German Chancellor Angela Merkel. German leader Angela Merkel on Wednesday brushed off reports in secret U.S. diplomatic cables that describe her as the “Teflon” chancellor as mere party chatter. Most of what is said about Germany in the leaked U.S. Embassy cables released by the WikiLeaks website “is part of every better party and therefore we weren’t all that excited,” Ms. Merkel told journalists. The... 

Sweden withholding documentation on Assange probe: lawyer One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation. According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to... 

This winter is poised to bring a chilling surge in death rates as Britain braces for an Arctic blast, with temperatures rivalling Siberia and the coldest conditions in a century. Experts are forecasting a significant rise in cold-related fatalities, estimating a staggering 12 deaths every hour during the harshest winter in recent memory. As the bitter cold sets in, concerns about a potential death... 

POOR children in a prosperous city are forced to scavenge for food in bins, a leading charity claimed last night. St Vincent de Paul (SVP) said two five-year-olds were spotted rooting through a bin on Kilkenny’s High Street by a local social worker in recent days. Liam Heffernan, president of Kilkenny SVP told the ‘Kilkenny People’: “I also saw an adult searching through a... 

Real Holocaust Denial “118 first responders heard explosions…” One of the many groups of dedicated professionals insulted by Julian Assange is “Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.” This is their video. Assange says they are liars but even Fox News now admits that Building 7 was destroyed by explosives. Assange staked the reputation of Wikileaks on the public never learning about Building... 

Let us ponder for a second about the meaning of ‘leaking’. When something is leaking, it is usually understood that some fluid substance that is supposed to be flowing in a certain direction, is escaping from its designed route because of a defect in the structure that was built to guide it. Usually, if you have a leaking pipe in your water system, your main problem is that you are unable to control... 

Police officer stands guard besides the picture of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese government liaison office in Hong Kong Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Protesters rallied in Hong Kong on Sunday for the release of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner. Enraged by Nobel Committee’s choice, China to award rival peace prize. Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated,... 

John Demjanjuk’s attorney has filed a motion in the Munich state court where Demjanjuk is on trial saying his client’s rights are being violated by keeping him in jail and demanding damages “in the millions.” Attorney Ulrich Busch says Demjanjuk should be given credit for time served in Israel and the U.S. and said in a motion Thursday the court was “depriving him of... 

You may not have to wait until the year 2154 for your own remote-controlled body. In this week’s excerpt, Mark Stephen Meadows discusses wetware technology and how the science-fiction of Avatar is quickly becoming science fact. During a radio interview in December of 2009, I was asked, “Do you think the vision of Avatar is something we’ll see in the future?” I paused for a... 

I pity the fool... duped by Wikileaks and Israel ASSANGE ACCUSED: “TOOK MONEY FROM ISRAEL” Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange for... 

The truth about the unseemly way in which the US State Department has been behaving should not have gone public, insists Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who today called the revelation of these facts “an attack on the international community.” The Obama Administration has expressed outrage at what amounts to the revelation of a growing number of crimes committed under their watch (and often... 

For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was carried out and the implications of the incident... 

Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with gizmos that check number plates to make sure insurance and tax are up to date. It also measures the distance between vehicles to spot tailgating and takes pictures of the inside of the car – to make sure you are wearing a seat belt. The... 

People linked with the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm have performed surveillance activities in Sweden without the knowledge of the host nation’s authorities, a government officials said Saturday. The surveillance has been going on since 2000, but Swedish authorities are still not aware of how widespread the practice was, said Justice Minister Beatrice Ask. “It seems as though we haven’t... 

It sounds like something a wild-eyed basement-dweller would come up with, after adjusting the fit of his tinfoil hat. But military bureaucrats really are asking scientists to help them “degrade enemy performance” by attacking the brain’s “chemical pathway[s].” Late last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing revamped a call for research...