South American Energy Summit
Russia Decrees Merger of Two Pipeline Companies
Pentagon Withholds Fox Footage in Friendly Fire Cases
After Tillman Death, Army Clamps Down
Bill Moyers Probes Press Handling of Iraq
How TPTB (The Powers That Be) Manipulated the Press on the Envirodisaster of 9/11 (Corollary to an earlier Bill Moyers report on press)
Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
Carbon Gas as Source for Ethanol
Species Vulnerable Even in Protected Habitat
Infusion of Cash for Seed Crop Preservation
Seed Bank's Billionth Seed
National Security Implications of Climate Change
China Creates Artificial Snow
Why prevent drought and pollution in the first place when you can always find someone who'll come up with a technofix? Never mind what the side effects of that technofix may later turn out to be. With its recent announcements also of inventions of artificial rain and an artificial sun, China is preparing for some major contingencies./ Jenna Orkin
China: Growth Trumps Climate Change
Millions Face Famine as Crop Disease Spreads
25 % U.S. Bee Colonies Gone
The Sun in 3D

Ohio Asks Election Board Members to Quit
States Rebel in Droves Against Real ID

French Knew Al-Qaeda Planned Hijacking Attack
DoD IG Wipes Hands of Able Danger
U.S. Agrees to Raise Defense Ties with Israel
Tom Whipple on the GAO Report
House Questions on Tillman, Lynch
China's Oil Plans
China Builds Global Satellite Navigation System
Yangtze River May Be Irreversibly Polluted
"China's CNOOC Ltd confirmed for the first time yesterday that it had begun producing gas at a field in the East China Sea. The state-controlled company said in its 2006 annual report it was pumping oil and gas at the Tianwaitian field (at 500,000 cubic metres a day). It is also ready to begin producing from the nearby and larger Chunxiao field as soon as Beijing gives it the go-ahead, at an annual rate of 600 million cubic metres."
Venezuela, Iran Back Gas Cartel
Chavez: Troops to Escort Oil Takeovers

Global Warming Could Wipe Out 1/4 of All Species
Los Angeles Endures Longest Dry Spell in 130 Years
US Answer to Climate Change: Smoke and Giant Space Mirrors
Castro Warns Poor Will Starve for Greener Fuel
Local Food Movement Grows More Mainstream
Cheney/Al Qaeda Link An expansion, via Thomas Englehardt, on Seymour Hersch's recent piece in the New Yorker.
Venezuela Moving Towards Compression Rather than Liquification of Gas This method of transporting gas, while taking up more space, is also less dangerous and far less expensive. J.O.
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
Thirstier World to See More Civil Conflict While this would seem to fall squarely into the "No shit" file, it's interesting that the conflicts generally arise a year after the drought. The researchers don't speculate on the reasons for the time lapse. Perhaps it takes a year for victims to recover enough to take up arms. Or perhaps it takes a year for the drought to manifest its full impact in crop shortages. Jenna Orkin
President of Ford Saves Bush from Self-Immolation Ah well. It would have been such a fitting end. J.O.
China's Naval Upgrades Readers of this blog don't need to be reminded that this is in anticipation of conflict not only with Taiwan but also with Japan over the Diaoyu (Chinese name)/Senkaku (Japanese name) Islands. J.O.

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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