While displaced people from the Katrina disaster are still waiting for help to rebuild, the State of Mississippi wants to take $600 million from the federal monies it was given in aid to expand the port on the Gulf of Mexico.
An aide to Benazir Bhutto says that on the day she was shot and killed, Bhutto was planning to confirm the rumors that Musharraf has been planning to fix the upcoming parliamentary elections, and furthermore, that US aid money is funding the plans.
Bhutto's 19-year-old son has been declared leader of the Pakistan People's Party, with his father and two others holding control until he comes of age, less like a democratic people's party than a kingdom, prompting Tariq Ali to claim that the Party is being treated like a family heirloom.
Kenyans are rioting over a hotly contested presidential election.
After Ron Paul rose to the top of the heap in polls following a May debate, Fox News has barred him from participating in an upcoming one. Fox says they are simply barring those who fall below a certain polling percentage, but Josh Marshall points out that Fred Thompson, who will be in the debate, is running lower in the polls than Paul.
Privacy International has ranked the US at the bottom of the heap world-wide for respect and support for its citizens' right to privacy, calling it an "endemic surveillance country."
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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