Let's be clear about it: 'Tar sands' and 'oil sands'? Same thing. It depends on how one views the horror. And Greenpeace Canada has all the Dirt on the Sand. Have a look at their website. The tar/sand fields viewed from high above make the earth look like a terminal burn victim. It is one of the ugliest images you will come across in a long time. And the stuff is going to be on a oneway trip across America very, very soon. It appears for now that we are waiting for Canadian opposition to save us from our own gas greed in much the same way that we are waiting for Mexican opposition to the drug trade to save us from our own chemical dependencies.
The DC Superior Court appears to be prying open AIPAC's inner sanctum. Grant Smith at Antiwar.com is behind these recent excavations. AIPAC's former top employees Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen are charged with spying for Israel. AIPAC initially backed Rosen and Weissman when the FBI raided its offices in August 2004. But to the shock of many, AIPAC dropped the two just seven months later, alleging the pair had not lived up to AIPAC's “professional standards” (These presumably, would be the “professional standards” of a people who have attacked a peace mission bringing food to besieged Gaza, a people who send hit-men into foreign nations to assassinate enemies of the Jewish state, a people who simultaneously make and break promises – you know, those “professional standards”). Federal indictments followed…Indeed! According to the deposition, AIPAC “professional standards” might have included viewing pornography at work with the consent of senior managers while also, as Rosen admits, using his work computer to solicit male sex partners from Craigslist. Josh Block, former AIPAC spokesman quit to open his own shop. According to Smith, donations to the organization have fallen off sharply. And yet as recently as yesterday the New York Times in its Sunday supplement 'The Way we Live Now' segment, reports that 63 percent of Americans surveyed sympathize more with Israelis than with Palestinians, representing the highest level of support since 1991." No word as to how Americans feel about AIPAC.
- KBOO