Alaska, Palestine, and Somalia, mmmm Good...

According to the Alaska Dispatch, Mark Begich won over Ted Stevens because 67% of the Native Alaskans voted for him. They did so because Begich promised to deal with the rising food and fuel prices in the rural areas, which many feel are driving Natives to migrate to the cities and off their ancestral lands.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has bought advertising space in Israeli newspapers, trying to drum up support for the Arab peace plan that Israeli President Shimon Peres has supported by saying that it would provide a good base for the peace process.

The text of the advertisement read: "Fifty-seven Arab and Islamic countries will establish diplomatic ties and normal relations with Israel in return for a full peace agreement and an end to the occupation."

It also lays out the concessions that Israel would have to make for Arab states to put the plan into force, including full withdrawal to the 1967 borders and respect for UN Security Council resolution on the right of Palestinian refugees to return.

It seems that quite a few countries have been taking advantage of the lack of a cohesive government in Somalia. While many have vowed to patrol the waters against Somalian pirates, nobody is watching out for ships from European countries that have been dumping nuclear waste, toxic waste, and hospital waste in the waters off of the coast of Somalia. This has been going on since 1989 and is continuing today. Many barrels have washed ashore, mostly during the tsunami that hit the coastline in 2004. This, of course, has caused illness, birth defects, and death for a few hundred unlucky Somalians.

Now we know why France still promotes and enjoys benefits from the nuclear industry. In Italy, the Mafia has most contracts for waste disposal, including nuclear waste. And they can look towards a glowing future...