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The Jack White and Alicia Keys song for the next James Bond movie finally has a video, and it's way way worse than you could have ever imagined.

Today and over the weekend, high-level nogotiations are taking place among the legislative leadership and the Governor - the focal point of these discussions - infrastructure investment. LOOK CAREFULLY at what comes out of the negotiations. Were the Republican Governor and Republican legislative leaders able to hold the 'line in the sand' against the big-government, spend-a-holic Democratic leaders? Does the plan: 1) HAVE A SIGNIFICANT PAY-AS-YOU-GO COMPONENT FOR FY '07-'08 AND BEYOND?2) HAVE A 6% BORROWING CAP?3) CONTAIN CEQA AND OTHER NEEDED REFORMS?4) LIMIT THE BORROWING TO MORTOR-AND BRICK REAL INFRASTRUCTURE?*From Senator McClintock:5) LIMIT GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDING TO STATE SCHOOL...

British spies caught 'red-handed' with rock: RussiaLast Updated Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:37:29 ESTCBC News Russia's main intelligence agency says it has caught four British diplomats in a spy scheme worthy of James Bond for its use of bizarre gadgetry. According to Russian television reports, a piece of equipment that can store and exchange classified information was hidden in a fake rock in Moscow Square, allowing alleged spies to upload and download information in broad daylight while appearing to do nothing more innocuous than use a cellphone or Blackberry. Russia's spy agency claims British diplomats planted this fake rock containing...

The Aston Martin spy car from the James Bond movies Thunderball and Goldfinger — complete with machine guns and tire slashers — is on the auction block. The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 could fetch up to $2.5 million at RM Auctions' 7th Annual Vintage Motor Cars Auction on Jan. 20 in Phoenix, Ariz. "The James Bond Aston Martin DB5 is one of the most famous cars in the world. It's just amazing. This is by far and away the most popular car we have seen in our 26 years of hosting collector car auctions," RM Auctions co-founder Rob Myers said...

LONDON (Reuters) - Get out the rocket launcher camera, brandish your acid-shooting fountain pen and stick on your fake third nipple.Her Majesty's Government has a job for you.Britain is advertising for a new chief executive officer of the Government Communications Center -- the spy gadget lab boss known to James Bond fans as "Q."Tuesday is the deadline to apply for the job, which was advertised discreetly in newspapers a few weeks back.In the movies, Q's lab built everything Bond needed to escape from danger, from his Aston Martin sports car with ejector seat to the fake third nipple he used...

Bond Producers to Make 'Casino Royale' Themselves On the heels of recent speculation that director Quentin Taratino was considering the possibility of remaking the James Bond thriller 'Casino Royale' with Pierce Brosnan in the starring role, published reports in the UK now indicate that Eon Productions, which has produced the Bond films for MGM, has decided to make the film on their own--without the involvement of either Taratino or Brosnan.The original filmed version of the Bond novel was actually a spoof starring numberous actors playing Bond 'in disguise,' including David Niven, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen.However, the actual 'Casino Royale'...

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico (Reuters) - Normally a sleepy refuge for aging hippies and wealthy retirees, this cobblestone town in Mexico's mountainous heartland is abuzz with U.S. election fever as campaigners clamor for their votes.   For the roughly 5,000 Americans living here, political get-togethers have disrupted a leisurely routine of sculpture classes and tennis, and pro- or anti-Bush badges are suddenly de rigueur as Democrats and Republicans fish for support from expatriates.   "People are talking a lot about politics because of the terrible way the last election was decided," said New York-born Barbara Lichter, who has...

I ordered 3 copies of Unfit for Command from Amazon last week. I am still waiting for them to be shipped. Tonight, on our way home we were listening to Mark Levin talking to people give anecdotes from people trying to buy the book and the troubles that people were having with that. We decided to stop by Barnes and Noble since it was on our way home. Here is what followed: I walked in and Bill's book is front and center as you walk in the door. I walked around looking for the book. Well, you guessed it, nowhere...

While former Miss World Aishwarya Rai is the most preferred choice, three other beauties — former Miss World Priyanka Chopra, former Miss Universe Lara Dutta and actress Preity Zinta — are also in the race to become the first Indian to star as a Bond girl. AISHWARIYA RAI Recognising the Bollywood boom all over the world, Bond movies producer Barbara Broccoli has reportedly decided to cast a famous Bollywood star in her next film that will ensure a cinema audience not just in Asia, but across all cultural divides, The Observer reported today. Rai’s agent, Hari Singh, said last...

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