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One of 17 men accused of plotting bombings in major Canadian cities and of training militants also faces an allegation that he sought to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper. [headsonpikes.blogspot.com]
Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany.
In January, four congressional Democrats ask the Office of Professional Responsibility to find out who in the Justice Dept told the president and General Michael Hayden that it was legal for the NSA to engage in warrantless eavesdropping on Americans
The US was aware that West Germany held information on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in the 1950's, but chose to keep the matter secret, fearing that the arrest of the Nazi fugitive might lead to embarrasing revelations about links.
"FOUR STARS" (Highest Rating).The scariest goddamn film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.
Are you a'feared yet? This will warn you of a Nuclear Attack if you happen to miss the Flash and the Blast Wave.
Yesterday on the Lou Dobb's Show on CNN, Lou's crack reporter, Kitty Pilgrim did the second of a two-part (with more to come we hope) report on the ownership of Sequoia Voting by a foreign conglomerate that is directly owned by Venezuelan nat
Researchers at Harvard University said on Tuesday they had started efforts to clone human embryos as a source of valued stem cells, using all private money to bypass federal restrictions on such work. (The joys of the marketplace at work)
(What better reason to get rid of the IRS and income tax) The Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which helped to organize a huge March 25 rally in LA, received $495,627 in government funds between July 2003 and June 2004.
On April 16, the New York Times ran a full-page ad from contact lens producer Bausch and Lomb, announcing the recall of its "ReNu with MoistureLoc" rewetting solution, and warning the 30 million American wearers of soft contact lens
Bill Healy, the senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc, whiped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin cracker. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes(GB)- more than 100 times greater than
This summer the US plans to publish its news space doctrine stipulating the deployment of weapons in circumerrestrial space. Col. Anthony Russo, head of the US Strategic Command's space division, said the new policy would remove any ambiguity
Google is launching a Web-based spreadsheet program today that will allow people to view and simultaneously edit data, while conducting in-document chat.
Mr Bush said: "Marriage is the most fundamental institution of civilisation and it should not be redefined by activist judges."
Holes are beginning to appear in the official version of the “grand” terrorist conspiracy unearthed in the greater Toronto area, with one Canadian agronomist saying that the three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser that the alleged terrorists had
"The fanfare around the arrests creates such a theatrical atmosphere one wonders if it is necessary for the enforcement of justice.... It raises the emotional level without necessarily shedding any light," he said. In Brampton Saturday,
Every morning as ambulance cars and police vehicles rush to the hospital in Bab al-Mo'adham carrying corpses of unidentified victims, a queue of women, teenagers and elderly men forms in front of the morgue as people search for their relatives, f
Iran is one of the world's worst offenders in allowing women to be sold into the sex trade, the United States said in a rebuke that may cloud US efforts to negotiate over Tehran's nuclear program. [Now why would they want to do that?]
The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," a step that would mark a permanent shift away from adherence to human rights standa
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is calling upon U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to investigate New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley over his announcement last week that police in his city would once again confiscate privately-o
Unless one already has landed in your mailbox, you probably don't know or care that the American Community Survey exists. But each year citizens who live at 3 million American addresses must fill out the survey and share some of their most-privat
The mission, beginning its science phase on Monday, will unravel part of the puzzle that is Earth's closest neighbor. Venus is the same size as Earth, but its toxic atmosphere is made almost entirely of carbon dioxide. (Earth's is mostly nitr
Members of Congress took free trips worth nearly $50 million paid by corporations, trade associations and other private groups. $500-a-night hotel rooms, $25,000 corporate jet rides and visits to Paris, Hawaii and Colorado ski resorts
If the toothless lobbying "reform" bill approved by the House and Senate is any indication, we haven't seen the last of the likes of Jack Abramoff or Tom DeLay. DeLay exits Congress June 9, but his influence lives on. His former deputy,
A third-grade teacher at a Muslim school in Maryland traveled to Pakistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks, trained with a terrorist organization there and later served as chauffeur for one of that group's leaders during his U.S. travels, prosecuto
AFTER borrowing heavily from John Howard's election campaign rulebook to win January's election, Canada's novice Conservative Party Government suddenly has some real-life terrorists to help it win the next one. The 12 men and five yout
The US military has admitted that 3 Iraqi civilians killed in an explosion died because of an artillery training exercise that went wrong. An artillery round fired from a US military base near Hibhib struck a building in the nearby town, a statement
In its combination of security and repression, Iraq's south — the Shiite heartland — provides a glimpse of what could be the country's future. Checkpoint by checkpoint, street by street and institution by institution across Iraq's sout
Counter-terrorism officials conceded yesterday that lethal chemical devices they feared had been stored at an east London house raided may never have existed. A man was shot during the raid, adding to pressure on the authorities for answers about the
Bosnia's mystery pyramid will now be probed and inspected by a team of experts from the U.N. "We shall send a UNESCO expert team to Visoko to determine exactly what it is all about," UNESCO Secretary General Koichiro Matsuura said in an
