Saturday Feb 10 2007 Daily News

University Prof gets visit from security for using Tor - told to stop using it, and not to teach his student about it


Increase in NYPD stops draws criticism


Report: 120 North Korean political prisoners escape


U.S. general warns Iraq doomed if crackdown fails


U.S. air strike kills 8 near Baghdad


Islamic school targeted in raid shut down


Afghan, NATO kill 10 Taliban


Cardinal accuses China of 'acts of war'


ElBaradei fears "chain reaction" to Iran conflict


Putin: US seeking to control world


Kurds killed in US 'friendly fire'


DISA plans new top-secret presidential network


NSA electricity crisis gets Senate scrutiny

Friday 09 2007 Daily News

Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel


U.N. watchdog cuts many aid projects in Iran


Russia says no new arms race despite U.S. missile plan


Jerusalem 'tense' after clashes


Venezuelan state buys power firm


Dollar down on inflation speculation


'Doomsday' vault design unveiled


Should People Be Allowed To Smoke at Home?


GOP revives ISP-tracking legislation


US Senate introduces strong privacy bill


Congress: We’re bored, can we go home now?

"One Representative was heard to quip, “We’re cramming two days of work into five days.”"

The US's pricey fighting flops


'Intelligence' on al-Qaeda refuted


Iran to 'hit back' if US attacks

Thurs Feb 08 2007 Daily News

Iran tests missiles "able to sink big warships"

Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave

World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars

U.S. arrests Iraq minister

Palestinian leaders agree on Cabinet

Rebels assassinate politician

100 US, Israel spies found: Iran

All-out turf war feared in Japanese underworld

US puzzles over China's military might

How the US Army's being warn down in Iraq

US to have Africa military command

Kidnappers seize two in Nigeria

Malaysia fears Thai 'terror camps'

Wed Feb 7 2007 Daily News

Waxman Probes Iraq Contracting, Missing $12 Billion

"So far, audits of spending in Iraq have covered only 10 percent of the contracts, Waxman said in a Jan. 31 interview. ``What we know from the audits is that perhaps billions of dollars may not be accounted for,'' he said.

Waxman's report said as much as $12.7 billion in cash from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, sent to Iraq during Bremer's watch between May 2003 and June 2004, was unaccounted for."

Iraq's Missing Billions

"Dr Ali Fadhil, a 29 year old Iraqi doctor, investigates what has happened to billions of dollars worth of Iraqi money which was put into the care of the US led coalition to be spent for the benefit of Iraqi people on the reconstruction of their country. He uncovers a shocking story of fraud, incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for"

Hackers Attack Key Net Traffic Computers
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002."

Attack on DNS root servers

Water Deal Exposes Secret Iraq Contracts

AskPablo: Exotic Bottled Water

"Based on my assumptions a bottle that holds 1 liter requires 25 liters of water in its manufacturing process (this includes power plant cooling water)."

For The First Time Ever, Poverty Shifts To The Suburbs

Did you see strange lights in the Arizona sky Tuesday night?

US, Iraqi troops push deep into Baghdad Sunni bastion

U.S. Transport Helicopter Crash Kills Seven

Outlaw weapons (Australia)

Seven letter bombs sent: UK police

U.N. says 50,000 Somalis have crossed to Ethiopia

EU Executive Plans To Punish Green Crimes

"BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission wants to punish the most serious crimes against the environment with 5-10 year minimum jail terms and fines of up to 1.5 million euro (990,000 pounds), a draft proposal obtained by Reuters shows.""The heaviest sentence -- at least five to 10 years of jail -- would apply to "green crimes" committed intentionally that killed or seriously injured people. Other offences would be punished by at least 1-3 years in prison."

"Constant Conflict" By Ret. Col Ralph Peters

Tuesday Feb 6 2007 Daily News

US Should weigh war on terrorism tax - Lieberman

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2azcux

"I think we have to start thinking about a war on terrorism tax," the independent Connecticut lawmaker said. "I mean people keep saying we're not asking a sacrifice of anybody but our military in this war and some civilians who are working on it."

"When you put together the (Pentagon) budget and the Homeland Security budgets, we need to ask people to help us in a way that they know when they pay more it will go for their security," he said during a Senate panel hearing on the defense budget request.

Bush on Monday asked Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending and to curb many domestic programs. The request includes $245 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars between now and late 2008.

Mexican prosecutors: man who tried to commit suicide beaten to death by police
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/21/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Suicide-Beating.php

Diamond loses its stiffness crown to new material

Photo in the News: Massive Cloud Engulfs Saturn Moon's Pole

Invention: Covert iris scanner

Columbia's Blacks Hit Hard By Guerrilla War

"Too tired to walk," Japan man steals police car

Gunmen kidnap senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad
"The official said the diplomat, the second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, was snatched in the central Karrada district by 30 gunmen wearing the uniforms of a special Iraqi army unit that often works with U.S. military forces in Iraq"

Coalition MPs attack proposed ID card(Australia)

Video of US pilots killing British trooper

Second letter-bomb attack in 24 hours injures twohttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1339519.ece

Monday Feb 05 2007 Daily News

Chicago Fed warns of ‘time bomb’ mortgages
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/story.asp?id=276019

Subprime Credit Crunch Could Trigger Collapse
http://www.autodogmatic.com/index.php/sst/2007/02/02/p438#more438

U.S. contractors becoming a fourth branch of government
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/04/america/web.0204contract.php?page=1

US immigration cavity search ends in agony
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/05/immigration_search/

UFOs over Iran could be U.S. operations, extraterrestrial visitors or both
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20151

Magnitude 6.1 - CUBA REGION
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007yjay.php

Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0202-26.htm

Iran claims found herbal cure for AIDS; Ahmadinejad vows Islamic Republic's nuclear rights 'will be established' on Feb. 11
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Iran_claims_found_herbal_cure_for_0204.html

Russia probes smelly orange snow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6323611.stm
""So far we cannot explain the snow, which is oily to the touch and has a pronounced rotten smell," said Omsk environmental prosecutor Anton German, quoted by the Russian news agency Itar-Tass on Thursday."

Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/brze-f03.shtml

Wall Street drifts down
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21179139-1702,00.html

UK like Uganda under Amin: cleric
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21176049-1702,00.html

Drug gang violence erupts killing 7 in Rio
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=191812007

Child soldiers still recruited 10 years after pact
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=191132007

Iran installs 328 centrifuges at atomic site
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=190872007

Letter bomb explodes in London office
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=190842007

Feds to take DNA from everyone at arrest
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/02/05/feds-to-take-dna-from-everyone-at-arrest/

Bush gives White House greater control over government agencies
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/30/news/prexy.php

Pentagon considers strong air approach
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/LOCAL17/702010475/-1/ZONES04

The danger of Bush's anti-Iran fatwa
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3037