Saudi Arabia and Iran Forge Friendship Over Iraq

     Saudi's King Abdullah and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have forged a friendship to deal with the strife in Iraq between the Sunnis and Shias.      Source

   This could be an interesting mix what with Saudi Arabia being a US ally and Iran being the perceived foe of the US. It just keeps getting better and better over in the middle east. Saudi Arabia has said that the nuclear issue with Iran was discussed but that is all the info that was given.

                                   

  Al Jazeera

Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran are among the most influential nations of their respective branches of Islam.  "The two parties have agreed to stop any attempt aimed at spreading sectarian strife in the region," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told reporters without elaborating.

Technorati tags: Saudi Arabia, Iran, King Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Department of Justice Wants Website's To Perform "Data Retention"

     In another effort to keep up with the citizen's activities in the United States, the Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding is having the U.S. Department of Justice officials seek web site's  co-operation in keeping records of who uploads photographs or videos to their sites. This is just in case the long arm of the law decides that the content is illegal and they wish to investigate the matter.    Source

      The Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding just doesn't know how to stop their bullshit! Of course, they are also using the terrorist threat along with the child porn tactic. I'm all for keeping those pervs off line and locked up but let's get real here. This entire scam is still about keeping track of everything that we look at either in picture form or text or whatever and it's about knowing where we live and what we do when we are online, whether legal or not.   

 

Technorati tags: Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, data retention, internet