Month August 2005

Looting or hungry?

Sure, some in New Orleans are breaking into jewelry stores, but this account seems more like desperate and hungry people than bad guys trying to make a buck (and as the mayor said, where they going to sell the stuff…

Red-baiting the antiwar movement

We heard this crap during the Vietnam war protests, and we’re still hearing it. If you oppose the insane wars of the US, you must be communist. (and so what if you are? In Europe, communists are members of parliament…

Oil: many production platforms are missing

From TheOilDrum (keep trying, their servers are overloaded) Newest (and very informative and very scary) report from an anonymous insider This is from an oil industry insider I consider quite credible. She was definitely right about everything in her last…

Katrina and the Net

Websites and blogs are the primary way that news from the Gulf is getting out. With print media and television disabled, the Net has become irreplacable. Newspapers and TV in the Gulf are using their websites to disseminate news. Most Gulf media…