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Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service[July 02 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: No Fireworks? Just Take Your Gun - Let's Talk About '4th Of Julys' Of Yesteryear And Why We Celebrate The Day At All (July 2, 2008)
In The News: If it works as foreign policy... The budget for the Wild Horse Adoption Program has been cut, so the Bureau of Land Management will cull the herd... by shooting the horses.
The Nigerian government will sponsor talks between oil industry interests and the MEND rebels who have been brutalizing their facilities... Example
Sunday, 06 May 2007 JOURNAL: Shell facilities disappear from Niger Delta (UPDATE)
Last year, Shell Oil abandoned facilities that produced 600,000 barrels a day of oil due relentless attacks by the global guerrilla facilitator MEND. Upon its return to these facilities this month, the company found much of its infrastructure missing. In the area near the Forcados terminal alone, 435 miles of pipeline disappeared (likely disassembled by hand, loaded onto barges, offloaded onto Ukrainian transport ships offshore, and delivered to Chinese scrap metal dealers -- globalization is grand, isn't it). Estimates of the reconstruction costs now exceed $2 billion, under the assumption both Shell and its construction partners will be allowed to return unimpeded.
The Persian Gulf will become a Gulf - The Iranian defense minister says if Iran is attacked the response would be vicious... That means NO Persian Gulf oil, and a trapped US Navy carrier group.
The 'New Deal' - Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq will be answerable under Iraqi law after the first of the year.
A class in torture techniques taught at gitmo will now be taught to the Mexican Drug Enforcement military units, and those it's also notable those techniques came from China, circa 1957. More at the New York Times.
John McCain goes to Colombia and inspects the US funded 'drug war' and then he's up to Mexico (to inspect the torture chambers?).
The Grande era at Starbucks is over. 600 stores will be shut by the end of the year... and approximately 10,000 people will have to find something else to do in an already basketcase US economy.
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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service