New Evidence of Fraud in Power CrisisTaped phone conversations show that plant shutdowns were deliberately done to force electricity prices up New evidence has emerged that AES Corp. and Williams Cos. conspired to squeeze electricity supplies to California in early…

ACLU of Washington: Take Action We are definitely living in unusual times…   Have you been barred from flying because of your political views?  The ACLU wants to hear from you. Federal Officials have given airlines a blacklist of people to prevent…

How secure are electronic voting machines? As a computer programmer, I can see how voting machine software could be tweaked to do whatever you might want done. Combine that with super secret voting machine companies and their refusal to make their…

Rattled Czechs hand security over to the PentagonThis is truly unusual, a soveriegn country turning their security over, however temporarily, to another country. The Czech President, Vaclav Havel, has signed into law a bill handing responsibility for his country’s security…

Fierce Montenegrins ready for union – maybe Yugoslavia will soon formally become “Serbia and Montenegro” — if all goes according to plan. But the fierce independence and machismo of towering “hillbilly Serbs” means anything can happen in a region of…

White House yields on  9/11 InquiryAnd just why has Shrub been so opposed to a 9/11 inquiry? Yielding to intense pressure from families of Sept. 11 victims, the White House agreed last night to a Congressional compromise that would create…