Marine CWO James Roussell supervises counter-insurgency warfare in Fallujah, Iraq; now Roussell, a 30-year Chicago police officer, is back in his hometown heading a special gang unit conducting counter-insurgency warfare at home.
it is not without interest that large structures have been identified from recent satellite photos in this part of the lower Guadalquivir basin. One shows a rectangular structure with a length of 230 metres and a width of 140 metres. It could be a re
Kyrgyzstan ordered US forces to depart within 6 months from an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan, complicating plans to send more troops to battle rising Taliban violence. The US would consider paying more rent to keep the base open
Bank of America Corp and Citigroup shares plummeted for a 6th straight day, hammered by fears that the US government could nationalize the banks, wiping out shareholders. Both stocks have lost more than 90% of their value in the last year.
The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest-ever gamma-ray burst. The blast was stronger than 9,000 supernovae and the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at nearl
DPS also says today that troopers arrested 3 Phoenix men on suspicion of criminal speeding [caught by cameras 3 months ago]." The men were recorded flying past 100 mph in the city on multiple occasions, DPS states.
A US Army medic was convicted of murder for his involvement in the execution-style slayings of 4 bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees shot in the back of the head in the spring of 2007. Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. was found guilty on charges of murder
You sort of say to yourself: what’s going to happen in this society when these people are without jobs, when their families hurt, when they lose their homes, and so forth?
Check out the described experiments posted a couple of days ago and try them out. I have not done so yet but some are dead simple and no fuss at all. If we can all make the pyramid frame spin we will all be on his page knowing that fine geometric cur
A book is out this past year titled Crossing the Continent 1527 – 1540 by Robert Goodwin and is reconstruction of the experiences of the four survivors of an ill fated Spanish expedition to land and penetrate Florida, just a couple of generations aft
The photograph appears to confirm a seeming slip-of-the-tongue by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who said that the US was launching strikes on Pakistani territory from inside Pakistan...
Gold for April delivery, which has surpassed February gold in trading volume, was up $21 to $997.50 an ounce in New York after climbing to a high of $1,000.30 earlier in the session.
That pushed the median price paid to $224,000 last month, a 10 percent decline from $249,000 in December and a 41.5 drop from $383,000 in January 2008.
Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc shares plummeted for a sixth straight day on Friday, hammered by fears that the U.S. government could nationalize the banks, wiping out shareholders. Both stocks have lost more than 90 percent of their value in
Troops will spend Thursday, April 2, staging at a forward operations base at Carroll. The next day company leaders will conduct reconnaissance and begin patrolling the streets of Arcadia to identify possible locations of the weapons dealer.
their content partners don't want their material to appear on the service. Hulu has more than 100 content providers, but my sources say the companies Hulu is referring to are its founders: NBC Universal and News Corp.
“The banking problem in Europe is becoming more severe,” Roubini said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “You have a series of countries that are really in trouble,” Roubini said, citing Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Belarus and Ukraine.
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman talked to Luce Guillen-Givins who is one of the first people ever to be charged under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal PATRIOT Act.
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had sent the United States ambassador a formal notice demanding Washington close its military air base in the country and giving U.S. troops 180 days to pack up and leave.
Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused of a 9.2-billion-dollar fraud that prompted several governments to shut down his banks and seize assets, was on Thursday tracked down in the US state of Virginia, the FBI said. (no arrest)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Citigroup (NYSE:C - News) dropped more than 20 percent to fall below $2 as bank shares plummeted shortly after the opening bell on Friday on fears the U.S. bank rescue plan might include nationalization.
As many as 52,000 American customers hid UBS accounts from the authorities in violation of tax laws, a US government lawsuit against the Swiss bank alleged on Thursday. The Department of Justice filed a suit seeking to force UBS to disclose the holde
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato.
The banking sector has suffered a thirty percent loss in two weeks, in the very sector that we were promised would be "saved" by our new President, and that two weeks has passed without one iota of a plan being actually released.
The people whose mortgages the gov't will bailout this year will be saved ... until their mortgages reset in 5 years. This only delays the inevitable mass defaults/foreclosures (until after the 2012 elections -- coincidence?).
Notice the plan
Rather than objecting to marijuana decrim on any rational basis, this dynamic duo of dimwits chose to resuscitate long-discredited Reefer Madness myths as valid reasons for the bill not to move forward. Sen. Hargrove said one of his former fraternity