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Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box
A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy
camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such
devices are part of a government and industry surveillance program that
is undoubtedly connected to the forced digital TV switchover being rolled
out in the UK and US.
The
People Be Damned: President of Special Interests
The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to work. Both are
schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders. The schemes will
redistribute income and wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster
banksters, who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement plans
of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the situation of millions
of people worldwide who naively trusted American financial institutions.
Lab
tests verify white phosphorus in Gaza soil
Laboratory tests conducted by a Turkish university on Gaza soil have
confirmed the use of phosphorus bombs by Israel in the coastal sliver.
Body
scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at Tulsa airport
For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors
and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through
clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration
said Tuesday.
Justice
probe may pose ‘enormous consequences’ for Bush officials
A Department of Justice report has called into question the
entire legal basis of the Bush administration's repeated justifications
of abusing prisoners captured in the former president's terror war.
Police
defuse bomb outside Citibank in Athens
Greek police defused an explosive device found in the trunk of a car
parked outside Citibank’s headquarters in a northern Athens suburb
early on Wednesday.
Has
NASA’s Hansen Finally Lost His Mind?
Even the realization of Al Gore’s dream of “capping”
carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants wouldn’t satisfy
NASA’s James Hansen.
Voting
Himself Rich: CDC Vaccine Adviser Made $29 Million Or More After Using
Role to Create Market
Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
took home a fortune of at least $29 million as part of a $182 million
sale by CHOP of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq
vaccine to Royalty Pharma in April of last year, according to an investigation
by Age of Autism.
Ashcroft:
Obama, Bush Detainee Policies Exactly The Same
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that the Obama administration's
policies concerning the 'war on terror' represent a direct and unwavering
continuation of the Bush administration's approach.
Economic
Crisis Poses Threat To Global Stability
Around the world, unemployment is rising and incomes are falling,
and it isn’t clear how long the recession will last or how
deep it will get. The global economic situation is so serious that
the head of U.S. intelligence agencies now says it has surpassed
terrorism as the top threat to national security.
Report:
CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan
The CIA has been secretly using airbases inside Pakistan to launch
strikes on targets on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan.
Jury
In Liquid Bomb Plot Retrial Dismissed
On 18 February 2009, it was announced that the jury in the trial
of the eight men accused of conspiring to murder by blowing up transatlantic
airliners has been discharged for “legal reasons”.
Greenspan
says recession will be ‘longest and deepest’ since ’30s
Eight months after he predicted the worst was over and the threat
of recession receding, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan
said the current global recession will “surely be the longest
and deepest” since the 1930s.
U.S.
air strike kills Afghan boy
U.S. forces killed at least one child, video footage obtained by
Reuters on Wednesday showed, in an air strike in western Afghanistan
that Afghan police say killed 12 civilians and U.S. forces said
killed 16 militants.
MI5
agent says torture complicity ‘proper and lawful’
New allegations of complicity in torture have been levelled against
the government amid claims Whitehall told MI5 agents they could
question terror suspects they believed had been tortured by foreign
security services.
