* "Gunmen have killed six Bagh-dad councilors in the two weeks since the US occupation formally ended, sending a wave of fear through Iraq's grass-roots politicians"
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/18/2003179446

* apparently theres near zero coverage in the us about the claim that allawi murdered 6 peeps before being annointed - but the story is everywhere else.

* speaking of nepotism - "Riggs Bank is headed by longtime Bush family friend Joe Allbritton, employs President Bush's uncle Jonathan as a top executive" http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=78928#3 lets see often that bit gets repeated in the media.

* hunter s thompson - mar03 " ...when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time." http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/030819.html

* for the record, am is the only western country with the death penalty.

* btw - im starting to notice that the afghanwar is becoming a 'good war' - im not prepared to concede that, and id hate to see it written into the record.

* i wonder if we started dissing out some abug-type torture to republicans or cia analysts whether we'd actually get some truth...