In America, instead of facing justice, criminals from up high usually write memoirs, or become “elder statesmen,” and are interviewed, settling comfortably into the historical record, either oblivious to or proud of the swathe of blood and gore that enshrouds them.
For instance, take the neocons, who should be filling up the docket at the Hague for plotting and executing the invasion and occupation of Iraq—current death total, 650,000, with millions floundering... (more)
As the midterm election closes in, our unitary decider, engaged in a “campaign-closing tour,” tells those who will listen, including a handful of Republican candidates and incumbents who have yet to slouch off into the shadows, fearing political contamination, that if Democrats sweep the House and Senate, the “terrorists win and America loses,” simple as that.
According to political analysts, the Iraq card is the only one in the decider’s hand. &ldq... (more)
Five Jewish teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for attacking a Pakistani-American man with brass knuckles in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and calling him a "terrorist," officials said.
Shahid Amber, 24, said in an interview last night he was eating ice cream near a Dunkin' Donuts at the corner of East 15th Street and Avenue M, when he was approached by a group of five teenagers at about 8:15 p.m. on October 29. They knocked the ice cream from his hands, called him a "... (more)
Four days before the election, as Republican candidates battle to save their seats in Congress amid a backlash over the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney told ABC News the administration is going "full speed ahead" with its policy.
"We've got the basic strategy right," Cheney told George Stephanopoulos in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on "This Week."
Watch the full interview this Sunday morning, including the vice president's ... (more)
Plans to boost Nato's co- operation with countries such as Australia and Japan in an effort to forge a partnership against terrorism have been blocked by France.
The moves were to have been at the centre of a summit of the alliance's leaders to be held in Riga this month. Nato officials now accept that only a loosely worded pledge to increase contacts with partners in Asia and Australasia will be included in the communiqué, which will be agreed by President George Bush and ... (more)
Samsung has partnered with Korea University to develop a machine-gun equipped sentry robot, which consists of “two cameras: one for day-time and one for infrared night vision, zooming capabilities, a speaker for notifying the intruder, sophisticated pattern recognition to detect the difference between humans/trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.”
…are expected to sell for $200,00 USD and will be available late in 2007. The South Korean government plans to
Q This Reverend Haggard out in Colorado, is he someone who is close to the White House? There had been reports that he was on the weekly call with evangelicals. Is that true?
MR. FRATTO: I'm actually told that that's not true, that he has -- in terms of a weekly call that he has? He had been on a couple of calls, but was not a weekly participant in th
Camp Casey interview with Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern. He talks about running into ex-Secretary of the Department of Transportation Norman Mineta and confronting him regarding his testimony before the 9/11 Commission. Mineta testified that Cheney was well aware of the location and destination of Flight 77 (or whatever it was) and forced NORAD to stand-down and allowed it to hit the Pentagon.
The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer".
An Iraqi security source disclosed Wednesday that the US forces stormed the home of former Iraqi Premier Iyad Allawi who leads the Iraqi list, one of the biggest Iraqi parliament blocs, and arrested eight of his bodyguards.
The source told Kuna that the US force of four Humvies and tanks stormed Allawi's National Reconciliation Movement's list and ransacked its contents at the Raghma Khatoun neighborhood.
Had The ‘Capability’ For A Nuclear Weapons Program This morning on MSNBC, White House Counselor Dan Bartlett used a New York Times report to falsely claim Saddam Hussein “had the capability and he had the know-how to” develop nuclear weapons. Watch it:
In an interview on MSNBC earlier this morning, Dan Bartlett, counselor to the President, dismissed concerns about a U.S. government Website shut down because it may have revealed sensitive bomb building data. However, he insisted that the unauthenticated Iraqi documents online did show that "Saddam Hussein had the capability and was working towards a nuclear weapon program," which would bolster Bush's preemptive war arguments, RAW STORY has found.
Sean Hannity has been ranting for weeks about how next week's election is about national security and holding up the specter that the United States will be more vulnerable to attacks if Democrats take control of Congress. Last night (11/3/06), he, Rudy Giuliani and Rick Santorum, none of whom served in the military, took swipes at combat veteran John Kerry, while complaining that only Republicans know how to keep the country safe. But with all that concern for national security, nobody thought i... (more)
In Texas, the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35) has become a major issue in the gubernatorial campaign where incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Perry is viewed as a chief proponent for building this new, giant toll road parallel to Interstate-35.
This year, three major candidates are contesting Perry: Democrat candidate Chris Bell, Republican-turned-inde... (more)
Brian Berman, a senior at Stevenson High School, doesn't want to join the military, doesn't want calls from recruiters, doesn't want them at his door. So his parents signed a form that prevents the school from giving his contact information to recruiters. A provision of the No Child Left Behind law requires high schools to share students' names, phone numbers and addresses with military recruiters unless students or their parents choose to opt out.
In the following video, powerful evangelist Ted Haggard admits to purchasing drugs from a male prostitute in Denver, Colorado.
Haggard also says he received a massage from the man, 49 year old Michael Jones, and left him voicemails. However, he denies ever having sex with him, or meeting him again.
A more detailed RAW STORY report can be read at this link.
Nov.2, 2006— The federal government has declared a Virginia sheriff and his deputies corrupt to the core.
Today Henry County Sheriff Harold Cassell and 12 of his deputies were charged with dealing crack-cocaine, marijuana and ketamine, which is commonly called the "date rape drug."
Cassell has been the sheriff of Henry County since 1992 . The indictments culminate a five-year Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into accusations of corruption. More th... (more)
A nun who worked at the World Trade Center site in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks died Wednesday after a battle with lung disease that she said stemmed from inhaling toxic dust at ground zero, her lawyer told NewsChannel 4's Melissa Russo.
Sister Cindy Mahoney had volunteered at ground zero to bless the remains of victims.
Attorney David Worby said Mahoney, who was suffering from interstitial lung disease, hoped her story would help prove th... (more)
"If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don't have one. Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, yet they don't have a plan ..."
- US President George W Bush, campaigning for Republicans in next week's congressional elections.
So, does the Bush administration have a plan for Iraq, and if so, is it working? The answer to both questions could well be "yes". But it's not a plan that Bush could publicly boast about, despite the fact that it'... (more)
The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.
The details, released in a notice published yesterday in the Federal Register, open a new window on the government's broad and often controversial data-collection effort directed at American and foreign travelers, which was implemented after the ... (more)
Totalitarian regimes teach us important lessons about the consequences of letting nosy state authorities use surveillance to keep their people in check, delegates were told at the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's conference in London yesterday.
Stalinist Russia and the former German Democratic Republic, which suffered a stifling life under the surveillance of the Stasi secret police, were drawn on for examples to ignite the imaginations of people who... (more)
