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Archive for May, 2008Amnesty urges next US president to ban tortureWednesday, May 28th, 2008 AFP | Rights watchdog Amnesty International yesterday urged the next US president to close the “war on terror” prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, ban all forms of torture and stop propping authoritarian regimes.
In its annual report, Amnesty said it was crucial for the new US leader to restore America’s moral authority around the world following President George W ...
Ireland accused of failing on flight renditionWednesday, May 28th, 2008 RTÉ News | US assurances that Irish airports are not being used for rendition are not worth the paper they are written on, according to the Secretary General of Amnesty International.Speaking to RTÉ News on the publication of Amnesty's annual report, Irene Khan accused European countries like Ireland of failing to put in place safeguards against rendition.
Amnesty International says that despite ...
Brown: To Be More Than an Accessory to War CrimesWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Tariq Ali | Power can shape “truth”, but not for ever. That is one lesson that could be learned from the series of electoral defeats that mark the end of New Labour’s weightless hegemony. There is something grotesque about the daily denunciations of Brown by hard-core Blairites in Parliament and their media acolytes, who barely uttered a word of criticism as ...
UK ready to scrap killer cluster bombsWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Richard Norton-Taylor | The government is preparing to scrap Britain's entire arsenal of cluster bombs in the face of a growing clamour against weapons that have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent civilians.
Officials are paving the way for the unexpected and radical step at talks in Dublin on an international treaty aimed at a worldwide ban on the ...
Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs by $6 TrillionWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Geoffrey Lean | The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone. The oil economist Dr Mamdouh Salameh, who advises both the World Bank and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), told The Independent on Sunday ...
A Real Inside Job; AnthraxWednesday, May 28th, 2008 After Downing Street | Someone just pointed this out to me. FBI claims to be continuing anthrax investigation. They've narrowed it to "about four" suspects and "at least three" of them are from Fort Detrick.
FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks
By Catherine Herridge and Ian McCaleb, Fox News
Friday , March 28, 2008
WASHINGTON — The FBI ...
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Daniel Taylor | "...just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you... you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you... the ...
Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War CoalitionWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Tony Benn | The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead, many more than two million driven from their homes, the social and economic infrastructure shattered. In Afghanistan the US military is spending $65,000 a minute and there are four times as many air strikes than in Iraq.The occupations of ...
American Psychological Association Supports TortureWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Stephen Soldz | Since 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) has steadfastly asserted that psychologists participating in detainee interrogations protects detainees by helping to keep these interrogations "safe, legal, ethical, and effective." Last week, the APA's Ethics Director Stephen Behnke seized upon newly released portions of an official investigation of US detainee abuse, called the Church Report, as an opportunity to ...
Students Denied Legal AidTuesday, May 27th, 2008 SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly? Well then you’d be in disagreement with Judge Parsons (of Brighton magistrates). He’s just refused legal aid to seven students up in front of his bench for ‘aggravated tresspass’ (punishable by up to three months inside) on the grounds ...
Over 60% of People Do Not Trust the GovernmentMonday, May 26th, 2008
By Mick Meaney - RINF Breaking News | A poll conducted by the World Public Opinion (WPO) has found that over 60% of the population of Great Britain and the United States do not trust their governments. The poll showed that 67% of Brits have low levels of trust in the Labour Government while 60% of Americans feel the same way about the Bush Administration.
Overall ...
Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protestMonday, May 26th, 2008 Lorry drivers are to pour into London tomorrow for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the capital. Hauliers are angry at soaring fuel prices which have resulted in the average cost of diesel passing far beyond the 120p-a-litre mark.
Led by lorry drivers from Kent, the protest is expected to attract hundreds of hauliers from all around the ...
Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV camerasMonday, May 26th, 2008 By James Kirkup | Mr Davis told the Society of Conservative Lawyers that the widespread use of closed circuit television (CCTV) risks infringing civil liberties. He proposed new rules on the use of CCTV and penalties for people and bodies that use the cameras to invade the privacy of the public. He also promised measures to improve the quality of ...
Path Intelligence - Phorm for shopping centres?Monday, May 26th, 2008 Spy Blog | Just in case you thought that Phorm was the only threat to your privacy, here is an example of similar "no opt out" snooping technology being installed in the infrastructure of a public space, a shopping centre, which secretly snoops on individuals, without their informed prior consent, in the ...
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