It looks like we’ll have a new system of alerting us in case of disasters or terrorist attacks: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Monday that the Commercial Mobile Alert System will direct emergency messages to cell phones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other serious emergencies. The alert plan was […]
It looks like World Net Daily is trying to desecrate the American flag: This boxed Heritage flag kit comes complete with a 2 1/2 x 4 feet sewn, sleeved, antiqued cotton 50-star flag, 5′ 2-piece mahogany stained wood pole and 1-position brass bracket. White areas of antiqued cotton will appear darker. Flag is 100% made […]
The economic hits keep on coming: Retail sales plunged by the largest amount on record in October as the financial crisis and the slumping economy caused consumers to sharply cut back on their spending. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales fell by 2.8 percent last month, surpassing the old mark of a 2.65 […]
The WSJ has an interesting article explaining how the NSA has been increasing their spying power. One thing I found really interesting was at the start of the article: Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. […]
So seven years later and the media finally decides to take a look into what the administration was telling us about Iraq. A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the […]
We look down under to Australia where it’s Tuesday morning: The All Ordinaries index dropped 192 points, or 3.4 per cent, in response to big falls on European exchanges overnight. Yup tomorrow in America is going to be very interesting. UPDATE Here is how the BBC is reporting the news: Global stock indexes, including the […]
That seems to be what is being said by Bush’s latest budget cuts: The Bush administration will cut counterterrorism money for police, firefighters and rescue departments next year, but not by as much as it originally proposed. Next month the White House will request $2.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks […]
One leader of a nation that devised a sinister plan to lie to their people and invade a nation that is: Tony Blair said Thursday he would step down as prime minister on June 27, closing a decade of power in which he fostered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to a […]
Another “war” we are losing thanks to George Bush: State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday. The annual report’s […]
That is what the Iraq Study Group is now calling Bush’s failed war in Iraq. The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent “a slide toward chaos” in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday. The bipartisan Iraq […]