On the Heels Of Death Threats Coming Out Of Washington, WTC Janitor Has Jersey City Apartment BurglarizedComing on the heels of reports today that government operatives are trying to assassinate someone highly critical of the Bush administration, William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who has been speaking out across the nation about a 9/11 government conspiracy, came home to find his Jersey City apartment burglarized Saturday.
Rodriguez, who has damaging eye-witness testimony that bombs exploded in the WTC basement prior to the airplanes striking, said today his apartment was burglarize... (more)
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Do surveillance cameras make the city safer? CON: They push crime elsewhere and spy on the rest of usSan Francisco is the latest city to succumb to the siren song of Big Brother technology. The announcement of a 90-day pilot program to post two video surveillance cameras in the Western Addition is a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided response to the problem of street crime. High-tech cameras sacrifice precious privacy while providing very little in return in the way of added safety. In a city that has long prided itself on its dedication to civil liberties, this is a disheartening turn o... (more)
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'Big brother' watches Indian call centre workers When Neha Sharma reaches her office in the suburb of Gurgaon, she is frisked by the guard. Her handbag is searched and her mobile phone and any pens or notebooks are removed. Inside her cubicle, where she takes calls from American and British customers for Hero ITES, a major Indian provider of outsourced business services, cameras watch her constantly. Her phone conversations are recorded. When Sharma leaves for the day, the contents of her bag are checked again.
This is the new ... (more)
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Black box catches bad driving on filmIt's bad news for boy racers: Big Brother is watching you - and so are your parents on a new in-car video camera that records how motorists drive.
The palm-sized device, to be launched in Britain this month, is fixed to the windshield beneath the rear-view mirror and captures any dangerous or erratic driving.
Parents can then download the colour footage onto a computer to see - and hear - how their children behave behind the wheel.
The $2,100 camera, ... (more)
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US Establishment Helped Empower Chinese Police StateDoing business in China could potentially endanger the national security of Taiwan and the United States as well as violate democratic values, American scholar-businessman Ethan Gutmann argued yesterday at a forum held in Taipei.
Gutmann was basing his arguments on those made in his book titled "Losing the New China - A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal," which discusses in detail how American businesses played a role in restricting freedom of thought in China, in tu... (more)
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Greenspan Terrorizes EconomyInfowars | August 29, 2005
What we're seeing is massive inflation: oil has more than doubled in the past two years in cost per barrel, the dollar's value has decreased more than 40 percent against the Euro over the past three years. Explosive inflation is a fact, not some danger on the horizon.
The private Federal Reserve purposefully sets the economic policy to actually cause these problems to occur. After they have thoroughly prot... (more)
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US Army commander warns blogs are a security riskA WEBSITE called the Project on Government Secrecy claimed to have published a memo sent to all army leaders cautioning personnel not to file information that could be used against soldiers by the enemy.
According to Secrecy News, General Peter J. Schoomaker said some soldiers were posting sensitive matters to websites and blogs, revealing tactics, techniques, procedures and vulnerabilities.
Schoomaker said, according to Secrecy News, that "the enemy is actively sea... (more)
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Beslan mothers: Putin is culpableShamil Basayev is Russia's Osama bin Laden. Yet as Beslan prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of the school siege he engineered, many of the victims' mothers are increasingly laying blame for the September massacre not on Mr. Basayev, but on Russian authorities.
They are stoking controversy by demanding that top leaders, including President
Vladimir Putin, stay away from this week's service to commemorate the 331 victims, half of them children, who perished in the Sep... (more)
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Fighting unseen enemy creates psychological pressure on troopsThe inability of U.S. forces to hold ground in Anbar province in western Iraq, and the cat and mouse chase that ensues, has put the Marines and soldiers there under intense physical and psychological pressure.
The sun raises temperatures to 115 degrees most days, insurgents stage ambushes daily then melt into the civilian population and American troops in Anbar find themselves in a house of mirrors in which they don't speak the language and can't tell friend from foe.
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The Perfect StormEverything seems to be coming along quite nicely.
Iraq is now a civil war, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) is as good as over, New Orleans is about to be hit with a Category 5 hurricane, Louisiana and Mississippi were declared disaster areas in advance of the storm, and FEMA is on full alert. Even the Red Cross is leaving town.
The national housing bubble is deflating, the dollar continues its slide, interest rates are headed up, oil prices are... (more)
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Russian Officials Split on Reasons for Detention of U.S. SenatorsOfficials have given controversial explanations for the recent plane delay that held up two U.S. senators at a Russian airport. The aircraft was delayed in Perm because the local airport does not service flights under the international Open-Skies Agreement, the Russian Federal Security Service said.
Another report, however, says the senators were detained after they refused to obey border guards’ demands, RIA Novosti reported Monday.
Later in the day the Forei... (more)
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8 years in a Louisiana jail, but he never went to trialWhen he was charged with murder in 1996, James Thomas, an impoverished day laborer in Baton Rouge, became like many other criminal defendants: With no money to hire a lawyer, he had to rely on the government to provide him with one.
He then spent the next 8½ years in jail, waiting for his case to go to trial. It never did.
Last spring, a Louisiana state appeals court ruled that prosecutors had waited too long to try him, and it threw the charge out. By then, ... (more)
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