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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Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to PrisonBISMARCK, North Dakota - Three men protesting the presence of weapons of mass destruction in North Dakota were sentenced Thursday to federal prison terms of over three years and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution by a federal judge in Bismarck. The three dressed as clowns and went to the Echo-9 launch site of the intercontinental Minuteman III nuclear missile in rural North Dakota in June 2006. They broke the lock off the fence and put up peace banners and posters. One said: "Swords into pl... (more)
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Recycling al-Libi’s Cock and Bull StoryIt doesn’t matter who is in Congress, be they Republican neocon or Democrat neolib, because the United States is in Iraq for the long haul, period. More troops will be sent, a few more billion squandered, contractors will come and go, as will flag-draped coffins out of Dover AFB, to say nothing of the horribly wounded at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and hospitals around the country.
In the recent past, we were told all of this was necessary because Saddam ... (more)
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Dem judiciary leader seeks torture documentsIn a letter addressed to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, chairman-to-be of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has requested the release of documents that outline the Bush Administration's interrogation policies.
If the request is not met, the Democratically-controlled Judiciary Committee will have the option to subpoena when the new Congress begins in January.
The documents, the subject of months of speculation by observers and critics of Americ... (more)
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Jailed Blogger Could Spend a Year in Detention A federal appeals court has refused to hear the case blogger and freelance journalist, Josh Wolf, who now could end up spending almost a year in prison for his refusal to turn over unedited video of a San Francisco protest he filmed over a year ago.
Wolf posted footage of the 2005 violent protest on his blog, which was picked up by local and national media. During the filmed incident , a police car was vandalized.
Though Wolf denies he film... (more)
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Interpreters used by British Army 'hunted down' by Iraqi death squadsIraqi interpreters working with the British Army in Basra are being systematically hunted down and killed.
At least 21 have been kidnapped and shot in head over the past three weeks, their bodies dumped in different parts of the city. Another three are still missing. In a single mass killing, 17 interpreters were killed.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but militia groups fighting for control of the province - and opposed to the presence of foreign ... (more)
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Surveillance is really getting under my skinThe most shocking part of Britain's frantic rush towards a fully fledged surveillance society is not so much the threat to personal liberty, although that is important; it is the lack of security in the systems that are confidently held up to be the solution to the problems of 21st-century crime and terrorism.
While each of us is required to give more and more information about ourselves to the government's various centralised databases, and submit to incr... (more)
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Cracked it!Six months ago, with the help of a rather scary computer expert, I deconstructed the life of an airline passenger simply by using information garnered from a boarding-pass stub he had thrown into a dustbin on the Heathrow Express. By using his British Airways frequent-flyer number and buying a ticket in his name on the airline's website, we were able to access his personal data, passport number, date of birth and nationality. Based on this information, using publicly available databases, we foun... (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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Camera coverage streets ahead MELBURNIANS are being subjected to unprecedented surveillance, with pedestrians in the CBD snapped by at least two security cameras every minute.
As new research names Australia among the most watched societies in the Western world, a Sunday Herald Sun tally found Melbourne's eight most central city blocks contain no fewer than 95 cameras -- with almost 350 more spread across the city centre.
Popular restaurant and shopping strips in Carlto... (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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Americans To Be Tortured For Refusing To Show ID?A horror video that wouldn't look out of place in Maoist China or Nazi Germany shows a student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun by UCLA police for the crime of not showing his ID. As similar cases begin to pile up how long will it be before Americans are routinely tortured for noncompliance and refusing to have their 4th amendment violated?
"A cell phone captured video of a 23-year-old student being administered multiple Taser shocks by UCLA police on Tuesd... (more)
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9-11: The Key to Knowledge and Power What makes some people more powerful than other people?
Consider the teacher, the doctor, and the politician. Their instructions are normally obeyed by their followers, who rarely question their judgment. Is there a common factor shared by teachers, doctors, and politicians – such as “wealth” or “connections” (the classic popular indicators of “power”)? Not exactly, when you consider that teachers and doctors can... (more)
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Belmont to be first U.S. city to ban all smokingBelmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else.
The Belmont City Council voted unanimously last night to pursue a strict law that will prohibit smoking anywhere in the city except for single-family detached residences. Smoking on the street, in a park and even in one’s car will become illegal and police would have the option of handing out tickets if they catch someo... (more)
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Republicans propose last-minute spy billThe outgoing Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate committee has made a last-minute attempt at giving the Bush administration what he calls the necessary "resources" for carrying out its phone call and Internet surveillance within the law, but critics remain unconvinced.
In remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday afternoon, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter marketed his new 11-page proposal as "a significant advance in protecting civil libertie... (more)
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Israelis mourn Gaza deathsThe readers of Haaretz daily newspaper in the past days were in for a surprise after three Israeli citizens published obituaries in the back pages of the newspaper which expressed their grief for the death of civilians in Beit Hanoun last week. The last obituary was purchased by Edna Kovarski of Herzliya, who paid approximately NIS 2,800 (USD 650).
Kovarski wrote in the obituary that she "bows her head in shame and deep grief for your heavy loss. The sane Israeli public is invite... (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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Neocons to "Forget about the democracy crap" in Iraq News today that the Bush Administration is to intensify operations in Iraq, rather than concede to withdrawal, and that domestically they are desperately attempting to pass last minute warrantless surveillance legislation, indicates that the Neocon leadership is more desperate, more determined and more dangerous than ever.
The London Guardian today reported that internal strategy documents being prepared by long term Bush all... (more)
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US plans last big push in IraqA farewell ceremony for US troops deployed to Iraq. Instead of a troop withdrawal next year, Bush is thinking of increasing the numbers. Photograph: Peter Turnley/Corbis
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 forces by up to 20,000 soldiers, according to sources familiar with the administration's internal delibe... (more)
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