Six In The Morning

Send In The Thugs Bring In The Thugs, Wait They’re Already Here  

The sky was filled with rocks. The fighting around me was so terrible we could smell the blood

Robert Fisk: Blood and fear in Cairo’s streets as Mubarak’s men crack down on protests

“President” Hosni Mubarak’scounter-revolution smashed into his opponents yesterday in a barrage of stones, cudgels, iron bars and clubs, an all-day battle in the very centre of the capital he claims to rule between tens of thousands of young men, both – and here lies the most dangerous of all weapons – brandishing in each other’s faces the banner of Egypt. It was vicious and ruthless and bloody and well planned, a final vindication of all Mubarak’s critics and a shameful indictment of the Obamas and Clintons who failed to denounce this faithful ally of America and Israel.

Who Do You Hate?

Extract from the Guardian book charting a unique collaboration with WikiLeaks demonstrates how ‘US blood on hands’ of website’s founder got fainter and fainter

WikiLeaks: How US political invective turned on ‘anti-American’ Julian Assange

As the cables rolled out day by day, an ugly, and in many ways deranged, backlash took place in the US. A vengeful chorus came mostly from Republicans. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, darling of the unhinged right, denounced Julian Assange’s “sick, un-American espionage” and came close to inciting his assassination: “Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaida and Taliban leaders? … He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.”

But it was Senator Joe Lieberman, Senate homeland security committee chairman, a foreign policy hawk and maverick Democrat, who was the most practical attack dog. Lieberman described the leak in apocalyptic terms as “an outrageous, reckless and despicable action that will undermine the ability of our government and our partners to keep our people safe and to work together to defend our vital interests”.

Dumb Ass’s In Space

The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.

WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles

The two nuclearsuperpowers both shot down their own satellites using sophisticated missiles in separate show of strength, the files suggest.

The American Government was so incensed by Chinese actions in space that it privately warned Beijing it would face military action if it did not desist.

The Chinese carried out further tests as recently as last year, however, leading to further protests from Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, secret documents show.

The Womanizer Of Italy

 

Prosecutor to request that Berlusconi be put on trial

THE CONFRONTATION between Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the judiciary seems headed for further heated controversy, following confirmation yesterday that he may well be summoned to appear in three Milan-based trials over the next six weeks.

Milan chief prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati yesterday confirmed that his office will next week request that the prime minister be summoned in a fast-track trial on charges of “exploitation of underage prostitution” and “abuse of office” in relation to the so-called Rubygate affair.

The preliminary hearing judge, Cristina Di Censo, is expected to make her decision within a matter of days and if she rules that Mr Berlusconi should stand trial, then the trial against him could begin in the next two months.

Just More Ballot Stuffing No Worries

 

Bozize wins fresh term as rivals allege fraud

PRESIDENT Francois Bozize of Central African Republic (CAR) has been comfortably re-elected to a second term as president, according to provisional figures.

However, all four rival candidates have denounced the result as a fraud.

The Agence France Presse (AFP) said Bozize received just over 66 per cent of the vote in the January 23 poll, according to provisional results released late Tuesday by the independent election committee (CEI) after the January 23 legislative and presidential elections.

That meant he had scored an outright victory in the first round.

Government spokesman, Fidele Ngouandjika, declared: “It is a victory of democracy for someone who took power in a (2003) coup d’etat and who was legitimised by the ballot in 2005.”

The Party IN Wonderland



Pairing of religious conservatism with fiscal sets Iowa tea partyers apart

URBANDALE, IOWA– Every other week for the past two years, the Westside Conservative Club has met over breakfast at the Machine Shed restaurant to do what tea party groups do: share worries about President Obama, federal spending and government overreach.

But unlike in many of those other groups, another kind of discussion regularly occurs here, too – the religious kind. Those who come for the conversation and the Shed’s famous cinnamon buns are just as comfortable talking about their opposition to abortion as they are about federal bailouts and debt ceilings.