| Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign. At its core, the documentary raises questions about the ethics and role of journalism, and the relationship between media and politics. | |
Friday, July 21, 2006
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land
Katy? STFU
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, I just love it when Katy Couric gives me an opportunity to shred her blonde cheerleading ditzy...stuff. Couric Wouldn't Go To War Zone
Posted Friday July 21, 2006 at 10:45 AM
Couric is right to point out that a single parent (of already bereaved kids) has an extra duty to be responsible with her children's only remaining parent. Unfortunately, given her earlier statement about cheerily rushing into the zone in service of the story, the burden is now on Couric to resolve the inconsistency, and decide which one she means so that either can be credible.
Lori Piestewa
She was a single mother with two small children, a boy, 4, and a girl, 3.
A Wrong Turn in the Desert
By Osha Gray Davidson
Rolling Stone, 27 May 2004
Only twenty-three years old, Piestewa saw herself as a Hopi warrior, part of a centuries-old tradition developed by a people who once resisted an invasion and occupation by the U.S. military – much as the Iraqis are today. She went to war, but she believed above all in peace, in doing no harm to others. "I’m not trying to be a hero," she told a friend just before the invasion. "I just want to get through this crap and go home."
Her fellow soldiers remember her differently. When Jessica Lynch thanked a long list of people at her triumphant homecoming in West Virginia, she devoted her final words to Piestewa, her former roommate at Fort Bliss, Texas, where the two had been stationed before the war. "Most of all," Lynch said that day, "I miss Lori."
Since the attack, Lynch has insisted again and again that she was not a hero, that she was only a survivor. Asked who was a hero that day in Nasiriyah, she doesn’t hesitate. "Lori," she says firmly. "Lori is the real hero."
Jessica Lynch with a picture of Lori. (Photograph by Ben Lowy page 2)
Mom, Hopi, hero: Piestewa an icon
By Billy House and Mark Shaffer
The Arizona Republic
April 10, 2003
And oh, look, the wing-nuts who have controlled Arizona since it became a state decided it was time to change the name of Squaw Peak.
Climb Piestewa Peak, (formerly called Squaw Peak)
Update: Katy Correction
(corrected section)
The big question remains: what about Katie?
Katie Couric, who takes over CBS Evening News in September, told Access Hollywood on May 30th that she would not venture into Iraq, in response to an interview regarding injured CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier. At the time Couric was still a co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show.
"I think the situation there (Iraq) is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing," Katie said.
But following growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon in recent weeks, and her stepping in as the sole anchor at CBS Evening News, she now says she would travel to the Middle East.
At the CBS TCAs on July 16th Katie said, "I think, yeah, of course I would want to be there. I think -- in terms of traveling, I think it will be done on a case-by-case basis. I think sometimes correspondents who have been covering beats for months and even years often have a great handle on what's going on in a certain global hot spot. But clearly if it's going to serve the story, advance the story, and be helpful to the story, I would like to be there. I think it really depends on the situation and what's happening."
(Access Hollywood regrets that the earlier version of this story was misleading)
So, what you're trying to say here is basically if there's no risk in a war zone you'll go, right Katy? Ohhhh.....just smile pretty OK, Katy?
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Tired of warmongering brainwashed fuckwits
I'm tired of being tailgated (get out of my tailpipe, damnit!) to the point of being frightened, only to have the asshole go around me, then cut me off and lo and behold, I discover a Bush supporter sticker on their vehicle. I have a progressive sticker on my car. Hmmmm. I generally don't cut off, flip off or climb up into Bush supporters tailpipes, why can't they leave me alone?
Yesterday was different, I got tailgated doing 50 OFF the interchange, I flipped him off and almost got in a wreck with another guy trying to get ON the interchange.
My sincere apologies go out the the poor guy in the phone company work van.
To the asshole in the Beamer that wouldn't get off my butt----FUCK YOU.
Sometimes the "corporate culture" in this city is just too much for me to handle. The city (and it's handmaiden newspaper the UT, basically an extension of this) are controlled by defense contractors, here's just one example), the military and real estate developers. I'm not even going into the mess the developers have made, but think "bubble," ok? Freakin 25% percent of people here used creative financing for their outrageously overpriced homes last year. Nuff said. Anyhoo it's seems like sometimes if you want to make enough $ to survive on, you become almost like a collaborator in the war machine. Before I became politicized, I did it. It's everywhere. Everyone here knows someone in the military, or retired from the military, or working for a contractor, or working for a contractor to a contractor. It just IS. It's inescapable. So, people's livelihoods depend on it, so they support it, or they did support it, and then it became their life. I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg?
This is my home.
I was born here.
This sucks.
No wonder I always felt like a fish out of water.
By the way, what was the agenda atBilderberg last month?
Is Lebanon just the warm up for more Israeli agression outside it's borders?
Hmmmmm?
Yesterday was different, I got tailgated doing 50 OFF the interchange, I flipped him off and almost got in a wreck with another guy trying to get ON the interchange.
My sincere apologies go out the the poor guy in the phone company work van.
To the asshole in the Beamer that wouldn't get off my butt----FUCK YOU.
Sometimes the "corporate culture" in this city is just too much for me to handle. The city (and it's handmaiden newspaper the UT, basically an extension of this) are controlled by defense contractors, here's just one example), the military and real estate developers. I'm not even going into the mess the developers have made, but think "bubble," ok? Freakin 25% percent of people here used creative financing for their outrageously overpriced homes last year. Nuff said. Anyhoo it's seems like sometimes if you want to make enough $ to survive on, you become almost like a collaborator in the war machine. Before I became politicized, I did it. It's everywhere. Everyone here knows someone in the military, or retired from the military, or working for a contractor, or working for a contractor to a contractor. It just IS. It's inescapable. So, people's livelihoods depend on it, so they support it, or they did support it, and then it became their life. I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg?
This is my home.
I was born here.
This sucks.
No wonder I always felt like a fish out of water.
By the way, what was the agenda atBilderberg last month?
Is Lebanon just the warm up for more Israeli agression outside it's borders?
Hmmmmm?
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Precision Targeting?
...Red Cross hitThe International Red Cross told Aljazeera that they could not reach areas in Selaa town because of the destruction and road closures.
In al-Ansariya, a Red Cross centre was hit by an air raid, injuring a medic, Red Cross sources told Aljazeera...
WTF were you aiming at, fucktards?
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions
Indonesia
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=tsunami+death+toll
Muckraking in Java's gas fields
Southeast Asia Jul 14, 2006
By Chris Holm
JAKARTA - On May 27, a natural gas drilling operation in Indonesia's East Javaprovince got exceptionally messy. ...Indonesia's national environmental watchdog, Wahli, estimates the costs of theclean-up could reach more than US$200 million. Meanwhile, in the town of Sidoarjo,thousands of the displaced villagers hunker down as best they can in a large sectionof a market converted into a makeshift refugee center. With their crops in ruins andtheir workplaces shuttered, they have been promised a subsistence income ofUS$30-$70 a month by Lapindo and are subsisting largely on handouts.And still the mud continues to flow. Around the drilling site, the land has beentransformed from green paddy fields into inhospitable seas of asphalt-colored muck.Near its center, a black geyser roars, like an unearthly scene from a volcanic plateau. Mired at the center of the muck is the drilling company, Lapindo. To manyIndonesians, the lines between the cause and effect of the mud seemed clear: theypointed directly at the prospector - and down into the almost three-kilometer deephole it had dug.
acquisition Oilfield Glossary
Santos activity map
Exploration Program LNG and oil are the focus of Santos' 25-well high-impact exploration program for 2006. Total expenditure across the company’s Australian and overseas exploration areas is forecast at $225 million compared with $187 million spent on exploration in 2005. Reflecting the widening geographical nature of Santos’ exploration portfolio, 17 of the 25 wildcat wells will be drilled outside of Australia. This includes eight wells in the Company’s core Indonesian area, two in its emerging Timor-Bonaparte region, and seven wells to be drilled in new Santos areas of interest such as Egypt (three wells) and the shallow water Gulf of Mexico in the USA (four wells). In Australia, two wells will be drilled in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia, one well in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, two in the Otway Basin and three wells in the onshore Cooper Basin.
Materiality is weighted towards the third and fourth quarters of 2006 when the Lynedoch and Evans Shoal South prospects will be drilled in the Timor-Bonaparte along with exploration wells in the Kutei and East Java basins in offshore Indonesia...
Increase in profit before tax by 21% and net profit by 23% to..
Post-mortem to be done on south-east whale
Last Update: Wednesday, July 5, 2006. 11:43am (AEST)
A dead pilot whale found beached off the South Australian south-east coast will be transported to Adelaide for a post-mortem examination.
The four-and-a-half metre pilot whale found at Eight Mile Creek yesterday will be transported to Adelaide in the next couple of days. It is hoped a cause of death for the half-grown whale can be determined. The Environment Department says there have been five cases of whales beaching themselves in the south-east over the past four years. However, most of those whales had been smaller in size. District ranger Ross Anderson says most of the past whale beachings had occurred after seismic testing had been carried out in the area, but there was no proof of a connection to tests currently being carried out. The whale carcass will be examined by the South Australian Museum when it is transferred later this week. Santos, the company carrying out the seismic surveying, says it is impossible to say what caused the whale's death. A spokesman says the company follows strict guidelines to ensure the protection of marine mammals within its test areas. The company has only been able to complete limited days of seismic testing off the south-east coastline due to adverse weather conditions.
Chevron's Approach
(to renewables)
Marine seismic vessel
This marine seismic vessel is towing multiple streamers that contain hydrophones. Air guns emit a signal like a sound wave that travels through the water into the Earth, passes through strata with different seismic responses and filtering effects, and returns to the hydrophones to be recorded as seismic data.
Think they'll need one of these off the coast of California?
Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. Announces Signing of Purchase and Sale Agreement for Majority Interest in Beta Oil Field Unit
JULY 10, 2006 - 08:30 ET
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA--(CCNMatthews - July 10, 2006) - Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX:PFE)(the "Corporation") wishes to announce that further to its news release of February 24, 2006, it has signed a definitive Purchase & Sale Agreement with Aera Energy LLC regarding the sale of its 71% interest in the Beta Unit, offshore California. Before the acquisition is completed, the Corporation is required to satisfy a number of financial and regulatory requirements, further particulars of which have been filed today on SEDAR as an additional News Release at http://www.sedar.com/.Netherland Sewell & Associates (NSA) estimated Proved Reserves of 19.78 Million barrels of 14 degree API oil and 3.23 Bcf of gas as of May 1, 2006 for the Unit. It also estimated 11.61 Million barrels of Probable oil reserves, 1.93 Bcf of Probable gas reserves, 31.26 Million barrels of Possible oil reserves and 4.84 Bcf of Possible gas reserves. These estimates are based on forecasted price scenario and have PV10% values of US$ 193.90 Million, US$ 89.29 Million and US$121.14 Million for Proved, Probable and Possible reserve categories respectively.The Beta Oil Field is located in San Pedro Area, in Federal waters nine miles offshore Long Beach, California. The leases in question are POCS 300, 301 and 306. A complex of two production platforms (Eureka and Ellen) and a facilities Platform (Elly) handle production from these leases. Platform Edith, also in the Beta Oil Field in lease POCS 296 is neither owned nor operated by Aera and is not included in this acquisition.The Beta Field was discovered in 1976 by Shell Oil Company...
Umm. that's like ONE day's worth of oil for the US.
Muckraking in Java's gas fields
Southeast Asia Jul 14, 2006
By Chris Holm
JAKARTA - On May 27, a natural gas drilling operation in Indonesia's East Javaprovince got exceptionally messy. ...Indonesia's national environmental watchdog, Wahli, estimates the costs of theclean-up could reach more than US$200 million. Meanwhile, in the town of Sidoarjo,thousands of the displaced villagers hunker down as best they can in a large sectionof a market converted into a makeshift refugee center. With their crops in ruins andtheir workplaces shuttered, they have been promised a subsistence income ofUS$30-$70 a month by Lapindo and are subsisting largely on handouts.And still the mud continues to flow. Around the drilling site, the land has beentransformed from green paddy fields into inhospitable seas of asphalt-colored muck.Near its center, a black geyser roars, like an unearthly scene from a volcanic plateau. Mired at the center of the muck is the drilling company, Lapindo. To manyIndonesians, the lines between the cause and effect of the mud seemed clear: theypointed directly at the prospector - and down into the almost three-kilometer deephole it had dug.
acquisition Oilfield Glossary
Santos activity map
Exploration Program LNG and oil are the focus of Santos' 25-well high-impact exploration program for 2006. Total expenditure across the company’s Australian and overseas exploration areas is forecast at $225 million compared with $187 million spent on exploration in 2005. Reflecting the widening geographical nature of Santos’ exploration portfolio, 17 of the 25 wildcat wells will be drilled outside of Australia. This includes eight wells in the Company’s core Indonesian area, two in its emerging Timor-Bonaparte region, and seven wells to be drilled in new Santos areas of interest such as Egypt (three wells) and the shallow water Gulf of Mexico in the USA (four wells). In Australia, two wells will be drilled in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia, one well in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, two in the Otway Basin and three wells in the onshore Cooper Basin.
Materiality is weighted towards the third and fourth quarters of 2006 when the Lynedoch and Evans Shoal South prospects will be drilled in the Timor-Bonaparte along with exploration wells in the Kutei and East Java basins in offshore Indonesia...
Increase in profit before tax by 21% and net profit by 23% to..
Post-mortem to be done on south-east whale
Last Update: Wednesday, July 5, 2006. 11:43am (AEST)
A dead pilot whale found beached off the South Australian south-east coast will be transported to Adelaide for a post-mortem examination.
The four-and-a-half metre pilot whale found at Eight Mile Creek yesterday will be transported to Adelaide in the next couple of days. It is hoped a cause of death for the half-grown whale can be determined. The Environment Department says there have been five cases of whales beaching themselves in the south-east over the past four years. However, most of those whales had been smaller in size. District ranger Ross Anderson says most of the past whale beachings had occurred after seismic testing had been carried out in the area, but there was no proof of a connection to tests currently being carried out. The whale carcass will be examined by the South Australian Museum when it is transferred later this week. Santos, the company carrying out the seismic surveying, says it is impossible to say what caused the whale's death. A spokesman says the company follows strict guidelines to ensure the protection of marine mammals within its test areas. The company has only been able to complete limited days of seismic testing off the south-east coastline due to adverse weather conditions.
Chevron's Approach
(to renewables)
Marine seismic vesselThis marine seismic vessel is towing multiple streamers that contain hydrophones. Air guns emit a signal like a sound wave that travels through the water into the Earth, passes through strata with different seismic responses and filtering effects, and returns to the hydrophones to be recorded as seismic data.
Think they'll need one of these off the coast of California?
Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. Announces Signing of Purchase and Sale Agreement for Majority Interest in Beta Oil Field Unit
JULY 10, 2006 - 08:30 ET
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA--(CCNMatthews - July 10, 2006) - Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX:PFE)(the "Corporation") wishes to announce that further to its news release of February 24, 2006, it has signed a definitive Purchase & Sale Agreement with Aera Energy LLC regarding the sale of its 71% interest in the Beta Unit, offshore California. Before the acquisition is completed, the Corporation is required to satisfy a number of financial and regulatory requirements, further particulars of which have been filed today on SEDAR as an additional News Release at http://www.sedar.com/.Netherland Sewell & Associates (NSA) estimated Proved Reserves of 19.78 Million barrels of 14 degree API oil and 3.23 Bcf of gas as of May 1, 2006 for the Unit. It also estimated 11.61 Million barrels of Probable oil reserves, 1.93 Bcf of Probable gas reserves, 31.26 Million barrels of Possible oil reserves and 4.84 Bcf of Possible gas reserves. These estimates are based on forecasted price scenario and have PV10% values of US$ 193.90 Million, US$ 89.29 Million and US$121.14 Million for Proved, Probable and Possible reserve categories respectively.The Beta Oil Field is located in San Pedro Area, in Federal waters nine miles offshore Long Beach, California. The leases in question are POCS 300, 301 and 306. A complex of two production platforms (Eureka and Ellen) and a facilities Platform (Elly) handle production from these leases. Platform Edith, also in the Beta Oil Field in lease POCS 296 is neither owned nor operated by Aera and is not included in this acquisition.The Beta Field was discovered in 1976 by Shell Oil Company...
Umm. that's like ONE day's worth of oil for the US.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
So what is the truth?
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to war against Iran - Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran's President Ahmadinejad.
By Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann
Translation to English: Erik Appleby
04/19/06
...There again we find the quotation already rendered by n24: "In the name of the Holocaust they created a myth." We can see that this is completely different from what is published by e.g. the DPA - the massacre against the Jews is a fairy-tale. What Ahmadinejad does is not denying the Holocaust. No! It is dealing out criticism against the mendacity of the imperialistic powers who use the Holocaust to muzzle critical voices and to achieve advantages concerning the legitimization of a planned war. This is criticism against the exploitation of the Holocaust...
(my emphasis, and don't get me wrong here, I'm definitely no fan of Islamists, I think they way they dismiss women's right is self-defeating and stupid in the long run. Religious fanatics of any brand make me head for the nearest exit, peace out. )
The west must recognise that Israel's agenda is in conflict with its own The Olmert government, Hizbullah and Hamas are tacitly united in rejection of any moves towards a compromise peace
By David Clark
07/17/06 "The Guardian
Americans Want U.S. Out of Mid-East War
Angus Reid Global Scan : Polls & Research
July 17, 2006
(umm, hellllllooooooo? any of our "representatives" aware of this nifty little factoid, or are they on the phone to their brokers trying to dump Halliburton stock, now that the no-bid deal has ended?)
Lopez Obrador leads protest in Mexico
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 16, 4:49 PM ET
Monday, July 17, 2006
July 17, 2006 Beat the Press and search for Truth
THE MEDIA WAR AND THE MIDDLE EAST
MASSIVE MARCH IN MEXICO FOR VOTE RECOUNT
READERS DEBATE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
You are the producer of NBC’s Meet The Press. The big story of the week is the escalating war in the Middle East. You want to have a smart discussion of the issues and perhaps inform the public in more depth than they get in the daily news. What do you do? ( same link as above )
Tomgram: Bush's Faith and the Middle East Aflame
The Force Is Not with Them
The Middle East Aflame and the Bush Administration Adrift
By Tom Engelhardt
So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force -- and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of monotheisms, a faith remarkably accepting of adherents of any other imaginable faith – or of no other faith at all. Like many fundamentalist faiths, it is also resistant to drawing any reasonable lessons from actual experience on this planet...
Crap. After reading Danny and Tom I want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.
update: Go see Virt, he's providing a valuable service for those of us who need to laugh.
MASSIVE MARCH IN MEXICO FOR VOTE RECOUNT
READERS DEBATE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
You are the producer of NBC’s Meet The Press. The big story of the week is the escalating war in the Middle East. You want to have a smart discussion of the issues and perhaps inform the public in more depth than they get in the daily news. What do you do? ( same link as above )
Tomgram: Bush's Faith and the Middle East Aflame
The Force Is Not with Them
The Middle East Aflame and the Bush Administration Adrift
By Tom Engelhardt
So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we?
As a man who is no fan of fundamentalists of any sort, let me offer a proposition that might make some modest sense of our reeling planet. Consider the possibility that the most fundamental belief, perhaps in all of history, but specifically in these last catastrophic years, seems to be in the efficacy of force -- and the more of it the merrier. That deep belief in force above all else is perhaps the monotheism of monotheisms, a faith remarkably accepting of adherents of any other imaginable faith – or of no other faith at all. Like many fundamentalist faiths, it is also resistant to drawing any reasonable lessons from actual experience on this planet...
Crap. After reading Danny and Tom I want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.
update: Go see Virt, he's providing a valuable service for those of us who need to laugh.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Israel and Energy
Last night I watched Paradise Now and then Munich for the first time. Besides disgusting me even more about (ALL) secret police services, it made me wonder about Israel's energy supplies.
Disparity of wealth can be directly tied to control, or lack of control of energy supplies,
Pentagon plans to sell jet-fuel
Published: Saturday, 15 July, 2006, 01:25 PM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon yesterday notified Congress of plans to sell Israel jet fuel valued at up to $210mn "to keep peace and security in the region."
NYMEX Crude Oil (Light) prices for futures.
Israel presses for oil from shale
Proposed energy plant could help vastly reduce oil imports
By Neal Sandler Businessweek online
Updated: 9:34 a.m. PT July 6, 2006
Some challenges
...A Haifa-based engineering firm called A.F.S.K. Hom Tov, which owns the patented process, is now gearing up to exploit the opportunity. “The technology could reduce dependence on imports and substantially reduce Israel's overall energy bill,” says Israel Feldman, the company's co-founder and managing director. A.F.S.K. Hom Tov has proposed building a plant that could produce up to 3 million tons of oil annually, or roughly 30 percent of Israel's current oil imports...
Where Does Israel Get Oil?
If you're selling, they're buying.
By Daniel Engber
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006, at 6:19 PM ET
...Meanwhile, Israel continues to seek nearby suppliers. In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, there was some talk of restarting an abandoned pipeline that runs from Mosul, Iraq, to Haifa. In order for this to happen, Israel would need to somehow wrangle the support of the Syrians, since they control part of the route...
Eight dead in Haifa rocket attack
Press Association
Sunday July 16, 2006 9:58 PM
BLM Announces Results of Review of Oil Shale Research Nominations
Bureau of Land Management For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Chevron USA to Acquire 122 USA Petroleum Gas Stations in California for Undisclosed Sum
AP
Chevron to Buy 122 Stations
Friday July 14, 5:44 pm ET
Chevron Bankrolling Opposition to California Clean Energy Initiative
ThinkProgress
June 21, 2006
Oil Shale Reserves
Containing the Military Industrial Complex
Remarks at DemocracyFest July 15, 2006
Op Ed by David Swanson
Disparity of wealth can be directly tied to control, or lack of control of energy supplies, Pentagon plans to sell jet-fuel
Published: Saturday, 15 July, 2006, 01:25 PM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon yesterday notified Congress of plans to sell Israel jet fuel valued at up to $210mn "to keep peace and security in the region."
NYMEX Crude Oil (Light) prices for futures.
Israel presses for oil from shale
Proposed energy plant could help vastly reduce oil imports
By Neal Sandler Businessweek online
Updated: 9:34 a.m. PT July 6, 2006
Some challenges
...A Haifa-based engineering firm called A.F.S.K. Hom Tov, which owns the patented process, is now gearing up to exploit the opportunity. “The technology could reduce dependence on imports and substantially reduce Israel's overall energy bill,” says Israel Feldman, the company's co-founder and managing director. A.F.S.K. Hom Tov has proposed building a plant that could produce up to 3 million tons of oil annually, or roughly 30 percent of Israel's current oil imports...
Where Does Israel Get Oil?
If you're selling, they're buying.
By Daniel Engber
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006, at 6:19 PM ET
...Meanwhile, Israel continues to seek nearby suppliers. In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, there was some talk of restarting an abandoned pipeline that runs from Mosul, Iraq, to Haifa. In order for this to happen, Israel would need to somehow wrangle the support of the Syrians, since they control part of the route...
Eight dead in Haifa rocket attack
Press Association
Sunday July 16, 2006 9:58 PM
BLM Announces Results of Review of Oil Shale Research Nominations
Bureau of Land Management For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Chevron USA to Acquire 122 USA Petroleum Gas Stations in California for Undisclosed Sum
AP
Chevron to Buy 122 Stations
Friday July 14, 5:44 pm ET
Chevron Bankrolling Opposition to California Clean Energy Initiative
ThinkProgress
June 21, 2006
Oil Shale Reserves
Containing the Military Industrial Complex
Remarks at DemocracyFest July 15, 2006
Op Ed by David Swanson
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Pipelineistan messaging
So back to the war that’s not a war. The most obvious thing about media coverage is the fact that without exception the MSM has accepted the version put about by the Israeli government, that its barbarous assault on Lebanon was in ‘retaliation’ for a Hizbollah attack on Israel. But does anyone really believe this? Well yes, the MSM does and it has done a very good propaganda job on behalf of the Zionist goverrnment in pushing this lie.
Only one story made a reference to a report that the Israeli soldiers were captured by Hizbollah forces on the Lebanese side of the border. So what is going on here? http://www.williambowles.info/
Dispute over Nigeria 'explosions'
LATIN AMERICAN MARKETSMexico dips as thousands gather for election protest
Update: 2:10 PM ET Jul 13, 2006
Gazprom to Search for Turkish oil
By Reuters, London Published: Saturday, July 15, 2006 zaman.com
Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil and gas company, announced that it would initiate a common venture with Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural gas monopoly, with the aim of searching for oil and gas in seas and constructing pipelines from Venezuela to Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Petrobras Chairman Jose Sergio Gabrielli said that they stopped searching for oil in European seas and the Black Sea some time ago. He added that they were working on projects, including searching for oil and gas in Turkey’s seas.
Petrobras Says $20 Bln Gas Pipeline From Venezuela Not in Plans
July 14 (Bloomberg)
Sooo, Reuters & Bloomberg, which is it?
Only one story made a reference to a report that the Israeli soldiers were captured by Hizbollah forces on the Lebanese side of the border. So what is going on here? http://www.williambowles.info/
Dispute over Nigeria 'explosions'
LATIN AMERICAN MARKETSMexico dips as thousands gather for election protest
Update: 2:10 PM ET Jul 13, 2006
Gazprom to Search for Turkish oil
By Reuters, London Published: Saturday, July 15, 2006 zaman.com
Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil and gas company, announced that it would initiate a common venture with Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural gas monopoly, with the aim of searching for oil and gas in seas and constructing pipelines from Venezuela to Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Petrobras Chairman Jose Sergio Gabrielli said that they stopped searching for oil in European seas and the Black Sea some time ago. He added that they were working on projects, including searching for oil and gas in Turkey’s seas.
Petrobras Says $20 Bln Gas Pipeline From Venezuela Not in Plans
July 14 (Bloomberg)
Sooo, Reuters & Bloomberg, which is it?
The DemocracyFest boo
I whipped off a quick post this morning, then thought I couldn't believe my own ears, and was not sure whether it was appropriate, and deleted it. I thought I was too quick to anger. I don't like Navarrette, and I never have.
Brad has a long explanation of what went on, and & here's the audio, thanks to DK http://www.punkblog.org/FrankenEdit071406h3.mp3
I listened again. Too hasty on the delete button, pr'haps.
Brad has a long explanation of what went on, and & here's the audio, thanks to DK http://www.punkblog.org/FrankenEdit071406h3.mp3
I listened again. Too hasty on the delete button, pr'haps.
demfest & otl
Oy, I just realized the OTL (Over The Line Tournament) is this weekend.
Notoriously vulgar: http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/08/05/over-the-line-photos-2/
So you guys can go ogle, drink beer and generally act like idiots when you're done at DemocracyFest. Just shoot straight out the 8. Bring a designated driver, the City's broke and DUIs are really expensive here, and don't ask me how I know that, it wasn't me, man.
Notoriously vulgar: http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/08/05/over-the-line-photos-2/
So you guys can go ogle, drink beer and generally act like idiots when you're done at DemocracyFest. Just shoot straight out the 8. Bring a designated driver, the City's broke and DUIs are really expensive here, and don't ask me how I know that, it wasn't me, man.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Do No Harm?
A new controversy about the death penalty focuses not on the convicts, but on doctors and nurses who help end their lives. NOW asks the question: Should medical professionals play a part in state executions?
I'll watch it.
I have very mixed feelings on the death penalty.
I believe in assisted suicide.
(We don't make our pets suffer, but grandma has to? What kind of BS is that? )
I think it's a damn shame what happened to Dr Kevorkian.
I'll watch it.
I have very mixed feelings on the death penalty.
I believe in assisted suicide.
(We don't make our pets suffer, but grandma has to? What kind of BS is that? )
I think it's a damn shame what happened to Dr Kevorkian.
'Remember I did not advocate assisted suicide, I only advocated that a person should have the right to have an option if he or she, in sound mind, needed and desired it while in irremedial pain and suffering and terminal,' he told the newspaper.
Palast reporting in Mexico on another oily stolen election and Plame-Wilson lawsuit docs
Amy Goodman, Greg Palast Democracy Now
Need RealPlayer, 1 hr long. Greg's report is 20 minutes in.
Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson Sue Dick Cheney,
Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby
Valerie Plame Wilson, Joseph Wilson, IV v. I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby,
Karl C. Rove, Richard Cheney, and John Does 1-10. July 13, 2006
from FindLaw
Need RealPlayer, 1 hr long. Greg's report is 20 minutes in.
Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson Sue Dick Cheney,
Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby
Valerie Plame Wilson, Joseph Wilson, IV v. I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby,
Karl C. Rove, Richard Cheney, and John Does 1-10. July 13, 2006
from FindLaw
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Karma for a war profiteer
Remember the ten million dollar bat mitzvah that the war profiteer who sold defective body armor threw for his daughter?
...For Brooks, the highlight of the $10 million gala was a performance by rockers from Aerosmith. So pumped was the middle-aged Long Island businessman that he reportedly donned a hot pink, metal-studded suede pantsuit to cavort onstage with Steven Tyler....
...might have to exchange his pink rock star costume for an orange jumpsuit...
Bwaaaa haaaa haaaa haaa ha ha ha hah
Ok, now stop laughing, here's a possible solution to the war is a racket thing.
I was reading Pen and Sword's post:
Preemptive Overreacting in the Next World Order
Thursday, July 13, 2006
And generally I appreciate what he has to say. Not today, it's hot, I'm impatient and I want him to read the book on this page and the CounterPunch article right here:
Public Good Should Trump War Profiteering
Nationalize the Defense Industry!
By JOHN STANTON
July 6, 2006
...For Brooks, the highlight of the $10 million gala was a performance by rockers from Aerosmith. So pumped was the middle-aged Long Island businessman that he reportedly donned a hot pink, metal-studded suede pantsuit to cavort onstage with Steven Tyler....
...might have to exchange his pink rock star costume for an orange jumpsuit...
Bwaaaa haaaa haaaa haaa ha ha ha hah
Ok, now stop laughing, here's a possible solution to the war is a racket thing.
I was reading Pen and Sword's post:Preemptive Overreacting in the Next World Order
Thursday, July 13, 2006
And generally I appreciate what he has to say. Not today, it's hot, I'm impatient and I want him to read the book on this page and the CounterPunch article right here:
Public Good Should Trump War Profiteering
Nationalize the Defense Industry!
By JOHN STANTON
July 6, 2006
SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGISTRAR STYMIES BUSBY/BILBRAY HAND COUNT!
BLOGGED BY Brad ON 7/13/2006 5:37AM
EXCLUSIVE: SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGISTRAR STYMIES BUSBY/BILBRAY HAND COUNT!
audio on qui tam (fraud) suit filed:
http://www.bradblog.com/Audio/MikeMalloy_MikePapantonio_071206.mp3
And finally the UT carries an AP report on the voting machines, not that it matters, it's old news and pablum
Fucking pompous, arrogant assholes from hell. How much more of this crap do the elite think we can take and still guarantee their safety? And do they think that police brutality will work forever?
EXCLUSIVE: SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGISTRAR STYMIES BUSBY/BILBRAY HAND COUNT!
audio on qui tam (fraud) suit filed:
http://www.bradblog.com/Audio/MikeMalloy_MikePapantonio_071206.mp3
And finally the UT carries an AP report on the voting machines, not that it matters, it's old news and pablum
Fucking pompous, arrogant assholes from hell. How much more of this crap do the elite think we can take and still guarantee their safety? And do they think that police brutality will work forever?
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
oil slicks
Cheney's Oily InterestsBLOG Posted 05/16/2006 @ 11:43am
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cheney Starts New Cold War Over Oil
By Mark Ames, The eXile. Posted June 1, 2006.
Putin Blames U.S. for Russian Diplomats’ Murder in Iraq
Created: 12.07.2006 14:08 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:08 MSK, 6 hours 5 minutes ago
MosNews
Enron fraud suspect found dead
12/07/2006 16:22 - (SA)
Terror in Mumbai: IT could be next target
Rakesh Goyal
July 12, 2006
...The bombs strategically targetted the local trains: the transport lifeline of Mumbai. All the blasts were in the first class compartments which carry middle and senior management of corporations, banks and government, apart from owner-managers from various markets. Thus, the target-segment was chosen carefully to break the middle layer of the industrial hierarchy and create terror. Until now, this class was never targeted...
update: Yeesh, I didn't even think of the possible nuclear implications
MARITIME SECURITY & MARITIME COUNTER-TERRORISM
Paper no. 1176
06. 12. 2004
by B.Raman
...15. The LTTE had been examining for many years the possibility of an explosive-laden suicide bomber piloting a microlite aircraft crashing on a land or sea-based target. A Sikh terrorist arrested by the Indian authorities in the early 1990s had stated during his interrogation that during his training in Pakistan, the ISI had asked him to join the Mumbai (Bombay) Flying Club, go on a solo flight and crash his trainer plane on to the Mumbai off-shore oil platform...
Dollar gains on US trade; oil, gold rally
Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:03 PM GMT
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar on Wednesday was on track for its biggest one-day gain against the yen in 18 months, boosted by a smaller-than-expected U.S. trade deficit in May and growing uncertainty about Japanese monetary policy
Gold, meanwhile, hit a six-week high, supported by higher oil prices, while technology shares dragged U.S. stock markets lower after European antitrust regulators fined Microsoft Corp..
U.S. Treasury debt prices also slipped as investors unwound safe-haven plays established after Tuesday's deadly train explosions in Mumbai, India's financial hub....
North County Reps vote to lift offshore drilling ban
By: EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
Last modified Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:27 AM PDT
NORTH COUNTY ---- Local Republican congressmen, including newly elected U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, have voted for a bill that would allow companies to drill for oil and gas off the coast of California and other coastal states.
Awww crap, what does Bilbray, the (environmentalist *cough* surfer *cough*) care?
His kids prefer indoor activities in Virginia.
Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. Announces Signing of Purchase and Sale Agreement for Majority Interest in Beta Oil Field Unit
JULY 10, 2006 - 08:30 ET
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA--(CCNMatthews - July 10, 2006) - Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX:PFE)(the "Corporation") wishes to announce that further to its news release of February 24, 2006, it has signed a definitive Purchase & Sale Agreement with Aera Energy LLC regarding the sale of its 71% interest in the Beta Unit, offshore California. Before the acquisition is completed, the Corporation is required to satisfy a number of financial and regulatory requirements, further particulars of which have been filed today on SEDAR as an additional News Release at http://www.sedar.com/.Netherland Sewell & Associates (NSA) estimated Proved Reserves of 19.78 Million barrels of 14 degree API oil and 3.23 Bcf of gas as of May 1, 2006 for the Unit. It also estimated 11.61 Million barrels of Probable oil reserves, 1.93 Bcf of Probable gas reserves, 31.26 Million barrels of Possible oil reserves and 4.84 Bcf of Possible gas reserves. These estimates are based on forecasted price scenario and have PV10% values of US$ 193.90 Million, US$ 89.29 Million and US$121.14 Million for Proved, Probable and Possible reserve categories respectively.The Beta Oil Field is located in San Pedro Area, in Federal waters nine miles offshore Long Beach, California. The leases in question are POCS 300, 301 and 306. A complex of two production platforms (Eureka and Ellen) and a facilities Platform (Elly) handle production from these leases. Platform Edith, also in the Beta Oil Field in lease POCS 296 is neither owned nor operated by Aera and is not included in this acquisition.The Beta Field was discovered in 1976 by Shell Oil Company...
Umm. that's like ONE day's worth of oil for the US.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Peak Oil
An Open Letter to Greg Palast on Peak Oil
Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:09:01 -0700
Oil Country
I think Peak Oil is real, but who am I?
Just someone who loves to read non-fiction.
I rarely read fiction anymore.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
spin the mexico vote
Who's winning, & who's spinning?
Guess it depends on what your Google search terms are, eh?
mexico vote fraud
mexico vote
I'm finding this vastly amusing at this point.
Guess it depends on what your Google search terms are, eh?
mexico vote fraud
mexico vote
I'm finding this vastly amusing at this point.
elections stolen by the elite...again
Resident calls for recount in 50th District runoff
Last modified Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:04 PM PDT
By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO ---- A registered voter living in the 50th Congressional District filed a formal request with the county registrar of voters office late Wednesday asking for a hand recount of all the ballots in the June 6 special election runoff...
...On June 29, Haas certified the election results, kicking off a five-day period in which requests could be filed for a recount of the votes. However, due to the holiday, the deadline ended Wednesday.Registrar of voters spokesman Mike Workman said that county counsel is now reviewing Jacobson's request for a recount, as will registrar Haas upon his return to the office. Once that review has been completed, Haas will discuss with Jacobson the projected costs of conducting the recount ----- a process which can cost the requesting party as much as $2,000 to $3,000 a day, Workman said. He added that depending on how detailed Jacobson wants the recount to be, it could take several days to complete....
The comments section for this article is a good example of some of the opinions in the county. I'm pretty sick of the Repugnanthuglican bullies, I 'd like two minutes alone with some of these morons.
So what's up with the recount? How much will it cost?
Greg Palast is investigating the selection of the new Mexican president via ChoicePoint, the company that helped prevent probable democrats from voting in Florida in 2000.
Last modified Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:04 PM PDT
By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO ---- A registered voter living in the 50th Congressional District filed a formal request with the county registrar of voters office late Wednesday asking for a hand recount of all the ballots in the June 6 special election runoff...
...On June 29, Haas certified the election results, kicking off a five-day period in which requests could be filed for a recount of the votes. However, due to the holiday, the deadline ended Wednesday.Registrar of voters spokesman Mike Workman said that county counsel is now reviewing Jacobson's request for a recount, as will registrar Haas upon his return to the office. Once that review has been completed, Haas will discuss with Jacobson the projected costs of conducting the recount ----- a process which can cost the requesting party as much as $2,000 to $3,000 a day, Workman said. He added that depending on how detailed Jacobson wants the recount to be, it could take several days to complete....
The comments section for this article is a good example of some of the opinions in the county. I'm pretty sick of the Repugnanthuglican bullies, I 'd like two minutes alone with some of these morons.
So what's up with the recount? How much will it cost?
Greg Palast is investigating the selection of the new Mexican president via ChoicePoint, the company that helped prevent probable democrats from voting in Florida in 2000.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
No media whores here today
Ken Lay'd to rest
Señor "Blank-o" wins in Mexico
Tonight's TV
Still in Harm's Way & Man of Peace?
I know better than to read stories like the following one, I usually end up in tears. The boy who died in Iraq isn't a whole lot older than my kid.
I knew this was going to happen, you see, where I grew up the human flotsam and jetsam from previous foreign wars is inescapable, and heartbreaking. What are these men (boys, really) dying for? Why are the ones who don't die, but end up broken, fighting? So Dick Cheney can make obscene amounts of money?
A dead soldier and who cares
Señor "Blank-o" wins in Mexico
Tonight's TV
Still in Harm's Way & Man of Peace?
I know better than to read stories like the following one, I usually end up in tears. The boy who died in Iraq isn't a whole lot older than my kid.
I knew this was going to happen, you see, where I grew up the human flotsam and jetsam from previous foreign wars is inescapable, and heartbreaking. What are these men (boys, really) dying for? Why are the ones who don't die, but end up broken, fighting? So Dick Cheney can make obscene amounts of money?
A dead soldier and who cares
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Mexican election steaks
Border for Sale
Privatizing Immigration Control
by Joseph Richey, Special to CorpWatch
July 5th, 2006
Grand Theft Mexico
July 3, 2006
Mexico Presidential Election Ballots Found in Dump
RAW STORY
Published: Thursday July 6, 2006
Conservative Has Insurmountable Lead In Mexican Presidential Race
Massive Recount Underway in Mexican Election
(July 6, 2006)--Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon now has an insurmountable lead in Mexico's presidential vote count, but his leftist rival is vowing to challenge the results in court...
Past Incidents of Mexico Election Fraud
By The Associated Press
July 05, 2006
Calderon wins disputed Mexico vote
Thursday, July 6, 2006; Posted: 7:03 p.m. EDT (23:03 GMT)
Leftist candidate says he'll challenge vote in court
Lay Cheats Justice
For Lay's estate, and his widow Linda, the positive implication of this grim day is that the government now has no means to collect on its forfeiture claim against Lay for $43.5 million...
...That makes it more likely that Linda Lay will be able to hold onto remaining assets, like the Lays' $3 million Houston condo. Having sold several properties in Aspen to pay legal bills, the Lays were reportedly renting a place there when Ken Lay died.
Larry Ribstein, a law professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, thinks Lay's death might provoke a reevaluation of government strategy in pursuing white-collar criminals. "A natural sympathetic reaction will cancel some of the anger that was driving all this," he says.
That could end up being good for Lay's co-defendant Jeffrey Skilling...
Figures.
And hmmm, what's Cheney doing?
"U.S. Plants Seeds of Disaster in Kazakhstan"
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Israel dosen't want peace
Israel’s Gaza assault: the real motives
Guy Grossman
3 - 7 - 2006
Israel's destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza has more to do with its strategic objectives than with concern for one kidnapped soldier, says Guy Grossman.
Israel is like a thirteen year old boy who is spoiled beyond belief. I'm sick of the boy's shit, he needs his fucking allowance cut off for a year.
Guy Grossman
3 - 7 - 2006
Israel's destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza has more to do with its strategic objectives than with concern for one kidnapped soldier, says Guy Grossman.
Israel is like a thirteen year old boy who is spoiled beyond belief. I'm sick of the boy's shit, he needs his fucking allowance cut off for a year.
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