Month: October 2005

When I was 16 I decided I wanted to go from living with my father and stepmother to living with my Mother who at that time lived in Johnstown, Pa.  It was a big decision and move for me, one that I had been planning for 3 years, plans to escape my step mother and her mental abuse.

And where are the ‘Koolaid Drinkers’ Kids [more on this in a moment]

For every active participant in an Action there are the invisible Likeminded, who for a veriaty of reasons, are not there with you. How many can be hard to gage, maybe 5, 10, 20, 30, more. Local actions give a rough gage to those numbers, horns honking, thumbs up, finger peace sign etc.. Than there are those who fear being labeled, but the more who show they are not fearful or are more enraged and that has removed the fear brings the fearful out to participation and in Poll Results.

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Sadah is a village of about 2,000 people on the banks of the Euphrates River about eight miles from the Syrian border in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. The isolated community has one main road and about 200 houses scattered over a rural area.

Two cars full of families, who fled the violence to spend the night in the desert, were hit at night killing all, including three children under the age of ten.

“Operation Iron Fist” in the town of Sadah near the Syrian border replaces the Tal Afar campagne named: “Operation Restoring Rights”.

Tal Afar, insurgents escaped before offensive by American Forces.

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New Precision MLRS Helps In Battle For Tal Afar - Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System was first test-fired outside of the U.S. earlier this summer near Tikrit, Iraq.   

More to follow below the fold »»

As some of you may have followed, I have been trying to build up a manifesto for an energy policy for the Dems (see this diary: Building together an effective Dem energy policy (I) ). There will be more, which makes more sense to continue over at dKos. But I thought it would be worthwhile to come back to basics, and write once again about “peak oil”.

The occasion to do this is an excellent 10-page article published this week-end in Le Monde, France’s equivalent to the NYT, where they introduce peak oil to their readers. Amongst the highlights:

• Saudi Arabia “does not have the capacity to produce 15 mb/d” says Aramco’s n°2;

• oil sands will never produce more than 5 mb/d, if that

• Total’s CEO said “peak oil will be no later than 2025, and only if we have a demand crisis“

And this graph:

Ready for an introduction or a refresher? Jump in.