Kenyan Election Results in High Death Toll

The death toll continues to rise after the most controversial election in recent Kenyan history has re-elected Mwai Kibaki. Raila Odinga the losing candidate has contested the results citing election fraud and is calling for a rally. Violence has erupted on these results with many people afraid to leave their homes. News and [...]

Read Full Post »

Pakistan: Bhutto’s Son Takes The Reigns, Investigation Moves Forward

Violence seems to have peaked over the weekend in Pakistan. Investigations are moving forward into who assassinated Bhutto, new video not surprisingly contradicts the Pakistani government’s account by showing what appears to be gunshots. Bhutto’s husband and son have taken over the PPP, her husband will handle day to day operations until her son [...]

Read Full Post »

Biting the Hand that Feeds

It seems the editors at Stars and Strips have recently had a paradigm shift. The New York Times is reporting that senior editors at the paper have sent letters to the Department of Defense asking for full disclosure on the paper’s financing vis-à-vis a program called America Supports You. Stars and Stripes is [...]

Read Full Post »

Pakistan Rages, Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Bhutto

Press accounts are reporting wide spread violence and riots following the death, and funeral of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. As outrage spread across the nation, there was finger pointing from all sides. Now, it seems Al-Qaeda has come forward claiming responsibility for the attack. While plausible, we’re still finding [...]

Read Full Post »

Sharif to Boycott elections, Fires, Violence breaking out across Pakistan

Sharif has announced he will boycott the January 8 elections in Pakistan. This comes as no surprise, as it’s clear in light of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto that elections will likely not go forward for quite some time. The United Nations has slammed the Bhutto assassination. Pakistani TV is reporting that [...]

Read Full Post »

Blowback In Pakistan – Assassination confirmed?

Al-Jazeera has this must read on Bhutto, extremists, and how westerners find the misguided notion of tribalism a comfortable way of explaining other countries. And, apparently an anonymous US official has confirmed that Bhutto was assassinated. There is still no official suspect. More on the flipside.

Read Full Post »

Sharif Takes Up Bhutto’s Fight After Her Death

Nawaz Sharif has vowed to take up Bhutto’s pro-democracy mantle after her death. Russia has also condemned the attack. News and video on the flipside.

Read Full Post »

Updated: Bhutto’s death could spark civil war

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto may send Pakistan spiraling into civil war.

Read Full Post »

Breaking: Bhutto is Dead

Multiple sources have now confirmed that former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto is dead. Apparently shot at close range before a suicide attack which injured her further. The attack is believed to be carried out by supporters of Musharraf. We’ll be following this story throughout the day and updating this thread.
Further:
Bhutto [...]

Read Full Post »

Next Generation Identification

Biometrics is the buzz in identification technology these days. Saturday, the Washington Post reported on a $1 billion project, called Next Generation Identification, being shopped around by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to build the worlds “largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics.” The FBI already houses one of the largest databases of biometric, [...]

Read Full Post »

Happy Holidays

We hope you’re enjoying the holiday season. We’ll be back on Wednesday with loads of fresh content for you to digest.

Read Full Post »

EU Caps Airline Emissions by 2012 – US Takes A Small Step With Energy Bill

EU Ministers have passed carbon emissions quotas on the airline industry. The US, true to delusional form, as threatened legal action. This comes on the heels of the US passing an Energy Bill which contains very limited improvements toward reversing climate manipulation.

Read Full Post »

Mukasey Walking The Line

New Attorney General Michael Mukasey is walking a fine line between being just another Bush crony and someone who could actually try and repair the damage done during the Fredo years at DoJ.  While he’s revised DoJ policy to limit contacts with the White House, he also argued before the American Bar Association [...]

Read Full Post »

Are Republicans Running For President or Pope?

Forgetting for a moment the overall class-less, degrading, internationally embarrassing freak show that has been our now two year election cycle that’s taken over our lives every other day of the week, we really take issue with it interfering with our holidays. Especially when it’s Mike Huckabee interfering. His new ad in [...]

Read Full Post »

Is this America?

Flying in the face of historical value, lack of destruction and showing support for blatant racism demolition is beginning on public housing units throughout New Orleans. Local business interests, using hurricane Katrina as a transparent cover have seized the opportunity to remove the last remnants of any type of affordable housing in New Orleans [...]

Read Full Post »