A school has installed nearly 100 security cameras to monitor classrooms, corridors and play areas, it emerged yesterday.
The £60,000-a-year surveillance system at Stockwell Park High is believed to be the most extensive in a school.
Cameras also film lessons to help staff improve their technique and may be used to expose poor teaching.
The comprehensive intends to [...]
July 21, 2009
UK: The school with 100 spy cameras – ‘Big Brother’ system watches pupils everywhere…
July 21, 2009
Netanyahu draws red line on settlement freeze…
Jerusalem – Tensions between the United States and Israel over settlement expansion in the West Bank escalated this weekend over a tinderbox issue: Israeli building in East Jerusalem, a predominantly Arab area that Israel claims as part of its “undivided and eternal capital.”
“I can only imagine what would happen if someone were to suggest that [...]
July 21, 2009
Threatening Iran…
by Paul Craig Roberts
Source: CounterPunch.org
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the US was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japan’s access to raw [...]
July 21, 2009
Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders are in Pakistan…
NEW DELHI – U.S. officials “firmly believe” that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.
At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the Pakistani [...]
July 21, 2009
Palestine: Settlers Grow and Advance…
RAMALLAH – A little village nestled in a valley between several hills in the Bethlehem governorate is today fighting for survival.
All around Wadi Fuqin village on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank is the expanding and illegal Israeli settlement Beitar Illit, home to 35,000 settlers. The settlement is situated on a hill [...]
July 21, 2009
Cost Of Bailout Hits A Whopping $24 Trillion Dollars…
According to the watchdog overseeing the federal government’s financial bailout program, the full exposure since 2007 amounts to a whopping $23.7 trillion dollars, or $80,000 for every American citizen.
The last time we were able to get a measure of the total cost of the bailout, it stood at around $8.5 trillion dollars. Eight months down [...]
July 21, 2009
Big Pharma: Baxter Files Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak…
by Lori Price
Source: GlobalResearch
Barack Opharma issues the ultimate bad news during his weekly Friday night bad news dump: Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers 17 Jul 2009 The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects [paralysis, death] [...]
July 21, 2009
Gates to expand US army by thousands…
As the US feels the strain on its armed forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, the country’s defense secretary talks of plans to expand the Army by 22,000 soldiers.
Speaking at a Pentagon news conference with Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the military has [...]
July 21, 2009
In deadly Afghan summer, blast kills 4 US soldiers…
July has become the deadliest month in the US-led war on Afghanistan as a roadside bomb kills at least four American soldiers in an eastern Afghan province.
US military spokesman, Lt Robert Carr, confirmed that the casualties were all American, but refused to further elaborate on the matter.
The number of American service members who have died [...]
July 21, 2009
Eight killed in Iraq bomb attacks…
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Eight people were killed and more than 60 wounded in a spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad and the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.
A one-year-old baby and a girl of eight were among three people killed when a bomb exploded at a market in the [...]
