Insite/Bedouin Soundclash Concert Shut-down (Part 2)

Part 2 of Mark Townsend's thoughts after the Vancouver Police shut down Bedouin Soundclash's concert at Insite supervised injection site.

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

European stock markets surge more than 5 per cent

European stock markets rebound in early deals on Monday, with London, Frankfurt and Paris each up more than five per cent. Stocks also soared more than five per cent in Zurich and Amsterdam after European leaders agreed to inject billions of dollars of...

Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...

Virginia executes man who challenged methods

" JARRATT, Virginia  A killer who argued that Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country's second-busiest death chamber. ...

American 'Meltdown' is the Reason for the Money Injection by Fortis

""Votron stays on after a wave of criticismby our correspondentJune 28, 2008, 09:10 a.m.BRUSSEL/AMSTERDAM (DFT) - Fortis expects a complete breakdown of the American financial markets within days or weeks. This explains, according to the bank insurer, the series of...

Barclays 'to get cash infusion from major Japanese bank'

The UK banking sector certainly appears to have been stuck with a lot of sub-prime debt problems."Barclays Plc may be close to securing a 100bn yen (€594m) capital injection from Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. as part of the bank’s efforts to weather the impact...