Smile, you're on the Bx15. New York City's Metro Transit Authority on Wednesday disclosed that it is testing the use of video surveillance cameras on its buses in an effort to beef up security.
Under a $5.2 million pilot program launched in September, six New York City buses have been equipped with several interior cameras that capture views of the driver, passengers and external traffic. The cameras feed images to an on-board hard drive, and that data is u... (more)
Would it scare you to learn that the surgeon who was about to carve into your body had just had a few drinks?
How about if the doc just needed a nap?
Same difference, according to a host of new studies.
We've heard enough about the dire consequences of sleep deprivation in recent weeks to keep us awake at night, but a few institutions are trying to do something about it.
They are mostly in the medical field, where long hours without a... (more)
A no-nonsense Cape Cod judge threw the book at a college kid for wearing shorts in his courtroom during the high-profile Worthington murder trial - locking the sloppy student up with the accused killer, according to sources and media reports.
The Cape Cod Community College student, whose name has not been released, was tossed into a cell with Christopher McCowen, a garbage collector on trial for the 2002 slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington. Barnstable Superior Court J... (more)
Voting rights activist Bev Harris fears the mid-term elections may have been thrown in order to quell suspicions about vote fraud in anticipation of a major 2008 coup. Liberal blog sites are already naively telling whistleblowers and "conspiracy theorists" to keep quiet now that the left arm of the establishment, the Democrats, have re-emerged.
"I think it's gonna be interesting to see which election reform groups decide that it's not such a bad problem after... (more)
The FBI has further delayed the release of a video that many bloggers have speculated may show the impact of flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001.
Following last week's article detailing the imminent release of the Doubletree hotel video, a reader has informed us that after calling Judicial Watch and asking when the video would be made public,... (more)
On October 17, with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Donald Rumsfeld standing behind him, George W. Bush solemnly announced, “in memory of the victims of September 11th, it is my honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law.”
It is apt that Bush invoked a terrifying assault on America as he signed the Military... (more)
The Democrats have swept the House and the Senate may well follow but did 7/11 really herald the defeat of the Neo-Con agenda or will establishment sycophants like Nancy Pelosi hijack and misdirect legitimate discontent and shield Bush from impeachment while blocking efforts to repeal legislation he passed?
Pelosi is widely tipped to become speaker of the house but she is already on the record as saying that no impeachment proceedings against President B... (more)
KANSAS CITY, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A deceptive campaign funded with tens of millions of dollars by a company which stands to profit from the measure has succeeded in having Amendment 2 passed. The measure permits embryonic stem cell research and human cloning to be conducted in the state.
Efforts by pro-life activists in Missouri to disabuse the public of the false information proved narrowly unsuccessful as the Amendment passed 51-49%. The approval makes Missour... (more)
Governor Mitt Romney filed legislation yesterday that would require local police departments to put all felony and serious misdemeanor arrest warrants into a national FBI database. This would enable any police department in the state to check quickly whether a suspect has a recent history of troublemaking or violence, the governor's office said. Currently, local police chiefs have discretion over which warrants enter the database, and when. Romney said police must confront suspects often wi... (more)
A fifth grader named 'Mark' reported to Alex Jones' Infowars TV show by phone that he had been sent home with a disciplinary report for visiting 9/11 Truth websites such as Infowars.com.
The 10 year-old Steiner Ranch Elementary student-- in Leander I.S.D. near Austin, Texas-- says that he was browsing such sites during his Computer Lab class period when a fellow student informed on him-- as though he were doing something wrong.
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Today the FOX & Friends crew and "expert" Neil Livingstone, a partisan guest if ever there was one, dragged out the old Osama bin Laden-loves-the-Democrats chestnut. These guys will stop at nothing to scare their voters to the polls.
NEIL LIVINGSTONE, author, AEI Speakers Bureau, CEO of GlobalOptions, Inc., : "I think he [Osama bin Laden] learned a lot last time. Now they did influence elections in Spain where Azna... (more)
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:
* On Dec. 20, 1983, the Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld "visited Iraq in what U.S. officials said was an attempt to bolster the already improving U.S. relations with that country."
* Two days later, the New York Times cited a "senior American official" who "said that the... (more)
Despite early reports all indicating that Donald Rumsfeld would not be forced out of office over the election thumping, he has this afternoon "stepped down" by mutual consent.
"Now after a series of thoughtful conversations, Secretary Rumsfeld and I agreed that the time had come for new leadership at the Pentagon," Bush said in an East Room press conference.
All indications suggest that, like Colin Powell after the 2004 election,... (more)
Israel fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus in its recent conflict with Hizbollah militants in the Lebanon, according to an official investigation by the United Nations.
White phosphorus is banned under the Geneva Convention when used against civilians or in civilian areas, although Israel insists that the shells were directed against solely military targets.
However, the UN team failed to find any evidence that Israel used depleted ... (more)
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- In the state of California voters rejected a parental notification measure for the second time. They rejected the idea by a 53-47 percentage vote last year and this year voted against it by the same percentage. With a pro-abortion state legislature and voters who are more pro-abortion than the nation in general, pro-life groups will need to find other ways to reduce the number of abortions and help parents protect their ... (more)
Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County this morning.
The ballots were distributed by people who said they arrived by buses this morning from Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant go... (more)
Going to the polls may have been intimidating for some Virginia voters Tuesday. 8NEWS has learned the FBI is investigating reports of phone calls, threatening to arrest people if they showed up to vote.
An FBI spokesman is confirming that agents are looking into reports of voter intimidation in several Virginia counties.
If you take a look at this map you can see where voters were getting those calls. Chesterfield County is the most recent location to be added t... (more)
Still thrashing around for something to call his 'legacy', Tony Blair makes ever more extravagant claims for his wildly expensive scheme to introduce biometric ID cards.
Not only will they help in the fight against crime, terrorism and illegal immigration, he says, but they will smash identity fraud and make it easier for everyone to access services.
Sounds wonderful in theory. But in practice?
Leave aside the frightening implications for civil libert... (more)
The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by... (more)
IBM thinks it's got an answer to privacy concerns about RFID tags. It's announcing Wednesday the first manufacturing agreement for its Clipped Tag, which was designed with an antenna that's as easy to remove as tearing off a piece of paper.
IBM and its first manufacturing licensee, Marnlen RFID, don't yet have any business customers for the tags, but they're talking to retailers in the U.S., Canada and Europe about pilot tests, says Paul Moskowitz, a sci... (more)
No matter who wins the midterm election, be it Democrats or Republicans, the slaughter in Palestine will continue.
In fact, it is a safe bet to conclude that the vast majority of the winners, and indeed most of the losers, support the criminal state of Israel, infamous for using U.S. supplied weapons to kill Palestinian school children.
Israel’s slaughter, fully supported by the neocons and most of our “representatives” sitting in Congress, is ... (more)
As always, Jack didn't pull any punches in todays 4:00 question. After ripping into the Bush administration and it's neoconservative enablers for reneging on every 2000 campaign promise (no nation-buliding, restoring honor and integrity ... (more)
Hillary Clinton’s already-high chances of becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2008 have gone up even more. She is now the favorite with a 55 percent chance of winning. No one else in the field even comes close. Her closest contender is Al Gore whose odds are 6.4 to 1 against winning the nomination.
In a match up against John McCain, the Republican frontrunner, Hillary is favored to win.
Last Friday, just hours after the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had posted advanced plans for building nuclear weapons on a public web site for months, six Arab nations formally announced they were launching nuclear programs of their own. The potential for disaster posed by this development is almost immeasurable: everything from Chernobyl-style accidents to the theft or transfer of nuclear material to terrorists to the near-... (more)
LONDON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Britain's Metropolitan Police is being sued by a Muslim officer upset he was removed from the force protecting dignitaries like Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Constable Amjad Farooq, 39, had his special security revoked and was removed from the Diplomatic Protection Group after just six weeks, The Independent reported Tuesday. Farooq said he was told he had failed a security background check because two of his sons had attended a mosque associated with a Muslim... (more)
An artist's concept of what a human-dog hybrid might look like. The strange creatures are part of a sculpture by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini entitled "The Young Family," produced to spark reflection on the perils of creating human-animal mixtures.
Scientists are going too far in creating mixed human-animal organisms, a Scottish organization is warning.
The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, a professional group based in Edinburgh, has published a r... (more)
