Social network turns on new feature to automatically identify people in photos, raising questions about privacy implications of the service – By Charles Arthur Guardian June 8, 2011 Facebook has come under fire for quietly expanding the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about its privacy practices. The feature, which the giant […]
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Miami Beach Police Threaten Man At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone
But video survived even after police tried to destroy phone By Carlos Miller Pixiq June 5, 2011 Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, […]
TREND: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
“Perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if political and social trends continue.” – By Franklin Lamb CounterPunch June 5, 2011 Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where […]
MARKET FLASH: Oil set for a big price jump
By Andrew McKillop 21st Century Wire MARKET INSIGHT June 6, 2011 Oil is again a leading asset for possible rapid price growth. The reasons are however rather strange and sinister: Wall Street is demanding higher prices, very especially by Goldman Sachs Group Inc which says the price should (it says “could”) reach $ 130 a […]
Freakonomics and the United States of McDonalds
By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century June 4, 2011 This is one of those Freakonomic statistics that, if you were in government, you wouldn’t ever want it to be released to the public, especially during a protracted recession like we are currently witnessing in the US. No one would like to admit that the Golden Arches […]
Libya says NATO raids killed 718 civilians (so far)
AFP | NATO: “The Gaddafi regime is finished, he must leave office, he must leave the country”.
FBI Criminal Complaint Filed for ‘Forged’ Obama Birth Record
White House Birth Certificate Release Exposed as Poorly Made Fake – By Jerome R. Corsi WND June 1, 2011 This is the first of three articles on the criminal complaint that scanner-expert Doug Vogt filed last week with the FBI. An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI, charging […]
Mystery of the helicopter landed at scene of Dr Kelly’s death after his body was found
Mail Online | “‘If the purpose of the helicopter flight was innocent, one has to ask why it was kept secret.”