US navy barred from using sonar

From correspondents in Los Angeles
August 07, 2007 09:32am
THE US navy was today barred from using an ear-splitting sonar in upcoming wargames off the California coast alleged to be harmful to whales and other marine life.


alleged to be harmful to whales and other marine life. ?

Alleged?

Arrrrrgggggghhhh!


Good job, Captains of Industry.

Mmmm,m pr'haps I shouldn't be so hasty to blame Navy sonar for the demise of the whales, it could be a number of Navy pollutants, or it might be sound bombing . You know, for oil exploration.

Alrighty then.

Drugs, oil, wars

Most of Europe's heroin poppies are grown in Afghanistan.

Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 4, 12:27 PM ET

A while back this post of mine on Dyncorp got quite a few hits from people who might have been looking for employment, but one that I wondered about was from Columbia. I don't get a lot of hits from Columbia.
A lot of our "black tar" heroin and cocaine begins it's journey here to the US as happy little poppies and coca in Columbia. We don't like that. We spray. There's oil in Columbia also.

Hmmmmm, remember this book?

And, yeah, what happened to this dude?

Yeah,this looks like an interesting book to me:

Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina

I'm reading this one now:


Opium Wars by William Travis Hanes, Frank Sanello


Oh well, at least the Dyncorp guys can afford heroin. The soldiers can't, but they're buying it anyway. Umm, so what happens when the marines bring their sorry overdeployed, drug addicted asses back to San Diego? Did they clean up downtown for nothing? I wonder if this is next? If so, Southern California is going to explode, and these fuckers will be right in there, and to top it off they will have a shitload more NAFTA refugees to recruit from.

Cagle nails it

I don't know what Cagle calls it, but I would title it: Media focus on politics.

Never mind the latest US military Whoops, my bad, let's focus on the Clenis and his wife's cleavage

Oakland Post editor is victim of targeted killing possibly linked to his work

Hmmmm. That freedom of the press ranking ain't looking any better for the US when this stuff happens.

update: Police: Calif. handyman admits to shooting veteran journalist investigating Black Muslim group
By Michelle Locke
ASSOCIATED PRESS2:46 p.m. August 6, 2007

Israel's Jewish Problem in Tehran

So why hasn't Iran started by wiping its own Jews off the map?
by Jonathan Cook
August 4, 2007


...There is an interesting problem with selling the "Iran as Nazi Germany" line. If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit genocide against Israel's Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel and American Jews?...
...Despite the absence of any threat to Iran's Jews, the Israeli media recently reported that the Israeli government has been trying to find new ways to entice Iranian Jews to Israel. The Ma'ariv newspaper pointed out that previous schemes had found few takers. There was, noted the report, "a lack of desire on the part of thousands of Iranian Jews to leave." According to the New York-based Forward newspaper, a campaign to convince Iranian Jews to emigrate to Israel caused only 152 out of these 25,000 Jews to leave Iran between October 2005 and September 2006, and most of them were said to have emigrated for economic reasons, not political ones...



So I imagine that most Iranian Jews are basically telling the Israelis and American Jews...

Frankenforests: GE Trees Threaten Ecosystem Collapse

Frankenforests: GE Trees Threaten Ecosystem Collapse

By Dara Colwell, AlterNet. Posted August 2, 2007.

Across the U.S. and the world, the timber industry is driving research behind genetically engineered forests. But environmentalists worry that it will open an ecological Pandora's Box.

In China over a million poplar trees have been planted since 2002 to combat deforestation. But the move has not been widely applauded by everyone. The poplars, which are genetically engineered, are China's first foray into the world of transgenic forestry -- or "frankenforests" -- and other countries are not far behind.



The Crash of 1929: Are We on the Verge of a Repeat?
By Scott Thill
AlterNet

Thursday 26 July 2007

...If this is beginning to sound like a game of Monopoly built on fake money, that's because it is. By injecting so many invented shares into the market using naked shorting, hedge funds have not only created an economy in which they can manipulate the stocks of companies smaller than Microsoft and Wal-Mart, but they have also created a market in which there are more shares than actual stocks. And that's about as hyperreal as an economy can get...

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible

I want this book.

Clinton Guiliani widen their leads in poll

Oh fuck the mainstream media. I don't believe this shit for one goddamned minute.

Listening to Thom Hartman's quick poll had Kucinich at the top last week.