The anti-gun op-ed by Dr. Clifford M. Herman ("Bowing down to NRA is dangerous," Jan. 23) certainly fits in with the renewed push by the P-I for more gun laws. As with previous articles, this one demonizes the NRA, offers anecdotal insights and questions the meaning of the Second Amendment. What it does not do is address the essential question.
Honest legislators must ask: Which gun laws, if any, will truly reduce violence? Thanks to the Clinton administration and the Centers for ... (more)
With the elections over and the 110th Congress settling in, the media have been reporting ad nauseam about who has assumed new political power in Washington. We're subjected to breathless reports about emerging power brokers in Congress; how so-and-so is now the powerful chair of an important committee; how certain candidates are amassing power for the 2008 elections, and so on. Nobody questions this use of the word "power," or considers its ... (more)
Emboldened by a United Nations report regarding global warming, Al Gore campaigns for and wins the 2008 presidential election under the banner of the Green Party. Mr. Gore’s key, to his landslide victory, was a campaign promise to amend the U.S. Constitution to protect Mother Earth from humanity’s depredations ... (more)
Although no foreign power has threatened a bioterror attack against America, since 9/11 the Bush administration has allocated a stunning $43-billion to "defend" against one. Critics are now saying, however, Bush's newest "biodefense" initiative is both offensive and illegal.
The latest development, according to the Associated Press, is that the U.S. Army is replacing its Military Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., "with a ne... (more)
Six Defense Ministry officials have admitted they took gifts from contractors but denied they were given in return for ensuring those contractors won tenders held by the ministry, the Police International Crime Unit said Monday.
A joint police and Defense Ministry investigation has revealed that three managers and three inspectors of the ministry's administration, maintenance and property management division accepted benefits in the form of gifts, in restaurants meals and renovati... (more)
A combination of leaked documents and public policy debate has recently revealed that the British government is preparing to use the 2012 Olympic games in London as a showcase for multiple big brother police state operations and technologies.
The London Telegraph reported on Sunday that a memo, entitled No 10 Policy Working Group on Security, Crime and Justice, Technological Advances... (more)
A Stockholm dad who brought his two little daughters out sledding beside the Royal Palace had his family outing rudely interrupted by palace guards bearing loaded assault rifles. "Are they going to shoot us now?" asked his three-year-old girl.
Jon Karlung, 43, lives in Stockholm's medieval centre, Gamla Stan, with his wife and their two daughters, Saga, 3, and one-year-old Nelly.
On Sunday he decided to take the girls out for a sled ride, Expressen reports.
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AFTER illegally spying on Americans without the required warrants for several years, the Bush administration is claiming a sudden change of heart.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently announced that the administration's domestic-spying program will stop bypassing judicial oversight. Instead, it will submit domestic surveillance to review by a federal intelligence court, as required by law.
But before anyone celebrates the "good news" of an attorney general say... (more)
Anticipating another interview with Ed Brown, John Klar prepared this brief video to alert Americans to what their government has been up to, and to ask the question: Who do we trust?
The mainstream media and the United States Government are supposed to b... (more)
"Giant achievements" by Iran will be unveiled by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the coming days, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
The Iranian news agency said an upcoming dramatic announcement on Iran's nuclear "rights" would be made on February 11. The report was accompanied by a series of announcements heralding alleged Iranian technological and medical breakthroughs, including a... (more)
Armed foreign police could patrol the streets of London during the 2012 Olympics under an unprecedented scenario outlined by one of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers.
Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, the man in charge of security preparations for the Games and Britain’s most senior Muslim police officer, also raised the prospect of British troops being drafted in to help with the huge security challenges.
Ed Brown first became suspicious of the federal government when he saw news coverage of the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco in the early 1990s. The bloody incidents, in which federal agents clashed violently with extremists, colored his view of the government's relationship with its citizens, he said recently, and led to his involvement in the militia movement.
Nearly 14 years after the conclusion of the Waco siege, Ed Brown believes he may be in the early stages of a similar con... (more)
Fears grew today that a motorist is conducting a letter bomb campaign after the second explosion within 24 hours at firms involved with speed cameras and the congestion charge.
Two people suffered minor injuries at 9am when an item of post exploded as it was opened by an employee at accountancy firm Vantis in Wokingham, Berks.
The company is thought to work with firms involved in speed camera and congestion charge revenues.
ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.
The “strategic” assassination instruction was issued by Al-Qaeda’s leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in this country. It was uncovered by MI5 last autumn, senior security sources say.
As a result police are on standby for mu... (more)
FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- The judge in the case against the first U.S. officer court-martialed for refusing to go to Iraq barred several scholars on international and constitutional law from testifying yesterday about the legality of the war.
Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, 28, of Honolulu, is charged with missing a movement for refusing to ship out with his unit, the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. He also faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for accusing the Army of ... (more)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.
U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Mali... (more)
The cockpit video at the centre of a row over the "friendly-fire" death of a British soldier in Iraq has been obtained by the Sun newspaper.
An inquest into the death of Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, from Berks, was adjourned after the coroner said the tape was central to the case.
The video was classified "secret" by the US, but minister Harriet Harman wants all evidence made available.
The Sun says it shows a 2003 US aircraft attack on a ... (more)
BAGHDAD, 4 February (IRIN) - Fatah Barakat, 10, will never forget getting caught in crossfire between Iraqi militia fighters and US-led forces in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad, a year ago. A grenade that exploded near him blew off his right leg. Now, Fatah has a habit of holding onto his left leg.
"Since I lost one of my legs, I like to make sure that the other one is still here. My mother tells me that I have to stop doing this. But it is hard for me, knowing that I will never b... (more)
When Frank Zappa penned the hit single "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" back in 1974, his words were meant as a warning to Eskimos to avoid the spots "where the huskies go." Yesterday Russian authorities were forced to repeat the American singer song-writer's advice for altogether different reasons after putrid smelling yellow, green and orange snow fell across a substantial swathe of Siberia.
The bizarre phenomenon caused consternation across the affected regions of Omsk and Tomsk, wh... (more)
Plasma clouds, microwave beams, electrified bullets -- military contractors have been developing futuristic new combat technologies under the public radar. Already, the TASER stun gun has emerged from the pages of speculative fiction, and into the hands of military, corrections, and law enforcement personnel (See "Stunning Revelations," November 2006). But stun technology is just one tool in the arsenal for developers of proposed "non-lethal" weapons.
It is not often that the empire is put in the position of one its victims, in fear of the military and technical prowess of another country, forced to talk of peace and cooperation, just as Iraq and others, hoping to put off an American attack, were forced to do over the years; just as Iran now. No, China is not about to attack the United States, but the Chinese shootdown of a satellite (an old weather satellite of theirs) in space on January 11, has... (more)
