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Mick Meaney is a 33 year old independent researcher and alternative media veteran having founded the RINF.COM alternative news website in 2004. He works full-time on exposing the corruption, crimes and misdeeds of the ruling elite.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 1, 2013 How The British Banking Industry Became An Organised Crime Enterprise
I know it. You know it. We all know it. It's the elephant in the room that the subservient cowards in the mainstream media are too afraid to mention; the banking industry is run and controlled by criminals.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10 Outrageous Crimes The Banksters Hope You Forget
It's long been established that the financial system is infiltrated and controlled by criminals; however, recent scandals and the economic crash of 2008 have diverted attention away from other misdeeds that should not be ignored.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Ridiculous US Warfare Expenditure
War is America's main export. Without it, the USA is nothing. It's economy depends on it.
Let's take a look at the tip of a very deep iceberg.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 9, 2013 Mass Surveillance: CIA To Access All UK Government Data
All British government data will soon be available to the CIA, the NSA and other American intelligence agencies thanks to the extension of a controversial spy law.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 9, 2013 New Calls For Bush War Criminals To Face Justice
A UN investigator has requested that the United States reveal its findings on the CIA's Bush-era programme of the rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects, which has the potential to lead to high-level officials being prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Outsourcing Torture: 50 Countries Complicit In Extraordinary Rendition
For the first time, a report from the Open Society Foundation reveals the scale of global CIA torture. At least 50 countries took part in "extraordinary rendition" following the 9/11 attacks, which involved taking detainees to and from U.S. custody without any legal process. So far, the foundation has discovered the following countries, but admits there might be several that have not been uncovered yet.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Xbox One: Constantly Listening To Conversations
With the announcement of Microsoft's next generation gaming console, the Xbox One, it has emerged that the new system carries a device that will be 'constantly listening' to gamer's conversations.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 19, 2013 Surveillance Society: Met Police Spying On 57,000 People A Year
Today disturbing new figures have renewed accusations that Britain has turned into a surveillance society, raising more concerns over increasing levels of police surveillance powers.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Aaron Swartz Rolls In His Grave
Online piracy is an ever-increasing problem for the power-crazed music and film corporations who have been lobbying for years for changes to be made to the way the law deals with copyright offences.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2013 Video: Thugs in Uniform - A Cesspool of Police Misconduct and Corruption
Examines the decline of public trust in the police, due to increasing levels of misconduct and corruption. Special attention is given to the Jimmy Savile scandal and how British police protected him for decades by repeatedly ignoring complaints from abuse victims. The questions must be asked - WHY? And who else are they protecting?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 2, 2013 Trust In the British Establishment Has Been Destroyed
According to a new survey of British citizens, public trust in the establishment has declined. Results show that politicians, banks and the media are all trusted by fewer than 10% of those polled.
SHARE Thursday, May 29, 2014 Bedroom tax forces households into debt
Since the Bedroom Tax was introduced in 2013, residents on welfare are now struggling to survive. Fearful of eviction, many have to borrow money to pay their rent and are forced to cut back on necessities such as heating and food.
SHARE Saturday, March 2, 2013 Video: Horsemeat? GMOs Are The Real Scandal
While the UK media becomes hysterical over the discovery of horsemeat in the food chain, RINF Alternative News takes a look at the real dangers of a handful of chemicals that are added to our food.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 7, 2013 Judge Acquits Occupy Activists
A Philadelphia judge has acquitted 12 Occupy protesters who were arrested in 2011 for bank sit-in.
SHARE Sunday, January 27, 2013 Video: The Secret Government War Against The Most Vulnerable
RINF Alternative News speaks to a healthcare whistleblower who reveals how the government are using unqualified staff to assess whether or not if sick and disabled people are fit for work. This results in the death of 32 innocent people every week.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 14, 2013 VIDEO: The Government's Persecution of Activists
In a society where exposing vitals truths is an arrestable offense, where political dissent is no longer tolerated and whistle-blowers are labelled as a threat to national security, RINF Alternative News looks at the recent case of one activist who will now spend a year behind bars - without trial, for posting a hyperlink.
SHARE Tuesday, March 26, 2013 UK Budget Protects Corrupt Energy Corps
Surprise surprise. As the mainstream media subserviently celebrates the announcement that a pint of beer will now be 1p cheaper, in what is seemingly an act of misdirection, George Osborne--responsible for the UK budget--has gotten away with it again.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 28, 2013 Revealed: Why Bankers Continue To Get Away With Fraud
Speaking on BCFM Drive Time with host Tony Gosling, the former financial editor of the Scottish Sunday Herald, Ian Fraser, revealed how senior bankers avoid prosecution while getting away with committing fraud on a massive scale for decades.
SHARE Friday, February 8, 2013 UK Spy Agencies Plan "Black Box' Style Web Surveillance
British intelligence services are planning to significantly increase the level of web surveillance on UK citizens. Agencies want to use 'black box' style snooping devices to monitor nearly all web activity including which domain names citizens visit, and Facebook, Twitter and Skype sessions.
SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2012 Video Report: US & European Orwellian Surveillance Deepens
Germany is now considering adopting a new level of Orwellian surveillance similar to the UK, while the United States installs spy technology on buses and subways to record private conversations.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Pentagon Implicated In Iraq Torture Units
A new investigation has revealed that the Pentagon sent high ranking officials to manage secret detention and torture units in Iraq.
SHARE Saturday, March 9, 2013 ID Cards To Make A Comeback in the UK?
After spending -5 billion on a controversial national ID-card scheme that was eventually scrapped, it appears that ID cards could be making a comeback.
SHARE Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Video: Phone Users Monitored Without Consent
Mick Meaney reports on how a research company covertly gathered and attempted to sell personal data to the London Met, while in the United States it emerged that the FBI has warrantless access to electronic communications.