Now we wait. Update, Turkey has accepted the deal… “Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Ankara had reached agreement on a draft deal, and was flying to Luxembourg for the start of the talks.” Austria was the last hold out keeping the EU from opening talks with Turkey.. they have apparently, fallen into line. Now …
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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 …
Glorifying Bin Laden by comparison with Hitler
Yesterday, in my Inter-Travels I came across this post at Harry’s Place (hatip: SMASH). It points a peice in the Observer which equates Islamic extremism with the G8s elitism as fanaticism in diferent forms. Here’s a quote: The so-called war against terrorism is, in fact, a war between two fanaticisms. To bracket the two together …
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