Former CIA analyst “Ray McGovern picks up the story that American papers have been slow to grasp: China and Russia have agreed to conduct joint military activities, in China, in 2005.” (Tom Paine)
Daily Archives: 17 Dec 04
Ohio Judge Throws Out Election Challenge
“The Ohio Supreme Court’s chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state’s presidential election results.
A lawyer for the voters bringing the case said he would refile the challenge as early as Friday.
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer ruled that the request improperly challenged two separate election results. Ohio law only allows one race to be challenged in a single complaint, he said.”
The triumphs and turkeys of 2004
“Thirty movers and shakers in British culture look back on an eventful year” in the arts. (Guardian.UK)
Knowing What’s Good for Themselves After All?
Guard Reports Serious Drop in Enlistment: “In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals in the last two months and would offer new incentives, including enlistment bonuses of up to $15,000.” (New York Times ) Unfortunately, enlistment bonuses or not, all this is going to lead to is acceleration of the stop-loss program and pressure for a draft…
