Daily Archives: October 27, 2007 »

Neocon Tells Audience To ‘Shut Up’

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Arch-Neo Con Norman Podhoretz’s book reading at a recent Barnes and Noble appearance in New York turned into a hostile affair after he told the audience that Iran should

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Conversations with Castro

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

Aged 81, the world’s longest-serving leader is turning his thoughts to his legacy and the succession. In an exclusive extract from his autobiography, Fidel Castro talks to Ignacio Ramonet about vanity and cruelty –

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VIDEO: Bullshit 2008 – are you ready?

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters From “The Onion” It’s funny, then you realize it’s completely accurate. For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor

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VIDEO: Clips from ‘Taking Liberties’

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

People will only wake up to the destruction of their civil liberties when it is too late to do anything about it. That is the fear driving a new documentary film which aims to

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EBay spends $2M lobbying gov agencies including CIA

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 1

CBS News Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost US$2-million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency. According

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Poisoned spy WAS a paid-up MI6 agent

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN WRIGHT and DAVID WILLIAMS The former Russian spy poisoned in a London hotel was an MI6 agent, the Daily Mail can reveal. Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000

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Visitors to Japan to be fingerprinted

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo Millions of visitors to Japan will be required to have their photographs and fingerprints taken from next month as part of new immigration procedures meant to help prevent terrorist attacks.

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Security consultant slams ID cards

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

Gemma Simpson The Home Office has defended the ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale — a one-time confidence trickster made famous by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can —

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Doctor: G Bush has symptoms of presenile dementia

Mick Meaney October 27, 2007 0

It is an article of faith with millions of Americans, most of them on the left, that George W. Bush is stupid. Many reasonable people think his policies are ill-advised, but millions more insist

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