Yesterday, in southern Iraq, U.S. troops provided an ironic example. They named two temporary refueling facilities Camp Shell and Camp Exxon.

A tad indelicate? Deliberately insensitive, given the criticism that the United States has undertaken the war to secure Iraqi oil? Neither, said a Pentagon spokesman, who explained that the camps are "basically gas stations."

originally posted by xowie

Monkeyfist’s WEF Protests News and Chronology links to a report of five women arrested in lower Manhattan for a banner drop (“Bush and big biz agree that people with AIDS drop dead”).

If you want to follow the WEF news at one site, this Monkeyfist page is probably your best bet.