Archive for February 8th, 2010

LA Times 2/8/10 By Daniel Siegal In the last week, Internet connections across Iran have slowed to a crawl, with sources in Tehran reporting that, when service is available at all, it is so slow that checking e-mail is nearly impossible.  After connections worsened, Iran’s communications minister, Reza Taghipour, told a state broadcaster (via Agence France-Presse): “The cause...
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KDVR 2/5/10 By Dave Young Arapahoe County will become the first law enforcement agency in Colorado to begin identifying criminals, missing children and seniors using biometric analysis of the human iris. A technician from the software and hardware developer demonstrated how their device analyzes the iris, which has 235 identifying points of reference, versus a fingerprint’s 65. “Fingerprints change...
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Toronto Sun 2/7/10 By Eric Margolis U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug – debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest...
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Anti-War.com 2/8/10 By Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in:...
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CS 2/5/10 By Pat Buchanan Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be...
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Washington’s Blog 2/8/10 Sure, American politicians have been bought and paid for by the Wall Street giants. See this, this and this. And everyone knows that the White House and Congress – while talking about cracking down on Wall Street with strict regulation – have actually watered down some of the most important protections that were in...
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Mail Online 2/8/10 A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry. As his daughter ’squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her...
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Irish Times 2/8/10 By ARTHUR BEESLEY THE US government has initiated a diplomatic offensive against threatened moves by MEPs to block a deal that gives American intelligence agencies direct access to European bank data. Less than a month after MEPs forced the withdrawal of Bulgaria’s first nominee to the incoming EU Commission, the US campaign underscores the increasing...
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Natural News 2/8/10 By David Gutierrez Elderly dementia patients are being subjected to “scandalous abuse” by being drugged with dangerous antipsychotic drugs, according to a letter by ten influential health organizations, published in The Daily Telegraph. “ people with dementia in care homes are being inappropriately prescribed a damaging chemical cosh of antipsychotic drugs and new...
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OpEd News 2/7/10 By William Fisher “In an admission that took the intelligence community and its critics by surprise, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair acknowledged in a congressional hearing Wednesday that the U.S. may, with executive approval, deliberately target and kill U.S. citizens who are suspected of being involved in terrorism.” That’s the lead paragraph of the...
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