Terror-Free Oil Slicks come out and play!

Oh, boy. I just caught a flying one from a big, brave, wannabe terror-free oilman, and I’m sooooooo scared. Take a gander at what landed in my comments section today.

The only thing that overshadows author’s stupidity is his poor research skills.

Article above: "embrace the economy car, the hybrid car, the fuel-cell car, and most importantly, the carpool."

TFO goals (http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/coalition.php):

- Educate consumers about alternative fuels (Ethanol, BioDiesel, etc.)

- Promote Hybrids & FFVs

- Promote public transportation

It might be worth researching the subject before providing your scholarly opinion. Will make you look less of a moron.

Bravo! You have finally come out from under your rock to insult me, reiterate your empty blurb, and give me an instant, depersonalized, internet sex change to boot. How courageous of you!

There’s only one problem with your calling me a moron: it makes you look like an idiot.

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CubanaBomber Death Watch: How long till the mistrial?

Or, failing that, the sudden disappearance and/or death?

An anti-Castro Cuban militant is to face trial in the US in May, charged with lying to immigration officials.

Luis Posada Carriles has been held in an immigration detention centre in Texas since 2005 after crossing the border illegally from Mexico.

Both Venezuela and Cuba want to put Mr Posada on trial for allegedly masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: A bolivar for your thoughts…

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O doomsayers, what say you to this?

Evo and Lula have just inked an agreement over natural gas. And not a shot was fired, as some were fearing when the Bolivian army went ahead with nationalization plans!

Bolivia has reached agreement on a price increase over its natural gas exports to Brazil.

The deal, signed by Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales, ends months of dispute over the issue.

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By the way, you’re also free to stop buying coke from Colombia

Oh, that Chavecito. Irrepressible as always, and ever ready with a blunt reply to Washington when it starts making noises about his novel take on democracy (namely, to actually practice it rather than just preaching it endlessly like Washington hacks do). Get a load of his latest snappy comeback!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday said the United States is free to stop buying oil from its No. 4 supplier of imported crude amid persistent political tensions between Caracas and Washington.

“If they don’t want to buy (our) oil, they can tell us and we won’t sell them oil,” Chavez said during a speech to retirees. “Over there they are the biggest consumers on the planet, that’s not our fault.”

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“Terror-free oil”–what it really means

Well, hey howdy. There’s a new face on the gasoline scene:

Terror Free Oil--the $3 bill of the energy sector

Oh my, aren’t they patriotic. Just look at that logo! Not a bit subtle. What could be more “American” than cashing in wherever you can, even on tragedy?

Unfortunately, this is just another way of profiting from the gullibility of the “patriotic” sheeple–the same ones who stick made-in-China yellow ribbon magnets on their SUVs and call that “supporting the troops”. It’s a slick scam, and here’s why:

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Neil Young sticks it to BushCo

Yep, free trade creates jobs, all right!

Unfortunately, a lot of them are child labor.

The Social Protection Minister Diego Palacio said that over 200 thousand children are working as miners in Colombia specially in deposits in Choco, Boyaca, Antioquia, Caldas, Cundinamarca and Nariño departments.

Palacio admitted that situation is growing more complicated every day because of the lack of control by the legal authorities that have been given the responsibility and obligation of checking, controlling and even closing those mines.

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Quotable: Eric Fair on torture and its consequences

“American authorities continue to insist that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was an isolated incident in an otherwise well-run detention system. That insistence, however, stands in sharp contrast to my own experiences as an interrogator in Iraq. I watched as detainees were forced to stand naked all night, shivering in their cold cells and pleading with their captors for help. Others were subjected to long periods of isolation in pitch-black rooms. Food and sleep deprivation were common, along with a variety of physical abuse, including punching and kicking. Aggressive, and in many ways abusive, techniques were used daily in Iraq, all in the name of acquiring the intelligence necessary to bring an end to the insurgency. The violence raging there today is evidence that those tactics never worked. My memories are evidence that those tactics were terribly wrong.

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“Some may suggest there is no reason to revive the story of abuse in Iraq. Rehashing such mistakes will only harm our country, they will say. But history suggests we should examine such missteps carefully. Oppressive prison environments have created some of the most determined opponents. The British learned that lesson from Napoleon, the French from Ho Chi Minh, Europe from Hitler. The world is learning that lesson again from Ayman al-Zawahiri. What will be the legacy of abusive prisons in Iraq?”

–Eric Fair, “An Iraq Interrogator’s Nightmare”

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Day of Dignity, Dawn of Hope

Courtesy of RadioAporrea and ViVe, the Venezuelan public TV channel, a half-hour video about the forces that shaped Chavecito into a revolutionary fighter, unexpected popular hero and leader:

In Spanish.

This documentary stresses that the Bolivarian movement is a civilian/military alliance with an emphasis on popular participation. Soldiers who participated, civilians who remember, and historians who have analyzed the events explain the significance of that day.

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