no open thread up so i'm dumping some news here , sorry

United States stopped the supplies of spare parts for the F-16 aircraft to Venezuela
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=5780212&PageNum=0

then
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/04/wchavez04.xml

i call them mercs not independant contracors
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453824.0319444444.html

and for fun
Yesterday, the Center for American Progress held a discussion about how to hasten the arrival of the "After Oil" era
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=700005
lmao

So, say, one side hires Blackwater. Where there's a Hertz, there's an Avis. So the other side hires Avis. How does this play out? Corporations at war -- literally?

 Yup.

 Until it hurts. Literally.

Here is an interesting story:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/04/doomsday.professor.ap/index.html

Look's like doomers aren't getting good rep these days.

Kill yourself in order to save the planet!
I bet the students were asking the Prof to go first!