political nonsense

The CIA tried to get three American mobsters to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s; they failed.
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The Food and Drug Administration rejected calls for a review of the sweetener aspartame despite a new study suggesting links to cancer.
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At least ten Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip earlier today.
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans favor an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
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North Korea said it will begin implementing a stalled agreement to scrap its nuclear program after receiving bank funds previously frozen because of U.S. concerns about money laundering.
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The Australian government announced a ban on alcohol and pornography for Aborigines.
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Researchers announced that firstborn children develop higher IQs than their younger siblings.
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The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
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A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “’Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida’ is stronger language than ‘serving’,” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly ‘serving,’ like in a way one ‘serves’ a casserole.”
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More than six out of 10 people in the UK regularly commit crimes against the government, their employers or businesses.
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The FBI wants technical universities to impose rules that will stop US university students from working late at the campus, travelling abroad, showing an interest in their colleagues’ work, or have friends outside the United States, engaging in independent research, or making extra money without the prior consent of the authorities.
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The RTA road safety campaign is spending 1.9 million dollars to try and convince young men they have small penises.

[and it's dangerous]
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The UK government announced that “creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science. ”
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A top House Democrat has announced his intention to offer an amendment to strip funding from the yearly budget for the Office of the Vice President.

“On the Hill, there’s an overwhelmingly positive reaction,” a spokesman for Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) said.

[it was sunny]
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Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.
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CNN canceled it’s interview with Michael Moore to make room for Paris Hilton.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the world has failed Darfur.
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A new video of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston shows him wearing an explosives vest and warning he will be blown up if Hamas continues to surround the area where he is being held, the US-based Intel Center said Sunday in an e-mail to news organizations.
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Scientists decided they didn’t actually know how HIV works.
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France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
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