On Saturday, the panel on Cashin' In discussed a startling prediction made by guest Todd Schoenberger, Chief Market Strategist for Taipan Financial News (TFN) and Executive Editor of that company's Diligent Investor financial advice newsletter. Shoenberger said, " ... [Four] dollars-plus a gallon by January and here's why. It's based on geopolitical concerns coming out of the Middle East. The Iranians right now are talking about having this nuclear device by the end of M... (more)
Officials say the FBI will lead an investigation into the fatal shooting of an elderly Atlanta woman during a drug raid last week.
The announcement was made by Police Chief Richard Pennington at a news conference Monday afternoon, where he was joined by officials from the FBI, the US Attorney’s Office, the GBI and Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
A search warrant released by State Court in Fulton County says Atlanta police were looking for cocaine ... (more)
Philba writes to tell us that home theaters may become the new jurisdiction of our MPAA overlords. The MPAA is lobbying to make sure that home users authorize their entertainment systems before any in-home viewings. From the article:
"The MPAA defines a home theater as any home with a television larger than 29" with stereo sound and at least two comfortable chairs, couch, or futon. Anyone with a h... (more)
The Drudge Report is highlighting a Reuters photo of a mourning Iraqi woman whose partially obscured face bears a slight resemblance to that of President Bush.
The blog "Confederate Yankee" was first to report on the curious resemblance in the Kareem Raheem photograph, which Drudge is now featuring with the caption "WIRE PHOTO MYSTERY: BUSH IN BURQA?" and an additional headline questioning whether the image has been altered, or "photoshopped." The woman,... (more)
US Marines fought with suspected insurgents in Ramadi, killing six Iraqis - one man and five females, including an infant – the US military said.
The fighting began after a coalition patrol discovered a roadside bomb in the Hamaniyah section of Ramadi and two Iraqi men fled to a house where they took up position on the roof, the military said.
As coalition forces removed the bomb, the suspected insurgents opened fire on the US Marines, who fought back with mac... (more)
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have rather splendidly announced the immediate availability of the bomb-sniffing bee, Reuters reports.
The boffins declared they'd "trained honeybees to stick out their proboscis when they smell explosives in anything from cars and roadside bombs to belts similar to those used by suicide bombers". The terror-busting insects can "recognise substances ranging from dynamite and C-4 plastic explos... (more)
Former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who passed away late last week from what many intelligence officials have indicated they believe to be a state-sponsored assassination, was likely the victim of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SVR), well-placed sources tell RAW STORY.
Specifically, two former Cold War CIA officers, who still on occasion provide consulting work for the CIA, point to the S Directorate of SVR, which is in charge of black o... (more)
THE bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted.
The madrasah in the tribal agency of Bajaur was bombed during a visit to Pakistan by the Prince of Wales amid allegations that it was being used to train suicide bombers.
“We thought it would be less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US,” said a key aide to President Pervez Musharraf. &ldqu... (more)
ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim.
President Reagan and his top aides, he asserted, were free to ignore a 1982 law at the center of the scandal. Known as the Boland Amendment, it banned US assistance to anti-Marxist militants in Nicaragua.<... (more)
Our pugnacious president visited Vietnam last week and found the lesson for Iraq: "We'll succeed unless we quit." In this reading of history, the United States was defeated in Vietnam because of a failure of will. If George W. Bush has his way, this won't happen again. U.S. troops are staying in Iraq.
In his rigidity, Bush sounds eerily like President Lyndon Johnson, who could not acknowledge until too late his Vietnam policy was in shambles. But in the aftermath of the midterm e... (more)
When Marget Lieder accidentally dialed 9-1-1, while meaning to dial 4-1-1 for information, she thought nothing of simply hanging up and dialing again – but that was before a group of officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police broke down her door and arrested her and her partner.
On the evening of Oct. 25, Lieder, who lives in North Vancouver, B.C., was drinking wine with her partner, Larry Pierce, and a house guest when she misdialed the information number and reached e... (more)
'In the endgame," said one of the world's best-ever chess players, José Raúl Capablanca, "don't think in terms of moves but in terms of plans." The situation in Iraq is now unravelling into the bloodiest endgame imaginable. Both popular and official support for the war in those countries that ordered the invasion is already at a low and will only get lower. Whatever mandate the occupiers may have once had from their own electorates - in Britain it was none, in the US it was precari... (more)
Poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital last week, had visited Israel lately to hand over a dossier investigating Russian energy giant Yukos case, The Times reported on Monday quoting a former Yukos owner.
Litvinenko passed the dossier to Leonid Nevzlin — former second-in-command at Yukos who fled to Tel Aviv after Russia took over Yukos and sold it off. Nevzlin is wanted in Russia over charges of mass... (more)
THE former Russian spy who died last week from radiation poisoning named a senior Kremlin agent as the man he believed responsible for targeting him.
Alexander Litvinenko, who died after mysteriously absorbing polonium210, a rare and highly toxic radioactive material, said in his last full interview from hospital that he knew he was an “active case” for Russian intelligence.
He named the agent in charge of monitoring him as “V... (more)
Alexander Litvinenko died horribly but with as much dignity as could any man being destroyed from the inside by radiation. The first thing to be said is that we should not let the manner of this death obscure the reasons for it, because that would be to hand victory to Litvinenko's murderers and to relegate his stand, so rare and requiring such an extraordinary degree of courage, to a mere detail in the backstory.
On November 24, RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Andrei Sharyi spoke with Yuly Dubov, a Russian businessman living in London and long-time business partner of former oligarch Boris Berezovsky, about the death of former Federal Security Service agent Aleksandr Litvinenko.
RFE/RL: When did you last speak with Aleksandr Litvinenko?
Yuly Dubov: He called me several times from the hospital to tell me how he was feeling. At the time he didn't know whether it as thaliu... (more)
· Present curbs are too light, Met chief to tell Goldsmith
· Rights groups say officers would be 'censors in chief'
Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands.
The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the po... (more)
