political nonsense

According to President Bush,

“Our nation is on the threshold of new energy technology that I think will startle the American people.”

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British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for denying the holocaust.
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Author Michael Crichton received a journalism award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his novel State of Fear, which criticizes the theory of global warming. “It is fiction,” said a spokesman for the petroleum geologists, “but it has the absolute ring of truth.”
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The Bush Administration is drawing up plans to sell 300,000 acres of public land, valued at over $1 billion, in the next decade. The sale is intended to replace the funding for rural schools and roads that was cut from the Administration’s 2007 budget.
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Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin’s effort to stall the Patriot Act renewal was rejected 96 to 3 on Thursday.
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A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to release documents about the NSA program within 20 days.
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Senate Republicans blocked a proposed investigation into the NSA’s spying operation.
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The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress yesterday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest ever propaganda campaign against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the west.
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UN human rights investigators have called for the immediate closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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The Australian public broadcaster SBS says it has obtained previously unpublished photographs of prisoners abused by US forces at Abu Ghraib. The pictures show a man with his throat slit, another with massive head injuries and a third covered in what appears to be feces.
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A federal jury has determined that cold war military contractors building nuclear bomb components near Denver contaminated lands owned by 12,000 neighbors with plutonium waste, and has recommended $554 million in payments and penalties.
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saddam hussein has not eaten in three days.
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A report by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. military academy advised that

The United States should avoid direct, large-scale military action in the Middle East…[which] rallies the locals behind the movement, drains the United States of resources and puts pressure on allied regimes.

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The US government has collected over 325,000 names for a list of suspects accused of international terrorism.
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11 people died in attacks and 8 people were killed by a suicide bomber this week in Iraq.
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Lawyers asked for a temporary restraining order Sunday to stop the evictions of 12,000 families left homeless by hurricanes Katrina and Rita from hotels across the nation on Monday.
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The head of the Arab League appealed to East and West to end the “vicious” row over Mohammad cartoons.
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Terrorists elected Iraq’s new prime minister, which the US hopes will help quell the insurgency.
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Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government’s failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans and did not execute emergency plans or share information that would have saved lives, according to a blistering report by Republican House investigators.
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The United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources.
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