UK Police Conduct Hundreds Of Dawn Raids For Hate, Homophobic Crimes
BBCDec 01
Police have arrested 150 people during dawn raids across London to combat domestic abuse, race and hate crimes.

Five hundred Metropolitan Police officers took part in the raids as part of a two-week crackdown. Scotland Yard said the operation was designed to "put the fear back onto the offenders and encourage victims to report crimes to us".

More than 108,000 domestic violence incidents were reported in 2005/06, accounting for 20% of all ... (more)
Wave of raw sewage escapes treatment: Billions of litres dumped into Great Lakes annually from Canada, U.S., report says
Globe and MailDec 01
TORONTO -- The first comprehensive look at the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Great Lakes from cities in Canada and the United States has found that billions of litres are being dumped untreated every year into the sources of drinking water for communities on both sides of the border.

The largest discharges came from big cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto, where antiquated sewage treatment systems are regularly overwhelmed when it rains and their contents swept u... (more)
Threats To Internet Freedom All Too Real
Prison PlanetDec 01
The Internet is the last true unregulated outpost of freedom of speech but moves are afoot to stifle, suffocate and control the world wide web. These threats are not hidden nor are they hard to deduce and yet a significant minority of truth seekers and activists remain naive as to their scope.

Following our publication of yesterday's article, RIAA Legal Ruling Could Shut Down The Internet, we received a mixed response. Many were aware of the imminent d... (more)
Labour depending on 'politics of fear'
ePolitixDec 01
Labour will make itself unelectable by resorting to "the politics of fear", according to Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg.

Speaking at the Sovereign Debate in London on Wednesday, Clegg said the threat of terrorism had allowed the government to "rediscover legitimacy by corralling the electorate towards the strong, protective arms of the state".

But he said that relying on the politics of fear could be "an error as fatal ... (more)
Pale Fire & London Fog
Chris FloydDec 01
I. The Baron and the Billionaire

Everyone knows that Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was killed by radiation poisoning in London last month. But beyond that bare fact, almost nothing is clear about the case. The truth has disappeared, probably forever, into the shadowlands - that murky confluence of crime, violence, money and politics where so much of the real business of the world is conducted. However, an examination of some of the curiously overlooked aspects of the affair ... (more)
Three Christians in China Secretly Executed
The Epoch TimesDec 01
Xu Shuangfu, Li Maoxing and Wang Jun, leaders of the "Three Grades of Servants" underground church, were secretly executed for murder last week by the Chinese communist regime. Xu Shuangfu's attorney Li Heping received a phone call from the court and learned this news. This case was internally referred to as the "Thunder No. 1" big case within the Ministry of Public Security. This case has involved as many as 63 people. It started in March 2003, and spread to Shandon... (more)
Bush: Calls for Iraq Withdrawal Unrealistic
Washington PostDec 01
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 30 -- President Bush delivered a staunch endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Thursday morning and dismissed called for U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq as unrealistic, following a summit meeting in which the two leaders discussed speeding up the turnover of security responsibilities. "He's the right guy for Iraq," Bush said an a news conference in the Jordanian capital, as he stood next to a somewhat stiff and unsmiling Iraqi premier. ... (more)
Samples of Di’s driver belonged to a suicide victim
ZeeNewsDec 01
Officials investigating the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, have reportedly uncovered the identity of the suicide victim whose blood was mixed up with samples taken from her driver Henri Paul. It is now known that the blood, previously thought to be Paul's and which was used to prove the chauffeur was three times over the legal drink-driving limit, belonged to somebody else.

Forensic pathologist Professor Dominique Lecomte faces an investigation ... (more)
Death by Dust
Village VoiceDec 01

The highjacking of a nation: The auctioning of former statesmen & dime a dozen generals
Online JournalDec 01
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.”- - Justice Felix Frankfurter

It used to be the three branches -- legislative, the executive, and the courts -- that we considered the make-up of our nation’s federal government. And some would point to the press as a possible fourth branch, due to the virtue of its influence in shaping our policies. Today, more and more people have come to view corporate and foreign lobby fir... (more)
Gitmo Justice Is a Joke
Washington PostDec 01
The same legal scholars who established beyond doubt earlier this year that the vast majority of Guantanamo Bay detainees are not threats to our national security after all are back with comprehensive new findings -- again from our own military's official records -- that obliterate the main premise of the White House's efforts to block judicial review for the terror suspects being held in Cuba.

The Bush Administration has argued for years that whatever due process rights to which ... (more)
CIA: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
Counter PunchDec 01
According to Seymour Hersh's latest New Yorker shocker, the CIA has found no evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program. The White House, given a draft assessment in the fall, has been "hostile" to the agency's report. Now why would that be? Why no sighs of relief? Why no, "Thank you guys," and pats on the back for all their careful intelligence work?

I think the answer's obvious to anyone who's been paying attention. Dick Cheney and his neocon... (more)
Report: US Still Manipulating Iraq Intelligence
TruthOut.orgDec 01
The Department of Defense has exaggerated the readiness of Iraqi army and police forces, claiming 312,400 men have been "trained and equipped," a figure that is so wildly off the mark that the country will likely require the support of the US military well into 2010, according to two new reports.

The reports were drafted by Anthony Cordesman, a member of the bipartisan think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies and a renowned expert in Middle East issues and... (more)
McDonald's to patent . . . THE SANDWICH
The Truth Will Set You FreeDec 01
It never fails - EVERY TIME I think that corporate lawyers can't dream up anything more absurd than they already have, they prove, unequivocally, that I lack the gift of diabolical imagination.
McDonald's wants to own the rights to how a sandwich is made. The fast-food chain has applied for a patent relating to the 'method and apparatus' used to prepare the snack. ... (more)
Russian Official Says New U.S. Space Policy Will Lead to Military Confrontation
Mos NewsDec 01
A senior Russian space official sharply criticized an assertive new U.S. space policy signed by President George W. Bush, saying Wednesday that it would increase tension and could lead to military confrontation in space, The Associated Press news agency reports. In the first revision of U.S. space policy in nearly a decade, Bush signed an order earlier this year asserting the United States’ right to deny adversaries access to space for hostile purposes and saying... (more)
Lockheed Martin gains altitude with Army surveillance deal
Washington TechnologyDec 01
The latest tool being added to the warfighting efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan looks quite old-fashioned. Think weather balloons or blimps. But Lockheed Martin Corp.’s tethered aerostat surveillance systems, which are equipped with sensors for continuous surveillance, detection and communications for multiple missions, offer the Army and its soldiers a birds-eye view of the action in real-time.

The Bethesda, Md., company won a $77.5 million contract to ... (more)
Lawmakers say 9/11 Civil Liberties panel has no power
Raw StoryDec 01
Lawmakers from both parties are complaining about the powerlessness of the country's Civil Liberties Board, which was created in the wake of 9/11 upon the recommendation of the September 11 Commission, Congressional Quarterly is reporting. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been receiving information months after it has appeared in mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times.

Democrats and Republicans have complained about the Bu... (more)
Law lord attacks 'totalitarian' Bush regime
The TelegraphDec 01
A former law lord last night accused the Government of prosecuting a "lawless and outrageous" war in Iraq and condemned the Bush administration for behaving like a "totalitarian police state". Calling for troops to be pulled out of Iraq, Lord Steyn, in a lecture to the Bar Council's law reform committee, said it was "a black day for the rule of law" when Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, advised Tony Blair in 2003 that an invasion would be lawful. Lord Steyn, 74, s... (more)
Stolen cars in U.S., Mexico may be aiding terrorists
KHOU-TVDec 01
It is a crime that affects us all: car theft costs Americans $8 billion dollars a year. We all pay for it through higher insurance rates.

Authorities think some of that money and even the cars themselves may actually be aiding terrorists

If that’s not enough, 11 News learned there is a huge hole in the system that makes it even easier for the criminals

It happens thousands of times a year, another car vanishe... (more)
60 Russian Spies Operate in Britain — Lawmaker
Mos NewsDec 01
As many as 60 Russian spies are operating in Britain, virtually unchallenged by a domestic intelligence service preoccupied by the threat from Islamic extremism, a lawmaker told a debate on relations between Moscow and London, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Chris Bryant, a legislator with Tony Blair’s governing Labour party who convened and led the session, said Russian authorities had shown a “casual disregard” for the deaths of journalists critical o... (more)
Nike+ IPod = Surveillance
Wired NewsDec 01
If you enhance your workout with the new Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, you may be making yourself a surveillance target. A report from four University of Washington researchers to be released Thursday reveals that security flaws in the new RFID-powered device from Nike and Apple make it easy for tech-savvy stalkers, thieves and corporations to track your movements. With just a few hundred dollars and a little know-how, someone could even plot your running routes on a Google ma... (more)
Navy submariner will plead guilty in espionage case
The Virginian-PilotDec 01
NORFOLK - A Navy submariner accused of espionage and desertion has agreed to plead guilty next Monday before a military judge, forgoing a trial.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann was scheduled for a court-martial next week but will instead plead guilty in a Norfolk Naval Station court to some of the six charges against him, Weinmann's civilian attorney said Monday.

"Pre trial negotiations have been going on and have been met with some success," said the atto... (more)
UPDATE: AP Replies to New Claims Against Disputed Iraq Story
Editor & PublisherDec 01
NEW YORK The U.S. military and Iraqi officials continue to question a source for a widely publicized Associated Press story about six Iraqis being set on fire last Friday -- and AP continues to stand by it, with new developments today. The latest: A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior at a press conference today claimed that a key source in the original AP report was not a Baghdad police officer, as AP had declared. He also denounced press accounts based on a... (more)
China may make bloggers give ID
BBCDec 01
China is considering forcing internet users to provide their real names and ID card numbers when opening a blog. Advocates of the idea argue that blog anonymity has encouraged widespread libel and slander.

Opponents say blogging is flourishing for the very reason that people are free to express themselves.

China has one of the most repressive internet regimes in the world, censoring content and imprisoning some people for what they put on the ... (more)
Mystery surrounds F-16, pilot in Iraq crash
Stars and StripesDec 01
The pilot of an F-16 that crashed Monday in Iraq’s Anbar province is officially listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown, as defense officials confirmed that the plane — though not the pilot — was assigned to a squadron deployed to Iraq from New Mexico.

Pentagon officials have not confirmed broadcast reports and video and still images apparently showing the pilot’s body and parachute on the ground. The pilot’s body was apparently removed before U.S. ... (more)
Dollar slides as US business slows
Financial TimesDec 01
The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture. The euro rose 0.7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3247 by late afternoon in New York after data from Chicago purchasing managers indicated that business activity in the Midwest unexpectedly fell last month.

Sterling rose to its highest level against the dollar since its ejection from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992. T... (more)

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