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Diego Garcia
“It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.”
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government [...]
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US: Katrina
The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.
Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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TSA worker tried to sabotage terror database, feds say
One week after losing job
Register, Dan Goodin in San Francisco
A former data analyst for the US Transportation Security Agency has been accused of trying to sabotage a terrorist screening database used to vet people with access to sensitive information and secure areas of the nation’s transportation network.
Total Information Awareness: ex-Homeland Security chief Chertoff instrumental in pushing ‘Einstein III’
Russia Today/SOTT
A surveillance program authorized by the Bush administration to allow the National Security Agency to spy on the internet activities of federal employees is now being expanded. The Obama administration is planning to expand the Einstein internet surveillance software.
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Iraq
Only a “catastrophic event” could prevent combat troops from coming home from Iraq, according to the top US general in Iraq.
“But we don’t see a catastrophic event on the horizon right now,” General Ray Odierno told MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell Monday.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite who helped ease sectarian strife, emerged on Monday as the [...]
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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
Virtual World: [...]
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Teh Interwebs
It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?
Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur [...]
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US Is an Easy Game in a Cyberwar
Pravda
A cyberwar is not the one to bring victory to the United States, a former US intelligence chief has warned.
Michael McConnell, a retired US Navy vice admiral who served as ex-president George W. Bush’s director of national intelligence, also compared the danger of cyberwar to the nuclear threat posed by the Soviet Union during [...]
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