The Temporal IllusionWe’re at the brink of the police state, the Orwellian 1984 surveillance and control society, and on top of this horror there seems to be an environmental disaster approaching. All kinds of bad things seem to be happening in the not so distant future.
The war on drugs seems to be losing, it might not work as good as we thought and if we don’t do anything about it, it might fail. The war on terrorism seems hopeless; no matter how much money is spent, how many laws are en... (more)
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Water into fuel?Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis.
He was looking for a cure for cancer.
Four years ago, inspiration struck in the middle of the night. Kanzius decided to try using radio waves to kill the cancer cells.
His wife Marianne heard the noise and found her husband inventing a radio frequency generator with her pie pans.
"I got up immediately, and thought he had lo... (more)
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Proxy WarsI suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. The last seven years of this administration have created and exposed so many global problems that it is virtually impossible to keep track. The mainstream media is still demonstrating complicity by not reporting the truth of the horrific violence we are witnessing all over the world, and it’s very easy for critical events to escape our notice.
The primary reason for this of ... (more)
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The late Glen Davis was no ordinary philanthropistGlen W Davis, the reclusive environmental philanthropist found mysteriously shot to death in a Toronto parking garage May 18, was no ordinary businessman.
His wealth was inherited from his father, Nelson M Davis, who died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 72, when he was one of the richest men in Canada, and every bit the recluse his son turned out to be.
Nelson Davis was chair and president of NM Davis Corporation, his own secretive energy and mining investme... (more)
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Net taxes could arrive by this fallThe era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful.State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail.
At the moment, states and munic... (more)
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Humans hard-wired to be generousWASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- A study by government scientists in Washington indicates humans are hard-wired to be unselfish.
Neuroscientists Jorge Moll and Jordan Grafman of the National Institutes of Health say experiments they conducted have led them to conclude unselfishness is not a matter of morality, The Washington Post reports.
Rather, the two say altruism is something that makes people feel good, lighting up a primitive part of the human brain that usually r... (more)
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Lawsuit: FBI extorted false confessionHUNTINGTON, W.Va., May 25 (UPI) -- A former U.S. university student has sued the FBI, claiming that agents coerced her into confessing she killed another student on a trip to South Korea.
Kenzi Noris Elizabeth Snider was tried and acquitted in Seoul in 2003 on charges of killing Jamie Lynn Penich. Snider, of St. Cloud, Minn., a student at Marshall University in West Virginia, and Penich, a University of Pittsburgh student, were touring South Korea with other students in 2001.
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'CIA Torture Program Ensnares Innocents' The names Khaled El Masri, Moazzam Begg, Binyam Mohammad, and Maher Arar may not sound familiar to most people. But they are among the hundreds of people, many of whom have no proven ties to terrorist organizations, who since 1997 have been removed from airports on suspicions based at times on the flimsiest of evidence. They have been escorted away at boarding gates, grabbed while they changed planes, and approached on street corners. Those accused disappeared into a secret world of endless int... (more)
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Republican Candidates Employ “al-Qaeda” Fairy TalesLike paranoid schizophrenic neglecting his meds, Senator John McCain tells us Osama will get us if the United States pulls out of Iraq.
“In the May 15 Republican debate in South Carolina, Senator John McCain of Arizona suggested that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would ‘follow us home’ from Iraq—a comment some viewers may have taken to mean that bin Laden was in Iraq, which he is not,” reports the Boston Globe.
Indeed, Osama i... (more)
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Less Than 0.01% Of Homeland Security Cases Are Terrorism RelatedRecords obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act show that only 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were terrorism related, despite the fact that the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that it is the primary focus of the DHS.
A report issued Sunday by independent research group The Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse... (more)
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Wounds run deep for children of Iraq warBAGHDAD: The day his mother and brother died is permanently one that eight-year-old Iraqi Ziad Irhaima will never forget, as the cauterised stump of one of his arms serves as a permanent reminder. Irhaima’s lost family members are only two of the countless and largely anonymous victims of the more than four years of bloodshed that has convulsed Iraq and inflicted deep and lasting wounds on its children.
The UN children’s fund Unicef has called for an additional $42 mil... (more)
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Top General underestimates Iraq War fatalities in Memorial Day media appearance The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff dramatically underestimated the number of deaths of US Armed Service-members in the Iraq War. The gaffe came as General Peter Pace appeared on CBS News Monday morning to discuss Memorial Day.
"When you take a look at the life of a nation and all that's required to keep us free, we had more than 3,000 Americans murdered on 11 September, 2001. The number who have died, sacrificed themselves since that time is appro... (more)
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Labour's council tax snoopers have snapped 1.3 millions pictures of homes Council tax snoopers have taken more than 1.3million pictures of homes to calculate if their owners should be paying higher bills, official figures revealed.
Government inspectors have taken the photographs of 823,000 properties over the past two years and stored them on an electronic database.
If they show homeowners have added value to their property, such as by building a conservatory, they could be forced to pay more council tax.
Critics said the... (more)
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Labour turmoil over new police powers The final days of Tony Blair's premiership were in disarray last night as plans to give police "draconian" powers to stop and question people provoked open dispute among Cabinet ministers.
The new anti-terror powers, now under consideration by the Home Office, emerged as Mr Blair warned that the civil liberties of the suspect had wrongly been placed before the safety of the public. Within hours of the plans being leaked, Peter Hain, the Northern Ire... (more)
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Why I Am Leaving the Democratic PartyDublin, Ireland
Dear Democratic Congress,
Hello, my name is Cindy Sheehan and my son Casey Sheehan was killed on April 04, 2004 in Sadr City , Baghdad , Iraq . He was killed when the Republicans still were in control of Congress. Naively, I set off on my tireless campaign calling on Congress to rescind George's authority to wage his war of terror while asking him "for what noble cause" did Casey and thousands of other ... (more)
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Man wrongly jailed for three years charged £7,000 by Home Office for 'board and lodging'Wrongly jailed after a woman cried rape, Warren Blackwell applied for compensation for his three wasted years in prison.
Torn from his family and sent to languish in jail as a convicted sex attacker, the innocent father-of-two imagined he was due a hefty sum for the miscarriage of justice.
Instead, he was flabbergasted to learn the Home Office now intends to charge him nearly £7,000 for "board and lodging".
The money is for the cost of food and ... (more)
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Google super-brain to harvest human behaviour Internet search giant Google is planning to build the world’s most powerful human database computer that will one day not only be able to log but also it will predict our every move.
The worlds most powerful search database has announced plans to build the database with full backing from the US government. It is the biggest Orwellian style threat to civil liberty and a threat to human privacy ever conceived and many are saying that this sort of syste... (more)
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Civil rights fears over DNA file for everyone Civil liberties groups are warning that the details of every Briton could soon be on the national DNA database, raising fresh concerns of a 'surveillance society'. Controversial plans being studied by the government would see the DNA of people convicted of even the most minor, non-imprisonable offences, such as dropping litter, entered on the national database.
The proposals are part of a wide-ranging government review of the Police and Criminal Evidence A... (more)
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Ron Paul, Rising Political StarA star had just been born when, a day after the May 15 Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, I met Texas Representative Ron Paul for lunch on Capitol Hill. The meeting had been scheduled for several days; but, as luck would have it, the previous night Paul had gone from an oddball obscurity to a major sensation in the political world when, answering a question about September 11, he seemed to suggest that the attacks were justified by an aggressive U.S. foreign policy in the Middle E... (more)
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US economy overtaken by EU, Japan The Organization for Economic Development has said that economic growth in other rich countries has overtaken the United States this year.
The OECD says that world growth is being led by Europe and Japan, which is compensating for a US slowdown.
Growth in Germany has been stronger than expected, and is projected to be 2.9 percent this year, down from 3 percent in 2006.
Overall, the rich countries in the OECD are expected to grow by 2.7 percent in both... (more)
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Pentagon reaffirms U.S. right to deny adversaries use of spaceWASHINGTON, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - The United States has the inherent right of self-defense to protect its national interests in space and can deny its adversaries the use of hostile space capabilities, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.
"The United States views purposeful interference with its space systems as an infringement on its rights and will take actions necessary to preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space including denying, if necessary, ... (more)
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Bush Pens Dictatorship Directive, Few Notice It is hardly surprising not a single corporate newspaper reported the death of the Constitution. Go to Google News and type in “National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive” and hit enter. Google returns ten paltry results, not one from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or related corporate media source. Google Trends rates the story as “mild,” that is to say it warrants nary a blip on the news radar screen. Of course, another death blow to the C... (more)
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