Police: Hate crime never happenedDurham – A reported anti-Semitic hate crime at the University of New Hampshire earlier this month never happened and the student who reported it has been arrested and charged with lying to authorities, police said yesterday.
Breanne Coventry Snell, 24, of Midlothian, Va., is charged with two counts of giving false information to police and one count of unsworn falsification. Each charge is a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison.
Earlier thi... (more)
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Joint Anglo-American project to check Internet "misuse"London- The British inventor of the basic software for the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, Thursday voiced concern about the future of the web and its possible use to "spread misinformation." His warning came as the University of Southampton, in Britain, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), launched a joint research programme in web science to investigate the social impact of the internet.
The new research will look not only at computer science, but will also cove... (more)
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Christian Defense Coalition: Many evangelicals 'feel used, taken for granted' by GOPMany evangelicals "feel used and taken for granted by the Republican Party," according to a release issued by the Washington, D.C. based Christian Defense Coalition.
"If Republicans lose the House or Senate, they only have themselves to blame," said the group's director, Rev. Pat Mahoney, who was formerly with the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. "They have failed to energize and empower faith and value voters which provide a critical base of support for the Republican Party... (more)
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They come not as single spies, but in battalions History will record that the most baleful legacy of New Labour is not its alarming incompetence or its mendacity in the conduct of public affairs – shameful though they are – but the way in which it has destroyed our privacy. We are the most spied-upon society in Europe, with more CCTV cameras than the rest of the EU combined. In the international rankings calculated by the human rights organisation Privacy International we are near the bottom of the table, m... (more)
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Man claims 3-year sexual relationship with pastorDENVER - A gay man and admitted male escort claims he has had an ongoing sexual relationship with a well-known Evangelical pastor from Colorado Springs.
Mike Jones told 9 Wants to Know Investigative Reporter Paula Woodward he has had a "sexual business" relationship with Pastor Ted Haggard for the past three years.
Haggard is the founder and senior leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. The church has 14,000 members.
He is also president o... (more)
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MSNBC makes double-digit viewer gainsNEW YORK -- Things are looking up at MSNBC, with the channel registering double-digit gains in viewers and adults 25-54 for October while Fox News Channel led all news networks for the 250th straight week.
Leading the charge was "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," which jumped 67% in viewership and 61% in the adults 25-54 demographic compared with October 2005. "Countdown" averaged 637,000 viewers (including 233,000 in the demo) for the month, according to data released Tuesday by N... (more)
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Man Arrested After Appearing Naked In Own HomeMASSILLON, Ohio -- A man appearing naked in his own home was arrested Monday, Massillon police said.
The 43-year-old man was charged with two counts of public indecency.
Officers arrested the Charles Avenue S.E. resident when he was observed naked in an open window.
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School 'Ethics' Group Punishes Student for Opposing Homosexual AdoptionA social work student at Missouri State University has filed a lawsuit alleging the school required her to adopt a position in support of homosexual adoption as a precondition to getting her degree.
According to news reports, Dr. Frank Kaufman -- an assistant professor in MSU's School of Social Work on the Springfield campus and a member of the Faculty Senate at MSU -- assigned his students a project promoting homosexual fo... (more)
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Issaquah bus driver appeals firing for "flipping off" President BushAn Issaquah school bus driver fired for allegedly "flipping off" President Bush during a visit to Seattle in June is appealing her termination.
According to Issaquah School District officials, the incident happened when a district school bus stopped for the president's motorcade while returning from a field trip in Seattle.
As the president waved to the school children from his limousine, the bus driver made an obscene gesture, said Sara Niegowski, a spokeswoman for... (more)
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Syria switching to euros to combat U.S. sanctionsThe U.S.’s sanctions against Syria prompted Damascus to start switching its foreign currency surplus from U.S. dollars to euros, the United Press International reported.
A Syrian source told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Syria has already started to take a series of steps to deal with the U.S. sanctions barring trade between the two countries.
Syria's Central Bank Governor Dr. Adib Mayala said on Tuesday that the country "would rid itself of the rel... (more)
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iRobot Unveils New Technology For Simultaneous Control Of Multiple RobotsiRobot has released the first public photo of a new project in development, code named Sentinel. This innovative new networked technology will allow a single operator to simultaneously control and coordinate multiple semi-autonomous robots via a touch-screen computer.
Funded by the U.S. Army's Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program, the Sentinel technology includes intelligent navigation capabilities that enable the robots to reach a preset destination independently... (more)
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Christians: Here to serve IsraelSome 70 Christian delegates from around the world met at the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem Wednesday evening to express solidarity with the State of Israel, and to convey the message that the Israeli people were "not alone."
The meeting was held to welcome representatives of the Pentecostal European Fellowship (PEF) to Jerusalem. Pentecostalism is a growing Evangelical sect in Europe, and millions of Christians are members of the movement.
Ingolf Ell... (more)
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UK 'air plot:' Brothers releasedLONDON, England (CNN) -- Two brothers charged in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners have been released after a British court ruled there was insufficient evidence to warrant a trial.
Westminster Magistrate's Court confirmed that the case of Umair Hussain, 25, and Mehran Hussain 23, was discharged due to "insufficient information evidence."
The two faced charges of failing to disclose information about the suspected role of their brother Nabeel Hussain, ... (more)
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Airline's medicine ban leaves passenger in coma A diabetic man fell into a coma because airport staff refused to let him take his insulin on board a flight from Auckland to Christchurch.
Qantas yesterday apologised to Tui Peter Russell, who had a severe attack on the plane and was in hospital for two weeks.
Mr Russell said check-in staff at Auckland Airport told him he could not take his medication on board because it was dangerous.
The 43-year-old Glen Innes chef said he had flown many times w... (more)
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Airline security critic raided by FedsIndiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian pointed out a flaw in airline security by posting a fake boarding pass generator online, and was rewarded with a visit from FBI agents with a search warrant.
The FBI raided his residence on Saturday, only days after the student posted a PHP script enabling anyone to print a boarding pass for Northwest Airlines.
It's unlikely that a fake pass would enable someone to board a flight they hadn't paid for, but it w... (more)
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Ex-Hussein political adviser claims Iraq accepted Bush's ultimatum before invasionHossam Shaltout, a former political adviser to Saddam Hussein's son, said today that before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, Saddam expressed his intent to yield to all American demands, but that the Bush administration refused his offers, according to a press release on Yahoo News.
Shaltout is a Canadian citizen who claims he was beaten repeatedly by U.S. officers while in an Iraqi detention camp, unde... (more)
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Armed Men Terrorize School A recent incident in which armed riot police raided a Michigan junior and high school as part of a drill that the children were not aware was about to take place raises the bar in the pursuit of an agenda to fully transform public schools into prison training camps set up to breed continuous generations of obedient slaves.
The Associated Press reports,
"A school safety drill that included police officers in riot gea... (more)
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Depleted uranium risk 'ignored' UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
Scientists have pointed to health statistics in Iraq, where the weapons were used in the 1991 and 2003 wars.
A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2001 said they posed only a small contamination risk.
But a senior UN scientist said research showing how depleted uranium could cause canc... (more)
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Puberty Hitting Girls as Young as 4 Years OldMost parents would agree that their kids always seem to grow up too quickly, but now, puberty is hitting young girls earlier than ever.
Nearly half of African-American girls start showing signs of puberty by 8 years old, and some American girls are developing as young as 5, even 4 years old, experts say.
Skyla Jones is an energetic 5-year-old from Georgia who loves to play.
Last year, her mother, Melissa Jones, noticed Skyla was tired all the time... (more) Related: Preschool Puberty, and a Search for the Causes |
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U.S. Soldier Who Objected to Torture and Refused to Participate Found Dead, Death Ruled "Suicide"Army specialist Alyssa Peterson was an Arabic speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at the Tal-afar airbase in far northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border. According to the Army's investigation into her death, obtained by a KNAU reporter through the Freedom of Information Act, Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. Army spokespersons for her unit have refused to describe ... (more)
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"Weapons of Mass Destruction": Building a Pretext for Waging War on Iran?The US navy yhas conducted military exercises (30th of October) 20 miles outside Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The war games were perceived by Tehran as an act of provocation. Iranian patrol boats came very close to US and coalition warships in the Persian Gulf.
The large scale naval display of US military hardware consisted in intercepting and searching vessels "suspected of trafficking" in "weapons of mass destruction". The exercise was conducted unde ... (more)
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A crooked alliance in the war on terror?WASHINGTON - An FBI report obtained by NBC News suggests that the ruling family of the remote and mountainous Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan oversaw a vast international criminal network that stretched all the way to a series of shell companies in the United States.
Still, it was Kyrgyz then-President Askar Akaev’s alliance with the U.S. government, and his role in the war on terror, that may raise the most disturbing questions. Akaev, who was deposed in a revolution las... (more)
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Pentagon Will "Catapult the Propaganda" Via U.S. Media The Pentagon has formally declared psychological warfare on the American people by announcing it will engage in propaganda and indoctrination by using the Internet and media to "set the record straight" on the war on terror. Recent history clearly indicates this is just the latest outreach of an insipid brainwashing agenda that is totally unlawful and anathema to the U.S. Consti... (more)
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Quotes Which Did Irreparable and Tangible Harm to Our Troops"Bring 'em on." -President George Bush [source: CNN]
"...weeks rather than months." -Vice President Dick Cheney [source: Washington Post]
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." -Vice President Dick Cheney [source: Washington Post]
"They want to the get rid of Saddam... (more)
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Total Information Awareness Is BackInformation Awareness Is Back
Remember Total Information Awareness?
In November 2002, the New York Times reported that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was developing a tracking system called "Total Information Awareness" (TIA), which was intended to detect terrorists through analyzing troves of information. The system, developed under the direction of John Poindexter, then-director of ... (more)
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Growing DNA database 'turning Britain into a nation of suspects' One in four men could soon be included on the national DNA database which is helping to turn Britain into a nation of suspects, an expert group has warned.
The database has been established with little or no public consultation but over the past 10 years has collected DNA profiles on more than 3.5 million people, including 24,000 children and youths under the age of 18.
Britain stores the most extensive DNA database on its population in the world, yet ... (more)
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Jail guards 'colluded in assaults'Prison officers colluded in serious assaults on vulnerable prisoners, according to allegations in a jail watchdog's report.
Three inmates at High Down jail in Sutton, Surrey, were attacked just days before Anne Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, arrived on site with her team.
Ms Owers' report has raised concerns about high numbers of inmates reporting bullying and intimidation by staff.
"Most worryingly, during the weekend prior to the inspection ... (more)
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