Month December 2005

A simple question about rendition

Blair Watch asks If Condi and Jack are telling the truth and detainees are not being sent to secret prisons or other regimes to be tortured… Why are they sending them anywhere? They also appear to have uncovered the unexpurgated…

Abramoff road kill

U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., changed his stance on a 2001 bill after receiving a $5,000 donation from a lobbyist’s client who opposed the legislation, records show. Burns is doing the ever popular memory loss routine, he can’t remember anything…

Japanese support environment tax

Nearly 80 percent of people who responded to an Internet survey said they support the proposed introduction of an environmental tax which would levy an average of 180 yen per month on each household, the Environment Ministry said Sunday. The…

The World Bank again

Rights groups seek inclusion of right to water in constitution On the ongoing 2nd National Urban Water Sector Reform Project in Nigeria, which is being financed by a $200mWorld Bank loan, Mr. Babalobi called for its  review to "make it…

If the net seems slow today,

The Internet Reachability Report currently shows many nodes completely down. This is highly unusual. A friend at a small ISP says spam may be the problem. A few months ago they got 45,000 emails a day and 4,000 were not…