Archive for January, 2007

Chavez to Get Dictatorial Powers to Remake Venezuela

Posted by me on January 31st, 2007

Chavez to Get Powers to Remake Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela AP - President Hugo Chavez is set to assume unbridled powers to remake Venezuelan society as the National Assembly prepares to grant him authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree.
The assembly, which is completely controlled by Chavez supporters, is scheduled to meet Wednesday in a Caracas […]

40% of young UK Muslims want sharia law

Posted by me on January 31st, 2007

40% of young UK Muslims want sharia law
LONDON, England – Young British Muslims are more likely than their elders to support sharia law and admire al-Qaida, but three-fifths of 16-to 24-year-olds say they have as much in common with non-Muslims as with Muslims, according to an opinion poll published on Monday.
According to Jonny Paul, writing […]

Biden Racist Audio

Posted by me on January 31st, 2007

Biden on Obama listen for yourself

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall 

Biden Blows Any Chance with Racist Obama Comments

Posted by me on January 31st, 2007

Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” Can we say open mouth insert foot?
Remember last summer and his racist Indian and 7-11 comments to a supporter? Don’t? That’s okay YouTube has it here!

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method

Posted by me on January 30th, 2007

New Process ‘Worse’ than Carnivore program.
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time […]

Flash from Drudge today

Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building

Posted by me on January 30th, 2007

Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building
Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of the west front steps of the United States Capitol building after police were ordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources told The Hill.
According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall […]

Unhappy as a boy, Kim became youngest ever transsexual at 12

A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world’s youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female.
The boy - originally called Tim, but now known as Kim - has started to […]

U.S. missile defense maturing, latest test a success

Posted by me on January 30th, 2007

U.S. missile defense maturing, latest test a success
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Within a year, the U.S. missile defense system should be able to guard against enemy attacks, while testing new technologies, the deputy director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Monday.
The United States activated the ground-based system last summer when North Korea launched one […]

Video: Kerry: U.S. is “International Pariah”

Posted by me on January 30th, 2007

YouTube - Kerry: U.S. is “International Pariah

North America activists plotted ’stealth’ strategy
WASHINGTON – Participants in a high-level, closed door, three-day conference on the integration of the three North American nations debated whether openness about goals was preferred to a stealthy policy of building infrastructure before a vision of the end result was even laid out to the people of the U.S., […]