Archive: January 2008
By Doug OakleySTAFF WRITERContra Costa Times01/30/2008 Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go. That’s the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
Also see:“THE CIA EYES THE INTERNET” Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View27th January 2008 Not content with spying on other countries, the NSA (National Security Agency) will now turn on the US’s own government agencies thanks to a fresh directive from president George Bush. Under the new guidelines, the NSA and other
NYTBy ANDY WEBSTERJanuary 30, 2008 If you’ve always found puppets only slightly more appealing than, say, clowns, “Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz” may well change your mind. This modest yet powerfully affecting production capitalizes on the range of the art form and takes it to impressive heights. But be warned: this is not “Sesame Street.” Given some of its
Official: U.S. enemies ‘eating our lunch’ online James Glassman appears before the Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeGlassman is nominated to become assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy He says U.S. must end misconception that it wants to weaken the Muslim world Glassman: “I am deeply committed to a program of vigorous communication” From Charley KeyesCNN WASHINGTON (CNN) — The
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States declassified documents Monday detailing how Washington propped up ex-Indonesian leader Suharto, who died at the weekend, at the expense of democracy and human rights. The documents, declassified following requests under a freedom of information law, showed the US administration did not use its leverage to bring Suharto to account during his 32-year reign until
” … what kind of person would be savage enough to snatch a 60-year-old man off the North Philly streets, pump his 5-foot frame full of morphine, cut him open “like a frog in biology class” and professionally remove his heart, liver, kidney and cartilage. … ” ••••••Clueless in Philadelphia In light of a potential plea in a body-snatching case,
He died in his mother’s arms, so badly beaten that his uncle did not at first recognise his face … Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Brent Martin’s story should, and could, have been a story of quiet success. The 23-year-old had struggled in his short life with his learning difficulties, and those struggles more than once had become so serious that
Independent.co.uk Exclusive: the accidental breakthroughBy Jeremy Laurance, Health EditorWednesday, 30 January 2008 The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man’s brain and stimulated with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the patient instead had an intense experience of
Also See: Attending Physician: Jimi Hendrix was Waterboarded to Death w/Red Wine ••••••• US has used waterboarding in past: ex-spy chief WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former US spy chief John Negroponte admitted that the United States has used a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding but does not anymore, according to a published interview Monday. Negroponte, who currently serves as deputy
EDITORIALOrlandoSentinel.com Our position: Lawson Lamar’s public corruption unit deserves supportJanuary 14, 2008 Questioning the ethics of Central Florida’s politics can be a thankless job. Just ask Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar. Mr. Lamar didn’t win any friends among the politicians and hangers-on when he called for tough ethics reforms, including campaign contribution limits, in 2006. And he was met with