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This regards the recent controversy over use of white phosphorus in the November 8th, 2004 assault on Fallujah in Iraq.

I’m looking for help with meteorological research to determine whether or not a smog-inducing temperature inversion formed immediately before or during the assault on Fallujah.

This isn’t a tin-foil hat thing about weather manipulation. Rather, what if the anticipated assault was timed the way it was not merely for election reasons, but to wait for the right weather conditions?

I believe that may possibly have been the case. Here’s why…
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Don’t miss this great short essay: Disproving the State by Stefan Molyneux

Excerpt:

Two objections constantly recur whenever the subject of dissolving the State arises. The first is that a free society is only possible if people are perfectly good or rational. In other words, citizens need a centralized State because there are evil people in the world.

The first and most obvious problem with this position is that if evil people exist in society, they will also exist within the State – and be far more dangerous thereby.

Like a demented jack-in-the-box, Pat Robertson pops up at the damnedest times. This time, he has the gall to threaten divine retribution against an entire town because voters there threw out a slate of corrupt school board members who were trying to deliberately subvert the science curriculum in that school district by smuggling in disguised Christian dogma — so-called “intelligent design” theory.
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Golden Retriever Gives Birth To Green Puppy | Link to image

“A dog breeder in Alhambra, Calif., is mystified after his golden retriever gave born to a green puppy, according to a Local 6 News report.”

How utterly bizarre! I’ve actually heard of green polar bears. They have hollow hairs, so sometimes algae starts growing inside the hairs and the animal turns a pale green. It tends to happen when warm spells hit Arctic areas or to polar bears in zoos in more temperate climes. I have never heard of a green dog before this, though.

After several posts regarding causes of the riots in France:

• Riots in Paris: The continuing crises of statism
• Root causes of the Paris riots
• Paris riots: immigration is not the problem
• French riots: talking sense to right wing friends

…a correspondent asks:

“My question, though, is what is to be done?”

That’s an incredibly important question, and actually — I’m working on a book about the topic generally, rather than in regard to France in particular. I’ll try to hit the most important points.
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Doug Thompson in Capitol Hill Blue: An enemy of the state

According to a printout from a computer controlled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice, I am an enemy of the state.

The printout, shown to me recently by a friend who works for Justice, identifies me by a long, multi-digit number, lists my date of birth, place of birth, social security number and contains more than 100 pages documenting what the Bureau and the Bush Administration consider to be my threats to the security of the United States of America.

From Roderick Long: Better Killing Through Chemistry

The US complained about Saddam Hussein’s rape rooms – then created its own rape rooms at Abu Ghraib. The US complained about Hussein’s use of chemical weapons – now it’s using them itself. For Christ’s sake, how long will it take for people to get it?

Kevin Carson does absolutely heroic work in refuting the foundational myths of the Corporate State. Read his latest post in that vein — Goo-Goo Historical Mythology.