- A major media outlet has editorially linked the war and
oil calling for a new energy policy. Sunday's Seattle Post Intelligencer
(PI or PU, depending on your point of view is one of the first to treat
a conection that keeps many a conspiracy theorist up at night. Here is
an excerpt:
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- "There is a direct, inescapable connection between
our war on terrorism and our nation's dependence on the internal combustion
engine.
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- "If the United States did not need oil, it's a safe
bet we would not be so heavily, and dangerously, engaged in the Middle
East. Yet the U.S. Congress seems at great pains to ignore that costly
connection.
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- "If ever there were a moment to connect the dots
and lay the foundation for a rational long-term energy policy that lessens
our dependence on oil, it is now, when bombs are falling in Afghanistan
and Americans are bracing for the arrival of body bags from a foreign killing
field.
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- "But a timid Congress once again is backing away
from this challenge. It has abandoned its effort to enact a promised broad
new energy policy this session. That is a dangerous dereliction of duty."
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- On the same subject:
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- Wanted: An Al-Chomsky Network
http://www.thefileroom.org/weblog/dannylog.cfm
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- You want some substance, something to chew on? Then,
check out "9/ll",the new Open Media book of interviews with the
still relevant, always challenging and often criticized Noam Chomsky. Maya
Jaggi in a Guardian profile last Maysaid "Chomsky ranks with Marx,
Shakpespeare and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the
Humanities."
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- I am not sure how many readers of the Koran know his
work. What is remarkable is that this 125 page collection published by
Seven Stories Press, my one time publisher, has arranged for simultaneous
publication in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, Spain,
Taiwan. Wow! And why do so many flock to his work? They are seeking out
truths deeper than journalism, context, history and background missing
in most media. And thanks Seven Stories for rereading my book to pluck
out the word "Dissects" as the best description of Noam C's method
for searching for the root causes of the catastrophe of September 11.
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- Chomsky does not rationalize or throw conspiracy theories
around about those events aither, and instead brands them an atrocity.
The book is worth reading for another way of looking at issues that rarely
creep into or crawl below the news. It will give you something to think
about and argue with. What's need is more Chomsky, not less. How about
an Al Chomsky network
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