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Well, I guess after a bit of thinking, I shouldn't be surprised. The news has been covered with reports that Washington is willing to negotiate with Iran. Saints be praised! Except, as with so many things coming from the Bush adminstration, it's all smoke and mirrors ( Read more... )

If you don't read a lot of blogs, you're unlikely to have noticed the explosion of coverage of a newspaper report in the Canadian National Post, sayingIran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.
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Q Sir, when you talk about Iran, and you talk about how you have diplomatic efforts, you also say all options are on the table. Does that include the possibility of a nuclear strike? Is that something that your administration will plan for?

THE PRESIDENT: All options are on the table.
April 18, 2006

By now, it should be clear to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention that the war in Iraq has been a failure of monumental proportions. Bush's coalition of the willing has failed. Today, Iraq is in flames, steps away from anarchy, and the politicians still fighting rather than forming a government have begun to state the obvious - Iraq is in ( Read more... )

From the Guardian:British officers took part in a US war game aimed at preparing for a possible invasion of Iran, despite repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable ( Read more... )

Go read this, on why attacking Iran would be absolute insanity. The most worrying statement, I think, is left 'til the end:Thus their strategy to threaten insanity, as a diplomatic gambit. "Do as we tell us, or we'll do something really crazy. Sure, we'll get hurt, but you'll be destroyed. Be reasonable, because we won't be". It's a well known, if ( Read more... )

Iran, defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days, a U.S. State Department official said.
Read the whole story. Never mind that the Israelis estimate is 2-3 years, and the US' own recent report on the subject said 10 years. I read a report yesterday, in amongst ( Read more... )

Spent all morning (all morning - I can't believe it) in a highly frustrating fight with Motorola's Phone Tools software which allegedly works over Bluetooth. What they mean by works over Bluetooth seems to mean, after much investigation, works over Bluetooth only if you've bought a Motorola bluetooth dongle. Anything else, and you're out of luck. ( Read more... )

You know, I think the Republicans may finally have pushed too far in their politics of division and xenophobia. The protests erupting across America really seem to be growing, and they're beginning to cause disruption to boot. Of course, threatening to criminalise 11 million people in your country and tear hundreds of thousands of families apart in ( Read more... )