutt racing through the ranks-and perhaps warn the world-a U.S. Air Force
Read More »US captivated in the theater of war
By Ira Chernus A week has passed since President George W Bush announced that US troops will stay in Iraq in “a security engagement that extends beyond my presidency”. Last spring, those words would
Read More »Children of NY latest victims 9/11
Lower Manhattan Children Exposed to Terrorist Attack Suffering From Breathing Problems Joan Trombetti New York City health officials have released information revealing than more than half of the children closely exposed to the September
Read More »London’s CCTV network is a waste of cash
£200 million and can’t solve crime By Nick Farrell LONDON’S 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV network, which costs £200 million, might as well be cardboard boxes on the end of sticks. According to an analysis of
Read More »Mr Bush, Mandela is still alive
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader’s death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in
Read More »WE ARE RULED BY POLITICS OF FEAR
Britain is becoming a surveillance society ruled by the technology and the politics of fear, the Liberal Democrats have warned.Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said the Government saw no limits to the use of
Read More »More than 1000 biometric scanners will be used as part of biometric visa scheme
The Home Office has signed a $4.4m (£2.18m) deal with supplier Cross Match Technologies to provide 1,385 biometric devices at government buildings based in foreign countries. The Guardian scanners will be used to take
Read More »Sanity in Tiny Nibbles
The abyss between “crime against humanity” and “we’ll have to look into this” may be all but unfathomable — deep as a mass grave — but sometimes we have to trust the process. I
Read More »Iran has plan to take out Israel should they attack Iran
Nazila Fathi A SENIOR Iranian military official has warned that Tehran has prepared a plan to attack Israel if Israel bombs Iran. “We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with
Read More »Syrian official: Damascus eager to respond to Israel flyover
Senior Ba’ath official tells Arab-Israeli reporter there is growing consensus among Syrian leadership for need to retaliate to reported Israeli violation of Syrian airspace Roee Nahmias A senior official in the ruling Syrian
Read More »Arabs push through nuclear vote against Israel
AFP Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution at the UN atomic agency clearly aimed at Israel, calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency
Read More »Southern US race row resonates across America
A protest against perceived injustice in a southern US town has brought tensions over racial equality in America to the surface again. Tens of thousands of people from across the country took part in
Read More »Reviewing Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and London Guardian that’s syndicated internationally by
Read More »YET another Senior aide quits Bush team
By Andrew Ward and Eoin Callan in Washington President George W. Bush lost another senior member of his administration on Thursday when Mike Johanns resigned as agriculture secretary. His departure deprives the Bush administration
Read More »U.S. Spy Chief: 9/11 ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
Director of National Intelligence Says U.S. Didn’t Connect Available Information By JASON RYAN and THERESA COOK (AP Photo) Six years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, the head of U.S. spy operations admitted
Read More »Bush calls for expansion of spy law
President Bush, right, accompanied by Raul Yanes, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary, waves as they leave the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007, as the president
Read More »Safer society or Big Brother state?
Marcel Berlins The Guardian The question we need to ask about the storing of DNA samples is the same as the one bedevilling our approach to identity cards, and stiff anti-terrorism legislation. Crudely, it
Read More »Is the mis-use of IT destroying our civil liberties?
This is a question that we all must think hard about because many Governments and private companies around the world are building up vast databases of personal data, biometrics and more. The UK Government
Read More »UK TV Documentary about surveillance and privacy needs YOU!
Are you concerned about government surveillance? Or do you think we’re heading for an Orwellian mass surveillance system? Firecracker Films are making a documentary about surveillance society and individuals increasing loss of privacy and
Read More »Calls grow for Bush war crimes trial
U.S. President George W. Bush will definitely be tried at an international tribunal, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in a sermon at this week’s Friday prayers in Tehran. The
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