Cryptome.org Drives Traffic to U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor

Many hundreds of visitors in the past few days have been steered to my news blog, U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor, thanks to Cryptome.org. Cryptome, the premier aggregator website of national security and energy related information, recently posted a link to "USAID-Georgia Pipeline Project to Benefit Arab Royals." 

Cryptome operator John Young clearly recognized the value of that original report, which exposed how a so-called aid package to the former Soviet republic of Georgia actually will benefit a United Arab Emirates investment property in that nation.

Thanks again, Mr. Young.

InDigest Magazine -- Invite for Poet's Podcast

Many thanks to InDigest co-founding editor Dustin Luke Nelson for personally inviting me to submit an audio-poem, which in the not-too-distant future will be made available via the literary journal's "Indefinite Podcast" venue.

I'm proud to say that Dustin and I separately shared the stage, literally and figuratively, for this year's release of Monkeybicycle 8, which included my narrative poem "Chipmunks" as well as Dustin's poem "1." Likewise, we alternately manned the stage at Cake Shop in New York City for Monkeybicycle's Round Two "Lightning Round!" reading, where I presented "Yet Another Lady with a Dog," a narrative poem that is available via YouTube. (While you're at it, also see the Dustin Luke Nelson "channel" on YouTube.)

I will post a link to my InDigest podcast when it is ready.

$300 Million for Pakistani & Other Elections?!?!?!?!?!

The latest from my independent news blog U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor: U.S. Could Infuse $300 Million Into Upcoming Elections -- Overseas.

Yep, we're going to help Pakistan and others to keep their elections clean. Hmmm.

Keep in mind that this is yet another multi-hundred-million-dollar boondoggle for which struggling U.S. taxpayers must foot the bill. The Bush Administration carried out similar programs (in fact, the Bush-era contracts recently got extended!). As the old song "Circumstances" by the band Rush proclaims: The more that things change/The more they stay the same.