DNA Database links

Report warns of dangers of UK's DNA database

http://www. theregister. co. uk/2005/01/13/genewatch_dna_database/


Senior UK judge wants everyone on DNA database for fairness reasons

http://politicsofprivacy. blogspot. com/2007/09/senior-uk-judge-wants-everyone-on-dna. html


Concern over DNA database access

http://news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6995307. stm


A compulsory DNA database

http://www. thefirstpost. co. uk/?storyID=8497


Each DNA swab brings us closer to a police state

http://www. guardian. co. uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/05/comment. politics


Freedom fears as the DNA database expands

http://www. telegraph. co. uk/news/main. jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/05/ndna05. xml


Ministers accused of trying to build DNA database by stealth

http://www. dailymail. co. uk/pages/live/articles/news/news. html?in_article_id=480017&in_page_id=1770


Give Us Your DNA

http://news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7010687. stm


DNA fingerprinting and national DNA databases

http://genome. wellcome. ac. uk/doc_wtd020879. html


DNA Database annual report

http://www. forensic. gov. uk/forensic_t/inside/about/docs/NDNAD_AR_3_4. pdf


UK’s Largest DNA Database in the World

http://www. geneticsandhealth. com/2006/01/06/uks-largest-dna-database-in-the-world/


DNA Debate Is Stirred by U.K. Murder Convictions (Update1

http://www. bloomberg. com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a58lkGnbGy0w


Outrage as DNA profile of seven-month-old baby is added to register

http://www. mailonsunday. co. uk/pages/live/articles/news/news. html?in_article_id=481997&in_page_id=1&in_page_id=1&expand=t
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Scotland Yard Investigator Wants to Collect DNA from School Children

http://blog. wired. com/27bstroke6/2008/03/british-police. html


They've got your number: State's hunger for personal data raises security fears

http://www. independent. co. uk/news/uk/politics/theyve-got-your-number-states-hunger-for
-personal-data-raises-security-fears-758997. html


National DNA database being built by stealth

http://www. telegraph. co. uk/news/main. jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/06/ndna106. xml


How the father of DNA fingerprinting still tries to track down his Holy Grail

http://www. yorkshirepost. co. uk/features/How-the-father-of-DNA. 3887628. jp

Bank pumps £5bn into money markets

'The Bank of England moved to pump £5bn into frozen money markets today as London's leading shares tumbled on the latest impact of the credit crunch.

Policymakers made the move to ease overnight lending rates between banks spooked by the bail-out and the cut-price sale of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns.

London's FTSE 100 Index fell more than 2.5 per cent as leading banks such as Halifax Bank of Scotland and Barclays bore the brunt of the sell-off.'

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Stephen King: Radical measures needed to get us out of this terrifying game of Russian roulette

They never wanted to play, and nor did they ever think they'd have to. Against their will, America's economic policymakers have become engaged in a terrifying game of Russian roulette. The US financial system is in danger of melting down. This may not be the most probable outcome. Equally, though, a bullet through the head is not the most likely ending to a game of Russian roulette. Unless you're mad, though, it's not a game you'd volunteer to play.

Friday's bail-out of Bear Stearns, the US investment bank, brought to a close a remarkably frenetic week in financial markets. Bear Stearns' president and chief executive, Alan Schwartz, said on Thursday "our balance sheet has not weakened at all. We don't see any pressure on our liquidity". A day, it seems, is a long time in financial markets.

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Wall Street Fears Next Great Depression

Margareta Pagano
The Independent
March 16, 2008

Wall Street is bracing itself for another week of roller-coaster trading after more than $300bn (£150bn) was wiped off the US equity markets on Friday following the emergency funding package put together by the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase to rescue Bear Stearns.

One UK economist warned that the world is now close to a 1930s-like Great Depression, while New York traders said they had never experienced such fear. The Fed’s emergency funding procedure was first used in the Depression and has rarely been used since.

A Goldman Sachs trader in New York said: “Everyone is in a total state of shock, aghast at what is happening. No one wants to talk, let alone deal; we’re just standing by waiting. Everyone is nervous about what is going to emerge when trading starts tomorrow.”

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Global Markets Tumble Over Bear Stearns Bailout

AP

Global markets plunged Monday on news that JPMorgan Chase, backed by the U.S. government, had to rescue troubled Bear Stearns and investors struggled to gauge how much worse financial markets could get.

“Its difficult to call where the bottom is,” said Richard Hunter, a broker at Hargreaves Lansdown in London.

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Alleged Hijacker Booked On Post-9/11 Flights

'Astounding newly released FBI documents obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act show that alleged 9/11 hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi had booked future flights to San Francisco and Riyadh, suggesting that he was unaware of his eventual fate aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the plane that hit the World Trade Center's south tower.

The papers consist of a 300 page Federal Bureau of Investigation timeline (PDF link) that was used by the 9/11 Commission but not made public until now.'

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Ron Paul: Bernanke Deliberately Destroying Dollar

'Congressman Ron Paul slammed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke during a House Financial Services Committee meeting today for following a policy of deliberately destroying the dollar and wiping out the American middle class.'


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Israeli War Minister Threatens Palestinian Holocaust

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com

'Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after threatening Palestinians with a "holocaust," but the same media who obsessed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s "wipe Israel off the map" misquote are scurrying to defend Vilnai’s disgraceful comments.

"The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Vilnai told the Army Radio on Friday.'

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