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As part of the rigorous review that has defined the detention program, the Office of General Counsel examined the tapes and determined that they showed lawful methods of questioning.
The ability of Google Inc's map service to put detailed street-level images on the Internet could raise concerns in Europe if it was introduced there, the EU's data protection agency said on Thursday.Google's Street View offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 30 U.S. cities. It has become popular among drivers but courted controversy over potential privacy invasion.
Paul and Obama cheated out of 3rd and 1st by voting machines, hand count fraud. There were several major vote fraud issues to arise out of the New Hampshire primary revolving mainly around Ron Paul and Barack Obama, who were both seemingly cheated out of third and first places respectively as a result of rigged Diebold voting machines and deliberate malfeasance in the counting of hand-written paper ballots.
'Beijing - Last Thursday morning, five law-enforcement agents marched into Zhai Minglei's Shanghai apartment, seized his computer hard disk and copies of the small magazine he used to publish, and ordered him to report for questioning the next day. 'It was the latest blow in what one leader of a nongovernmental organization here calls a
Why should we be happy and complacent about the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Now, just as in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics in Germany, nobody minds participating in such an important international event. The countries that took part in that event later regretted the mistake they had made – in the years which followed the Games, a war took place which caused over 50 million deaths: World War II.Let’s take a look back. The Berlin Wall fell in 1990. The Cold War was over. The Soviet Union “fell apart.” The Western democracies had virtually won the ideological challenge against the communist regimes, whose champion was the USSR.What’s happening now? In 2001 the Western democracies, headed by the United States, shit in their pants from fear and, following the tragic event of the World Trade Center, in December of the same year they gave an enormous, incredible gift to China. Something to put under the Christmas tree.
The Vatican has updated its list of mortal sins, those grave sins for which believers will go to hell if they have not confessed and received forgiveness. The list, published yesterday in the Vatican newspaper, now includes pollution, drug-dealing, social injustice (which impoverishes many while creating extreme wealth for a few), and genetic/stem cell experiments. Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, a Church spokesman, said that sin, in the era of globalization, now has
'In the alternate universe of comic books, there's a crisis brewing between the U.S. and Russia. America is being threatened by a former Soviet general and his Nazi partner. Sounds like a job for Captain America. 'But Captain America died last year, shot by assassins on the steps of the federal courthouse in New York City. 'On Wednesday, a new issue of Captain America hits comic book stores and with it comes a new Captain America. It's not the same character ... he's still dead. But the comic didn't die with him.'
After being accused of terrorist activities, Hasan Elahi decided to create a website — trackingtransience.net — documenting his daily activities. Stephen Colbert interviews Elahi, who makes some very intriguing arguments about how to deal with an impossible situation, and what offices within the U.S. government have viewed his website (hint: someone soon to be out of office works in that part of the White House):
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.