The UN expects the amount of e-waste generated worldwide every year to soon reach 40 million tons, enough to fill a line of garbage trucks stretching halfway around the world.
- Counterpunch: What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? No, it's not about conspiracy theories. It's about the presence of Israeli spies in the US around 9/11. Interesting stuff and some new information about pressure by pro-Israel lobby groups on the MSM to keep the story quiet.
- Oh, look: the Pentagon now says it needs more troops for the so-called surge, which is something I wrote about here yesterday. Meanwhile, the Democrats are still quibbling amongst themselves about drafting a bill that would set a timetable for the withdrawal from Iraq. Don't count on them ending the war any time soon. More Shi'ite pilgrims were killed on Wednesday. Which part of that don't those Democrats get?
- If you've been following the scandal surrounding the attorneys who've been fired in the US, you'll be interested in this latest twist in which a senior GOP aide has now been implicated. Meanwhile, that smirking asshole Alberto Gonzales wrote in USA Today that this is all just "an overblown personnel matter". Right. Just like torture is a little painful but not really that bad after all.
- Guiliani is in trouble with the Southern Baptists over his divorces. They forgive John McCain though because he was a nice guy when he got divorced twice.
- The word of the day is "cloud" because that's apparently what's hanging over Cheney now because of the Libby verdicts. Heck. Cheney's been in a dark cloud since the early 70s. I don't know why that's news all of a sudden.
- BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of hypocrisy on Thursday in its annual response to Washington's criticism of Beijing's human rights record, saying it had no right to blacken the name of other countries.
Well, someone had to say it, didn't they? It's pretty bad when China actually has a leg to stand on in that argument.
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