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Waxman Breaks Up Krongard Family Profiteers

Posted by bosskitty

WASHINGTON (AP) — The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard (Cookie) Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee.
Erik Prince, Blackwater’s top executive, said the conflict of interest questions raised by the [...]

Whistleblowers Beware – They’re Out To Get All of Us

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State Dept. Agents Say Jobs Were Threatened
Investigators in IG Office Were Told Not to Cooperate With Probe of Their Boss, House Panel Alleges  By Glenn Kessler and Karen DeYoung   Washington PostTwo career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard have charged that they were threatened with firing if they [...]

Is The Dark Web Watching You or Your Visitors

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The Dark Web project team catalogues and studies places online where terrorists operate. Hsinchun Chen and his Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona have created the Dark Web project.
Terrorists and extremists have set up shop on the Internet, using it to recruit new members, spread propaganda and plan attacks across [...]

The Terror Presidency – Presents Cheney In All His Gory

Posted by bosskitty

New Book Details Cheney Lawyer’s Efforts to Expand Executive Power

By Dan Eggen and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers
Vice President Cheney’s top lawyer pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear that even a Republican [...]

Who is Taslima Nasreen, Why Should We Care

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Taslima Nasreen should leave or die: Muslim clerics
MLA vows to ‘behead’ Taslima Nasreen

Aug 17: Muslim clerics in West Bengal Friday issued a “death warrant” against Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen if she did not pack her bags and leave India.
“Anybody eliminating her would be given Rs 100,000 and unlimited [...]

US Fall From Grace Creates Global Power Shift

Posted by bosskitty

THE GLOBAL POWER BAROMETER

In their own words:
 

“The world is bigger than the West”, a BBC correspondent; Source: BBC.

Russia, China and Iran are up as they warn the US to stay out of Central Asia.
HOW THE WORLD SEES AMERICA
The Bush Factor in Pakistan

Amar C. Bakshi: The administration has “actively rejected expertise and embraced ignorance,” [...]

National ID Cards Are Coming

Posted by nytexan1

Big brother has arrived. Welcome to the new America.

(CNN) — Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.

The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami [...]

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