I have nothing to declare except my guinness

WikiLeaks: How the U.S. Shot Down a Czech-Venezuelan Plane Deal

A Czech-built plane, which featured in the James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” was subject to frantic US diplomatic activity to block a lease deal with the leftist Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chávez, according to US diplomatic cables over recent years publish …

Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex - Telegraph

A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage

Croydon woman pictured jumping from burning building too shaken to talk

The first details about the woman pictured leaping from a burning building in Croydon on Monday night have emerged. Friends have told how they rescued Monika Konczyk from her smoke-filled flat in a moment that has become the defining image of the riots.

Video: UFOs spotted over London?

A video of bright disc-shaped objects dashing through the blue skies over central London has been posted on YouTube.

Anti-war protester Brian Haw who camped in Parliament Square dies, aged 62 | Mail Online

Over the last decade he fought off many an attempt to remove him from Parliament Square. But in the end it was only death that succeeded in ending Brian Haw’s long campaign.

Welcome to the violent world of Mr Hopey Changey

As Barack Obama continues his ludicrously overhyped European tour, media gloss cannot disguise the renewed imperial ambition of Libya’s western aggressors

Jewish Chronicle columnist expresses "pleasure" over death of peace activist

Can you imagine if a Muslim columnist had written something similar? Geoffrey Alderman should be ashamed of himself.

A brazen liar who's been found out at last

Unprincipled bully Alastair Campbell was forced to resign in disgrace after ‘sexing up’ the dossier that took us to war with Iraq. The New Labour zealot was too toxic to remain even in Tony Blair’s morally feckless government.

Iraq dodgy dossier authors strike again

Venezuela FARC files must be read with the same scepticism that WMD claims deserved.

Anarchists have civil liberties too

The treatment of anarchists by the police and media echoes McCarthyism in its criminalisation of a valid political philosophy

Royal Wedding - "Committing a protest": The Charing Cross arrests

Yesterday morning I was arrested with nine others outside Charing Cross station, apparently to “prevent a breach of the peace.” I was intending to go to the “Not the Royal Wedding” street party organised by campaign group Republic.

Royal wedding: police use section 60 to deter anarchists

n pre-emptive action on Wednesday and Thursday officers from the Met raided five squats in London and one in Hove, arresting 21 people. All were released and bailed with conditions that bar them from the City of Westminster on Friday.

Royal Wedding - Police powers are out of control

What gives the police the right to arrest a person who has not committed a crime and wasn’t planning to commit any crime? Yesterday, long-time activist and professional thorn-in-the-side-of-the-establishment Chris Knight was pre-emptively arrested by the police (video belo …

These Guantánamo files undo the al-Qaida myth machine

From the detainees' details it is clear that the west wildly overstated the reach and capability of Bin Laden's terror group

Republicans will rue their birther backing | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The timing of the release of Barack Obama's birth certificate expertly made a fool of Donald Trump – and the GOP with him

BBC News - Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo 'not dangerous'

Files obtained by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives.

Reagan-era Espionage Dirtier than Watergate

The Reagan-era espionage system that has stayed under the radar.

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

UK-based Syrian TV station denies secret funding from US government

A south London-based satellite channel run by less than a dozen staff has been hit by claims that it was one of several Syrian political opposition projects that have been secretly funded by America's State Department.

Posada acquittal 'a shameful farce'

Cuban Parliament chief Ricardo Alarcon has denounced a US court's acquittal of former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles as a "shameful farce." ... "There were things the jury did not know ... particularly since the judge prohibited them from being told."

The memo that 'proves aliens landed at Roswell'... released online by the FBI

A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI. The bureau has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault.

Westminster warriors untouched by Libya's suffering and bloodshed

The Prime Minister's response to events in Libya and Yemen is typical of the British and American reaction to the Arab revolts — line up new collaborators to protect your big business interests.

Paint attack on Lansley offices

Cambridgeshire Police said they are investigating the incident at Hardwick on Thursday night, when red paint was thrown at the building and the words "Hands off our NHS Tory scum" were written in large letters on a wall.

Troops on standby after Kenneth Clarke privatises Birmingham prison

The military has been put on standby as the prison service braces itself for a day of industrial disruption over the first privatisation of an existing British jail.

Cuts protest: I'm a political prisoner now

Why was I jailed with other peaceful UK Uncut supporters arrested at Fortnum & Mason? We'd messed with the rich, apparently

Profile

djd

Articles Posted: 232
Links Seeded: 6833
Member Since: 8/2006

Living in the United Kingdom DJD was made redundant in the first wave of the recession.

djd's Feeds

Subscribe to djd's content using the feeds below. Use RSS for your newsreader and JSS to insert onto your own blog:
  • Articles
  • Seeds

djd's Groups

djd is a member of the following groups: