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This was great to watch last night. I guess after a day of hearing "how the terrorists are after us", I was due for some serious comedy. Maybe Geraldo will go on TDS to accept Jon’s apology.
It is believed that the bomb suspects of 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot planned to use TATP to bomb the US airliners from London to various destinations of the US. [Industrial hydrogen peroxide is 30%, v. store bought is 3%.]
China is shipping so many goods to the US that the Chinese often find it cheaper to build new containers with low-cost labor and leave their empty ones in the US than send them home empty. "These containers are here to stay,"
Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature flag portraits of George W. Bush into piles of dog poo in public parks. "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles excrement
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an interview to US television network CBS in which he criticized US President George W. Bush's handling of the international response to Iran's nuclear program. CBS on Wednesday released 2 short exc
Israel has asked the Bush adminstration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, 2 American officials said Thursday. The request for M-26 ar
China consumed a record 2,600 tonnes of silver in 2005, nearly 3 times the volume of the metal consumed 20 years ago, state media reported on Monday. But the country exports even more than it consumes. With an all-time record production of 7,196 to
Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend - growing opposition to President Bush. An AP-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33%, matching his low in May.
A federal panel of judges has consolidated 17 lawsuits throughout the US filed against telephone companies accused of assisting the Bush adminstration to monitor Americans' communications without warrants. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict
Destruction and deaths caused and international laws violated by Israel and US
The UN report, as you may note, does not mention Iran or Kazakhstan, details that the Sunday Times claims to have obtained from anonymous Tanzanian customs officials. Tanzanian customs officials said the shipment was bound for land-locked Kazakhstan
[No wonder you are losing the Falklands.] British troops in Iraq are overstretched, ill-equipped and underpaid, and the strain of fighting two big wars at once threatens its military effectiveness, a parliamentary committee said.
MILITARY police investigating the death of Private Jake Kovco prepared in advance large parts of witness statements that were later signed by members of the dead soldier's unit in Iraq. One of those soldiers told a military board of inquiry these
Former Israeli Air Force Captain Yonatan Shapira reports at least 2 Israeli fighter pilots have reportedly deliberately missed bombing targets in Lebanon because they were concerned they were being ordered to bomb civilians.
The White House, and in particular White House advisors who belong to the neoconservative movement, allegedly encouraged Israel to attack Syria as an expansion of its action against Hizbullah, in Lebanon. Israel's "leadership balked at the s
Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries m
The plot to blow up airliners on trans-Atlantic flights was the most serious since the September 11, 2001 attacks and could have claimed thousands of lives, US officials said.
President George Bush and his Democratic foes battled over an alleged London airline bomb plot, each side seeking a political edge ahead of critical November legislative elections. Bush said the foiled conspiracy was "a stark reminder that this
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said the United States and the West were losing credibility in the Middle East because they were dragging their feet on a ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.
A UK bomb plot foiled on Thursday echoed one planned a decade ago in Asia and lays bare the threats airlines still face despite heightened vigilance since the deadly hijackings of 2001, security analysts say.
A rights group accused Western Internet companies of complicity with censorship in China and called on Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to resist Beijing's demands. New York-based Human Rights Watch called the blocking of politically s
Motaz Elshafi, 28, a software engineer, casually opened an internal e-mail at work last month. The message began, "Dear Terrorist." The e-mail warned that such violent acts wouldn't intimidate people, but only make them stronger.
British police say they smashed a scheme to use liquid explosives smuggled inside carry-on luggage to blow up 10 American planes over the Atlantic. A dry run was just days away when police made their swoop on 24 suspects, authorities said.
"We know who our first enemy is: America," he shouted before tearful mourners at a funeral for 30 civilians killed by an Israeli airstrike. The white-turbaned sheikh led the crowd in a militant chant: "Death to America! Death to Americ
The Pew Hispanic Center found no evidence that increases in immigration led to higher unemployment among Americans. Other factors, such as economic growth, played a larger role than immigration in setting the job market for Americans.
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall" - Thomas Paine
The soldier who triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal by sending incriminating photos to military investigators says he feared deadly retaliation by other GIs and was shocked when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld mentioned his name at a Senate he
Host Jon Stewart speculates that if Lieberman fails to win as an Independent, the candidate may start his own Senate and appoint himself Majority Leader. Samantha Bee explains Lieberman's strategy as this: "If not nominated, I will run. If n
The al-Qaeda idea of smuggling innocuous items onto a plane and assembling a bomb from the components goes back over a decade, including test runs, and successful kills.
Medicare reimbursements to doctors are set to drop by nearly 5% next year, an amount that physicians say could make it harder for elderly patients to see a doctor. Mark McClellan, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicard Services
