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NYC Has New Surveillance Tool!
From Yahoo! News :
Costs $12 million dollars, can identify a suspect from 2 miles away and track a suspicious vehicle from 12, and 'lets justice watch liberty for us all.' Gee, thanks NYPD!
Brown Vows To Win Over '42 Days'
From the BBC :
Gordon Brown says he wants to "win the argument" in Parliament over his plans to extend the pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects to 42 days.
The prime minister is facing the prospect of a Commons defeat over the plans which are opposed by...
Ad Pulled As Pundit Sees Terror Link
From MSNBC :
Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
Sigh.... I'm not even going to...
China's All-Seieng Eye
From the Rolling Stones :
This article has seven parts and is too long for me to search out appropriate tidbits. I would highly recommend that every read this one all the way through and in detail anyway. It describes the production, growth, and integration of the...
34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court
From the Washington Post :
D.C. Superior Court Judge Wendell P. Gardner Jr. said the demonstrators violated the law by protesting at the plaza of the Supreme Court, where such activities are banned. He rejected arguments that they were practicing free speech when they marched to...
Want To Vote Next November? Better Have Photo-ID!
From the Texas Observer
Last month, a splintered U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana voter ID law considered the nation’s most stringent.
What is this law? Indiana has decided to pass a law requiring voters to show a state-issued photo-ID at the polls. ...
Regular KiasWorld Meetings
By popular demand, we shall be holding regular online meetings in the KiasWorld chatroom.
These will take place at 7pm GMT (8pm UK time, 3pm NY, 1pm California) every Sunday starting on 11th May 2008, and will continue for the foreseeable future.
The topics...
Chip implants mooted for UK prisoners
The Ministry of Justice is planning to solve the crisis in the UK prison system by fitting prisoners with surgically implanted tracking chips, claims the Independent on Sunday, citing a senior Ministry official. The chips, claims the paper, would be used to keep order in prison and to...
Happy 2008!
So, it's 2008. Another year has passed with very little to show for it. Thoughts turn again to the overhaul of the website. This, some of you may have noticed, has already started to take place - there has been as slight re-design of the header, slightly smaller with a better search tool for...
