Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 1:08 PM PDT

2011/05/02 · 13:08

In a 2007 interview Bhutto mentions his killing in passing, as if it were common knowledge. I cannot think of any reason for her to lie, although I can think of one for her to be assassinated over.

Go to about 2:10.

What a bizzare moment we're in. Panetta steps in, Petraeus takes cover, and bam, the Green Berets storm a weathy neighborhood full of military and security types (very similar to that of the Portland OR terrorist suspect who lived in a military and security type neighborhood in Maryland), and took care of business. Shot him in the left eye, yep.

Only thing is, the photo that was passed around is a two year old photoshop job. The Govt said, 'Heh, yeah, that one is fake. We have some real ones but they're so gruesome we might have to make some visual changes so that Americans' gentle stomachs can handle the sight. We'll get back to ya.'

The clock is ticking and the White House is shitting bricks, because Europe is onto it, and a growing voice on the English speaking net is as well.

What will those photos look like? I'm betting that some technical glitch will destroy them.

Leon is earning his pay today!

RIP Benazir Bhutto.

Barack is really caught up in it

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Wednesday April 13, 2011 · 8:12 AM PDT

2011/04/13 · 08:12

Really caught up. After he had his ego handed to him at midterms he jumped on the big plane and said Fly now. And leave the bottle.

He slugged down a few scotches and made a few calls, I imagine. He even called President Karzai, and drunkenly offered to have a sincere talk about the whole shit-a-ree. You know, just two guys. Karzai told him, 'Sleep it off, I'm a dealer, you're a narc', I fondly imagine.

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Friday March 04, 2011 · 4:24 PM PST

2011/03/04 · 16:24

It is about six months before the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center demolition in 2001.

There are powerful forces among us ready to strike down alternatives to the official story of September 11, 2001. But what frightens me is that many innocent, intelligent people are too scared to discuss niney leven, an expression I employed to get past Huffington Post moderators. (It seems to go back to something a TSA employee said to fliers: "You all didn't learn nothing from niney leven." in 2006.) I'll use it as a symbol of the refusal of Democrats to even go near the overwhelming evidence of fraud committed on September 11, 2001.

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Chevron's dirty tricks in Ecuador

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 12:54 PM PST

2011/02/02 · 12:54

It's getting hairy at the Amazon Jungle oil spill trial. The evidence to make a sound ruling has seemingly been in reach for a couple of years, but Chevron's lawyers are there to keep the moment of judgment out of reach forever if necessary, the cost of which would be a pittance compared to the size of expected penalties.

The unique position of Ecuador in geo-politics and the unique location of its most lucrative natural resource - oil, is an interesting one. The country has been successfully courted by China, which is building a huge dam in the jungle, and which welcomes Ecuador's oil exports. Ecuador has a friendly neighbor in President Chavez of Venezuela, and President Correa is also prickly toward American-based transnational corporations.

Ecuador, by the way, loves $100/bbl oil. Oil makes up 70% of its exports. Recently, the boundaries for oil drilling have been shifted closer to the sacred lands of Yasuni. President Correa wants to use untapped oil as a sort of pre-burn carbon sink, that is, get paid for not drilling in Yasuni, a virgin forest in which some low-contact indigenous people live by the old ways.

By permission from the author here is a good account of Chevron's dirty game.

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Friday January 28, 2011 · 12:35 PM PST

2011/01/28 · 12:35

I don't know.

The historic lawsuit filed on behalf of indigenous people in the Ecuador Amazon Basin against giant Chevron Inc, the fifth largest corporation on the planet, rounds yet another bend in the road toward environmental justice.

To summarize the story of Chevron in the Amazon, beginning in the 1970s Texaco Inc had oil leases in Ecuador. During that period they dumped 18 billion gallons of waste in the jungle and walked away. Chevron bought Texaco along with its liabilities, performed a perfunctory 'remediation' scattering dirt over 600 something pits and called it good.

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Sunday January 23, 2011 · 10:59 AM PST

2011/01/23 · 10:59

I've admired the Pittsburgh Steelers ever since crazy Terry Bradshaw propelled the team from last place in 1969 to the team's first Central Division Championship in 1972. He led the team to four Super Bowl wins in 1974, 1975, 1979, and 1980.

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Corporatist Idea Vacuum Sucks Town

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Friday October 22, 2010 · 2:14 PM PDT

2010/10/22 · 14:14

On October 20 President Obama came to Portland to boost the Kitzhaber gubernatorial campaign, and was said to attract around ten thousand people. Then:

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Monday September 27, 2010 · 1:20 PM PDT

2010/09/27 · 13:20

Last week on the bus I saw a clean-cut young guy wearing camo pants, who had a shaven head with a giant scar on one side. The scar looked recent. He could barely get around. It seemed that he was unable to use his left arm and leg for much. He sat in profile just ahead of me so that I kept seeing his scar in the periphery. When I looked directly at it the guy looked at me. We had a brief eye contact, then he looked past me - at others behind me also looking at him perhaps.

At his stop he reached for a pole to help himself up but missed it and lunged into the aisle. He quickly found the pole and forcefully pulled himself up. I'm pretty sure he was military because the way he recovered himself is something you learn when a boot camp instructor screams at you. No excuses, just move!

This diary is for him.

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Sunday August 08, 2010 · 10:30 AM PDT

2010/08/08 · 10:30

Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma had himself a big ol time last winter when he derided global warming warnings during the famous DC snowstorm. His grandchildren made an igloo and the family put out the quip that it was Al Gore's New Home. Inhofe believes we're heading for another little ice age, plus, "God's still up there." Meaning that the Senator's catbird seat in life is assured; a snowstorm is all you'll ever need to discredit Al Gore, that and a dollop of Michael Crichton.

So then, what about this:

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Wednesday August 04, 2010 · 8:29 AM PDT

2010/08/04 · 08:29

The folks at Stripes tried to pay a journalist to ostensibly write about the Ecuador jungle oil disaster while spying for Chevron. Major fail occurred when she wasn't for sale. Her account of a third party's seductive offer (by the Kroll spy agency) is up at http://www.theatlantic.com/...

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Sunday July 04, 2010 · 4:49 PM PDT

2010/07/04 · 16:49

The House pushed the Waxman-Markey climate bill through last week, and many on the left breathed a sigh of relief. But Representative Peter DeFazio, the US Congressman from Southwest Oregon's 4th district, isn't buying it. He voted against the bill, and promptly posted a press release on his website telling why.

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Saturday May 29, 2010 · 9:50 AM PDT

2010/05/29 · 09:50

The appalling lack of data on the size, location, and characteristics of the infamous oil plumes in the Gulf led me to explore the efforts of a marine sciences org named Mote Marine that's conducting data collection of oil off the Florida coast.

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