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Archief voor Mei, 2008Het pentagoon versus AmerikaWoensdag, 7 Mei, 2008 Door Scott Ritter | Ik hoorde onlangs van een anti-war student die ik terwijl ik bij een universiteit in noordelijk Vermont sprak heb ontmoet. E-mail omvatte de volgende vraag: „Ik vertelde u over hoe ik een carrière rond sociaal activisme en het maken van een verschil wilde bouwen. U vertelde me dat één van de belangrijkste dingen moest maken…
De vrees van gegevens achtervolgt de kaartregeling van identiteitskaartWoensdag, 7 Mei, 2008 Door Teken Ballard | De Britse overheid is ervoor gewaarschuwd dat het het risico van gegevensverlies van zijn Regeling van de Kaart van de Identiteit zou moeten behandelen alvorens het verder gaat. De recentste gegevenswaarschuwing volgt herhaalde verzoeken van het Bureau van de Commissaris van de Informatie (ICO), de UK- gegevensbeschermer, dat de de Identiteit en Dienst van het Paspoort (IPS) een juiste beoordeling van de risico's… leiden
Pentagoon Gericht Iran voor de Verandering van het Regime na 9/11Woensdag, 7 Mei, 2008 Door Portier Gareth | Drie weken na de 9/11 verschrikkingsaanvallen, de vroegere V.S. Secretaresse van de defensie Donald Rumsfeld vestigde een officiële militaire doelstelling om niet alleen het regime van Saddam Hussein te verwijderen door kracht maar het regime in Iran, evenals in Syrië en vier andere landen in het Midden-Oosten, volgens een document ten val te brengen dat uitgebreid in toen Ondersecretaris wordt geciteerd…
Regering die wordt geplaatst om zijn eigen deskundigen te tarten en cannabis te bevorderenWoensdag, 7 Mei, 2008
Door Alan Travis | De Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Jacqui Smith, zal vandaag de gevaren van meer machtige spanningen van cannabis beklemtonen aangezien zij zou moeten medisch advies tarten door aan te kondigen dat de drug van klasse C aan klasse B. zal worden bevorderd.
Smith is expected to justify her decision by highlighting the strength of "skunk" strains of herbal cannabis ...
Nuns are turned away from Indiana pollsWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ...
FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowersWednesday, May 7th, 2008 AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio reported.According to the Journal, the agents seized computers and documents belonging to the head of the agency, Scott Bloch, and his ...
‘Torture memo’ author, former attorney general, to testifyWednesday, May 7th, 2008 AP | A former Justice Department lawyer who wrote a now-repudiated memo allowing harsh interrogations of military prisoners has agreed to testify to Congress about those practices, say House Judiciary Committee officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the panel has not yet made the announcement.John Yoo, now a law professor at University of California-Berkeley, has agreed to testify ...
The Surveillance Society Does Not WorkTuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
Government can’t be trusted with our personal informationTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Margaret Smith | WE have seen only recently just how incompetent the Government is at keeping our personal information secure. Last year, HM Revenue and Customs lost computer discs containing the personal information of about 25 million people, including their bank account details and National Insurance numbers.
This is on top of the DVLA in Northern Ireland losing the personal details of ...
ID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil libertiesTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Robert and Alison Bell | The indiscriminate invasion of our privacy and the related issue of six weeks' detention without charge are so serious and far reaching that we should be hammering at the doors of our local MPs, particularly Labour MPs, to insist that these bills are overturned. Every one of us should be exercising what is still our democratic ...
Iraqi alleges Abu Ghraib torture, sues US contractorsTuesday, May 6th, 2008 AP | An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a ...
Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows themTuesday, May 6th, 2008 Associated Press | An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
"The existing double standard shall not be tolerated anymore by non-nuclear-weapon states," Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a meeting of the 190 countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Nuclear safeguards are ...
US Navy Deploys Around Latin AmericaTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Lamia Oualalou | It's now official: The Pentagon is going to resuscitate its Fourth Fleet, with the mission of patrolling Latin American and Caribbean waters. Created during the Second World War to protect traffic in the South Atlantic, the structure was dissolved in 1950. "By reestablishing the Fourth Fleet, we acknowledge the immense importance of maritime security in this region," declared ...
Report: U.S. Not as ‘Free’ as ToutedTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Betsy Pisik | The U.S. political system is, at best, "a work in progress" according to an evaluation from the pro-democracy group Freedom House, which finds significant flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, counterterrorism strategies and the treatment of minorities and immigrants.
In a 300-page report, titled "Today's American: How Free?", to be released tomorrow, the group subjects the ...
CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say policeTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Owen Bowcott | Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain ...
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