Day August 23, 2005

Venezuela reacted with outrage to a call by television evangelist Pat Robertson for the U.S. to assassinate President Huge Chavez, and two U.S. senators called the remarks “irresponsible” and “incredibly stupid.” Robertson’s statement was “incredibly stupid” and “has no reflection…

The News Dissector blog currently has been hacked, with the home page saying  “Heh !!! Unfortunately Your Site Is hacked By Minus Power Virus Coding Team.for the lack of security.” Water World Week has an announcement, “ On Tuesday, August 16, and continuing today,…

Uranium traced to Pakistani equipment Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists…

The United States Institute of Peace is a non-profit funded heavily by Congress, who just authorized 100 million for their new building in a cushy part of D.C. on the Mall across from the Lincoln Memorial. Their current budget is…

Iraq’s new constitution, supposedly the blueprint for a democratic future, was threatening to drag the country into civil war last night.The Sunni reaction was immediate, with politicians queuing to denounce the move and warning of a cataclysmic reaction. Soha Allawi,…