Oil continues its fall. It’s under $94 a barrel right now, and holding steady. Gas is down to $3.19 in the Richmond area , and sinking. ( Gasbuddy.com is a good place to find the cheapest gas prices in your area. It’s where your local news stations get their prices.)
Best of all, oil is under $100. When it’s below $100, Iran can’t sustain its current antagonism, according to some .
What this all could mean is that if oil prices fall to $70 per barrel or below, Ahmadinejad may find it difficult to maintain the same level of belligerence against the West. Things could get much worse for him if Obama is elected. His pledge to invest $150 billion in renewable energy could very well burst more bubbles around oil prices, thus pulling them to more unbearable lows for right-wingers in Iran — so low that the words “suspension of uranium enrichment” may turn from blasphemy into a realistic option.
I hope he’s right. But even if he’s...
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Twelve miles west, seven years laterFrom: yourish.com
Post Date: 2008-09-11 07:00:09
On September 11, 2001, I was twelve miles west of the Towers. I worked for Montclair State University, helping redesign the SVP’s website. When the first jet hit, I was walking down the campus to pick up a copy of Dreamweaver at the bookstore. When I got to the bookstore, the DJs on the radio were talking about the second plane hitting the second tower, and I thought, “This is the stupidest joke I ever heard in my life. It’s not funny.” I picked up my copy of Dreamweaver...
more Osama in a cave and on tapeFrom: yourish.com
Post Date: 2008-09-11 06:30:24
A New York Times article reports on tapes of Osama bin Laden that are now being studied.
While Mr. bin Laden’s evolution from opposing Saudi Arabia’s ruling dynasty to running an international terrorist organization has been detailed before, said Flagg Miller, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, who spent five years translating the tapes, the recordings provide a more spontaneous look at Al Qaeda than what is available through the carefully choreographed messa...
more Ingrid Betancourt: Work for Shalit’s releaseFrom: yourish.com
Post Date: 2008-09-10 04:30:54
Ingrid Betancourt is on the right side of the Gilad Shalit issue .
“People all over the world should work for the release of Gilad Shalit. If we adopt globalization for financial goals, the struggle for the release of kidnapped people should also be global,” Betancourt told Yedioth Ahronoth on Tuesday.
“If people all over the world work for Gilad Shalit’s release, he will be freed,” she added.
Yeah, that concept has two immediate problems. One, the world wi...
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