The US is seeing the biggest surge in violent crime since the early 90s. Well, so much for the massive incarceration scheme and a brutal, militarized police force.
Murders in the United States jumped 4.8 percent last year, and overall violent crime was up 2.5 percent for the year, marking the largest annual increase in crime [...]
Bilderberg 2006 came and went and almost no one noticed. As the group meetings are subject to the Chatham House Rule of Confidentiality one cannot say much of the content. But the guest list speaks plenty. For starters, I guess someone is very interested in dictating policy in Sweden this autumn. And what better way [...]
AFP via Engadget. Hopefully the pressure building among European legislators will force Apple to reconsider its business model to some degree and deal a blow to DRM in general.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.
The three Scandinavian countries [...]
And guess who will decide what constitutes a “public crisis?” The same people doing the testing of course (and no doubt have a cosy relationship with those that manufacture the tests). This is some amazing privacy infringing bravado that most likely will have unforeseen consequences. The hypothetical scenario that the FDA presents sounds fine in [...]
On the decline of America’s soft power (”Cultural Power” or “attraction”). John Brown argues along the lines of Joseph Nye that power comes in three rough varieties. Namely “coercion,” “payments” and “attraction.” The latter is clearly the most elusive, underrated and what the US is quickly running out of. Furthermore, he argues that the reasons [...]
Foreign states have made 519 requests since 2004 and all of the requests were granted! Just wait until Britain gets its new identity card register.
It emerged in January that 24,000 under-18s never cautioned, charged or convicted are on the database, which was established in 1995.
A Home Office spokesman said the data was only given to [...]
Though this falls within the realm of celebrity gossip (and I hate the celebrity cult, not necessarily gossip) I couldn’t help noticing this tidbit from last week. Bottom line, actress Michelle Rodriguez had violating her probation and got a 60-day sentence (+ 30 days of community service) which in itself seems fairly low. Well, it [...]
It will soon cost $325,000 to violate “decency standards” on TV or radio. Some freedom that is. Just wait until you get the same rules to apply for satellite, cable or … the Internet.
The U.S. Congress on Wednesday sent President George W. Bush a bill to boost fines tenfold to $325,000 on broadcast television and [...]
Americans are pumping their kids full of antipsychotics, so they’ll be more orderly and compliant. Nothing like a drug zombie, eh? Ironic since the last big things was antidepressants. Without going completely Scientology here, suffice it to say, psychoactive drugs must be kept to an absolute minimum.
Since 1993, the number of American children forced to [...]
I mean, the damn thing hasn’t started yet and the news is already soiled with this utter nonsense.
Like if Wayne Rooney is “300% certain” he will make the World Cup finals. Those sort of deep and profound investigatory pieces of journalism.
Not only is it obfuscating real issues in the real world (isn’t sport always?) [...]
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