Damn good post on Iraq Now about everyone’s favourite profiteers. “Youngster: Wow. So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I’m good at keeping my receipts? Trainer: Absolutamente! But wait—there’s more: the more money you can profligately waste, the more money your…
Read More Iraq Now on Halliburton…A terrible disaster has occurred in Marble Bar, WA, Australia’s hottest town. This place is a tiny outback settlement that nestles, or rather hunkers down trying to find some shade in the Pilbara mountains of northwestern Aussie, the oldest part of the Earth’s crust. The Bar was originally a gold-rush town (there’s still a small…
Read More Marble Bar but no beer…The Americans have now had 2 helicopters shot down this year – this time it was a Blackhawk, with nine men killed. (The one before that was a highly manoeuvrable OH-58 Kiowa reconnaissance heli, a worrying development.) The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting angle on the shooting-down here. “General E. J. Sinclair, commander of…
Read More Another US helicopter down: and a new problem