Pentagon palavers “Risk” to Oil Supplies

The Financial Times reports that a Pentabonk study decries the “risk” to oil supplies presented by Ibero-American “nationalism”. According to the military’s risk mavens, this risk can only be allayed by a change in the “investment” climate.

Translation: if Bolivia and Ecuador and Mexico own their own oil, that presents a risk that needs to be changed by our owning it.

Anyone still wonder why Murka is loathed by the peoples of hispanic America?

By the way, Mexico has owned its oil since 1938 when it was nationalized by Pres. Cardenas. Has the flow of Mexican oil to the U.S. been “at risk” for all these 60 years?

Results are More to the Point than Plans

At a 9/11 conspiracy conference being held in Los Angeles, Webster Tarpley, author of 911 Synthetic Terror; Made in USA, said the September 11th attacks were "state sponsored, false- flag terrorism" designed by rogue CIA elements as a pretext to turn the United States into a police state.

What is indisputable, at any rate, is the result and the result is not less reprehensible because it may have been a reaction instead of a plan. Dramatically horrorific as the attacks on the WTC were, they were mere pin-pricks in comparison to other acts of unprovoked or unbridled agression that have stained history. It was hardly surprising that a global power should get punched up now and again. While any attack on the WTC certainly warranted a response, it did not warrant the deconstruction of civil rights and freedoms.

How Much of Lethal is OK?

The American Heart Association has published new dietary guidelines in which it is recommended that ingestion of trans-fats "not exceed 1%" of daily caloric intake. Gee.... if it's that bad, why intake it at all?

The Hell of Gates

Bill ("Huckster") Gates has announced that he is taking leave of Microsoft in order to dedicate his life to charitable enterprises. Considering the misery, frustration, and hell his former enterprises foisted on the world, Gates should be dedicating the rest of his life to penance.