Disclosure that the Chicago, Ill. Police department has apparently been "experimenting" with tiny microphones in unmarked police cars that can pick up nearby conversations on the street is yet another civil rights slap in the face in a city where law-abiding citizens have already been effectively stripped of their gun rights.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today agreed with Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois that there is a genuine concern about Fourth Amendment violations if such conversations would be recorded without warrants.

"In Chicago," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "they have already effectively trashed the Second Amendment and apparently figure that since they've gotten away with it, they can also trash the Fourth. Even the Chicago Sun Times properly alluded to the "Big Brother" aspect of this equipment.

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The highest court in New York state ruled Thursday that the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) must release tapes of dispatches and emergency radio transmissions made from the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Court of Appeals ruled 4-3 in favor of granting a Freedom of Information request from the New York Times and victims' families to make the tapes and transcripts public, as well as internal interviews with firefighters about the rescue effort.

The court ordered the FDNY to give full access to the material,except portions that could cause pain or embarrassment to the people interviewed. But to be granted such an exception, the Fire Department must return to state Supreme Court and convince a judgeon a case-by-case basis.

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Here's the postings of Jeffrey Weise on a Nazi message board. He's the deranged nutcase who killed nine people at a Minnesota school yesterday.

Some of his comments are chilling:

"I guess I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals."

"Once I commit myself to something, I stay until the end..."

"By the way, I'm being blamed for a threat on the school I attend because someone said they were going to shoot up the school on 4/20, Hitlers birthday, and just because I claim being a National Socialist, guess whom they've pinned?"

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Geologists in the East and West coasts are busy understanding a new theory that shows possible underground UFO bases all around the world.

According to this theory the UFO bases are along the interface of the seven large and many small tectonic plates meet each other.

According to the UFO researchers, the underground UFO bases are deep under the ground where multiple tectonic plates push on top of each other.

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The Pentagon has released the summary of a top secret document, which sketches America's agenda for global military domination.

This redirection of America's military strategy seems to have passed virtually unnoticed. With the exception of The Wall Street Journal, not a word has been mentioned in the US media.

The document explicitly acknowledges America's global military mandate, beyond regional war theatres. This mandate also includes military operations directed against countries, which are not hostile to America, but which are considered strategic from the point of view of US interests.

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Recently captured terrorists say two Al-Qaida-linked groups are training members in scuba diving in preparation for seaborne attacks, according to a Philippine military report.

The report, obtained by the Associated Press, also points to increasing collaboration among the Muslim terrorists in other areas, including financing and explosives.

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The battle over Terri Schiavo's life in the Florida courts, Legislature and US Congress moved into cyberspace when hackers shut down a popular news site noted for its probing coverage of the ongoing euthanasia case.

The Empire Journal, an Internet publication dedicated to exposing government fraud, corruption and abuse of power in New York state, expanded its focus about three months ago to include similar matters that have surfaced in the Terri Schiavo case.

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According to rumours, the top secret TR-3B uses an advanced gravity-defying propulsion system partially derived from reverse-engineered alien technology. The outer coating of the TR-3B is reactive to electrical stimulation and can change colour, reflectivity, and radar absorptiveness, allowing the TR-3B to "disguise" itself as a small aircraft.

In the centre of the the TR-3B is a circular, plasma-filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disruptor (MFD). The MFD rotates at 60,000 rpm, generating 250,000 atmospheres and neutralizing the effects of gravity by 89 per cent. This makes the TR-3B extremely light and maneuverable.

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Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be "suicided."

Paul William Roberts in his Globe and Mail article of Saturday, February 26, 2005 wrote the following:

Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

Hunter S. Thompson... was indeed working on such a story.

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A cloaking device that makes objects invisible is being developed by researchers, bringing the magic of Harry Potter into the world of science fact.

While Harry uses his cloak of invisibility to move about Hogwarts School unseen, electronic engineers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on a real invisibility shield called a "plasmonic cover."

The development, which works by preventing objects from reflecting and scattering light, could have widespread use in the military as it would be more effective than current stealth technology.

Although no final product has been made, the engineers claim their proposal "does not obviously violate any of the laws of physics."

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