Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

[Jason & Katie]

that is the whole problem, i am trying to automate the entire process, a 
computer will always be more consistent than a human, so with the proper 
sensing equipment, the only input needed would be the contact of two 
seperate digital pH meters with the oil/IPA and lye solutions, the program 
would allow for the pH variables to be incorporated into a formula that will 
calculate the appropriate amount of base to bring the oil to pH 8.4 and the 
process would continue-accurately, automatically, and consistently.

I am not trying to remove the labor or take an easy way out, im trying to 
give myself the ability to do good work consistently.

jason

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From: "Joe Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I think you should 'manualize' the process.
>
> Joe


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Re: [Biofuel] hybrid efficiency

[E. C.]

Hey Joe
When's the last time you saw the movie "Chinatown"
(Faye Dunaway was gorgeous)?
point: been there, done that -- as with most
corporatocracy scams -- but time's running out!  If We
The People don't get up on our hind legs and seriously
do things to change to a sustainable lifestyle SOON
(and the task is 'way too enormous to be entrusted to
the elites), it isn't going to matter: Ma Nature will
take care of it; she's the only one who has eternity
as a time-frame!
E. Allen Cartwright 

--- Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey Andrew don't forget we are sitting on a virtual
> goldmine in terms of 
> fresh water here in Canada.  In many places in the
> USA I've heard they 
> are already feeling the pinch for water and it is
> getting worse.  I'm 
> wondering if we could set something up where maybe
> we could use beavers 
> as a slave labour force in the water trade.  What do
> you say?
> 
> Joe
> 
> Andrew Netherton wrote:
> 
> >I'll bet that research would show a mighty quick
> return on investment
> >if they had done the study based on European fuel
> costs, and not our
> >cheaper-than-bottled-water fuel here in North
> America.
> >
> >Andrew Netherton
> >
> >
> >On 3/9/06, AltEnergyNetwork
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> >
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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Ray in Atlanta GA]

Contact Joyce Riley at HTTP://www.thepowerhour.com


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Keith at Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote:
> "Does anything know anything about soldiers being given drugs 
> before going into combat, as has been alleged?"
> 
> Several US militiary men returning from Iraq have become violent 
> against their wives, some wives being killed by these husbands 
> in a California base. There has been a lot of speculation that this 
> violence was brought on by reactions to drugs in their systems, 
> but I haven't heard of any studies confirming this. If such studies 
> did exist, we probably wouldn't hear about them anyway.
> 
> There were news reports in England, where I lived at the time, 
> that the Chinese troops who mowed down the protesters in 
> Tiannamin Square were given drugs to make them aggressive, 
> and this, in addition to being told that the students in the Square 
> had been extremely violent, made them willing to kill their own 
> people. Did US news sources report this?
> 
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Re: [Biofuel] Neocon Advocates Civil War in Iraq as "Strategic" Policy

[biofuel]

All war criminals think alike?

I guess the "strategy" wasn't successful enough the first time.
Remember Kissinger...


" You have to go back some 20-plus years, to a time when Ronald Reagan was
president and the Iran-lraq war was escalating dramatically. The United States
was giving aid and weapons to both Iran and Iraq with the understanding, as
Henry Kissinger put it, "that it's best to let them kill each other off," and,
"oil is too valuable a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs." "

Saddam Hussein, Donald Rumsfeld, and the Golden Spurs
An interview with Jeremy Scahill
by David Ross
Z magazine, November 2002
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Saddam_Rumsfeld_GoldSpurs.html



" When the Iran-Iraq War began [in 1980] over a million very young men lost
their lives in that war Henry Kissinger said, at the beginning of that war,
eight years of war, “I hope they kill each other.”

"And that was exactly our policy.  What could be better?  Have them kill each
other.  Then who has to worry about that region anymore, you know?  And don’t
think that’s not exactly our policy all over the world, where there are poor
people living today.  That’s the solution to overpopulation.  Call it triage,
whatever you want to call it. Let them kill each other.  Let them die. And
they’re dying all over Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the masses of poor
people live.  They are expendable there, as they are expendable here." "

http://www.addictedtowar.com/ClarkSpeech.html
Ramsey Clark:
U.S. Will Pay Price for Rule of the Rich
Rally Against Sanctions on Iraq,
Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, CA.
1998

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Re: [Biofuel] Logic out the window at the White House

[Hakan Falk]

Hi Tom,

The dollar debt is effected negatively by higher 
oil prices. However, the only real support that 
the dollar have today, is that it is the oil 
trading currency. If oil would be traded in Euro, 
the dollar would lose its base and US economy 
would be in severe trouble. That is why an oil 
bourse with oil traded in Euro, is worse than any physical attacks and war.

An attack on Iran is many times more dangerous 
than the Iraq venture. Iran is far more capable 
and motivated, than Iraq ever was. Iraq would be 
the first situation to explode, when the Shiites 
would directly attack. The US presence in Iraq 
and a popular armed resistance, will not be 
possible to "shock and awe" with terror bombings, 
as was possible in the previous Iraq war. Iraq 
will again be the battle field and US will face 
both an uprising and troops from Iran. US will 
again resort to terror bombing, both within Iraq 
and in Iran. It will under no circumstances be a short war.

If US thought that they had some major incident 
in other Arab countries. It will be nothing, 
compared with the guerilla attacks that will 
follow in all Arab countries. If you then 
consider the lack of oil deliveries, that all 
developed countries will suffer, it will be 
difficult for US to wage a war. A very large part 
of the military would be locked up in securing 
deliveries of the scarce oil resources that they 
could get their hands on, only to maintain the 
war effort. The whole world will be hit by an 
economic depression and US will never be able to recover its current standing.

I really hope that Bush is capable to some 
logical reasoning and common sense, but I am not 
overly optimistic. This time he cannot even hope 
for a token support from the international 
community, which probably will turn against him instead.

Hakan


At 23:20 12/03/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Keith and All,
>
>There is little doubt that the U.S. will hit 
>Iran. That oil bourse is supposed to open in a 
>week or two. The only open question is will the 
>U.S. hit before or after it opens. I also think 
>that the U.S. will use nukes albiet low yield 
>ones. Their detonation underground will cause 
>but a small nuclear signature and given the 
>target is allegedly a nuclear facility I imagine 
>and radioactive spillover will be blamed on the 
>facility. I foresee cruise missiles raining on 
>Iraq´s air force, followed by U.S. air attacks 
>and no fly zones. We´ll steal the oil rich zone 
>adjacent to Iraq for ¨security ¨reasons and give 
>it to the Brits. The folks in Washington don´t 
>care how high oil prices go. Remember that 
>they´re all oil folks. Higher prices equate to 
>greater profit for the companies. Also higher 
>oil prices make dollar debt disappear.
>
>Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>Sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:42:58 -0300
>Subject: [Biofuel] Logic out the window at the White House
>
>"U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was calmly
>proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving
>nuclear weapons."
>



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Re: [Biofuel] Logic out the window at the White House

[Tom Irwin]

Hi Keith and All,
 
There is little doubt that the U.S. will hit Iran. That oil bourse is supposed to open in a week or two. The only open question is will the U.S. hit before or after it opens. I also think that the U.S. will use nukes albiet low yield ones. Their detonation underground will cause but a small nuclear signature and given the target is allegedly a nuclear facility I imagine and radioactive spillover will be blamed on the facility. I foresee cruise missiles raining on Iraq´s air force, followed by U.S. air attacks and no fly zones. We´ll steal the oil rich zone adjacent to Iraq for ¨security ¨reasons and give it to the Brits. The folks in Washington don´t care how high oil prices go. Remember that they´re all oil folks. Higher prices equate to greater profit for the companies. Also higher oil prices make dollar debt disappear.
 
Tom
 
 
 


From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:42:58 -0300Subject: [Biofuel] Logic out the window at the White House"U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was calmly proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear weapons." 
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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Michael Redler]

Gary,     Minutia? Now is the time to share your experience. With virtually the whole world connected to the largest database and public forum ever devised, there has never been a better time to make your opinion known.     Vietnam isn't exempt from revisionist history and the truth about LBJ's antagonism in addition to corporate influence on foreign policy and US ambitions to prevent true democracy during that time is coming out. I believe that people like you are spokespersons for an era and perhaps invitations to you and others like you should be more frequent.     Re: "The heros of the Vietnam conflict are now all Canadian citizens."     Absolutely! I never waste an opportunity to address those who express hostility toward "those draft dodgers". I simply ask the question: How do you call someone who invites so much ridicule and condemnation from
 fellow citizens in response to an act of conscience a "coward" or a "traitor"? It seems pretty gutsy to me. I say that knowing that there were people who fought in the war and felt that they were doing the right thing. So, as a result, I also invite hostility simply by supporting those dissenters.     There is a lot of dissent growing here but, no real characters to motivate the people (yet). Although intellectuals like Chomsky are vital to educating the movement, I would give anything to bring back the Chicago Seven.     So far, the NSA and Homeland Security (the new COINTELPRO) hasn't knocked on my door. I suppose they are preoccupied with supporting the (as of yet undocumented) "Arab Exclusion Act".     In solidarity,     Mike     Steal this email!     :-)     "Gary L.
 Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Dude! Without writing a 20 page response of minutia into the heart of your feelings, let me just say I'm glad to hear from someone who feels like I do.The heros of the Vietnam conflict are now all Canadian citizens.The current Christo-fascists have made me so ill that I left my own country.  Hope to go back one day and lend a voice to reason and light.  Most likely though that won't happen.  Married a woman from another country and she doesn't want anything to do with the USA after living there for 4 years.Peace bro.   
 GaryOn  12Mar, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Michael Redler wrote:By the way, does anyone think that development of this drug represents a failure in root-cause analysis for people effected by killing for their country?     Hmmm...What else could we do to treat traumatic events? Maybe NOT HAVE THEM by not adopting a policy of preemptive strikes toward unproven, "eminent attacks"!     But then again, maybe I'm missing the point here. People wanting to change their career to something that involves dispensing pain and suffering now have something to treat those pesky messages from their conscience.     One final note: There is an epidemic of kidnapping in Africa for the purpose of building armies of children. This is partly because they haven't fully developed the concept of right and wrong (by enlarge, a ta ught behavior). Could this be an indication that the US military is running out of teen-age recruits?     ...just a thought.     Mike___
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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[marilyn]

Keith at Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote:
"Does anything know anything about soldiers being given drugs 
before going into combat, as has been alleged?"

Several US militiary men returning from Iraq have become violent 
against their wives, some wives being killed by these husbands 
in a California base. There has been a lot of speculation that this 
violence was brought on by reactions to drugs in their systems, 
but I haven't heard of any studies confirming this. If such studies 
did exist, we probably wouldn't hear about them anyway.

There were news reports in England, where I lived at the time, 
that the Chinese troops who mowed down the protesters in 
Tiannamin Square were given drugs to make them aggressive, 
and this, in addition to being told that the students in the Square 
had been extremely violent, made them willing to kill their own 
people. Did US news sources report this?

Marilyn

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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Michael Redler]

Kieth,     When I read the sentence starting with "Maybe it IS working..." and continued with "Now if they'd said anything about torture victims...", I said RIGHT-ON! That's an excellent observation that shouldn't be missed. I focused on the aggressors and missed the important fact that there was no emphasis on victims as potential recipients of the drug.      Thank you for the URL's. I will be sure to share with others discussing this topic.     As for learned behavior, I may have been a little presumptuous. However, there doesn't seem to be much ambiguity about the potential of child soldiers (at least among other soldiers and military historians). I'm sure you are aware that this disgusting practice has been around for a long time. I included it in my reply because I wonder if children are less effected by traumatic events (strictly in terms of their ability as
 combatants).     Mike     Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Hi Mike"Propranolol throws a wrench into that self-perpetuating system by interfering with the amygdala's receptors and ultimately allowing victims to maintain a level of memory similar to that of a bystander."But they weren't bystanders. What a cop-out. Not erasing memories they say, but what's it matter if you just don't care about them anymore? This is just telling yourself lies, isn't it? That's the usual way these days, eh, switch channels and pretend it didn't happen. Dumb everyone down. It doesn't work well. Sure, stuff happens, "random traumas", as they say, but if you can't face something you yourself did, not as an innocent bystander, well maybe you just have
 to come to terms with it one way or another, and with yourself too. What BS to conclude that if the amygdala's giving you traumas then your brain isn't working properly and needs adjustment. Maybe it IS working properly and it's your attitudes that need adjustment. Now if they'd said anything about torture victims, but they didn't, the main aim seems to be the soldiers. Does anything know anything about soldiers being given drugs before going into combat, as has been alleged?>By the way, does anyone think that development of this >drug represents a failure in root-cause analysis for people effected >by killing for their country?Yes, if that's primarily what it's to be used for.>Hmmm...What else could we do to treat traumatic events? Maybe NOT >HAVE THEM by not adopting a policy of preemptive strikes toward >unproven, "eminent attacks"!Bravo!>But then again, maybe I'm missing the
 point here. People wanting to >change their career to something that involves dispensing pain and >suffering now have something to treat those pesky messages from >their conscience.Ulp... Have you seen what the ETC Group (RAFI) says about the convergence of biotech, nanotechnology and neural manipulation? I don't think they're just setting up a clamour. See, eg:http://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=159ETC Century: Erosion, Technological Transformation, and Corporate Concentration in the 21st Centuryhttp://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=249HyPEing the Human Genome: The Dissent Disease>One final note: There is an epidemic of kidnapping in Africa for the >purpose of building armies of children.That's mostly the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda - "one of the worst human-rights crises of the past century".http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/001/18.30.htmlDeliver Us from
 KonyWhy the children of Uganda are killing one another in the name of the Lord.by J. Carter Johnson in Kitgum, Uganda | posted 12/30/2005 10:00 a.m.>This is partly because they haven't fully developed the concept of >right and wrong (by enlarge, a taught behavior).Hm. I think not entirely a taught behaviour. What's the minimum age a kid might say "That's not fair!" or "You cheated!"? But I won't argue about it.All bestKeith>Scientists Racing to Ease Painful >PTSD Memories>>By ilona | >bio>Scientists are using their growing knowledge of brain chemicals -- >and the role they play in saving and accessing memories -- to find >ways to help people coping with one symptom of PTSD: >>[more]>>http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/27444___
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Re: [Biofuel] use of cashew nut shell oil as a biofuel

[Keith Addison]

>From: Dr.S.Paulraj, DFO, Hosur,INDIA - 635110.
>Can anybody help me to explain the use of the
>cashew-nut shell oil as a biofuel in any form?

Is that oil from the nut or oil from the shell?

Best

Keith


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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Kenji James Fuse]

What did I miss here? Propranolol helps maintain memory?

In the classical music biz, propranolol use is endemic. A perfectionist
approach has permeated the industry since hi-fi recordings have upped the
ante.

I use the drug when I have to play nerve-wracking solos in front of 1400
people, and the conductor is being an a-hole and trying to fire people (we
have a woman conductor right now, and she's more stubborn in this regard
than anyone previous!). All it seems to do is limit the amount of
adrenalin produced due to stress, so I don't get that dreaded
shakey-bow-arm. I've never noticed it affecting memory, in fact I still
can feel 'nervous', but the resulting adrenalin rush is suppressed.

Kenji Fuse

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Keith Addison wrote:

> Hi Mike
>
> "Propranolol throws a wrench into that self-perpetuating system by
> interfering with the amygdala's receptors and ultimately allowing
> victims to maintain a level of memory similar to that of a bystander."
>
> But they weren't bystanders. What a cop-out. Not erasing memories
> they say, but what's it matter if you just don't care about them
> anymore? This is just telling yourself lies, isn't it? That's the
> usual way these days, eh, switch channels and pretend it didn't
> happen. Dumb everyone down. It doesn't work well. Sure, stuff
> happens, "random traumas", as they say, but if you can't face
> something you yourself did, not as an innocent bystander, well maybe
> you just have to come to terms with it one way or another, and with
> yourself too. What BS to conclude that if the amygdala's giving you
> traumas then your brain isn't working properly and needs adjustment.
> Maybe it IS working properly and it's your attitudes that need
> adjustment. Now if they'd said anything about torture victims, but
> they didn't, the main aim seems to be the soldiers. Does anything
> know anything about soldiers being given drugs before going into
> combat, as has been alleged?
>
> >By the way, does anyone think that development of this
> >drug represents a failure in root-cause analysis for people effected
> >by killing for their country?
>
> Yes, if that's primarily what it's to be used for.
>
> >Hmmm...What else could we do to treat traumatic events? Maybe NOT
> >HAVE THEM by not adopting a policy of preemptive strikes toward
> >unproven, "eminent attacks"!
>
> Bravo!
>
> >But then again, maybe I'm missing the point here. People wanting to
> >change their career to something that involves dispensing pain and
> >suffering now have something to treat those pesky messages from
> >their conscience.
>
> Ulp... Have you seen what the ETC Group (RAFI) says about the
> convergence of biotech, nanotechnology and neural manipulation? I
> don't think they're just setting up a clamour. See, eg:
>
> http://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=159
> ETC Century: Erosion, Technological Transformation, and Corporate
> Concentration in the 21st Century
>
> http://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=249
> HyPEing the Human Genome: The Dissent Disease
>
> >One final note: There is an epidemic of kidnapping in Africa for the
> >purpose of building armies of children.
>
> That's mostly the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda - "one of the
> worst human-rights crises of the past century".
> http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/001/18.30.html
> Deliver Us from Kony
> Why the children of Uganda are killing one another in the name of the Lord.
> by J. Carter Johnson in Kitgum, Uganda | posted 12/30/2005 10:00 a.m.
>
> >This is partly because they haven't fully developed the concept of
> >right and wrong (by enlarge, a taught behavior).
>
> Hm.  I think not entirely a taught behaviour. What's the minimum age
> a kid might say "That's not fair!" or "You cheated!"? But I won't
> argue about it.
>
> All best
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> >Could this be an indication that the US military is running out of
> >teen-age recruits?
> >
> >...just a thought.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >Michael Redler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >PTSD Combat Brew by ilona
> >
> >Scientists Racing to Ease Painful
> >PTSD Memories
> >
> >By ilona |
> >bio
> >Scientists are using their growing knowledge of brain chemicals --
> >and the role they play in saving and accessing memories -- to find
> >ways to help people coping with one symptom of PTSD: the painful
> >replay of traumatic memories. We'll review today's Chicago Tribune
> >article,
> > >2707614.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>Drug Eases Pain of Bad
> >Memories, to get an update on progress in this somewhat
> >controversial area; and we'll take a look at results of studies
> >conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health on the role the
> >brain plays in PTSD.
> >
> >[more]
> >
> >http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/27444
> >__

[Biofuel] Noam Chomsky on the Hopeful Signs Across Latin America

[Keith Addison]

..."And again, the forces below the surface in pressing all of this 
are international popular organizations of a kind that never existed 
before; the ones that meet annually in the world social forums. By 
now several world social forums have spawned lots of regional ones; 
there's one right here in Boston and many other places. These are 
very powerful mass movements of a kind without any precedent in 
history: the first real internationals. Everyone's always talked 
about internationals on the left but there's never been one. This is 
the beginning of one."

We've been saying that here for a while too. - K

---

http://www.counterpunch.com/dwyer03072006.html
March 7, 2006

"What's happening is something completely new in the history of the 
hemisphere."

Noam Chomsky on the Hopeful Signs Across Latin America

By BERNIE DWYER

This interview by Bernie Dwyer took place on February 8, 2006 at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge prior to a 
screening of the Irish/Cuban documentary "Mission Against Terror" 
about the five Cuban political prisoners*incarcerated in the US for 
taking action in Miami, USA to protect their country, Cuba, against 
terrorism.

Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's 
Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprising 
of 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule 
for hundreds of years and how it awoke from its slumbers and rose up 
against the oppressor. Could we now begin to hope that the South is 
awake?

Noam Chomsky: What's happening is something completely new in the 
history of the hemisphere. Since the Spanish conquest the countries 
of Latin America have been pretty much separated from one another and 
oriented toward the imperial power. There are also very sharp splits 
between the tiny wealthy elite and the huge suffering population. The 
elites sent their capital, took their trips, had their second homes, 
sent their children to study in whatever European country their 
country was closely connected with. I mean, even their transportation 
systems were oriented toward the outside for export of resources and 
so on.

For the first time, they are beginning to integrate and in quite a 
few different ways. Venezuela and Cuba is one case. MERCOSUR, [the 
trading association now including many Latin American countries] 
which is still not functioning very much, is another case. Venezuela, 
of course, just joined MERCOSUR, which is a big step forward for it 
and it was greatly welcomed by the presidents of Argentina, Brazil.

For the first time the Indian population is becoming politically 
quite active. They just won an election in Bolivia which is pretty 
remarkable. There is a huge Indian population in Ecuador, even in 
Peru, and some of them are calling for an Indian nation. Now they 
want to control their own resources. In fact, many don't even want 
their resources developed. Many don't see any particular point in 
having their culture and lifestyle destroyed so that people can sit 
in traffic jams in New York.

Furthermore, they are beginning to throw out the International 
Monetary Fund (IMF). In the past, the US could prevent unwelcome 
developments such as independence in Latin America, by violence; 
supporting military coups, subversion, invasion and so on. That 
doesn't work so well any more. The last time they tried in 2002 in 
Venezuela, the US had to back down because of enormous protests from 
Latin America, and of course the coup was overthrown from within. 
That's very new.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is 
very much weakened. Argentina is just essentially ridding itself of 
the IMF, as they say. They are paying off the debts to the IMF. The 
IMF rules that they followed had totally disastrous effects. They are 
being helped in that by Venezuela, which is buying up part of the 
Argentine debt.

Bolivia will probably do the same. Bolivia's had 25 years of rigorous 
adherence to IMF rules. Per capita income now is less than it was 25 
years ago. They want to get rid of it. The other countries are doing 
the same. The IMF is essentially the US Treasury Department. It is 
the economic weapon that's alongside the military weapon for 
maintaining control. That's being dismantled.

All of this is happening against the background of very substantial 
popular movements, which, to the extent that they existed in the 
past, were crushed by violence, state terror, Operation Condor, one 
monstrosity after another. That weapon is no longer available.

Furthermore, there is South-South integration going on, so Brazil, 
and South Africa and India are establishing relations.

And again, the forces below the surface in pressing all of this are 
international popular organizations of a kind that never existed 
before; the ones that meet annually in the world social forums. By 
now several world social forums have spawned lots of regional ones; 
there's 

[Biofuel] Steamroller Bolton at the U.N.

[Keith Addison]

59 former US ambassadors signed a letter opposing Bolton's nomination 
as ambassador to the UN; forty-six of these ambassadors served in 
Republican administrations.

More on Bolton:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Bolton
John R. Bolton - SourceWatch (nee Disinfoipedia)

-

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12263.htm

Steamroller Bolton at the U.N.

By Mike Whitney

03/09/06 "ICH" -- -- Watching John Bolton bulldoze the United Nations 
is mesmerizing. In a matter of months, he's savaged the system that 
distributes power more equitably and transformed the institution into 
a fiefdom for western elites and American corporations. Under the 
banner of "reform", the blustery Bolton has coerced a number of 
changes that will forever alter the composition of the UN; removing 
the institution's last vestiges of international legitimacy.

In a year or so the United Nations will be just another American NGO 
doing the bidding of the world's multinational corporations. That's 
good news for Bolton and his friends at the American Enterprise 
Institute, the ideological headquarters for America's ongoing 
incursions into the third world.

By enlisting Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bolton has advanced an 
agenda for "radical reform" including "more financial oversight, 
simplified hiring and reporting procedures, staff buyouts, and a 
modern information system." (Al Jazeera) The intention is to staff 
the organization with like-minded people from the business and 
banking establishment who will cater to the needs of their corporate 
overlords. This will allow funds to be siphoned off to the usual 
suspects (Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor etc) who continue their 
relentless colonization of the developing world.

The New York Times has played a pivotal role in hyping the 
reform-project. Staff writer, Warren Hoge, has done most of the 
heavy-lifting (although he was assisted at one point by NYT icon 
Judith Miller) carping about the fictitious "oil for food" scandal 
and extolling Bolton's ax-wielding activities. The Times critique of 
UN failures reads like an extended passage from the "Rubaiyat"; great 
reading, but mostly hot air.

Kofi Annan, however, agrees with Bolton about the need for change:

"Just as this building after 50 years of ad hoc repair and 
maintenance, now needs to be fully refurbished from top to bottom, so 
too our organization, after decades of piecemeal reform, now needs a 
thorough strategic refit."

So, what's the bottom line?

American plutocrats and corporate big-wigs are looking for an 
organization that is more responsive to their needs. The UN provides 
the legitimacy they need as cover for their "humanitarian 
interventions" (re: wars of aggression) and reconstruction projects, 
(Sluicing money to the major corporate players) but it requires 
fine-tuning to better serve their interests.

Bolton has recommended structural changes to the Human Rights 
Commission so the UN can beat up on the weaker nations while 
exempting the US from charges of flagrant and systematic prisoner 
abuse or war crimes. The broader objective is to transform the United 
Nations into a rubber stamp for American foreign policy.

To that end, Bolton is pushing for a new post of "Chief Operating 
Officer". This job will be filled by a political-loyalist who can 
override the decisions of the Secretary-General and ensure that the 
organization makes prudent, business-friendly decisions. Right now, 
it looks like the job will go to Mark Malloch Brown, who did a stint 
with the World Bank; proving he has the proper pedigree for his next 
assignment.

It appears that the job of Secretary-General will become a 
meaningless ceremonial role much like that of the President of the 
United States. Undoubtedly, it will be filled by someone who is 
capable of expressing great warmth and humanity while carrying out 
the imperial-mandate.

Does the name Bill Clinton come to mind?

Bolton has worked hard to rebuild the UN from the ground up ignoring 
the criticism of those who don't share his vision of a less 
democratic institution. Dismissing their ridicule as sour-grapes, 
Bolton said triumphantly, "This work is too important to be caught up 
in procedural wrangles in this body."

Bolton obviously prefers his "one man" version of democracy.

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[Biofuel] Wolfowitz at the World Bank

[Keith Addison]

http://www.counterpunch.com/hakki03032006.html

March 3, 2006

Cronyism and Corruption

Wolfowitz at the World Bank

By MOHAMED HAKKI

In an article on the eclipsing fortunes of the neocons vis-à-vis Bush 
foreign policy, the Wall Street Journal said: "In the past year, the 
ranks of the neoconservatives within the administration, who moulded 
the American response to 9/11, have grown thin and their influence 
has ebbed." It mentioned the departure from key policy-making 
positions of some of the administration's most prominent 
neoconservatives. Some of them left in disgrace, others left their 
jobs for other Bush appointments. Perhaps the most interesting of 
these career changes involves that of former Deputy Defense Secretary 
Paul Wolfowitz, who was promoted for his role in the Iraq war to 
president of the World Bank.

 From day one, all vice-presidents, directors and staff members of the 
World Bank were apprehensive in view of his reputation as the "high 
priest of the hawks" or "The Vulcans"; nicknames for Mr Bush's 
tight-knit group of security advisors, the architect of the Iraq war, 
and the driving ideological force behind the decision to invade Iraq. 
They also wondered about his arrogant dismissal of all misgivings 
about the war. They remembered his rosy forecasts, his predictions 
that the Iraqis would greet US soldiers as liberators, with open 
arms, and his casual dismissal of warnings by Eric Shimseki, former 
US army chief of staff, that the US would need several hundred 
thousand troops in Iraq (and who was fired for daring to give his 
expert opinion). They remembered well his assertion that the "oil 
revenues of Iraq over the course of the next two to three years would 
bring in 50 to 100 billion US dollars which could more than finance 
its own reconstruction." But, to be fair, they were all willing to 
give him the benefit of the doubt despite the deep moral struggle 
they are each grappling with; working for a man who is morally and 
politically responsible for a horrendous war that has shed the blood 
of thousands of innocent victims in Iraq.

Now, it seems that the honeymoon is over. On the cost of the Iraqi 
war, it is becoming more and more obvious that Wolfowitz's 
predictions are, at best, a joke approaching the fanciful, and, at 
worse, outright intentionally misleading. When White House economic 
advisor Lawrence Lindsay forwarded an estimate (September 2002) of 
the Iraq war at a higher level of $100-$200 billion, the 
administration dismissed his analysis as "likely very, very high" and 
promptly fired him (another person who lost his job because he did it 
conscientiously and professionally). Now it turns out that even his 
figures were wildly low. According to Joseph Stiglitz, professor at 
Columbia University and Nobel Prize winner in economics, and Linda 
Blimes, a Harvard budget expert, the war in Iraq is likely to cost up 
to $2 trillion. The American Conservative magazine says: "What is 
certain is that before hiring him to run the World Bank, someone 
should have recalled Paul Wolfowitz's prediction that Iraq would fund 
the operation itself." Normal people under normal circumstances would 
have been fired, but not "Wolfie!"

However, even with this grim history in mind which they fear will 
impact on their ability to address their global clients' needs and 
fulfil their mission of addressing world poverty, World Bank staff 
have even more immediate worries to contend with. What everybody in 
the Bank perceives most evidently is the increasing rift between 
Wolfowitz and his inner cabal of advisors and the staff at large. The 
problem is manifesting itself on several levels.

In recent months, there had been a massive exodus of top talent from 
the World Bank. The senior ethics officer of the bank has departed. 
Also on the exit roster are the vice president for East Asia and the 
Pacific, the chief legal counsel, the vice president for 
environmentally and socially sustainable development, the bank's top 
managing director, the director of institutional integrity (who 
monitors internal and external corruption), and the head of the 
information solutions group.

Steve Clemons says in the Washington Note : "It looks as if Wolfowitz 
is gut- punching the most talented teams at the Bank and morale is 
plummeting. A lot of good people are leaving."

What has Wolfowitz done to start this serious wave of negative 
sentiment? He appointed Kevin Kellems, former communications director 
and spokesman for Vice President Cheney, to a newly created post of 
director of communication strategy in addition to his position as 
advisor to the president, effectively sidelining the vice president 
of communication, UN and External Affairs at the Bank. While one 
could question Kellems' professional ability and record in view of 
his previous position and the miscommunication that flowed from 
Cheney's office over the years, the immediate issue for Bank staff is 
that he was impos

Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Keith Addison]

Hi Mike

"Propranolol throws a wrench into that self-perpetuating system by 
interfering with the amygdala's receptors and ultimately allowing 
victims to maintain a level of memory similar to that of a bystander."

But they weren't bystanders. What a cop-out. Not erasing memories 
they say, but what's it matter if you just don't care about them 
anymore? This is just telling yourself lies, isn't it? That's the 
usual way these days, eh, switch channels and pretend it didn't 
happen. Dumb everyone down. It doesn't work well. Sure, stuff 
happens, "random traumas", as they say, but if you can't face 
something you yourself did, not as an innocent bystander, well maybe 
you just have to come to terms with it one way or another, and with 
yourself too. What BS to conclude that if the amygdala's giving you 
traumas then your brain isn't working properly and needs adjustment. 
Maybe it IS working properly and it's your attitudes that need 
adjustment. Now if they'd said anything about torture victims, but 
they didn't, the main aim seems to be the soldiers. Does anything 
know anything about soldiers being given drugs before going into 
combat, as has been alleged?

>By the way, does anyone think that development of this 
>drug represents a failure in root-cause analysis for people effected 
>by killing for their country?

Yes, if that's primarily what it's to be used for.

>Hmmm...What else could we do to treat traumatic events? Maybe NOT 
>HAVE THEM by not adopting a policy of preemptive strikes toward 
>unproven, "eminent attacks"!

Bravo!

>But then again, maybe I'm missing the point here. People wanting to 
>change their career to something that involves dispensing pain and 
>suffering now have something to treat those pesky messages from 
>their conscience.

Ulp... Have you seen what the ETC Group (RAFI) says about the 
convergence of biotech, nanotechnology and neural manipulation? I 
don't think they're just setting up a clamour. See, eg:

http://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=159
ETC Century: Erosion, Technological Transformation, and Corporate 
Concentration in the 21st Century

http://etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=249
HyPEing the Human Genome: The Dissent Disease

>One final note: There is an epidemic of kidnapping in Africa for the 
>purpose of building armies of children.

That's mostly the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda - "one of the 
worst human-rights crises of the past century".
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/001/18.30.html
Deliver Us from Kony
Why the children of Uganda are killing one another in the name of the Lord.
by J. Carter Johnson in Kitgum, Uganda | posted 12/30/2005 10:00 a.m.

>This is partly because they haven't fully developed the concept of 
>right and wrong (by enlarge, a taught behavior).

Hm.  I think not entirely a taught behaviour. What's the minimum age 
a kid might say "That's not fair!" or "You cheated!"? But I won't 
argue about it.

All best

Keith



>Could this be an indication that the US military is running out of 
>teen-age recruits?
>
>...just a thought.
>
>Mike
>
>Michael Redler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>PTSD Combat Brew by ilona
>
>Scientists Racing to Ease Painful 
>PTSD Memories
>
>By ilona | 
>bio
>Scientists are using their growing knowledge of brain chemicals -- 
>and the role they play in saving and accessing memories -- to find 
>ways to help people coping with one symptom of PTSD: the painful 
>replay of traumatic memories. We'll review today's Chicago Tribune 
>article, 
>2707614.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>Drug Eases Pain of Bad 
>Memories, to get an update on progress in this somewhat 
>controversial area; and we'll take a look at results of studies 
>conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health on the role the 
>brain plays in PTSD.
>
>[more]
>
>http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/27444
>___


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Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Racing to Ease Painful PTSD Memories

[Gary L. Green]

Dude!Without writing a 20 page response of minutia into the heart of your feelings, let me just say I'm glad to hear from someone who feels like I do.The heros of the Vietnam conflict are now all Canadian citizens.The current Christo-fascists have made me so ill that I left my own country.  Hope to go back one day and lend a voice to reason and light.  Most likely though that won't happen.  Married a woman from another country and she doesn't want anything to do with the USA after living there for 4 years.Peace bro.GaryOn  12Mar, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Michael Redler wrote:By the way, does anyone think that development of this drug represents a failure in root-cause analysis for people effected by killing for their country? Hmmm...What else could we do to treat traumatic events? Maybe NOT HAVE THEM by not adopting a policy of preemptive strikes toward unproven, "eminent attacks"! But then again, maybe I'm missing the point here. People wanting to change their career to something that involves dispensing pain and suffering now have something to treat those pesky messages from their conscience. One final note: There is an epidemic of kidnapping in Africa for the purpose of building armies of children. This is partly because they haven't fully developed the concept of right and wrong (by enlarge, a ta ught behavior). Could this be an indication that the US military is running out of teen-age recruits? ...just a thought. Mike___
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[Biofuel] Neocon Advocates Civil War in Iraq as "Strategic" Policy

[Keith Addison]

More from the odious Mr Pipes, following his recent success with the 
Danish cartoons. See:

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg60392.html
[Biofuel] This is not a joke.
Fri, 03 Mar 2006

- K



http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh03092006.html

March 9, 2006

Neocon Advocates Civil War in Iraq as "Strategic" Policy

Daniel Pipes Finds Comfort in Muslims Killing Muslims

By JOHN WALSH

One of the abiding myths about the War on Iraq is that the neocons 
were too stupid to realize that they would confront an unrelenting, 
indigenous resistance to their occupation of Iraq. Unwittingly, the 
story line goes, they led the U.S. into a conflict which has now 
produced a civil war. But this simply does not fit the facts. The 
neocons clearly anticipated such an outcome before they launched 
their war as Stephen Zunes documents in Antiwar.com:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zunes.php?articleid=8668
The US Role in Iraq's Sectarian Violence - by Stephen Zunes, March 7, 2006
"Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large 
numbers of Middle East experts, warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq 
could result in a violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. Even some of 
the war's intellectual architects acknowledged as much: In a 1997 
paper, prior to becoming major figures in the Bush foreign policy 
team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith predicted that 
a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be "ripped apart" by sectarianism and 
other cleavages but called on the United States to "expedite" such a 
collapse anyway."

Yet the line persists that the neocons had no idea what they were 
getting into. This cannot be correct as they think a lot about what 
they do and they plan carefully. Not only is that charge absurd on 
the face of it, but it is arrogant on the part of those who level it. 
And it is the worst political mistake possible underestimating your 
adversary.

Now the neocons are beginning to advocate for civil war in Iraq quite 
openly. The clearest statement of this strategy as yet comes from 
pre-eminent neocon and ardent Zionist Daniel Pipes. In a recent piece 
in the Jerusalem Post, Pipes spills the beans. He writes:

"The bombing on February 22 of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq, 
was a tragedy, but it was not an American or a coalition tragedy. 
Iraq's plight is neither a coalition responsibility nor a particular 
danger to the West. Fixing Iraq is neither the coalition's 
responsibility, nor its burden. When Sunni terrorists target Shi'ites 
and vice versa, non-Muslims are less likely to be hurt. Civil war in 
Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy, but not a strategic 
one."

As ever Pipes's anti-Arab racism is simply too rabid to be hidden. If 
Muslims are busy killing other Muslims, then "non-Muslims" are less 
likely to be hurt!! What does that say about Muslim lives? And of 
course both Sunnis and Shia must be labeled "terrorists." Pipes is 
doing nothing more than endorsing the oldest of colonial strategies: 
Divide et impera.

Pipes envisions other "benefits" to the civil war "strategy," such as 
inhibiting the spread of democracy in the Middle East. Pipes again:
"Civil war will "terminate the dream of Iraq serving as a model for 
other Middle Eastern countries, thus delaying the push toward 
elections. This would have the effect of keeping Islamists from being 
legitimated by the popular vote, as Hamas was just a month ago."

And finally Pipes declares that a civil war "would likely invite 
Syrian and Iranian participation hastening the possibility of 
confrontation with these two states, with which tensions are already 
high." It is no secret that the neocons have been aching for the U.S. 
to strike at Iran and Syria, so here too the civil war strategy of 
the neocons makes good sense to them. Of course the added death and 
destruction is not their problem since the victims will be Muslims 
and some unwitting American soldiers.

There seems to be only one fly in this neocon ointment. That is, will 
it be possible to control the flow of oil in the midst of turmoil in 
Iraq. Here I suspect the neocons who put Israel first might have 
their differences with the oil barons, presently their allies. But 
the neocons have certainly given a lot of thought to that, and it 
probably explains why the location of the large and permanent U.S. 
bases in Iraq is not known. It would seem, however, that there are 
great uncertainties in this and it may cause some trouble among the 
neocons and their allies over the longer term.

The only real question is whether the civil war emerged spontaneously 
as Wurmser, Perle and Feith predicted or whether the Iraqis had to be 
goaded into it by the U.S. Given all the intrigues and mysteries in 
Iraq, including the bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra and the 
shadowy death squads and torture chambers which the U.S. claims to 
know nothing about, the latter seems more likely as of now. It 
certainly fits the civ

[Biofuel] Impeaching George W. Bush

[Keith Addison]

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/32977/

Impeaching George W. Bush

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. Posted March 6, 2006.

 From discussion to action -- Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers 
have drafted a call to impeach President Bush.

Excerpt: Articles of Impeachment
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/32866/


Until recently, talk of ousting President George W. Bush has proved 
little more than a distant rumbling. For too long, impeachment has 
been deemed implausible. It's not going to happen with a Republican 
Congress, so the argument goes. Not with the president finishing his 
second term, not while we're at war.

But the distant rumbling is growing louder by the day, creating a 
resonant echo that is rapidly taking root in public discourse. 
"Impeach Him," reads the cover of this month's Harper's magazine. And 
in a public forum in New York City last week, journalists, lawyers, 
and political figures came together to discuss the case against our 
president.

Since September 11th, 2001, there has been no shortage of news 
regarding this administration's involvement in torture, lies, secrecy 
and obstruction of the law. Yet, there has been little discussion in 
the mainstream media of holding those in power accountable for the 
actions so diligently catalogued by the press. It is a conspicuous 
vacuum that helps to explain why calls for impeachment are rapidly 
gaining currency.

In fact, the case for the impeachment of President Bush is arguably 
the strongest in American history. The Center for Constitutional 
Rights (CCR) makes this amply clear in its recent book, a concise 
indictment of President Bush that lays out four clear legal arguments 
that point to impeachment as a necessary remedy for the gross 
violation of our Constitution. The Articles of Impeachment Against 
George W. Bush covers illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, 
detention and the Iraq war. An appendix compares the impeachment 
proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Clinton to the comparatively 
more powerful case against Bush.

Lawyers at the CCR, indeed lawyers throughout the world, have been 
embroiled in litigation with the administration for years. But the 
administration has consistently demonstrated disdain for the law, 
with the president effectively thumbing his nose at the Supreme 
Court, Congress, and the American people. It is this reality that led 
Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers at the CCR to provide a clear 
argument for impeachment to the American people and Congress.

The piecemeal battles that journalists, lawyers and activists fight 
every day are a testament to the respect many Americans still have 
for the rule of law. But arguments against the president's violation 
of the Constitution have not resulted in any reform or change in 
behavior. Public shaming and the threat of legal action often work to 
keep politicians in line. But President Bush is vocally disinterested 
in the public's approval of his agenda. Furthermore, he views the 
law, as evidenced by torture and detainee litigation, as mutable 
suggestion. For such a president, legal recourse is largely 
ineffectual -- unless Americans and Congress reclaim the power of the 
law to remove the offending parties.

As Ratner told AlterNet, "While our battles against illegal wiretaps 
and Guantanamo are critical for trying to get back legality, until we 
get rid of what I consider a criminal administration, we will not be 
able to go back to even a semblance of civil liberties and human 
rights."

The Articles of Impeachment make clear that this is no longer just 
about President Bush. Rather, it is about preventing the executive 
branch from obtaining carte blanche to disregard the two other 
branches of government. This is a paradigm shift that has already 
gained substantial footing through this administration's steady 
erosion of legal precedent.

There is no shortage of diligent documentation of this president's 
violation of laws and misleading of the public -- from the 1,284-page 
Torture Papers to congressman John Conyers' 273-page compilation 
[PDF] of the lies leading to the Iraq war. But behind this incredible 
ongoing compendium of evidence against President Bush lurks the 
realization that publicly pointing to criminal behavior is not 
synonymous with bringing it to an end.

It is the ultimate case of missing the forest for the trees. Behind 
this massive body of evidence, behind each new report of this 
president's transgressions of the law, is the threat of the one and 
only story that Americans will read for the rest of this presidency, 
and presidencies to come: The abuse of power, and the destruction of 
our Constitution.

As Ratner notes, "We need to be as radical as reality, and reality 
right now is very, very radical." Indeed, after reading through the 
Articles of Impeachment, readers will find that the only thing 
radical about impeaching this president is simply that it has not yet 
happened.

AlterNet spoke 

[Biofuel] use of cashew nut shell oil as a biofuel

[Dr. Paul Raj]

From: Dr.S.Paulraj, DFO, Hosur,INDIA - 635110.
Can anybody help me to explain the use of the
cashew-nut shell oil as a biofuel in any form?

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[Biofuel] Logic out the window at the White House

[Keith Addison]

"U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was calmly 
proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving 
nuclear weapons."

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12261.htm

Logic out the window at the White House

By Gwynne Dyer

03/09/06 "Cyprus Mail" -- -- The biggest pitfall in predicting the 
behavior of radical groups like the inner circle of the Bush 
administration is that you keep telling yourself that they would 
never actually do whatever it is they're talking about. Surely they 
must realize that acting like that would cause a disaster. Then they 
go right ahead and do it.

"(The Iranians) must know everything is on the table and they must 
understand what that means," U.S. ambassador to the United Nations 
John Bolton told a group of visiting British politicians last week. 
"We can hit different points along the line. You only have to take 
out one part of their nuclear operation to take the whole thing 
down." In other words, he was calmly proposing an illegal attack on a 
sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear weapons.

Bolton knew his words would be leaked, so maybe it was just 
deliberate posturing to raise the pressure on Iran. But on Sunday, 
addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 
Washington, Bolton repeated the threat: "The longer we wait to 
confront the threat Iran poses, the harder and more intractable it 
will become to solveŠ We must be prepared to rely on comprehensive 
solutions and use all the tools at our disposal to stop the threatŠ" 
He may really mean it -- and no one in the White House has told him 
to shut up.

With the U.S. army already mired in Iraq, the Bush administration 
lacks the ground strength to invade Iran, a far larger country. The 
National Security Strategy statement of September 2002 declared a new 
doctrine of "preemptive" wars in which the U.S. would launch 
unprovoked attacks against countries that it feared might hurt it in 
the future, and in January 2003 that doctrine was elaborated into the 
military strategy of "full spectrum global strike."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2320.htm

The "full spectrum" referred specifically to the use of nuclear 
weapons to destroy hardened targets that ordinary weapons cannot 
reach. Earth-penetrating "mini-nukes" were an integral part of 
Conplan 8022-02, a presidential directive signed by Bush at the same 
time that covered attacks on countries allegedly posing an "imminent" 
nuclear threat in which no American ground troops would be used. 
Indeed, the responsibility for carrying out Conplan 8022 was given to 
Strategic Command (Stratcom) in Omaha, a military command that had 
previously dealt only with nuclear weapons.

Last May, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued an "Interim Global 
Strike Alert Order" putting Stratcom on high military readiness 24 
hours a day. Logic says there is no "imminent" danger of Iranian 
nuclear weapons: last year's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate put 
the time needed for Iran to develop such weapons at ten years. But 
experience says that this administration can talk itself into a 
"preemptive" attack on a country that really does not pose any threat 
at all.

So what happens if they talk themselves into unleashing Conplan 8022 
on Iran? Thousands of people would die, of course, and the surviving 
70 million Iranians would be very cross, but how could they strike 
back at the United States? Iran has no nuclear weapons, no weapons of 
any sort that could reach America. Given the huge American 
technological lead, it can't even do much damage to U.S. forces in 
the Persian Gulf region. But it does have two powerful weapons: its 
Shia faith, and oil.

Iran is currently playing a long game in Iraq, encouraging the Shia 
religious parties to cooperate with the American political project so 
that a Shia-dominated government in Baghdad will turn Iraq into a 
reliable ally of Iran once the Americans go home. But if Tehran 
encouraged the Shia militias to attack American troops in Iraq, U.S. 
casualties would soar. The whole American position there could become 
untenable in months.

Iran would probably not try to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 
choke-point through which most of the Persian Gulf's oil exports 
pass, for U.S. forces could easily dominate or even seize the 
sparsely populated Iranian coast on the north side. But it would 
certainly halt its own oil exports, currently close to 4 million 
barrels a day, and in today's tight oil market that would likely 
drive the oil price up to $130-$150 a barrel. Moreover, Tehran could 
keep the exports turned off for months, since recent oil prices, 
already high by historical standards, have enabled it to build up a 
large cash reserve. (Iran earned $45 billion from oil exports last 
year, twice the average in 2001-03.)

So a "preemptive" American attack on Iran would ignite a general 
insurrection against the American presence in Shia-dominated areas