AOL's Instant Message 'Tracking' Plug-In Concerns Police, Parents - TechnologyA new plug-in that allows users of American Online's popular instant messaging service to track and find the location of their buddies with Wi-Fi positioning technology has police and parents concerned, according to a Local 6 report.
"Police have a warning for parents, that there is a new technology on the market that makes it easier for predators to track your kids," Local 6's Kimberly Houk said.
The AIM location plug-in, powered by Skyhook Wireless, allows users t... (more)
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Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four YearsEach day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world -- field reports, captured documents, news from foreign allies and sometimes idle gossip -- arrive in a computer-filled office in McLean, where analysts feed them into the nation's central list of terrorists and terrorism suspects.
Called TIDE, for Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, the list is a storehouse for data about individuals that the intelligence community believes might harm the Unite... (more) Flashback: New Anti-Terror Training Manual Says ''Property Rights Activists'' Are Terrorists
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My National Security Letter Gag OrderIt is the policy of The Washington Post not to publish anonymous pieces. In this case, an exception has been made because the author -- who would have preferred to be named -- is legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity in connection with receipt of a national security letter. The Post confirmed the legitimacy of this submission by verifying it with the author's attorney and by reviewing publicly available court documents.
The Justice Department's inspector ge... (more)
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14-year-old girl shoves hall monitor and gets 7 years in prisonPARIS, Texas -- The public fairgrounds in this small east Texas town look ordinary enough, like so many other well-worn county fair sites across the nation. Unless you know the history of the place.
There are no plaques or markers to denote it, but several of the most notorious public lynchings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries were staged at the Paris Fairgrounds, where thousands of white spectators would gather to watch and cheer as black men were drag... (more)
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Ol’ Smedley knew a racket when he saw (and slew for) oneOn a picture-perfect St. Patrick’s Day morning, I heard that strangely seductive lament of bagpipes drifting through the open window of my downtown Sacramento apartment, a second-story unit right across the street from beautiful Capitol Park (an expanse of delightful urban greenery sullied only by the presence of the White Sepulcher of Corruption, otherwise known as the State Capitol, sitting smack dab in its middle).
Curious, I headed outside.
Spotting a size... (more)
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Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% humanChimera: sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells
Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and &p... (more)
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Onetime Raw Story freelancer arrested in Miami after photo shootMiami freelance reporter and photojournalist Carlos Miller, who has in the past written for RAW STORY, was arrested on the evening of Feb. 20, 2007 while photographing police at the scene of a car accident. On foot and allegedly carrying $10,000 worth of equipment, Miller was on assignment for an online news site called Category 305.
Miller says that he was “working on an article about the ongoing transition of Biscayne Blvd. from seedy motel strip to trendy urban cent... (more)
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Iran says British sailors 'confess' to illegal entryTEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran says the 15 British sailors and marines seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf have confessed to trespassing into Iranian territory, the semi-official FARS News Agency reported Saturday.
But the British Ministry of Defense would not confirm the report.
The British government said its request to communicate with the detained troops has not been granted by Iran.
Earlier Saturday, FARS reported that the sailors and marines -- incl... (more)
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Iran ‘to try Britons for espionage’FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.
A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.
Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that... (more)
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Bush vows to veto Iraq pull-out billThe US House of Representatives on Friday delivered its most stinging rebuke so far of the Iraq war when it attached conditions to a $124bn emergency funding bill that would force American combat troops to withdraw by 2008.
President George W. Bush, who said he would veto the bill in the unlikely event it reached his desk, dismissed the move as an act of “political theatre” by House Democrats that would delay the flow of vital resources to US troops in the ... (more)
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Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikesDocuments released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest.
A heavily redacted Department of Justice memo from late 2005 disclosed the prosecution guidelines for immigration offenses, numbers the federal government tries to keep classified. DOJ officials would not say Thursday whether it... (more)
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Getting Away With It: Rendition and Regime Change in SomaliaYesterday we wrote of the plight of a U.S. citizen who had fled the fighting during the Bush-backed invasion of Somalia only to find himself "renditioned" into the sinister prisons of the Ethiopian invaders – despite the fact that U.S. officials d... (more)
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9-Year-Old Canadian Citizen and Iranian Parents Arrive in Toronto After Six Weeks in Texas Immigration Jail After six weeks in a Texas immigration jail, a nine year-old Canadian citizen and his Iranian parents were released and allowed back into Canada last night. Canadian immigration authorities have granted the boy's parents temporary residency. We speak with their attorney. [includes rush transcript]
One month ago, Democracy Now! first covered the case of a nine-year-old Canadian boy held in a U.S. immigration jail along with his Iranian-born parents. Kevin Yourdkhani, his father Ma... (more)
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Subverting IranMuch attention has been given to the Bush Administration’s preparations for possible war against Iran as well as its drive to impose sanctions. Meanwhile, a less noticed policy has been unfolding, one that may in time prove to have grave consequences for the region. There is a covert war underway in Iran, still in its infancy, but with disturbing signs of impending escalation. In the shadowy world of guerrilla operations, the full extent of involvement by the Bush Administration has yet to... (more)
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Brits in the Gulf: Playing with Fire The seizure of 15 British naval troops in the Persian Gulf by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy has Washington hawks all aflutter. Anything these days could be a pretext to launch their much sought after attack on Iran. The Ahmadinejad government may also be eager to bolster its own internal political position by keeping tensions ratcheted up with the U.S. and Britain.
But let’s look at this incident as many Iranians probably view it.
First of all, though t... (more)
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Canadian Professor disputes official representation on 9/11Sometime in late 2005 I had a conversation -- quite a heated one, actually -- with an American dissident who said that 9/11 was obviously carried out by the U.S. government. I expressed some scepticism about this and he said that I obviously hadn’t done my homework and didn’t know the first thing about the issue. I realized after that conversation that he was actually right. I’d tinkered with the issue by reading long pieces on the internet late at night but I hadn&rsquo... (more)
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Bush Official Admits Guilt In Abramoff ScandalThe highest-ranking Bush Administration official to be criminally investigated in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal finally admits that he obstructed justice by concealing his unique relationship with the convicted lobbyist and repeatedly lying about it to senate investigators.
Former deputy secretary of the Department of Interior Steven Griles will plead guilty to felony obstruction of justice in a Washington DC federal court today, according to a major news organization. Gril... (more)
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£1,000 fines by ID card secret police A police force will be set up to issue £1,000 fines to anyone who fails to update their personal details on the Government's new database, it has emerged.
The unit, part of the Identity and Passport Service, is expected to send the penalties by post, after snooping through computer records.
Potential pitfalls include forgetting to tell the Government of a change of address or name, failing to notify officials of an er... (more)
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Blunkett is given job at identity card firmDavid Blunkett has taken a job advising a company interested in bidding to run Britain's controversial identity cards programme, a policy he was the architect of and championed in government.
The former Home Secretary took up the post for the Texas-based security firm Entrust, which specialises in securing digital information and combating identity theft, earlier this month. The firm already provides software for the Spanish national ID card system ... (more)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by 'War on Terror' The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America's psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us.
The damage t... (more)
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School 'spycam' plan will beat the vandalsBig Brother-style surveillance cameras are to be installed at a school in a bid to clamp down on vandalism and bad behaviour.
A huge new CCTV system is being lined up to watch over the sprawling 32-acre Henry Cort Community College campus.
Despite the refusal of school and county chiefs to discuss how the camera scheme could operate or how children’s privacy will be protected, parents have welcomed the move to install cameras as a ... (more)
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The Gutless Mini-Politics of the Congressional DemocratsDespite polls showing that 6 in 10 Americans want the U.S. out of Iraq asap, the best that this crew can come up with is a call-not binding, or course-for the president to pull out the troops by next spring or even summer. That would be over a year from now, and more than five years (!) into this criminal and incredibly stupid war.
At the rate things have been going, it would also be perhaps 1000 more dead Americans, 14,000 more gravely wounde... (more)
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