$4 a gallon coming soon?
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 22:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Major Alaskan oil field shutting down
Iran threatens to use ‘oil weapon‘ in nuclear standoff
[tags]oil prices,gas prices[/tags]
Archive for August 6th, 2006
Hezbollah wages new generation of warfare
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 18:11 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Iran, Lebanon;
“I think that there is, perhaps for the first time, a very real possibility that the fourth-generation non-state force will win at the tactical and physical levels…”
– William Lind, director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
He’s talking about Hezbollah, and the article contains a useful, clear explanation of what 4th generation warfare is.
Meanwhile, Juan Cole ponders that Iran is the real target of the neocons in the Middle East, something that seems obvious enough to me.
[Iran has] one of the biggest holdings of gas and oil reserves in the world. second in gas, second in oil. On top of that they have direct access to the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Caspian Sea what makes them a potential platform for the distribution of oil and gas to South Asia, Europe and East Asia.
Back in D.C., Dubya hasn’t even spoken to any of the heads of state involved, not even Olmert. Well, it is August, we can’t have world events interfering with Dubya’s vacation time, now can we?
Iraqi civil war
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 13:30 - Category: Anti-war ;
It has already begun, U.S. troops say
From Riverbend in Baghdad
I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever know just how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis left the country this bleak summer. I wonder how many of them will actually return. Where will they go? What will they do with themselves? Is it time to follow? Is it time to wash our hands of the country and try to find a stable life somewhere else?
The UN resolution
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 11:32 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
The resolution calls for Hezbollah to disarm. Why should they? Especially when the resolution grants Israel to right to attack. This is a completely one-sided ‘agreement’ that was made without even consulting Hezbollah, much less allowing them at the negotiating table. It’s guaranteed to fail, which of course is the point. The neocon’s real target is Iran, they don’t want peace.
Hezbollah was born in 1982 after Israel carried out the invasion of Lebanon, taking the lives of 17,000 Palestinians and Lebanese.
Huge anti-war march in London
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 00:23 - Category: Anti-war Tags: Lebanon, Palestine;
Lenin’s Tomb has multiple photos and video plus lots of coverage of the massive demo on Saturday in Britain.
Craig Murray in particular made a brilliant speech. He took particular care to slam those who were busily assisting the bombing of Israel while denouncing Hezbollah for what little retaliatory strikes it could muster. And, like the best speakers, he bigged up the crowd: “I can see hope. You can’t see yourselves,” he said, “but I can see you stretch all the way back up Whitehall to Trafalgar Square. People of every religion and ethnicity, a genuine sample of modern Britain.”
Professor Manuel Hassassian, who would if Palestine was allowed an embassy, be that country’s ambassador to Britain, was particularly well-received. He touched fairly forcefully on the irony of neoconservatives pretending to support democracy in the Middle East while working to crush two democratic governments and two democratic movements.
Next Saturday here in the States there will be national protests in support of the people of Lebanon and Palestine in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and elsewhere.
My camcorder has arrived, my first ever, and I’ve been learning how to use it (camcorders are a teensy bit more complex than digital still cameras!) and will be posting footage from the upcoming LA demo as well as driving the truck that leads the march.
Santorum staffers collected voter sigs for Green
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 00:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
Six staffers on Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign - including an intern who tailed Democratic candidate Bob Casey Jr. in a duck costume - collected voter signatures to help place the Green Party on the fall ballot.
The intern, petitions show, collected signatures from voters in five counties in one day.
Examples such as the apparent one-person, five-county petition tour - plus unregistered voters, multiple signatures by the same person, and fake names - that could form the basis of a challenge, Rooney said. John Michael Glick - the Santorum intern who has worn a duck costume to hound Casey for “ducking” issues - appeared to have collected signatures in Beaver, Washington, Fayette, Juniata, and Schuylkill Counties, Rooney said.
“It’s un-ducking-believable,” he said. “Instead of his duck attire, one has to ask if he wore a Superman costume that day.”
All Green candidate Carl Romanelli had to do was loudly say, thanks for the money, even if it did come from supporters of an extreme right wing senator, then denounce Santorum, and detail what the Green Party is about. He could have done the whole thing in 2-3 sentences and given the media focus he briefly had, those comments would have gone nationwide. But instead he mumbled golly shucks, I guess the Republicans respect my views. No they don’t, Carl. They loathe your views. Lord, what a politically inept dimbulb.
[tags]Carl Romanelli[/tags]
Obligatory cute cat photo
Bob Morris @ Aug 6th 2006 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
