Day July 5, 2006

Obrador leads with 88% of vote counted

The lead of Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate narrowed to less than 1.5 percentage points over his conservative rival on Wednesday with results in from almost 88 percent of polling stations in the recount of a fiercely contested election. It was…

Obrador leading in recount

Virtually all mainstream media during the initial Mexico vote count cheerily announced Obrador was losing, barely bothering to disguise their bias against him. They were wrong. There’s still a long way to go, but Obrador, with 47% of the vote…

Google may sue cablecos on antitrust

Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators. Interesting. Let’s hope Yahoo and Amazon join in the fun.

Obrador rejects Mexican election results

“There are many irregularities, to say the least, or to say it nicely,” Lopez Obrador warned. “We are convinced that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won, so if they don’t respect the results there are going to be demonstrations,” said Rodolfo…

US in Iraq. Beyond clueless, beyond stupid

The U.S. military is investigating whether the kidnapping, killing and mutilation of two American soldiers was carried out in retaliation for an alleged rape and killing of an Iraqi woman by another member of the same unit three months earlier,…