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Archive for April, 2008Wolfowitz: ‘The Occupation Of Iraq Ended In June 2004′Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 ThinkProgress | At a Hudson Institute event today, Iraq war architects Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith, as well as Dan Senor and Peter Rodman, reconvened to celebrate Feith’s new book, War and Decision, which tries to explain the failures of the Iraq war as just failures of other people.Wolfowitz said Feith’s book is "valuable" because it "demolishes" the ...
What the world thinks of Bush and his warTuesday, April 29th, 2008 After Downing Street | To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt ten-fold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundred-fold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize and yet when it comes to the greatest crime-waging war on another state-they praise it!
It ...
The Bush team’s Geneva hypocrisyMonday, April 28th, 2008 Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions' protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq war when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.
Then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush and other ...
US air force calls for mission to combat climate changeMonday, April 28th, 2008 By David Adam | The US air force will this week call for the world's top scientists to come together in a 21st-century Apollo-style programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming. It wants universities, governments, companies and environmental groups to collaborate on a multibillion-dollar effort to work out greenhouse gas emissions of existing and future fuels.
William Anderson, ...
A Million Palestinians Threatened with StarvationMonday, April 28th, 2008 The Israelis already have the Gaza Strip under military siege, carefully controlling what and who goes in and out of it. They have now cut off most fuel, and the United Nations has been forced to stop distributing food aid.
This Israeli government action is an unvarnished war crime. It is known as collective punishment. There was already hunger and malnutrition ...
Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finishedMonday, April 28th, 2008 AP | Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say.
The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort ...
Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less SafeMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an ArcelorMital plant in Steelton crushed Roger H. Prichard to death. He was 58.
It was April 18, three days before the Pennsylvania primary. It occurred just five ...
Use of Secret Spy Law is WidespreadMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Michael Howie | NEW spy laws are being used by Scottish councils to track people suspected of housing-benefit fraud, selling cigarettes to children and environmental-health offences. Campaigners are now calling for a "root-and-branch review" into the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), after the scale of its use by local authorities across the UK was revealed.
Ripa ...
The NSA, personal data and youMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long piece on the various ways ...
Facial recognition is same as tossing coinMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will gradually be replaced at UK airports by machines performing automatic facial recognition, comparing digital photographs to the data stored on passport chips.
Four years ago, the Home ...
The Sick Science Tobacco Companies PursueMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Scott Thill | Those who complain about how the internet or advances in technology haven't done enough to make us smarter or better may not truly remember what life was like before either. For one, digging up any type of public or private information took loads more work, especially when offending parties, from governments ...
Vote fraud threatens to wreak chaos on LondonMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Jill Sherman | The electoral system is close to breaking point and the mayoral and local elections on Thursday are vulnerable to large-scale fraud, Gordon Brown is warned today.
Efforts to improve turnout by increasing postal voting have raised the risk of fraud and undermined confidence in the electoral process, a damaging report from the Joseph Rowntree Trust concludes....
Blair thought Brown a liar, says LevyMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Patrick Wintour | The foreign secretary, David Miliband, warned yesterday that disloyalty to the prime minister would be fatal after a former Labour party fundraiser claimed that Tony Blair regarded Gordon Brown as a liar who has no chance of defeating David Cameron at the next general election.
The claims, made by Lord Levy in his autobiography, A ...
Insects using plants as telephonesMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Roland Piquepaille | A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. ‘Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.’ This means that by using ‘green telephone lines,’ the two kinds of insects can avoid ...
Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpiecesMonday, April 28th, 2008 The Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate 'favorable' war coverage for the Bush administration. According to The New York Times, the Defense Department had been giving information to retired military officers serving as pundits for various media organizations in a bid to garner favorable media coverage of the White House wartime performance.
"Analysts have been wooed in hundreds of ...
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