Monthly Archives: March 2007 »
Listen Up, Mr. President
Fred Kaplan Two myths have sprung up around the House and Senate bills that require President Bush to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. One is that he would have to pull out all the
Read More »US rejects Iran captives exchange
US officials have ruled out a deal to exchange 15 Royal Navy personnel captured in the Gulf for five Iranians seized by American forces in Iraq. State department spokesman Sean McCormack rejected suggestions that
Read More »Terror suspect alleges torture for confession
Lolita C. Baldor A suspected Saudi terrorist testified at a military hearing that he was tortured into confessing he was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole, according to a Pentagon transcript released
Read More »UK writes to Iran over troops
Al Jazeera and agencies Britain has responded by diplomatic note to Iran’s capture of 15 British naval personnel last week in the Gulf, Margaret Beckett, the British foreign secretary, has said. “We had a
Read More »Giuliani Testified He Was Briefed on Kerik in ’00
WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik‘s relationship with a company suspected of ties to
Read More »Obama: Bush not respecting Constitution
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday accused President Bush of failing to respect the Constitution amid the uproar over the firing of eight federal prosecutors.The Illinois senator also took a swipe at embattled
Read More »Users offered virus disguised as IE7
Security researchers have warned of a new virus disguised as a download of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. They said the virus was unusual for a couple of reasons: the email includes a convincing
Read More »CCTV On School Buses
Pam Caulfield and Michael Meaney Pupils could be under increased surveillance if a proposed school transport shake-up goes ahead. Leicestershire County Council is looking at the idea of more CCTV on school buses, as part of a
Read More »Police sought terror suspect before plot
Caroline Gammell Police were hunting one of the alleged July 21 terrorists six months before he tried to detonate explosives on London’s transport network, a court heard yesterday. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, was sent
Read More »UK headed for prison meltdown
Duncan Campbell and Alan Travis The former head of the prison service has warned that up to 100,000 people could be in jail by the end of the decade unless drastic and immediate action
Read More »“Another bacon burger, anyone?”
Jason Miller “If my competitor were drowning, I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.”–Ray Kroc“….a funny, jowly, canny, barbarous guy who lives in a multimillion-dollar condo on Park Avenue
Read More »British marine ‘apologises’ to Iran
Al Jazeera and agencies Iranian television has broadcast an interview with a captured British marine in which he admitted to entering Iranian waters illegally and apologised to the Iranian people. The Arabic-language Al-Alam television
Read More »O’Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers
Paul Joseph Watson Rosie O’Donnell is certainly not backing away from her public stance about 9/11, and this morning on The View went on a 9 minute rant about the many questions surrounding the
Read More »Bush Administration Has Double-Secret Private Communication System
Everybody smart knows you shouldn’t do questionable things on your work computer, whether sending out resumes or posting Casual Encounters ads or basically anything you might have a hard time explaining to your boss.
Read More »Giuliani Faces Questions About 9/11
Larry McShane Rudy Giuliani’s White House aspirations are inescapably tied to Sept. 11, 2001 — for better and for worse. While the former mayor of the nation’s largest city was widely lionized for his
Read More »Big brands turning to Big Brother
Questionnaires and focus groups aren’t enought – now companies are having volunteers filmed for days on end to see what makes customers really tick, finds Stephen Hoare Teenagers around the world could soon be
Read More »Big brother Britain
How can free people grapple with growing threats to their privacy and liberty? A computer-security guru’s view of the surveillance dystopia worries Becky Hogge Becky Hogge The entry for “tin-foil hat” in Wikipedia includes
Read More »Surveillance cameras, metal detectors in US schools
The Township Council has awarded a contract to an Ocean County company for new video surveillance equipment for the Lenape Regional High School District.North American Video Inc. of Brick Township was the lowest bidder
Read More »Russia and US accused of abusing men freed from Guantanamo Bay
Andrew Osborn The Kremlin and the United States have been accused of flouting international law in areport which tells the little-known story of seven Russian men freed from Guantanamo Bay. According to the report
Read More »Fake Maritime Boundaries
Craig Murray The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and
Read More »BBC fights to suppress internal report into allegations of bias against Israel
Andy McSmith The BBC was in court yesterday fighting over the public’s right to know. But the Corporation was not battling to bring information into the open. Instead it has paid an estimated £200,000
Read More »Hicks faces about a year in Australian jail
Tom Allard DAVID HICKS will be behind bars in Australia until after this year’s election, but his stint in an Adelaide prison will be relatively short, under a plea bargain being hammered out between
Read More »The future’s bright, the future’s green
Tara Greaves Say electric vehicle and many people think milk float – unless, that is, they have taken a look at the latest cars and bikes on display at the Green Wheels event in
Read More »CU professor uses grass pellets as an alternative energy
Jennie Daley Grass pellets sound more like rabbit food than a local, sustainable energy source, but a Cornell University professor hopes to change that perception.Jerry Cherney, the E.V. Baker professor of agriculture in the
Read More »UK sailors detained 0.5 km inside Iranian waters, embassy confirms
Iran confirmed Wednesday that the detention of 15 British marines and sailors took place last Friday after they had illegally entered Iranian territorial waters in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. “Iran has
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