Tag: internal
Documents indicate that Chavez helped Colombia re...
"Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border. The documents - more than a dozen internal rebel messages - detail several...
A Human Rights Crime
Retired American President and tireless peace activist Jimmy Carter speaks out about the siege of Gaza, and the betrayal of the USA's vaunted stand for Middle East democracy in today's editorial commentary published...
British Columbia to question Taser use today
To Taser or not to Taser, that is the question being discussed in British Columbia today."The first phase of a public inquiry into the use of Tasers in British Columbia begins today.This first phase will look at the...
Houston we have a "Credit" Problem, NASA Spending...
What Space Cases! NASA Employees think its O.K. to use your money to buy toys."NASA employees have used government credit cards to ring up iPods, video games and even clothes from the agency's own gift shop,...
Japanese Official Demoted Over 780,000 Visits to ...
"TOKYO — A Japanese civil servant was demoted for logging more than 780,000 hits on pornographic Web sites on his office computer over nine months, an official said Friday. The man, a Kinokawa city government employee in western Japan, visited porn...
Corsets - the Many Benefits of Wearing a Corset
"For some women when the thought of slipping on a Corset comes to mind, one can only think of lying down on the bed trying to squeeze into an uncomfortable garment that is two sizes too small, or maybe having to have someone else lace or snap up the back of the piece so that...
ASC: Watching the Watchers
Another term for "behavioral profiling software" is "spyware", and the Anti-Spyware Coalition is having none of it: There is a gap between the promises of adware firms and the real-world behavior of their...
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...
LA Times Apologizes for Tupac Story
Update: The LA Times has issued an apology to Sean "Diddy" Combs following an internal investigation of the sources used for the story which linked Combs to the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in a New York City...
CNET "Realigns" 10% of Staff
In an effort to please shareholders and spur longterm growth, CNET will be cutting 120 jobs, or 10% of its staff. (I didn't realize that their staff was that big to begin with)"Business Unit Realignment: with the...
Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invas...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
Deadly Separatist Battle in DR Congo
"At least 68 people have been killed during violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dozens were wounded in the clashes between the police and members of Bundu Dia Kongo, a religious and political group that has its own militia.
It accuses the central...
Cuba OKs sales of computers, DVD players
"Cuba has authorised the unrestricted sale of computers and DVD and video players in the first sign of new reforms put in place by President Raul Castro.
An internal government memo on Thursday said the appliances...
Two boys survive being thrown off overpass - by t...
A Dallas mother tossed her two boys and then herself off an overpass earlier today, but miraculously, everybody survived.Motorists below could only watch in horror. "Police said Khandi Busby and her children, ages 8 and 6, somehow survived the fall onto Interstate 30's fast...
Ireland's new foreign project: Timor-Leste
"Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern named Timor-Leste as a test case for a new Conflict Resolution Unit in his department. The plan is to assist the tiny Asian nation to make the transition to a functioning democracy.
But as RTÉ journalist Anne-Marie Green...
