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final installment of dkos interview with daniel ellsberg.

- dave 1-30-2006 5:37 pm [link] [add a comment]

when 51% of registered voters say they definitely wont vote for you, you have electablility issues.

- dave 1-26-2006 8:08 pm [link] [1 comment]

I know I'm a little further out than most people on this one, but I am getting really worried about Monday. News out of Kuwait on Friday basically made 5% of the world oil resources disappear (what? you didn't hear this in the U.S. media?):

OPEC producer Kuwait's oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).

"PIW learns from sources that Kuwait's actual oil reserves, which are officially stated at around 99 billion barrels, or close to 10 percent of the global total, are a good deal lower, according to internal Kuwaiti records," the weekly PIW reported on Friday.
Combine that with spreading infrastructure attacks, plus the mess over Iran, and I really think the market drop on Friday wasn't just because Google missed it's numbers! I think we are actually in serious trouble.

When the other shoe drops, and Saudi Arabia is forced to admit that it too (like everyone else) has seriously overstated how much oil they have in the ground, there really won't be anywhere to run (financially speaking.) The reason these reserves are all over stated is because the daily limit OPEC allows its' members to pump out of the ground is a fraction of total reserves. So the higher your stated reserves, the more you can pump each day, and therefore the more money you make. At least until it all dries up way before people expected.

Just some happy thoughts for Sunday morning.
- jim 1-22-2006 6:13 pm [link] [2 comments]

"Joe Klein goes out of his way to slime bloggers. Isn't Andrew Sullivan his colleague now?

Klein: Well I bow to nobody in, in my disdain for bloggers. They're all opinions and very little information."


- dave 1-22-2006 5:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

i dont have much faith in someone like kerry when he decides to get netrootsy but whatever it takes to animate him should be viewed as a good thing. that said, he had his chance to speak out forcefully, and he, by all measures, didnt. id call that a slow learning curve.

- dave 1-21-2006 5:18 pm [link] [1 comment]

Is there an audio stream of the Alito hearings anywhere? I thought it would be on NPR but it doesn't seem like it is.
- jim 1-11-2006 6:19 pm [link] [1 comment]

comprehensive summary of abramoff scandal players from center for american progress. and not to be outdone, ariel sharon has his own gambling/bribery case brewing.
- dave 1-04-2006 5:44 pm [link] [add a comment]


msn
censoring chinese-language blogs

- dave 1-04-2006 12:16 am [link] [add a comment]

15 minutes of fame: web accessible archive of all US and Canadian news broadcasts from the first 15 minutes after impact one on 9/11. Actual archive is here although it appears to be down now (probably from the recent link on digg.com.)
- jim 1-03-2006 9:33 pm [link] [add a comment]






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