- AT&T is about to be hit with another lawsuit on Monday:
CHICAGO, May 21 (UPI) -- Author Studs Terkel and other prominent Chicagoans reportedly are suing AT&T for allegedly divulging personal records to the National Security Agency.
The suit, which the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said would be filed Monday, alleges that AT&T released the private records of millions of Americans to the NSA without legal authority.
Other plaintiffs include Dr. Quentin Young and former City of Chicago Corporation Counsel James Montgomery.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation also has a lawsuit pending against the giant telecom company.
- Tony Blair wants his country's troops out of Iraq by fall 2007.
The prime minister believes that his best chance of securing his place in the history books is with a legacy as a “peacemaker” after his reputation with the left was damaged by the Iraq war and power sharing in the province collapsed.
That's quite the load of crap, I must say. He'll always be remembered as Bush's sock-puppet.
- Matt Drudge's take on the re-election of NOLA mayor Ray Nagin? Howard Dean and his 'secret operatives' didn't want a black man in that office.
Speaking of loads of crap...
Dean came to the decision to back the white challenger, over the African-American incumbent Nagin, despite concerns amongst senior black officials in the Party that the DNC should stay neutral.
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Preliminary campaign finance reports indicate many of Landrieu’s contributions came from out of state white Democrat leaders and financiers, including a $1,000 contribution from Sen. Ben Nelson's (D-NE) PAC.
How low can Drudge go?
- Israel's Prime Minister claims that Iran is only 'months' away from making nuclear weapons - not that he actually has proof of such a claim, which flies in the face of estimates by experts who believe the actual timetable would be 5-10 years.
In an allusion to the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II, Olmert said, "In modern times, we have to remember what happened when the world did not listen to dictators threatening other nations [with] annihilation."
Funny. No one even seemed to raise an eyebrow in early May when Israel's Shimon Peres said, "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."
Condi Rice chimed in with this on Sunday:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on "Fox News Sunday" that the international community has not asked the United States to promise Iran it will not attack or otherwise try to destabilize the regime.
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Rice added, "Iran is a troublemaker in the international system, a central banker of terrorism. Security assurances are not on the table."
Fasten your seat belts.
- 'one in every 136 U.S. residents' is in jail.
"The jail population is increasingly unconvicted," Beck said. "Judges are perhaps more reluctant to release people pretrial."
The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, meaning many of them are awaiting trial.
Not that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cares all that much. He's too busy trying to help the Bush administration arrest reporters.
- Read Ralph Nader's latest at Counterpunch, Coerced Confessions, about how corporations are abusing employees' rights with heavy-handed interrogation techniques. What's next? Waterboarding at WalMart?
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