Unprecedented security for New Year
Fears of terrorist attack have cast a shadow over New Year celebrations around the globe with warplanes patrolling American skies and armed undercover sky marshals guarding some flights.
Military gunships to patrol Strip
Armed helicopters will patrol the restricted airspace over the Strip on New Year’s Eve to protect Las Vegas from a […]

We all check our referrer logs now and again…. this was a pretty strange one, an MSN search using the phrase “left+wing+liberal+shit”
People sure search on the weirdest things, is that good company I’m hanging with?

U.S. orders foreign airlines to add guards:
Air Canada says it is ‘fully compliant’ with security rule.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered Air Canada and other foreign airlines to put armed air marshals on some flights to the United States amid renewed concern of a terrorist attack. Under emergency air security rules that took […]

FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs
The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI said […]

That the current U.S. administration is getting the message that it has to change it’s ways or face further credibility loss with the international community - not to mention the people it supposedly represents?
According to Reuters Attorney General John Ashcroft has stepped aside from the investigation into the ‘outing” of an undercover CIA operative whose […]

CIA Museum Showcases Exotic Spy Gadgets
The CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology is celebrating its 40th anniversary by revealing a few dozen of its secrets for a new museum inside its headquarters near Washington.
Gizmo’s and gadget’s include:

listening devices that look like tiger droppings
a robotic catfish
a remote controlled dragon fly, and
pigeon cams

According to a leading historian […]

The War on Religion
As we celebrate another Yuletide season, it’s hard not to notice that Christmas in America simply doesn’t feel the same anymore. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and those who don’t celebrate it overwhelmingly accept and respect our nation’s Christmas traditions, a certain shared public sentiment slowly has disappeared. The […]

While it’s a minor inconvenience to have your toast pop before the coffee is fully perked - having your kitchen appliances talking to each other and organizing this stuff seems just a bit creepy to me.

Earth is 20% darker, say experts
Human activity is making the planet darker as well as warmer, scientists say. They believe levels of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface have declined by up to 20% in recent years because air pollution is reflecting it back into space and helping to make bigger, longer-lasting clouds.
I hold little hope […]

Bush’s man rejects Blair weapon claim
Tony Blair was at the centre of an embarrassing row last night after the most senior US official in Baghdad bluntly rejected the Prime Minister’s assertion that secret weapons laboratories had been discovered in Iraq.
Paul Bremer, GWB’s man on the ground in Iraq, flatly dismissed the claim as untrue.
Let […]

U.S. Officials Address Mad Cow in Japan
DeHaven said that suggests that the trade restrictions being imposed “are not well-founded in science.”
Yup, that’s what they said when they were doing the banning, uh-huh, that’s exactly what they said.

Christianity’s toughest test of faith
Christianity is locked in a battle for dominance with neo-pagan beliefs in a contest that harks back to the establishment of the church 2000 years ago, researchers believe. The threat is so strong that church leaders believe the “search for inner happiness” is modern Christianity’s main rival.
“After 2000 years of […]

America’s Poll on Homosexual Marriage: Poll results at this time read

I oppose legalization of homosexual marriage and “civil unions” 32.00% (206295 votes)
I favor legalization of homosexual marriage 59.79% (385429 votes)
I favor a “civil union” with the full benefits of marriage except for the name 8.21% (52941 votes)

Do you […]

Iraq starts free trade talks
Iraq is beginning free trade talks with its Gulf Arab neighbours after signing agreements to dismantle trade barriers with Turkey and Iran, the country’s interim trade minister said.
“We’ve signed MOUs (memorandums of understanding) with Iran and with Turkey, and we are starting now with negotiations with the GCC (Gulf Cooperation […]

Attacks kill 13 in Iraq holy city
Six coalition soldiers and seven Iraqis have been killed and 129 people wounded in a suicide car bomb, machine-gun and mortar fire rampage in Iraq.
Tactics like this are not going to help
Something very unpleasant is being let loose in Iraq. Just this week, a company commander in the US […]