Twitter This Commentary In The News: It's Groundhog Day, and the media is busy watching rodents act as weather forecasters. Punxsutawney Phil informed us of what we already knew, at great personal cost: Alaska isn't impressed... "Alaska doesn't need Punxsutawney Phil, it has Marmot Day" Kiss your cheap consumer crap goodbye: The Chinese may put sanctions on any company doing business with Taiwan in the wake of the US government's announced weapons sale to Taiwan The Republicans are going to try to stop Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and friends from being tried in a US court. From Pipeline News (The RIGHT News RIGHT Now)

The bill has already garnered 34 sponsors, 3 of which are Democrats. Rather than confront the administration - on unequal terms - over its decision, the bill is designed to prevent the trial from proceeding by denying the funding with which to carry it out. The bill essentially mirrors an amendment which Wolf offered previously, to the 2010 omnibus spending bill, which was defeated on a straight party-line vote. Though estimates differ, most agree that the KSM trial and accompanying heavy security measures would be in the range of $250 million dollars. The following is the text of Mr. Wolf's remarks today regarding this issue:" (Intentionally de-linked, pipelinenewsDOTorg/index.cfm?page=wolftrial2.2.10.htm]

Meanwhile, the truth about why the West INVADED Afghanistan begins to emerge:

Agence France Presse January 31, 2010 Afghan 'geological reserves worth a trillion dollars' KABUL — Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters. "I have very good news for Afghans," Karzai said. "The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand billion dollars -- not a thousand million dollars but a thousand billion," he said. He based his assertion, he said, on a survey being carried out by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), due to be completed in "a couple of months". [In Full]

Former UnoCal consultant Hamid Karzai seems pleased... How do you suppose the citizens of Afghanistan feel about the potential for a pit mine in THEIR backyard? It's certainly won't be in HIS neighborhood (or the wealthy expat's backyards either.) The Senate Armed Services committee is about to get into it's own internal war over the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Details. The Obama budget has no provisions for the years-in-the-making Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site in Nevada, which means we're going to inexorably move the nation's main source of energy to nuclear power without a place to put the waste... except perhaps Kazakhstan. The California coast is being invaded by Humboldt Squid... 20 pounders, which caused the seals to flee to deep water Moss Landing from Fishermans Wharf Monterey... about a 20 miles swim. [After the Commentary The Full Monty (Python) for the Chinese. Courtesy of the respective artists and KPIG radio Freedom California Earth] -30-
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