Newshog 24-11-2004

On balance, I have decided to try for two Newshog Briefs entries a week, most likely on Wednesdays and Sundays. I will include stories that I feel are under-reported elsewhere or that have important information bearing on other current stories you may read in the mainstream news. I hope you find them interesting and post comments. If you have a story you think I should include, email me the link and I will credit you for finding it. Regards, C.

• Fallujah aside, all you have to know is that the road to Baghdad Airport isn't safe.
  
• European Union ministers have approved a military rapid reaction force, but it is not to be the basis for a standing army...honest, it isnt. D'accord?
  
• Is it time to bring back the House Committee on Un-American Activities? Yes, says one conservative commentator.
  
• Morgan Stanley chief economist says U.S. has only a 10% chance of avoiding economic armageddon.
  
• Another Republican rebellion as the bunker-buster nuke program gets the axe.
  
• Republican Rumbles part two - Are the realists jumping ship and leaving the idealogues in charge? Look, there goes another one - the Director of the Economic Council quits and more look sure to follow.
  
• A must read! A bemused British journalist interviews G Gordon Liddy, the rabid shock jock who gives voice to America's extreme right.
  
• Heres a fun question - is the euro set to replace the dollar as the hard currency of choice? The Russians may help the rest of the world to decide.
  
• Celebrity anti-war campaigners including Harold Pinter and Iain Banks join 23 MPs in Westminster to call for Tony Blair’s impeachment over "war lies".
  
• The United States, Russia and Sudan have been accused of being the biggest violators of housing rights in 2004.
  
• Republican Rumbles part three- The turf war in the intelligence community is all about budget share, surely, and a new order for an internal review is likely to just fuel the fires.
  
• The Russian President is in Brazil to sell space and nuclear technology, fighter planes. I am guessing he sees an opportunity to duplicate Russias success in making India an ally.
  
• A British newspaper interviews eye-witnesses who say that US forces in Iraq killed unarmed civilians. American authorities have accused militant sympathisers of spreading disinformation.
  

Quote of the Day:



The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.


Bertrand Russell