RTFA: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/16/yahoo.congress/in…

Yahoo misled Congress regarding information the Internet company gave to Chinese authorities about the journalist Shi Tao, Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos said Tuesday.

Yahoo officials have been asked to testify before a House committee in November about a Chinese journalist’s case.

Lantos, a California representative and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked Yahoo Inc. officials to testify about the company’s role in a case that sent Chinese newspaper writer and editor Shi to prison on a 10-year sentence.

Lantos asked Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang and Senior Vice President and General Counsel Michael Callahan to appear November 6.

“Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false information to Congress in early 2006,” Lantos said in a written statement. “We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved untrue. And we want to examine what steps the company has taken since then to protect the privacy rights of its users in China.”

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice!

Is this real?!

RTFA: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_en_tv/co…

NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on “The Colbert Report,” tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.

“I shall seek the office of the president of the United States,” Colbert said Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as red, white and blue balloons fell around him.

RTFA: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572048/20071016/…

Walla’s solo record (which has been scheduled to come out at various points over the past, well, four years) took another step toward oblivion when the master hard drive — containing all song files — was confiscated by Homeland Security at the Canadian border, for reasons not abundantly clear, and sent to the department’s computer-forensics division for further inspection.

If it sounds like a huge joke, Walla ensures you it isn’t.

“It’s a true story. Barsuk [Records, which is putting out the record] had hired a courier — who does international stuff all the time and who they had used before — to bring [the album] back from Canada, where I was working on it. And he got to the border and he had all his paperwork and it was all cool, only they turned him away, and they confiscated the drive and gave it to the computer-forensics division of our Homeland Security-type people,” sighed Walla, who has produced nearly all Death Cab’s output, as well as records by the Decemberists, Hot Hot Heat, Nada Surf, Tegan and Sara and others. “And now I couldn’t even venture a guess as to where it is, or what it’s doing there.

This really worries me…

RTFA: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and…

Barack Obama says he is an agent of change, a fresh face to lead America, but there is one thing he won’t be boasting about on the campaign trail: that he is related to Dick Cheney.

Lynn Cheney, the US Vice-President’s wife, said she discovered the improbable connection between the African-American Democratic presidential candidate and her husband while researching her ancestry.

Mr Obama - charismatic anti-war son of a black Kenyan goatherd and white Kansan mother - and Mr Cheney - immensely powerful and very white Bush administration hawk - are eighth cousins, Mrs Cheney said.

eighth cousins?