Persistent Vegetative State: September 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Ten steps to get from A to B

1. Invoke an external and internal threat
2. Establish secret prisons
3. Develope a paramilitary force
4. Surveil ordinary citizens
5. Infiltrate citizens' groups
6. Arbitrarily detain and release citizens
7. Target key individuals
8. Restrict the press
9. Cast criticism as "espionage" and dissent as "treason"
10. Subvert the rule of law

Carolyn Baker

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Units of measure to know / Oil

One million barrels of Oil per day: mb/d
--as-in--
85 = world production (Dec, 2005)
53 = consumed where produced, 32 = exports
21 = USA demand, 25% of world production
13 = USA imports, 40% of export market
09 = Saudi production (9.5), 07=exports, 05=the Ghawar field
08 = USA production
05 = from Mexico 1.6,Saudi Arabia 1.4, Venezuela 1.1, Nigeria1.0
02 = from Canada (50% from tar sands)
04 = Gulf+Texas+Louisianna production
02 = Alaska Pipeline capacity (01 is being used)
---
Other useful numbers
.3 mb/d = fuel bought by DoD mostly jet fuel (4200/42)/365
SPR = 724 million bbl, 1 month's US use, 9 days' world use
30 billion bbl/year world oil production rate

Now for something completely new
and different

Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones

Run up to the business in Iraq

Black Bush *

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Iran HAS the atomic bomb

Oil.
Stop pumping oil for a while and watch what happens.
Back to the stone age.
So does China: Bonds

Can Congress pardon the President?

News to me...

Sunday, September 23, 2007

5. Love your parents

What kind of pathetic commandment is that?
He must think we are hopeless.
Like "Don't kill anybody"; there's another one.

WAR

Business by other means.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Sociopath

A good commentary on the Macleans cover story.

Alas, the title and cover photo for the story are somewhat misleading; the article does not really focus too greatly on how Bush is equal to Saddam. One can come to such a conclusion obliquely, but Graham doesn’t really focus on it. However, it does become apparent through inference. If anything, Bush is actually worse then Hussein was. Like Hussein, he is playing factions within Iraq against each other; he is threatening war with Iran; he is running prisons with torture and rape rooms; he is killing off large portions of the populace. One can defend Bush by saying that these are not policies, but then again, Baathists could have tried to make the same claims about Saddam–yet another similarity.