Obama Meeting With Gore on Energy

There's only one thing to say about this one... Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

There are some big decisions being made... right now.


A 9-11 CONFESSION WHOOPEE! -- NOW ABOUT THAT BRIDGE IN BROOKLYN


RUBICON readers are going to love this! OMIGOD. Khalid Sheikh Mohhamed wants to confess to 9-11... How convenient, just weeks before Bush/Cheney leave office. Maybe he'll get a pardon!
Wait a minute!... in Rubicon we published very credible stories from several reputable news agencies that KSM had been killed way back five years ago. Wait a minute!... KSM has never ONCE been seen in public since his reported capture.

If we get his "confession" I can almost guarantee that we will never see him in person. If we do, there are enough of us with pictures of the real KSM to tell a switcheroo. You, see, we caught them switching his photographs too. He ain't the chubby guy whose pic is out there. (I must give credit to Michel Chossudovsky for his absolutely brilliant work after 9-11.)

George W. Bush and Richard Cheney you are stupid, lying criminals and this is an insult beyond belief to all of us. It may be too late to get justice for 9-11 with collapse underway (that's what I said in 2004). But damnit there are those of us who will remember what you have done and what an idiotic and transparent move this is.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/08/guantanamo.defendants/index.html

I heard Ahnold's name mentioned on-air today as a possible Energy Secretary... Lawd have moicy!... If that happens our first mission will be to shove his Hydrogen Highway up his non-polluting tailpipe.

Yeah, I am real pissed off.

(Note: I'm proud to have Mark Robinowitz post on the front page of the blog on occasion. He's one of only about six people in the whole world I'd do that for. But Thorium reactors belong back in the comment section now. The science is irrelevant. Collapse will prevent them from being built even if they might be a transitional help. My new book "A Presidential Energy Policy" will explain why. On my list we try first to discuss implementable, off-the-shelf, and existing solutions. Anyone who wants any of my readers to bet their futures on theory with non-existing operating proof outside a laboratory has zero grasp of our collective predicament. There ain't going to be any money to build anything like that. For, to quote Matt Simmons, "the return on investment is uncertain." Please, let us keep focused.)

MCR
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Market Intervention Is Top Financial Story Of Our Time

More from crusader John Crudele, who has made it his life's mission to expose the farce which is our 'free market' system. It's a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose freedom that ceases to be free as soon as it veers off the course outlined by TPTB. At that point the Plunge Protection Team swoops in, deus ex machina, to save the hero marketplace from its tragic fatal flaw: a tendency to submit to the laws of nature (what goes up too far must come down commensurately.)

That intervention derives not from the benevolent interest of a parent who wishes to foster independence but from the self-interest of a drug-dealer who wishes to foster the opposite.

The more familiar face of the New York Post:
NY Post Kills Triple Cross Review By Angry Ex-Fed
Another possible candidate for Energy Secretary
Tim Geithner's Background
...including a stint working for Kissinger Associates.

The Automatic Earth

Quotes of the day

Asked why he was undertaking a zero-gravity flight into space, Stephen Hawking said, "I am doing it for many reasons. First of all, I believe that life on Earth is at an ever increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers."

Perhaps he is smart in more ways than we knew.


"The total outstanding notional amount of financial derivatives, according to the Bank for International Settlements, is $684 trillion (as of June 2008) -- over 12 times the world's nominal gross domestic product."
Wall Street Journal

"We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself ... Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
– Rachel Carson, April 1963

JO