http://www.Counterthink.orgIndependent news for thinking people en-us60Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:12:00 PDT Copyright: (C) Truth Publishing LLC http://www.newstarget.com/images/logo03.gifhttp://www.Counterthink.org(NewsTarget) The potential battleground of the future -- outer space -- now belongs to the United States, according to U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush, who just recently signed a new National Space Policy that asserts America's right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests." In...http://www.Counterthink.org/020910.htmlFri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) As more voting processes across the country turn from the old-fashioned pencil-and-ballot to newer, computerized voting systems, the possibility increases that these new systems will be open to many kinds of electronic fraud. Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was...http://www.Counterthink.org/020882.htmlWed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDTThe practices of commercial data brokers can rob consumers of their privacy, threaten them with identity theft and profile them as dead beats or security risks, according to an investigative report in Consumer Reports October Issue. Choice Point, LexisNexis and Acxiom are among the largest of the...http://www.Counterthink.org/020847.htmlMon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) According to Tom Engelhardt's editorial in the Oct. 18 issue of The Nation, the U.S.-backed tribunal of Saddam Hussein will likely delay its verdict until Nov. 5, which he notes makes it fall on the day of midterm elections. What Engelhardt finds hard to accept is the fact that many in...http://www.Counterthink.org/020828.htmlThu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDTAccording to today's report in Communications Daily, PBS.org 'proposes to solicit ads for its children's [web]sites.' Tom Tardivo, vp-strategic asset management, told Communications Daily that 'A half banner will appear on PBSkids.org and PBSkids Go! home pages.' Ads will also appear elsewhere on PBS...http://www.Counterthink.org/020814.htmlThu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDTA federal district judge in Detroit today struck down the President's warrantless domestic spying program operated by the National Security Agency. The decision by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor is yet another setback for the President's claim of unchecked executive power, and an important victory for the rule...http://www.Counterthink.org/020728.htmlThu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) An internal investigation at Hewlett-Packard that may have used illegal practices has led to the arrests of several key members of the company's hierarchy, but one political critic wants to know why HP's higher ups have been indicted for illegal spying while the Bush administration is not...http://www.Counterthink.org/020655.htmlFri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) The Bush administration has blocked the release of a report suggesting that global warming is likely contributing to the formation, frequency and strength of hurricanes. NOAA scientists drafted the report linking human activity with hurricane activity in February 2006. It was scheduled...http://www.Counterthink.org/020574.htmlThu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDTAn important mechanism for protecting human research participants is the prior approval of a study by a research ethics board, known in the United States as an institutional review board, or IRB. Traditionally, IRBs have been run by volunteer committees of scientists and clinicians working in the academic...http://www.Counterthink.org/020533.htmlMon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDTStocks fell sharply in the online gaming industry at the beginning of September, after word spread of a second Internet gaming executive arrested by U.S. authorities. Peter Dicks of Sportingbet.com was taken into custody as part of an ongoing investigation into the gaming site. The arrest warrant...http://www.Counterthink.org/020521.htmlMon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDTPresident George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he elevated to power and by his Attorney General, Torture Gonzales who gave him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at the expense of America's reputation...http://www.Counterthink.org/020499.htmlFri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) Voting machines have caused controversy due to studies that say they are vulnerable to hacking and vote tampering, but Princeton University computer science professor Edward Felten and two graduate students, Ariel Feldman and Alex Halderman, have escalated these doubts by actually obtaining...http://www.Counterthink.org/020427.htmlThu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDTAt CounterThink, you learn a lot of information that challenges your current view of reality, and this article is no exception to that. It's about changing your oil in your car. You might say, "What? Changing my oil? What could be controversial or earth-shattering about that?" Well, how about the idea...http://www.Counterthink.org/020346.htmlThu, 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDTThis is a review of a video called "The Secret NASA Transmissions: The Smoking Gun." The video is called the most popular underground tape among astronauts, and it claims to show video evidence of aliens in space. There's allegedly some form of intelligent life flying around on the NASA videos. I...http://www.Counterthink.org/020320.htmlWed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDT(NewsTarget) Receiving a phone call from someone you were just thinking about, or even placing a phone call to someone at the exact moment they call you, may not be a coincidence, according to research funded by Trinity College in Cambridge, England. Rupert Sheldrake today reported to the annual meeting...http://www.Counterthink.org/020312.htmlTue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDT