Exclusive ABC report questions Palin reason for firing public safety chief

"Legal pleadings filed earlier this week said Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin fired her public safety chief because of a planned trip to lobby Washington to fund a program to fight sexual violence.  That was the "last strraw" of his bucinking...

US bans key Indian drug imports

After prolong investigations The US drug regulator FDA has banned top Indian Pharmaceuticals company Ranbaxy after latter was  found selling unsafe medicines in the country.US Department of Justice has...

Japan sets sights on whaling activists

"Will three anti-whaling activists from the UK and US end up standing trial in Tokyo? Japan is attempting to press charges against activists for the first time since 2000, when protesters started harassing the Japanese whaling fleet in earnest. Earlier this week Tokyo's...

FAA Tapes Reveal Close Call of Obama Jet Incident

The difference between the initial FAA statement and the actual event as Barack Obama's plane briefly flew out of control is enormous--and frightening. "The incident involving Sen. Barack Obama's campaign plane last month was much more serious than the airline or the Federal...

Guilty as Ordered

This makes a nice contrast to President Bush's criticism of China's human rights record today. Maybe he should also spend a bit of time cleaning up civil rights abuses in his own country. " Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its...

UK sends 11,000 Mugabe refugees back

Britain is asking for tougher sanctions against Mugabe's corrupt rule in Zimbabwe but at the same time sending back thousands of refugees to who knows what imprisonment and torture. These are failed asylum seekers...

Teen's MySpace porn photos investigated

Parent need to monitor their children everyday to prevent them from cyber crime..."VICTORIA Police and the FBI are investigating the posting of pornographic photographs of a 13-year-old Melbourne girl on MySpace. ...

Neo-Nazi Dad: Scrawls "Swaztika" on 7-year old daughter, sends her to school !

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know many people are adverse to Government seizing kids from their parents, if physical or sexual abuse is not apparent.  Somehow sending your 7-year old Daughter...

Canada's Navy Docked: Can't Afford the Fuel

Well certainly this is a great way to keep Canada's Military at home. Of course as they say, "No one Sails for Free", perhaps things to come may see the Captain and the Crew pooling their spare change for a "Ship of...

Army suicides highest in nearly 2 decades, study finds

"More U.S. soldiers committed suicide in 2007 than at any time since thefirst Gulf War, according to an Army study to be released laterThursday. There were 108 suicides last year, up from 102 the year before. The 2006 figure also was itself the highest since 1990. More than...

Guilty plea in US-China spy case

BBC News Reports"A Chinese woman living as a permanent resident in the US has pleaded guilty to helping to spy for Beijing on US military relations with Taiwan.Yu Xin Kang, 33, confessed to aiding and abetting Chinese spy Tai Shen Kuo, who obtained classified information from...

First Nations Chiefs: Screwing the Screwed?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIt is certainly distressing to find out financial  misappropriations of Casino Funds by Chiefs of First Nations Casinos.  Who would have imagined First Nations...

Five at Guantanamo to face capital charges

After many years, it would appear charges are being brought against alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks. "A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for allegedly conspiring in the...

Colombia claims Venezuela sought FARC for training

"The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asked Colombia's main leftist guerrilla group to ''share its experience in guerrilla warfare,'' citing a possible U.S. invasion, according to documents obtained by The Miami Herald.A senior Colombian official said the...

Canadian Consumers: DimBulbs or Left in the Dark?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Gas, Oil, Food, Real Estate prices etc...ever rising into the stratosphere and soon becoming a rare commodity. A rare commidity touted by Corporate Fear Mongers to a...

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