· 16 EU nationals held over planned airlift of 'orphans' · Jet charter company says it had permit for flight Xan Rice in Nairobi, Dale Fuchs in Madrid and Alasdair Sandford in Paris Monday October 29, 2007 The Guardian Seven Spanish crew members of a plane hired to spirit 103 children out of Chad are being held by police, along with nine French citizens detained last week, it ...

By Ciar Byrne Already facing enough problems with the wild fires that have swept California, the state's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have stepped into a new row by claiming that marijuana is not a drug. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Hollywood star turned governor of California insisted: "I didn't take any drugs." The interviewer, former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, put it to the star that he had ...

Keith Olbermann speaks for America regarding the corruption in the White House and Senate. We must ALL be on guard because this country is getting ready to turn into a dictatorship. We must clean out the corrupt government workers who are controlled by the super rich and do work ONLY for the large corporation at the demise of middle America. ...

We’ve never been under such intense scrutiny as we are today. So how do we evade the snoopers? Here, an ‘off-grid’ expert offers an insider’s guide By Nick Rosen We live in the most watched-over society in Europe. Exposure, especially in The Observer, has done little to hold the state and private sector in check. Phone records have become police records, as Henry Porter pointed out in this paper last ...

Congressman DeFazio Denied Access to Government Documents By David Gutierrez The Bush Administration shocked lawmakers and analysts two months ago when it denied a member of the House Homeland Security Committee permission to examine classified plans for maintaining the functioning of the government in the event of a major natural disaster or terrorist attack. In order to alleviate concerns that the White House has plans for martial law, Representative Peter DeFazio, (D-OR), ...

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest. US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal ...

Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested. By Thomas Claburn Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program. If ...

Critics call the graffiti artist a genius, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have paid £1m for his work. But Hackney council has ordered its workers to power-hose his pictures out of sight By Cole Moreton What is the biggest eyesore on the streets of east London? A giant rat with a knife and fork in its paws, apparently. Or a rioter throwing flowers. Hackney council says these subversive ...

High-ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls 'World War III.' By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel US Vice President Dick Cheney -- the power behind the throne, the eminence grise, the man with the (very) occasional grandfatherly smile -- is notorious for his ...

By John A Blacker RINF Alternative News Witness feared terrorists were attacking train as police GUNNED Brazilian, leaked statement reveals Armed police officers under the control of “Common Purpose “ Agent Cressida Dick fired at Jean Charles de Menezes for over 30 seconds when they killed him at Stockwell tube station, according to a witness statement made to independent investigators and obtained by the Guardian Newspaper. The witness says ...

The CIA has resumed its use of overseas secret prisons, The Washington Post reported Saturday. In the last six months, five new terrorism suspects have been transferred to the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of the new detainees, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, spent months in CIA custody overseas, Pentagon officials told the Post. On Sept. 6, 2006, the White House announced the CIA's secret prisons had been emptied for ...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presented plans to overhaul secrecy and data protection laws. In a speech on the subject of liberty, the Prime Minister has revealed plans to extend Freedom of Information laws, review the 30 year limit on releasing sensitive government papers and to review the rights of protestors in Parliament Square. Brown said that the Freedom of Information laws can be "inconvenient" to government, but at ...

Princess Diana cried, "Oh my God, oh my God," as she lay in the smoking wreckage of the car, according to one of the first witnesses to reach the crash site in the Paris tunnel, the inquest into her death heard. The evidence contradicts earlier suggestions that the princess was never conscious enough to speak after the crash. Damian Dalby, a volunteer fireman travelling to Paris with his brother and friends, told ...

Rights groups wonder where the roughly 30 are being kept By CRAIG WHITLOCK On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaida leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, there has been no official accounting of what happened to about 30 other "ghost prisoners" who spent extended time in the custody of the CIA. Some have been secretly ...

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