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My last journal entry drew practically no comment. This was quite unusual. Generally, there’s a load of mail, pro and con. I know why it received this silence: nobody wanted to think about what it meant, which is that if a wider mideast war is on the way, we are not going to see it coming because we have lost crucial intelligence resources in Iran.

Nobody wanted to consider that there might be a traitor in a high position in the White House. It’s just too terrifying. Unfortunately, it’s also likely to be true, or Valerie Plame would never had been ‘outed.’ What is even more disturbing, the Grand Jury investigation has now turned to Robert Novak and other members of the press.
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The outing of Valerie Plame in the column of Robert Novak has now led to the resignation of Jim Pavitt from the CIA. Mr. Pavitt was Valerie Plame?s superior. His work has been devastated by this catastrophic security leak, and he has apparently chosen to resign as a result. The announcement of his retirement is the tip of an iceberg of national disaster.
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We went to the premiere of the Day After Tomorrow with Art and Ramona earlier this week. It was a fabulous event, with the whole front of the Museum of Natural History turned into an arctic waste via the use of artificial snow. The premiere was packed with celebrities, including the stars of the movie and many others. The film itself is a mind-blowing roller coaster of brilliant special effects.

It has been generally called a tremendous boost for environmental concern, but, as science, bunk.

How predictable the media is. The press is virtually unanimous about the Day After Tomorrow: great special effects, cool movie, important that we should be concerned about global warming.
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In January of 2003, I published a journal entry on this website in support of going to war against Saddam Hussein. The reason I offered then is even more valid now than it was then. It is that the west needs at least one substantial, proven and stable source of oil outside of its own borders. The stakes are not small: we need this to survive. To those who ignore the oil problem, claiming that ?free market? forces will always find enough supply to meet demand, I say this: one ideology is as much an illusion as another.
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