And I thought weekends were supposed to be news free.
Iran is not going to stop enriching uranium, so the EU can sit on it. (Just saw a Happy Days episode.) They missed an informal deadline in the "freeze-for-freeze" offer.
Obama is going to "consider" offshore drilling to assuage voter fears, but not actually help the problem because it's going to take at least until 2025 for the oil to get onto the market and even if they opened up all the fields available to the US it would only add 800,000 barrels of oil a day (That is around 1% of the world's total oil produced per day, meaning a 1% reduction in prices at the pump [4 cents at $4/gallon]). Meanwhile Iraq during a war produces around 1.2 million barrels a day (It's now producing around 2.8 million barrels a day). And American's are all, this will get us off foreign oil. Why are Americans so dumb? (Seriously youse guys, tell me why.)
(8/7/08 9:56PM: Edited to better reflect current situation. The above numbers are from this episode of the Diane Rehm Show)
Two kids shot dead by the Israeli army in a village in Palestine, report from a dude who was there. Notice the bit about the wall being illegal? That is the International Court of Justice in the Hague giving that ruling in '04.
Remember a couple a days ago I posted about the WTO talks collapsing? Here's why they did.
The FCC says that comcast can't block Bittorrent. In celebration here's a link to a torrent of the full series of Aliens in America.
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