Hill peak in sight for Mars roverThe US space agency's robotic rover Spirit is approaching the summit of a hill it has been climbing on Mars since the end of last year.
It now has less than 70m to drive in order to reach the peak of "Husband Hill" on the Red Planet and should complete the climb this week.
When the rover gets there, it will take photos of what should be a spectacular view and scout for sites of interest.
The twin robots Spirit and Opportunity have been on Mars since J... (more)
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They Shall Be ReleasedThere's a new batch of photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and these are reportedly far worse than the sickening originals. Naturally, the Pentagon is trying to block their release.
The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request in October 2003 to make public 87 photographs and four videos depicting prisoner abuse in Iraq. The Pentagon originally argued that releasing the images would violate the Geneva Convention rights of the detainees; a supreme irony considering that th... (more)
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UTAH RAVERS TREATED LIKE TERRORISTS! UTAH RAVERS TREATED LIKE TERRORISTS! EVOL INTENT'S ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT!
Originally Posted by knick evl ntnt
Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops.
So, we got to the show a... (more)
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Rave Bust In Utah County Has Party Goers Crying FoulHundreds of party-goers are crying foul over a safety sweep at a rave party late Saturday night.
Swat members from Utah County busted the rave at Diamond Fork in Spanish Fork Canyon. At least 60 people were arrested for various offenses.
Many who attended the rave are upset because they say authorities used excessive force to shut down the party. According to the Utah County Sheriff's office they didn't use excessive force but took the necessary measures to control ... (more)
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See-through 'freedom bags' offered to Tube commutersA RANGE of see-through bags aimed at commuters left nervous by the London bombings was launched yesterday.
It is claimed the "freedom bags" will make passengers feel more at ease on the Tube, on buses and in public places.
The launch follows "noticeable distrust" towards people carrying rucksacks and large bags in enclosed spaces, according to the Assist Safety Project, which came up with the scheme.
The bags will help police carry out searches more q... (more)
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Brits happy to ditch civil libertiesThree out of four Brits would happily hand over their civil liberties in exchange for better security against terrorist attacks, according figures from pollsters ICM.
It is interesting to note that this is the same general public that rails against any attempts to make them drive more slowly, or with more care. This is in spite of the fact that in 2004, 671 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents, and a further 2,550 people died in other road accidents.
The ICM... (more)
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Troops Raid Utah Rave With Guns & Gas“Camouflaged troops” descended in helicopters on a Utah canyon Sunday night to bust up a permitted and insured rave party.
A horrific video recording of the police and military violence against hundreds of dance kids can be found here. (Mirror site here, courtesy of Eric Huntington at Modern Fix magazine.)... (more)
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With Support Falling, Bush Attempts to Rally Country For Ongoing War in IraqWith support for the war in Iraq at an all-time low, President Bush will interrupt his five-week long vacation at his Crawford, Texas in an attempt to rally public support for the war.
According to published reports, Bush will attempt to compare the war in Iraq to other long conflicts like World War II which the United States fought for nearly four years.
Mr. Bush will also again invoke the September 11 attacks, claiming that the insurgents battling against American... (more)
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Dutch poultry sent indoors as bird flu approachesAll free-range commercial poultry in the Netherlands must be kept indoors from today, under a ban introduced to protect the country's fowl from avian flu, which is spreading towards Europe through migrating flocks.
The measure, which affects around 5 million of the 90 million chickens farmed in the Netherlands, is the first clear response from a European government to reports of spreading avian flu infections in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Russia.
On Saturday, Russian ... (more)
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Another gas price highGasoline prices climbed to a new high, above $2.60 per gallon Monday, according to travel club AAA's daily fuel gauge report, extending more than a week of record-setting gains.
And the price climb is having an effect. According to a new survey, nearly eight out of 10 people saying high prices are making them think about buying a hybrid.
The nationwide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded hit $2.614, up from $2.601 Friday, according to AAA, the largest U.S... (more)
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Al-Qaeda eyes a 9/11 for satellitesExperts are warning that al-Qaeda has the desire -- and the knowledge -- to take out satellites. Dawn Rae Downton reports on the devastating impact such an attack would have on business, communications -- and the American military.
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In May, 1998, mortally wounded by contamination on a printed circuit board, Galaxy IV failed as it sat in geostationary orbit over the middle of the Western hemisphere. Ninety percent of the pagers in the U.S. and Canada -- 45 milli... (more)
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Iguanas now part of life in south FloridaAnimal control officers in south Florida have given up on ever controlling the number of iguanas that have bred and adapted to the life in the wild.
Most recently, 69-year-old Arlyne Reiter called Pompano Beach officials, hysterical after finding an iguana "as big as a newborn baby" in her toilet bowl.
"It was like Jurassic Park in my toilet," she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
While it remains a mystery how the creature got into her... (more)
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Mum ends download fight Sylvia Price has given up her battle to prevent the record industry imposing a £4,000 fine after her daughter illegally downloaded music from the web. The 53-year-old, who lives in Springbank, Cheltenham, hired a solicitor to fight the case against the British Phonographic Industry but now says she can't afford to take it through the courts.
She has instead made a settlement offer of £2,500.
Mrs Price said: "They (the BPI) should have sent something to ... (more)
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Wal-Mart Could Be Transformed Into JailWhen Wal-Mart finishes building a new superstore on Lebanon's north end, the old one on the south end could wind up as a jail, housing convicts next to a community of upscale homes, Target 5's John London uncovered.
Jail overcrowding is so bad and so expensive that Warren County leaders are considering every option. That includes soon-to-be-vacant big-box businesses like the Wal-Mart on state Route 48 in Lebanon.
That came as a no-sale to Tara Brake, who lives in ... (more)
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Pilot spots big swath of marijuana growing near sheriff's facilityOne of the largest marijuana crops seized in Orange County, Calif., was discovered within sight of the county sheriff's communications center, tucked under trees in a rural area.
On Friday, sheriff's officers began digging up the stash - an estimated 2,000 marijuana plants worth an estimated $500,000, sheriff's spokesman Jon Fleischman said.
A sheriff's helicopter pilot on routine patrol spotted the field Thursday afternoon. The plants - some as tall as 10 feet - co... (more)
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Firms Hit by ID Theft Find Way to Cash In on VictimsElizabeth Rosen was plenty angry when ChoicePoint Inc. sent her a form letter acknowledging that crooks might have perused some of her most sensitive personal and financial data.
But the Hollywood nurse was flabbergasted when the company, one of the nation's largest collectors of consumer records, also offered to sell her some of the same information so she could see what might have been compromised.
Rosen was among the 150,000 people whose records were released to ... (more)
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2005 deadly for U.S. in AfghanistanThis year has been the deadliest for the U.S. military in Afghanistan since 2001, with more violence expected as the election approaches.
Of the 181 soldiers who have died in the country since the United States launched its invasion in October 2001, 65 have been killed this year, the New York Times reported. Four died Sunday when a bomb hit a military vehicle.
Afghani security officials say the pace of insurgent attacks on both U.S. and Afghan forces is increasing, ... (more)
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Brazilians to probe Menezes caseTwo senior Brazilian officials have visited Scotland Yard to discuss the investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
The 27-year-old Brazilian was killed by police at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July after officers wrongly linked him to the attempted bombings a day before.
Leaks from the Independent Police Complaints Commission have cast doubt on claims Mr Menezes resisted arrest.
His mother has said action must be taken against the M... (more)
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Al-Qaida Sarin Plot on Parliament FoiledScotland Yard believes it thwarted an al-Qaida sarin gas attack on the British Parliament, according to an internal police document.
The plot to unleash the deadly nerve gas on the House of Commons was hatched last year and uncovered through decoded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan, the Sunday Times reported, citing the police memo it obtained.
Police and the secret service identified an al-Qaida cell that had carried out ext... (more)
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Blair backs Scotland Yard chiefThe head of Scotland Yard has the support of Prime Minister Tony Blair, despite criticism for the way he handled the shooting of an innocent man.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair admitted Saturday he did not know his officers had killed an innocent man until 24 hours after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in the Stockwell Tube last month, the London Telegraph reported.
A Downing Street spokesman said Blair had "full confidence" in the police com... (more)
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Nominee once argued for national ID cardsSupreme Court nominee John Roberts made clear in his days as a Reagan administration lawyer that he did not share the traditional conservative fear of the U.S. government creating national identification cards for American citizens.
Rather, when faced with what he called "the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration," Roberts urged his superiors to switch course and support national ID cards.
"I yield to no one in the area of commitment to ... (more)
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Soldier 'instructed' to abuse Abu Ghraib prisonersOne of the US soldiers convicted of mistreating prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison says his superiors made it clear those incarcerated were to be abused.
Sergeant Javal Davis was sentenced to six months in jail after admitting to having deliberately stepped on the hands and feet of handcuffed prisoners.
In an interview aired on Channel 7, Sgt Davis said he was instructed to make life as unpleasant as possible for those he was guarding.
"I was le... (more)
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