Monthly Archives: March 2011

Gingrich Turns

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Art Stone

He was for the war in Libya before he was against it. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/gingrich-calls-for-no-fly-zone-then-attacks-it/?partner=rss&emc=rss Time for some ‘splaining.

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Da Nile is a river in Egypt

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Art Stone

and Sudan and Ethopia want it back. Egypt’s Prime Minister is going to Sudan soon to discuss the fact that most of the upstream neighbors have agreed that Egypt can no longer take 60% of the water from the Nile … Continue reading →

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Coming up next to bat – Syria!

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/middleeast/25syria.html Syrian security forces have continued killing protestors. The flaw to this news is it undermines the carefully crafted narrative that John Batchelor’s guests have been promoting for several months – that Syria is a de facto client state of … Continue reading →

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“Free” Benghazi

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Art Stone

This wasn’t what we expected… Or “As the French Canadians turn”… Seems the city of Benghazi has turned into a random killing zone of suspected Qadaffi supporters being rounded up, tortured, and executed, and the operation seems to be run … Continue reading →

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The BOP worked as designed

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

Remember the old news of the BP oil spill? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/stuck-pipe-prevented-shear-rams-from-sealing-bp-well-u-s-says.html The report is in – ultimately judges and lawyers will decide, but for now it looks like the BOP maker is off the hook. It contains some hints that the … Continue reading →

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Power in Libya

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

It’s hard to hide high tension power lines from a satellite.    More often than not, the power lines lead you to important things if you follow them.   So I was pretending I’m an intelligence analyst and mapping out the pipelines … Continue reading →

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2004: Underwater natural gas pipeline connects Libya to Italy

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.gasandoil.com/GOC/news/nte44584.htm “Today, a new era of rapprochement and cooperation starts between out two peoples thanks to this project which will supply Italy with 10 % of its energy needs,” said Berlusconi The project, started in 2003, has been built by … Continue reading →

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Is the Libyan “Man Made River” actually a secret underground military network?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.fas.org/news/libya/971202-nyt.htm New York Times reporter in London, 1997: “But in separate interviews, three engineers working on the $25-billion project said the official explanation was improbable or incomplete. They said they suspect the system of underground pipes and reservoirs, which is … Continue reading →

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The Murzuq oil fields

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

Way out in the middle of the Sahara desert, there are an estimated 2 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the Murzuq basin (overlooking for the moment how decaying organic matter got 8000 feet under a desert)… Important to understanding … Continue reading →

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The battle for Zlitan / Zintan

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Art Stone

Beware Arabs / Berbers talking in English to French reporters. When does a civilian become an enemy combatant? At least the reporter did call them “so called” rebels. ZITtan (zliten, Zeleitin, etc…) is a city along the road from Tripoli … Continue reading →

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Who do you trust?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Art Stone

F15E Rescue So you’re the weapons officer from the F15E that crashes near Benghazi.   A Libyan with a machine gun runs up to you.   Do you trust him or do you shoot first and ask questions later? The Pilot went … Continue reading →

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Egypt devolving

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Art Stone

The Devolution is well along. Egypt is broke. 1000s of police are now filling the square wanting more money. One of the country’s significant sources of income – expatriate egyptian workers in Libya has dried up. Any day now a … Continue reading →

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Detroit loses 25% of population

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7486049.html The US Census data for Detroit indicates that the city that peaked at close to 2 million peope now has only a little over 700,000 left. About 15 yearns ago, Detroit was named as the best city in America … Continue reading →

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What an F15 looks like in action

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Art Stone

  For too much time in my youth, I had an F15 flight / combat simulator on my PC.   The F15 is pre-stealthy, so flying very low and close to the ground is the best way to avoid radar detection   … Continue reading →

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Storm clouds over Russia

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Art Stone

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.438abbe57d626e75921b8666c09ab51f.251&show_article=1 Vlad Putin and Dmitry Medvedev are now publicly in dispute over Putin comparing the action in Libya to the Crusades…. Unrest is growing in Syria

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