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Alert: Intelligence Chiefs “Certain” Their Bosses Will Stage
Terror Attack Soon
Using information gleaned from the blatantly set-up underwear bomber
patsy Umar Abdul Muttalab, intelligence chiefs have assured us that
their bosses will stage another terror attack in the U.S. within the
next three to six months.
No
Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away
In 2006, Benjamin Koellmann bought a condominium in Miami Beach. By
his calculation, it will be about the year 2025 before he can sell his
modest home for what he paid. Or maybe 2040.
Time
Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan Time Magazine has enthusiastically jumped on the
bandwagon to back Microsoft executive Craig Mundie's call for Internet
licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than
in Communist China, where only people with government permission would
be allowed to express free speech.
Obama
grows the drug war, with enforcement a clear priority
It was not long ago when President Barack Obama’s new drug czar,
former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske, swept into Washington,
D.C. and declared the “drug war” a public policy relic.
War,
Budgets and Blind Ambition
The American elite’s unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious
sense of imperial entitlement and dominance — based ultimately
on war, the threat of war and the profit from war — is one of
the defining characteristics of our age.
Why
Didn’t the Nanny State Protect Us From Toyota?
Would someone please explain to me how it’s possible that millions
of Toyota vehicles have that accelerator problem? I thought the federal
government was supposed to keep us safe from these sorts of things. Liberties
oversight panel gets short shrift President Obama is coming under pressure from Democrats
and civil liberties groups for failing to fill positions on an oversight
panel formed in 2004 to make sure the government does not spy improperly
on U.S. citizens. Cell
Phones Cause Brain Cancer, Scientists Warn A report issued by the International Electromagnetic Field
Collaborative and endorsed by 43 scientists from 13 countries has reviewed
the evidence linking cell phone use to brain tumors, and refuting the
methodology of a forthcoming industry-funded study expected to give
the phones a clean bill of health.
Police
Want Backdoor to Web Users’ Private Data
They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface
linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers
so requests can be sent and received electronically.
Journalist
calls for euthanasia of disabled newborns
The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,”
which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has
caused public outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in
the blogging community.
Petraeus
says strike on Iran could spark nationalism
A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence
of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehran’s
hard-line government, U.S. General David Petraeus told Reuters.
