November 14, 2007 4:36

Blackwater Guards Violated Deadly Force Rules - FBI

The FBI says at least 14 of the September shootings by Blackwater guards were "unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq," the New York Times reports. Despite these findings, prosecutors are pessimistic that "adequate criminal laws exist to enable them to charge any Blackwater employee with criminal wrongdoing".

Three U.S. soldiers have been killed in two separate insurgent attacks north of Baghdad. Two civilians were killed in the capital when a roadside bomb exploded outside the Green Zone.

Turkey has launched new helicopter gunship attacks against Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq.

Finally in Iraq news, it's got to be tough for the State Department when it can't even win its own internal battles. Diplomats will not be forced to serve in Iraq after all the LA Times reports.

World - How Musharraf Views Democracy

He's suspended the Constitution, dismissed the Supreme Court, shut down independent news stations and arrested at least 2,500 people but don't tell General Pervez Musharraf how to run a democracy. The state of emergency "is to ensure elections go in an undisturbed manner," he tells the New York Times.

Of course you can vote in prison. Next question - David Guttenfelder / AP

Musharraf's remarks are a riposte to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and they come as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is held for a second day and as another prominent opposition figure, the former cricketer Imran Khan was arrested at a rally.

Talking of confronting strong rule, France's transport unions went on strike today to confront President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms. The unions want to protect a so-called special regime that lets state workers retire after "making two and a half years less pension contributions than anyone else," says Reuters.

New rebel attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted tens of thousands of refugees to flee UN camps.

Is real democratic progress possible in Burma? UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari believes so but western diplomats are skeptical that the military junta would contemplate relinquishing power.

Politics - Bush Veto Pork-Heavy Bill

Bacon we are told is very bad for you. Surely that was what President Bush was thinking when he vetoed the $600 billion spending bill, laden down with what he called $10 billion in Democratic "pork" pet projects. "The [Democratic] majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far, it's acting like a teenager with a new credit card," said Bush.

Here's how you cut the pork - John Sommers / Bloomberg / Landov

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid responded by vowing to block any more funding to the Iraq or Afghanistan wars unless the President starts bringing troops home.

Is new Attorney General Michael Mukasey behind President Bush's decision to finally provide "security clearances for the Justice Department’s ethics office to investigate the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program"? The reversal of the Bush administration position comes just four days after Mukasey took charge.

Was the softball lob on climate change to Hillary Clinton just the first of a load of loaded questions her handlers had planted in the audience? The pawn, uh, student who was given the question suspects as much.

National - America Choking on its Own CO2

President Bush's own climate change research team is reporting that North America "produces three to four times more carbon dioxide than its forests, croplands, wetlands and coastal waters can soak up" according to USA Today. But here's the kicker. "The USA creates 85% of North America's total and is the world's largest emitter....Canada produces 9%, and Mexico, 6%". Mmm...notice anything unsustainable going on here?

CO2 gridlock - Damian Dovarganes / AP

On the subject of scandals, the Washington Post has conducted an analysis of DC records and unearthed a total of $31.7 million in questionable property tax refunds dating back seven years. The best one is a payback of $346,700 to a fictitious company named "Bilkemor LLC." Genius.

There'll be no charges for the 10-year old boy who started one of California's wildfires last month.

No New York driving licenses for illegal immigrants either says Governor Eliot Spitzer

There's no confidence from the faculty in Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts who is fighting "accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle".

And there was no gun - just a hairbrush -found on the 18-year old Brooklyn man who told police, "Come get me. I have a gun. Let's do this"...and then was shot by police following a domestic disturbance.

Finally, there's no seaweed in that fancy Lululemon Athletica clothing....but we're not completely convinced that's why people were buying it in the first place.

Celebrity - O.J. Wanted Heat for Meet

So O.J. Simpson is getting flak for wanting to "pack some heat" for his meeting with those sports memorabilia dealers. Hey it's got Pacino and DeNiro on screen together for the first time....who can blame him?

Talking of heat, the doctor who operated on Kanye West's mother Donda is being put under the TMZ microscope and it's not looking pretty.

Governor Arnie has waded in to the Writers Strike meeting with both sides in an effort to resolve a dispute that is having......very little effect on America's love affair with the small screen says some Madison Avenue researcher. YouTube? SchmooTube apparently.

We're used to being bowled over by the extravagance of musician's gig riders but 50 Cents' asks concert promoters to go that extra mile...and violate federal laws. Top of fitty's backstage demands is a box of banned Cuban Montecristo cigars, reports The Smoking Gun.

Make mine a Cohiba - Peter Morrison/ AP

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November 13, 2007 4:42

Bhutto: Musharraf Must Go

Pakistan's security forces surrounded the home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today and rounded up hundreds of her supporters in a move to quell a mass protest against President Pervez Musharraf.

Bhutto would play to the crowd if she could get near them - K.M.Chaudary / AP

Bhutto's response was to call for Musharraf to resign live on CNN and to renounce the months of political maneuvering that brought her back from exile while ruling out any chance of serving as prime minister "as long as Musharraf is president".

New fighting broke out in Gaza Monday as at least seven Palestinians were killed and 55 wounded during gun battles between Hamas and Fatah militia during a rally to commemorate the death of Yasser Arafat.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demonstrated the extent of his country's internal political tensions yesterday when he accused "'domestic elements" of seeking to sabotage Iran's uranium enrichment programme and said they had inflicted more damage than its foreign enemies," reports the Guardian.

Oh, and he also reckons gay people "deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both," according to London Times report delivered via Fox News.

Belgium is facing a constitutional crisis. Improbably joined together some 177 years ago, even it's own prime minister calls the country "an accident of history".

Despite talk of a break up though, the Belgians still make great beer and chocolate....which leads us perfectly to Central America where researchers now think that local people first discovered how to make chocolate some 3000 years ago....as a byproduct of producing cacoa seed beer.

Politics - Thompson Gets Anti-Abortion Nod

Fred Thompson is busy polishing his conservative credentials this morning safe in the knowledge he will be the only GOP candidate to receive the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee.

Thompson's star is rising - Charlie Neibergall / AP

Thompson is also beefing up his assault on South Carolina's primary by talking up his plans to expand the military and spend more money on defense - has he been paying attention to how much we're spending already?

Of course if Christian conservatives have so many doubts about Rudy, Romney and McCain that they consider Thompson their only hope perhaps they might want to widen their net and support.....John Edwards. After all he's just like George W. Bush, "attack[ing] Democrats and divid[ing] the country," says the Hillary Clinton campaign, sounding just a tad defensive.

And how else does John Edwards resemble the GOP? He's got the same fund-raising woes as the Grand Old Party.

Just when the White House was coming around to really embracing recycling, a judge orders it to preserve copies of all its e-mails in the face of two lawsuits "that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed e-mails in violation of federal law," reports CNN.

Iraq - Bomb Attacks Down

Either things are getting quieter in Iraq, or the Pentagon has got its PR machine well-oiled, or maybe the U.S. media is losing interest (surely not?). Whatever the case there's some good news coming out of Iraq today.

First up, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reckons things are calm enough to lift Baghdad's nine month-old curfew.

Roadside bomb attacks are down, as are rocket and mortar attacks.

And so are executions of former government ministers.....but that's only because the U.S. is refusing to hand over three of Saddam Hussein's aides until Iraqi leaders settle a legal row about their cases.

The situation is not nearly so rosy if you crunch the numbers though like the Dems are doing. A new report by congressional Democrats says the real cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (including higher oil prices, interest payments on war borrowing and health care for injured vets) is $1.5 trillion - twice the published cost of the conflicts.

National - Michigan Mutilation

We tend not to hark on tabloid heds and murderous tales but this Detroit tale of cold-blooded murder, decapitation and other blowtorch-fired grisly details is too much for even morally high-minded scribes like ourselves to resist.

The alleged killers - Wayne County Sheriff / AP

The two baby-faced teens charged with killing a 26-year old acquaintance, allegedly for thrills, made plans to dispose of the corpse and the blood and then tossed the victim's head in the Rouge River. Talk about Gothic.

Where can you go from there? How about onto the Internet which was where the Pennsylvania teenager accused of planning a school massacre met the Finnish student who killed eight people and himself in a school shooting last week. What brought them together? An online discussion of Columbine of course.

Good news for some 3,800 inmates currently imprisoned for possession and distribution of crack cocaine. New, less "throw away the keys" sentencing laws may see them released in a move to redress what has long been viewed as racially-skewed punishment. "Nearly 86 percent of inmates who would be affected by the change are black; slightly fewer than 6 percent are white," notes the Washington Post.

Farm belt stereotypes be damned: Not everyone in the Midwest loves ethanol apparently.

Celebrity - Kanye West's Mother Dies After Surgery

Rapper Kanye West's mother died suddenly on the weekend from complications after undergoing plastic surgery. Donda West was 58 and ran her son's businesses and educational foundation.

Nicole Kidman feared for her life when being chased by paparazzi.

Kevin Federline wants Britney banned from driving their kids after "she ran a red light and sent texts on her mobile with them in the back".

A paparazzi "spotter" chasing Britney is seriously injured after being hit by another papp.

Paris paparazzi argued over who was to blame for Princess Diana's car crash as she lay dying in the wreckage an inquest into her death was told.

After the crash - Jerome Delay / AP

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November 12, 2007 4:12

Pakistan Will Head to Polls With Opposition Hands Tied

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says elections will go ahead in January but campaigning would have to take place under the current emergency rule in order to safeguard the nation. How's that for strong democracy? Don't tell Dick Cheney, he might get ideas.

Violent storms in the Black Sea have sunk at least four ships and split open an oil tanker. Russian authorities are scrambling to contain 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil that have leaked from the tanker in the Kerch Strait, which the Black Sea with the Azov Sea.

Trust in government must be running high in Israel today after 100 police investigators from Israel’s National Fraud Unit raided offices around the nation "seeking materials connected with criminal investigations under way against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert," reports the New York Times.

Meanwhile, Italian soccer fans showed their faith in the police by rioting in and out of stadia across the country. The fans were protesting a weekend killing of a fan who was shot by police while sitting in his car. Gabriele Sandri was caught in the middle of a fight between Lazio and Juventus supporters that police tried to break up by firing shots in the air. One of the shots hit Sandri.

Politics - Soft Money Cushions Hard Campaign Spending

Let the soft money roll. The New York Times looks at a raft of new below-the-radar but within the law fundraising initiatives aimed at influencing "voting outside of campaign law limitations." Writes the NYT, "The amount could swamp the record-breaking tens of millions that the top candidates are raising for their own, closely regulated campaign accounts".

While we're talking clandestine, Hillary Clinton's campaign is all red-faced after it was caught pulling a FEMA at an Iowa press conference. The campaign admitted "feeding Iowa student Maria Gallo-Chasanoff a soft question on what Mrs Clinton would do to stop global warming at an event last Tuesday," reports the Daily Telegraph.

Um, that wasn't quite the question I was expecting... - Yana Paskova/Getty Images

From softball questions to soft landings. Eighty-three year old former President H.W. Bush helped reopen his Presidential Library this weekend by dropping in via parachute.

Iraq - Another Private Contractor Civilian Shooting

A new private contractor scandal is brewing after a DynCorp International security guard protecting a U.S. convoy is said to have shot and killed an unarmed Iraqi taxi driver.

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff flew to Iraq for Veteran's Day services yesterday.

President Bush marked the day in Texas where he paid tribute to the Lone Star servicemen and women who have lost their lives in Iraq since 2003.

The President remembers Lone Star losses - AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

The U.S. is looking for few good Iraqi men....well about 70,000 of them actually....to shore up the Surge. But while the U.S. favors Sunni tribal fighters, the Shi'ite dominated government of Nouri al-Maliki fears these "volunteers" might soon volunteer to turn against it.

Finally in Iraq news, if President Bush gets his funding wishes, the total cost of the war will skyrocket to $611 billion. How else might that money have been spent ponders the Boston Globe?

National - Alaska Rot

"I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie [but] Exxon's happy. BP's happy. I'll sell my soul to the devil." Those word from Pete Kott, the former Republican speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives, embody a culture of corruption that was rife in the 50th state politics. But is it just a local infection or does the rot reach to the top of Alaska's political hierarchy asks the Washington Post?

The Coast Guard, citing a criminal investigation, has detained the entire crew of the tanker that hit the Bay Bridge, causing the worst oil spill in San Francisco Bay for 20 years. The spill has killed dozens of sea birds and closed nearly two dozen beaches and piers.

A criminal disaster? - REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

It's the response to the environmental disaster that has Senator Dianne Feinstein fuming. She says the 58,000-gallon leak revealed "a disturbing lack of readiness for disasters in the Bay Area," writes the San Francisco Chronicle.

And the lights lie down on Broadway for a second straight day as the Stagehands strike continues.

Finally in national news, who said reader comments on news stories weren't worth the effort. A NYT piece on the personal assistant accused of murdering her overbearing real estate boss has really struck a nerve. Be nice to your minions today is this commenter speaks for the executive underclass: "There is a snapping point. People in this city treat assistants like **** everyday and are always astonished when something like this happens. Treat people with dignity and this will stop happening." Makes you nostalgic for the good old days when the aggrieved simply wrote roman a clef novels on the subject..

Celebrity - Norman Mailer R.I.P.

Norman Mailer died on the weekend age 84. The iconic, pugnacious, occasionally outrageous and invariably controversial man of letters won two Pulitzer Prizes. Tributes to Mailer can be found throughout the media but here's what another literary powerhouse Gay Talese writes in the New York Post:

"He was never an authority on anything but he knew about everything. He wrote about Picasso, he wrote about Marilyn Monroe, he wrote about marching on the Pentagon. He knew about women - he had six wives, he had God knows how many lovers." The epitome of what most modern journalists aspire to....apart from the multiple wives and lovers that is.

A literary lion in winter - AP Photo/Kathy Willens

Is Prince Harry's relationship with Chelsy Davy on the rocks? Read on if you care.

Is Ellen DeGeneres a strike-breaker? The Writers Guild of America says yes; she says no.

So farewell famed Soprano's pork store Satriale's, you are making way for Condos.

Steve Van Zandt meanwhile is looking to teach the kids all he knows....about music, not whacking people thankfully.

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November 9, 2007 4:19

Bhutto Detained at Home

Pakistan's authorities has warned opposition leader Benazir Bhutto they wouldn't allow her to hold a mass rally today and they made good on their threat this morning by surrounding her home with armed police.

Pro-democracy protest? It's that way..try India - PHOTO: AAMIR QURESHI / AFP / Getty

Pakistan's security forces say they're keeping Bhutto under virtual house arrest for her own safety which is touching don't you think?

Anyway, what is everyone getting so worked up about. President Pervez Musharraf says: "I have been saying for the last few months that elections will be held on schedule".

That might be a little too vague for everyone demonstrating for democracy in Pakistan but it is good enough for the White House.

The Bush administration isn't as impressed with European companies currently doing business with Iran. "European operators are facing threats from Washington that they could jeopardise their US interests by continuing to deal with Tehran," writes the Guardian.

Talking of detained female opposition leaders, is there a breakthrough between the Burma junta and Aung San Suu Kyi? The Nobel prize winner met yesterday with her military foes for the first time in three years. "In the interest of the nation, I stand ready to co-operate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success," she said.

Finally in world news, why can't we all be Australian headline writers? Here's how the Sydney Morning Herald sums up French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit with President Bush: "Cheese-eating surrender monkey goes ape about Uncle Sam".

Politics - Mukasey Confirmed

Michael Mukasey scraped through into the post of Attorney General last night after a bitterly divided Senate confirmed his nomination with a decidedly tepid 53-40 vote of approval.

Mukasey gets ready for center stage - PHOTO: Win McNamee / Getty

Mukasey joins a department tarnished by the tenure of Alberto Gonzales and on-going debate of the whether the Bush Administration has sanctioned torture. “The Department of Justice needs Judge Mukasey at work tomorrow morning,” said Senator Arlen Specter. The water must need changing in those "aggressive interrogation" rooms.

Having installed Rudy and Hillary as the automatic front runners, the media can now start profiling the plucky underdogs. First up, Mitt Romney, the "methodical tortoise of the Republican field," according to CNN who is employing a stealth conservative wooing campaign to make him a player in South Carolina.

Then there's true underdog Mike Huckerbee. But wait, says the NYT, the former Arkansas governor is making a late run at winning the Iowa Republican caucus.

Jeez, we'll be hearing next that rank outsider Ron Paul is raising millions through the Internet.

But Ron beware: the World Wide Web isn't always as friendly as it first appears.

Iraq - Bush Senior Rallies to Son's Defense

Don't get poppy Bush started on Iraq. He's had it up to here with all the whining about the way his son is running the Middle East war. "Do they want to bring back Saddam Hussein, these critics?" George H.W. Bush rails at USA Today. "Do they want to go back to the status quo ante? "

House Democrats have offered President Bush $50 billion to keep funding the Iraq war, but only if he agrees to pull out most troops within a year. This latest legislation could gain both full House and Senate approval. Do you smell a veto?

Who's going to drive all those fancy new armored vehicles built especially to ward off roadside bombs if the troops were to come home?

National - Kerik Indicted

Bernard Kerik, the former New York Police Commissioner, Iraq security honcho (the exact title escapes us) and the man Rudy Giuliani thought would make a peachy Director of Homeland Security has been indicted by a federal grand jury reports CNN. No details of the sealed indictment are available but Kerik was being investigated over allegations of bribery and tax evasion.

Kerik in his pomp - PHOTO: Louis Lanzano / AP

The Vioxx painkiller fallout finally hit Merck yesterday when the Pharma giant agreed to pay "$4.85 billion to settle 27,000 lawsuits by people who claim they or their family members suffered injury or died after taking the drug," says the New York Times.

The Ronald Reagan Library can't account for 80,000 of the 100,000 presidential papers and artifacts it has under its charge. That's the sort of bookkeeping William Casey would have been proud of.

Donald Rumsfeld is getting hard time from Stanford University students after being appointed a visiting fellow at the University's Hoover Institution.

At least the Stanford Progressive campus newspaper is keeping an open mind on Rummy's arrival. "We are here at Stanford to learn. Part of education is understanding the greatest follies of the past and learning how never to repeat them. And for that, who could be a better teacher than Rumsfeld?" it writes.

No need to get alarmed now but we thought you should know that the super-volcano sitting below Yellowstone Park - you know the one volcanologists reckon would redraw the map of the Western U.S. and alter global weather patterns for centuries were it to blow? - is swelling three times faster than has ever been measured.

Celebrity - OJ's Military Invasion

OJ Simpson embarked on a "military invasion" to get his sports memorabilia back, one of his accusers testified in court yesterday. "O.J. was screaming, 'This is all my s---. This all belongs to me. You stole this from me. Let's pack up. Let's get out of here,'" AP quotes Bruce Fromong as testifying.

Celebrity shocker of the day. Amy Winehouse's London home is raided by police....and it's not because of drugs!

It's enough to make you take up smoking - PHOTO: PA

A Boston priest has been charged with stalking Conan O'Brien. "I want a public confession before I ever consider giving you absolution - or a spot on your couch," Rev. David Ajemian wrote to the talk show host in a series of weird and wacky missives.

Finally, let's hear it for Mickey Rourke. He's got his bad boy mojo back it seems, if only for riding a motor scooter under the influence in Miami Beach.

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November 8, 2007 4:05

Shots Fired on Anti-Chavez Protesters

Masked gunmen shot eight people during a student protest in Caracas against President Hugo Chavez's planned constitutional reforms. At least 80,000 people had marched on Venezuela's Supreme Court to denounce President Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power.

The Musharraf government has increased its crackdown in Pakistan by charging three politicians and a union activist with treason for making anti-government speeches in the southern port city of Karachi, the Guardian reports. Each charge carries the death penalty. The latest move comes as Bush administration officials are working behind the scenes to persuade Musharraf to reverse his state of emergency, and as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto vowed to call a mass protest rally.

On a day when her supporters were beaten and tear-gased by police, Bhutto declared: "We can't work for dictatorship. We can work for democracy".

Not to be outdone in the social unrest stakes, the government of Georgia has declared its own state of emergency and put troops on street to "quash six days of anti-government protests," says Reuters.

Politics - Bush Loves La France

President Bush has found a forthright new ally in a very strange place - France to be exact. President Nicolas Sarkozy came to Washington - well Mt Vernon to be exact - and the two men pledged to hold Iran's toes the nuclear coals and continue the global fight against terror.

Le grand amis - ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images

Sarkozy is being seen as the Tony Blair replacement in Washington so it shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise that Sarko kept one eye on his own political future and took took time to chat with Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton.

The House of Representatives approved a bill banning discrimination in the workplace for gay men, lesbians and bisexuals.

Would love to be a fly on the wall hearing Rudy Giuliani and Pat Robertson debate the relative merits of that legislation. Instead we just got to hear Robertson endorse Rudy while former Prez candidate Sam Brownback give the nod to John McCain.

Of course both Giuliani and McCain have made being tough on terror a centerpiece of their campaigns. But, with the stock market plummeting and house prices crumbling, could the economy be the key issue in next year's election?

Iraq - Interior OKs Raids on Private Security Guards

Iraq's Interior Minister says he will authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to make sure they aren't breaking newly tightened rules on what weapons they can use. That's going to end well for sure.

Show of force - PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images

Not least because of the bad blood between Blackwater USA and the Iraqi government. The Washington Post looks at one incident where the State Department cleared Blackwater of any wrongdoing in the killing of three security guards for Iraq's state media network, despite eyewitness reports saying the sniper shootings were unprovoked.

Meanwhile, Ilinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) has introduced legislation calling for the removal of all private security contractors who currently protect State Department employees.

Talking of getting out of Baghdad, that's just what Al-Qaeda of Mesopotamia has done according to the U.S. Military. Their flight is a direct result of the Surge says the Pentagon.

National - Could Arnie Help Terminate the Writers Strike?

Should California Governor (and former Hollywood icon lest we forget) Arnold Schwarzenegger be taking a more active role in bringing an end to the writers' strike? The LA Times says Arnie, along with former labor leader and now L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have been reduced to bit-part players in the current industrial action.

Star power broker? - REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)

But wait, Politico says the Gov has been "working backstage" in secret talks with representatives from both sides of the dispute.

The Space Shuttle Discovery came home safely yesterday after a seat-of-the-pants 15 day remodeling mission at the International Space Station. Unlike most contractors, the crew won't be returning in another month "just to tidy up the odds and ends".

San Francisco Bay authorities were forced to close all beaches yesterday after a container ship crashed into the Bay Bridge in heavy fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel. It was the first time anyone could remember a boat hitting the bridge....not least because it's so damn big!

Aaron Walker, press secretary for FEMA, resigned yesterday over his role in the fake press conference during the California wildfire response. His resignation comes on the heels of an official review of the incident that documents "a calamity of bad decision-making".

Celebrity - Chesney Wins at CMAs

Big night for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood at the Country Music Awards. They ran off with entertainer of the year and single of the year respectively.

Prince has always done things a little differently but when it comes to a PR disaster he sure knows how to hit the big time. Yesterday media sites had a field day with news that his purpleness intended to sue three fan sites unless they remove all "photos, images, cover art and lyrics related to the 49-year-old artist". Now the backtracking, if not the backcataloging begins. A "company working on behalf of Prince has accused fans of exaggerating" the story. Internet monitoring company Web Sheriff says, "At no time is Prince suing his fans and this is not about freedom of speech".

Yes, yes, we paid for this image - Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images

Reformed and rehabbed Brit singer Pete Doherty is apologizing to fans for being back on the smack.

P. Diddy has found his new assistant courtesy of YouTube. Says lucky (?) winner Heather Thompson: “I understand who the star is in this relationship". We think a new YouTube job search channel could be the real start...check this out...Sean Combs' original video job ad has been viewed 261,669 times so far.

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