Pakistan: The New Iraq?

- Pakistan is becoming increasingly chaotic, and threatens to become another Iraq or Afghanistan. Bin Laden, who is most likely in that country, is working to overthrow the dictator Pervez Musharraf. Recently they almost succeeded in killing the political leader, Benazir Bhutto, who had just returned to Pakistan after years of exile. While Bush spends all his time preoccupied with Iraq and Iran, Pakistan is slowing falling into the hands of the Jihadists.

- When one of the biggest honchos on Wall St. says the U.S. stock market is inferior to some other countries' and that the value of the U.S. dollar will continue to drop, we need to worry:

"We are still negative on the dollar. We bought stocks in companies that are earning their money in other currencies," he told reporters[...]

- It seems NY Governor Spitzer's insane idea to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens has hit a new snag. Not to mention that most New Yorkers oppose this outrageous idea. The scanners to be used to sort out bogus documents are working.

- The NY Post, which supports Rudolph Giuliani's presidential campaign, are detailing the former Mayor's crime fighting exploits:

The bosses of New York's five Mafia families in the mid-1980s came a hair-trigger away from sanctioning a hit on then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, according to bombshell FBI records made public yesterday.

The mob bosses decided by a 3-to-2 margin not to try to whack the future mayor and presidential candidate. But before cooler heads prevailed, at least two of the dons argued fervently that the mob-busting U.S. attorney should sleep with the fishes.

- Is Israel trying to provoke a fight with Lebanon, again:

Lebanese troops today fired on Israeli warplanes flying low over southern Lebanon, security officials in the country said.
Israeli warplanes frequently fly over Lebanese airspace in what Israel claims are reconnaissance missions.

- China is now the greatest export nation. What do they export? Cheap products that are dangerous and are made by repressed labor. This means big profits for multi-national corporations.