Six In The Morning

You Must Destroy It So You Can Destroy it More

House GOP group proposes deep spending cuts over next decade
Congressional conservatives on Thursday demanded far more dramatic reductions in government spending than House GOP leaders have recently proposed, in the first sign of a fissure between old-guard Republicans and tea-party-backed newcomers.
Members of the conservative Republican Study Committee said the GOP must keep its campaign pledge to immediately slice at least $100 billion from non-defense programs, an effort that would require lawmakers to reduce funding for most federal agencies by a third over the next seven months. And the group called for even deeper cuts over the next decade to return non-defense spending to 2006 levels.

Don't Tell The Republicans They'll Call You Liars And Investigate

Last year was second hottest on record, say scientists
In Britain it ended in freezing temperatures and weeks of snow and ice. Globally, though, 2010 was still the second warmest year on record, according to Met Office scientists who yesterday reaffirmed that the world is continuing to get warmer.


Preliminary data gathered from thousands of weather stations, ships and buoys stationed across the world show that 2010 was second only to 1998 in terms of global average temperatures and that nine out of the 10 hottest years on record have now occurred between 2001 and 2010.

Of Course They Will Be Acquitted The Outcome Was Predetermined

Israeli troops in Gaza naval raid likely to be exonerated
THE ISRAELI investigation into the naval raid on ships bringing aid to Gaza is expected to conclude that the troops were not guilty of war crimes and that Israel acted according to international law.

The Jerusalem Post yesterday quoted an unidentified source working closely with the commission, as saying that the findings, to be released on Sunday, were adopted unanimously.

Nine activists were killed in clashes when Israeli commandos stormed the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in international waters in the Mediterranean last May, causing a crisis in Israeli-Turkish relations.

Any Execuse To Destroy The Opposition

Zimbabwe mulls treason charges over Wikileaks
Attorney-general Johannes Tomana said he has formed an unnamed five-member expert panel to assess some 3,000 Zimbabwe-related U.S. cables for breaches of security laws.


But Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights chief Irene Petras said Thursday the constitution and terms of Tomana's official powers don't allow him to call in outside advisers. She called the investigation "an abuse of power."

Caught Looking The Wrong Way

Stealth fighter sneaks up on Taiwan
TAIPEI - The maiden flight of China's new stealth jet fighter humbled those officials and observers who initially dismissed the possibility that the country could come up with such a sophisticated weapon any time soon. It was strikingly demonstrated that neither the intelligence apparatus of the United States nor that of Taiwan had a clue about the speed of Chinese advances.

Unnoticed by Beijing's adversaries, the J-20's engineers have mastered advanced stealth-shaping techniques, and even if mass production still lies a few years ahead, it is understood that the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in the foreseeable future will have super-cruising aircraft at hand that can't be stopped by any air defense system in Asia, including those of the US Navy's aircraft-carrier battle groups. Needless to say, this has tremendous repercussions for Taiwan's security situation.

Fighting For Their Rights And Freedoms

Tunisia cabinet to lift party bans
Tunisia's transitional cabinet has decided to recognise all banned political parties and agreed on a general amnesty for all political prisoners.

The interim government, appointed earlier this week, held its first session on Thursday amid an outcry over its inclusion of members of the regime of the ousted president.

"The minister of justice presented a bill for a general amnesty, which was adopted by the cabinet, which decided to submit it to parliament," Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, the development minister, said.

Asked if the government had decided to lift bans on political groups, including the al-Nahda movement, Mohamed Aloulou, the youth minister, said: "We will recognise all the political movements."