Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement
(ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests
show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and
is exploring expanding its regulations to allow collection from kids
younger than that.
Israel is using bases in the Sunni Kurdish portion of northern Iraq
to launch missions inside Shi’ite Iran to gather intelligence on the
Islamic republic’s nuclear program, according to a number of informed
sources.
A U.S. judge has refused to release a draft conclusion by a CIA
historian that blames the Kennedy administration for the Bay of Pigs
fiasco.
‘Intellistreets’ system now being installed with DHS backing
CBS 60 Minutes recently aired a fascinating session with former CIA
spy Hank Crumpton, who had Osama bin Laden in his sights two years
before 9/11, but couldn't get permission to kill him.
Being a Western-backed insurgency engaged in a bloody war of regime
change isn’t as easy as it sounds, and hoping to get some pointers on
the techniques involved. Top Syrian rebel leaders have been in Kosovo
since last month, picking the brains of the former Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) forces.
Greece abandoned a nine-day hunt for a government on Tuesday and
called a new election that threatens to hasten the nation's slide
towards bankruptcy and a future outside the euro zone.
Authorities say a Newark, N.J., airport security supervisor
arrested on a charge he pretended to be someone else to hide his status
as an illegal immigrant used the identity of the victim in an unsolved
murder case.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the long-term debt and deposit
ratings for 26 Italian banks on Monday, citing the country's recession
and rising bad debt levels.
As the U.S.-Canada action plan implementation process continues,
there still remains many concerns with the further integration and
militarization of the northern border
Admitting that the chances for negotiations between the Syrian
authorities and the political opposition remain slim, Russia’s Deputy
Foreign Minister added that the world’s premier terrorist group is
responsible for wreaking havoc in the Arab Republic.
European Union expanded its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to cover all airlines, including non-European airlines.
The US government will assist the pharmaceutical corporations in finding prescription drugs to treat new diseases.
Oil transactions are usually settled in dollars but US sanctions
make it difficult for Iran to accept payments in the US currency.
Ha!
Don't be fooled—it's flexible at the top.
JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that Ina Drew, the firm's chief
investment officer, has left the bank after revelations of a $2 billion
loss sustained over the past six weeks.
A dramatic and well written parable of the insane and despotic nature of our current society.
They’re shifting assets to pound denominated British real estate in an attempt to hide from the euro wreck.
Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway
near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst
atrocities in recent years.
Amid recent reports that the bodies of four Mexican journalists
were discovered in a canal in the port city of Veracruz, less than a
week after another journalist based in that city was found strangled in
her home, the U.S. State Department "plans to award a contract to
provide a Mexican government security agency with a system that can
intercept and analyze information from all types of communications
systems," NextGov reported.
Britain has become a nation of sleeping pill addicts since the start of the economic downturn, figures revealed yesterday.
Even the police are protesting in Euroland.
Hmmm....
The policemen lost their jobs when their security clearance was
revoked by senior officers after checks were carried out because of
fears of “sleepers” in the ranks.
US meddling is heightening the antagonism and the risk of war
Make the Bankers Pay: Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism
Gulf Cooperation Council finance ministers at a meeting in Riyadh
on May 5. Gulf leaders will discuss a proposal for a closer political
union among them that could begin with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the
Bahraini information minister said on Saturday.
The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to
reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber
attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Europe central bankers have been openly expressing views on the
possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone as its leaders struggles to
form a government.
Truckloads of armed men attacked the Tripoli headquarters of
Libya’s interim prime minister on Tuesday, in a new demonstration of the
lawlessness pervading the capital just weeks before a scheduled
national election.
A $100 million NATO invasion is coming. Low intensity conflict may
follow. The “City of Broad Shoulders” may get more than it bargained f
Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek
currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after
Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the
flick of a switch if its debt problems forced it to bring back national
banknotes and coins.
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB),
renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that
values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may
reduce his tax bill.
Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek
currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after
Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the
flick of a switch if its debt problems forced it to bring back national
banknotes and coins.
Deerfield employees can earn $100 for reporting crimes
The U.S. Is Now EXPORTING Refined Petroleum Products, But the Oil
Companies Are Gaming the System By Switching To a Different Benchmark to
Keep U.S. Fuel Prices HIGH … And the Keystone Pipeline Will Create Even
HIGHER U.S. Prices
That's enough drugs to give every single American 64 Percocets or
Vicodin. And pain pill prescriptions continue to surge, up 600 percent
in ten year, thanks to doctors who are more and more willing to hand out
drugs to patients who are suffering.
Then Deny Actual Bombings.
Syrian War: The Prequel
Politicians across the spectrum in Venezuela are trading dire
predictions of impending violence in the vacuum left by uncertainty
about the health of President Hugo Chávez.
The initiative calls for the decriminalization of growing plants such as coca, marijuana and opium poppies in the country.
Japan to Nationalize Fukushima Utility
David Cameron has given his strongest warning yet that the euro is
doomed to fail as fears grow that Greece is close to crashing out of the
single currency.
Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla
launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on
Windows devices using ARM chips.
The United Nations has information that arms are being smuggled in
both directions between Lebanon and Syria, a UN Middle East envoy said
Tuesday.
Senate approval of the Law of the Sea Treaty would help the US
counter China's aggressive moves to claim islands near the Philippines
and other Asian neighbors.
The Turkish daily Aydinlik said that suicide bombings represent a
way of incitement carried out by the CIA and Mossad agents in Iraq, and
are applied now in Syria, Lebanese daily Al-Benaa reported. “CIA and
Mossad agents have carried out – and still – various attacks in several
countries including Iraq, Pakistan and Libya,”. “Those agents have
achieved their goal where most of their operations were targeting
Shiite and Sunnite mosques. All bombings were declared suicide attacks,
while the suicide bombers were announced killed, but the fact is
contrary to what was claimed,” the daily added.
To volatility-loving currency traders, the euro has been a source
of great frustration, its trade versus the dollar hewing to a boring
range of 4 cents for almost four months. For that they can blame an
unintentional symbiosis between the European Central Bank and the
People’s Bank of China, the first via its stubbornly hands-off view of
markets, the latter for being hyper-interventionist.
The country’s northern beaches have been declared off-limits as
scientists scramble to pin down what has caused such a massive death
toll.
The Air Force, like the rest of the military and the CIA, isn’t
supposed to conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans
domestically
The Chicago conclave and history's little ironies
Vermont appears on the verge of enacting the nation's first
statewide ban of a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique called
hydraulic fracturing.
