Times Online: Faulty speed readings and electronic failures were cited by crash investigators yesterday as they said they were closer to understanding the loss of Air France Flight 447 on June 1, with the deaths of all 228 people on board. Paul-Louis Arslanian, chief of the French accident investigation bureau, said that it was too [...]
Politico: Health care reform hit a serious setback Wednesday, with the Senate Finance Committee blowing its own deadline for a bill and the Health Committee breaking sharply along partisan lines — developments that place President Barack Obama’s August deadline for passing a bill in doubt. After weeks of relative calm on the issue, over the [...]
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and Ayatollah Khomeini stare at each other Seattle Times: TEHRAN, Iran — Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival in the disputed presidential election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, staged competing rallies Tuesday as the country’s most senior Islamic cleric threw his weight behind opposition charges that Ahmadinejad’s re-election [...]
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s Web site. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday that its editor, Thomas Mitchell, plans to fight the request, which the newspaper received after reporting on a federal tax fraud [...]
From the one and only, IowaHawk: Hail to the Victors A Special Message to the People of Iran By Barack Obama President of the United States Greetings. As president of United States — or, if you prefer, the Great Satan — I have have been following with keen interest the vigorous post-election debate and vibrant [...]
President Smiley-Giggles continues his historic week
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje’i This is from Iran’s most “Western” news outlet (granted offices in New York), Press TV: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says that it has arrested a number of ‘main agents’, who masterminded the recent post-election violence in Tehran. “The Intelligence Ministry has identified and arrested a number of the main agents [...]
Press TV: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Iranian nation’s massive turnout in the recent presidential elections has challenged Western democracy. “The recent election in Iran posed a great challenge to the West’s democracy,” Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. He noted that the presidential election was a referendum [...]
Times Online: The Iranian opposition dashed the regime’s hopes that its protests would gradually fade away by staging another huge demonstration against electoral fraud yesterday and calling for an even bigger show of strength today as unrest spread across the country. The demonstrators’ defiance of bans, violent repression and official pleas for unity is driving [...]
The smiley-man photo parade just doesn’t stop this week New York Times: A substantial majority of Americans say President Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, which also found that support for his plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto [...]
The Times Online: At least 500,000 demonstrators marched silently through the streets of Tehran tonight in a direct challenge to the authority of Iran’s clerical regime. Witnesses said that the protesters, both young and old and many accompanied by children, marched through central Tehran Haft-e Tir square towards Vali Asr square in the heart of [...]
