Israel destroying homes of Palestinian BedouinsThe Israeli Interior Ministry ordered the demolition of more than 42,000 homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev desert.
Speaking at a session for the Israeli parliament's interior committee, Interior Minister, Roni Bar-On, claimed that all these buildings were "illegal" and warned that any new homes built in what Israel calls "unrecognized" villages in the Negev desert would be razed, the Palestinian Information Centre (PIC) reported.
Palestinian security sou... (more)
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Senate Banking Comm Member Denounces RFID Credit Cards A member of the Senate Banking Committee denounced RFID "no-swipe" credit cards at a press conference Sunday. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said contracts for the cards should have warning boxes disclosing "the known weaknesses of the technology." He cautioned cardholders about their vulnerability to identity thieves, commenting you "may as well put your credit card information on a big sign on your back."
"No-swipe" or "contactless" credit cards contain RFID microchips that com... (more)
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Can RFID Invade Your Privacy? "RFID in your underpants," said radio talk show host Keith Larson, and the comic accusation has stuck to privacy discussions about radio frequency identification ever since. As long as RFID tags were kept in the warehouse or distribution center, the public had no immediate need for concern. They were out of sight and out of mind, or underpants. RFID tags and their readers help identify with greater detail, and from a distance, thousands of pallets and cartons. Their use... (more)
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Carleton students bar anti-abortion groupsCarleton University's student council has voted to deny funding to campus anti-abortion groups.
A carefully worded policy amendment, passed on Tuesday night during a council meeting, also bars student groups with anti-choice mandates from council-managed spaces. "What we were speaking out against is those anti-choice behaviours that the majority of students feel are very discriminatory towards women," said Shawn Menard, president of Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA)... (more)
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Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial LawIt’s amazing what you can find if you turn over a few rocks in the anti-terrorism legislation Congress approved during the election season.
Take, for example, the John W. Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2006, named for the longtime Armed Services Committee chairman from Virginia.
Signed by President Bush on Oct. 17, the law (PL 109-364) has a provocative provision called “Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies.”
The ... (more)
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Hero of 9/11 won't stop speaking out against BushOne minute he was going about his business, the next he was looking at a vision from the depths of hell. Still reeling from a blast which rocked the World Trade Center, William Rodriguez could hardly believe what he was seeing."A man came running into the office shouting 'explosion, explosion!'" Mr Rodriguez soon saw a third of his body had been badly burnt by the blast. "When I realised, I started screaming. I looked at his face and it was missing parts."
It was the start of a da... (more)
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Say Hello to the Goodbye WeaponThe crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you've been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards -- and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is running too. In a few seconds, the street is completely empty.
You've just been hit with a new nonlethal weapon that has been certified for use in Iraq -- even though critics arg... (more)
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Another bloodbath in Lebanon?“The Lebanese government has nearly doubled the size of its security forces in recent months by adding about 11,000 mostly Sunnis and Christian troops, and has armed them with weapons and vehicles donated by the UAE, a Sunni state.” --Lebanon Builds Up Security Forces, Megan Stack, LA Times
“The army’s conclusion is that a war in the near future is a reasonable possibility . . . the IDF’s operative assumption is that during the coming summ ... (more)
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Democrat Senator Calls for 30,000 More Troops to be Sent into the Iraqi Meat GrinderAs the so-called Iraq Study Group “recommendations” hit the street, dubiously entitled “The Way Forward: A New Approach,” Texan Democrat, soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, has called for sending more “dumb, stupid animals,” as Henry Kissinger once fondly called our soldiers, into the Iraqi meat grinder.
Reyes “wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops,” according to Newswe... (more)
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Memo: Administration tried to cut payouts to nuke workersWASHINGTON — The Bush administration repeatedly sought ways to limit payouts to nuclear weapons workers sickened by radiation and toxic material, according to a memo written by congressional investigators and obtained by USA TODAY.
The investigation focuses on a federal program created in 2000 to compensate people with cancers and other illnesses tied to their work at government and contractor-owned facilities involved in Cold War nuclear weapons production. About 98,000 cas... (more)
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Penalty for unwrapping gifts early: ArrestA mother convinced Rock Hill police to arrest her 12-year-old son after he unwrapped a Christmas present early.
The boy's great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which she had wrapped and placed beneath the Christmas tree, according to a police report.
But on Sunday morning, she found the box of the popular handheld game console unwrapped and opened. When the boy's 27-year-old mother heard about the opened gift, she cal... (more)
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US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? Part 2 of 3: The DIME bomb, yet another genotoxic weapon“Horrific” wounds in Gaza may be warfare of the future
In early July, shortly after the beginning of Israel’s bloody military siege of the Gaza Strip, reports began to appear that Israeli forces were using a new weapon that inflicted strange and untreatable wounds, and significantly increased the death tolls of Israel’s attacks. [1] [2]
Italian investigators have reported evidence that the unidentified Israeli weapon is probably Dense Inert M... (more)
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Bring the civilians home now!The United States is now locked in a debate over when and how to bring its troops home from Iraq. However, these military forces are only the tip of the spear that the U.S. government has plunged into the heart of the Arab world. The political debate has failed to address the disposition of the principal instrument for the lasting imposition of American interests on the government of Iraq: the largest “embassy” in the diplomatic history of the world, now rising over the banks of the ... (more)
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'Students should face pre-exam security tests to stamp out fraud' Pupils taking exams should be forced to take biometric security tests to cut down on cheating, the exam watchdog said. A Government-backed report is recommending tougher measures such as fingerprint or retina scanning to prevent students drafting in friends to take exams in their place.
Exam boards are forced to disqualify candidates every year for passing off others as themselves in GCSE and A-level exams.
The report, commissioned... (more)
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O'Reilly: "Do I care if the Sunnis and Shiites kill each other in Iraq?"On the December 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, discussing the then-impending release of the Iraq Study Group's conclusions and reports that it would recommend substantial troop withdrawals by early 2008 (read report here), Bill O'Reilly claimed that the redeployment of U.S. troops is "necessary," adding, "I don't care" if "the Sunnis and Shiites kill each other in Iraq." O'Reilly then stated:... (more)
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East Texas authorities say informant fooled themAll charges are being dismissed in a high-profile drug roundup in East Texas after it turned out the key informant in the case made up a bunch of information, authorities said Monday.
Harrison County District Attorney Joe Black has dropped charges against 33 people arrested this past October in Operation Trick or Treat.
"Information came forward to our office that the informant utilized in this undercover operation had possibly misled and lied to officers during the... (more)
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Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News The New York Times (12/4/06), profiling new CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck, called him "brash" and "opinionated," with an "unfiltered approach." The conservative talk-radio host-turned-cable news announcer, the paper reported, "take[s] credit for saying what others are feeling but are afraid to say."
The Times mentioned one of the things Beck has said recently, to newly... (more)
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Ten Reasons To Impeach The President "The act of writing up Articles of Impeachment is not difficult. You just write them on a piece of paper," -US Rep. McKinney (D-GA)
Remember what Bill Clinton was impeached for when reading the following ten reasons why George W Bush should be impeached: North American Union, Amnesty program, Killing sovereignty
The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan Ameri ... (more)
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Gingrich Lies To Assault Free Speech Again Not content with last week's brazen attack on the First Amendment during a speaking engagement in New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich has swung another right hook in the direction of freedom of speech, by exploiting non-existent statements and Neo-Con propaganda as a reason for shutting down websites and gagging political dissent in America.
Unrepentant, the former Speaker of the House returns again to trash the sanctity of the First Amendment, this time in an a... (more)
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Police told me my cricket ball was 'a potentially lethal weapon'Like millions of other cricket fans, Chris Hurd was looking forward to the start of the Ashes. The 28-year-old's passion for the game was such that he carried a cricket ball as he went to watch the opening clash between England and Australia. But one policewoman certainly did not share his enthusiasm. She stopped the accountant to tick him off for holding a 'potentially lethal weapon' as he travelled on the London Underground.
Mr Hurd, who was wearing a sui... (more)
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Suicide of Beijing Resident Draws Attention to Housing Malpractices The protest-suicide of a Beijing resident in response to the Chinese government's intentions to demolish his home has sparked growing protests in the district, drawing attention to demolition practices.
According to an Radio Free Asia reporter, Mr. Zang Ruiqun, 58, living in Dongcheng District, Beijing, was a resident of a "rented housing unit" [1]. Under threat he would soon be forced to relocate to another place by the Office of Removal, he hanged himself in his home on Novembe... (more)
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Train scanners 'backed by public' Passengers are ready to accept airport-style security screening at certain railway stations, Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander has said.
A trial of X-ray body scanners and other machines will report shortly, Mr Alexander told MPs.
But he said initial findings suggested passengers "understood the need" for extra security.
The trials, at underground and railway stations in and around London, followed the 7 July bombings last year.
Randomly c... (more)
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Melanie Morgan: Muslims Guilty Until Proven Innocent Hate-mongering Melanie Morgan, who looks as though she hasn’t laughed in at least a year, was back to spread some more of her shrill, mean spirit on Hannity & Colmes last night (12/5/06) in at least the third H&C discussion about the six imams thrown off a US Airways plane a few days before Thanksgiving. Rather than offer any kind of understanding or sympathy for the plight of the imams, who were never charged with any crime, Morgan accused them of insensitivity toward their fellow passen... (more)
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