At least random acts of mass murder still make headlines when they happen in Delhi. In Iraq, it's just considered another slow news day at this point. Nothing about this currently appears on the front page of Google News. Will it be mentioned on the front page of tommorrow's New York Times? From the AP:

BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 29, 2005 — A bomb hidden in a truck loaded with dates exploded Saturday evening in the center of a Shiite farming village northeast of Baghdad, killing 26 people and injuring at least 34. Three American soldiers died in separate bombings in Baghdad and northern Iraq.

Well, India and Pakistan make a courageous and historic decision to open the militarized Line of Control that divides Kashmir in order to allow aid through to remote earthquake-stricken villages (Reuters, Oct. 29). What, putting aside sectarian and geo-political concerns in the interests of humanitarianism? We can't have that! Immediately before the announcement, bombs explode in a crowded market in Delhi... From the BBC:

Delhi on high alert after blasts
India's capital Delhi has been put on high alert after three explosions rocked the city killing at least 55 people and injuring many others. The government has called on people to stay indoors, and armed police have taken up positions outside key buildings and the main public areas.

After centuries of clandestinity, the crypto-Jews or Marranos of the US Southwest are starting to boogie in public, and there are even numerous web pages devoted to them (Marranos, The Secret Jews, Who Are the Crypto-Jews?). You know their moment has really arrived when they get a write-up in the Sunday New York Times. By Simon Romero, Oct. 29:

The pending indictments in the Plame affair are providing interesting fodder for those intent on analyzing internal splits within the ruling elites. OK, all you domestic Kremlinologists out there—who is really runnning the show at the White House? Has Dubya fallen out with Poppy, as this interview with longtime Poppy buddy Brent Scowcroft might indicate? Has Dick really betrayed Poppy's crowd of old-fashioned multilateralists and sold out to the brave new neocons? Sound off...

Yeah, it makes us feel dirty, but we really didn't have any choice. WW4 Report is now carrying Google Ads. We had a hard time imagining what kinds of ads would be directed to our site by Google's mysterious algorithm—"Meet Chechen Singles"? "Learn Uzbek as a Second Language"? "Vacation Packages in Chiapas"? Instead the first ones that popped up had titles like "Stressed? Find Relief in Minutes", "How to Manage Your Stress" and "Stop Panic Attacks Before They Begin!"—which made us wonder if the algorithm didn't have psychic abilities and was somehow scanning the brainwaves of our chief blogger. Then we got a wave of do-gooder peacenik stuff—ads for peace-sign car magnets and the like—which was a little touchy-feely, but we figured we could live with. Then came a wave of policy-wonk type stuff—including an ad for Foreign Affairs, publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, notorious pillar of the permanent shadow government. Uh-oh. Then it got worse. Some outfit selling pro-war paraphernalia—yellow-ribbon car magnets and the like! "Find Your Career in Homeland Security"! A recuriting ad for Army Special Forces!

While the idiot left is busy blaming the Jews, the people who really run the planet are laughing all the way to the bank.

Big oil rakes in historic profits
While drivers have been paying up at the pump, profit has been gushing in to oil companies.

Thursday, ExxonMobil became the starkest example yet of how much big oil companies benefited from the huge run-up in oil prices in the third quarter even as two hurricanes ripped through the industry's Gulf Coast infrastructure. Exxon reported:

On Oct. 26, John D. Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence, released a detailed National Intelligence Strategy for coordinating the nation's 15 spy agencies. It calls for building up the ranks of intelligence operatives and analysts and delineates new global missions. One of the top three key missions cited is to "bolster the growth of democracy and sustain democratic states." Reads the 20-page document: "We have learned to our peril that the lack of freedom in one state endangers the peace and freedom of others and that failed states are a refuge and breeding ground of extremism. Self-sustaining democratic states are essential to world peace and development." The other missions outlined in the document are "defeating terrorists at home and abroad" and "preventing and countering the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction."

The Lebanese army has besieged military positions run by the People's Front for Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), including a network of tunnels dug in the mountains in Sultan Yaqoub (Jacob) area in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanese authorities are demanding the PFLP-GC hand over persons who allegedly opened fire on a government survey team in the valley Oct. 25, killing one. The PFLP-GC denies involvement. (Arabic News, Oct. 27) There are also reports that the Bekaa compound of the group Palestinian Fatah-Intifada has also been surrounded. (Arab Monitor, Oct. 26)