Pretty heavy story here that the UN is finalising its report on the recent Afghan Wedding Party Massacre. According to “UN sources”, a special US cleanup team disposed of much of the evidence and there are discrepencies in the Pentagon account of what happened that suggest some degree of fudging.
Earlier here.
So maybe there’s some substance behind Michael Jackson’s newfound ethnic heritage and his readiness to battle those Satanic meanies at Sony? According to this story, he’s broke, owes hundreds of million of dollars, is behind on his payroll, and without a big new hit has no way to pay off his current debts. It also describes his ongoing spending, which makes Elton John seem frugal. Apparently, he’s also blown a huge portion of his money on settlements to forestall child abuse allegations and payouts to various ex-wives and hired wombs.
The 8th Amendment to the US Constitution inconveniently enough prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment”, including torture. The fact that US investigators have been secretly transferring some of its prisoners to countries that routinely practice torture, including notable Axis of Evil states such as Syria, has been known for some time. Indeed, in some deranged sections of the US media it’s become actively fashionable to talk about the “effectiveness” of certain torture techniques. But this usually goes unexamined, so i was therefore pleased to see a recent CSM article explaining the new US eagerness to subcontract out torture (more good effects of globalization?), and tying the US’s recent decision to join with Syria in opposing a new UN anti-torture regulations. Gosh darn it, that could wipe out the export market!
So apparently, Saudia Arabia is descending further into the shitter, with Islamist protests spreading, Westerners living in armed compounds, and internal dissent rising. It’s eerily reminiscent of the last days of the Western-supported Shah in Iran.
So this woman overfed her 3-year-old child until he was “morbidly obese“: 120 pounds at age 3. Then, when he was taken into protective foster care, she brought him McDonalds during a supervised visit. No information on her size, unfortunately.
So this article about Iran’s nuclear power plant (now nearing completion with Russian help) puts the recent curtailment of tacit support for Iran’s “reformist” regime into perspective. Under the new Bush Gang’s first-strike policy, either a miracle happens and the Iranians agree to bend over and lube up, or the US will have to attack the Iranian facility from the air. Of course, they could use Israel as their stooge, as they did when Israel attacked Iraq’s power plant in 1981 using American-made F16s. I’m assuming that the brief Israeli Government statement made then still holds: Under no circumstances will we allow an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction against our people. Because Israel is the only nuclear power in the region — it understandably does not want the potential terror of its weapons of mass destruction to be diminished.
