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Real US federal budget deficit is in the trillions; Congress still playing numbers gamesBy Mike Adams, August 4 2006
(NewsTarget) The federal government declared a $318 billion budget deficit last year, but in reality it was over $3 trillion, according to government accountants.
"We've been hiding the bottom line from the American people," says Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., "It's not fair to them, and it's delusional on our part."
Congress uses "cash accounting" -- an accounting practice that would be illegal for any U.S. corporation -- in order to report a lower deficit publicly. This method is comparable...
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National security whistleblower posts tell-all video on YouTubeBy NewsTarget, August 31 2006
(NewsTarget) Former Lockheed Martin project manager and engineer Michael DeKort has stirred up a hornets' nest with his 10-minute video on YouTube.com. During the video, he charges his former company of shoddy workmanship on security upgrades for Coast Guard vessels.
"What I am going to tell you is going to seem preposterous," DeKort begins on his video, going on to say there are critical blind spots in the security cameras of some Coast Guard ships, that the systems for classified communications...
Evolution study no longer approved under federal education grantsBy NewsTarget, August 24 2006
(NewsTarget) There is a big hole in the National Smart Grant list where evolutionary biology used to be. While spokespersons for the Department of Education say that it was a clerical error, some members of the scientific community fear that pressure from religious groups may have been the real cause for the omission of low-income educational grants for study on the subject.
Department of Education spokesperson Katherine McLane insists the field of study was not left off the list on purpose, and...
First impressions decided in one-tenth of a secondBy NewsTarget, August 24 2006
(NewsTarget) A new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that people take just a tenth of a second to make character judgments about the people they meet.
The researchers showed 200 study participants photographs of people's faces, and asked them to rate the photos on attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence and aggression. The participants made up their minds about the people in the photos in 100 milliseconds -- one-tenth of a second -- and when given longer glances...
Federal judge strikes down warrantless surveillance, dealing blow to Bush police state tacticsBy NewsTarget, August 18 2006
(NewsTarget) Arguably the most controversial of the post-Sept. 11 antiterrorist measures was President Bush's NSA-run "Terrorist Surveillance Program," which has been under fire as "warrantless surveillance" ever since its December 2005 exposure by the New York Times. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor Thursday ordered an immediate halt to the program.
The Detroit judge is the first to shut down the program that involves secretly recording conversations between people in the United States and...
Housing bubble peaks as 28 states see decline in home salesBy NewsTarget, August 16 2006
(NewsTarget) For the past five years, the U.S. housing market enjoyed a record economic boom as the lowest mortgage rates in more than 40 years drew a multitude of buyers, but experts say the bubble may be set to burst as sales dropped in 28 states and the District of Columbia this spring.
The National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday that sales of existing homes were at a record 7.193 million units in the spring of 2005, but that number plummeted by 7.5 percent to 6.693 million units...
AOL search data reveals disturbing details about usersBy NewsTarget, August 9 2006
(NewsTarget) According to a report by CNET news, internet giant AOL recently published the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users, exposing the lives of regular -- and not so regular -- people to public scrutiny.
While AOL apologized, and the data do not identify the searchers by name, the document was removed from the AOL web site too late to keep it from being replicated across the internet.
This release of this information means anyone can look up three months of AOL search history...
9/11 rescuers found to suffer from severe lung damageBy NewsTarget, August 2 2006
(NewsTarget) Dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center has caused the type of lung problems in emergency crews that would have taken 12 years to occur under normal circumstances, reports a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The results of the tests on firefighters were unique because researchers were able to look at their respiratory function tests from as far back as 1997. Routine lung tests had been carried out on the workers as part of...
House and Senate finally call for investigation into Depleted Uranium (DU) poisoning of troopsBy NewsTarget, July 31 2006
(NewsTarget) Veterans' appeals for government assistance in post-service health problems have finally resulted in the U.S. House and Senate calling for immediate research on radioactive metals used in armor and weapons.
Published research shows uranium binds to DNA and causes cell mutation, leading to an increase in cancer and birth deformities in soldiers and Middle Eastern civilians who were exposed to the substance, which is used in tanks and munitions.
A Gulf War veteran who handled uranium...
Homeland Security can now search your laptop computer: Man gets 25 years for deleted image filesBy NewsTarget, July 27 2006
(NewsTarget) Three judges have ruled that border police can seize laptops and run forensic tests without warrants or probable cause.
Due to his criminal background, Stuart Romm was denied access by Canadian authorities into British Columbia. When he returned to the Seattle-Tacoma airport, he allowed Homeland Security to search his laptop using forensic software. The tests revealed deleted files of child pornography left on the laptop's cache.
The judge in Romm's case refused his attorney's...
Top web companies violating human rights, charges Amnesty InternationalBy NewsTarget, July 21 2006
(NewsTarget) Amnesty International has publicly criticized Internet companies Microsoft, Google and Yahoo for their censorship agreements with Chinese authorities.
"The Internet should promote free speech, not restrict it. We have to guard against
the creation of two Internets -- one for expression and one for represssion," stated Larry Cox, Amnesty's United States executive director. Amnesty claims the Internet companies "have violated their stated corporate values and policies" in order...
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