"They think in Iran you
can just go in and hit the facilities and destabilise the government.
They believe they can get rid of a few crazy mullahs and bring in the
young guys who like Gap jeans, all the world's problems are solved. I
think it's delusional," the former CIA officer said.
Seymour Hersh
said last night on BBC news that there was no way anybody could stop
this, now that the neo-cons are in charge in the Whitehouse,
Christian politicians at war with Muslim clerics. Religious wars have always been with us. When will humanity grow up?
NPR may try to jumpstart sales of digital receivers this year by buying upwards of 50,000 radios
to be resold to listeners.
(Full story here.) The network has pitched the possibility of a group buy to all
manufacturers of digital receivers. In another move supporting digital
radio — and the two-channel capacity that NPR advocates — the network
said it will begin distributing four 24-hour programming streams in
coming months, the first by June.
[Via I Love Radio .org]
George W. Bush was officially sworn in to begin his second term as president of the United States Thursday, promising to pursue "the expansion of freedom in all the world."
FULL STORY
[Via CBC News]
Canadian Press - NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) - Residents of 20 homes in the danger zone of a deadly mudslide were allowed briefly back into their houses Thursday to retrieve their most important possessions.
[Via Yahoo! News - World]