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Undercover police had children with activists

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rob Evans, Paul Lewis - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Undercover police had children with activists — Disclosure likely to intensify controversy over long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups — Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy …

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Homelessness could spread to middle class, Crisis study warns

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Randeep Ramesh - Aug. 30 (News Report) - Homelessness charity points to direct link between economic downturn and welfare cuts, and rising numbers living on streets The economic downturn and the government's deep cuts to welfare will drive up homelessness over the next few years, raising the spectre of middle class people living on the streets, a major study warns. The report by the homelessness charity Crisis, seen by the Guardian, says there is a direct link between the downturn and rising homelessness as cuts to services and draconian changes to benefits shred the traditional welfare safety net. In the 120-page study, co-authored by academics at the University of York and Heriot-Watt University, Crisis highlights figures released over the summer which show councils have reported 44,160 people accepted as homeless and placed in social housing, an increase of 10% on the previous year and the first increase in almost a decade. Last year another 189,000 people were also placed in temporary accommodation – such as small hotels ...

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Facebook users jailed over 'riot that never was'

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Two British men have been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to organize riots on Facebook, according to reports.

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Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tim Dickinson - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News. But 'the Chairman' is using his power to make Americans more rightwing, more ignorant and ever more terrified At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network's founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes. "It was as though we were looking at Mao," recalls Charlie Reina, a former Fox News producer. The Foxistas went wild. They let the dogs out. Woof! Woof! Woof! Even those ...

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Cameron on riots: ‘We will not put up with this’

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said “nothing is off the table” to regain control of British streets — telling the nation that rubber bullets had been authorized and water cannons were on standby after violence and looting hit Manchester, Birmingham and other British cities. London, the capital, was mostly quiet overnight. But the riots that began last week after a police-involved shooting continued to rock other British cities. Under fire for the government’s handing of the disturbances, Cameron said the relative calm in London spoke to the forceful deployment of 16,000 troops on the streets.

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UK riots: fifth night live coverage

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Aug. 10 (Breaking News) - 7.43pm: A 20-year old woman has been charged after allegedly posting a Facebook invite to a "riot" in Wakefield. The woman was charged under the Serious Offences Act 2007 and has been bailed to appear before Wakefield Magistrates on August 24, said a West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman.

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Clean-up as England riots spread

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The prime minister has said the "fightback" is under way, after cities in England suffered a fourth night of violence and looting. David Cameron said every action would be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice. On Tuesday night, unrest spread to cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. Three men aged 21, 30 and 31 died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham. Haroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali, and Abdul Musavir were taken to hospital but died from their injuries.

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Pressure on James Murdoch Is Poised to Intensify

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Don Van Natta Jr., Graham Bowley, Jo Becker - Jul. 24 (News Report) - After his testimony in Parliament was challenged by two former senior employees and referred by a lawmaker to Scotland Yard for investigation, James Murdoch has come under rising pressure in Britain’s phone hacking scandal that is likely to intensify this week.

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Phone hacking also rife under Piers Morgan at Mirror, claims ex-reporter

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jul. 23 (News Report) - James Hipwell, who worked as a financial journalist under the editorship of Piers Morgan, said the practice was "seen as a bit of a wheeze" and offered to give evidence to the public inquiry into hacking ordered by David Cameron. Hacking also took place

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Hacking Testimony Is Disputed

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Cassell Bryan Low, Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow - Jul. 22 (News Report) - Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct U.K. tabloid likely involved more than just one rogue reporter, as the company had long maintained.

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TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

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How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Richards, Alex Graul, Martin Shuttleworth, Mariana Santos, Ranjit Dhaliwal, Alastair Dant - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - The Murdochs' decision to close the News of the World was greeted with a frenzy on Twitter. The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets sent with the #notw hashtag over the past four days to capture…

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Brown 'targeted by Sunday Times'

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By James Landale - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Gordon Brown is said to be "shocked" after it was alleged the Sunday Times targeted his personal information when he was Chancellor. Documents and a phone recording suggest "blagging" was used to obtain private financial and property details. The Browns also fear medical records relating to their son Fraser, whom the Sun revealed in 2006 had cystic fibrosis, may have been obtained.

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Emphatic Farewell for British Paper Caught Up in Hacking Scandal

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ravi Somaiya - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Reporters leaving the newsroom of The News of the World for the final time on Saturday night were told by the police to leave their desks, including their notebooks, untouched. They were allowed to keep only their cellphones. With that, the 168-year-old News of the World came to an end, brought down by a scandal over the interception of voicemail messages that is rocking Britain’s media, its police force and government, and threatens the empire of a previously unassailable mogul. The final edition included an apology to readers for the newspaper losing its way, as well as a defiant claim to being the “world’s greatest.”

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Rush for Arctic's resources provokes territorial tussles

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister - Jul. 06 (News Analysis) - US, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway are becoming embroiled in disputes over boundaries on land and at sea Two nations on opposite sides of the Nato military alliance divide – Russia and Norway – have signed a deal over who owns what in the Barents Sea. But there are plenty of other territorial tussles going on – some between good friends. The United States and Canada still disagree on the setting of the boundaries in the Beaufort Sea – an area of intense interest to oil drillers . Similarly, Canada has yet to resolve a dispute with Denmark over the ownership of Hans Island and where the control line should be drawn in the strait between Greenland (whose sovereignty remains with Denmark) and Ellesmere Island. But of even greater significance in a world of melting ice floes is control of the North West Passage . Canada insists that it has sovereignty over the sea route and therefore must be asked about usage. The US sees it as a potential area of open water which gives it automatic ...

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Fact check: Cost of public sector pensions

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 30 (Research) - Debate is raging between government ministers and trade unions over how much public sector pensions cost the country - and whether they must be made less generous. Here are some common claims and counter-claims - and whether they are correct.

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Death wish: Routine use of vital antibiotics on farms threatens human health

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jeremy Laurance - Jun. 16 (Investigative Report) - The use of modern antibiotics on British farms has risen dramatically in the past decade, fuelling the development of resistant organisms and weakening the power of human medicine to cure disease.

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Warning: extreme weather ahead

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there. Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than ...

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Can a cyber-attack really be considered an 'act of war'?

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Zack Whittaker - Jun. 02 (Not sure) - The limelight as firmly shone on the Pentagon’s decision to classify severe cyber-attacks as an act of war . Considering the recent social engineering attacks which led to compromised government Gmail accounts , the two are now seemingly connected. One h

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Why aren't the masses joining the protests to 'Save our NHS'? Perhaps because the NHS treats them with utter contempt – Telegraph Blogs

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Brendan O'Neill - May. 30 (Investigative Report) - The most striking thing about the “Save our NHS” protests is how small they are. From the handful of professional activists who stormed a branch of NatWest at the weekend, symbolically draped in bloodied bandages, to the various “die-ins” staged by anti-cuts protesters who claim that “the poor” (a horrible Dickensian phrase) will kick the bucket if the Lib-Cons trim anything related to health, the protests have been noisy and headline-grabbing, yes, but tiny in terms of turnout

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UK steps up bombing of Gaddafi targets

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Richard Norton-Taylor - May. 17 (News) - Hours after the international criminal court chief prosecutor called for the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi and his closet advisers for mass murder, Britain stepped up its strikes on what military officials described as secret police compounds in Tripoli.

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The Dark Arts

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - May. 15 (News Report) - It started when the News of the World hacked into the voice mails of the British royal household, in 2005, touching off a scandal that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.—and, apparently, the British authorities—tried to contain. After a score of lawsuits and new arrests, the cover-up is falling apart.

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The Coming Euro Crack-Up

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Irwin M. Stelzer - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The “European project” won’t go quietly into the night. But it just might go noisily into the ashcan of history if the Germans decide they cannot convert the Greeks into hard-working, tax-paying euro-citizens worthy of continuing handouts. Or, at minimum, we might end up with a euro-nord and euro-sud, as Martin Feldstein once suggested.

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America resists royal wedding fever

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Richard Adams - Apr. 23 (News) - Evidence that Americans are not interested in the royal wedding, thanks to a poll by CBS and the New York Times Despite the many hours of programming on the royal wedding being threatened by America's networks, I've long had a suspicion that Americans themselves are really not very interested. That's not to say they aren't aware of it. They certainly know it's happening, and many of them have asked me if I'm excited by the proceedings. But when I've turned the question around and asked if they were going to watch the wedding, the response has been blank incomprehension: why? Anecdotal evidence aside, now there's some proof that they really don't care: a respectable survey by the New York Times and CBS News [pdf] found that only six per cent of Americans said they were following news about the wedding "very closely", and just a further 22% said they were following it "somewhat closely". Meanwhile, 38% of those polled said they were not interested at all and 30% were not following it ...

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U.S., Allies Raise Ante on Ouster of Gadhafi

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Stephen Fidler, Adam Entous, Sam Dagher - Apr. 14 (News Report) - The leaders of the U.S., France and the U.K. said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must continue operations in Libya until Col. Moammar Gadhafi leaves power, raising the stakes in the showdown with the Libyan ruler.

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