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If anyone missed the NY Times scoop on the Bush Administration’s failures concerning the hunt for bin Laden and our Pakistan policy, it’s a must read. To summarize, between Bush’s over-reliance on former Pakistani President Musharraf to remove al-Qa’ida from his country’s soil, shifting too many resources to the Iraq war, and squabbling between the CIA Kabul and Islamabad field offices along with the Pentagon, al-Qa’ida has been allowed to shift its bases from Afghanistan to Pakistan and return to its pre-Sept. 11 strength. My favorite part of the article is when it discusses how the CIA team whose objective was to find bin Laden was booted out of the Langley headquarters building to, instead, reside on the lawn at Langley:
Don’t Bother Us With the Facts
The Environmental Protection Agency was directed by a 2007 Supreme Court ruling to find out whether greenhouse gases endangered public health and the environment. The EPA did that and issued its findings in an email to the White House. The White House refused to open the email:
Moving Away From a Proprietary Fuel System (update)
When it comes to music, and mp3 players, I’ve yet to meet the person to actually give me a good hard sell on iPods. Why not?
Because iPods are too focused on a proprietary system.
Here’s something to think about while paying $4 a gallon
Exxon, everyone’s favorite Texas oil company, has finally admitted to funding climate change denial groups and pledges to stop.
The move comes ahead of the firm’s annual meeting today in Dallas, at which prominent shareholders including the Rockefeller family will urge ExxonMobil to take the problem of climate change more seriously. Green campaigners accuse the company of funding a “climate denial industry” over the last decade, with $23m (£11.5m) handed over to groups that play down the risks of burning fossil fuels.
Can global warming cause global cooling?
I should be studying for my last final, but staring at the same material for hours causes a scatterbrain like me to poke around the web for something, anything, that isn’t Middle Eastern history. So I found myself on Wizbang today.
Obama Quickly Slips Into His New Role
Obama continues to provide evidence to suggest my hypothesis was correct; that the likely Democratic nominee isn’t a pushover, and when the target in his sights is not a fellow Democrat, he knows how to dig in and deliver some blows when he has to.
Two thoughts on the tragedy in Myanmar
First off, I’m not sure what’s more tragic: the damage caused by the cyclone or the paranoid Myanmar government’s refusal to let in outside aid workers — letting their own citizens die.
The Real News: Myanmar death toll climbs over 70,000 UPDATED
The Real News reports on the rising death toll and ongoing aid efforts in Myanmar (Burma) following the devastation wrought by Tropical Cyclone Nargis:
Here’s A Solution to Global Warming: Bury the Trees
Or not. I prefer my trees out in the open and standing up, thank you very much.
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