Talk about poor planning - 352,000 crackers and no Cheese Whiz.

Inside the Brooklyn Bridge, a Whiff of the Cold War

For decades it waited in secret inside the masonry foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge, in a damp, dirty and darkened vault near the East River shoreline of Lower Manhattan: a stockpile of provisions that would allow for basic survival if New York City were devastated by a nuclear attack.

City workers were conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge last Wednesday when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, paper blankets, drugs and calorie-packed crackers — an estimated 352,000 of them, sealed in dozens of watertight metal canisters and, it seems, still edible.

I am now convinced that the Mayor of London isn´t really anti-semitic, it´s just his mouth works a little bit faster than his brain.

Mayor in fresh Jewish controversy

Ken Livingstone attacked David and Simon Reuben for their role in an ongoing dispute about the Stratford City development in east London.

He suggested the brothers "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs"....

Conservative members of the London Assembly said the brothers were not Iranian, but had been born in India of Iraqi Jewish parents.

If Israelis Arabs are disheartened, Americans must be manically depressed.

Though they make up one-fifth of Israel's population, Israeli Arabs head into next week's elections feeling their votes count for little and disappointed that Arab parties haven't banded together to get them a better deal.

As a result, turnout among Israel's 600,000 eligible Arab voters could be thin. In the 2003 elections, 62 percent cast ballots.

The U.S. hasn´t seen that kind of electoral turnout since about 1908.