Federal 9/11 detainee beatings caught on tape After 9/11, The Department of “Justice” rounded up hundreds, maybe thousands, of Muslims, generally on minor visa violations that would be ignored were they Brits or a Canadians, threw them in jail, let the…

Bush whacked by courts in 2 terror rulings This is good news. Courts are (finally) slapping down the noxious neo-fascist attempts by the Bush Adminstration to imprison anyone they want any time they want, without them being allowed to see…

Goodbye sunshine Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what’s causing ‘global dimming’ – or what it means for the future. In fact most scientists have never heard of it.  

Throwaway email addies with RSS-syndicated mailboxes. Dodgeit allows you to create throw-away email addresses (for crappy registration sites), and then delivers the email that comes into the resulting mailbox as an RSS feed that you and everyone else who can…

9/11 chair: attack was preventable A REPUBLICAN ex-governor is saying Dubya & Co. could have prevented 9 Most amazing. The chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have…

Iraqis doubt real Hussein behind bars Baghdad — Jassim Abu Ahmed almost spits his disgust at the television set showing yet another image of the dazed and bedraggled Saddam Hussein. “It’s not him,” Mr. Ahmed says, waving his hand and…

“My father’s name was James Strom Thurmond”. Hugely detailed and comprehensive post on the daughter Strom Thrurmond had by a 15 year old black maid, from the amazing blog, Doublethink