Live from the Nuke Free Zone

An update on yesterday’s post:
The New York Post (yeah, it’s the Post, but they have neocon access and might be right on this) claims that Jordan provided the intelligence linking Chalabi to Iran. Given that Jordan really doesn’t like Chalabi, any intelligence on him from them is going to be highly questionable and must be […]

It raised an eyebrow when US forces raided the house of Ahmed Chalabi, the chief architect of the Iraq war.
It raised the other when the US accused Chalabi of passing sensitive information to Iran.
The holyshitometer broke when US intelligence said Chalabi’s false reports came from Iran.
If these allegations by the Defense Intelligence Agency are […]

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you The Bush Game.
What in hell is the Bush Game, you ask?
Well.
This is a side-scroller Flash game that pits the classic heroes that any American kid growing up in the ’80s would admire (Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, He-Man) and a motley collection of leftist icons from more recent years […]

A sarin gas shell was found in Iraq. The circumstances are worrying,
as it was found in a roadside bomb targeting US vehicles, which means
that it’s already in the hands of the bad guys. It was a binary shell,
with precursor chemicals stored in separate tanks until detonation,
at which point the chemicals become the more deadly agent. […]

Bit o’this and that again for the evening.
First, something I picked up via Reuters. I haven’t been following the situation in Israel nearly as well as I should, although it’s to the point where I could probably summarize any particular day’s events sight unseen. What got me with this story wasn’t its contents, but its […]

The US military is calling up its inactive reserves starting today.
That scrabbling sound you hear is coming from the bottom of the manpower barrel.

About bloody time!
With the backing-down of paranoid religious authorities in the Nigerian state of Kano, the program to eradicate polio is getting back on track. Islamic authorities in Kano had caused enough fear of the vaccine to create a boycott late last year, after having claimed that the imminization program was “part of a […]

For all two of our readers who only read the NFZ and don’t read my personal journal elsewhere:
I graduated today. I now have a master’s degree in information management. w00t! I’m rather proud of this accomplishment, as it’s taken two rather difficult years to get it. For the moment, I’m going […]

Over at Collective Sigh we find a mention of Syrian President Assad’s views of reform. The Baltimore Sun article itself describes what Assad, who inherited his country from his father just under four years ago, has planned for the country. In describing how it’ll happen, Assad hits on a point that a lot of […]

And now for some news that doesn’t involve Iraq, Ruin and Death of Hope.
First of all, from northwest of the Zone we have this story about dairy
power:

After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher
Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery
[…]