Archive for the ‘Government’ Category

(Archived document, may contain errors) 744 December 14,1989 CONGRESS VS. AMERICA:  HOW CONGRESS RAISES ITS OWN PAY Only ten months after an avalanche of public opposition blocked its fifty percent pay raise plan, Congress successfully engineered a sizeable pay hike for itself in the waning moments of the 1989 congressional session. It was a bipartisan, [...]

The war on Colombia’s drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature – or a genetically modified secret weapon? By Joshua Davis Page I drop half a milliliter of water into a plastic test tube and mash a piece of a leaf inside. As the water tints green, [...]

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL TENNANT THURSDAY, 01 JULY 2010 10:15 Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their property rights in their capital and its prospective returns” owing to the constant barrage of regulation emanating from the Franklin Roosevelt administration and [...]

Communications interception systems are designed to comply with Lawful Interception (LI) delivery standards. These include norms set by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as well as the American Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). However, some agencies are operating ‘above the law’ and are exempt of LI restrictions. Organizations such as the Intelligence and National Security [...]

The State Government has suspended its free flu vaccine program for WA children aged under five after 22 children became ill and were taken to Princess Margaret Hospital within hours of having their injections. Health Minister Kim Hames said the otherwise fit and healthy children had suffered febrile convulsions – which involved a fit or [...]

By Robert Higgs Oct 12, 2009 Because I despise politics in general, and the two major parties in this country in particular, I go through life constantly bemused by all the weight that people put on partisan political loyalties and on adherence to the normative demarcations the parties promote. Henry Adams observed that “politics, as [...]

By Bertrand Russell. May 3, 1919. The battle for political democracy has been won: white men everywhere are to live under the regime of parliamentary government. Russia, which for the present is trying a new form of constitution, will probably be led by internal or external pressure to adopt the system favored by the Western [...]

August 23, 2010 Rene Johnston/Toronto Star Several dozen of the 300 people facing charges for alleged criminal acts during the G20 summit had their charges withdrawn Monday. One young woman high-fived a friend before bolting from the courtroom after hearing the news. Christopher Miller, who was charged with mischief under $5,000, said he was happy [...]

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said. The source said Ahmadinejad’s convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan’s airport to give a speech in [...]

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Look who’s tied to Obama’s birth certificate ‘It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn’t it? ——————————————————————————– Posted: August 04, 2010 10:55 pm Eastern By Joe Kovacs – WorldNetDaily Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more players in the ongoing soap opera over the hunt for President Obama’s original birth certificate [...]

Stockwell Day cites ‘alarming’ rise in unreported crime to justify new prisons By Campbell Clark Globe and Mail – August 3, 2010 Although the official crime rate is going down, a senior Harper government minister says there is reason to disbelieve the statistics and spend billions of dollars on new prisons: an “alarming” increase in [...]

NASA : Solar Storm Hit Earth By August 3, 2010 According to latest NASA warning solar storm will hit as early by Tuesday on August 3, 2010. Earlier we had informed our readers that ” NASA Launched “Atlas 5″ Rocket to study the 2012 solar storms” We don’t have to forget that Hopi, Mayan and [...]

Legislation will give security services powers to arrest people for crimes they have yet to commit Tom Parfitt in Moscow – guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010 21.00 BST Russian police arrest a political opposition activist at a rally in Moscow. Photograph: Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images Russian citizens can be issued official warnings about crimes that they [...]

June 21st, 2010 | Author: Mark Watson On June 4 a Guardian report uncovered a scandal that surveillance cameras initially promoted to local communities as anti-social deterrents are actually part of a government anti-terrorist initiative targeting Muslim communities in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook. However, not discussed is the fact that the increasing encroachments on the [...]

By Daniel Emery Technology reporter, BBC News The torrent is attracting hundreds of downloads…. Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings. The list, which [...]