Multiple identities

The Shanaakht (Identity) Festival returned to Karachi on Monday. It is a three day festival organized by the Citizen's Archives of Pakistan. Each morning of the festival is reserved for visiting school children...

Steal Your Face: Lawsuits Increase over Fake Social Networking Profiles

More and more teachers are taking legal action against students who dis them on Facebook and MySpace...We think of our teachers as "old", but they are the age we are now, teaching our kids, who are the same age we...

Big Brother or Internet Controversy

Biometric technologies look quite promising, but can you imagine how they will look and work in the future? LZZR shares his view on how people can be affected by future technologies."When it concerns digital...

For their eyes only: MI6

"FOR THEIR EYES ONLY: INQUEST HELD IN CAMERA TO PROTECT THE 'SECRETS' OF TEN MI6 OFFICERS? Ten former and serving MI6 officers will 'testify at the Diana Inquest from 26-29 February but the hearings will be...

Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs'

" Hi-tech 'satellite' tagging planned in order to create more space in jails. Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at 'degrading' schemeMinisters are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an...

Calgary Aryan Guard: Racial tension flares at rally

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWow, who thought the non hypocritical "Aryan Nancy Boys" in Jackboots would protest Women wearing Face coverings while voting, yet the Aryan Guard seem to think it makes...

'UK's Most wanted' sex offender arrested

"One of the UK's most wanted child sex offenders has been arrested in Ireland, police said. John Murrell, 39, went on the run for more than seven years after failing to register with police on his release from prison in September 2000. He now faces extradition to the UK after...

Novice computer hacking kits found for sale on eBay

I have included current adverts for hacking tools for sale on Ebay as of today's date 21 September 2007. The Metropolitan Police's Fraud Alert page (met.police.uk/fraudalert) has a reporting form for online fraud...

Paranoid About Neighborhood Kids, MASS man kills family, then himself on RR t...

"Neighbors knew Robert McDermott as a man who believed neighborhood children were plotting to gang up on him. He hid in the bushes with a camera to catalog their identities, they say. He also had a volatile relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, with whom he...

Who are we? Remerks from the West EU

Some months ago, I was in  Palermo, the capital of the island of Sicily in the extreme south of Italy:here the historical Arabian culture is magnificent and it appear as a  beautiful yemeni landscape for...

Chinese Good Will Ambassador Jiang Wenli, Combats HIV/AIDS

"On the screen, she is a brave policewoman or a miserable widow, while in reality, she has other identities: Good Will Ambassador of the Ministry of Health on HIV/AIDS and member of the Leadership Council of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA). Jiang Wenli, famous...

Student Convicted of Threatening to Kill President Bush, Faces Up to 35 Years...

How much more will it take before people will accept that the United States is in ruin under this administration? --------------------------------------------"A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of...

An Invitation To The Gatwick No Border Camp 2007

"No Borders – No Nations – No Prisons From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at Gatwick Airport for the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work together to try and stop the...

We'd Rather Just Poke Each Other

Social Networking sites are, for the first time, beginning to rival porn sites in terms of sheer traffic. While porn remains the number one destination for American web users, the social networks whose...

Crews tear down Copenhagen youth center

I first came across this story on NowPublic and now it's one of Yahoo's most popular stories..."COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Demolition crews started tearing down a graffiti-sprayed brick building Monday, prompting...

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