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Thousands to demand widespread use of renewable energy

Eco activist Captain Ozone to organise simultaneous marches on 12th September 2009 to raise awareness of renewable energy - To get involved contact willozone@gmail.com By Mick Meaney | There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Captain Ozone might look insane but his ideas are pure genius. There’s a lot I want to say about Captain [...] (read more)

WHAT BANKS, ACADEMICS, THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT MONEY

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but is the government’s greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. — Abraham Lincoln Most of what follows is the work of the extraordinary and admirable Stephen Zarlenga of the [...] (read more)

Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science

By Betsy Mason | A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could change science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say. When the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced at the international supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, [...] (read more)

Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy

By Stephen Lendman | Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits “assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy’s head, as well as offering a reward for any enemy ‘dead or alive.’ ” Article 3 of the [...] (read more)

Ending Poverty: Moving Beyond More Aid and Fair Trade

By Davinder Kaur | As the United Nations seeks increased financial assistance from donor countries to help meet the flagging Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the inadequacy of international aid and fairer trade agreements has never been so clear. In 2007 alone, aid to developing countries fell by 8.4%, leaving huge challenges ahead to meet the Gleneagles [...] (read more)

Did U.S. push detention of American without charges?

By Jonathan S. Landay | WASHINGTON — An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates. The case of Naji Hamdan, coupled [...] (read more)

Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk

By Stephen C. Webster | Even as President-elect Obama vowed “to regain America’s moral stature in the world” during Sunday’s 60 Minutes appearance, two of his senior advisers confessed there is no intent to pursue those in the Bush administration who engaged in torture, a war crime. Speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, [...] (read more)

Information Commissioner publishes freedom of information guidance for personal data

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new common sense guidance for freedom of information practitioners on how to deal with requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) which relate to individuals’ personal information. Under the FOIA and EIR an exemption exists to ensure that information is not disclosed [...] (read more)

Guantanamo: How many children were held?

The ACLU raises the issue of government lying about the number of children detained at Guantanamo.This follows a release last week on incontrovertible evidence that the Pentagon was distorting the number of children held. It appears that virtually no claim made by US authorities regarding detention and interrogation operations is reliable: Pentagon Admits Number of Guantánamo’s [...] (read more)

Cops guilty of torturing Muslim youths go scot-free

By Vicky Nanjappa | Human Rights Watch has slammed the Andhra Pradesh government for the detention and torture of over 100 youths from the Muslim community, who were arrested after a spate of terror attacks in Hyderabad last year. The state police allegedly detained several youths after the Mecca Masjid and twin blasts — 21 were [...] (read more)