Yet another example of one person making a difference.

Mmm.... If that were to happen, L.W.M., I suspect that we'd eventually evolve to be all teeth

The majority of whales have no teeth at all, but baleen to strain out plankton. We could even evolve beaks like birds or squid if that suits our most plentiful food source and preferred prey.

CNN is running a story on their website claiming they have seen Bhutto's report she was going to give to Specter and Kennedy. Sounds like she had evidence that equipment given to the Pakistani government by ours for "terrorism" was being used to monitor political opponents. Where could they have gotten that idea? Also, she apparently had evidence for planned rigging of the vote totals and voter intimidation.

Have you found more on this than CNN is reporting?

I wonder how many Americans realize that the invasion of Panama back in 1989 occurred after Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian strongman who had run a vast drug cartel for George H W Bush for many years, changed sides and started doing business with Fidel Castro? It's extremely likely that a similar type of relationship exists between the Bush cartel and Osama, probably involving Musharaf as well, which would explain the obvious cooperation between Bush and OBL in Tora-Bora, when OBL was allowed to escape and the lack of any genuine pursuit of him.

http://tinyurl.com/2px2xw

Egads....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/pakistan.voterigging/

I'm of course wondering how the few remaining BushBots will be spinning this one.

I can already hear them claiming that Specter and Kennedy are traitors to the glorious cause by consorting with the enemy.....

http://tinyurl.com/2qsk3e

Sen. Latif Khosa, who helped put the report together, accused the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence of operating a rigging cell from a safe house in the capital, Islamabad. The goal, he said, is to change voting results electronically on election day.

Can you say Diebold?

Sure, I knew you could.

Does Michael Bloomberg actually believe that Israel should not negotiate if a so-called "gun" is pointed at its collective head? In my experience, no one negotiates unless some kind of figurative or metaphorical gun is pointed at them - otherwise, one just takes what one wants or waits for what one wants. As for the non-metaphorical plane of existence, it seems obvious that there is no more critical time to start talking than whan a gun is pointed your way. If the Israeli political establishment actually wants peace as a precondition for peace negotiations, they are either being disingenuous or the biggest cry-babies on earth. Maybe Churchill and the Great Britain of 1940 refused to parley with Hitler, but like the Israel of today there were real obstacles, such as the English Channel and the Royal Navy, to an invasion by their enemies. In other words, British defiance was more calculated and less heroic than it might seem. More importantly, the British - like the Israelis today - ultimately counted on the USA to come to their rescue. In the present case, maybe the Israelis would be more likely to dispense with neo-Churchillian posturing and actively seek peace with neighorging Arab countries and entities - far less powerful and far less evil than Nazi Germany - if the Bush Administration (and its successor) were more neutral in the Middle East.

The only other things I can find out is that the plan included distributing 25,000 pre-stamped ballots in Punjab, and that the safe house was in G-5 in Islamabad. No details that I could find on the computer equipment, that would be a huge inquiry here, I would think, if it was surveillance equipment of the sort being contested in the FISA/illegal wiretapping disputes.

The Guardian is reporting more on the report. There were two, only the 200 pp one is available to anyone yet, the smaller one that names the safe house exactly is being closely held. bdnews24 is reporting that violations were planned in Baluchistan and Sindh as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2233779,00.html

http://world.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=34320#tp34320

(bdnews24, in Bangladesh, requires registration).

I didn't find much to add to the CNN story in India, but they are reporting that all the British papers are on it, I only went to the Guardian to confirm that.

Teeth Maestro reports that Bhutto didn't trust the administration (U.S.) and that was why she was intending to reveal hers and Khosa's information to members of U.S. Congress. Teeth Maestro's information is from the London Times, the article doesn't include what was said by Senator Khosa, so I suspect it is older.

I, for one, want to know if my government is distributing surveillance equipment that isn't very legal here at home, especially when it ends up being used for a purpose for which this administration is already 3000 missing emails, 9 dubious U.S. Attorneys, and numerous investigations under suspicion here, and it ties together two scandals (NSA and USA) here, in a foreign country run by an inexplicably all too precious dictator. I think that if a significant period of time goes by and there isn't a peep out of our Congress or administration, it's time to start the letter writing again.

I will try to be patient for more facts, but the equipment possibility makes me furious.

I am an autodidact. Perhaps you know what that means. I desperately crave a seat at the cool kids table in Glenn's lunchroom. The last time I tried to sit there, no one would talk to me. I left. No way would I let that conspiracy-fueled power structure rule my life! Paradoxically, now I'm back (with a new handle) pretending like that never happened. I've resumed my needy, self-important, self-evident, argumentative-for-the-sake-of-arguing pontificating, but now am able to irritate a few of the cool kids enough to goad a response (hey, negative attention is better than none at all!).

So, thanks for paying attention to me, y'all. I beg you, don't stop now. It's all I ever wanted. You'll be grateful as my outsider-looking-in status permits me to see things that rest of you cannot.

I'm right about this, correct?

I predict no one will answer.

--Aycharaych