So, what next?
Syria and Iran? Scary thoughts, former CIA boss James Woolsey even wants to target Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Let’s not forget, the war is still on.
Boston.com / Latest News / Washington / Rumsfeld Accuses Syria of aiding Saddam regime Secretary of State Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld accused Syria on Wednesday of giving haven to some members of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime and assisting others to additional safe locations.
AlterNet: Bush’s Environmental Strategy: Greenwashing the Truth In the ongoing battle to protect the natural world, environmental impact statements and Environmental Protection Agency reports serve to alert the public about dangers that too often remain cloistered within the scientific community. Disclosures should be used as tools to help safeguard public health and the environment.
But that’s not how they are handled within the Bush administration. Several recent incidents show that, when faced with environmental crises attributable to business interests cozy with the White House, the administration has developed an alternative response: Suppress, Ignore, Preempt.
theage.com.au – The Age If the Iraqi oil industry is privatised, forget about OPEC, it is dead,” said Leo Drollas of London’s Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES).
He said a post-war Iraq was likely to demand to be allowed to export the same amount of oil as neighbouring Iran, as it did before it was kicked out of the cartel in 1990 for invading Kuwait. Iran currently produces 3.59 million barrels per day.
“Iraq will want to produce as much as it can as quickly as it can to finance its reconstruction costs. Iraq will say: ‘We want at least parity with Iran’,” Drollas told AFP. He added that OPEC would resist, as this would mean scaling down its other 10 members’ quotas, and at this point “Iraq will have to strike a decision whether to stay or to leave”.
Neil Partrik, a researcher for The Economist weekly, said it was “very unlikely in the short term” that Iraq, a founding member, would break away from OPEC.
The Debt to the Penny
War’s expensive but hey, does it matter? considering the 6 trillion dollar US deb…
The Debt To the Penny 04/03/2003 $6,460,883,083,990.99
BBC – Business – Programmes – Money Programme The advocates of war insist it’s not about oil. But global oil production is on the brink of terminal decline and when the West begins to run short of supplies – Iraq could be a lifeline.
Fark.com Comments Thingee (485972) Theme: What if Fox News were around during other historical events? Link goes to a representative screencap
Boycott Brand America
AnotherAdbusters cultural jamming project: Boycott America. There are also many German sites concerned with “Boycott Amerika” — here’s a list with products to avoid in German. I am sure you’ll find out what’s it all about. Honestly, I am quite sceptical that such a boycott would change anything. I mean, why don’t you just boycott that stuff because it’s crap anyways?
Adbusters: Boycott Brand America Here is the one and only rule for the Brand America Boycott: this action belongs to you. You decide what brands and products stand as symbols of America’s new empire-building project, and you decide how you’ll make your statement. Above all else, this is a culture jam – personal, spontaneous, unpredictablable.
Rummy poetry
Forget Rumi — check out these poems by this talented political poet — umm, Rumsfeld…
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely And so Slate has compiled a collection of Rumsfeld’s poems, bringing them to a wider public for the first time. The poems that follow are the exact words of the defense secretary, as taken from the official transcripts on the Defense Department Web site.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.
—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Glass Box
You know, it’s the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you’re using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can’t find it.
It’s—
And it’s all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But—
Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
—Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing
Happenings
You’re going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don’t happen.
It doesn’t seem to bother people, they don’t—
It’s printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.
Everyone’s so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story’s there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven’t happened.
All I can tell you is,
It hasn’t happened.
It’s going to happen.
—Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
The Digital Revolution
Oh my goodness gracious,
What you can buy off the Internet
In terms of overhead photography!
A trained ape can know an awful lot
Of what is going on in this world,
Just by punching on his mouse
For a relatively modest cost!
—June 9, 2001, following European trip
“Stay home in safety with your family”
I don’t know if these leaflets are the real ones to be dropped in Iraq. Have a look. They look so corky, they may be as well fakes.
Target Iraq – Art of War Iraq – Art of War – Leaflets
