Wireless technology made me sickIt is the hi-tech tool that has revolutionised home and office alike - but a growing band of campaigners claim wi-fi is a major threat to health.
Sufferers say the electro-magnetic waves emitted by wireless computer networks - wi-fi - leave them feeling exhausted, nauseous and sleepless.
Author Kate Figes, spent hundreds of pounds installing wireless internet in her Stoke Newington home, then found it made her so ill she had to scrap it.
Ms Figes, 49... (more)
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Feingold Considers Habeas Corpus Hearings ONALASKA, Wis. — U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold admitted Monday he’d have to seriously think about it if asked to be a presidential running mate.
But Feingold’s flirtation with the White House has given way to renewed enthusiasm for life in the Senate, now that there’s a Democratic majority.
At a listening session in Onalaska City Hall, Feingold talked enthusiastically about chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Con... (more)
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Baghdad car bombings 'kill 160' A wave of car bombs and mortars in Baghdad's Sadr City district has left about 160 people dead and more than 200 injured, Iraq police have said.
It was the most devastating series of attacks in Iraq's capital in a single day since the US-led invasion in 2003.
The bombings in Sadr City were followed by mortar attacks on Sunni areas.
The Iraqi authorities have put Baghdad under curfew and closed the airport, and Iraqi PM Nou... (more)
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Cancer chemical in street cocaine Cocaine's street price is falling as it is being cut with carcinogenic painkiller phenacetin, police say.
The warning from the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) comes as new figures are released detailing the use of Class A drugs in the UK.
Drugs like cocaine are now responsible for a £15bn annual bill in social and economic costs, says the Home Office.
And separate figures suggest Britons consume more cocain... (more)
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Biotech firm blames farmers, act of God for rice contaminationBayer CropScience says rice farmers and an "act of God" are to blame for the contamination of local rice crops with an unapproved genetically modified strain -- contamination that led to class action lawsuits filed in federal court in Missouri.
The company, based in Research Park Triangle, N.C., cited those reasons in a response to a lawsuit filed earlier this year after contaminated crops were discovered this summer.
"First, you have to understand that genetically ... (more)
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Couple accidentally dials 911, hangs up -- Police respond by breaking their door down, threatening them with tasers, breaking their ribs, and forcibly jailing themNORTH VANCOUVER - A North Vancouver couple has complained to District of North Vancouver council and said they will sue the North Vancouver RCMP after officers responded to their hang-up 911 call by breaking down their door, making a forceful arrest and jailing them overnight when the couple refused to allow a house-search.
The RCMP said, however, that in this case, federal policy commands a home-check, designed ... (more)
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Fox News Trumpets Pentagon Spy Drones Listening In On Americans On yesterday morning's FOX & Friends Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade announced that a Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) had flown across the United States. "It's the first time anywhere in the United States that one of these big things has flown on an official air combat command mission," Steve Doocy noted. Brian Kilmeade followed up: "Well, you know what? I love it. They gotta be listening in, listening to the right people. If they're listening ... (more)
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UCLA officers allowed to use tasers for "pain compliance"The University of California Los Angeles, where an investigation into the use of a Taser gun against a student is under way, appears to be the only UC campus that allows officers to stun noncombative suspects as well as those putting up a fight.
Police at six of the 10 UC campuses carry Taser guns. Most are restricted to only using the guns against violent suspects, according to interviews with top UC law enforcement officials.
UCLA's police rules, however, allow of... (more)
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Police: Shooting Of Elderly Woman "Tragic, Unfortunate"ATLANTA -- Three Atlanta police officers were shot and wounded and an elderly woman killed at a house in northwest Atlanta Tuesday night.
The woman, identified by relatives as 92-year old Kathryn Johnston, opened fire on the officers from the narcotics division at a house at 933 Neal Street, according to officials.
Atlanta Police Asst. Chief Alan Dreher said at a news conference Wednesday that an undercover officer made a drug purchase at Johnston’s address la... (more)
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Bush’s Defeated Foe: US Civil Liberty George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the President and Vice President were the basis for a foreign policy of war and aggression, and in which indefinite detention without charges, torture, and spying on citizens without warrants have displaced the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution?
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Blair is wildly exaggerating the threat posed by terrorismWhat is it about a desert that drives men mad? On Monday morning the prime minister stood on the Afghan sand and said: "Here in this extraordinary piece of desert is where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided."
Tony Blair was talking to soldiers he had sent to fight the toughest guerrillas on earth for control of southern Afghanistan. He told them: "Your defeat [of the Taliban] is not just on behalf of the people of Afghanistan but the people... (more)
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Olmert and the Baker Boys It’s a nightmare scenario for Olmert and the neocons.
James Baker, the consiglieri of the Bush crime family, brings Syria and Iran to the table and they hammer out an understanding on Iraq and, horror stacked upon horror, “some kind of long-term Israeli-Arab diplomatic agreement,” as the Jerusalem Post puts it.
Of course, the folks who run Israel, and their neocon helpers, don’t want a diplomatic agreement, as they are viscerally... (more)
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Missing presumed tortured More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?
Sana'a, Yemen. By the gates of the Old City, Muhammad Bashmilah was walking, talking, and laughing in the crowd - behaving like a man without a care in the world. Bargaining with the spice traders and joking with passers-by... (more)
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Area activists spied on Sacramento peace protesters were targeted by a widespread domestic spying operation in which the Pentagon monitored anti-war groups across the country, newly released government documents show.
The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and made public Tuesday, detail entries made into the Pentagon's Threat and Local Observation Notice database dating back to November 2004, when two local groups protested at the Military Entrance Processin... (more)
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Israeli forces move into two Gaza townsIsraeli troops, tanks and armoured vehicles today moved into two towns in northern Gaza, but the Israeli security cabinet decided against a larger offensive.
A gunman from the Hamas group had been killed and three teenage Palestinian girls wounded by Israeli fire outside a school, Palestinian hospital officials said.
The Israeli army said one soldier was wounded after an anti-tank rocket hit him in what Palestinians described as a ferocious gun battle.
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Police to fingerprint on streets Motorists who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people's identities.
A hand-held device being tested by 10 forces in England and Wales is linked to a database of 6.5m prints.
Police say they will save time because people will no longer have to go to the station to prove their identity.
Officers promise prints will not be kept on file but conc... (more)
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Child database 'will ruin family privacy' Parents will be devalued and family privacy shattered by the mass surveillance of all 12 million children in England and Wales, says a report today commissioned by Parliament's Information Commissioner.
In what is likely to be a major embarrassment to Tony Blair, it says proposals for a £224 million database containing details of every child will waste millions of pounds, undermine parental authority and actually put children in more danger.
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China Admits Selling Prisoners' Organs For the first time, the Chinese government has admitted selling the organs of executed prisoners for profit, a gruesome business it had denied for years.
Speaking at a national conference of transplant surgeons in Guangzhou last week, Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu admitted, "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," according to the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper... (more)
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Amnesty International Accuses Russian Police of Systematic Torture The Russian police and the courts received a dim appraisal in a report on torture in jails and police stations issued Tuesday by Amnesty International.
The report, quoted by the New York Times daily, documented 114 cases where suspects were beaten to get them to sign confessions.
The 30-page study focused on the bread-and-butter work of the Russian criminal justice system, not on high-profile or politically tinged crimes.
It concl... (more)
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The first remarkable close-up pictures of animals in the wombAn unborn elephant, tiny but perfect in every way. A dolphin swimming in the womb, just as it will have to swim in the ocean the moment it is born. An unborn dog panting. Each one amazing and now, thanks to these remarkable pictures, they can be seen for the first time.
Using an array of technology, the images reveal what until now has been a secret - exactly how animals develop in the womb. They were created by the same team who in 2004 showed how human embryos "walk in the wom... (more)
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NYPD Installs "Sky Watch" In Harlem NeighborhoodThe NYPD has installed a patrol tower in a Harlem neighborhood in an effort to cut crime in the high-risk neighborhood.
The two-story booth tower, called Sky Watch, gives the officer sitting inside a better vantage point from which to monitor the area. Officers in the booth have access to a spotlight, sensors, and four cameras. The tower is portable and can be moved to the areas that need it most.
Residents in Harlem say they like the idea, though some wonder if the... (more)
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The Zarqawi affair, part 17 of 23“This logic of extermination of a society and culture was inbuilt in the process since March 2003. In fact, the systematic annihilation of 2-3 percent of the entire Iraqi population, according to a study by The Lancet, not to mention the 1 million people displaced since March 2003, follow the more than 500,000 children who died during the 1990s as victims of United Nations sanctions. Iraq has been systematically destroyed for more than 15 years, non-stop.” --Brazilian writer Pablo Es... (more)
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Usurpation of Power: The 2007 Defense Authorization Act and the "Reform" of the Insurrection Act of 1807Messages are circulating on the Internet that raise an alarm over a provision of the FY2007 Defense Department Authorization Act (PL 109-364) that expands presidential discretion to declare martial law and to federalize the National Guard in case of insurrection.
The first to raise the subject was Senator Patrick Leahy (VT). On September 19th, 2006, and again on September 29th, 2006, he decried this expansion of presidential power previously restricted by the Insurrection Act of 1... (more)
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Judge: FBI must correct disclosures on evacuation of Saudis after 9/11 A U.S. district court judge has ordered the FBI to correct disclosures regarding the US government's evacuation of Saudi royals and bin Laden family members after the September 11 attacks in 2001, a conservative watchdog organization announced today.
"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the District ... (more)
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Video: Big Brother - Big Business Every day technologies are being used to monitor Americans with unprecedented scrutiny -- from driving habits to workplace surveillance. Shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; Internet searches are monitored and used as evidence in court.
It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it's the government that's using it. ... (more)
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Four Were Framed With The FBI's HelpBOSTON -- When a flurry of gunshots ended Edward "Teddy" Deegan's misspent life more than 40 years ago, there should have been no mystery about who pulled the trigger.
FBI agents had been listening to the murder plot unfold for five months through a microphone hidden in a mob office and through reports from informants. They knew that Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi and Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, two hoodlums the bureau was recruiting as informants, were behind the conspiracy.
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Danger: assassins at work Imagine you were a foreign power that wanted to get rid of a dissident who had set up home in London. Would you a) push the trouble maker under a bus, b) have him mown down by a hit-and-run driver or c) arrange for him to be poisoned while eating in a crowded restaurant?
If you wanted to make the death look natural, or just to keep things simple, you would presumably avoid the restaurant scenario. And yet, if many Russia-watchers are to be believed, the co... (more)
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