Given the recent developments regarding the recent undersea internet cable cuts, as brought to the attention of BBD reader by Brother Greg (see previous post), I thought some further documents and websites might provide some greater context, and more ammunition for the “conspiracy” minded among us. Here are couple of initial reports (BBC) and commentaries […]

The total number of internet cables feeding India and the Middle East cut is now up to 5. I guess we’d hear more about it, but we can’t, you know cuz their internet is broken.I was originally thinking this was someones way of reducing the economic appeal of outsourcing to India, but the focus of […]

Two senior FBI counter terrorism officials created a plan to track Falafel sales at grocery stores in order to identify the presence of Iranian terrorists in California. Its a good thing I don’t live in California, what with my recent three month falafel binge. I wonder if they are able to find high concentrations of […]

Just kidding. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. The U.S. would win in the short term, but much like Hannibal kicking Roman ass all over Italy and still losing the war (I’m not saying anyone is going to come and destroy Washington if they lose) the U.S. doesn’t have what it takes to […]

No, actually I think it’s “bomb iran” (thank you John McCain)… that’s right sports fans, get ready for the next big hit… The Nation is looking at it, and in a different story they also note that the one man (round 2) trying to stop the madness is on the neocons’ hit list again: THE […]