No breakthrough in Mid East talks Dave November 2, 2009 Blogs Good Effort There was no shock this week as efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict failed to make progress. It is another addition to what has been a slow news week where unremarkable and even unchanged things have made the news, below are some of the stories that made up a slow news week. Pope Benedict XVI has confirmed to an anxious audience in the Vatican that he is still a practicing Catholic and intends to be for the foreseeable future Moldova This week satellite data confirmed that Moldova still exists and has been going strong recently. Not Friends The United States and Iran continue to remain passive aggressive and generally catty towards each other. This week American President Barrack Obama called the Iranian President short sighted and stubborn. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded by calling Obama an insufferable-do goody-jug eared-cunt who Ahmadinejad says hasnt even done anything yet, except wreck my head. Democracy Also this week in Afghanistan the march of Democracy continues with Afghanistan set to hold its second round of voting. The first round won by the preferred Western candidate Hamid Karzai was rendered null and void through massive fraud in the original election which was overseen by Hamid Karzais friend and NATO forces.