State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq [EXCERPTS]

WASHINGTON — Can diplomats field their own army? The State Department is laying plans to do precisely that in Iraq, in an unprecedented experiment that U.S. officials and some nervous lawmakers say could be risky....

Already, however, the State Department’s requests to the Pentagon for Black Hawk helicopters; 50 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles; fuel trucks; high-tech surveillance systems; and other military gear has encountered flak on Capitol Hill....

Obama-Dodd-Frank FinReg Monstrosity Delays Derivatives Curbs until 2022!

Listen/read here.

Everywhere, the dumping of thousands and thousands of gallons of dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico is being labeled as "a giant science experiment." If it was labeled as a giant culinary experiment, there would certainly be a huge outcry from the world's chefs. But, apparently, scientists are sitting there saying: "Yup, that's how we do things."

A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere

EXCERPTS:

July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."....

CNN has done an investigation into how dispersants are being used in the Gulf. On May 26th, the EPA ordered BP to cut back on the use of dispersants "75% from the maximum daily amount used." Before the order was issued, BP, on average, was dumping 25,689 gallons of dispersants a day into the Gulf. After the order, they cut back to 23,250 gallons per day. The very slight cut back is due to the fact that, only 3 days before the EPA order (on May 23rd), BP dumped 70,000 gallons of dispersants into the Gulf.

Go to: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com

Enter your town or city and state in the "Location" box.

Click on the "Move the spill" button.

Stamp of idiocy [on how "We're freaking doomed!"]
By The Mogambo Guru
and
Mistah McChrystal - he dead
By Pepe Escobar
Here's an excerpt from the first article:

Lawrence Solomon: Avertible catastrophe

How U.S. labour and environmental rules blocked Dutch spill-cleanup technology

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Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.

The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill....

EXCERPT:

What if Obama has no intention of leaving Iraq?

What if a military draft is being planned for for the wars that would spread if our foreign policy is not changed?

What if the American people learned the truth, that our foreign policy has nothing to do with national security, that it never changes from one administration to the next?

What if war in preparation for war is a racket serving the special interests?
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For entire speech, click here.

WHO BUILDS REFUGEE CAMPS?!!

Have you noticed? Every time ethnic violence is stirred up somewhere, there are already refugee camps set up, into which people flee. The UN instantly puts out a call for aid, and then, it seems to me, these camps become prison camps.