Federal agents then immediately staged an immigration raid.

The mayor of New Haven says the raid is retaliation for the city passing a law designed to give the undocumented a way to provide ID and open bank accounts, calling the raids a “symbolic act of intimidation.”

ICE, in their usual thuggish manner, entered the homes of the undocumented without warrants and didn’t bother to tell the city until well after it was over.

Let’s continue organizing and fighting back against racist assaults that are designed to intimidate and scare. ICE are just the low-paid and not very bright shock troops. The real problem is in the White House and Congress - and in a system that perpetuates and encourages abuses like this.

Since when did warrants become something law enforcement no longer has to use? And if they don’t need warrants to search the homes of undocumented workers, how much long until they won’t need them to search the homes of  citizens?

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Tens of thousands of troops and U.S. aircraft are involved. Yup, the Kurds are being backstabbed and betrayed yet one more time. They probably though the US was telling the truth about being allies.

Oh, Winston Churchill wrote in 1919 it would be a jolly good idea to use poison gas against Kurdish “uncivilised tribes” in order to spread a “lively terror.” The more things changes, the more they stay the same.

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Gonu hits Oman with 106 mph winds.

Global Voices Online article with links to local bloggers including Sleepless in Muscat.

The Oil Drum continuing coverage.

Detailed maps and data from Univ. of Central Florida, with predictions.

Predicted damage to Oman facilities
Qalhat (Sur) LNG terminal: 25-30 days down time
Mina al Fahal oil terminal: 15-20 days down time

A storm this powerful has never come ashore there since they started keeping records in 1945 - until now.

DJ comments in our previous post on Gonu, “I suppose there is some irony in a storm, caused (at least in part) by petroleum-related global climate change, that targets the source of the climate change that created it.”

Indeed.

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… and gum arabic.

Guess which country produces 80% of the gum arabic on the planet, (a substance used in Coca Cola as well as newspapers.) Guess who profits mightily from both of those. You got it.

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“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
– Thomas Edison, 1931

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