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New US bailout planned

US lawmakers have been complaining that the federal government doesn't seem to have an overall master plan for dealing with the meltdown on Wall Street, seemingly selectively bailing out companies at random and...

US creates government sponsored Bad Bank

Bad Bank Paulson, Pelosi had the task to announce the "Bad bank" creation finally by the US government. Originally the banks themselves proposed a $70 bn "Bad bank". Obviously the $70bn would have been just...

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's U-turn on knife crime plan

" The Government’s strategy on knife crime was in disarray last night as the Home Secretary was accused of a U-turn over plans, briefed at the weekend, to confront offenders with stabbing victims in hospital. ...

Hezbollah sleeper cells may be active in Canada: report

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWith the USA Homeland Security NO Fly list of a million plus people, certainly this list will be out to good use.  Though Canada states they no longer use this list...

Saudis Run out of $50.00 a Barrel Oil, Find New Reserves of $150.00 A Barrel Oil

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSeem since President Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia to get the Saudi's to increase oil output failed last month, it seemed because the Saudi's ran out of $50.00 a barrel...

Democrats introduce bill to outlaw Pentagon propaganda

"Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and pro-administration talking points.The program was "temporarily suspended" by the...

Microsoft Reveals Wii-esque Controller

Microsoft has revealed a prototype joystick for its Xbox 360. The device is like the Wii controller, but with elements of the Rock Band controllers thrown in..."Microsoft is developing a motion-based controller similar to the Nintendo Wii remote control according to multiple...

Prosecutors Set to Open Major 9/11 Case

" Military prosecutors are in the final phases of preparing the first sweeping case against suspected conspirators for the 9/11 plot that led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on a clear September day and...

White House Quiet On Missing CIA Tapes, Congress Wants Answers

So a number of tapes that showed the "interrogation" (read: torture) of detainees have been destroyed. Officially it was to 'protect security of officers' and the tapes were 'no longer of use'. It's too bad in...

Man Dies in Nova Scotia Jail After Taser Hit

Just as the international uproar over the polish man who was videotaped being tasered and then dying at a Vancouver Airport is reaching its peak, another story comes out about someone dying after being hit by a...

N.Y. Times to end paid Web service

Put your hand up if you called it.  "N.Y. Times to end paid Web service Reuters August 7, 2007 at 1:14 PM EDT NEW YORK — Access to columnists and op-ed pieces on a section of website known as TimesSelect to be free, N.Y. Post reports The New York Times Co. plans to...

The Late Great New York Times

    With circulation down and sales flagging, times are tough at the New York Times. The once iconic behemoth of the American journalism industry has seen recent years pass by with the ever...

Brown flies in to see flood damage

"The Prime Minister has seen first hand the devastation caused to large swathes of western England which have been deluged by flooding. Gordon Brown flew by helicopter over the stricken county of  Gloucestershire, England where thousands of people have been left without...

US Trying to Sell Africa on Military Base

This is worth keeping an eye on; many in Africa are wary of US military "attention", though Deputy Undersecretary for Defence Ryan Henry is making assurances that US military presence will hinge on invitations from host countries. "Henry is on a six-country African tour to...

Scotland on Sunday

"THE ingredients most likely to spark confrontation between the United States and Iran could scarcely be simpler or more combustible: a tin filled with an explosive charge and a lump of copper is all that is needed to manufacture what the US military calls an Explosively...

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