News
"Are You Being Watched?"
By Rob Winters - Published on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:23
"Did you know that The Department of Defense has an ongoing research project to remote control soldier’s emotions and tolerance for stress? A soldier who didn’t display fear in dangerous situations and didn’t experience fatigue, would make a better fighting machine. And what better way to turn a human being into a mere machine devoid of personal freedom and autonomy. In a world that is under total surveillance, there is not likely to be much we could call freedom. Freedom to speak or think would be freedom to speak or think what the authorities permit."
Read more: http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201107/spies-and-lies/are-you-being-watched
"Cash Cab strikes and kills pedestrian in Canada"
By Rob Winters - Published on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 06:42
"A "Cash Cab" taxi struck and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver when a technical staff member was driving the replica cab back to the lot after filming on the Canadian version of the game show wrapped for the day.The staff member crashed into a 61-year-old man crossing the street and the man died in the hospital soon after the accident Friday, police said. The family of the Surrey man has requested that his name not be released."
"Power may corrupt, but so, it seems, does impotence"
By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:49
"Scandals used to be so simple. Power corrupts, we were taught, and scandals were the business of those few who held power. Teapot Dome, which before Watergate was what you thought of when you saw the words “American political scandal,” involved the payment of kickbacks to a single cabinet secretary. The Pacific Scandal was essentially a matter between Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Hugh Allan.
In this democratic age, however, the locus of corruption has shifted."
Read more: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/18/a-nation-infected-by-scandal/
"LifeLines: A global community for good"
By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:39
"You know how there is that little something in the back of your mind that keeps gnawing away at you? That "little something" can be negative, positive, or neutral, but it is always there. Years ago a small thought germinated in my mind. At first it was a fuzzy idea that wasn’t quite formed, then over time, it became a full thought. Initially, I discounted it as not possible, it was simply beyond my capability."
Read more: http://www.lifelines-globalcommunity.blogspot.com/
"News of the World Phone-Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 19:34
"Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.
Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home."
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/18-4
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