One Week Ago…
Abdul Hussein al-Hindawi, a senior member of Iraq’s Independent Election Commission, said he was unhappy with early reports of a “yes” victory.
“We are trying to remain cool. Our credibility depends on it,” he told AFP.
Hindawi said he had been “surprised” by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s brief forecast Sunday of voters’ approval, […]

An interesting article by Pepe Escobar in the Asian Times, dives into the details behind Saddam’s trial.
The court, the training and the whole proceedings cost US$75 million - courtesy of US taxpayers (the budget was allocated in May 2004). About 300 people - paid by the Americans - work on the trial machinery. The five […]

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.
The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Gil Stern

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LONDON (Reuters) - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.
Less than 1 percent of those polled believed that the forces were responsible for any improvement in security, according to […]

An article that caught my eye over at the Electronic Intifada is a few weeks old, from September 2nd in fact. Nigel Perry discusses The Wall that is currently being built to encage Palestinians, from a truly artsy point of view. Two artists, Nathan Edelson and Banksy, representing really the two ways you can look […]

A while ago the Jordanian government approved an agreement with Sonoran Energy to study the exploration potential of an oil field east of Jordan’s capital city of Amman.
In latest reports:
“Based on our technical study of the Block we are now confident that there is a sizeable untapped oil resource in this region of Jordan,” […]

My favorite cartoon penguin gets it right when it comes to the Internet vs. Books. Though I kinda feel like Way Wired Willy these days even though my apartment is drowning in books. Ironically most of them are balancing the computer desk.

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Tragedies all over the world. Is it the End of Days? CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has the guts to ask what the crazy guy on the back of the 7 bus only dares to babble.
Madonna, who is Jewish as much as she is British, defends her latest song which Rabbis’ have found offensive.
The Shakers, followers […]