Month August 2005

Police ‘resisted’ de Menezes inquiry Scotland Yard “initially resisted” the independent police watchdog leading the inquiry into the fatal shooting by police of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, it was confirmed today. Contrary to early reports of the shooting,…

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. — Mother Jones

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a secret lawsuit against Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham that contends he should forfeit his Rancho Santa Fe home [in San Diego] to the government because it was purchased with illegally obtained money. And right…

Fresh from visits to Canada’s Yukon Territory and Alaska’s northernmost city, four U.S. senators said on Wednesday that signs of rising temperatures on Earth are obvious and they called on Congress to act. “If you can go to the Native…

ZoneAlarm still gets top ratings as a security suite. And things were fine until they released version 6.0. WARNING, it shrieks, popping up an obnoxious red box, this application is showing DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR. This happens way too often in the…