Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Of course ... if you just come here for the odd pieces news

Then this might infuriate you or make you lose hope that anything resembling intelligent thought goes on in the minds of the people who run countries ...

Are you ready?

The Pentagon is ironically responsible for the illegal sale to China and Iran of United States-made missile components and high-technology parts for US fighter jets and helicopters.

So says the Associated Press. In an exclusive expose, AP reports that the US defense department sold fighter jet parts to a broker who was secretly working for Iran ... even after the US customs service had intercepted that same equipment on its way to Iran from a previous sale to another broker. Those parts were for F-14 Tomcat fighters.


Wikio is the new online news surface being touted as something close to the perfect online news service according to Katja Riefler at Poynter Online

She writes: Pierre Chappaz started the site because he thought Europe needed a Digg of its own. Wikio describes itself as being "a personalized page of news, including a news search engine that searches media sites, blogs and member publications." Like Google News, it automatically compiles news by crawling a lot of news sites.

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