Someone's Listening: Civ Lib Groups Demand Eavesdropping Disclosure

While the ACLU and the EFF demand that the Department of Justice disclose when they're listening in on Americans' mobile phone conversations and tracking their movements via phone signals, they're met with the tired...

Ex-Marine convicted of using drugs and force to have sex

"LOS ANGELES - Following a three-week trial, a federal jury today convicted on seven felony counts a retired Marine Corps captain who traveled to Cambodia for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors.Michael Joseph Pepe, 54, a resident of Oxnard, faces up...

Bush slams Obama plan to meet Iran's leader

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorGuess Bush Jr, should talk to his Dad Bush Sr's former friendship with Despots and the US friendship with many Despots over the last few decades.  Many forget the US...

Inconvienent Scams: For the Environmentally Naive

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Corporate Advertisement Scammers everywhere jumping on the environmental bandwagon to flog everything from Toilet Paper to Air fresheners, really begin to all...

US State Department's “Question of the Week” Regarding Engaging Hamas

After the Daily Press Briefing by Sean McCormack, State Department Spokesman (March 10, 2008) ,  he published a post on "Dipnote" the US Department of State Department blog.   " Apparently, our...

EA Announces The Sims Castaway Stories In Stores Now

"Help Your Sim Survive and Thrive on a Tropical Island in this Casual Laptop Game Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that The Sims™ Castaway Stories for the PC is on store shelves across Europe. Featuring engaging characters and accessible storylines, The...

Britney: Legal Help Wanted

Oh Britney, who will help you now? "In a surprise move Britney Spears' legal team has asked to quit, describing working with her as 'impossible'. In a motion filed today at a Los Angeles Superior Court, law firm...

Amsterdam orders famed sex club to close

I'm not going to touch this one but I thought it was an interesting article about the workings of society."AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - One of Amsterdam's best-known sex clubs has become the latest target of the city's crackdown on organized crime infiltration of the city's world...

Vancouver Realtor Sets Up Virtual Shop in Second Life

This is actually quite interesting, I'm actually reading a fiction book where people can walk through virtual malls and shop just like in real life. Now we've got it here, except in second life. Although personally,...

Serviceman Scolded at YearlyKos

This is how Liberals treat our servicemen."As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on Iraqi casualties. The...

Darfur: Forget genocide, there's oil

" Page 1 of 2 Darfur: Forget genocide, there's oil By F William Engdahl To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-president George Herbert Walker Bush, "It's the economy, stupid," the present...

Low-key office launches high-profile inquiry

"WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for...

Zimbabwe Annuls NGOs as Protesters Mass at the Border

Harare is never afraid to play the imperialism card: anybody or any organization who speaks against Mugabe's rule must surely be an agent of the British, working feverishly to restore the glory days of...

Americans Should Defend Speaker Pelosi's Mission by James Zogby

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has now returned to the U.S. after completing a five nation tour of the Middle East. With visits to Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, she and her bipartisan delegation broke new ground, ruffled a few feathers here in the U.S., but...

Pelosi Goes Over Bush’s Head

"Over the president’s objections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to visit the president of Syria next weekend. Pelosi’s spokesman said the meeting was inspired by the Iraq Study Group, which recommended engaging regional players—a recommendation the Bush...

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