Wednesday, October 01, 2008
MI6 Spy Data Camera Sold on eBay
Foreign Confidential....
A digital camera that contained secret files about Al Qaeda was sold on eBay.
The information was obtained by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6.
A 28-year-old delivery man from the UK paid about $31 for the Nikon Coolpix camera.
The memory card on the camera still contained names and images of suspected terrorists, and log-in details for the MI6 computer network
The buyer immediately contacted police. They are investigating the possibility that an MI6 agent is responsible for the mishap.
New Global Cooling Data Reported
In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago, coincides with the end of the climb in global temperatures that had been underway for decades.
Click here to continue reading.Tibetan Movement Accuses China of Torture
As the United Nations prepares to hold hearings on China, the Tibetan government in exile has submitted a report detailing alleged cases of Chinese torture against Tibetans.
The report says China has violated an international torture convention through the widespread use of physical and mental torture against Tibetans as an instrument of political control.
The Indian-based government in exile submitted the report this week to the U.N. Committee Against Torture in Geneva for consideration ahead of the hearings in early November.
The report says 218 Tibetans were killed and nearly 7,000 were detained during China's crackdown on Tibetan protests that began in March. It provides details of alleged cases of torture of Tibetans by Chinese authorities.
China has not acknowledged any deaths of Tibetan civilians at the hands of security forces. But Chinese authorities say Tibetan rioters killed 22 people. Dozens of people accused of involvement in the riots were given jail sentences ranging from years to life in prison.
According to the Tibetan government in exile report, hundreds of monks are still being detained in Qinghai province and the whereabouts of many other detainees are unknown.
Several human rights groups also have submitted reports to the Committee Against Torture ahead of the November sessions on China.
Last week, London's Daily Telegraph published excerpts of what the newspaper said were questions from the committee about China's handling of the Tibetan protests. The questions include requests for China to provide more information about Tibetan detainees, sentencing and deaths during the crackdown.
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Canada's National Post reports on global cooling:
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