Nenhuma bala é perdida – 2

Os neo-cons americanos criaram a guerra, e pelo que vemos, houve gente capturada. Tudo pra criar o pânico, o terror (assim como em 11/9) e vencer as eleições. Teoria conspiratória ou verdade. Acho que a gente nunca vai saber realmente o que aconteceu na Georgia.

Transcript: CNN interview with Vladimir Putin – CNN.com

Matthew Chance: It sounds a little farfetched, but I am interested because I was in Georgia in the time of the conflict, and the country was swirling with rumors. One of the rumors was that U.S. personnel had been captured in combat areas. Is there any truth to that rumor?

Vladimir Putin: I have no such information. I think it is not correct.

Não existe bala perdida nessa historia.

Transcript: CNN interview with Vladimir Putin – CNN.com

We have serious reasons to believe that there were U.S. citizens right in the combat zone. If that is the case, if that is confirmed, it is very bad. It is very dangerous; it is misguided policy

But, if that is so, these events could also have a U.S. domestic politics dimension.

If my suppositions are confirmed, then there are grounds to suspect that some people in the United States created this conflict deliberately in order to aggravate the situation and create a competitive advantage for one of the candidates for the U.S. presidency. And if that is the case, this is nothing but the use of the called administrative resource in domestic politics, in the worst possible way, one that leads to bloodshed.

And What Would Happen If Commercial Aviation Was Simply Impossible To Do Profitably?

Post interessante no Techdirt, apontando um estudo que questiona o fato de que com os altos preços do combustivel, a aviação comercial pode se tornar simplesmente impossivel de dar qualquer tipo de lucro, e o que isso pode acarretar no mundo hj.

Do meu ponto de vista, “Só a inovação salva”.

Techdirt.

Here’s an article looking at the airline industry, and trying to spin some scenarios of what would happen if it simply turns out that the commercial airline business is completely unsupportable. Obviously, with fuel costs so high, it’s become more and more difficult to keep airlines running (and it was never all that easy back when fuel costs were cheap). However, people seem to take for granted what cheap and readily available air travel allows. It touches on so many different businesses that it’s hard to fathom how deep the eventual impact would be if air travel needs to be significantly curtailed in the future.

It’s not just the obvious industries: airlines, tourism, etc. It would impact things like e-commerce companies that rely on cheap shipping. It would impact conferences. It could impact all sorts of industries when sales people can’t as easily go visit customers. The more you think about it, the more industries you can find hurt by a decline in the availability of cheap air travel. Of course, there are other industries that would benefit as well, such as telecom companies and video conferencing firms.

WMD’s ?? No Iraque não, mas na Suiça.

Será que agora o Bush vai invadir a Suiça?

Swiss engineers, a nuclear black market and the CIA – International Herald Tribune

Swiss engineers, a nuclear black market and the CIA

….The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping smuggle nuclear technology to Libya and Iran…

The files were of particular interest not only to Swiss prosecutors but
to international atomic inspectors working to unwind the activities of
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani bomb pioneer turned black marketeer.
The Swiss engineers, Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, were accused of
having deep associations with Khan, acting as middlemen in his dealings
with rogue nations seeking nuclear equipment and expertise…