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"Pakistan Poll Rigging 2008 Report"
click
here
(As released to Internet TV News, Dawn News and The BBC)
Musharraf Denies Involvement in Bhutto
killing to CBS TV's
"The Bhutto Dossier", a condensed
version of "Who Killed Bhutto?"
Musharraf denies culpability in Bhutto killing in
rarely held English language press conference (BBC)
Read
it here
says Musharraf has Muzzled his legal critics, for now.
"The Short View : Guns Versus Butter" 
looks at stock trends since 2000, where, until 2003
Food and Defense stocks were parallel. Then in 2003, defense sector
stocks boomed, which looks even more real when graphed. (streaming
video) John Authers, FT
PAKISTAN:
Who killed Bhutto?
Did the U.S. have a hand in engineering the outcome? Were there two,
unrelated attacks, one an ISI hit, the other a suicide
bomber? Did the well dressed-man in the Ray Ban Sunglasses know that the
guy behind him was about to detonate? Inside the PPP, the emerging
consensus is yes and no, there were two men, and no, the mystery man was not
working in concert with the bomber. Update: Reports indicate that
2 handguns were found at the scene & Scotland Yard arrives.
Full Story
KENYA:
Ethnic cleansing returned to the continent,
as attacks since the disputed election have claimed perhaps 600 lives. The
vote spread which looms large? 250,000 votes. Same difference as in the last
Mexican Election, which saw a very different response. Why?
We assume this reflects the basic
distinction between tribalism and feudalism. When democracy fails
to maintain civil order, faith in institutions fails as well. How is it
then, that the prosperous developed countries opted for a Security State, instead?
We will keep you
apprised of the efforts of Desmond Tutu to calm tensions, who met the
opposition Thursday, but had no appointment with Kabaki, as of late.
Also US Envoy for Southern African Affairs has arrived from Washington. Agence-France
Presse
Read more.... and the
Financial Times.
SOUTH AFRICA:
Jacob Zuma faces 216 witnesses; Thabo
Mbeki says 'who me, political payback?' Sunday Independent
Read more...
UNITED STATES:
Presidential distractions weigh heavily
on the world scene where many media refer to the "Presidential Election"
assuming readers know they mean the USA. Go to Barcelona, the map store
will sell you a World Map, where Spain is in the center, same for
South Africa where the African continent is in the middle. (That
said, FT.com with
the latest profile on Iowa Winner, Sen. Barack Obama ahead of
Hillary Clinton 38/26 in one poll, with John Edwards close behind.)
The USA
is now #2, first time since WWI (according to
The Financial Times), their currency on
sale at
50% discount from the Euro. This just in, "Forget your Dollars
at the Taj Mahal", where the India Rupee is surging ($ USD lost 11% in
2007 alone) "How the Might y Dollar has Fallen" by AFP
Read
here..
Even as it wallows in $14 Trillion
personal and $9 Trillion in
government debt, manages (not well)750 military bases, installations
and secret jails (including Gitmo), in its role as the world's police,
the planet's media continue to focus on
the U.S. elections as though America was still the 'last bastion of
democracy'. Tell it to Ghana, a country which knows how to conduct
a run-off election; tell it to Greece, currently ranked #1 in the
World Privacy Survey 2007
Rejecting Kyoto, flaunting the World
Court, laughing off torture, starting illegal wars, creating a
Romanian style
surveillance and police state (under
Ceausescu and
this site
dedicated to 20th century dictators) usually falls short of the
qualities one would hold high on a checklist of a countries' democratic
qualities, no?
profiles Eric Prince and his Blackwater Mercenaries. Simple math-
180,000 U.S. troops, 200,00 private contractors and 120,000 trained
Iraqis equals? Gen. Shinseki's estimate!
Democrats Delay a Vote on Immunity for
Wiretaps...
The last Post of
Andrew Olmsted
(without comment, or is merely posting, a comment in
itself?).
Mohamed
Bismilah's Harrowing Account of Kidnapping & Torture.
The Washington Post reports German Khalid Al-Masri, (read above) weighs in with Amicus
brief supporting Bismilah's claims).
Sen. Joe Biden
(who sadly, along with Chris Dodd, just withdrew from his
U.S. Presidential bid), "Speaks Truth to Power, Threatens Impeachment" for
Bush if he attacks Iran without Congressional approval. He may have
had the
wrong location as a Washington Post National Security blogger reported
27th Dec., U.S. Special Forces are to be transferred to Pakistan,
to train Soldiers and the Tribal Councils' paramilitary to take on
Taliban and Al-Qaeda
Statement of Sen. Chris Dodd,
From Logan Murphy of Crooks &
Lairs
Via
The Huffington Post:
"Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan was one of the key figures
in the Bush administration’s efforts to
respond publicly to the investigation into
the Plame leak. He spoke for the White House
and he was the filter through which the
public learned about which officials were
and were not involved in the leak. Standing
in front of the White House Seal, McClellan
famously denied any White House involvement
in the leak, “If anyone in this
administration was involved in it, they
would no longer be in this administration.”
We need to launch an
immediate investigation to determine the
facts of this case, the extent of any cover
up and determine what the President knew and
when he knew it. If in fact the President of
the United of States knowingly instructed
his chief spokesman to mislead the American
people, there can be no more fundamental
betrayal of the public trust."
Read on…
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"Dump
the Democratic Leadership"
(It's time for REAL leaders,
like Dodd, Kennedy, Feingold & Biden)
Entry Denied: The Strange Case of Professor Adam
Habib
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Via
The Huffington Post:
