Potentially good news from northern Iraq today. Hammorabi, is reporting that Iraqi forces have been fighting insurgent and terrorist camps in Tel Aafar and have now apparently taken control of the city. Tel Aafar remained for long time one of the strongest holds for the cockroaches from which many attacks perpetrated on the other areas. …
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Oil pipelines coming back online
The Oil Drum is reporting that capacity is flowing back into the previously shutdown pipelines across the souther US. This includes refined goods like gas and heating oil. Theoretically, this should mean that gas prices should stop their incredible climb of the past week… do you believe they will? Here’s my completely unscientific, utterly pessimistic …
Canadians and Others Respond to Katrina
In my last post I encouraged people to open their doors to the refugees of Hurricane Katrina. David Billington posted these links in the comments section: http://www.hurricanehousing.org/ Homes Available from Nola.net Another commenter, JaneM provided this link from Iowa of people lending a helping hand. The Iowa Channel Jane says, “This is a link from …