New Orleans Flood

Canals: man made waterways
These were not the river banks that failed.

Cofer Black advises Mitt Romney on torture

Democracy Now! story transcript
Cofer Black is with Blackwater

The rich He has sent away with empty hands

(Luke 1:52-53).

Q: What are the Iraqis fighting about?

A: Should the USA have an embassy in Bagdad?

Fear is Torture

techniques: sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, drugs, pain
goal: panic, intimidation
US Army manual
History of CIA mind control efforts

Liberty Dollar

What is the deal with the raid?
"Mail fraud" is the basis of another case: Strange Culture.
A professor was arrested for his show on gm seed.
Ameros for sale.

The result of the fall of the Soviet Union

Cheap vodka.
Attention Russians who lost everything: please drink responsibly.
Coming soon to an ethanol store near you.

Every Child Left Behind

David Simon on expendable people.

You get free cheese only in a mousetrap

popular Russian saying.

Carried Interest

"Carried Interest" is the name of the contingency fee that private equity fund managers receive in lieu of a fixed salary.
It is often 20% of the profits of the fund.
This income is taxed as capital gains(15%). More.

Shake and Bake, in Fallujah 2004

The military use
of white phosphorus
is a breach
of International
Humanitarian Law.



Daily Kos

Blessed are those who would lay down their livesfor their friends

Too bad that pretty much means war these days.

Election Fraud in 2004

Democratic dirty tricks to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in 2004.
Don't expect petition drives to be allowed.

Not the brains of the organization

Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, in 1978

In 1981, he died unfortunately in a plane explosion.
The talked-about sea-level canal never developed.

First Lady of Iran

Or possibly, Press Secretary.

Why Haven't the Aliens Invaded Yet?

Once they used up all their oil, their civilization collapsed.

Illegal Combatants

Court-martial for the Commander-in-Chief

General Sanchez says a court martial is appropriate.

Five million dinar (currency)

Excuse me, that cookie is 8 million dinars and you only gave me 5.
Hyper-inflation: coming to a country near you.

Communist

to robber barons in 17 years.
You like the new Gazprom headquarters? The new energy Tsar?
Chechnya

Vietnam

is cutting its purchases of US Treasuries

Telegraph

State of the Union

"The Yank and the Brit could not be less prepared or more poorly positioned. They already live beyond their means. They can expect no wage gains. Their costs are rising. And with three billion Asians hard on their heels, they can’t expect a breather – prices will continue to rise; wages will not. What’s worse, the street value of their most cherished asset – their houses – is going down."
The Oil Drum

Junie B Jones

Boo! ... and I mean it.

The Secret Plan

The government has a secret plan.
Continue as usual for as long as possible.
What a Way to Go

We are not too dependent on foreign oil

We are too dependent on oil period

Oil Corrupts

The day that the Burmese military shot into the unarmed rally was also the day that the Indian Oil Minister was in Rangoon, signing oil and gas contracts with the military junta.
Pakistan Daily Times

Occupation is liberation

for which see

Love it or leave it

Leaving, but taking the land with.

10000 year supply of hydrogen discovered

Used at current rates.

The Learning Curve

"You have to ask yourself what interest we had 40 years ago for going to war in Vietnam. You’d think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can’t possibly do the same dumb thing again. I have this theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves."
Seymour Hersh, in an article about the break-up of Iraq.
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” Aldous Huxley

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

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 *

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...

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.

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.

War protest

War debate in the House

Blackwater

Bring our trigger-happy troops home.
Yahoo news
Jeremy Scahill of The Nation, video

Lincoln censures Polk

Read all about it, over the invasion.
Video, The Nation

Movie: Ghost of Abu Ghraib

Rory Kennedy, youngest child of Bobby Kennedy

Disaster capitalism

From Video Nation

They will have won

If we reflect on this event,
change what we do in any way,
stop shopping,
they will have won.

Has the Federal Government seceded?

Source

I'm sorrier than you are

Maybe it is time

to book a vacation to Burma.

Deportee , written by Woody Guthrie

The story of a plane crash that killed 48 farm workers.

I believe US Americans

should help the Iraq

Waiting

Blowback

Say what?

Daily Show
We spend every day gathering information to locate Osama Bin Laden

Say Goodbye to Mexico

Jeff Vail: Energy Intelligence

Steve Kurtz

Strange Culture
A little movie about our storm troopers' search for justice.
TruthDig audio on the War on Freedom.

Counter Insurgency Manual

Powerlessness corrupts.

Manifest Destiny

"What exactly do you find preposterous?" James K Polk

Reminder

Her place in Rangoon.

History will be the judge of that

"Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days," Gonzales said.

Wiseacre?

click
The German ambassador to the Vatican at the end of WWII. While working for Germany, he was involved in saving 7000 of the 8000 jews in Rome.
Also see book: Special Mission.