More possible jobs cuts look likely: BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER The specter of a new Ma Bell-styled telephone monopoly could put Michigan jobs at risk now that AT&T Inc. has announced it will cut as many as 10,000 positions across the country if it buys BellSouth Corp. The proposed $67-billion deal that […]
Theres an interesyting debate opened up here in the UK (see report from Yahoo News below). It is over guidelines and proposed changes to the law regarding rape. The guidelines say that a man must get consent from a woman prior to having sex. This is due to the increase in cases where women have […]
IWAKUNI, Japan (AFP) – This decaying US base city will have a rare chance this weekend to hand down a symbolic but potentially influential verdict on the US military presence in Japan. The western port city near Hiroshima on Sunday will hold the first referendum on a controversial bilateral plan announced in October in which […]
With all the talk recently on Katrina and the video that was released of Bush on theat conference call I felt this story appropriate. Thew comment about firefighters searching for several months until funding ran out is well….. just disturbing. As seems the case with Bush and his administration, money is more important that people. […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The talk of British troops pulling out of Iraq rumbles on. Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Nick Houghton, Britain’s most senior officer […]
So we just found out that Homeland Security can not even keep their own offices secure but they are sure good at keeping an eye on Americans. Scripps Howard has a story up about a retired couple who decided to pay off some debt on their credit card. They sent in a little over six […]
When Gonzales was testifying to the Judiciary Committee last month I thought his answers were very well crafted. He constantly reassured the Senators that he was referring to a certain program (see my Feb. 15 entry here). Now it looks like Specter finally has realized that. (via the AP) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ written answers […]
SKY NEWS have summorized the first day of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui US prosecutors have claimed terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui “rejoiced in the death” of the 9/11 attacks, a court heard. The 37-year-old has already pleaded guilty to being part of a plot to fly airliners into American buildings. But he denied any prior knowledge […]
ABC NEWS WASHINGTON Mar 6, 2006 (AP)- Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene “quite actively,” a senior State Department official said Monday. The message to Iran is that it has “crossed the international red line” and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity “and there […]
Two British men are thought to have burned to death in a car after police opened fire in Basra, it has been reported. Security officials claimed the victims were UK citizens. A third person in the car, also believed to be a British, was wounded and rushed away by police, said Iraqi police Captain Mushtaq […]