Russia prepared to pay entire foreign debt to Paris Club ahead of scheduleDuring the annual Moscow conference "Investments in Russian economy: a key to success" organized by international financial group Brunswick UNS, Russian PM Mikhail Fradkov and Minister of Finance Aleksey Kudrin made several important statements concerning the present economic situation in Russia and perspectives of the nation's economic development. Fradkov, in particular, described the situation in Russian economy as stable and confirmed that the government rejected using resources of the Stabi... (more)
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From a Cave in Afghanistan: It’s the al-Zarqawi ShowOsama, finally blessed with a donated kidney from a Pakistani religious student (the transplant was performed in one of his better equipped caves in Afghanistan), has launched an internet news show entitled “the Voice of the Caliphate,” featuring an anchorman wearing a black ski mask and an ammunition belt.
I’m not making this up. Well, I made up the part about the donated kidney (although Pakistani religious students have offered to donate their kidneys to their... (more)
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Menezes family: police lied to usThe family of Jean Charles de Menezes spoke today of their distress after viewing CCTV footage of his last moments, and said they were now convinced that police had lied to them.
Relatives said the footage, which they watched at the headquarters of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), showed the 27-year-old Brazilian had not been acting suspiciously before police shot him dead.
The innocent electrician was confused with a terror suspect after he ente... (more)
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FBI to get veto power over PC software?The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use software on your computer only if the FBI approves.
No, really. In an obscure "policy" document released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.
According to the three-page document, t... (more)
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Mayor charged with soliciting underaged girl on his city cell phone. City's solution to prevent reoccurrence? All employees have to turn over their cell phonesIn an effort to cut down on cell phone abuse, all Oswego City employees were ordered to turn in their cell phones on Monday afternoon.
It's the new city administration's reaction to charges against former mayor John Gosek, accused of soliciting sex from underaged girls on his city phone. The move is rubbing some people the wrong way. But, others say they have no problem with acting Mayor Bill Dunsmoor's order.
The Ctiy Sewer Department, the Fire Department, and the... (more)
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College Students Overestimate Peers' DrinkingWEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- More than 70 percent of U.S. college students overestimate the amount of alcohol that their peers drink.
And this kind of misperception has a strong effect on personal alcohol consumption and associated problems, according to a study of more than 76,000 students at 130 colleges and universities.
For example, at schools where non-drinking was the norm, only 21 percent of students accurately perceived that the typical student at... (more)
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Bohemian Grove Employee Blows the Whistle on Inside EventsYesterday Alex Jones was joined on air by a guest who worked inside Bohemian Grove and got up close and personal with the macabre rituals of the elite and their homosexual tendencies. These new revelations have been heard nowhere else.
"Kyle" has worked at the Grove for their Spring Jinx for the "neophytes", the newcomers or outsiders, and for the official fifteen day Summer encampment festival.
The Grove is a private 2,700 acre redwood retreat on the Russian River ... (more)
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Forced silence incites critics of Patriot ActWASHINGTON -- With work about to begin on a final version of legislation to renew the USA Patriot Act, opponents of the measure are desperately trying to remove a gag from a Connecticut librarian who received a demand for records through one of the act's most controversial provisions.
Lawmakers, librarians and civil libertarians said yesterday that the librarian, identified only as John Doe, wants to tell his story to Congress and the public before the renewal bill is completed.... (more)
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82-Year-Old Manhandled, Ejected From Labour Conference After Criticizing 'Nonsense' WarThe Labour Party was forced to make a humiliating apology to an 82-year-old party member last night after he was thrown out of the conference for heckling Jack Straw.
Walter Wolfgang, a party member for 57 years, was bundled out of the conference hall by stewards after shouting "nonsense" as Mr Straw, the Foreign Secretary, defended Britain's role in Iraq. He was later stopped under anti-terrorist powers as he tried to re-enter the hall.
The heavy-handed treatment o... (more)
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Rita Evacuees Can't Believe They're Being Housed In JailDALLAS -- After spending days on a bus, some Hurricane Rita evacuees finally found a place to stay in Dallas. Now they have food, water and shelter but say they can't believe where they're staying.
It's not that evacuees here aren't grateful to be alive and have some help, but some people who have endured an awful trip now find themselves in a jail.
As busloads of Texans rolled into Dallas, few knew the struggles they had faced to get there.
"We was o... (more)
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Australia to Introduce 'Unpalatable' Counter-Terror MeasuresAustralian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday he did not want to introduce "unpalatable" new anti-terror regulations, but the threat faced by the country was real and the government had to act.
"I don't like having to introduce these laws, I wish we didn't live in that age," he said in a radio interview, shortly after securing support for the measures from the political leaders of Australia's six states and two territories.
Australia has been a firm ally of t... (more)
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US new home sales decline 9.9% in AugustWASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- US new home sales dropped by 9.9 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.24 million units, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
The August reading defied economists who had been expecting newhome sales to cool slightly in August to 1.35 million units from the revised 1.37 million units in the previous month.
But new home sales in August rose by 6.2 percent from the same month last year, when sales ... (more)
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Killed 'Al-Qaeda Number Two' Not Zarqawi’s Top Deputy After AllU.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist—described by President Bush today as the “second-most-wanted Al Qaeda leader in Iraq”—was as significant a figure as the Bush administration is claiming.
In a brief Rose Garden appearance Wednesday morning, Bush seized on the killing of Abu Azzam by joint U.S-Iraqi forces in a shootout last Sunday as fresh evidence that the United States is turning the tide a... (more)
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US troops upload photos of dead Iraqis for pornThe US military said yesterday it was opening an investigation into reports that soldiers based in Iraq were posting gruesome photographs of dead Iraqis, including explicit shots of severed body parts and internal organs, on a Florida-based website in exchange for access to the site's pay-only archive of pornography.
The photographs have outraged Arab and Muslim advocacy groups in the US and prompted human rights organisations to question whether they are not also a violation of t... (more)
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Senator: God judging U.S.: Alabama Republican cites culture of 'gambling, sin and wickedness'An Alabama state senator says the reason why the Gulf Coast is suffering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is because God is judging Americans in that region for sinful behavior.
"New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness," wrote Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, in a column, according to the Birmingham News. "It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."
Erwin said he was awed, but not ... (more)
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Texas Emergency Hurricane Hotline Outsourced to IndiaSep. 28, 2005 - As Hurricane Rita roared toward them, more than 300 people called the local emergency number broadcast all around Nacogdoches County in east Texas. What they didn't know was that the operators on the other end of the phone were 7,000 miles away in India.
With power down and limited means of communication, Nacogdoches County Judge Sue Kennedy, who acts as the emergency coordinator, decided to set up a phone bank to help people out. She called a local firm that runs ... (more)
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U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of WebGENEVA -- A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer.
"We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet," said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. "Some countries want that. We ... (more)
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Calif. RFID Bill Assumes New IdentityAfter the California State Assembly's appropriations committee failed to vote on California Senate Bill 682—otherwise known as the Identity Information Protection Act of 2005, just two weeks before the end of the legislative season, the bill seemed destined to stall in the assembly's appropriations committee until next year. But in the eleventh hour, Joe Simitian, the Democratic state senator who authored the bill, met with Assemblywoman Judy Chu, chair of the appropriations committee, and... (more)
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The Death of a Constitutional Republic“President Bush yesterday sought to federalize hurricane-relief efforts, removing governors from the decision-making process,” reports the ,Moonie Times, otherwise known as the Washington Times. “It wouldn’t be necessary to get a request from the governor or take other action,” declared White House press secretary Scott McClellan. “Mr. McClellan was referring to a new, direct line ... (more)
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Is Normal Now A Mental Illness?Is your child easily distracted? Or perhaps he talks excessively, or can become impatient?
Most, if not all, parents would perhaps answer yes to these questions, as they are, what many of us believe to be, normal expressions of child behaviour.
Not so, according to Psychiatry. It could be that your child has "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder", a "disease" of the mind that could require medical treatment.
The American Psychiatric Association's ... (more)
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Republicans See Signs That Pentagon Is Evading OversightWASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - Republican members of Congress say there are signs that the Defense Department may be carrying out new intelligence activities through programs intended to escape oversight from Congress and the new director of national intelligence.
The warnings are an unusually public signal of some Republican lawmakers' concern about overreaching by the Pentagon, where top officials have been jockeying with the new intelligence chief, John D. Negroponte, for primacy in in... (more)
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