• Hypocrisy: Gore denies being a carbon billionaire, hits back at critics Related: Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth” - And RepliesFormer US Vice President Al Gore has hit back at his critics who have described him as the...
• Desperate and victims of the get-rich-quick culture: 'Dumb' American criminals attempt robbery with ‘permanent marker pen disguises’ Two hapless robbers in America, Matthew McNelly and Joey Miller, have been arrested with the “worst disguises ever” after trying to hide their faces with permanent marker pen.
McNelly,...
• Ex-State Dept Aide Under Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton Indicted For Violating Sudan Sanctions (The Intelligence Daily) -- Robert J. Cabelly, 61, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted in the District of Columbia in an eight-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to violate the Sudanese...
• Honduras: poll shows growing opposition to coup (Weekly News Update on the Americas) -- On Oct. 23 the Washington, DC-based polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner released the results of a survey involving face-to-face interviews held Oct. 9-13...
• Birds of a feather flock together: Madoff's new friends: mob boss and a spy Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff shares his prison cell with a drug offender and eats pizza cooked by a child molester.Read more
• US judge upholds censoring CIA prisoner testimony A federal court upheld Friday the US government's decision to censor statements made by Guantanamo Bay detainees about their treatment at Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons. The American Civil...
• CNN Poll: 54% of Americans Favor Strike against Iran
(Novinite) -- Nearly nine in 10 Americans say they think Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll.
Eighty-eight percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion...
• You paid for it: Court papers claim Bernie Madoff's Securities offices were fueled by cocaine, topless women New additions to a lawsuit against the jailed Ponzi schemer charge that he presided over an office so fueled by the drug that it was known as the "North Pole." The suit, filed Tuesday night in...
• Foreign 'Criminal' found working as guard in US prison A man wanted for alleged drug and fraud crimes in the Czech Republic was found working as a guard at the prison in the central US state of Nebraska.
Michal Preclik was arrested at the...
• Honduran coup-leaders hire U.S. lobbyists (PSL) -- The coup government of Honduras has hired U.S. public relations firms to craft their image as that of a legitimate government. The government has spent $400,000 so far on corporations that...
• Bankruptcy move delays church sex abuse case A Catholic diocese based in the state of Delaware has filed for US bankruptcy protection on the eve of a civil trial involving high-profile sex abuse. The move automatically delays the case, the...
• Congress Moves to Bar Release of Abuse Photos House and Senate conferees last week approved legislation that would preempt the Freedom of Information Act and permit the Secretary of Defense to withhold from release photographs and other visual...
• Mexico: government fires 43,000 electrical workers (Weekly News Update on the Americas) -- At around 11 pm the night of Oct. 10, Mexican soldiers and federal police agents occupied facilities of the government-owned Central Light and Power...
• Economics Nobel Prize Winner: Better to regulate corporations directly rather than through policies Related: America in decline?? Eleven Americans win the Nobel PrizeExcerpt:The Nobel committee said Williamson's theories show that large private corporations exist primarily because they are...
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