A very interesting read from the Village Voice regarding the meetings of the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide with apocalyptic Christians. The problem is not that George W. Bush is discussing policy with people who press right-wing solutions to achieve peace in the Middle East, or with devout Christians. It is that he is discussing policy with Christians who might not care about peace at all – at least until the rapture.
Nice: The Bush White House is going around the country taking credit for government programs it tried to eliminate or cut sharply.
Dozens of soldiers – other than the seven military police reservists who have been charged – were involved in the abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, and there is an effort under way in the Army to hide it, a key witness in the investigation told ABCNEWS.
U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja.
The UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, described what is going on in Darfur, an arid region of western Sudan, as “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world“.
“JBX” is a little experiment being performed by Jack in the Box (their corporate headquarters are here in San Diego. I have to say, I think they look gawd awful.