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If it only worked, Red would be in heaven
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000247040164/
Ahh USB cup-warmers. We’ll continue both laughing at and loving them dearly so long as our beloved no-name Asian companies keep cranking ‘em out. This particular USB cup-warmer, however, is even more ridiculous than most since it also doubles as a 4-port USB hub—way to split that already measly 500-milliamp current up to five ways, guys. Well, whatever, it’s not like we actually expected it to actually keep our giant coffee steins warm anyway.
Oil For Food Scandal; Texas Oil Man David Chalmers Indicted
According to Fox News, David Chalmers, head of Texas based BayOil and two other individuals have been indicted.
U.S. Attorney David N. Kelley scheduled a 10:30 a.m. EDT news conference Thursday with an FBI official to announce the unsealing of the indictment, which his office said also named two companies operated by the formally unidentified Texan.
The kickbacks involved funds otherwise intended for humanitarian relief, Kelley with conspiracy to act in the United States as an unregistered government agent for the Iraqi government’s effort to create the oil-for-food program, the statement said.
Maybe now that an American and from Texas for that matter has been indicted the rest of the MSM and world media can put pressure on the UN and Kofi Annan to come clean. This is a scandal of momentous proportion that the UN has dragged its feet on this issue. The Oil For Food Scandal among many others should have forces Kofi Annan to resign.
The United States and other U.N. member states have refused to fully cooperate with investigators looking into corruption in the oil-for-food program in Iraq, blocking access to information about politically sensitive actions of Security Council nations.
Its about time we get to the bottom of this entire matter and hold everyone’s feet to the fire that was involved. The UN looked the other way and purposely so as individuals gained kick backs and Saddam Hussein became even richer at the expense of the Iraqi people. How is it that a UN program designed to aid the Iraqi people could have been so mismanaged and full of graft that the Oil For Food ended up doing just the opposite from what it was intended? It was either incompetence, corruption or both. There are no clean hands in this and heads should roll starting from the top down.
UPDATE: AP
If convicted of the charges, Chalmers, Irving and Dionissiev each could face a maximum of 62 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1 million. The defendants could also be forced to make restitution.
UPDATE 2: From CNN, in a perfect call from the above post. Read through the CNN account of today’s indictment and notice you will not find one reference to the “UN Oil For Food Scandal” by name except,
NEW YORK (CNN) — For the first time, an American businessman and company have been indicted in a federal investigation of the United Nations’ Iraq oil-for-food program, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Also there is not one reference to Kofi Annan’s name. Nice critical, cutting edge journalism CNN.
60 Minutes broadcast Communist Lies
From Neal Boortz’s Nealz Nuze , April 4th. 2005
THE 60 MINUTES TRADITION CONTINUES
Last night on ’60 Minutes Wednesday’ (yes, it’s still on the air, despite the forged documents fiasco) they kicked off the show with a story about the shooting of Giuliana Sgrena’s car in Iraq. That’s the communist journalist from Italy whose freedom was bought from her Islamic captors by the Italian government. By the way, she is a communist and she works for a communist newspaper, something you won’t hear too much of from the mainstream media (although 60 Minutes did get that right.)
At any rate, the piece last night by Scott Pelley included an interview with Giuliana Sgrena. In it, she continued to advance the lie that the U.S. Army attacked her on purpose, and that the official Army response was a lie. She says they weren’t speeding, that the were no warning lights and that the troops just started shooting for no reason. What a crock (more on that in a minute.)
In giving Giuliana Sgrena a platform to spew her leftist hatred against the United States, CBS and 60 Minutes continue their America-bashing tradition. The overall impression left from the broadcast last night is that the Coalition troops shot at Giuliana Sgrena’s car on purpose and killed the Italian intelligence agent on purpose. But wait…there’s a bit of news.
NBC is reporting that a preliminary report from the joint U.S.-Italian investigation concludes that the American soldiers did nothing wrong, and the Italians failed to coordinate the rescue with the U.S. Military. That would also mean they didn’t stop at the checkpoint.
In other words, Giuliana Sgrena lied, and CBS was right there to give her lie as much coverage as possible! A communist with a political agenda? Imagine our surprise!
This is not surprising with the institutional bias over at 60 Minutes, but it is very disappointing.
In New Zealand, This Will be the “Butt” of Many Jokes
From the files of you have got to be kidding, comes a story of a butt and a bid at $5400 US$’s. Or at least it better be.
Hey guys, I have a pack of original Camel “no filters”, what are you going to bid for that?
