Free Download of the first Bill Hicks post-Letterman audio recording that’s surfaced after 13 years.

In my view, Mary McCrory got it right when she said that the Project for a New American Century manifesto reads like it was written in a tree-house. Nevertheless, it is documentary evidence showing the direction the worst aspects of our government—the ones who are now in power—have been taking for the last thirty plus […]

ROYAL Military Police investigators are facing severe criticism for the way they handled a fatal shooting in Iraq in which a British tank commander and an Iraqi were killed.
A Metropolitan Police inquiry into the killings on March 24, 2003, found new witnesses, including American soldiers in the vicinity at the time.
Judge Jeff Blackett, the […]

Democracy faces meltdown in Britain as the public rejects an outdated political system which has centralised more authority than ever in a tiny ruling elite, the Power inquiry warns today.
In a bleak picture of the gulf between the government and the governed, it concludes that growing numbers of people feel their votes are wasted […]

WASHINGTON - Governors crossing party lines are criticizing Bush administration policies on the National Guard, questioning a budget plan they say will cut Guard strength and leave states less able to respond to homegrown emergencies like hurricanes or a feared pandemic.
The state leaders, attending the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, hoped for […]

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
- Author Arthur Edward Waite
The Real History of the Rosicrucian
Steiner Books, 1977
The pulsing, squeezing beat of the living organism called the Elite—those in influential positions who […]

On January 24th it was announced [1] that a subsidiary of Halliburton KBR was awarded a $385 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention centers in the U.S. These centers might be used for immigration, or for disaster relief, or vaguely “… to support the rapid development of new programs.” […]

The Amadeus code DAN Brown’s breathless quest for the secrets of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code cleverly patched together gossip and curiosities from the visual arts.

THE chauffeur of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales died was working for the French secret service, the British team reinvestigating her death has been told. The inquiry — headed by Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan police commissioner — into the Paris car crash that killed Diana is now trying to obtain the […]

MI5 is facing an internal revolt by officers alarmed about intelligence failures and the lack of resources to fight Islamic terrorism.
To illustrate their concern, agents have leaked more topsecret documents to The Sunday Times because they want a public inquiry into the “missed intelligence” leading up to the July attacks in London.
They believe ministers […]

At some point in the next few months, President Bush is expected to announce his choice for the location of his presidential library. Once it’s open, most of the media attention is likely to focus on the public exhibits, which will no doubt extol the president’s compassionate conservatism, his leadership immediately after the terrorist attacks […]

Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations — Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy.
“The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column […]

By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm - without ever running the algorithm.
Using an optical-based quantum computer, a research team led by physicist Paul Kwiat has presented the first demonstration of “counterfactual computation,” inferring […]

Everyone in the Middle East rewrites history, but never before have we had a US administration so wilfully, dishonestly and ruthlessly reinterpreting tragedy as success, defeat as victory, death as life - helped, I have to add, by the compliant American press. I’m reminded not so much of Vietnam as of the British and French […]

Dramatic new evidence that pilots, cabin crew and passengers are being exposed to a potentially toxic gas in aircraft has been uncovered by an Observer investigation.
An analysis of confidential testimony taken from pilots plus official records by the airline regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, has revealed that in the past three years there have been […]