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Tillman; FBI/Kish; Global Warming: Cereal/ La Nina; Bees

Army Responds to Pat Tillman Case
Two More Possible Friendly Fire Cases
FBI Agent Still Missing in Iran
Apparently the mild-mannered agent, retired into the unassuming position of running a private security firm, had suddenly been struck by the muse to make a movie about sea turtles in Kish (where, coincidentally, the Iranian bourse will some day open, or so we've been told for two years.) Jenna Orkin
Global Warming Affects Cereal Crops
La Nina to Bring Crazy Weather
Crops Facing Disaster as Disease Kills Bees

GAO:Oil; Truthout/Peak Oil; Iran/Currencies; Hormuz; Arms/Persian Gulf; ISI/Killed; Venezuela/China/Exports; Tillman/Rumsfeld/Bush

GAO: Looming Threat to Global Oil Supply "The odds of us not peaking in the next five years are zero." Matt Simmons
Truthout Gets Religion This article addresses the blissfully ignorant belief of some environmentalists that Peak Oil will offer the silver lining of reducing climate change. J.O.
Iran to Sell Oil in Diverse Currencies: Herald Tribune
Oil Pipelines to Sidestep Hormuz
US Looks to Sell Arms in Persian Gulf
Five Members ISI Killed
Venezuela to Double Oil Exports to China
"It seems to me that Rumsfeld would have to be aware of it," Mary Tillman

"Tillman's mother, Mary, said Saturday the newly disclosed document demonstrates Bush was complicit in deceiving her family."

Iran/British Sailors; US Attorneys/CIA; Venezuela/Drugs; Pakistan/Gwadar Port; China Gasoline; McKinney/Pentagon; Gas OPEC/Russia, Iran, Qatar

Iran Considers Charges Against British Sailors
U.S. Attorney's Firing May Be Connected to CIA Corruption Probe Venezuela Acquiring Spy Technology to Fight Drugs Pakistan Opens Gwadar Port Of particular interest to China's Western region. The chumminess of Pakistan with the US as manifested around September 11 has not stopped President Musharraf from making other friends. J.O. China's Gasoline Demand Projected Up 6.5% This Year Cynthia McKinney at the March on Pentagon Rally Russia, Iran, Qatar Discuss Gas OPEC

Solar; Iran Bourse: Chief/ Currency; Biofuels; Venezuela: Iran/Vienna; Greenspan

Anatomy of a Solar Community
Iran to Appoint Oil Bourse Chief
Iran's Eurobased Bourse Underway
Iran to Sell Oil in "Every Currency"
As Biofuels Boom, Will More Go Hungry?
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba Alliance Extended
Venezuela Opens Oil Intelligence Office in Vienna
Greenspan Warns Subprime Woes Could Spread

Market Failure; Pentagon Spy Work; Civil Liberties/ Patriot; Iran Attack; Russian Journalist/Iran/Syria; Neurolaw

"The Biggest Market Failure the World Has Ever Seen"
US Seeks to Put Anti-Missile Radar in Caucasus
US Economy Leaving Record Numbers in Severe Poverty

Ahmedinejad's First Trip to Saudi Arabia
Gates May Scale Back Pentagon Spy Work
Civil Liberties Advocates' Worst Fears Realized with Patriot Act
This is what FTW predicted in Mike's article 'The 'F' Word" J.O.

Study Says Iran Attack Would Backfire
Russian Journalist Who Died in Fall Reportedly Investigated Weapons Sales to Iran and Syria
Neurolaw
The implications of these experiments for government abuse are scary, particularly from Section V on. J.O.

From the Daily Reckoning: Ben Bernanke explains how inflation got to be so low:
...Mr. Bernanke explained that they lied their heads off by saying that if the price of something in the basket of goods and services they measure goes up in price (to which I scream "Which IS inflation, isn't it?"), then they assume that the average consumer will buy less of it!
I am agog! What in the hell the penny-pinching shopping behaviors of cash-strapped consumers has to do with existing prices is totally, totally beyond me, but it apparently makes some stupid kind of sense to this Bernanke idiot, and apparently also to the Congressional idiots on the banking committee, who sat around stupidly nodding their heads at this outrage - I assume because they are not bright enough to know when their intelligence is blatantly being insulted! Jeez!
Then, he explained to these Congressional halfwits, your average consumer will settle for a basket of goods and services containing less satisfaction (but at the same cost) by not getting what they want, because the price is too high, but happily substituting something else that is cheaper but less desirable, and thus, at the end of the asinine mumbo-jumbo, the consumer did not end up spending more money to buy the aggregate basket of goods and services! So (they figure), no inflation! Hahaha!

Iran Bourse; Brzezinski/Iran; Mercenaries/Iraq; FBI/Oklahoma City; UK/9/11 Real ID; Washington Post/Mind;

Iran Oil Bourse to Open Soon
Brzezinski Warns of False Flag Attack to Justify Attack of Iran
Mercenaries to Fill Iraq Troop Gap
FBI Involvement in Oklahoma City Bombing
UK Faces Worst Terror Threat Since 9/11
Perhaps this assertion is intended to justify the UK's infusion of 1000 troops into Afghanistan even as they pull out of Iraq.
Jenna Orkin
Real ID Postponed Two Years
Washington Post on Mind Games

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No Iran Attack; Cheney Investments; Escape America; Justice Anti-Terror; Climate Change/Antarctic/ Americans/Greenland

Generals Will Quit if Bush Orders US to Attack Iran
Cheney's Investments
Justice Stats on Anti-Terror Cases Flawed
Escape from America

2 Antarctic Studies on Climate Change
Americans Believe Global Warming Real but Not a Priority
The Warming of Greenland "Greenland could be losing up to 80 cubic miles of ice p.a. 'That corresponds to three times the volume of all the glaciers in the Alps,' Dr. Boggild said.

Sequestration CO2; EU/Renditions Report; Iran; Arab Nuclear; Justice Dept/ Money Laundering; FBI/Edward Said; Seed Protector; Green China

New Rules Allow Sequestration of CO2 Under Seabed
EU Endorses Damning Report on Renditions
Iran Doesn't Fear U.S. Attack
Arab States to Develope Nuclear Energy
Justice Department on Money Laundering Manuals
FBI File on the Late Edward Said
Obituary for Seed Protector
The Greening of a China Mountainside