Paul Joseph Watson – “What Is The Secret Killing Weapon In Iraq?”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4435

What Is The Secret Killing Weapon In Iraq?
Woodward compares clandestine program to Manhattan Project, could secret weapon be terrifying radiation canon?

Paul Joseph Watson | September 9, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward revealed to Larry King last night that the U.S. has embarked on a “secret killing program” in Iraq which has dramatically reduced attacks on coalition troops by wiping out terrorists, but what could this secret weapon possibly be?

A CNN report details Woodward’s revelations.

The program — which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb — must remain secret for now or it would “get people killed,” Woodward said Monday on CNN’s Larry King Live.

“The top secret operations will “some day in history … be described to people’s amazement,” Woodward told King.

While he would not reveal the details, Woodward said the terrorists who have been targeted were already aware of the capabilities.

“The enemy has a heads up because they’ve been getting wiped out and a lot of them have been killed,” he said. “It’s not news to them.”

For the weapon to be comparable to the atomic bomb, one would speculate that it must employ some kind of exotic new technology and is potentially related to neutron bomb and electromagnetic weapons research.

Harry de Quetteville – “Germany outraged by data theft scandal”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2591783/Germany-outraged-by-data-theft-scandal.html

Germany outraged by data theft scandal
German politicians are being urged to tighten data protection laws after a state privacy watchdog said information on the entire German population was available and being traded online.

Harry de Quetteville | August 20, 2008

Thilo Weichert, data commissioner from the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, also said that bank account details of up to 20 million people were also being bought and sold illegally.

His comments have added to a rapidly widening scandal that began last week in Schleswig-Holstein, when a compact disc of data arrived at the state’s consumer protection agency.

On examining the disc, the agency discovered addresses and bank details on 17,000 individuals, which had been copied by a whistle-blower at a call centre where they were being used.

Deborah Hastings – “States throw out costly electronic voting machines”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jej6XIWrQn6-gw5O5bJa1ELx78DgD92LLDO00

States throw out costly electronic voting machines

Deborah Hastings | August 20, 2008

The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.

What to do with this high-tech junkyard is a multimillion-dollar question. One manufacturer offered $1 a piece to take back its ATM-like machines. Some states are offering the devices for sale on eBay and craigslist. Others hope to sell their inventories to Third-World countries or salvage them for scrap.

A few more are holding out hope that the machines, some of which were purchased for as much as $5,000, could one day be resurrected.

Olinka Koster – “Revealed: The CCTV cameras spying on hundreds of classrooms”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046236/Revealed-The-CCTV-cameras-spying-hundreds-classrooms.html

Revealed: The CCTV cameras spying on hundreds of classrooms

Olinka Koster | August 18, 2008

CCTV monitors classrooms at one in 14 schools, according to a survey.

The poll of teachers also found that almost a quarter feared there might be more cameras hidden around the campus that they did not know about.

Most said their schools were fitted with surveillance cameras. Almost 80 per cent said there were cameras at the entrance and more than 7 per cent said there were some in classrooms.

Nearly 10 per cent of teachers polled by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said there were cameras in the lavatories.

Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson – “U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503497.html

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules
More Federal Intelligence Changes Planned

Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson | August 16, 2008

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

The proposed changes would revise the federal government’s rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation’s 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.

Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months. They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within U.S. borders.

Richard Gray – “How Big Brother watches your every move”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2571041/How-Big-Brother-watches-your-every-move.html

How Big Brother watches your every move
In our ever-growing surveillance society, the average Briton is being recorded 3,000 times a week.

Richard Gray | August 17, 2008

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s citizens.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

Rense.com – “Rise Of The Rat-Brained Robots”

http://www.rense.com/general83/rat.htm

Rise Of The Rat-Brained Robots

Rense.com | August 16, 2008

A collection of 300,000 rat neurons stops this robot bumping into things.

This is no ordinary robot control system – a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made – and continue to make – connections with each other.

As they do so, the disembodied neurons are communicating, sending electrical signals to one another just as they do in a living creature. We know this because the network of neurons is connected at the base of the pot to 80 electrodes, and the voltages sparked by the neurons are displayed on a computer screen.

Ben Hubbard – “Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081203275.html

Police Turn to Secret Weapon: GPS Device

Ben Hubbard | August 13, 2008

Someone was attacking women in Fairfax County and Alexandria, grabbing them from behind and sometimes punching and molesting them before running away. After logging 11 cases in six months, police finally identified a suspect.

David Lee Foltz Jr., who had served 17 years in prison for rape, lived near the crime scenes. To figure out if Foltz was the assailant, police pulled out their secret weapon: They put a Global Positioning System device on Foltz’s van, which allowed them to track his movements.

Mercola.com – “Cancer Institute Warns of Cell Phone Risks”

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/12/cancer-institute-warns-of-cell-phone-risks.aspx

Cancer Institute Warns of Cell Phone Risks

Mercola.com | August 12, 2008

The head of a prominent cancer research institute has issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

The warning came from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Herberman says his warning is based on early unpublished data. He argues that people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.

“Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn’t wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later,” Herberman said.

Ellen Nakashima – “Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102270_pf.html

Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent

Ellen Nakashima | August 12, 2008

Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

And Google, the leading online advertiser, stated that it has begun using Internet tracking technology that enables it to more precisely follow Web-surfing behavior across affiliated sites.

Steve Watson – “Russia Today Website Targeted In Cyber Attacks”

http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/120808Attacked.htm

Russia Today Website Targeted In Cyber Attacks
Site providing most accurate coverage of Georgia conflict hit by wave of DDoS attacks

Steve Watson | August 12, 2008

A major Russian media source that has provided key coverage of the conflict in Georgia has claimed that its website has come under a heavy bombardment of cyber attacks from an IP address registered to the Georgian capital.

Noah Shachtman – “Georgia Under Online Assault”

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/georgia-under-o.html

Georgia Under Online Assault

Noah Shachtman | August 10, 2008

The websites of Georgia’s government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits. Those online assaults have only intensified in recent days, as a shooting war between the two countries has broken out.

Erin Fults – “Military use of robots increases”

http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/12080.html

Military use of robots increases
The Few, the Smart, the Robots

Erin Fults | August 4, 2008

War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from the iRobot Corporation.

Robots in the military are no longer the stuff of science fiction. They have left the movie screen and entered the battlefield. Washington University in St. Louis’s Doug Few and Bill Smart are on the cutting edge of this new wave of technology. Few and Smart report that the military goal is to have approximately 30% of the Army comprised of robotic forces by approximately 2020. Of course, they aren’t envisioning robotic soldiers from movies like “Star Wars” and “I, Robot.”

CTV.ca News Staff – “FBI tackles largest hacking case in U.S. history”

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080807/ID_theft_080807/20080807?hub=SciTech

FBI tackles largest hacking case in U.S. history

CTV.ca News Staff | August 7, 2008

Nearly a dozen people have been arrested in what U.S. officials are calling the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted in the country.

Eleven people from around the world have been arrested and charged in connection with a slew of well-organized electronic break-ins that has seen more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers stolen.

The charges include conspiracy, computer intrusion to fraud and identity theft.

Niall Firth – “Unmanned drone planes set to spy on Britons”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042062/Unmanned-drone-planes-set-spy-Britons.html

Unmanned drone planes set to spy on Britons

Niall Firth | August 6, 2008

Unmanned spy planes could soon be used to carry out covert surveillance on UK citizens, under controversial new Government plans.

The MoD is working with defence firm BAE Systems to make so-called UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) safe enough to be used to help police operations in the UK.

The sophisticated unmanned aircraft are able to get clear images of the ground even when flying at up to 50, 000 feet.