@jj – as TTGVWYCI said, a loading problem – could be your local cache, your providers cache or the typepad servers – happens to me once a awhile but usuall goes away after reloading.
—
Quiz
Your ‘Do You Want the Terrorists to Win’ Score: 96%
I didn’t make the 100%?

Posted by: b | Dec 5 2006 9:45 utc | 4

b., the quiz is at Terror Quiz — the link you have was to the results, and although that page told me I hadn’t answered all the questions I still scored 23%!
After going to the quiz my actual result was only 70% … what am I doing wrong?

Posted by: jonku | Dec 5 2006 10:09 utc | 6

@jj:

Choose “Activity” from the “Window” menu. It should have a list of all the files currently being “used”. What do you see as the status message for the file “http://www.moonofalabama.org/styles01.css”?

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Dec 5 2006 10:32 utc | 8

I scored 98%, too.
See you in Halliburton’s gulags, Cloned Poster! 🙂

Posted by: Sizemore | Dec 5 2006 11:02 utc | 10

@Truth – “not found”

Posted by: jj | Dec 5 2006 11:28 utc | 12

98%! Cool!

Posted by: Dismal Science | Dec 5 2006 11:37 utc | 14

jj, just try holding down all the magic keys: shift, control, apple and alt, then click the reload page icon with your mouse. You never know …
I still think that the moon of alabama stylesheet is stuck and this may help.
Good luck …

Posted by: jonku | Dec 5 2006 11:42 utc | 16

@jj:

Double-click it in the Activity window (to open it in a new window). Then try using reload on it. I’m in Safari myself, and have no problems, so this is on your end.

@jonku:

Firefox isn’t bad, but the interface screams “this is a port of a program from another operating system”. (And, strangely for a Linux-centric program, it doesn’t understand the concept of being installed in an administrative account but used from a standard account.)

It isn’t as bad as OpenOffice, though. If you use a Mac for long, you eventually come to realize that there are a lot of programs which are great on the Mac but which are utter disasters on Windows — Eudora (at least as of 5.0; haven’t tried the Windows version recently), QuickTime Player, and others which aren’t coming to mind. OpenOffice is the other way around. The Windows version is highly useable. The Mac version is painfully un-Mac-like. (Possibly because the OpenOffice developers actually helped the developers who wrote the Windows version, but have largely ignored anyone who tries to make a decent Mac version.)

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Dec 5 2006 11:52 utc | 18

Took the quiz and scored 100%. Guess I’m headed to Guantanamo too. Maybe we’ll have to have a contest to come up with a name for the bash we’ll have when we all meet there, eh?

Posted by: Bea | Dec 5 2006 12:30 utc | 20

The Rape of Appalachia – Vanity Fair

With underground mining, the industry’s arrogance is usually hidden, like the miners below and the coal they’re prying loose from the earth. Not until a tragedy does its flouting of laws and regulations come to the surface. But every day in West Virginia, that arrogance is on display aboveground, in the grimly efficient, devastating practice known as mountaintop removal. Hardly any miners die as a result of it, though one of the four deaths after Sago did occur, freakishly enough, when a bulldozer operator on a mountaintop site hit a gas line that ignited and then set him afire. With mountaintop removal, it’s the landscape that suffers: mile after mile of forest-covered range, great swaths of Appalachia, in some places as far as the eye can see, are being blasted and obliterated in one of the greatest acts of physical destruction this country has ever wreaked upon itself….
The story of mountaintop mining—why it happens, and what its consequences are—is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country’s physical legacy—the purple mountain majesties that are America—is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day. They remain oblivious to the fact that, along with the mountains, a mountain culture is being lost: a culture of families who, like Larry Gibson’s, go back six, eight, or more generations—a community of deeper historical roots than almost any other in America today.

Posted by: Bea | Dec 5 2006 12:54 utc | 22

Israel refusing foreign nationals the right to enter the occupied territories:
Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory(oPt)
A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or visiting the oPt

The Issue: An undeclared Israeli policy is currently in effect. It denies entry and/or re-entry to foreign nationals, who want to visit, live, or work in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Israel is arbitrarily turning away foreign nationals at Israeli ports of entry, which are the only way to reach the oPt, causing unjustified hardships: families are being separated, investors are exiting the country, educators are unable to reach their schools and universities, students’ education is being disrupted, and elderly are being left without caretakers, to state but some of the ramifications.

Visit the site to learn much more: http://www.righttoenter.ps.

Posted by: Bea | Dec 5 2006 14:43 utc | 24

Is anybody listening this this shit? I simply loath these used car salesmen/preacher motherfuckers, every last one of them…
On the Air: KPFA Special Broadcast: Robert Gates Confirmation Hearing

Live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Robert Gates Secretary of Defense confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. With Larry Bensky, Aaron Glantz and our guest experts.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 5 2006 15:00 utc | 26

Not one goddamn word about this on Dailykos… This time last year there would have been 34 live blogging diaries on something as Important as this.
What a fucking pony show, asking a paid liar to tell the truth. And everone pretends that …ah, fuck it.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 5 2006 15:35 utc | 28

ensley, katrina and asking whats best for the troops. sending them into battle well equipped bla bla only for a good cause bla bla..
when the answer is less oil.

Posted by: Anonymous | Dec 5 2006 16:02 utc | 30

uncle, i never listen to that crap. it turns my stomach. i know if anything unpredictable happens i can catch it later on crooks and liars.

Posted by: annie | Dec 5 2006 16:05 utc | 32

Yeah, I turned this crap off once annie, guess I’m just a sucker for abuse…lol

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 5 2006 16:13 utc | 34

re hearings – i imagine this is what it’s like listening in on conversations at the funny farm – complete disconnect from the real world. larry & the coverage @ pacifica are usually worthwhile, though.

Posted by: b real | Dec 5 2006 16:29 utc | 36

“also had the stylesheet issue for about 5 minutes yesterday. typepad appeared sluggish all day, so i assume the two are related.”
Crossed signals from b’s dental work?

Posted by: beq | Dec 5 2006 17:24 utc | 38

@b #39
Thanks for the excellent link.

Posted by: Bea | Dec 5 2006 18:44 utc | 40

For those who enjoyed Marc Parent’s daily compendium of articles, after being kicked off “livejournal”, he set up a “blogspot” site. Crimes and Corruptions of the New World Order News

Posted by: jj | Dec 5 2006 18:50 utc | 42

@Jonku, why did you switch to clones?

Posted by: jj | Dec 5 2006 19:22 utc | 44

CNN – Gates approved

Posted by: crone | Dec 5 2006 22:10 utc | 46

@Jonku:

Back in the late 1990s I was affiliated with a large institution. Said large institution had a standard suite of software for all users; they had purchased site licenses for everything. The weird thing is, they had no problem buying two separate programs if the same program wasn’t available for Mac and Windows, but if there was a program that had versions for Mac and Windows, no matter how ugly on one side or the other, they always went with it for both sides. (It was weird because it didn’t actually save any time for them… from a support perspective, which is all that matters from their end, the Windows and Mac versions of a program will always be different enough that you might as well have separate programs entirely.)

Eudora’s interface is, ultimately, built around Mac conventions. (In fact, its roots are built around Mac conventions from before System 7.) If you’re already used to using the Mac version, you may not notice, but there are certain things that it does on Windows that don’t make much sense within the Windows user interface. (With the caveat that I’m recalling version ~4 or 5) I think the Mac UI is superior to the Windows one, but either one is better than something that has elements of both.

I have both Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 installed on my machine for testing web pages. And I use BBEdit, too. BBEdit on Mac OS X is amazing — it’s scriptable, so you can use AppleScript, but it also lets you execute shell scripts that are open. And since Mac OS X has the osascript command on the command line and the do shell script command in AppleScript, it means that you can make BBEdit do just about anything. It’s like having a swiss army knife where one of the blades contains a bigger swiss army knife, which in turn contains a toolchest, which in turn contains a machine shop.

If you haven’t tried it yet, take a look at OpenOffice.org. Free cross-platform open-source office software, even if the Mac version has a nasty interface. But I’m getting seriously OT here. Sorry everyone.

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Dec 5 2006 23:00 utc | 48

truth
you go right ahead – i learn much from yr posts on clinical(computer) questionsas well as other matters

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 5 2006 23:53 utc | 50

Hello, I am paradox, of The Left Coaster.
I need to mail Mr. Billmon about a matter he would find relevant. If anyone has a valid email address for him I would greatly appreciate it. He knows me, but I’m not on yapping terms with the man, is all.
joseph.arrieta@gmail.com

Posted by: need_billmon's_real_email_adr | Dec 6 2006 0:05 utc | 52

As Rice’s Iran strategy fizzles, Cheney waits
By Gareth Porter

Last month, the Europeans circulated a draft that would have required that countries prevent the sale and supply of a long list of equipment, technology and financing to all of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, including dual-use items and related technologies. It would have required that states “prevent the supply, sale or transfer” of such technologies, ban travel by Iranian officials connected with either program, and freeze their assets.
But it did not characterize Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to international peace and security, as Rice wanted. Furthermore, it would have allowed Moscow to continue its assistance to Iran for the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
The Russians, however, were insisting on a much narrower set of restrictions than those provided in the European draft. In early November, the six nations were deadlocked on the scope of the resolution. Now the European Union has circulated a draft that would only prohibit export of the most dangerous items that could be used to make a nuclear weapon or a ballistic missile, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Bill Varner.
But the EU draft retains the same travel ban and asset freeze to which Russia had objected previously. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear on Friday that Moscow would support “sanctions aimed at preventing nuclear materials and sensitive technologies from getting into Iran” but objects to sanctions aimed at individuals, such as travel bans and the freezing of assets abroad. “Russia is against punishing Iran,” he declared.
The imminent collapse of Rice’s coalition on Iran sanctions reflects the fundamental conflict of interest between Russia and the Bush administration, not only on Iran’s nuclear program but on broader geopolitical issues.
But Rice’s diplomatic track on Iran was narrowly constrained from the beginning by a broader Bush administration policy of refusing any diplomatic compromise with Iran. Cheney and then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld apparently agreed to let Rice go down that track in early 2005 because they knew that any diplomatic effort through the Security Council to get sanctions against Iran would end in failure and that such a failure was a necessary prelude to any use of force.
According to an article by the neo-conservative Lawrence F Kaplan in The New Republic on October 2, aides to Cheney have been convinced from the beginning that Rice’s Iran strategy would not be an obstacle to their own plans because they knew it would fail.
The aides to Cheney insisted that the administration was not yet prepared politically for a shift to the military track, according to Kaplan. But once Rice’s diplomatic effort becomes a highly visible failure, Cheney and his allies in the administration are poised to begin the process of ratcheting up pressure on Bush to begin the political planning for an eventual military attack on Iran.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 6 2006 0:16 utc | 54

In a last effort to ditch the euphemism “rubber stamp” Congress, the Senate Armed Services Committee has unanimously approved the nomination of Robert Gates as the new SecDef after an exhaustive single day of hearings.
Gates assured the committee that he will approach the problem of Iraq differently than his predecessor, but hasn’t yet worked out exactly what that means.

Gates was less forthcoming on how he thought U.S. fortunes in Iraq could be improved, saying he wanted to consult first with military commanders and others.

Gates was, however, critical of the US’s success in Iraq thus far, which demonstrates a marked change in the administration’s attitudes and policies regarding “evil anti-American liberal saboteurs and wreckers who give aid and comfort to the enemy by undermining the noble efforts of our men and women in the armed forces and who want the terrorists to win”. A mere two years ago, Gate’s comment that “What we are now doing is not satisfactory” would have been considered treasonable and a hanging offense, however he was careful to note that the US is “…neither winning nor losing” in Iraq and demonstrated solidarity with White House speechwriters by dropping Federally Approved Turn-Of-Phrase Number 463-2 (viz.“All options are on the table”) in lieu of outlining any specific course of action.
In other news, despite the fact that as of January 2007, all Americans will be given computer-generated “terror scores” which might bar them from travelling, the FBI has admitted that the federal computer system and database they are using is not yet working properly due to lack of funds.

The funding concerns over Sentinel follow the FBI’s decision last year to scrap a botched $170 million project to build a paperless case management system. FBI Director Robert Mueller abandoned the project, called Virtual Case File, after consultants said it was obsolete and riddled with problems.
Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont., questioning whether the funding gap would bring cuts to the FBI’s counter-terrorism programs, said “mismanagement of this project seems to know no bounds.”
“I remain seriously concerned about the handling of this project,” Leahy said. “The American people cannot afford another fiasco.”

While it has been acknowledged that the money needed to fix this and every other problem facing the country could be solved by going through the change found in the couches of a few wealthy donors (or, as Bush has referred to them, “my base”), an anonymous spokesman has keenly observed that “…we didn’t get rich by writing checks and getting things fixed.”
While the money needed to properly identify criminals and miscreants (such as anti-war protestors) is still forthcoming, there is still plenty of cash available to allocate to projects involving the detention of the improperly identified criminals and miscreants, the destruction of sovereign nations, and research into how to burn people alive while still calling it a “nonlethal” approach.

Posted by: Monolycus | Dec 6 2006 3:21 utc | 56

@Monolycus et al…
Well, my worse fear has now come true, aside from the fact that our new kind of Nazism has now gone underground, out of sight out of mind, the heat has been taken off the elite ptb. It seems that almost everything I’ve read over the past week or two extols the “triumph” of the Democratic party’s victory in the mid-term elections. Even the hard-left blogs and sites are at best rather silent and/or conciliatory.
The Democrats gained power almost entirely by simply saying they were “anti-Bush”. We still don’t know what they are “for”. Even worse, recent statements by Howard Dean and several newly-elected Democrats, to the effect that they will let Bush have his war for the next two years is both saddening and enraging. Does this mean that the Democrats will not move against any other Bush policies? What about tax cuts for the wealthy, the USA PATRIOT Act, habeas corpus, constitutional matters like free speech, political prisoners and other critical issues?
No, I wanted the horror show out in the open. I wanted these jackels where we could see them. Now the continued inertia has merely been hidden from view. There will be no chance to change now, against a completely indoctrinated people and a military prepared to carry out orders of locking up or even firing on it’s own citizens. Many MOA’s were upset and frustarted with my stance on wanting the rethugs to win the midterms. Now possibly you know why. The leviathan has sprayed it’s black ink, and gone into the shadows. Everyday this week I have talked to people whom have gone back and about their business, as if it is all over. The pressure cap has been turned. The cap is actually a pressure release valve, and has done it’s work, of letting off the steam.
I’m reminded of the movie/book Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, or Harold Pinter’s play, “A Kind of Alaska”. Welcome back to American Encephalitis lethargica. Now back to our regularly scheduled program uninterrupted…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 6 2006 4:31 utc | 58

elite ptb
‘Scuse my ignorance, but what is “ptb” pray tell??

Posted by: jj | Dec 6 2006 5:01 utc | 60

@jj (#60)
PTB is shorthand for “Powers That Be”… you know, those guys who are “Praying To Bernanke”.

Posted by: Monolycus | Dec 6 2006 5:57 utc | 62

I wanted the horror show out in the open
uncle, my expectation is for us to see some truth spewing out thru oversite etc, but not necessarily translating into reform. are they in their seats yet? no. just give it some time, without much expectation. for example, today we found ut how many contractors are in iraq. the extent of privatization of the military. things like that. dems would need both houses and the excecutive branch for reform, then it would still not be all you want, but it would be significant.

Posted by: annie | Dec 6 2006 6:28 utc | 64

@jonku:

Get a Macbook or a Mini (one of the Intel-based ones) and a copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Then you can install all your old Windows software inside Parallels. Since you already own a copy of Windows, it isn’t too pricey.

Right now the online U.S. Apple store has both refurb Minis and refurb Macbooks available, so the hardware is (relatively) cheap, too.

Oh, and try TextWrangler, if you get a Mac. It’s a stripped-down (and free) version of BBEdit. It’s missing the built-in HTML tools and some of the higher-level integration, but it has grep searching, shell script execution, and ftp open-and-save, and it’s scriptable. Not quite as useful for web design as BBEdit — the “Edit Tag” command in BBEdit is amazingly useful — but it still does a lot.

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Dec 6 2006 8:16 utc | 66

If you have’nt seen the series of Abu- Ghraib paintings by S.American artist Fernando Botero, heres the best selection I’ve seen. LINK Botero is probably the most un-likely famous artist (in the world) to take this on, normally fat and happy (literally) type art, for which he is famous. Which I suppose also gives these an even greater edge of tragedy.

Posted by: anna missed | Dec 6 2006 8:45 utc | 68

anna missed, I looked at them. Except that they are all fat, it reminds me of Otto Dix, who also painted womderfully until he realised the horror of his post-Great War generation. Fernando Botero, eh?

Posted by: jonku | Dec 6 2006 9:28 utc | 70

Juling’s dad named as model father
ISSARA NEWS CENTRE

After receiving his certificate for being a role model father yesterday, he travelled back to take care of his daughter, who is being treated at the Prince of Songkhla Hospital in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district.
He said although his daughter had been lying unconscious for many months, he and his wife always caressed her and spoke to her, in the hope that one day she would regain consciousness and be able to talk with them and leave her bed.
Mr Soon said he now wants to put the tragedy behind him.
”I don’t want to bear any grudges against them,” Mr Soon said, referring to villagers involved in the hostage drama in Gujingruepo village in Narathiwat’s Rangae district, where his daughter was brutally beaten.
”Let bygones be bygones,” he said.
No such tragedy should befall anyone else in future, Mr Soon said, adding that he still believed most southerners and government officials in the three southernmost provinces are good people.
The man said he would leave it up to the authorities to decide whether teacher Juling would be transferred to a hospital in Chiang Rai, her hometown.
”Juling had been well-behaved since she was young. I always taught her to think of other people first,” Mr Soon said.

Juling is from Chiang Rai. She wanted to go to the South of Thailand to teach, to help the people there. And as soon as she became a teacher she did go. She was a very gifted painter and was painting at the school in Ban Joh Koh School in Joh I Rong district in Narathiwat province.
She and another teacher were brutally beaten by villagers at the end of May this year. They had been taken hostage by the villagers after the Thai police had taken two “suspects” away from the village.
We are all so saddened by what has happened to Juling. She and her father are an inspiration to us all.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 6 2006 9:52 utc | 72

As I know there are many fans here…
Interview: Tom Waits (Pitchfork)

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 6 2006 10:36 utc | 74

Richest 2% hold half the world’s assets
In contrast, the authors say “many people in high-income countries have negative net worth and, somewhat paradoxically, are among the poorest people in the world in terms of household wealth.”

Posted by: Rick Happ | Dec 6 2006 10:46 utc | 76

b:
That Observer story is brutal. I’m not surprised at Homeland Security and Bush’s mafia cronies. We’ve known that they are liars, murderers and criminals for years.
That the US media would sit on this is really, really bad. There’s no “national security” angle to this at all. It’s strictly cover up of murder and of the Bush mob’s part in it.
I wonder if the people in the media who knew about this and kept it quiet can be charged as accessories after the fact?

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 6 2006 11:50 utc | 78

@anna missed #68
Great link, thanks.

Posted by: Argh | Dec 6 2006 13:25 utc | 80

A thread at EuroTrib has flagged
this article from the Washington Post. Both to be read in apposition with this history lesson from Alfred McCoy (probably already cited here).
On another note thanks to $Uncle for providing alternatives to Google, especially since there may indeed be cases in which the latter is “drugged”.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Dec 6 2006 14:31 utc | 82

Via Antiwar.com this
bulletin on the latest triumph in the war on terror. Comments regarding the deeper meaning are welcome.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Dec 6 2006 15:31 utc | 84

okay, i see that the observer re-edited the house of death article since it was originally published to add the author’s ref to conroy.

Posted by: b real | Dec 6 2006 15:47 utc | 86

It seems that the terrorist silly season arrives in December, at least in Peshawar but note that it wasn’t the ISI that was involved
in this “sweet” bomb-plot . It would seem that these “operatives” are
fully ready to reach Bush administration levels of “theory” and “practice”.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Dec 6 2006 16:07 utc | 88

FYI – For those who don’t know the area, the “Green Line” referred to in my #89 is the line between Israel “proper” [the easternmost boundary between Israel and Jordan that existed until Israel invaded and occupied the area called the “West Bank” (of Jordan) in 1967] and the West Bank. Palestinians living inside the “Green Line” in “Israel proper” have Israeli citizenship. Arabs living outside it (including those in the areas of Jerusalem that were seized in 1967) do not. Their status is much more perilous than that of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and many do not have passports at all. They are under military occupation. Since the wall was not built exactly on the Green LIne, but rather inside the area of the West Bank proper, it left this population in No Man’s Land sandwiched between the wall and the Green Line. They are not allowed to enter Israel without permits, and now they are physically prevented from entering the West Bank without permits either.

Posted by: Bea | Dec 6 2006 16:25 utc | 90

hannah
mccoy is the real mccoy
his work since the groundbreaking book & research into the politics of heroin in s e asia have been both rigorous & courageous

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 6 2006 16:50 utc | 92

Glenn Greenwald has a long post up on the London Observer story linked to above.
More on the Homeland Security and DOJ Case
~Snip

There just must be a Congressional investigation into this entire matter. The extent of wrongdoing here is staggering. It would be one thing if it were just some rogue law enforcement officers engaging in excessive, criminal and/or violent behavior. By itself, that would compel all sorts of investigations and corrective actions, but that would be a more commonplace outrage.
This case goes far beyond that. Agents of our government worked with, paid and recorded a serial murderer who repeatedly tortured and slaughtered people with the knowledge of high-level DOJ and DHS officials. The 30-year DEA agent in charge of the El Paso office who complained about this and brought it to light was threatened and then fired. The independent reporter who reported on it was harassed, intimidated and threatened by agents who, with pure malice, went to his boss in an unrelated job in order to disclose information about him that they thought would be damaging, if not get him fired — all done to force the reporter to disclose his sources.
This is lawless, thug behavior of the most extreme type. And it resulted in the deaths of numerous people, including the brutal torture and murder of a completely innocent life-long resident of the United States (and husband and father of three), and at least 12 Mexicans, including at least some who were completely innocent of wrongdoing. Homeland Security’s conduct also came close to resulting in the slaughter of a DEA agent and his wife and daughters. And those who objected and tried to bring all of this to light were threatened, intimidated and punished.
And all of it was done with the knowledge and consent of very high-ranking Homeland Security and Justice Department officials — possibly including the Attorney General and others — with at least the partial intent to protect a close associate of the President and Alberto Gonzales, an individual who continues to serve as a U.S. Attorney today. And the still-serving DEA administration herself appears to have actively sought to punish the DEA whistleblower.

Posted by: Bea | Dec 6 2006 17:01 utc | 94

two from asia times online
pepe escobar: Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia

Behind all the smoke-and-mirrors “debate” around the variable “stay the course” scenarios, the only strategic factor that really matters for the Bush-Cheney system in Iraq is control of oil resources, which in theory would allow Washington to knock out the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
According to the original Bush-Cheney system plan, it would be crucial to increase Iraq’s oil production, make sure that a barrel of oil does not cost more than US$30, and prevent any moves (by Russia and/or Iran, for instance) from the petrodollar toward the petro-euro. To allow Iraq to produce 3.5 million barrels of oil a day (nowadays it can be pumping as low as 1.8 million, if that), the US would have to invest at least $5 billion before the end of Bush’s term – and count on no sabotage by the Sunni Arab resistance.
OPEC, for its part, wants a barrel of oil at $60 minimum. In the forefront of this policy we find none other than Hugo Chavez. This “minimum price” and the contours of a redistribution of production will be decided in an extraordinary OPEC meeting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on December 14. Chavez – and not the Bush-Cheney system – will definitely get what he, and other OPEC member states, want.

michael klare: The post-abundance era

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign-policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although “the post-Cold War era” has been the reigning expression, this label now sounds dated and no longer does justice to the particular characteristics of the current period. Others have spoken of the post-September 11, 2001, era as if the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon were defining moments for the entire world. But this image no longer possesses the power it once wielded – even in the United States.
I propose instead another term that better captures the defining characteristics of the current period: the post-abundance era.

Posted by: b real | Dec 6 2006 18:48 utc | 96

b real & bea in fact all the b’s
you have obviously studied at the uncle $cam university & the cloned poster polytechnique because the links you are giving are so so useful but sometimes they are so good it takes my attention away from the work i am paid to do
in any case, yr researches feed me

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 6 2006 18:59 utc | 98

….. because the links you are giving are so so useful but sometimes they are so good it takes my attention away from the work i am paid to do…..
hahaha…oh man, can i relate to that!

Posted by: anna missed | Dec 6 2006 19:36 utc | 100