Waterboarding yes, power drills no: defining torture now the issue at spruced-up Guantanamo Bay

ShareThis Waterboarding yes, power drills no: defining torture now the issue at spruced-up Guantanamo Bay –Mr Nashiri’s counsel will argue that threatening a detainee with a power drill was not on the Justice Department’s approved list of [torture] techniques. 10 Nov 2011 Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of a suicide attack on the USS [...]

Fix for strange android bug preventing texting and e-mailing

Several folks have been reporting a weird problem on some Android phones where they could not complete a text message or e-mail after typing between 3 to 6 characters. This strange issue seems to be related to the System Version 4.5.601 and Android Version 2.3.3 updates, the following trick worked for a few of us. [...]

Is Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan fair?

By Jackie Kucinich, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Herman Cain’s standing in the polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has risen with the growing popularity of his 9-9-9 tax plan, which has become such a signature issue for the former pizza company executive that the crowds who come to see him speak routinely [...]

Ten TSA Outrages

By Charlie Cooke, National Review Online After 9/11, airport security quite rightly became an issue of paramount concern. Yet since its creation in 2001, the Transport Security Administration has repeatedly walked a fine line between vital vigilance and gratuitous intrusion. Security expert Bruce Schneier famously referred to the current system as bordering on “security theater,” [...]

County Supervisor claims Arizona and Mexico don’t share a border

County Supervisor claims Arizona and Mexico don’t share a border

“If this were Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border of Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways [...]

#WikiLeaks – US, France Knew In 2007 Financial Collapse Was Imminent Due To Wall Street Fraud

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While investors and nations around the world were happily giving trillions of dollars away to crooked Wall Street bankers, top officials in the United States and France knew the market would soon collapse and people would be robbed of millions. While raising the issue that the role of government regulators and rating agencies needed to [...]

Suits Push For Greater Gun Rights in Public

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By Nathan Koppel, WSJ.com We have to imagine that a time will come (maybe, let’s say, around the year 2150) when gun rights will be a settled legal issue in our country and there will be little to fight over. Until then, suits will continue to fly. WSJ’s Ashby Jones takes a look at the [...]

More British Pre-Crime Arrests

After a few minutes, around thirty officers entered the pub and flooded out in to the beer garden. I was sat with Pompey Dave and a couple of other members of MFE, and we were asked to put down our drinks and ‘come inside’ as they would like a quick word. We were assured that [...]

9/11 Commissioners believe the Commision was ‘set up to fail’

9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says “I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right”, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue.” 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal” “This investigation [...]

Ten states requiring birth certificates from Presidential Candidates may pass

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The upcoming ballot in Georgia may look different if the state legislation of the ‘birther’ issue is passed. In Georgia, CBS is reporting Wednesday, the legislation that requires proof of a birth certificate of a presidential candidate is the latest measure that is indirectly targeting President Barack Obama. Georgia is the latest state to propose [...]