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Almost have Google Earth running on this Linux box through WINE this evening, missing something real basic in the video config yet, works with other distros fairly well, the forums don’t give a whole lot of hope for Red Hat/Fedora types, but so close now I can see it, sort of.

Sort of… first time out there was just stars in space, that was totally weird. Moving the mouse around brought up panels though, and found a search box and got Vancouver coming up! Just nothing but a whole lot of brown, a nice tan colour for now and nothing else so it’s play with video time after getting some work done tomorrow.

Got some work done on a Heidelberg Windmill printing press today for some extra $. One of the old bosses phoned and in a pinch, and with nothing coming from the other marina it’s worth it once in a while. Haven’t stood in front of a machine for that long in a long while, everything ran well but it didn’t take long to be reminded of how boring of a thing it is to do.

Back to the computer tomorrow, got a teeny little cron script to write to update a database that’s got to run before the end of the month, and a couple clients threatening to get me content for their web sites in progress I’ve been waiting on, bits and pieces of other things, busy, busy!

Just got around to reading the text of the purported Osama release last week, and it’s striking how obvious this is NOT a speech or text written by him. All you need to do is read a few of his other purported releases, then go to this latest one and it’s fairly obvious it’s not the same writer.

On the day of 911, like most people I was glued to the news and surfing the internet for more information, when CNN came on with an interview with Osama in which he stated, “The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive.”

It was on TV once, then was replaced with other texts in the ensuing months by ones ostensibly produced by the U.S. Department of Defense saying pretty much the opposite, or anonymously sent to Al-Jezeera TV and they toe the Dept. of Defense line as well.

Using Occam’s Razor and just the tiniest bit of logic, a person must wonder about the strange discrepancies in the stand-down of the air defense system that morning, the WTC towers that were designed to easily withstand the impact and fire from a plane crash, the fact that jet fuel and office equipment does not burn hot enough to melt steel, firefighters on the scene as witnesses, saying they heard the third tower coming down after a series of quick explosions from the basement, the remarkable similarity of the towers coming down to a demolition job, the lack of investigation into the steel before it was hauled off for recycling, the reticence of the govt. in the later inquiries and dozens of other things about the events of the day and weeks following and before that either are completely contrary to the way the govt. has handled similar events.

Not forgetting that among the alleged perpetrators, at least six of them have been found alive and well and living in the Mid-East. And the seemingly inability of the US to capture or kill Osama defies belief when you look at the ends they went to capture other people. Something is very wrong with the official govt. explanation of the events five years ago, connecting the dots always leads back to the USA, and not some shadowy figure living in a cave with a dialysis machine somewhere in the desert mountains.

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It’s not just listening in on other people that George thinks he’s above the law on, if there is a good baseball game to go to then the law doesn’t apply either. Everyone else will have to walk instead of taking a bullet proof limosine though, the MSM doesn’t report it but the blogosphere does, there are going to be some oil disruptions, regardless of what happens to Iran’s bourse.

Meanwhile, Christopher is heading back into the war zone.

Almost the end of January, and the sabers are rattling while the US, Great Britain and Israel get ready to invade Iran to keep them from doing the same thing Iraq was about to do, that is sell their oil in Euros instead of US greenbacks. Iran plans to open it’s bourse in March, expect an invasion before then, at least if you believe that history repeats itself that is.

They have to invade, it means the destruction of the American economy if they don’t and it’s not from lack of oil. Considering the current total U.S. debt stands at $8.162 trillion dollars, once the official debt ceiling ($8.184 trillion) is reached, the U.S. government’s credit abroad, or its borrowing power, is gone. Countries like China who presently keep America afloat by holding U.S. Treasury Notes, will most likely no longer continue doing so. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow issued a warning recently that the U.S. Government is on the verge of collapse and the statutory debt ceiling must be raised once again or the govt. won’t be able to function, iow, pay it’s debts and employees.

Some believe that there will be a lot of unrest in the USA when that happens, FEMA has activated and is currently staffing its network of empty internment camps with armed military personnel. These large federal facilities are strategically positioned across the U.S. landscape to “manage” the population in the event of a “terrorist” attack, a civilian uprising, large-scale dissent ,or an insurrection against the government. Some of these razor-wired facilities have the capacity of detaining a million people. On Nov. 14th of last year, the Senate gave the okay to have George W. Bush sign executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act, and have together pretty much destroyed any notions of freedom and justice for Americans.

And they have some help from Canada too, we’ve already sent troops to kill people and be killed, and have elected a government yesterday that is fine with that. Might as well bring back Brian M. as well, he’ll help facilitate selling what ever resources are left in this country to the Americans to waste, that he missed the first time around. I was living in the USA when the NAFTA went through, the Americans laughed so hard they peed their pants on the way to the bank, and shook their heads at how stupid those frozen Canadians were, if I didn’t tell them that I was one too.

Of course if you have no money and don’t feel the need to justify the fallacy that someone could own the earth, or “real estate” as it’s called now a days, then it’s more of an inconvenience and much the same as yesterday. However, if you pay a banker a mortgage to feel like it’s really yours when in fact you don’t own a darn thing that can’t be taken away in a wink, then the coming downfall is going to hurt like hell.