Daily Archives: March 5, 2009 »
Top Secret Credit Crisis Bailouts
Interesting stories are stacking up again so it’s time for some economic potpourri starting with secret dealings by the Fed. Fed Refuses to Release Bank Lending Data, Insists on Secrecy The Fed refused yesterday
Read More »George Bush could be next on the war crimes list
THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the International Criminal Court’s next target. David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an
Read More »School begins using biometric facial recognition
By Kim Thomas | “Ainsley. Babcock. Bland. Carthorse. Dint. Ellsworth-Beast Major. Ellsworth-Beast Minor.” For some of us, Rowan Atkinson’s monologue of a schoolmaster taking the register conjures up the essence of school life. Not
Read More »The Case for Prosecuting Bush Officials
By Daphne Eviatar | The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry” convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal for a sort of “truth and reconciliation”
Read More »Iran Plans War Crimes Trials for Israelis
By Robert Mackey | On the same day that the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan on war crimes charges, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Read More »Obama ‘siding with Bush over Israel’
IRAN’S supreme leader accused US President Barack Obama on Wednesday of following the same path as the Bush administration with his “unconditional” support for Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Mr Obama had spoken
Read More »De Menezes coroner slams police conduct
THE coroner in the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest made damning criticisms on Wednesday of the way the police had investigated his killing. Coroner Sir Michael Wright highlighted a string of flaws at Scotland
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