Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture ChildrenJohn Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.
This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.
What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal pol... (more)
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Pupils Being Given 'Patriotism' Tests in Washington State SchoolsClick here to view the paper in high resolution.
Children in Washington State are being given 'Patriotism tests' which are completely unrelated to their studies. The paper gauges whether or not the student shows fealty to the power of the state and whether the student believes in the right to overthrow a corrupt government.
A reader from Washington State writes us to highlight a questionnaire pape... (more)
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Overheads take up to 1/3 of U.N. tsunami fundsNEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Up to about a third of the $590 million U.N. fund spent for the Indian Ocean tsunami relief may have gone to pay for overhead.
The Financial Times says its two-month investigation showed the money appears to have been spent on administration, staff and related costs. The $590 million was part of the United Nation's $1.1 billion disaster flash appeal.
The newspaper also found several U.N. agencies continue to refuse to disclose details of t... (more)
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Sterilized psychiatric patients get $450,000 in out-of-court deal: 'The Gov. agreed to make the payout without admitting anything wrong happened'VANCOUVER -- Nine women who were sterilized while psychiatric patients in Vancouver more than 35 years ago have received a total of $450,000 in an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit against the British Columbia government.
"It was the right time to settle these cases," Public Guardian Jay Chalke, who initiated the lawsuit on behalf of the women in 2001, said yesterday in a news release.
"Some of our clients died during these lengthy proceedings and we had to consi... (more)
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Madigan warns 18 gas station operators: Donate $1,000 to the Red Cross or get sued by the stateRelated: Red Cross Distributes Less Than 30 Percent of 9/11 Donations
Related: The Red Cross money pit
SPRINGFIELD -- Donate $1,000 to the Red Cross or get sued by the state.
That's the stark choice Attorney General Lisa Madigan has given 18 gas station operators across Illinois to make amends for alleged price-gouging afte... (more)
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The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret': No Vaccines, No AutismCHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.
"We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken ... (more)
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The anthrax vaccine: New questions, weak dataRelated: Anthrax Vaccine Troop Experiences: A cure worse than the disease
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Pentagon never told Congress about more than 20,000 hospitalizations involving troops who'd taken the anthrax vaccine, despite repeated promises that such cases would be publicly disclosed.
Instead, a parade of generals and Defense Department officials told Congress and the public that fewer than 100 people were... (more)
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TiVo Files Patent For RFID Video Recoder Based On Implant ChipTiVo Inc. has filed a patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month that suggests company inventors believe radio frequency identification (RFID) technology will become inserted into clothing, jewelry, key chains, and even under the skin in the body.
Whether TiVo actually decides to build in the feature, the patent is for a personal video recorder (PVR) that recognizes viewer preferences through an RFID chip embedded in clothing, jewelry or "inserte... (more)
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New Video Game where players 'fight FOR the new world order'The popular video game Battlefield2 has a new expansion pack called "Special Forces" coming out soon. When the game comes out on November 22nd, players can look forward to fighting FOR the new world order! From the EA Games description:
Special Forces lead the way in the secret war for control of the world's most strategic locations. The first Expansion Pack* to Battlefield 2 takes all-out modern warfare behind the scenes for the battles you don't see on the nightly news. Beco ... (more)
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New York's HIV experiment: Using Children As Guinea PigsHIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.
Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.
But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.
"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of th... (more)
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ALERT: EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orphans & Mentally Handicapped ChildrenSend a letter to EPA here!
Public Comment Period Closes
December 12, 2005
Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing o... (more)
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Brave New World of Tesla TechnologyBy Sara Summers & Vic Taylor - [In our October 2005 issue of AFV, we brought our readers startling news about weather manipulation. Now, by popular demand, our writers have complied a “how it is done” article. Please keep in mind that while the authors are not scientists, they have worked hard to bring you the information currently available.]
A "new" kind of electromagnetic (EM) wave began development and testing over 30 years ago (originally discovered by Nikola Tesla) in the em... (more)
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Wall Street's 'Brainwashing Machine': 10 psychological strategies controlling your mindLOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Warning folks: Wall Street's "Fabulous Brainwashing, Mind-Control, Propaganda & Hype Machine" is in full swing. Call it the "Brainwashing Machine" for short. And you're the target. They want your money. As much as they can skim.
Wall Street controls $8.4 trillion of your retirement money through the mutual fund industry. For every 1% they can skim, they stick another $84 billion in their greedy pockets. How do they do it? Very easy. Psychological trick... (more)
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Ritalin: The Cover-up of SuicidesFrom the depths of the archives at the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) some astonishing papers have emerged. Papers showing that Ritalin, prescribed to children with the diagnosis ADHD, causes depression and has led to suicides and suicide attempts.
The MPA knew about these disastrous effects when approving Ritalin for sales in Sweden June 15 this year. No warnings were given to physicians or the public.
FDA announced June 28 that Ritalin and other methylpheni... (more)
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The Ringworm Children: How the Israeli Government Irradiated 100,000 Israeli KidsOn August 14, at 9 PM, Israel's Channel Ten television screened a documentary film which exposes the ugliest secret of Israel's Labor party founders: the deliberate mass radiation poisoning of nearly all Sephardi youths of a generation.
"The Ringworm Children" (translated in Hebrew as "100,000 Rays"), directed by David Belhassen and Asher Hemias, recently won the prize for "best documentary" at the Haifa International film festival, and in the past year has made the rounds of Jewi... (more)
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Chase Rolls Out RFID Credit Cards in N.Y. and PhiladelphiaJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said Thursday that it has begun rolling out its contactless credit cards, known as "blink," in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. To use the blink cards, customers wave the card near a reader at the checkout line. The reader emits a tone and lights up to signal payment confirmation.
Chase is delivering the cards, which use a radio-frequency identification chip, to two million customers in the New York metropolitan area and 900,000 customers i... (more)
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U.S. Alters Test Policy On Psychiatric DrugsThe government will back down from a plan to require long-term studies of new psychiatric drugs before allowing them on the market, regulators said yesterday.
The reversal of the recently adopted policy came after a panel of experts unanimously recommended against requiring such studies as a condition of approval. While such studies are needed, the experts said, delaying decisions on new medications would hurt patients.
The panel's vote came after it heard a barrage... (more)
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How toxic is your bathroom?: Be warned: your daily beauty regime could be taking years off your life. Pat Thomas reports on the chemical timebomb in your cosmetics cabinetEarlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did something amazing. It issued an unprecedented warning to the cosmetics industry that it was time to inform consumers that most personal care products have not been safety tested.
Where the US goes, the UK inevitably follows. If the FDA starts the ball rolling by flexing its muscles, it is possible that in the not too distant future 99 per cent of personal care products could be required to carry a caution on the labe... (more)
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Flashback: Scientists find way to make us slavesALDOUS HUXLEY may have got it right. In Brave New World, his classic futuristic novel, the author envisaged a society divided into castes from Alpha at the top to Epsilon at the bottom.
The Epsilons were content to plod on with tedious tasks, their brains numbed by drugs. Until now this has been the stuff of science fiction.
However, experiments conducted on rhesus monkeys have shown for the first time that animal behaviour can be permanently altered, turning the su... (more)
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Flashback: DARPA seeks to create cyborg servant racePopular Mechanics: Can an electronic device replace damaged brain circuits?
by Michael Rosenwald
In a few months, researchers at the University of Southern California will test the world's first prosthetic brain part. Biomedical engineer Theodore Berger has created a 2 mm-wide silicon chip that he hopes will one day substitute for damaged or diseased brain regions, holding promise for victims of Alzheimer's disease, stroke and other brain traumas.
Berger engi... (more)
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Super-soldiers may get brain-chipUS military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
Scientists believe the implant will vastly improve the memory of troops so that they can recall every detail of their training and become more effective fighters.
Researchers at the University of Southern California's bio-engineering department have created the chip, which acts in exactly the same way a... (more)
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Open season on DNA may not be far awayWant to keep your DNA out of the hands of the government? Think your DNA is too private to be forced to give to government bureaucrats to analyze, catalog, share, retain indefinitely and possibly abuse? Tough luck.
If Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Mark Green (R-Wis.) have their way, every person in this country who has the misfortune of being arrested for any federal offense, or merely "detained" by the federal government, will be forced to give a DNA sample to the government, t... (more)
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Traffic violators face ID theft check: 'If they don't want to give the print, they're going directly to jail. Period.'Motorists cited for criminal traffic violations will have to give their thumbprint to Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies or go to jail.
"This will be mandatory. No exceptions," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Wednesday. "If they don't want to give the print, they're going directly to jail. Period."
Arpaio launched the new policy Wednesday across the Valley, expanding and toughening a pilot program in which motorists pulled over for routine traffic stops were asked to volunt... (more)
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ID cards will lead to 'massive fraud'Key points
• Microsoft warned the scheme could generate a massive amount of ID fraud
• May be a Commons rebellion over whether the bill should get a 3rd reading
• It is proposed the ID cards will carry 13 personal identifiers, such as iris scans and finger prints
Key quote
"Unlike other forms of information, such as credit card details, if core biometric details such as your fingerprints are compromised, it is not going to be possible to provide you wit... (more)
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EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser printsMany color laser printers hide information about your printer's serial number and the date and time of your print job in every job you print. It's believed that this is done to get your equipment to incriminate you without your knowledge. Now EFF has decoded the information-hiding scheme on the Xerox Docucolor series, by getting EFF supporters to print out pages from their printers and mail them to our researchers, who examined them under magnification and special light and cracked the code.
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Drivers face 24-hour spy camerasA network of hi-tech cameras capable of tracking the movements of every car could become a feature of cities across Britain.
The North East is set to become the first region to introduce a controversial system which automatically records information about every vehicle passing through Newcastle and the surrounding area.
The scheme, which has provoked a heated debate with critics saying it smacks of Big Brother tactics and raises questions about individual freedom, c... (more)
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Tagged From Day One: Verichip's 'Hugs and Kisses' infant protection systemCrittenton Hospital Medical Centre, has activated two high-tech systems that will improve the safety and care of patients as well as information access for visitors with the assistance of CareTech Solutions, a Michigan-based provider of information technology and healthcare information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals and health systems.
In the hospital's pediatrics and mother-baby units, an advanced system has been implemented for ensuring the safety of babies, helping to... (more)
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DHS and AOL: An Unholy AllianceWashington- The American-based internet giant, AOL, wholly-owned by Time-Warner, has formed a working partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to permit unlimited surveillance of the millions of AOL online members, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
“AOL works ‘closely with the DHS’ to supply information on any AOL customer and allows agents from these entities ‘free and unfettered’ access to AOL Hq at Dulles, VA for the purpose of ‘watchi... (more)
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Welsh police chief reveals his goals: 100 percent coverage by surveillance, speed cameras and roadside jail cells for immediate incarceration of driversWe are running a little late to meet Richard Brunstrom, Britain’s most senior traffic rozzer, commonly known as the speed-camera mad mullah. And so the officer behind the wheel of the panda car taking us to our rendezvous does what any responsible professional would — he floors it.
I feel bad mentioning this — well, the young driver might now face a Taliban-style stoning for driving at 78mph down a clear motorway — but when I put it to Brunstrom that those of us who nudge a little... (more)
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