NYC Pols Attempt to put an End to City’s Stop and Frisk Policy

March 12, 2010 Daily News By Rocco Parascandola and John Lauinger Two influential City Council members took dead aim at the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy on Wednesday, saying there is “serious concern” privacy rights are being violated. In a letter to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) and City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens) criticized

National ID Card Will Only Strengthen Big Brother

March 11, 2010 Fox News By Alex Nowrasteh The Senate is working toward a ghastly compromise on immigration reform that includes a biometric national identification card for all Americans. The stated purpose of this national ID, which an employee must present before getting a job, is to prevent undocumented workers from being employed. Back in December I warned

Spy Chips Hidden in 2.5 MILLION Dustbins in England for New Tax

March 8, 2010 DailyMail.co.uk By Steve Doughty The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday. More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents. This is an increase of nearly two-thirds in just a year. The bins, which can be electronically identified and

Big Brother Weighs Expansion of Internet Monitoring

March 8, 2010 Cnet.com By Declan McCullagh Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future. The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated

N. Korean Worker Executed For Sneaking News Out of the Country

March 8, 2010 Guardian.co.uk By Associated Press A North Korean factory worker has been executed by firing squad for sneaking news out of the country on his illicit mobile phone, Seoul-based radio said today. The armaments factory worker was accused of divulging the price of rice and other information on living conditions to a friend who had defected to

Ahmadinejad Calls Sept 11 ‘Big Fabrication’

March 8, 2010 Reuters Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel. It came

IMF Proposed Plan to Raise Climate Change Funds

March 8, 2010 Google News By Associated Press The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned

World’s Largest Solar Powered Complex Backed By U.S. Loans

March 2, 2010 USA Today The Obama administration gave preliminary approval Monday for $1.4 billion in federal loan guarantees to help build what it says will be the world’s largest solar power complex –  in California’s Mojave Desert.  The Department of Energy is offering to back the loans of California-based BrightSource Energy so it can build three solar-energy

Facebook Not Using Best Practices, but Promotes That They Do

March 2, 2010 CommonDreams.org By Sandy Leon Vest “Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of… In almost every act of our lives whether in

Are Global Earthquakes Getting Worse?

March 1, 2010 MSNBC Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-magnitude temblor that shook the region overnight was not a surprise, historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal, scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major earthquakes. One scientist, however, says that relative to

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