Today on Fox On Line with Gregg Jarrett substituting for Bill Hemmer he spoke with Ambassador Martin Indyck from the Brookings Institution regarding the possible nuclear testing from North Korea.

In fact the whole show was dedicated to this story. What I didn’t expect was for Jarrett to attempt to solve the problem with just one sentence. Indyk said that perhaps it would take one on one talks between North Korea and the U.S. Jarrett pointed out that Clinton had tried that and all the time North Korea had cheated on that.

At the end of the segment Jarrett summed it up with this statement, “Maybe a miliatary response is the only way to send a message that the cost will be unmistakeable, not just for Kim Jong Il, but for Ahmadinejad from Iran.” (more…)

Chinese crackers have been targeting the US Commerce Department in an attack said to be so strong that it has required large scale replacement of hardware. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a starring role in the online video revolution.

Google soon to start practicing censorship on YouTube like they do on their own video service… (more…)

The UK’s national ID scheme will cost £5.4bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, the Home Office says.

It is the first time the government has set out the estimated total expense for the controversial project. (more…)

MOSCOW — Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the war in Chechnya who was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block Saturday, was the latest investigative reporter to be killed in Russia. These are some of the murders of other reporters in recent years: (more…)

Al Gore is bringing his Current TV channel to the United Kingdom in a deal with British Sky Broadcasting, run by Rupert Murdoch’s son James. (more…)

The rumors about another top GOP member of the House being involved in sexual encounters with young “men for hire” are confirmed to WMR by well-placed sources in Washington’s gay community. The member in question is House Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose “alternate” life style is the primary reason for him and his staff covering up the scandal involving ex-Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley and his lewd messages sent to underage male congressional pages. Hastert’s penchant to receive anal sex is well-known to our sources in DC’s gay community. Additionally, Hastert’s reported extremely small penis is the subject of many jokes among Washington’s gay circles.

Speaker Hastert: The “butt” of many jokes among Washington’s gay community. (more…)

WASHINGTON - Suddenly, like the fierce “blue northers” that sweep across Texas each autumn, the political winds have turned bleaker for Republicans - and President Bush’s private mood has blackened accordingly. (more…)

The United States proposed stringent U.N. sanctions Monday against North Korea after it said it had performed a nuclear test, including a trade ban on military and luxury items, the power to inspect all cargo entering or leaving the country, and freezing assets connected with its weapons programs. (more…)

Police and prosecutors are facing allegations that they misled a judge and grossly exaggerated evidence against the only man to be detained in Britain over September 11, The Times has learnt.

There is renewed scrutiny on two fronts of the role played by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service in making unfounded claims that Lotfi Raissi trained the 9/11 hijackers. (more…)

Four senior doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera suspected of illegally experimenting on humans were arrested Monday.

The national fraud squad has opened an investigation into the affair. The four are suspected of abuse, aggravated assault, causing death through negligence, fraud, forgery, breach of statutory duty, and disruption of legal proceedings. (more…)

According to CBS News, “Russia has become a deadly place for journalists who run afoul of government officials or their business and political partners. Those behind the killings, though, are rarely brought to justice, reinforcing a sense of impunity that may have encouraged the killers of Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the war in Chechnya.”

In fact, much of the so-called “civilized world” has become deadly for journalists, including the former beacon of freedom, America. (more…)

But claims “error” and not censorship for second successive time as 9/11 film enters top 100

Following our attempts to get an answer as to why Google was seemingly artificially stifling the viewership numbers for Terror Storm, ensuring the film didn’t enter Google Video’s popular categories, the online giant has admitted the figures were pegged but claims again that the change was due to a technical glitch. (more…)

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush’s “unlawful enemy combatants.” Americans are certain to be among them.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, “unlawful enemy combatants.” (more…)

A Scot has become the first soldier to be diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome - despite never setting foot in Iraq.

Alex Izett, 36, fought a 10-year battle to force theMoD to admit he has the crippling condition.

His suffering began after he was given nine anti-biological warfare injections in 24 hours in preparation for combat - but was then never sent. (more…)