the slow war

2009-04-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

Radioactive waste was dumped off Somali coast:
www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

$3.4 billion for 'clean coal', $2.5 billion for energy efficiency and all other renewables:
www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/index.php/the-dirty-truth-behind-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cclean-coal%E2%80%9D-stimulus/
energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2009/02/energy-cornucopia.html

2009-04-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

*by 2006 top 1% were receiving 23% of pre-tax income. More than double since 1970's.

Kucinich on the Osama card (4/10/09 MSNBC The Ed Show):
earth2obama.org/?p=218#more-218

Lawrence Summers protested 4/9/09 on CSPAN:
video.google.com/videosearch?q=WE+WANT+OUR+MONEY+BACK%21+Dir+Economic+Council+Lawrence+Summers+Protested%21&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Palin and ethic complaints:
www.adn.com/palin/story/731157.html

Ron Paul on U.S. using North Korea missile test to fund MIC:
earth2obama.org/?p=168

Office of Strategic Initiatives:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Strategic_Initiatives

Is Obama's OSI, et al working hand in glove with 501c3's to push his agenda?
The list:
1. www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/sustainable_afghanistan.html

2009-04-11T10:17:00.001-07:00

Since 2001, 330 people have died from tasers:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090411/METRO03/904110353/Teen+dies+after+Warren+Police+use+Taser

2009-04-10T21:49:00.000-07:00

UAW members at GM 1970's: 450,000
UAW members at GM today: 45,000
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21133

Top 400 taxpayers in 1955 paid three times more of their income in taxes compared to now:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21130

Some banks backing out of bailout money:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11bank.html

Coast Savings to miss capital requirements (1990):
www.thefreelibrary.com/Coast+Savings+to+miss+capital+requirements.-a09853543

The Pentagon's $1 trillion prob:
www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Pentagons-Accounting-Mess

186 institutions have publicly turned down bailout money*:
www.startribune.com/business/42288087.html

*Also: "Treasury's standard agreement included a section allowing Congress to impose conditions retroactively." So was this not applied to bailout money to AIG, for example, as such would've allowed gov't to retake the money because of the exec bonus payments?

2009-04-07T19:58:00.000-07:00

Federal judge in Stevens case responds in opposite fashion to Don Siegelman, eliciting evidence of deep-seated partisan corruption:
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-stevens_web_apr08,0,786881.story

Websites/text messages connecting protesters:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html

The logic of financialisation (the global value of financial assets (which means: debt) in the whole world by September 2008 was $160 trillion: three-and-a-half times larger than the value of global GDP):
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21096

2009-03-27T12:29:00.000-07:00

On the bailout- "Wall Street welfare: socialism for the rich, market discipline and capitalism for the rest of us":
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20987

ERTA 1981-- top income bracket saw tax cut from 70% to 50%:
www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=6173&type=0

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National debt went from $2 trillion in 1980 to $6 trillion by 1990:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png

“If you have gone to the best schools and graduated from Oxford and Cambridge, and so on, you have instilled in you the understanding that there are certain things it would not do to say; actually, it would not do to think. That is the primary way to prevent unpopular ideas from being expressed. The ideas of the overwhelming majority of the population, who don’t attend Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge, enable them to react like human beings, as they often do. There is a lesson there for activists.”

- Noam Chomsky

2009-03-25T21:46:00.001-07:00

I'm working for $7.75/hr and Obama is giving $90 billion extra to other countries:
online.wsj.com/article/SB123678440844695721.html

"The mostly white bosses of the Democratic party a quarter century ago and today, prefer a Democratic base that votes, and then goes away after the elections...":
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20967

2009-03-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

Ammogate, Bolivia June '07:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19491794/

2009-02-12T13:19:00.000-08:00

crunch:
http://www.williamswhite.com/

2009-02-11T11:32:00.000-08:00

woman swims 700 miles:
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/02/07/figge.swims.atlantic.ap/index.html

media reports its the atlantic:
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax?urn=oly,140525

2009-01-29T07:04:00.001-08:00

Ann Patchett on Nashville:
travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/tmagazine/10talk-nashville-t.html

2009-01-28T21:17:00.000-08:00

14-year-old impersonates cop
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-teen-cop-26-jan26,0,6467334.story

2009-01-20T12:43:00.001-08:00

Saturday, April 19, 2008
March 26, 2003: www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0326-10.htm
Nov 19, 2007: www.counterpunch.org/quigley11192007.html

----Iraqi protests----
April 4, 2008: www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html
March 25, 2008: www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/25/iraq.main/
May 1, 2008: www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_050108WAB_may_day_olympia_protests_TP.bbd246e8.html

----Afghani Student-Reporter Parwez----
www.brandrepublic.com/News/802574/Afghan-journalist-granted-appeal-against-death-sentence/

---RNC 08 protests---
Sept. 1, 2008: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_protests

---Vietnam protest---
1970: www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1994

Secret Santas in 3 states spread cheer, $100 bills

2008-12-06T16:05:00.000-08:00

ST. LOUIS – At a suburban Goodwill store on Friday, Theresa Settles selected a large, black comforter to warm her family until she can raise the money to turn the gas heat back on. A petite woman approached, her face obscured by dark sunglasses and a wrapped winter scarf, and handed Settles two $100 bills stamped with the words "secret Santa." "The only condition," she said, "is that you do something nice for someone. Pass it on."

"I will," Settles said, the only words she could get out of her mouth.

The secret Santa was a protege of Kansas City's undercover gift giver, Larry Stewart, who died of cancer nearly two years ago. Stewart roamed city streets each December doling out $100 bills to anyone who looked like they might need a lift.

Before his death in January 2007, Stewart told a friend how much he would miss his 26 years of anonymous streetside giving, during which he gave away about $1.3 million. Stewart, from the city suburb of Lee's Summit, made millions in cable television and long-distance telephone service.

The friend promised Stewart he would be a secret Santa the next year. "He squeezed my hand and that was it," said the Kansas City Santa, who would say only that he was an area businessman and investor. "I honored a promise."

Two secret Santas, one from the Kansas City area and the other from the St. Louis area, descended on thrift stores, a health clinic, convenience store and small auto repair shop to dole out $20,000 in $100 bills, hugs and words of encouragement to unsuspecting souls in need.

In this economy, they weren't hard to find.

Cynthia Brown, 40, was laid off three weeks ago from her food service job. Santa found her at the St. Louis County health clinic and gave her $100, exactly what she had asked to borrow from her mother a night ago to buy food.

"I have three daughters, and I can't get unemployment yet. I was down in food," she said.

Leotta Burbank, 50, of West Frankfurt, Ill., was at a thrift store Friday to buy decorations for her sister-in-law's room at a St. Louis hospice, where she is dying of pancreatic cancer.

When Santa gave her money, Burbank collapsed into his arms and wouldn't stop hugging him.

"God provides," she said. "This is real emotional for me."

For the secret Santas, it's not about keeping Stewart's memory alive as much as the meaning behind his legacy.

"It's not about the man, it's not about the money, it's about the message," the Kansas City Santa said. "Anyone can be a secret Santa with a kind word, gesture, a helping hand."

He said the money is given without judgment, but on the condition that the receiver pass along a kindness to someone else. Stewart began his holiday tradition at a restaurant in December 1979, after he had just been fired. He gave a waitress $20 and told her to keep the change and was struck by her gratitude.

Stewart also gave money to community causes in Kansas City and his hometown of Bruce, Miss.

The secret Santas want to expand their operation to every state, but so far only nine givers operate in Charlotte, N.C., Phoenix, St. Louis and Kansas City. They plan to start giving in Detroit this holiday season.

Bush’s last rule-making hurrah

2008-11-21T12:52:00.001-08:00

With just 60 days left in his tenure, you might think that W.'s lame duck administration was sitting around relieved that another guy was taking over, counting the minutes until the flight leaves for Crawford.

Not quite.

Based on the flurry of quiet directives coming from the White House as the end of the term nears, it looks like the Bush Goose (or is it turducken?) isn't quite cooked yet.

In what has become a kind of presidential right-of-passage, the president (or really, the federal agencies that answer to him) has been pushing through a series of last-minute regulations that have the force of law. Everything from pollution controls to family-leave standards can be set by these rules.

And you thought your high school government teacher said that Congress made all the laws.

These de-facto laws are called "midnight rules" or "midnight regulations" because they happen at the end -- or midnight period -- of an administration. If the rules are published in the Federal Register by Friday, Nov. 21, they'll be very hard for President-elect Obama to reverse when he gets into office.

And that's the point. Sure, the administration had eight years to get a lot of this stuff accomplished. But according senior research fellow at George Mason University Veronique de Rugy, most midnight regulations "cater to special interests," and "that is why they are hurried into effect without the usual checks and balances."

George Bush isn't the first president to push through rules before the next guy can get in. Jimmy Carter gets that award. In fact, the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert says Cater's whirlwind of last-minute activity before Ronald Reagan took office is when the practice got named. "They became known as 'midnight regulations,' after the 'midnight judges' appointed by John Adams in the final hours of his Presidency."

George Bush doesn't get the award for the most rules shoved through after the two-minute warning, either. That goes to Bill Clinton who, according to de Rugy, set the record for number of pages published in the Federal Register at "more than 26,000."

So, what rules are the White House and all its federal agencies trying to get through this season?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the new rules, "open the way for commercial development of oil shale on federal land, allow truckers to drive for longer periods, and add certain restrictions on employee time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act."

Those run the gamut, but the ones getting the most ink are environmentally focused. The Los Angeles Times says environmentalists are angry by a host of loosened safeguards:

In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.

The Chicago Tribune did a special report saying the administration undercut a clean-air rule aimed at curbing childhood lead poisoning:

...the EPA had planned to require lead monitors next to any factory emitting at least a half-ton of lead a year. But after the White House intervened, the agency raised the threshold to a ton of lead or more, according to e-mails and other documents exchanged between the EPA and the Office of Management and Budget.

In an Oct. 31 press briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto was asked about environmental groups saying the White House was easing limits on pollution. First Fratto responded that the White House is "constrained" about discussing regulations under review, but then said, "I would be highly doubtful that there's any specific increase in environmental-related regulations."

Navigating the rule-making process can be laborious for the non-wonk type, but the non-profit, investigative journalism group ProPublica has tried to make it easy for people who want to investigate for themselves. ProPublica has a master list of Bush's midnight regulations here and they have posted a guide on "How to Ferret Out Midnight Regs Yourself." If you've got the time and inclination, a lot of this process is public record and online.

2008-09-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

Indifference to reality of the nationalist:
www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18800

2008-09-11T15:50:00.001-07:00

Regulated law-breaking:
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1134230020080911

2008-09-08T19:38:00.000-07:00

WaMu in trouble? Not CEO. He walks away with $23.5 mill:
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/statement-seiu-international-president-andy/story.aspx?guid=%7B845DCDBF-8704-4D1F-88AA-C6416545695E%7D&dist=hppr

Ringleader of Keating 5 (DeConcini) appointed to BOG of Freddie Mac by Clinton in 1995:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

2008-09-07T12:28:00.000-07:00

The new Karl Rove:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/schmidt.php
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/BAGTNH78UU1.DTL

2008-09-07T10:45:00.000-07:00

New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet:
www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1646611_1646683_1648904-4,00.html

The new Karl Rove:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/schmidt.php
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/BAGTNH78UU1.DTL

Palin as mayor:
online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html

2008-09-06T12:15:00.001-07:00

The power of 27,000 can sway billions of $; note that with "big profits and a record-level backlog," Boeing won't extend another 2% wage increase and zero increase in health to its workers (workers want 13% and no health increase, Boeing says 11% and $2500 bonus) illustrating the ruling class division from the working class, i.e. not sharing the big profits evenly:
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/boeing-machinists-walk-off-job/story.aspx?guid=%7B39FDF3E0-BA93-4C5A-A753-8231229C7752%7D&dist=msr_1

Crumbling U.S. infrastructure:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5986320.html

2008-09-05T17:58:00.000-07:00

Definitive background on recent South Ossentia conflict:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18676

2008-09-04T12:07:00.000-07:00

Go figure, Rove and Blackwell--man who gave Ohio to Bush in '04--are connected:
news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080904/pl_politico/13157

2008-09-03T21:17:00.000-07:00

Goodman and company arrested at RNC (sign of fascist state):
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18677

2008-09-01T15:06:00.000-07:00

Background on South Oseentia conflict:
www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/russia-and-georgia-background-conflict-20080812
www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/53721.htm

Blockade of Gaza--1.5 million cut off:
www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/trapped-collective-punishment-gaza-20080827

Pre-emptive arrests of RNC protesters (wtf?!):
www.startribune.com/politics/27695244.html

Russia:
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,575581,00.html

2008-08-31T13:54:00.000-07:00

Care to voyage around North Pole... by boat?:
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/for-the-first-time-in-human-history-the-north-pole-can-be-circumnavigated-913924.html

2008-08-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this therefore because of this), a fallacy of reasoning:
www.skepdic.com/posthoc.html

Unitary Executive Theory:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Unitary_executive_theory

2008-08-31T10:58:00.000-07:00

Carribean stock investments equals $388 billion:
www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/08s1175.pdf

Fed Reserve study on income and stock-holdings:
www.federalreserve.gov/Pubs/OSS/oss2/2004/bull0206.pdf

2008-08-31T08:04:00.000-07:00

Around '96 Louisiana presented with artificial barrier island concept (see comments):
www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Government/Louisiana_Gov._Jindals_Letter_To_President_Bush_Concerning_Gustav__7378.asp

Coast 2050:
www.coast2050.gov/reports/barrieratlas.htm

2008-08-30T10:59:00.000-07:00

Alaska oil pipeline: shoot a hole in it and spill 6,000 barrels, get 10-years jailtime; let it corrode and spill 5,000 barrels, get $20 mill fine, no jailtime:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay_oil_spill

July 26, 2008--FBI in Alaska:
www.gov.state.ak.us/archive-30892.html

Palin disappointed by Valdez ruling:
www.gov.state.ak.us/archive-8111.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34

Palin: Climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice are unreliable:
www.adn.com/polarbears/story/413710.html

2008-08-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

Legacy of Katrina--Obama's denial:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18591

McCain the warhawk:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18593

Looting and destruction of the Cradle of Civilization:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18565

2008-08-27T22:07:00.000-07:00

Danzinger Bridge, New Orleans--no guns found on men killed:
southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/08/charges-dismissed-against-officers-in.asp

New Orleans residents denied entrance to Gretna:
www.sptimes.com/2005/09/17/Worldandnation/Neighboring_town_deni.shtml

2008-08-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

Christmas Island Detention Facility (Aus):
www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/16449/

China's stance on not allowing Olympic protests? Avoidance!:
uncensor.com.au/uncensor/blog/sparks_fly_between_at_olympic_press_conference/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20Aug2008

Media blocked, harrassed and arrested reporting China Olympics, despite China's assertion "There will be no restrictions on journalists in reporting on the Olympic Games.":
www.amnesty.org.au/china/comments/16462/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20Aug2008
voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/2008/08/ioc_to_china_dont_hinder_journ.html

Kiva Fellows Program:
www.kiva.org/about/fellows-program/

2008-08-25T18:49:00.000-07:00

Four singled out at DNC protest:
blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/25/protests-grow-at-denver-convention-center/

No access granted for Olympics protesters, instead were arrested:
winnipegsun.com/Sports/Beijing2008/2008/08/25/6563051-sun.html

Protests in Haiti; food prices have doubled since April:
www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/08/25/america/OUKWD-UK-HAITI-UNREST.php

2008-08-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

Google invests $10 mill in geothermal:
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/google-puts-10m-into-new-geothermal-technology-903555.html

British MP Clegg on energy independence by 2050:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-reveals-his-grand-vision-on-renewable-energy-904120.html

British Advertising Standards Authority-'ads should not mislead, cause harm, or offend':
www.asa.org.uk/asa/

ASA rebukes Shell on 'greenwash':
www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/shell-rebuked-for-greenwash-over-ad-for-polluting-oil-project-892863.html

2008-08-20T21:53:00.000-07:00

US missile defense "is not aimed in any way at Russia"; yet is 180km from Russia's border:
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/08/200882115226859271.html

2008-08-13T16:53:00.000-07:00

19th Century Industrialization, A Slideshow:
www.pptpalooza.net/PPTs/AHAP/Early19cIndustrializationInAmerica.ppt

2008-08-10T20:11:00.001-07:00

218-page economic plan, biggest since depression--what is it though?:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/paulson

Chomsky on American Imperialism--"like trying to describe a triangular triangle..." (Boston Univ Apr 24 2008:
www.bu.edu/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=224

2008-08-08T21:50:00.000-07:00

Suskind and the memo:
www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/08/suskind/

What I didn't find in Africa:
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3D61E3AF935A35754C0A9659C8B63

2008-08-07T11:09:00.001-07:00

Troops out by 2010:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_bases

No paper ballots for you Ohio:
www.commondreams.org/views05/1018-22.htm

CIA-Wall Street link:
www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html

Timeline of CIA Atrocities:
www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

2008-08-06T19:38:00.000-07:00

VHF Marine Radio Frequencies (~157Mhz):
www.csgnetwork.com/marinefreqtable.html

CB Range (~27Mhz; >30Mhz do not bounce back to Earth):
home.att.net/~wizardoz/cbmw/rwpropag.html

2008-08-06T01:14:00.000-07:00

Chomsky on Universal Language; Expansion is the path to security; Media propaganda model:
artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=20338

At least 10 people had access to the flask containing that anthrax at Fort Detrick:
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/us/04anthrax.html?em

Chinese man imprisoned after his house and restaurant demolished for Olympics:
action.amnesty.org.au/centre/action/15801/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=06Aug2008

When American Olympians could've served good:
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/cycling/news?slug=ap-cyc-cyclists-masks&prov=ap&type=lgns

Freddie has $37 billion in capital, but might get $30 billion boost from Treasury (to meet regulations):
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.D1OM79_umc&refer=home

Analysis on Freddie Mac on GSEs:
www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2008/08/06/freddie-mac-is-no-investment.aspx
blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/08/06/how-fannie-and-freddie-work/

Medellin v. Texas--U.S. Supreme Court rules the Vienna Conventions are not binding on individual states:
www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/06/mexican.executed/
www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Medellin_v._Texas

2008-08-04T23:06:00.000-07:00

Chevron vs. the rain-forest:
www.chevrontoxico.com/article.php?id=110

2008-08-03T19:42:00.000-07:00

"brought to more than five million the number of Americans who've had their working hours reduced":
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18332

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Command,_Vietnam_Studies_and_Observations_Group

History of the Grand Canyon:
www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pyne-canyon.html

2008-08-02T16:44:00.000-07:00

"If there is a problem, (the Air Force) will take care of it," she said. "They do a very good job.":
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/overturned_missile

Military spies (a result of Mil-Ind Complex and Private Contractors):
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/maui_spy_case_3

Shifting view of the Hybrid:
web.archive.org/web/20061130000915/http://autos.yahoo.com/toyota_prius/
vs.
autos.yahoo.com/toyota_prius/

500 days in Iraq:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/the_long_haul_i

Rajneeshee bio-attacks:
www.gosleepgo.com/dalles-oregon-1984-rajneeshee-bioterror-attack

2008-07-31T20:43:00.000-07:00

CA State Financial Controller defies Gov order to cut jobs:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7536486.stm

Exxon profits $11b buys back $16b in stock;
and only 5% of $194b spent on r&d:
uk.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_3_MOLT/idUKN3135461320080731

Chinese labor camps plus Falun Gong:
en.epochtimes.com/news/6-3-10/39083.html
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4433198.ece

Saving Family Homes Act:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18293

Russia's response to US missile shield in Europe:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/25/nuclear.russia

Military-Industrial Complex:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18285

2008-07-29T20:27:00.001-07:00

Rocky Mt Institute Bldg:
www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid229.php

2008-07-26T21:00:00.001-07:00

Raids on immigrants:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hgZBs2D1j97CJ8KcDKibShJZMxmQD925S5MO0

2008-07-24T10:50:00.001-07:00

Seattle history:
www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/5101/hctb_ref/Seattle_ref.html

Nuke launch crew falls asleep:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/air_force_nuke_codes

UBS sued by NY AG; and 7 execs rake in $21 million in securities' sales to avoid losses:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/25/business/25rate.php

Petticoat Affair and John C. Calhoun:
www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis99.html

2008-07-21T00:41:00.000-07:00

Seattle flattened at 4MT:
www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclear_weapon_effects/nuclearwpneffctcalc.html?formAction=297&contentId=367

2008-07-18T23:28:00.000-07:00

Articles to impeach Bush:
pepib.convio.net/site/News2/38787611?page=NewsArticle&id=5299&news_iv_ctrl=1041

2008-07-17T20:41:00.000-07:00

Gore calls for widespread renewable energy:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/17/MN2711QRVL.DTL

Electrical problems were the most urgent noncombat safety hazard for soldiers in Iraq:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/18/africa/18contractors.php

Corn and catfish:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/18/business/18catfish.php

Wilkins Glacier:
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/antarctic-ice-shelf-collapse-imminent-866504.html

Antarctic Iceberg--B15:
www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/B15-Antarctic-Iceberg.html

Tuvalu & rising seas:
www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/rising-seas.html

2008-07-16T10:48:00.001-07:00

Water Pyramids in remote Africa:
www.aaws.nl/home.htm#

2008-07-15T20:27:00.000-07:00

Paul Street on Obama and the Obama many wish to see: www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3554

The American narrow-spectrum corporate-crafted presidential election extravaganza is not about truth-telling - it's about corporate-managed deception:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17974

Naomi Wolf:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc

2008-07-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

Whistleblower: U.S. gives away nuke secrets; and State Dept role in 9/11 (?):
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

Hanford Vit Plant:
www.bechtelvitplant.com/resr_videos.html

More banks to fail:
www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/07/04/us-total-crash-of-the-entire-financial-system-expected-say-experts/

In past 3 years U.S. created $4 trillion out of thin air; and HJ 362, closing down Iran:
www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/06/28/ron-paul-on-iran-energy-june-26-2008/

1 million terrorists:
aclu.org/privacy/35968prs20080714.html

Traficant refuses to execute foreclosures notices on recently unemployed:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Traficant

The United States ended in 1933; all U.S. property owned by foreign debt:
www.truthusa.org/articles/fed/bankruptcy.htm

U.S. planned to attack own citizens to predicate war with Cuba (Op. Northwoods):
www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

Platinum has increase five-fold since 9/11:
www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx

Total gold is $4.8 trillion vs. $135.2 trillion in stocks:
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=aF1439PVhAgk&refer=commodities

Sale of U.S. silver coins will almost double from last year:
www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/06/04/silver-rationing/

IndyMac run on deposits equal $1.9 billion:
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/15/content_8546973.htm
www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7649271

2008-07-09T15:13:00.000-07:00

China, India reject G8 Global Warming plan:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iDhfdxlthyulzNbmR8KGjPKvNzaAD91QGQT80

Russia opposes US Missile defense in Czech Republic:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-threat-over-us-shield-863080.html

Fulbright scholarships canceled for 8 Palestinian students:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-30-gaza-fulbright_N.htm

Hunt for the great American trophy:
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/09/business/chrysler.php

2008-07-08T06:19:00.000-07:00

61-year-old woman, a REAL security threat:
airamerica.com/blog/2008/jul/07/quick-somebody-locate-bill-rights

2008-07-07T18:10:00.001-07:00

-cause for concern-
In 2004, 88% of the 3.6 million votes thrown away were from people of color.
Palast on stolen votes in '04:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5224156256767455986&hl=en

July 7, 2008
Obama leads by twelve percentage points among women, but trails by three among men. Among White Women, McCain leads by just four percentage points. That’s a much smaller advantage among White Women than George W. Bush enjoyed four years ago.

Overall, McCain leads by nine among White Voters. Obama leads 94% to 3% among African-American voters and 61% to 30% among Hispanic voters.
rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Valdez timeline (scroll to end):
zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18124

No oversight in Iraq:
dpc.senate.gov/dpc-new2.cfm?doc_name=inv2

The beginning-- Iraq and Big Oil:
www.slate.com/id/2193926/

2008-07-05T18:32:00.000-07:00

oil and ecuador:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2778637338220112606&q=bbc+oil&ei=qCBwSKfWEYKIqgOC3ZynDw

2008-07-01T16:58:00.000-07:00

the coming depression:
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/bs_nm/starbucks_dc

recruiting soldiers:
www.military.com/military-report/money-from-new-army-program?ESRC=miltrep.nl

2008-06-29T22:58:00.000-07:00

From Exxon's US production chief, Otto Harrison, on Valdez: "Admit it; the oil spill's the best thing to happen" to the Natives.:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18035

and

"If I had a machine gun, I'd shoot every one of those white sons-of-bitches":
www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/1henrymakarkatatitleknative.jpg

2008-06-26T09:37:00.000-07:00

72 mpg Dodge sedan:
www.allpar.com/model/intrepid-esx3.html

First convert to diesel, then plant algae farms--9.5 million acres of algae farms could replace U.S. petroleum:
www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

Algae farm yields 5-8,000 g/acre (10x greater output than best food-crop):
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/03/19/

Algae at $20/g need to be at $2/g:
deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695237893,00.html

Ethanol and Biodiesel Yield per Acre from Selected Crops
www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2006/Update55_data.htm

Reset your assumptions:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102555.html

Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone':
www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/20050408.html
www.news.wisc.edu/14875

Engdahl--perhaps 60% oil price on speculation:
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_Speculation/oil_speculation.HTM

2008-06-24T15:49:00.000-07:00

Gov. Crist Oct '07, "...and that we not have somebody in the White House who thinks we need to drill off the coast of our state"; and the impacts of off-shore drilling in hurricane country:
cbs4.com/defedecolumn/offshore.drilling.fact.2.752174.html

Hurricane Katrina and oil platforms:
www.mms.gov/tarprojectcategories/hurricaneKatrinaRita.htm

2008-06-23T15:47:00.000-07:00

Average coal plant is 667 MW:
www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/factsheet.pdf

250 MW coal plant in Montana cost $700 million:
commerce.mt.gov/energy/Includes/NewsArticles/2007Articles/102207_Regional_Power_Supplier_Plugging_Into_Wind_Energy.pdf

Klondike III near Wasco will use 124 turbines to generate 221 MW:
www.ecmag.com/index.cfm?fa=article&articleID=7136

Klondike II cost est. $260 million:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biglow_Canyon_Wind_Farm

Cost of nuclear plant in South Carolina--$4.9 billion--produces 986 MW:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station

List of windfarms:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms

Hoquiam biodiesel plant:
greensmart.construction.com/features/archive/0710_Feature1.asp

Solarworld buys Hillsboro plant to invest $400 million in PVC:
www.nwlaborpress.org/2007/10-5-07Energy.html

Solar could provide 69% of U.S. electricity by 2050 with $420 billion in subsidies:
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan&ec=su_solar

2008-06-22T11:19:00.000-07:00

India's changing food crops; the consequence of importing wheat:
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/business/22indiafood.html

Pesticides chart:
www.foodnews.org/fulldataset.php

Autos replaced railroads, and led to explosion in miles traveled--"but one example of where the introduction of a more fuel-efficient mode, not only failed to decrease fuel consumption but substantially increased it":
www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/fuel-eff-20th-1.html

Rebound effect in energy conservation:
www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/energy/eng-80.cfm?&CFID=9099400&CFTOKEN=48978816

2008-06-17T03:48:00.001-07:00

Poncho-tent and soldiering:
www.geocities.com/equipmentshop/tent.htm

2008-06-16T01:45:00.000-07:00

Bill Moyers Doc--Iran-Contra, modern govt control:
here

U.S. Rice-- $1.3 billion out of $1.4 billion is subsidized:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14895

2008-06-15T13:04:00.001-07:00

100 mpg hybrid:
www.globalexchange.org/update/press/5161.html

2008-06-14T22:03:00.001-07:00

Cargill burns rainforest:
www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/photos/the-us-based-cargill-corporati-2

2008-06-13T11:56:00.000-07:00

Fed reserve and the Mandrake mechanism:

Types of inflation:
1. Demand-pull - demand outpaces supply. This would not be expected to persist over time due to increases in supply, unless the economy is already at a full employment level. ...increase in output will eventually become so small that the price of the good will (have to) rise.
2. Cost push - rise in core goods or services, e.g. oil crisis in 70's; it is argued many prices are sticky downward or downward inflexible (thus when money supply decreases, these prices do not decrease. What are potential factors? a) Money reserves? Corp. pulls money from investments/slows new developments to make up for lost capital/profit. b) Decrease in production? Corp. lays off workers and shuts down least cost-effective factories, mitigating decreasing sales, i.e. go with what's most profitable. But does this cycle ever see its end? Is that why these short-term solutions pan out? That is, corps. ride the waves of recession with these two strategies instead of decreasing price of their good. Whenever you hear recession you hear layoffs, falling investments, RARELY deflation, and only starting with non-core goods, e.g. clothing, or goods with highest profit (can afford to decrease price) and not directly linked to raw materials, e.g. pharmaceuticals.)

-So far this year, consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 4 percent, compared with a 4.1 percent increase for all of 2007.
-Energy prices are rising at a 16.5 percent annual rate.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080613/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy

United States Notes vs. Federal Reserve Notes:
www.fdrs.org/federal_reserve_system.html

Foreign govts. own $2.2 trillion of U.S. debt, rising from 15% to 46% of debt since '86; U.S. pays $300 B/yr interest on debt:
911review.org/Media/National_Debt.html

Unemployment thru the decades:
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us34.cfm

2008-06-12T07:28:00.000-07:00

In '04 Bush, Dean and Kerry opted out of Fund money:
www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/presfin04.html

'04 financing raised during Primary season:
-Kerry: $215.4 M
-Bush-Cheney: $258.8 M

As of May 1 '08 Romney had raised $100 M to McCain's $96 M, but lost candidacy 46% to 22%:
www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008

Stephen Heller, whistleblower of electronic voting machines:
www.bradblog.com/Docs/StephenHeller_Hust1106.pdf

Diebold in Ohio '04:
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

Voter caging:
www.gregpalast.com/bill-to-oulaw-voter-caging-introduced-in-us-senate/
www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5038/show

Sproul & Associates, defrauding voters:
judiciary.house.gov/OversightTestimony.aspx?ID=1400

Ohio '04:
www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud_ohio.html

Trade is ...by far the healthiest segment of the U.S. economy:
www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=13602

1968 electoral college map:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1968_Electoral_Map.png

Ohio campaign money to Democrats has doubled since 2000, and increased 66% since '04:
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2000
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2004
www.fecwatch.org/states/summary.php?state=OH&cycle=2008

Michigan campaign money up 38% since '04
Virginia same 38% increase
Wisconsin has doubled since '00
Missouri is stagnant
Iowa doubled since '00, huge contributors to Obama and Clinton
Indiana up 57% since '04

Texas swung to Democrats with LBJ in 1960, was less than 2% victory for coming Dem. wins in Texas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

2008-06-08T22:48:00.000-07:00

Cocoa, gold, rice--the great African scandal:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6756318286045228473&q=cocoa&ei=VLVMSND2JZTqqgPE7fzGDA

2008-06-06T14:54:00.000-07:00

"In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent":
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

U.S. has greatest inequality of wealth, wealth taxes in Europe:
www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03may/may03interviewswolff.html

U.S. billionaires more than doubled since '95 (129 to 292):
bostonreview.net/BR21.1/wolff.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_billionaires

2008-06-05T20:49:00.001-07:00

McCain changes tune:
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akmiLiXK6KgE&refer=home

McCain receives $61,650 from Swift boaters:
www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/hayes

In 2000, Rush won 61 percent of the vote, Obama won 30:
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/12/early_defeat_launched_a_rapid_political_climb/

Electoral fusion:
www.nwlaborpress.org/2005/5-20-05Cantor.html

Clinton healthcare reform:
www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_hillarycare_mythology

2008-06-04T16:17:00.000-07:00

1 gallon of ethanol for $1.75:
www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080423/BUSINESS01/804230389&s=d&page=3#pluckcomments

gas w/o ethanol would be $3.70/g instead of $3.25/g (Merrill Lynch advisor):
domesticfuel.com/category/price/

-housing bill-
two main clauses:
1. lowered principal, to compensate for falling house prices
2. fixed interest rate, vs. hybrid adjustable
money.cnn.com/2008/05/15/real_estate/Dodd_Shelby_announcement/

hr 634-- 500,000 would benefit:
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/hous-m21.shtml

Foreclosure Prevention Act-- $2 billion to homeowners, $6 billion to corporations:
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/16bailout.html

newshour--barney frank interview:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/housing_05-08.html

"doing nothing would have caused a more prolonged recession (thus not benefiting tax-payers in the long run)"

-eligible mortgages may be reduced to 85% of appraised home value, e.g. a $100,000 loan will only have to be paid back as $85,000

to the question of why should the defaulters be bailed out, and liability be placed on tax-payers, the answer is it benefits everyone, including tax-payers, because it maintains status quo, a functioning society where those tax-payers need people to go in to work, maintain productive role in society.

2008-05-31T10:23:00.000-07:00

the long memory:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17778

u.s. oil imports down in 2007:
www.seacoastnrg.org/2008/03/31/us-oil-production-increases-barely-imports-down/

china oil imports down in April y-o-y:
www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/05/12/afx4995121.html

2008-05-29T02:09:00.000-07:00

haiti--no tariffs or no aid (1994):
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/453.html
www.prevalhaiti.com/messages.php/8109

haiti history:
www.prevalhaiti.com/messages.php/8568

congress supports Haiti debt cancellation:
www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/2002_Debtrelease

mexico anti-dumping order of U.S. rice:
www.usarice.com/doclib/doclib_popup.cgi?file=2002-e8f673edd337f13e60d2fc00f7b6717c.pdf

mexico loses anti-dumping case of U.S. HF Corn Syrup:
www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2001/October/US_Wins_WTO_Antidumping_Case_on_High_Fructose_Corn_Syrup.html

u.s. accuses vietnam of dumping catfish:
www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/Papers/catfishfinal1.doc
www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/issues/antidumpingpaper.html

new info on 9/11--Saudi govt involvement:
www.cooperativeresearch.org/news.jsp?oid=140393703-423

2008-05-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

"The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year" (not quite, but for 3 months):
www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update55.htm

one bushel of corn (56 lbs) = 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 28 pounds of catfish, or 32 pounds of chicken:
www.iowacorn.org/cornuse/cornuse_20.html

one bushel of corn = 2.8 gallons of ethanol and 18 lbs of animal feed:
www.iowacorn.org/ethanol/ethanol_3a.html

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corn = 86 calories / 100g or 860 cal / 2.2 lbs or 390.9 cal / lb
one bushel of corn = 56 lbs or 21890.4 cal
one acre of corn = 170 bushels (approx.) or 9520 lbs or 3,721,368 calories
person needs 2500 calories / day or 912,500 / year
one acre of corn provides calories for 4 people

wheat = 327 cal / 100g or 3270 cal / 2.2 lbs or 1690.9 cal / lb
one bushel of wheat = 60 lbs
one acre of wheat = 47 bushels (approx.) or 2820 lbs or 4,768,338 cal
person needs 2500 calories / day or 912,500 / year
one acre of wheat provides calories for 5.2 people

rice = 365 cal / 100g or 3650 cal / 2.2 lbs or 1659 cal / lb
one bushel of rice = 45 lbs
one acre of rice = 160 bushels (approx.) or 7200 lbs or 11,944,800 cal
person needs 2500 calories / day or 912,500 / year
one acre of rice provides calories for 13 people
(note this is rough rice and not milled rice)

soybeans = 446 cal / 100g or 4460 / 2.2 lbs or 2027.3 cal / lb
one bushel of soybeans = 60 lbs
one acre of soybeans = 40 bushels (approx.) or 2400 lbs or 4,865,520 cal
person needs 2500 calories / day or 912,500 / year
one acre of soybeans provides calories for 5.2 people

**these figures do not reflect moisture content of the grain, nor do they reflect such factors as food processing, climate, irrigation needs, or fertilizer/pesticides used. That said, in 2006 Iowa grew enough corn to supply 50,377,000 people with calories for the year; and the U.S. corn crop alone could provide all the calories for the U.S. population and still have enough extra for 18 million people (not counting extra calorie intake).**

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mexico & central america import U.S. rough rice:
www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February07/Findings/RoughRice.htm

cuba imports U.S. feed corn:
www.allaboutfeed.net/home/id102-26802/cuba_outlet_for_ddgs_from_iowa.html

organic corn yields:
www.newfarm.org/depts/notill/features/2007/0307/cornresearch.shtml
hcs.osu.edu/news/detail.lasso?id=447
www.chewswise.com/chews/2007/07/can-organic-far.html

"Average corn grain yield was 30% greater in a corn-soybean-wheat-hay rotation than in a corn-soybean rotation... This research shows that increasing crop rotation length and complexity can address the two most important production challenges in organic grain crop production: providing adequate nitrogen for crop needs and decreasing weed competition":
www.ars.usda.gov/research/projects/projects.htm?ACCN_NO=407791&showpars=true&fy=2007

U.S. ethanol imports:
www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/statistics/

U.S. doubled import of Iraqi oil prior to invasion:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/26/iraq.oil

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Iraq oil exports / U.S. imports

2001 1.6m b/d / 795,000 b/d us
2002 1.5m b/d / 566,000 b/d us
2003 0-1.5m b/d / 500,000 - 1m b/d
2004 2.0m b/d / 800,000 b/d
2005 1.5m b/d / 531,000 b/d
2006 1.5m b/d / 553,000 b/d
2007 1.7m b/d / 433,000 b/d
2008 1.9m b/d / 780,000 b/d (Feb.)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/iz.html
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/29984
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4569360.stm#graph
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Iraq/OilExports.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030703_us_intentions.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0504.html

2008-05-27T21:47:00.000-07:00

oil speculation--OPEC is "impotent":
www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?StoryId=26f9bf6d-d6d2-4c47-bf9d-52e2684c2c83
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_Speculation/oil_speculation.HTM
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aus2.Nneh3Os&refer=news
www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/05/oil_speculation.html

oil prices hit two-year low (2001):
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31053483_ITM

2008-05-20T21:35:00.000-07:00

saudi's $700 billion US investment in 30 years:
www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Crowe/Crowe09/Crowe09.html
www.saudi-american-forum.org/Newsletters/SAF_Essay_22.htm

decline of the mid-west:
www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2102/Coffman_Anthan/Coffman_Anthan.html

2008-05-18T20:02:00.000-07:00

haiti's lost aid:
globalpolicy.org/security/issues//haiti/2006/0815rfk.htm

2008-05-18T04:28:00.000-07:00

tax cuts for the wealthy-
1986:
www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/tax-reform-act-1986/4942724-1.html
2001:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Growth_and_Tax_Relief_Reconciliation_Act_of_2001

gasoline tax:
dunndailyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubsectionID=10&ArticleID=69871&TM=53184.58
www.artba.org/economics_research/reports/gas_tax_history.htm
ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Transportation/trans-24.cfm?&CFID=8539261&CFTOKEN=71797464

1956 price of gas: $0.20 / gallon
1956 federal gasoline tax: $0.03 / gallon or 15%
(states also tax at 2-7 cent rate)

5/2008 price of gas: $3.72 / gallon
2008 federal gasoline tax: $0.184 / gallon or 4.9%
(or with average state gas tax included: 12.6%)

2008-04-24T13:29:00.000-07:00

Vet suicides and Pfc. Jason Scheuerman:
www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17250
www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8838309
www.fallenheroesmemorial.com/oif/profiles/scheuermanjasond.html
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/20/america/A-Soldiers-Suicide-Note.php
www.veteransforamerica.org/2007/12/20/despite-signs-suicidal-gi-was-kept-in-iraq/

2008-04-20T20:06:00.000-07:00

"...in the end the geopolitical calculus of the United States and Iran has to do with what kind of Shiite government they want in control.":
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/world/middleeast/21shiite.html?_r=1&ref=world

al-Sadr and the Maysan province:
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110305E.shtml

Genetic Modification cuts crop yield:
www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html

Orangeburg Massacre, Feb 8, 1968:
www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17208

Army tactical textbook on Vietnam:
www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/tactical/index.htm#Contents

Personal account of Vietnam:
libcom.org/library/gi-resistance-vietnam-account-dave-blalock

One Marine in Vietnam:
www.securenet.net/3rdbn5th/mike35/first.htm

2008-04-18T10:28:00.000-07:00

foreign companies buying U.S. roads:
jonesreport.com/articles/150706_foreign_buying_roads.html

T-bond holdings:
www.treasury.gov/tic/mfhhis01.txt

war spending:
www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2006/110206a.html
www.csmonitor.com/2007/0116/p01s01-usfp.html
uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/b9c5f078-8bbb-496b-bc17-82a6a241c26e

anti-war? not at bush events:
www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/08/22/white-house-manual-details-how-to-deal-with-protesters/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2007%2F08%2F21%2FAR2007082101662_pf.html&frame=true

Cheney: Just because somebody makes a campaign contribution, doesn't mean they should be denied the opportunity to express their view to government officials.
www.alternet.org/story/18285/

pope won't attend white house dinner:
thinkprogress.org/2008/04/12/pope-will-not-attend-his-own-white-house-dinner/

obamas promises:
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/21/19510/3700/247/481813

2008-04-10T10:31:00.000-07:00

Bush: If [Iraq] were to say, leave, we would leave:
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070524.html

Maliki: U.S. troops should be pulled out as situation permits:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
thinkprogress.org/2008/04/10/maliki-disagrees-petraeus/

2008-04-07T15:42:00.001-07:00

modern pirates:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/french-navy-in-pursuit-of-yacht-seized-by-pirates-805402.html

2008-04-02T23:35:00.000-07:00

obama speech:
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-obama.html?_r=1&sq=obama%20speech&st=cse&oref=slogin&scp=1&pagewanted=print

march 14, 2008 Ronald Kessler wsj opinion on wright and obama:
"This raises legitimate questions about Mr. Obama's fundamental beliefs about his country."
online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120545277093135111.html

media matters analysis:
mediamatters.org/items/200803140007

2008-03-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

trial of Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen:
orig.clarionledger.com/news/0005/07/07miburn.html

2008-03-22T19:45:00.000-07:00

African's first-hand account of 1756 arrival:
www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/8.htm

[The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African (London, 1789)]

2008-03-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

archiving and logging HD footage:
www.imagineproducts.com
www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/iditarod.html

2008-03-13T11:39:00.000-07:00

native resistance of land grab in B.C.:
www.rabble.ca/rpn/files/rey/rey-2008-03-11.mp3

2008-03-11T14:19:00.000-07:00

bush and cheney arrest order:
www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/27/6663/

john marshall:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall

www.answerseattle.org/upcomingEvents.aspx

2008-03-10T09:20:00.000-07:00

pharmacy of tap-water:
www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-PharmaWater-I.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

2008-03-08T21:41:00.000-08:00

traditional navigation in the western pacific:
www.museum.upenn.edu/Navigation/Misc/contents.html

2008-03-07T11:26:00.001-08:00

www.myspace.com/cftpa
www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic
www.myspace.com/marieesioux

2008-03-05T10:00:00.000-08:00

sub-prime March 29, 2007; next will be 'Alt A' borrowers:
www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=3043

2008-03-04T15:39:00.000-08:00

For example: "almost no one expected any problems for the vote on military spending because few politicians would dare challenge the defence industry".

www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16707

craigslist

2008-03-04T10:16:00.000-08:00

Nice Save - w4m
Reply to: pers-592801832@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-03-01, 10:29PM PST

You almost fell off your bike on the Burke-Giman around the UW. all i have to say is nice save...i thought you were a goner.

Cute boy in the coffee shop window - w4m - 21
Reply to: pers-591811470@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-02-29, 9:35PM PST

How many times do I see you a week? I walk by on my way home from work almost every day and see you through that window. god you are cute. i dont know if you noticed the eye contact but I have...I'm taken but you are beautiful...so there I said it. haha.

2008-02-29T11:44:00.000-08:00