http://rinf.com/alt-news Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Fri, 09 May 2008 15:37:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman. Former Detective Gregg Junnier told a Fulton County jury that detectives would tell judges that they had verified their informants ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/general/officers-routinely-lied-to-obtain-search-warrants/3438/ By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the same message over and over and with diminishing results. That's how I felt after 8 months of silence after labeling the ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/business-news/will-the-mortgage-industry-pay-for-its-crimes/3436/ AP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issued the order after he had ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/judge-may-make-cia-torture-memo-public/3435/ By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge of setting telephone wiretaps on suspected drug dealers and mobsters for the FBI's ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/roots-of-surveillance-standoff-go-back-decades/3432/ By Gregg Zoroya | More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This reliance on troops found medically "non-deployable" is another sign of stress placed on a military that has ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/us-deploys-more-than-43000-unfit-for-combat/3430/ By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone Nargis were impounded by the military government. A spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said its food aid and equipment had been confiscated ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/general/un-suspends-aid-flights-after-burma-impounds-food/3428/ By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/media-news/bbc-kept-106000-of-charity-cash/3426/ By Nafeez Ahmed | I've already written about this in previous posts under the 'hidden holocaust' theme, but am prompted to re-address this issue given the way it's been dealt with by mainstream media and associated 'experts'. In today's Independent we see an eye-opening article revealing that amidst what is described ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/general/peak-food-blaming-the-victims/3424/ By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US human-rights organization, may have harvested the apples we eat at breakfast. Miguel picked ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/the-challenge-of-modern-slavery/3422/ BBC News | MPs should work together to agree a detention limit for terror suspects and ensure the matter is not a political football, a former MI5 chief has said. Ministers want to be able to hold suspects without charge for 42 days, rather than the current 28-days. The Conservatives, Liberal ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/ex-mi5-chief-warns-over-detention/3420/