Westpac Bank has won orders against a customer to return $11 million accidentally transferred into his account, plus $3.7 million in interest.
The banking giant took real estate agent Victor Ollis to the NSW… Continue reading
Aug 31
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$11m bank blunder: pay it back order
A fundamentalist church pastor had sex with two of his teenage daughters to educate
them on how to be good wives, a South Australian court has heard.
The 54-year-old man, who cannot be named, was… Continue reading
A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday.
The testimony came… Continue reading
The Teamsters Union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on… Continue reading
Kurt Nimmo
No doubt, for a large number of Americans, it is a good enough excuse: “Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq… Continue reading
Aug 29
The looming food crisis
Land that was once used to grow food is increasingly being turned over to biofuels. This may help us to fight global warming - but it is driving up food prices throughout the world and… Continue reading
In what critics call a dangerous power grab, the Monsanto Company is seeking wide-ranging control over swine reproduction methods in the form of patents which, if granted, would give the corporation economic rights over any… Continue reading
Last time we checked in on the bizarro nexus between cannabis and terrorism, it was none other than actor/director Tommy Chong who was feeling the Bush administration’s post-9/11 wrath. In fact, the… Continue reading
NORFOLK
More than 100 gun-rights advocates, most carrying handguns on their hips and wearing buttons saying “Guns Save Lives,” came to the City Council on Tuesday night to protest what they called harassment of law-abiding… Continue reading
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears… Continue reading
Mercury as a toxin is old news. We’ve been alerted: it’s in our fish, in our water, and in our air. It’s been removed from paint. Mercurial chrome is no longer used… Continue reading
Kurt Nimmo
According to Bush, Iran is “responsible for training extremist Shia factions in [Iraq] which it supplied with arms and weapons, including sophisticated roadside bombs. He referred specifically to 240mm rockets that… Continue reading
Living in Dubai is not wonderful and glamorous, as many would have you believe. Forget about what you’ve read, seen, and heard; those shiny buildings and manmade islands are all just smoke and… Continue reading
No charges had yet been laid… Continue reading
Presidential candidate Ron Paul believes that an attack on Iran is highly likely within a year and that the Bush administration is simply waiting for the right opportunity, or event on which… Continue reading
Aug 28
Empire or Freedom?
The 9/11 attacks brought to the surface a dilemma that everyone, especially libertarians… Continue reading
08/28/2007
Alex speaks with physician, US Representative from Texas, and presidential candidate Ron Paul about his run for the whitehouse
Many of us rely on drugs imported from developing countries like India. But a new report reveals the toxic industry that produces them and the people who pay the price.
Hazardous imports have been the… Continue reading
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, announced his resignation… Continue reading
Inflation tops 7,600 percent as the country’s economic crisis forces people to flee the country or scrounge for food.
Harare, Zimbabwe; and Musina, South Africa - Once considered a shining example of Africa’s potential, Zimbabwe… Continue reading
Bush is wrong to equate Iraq with Vietnam. The jihadists will be defeated if the US is prepared to collaborate with its allies
Critics… Continue reading
Apparently, there is no truth to the rumor that calls for withdrawing troops from Iraq is demoralizing the troops.
In fact, calls for withdrawal have the troops standing and cheering, as this story demonstrates:.
SAN… Continue reading
A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government’s new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes.
Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government’s filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, a… Continue reading
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has avoided millions of dollars in state taxes by paying rent on 87 Wisconsin properties in a way that the state Department of Revenue calls an “abuse and distortion of income.”
As a… Continue reading
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that telecommunications companies assisted the government’s warrantless surveillance program and were being sued as a result, an admission some legal experts say… Continue reading
Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to… Continue reading
Ex-Treasury Secretary Summers warns of risks ‘greater than any since aftermath of 9/11′, reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.
Or worse.
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy… Continue reading
As Nicola Delemere struggled through the pain of contractions, she was gripped with greater fears than the average expectant mother. She and her husband were 30,000ft in the air on a plane to Crete, she… Continue reading