DailyKos Diary: Has the U.S. Reached its Debit Limit?

...no one is going to come out and say they have lost confidence in the US' financial situation. Instead they will simple go on quietly selling dollars.

It's not Left vs Right any more. It's Right vs Wrong: Arianna Huffington: Midnight in America

Is America experiencing a moment of "unbelief"? Heaven forbid!

Jason Epstein on the Nuclear Threat. I am going to have to look up this book by Richard Rhodes, one of my favorite authors: Arsenals of Folly: the Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.

Steven Weber on Huffpost: Technologie Macht Freiheit!

Andrew Skurka hiking a long ways!

Bad Religion? LA is burning

Hillary's Sex Appeal

Bad Religion? Los Angeles is burning

Monday link round up

Peak Oil is Now: what are you going to do about it?

TomDispatch: A Guide for the Perplexed: Intellectual Fallacies of the War on Terror By Chalmers Johnson

Why is New Zealand scooping the American press again? Destruction of Evidence -- Ohio's 2004 Ballots

Game: Consumer Consequences: Find out if you are living a sustainable life

Congressman Dennis Hastert, R. Ill. announces retirement as Abramoff Scandal nips at his heels

Naomi Klein: Outsourcing Government

NYT Travel section: France goes biking in Paris! Finding Liberte on two wheels

Truthdig: Scott Ritter says we are "On the Eve of Destruction" (That phrase achieves resonance with me because I have a vivid memory of the first time I heard that song sung by Barry McGuire in 1965--it shook me to my core)

Huffington Post: Marty Kaplan asks in a brilliant post: Soros or Murdoch?

Denver Post: Athletes over 40 hurdle past records, stereotypes

Nietzsche's Cosmos

Harper's Magazine: Nietzsche's Cosmos

In some remote corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever animals invented Recognition. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but in any event it was never more than a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and thus the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how pathetic, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary is this human intellect from the perspective of nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when the story of humankind and its intellect has gone to its end, nothing will have happened. For this intellect has no additional mission which would lead it beyond human life. Rather, it is human, and only its possessor and begetter takes it seriously–as though the world’s axis turned in its midst. But if we could communicate with the gnat, we would learn that he likewise flies through the air with the same solemnity, that he feels the flying center of the universe within himself. There is nothing so reprehensible and unimportant in nature that it would not immediately swell up like a balloon at the slightest puff of this power of knowing. And just as every porter wants to have an admirer, so even the proudest of men, the philosopher, supposes that he sees on all sides the eyes of the universe telescopically focused upon his action and thought.

–Friedrich Nietzsche, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn sec. 1 (1873) in: Werke in drei Bänden, vol. 3, p. 309 (K. Schlechta ed. 1969)(S.H. transl.)

It has started...

Japan and China Lead Flight From Dollar

Data from the US Treasury showed outflows of $163bn (£80bn) from all forms of US investments. "These numbers are absolutely stunning," said Marc Ostwald, an economist at Insinger de Beaufort.

Asian investors dumped $52bn worth of US Treasury bonds alone, led by Japan ($23bn), China ($14.2bn) and Taiwan ($5bn). It is the first time since 1998 that foreigners have, on balance, sold Treasuries.

Blogger Buzz: Environmental Blog Roundup

Blogger Buzz: Environmental Blog Roundup

Sioux City Iowa "Lewis and Clark" Marathon Results

The marathon has passed into the annals of the history of Bremner. It was not a pretty event. Running only about 10 miles a week doesn't bode well for a 26.2 mile race. The course spent a lot of time on concrete bike paths for the first 10 miles. At mile 12 we saw our first hill. Not too bad, but I had to let go of the young Army medic I had been talking to for the previous five miles. Running his first marathon he qualified for Boston with a 3:07. This after training in Iraq by running five mile loops around the base at 4:30 A.M.!

After the halfway point I knew it was going to be a hard day. As someone passed me he asked me if I knew how bad the hill coming up was. I told him I thought we already passed the hill. "There is supposed to be an even bigger hill at mile 17". Well, at least I had something to look forward to. At the 16-mile mark the hill began. With the exception of a couple flat spots here and there it continued relentlessly for a full two miles, zapping whatever I had left in my legs. I slowed to 8 and 9 minute miles and eventually even 10 minute miles. At mile 20 Forrest Gump passed me--someone dressed like Forrest with a fake beard and long hair. I gamely caught back up to him and passed him. I got beat by a hot dog in the PPA--that was humiliating enough--but Forrest Gump? Well, that only lasted until mile 22 where he passed me and proceeded to bury me.

Time: 3:31
No age group award

I am in Sioux City, Iowa this morning about to run the Sioux City "Lewis and Clark Marathon". This will be my 45th marathon state and 86th marathon.

Former legal council for President Nixon, John Dean says: "Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide"

Windbelt Micro-wind, 10 Times Cheaper Wind Energy!!

Leahy Rips Reported Compromise On FISA: Intel Committee Is ‘Caving’ To White House Pressure.

Obesity is a problem that is chronic, stigmatised, costly to treat and rarely curable. Why?

Shapes of Things to com:

Blackwater: Newly created Thug Class.

Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but no one will tell Her why.

Bill McKibben web site

The World According to Dubya

London Times: The World According to Dubya: 50 Religious Insights from George W. Bush

This is how the rest of the world sees us. If it wasn't so scary it would be funny. What a country!

Dalai Lama Asks -- "If Buddhist Doctrine of 'No-Self' Is Wrong, Who Are These People?"

Anatta says that personal identity - the self - is actually an illusion. Instead, each of us is an aggregation of different factors (biological, historical, karmic, experiential, etc.), intersecting to create the false sense that we exist as distinct beings. The Buddha compared the self to a chariot: Is the "chariotness" in the wheels, the axle, the seat ... or not in any single place at all?

Oh! The hypocrisy. (Mukasey, Durbin and the Right)

Rolling Stone: The Ethanol Scam

Currency traders were given a green light to continue selling the US dollar on Wednesday, as the IMF said the greenback “remains overvalued”.

Though Al Gore reportedly said he is not running for President, why has he put out policy positions on three presidential candidate platforms in the last few days?

London Review of Books: It's the Oil

The OilDrum.com: World Oil Forecasts Including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE - Update Oct 2007

Juan Cole: Oil Peak or Peak Oil?

From Harper's Weekly

Ramzi Yousef, the jailed mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, converted to Christianity, and guru Sri Chinmoy, author of 1,500 books and organizer of the Self-Transcendence 3,100, the world's longest footrace, died of a heart attack.

Thinkprogress.org: Iraq Timeline

Musical Discoveries

When Mexico meets Ireland: Rodrigo Y Gabriela

UK modern Folk: Kerfuffle

Blast from the Past (1968) from one-album wonder: F. J. McMahon: Spirit of the Golden Juice

(Not Music) The Twinkie: Ingredients Revealed

FRONTLINE | Cheney's Law Oct 16 @ pbs.org/frontline

Learn French by Podcast

Proud Atheists: Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein

General Abizaid: "We've treated the the Arab World as a Collection of Gas Stations"

Bill Moyer's Journal: Are we headed towards a 1929-like economic crash?

Free Thought Radio and Podcast

My Amazon.com wishlist

Free Rice: Improve your vocabulary and help solve world hunger

Blogger Play is a great time-waster. It shows a slide show of the latest pictures as they are uploaded to Blogspot.com.

Yesterday the Daily Olympian posted photos of 46 local soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq in 2006-2007.

Barack Obama speaks out against going to war with Iraq in 2002. Prescient.

Oregon couple goes off the grid in 1970's Tudor house.

StepItUp: Five Day walk across Vermont for stopping Global Warming.

TomGram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's 100-year War

Interview with Richard Dawkins

Monty Python - International Philosophy

HuffPo has some really great posts recently. Here are a couple more MUST-READs:

Naomi Wolf: American Tears I didn't realize it was getting this bad...

Larisa Alexandrovna lays out the stark reality behind the Moveon.org attacks eloquently in Our Cold Civil War.

Absolutely MUST-READ Dyno-mite conversation between Naomi Klein and John Cusack on Huffington Post:

Part I

Part II

Money quote:

Cusack: Right, you have a quote in the book: "It's impossible to tell where the government ends and Lockheed begins." And the most unbelievable thing about it besides the carnage and the hubris and the insanity of it all is how blatantly they lie about their dedication to strict economic Darwinist rules. It's the mother of all con jobs -- free market rhetoric is being used as the cover story for crony capitalism... They are the biggest welfare freaks on the planet. On Democracy Now recently you recited Alan Greenspan's definition of crony capitalism to his face and asked him if the U.S. fits the bill:

"When a government's leaders or businesses routinely seek out private-sector individuals or businesses, and, in exchange for political support, bestow favors on them, the society is said to be in the grip of "crony capitalism". The favors generally take the form of monopoly access to certain markets, preferred access to sales of government assets, and special access to those in power."

He dodged the question, of course, but that seems to be a precise description of the Bush administration and its relationship to its favorite corporations. Not exactly the free-market propaganda they've been selling around the world, is it?

(And later in the conversation…)

We've had Poppa Wayne (Reagan) and Baby Wayne (Bush). Ronald Reagan was the old John Wayne...when kindness comes. But the key to the old Wayne is that he was once a killer; you can see it in his eyes... beneath the kindness lingers that hard truth: he was once a killer. He tames the natural world, but he does it with a veneer of benevolence.

Bush is the young John Wayne -- Ethan from The Searchers. Obsessive. Merciless. Ethan is a deranged person. He will fight the battle no one has the guts to fight...do whatever it takes...kill whoever violates the natural law of the frontier (jungle). This cowboy is the great righter of wrongs. He is wrath incarnate. Part of the mythology is that he's wrong a lot and pig headed and stubborn, it's part of the package. But he is a force of nature and you can argue about it all you want, but you must respect a force of nature.

Today's Daily Olympian

Front Page

Truthout Video: Tell the Truth, and so make Peace

David Corn: Judge Radhi Testifies on Iraqi Corruption; GOPers Attack

HuffPost: Jonathan Hafetz: Torturegate

Two weeks left for Al Gore to run

Another expert Bush won't listen to

View from my window with chipmunks

Republicans have an alternative: Ron Paul

I can't support him because he is a religious nut like the rest of them.

Paul Krugman is at his best this morning: Same Old Party

Excerpt: "People claim to be shocked that the Bush Justice Department, making a mockery of the Constitution, issued a secret opinion authorizing torture despite instructions by Congress and the courts that the practice should stop. But remember Iran-Contra? The Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran, violating a legal embargo, and used the proceeds to support the Nicaraguan contras, defying an explicit Congressional ban on such support."

This is too good to be true: Haggard and Craig used the same escort?

World Mountain Running Trophy 2007 (Senior Men - Part 1)

This is what I do. Others may take up bowling...

WaPost: An Exit Toward Soul-Searching: As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound

One former senior official said nearly everyone who has left the administration is angry in some way or another -- at the president for making bad decisions, at his staff for misguiding him, at events that have spiraled out of control.

WaPost: Dan Froomkin: Torture Continued, an excellent round-up of links and blog posts from lawyers on the tortured torture policy of the Bushevics.

LA Times: I survived Blackwater

A former U.S. official received the security company's services -- and witnessed its disregard for Iraqi lives.

Barcelona on DailyKos: Wake the Hell up! "Much of the Amazon basin is burning"

"The planet is shifting gears on us. And we, collectively, aren't paying attention. Those of us in the driver's seat are asleep at the wheel, and the rest are all squabbling over their toys in the back seat. While the vessel we're driving in is careening wildly. That vessel is indestructible, by the way. It can hit a wall, drive over a cliff, sink under water, even burn, and emerge unscathed. A massive orb of rock and iron, that will continue on its stately path, rotating across the field of stars, for all eternity (or what we humans conceive as such). We're the ones committing slow-motion suicide."

Flash movie of the History of Religion

James Woolsey at Colorado College

Went to see James Woolsey speak this evening at Colorado College's Shove Chapel. Though at times when he was speaking of the"terrorist threat" I thought he looked and sounded just like Cheney on balance the talk was positive and constructive. The theme was energy. As in get off dependence on Middle East oil. Stop sending global warming gas into the atmosphere. How do we do this? The way is not easy and the answer lies in "wedges" of solutions not a single silver bullet. As a neo-con it is encouraging that he is forward thinking and recognizes the problem and is seeking solution sets. What is is troubling is that we still look to the neo-cons for anything that effects the public sphere after the disaster that is Iraq.

Boyhood friend of mine pioneers coal sequestration project in Pacific Northwest.

Andrew Sullivan: Bush War Criminal (based on today's explosive NYT article)

World Bank accused of destroying Congo forests

Five Million and Counting -- Iraqi Refugees Weigh on Our National Conscience

Iraq and Armageddon

On Dan Rather's law suit:

James Goodale



Sidney Blumenthal

Greg Palast

Went to see "In the Valley of Elah" tonight. Very powerful film with Tommy Lee Jones playing an Iraqi soldier's father. The soldier came back from Iraq and was murdered a couple days later. Tommy Lee Jones trys to solve why his son was killed. Ebert gives it 4 stars. I agree.

As I sat in the theater I thought about Bruce Springsteen's new album, Magic and a piece by David Corn I had read on line from the Nation. Things are terribly wrong in America. It won't be getting better for a long time. Bruce Springsteen is in despair. So am I.

Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) Followers and selective memory re: Viet Nam and Iraq: They just don't get it -- never will: The Best Wars of their lives

Philip Roth on the State of the Nation

Jim Kunstler on Clusterfuck Nation

Army of Dude on Phony Soldiers: The Real Deal

Manitou Springs Incline Fire

I ran up the Ute Trail this morning to scout out yesterday's fire. At the top of Rattlesnake Gulch on the first crest there is some red tape across the trail. I continued down and up to the second crest on the Ute. Apparently they had brought a Cat in yesterday and widened the trail to a road up to the first crest. From the second crest they also had plowed up to the Pipeline Trail. I turned up along this new road and joined the Pipeline trail. At the last ridge before the Incline I got my first sighting of blackened slopes. It looked like about 40-50 acres, all above the Pipeline Trail. I could see isolated firemen up along the fire's edge as well as two separate groups making their way up the lower Pipeline Trail. I went ahead and continued down towards the Incline. The firemen told me the area was closed. I continued down to the upper Cog Parking Lot, which was closed and had been turned into the main staging area for the fire.

At the Barr Trail parking lot there were only six cars. A single yellow "do not cross" tape went across the opening to the Barr Trail. I dropped back down to Ruxton, ran up past my house along the marathon route and joined the Barr Trail. No tape or signage. I ran up to the Incline Bail switchback encountering no one along the way. From the Incline I could see no evidence of the fire. I think that is the only time I have been on the Barr Trail and not seen a soul, excepting once last winter during a snow storm, and last May when Harry and I ran up to Barr Camp and back at night.

Rebekka ran down Ruxton and into town this morning and says they have closed Ruxton at the bottom, allowing only Cog tourists and residents. It is signed that the Barr Trail is closed. Someone at the staging area told me they are going to keep it closed tomorrow too.

Gazette article: Manitou Springs Incline Fire

Americans are Brainwashed

Top 15 unintentional bloopers in comics

End Mountaintop Removal Coal mining


Some cool houses

Ten predictions about climate change that have come true

Shot dead trying to show the truth In Burma

Japanese cameraman being shot down in cold blood.

Hello angry Christians

Arianna Huffington: New Books By Alan Greenspan and Naomi Klein: One is Prophetic, One is Pathetic

Al Gore: Be Our Bodyguard

Al Gore is the Man!

Pink Martini - Sympathique

Pancho and Lefty: Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

Bob Dylan - The Times they are A-changin' -1965

Canada apologizes to America

Very nice vid! Found on Stumble! Video: Pink Martini: Amado Mio

Mcleans Mag of Canada: How George Bush became the new Sadaam

Wes Clark on Late edition last week:

BLITZER: Here’s a quote from the book, your new book, “A Time to Lead.” And you write this: ” ‘Here’s the paper from the Office of the Secretary of Defense outlining the strategy. We’re going to take out seven countries in five years!’ And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran. It was straight out of Paul Wolfowitz’s 1991 play book, dressed up as the search for weapons of mass destruction and the global war on terror.” Now, that jumped out at me. Explain to our viewers what you’re referring to when you make a very serious charge like that, that this whole war in Iraq was basically built on a lie.

CLARK: Well, not exactly a lie. But a theory about how to deal with terrorism. It was the “drain the swamp” theory that emerged after 9/11 and people talked about it. But before that, in 1991, I remember being in Secretary Wolfowitz’s office when he was the number three guy in the Pentagon.

And he said, yeah, the Gulf war, well, we didn’t get rid of Saddam, but what we did learn is we can use military power to clean up these old client states. We’ve got maybe five or ten years to clean them up, Syria, Iran, the rest of them, before the next superpower comes along.

I said, five or ten years? You mean, China and — the discussion sort of wandered off. But it was one of those nuggets you remember. And then I’m in the office with this senior general in the Pentagon, and he says, well, he says, sir, I just — this is after I’m retired. Sir, I just got this memo down from the office upstairs. He’s pointing upstairs. And they’re on the second floor, and the civilians are on the third floor.

And he says, seven countries. I said, is that classified? And he read the countries. I said, is that classified? Stop. He was going to show it to me. I said, don’t show that to me. I don’t want to see that. And so it wasn’t a plan. Maybe it was a think piece. Maybe it was a sort of notional concept, but what it was was the kind of indication of dialogue around this town in official circles, just like unofficial circles, that has poisoned the atmosphere and made it very difficult for this administration to achieve any success in the region.

Surfing around on the origin of religion:

Michael Tsarion interviewed about Astro-theology

Astro-theology and Christianity

Israel (Is-Ra-El) Isis (Moon) Ra (Sun) El (Saturn)

Originally, there were 3 basic religions of astrology. The Lunar Cult (Moon), the Solar Cult (Sun) and the Stellar Cult (Saturn). The original Hebrew religion was based on the Lunar Cult and the moon, but went back to the Stellar cult and the worship of El (Saturn). The Christians were bringing back elements of the Solar Cult of the Sun. That is why there is the ongoing dispute about the correct day of worship. The Hebrews worship on Saturday (Saturn) and the Christians worship on Sunday (Sun).

Richard Dawkins reviews Christopher Hitchens' book "God is not Great", a book I am currently reading. I read Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" recently and highly recommend it. We need people of reason speaking out against superstition and delusion.

New movies I would like to see. Unfortunately most are playing only in Denver:

Eastern Promises: Rated 4 stars by the Denver Post.

In the Valley of Elah: Rated 3 and a half stars by the Post.

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Iraq Diary: My Mother was killed for not wearing a veil

Colorado Relay: Idaho Springs to Glenwood Springs

Ran the Colorado Relay Friday and into Saturday. It is a 170-mile long relay race from Idaho Springs, Colorado to Glenwood Springs, traversing four mountain passes. Our team, Mountain Madness, ran the course in just under 24 hours. There are 30 legs on the course and each runner runs three of them. I ran legs number 1, 11, and 21. Leg 11 is a pure trail run that gains 2000 feet of elevation to Georgia Pass, 11,500', then loses 2200 feet over some 13.3 miles. I felt very strong and well hydrated. I finished the leg in 1 hour 56 min.

Classic Bill Maher

Read my Slits

Pentagon report gives lie to Insurgence Success

Whoops! Juan Cole on the latest Pentagon report (That comes conveniently after General Petraeus' testimony)

Sailors on a sailing ship in the Pacific document the formation of a new island. Very cool!

What is the truth concerning the Blackwater incident in Iraq? Blackwater claims it was an "exchange" of gunfire. Iraq officials say it was one-sided with Blackwater killing a couple and their toddler because they didn't pull to the side of the road fast enough.

I think it was a trigger happy Blackwater crew that just started firing indiscriminately into the crowd.

Must See: Playing the Traitor Card

Brainwash?... the Teaser

Answer antiwar protest arrests at US Capitol 9/15/07

Video of 190 arrests

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6

Go to Youtube.com to watch parts 2 through 6.

The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

Marlene in the Ghost Town of Crystal, Colorado.

Daughter Marlene at one of the most photographed buildings in Colorado: The Crystal Mine near the ghost town of Crystal. We hiked from Marble to Crystal on Saturday. Sunday I ran the Lead King 25K loop that goes from Marble up to the Lead King Basin and back down to the town.

Village Voice: Bush Beat: Worse than Gonzales? War of Terror's New Front: Mukasey

Huffington Post: George Lakoff on the Moveon.org flap re: General Petraeus ad: Whose Betrayal?

And... Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust

LARRY CRAIG-TAP 3 TIMES- SINGING SENATOR !!! MUSIC VIDEO !!!

John Edwards - Response to President Bush

Naomi Klein is the discovery of the day... I found her through a link off Andrew Sullivan's blog to bookforum.com . Later I found her again from a link off a blog post by Jane Smiley on Huffingtonpost.com . Her book, "Shock Doctrine" is not even available until next week. It will be a mover and a shaker when it comes out.

Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater Shadow Army part 2

Keep watching...

Guernica Magazine: Powerful Acts: An interview with Mia Farrow and her work for Darfur. What a great soul.

Seattle Times: Gigantic Mine Proposal tests values of Alaskans

This is very disturbing to me. The summer after I graduated from high school in 1973 I went to Kenai, Alaska to work in a salmon cannery. Across the strait the glorious Mount Iliamna beckoned with its pristine wilderness and no roads or towns. This mine proposal will wipe out 25% of the world's sockeye salmon, pollute beyond repair the largest freshwater lake in Alaska, Lake Iliamna, home to the rare freshwater seal, and they are talking about the "values" of Alaskans?? Where is the outrage??

How to create an Angry American

Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater Shadow Army in Iraq

Go to Youtube.com and watch the other three parts.

Failed Strategy

Obama confronts Petraeus

Hagel confronts Petraeus

Undercover North Korea

New Yorker: George Packer: Planning for Defeat

John Kerry gets it right on Iraq.

Sigure Ros: Glosoli

I miss Korea!

Mr. Chuckles sez: "Checkmate America"

Mountaintop Removal Movie from iLoveMountains.org

Watch and weep. More environmental destruction courtesy of Mr. Bush and his cronies.

A Short History of the English Language

DailyKos diary outlining the topics (Wiretapping and Domestic Surveillance, Defining Torture, and Mountaintop Mining) of Bill Moyer's Journal from last Friday. Watch it here.

John Bolton on Iraq [BBC]

It is astounding to watch John Bolton attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq in this interview.

Vanity Fair examines old myths about Al Gore.

Important book by Bob Altemeyer: The Authoritarians.pdf. John Dean used Altemeyer's studies of high Right-Wing Authoritarian follower types as he wrote his excellent, "Conservatives without Conscience".

The New Republic has a short version of each of the reports coming down from Iraq.

SB in former military life on a helicopter in S. Korea.

Long time ago... SB on a mountain near Dutch Harbor, Alaska...

Christopher Hitchens on Billy Graham: "a disgustingly evil man".

Remains of an old restaurant at the top of road to "The Horns". It supposedly met its demise in the 50's.

The highest "Horn" on the slopes of Cheyenne Mountain has a rock stairway built into it, leading to a cement platform and an old flag pole.

Seldom seen view towards Pikes Peak from the Sunrise Trail to "The Horns" on Cheyenne Mountain's north slopes. The cut of Gold Camp Road is visible in the lower left corner.

Found these fascinating photos on the Internet. Take a look:

The Way Of All Flesh

Apparently someone picked up a small cosmetics case at a flea market stuffed with photos almost all of which were of the same woman. The bulk of the photos were photobooths and portraits documenting her as she aged over the course of about 50 years or so.

Zolf bar baad - Mohsen Namjoo

The "Bob Dylan" of Iran, his web site appears to have been obliterated. One would think by the Iranian Ayatollahs.