In an unprecedented order, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court ordered the Bush Administration to respond to a request
it received last week by the American Civil Liberties Union for
orders and legal papers discussing the scope of the government's
authority to engage in the secret wiretapping of Americans.
The
Federal Reserve came to the stock market's rescue on Friday but
unless credit markets remain stable next week, the salvation may
prove little more than a brief respite from its late summer sell-off.
Alex
welcomes Chief Sandy Davis, a retired career fire service professional
and current Director of the Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness for Caddo and Bossier Parishes to discuss
the new DHS program to train Clergy to quell dissent during
emergancies in which Martial Law is imposed.
The Transportation
Security Administration has over a dozen Behavior Detection
Officers at airports already, with the hope of placing 500 more
at an airport near you by 2008.
Perry's
push for the Trans-Texas Corridor super highway is part of a
secret plan, the conspiracy theorists say, to create the North
American Union — a single nation consisting of Canada,
Mexico and the United States with a currency called the Amero.
At a time when even the Wall Street Journal has disappeared
into the maw of a huge media conglomerate, the New York Times
remains an independent newspaper. But it doesn't show any independence
in reporting or in thought.
Iran's hard-line
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Israel was
the standard bearer of Satan and the Jewish state would soon
fall apart, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported
Saturday.
Hurricane Dean could
become a Category Five monster as it gathers force in the Caribbean
this weekend, forecasters said.Winds have already reached Category
Four speeds of 145mph, claiming the lives of at least three
people as it headed towards Jamaica - where about 5,000 Britons
are on holiday.
