The Associated Press has this little piece of scary news: WASHINGTON – The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex. The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training, failed security tests and slow or confused reactions to bomb […]
Some stories just make me laugh and wonder what exactly is the point, is someone really going to buy this book and suddenly decide to mount convert operations…doubt it, the people who would do such a thing are either military or terrorist trained already, anyways who needs a book when there’s the internet…. BBC News […]
Here I am, sitting in the UK, reading things like this, Bush and his so called Homeland Security, how the hell can they be trusted to protect a country if they can not even protect their own headquarters. Looks like another fine Bush department needs and overhaul! ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – The agency entrusted with […]
The Christian Science Monitor gives us this nice little piece of information: ASHLAND, ORE. – Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency’s program to eavesdrop on certain Americans’ electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the […]
So I wake up this morning and here on the local news. Bush has sunk to a 37% approval rating in one of the reddest states in the union – Indiana. From the Indianapolis Star Indiana voted twice to elect George W. Bush to the White House, but an Indianapolis Star poll indicates more than […]
The Times (UK) have reported on further details from Amnesty International regarding the detention of some 14,000 people by US and British Military Forces. As I said in an earlier post, it’s about time some independant international board was given the consent to investigate and visit these places without any red tape and report on […]
The Gaurdian Unlimited (UK) have reported that John Bolton the US Embassador to the UN has told British MP’s that a militarty strike could halt Irans nuclear programme if diplomatic efforts fail. Why would this be made public now, are diplomatic means already failing and this is just a warning to Iran and a way of justifing […]
UK’s Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has split from her husband who is currently under investigation in Italy for fraud charges which also invloves the Italian Prime Minister. It seems her husband David Mills who is a Tax Lawyer used his connections to the Prime Minister to gain business. I have found an interesting report in […]
It has been reported on the scotsman.com that the leader of the Scotish National Party has condemms Tony Blair and his looking to god for justification of going to war in Iraq and calls for his impeachment and a parlimentary inquiry. Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond joined the condemnation of Tony Blair’s assertion that he […]
Aljazeera have published a report by Amnesty International that the use of torture by US Military trained security forces have increased. Is it not about time that some independant organization was commisioned to look into this and report once and for all on the ‘goings’ on in these jails. If the US have nothing to hide […]