Tuesday, July 04, 2006

CIA/Osama; Japan/Korea; E. Africa/Islamism; Gazprom/Moldova; China/Flood/Drought/Congo

CIA Closes Unit Focused on Capture of Bin Laden

Japan Warns Korea Over Survey of Disputed Waters

Islamist Rise in East Africa

Gazprom Raises Natural Gas Price for Moldova 45%

Floods and Droughts in China

China's Interest in Raw Resources of Congo

4 comments:

Butch said...

Theft of high-value materials (cannibalisation of infrastructure) is not limited to France and the U.S.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/04072006/3/novascotia-thousands-power-copper-wire-stolen.html

Rice Farmer said...

Some more items:

China to get East Siberia pipeline oil ahead of Japan
http://www.prime-tass.com/news/show.asp?topicid=0&id=400390

The Biofuel Illusion
http://www.counterpunch.org/olmstead07032006.html

Jenna Orkin said...

Uniter has left a new comment on your post "News Posted [Happy] July 4, 2006":

Lay was murdered, in my humble opinion. He was in a position to reveal too much to the niave American public, regarding the Enron relationship to 9-11 (think Natural Gas, Central Asia pipelines, India power plants, US energy grid, Enron meeting with Gov. Arnold prior to recall election, etc.).

Lay was a huge liability to the entire game.

Jenna Orkin said...

Dennis from Oregon has left a new comment on your post "The FTW Burglary":

Geez Matt, youve never spent much time here in Southern Oregon...

The dead car is a lame idea in Mikes situ, it would add a huge dimension to.... [the] problem with fitting in. Locals that should know better are acting real paranoid.. Forget that idea, but night watchmen would be a great idea...

The dog idea has some merit, at night, but it would really only up the ante from a simple break in and some property destruction to include killing the dogs. Not too big of a further step for someone capable of this kind of crud...

I like the bodygaurd idea, but its probably not in FTWs budget; maybe it should be??

The folks that did this were just trying to send a message;....

My advice is to shrug it off, protect yourself as best you can, insure yourself; backup data to a nondisclosed outside locale nightly and get on with life.

Either back off, negotiate with the ones responsible, or expect more of the same, maybe even escalating. Thats the real decision and problem. Identify the source and then deal with it..

What a raft of crud!! But if Mike backs down, sooner or later it will be all our turns next....

To Truth.... D