It sounds like something straight out of George Orwell’s nightmarish Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In a move that harks back to the dark days of the KGB, the Russian security service has been given new powers to crack down on so-called ‘thought crime’.
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FRENCH AID WORKER EXECUTED IN AFRICA
AFGHANISTAN ‘SHOCKED’ BY LEAKED U.S. DOCUMENTS
DRUG FIRM NOVARTIS FINED $295M FOR SEX DISCRIMINATION

The US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
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President Obama on Wednesday appointed health-care expert Donald M. Berwick to administer the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, bypassing the Senate confirmation process over strong objections…
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What kid doesn’t love McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets? The white meat chunks are tasty and perfect for little mouths and hands. And while most parents are aware that McNuggets aren’t perfectly healthy, they probably don’t know exactly what goes into making them.
CNN has revealed that the fast-food chain makes this popular menu item with the chemical [...]

In its never-ending attempt to fabricate “mental disorders” out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they’ve invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.
This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. The [...]

Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said. At least six suspected militants were killed, including a possible al-Qaida operative.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government yesterday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his first visit to Latin America.
Chavez has drawn close to Syria and Iran, and cut ties with Israel last year to protest its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
“We have common enemies,” Mr Chavez said, describing [...]

The United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, in years, Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, admitted on Sunday.
He also gave a sobering account of the war in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban seemed to be strengthening with a stepped-up campaign of violence, even as [...]

The Supreme Court ruled for the first time Monday that the Second Amendment provides all Americans a fundamental right to bear arms, a long-sought victory for gun rights advocates who have chafed at federal, state and local efforts to restrict gun ownership.
The court was considering a restrictive handgun law in Chicago and one of its [...]

Yes, you read that right. Ron Paul’s push to audit the Federal Reserve Bank and see who received how much money in the last few years has been drastically reduced. Amidst the many costly bailouts, recipients have included banks, large companies, and even foreign countries. And now it appears that much of [...]

OLBERMANN SLAMS TEA PARTY SENATE CANDIDATE FOR VOTING AGAINST WATER FLOURIDATION
WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE HUNTED BY PENTAGON OVER MASSIVE LEAK

PHOENIX – Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others’ concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit.
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Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.
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AHMADINEJAD URGES U.N. TO PROBE 9/11 ATTACKS
PAKISTANI AIR RAIDS KILL 70 CIVILIANS

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THIS YEAR THE BILDERBERG GROUP WILL MEET JUNE 3-6 IN SITGES, SPAIN
POLISH PRESIDENT, ALONG WITH 87 OTHERS, DIE IN PLANE CRASH
ATOM-GRABBING ‘BLACK HOLE’ CREATED
WHISTLEBLOWERS ON U.S. ‘MASSACRE’ FEAR CIA STALKERS
U.S. ANGRY ABOUT IRAN’S NUCLEAR ADVANCES

JUDGE TELLS RESIDENTS TO “ARM THEMSELVES” IN OHIO
ILLEGAL DOWNLOADERS FACE LIFE INTERNET BAN IN UK
BROWN DWARF STAR MAY BE NEWFOUND NEIGHBOR OF THE SUN

The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC’s August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers before voluntarily ending them earlier [...]

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated [...]

In almost every major Chinese city, users reported that trying to access Google searches returned an error page.
The hiatus began at around 5pm on Tuesday in China. Although it was still possible to access Google’s websites, searches on any topic delivered an error message.
Google was unable to immediately confirm the cause of the problem, but [...]

JP MORGAN WHISTLEBLOWER INJURED IN HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT DAY AFTER TESTIFYING
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UNDERSEA VOLCANO THREATENS SOUTHERN ITALY
ROTHSCHILDS BRING IN AN OUTSIDER TO RUN THE SHOW

OBAMA BYPASSES SENATE, USES ‘RECESS APPOINTMENT’ TOOL

JURY CONVICTS 8 FOR VOTE FRAUD IN KENTUCKY
SOUTH KOREAN NAVY SHIP SINKS
U.S. REGULATORS CLOSE DESERT HILLS BANK OF PHOENIX, 41st BANK FAILURE OF YEAR
NEW PROOF UNKNOWN “STRUCTURES” TUG AT OUR UNIVERSE
ARIZONA STATE LAW PROMISES TO BE TOUGHEST ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION