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First Air-Powered Car: Zero Emissions by Next Summer
By Matt Sullivan India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as
Read More »Rudy to 9/11 heroes: “Drop dead”
Dear activists, colleagues and friends,With your help millions of Americans now know the story behind The Real Rudy, and his disastrous handling of events before, during and after 9/11. In the wake of that
Read More »Mr 911 – The Giuliani Anthem
A new animated short that lampoons and exposes Rudy Giuliani is making waves on the internet. The cartoon, produced by www.headastate.com/ titled Mr 911, pulls no punches as it highlights Giuliani’s consistent use of
Read More »Ron Paul: How Do I Say Thank You?
Dr Ron Paul writes – In Iowa, many hundreds of volunteers worked day and night for our campaign. College kids took their Christmas vacations in the snow for freedom. Thousands of people donated to
Read More »Jerusalem lights to go out so Bush can enjoy sunrise
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Lights in the Old City of Jerusalem will be turned off before dawn this week so visiting US President George W. Bush can get a better view of the sun rising
Read More »How To: Install micro wind turbines and solar panels
£25 million in grants issued for micro wind turbines and solar panels Small scale renewable energy grants worth some £25 million have now been claimed from the Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP). The news
Read More »Republicans Vote to Impeach Dick Cheney
By Kamal El-Din In what may be the biggest political news of the century a sitting vice-president may be impeached at the hands of his own party. In a stunning reversal today House Republicans
Read More »‘No end to extremism with US policies’
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has said that extremism could only be tackled when the US stops supporting dictators in the region. The son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto told reporters on Tuesday
Read More »Nukes, Spooks, and the Specter of 9/11
“The next president may have to deal with a nuclear attack,” averred ABC’s Charles Gibson at Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate. “The day after a nuclear weapon goes off in an American city, what
Read More »Democratic Party complicit in CIA torture
Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity in CIA torture By Joe Kay Last week, the CIA declassified a February 2003 letter from Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California discussing the planned destruction of videotapes
Read More »Step forward for open government, new media
THE FIRST significant reform in more than a decade of the federal Freedom of Information Act, signed into law last week by President Bush, is an important step forward for open government and the
Read More »CIA tapes: What do we still not know?
By Jane Harman In February 2003, just weeks after becoming ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, I learned at a briefing that the CIA intended to destroy a videotape of the interrogation of
Read More »Guantanamo: Six Years of Injustice – and Counting
By Mary Shaw January 11, 2008, will mark the sixth anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. While some of Gitmo’s residents probably are terrorists who want to kill Americans, we
Read More »Gordon Brown still clueless on ID Cards
SpyBlog.org.uk Gordon Brown still clueless on ID Cards and the National Identity Register centralised biometric database Our unelected Prime Minister Gordon Brown still does not seem to have grasped the fundamentals of his NuLabour
Read More »2007 ‘worst ever year’ for privacy
Research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed that 37 million items of personal data went missing during last year. The party has claimed the figure raises further questions about the government’s ability to handle
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