In January 2000, Spain came under attack from an unknown assailant. Giant chunks of ice dropped from cloudless skies and crushed car hoods, punched through rooftops and windshields, and slammed into the shoulder of an elderly woman. In a 10-day period, 15 basketball-sized ice balls weighing up to 8 pounds pelted southern Spain.
At first, Spanish authorities deemed the mysterious mass the work of passing aircraft—likely frozen excrement from the lavatory or perhaps condensed ... (more)
"Another meteorological team found that the lower stratosphere was unusually moist during the 10 days the ice balls fell. They speculated that the nuclei of the ice ball could have been lingering jet contrails that then descended through a nearly saturated atmosphere."
WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Westerville police said a resource officer at Westerville North High School shot a naked student with a Taser gun Monday afternoon.
The incident occurred during one of the afternoon lunch periods, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.
The student, covered in grape seed oil and wearing nothing but a long beard and shoulder length hair, entered the lunchroom area and began yelling and flailing his arms, police said.
DERBY - On an early Saturday morning last month, Bonnie Chuka was returning from a walk along the Derby Greenway with Miss Abby, her 7-year-old wheaten terrier, when the pair came upon a police car. Two officers got out and asked for identification. It was shortly after the Board of Aldermen had passed a resolution banning dogs from the greenway. Chuka, it appeared, had been caught in a stakeout. "I wasn't too happy. I was nervous," Chuka said. "I enjoy walking with her [Miss Abby]. She loves to... (more)
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail addresses or keywords... (more)
(CNSNews.com) - Move over, Chicken Little. A children's book planned for release in September is an attempt to "fill the minds of children with 'sky-is-falling' global warming hysteria," a Republican senator warns.
The producer of former Vice President Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" is hard at work on a new project: writing a book to help school kids "understand why global warming happens."
Scholastic, Inc. - one of the world's largest publishers of children... (more)
According to a new CNN report, a hearing in Milan, Italy today could determine whether a group of CIA agents are indicted for secretly kidnapping a terror suspect from the country and transferring him to Egypt for more aggressive interrogation.
"The kidnapping of Abu Omar was not only a totally illegal act that violated gravely Italian sovereignty, but it also was a damaging and counterproductive act in the fight against terrorism," said one ... (more)
A GULF War veteran calmly walked into a police station, put a self-loading pistol on the counter and announced: "I have just killed four members of my family."
David Bradley, said by relatives to have been "possessed by some other entity" was caught on CCTV also handing over the gun's silencer, a pump-action shotgun, more than 400 rounds of ammo and a homemade nail bomb. He tells the woman desk sergeant: "There is no need to be alarmed" but she runs for cover.
Have you ever been driving and find yourself passing what looks to be an unmarked police car (perhaps a black Crown Vic with tinted windows, some aftermarket lights, and a couple ex... (more)
(CBS) During the Vietnam war, many young men who were drafted and didn't want to go to war fled to Canada. Today, a small group of soldiers and Marines are doing the same thing in protest of a war they say is unjust.
When you contemplate the danger and the violent death that are ever present factors in Iraq, you may wonder how Americans charged with fighting the war there can bear it.
The reality is that some of them can't take it. Justin Colby, 23 was inspired to j... (more)
"A lot of guys whose skin was melted off," he said. "A lot of guys who you couldn't recognize literally from their face to their feet. Missing arms, missing legs, couldn't breathe on their own, couldn't feed themselves. These kids, literally kids — 17, 18, 19, 20. And this look in their eyes that — Oh, I’m never gonna forget it. The look in their eyes when they finally come to understand that they're never gonna walk again. They're never gonna hold their wife and their children again. And having them ask me, 'Why?' Ya know — a 'big-picture why.' And I couldn't tell them."
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Bloggers beware.
As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" ... (more)
Was it a coincidence? The Bill to restore the Draft (Universal National Service Act of 2007 (HR.393)) was introduced in the House of Representatives on exactly the same day as President Bush's announcement regarding the "Surge", in which he confirmed, in a nationally televised address, that he was going to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.
The "surge" in US forces in Iraq has been presen... (more)
Iran's efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology. Iran's uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master
President Bush is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of April and the US Air Force's new bases in Bulgaria and Romania would be used as back-up in the onslaught, according to an official report from Sofia.
"American forces could be using their two USAF bases in Bulgaria and one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in April," the Bulgarian news agency Novinite said.
The American build-up along the Black Sea, coupled with ... (more)
Last Tuesday, master CIA spy, Watergate mastermind, and Dealey Plaza attendee, E. Howard Hunt died at the age of 88. Anticipating the release of his final book in April, he pointed the finger of suspicion at the involvement of President Lyndon Johnson in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Included here is a link to side by side photos of Hunt from Watergate and the assassination days... (more)
SOCIAL workers are placing obese children on the child protection register alongside victims thought to be at risk of sexual or physical abuse.
In extreme cases children have been placed in foster care because their parents have contributed to the health problems of their offspring by failing to respond to medical advice.
The intervention of social services in what was previously regarded as a private matter is likely to raise concerns about the emergence of the &ld... (more)
Adam Busby of O'Fallon, Mo., had his three children, including eight-month old Lilly (who he is holding) participate in the Missouri Child Identification Program event at the Webster Grove Masonic Temple on Saturday. (Laurie Skrivan/P-D)
Parents shaken by recent news of local kidnappings took precautions Saturday to safeguard their children.
Nearly 800 children in south St. Louis County had dental molds made and DNA samples collected, and were photographed an... (more)
VICTORIAN Premier Steve Bracks has defended the state's prostitution laws after it was revealed private investigators were having sex with prostitutes to prove the case against illegal brothels.
Legal confusion over how much evidence is needed before a court has forced at least six Melbourne councils to send in private investigators to buy sex at illegal brothels.
Although state Government began reviewing the Prostitution Control Act last year Mr Bracks said current... (more)
One of the interesting implications of the Manassas Park pool hall case I've been following is that the initial police raid on the bar was conducting under the auspices of a state alcohol inspection. The raid was clearly part of a criminal investigation, but bringing the police in under the formality of an ABC inspection negating the need for a search warrant.
The Pentagon recently reported that it now spends roughly $8.4 billion per month waging the war in Iraq, while the additional cost of our engagement in Afghanistan brings the monthly total to a staggering $10 billion. Since 2001, Congress has spent more than $500 billion on specific appropriations for Iraq. This sum is not reflected in official budget and deficit figures. Congress has funded the war by passing a series of so-called “suppleme... (more)
IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may hel... (more)
Given the desperate situation in Iraq, the CIA's Baghdad station chief needs to be an exceptional manager who can marshal the agency's forces and work closely with the U.S. armed forces. Unfortunately, several sources have informed me that the CIA has nominated a man who has been widely criticized within the agency and seen as a bad fit for the role. Furthermore, I'm told, the new station chief is closely associated with detainee abuses, especially those involving “extraordinary ren... (more)
It is interesting how every now and then, the unwitting masses are blasted by a media wave of fearmongering, with announcements of impending doom and terror being made to remind us of our mortality, just to have that same media quietly admit that there was nothing to justify the hysteria.
It happened this summer with the liquid explosions scare that resulted in ridiculous anti-juice security measures in airports. And more recently with the warnings of a holiday terror sur... (more)
Airport-style x-ray cameras which see through clothes, could be installed on street lampposts in a bid to combat terrorism, it was claimed last night.
The measure was suggested in a memo sent last week to one of Tony Blair's working groups at the Cabinet Office, the Sun newspaper reported. The move comes amid growing concern about Britain's "surveillance society".
The Home Office memo, to the Prime Minister's working group on security, crime and justice, reportedly... (more)
No mention of the negative effects of blasting people with x-ray radiation all day, of course.
Their theory is that explosives planted throughout the World Trade Center - not the burning fuel from the jetliners that crashed into the buildings - brought the Twin Towers down on Sept. 11, 2001.
That proposition was intriguing enough that about 300 people showed up Sunday, some out of simple curiosity, at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor to hear three speakers explain why they believe the U.S. government - not fanatical Muslim terrorists - was behind the 9... (more)
A foreign toll road corporation has agreed to buy dozens of newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma that have up until now been harsh critics of the Trans Texas Corridor superhighway, a clear example of influence peddling that pointed to racketeering, and a desperate lunge to silence dissent against the sellout of American infrastructure and the North American Union.
"Australian toll road giant Macquarie agreed Wednesday to purchase forty local newspapers, prima... (more)
Sherry Clark arrived for breakfast with an armload of DVDs whose messages cast the shadow of skepticism over the official line on the 9/11 attack.
Through forkfuls of pancakes, the Delaware, Ohio, woman conjured up images of shrouded schemes and dark lurkings, government complicity and war-industry profiteering.
A lunchbox purse sported a get-the-truthout sticker. A lapel button noted that polite women seldom make history.
