Senate Democrats; EurAsEc Currency; India Blogs; IRAN: Military Drills; U.S. Marines Probe Ethnic Tensions; Refinery Shortage

LATE ADDITION: Senate Democrats Call for Energy Reform

Common Currency Possible in EurAsEc Countries
India Unblocking Blogs Shut Down in Wake of Mumbai

IRAN
Short of Refineries
U.S. Marines Probe Tensions of Iran's Minorities
34 Nations To Participate in Military Drills Around Iran (Fox News, May)

Russo Interview; Angola, Sudan/OPEC; Carlyle Group: UAE, Geothermal

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ---Voltaire

Video Interview with Aaron Russo
(Thanks to Le Metropole Cafe for quote and link)

OPEC Moots Extending Membership to Angola, Sudan

Carlyle Group
Bush Approves Sale of U.S. Military Parts Suppliers to UAE
Carlyle Group and Geothermal Assets

Afterlife; Civilization and Its Discontents (Transgender Fish, Polar Bears, People.)

A man told his wife that if he died before she did and there was an afterlife, he would find a way to let her know.

The man died first. Apart from some disappointing seances, his wife never revealed whether or not he contacted her.

A story that would be of no interest except that the man was Harry Houdini.


Civilization and Its Discontents

Farm Subsidies Lead to Ocean Dead Zones
Ocean Dead Zones Causing Transgender Fish
Hermaphrodite Polar Bears
Pesticides May Affect Penis Size
Perhaps this is what lies behind the 'emasculation' of the Democratic Party(?)

China: Draft; Oil Businessman Imprisoned for Protest; Shipping Routes, Tankers, Dutch; Archive Studies E.China Seas

China
Businessman Imprisoned for Protesting Oil-Field Takeover
Avoiding the Draft

Maritime Ventures
Explores New Shipping Routes
Orders Eight Oil Tankers
Take-over of Dutch Company

Archive Studies of East China Seas
Japanese
U.S.

Latin American Elections and the U.S. Connection

Protests for Transparent Elections in............ Venezuela
Venezuela Anti-Chavez 'NGO' Allegedly Funded by U.S. Congress
Treasury-Led Panel Scrutinizes U.S. Voting Machine Company with Ties to Venezuela

Protest Against Election in Mexico


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When Last Week's Terror Seems Like History

Jenna Orkin

When last week's terror seems like history
as with an addict who seeks newer thrill,
the mutual destruction of Israel
and Arab world replacing Kim Jong Il,
When leaders who should model saving grace
are, rather, all-consumed with saving face,
and hopes of peace grow by the day more faint,
allusions to it brushed aside as quaint,
When hurricanes swirl metaphorically,
sooner, more intensely than before,
the dollar falls as the sea level climbs
so even Murdoch longs for boring times,

In refuge from outrageous Fortune's slings,
it helps merely to contemplate true things.

Bezdek: Reducing Oil Imports; Vnz Supplies; Nat. Gas/ China; ISI/Mumbai?; Goose Guts

Study to Cite Plan to Reduce Oil Imports by 2030
The author of the report, Roger Bezdek, was one of three co-writers of the "Hirsch" report of 2005. This new report points up the shortcomings of the corn-to-ethanol solution but promotes Fischer-Tropsch, wood chips, etc.

Venezuela Pledge: Will Keep Supplying Oil to U.S.

Huge Natural Gas Discovery in S. China Sea

ISI Denies Involvement in Mumbai Attacks
Most articles alleging Pakistani involvement focus on the organization known as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba ("The Army is pure.") This article alludes to involvement higher up on the food chain.

The Case of the Missing Goose Guts
Another chapter from that infinite source of creepy diversion: The Bird Flu Capers.

Sustainability Website of the Day; EU/W. Africa; China Military Ties

Sustainability Website of the Day
Polyface Farms
Article on the Farm's Principles (Thanks to Ken Stailey for this link)

EU Launches Patrols Off West African Coast

China Pledges Closer Military Ties to........Switzerland(?)

N.K./Japan; Second Enron Death; SARS, Bird Flu/Climate; Voter ID Card Law Illegal;

Man Tied to Enron Found Dead in London

Federal Judge Rules Voter ID Card Law in Georgia is Illegal

N. Korea Warns Japan of Destruction in Case of Attack; 8-Nation Naval Exercises

China to Fight Climate-Induced Illnesses (Bird Flu, SARS)

Venezuela; China; Saudi Arabia/Qatar Pipeline; GAO on Geothermal Solution

Venezuela
CITGO Stops Sales to 100s of U.S. Stations
Sends More Oil to Asia

Saudi Arabia May Block Qatar Pipeline

GAO Report on Geothermal Developments and Problems: Highlights

China
Finds Small Amount of Gas in East China Sea
Mulls Euthanasia Trials for Those With Painful, Incurable Diseases
IEA Tells China to Conserve