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UK: ContactPoint database of 11 million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears

Joshuah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:06:01 +0000

Every child in England will have their personal details stored on a controversial database despite fears over security and privacy. Ministers are pressing ahead with the introduction of ContactPoint to every local authority in the country after claiming that a pilot project has proved a success. They say the long-delayed £224 project will make England’s 11million young [...]

Baguette-toting bird stalls Large Hadron Collider

Joshuah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:06:01 +0000

Ahh hah. Also see, A particle God doesn’t want us to discover- Is the Large Hadron Collider Sabotaging Itself from the Future? This is too weird: A bird reportedly has dropped a “bit of baguette” onto the world’s largest atom smasher, causing the machine to short out for a period of time. It’s just the latest [...]

Seattle police: Suspect in slaying of officer is ‘lone domestic terrorist’

Joshuah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:05:59 +0000

A suspect in the shooting of a Seattle, Washington, police officer is also believed to be behind the bombing of four police cars, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said at a press conference Saturday. Christopher Monfort, 41, remained hospitalized in serious condition after being shot by officers during a confrontation Friday. “This man, from everything that [...]

U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots for Day Labor work

Joshuah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:05:56 +0000

It sounds like a George Lopez joke. “Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.” Except it’s true. In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries [...]

Sen. Joe Lieberman calls Fort Hood massacre a ‘terrorist’ act

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:47 +0000

Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood massacre an act of “Islamist extremism” – even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim soldiers. “There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act,” Lieberman [...]

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:47 +0000

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother’s funeral was held there in May that year. The preacher at the [...]

Some Saw Trouble With Fort Hood Suspect

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:45 +0000

In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused. In the months leading to [...]

Video: Fort Hood, the New 9-11

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:43 +0000

“What happened yesterday at Fort Hood was the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9-11. It was committed by a muslim fanatic who shouted ‘Allah is Great’ and gunned down 44 unarmed, innocent soliders and civilians. And our President tells us not to rush to judgment, to wait until all the facts [...]

Video: Soldier To Dr. Phil “Quit The “Psychobabble” & Deal With The Islamic Factor at Ft. Hood”

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:42 +0000

Someone needs to tell this woman that she is no longer a POW. The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern: Person A has position X. “It is possible that [...]

Video: Cops Taser Man With His Hands Already On Police Car

Joshuah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:05:40 +0000

Source/Full Story: YouTube – Cops Taser Man With His Hands Already On Police Car

Holocaust survivors at greater risk for cancer, study finds

Joshuah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:04:16 +0000

Watch the video first. An interesting bit of re-search from University of Haifa . What this 79 year old woman experienced during World War II was and is not unique in any way to the Jews. It sounds as though this woman’s family has a history of cancer, and that is nothing unique either. Visit [...]

US jobless rate surges above 10%

Joshuah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:04:14 +0000

What economic challenges are still ahead? I thought the economy was recovering, and green shoots abound. US unemployment surged above 10 per cent for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in October, increasing political pressure on the Obama administration. According to figures revealed on Friday, the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 [...]

Parents given choice of knowing if Vanessa George abused their children

Joshuah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:04:13 +0000

What the hell is wrong with people over there???! “Hello Nigel, wasn’t your son attending Little Ted’s nursery in Plymouth where the pedophile ring was operating?”“Yes, he was”“Well, hopefully he was not harmed in any way.”“I do not know nor do I care to know!” A judge has given parents whose children attended the nursery where [...]

Fort Hood shootings suspect alive; 12 dead

Joshuah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:04:13 +0000

So we have another thrice-named gunman. What happened to the initial reports of two gunmen, one dead and the other on the run? A soldier suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military, the base’s commander said Thursday evening. A [...]

UK: Pupils to be forced to have sex education under age of consent

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000

Parents are to be forced to allow their children to have sex education before the age of consent, the Government announced today. Under the new laws, when children reach 15 their parents will lose the right to withdraw them from sex education. At present parents can remove their children from lessons about sex until they are 19. The [...]

Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:59 +0000

The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab’s “Human Effectiveness Directorate,” and it’s the latest in a series of out-there military ideas [...]

Pentagon pursuing new investigation into Bush propaganda program

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:58 +0000

The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report on the retired military analyst program, which had been issued by the [...]

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:58 +0000

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK’s ambassador to [...]

Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:55 +0000

The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. USDA said 36.492 million people were receiving food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In July, enrollment [...]

Green shoots: Senate extends unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks

Joshuah — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:55 +0000

After weeks of partisan debate, the Senate voted on Wednesday to lengthen unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks and to extend the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit. The closely watched legislation would extend jobless benefits in all states by 14 weeks. Those that live in states with unemployment greater than 8.5% would receive an additional six [...]