- Russia has agreed to let American planes destined for Afghanistan to use its airspace.
- The Pennsylvania state House passed a bill barring forced implantation of identity chips in humans.
- California is making it harder for communities to set up speed traps.
- North Korea has launched several more missiles off its coast, just like yesterday and the day before that.
- In Russia, St. Petersburg officials are upset that Madonna hyped an upcoming show she has planned there by calling it “fucking great” in Russian.
- Former Congresswoman and Green Party candidate for President Cynthia McKinney is being detained in an Israeli jail for attempting to run a Gaza Strip blockade.
- Almost three-quarters of Canadians think that Barack Obama is doing an “excellent” or “good” job. Only 4% believe that he is doing a poor job.
- The Obamas are still looking for a church to call home.
- Here it is July 4, and Washington state has a liquor shortage. A glitch in a computer program fouled the distribution of 18,000 cases of liquor in the state run liquor program.
- With Ghana as the destination in President Obama’s first African trip, Nigerian and Kenya leaders feel it is a deliberate snub. Unlike Kenya, Ghana has undergone several peaceful elections and Obama wants to “highlight” that. Ghana is also a growing regional force rivaling Nigeria.
- With his own agents turning against him, “black propaganda” from inside Spain’s spy agency forced the resignation of Alberto Saiz, the head of the National Intelligence Center.
- The building of a $2 billion data center for the National Security Agency is planned in Utah.
- California sent out $3.36 billion in IOUs. Who needs a budget when you can just call the printer?
- A plan to ensure privacy for American citizens is slowing the Einstein 3, a program to detect and protect government computers against hacking.
- Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is accused of allowing drug traffickers to pass through his country unmolested as they headed to the United States.
- With the disintegration of Republican Presidential hopefuls for 2012, Mitt Romney increasingly looks like the only adult in the room.
- Now that Al Franken is going to the Senate, the big question in Minnesota is when Norm Coleman will announce his candidacy for governor.
- South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has taken 39 trips without his security detail so far this year. Obviously, not all of these were so he could meet his mistress, yet Sanford has shed his security detail at a higher rate than previous governors have.
- Sanford also has a new strategy for dealing with his scandal – he’s not talking.
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