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Questions 7 [II] [7November2008]

President Bush’s dog bites Reuters reporter
Did Julie Myers leak Obama “aunt-gate” information?…
“someone” used their position of authority to illegally disclose - for political reasons - the status of President Obama’s aunt as “illegal.”
Now, only several days later, Julie Myers steps down as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). No reason is provided.
CIA Torture [...]

2 skinheads indicted in alleged Obama plot

http://www.msnbc.msn.com…
Authorities say they planned the attack while dressed in white tuxedoes
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tenn., has indicted two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill Democrat Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman were arrested last month, before Obama won the presidential election. [...]

DEA complicit in drug trade, says Morales

http://rawstory.com…
Agence France-Presse
Published: Thursday November 6, 2008
Morales says evidence will be presented to President Obama
Bolivian leader Evo Morales on Thursday accused the US government of encouraging drug-trafficking as he explained his decision to banish the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Morales, a staunch opponent of the Washington government, said the staff from the US agency had three [...]

Contractors Nervous About Losing Immunity in Iraq

http://www.motherjones.com…
The UN mandate governing the US military’s deployment in Iraq will expire next month. To negotiate the way forward, Baghdad and Washington have been in feverish talks about an official Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which will set parameters for the US presence in Iraq, as well as set a date certain for withdrawal. US [...]

Bush administration delays release of prisoner abuse photos

http://rawstory.com…
Nick Juliano
Published: Friday November 7, 2008
The Bush administration is doing everything it can to delay compliance with a court’s order that the Pentagon turn over pictures of prisoners abused in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new court filing.
A three-judge appeals court panel in September ordered the administration to turn over 87 photographs depicting abuses [...]

Canada and Obama

http://www.bloomberg.com…
Canada Proposing Climate-Change Pact With Obama, Globe Says
Sean B. Pasternak
Bloomberg
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:32 UTC
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing a climate-change pact with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama that would protect Alberta’s oil sands projects from potential new U.S. rules, the Globe and Mail reported.
Canadian cabinet ministers called for the agreement yesterday, the newspaper [...]

Chinese Hackers Penetrate White House Computers

http://www.foxnews.com…
WASHINGTON — The White House computer system was penetrated numerous times by Chinese hackers, the Financial Times reported Friday.
The cyber attackers obtained e-mails between government officials and stole information before U.S. computer experts fixed the system, a senior U.S. official told the Financial Times.
U.S. government cyber intelligence experts suspect the attacks were sponsored by [...]

We’ll MAKE you pretty, dammit!

I can’t be the only one that thinks this is severely messed up:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com…
‘Beauty machine’ makes everyone pretty
Researchers say device transforms any woman’s photo into model-likeness
Researchers have created a “beauty machine” they say can turn a woman’s photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button.
The goal is not just to [...]

Report in US undercuts Georgian claim of how war started

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Published: Friday November 7, 2008
Independent monitors question Georgia’s claim that war broke out with Russia in August when it defended against separatist and Russian attacks in South Ossetia, the New York Times said Friday.
The US State Department said it had seen the news account, but added it may be impossible to “get to the bottom [...]

FBI finds most terrorism threat reports baseless

http://ca.news.yahoo.com…
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI tracked about 108,000 potential terrorism threats or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to November 2007, but most were found groundless, a Justice Department review found on Friday.
The department’s office of inspector general gave the figure in an audit of the FBI’s terrorism case-tracking system, called Guardian, launched in 2002 [...]