Tuesday, April 12, 2005

JOURNAL: The Second Energy Crunch. Venezuela's 935,000 barrel a day Amuay refinery (satellite photo) resumed partial operations today, one day after it was shut down due to a power failure. Full operations are expected to resume in seven days. The cause of this shutdown was... [Global Guerrillas] 9:24:10 PM     JOURNAL: India's Energy Security. A proposed natural gas pipeline between Iran and India is at the center of controversy. The main problem? The pipeline will pass through Pakistan. Pakistan has been at the epicenter of global guerrilla system attacks over the past several months. ... [Global Guerrillas] 9:23:41 PM     JOURNAL: A Paperwork Systempunkt. Iraq's energy markets and infrastructure are in free-fall. Prices have spiked (the price of a gallon of gas went from $0.53 to $5.22 over the last several months) for basic necessities and oil exports in January are down to 1... [Global Guerrillas] 9:23:02 PM     More old media. I will shortly be visited here at home by a camera crew from an Indian cable TV station. Apparently my... [Making Light] 9:16:46 AM     Identity's Currency-. This just in from our Theologian in Residence, Jed, aka, Enkidu: IDENTITY'S CURRENCY April 8, 2005 By Enkidu Catholic Church tradition dictates that, when a pope is laid to rest, a bag of coins is placed in the coffin with him. Perhaps... [Majikthise] 9:06:27 AM     God Denies Scalia's Authority Derives From Him. [Scalia] called the Ten Commandments "a symbol of the fact that government derives its authority from God," adding, "That seems to me an appropriate symbol to put on government grounds."Today God, responding to a comment made by Justice Antonin Scalia,... [Opinions You Should Have] 6:39:17 AM     Springtime all over. Lobbygow has magnificent magnolias in Brooklyn, Andy Axel has pretty perennials, Fletch has a wonderful wild geranium, Countertop has cheery cherry blossoms in D.C., Deb at Sugarfused has a beautiful bunch of spring flowers (keep scrolling), WhitesCreek has an essay about the love life of plants and trees, with a marvelous maple blossom as an example, and Michael Silence reports on the denizens of Knoxville coming out of hibernation for the first of many springtime festivals downtown. [South Knox Bubba] 6:27:09 AM     Fountain City Dogwood Trail. The Dogwood Trails are open. We hadn't been out to the Fountain City trail in years, so we thought we'd check it out. (...) [South Knox Bubba] 6:24:42 AM

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