Venezuela’s president continued his criticism of President Bush after the pro-Chávez legislature declared that the 9/11 attacks were `self-inflicted.’

CARACAS - When Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chávez called President Bush ‘’the devil'’ in a U.N. speech in September, many thought his ‘’anti-imperialist'’ rhetoric had reached rock bottom.

But fresh depths have since been plumbed. The Venezuelan government, to judge from recent events, officially regards Bush as a genocidal Nazi who arranged the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify aggression against other nations.

In a speech Tuesday, Chávez criticized the decision of an Iraqi court to sentence former dictator Saddam Hussein to the death penalty. ‘’If sentencing is to be done,'’ Chávez said, “the first one to be given the most severe sentence this planet has to offer should be the president of the United States, if we’re talking about genocidal presidents.'’ (more…)

The sculpture was found just outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta using Google Maps. Click here and then select “Satellite” view to view the scuplture.

UFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies.

So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed.

During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically, Britain.

His concern is that “highly credible” sightings are simply dismissed. And he complains that the project he once ran is now “virtually closed” down, leaving the country “wide open” to aliens.

You know government fearmongering has reached a new low when you start hearing stuff like this… Then again, William Cooper did document a government plan to use a staged “alien invasion” to unite the world behind a one-world government system. Orson Wells was expecially fond of it. (more…)

Forget political correctness. The revolution has NOT arrived! Bush is still president. The corporate state is safe. The Upper Class has little to fear. Lobbyists will be writing different names on checks. Winning Democrats will entertain more than they will produce historic restorative reforms. Did Republicans deserve to lose? Of course!

However, Americans who thought their votes would bring much needed change to our political system also lost. They just don’t know or admit it yet. As usual, the third-party movement lost, because the two-party duopoly maintained its stranglehold on our political system. Populists and true progressives lost. Who or what was the biggest winner? The short-term and delusional tactic of lesser-evil voting won big. (more…)

The Chinese government has attacked statements by Reporters Without Borders that it is one of the 13 worst internet censors.
China was named by the pressure group alongside Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam as the world worst censors of the web.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said that the censorship claims were groundless. Apparently the Chinese enjoy free access to the Internet and have all the information they can eat. This means that the Chinese get far more information than before the introduction of the Internet, the spokesperson said. (more…)

Robert Gates, the former director of the CIA during the presidency of George H.W. Bush who was tapped Tuesday by the president to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, is part of Texas’s good ol’ boy network. He may be best known for playing a role in arming Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein with American-made weapons in the country’s war against Iran in the 1980s.

Gates, who currently is president of Texas A&M University, came under intense fire during confirmation hearings in the early 1990s for being unaware of the explosive situation in Iraq in the 1980s, and the demise of the Soviet republic. (more…)

A large-scale group protest occurred in Zhili Township, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province on October 29, 2006. More than 5,000 local residents rallied at the Township Government Office in reaction to the government’s mishandling of two recent fires. The protest turned violent—windows were shattered, desks were overturned, and the head of the Public Security Bureau was hit by an ashtray. The violent protest lasted through the night until 4 am.

On the day of the protest, the Zhejiang provincial governor happened to be visiting Zhili Township. At the end of the visit when he was about to depart, protestors stopped his vehicle. A man stepped out of the car and fiercely pushed away the protestors. Subsequently, the enraged crowd smashed the governor’s car. (more…)

In a remote and dangerous corner of Afghanistan, under the protective roar of Apache attack helicopters and B-52 bombers, special agents and investigators did their work. They walked the landscape with surviving witnesses. They found a rock stained with the blood of the victim. They re-enacted the killings — here the U.S. Army Rangers swept through the canyon in their Humvee, blasting away; here the doomed man waved his arms, pleading for recognition as a friend, not an enemy.

“Cease fire, friendlies, I am Pat (expletive) Tillman, damn it!” he shouted, again and again.

The latest inquiry into Tillman’s death by friendly fire should end next month; authorities have said they intend to release to the public only a synopsis of their report. But The Associated Press has combed through the results of 2 1/4 years of investigations — reviewed thousands of pages of internal Army documents, interviewed dozens of people familiar with the case — and uncovered some startling findings. (more…)

A no-nonsense Cape Cod judge threw the book at a college kid for wearing shorts in his courtroom during the high-profile Worthington murder trial - locking the sloppy student up with the accused killer, according to sources and media reports.

The Cape Cod Community College student, whose name has not been released, was tossed into a cell with Christopher McCowen, a garbage collector on trial for the 2002 slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington. Barnstable Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson had court officers lock up the student after he was told to leave the courtroom for wearing shorts but did not. (more…)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran’s enemies could not do a “damn thing” to stop its nuclear program.

The United States and European powers are leading efforts to impose United Nations Security Council sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt sensitive nuclear work that the West believes is aimed at producing an atomic arsenal.

“In the nuclear issue, they wrongly express concern about Iran’s possible diversion from a peaceful path,” the IRNA state news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Tehran insists it has a right to nuclear power and only wants it to generate electricity. (more…)

Conservative activist Richard Viguerie has released a statement that blasts the GOP’s Congressional leadership in the wake of the loss of both the House and Senate.

“Every single member of the Republican leadership in the House should be replaced,” says Viguerie. “They have failed the conservatives who put them in office, and they have failed the people of this country.”

Viguerie attacks what he desribes as “the Big Business wing of the Republican Party” and urges GOP leaders to “get out of the way, and let a new generation of young, principled conservatives take their place,” according to the release. (more…)

Robert Gates, you have some explaining to do.

Were you or were you not among the group of Bush I associates who met with representatives of the Iranian Mullahs in 1980 in order to make sure that Americans kept hostage weren’t released until after Jimmy Carter was defeated?

What’s the deal with you and the Iranians, Mr. Gates? (more…)

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A stunning new death count emerged Thursday, as Iraq’s health minister estimated at least 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war — about three times previously accepted estimates.

Moderate Sunni Muslims, meanwhile, threatened to walk away from politics and pick up guns, while the Shiite-dominated government renewed pressure on the United States to unleash the Iraqi army and claimed it could crush violence in six months. (more…)

Under a $5.2 million pilot program, six New York City buses have been equipped with several interior cameras that capture views of the driver, passengers, and external traffic.

Smile, you’re on the Bx15. New York City’s Metro Transit Authority on Wednesday disclosed that it is testing the use of video surveillance cameras on its buses in an effort to beef up security.

Under a $5.2 million pilot program launched in September, six New York City buses have been equipped with several interior cameras that capture views of the driver, passengers and external traffic. The cameras feed images to an on-board hard drive, and that data is uploaded to a central server at MTA headquarters when the buses stop for refueling. The upload occurs across a wireless connection. (more…)

Guess Fox News doesn’t realize that the campaign is over. Martha MacCallum on Thursday (Nov. 9, 2006) kept up the news channel’s attacks on Democrats, claiming terrorists are dancing in the streets over Democratic congressional victories and wrongly accusing Democrats of being against all wiretapping for national security purposes.On the “Live Desk,” MacCallum also presented guests who claimed, without any Democratic rebuttal, that Democrats have no legislative agenda. And in a sign of disrespect, MacCallum also avoided referring to House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi with any title, calling her only “Nancy Pelosi,” rather than even current House Minority Leader. In a word, MacCallum and the “Live Desk” was less gracious than George Bush was to the leaders of the majority party. (more…)