Accidents have not been reduced at intersections with red light cameras in Cleveland, Ohio, according to an analysis by WEWS-TV. There were 184 accidents at monitored intersections in the first six months the cameras were operational. Six months before that, there were 187 accidents in the same locations -- essentially there has been no overall improvement.
Individual intersections saw accidents double, or drop by half. At East 30th and Carnegie, accidents halved from 16 to 8. At ... (more)
Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized but misleading put-down of Ron Paul during Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate should have been tempered by a report that Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned most of the 9/11 hijackers, has been one of Giuliani's lucrative foreign clients. However, Fox News questioners Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler did not bring it up.
Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the same Associated Press story that named Saudi Arabia as a Giuliani... (more)
Hijackers who have seized control of the Republican party are engaged in desperate damage control in an attempt to prevent real conservatives from reclaiming the party and are circling the wagons by calling for an end to the democratic process and for Ron Paul to be kicked out of the debates.
Fox News led the charge via their rigged and bias smear attempt against the Texas Congressman during the debate and its aftermath. ... (more)
Viewers of last night's Republican presidential "debate" on FOX were invited to text in votes for their favorite candidates in an unscientific poll. But let them just try and find those results: good luck!
Clicking on FOX News Polls brings one to a page (dated May 2, 2007, but in tiny gray notation at the top of the page, not obvious in the text of the article) that trumpets "Rudy Giuliani gets highest rating." ... (more)
Monsanto India: GM foods, crops - preparing for worldwide genetic control
Despite rules to the contrary, GM (Genetical Modification) experiments have been going on across India with the complicity of the Indian Government.
In the 67th Meeting of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee [GEAC] held on 22 May 2006, the GEAC brushed aside all such concerns and in utter defiance of the spirit of a Supreme Court Order it has rubberstamped an astonishing 91 GM (Genetica... (more)
New fertility laws say dads not needed to make babies
A major relaxation of IVF rules was announced by ministers today.
The changes will make it easier for single people and lesbians to receive fertility treatment on the NHS.
The move, which is part of a shake-up of laws on the use of human tissues, will also allow the creation of " Frankenstein" embryos - human and animal cells mixed together - for medical research.
Al Jazeera English airs exclusive footage of a series of deadly Israeli air attacks in the Gaza Strip, one of which struck as Gaza correspondent Nour Odeh was live on air.
Human beings are directly responsible for more than 110,000 chemical substances which have been generated since the Industrial Revolution. Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in food, air, soil and water. Nonetheless, human beings are also victims of these emissions, and involuntarily (what is known in this scientific field as “inadvertent exposure”). E... (more)
In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The "evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed," concludes a new article in the Annals of Applied Statistics written by former FBI lab metallurgist ... (more)
Free will and true spontaneity exist … in fruit flies. This is what scientists report in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
"Animals and especially insects are usually seen as complex robots which only respond to external stimuli," says senior author Björn Brembs from the Free University Berlin. They are assumed to be input-output devices. "When scientists observe animals responding differently even to the same externa... (more)
NEW YORK Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall's Web site was among the things the New York Police Department looked at when doing surveillance prior to the 2004 Republican National Convention in Manhattan, reported The New York Times.
The extensive surveillance -- conducted to head off alleged plans to disrupt the convention -- has been decried by the New York Civil Liberties Union and others for targeting Bush-administration opponents with no intention of breaking the law.
Hell didn't freeze over and pigs weren't spotted flying over the Manhattan skyline when two former arch-enemies ran into each other at a restaurant Wednesday night and opted to shake hands and exchange pleasantries rather than engage in mano a mano combat.
This afternoon, conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that he had an encounter with former President Bill Clinton at the Kobe Club steakhouse in New York City.
The occupation of Iraq, still illegal and immoral by any sense of human understanding, has now run into its fourth bloody and horrific year, becoming a quagmire for America and a vast killing field for Iraqis. Indeed, for Iraqis, America's invasion and subsequent occupation has been and will continue to be one massive war crime, an onslaught of criminality against humanity not seen since World War Two. It is they, the Iraqi people, who have un... (more)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy.
"To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be kept updated," Gonzales said during a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Monday.
The Bush administration is throwing its support behind a proposal calle... (more)
If they question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied.
Rudyard Kipling
Mercifully, the flurry of media coverage of former CIA director George Tenet hawking his memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," has abated. Buffeted by those on both right and left who see through his lame attempt at self-justification, Tenet probably now wishes he had opted to just fade away, as old soldiers used to do. ... (more)
LIKE PIRATES, terrorists are supposedly hostis humani generis -- the “enemy of all mankind.” So why is the Bush administration letting one of the world’s most notorious terrorists stroll freely around the United States?
I’m talking about a man who was -- until 9/11 -- perhaps the most successful terrorist in the Western Hemisphere. He’s believed to have masterminded a 1976 plot to blow up a civilian airliner, killing all 73 people on board, including ... (more)
Police in Visalia, California arrested a woman suffering from Parkinson's disease for driving under the influence (DUI) -- even though she had not been drinking. Arleen Avila, 46, had been waiting in line at the In-N-Out Burgers drive-through when she fell asleep in her 2002 Mercedes. Although another driver got out to wake her, a police officer arriving on the scene ordered Avila to get out of the car.
"The officer told me to get out of the car, but I couldn't," Avila told the Vi... (more)
