William Leonard, who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush, says successive US presidents have abused system Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 March 2013 13.26 EDT Leonard said new executive powers had been created without congressional… Read More ›
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Beliebers start Twitter hate campaign against English schoolgirl who criticised Justin Bieber
EEV: I am not a fan of Justin Bieber either, come and get me too. Beliebers jealous after retweet from 19-year-old popstar James Legge Monday, 4 March 2013 A 15-year-old girl has become victim of an international Twitter hate mob… Read More ›
Mayor Bloomberg: ‘Look at the ass on her’
11:53 AM 01/28/2013 Caroline May / Political Reporter New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had his eyes less on the evils of guns and big gulps at a Christmas party last month than on the assets of a female party guest…. Read More ›
New York newspaper draws fire after publishing names and addresses of gun permit holders
World Dec. 27, 2012 – 03:10PM JST ( 8 ) NEW YORK — A New York newspaper has sparked outrage by publishing a detailed map with thousands of names and addresses of gun permit holders in the wake of the… Read More ›
Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant (Insurance against being sued by Monsanto)
Published: 22 November, 2012, 00:09 (Reuters / Robert Pratta) The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto,… Read More ›
Woman Says JPMorgan Gave Rapist Free Rein
By DAVID LEE DALLAS (CN) – A JPMorgan Chase employee says in court that she was raped by a vice president whom the bank allowed “to prey on defenseless women.” Kimberly Schultz sued the bank and Derrick… Read More ›
Billionaire banned from Nobu after ‘threatening to kill manager because he was denied his favorite table’
Stewart Rahr was upset because another group was seated at ‘his’ table Sent an angry email to the owner of the restaurant and cc’ed celebrities He admits to the argument but denies having threatened the manager By Daily Mail Reporter… Read More ›
Allegations of abuse by a paedophile ring involving politicians. Now has claims of “mysterious early deaths”, suspicious fires and other forms of threats and intimidation as part of a possible cover-up.
David Cameron announces inquiry into ‘dreadful’ Tory child abuse claims David Cameron has announced an investigation into “truly dreadful” child abuse claims involving a senior Tory at a Welsh children’s home. Steve Messham told Newsnight that he was abused by… Read More ›
Couple arrested after reporting drugs found in rental home
REX, Ga. — A man and his wife were arrested after telling police about drugs they found in a rental property they own. Michael Keeley told Channel 2’s Eric Philips that authorities arrested three men living in his rental property… Read More ›
Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals in the 1950s, a class action claims
Army Poisoned People in ’50s, Class Claims By JOE HARRIS ST. LOUIS (CN) – Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals in a giant segregated housing complex in the 1950s, a class… Read More ›
Revealed: How Facebook is used to kidnap and traffic Indonesian girls
27 Facebook-related abductions reported this year in Indonesia 435 children were trafficked last year, mostly for sexual exploitation By Katy Dartford PUBLISHED:05:46 EST, 29 October 2012| UPDATED:06:57 EST, 29 October 2012 Facebook is increasingly being used to kidnap Indonesian children… Read More ›
Wireless meters tell snoopers when you are not home: CRIMINALS no longer need to stake out a home or a business
18 October 2012 by Jim Giles Magazine issue 2887. Subscribe and save CRIMINALS no longer need to stake out a home or a business to monitor the inhabitants’ comings and goings. Now they can simply pick up wireless signals broadcast… Read More ›
Girl, 15, lashed 60 times for ‘speaking to men in the street’ : Mali
Islamist group Ansar Dine said to have repeatedly warned girl to stop talking to men in the street in Timbuktu, Mali By Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED:07:55 EST, 17 October 2012| UPDATED:09:14 EST, 17 October 2012 A teenaged girl received 60… Read More ›
France anti-racism groups target Twitter for anti-Semitic content
12:13 PM 10/17/2012 Twitter may be under legal fire for a series of recent tweets which are deemed anti-Semitic by Jewish organizations in France. A top trending French-language hashtag recently has been #unbonjuif, which in English means “a good Jew.”… Read More ›
SOPA the computer virus terrorizes file-sharers
Published: 12 October, 2012, 20:37 SOPA is back – now as a computer virus Security experts are cautioning computer users that they could be targeted by a malicious SOPA “ransomware” virus that rekindles the witch-hunt targeting information sharing introduced… Read More ›
The Worst Debt Collector in the World?: Debt collector told the vet he was “living off social security while the rest of us honest Americans work our a– off. Too bad; you should have died,”
The Worst Debt Collector in the World? By JAMIE ROSS PHOENIX (CN) – After garnishing exempt disability payments from a 100% disabled Army veteran’s wife, a debt collector told the vet he was “living off social security… Read More ›
Council breached rules by setting up secret cameras in house
A council breached surveillance rules after it set up hidden cameras in a home using controversial “snooping powers”. Cambridge City Council used the powers – designed to tackle terrorism – to put secret cameras in the home of a woman… Read More ›
U.S. military aims to prevent suicides by taking soldiers’ private guns away from them
Pentagon and Congress to back policies encouraging the separation of at-risk soldiers from their private weapons Suicide rate among U.S. military staff rising again in 2012, almost half of those committed with personal firearm Likely to spark opposition from gun… Read More ›
Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats
Eli Lake Oct 8, 2012 12:00 AM EDT In a dispatch sent the day he was killed, Ambassador Christopher Stevens described how the militias keeping the peace in Benghazi threatened to quit over a political feud. Eli Lake reports…. Read More ›
Catholic theologian: Unseat pope and push ‘authoritarian’ church to radical reform
By Kate Connolly, The Guardian Friday, October 5, 2012 14:26 EDT Topics: Joseph Ratzinger ♦ Ratzinger Hans Küng urges confrontation from the grassroots to unseat pope and force radical reform at Vatican One of the world’s most prominent Catholic theologians… Read More ›
Military rape victims sue Leon Panetta claiming Department of Defense ‘failed to punish dozens of sexual assaults’
20 men and women claimed they were harassed, raped, or assaulted Further allege they suffered retaliation when they reported alleged crimes By Associated Press PUBLISHED:22:42 EST, 28 September 2012| UPDATED:00:56 EST, 29 September 201 A lawsuit was filed Friday in… Read More ›
More than 1,000 Nigerian women stranded for fifth straight day at Saudi airport because they were not accompanied by men
By Agence France-Presse Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:13 EDT Topics: Nigerian officials ♦ Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan ♦ Nigerian women More than 1,000 Nigerian women pilgrims remained stranded at a Saudi airport for a fifth straight day Thursday after… Read More ›
Riot police dodge fire bombs and tear gas hurled at protesters as demonstration in Athens against cuts descends into violence: 500,000 Protest
Officers were set alight by exploding bombs as a protest descended into carnage near country’s parliament About 500,000 people joined the anti-government rally to demonstrate against new austerity measures in Greece Police were seen fighting with protesters in what is… Read More ›
The great hospital robbery: Defibrillators, baby heart monitors, even beds – thieves are walking out of NHS wards with vital equipment
By John Naish PUBLISHED:20:32 EST, 24 September 2012| UPDATED:02:20 EST, 25 September 2012 You may think that even the lowest, most callous criminal would draw the line at stealing life-saving medical equipment such as baby heart monitors and emergency… Read More ›
Grieving mother ordered to pay $14,000 in taxes on the student loans that were written off after son’s suicide: Loans Forgiven by the Government are Considered Taxable Income by the IRS
Russell Friend, 22, committed suicide shortly before graduating from college His mother Regina had accumulated $55,400 in loans and interest to help him pay for school Those loans were forgiven by the government but IRS considers that ‘gift’ taxable income… Read More ›
Revolutionary life saving Palantir software denied to the 3rd Infantry Division because of Red tape. Even though the company offered its technology on a cost-free basis
Army Investigating 3rd Infantry Division’s Acquisition of Controversial Intel Software Sep. 20, 2012 – 06:16AM | By PAUL MCLEARY An Aug. 16 email from the Army’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition, Heidi Shyu, demanded “immediate corrective action” after she discovered… Read More ›
Catholics call for Israeli hate-crime crackdown
Published: 20 September, 2012, 20:29 Edited: 20 September, 2012, 20:29 A spate of hate crimes against Christian places of worship in Israel has prompted usually reticent Roman Catholic officials to speak out, hoping that intervention by authorities might bring an… Read More ›
U.S. finance industry warned of cyber attacks
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 19, 2012 20:22 EDT Topics: bank of america ♦ cyber attacks ♦ Site Intelligence Group NEW YORK — A US financial industry group warned banks and other institutions to beware of cyber attacks Wednesday, after… Read More ›
China rounds up and puts its beggars in CAGES … so they couldn’t spoil the fun at town fair
Temple fair in Nanchang, Jiangxi place beggars in ‘zoo-like’ cages Ceiling of cages so low the ‘inmates’ are forced to sit If the beggars chose to leave they are banished from the city By Sara Malm PUBLISHED:08:05 EST, 19 September… Read More ›
American ambassador’s car attacked in China
Anti-Japanese demonstrators in China attacked the car of the US ambassador to the country. The diplomat is unhurt, though the car has been slightly damaged. Over 50 Chinese activists protesting against Japanese claims over the Diaoyu Islands — known… Read More ›
Court restores Obama’s indefinite detention power
By Stephen C. Webster Tuesday, September 18, 2012 14:15 EDT Topics: indefinite detention ♦ Obama ♦ President Barack Obama A federal appeals court has temporarily frozen a lower court’s order that blocked the Obama administration from arresting and imprisoning American… Read More ›
Former Justice Souter: ‘Pervasive civic ignorance’ in U.S. could bring dictatorship
By Eric W. Dolan Monday, September 17, 2012 18:20 EDT Topics: Justice Souter ♦ Souter ♦ U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ♦ University of New Hampshire School of Law Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter thinks… Read More ›
The government was mum when China’s heir apparent Xi Jinping went missing, and political jitters persist now that he’s reappeared. How many scandals can the leadership take?
Is China Losing It? Sep 16, 2012 4:45 AM EDT This year has been Beijing’s annus horribilis. The Chinese regime has been pummeled by a steady stream of political controversies, purges and rumor mongering, made all the more nerve-wracking because… Read More ›
Woman picked to lead Air Force training base after sex scandal involving at least SIX male instructors
Col. Deborah Liddick is to command the 737th Training Group The Lackland Air Force Base in Texas is where every new American airman reports One in five recruits are women with most instructors men She takes over for Col. Glenn… Read More ›
NSA whistleblower: Illegal data collection a ‘violation of everybody’s Constitutional rights’: The Story of “ThinThread”
By Paul Harris, The Guardian Saturday, September 15, 2012 14:53 EDT Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens Bill Binney believes he helped create a monster. Sitting… Read More ›
Politician ‘plots to get her state senate rival arrested by telling police she bought cocaine’
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:09:54 EST, 14 September 2012| UPDATED:19:49 EST, 14 September 2012 Politics is a dirty game but one Massachusetts Representative appears to have really upped the ante in the run up to elections. Denise Andrews, a Democrat… Read More ›
Harvard pediatrics professor arrested after police found ‘up to 100 DVDs and 500 images of child porn at his home’
Dr Richard Keller was medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years Spent almost $3,000 on child porn over two years Some pornographic content was delivered to his office at the boarding school Faces 20 years in jail By Rachel… Read More ›
Bloody hand prints, stolen documents and shocking security failings: Harrowing pictures inside the U.S. consulate as it is revealed ‘officials knew about attack plans 48 HOURS before and did nothing’: Sorry Unedited Includes Graphic Images
Dramatic images of bloody hand prints and crumbling buildings capture horror of Tuesday’s attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which fell on 11th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks Revealed today that sensitive documents have gone missing from compound, including… Read More ›
Safe house where Ambassador died had no Marine guard and his body was missing for five hours: Full scale of chaos surrounding Libyan killings revealed
Benghazi consulate was not protected by the contingent of Marines that usually safeguard embassies and instead was guarded by Libyan and State Department security officers Embassy was ‘an interim facility’ lacking bulletproof glass, reinforced doors or other features common to… Read More ›
Walmart supplier NFI’s warehouse workers strike over working conditions
California workers say they’ve filed labour complaints over lack of access to drinking water and alleged bullying by managers Paul Harris in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 September 2012 11.39 EDT NFI Crossdock warehouse in Ontario, California is part of… Read More ›
‘Humiliating punishments for working too slow, bars on the windows and squalid dorms’: Inside the factory that makes the iPhone 5
By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED:09:51 EST, 12 September 2012| UPDATED:11:59 EST, 12 September 2012 For Apple’s American workers, today is a big day, with the release of the iPhone 5. But behind the scenes at the Foxconn factory in China, tasked… Read More ›
Identity of anti-Muslim filmmaker called into question: Update: Film’s consultant confirms “Sam Bacile” is not real
Identity of anti-Muslim filmmaker called into question By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, September 12, 2012 14:12 EDT Update (below): Film’s consultant confirms “Sam Bacile” is not real A man who claimed he’s the creator of an anti-Muslim film that’s sparked… Read More ›
Study: Banks to blame for over 800,000 unnecessary foreclosures
By Pro Publica Tuesday, September 11, 2012 16:25 EDT By Paul Kiel ProPublica Over the past several years, we’ve reported extensively on the big banks’ foreclosure failings. As a result of banks’ disorganization and understaffing — particularly at the… Read More ›
How China and US ‘secretly tested genetically modified golden rice on children’
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:07:13 EST, 11 September 2012| UPDATED:07:22 EST, 11 September 2012 Genetically manipulated Golden rice has been proposed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency China’s health authorities are investigating allegations that genetically modified rice has been… Read More ›
GoDaddy goes dark: ‘Anonymous’ claims hack on millions of websites
By Stephen C. Webster Monday, September 10, 2012 16:06 EDT Topics: GoDaddy ♦ GoDaddy email ♦ Internet regulations An unknown person claiming affiliation with the amorphous protest movement “Anonymous” took responsibility on Monday for hacking website host GoDaddy.com, the Internet’s… Read More ›
Greece scraps police protection for far-right lawmakers
Posted 2012/09/10 at 11:31 am EDT ATHENS, Sep. 10, 2012 (Reuters) — Greece scrapped police protection for lawmakers from the far-right Golden Dawn party on Monday after the bodyguards did nothing while the deputies went on a rampage destroying street… Read More ›
Indian PM says social media could spark ethnic tensions
By Agence France-Presse Saturday, September 8, 2012 17:35 EDT Indian Premier Manmohan Singh warned Saturday over the use of social media to inflame ethnic tensions after online threats and text messages sparked a mass exodus of migrants from southern cities…. Read More ›
Family told ten rare Double Eagle gold coins worth $80 million obtained in ‘uncertain circumstances’ belong to the U.S. not them
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:13:10 EST, 6 September 2012| UPDATED:15:47 EST, 6 September 2012 A judge has ruled that ten rare gold coins worth $80 million belong to the U.S. government and not to a family that had sued the… Read More ›
BP executives sought to blame “blue collar rig workers”: U.S.: “”This was a decision designed to ensure that the public and legal lines of accountability would be focused exclusively on blue collar rig workers and other contractor/defendants – but at all cost, not upon BP management and the inexplicable behaviors that coursed through the pages” of the internal BP emails.”
By David IngramPosted 2012/09/06 at 7:25 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Sep. 6, 2012 (Reuters) — BP executives wanted to concentrate blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on “blue collar rig workers” in order to save themselves, U.S. government lawyers… Read More ›
Pentagon escalates case that former Navy SEAL broke secrecy pledge
By Mark HosenballPosted 2012/09/06 at 7:40 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Sep. 6, 2012 (Reuters) — The Pentagon on Thursday released new details about a secrecy agreement signed by a former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the… Read More ›