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 [onefreekorea] Nuke Test?: My comments are on NKZone, along with new developments on the North Korean Human Rights Act. It's coming up for a vote in the Senate next week, with the help of Senator Lugar.

 [onefreekorea] Why Is Everyone in America So Down on Kim Jong-Il?: I will restate what ought to be obvious to all but the clinically paranoid: hardly anyone across America's political spectrum has the slightest desire to invade North Korea with anything but the same information that you and I consider it our God-given right to exchange. If that informs the North Korean people of the extent to which they have been been used and lied to, so much the better. If the North Korean people then opt to withdraw from Kim Jong Il what Thomas Jefferson called "the consent of the governed," I'd be happy for them. I'd even offer to help light their torches and sharpen their pitchforks.

 [onefreekorea] Posting will be light for the next few days: The little spare time I have left is going toward building her a cradle out of red oak. Like everything I've built since my first visit to the Tapshimni antique market, which is a thousand times better and more authentically Korean than Insadong, it will be in a Chosun Dynasty-influenced style. Pictures to follow if I'm proud enough of the final results (I mean the cradle, not the baby; no pictures of her, sorry).

 [onefreekorea] New Site: From the few murky facts we know from a handful of dubious sources, the situation is calamitous, breathtakingly dangerous, and getting worse fast. Readers are invited to persuade me that their conflicting views are less imperfect or flawed than my own.

 [Gnn.tv] Guerrilla News Network: peak oil is the theory that the world’s major reserves of petroleum and natural gas have already been discovered and what is left of known supplies are dwindling rapidly , heading us in the industrial world irreversibly towards a precipice over which the modern world will collapse—agriculture , manufacturing , information and communication and transport all grind to a halt , civilization breaks down and millions—perhaps billions of humans die off in the ensuing crisis—that’s peak oil .

 [Pherrett.blogspot.com] Assume the Position: In less than 30 hours after being approached by the companies, the Energy Department had made arrangements to exchange oil from the Strategic Reserve to relieve the refineries' supply problems. On June 15, 2000, the Energy Department agreed to exchange 500,000 barrels from the Strategic Reserve's West Hackberry site with CITGO in return for an equivalent value of crude oil from the company after the shipping lanes were reopened (see June 15, 2000, Techline). The next day, June 16, 2000, the Department reached an exchange agreement for the same amount with Conoco (see June 16, 2000, Techline). Crude oil from the Reserve began flowing to the refineries on June 18, 2000.

[Greatchicagorealestate.com] Great Chicago Real Estate Blog: April 2005 Archives: Who knew that lemon oil applied to bathroom tile walls can retard soap-scum buildup? Ditto for car wax on the sides of a porcelain bathtub (do not wax the tub's bottom and invite a fall). If stubborn toilet bowl rings don't succumb to an acid-based bowl cleaner and a nylon-backed scrubby sponge, attack them with a pumice stone (it must always be kept wet during rubbing). This will work only on vitreous porcelain.

 [Sgtstryker.com] SSDB: Needs More Cowbell: While the technical details of Fumento's column on the 'Chicken Little' oil shortage are correct, his analysis most cetainly isn't. What he neglects is the scale of the emerging economies of India and China, not to mention such smaller nations as Russia and Indonesia. This will be unprecedented.

[Mykesweblog.com] Myke's Weblog: Politics: What is particularly surprising to me is that the conservatives who are trying to make the world 'safe from terrorism' don't realize that terrorism is, in most forms, an innately (if extreme) conservative act. Bush can bluster about terrorists "hating freedom" and "being evil" but the truth is that most terrorists are not anarchists who blow things up for a lark out of self-indulgence, but rather devout, conservative fanatics who are acting out of moral outrage against what they see as evil, and who kill others as acts of retribution that they see as profoundly moral. Very much as the American neocons saw their hysterical and immensely-costly destruction of two Arab nations as profoundly moral acts of retribution for 9/11.

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