Traffic warden tickets man as wife is dyingA driver who pulled over to park the car when his wife had a fatal heart attack has been booked by traffic wardens.
The woman, in her seventies, had a cardiac arrest on her way to St John's Wood Medical Practice in north London.
Her husband, who was taking her to a doctor's appointment, was forced to stop on a yellow line outside the surgery as he called 999. He went with his dying wife in the ambulance as she was rushed to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.
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Iraq is a 'disaster' admits BlairTony Blair admitted that British intervention in Iraq has been a disaster last night - sending shockwaves through Westminster.
In his frankest admission about the war to date, Mr Blair admitted that Western forces have been powerless to stop the descent into violence.
The Prime Minister stopped short of accepting the blame for plunging Iraq to the brink of civil war - blaming instead the insurgent uprising that has killed 125 British troops. ... (more)
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Blair Tries To Backtrack After Saying Iraq Is “Pretty Much A Disaster”Gordon Brown was left defending Britain's presence in Iraq yesterday as Tony Blair denied he thought that the invasion had been a "disaster". Interviewed on al-Jazeera on Friday, Mr Blair was asked if he thought that the military intervention had been "pretty much of a disaster". "It has," he replied, before blaming the difficulties on al-Qa'ida-inspired insurgents.
But the Prime Minister's spokesman yesterday insisted that his apparent concession was a "... (more)
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Army fury as chief in Afghanistan is told he won't get vital armour The senior Army officer who will command British troops in Afghanistan next year is embroiled in a furious row with the Ministry of Defence after learning he will be denied vital armour to protect his men.
Brigadier John Lorimer, who will take charge of more than 5,000 troops in the spring, issued a 'shopping list' of requirements after a week-long recce in volatile Helmand province, the stronghold of Taliban fighters.
The tough and experience... (more)
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Pentagon: Rumsfeld "Liberated" 50 Million In Iraq And Afghanistan...From Al Kamen's column in The Washington Post:
Seemed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had barely left his Oval Office firing ceremony when the Pentagon Web site popped up with a new feature titled "Six Years of Accomplishments" with Rummy.
First and foremost were his accomplishments in the "war on terror," where overall, military efforts "liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq." More specifically, they've "liberated 31 million Afghans from Tali... (more)
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FreeRepublic terrorist hated 9/11 researchersFreeRepublic.com terrorist Chad Castagana, aka Freeper "marc costanzo" is currently awaiting trial on mailing dozens of white-powder envelopes to media figures who seemed not to worship George W. Bush.
Castagana left quite a trail on FreeRepublic, most of it masturbatory paeans to Katherine Harris, Ann Coulter and supermarianation. However, some messages contain hateful rhetoric against 9/11 truthseekers.
Here's his reaction to news that Charlie Sheen might be con... (more)
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FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: "Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress"Huffington Post has obtained an internal Fox News memo written by the network's Vice President of news. The memo details Fox's game plan the day Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House.
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FACT CHECK: Increasing Troop Levels In Baghdad Made Violence WorseThe Guardian reports that the Bush administration may be heeding McCain’s calls for an escalation in Iraq:
President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make “a last big push” to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US for ... (more)
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CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I ... (more)
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Bush gives go-ahead for 'Bush Center' in IsraelWASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon asked Bush for the go-ahead to establish such a center during a farewell meeting with the president and his deputy, Dick Cheney.
Bush told Ayalon that "freedom" would be a worthy subject for the center to focus on. ... (more)
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Lowry falsely claimed poll shows most Americans support sending more troops to IraqSummary: The National Review's Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "late-October New York Times poll found that 55 percent of the public favors sending more troops to Iraq." In fact, according to an October 27-31 New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16 percent of respondents favored increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. In his November 14 National Review Online column, "Be Careful What You Believe," National Review editor Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "... (more)
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FACT CHECK: Baghdad Has 13 Times More Murders Than PhiladelphiaHas 13 Times More Murders Than Philadelphia In a post this morning, Wizbang blogger Alexander K. McClure compared the homicide rate in Philadelphia to the situation in Iraq:
Without looking at the URL or the headline at the top, try to figure out which city this is. Each red dot represents a murder in the past year. Isn’t th ... (more)
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Olbermann on what motivated Coulter 'acolyte' to allegedly send threatening 'white powder' lettersOn Tuesday night, Keith Olbermann speculated about what may have motivated a California man, reported to be an acolyte of conservative pundits such as Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin, to allegedly send threatening letters to personalities including the MSNBC host himself.
39-year-old Chad Castagana was arrested on Saturday, accused of sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians.
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MNSBC online poll: 87 percent say 'plenty to justify' Bush impeachmentAn MSNBC online poll shows that the overwhelming majority of its participating voters believe President Bush should be impeached.
The poll asked the question, "Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?" Four choices were presented:
"Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial."
"No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing ap... (more)
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Veterans Day Messages from Troops In Iraq, Filmed By Defense Dept., Feature Replica of Twin TowersIraq, Filmed By Defense Dept., Feature Replica of Twin Towers After months of studied ambiguity, President Bush finally admitted that Iraq had “nothing” to do with the attack on the World Trade Center. The Defense Department, however, appears determined to perpetuate the myth.
Today, the administration released veterans day messages from troops in Iraq. These “taped messages from the U.S. Defen... (more)
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New UN Children's Book Promotes Global Warming Fears to Kids Nairobi, Kenya – A new United Nations children’s book promoting fears of catastrophic manmade global warming is being promoted at the UN Climate Change Conference in Kenya. The book's main character, a young boy, is featured getting so worried about a coming manmade climate disaster that he yells “I don’t want to hear anymore!” The new children’s book, entitled “Tore and the Town on Thin Ice” ((http://www.unep.org/PDF/TORE.... (more)
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McCain and Lieberman Express Support For Sending More Troops to Iraqxpress Support For Sending More Troops to Iraq Opposition to the Iraq war was the dominant factor in this week’s election. NBC’s Meet the Press invited Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to discuss the issue. Both McCain and Lieberman expressed support for sending more troops to Iraq. Watch it:
Only 8 percent of Americans support sending more troops to Iraq. The other 92 percent were not represented this week on Meet the Press. <... (more)
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Pelosi's constituents demand impeachmentWASHINGTON – While future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted before the election she would not support impeachment hearings, she will actually be rejecting her constituency's demands if she stays true to that campaign promise.
In fact, on Election Day, Pelosi herself had a chance to vote for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney in San Francisco.
On the ballot last Tuesday in San Francisco was Proposition J calling for the impeachment of... (more)
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Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse Just days after his resignation, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq'... (more)
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'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chiefUFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies.
So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed.
During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically, Britain.
His concern is that "highly credible" sightings a... (more)
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In reporting Rumsfeld reversal, will media note that Bush has been caught in apparent lie about Cabinet switch before?In reporting Rumsfeld reversal, will media note that Bush has been caught in apparent lie about Cabinet switch before?
During a November 8 press conference, President Bush announced that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was resigning. Bush's remarks came less than a week after he pledged that he would keep Rumsfeld on as defense secretary until the end of his presidency. When asked about the dra... (more)
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Is this the end of the road for traffic lights?Most traffic lights should be torn up as they make roads less safe, one of Europe's leading road engineers said yesterday.
Hans Monderman, a traffic planner involved in a Brussels-backed project known as Shared Space, said that taking lights away helped motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to co-exist more happily and safely.
Residents of the northern Dutch town of Drachten have already been used as guinea-pigs in an experiment which has seen nearly all the traffic l... (more)
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