Dying bees, toast, devalued lives

• Bees are suddenly dying en-masse for inexplicable reasons. Strange. Lets not leave this stone unturned. A strange foreboding of larger implications to come?

• Olmert is toast. So is Wolfowitz. If they hang on, it'll be because of larger undemocratic interests at play. Corruption begets corruption.

• A U.S. General's report claims that the devaluation of Iraqi lives by U.S. Marines led to the unlawful killing of civilians in Haditha in 2005.

• The British don't seem above the fray either when it comes to dishing out cruelty to innocents in Iraq.