Demian Bulwa, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, July 28, 2006 Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration, documents released Thursday show.
The department assigned the officers to join activists protesting the U.S. war in Iraq and the tactics that police had used at a demonstration a month earlier, a police official said last year in a sworn deposition. |
Tuesday, August 01 2006
by Ciara O'Brien The US is set to ban social networking sites like MySpace from schools and libraries in a bid to combat sexual predators.
Latest ENN headlines Virus infections drop, spam on the up: report AMD claws more market-share from Intel US poised to ban social networking sites Events: INTERNET & TELECOMS Under the Deleting Online Predators Act, any federal institution that receives funding under the E-Rate scheme for computers and internet access will have to put filters in place to prevent access to social networking sites. Access to these sites will only be permitted under adult supervision. |
Reuters
Tue Aug 1, 2006 WASHINGTON - U.S. sanctions on Myanmar were extended for up to three years under a law signed by President Bush on Tuesday, an attempt to increase pressure on the government to follow through with democratic reforms.
The law bars the import of goods from the country which the United States calls by its traditional name, Burma. The Bush administration has been critical of its poor human rights record, particularly the house of arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
By Gary Parkinson, City Editor
The Independent 01 August 2006 HSBC unveiled record profits before tax of $12.5bn (£6.7bn) for the first six months of the year, despite a surge in bad debts among Britons.
Steeper mortgage payments and energy bills have left more borrowers unable to meet repayments on credit cards and other unsecured personal loans. HSBC, which controls about 10 per cent of that market, tightened its lending criteria towards the end of last year and made fewer loans but was still forced to write-off £361m over the six months to the end of June, against £265m this time last year. |
AP
August 1, 2006 |
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