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 …
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
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.
A video of bright disc-shaped objects dashing through the blue skies over central London has been posted on YouTube.
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.
As Barack Obama continues his ludicrously overhyped European tour, media gloss cannot disguise the renewed imperial ambition of Libya’s western aggressors
Can you imagine if a Muslim columnist had written something similar? Geoffrey Alderman should be ashamed of himself.
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.
Venezuela FARC files must be read with the same scepticism that WMD claims deserved.
The treatment of anarchists by the police and media echoes McCarthyism in its criminalisation of a valid political philosophy
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.
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.
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 …
From the detainees' details it is clear that the west wildly overstated the reach and capability of Bin Laden's terror group
The timing of the release of Barack Obama's birth certificate expertly made a fool of Donald Trump – and the GOP with him
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.
The Reagan-era espionage system that has stayed under the radar.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why was I jailed with other peaceful UK Uncut supporters arrested at Fortnum & Mason? We'd messed with the rich, apparently
Great comments and seeds... Keep up the good work!
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Tee Hee Hee. Making Homeless Jokes is absolutely hilarious. I laughed until I threw up thinking about losing my home, job, food, animals and car.
What fun.
"............a new report is generated based upon the current report request and then stored. .oOSourceOo. What about the sanity clause? "
I don't believe it's an option. It comes standard, or you do without. :)
Ill catch you later, DJD
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HEY! You cannot fool me! I know there is NO Sanatie Clause!
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i like your Word Play.please continue.i want to participate and learn.thank you,djd...
Thanks for posting the Chomsky article. What can I add to Noam? I'm getting too old and lazy to hunt down the good stuff. You find the articles, I'll get the beer.
well, its 2 degrees F right now. maybe I should walk the dogs down on the Susquehanna tonight. It is interesting how so many things in nature love a good circle. Thanks for showing us those amazing pictures. I was browsing your seeds and they all make me want to spend too much time on my little square laptop as well, but with the low tonight in the negative universe here, inside seems like a good time for some reading,
djd is one of the finest writers on Newsvine. He is masterful with a pen..er, keyboard. He has a razor sharp wit and matching intellect. I am making it a point to visit his column more often, because it makes me smarter. Keep fighting the good fight, sir. :)
— lauhal
I've just noticed your new picture, djd! Very dignified you are! :)
Thanks for seeding a hour's worth of quality reading material today. Great seeds, bro.
Thanks for the update on venezuelanalysis. I read it fairly often for a counter view from the US view that Chavez is an anti democratic dictator. Georgy boy stole his first election with less than 50% of the vote. Chavez in his last election won with 63% of the vote. Who is really anti democratic?
Please keep us updated with the new URLThanks
Barry
djd owes me a new keyboard and a new screen because he's made me blurt tea all over them on numerous occasions.
Great seeds, great comments...witty bloke. Now...if I could only unstick my function key....
Union Jacks on his sunglasses, funny cracks on his news-pages. That's DJD. Coool dude.
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djd spends far too much of his time around computers. Newsvine isn't helping.
djd -- You nailed that right on the head! Keep up the good seeds and comments.
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