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Randall McCloy is doing well. It’s not unusual for people in comas to start to recover and then recovers more and more quickly. Once the mind finds the body and it's way back to wakening it does it quickly. There was that question if the hypoxia did so much damage there was no recovery. But, the decompression chambers worked well. There was 12 other miners but he was in a party of 12.
COAL SAFETY SEMINAR - First-ever slated for April 20-21
WEST VIRGINIA - The WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY in Wheeling is hosting what it calls the first-ever International Mining Health & Safety Symposium on April 20-21. The seminar is being billed as a candid discussion among industry leaders, coal miners, safety experts and technology innovators.
The goal of the symposium is to hear all perspectives, collaborate on solutions, and move forward to make real change. Discussion topics will include mine safety and rescue needs; underground communications equipment; underground robotics development; and search and rescue techniques. Additionally, the symposium will host technology developers and manufacturers from all over the world at its exclusive vendor exhibit area.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the MINE SAFETY & HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, the NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH, the West Virginian Governor's Office and U.S. Senator Robert Byrd. Registration is available at www.nttc.edu/minesafety.
http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=54040&issue=03262006&btac=no
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Jill Carroll may have felt as though she was not free, but, that is the way women of esteem are treated by their husbands. They have attendants. They are doted on. She was treated as if she was someone's wife. It is not unusual for Muslim women to live in seclusion and prayer. They are not soccer moms. It sounds as though she was cared for as if she was a typical and privileged wife of a Muslim man. Sort of like a nun. Or a missionary. What is that sect? Monks. No different than monks. Her seclusion is respect. No lie. It is the way Muslim women live. Very much fundamentalist values.
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They are dwelling on hostage events. It is irrelivant to the Carroll story. It's exploitaiton for the sake of the Culture of Fear.
Consortium considers bid for AB Ports Speculation puts possible offer at GBP2.3bn
(The Herald Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)ASSOCIATED British Ports, the UK's biggest ports operator, yesterday emerged as a GBP2.3bn bid target. A consortium including Goldman Sachs and investment groups from Canada and Singapore said it was considering a possible offer for the company.
The US investment bank has teamed up with Borealis, the investment vehicle of Ontario pension fund Omers, and GIC Special Investments, the private equity arm of Singapore government's investment corporation.AB Ports has operations at 21 UK sites, including Ayr, Troon, Hull, Southampton and Grimsby.The company employs 28 people at its two Scottish bases and more than 3000 staff world-wide. Overseas operations include Amports, a US-based vehicle processing company.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/28/1509609.htm
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The people in the building thought they would be rescued. No one ever considered the World Trade Towers that vulnerable. There were those that fell to their deaths though. Not all have recorded calls to the emergency services. Not everyone who died had a delusion of safety to keep them calm and believing.
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Ports group looks at £2.3bn bid
Mar 27 2006
By South Wales Echo
The UK's biggest ports operator which runs operations in Cardiff, Barry and Newport, emerged today as a £2.3bn bid target after a consortium confirmed it was considering an offer.
Associated British Ports, which operates from 21 sites in the UK and employs more than 3,000 people worldwide, is the subject of interest from a group featuring Goldman Sachs and Canadian investment house Borealis Infrastructure.
Goldman Sachs confirmed it was considering a possible offer after financial newspaper City AM revealed the consortium planned an approach early next month.
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The Preacher Murder. I think she was abused. No Divorce. A divorce would destroy their way of life. Her will oppressed raising many children. It seems obvious to me.
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The Preacher Featured. The Perfect Chrisitan relationship. I've heard it all before from preachers wives in a shelter for abused women.
Council, Ports clean foreshore
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
THE Suva City Council and the Fiji Ports Corporation have, for the first time, come together in an effort to clean the Suva foreshore and nearby areas.
SCC Director of Health Nacanieli Kotoiwasawasa said they were glad that at least one of the authorities had joined them for a cleaner-looking Suva and would like to see other organisations do the same.
He said the council had provided the company with trucks and drivers and 30 employees had taken part in the clean up from Monday until Friday.
Apart from looking after the foreshore area, he said, they were also concerned about the cleanliness of streets of Suva.
"We have been cleaning up the streets which started three weeks ago and is still going on because the collection of green goods is still coming in," he said.
The litter decree with the $40 fine is very much alive according to the council.
Mr Kotoiwasawasa said people would be facing the consequences if they were caught littering.
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Pastor's Wife's Support Board
The purpose of this page is to support and encourage pastor's wives. If you are a pastor's wife and have a question, helpful suggestion, or response to another question or suggestion, please fill out the form and click submit. Responses will be added later. Let's help each other!
MArta 10/3/02 It sounds like you have tried to stay and hope and pray that things would get better. But it's been years and they haven't. You seem to loathe the idea of confrontation about the problems with those in leadership, but I think it might be helpful for them to know what the problems are, even if they are reluctant to admit or address them. I think you should go for some good Christian counseling, it helps to find someone trustworthy and caring to talk to. Then it probably would be helpful for you to visit other local churches and see if there is one that seems to stand out in making you feel comfortable, spiritually taught and challenged to excellence for the Lord's kingdom. May God bless you and direct you.
http://www.rockdove.com/pw20.html
WE GET THE IMPRESSION FROM ANDERSON that men think killing is bad. Thank you Anderson.
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Frankenstein the Boy Toy is such an insult. And here is Andy?
Husbands said she has worked with preachers' wives, teachers' wives, doctors' wives, wives of business executives and women of all religious, educational, ethnic and economic backgrounds. She said even Baylor students have come to her looking for help getting out of abusive relationships. While the center serves more low-income women, Husbands said it is because lower-income women often have nowhere else to go and no way of supporting themselves without the abusers.
"They have nowhere else to go, no other support, and maybe there are kids," Swanton said. "They start asking themselves, 'If he goes to jail, where does my next meal come from?'"
That is where the Family Abuse Center enters the picture.
http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=20996
Enough.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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Randy Kay and the shock of her life. The 'TREATMENT' is not therapy. It damages the brain, especially the junvenile brain.
On to Andy Card ... maybe this has something to do with it ....
March 28th, 2006 2:18 pm
Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments
By Jason Leopold / t r u t h o u t
It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remained close to the probe saying that a grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior Bush administration officials.
These sources work or worked at the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council. Some of these sources are attorneys close to the case. They requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the details of the investigation.
Anderson likes to play "Let's Guess." It's gossipy. The talking heads are seeking to 'gossip' about this to make more of it than it is. Boring. Irrelivant.
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It's over in Iraq.
An Iraqi on Monday mourns his brother, who was killed in Sunday night clash, outside a local hospital in Sadr City (AFP photo by Ahmad Al Rubaye)
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/index.htm
Rumsfeld: U.S. Struggles to Combat Anti-American Propaganda
By Bill Brubaker / Washington Post
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today the United States military has not figured out how to combat anti-American propaganda by Iraqi militants, including a widely reported claim that a Sunday attack by U.S. and Iraqi special forces targeted innocent Shiite Muslims praying in a mosque.
Sadr expected to gain from US raid
By Michael Georgy
Reuters
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr may turn to political advantage the bloody results of a US-Iraqi raid on a mosque compound in Baghdad.
Twenty bullet-riddled bodies lay in a Shiite community hall near a mosque in Sadr City after Sunday's raid, though there were widely conflicting accounts of how they were killed.
Political analysts say anger over the killings is likely to give Sadr political ammunition both on the street and at the negotiating table with Iraqi leaders who have been struggling to form a government more than three months after elections.
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Randy Kay and the shock of her life. The 'TREATMENT' is not therapy. It damages the brain, especially the junvenile brain.
On to Andy Card ... maybe this has something to do with it ....
March 28th, 2006 2:18 pm
Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments
By Jason Leopold / t r u t h o u t
It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remained close to the probe saying that a grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior Bush administration officials.
These sources work or worked at the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council. Some of these sources are attorneys close to the case. They requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the details of the investigation.
Anderson likes to play "Let's Guess." It's gossipy. The talking heads are seeking to 'gossip' about this to make more of it than it is. Boring. Irrelivant.
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It's over in Iraq.
An Iraqi on Monday mourns his brother, who was killed in Sunday night clash, outside a local hospital in Sadr City (AFP photo by Ahmad Al Rubaye)
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/index.htm
Rumsfeld: U.S. Struggles to Combat Anti-American Propaganda
By Bill Brubaker / Washington Post
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today the United States military has not figured out how to combat anti-American propaganda by Iraqi militants, including a widely reported claim that a Sunday attack by U.S. and Iraqi special forces targeted innocent Shiite Muslims praying in a mosque.
Sadr expected to gain from US raid
By Michael Georgy
Reuters
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr may turn to political advantage the bloody results of a US-Iraqi raid on a mosque compound in Baghdad.
Twenty bullet-riddled bodies lay in a Shiite community hall near a mosque in Sadr City after Sunday's raid, though there were widely conflicting accounts of how they were killed.
Political analysts say anger over the killings is likely to give Sadr political ammunition both on the street and at the negotiating table with Iraqi leaders who have been struggling to form a government more than three months after elections.
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Sudan may try to create nuke plan for electricity
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — The impoverished and war-torn country of Sudan is considering trying to create a nuclear programme to generate electrical power, its president told the state-owned Kuwait Television in an interview aired Monday.
President Omar Bashir said his government believes that its energy resources will not cover an expected increase in needs for electrical power in the next 25 years in the Arab-African country.
"During that period, nuclear energy comes in to fill the deficit in electrical power generation," Bashir said in the interview conducted Sunday. He spoke from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where his nation is hosting the Arab League summit that starts Tuesday.
Rights groups urge Arab summit to back UN force in Darfur
CAIRO (AFP) — The Arab League should support calls for the deployment of a UN force in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur and encourage Khartoum to accept the motion, rights groups urged Monday.
"The Arab League has rightly condemned attacks on civilians across the region, but it has remained silent about Sudan's atrocities in Darfur," a coalition of Arab and international human rights groups said.
"This time, Arab leaders must put the interests of Sudan's people first and support the transition to a UN force in Darfur," the coalition, including the New York-based Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on the eve of an Arab summit in Sudan.
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FOX PLAYS WITH LIVES This is irresponsible journalism. Who is going to try this medication out? Not only that it takes the 'safety' margin of using condoms and being tested. Who will bother to get tested and tell their partners if all they have to do is be 'on the pill' to prevent HIV. I can't imagine any medication formula that will proved a 'side effect' free drug to do this. This is outrageious. It give far too much permission for irresponsible behavior. It will case an increase in infection rate.
Drugs Show Promise in Stopping HIV Infection
ATLANTA — Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, scientists think they soon may have a pill that people could take to keep from getting the virus that causes the global killer.
Two drugs already used to treat HIV infection have shown such promise at preventing it in monkeys that officials last week said they would expand early tests in healthy high-risk men and women around the world.
"This is the first thing I've seen at this point that I think really could have a prevention impact," said Thomas Folks, a federal scientist since the earliest days of AIDS. "If it works, it could be distributed quickly and could blunt the epidemic."
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DeLay appeals suspension of gun license
RICHMOND, Texas U-S Representative Tom DeLay is fighting to regain his Texas concealed handgun permit after it was suspended because of his indictment on felony charges.A Fort Bend County justice of the peace suspended DeLay's license after he was indicted by a Travis County grand jury on charges of conspiracy and money laundering last year.
A judge dismissed the conspiracy charge, but the Sugar Land Republican still faces a felony charge of money laundering.
Under Texas law, the Texas Department of Public Safety can suspend a handgun permit if its holder has been charged with certain misdemeanors or higher.
In papers filed with the court on March 14th, DeLay lawyer Steve Brittain appealed the suspension and asked the court to reconsider the matter. A hearing date has not been set.
A lawyer for the Department of Public Safety says the state will contest the appeal.
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Anderson, the ECT issue is ages old. Electrocution of children needs to be a crime. That segment you showed with children being wired for punishment didn't afford them anesthesia. Knock it off !
TOM DELAY IS SEXIST.
DeLay: O'Connor, Ginsburg 'don't get it' on judicial criticism
WASHINGTON Embattled Congressman Tom DeLay says "all wisdom doesn't reside in ... people in black robes."The Texan today said former and current U-S Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg "don't get it" when they complain of conservative criticism of judges.
O'Connor recently said the criticism has threatened judicial independence to deal with difficult issues such as gay marriage.
Ginsburg has said a Web threat against her and O'Connor was apparently prompted by G-O-P proposals in Congress that tell judges to stop relying on foreign laws or court decisions.
Republican DeLay spoke today to a group of Christian conservatives in Washington.
DeLay last year was indicted in Austin on charges that he improperly funneled corporate donations to Republican candidates for the Texas House.
The lawmaker from Sugar Land says he's innocent.
Enough
To Andy with love from LA - ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz........
When the piece is over, take a drive - provided you are still awake.
And now, the snooze: Considering the subject matter, Donald Bentley of La Puente thought it ironic that CNN would ask viewers to try to sit through a 10 p.m. broadcast (see accompanying). Then, again, better to fall asleep watching Anderson Cooper than driving a car.
Just an LA THING you understand.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Anderson Cooper 360, Bush Familiy Politics
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Where are the MDs? Where are the Medical Ethicists? This is all about keeping a political storm alive.
This is typical of the Bush political 'jazz' that goes on at CNN. There is no solid basis to this discussion except 'emoting.'
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I knew this was coming. It's priority on the CNN e-front page.
Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.
Anderson said it was scary. I find it pathetic. Never once does anyone state Bush's National Security Czar at Homeland Security is a failure.
He used this article to lead into the testimony by Moussaoui.
CNN is not a good source of news so much as programming attempting to qualify for a Daytime Emmy.
Jerks.
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This is a predictable story. Regarding the father deadlocked over a battle for children in a divorce. At least that is my understanding. The family turned him into authorities because of fear for the well being of his children.
Rahman was arrested two weeks ago when his family reported him to the police after his conversion, Agence France-Presse cited Afghan Supreme Court Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada as saying March 19. Sharia law provides for capital punishment for any Muslim who converts to another religion and refuses to revert to Islam, AFP cited the judge as saying.
I believe the news media is missing 'the point' to the issue. It goes beyond religious bigotry to the fear of Islam losing it's religion which is the basis to much of the clash between the West and Muslim nations. Cartoons, etc. It is a lot bigger issue than a barbaric and oppressive law.
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Ah, yes, the death of a preacher. She'll plead 'not guilty.' I have a feeling there are extenuating circumstances and a possible abuse issue.
Lawmaker Revives Plan For "Road Rage Reduction Act"
POSTED: 6:18 pm EST March 27, 2006
UPDATED: 6:21 pm EST March 27, 2006
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A state lawmaker is reviving his plan to help reduce road rage by forcing slower drivers to stay out of the fast lanes on Florida's highways. The so-called "Road Rage Reduction Act" easily passed in the House and Senate last year, but Governor Jeb Bush vetoed the bill.
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Where are the MDs? Where are the Medical Ethicists? This is all about keeping a political storm alive.
This is typical of the Bush political 'jazz' that goes on at CNN. There is no solid basis to this discussion except 'emoting.'
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I knew this was coming. It's priority on the CNN e-front page.
Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.
Anderson said it was scary. I find it pathetic. Never once does anyone state Bush's National Security Czar at Homeland Security is a failure.
He used this article to lead into the testimony by Moussaoui.
CNN is not a good source of news so much as programming attempting to qualify for a Daytime Emmy.
Jerks.
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This is a predictable story. Regarding the father deadlocked over a battle for children in a divorce. At least that is my understanding. The family turned him into authorities because of fear for the well being of his children.
Rahman was arrested two weeks ago when his family reported him to the police after his conversion, Agence France-Presse cited Afghan Supreme Court Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada as saying March 19. Sharia law provides for capital punishment for any Muslim who converts to another religion and refuses to revert to Islam, AFP cited the judge as saying.
I believe the news media is missing 'the point' to the issue. It goes beyond religious bigotry to the fear of Islam losing it's religion which is the basis to much of the clash between the West and Muslim nations. Cartoons, etc. It is a lot bigger issue than a barbaric and oppressive law.
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Ah, yes, the death of a preacher. She'll plead 'not guilty.' I have a feeling there are extenuating circumstances and a possible abuse issue.
Lawmaker Revives Plan For "Road Rage Reduction Act"
POSTED: 6:18 pm EST March 27, 2006
UPDATED: 6:21 pm EST March 27, 2006
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A state lawmaker is reviving his plan to help reduce road rage by forcing slower drivers to stay out of the fast lanes on Florida's highways. The so-called "Road Rage Reduction Act" easily passed in the House and Senate last year, but Governor Jeb Bush vetoed the bill.
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"Murder 'R' Us.' and Forensics. No, thank you.
Attorney: CIA case to have profound impact on reporters
By BETH L. JOKINEN
419-993-2093
03/25/2006
bjokinen@limanews.com
ADA — The attorney representing two reporters during the high-profile Valerie Plame in-vestigation said Friday that the case will have a profound effect on the future of journalism.
“I have to believe that it has a chilling effect on reporters and on sources,” Kurtzberg told The Lima News Friday.
Joel Kurtzberg of New York City was one of eight law experts to speak Friday during Ohio Northern University’s 29th annual Law Symposium. This year’s topic was “Would You Be a Source? Reporter Privilege in the Post 9-11 World.”
Kurtzberg represented New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during the investigation involving Plame being publicly named as a CIA op-erative.
Miller spent 85 days in jail last year for refusing to testify to the grand jury. She later agreed to testify after saying her source, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby, had voluntarily released her from her promise of confidentiality.
“The real story behind this is her decision to protect her sources in the first place and her willingness to sacrifice her own liberty to fight for a cause that she believes is of paramount importance,” Kurtzberg said. “I think what Judith Miller did, she should be revered. What she did was a very important thing and a very gutsy thing, and I believe it needed to be done.”
Kurtzberg said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C. Circuit has said that in a grand jury context, there is no reporter privilege under the First Amendment. The court though, left open the possibility that there may be one under federal common law.
While he believes the case is and will continue to impact both reporters and sources, Kurtzberg said it will be hard to ever know just how much.
“It is also very hard to measure the number of stories that don’t get written,” he said. “It is impossible to figure out how many sources don’t go to a reporter with something that is news-worthy out of fear that it may later be disclosed.”
Kurtzberg specifically spoke at the symposium about a test for the reporter’s privilege put forth by D.C. Circuit Judge David Tatel during the Miller case. Kurtzberg said courts have traditionally applied a two-prong test to reporter privilege questions: whether the information being sought is central to the case, and whether the people seeking the information from the reporter have exhausted all reasonable alternatives.
Judge Tatel says that those two prongs are not enough in leak cases where the focus is on who leaked information to the press, but that there needs to be an additional hurdle.
“And that hurdle would require a balance between the harm caused by the leak and the value of the leak itself,” Kurtzberg said. “And it is only if the harm outweighs the value of the leak that disclosure should be permitted.”
http://www.limaohio.com/story.php?IDnum=23939
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New Website Offers Virtual Experience at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: www.jfklibrary.org
OF COURSE Rove is cooperating. He has made four testimonies before now. He doesn't want to go to jail. They are all liars in the Bush White House. Meeting Patrick Fitzgerald is like finally meeting God for the Bush White House.
Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry
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Oh, good, a Cruise Ship fire.
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First the immigration issue. After all it's the west coast.
The lack of real news regarding the security of this nation is appauling. No one is following the Plame case on a regular basis and their is no 'real truth' coming out of Iraq. The best of the reporters from Iraq are burned out but at least they are writing books.
Bush should fire war brain trust
TOO little, too late. President Bush is going to the nation to bolster his plummeting credibility because the war in Iraq is going badly. He's even admitting the original war plans weren't so great and that it won't be on his watch that troops can be withdrawn. Out of desperation, he's trying candor or a limited version of it. It's not enough.
There is one thing Bush has thus far refused to do, and it's crucial: Fire the people who made the key decisions on whether and how to fight this war. I'm talking about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Along with Vice President Dick Cheney, they brought on this foreign policy disaster. Cheney ought to get the boot, too, but he was elected with Bush.
I thought I had a pretty good appreciation of how poorly these people had prepared for the war and its consequences. But recently I've been reading excerpts from a new book, "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq," by Michael Gordon, The New York Times military correspondent, and Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general and former Times military correspondent.
The lack of preparation for the postwar period was even more appalling than I had believed. And those early failures haunt us every day. The book reveals that military commanders on the ground warned the Pentagon early on that an insurgency was quickly developing, and different tactics and many more troops would be needed.
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THERE are civil rights issues in New Orleans up coming elections. It's a good and valid point.
Federal judge to hold hearing on legality of New Orleans election
NEW ORLEANS The first election in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina is less than a month away. But it will be the subject of another court hearing today.Civil rights groups are trying to block the election, arguing that too many black residents scattered by Katrina will be unable to take part.
A federal judge who earlier turned aside pleas for a postponement of the April 22nd mayoral election has agreed to hold a hearing to reconsider the dismissal.
The state is implementing an emergency plan that includes polling stations set up in ten Louisiana cities, a national ad campaign to inform displaced voters, and an easing of voting rules to allow displaced residents to cast ballots. But critics say the plan doesn't go far enough.
Mayor Ray Nagin has nearly two-dozen challengers.
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Gaza and the Palestinians by Christiana Amanpour
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WE IMPORT FROM India. Inspections at container ports sailing into USA ports has to be part of the vigilance. Of course, ending terrorism would be better, but, that isn't on Bush's agenda so much as just doing business as usual.
DP World steams into controversial waters again
March 27 2006
DUBAI Ports World (DP World), which caused a political storm in the US when it acquired P&O's ports in that country, has now sailed into controversy in India.
DP World, which has already been forced to put the US assets that came with its STG4 billion (STG1 = RM6.45) purchase of P&O up for sale, has run into political flak in India. The P&O deal would give DP World, which already has operations in India, some 50 per cent of India's container shipping traffic. Critics of the transaction have suggested that this would amount to a monopoly and have called on central and regional governments to block the deal.Dubai Ports is pressing ahead with expansion plans in India and is confident of winning over critics of a deal that has put 40 per cent of the country's container traffic in the company's hands.
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200 rally in support of stricter border controlBy:
BRIAN ECKHOUSE - Staff Writer
TEMECULA ---- Though the 200-plus supporters of stricter border control who packed a Temecula park Saturday couldn't compare numbers to the 500,000 immigrants' rights activists who jammed downtown Los Angeles, many of the local participants said their staunch opposition to extending rights to illegal immigrants was shared by a majority of Americans.A few speakers at Pala Community Park, however, acknowledged that they were upset that law enforcement didn't arrest the thousands of illegal immigrants marching the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday.
Tim Donnelly, a leader of the Minutemen of California, said he "dreamed" that all Border Patrol cruisers stationed in Campo had been relocated to Los Angeles on Saturday to deal with the illegal immigrants and their supporters who marched "on our streets."
The Minutemen voluntarily monitor the U.S.-Mexico border, and report any curious activity to law enforcement officials.Ralliers in Temecula ---- particularly the Minutemen ---- support the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives, but oppose some senators' campaign to add a guest-worker/amnesty plan to the bill.Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta, said it is "time to stop rewarding the lawbreaker" with reduced college tuition, food stamps and limited health care.Some speakers issued a warning to President Bush should he ultimately back the guest-worker addendum."If he thought the Dubai ports things was a challenge, he hasn't seen anything yet," said Arne Chandler, referring to Dubai Ports World, a United Arab Emirates company, which had been granted federal approval to manage a half-dozen major American ports ---- but withdrew following a public outcry.
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Nation could get spillover cargo from crowded California sites
By WILL WEISSERTAssociated Press
M EXICO CITY - Mexico and major shipping interests are bolstering Pacific ports south of the border, hoping to catch future runoff as an increasing tide of Asian cargo sails toward already clogged ports in California.
Mexican officials in coming weeks plan to study the feasibility of turning Punta Colonet — a sparsely populated, windblown bay on the Baja Peninsula 150 miles south of the U.S. border — into a super-port on par with twin facilities at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest western port complex in North America.
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Security shored up at local ports with 24-hour command center
A large screen broadcasts information about approaching cargo ships as part of the security operation at the Joint Harbor Operation Center on Craney Island in Portsmouth.
JOHN H. SHEALLY II / THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot © March 25, 2006
PORTSMOUTH - In 2001, surveillance of the p ort of Hampton Roads consisted of two people with binoculars atop a tower at Norfolk Naval Station.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 that year, and with the October 2000 bombing of the Norfolk-based destroyer Cole still fresh in their minds, defense and homeland security officials knew they needed to develop a state-of-the-art port monitoring system.
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Macao steps up border temperature checks amid bird flu scare
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-25 15:37:36
MACAO, March 25 (Xinhua) -- The Macao authorities have upgraded the body temperature checks at ports out of avian-flu concerns, according to an official press release issued Saturday.
The release from the Information Bureau said medical task forces have been assigned to main ports including the Macao-Hong Kong ferry, the Macao International Airport and the land border linking the mainland city of Zhuhai.
The body temperature checks will be focused on arrivals from nations including Azerbaijan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, where the human-infected cases were recently reported, said the release.
The release stressed that if any suspected cases are disclosed by the temperature surveillance, the medical teams will transfer the person suspected of infection to hospital for further checks.
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The second cyclone has arrived in Australia.
SURFERS have been warned to stay out of the water as rough seas generated by Cyclone Wati continue to batter almost the entire length of the NSW coast.Waves up to 8m have been seen off beaches from southeast Queensland to far-southern NSW since Sunday.
The biggest have been reported in the Sydney metropolitan region, the Hunter and Illawarra.
The conditions have been caused by a low following Cyclone Wati, which moved down from the Coral Sea into the Tasman Sea on Sunday.
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Firm defends plans for it to screen U.S.-bound ships
Hong Kong -- A Hong Kong conglomerate that has won a federal contract to screen U.S.-bound cargo in the Bahamas for terrorism threats defended the plan Saturday, saying it would not be feasible for American officials to work in ports across the globe.
Some U.S. lawmakers and security experts have expressed concern about the contract for Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. because American customs agents will not be working with the screening equipment, designed to detect smuggled radioactive materials.
The Hong Kong company is in the final stages of being awarded a no-bid, $6 million contract from the United States for screening at the Freeport Container Terminal in the Bahamas, just 65 miles from the American shoreline.
John Meredith, group managing director for Hutchison Port Holdings, the maritime subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and the world's largest ports company, said it would be impractical for American agents to work in every port that handles U.S.-bound cargo.
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The port administrators have a tough time selling some container shipping lines on using the Baltimore port because of its location up the Chesapeake Bay, well off the Atlantic Ocean, but they landed new service last week. They did so, in part, by touting the efficiency of the longshoremen who move up to 37 containers an hour and, after some contentious debate over work rules years ago, continue on the job rain or shine.
As a last resort, Royster said, he could seek to nullify P&O's contract if the health of the port appears in jeopardy, although there is little enthusiasm for a move that could bring more instability - and litigation - to the waterfront.
P&O has been holding regular meetings to provide information and reassure workers - some who have been there for decades - said Mark Montgomery, P&O's senior vice president of East Coast operations. Montgomery has survived other company sales since coming to Baltimore in 1980.
The anxiety is being felt in all of the nearly two dozen U.S. ports, from New York to Miami, affected by DP World's pending sell-off of the U.S. operations it bought from Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the British parent of P&O Ports.
The port of New Orleans had begun to recover from the Gulf Coast hurricanes last summer and fall when its workers were faced with the ownership question, said Matt Gresham, a port authority spokesman.
"We reached 100 percent of our pre-Katrina ship activity in mid-February," he said. "We had a goal of getting to 60 to 80 percent at the six-month mark and we surpassed that goal. We just want to get word out that we're open for business."
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No one else is covering the progress of freeing American Ports from the hands of foreign influence, I may as well.
Enough.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
60 Minutes Without Mike Wallace
"Many at 60 Minutes believe Exec Producer Jeff Fager is largely responsible for Wallace's upcoming retirement annoucement, as he has been laying off some of the Sunday show's staff to make room for his former staff of last year's cancelled 60 Minutes II - where he also served as Exec Producer," an anonymous tipster wrote in a message to TVNewser last night.CBS and Wallace will obviously deny this publicly. Wallace has already told the NYT that "CBS Is not pushing me."So now there will be more room for former 60 II correspondent Scott Pelley and the rest of the team. "Don't be surprised to see Aaron Brown join, along with the newly recruited Katie Couric...imagine that!," an e-mailer says, adding "now who will replace Rooney?"
"Many at 60 Minutes believe Exec Producer Jeff Fager is largely responsible for Wallace's upcoming retirement annoucement, as he has been laying off some of the Sunday show's staff to make room for his former staff of last year's cancelled 60 Minutes II - where he also served as Exec Producer," an anonymous tipster wrote in a message to TVNewser last night.CBS and Wallace will obviously deny this publicly. Wallace has already told the NYT that "CBS Is not pushing me."So now there will be more room for former 60 II correspondent Scott Pelley and the rest of the team. "Don't be surprised to see Aaron Brown join, along with the newly recruited Katie Couric...imagine that!," an e-mailer says, adding "now who will replace Rooney?"
"I've been called God's gift to anchoring and the world's biggest jerk. I get it. It's about proving to yourself what you've got. I don't have a damn thing to prove to anybody."
JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB
Aaron Brown wants a new role on TV
Commentary: He'd love to host a talk show -- even on Fox
By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:18 PM ET Mar 24, 2006
This is an update to restore a dropped word in the seventh paragraph.
HARTSDALE, N.Y. (MarketWatch) -- Television news veteran Aaron Brown is a certified household name. He was a local star in Seattle before going national more than a decade ago, first with ABC and then at CNN.
Still, Brown has no illusions about the vicissitudes of fame.
Ten days ago, he was having dinner in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife and a friend. At one point, a waiter warily approached their table and stared at Brown, trying hard to place that familiar face.
Suddenly, the stranger brightened. "CNN, right!" he declared triumphantly. Brown, whose program "NewsNight" ended its run last fall, nodded politely
"I NEVER miss your show!" the waiter complimented him.
"That reminded me how important an anchorman is," Brown told me with a wan smile.
Anchoring the news seems like another world now for Brown, who appeared on CNN for four years. Now he says he is very much enjoying the time at home with his wife and teen-age daughter. "I can't remember a time when I've felt more at ease," he told me earlier this week.
Leaving CNN
Naturally, Brown was "disappointed" when CNN, a unit of Time Warner (TWX17.00, -0.09, -0.5%) , late last year pulled the plug on NewsNight.
The network gave the coveted 10 p.m., Eastern, time slot to the younger and (reputedly) hipper Anderson Cooper.
Cooper, representing a stark contrast to Brown's characteristically wry TV persona, won accolades for his coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster last fall. Cooper took pains to convey to the CNN audience his sympathy for the victims.
Oh sure, when we talked at lunch in this New York suburb, Brown, 57, sounded quite content about teaching broadcast journalism at Arizona State University, lecturing and writing his memoirs.
Even though the TV news profession tends to have more downs than ups for its practitioners, it continues to have a magnetic pull. Brown grew animated when he discussed his journalism prospects.
He said he's looking forward to a new TV opportunity. His agent is talking to prospective employers about everything from radio and TV news to, of all things, a gig as a game-show host.
Above all, he'd like to preside over a TV show that would be a cross between "Larry King Live" and "Charlie Rose." As Brown noted, "I was talking with Bill Moyers and he said, `What do you want to do now?' I told him, 'I think I want to be you.'"
Open to network offers, Brown would listen to Fox, CNN's most bitter rival, even though his understated style would seem to have little in common with Fox's in-your-face approach to broadcasting.
"I don't have a problem with them," Brown said of Fox. "They were competitors. I enjoyed competing with them."
Highs and lows
Brown has experienced his share of highs and lows in broadcasting.
Perhaps his darkest professional moment occurred a few years ago when a number of media writers blasted him. It appeared that Brown, who was playing in a golf tournament in California, didn't rush back to CNN to anchor a broadcast in the aftermath of the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
He nodded knowingly and said quietly, "They (CNN) screwed up -- I screwed up. I'd hope there would be a statute of limitations. (But) other people want it to be a defining moment for me."
And when actor Robert Blake was initially accused of killing his wife, it was huge news on the celebrity-fixated 24-hour news channels. Brown detests pulp-journalism but he did his duty and, for better or worse, his Blake show achieved unusually high ratings, by its standards.
The world according to Brown
Brown also said:
-- "I think Katie Couric will do it," when I asked if he thought the "Today" star would move to anchor "The CBS Evening News," a much-discussed possibility. "I hope she does. I think the world of her. She should ignore all those people who say it's too big of a risk."
-- "I like David Gregory a lot," referring to the brash NBC White House correspondent, "He's a good news guy. He's not afraid of those guys" in the Bush administration "and is doing what reporters ought to do."
-- ABC's Peter Jennings, who died of lung cancer last year, was "the best anchor ever. He mattered. When he died, I was an emotional mess."
-- "Uh, no," with a laugh, when I suggested that he might have been the role model for Albert Brooks' high-minded TV news correspondent ("AARON Altman") in the film "Broadcast News." In fact, Brown politely declined the filmmaker's invitation to appear in his most recent movie, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" - even though Brooks remembered to point out their "Aaron" connection.
-- On the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown asked fabled CBS anchor Walter Cronkite how he felt when strangers often asked what it was like to report such a remarkable story. Mindful of Brown's excellent work on 9/11, Cronkite smiled and told him: "You'll see."
Odyssey
Brown grew up in Hopkins, Minn. As a teenager, he did a radio show in nearby Minneapolis and found his calling.
Shunning a college education, he eventually moved to Los Angeles and got a radio gig at the age of 21.
Anxious to try TV, he recalled: "I called KING in Seattle every Thursday for four friggin' years." He worked in Seattle for 18 happy years.
Will Brown's odyssey continue in the talk-show universe?
He said interviewing guests appeared to him because he'll "ask almost anything and I'm good at drawing people out."
If he had a wish list of guests, he'd place at the top of it Bob Dylan ("I'd ask him what was going through his mind when he made 'Blonde on Blonde!'"), Barry Bonds and Paul Simon.
"If there's another professional act in my career, it ought to have risk," Brown said. "Game on. I'm absolutely ready for that."
Brown doesn't worry that the critics might attack him if he returned to broadcasting. Leaning forward for emphasis, he said:
"I've been called God's gift to anchoring and the world's biggest jerk. I get it. It's about proving to yourself what you've got. I don't have a damn thing to prove to anybody."
MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY: What did you like - or dislike - about Aaron Brown's work on TV?
FRIDAY STORY OF THE WEEK: "Fly into a Building? Who could Imagine" by Maureen Dowd (New York Times, March 22)
A READER RESPONDS to my question asking whether President Bush is sincerely turning over a kinder, gentler leaf with the media or is scrambling to pander to voters: "It's a good question and it was never answered. The American people deserve to know the truth since their kids are bleeding and we will eventually pay for it., if we ever get an administration that pays it bills. Don't build the President up. He is a liability not an asset." Steve Aspinal
JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB
Aaron Brown wants a new role on TV
Commentary: He'd love to host a talk show -- even on Fox
By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:18 PM ET Mar 24, 2006
This is an update to restore a dropped word in the seventh paragraph.
HARTSDALE, N.Y. (MarketWatch) -- Television news veteran Aaron Brown is a certified household name. He was a local star in Seattle before going national more than a decade ago, first with ABC and then at CNN.
Still, Brown has no illusions about the vicissitudes of fame.
Ten days ago, he was having dinner in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife and a friend. At one point, a waiter warily approached their table and stared at Brown, trying hard to place that familiar face.
Suddenly, the stranger brightened. "CNN, right!" he declared triumphantly. Brown, whose program "NewsNight" ended its run last fall, nodded politely
"I NEVER miss your show!" the waiter complimented him.
"That reminded me how important an anchorman is," Brown told me with a wan smile.
Anchoring the news seems like another world now for Brown, who appeared on CNN for four years. Now he says he is very much enjoying the time at home with his wife and teen-age daughter. "I can't remember a time when I've felt more at ease," he told me earlier this week.
Leaving CNN
Naturally, Brown was "disappointed" when CNN, a unit of Time Warner (TWX17.00, -0.09, -0.5%) , late last year pulled the plug on NewsNight.
The network gave the coveted 10 p.m., Eastern, time slot to the younger and (reputedly) hipper Anderson Cooper.
Cooper, representing a stark contrast to Brown's characteristically wry TV persona, won accolades for his coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster last fall. Cooper took pains to convey to the CNN audience his sympathy for the victims.
Oh sure, when we talked at lunch in this New York suburb, Brown, 57, sounded quite content about teaching broadcast journalism at Arizona State University, lecturing and writing his memoirs.
Even though the TV news profession tends to have more downs than ups for its practitioners, it continues to have a magnetic pull. Brown grew animated when he discussed his journalism prospects.
He said he's looking forward to a new TV opportunity. His agent is talking to prospective employers about everything from radio and TV news to, of all things, a gig as a game-show host.
Above all, he'd like to preside over a TV show that would be a cross between "Larry King Live" and "Charlie Rose." As Brown noted, "I was talking with Bill Moyers and he said, `What do you want to do now?' I told him, 'I think I want to be you.'"
Open to network offers, Brown would listen to Fox, CNN's most bitter rival, even though his understated style would seem to have little in common with Fox's in-your-face approach to broadcasting.
"I don't have a problem with them," Brown said of Fox. "They were competitors. I enjoyed competing with them."
Highs and lows
Brown has experienced his share of highs and lows in broadcasting.
Perhaps his darkest professional moment occurred a few years ago when a number of media writers blasted him. It appeared that Brown, who was playing in a golf tournament in California, didn't rush back to CNN to anchor a broadcast in the aftermath of the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
He nodded knowingly and said quietly, "They (CNN) screwed up -- I screwed up. I'd hope there would be a statute of limitations. (But) other people want it to be a defining moment for me."
And when actor Robert Blake was initially accused of killing his wife, it was huge news on the celebrity-fixated 24-hour news channels. Brown detests pulp-journalism but he did his duty and, for better or worse, his Blake show achieved unusually high ratings, by its standards.
The world according to Brown
Brown also said:
-- "I think Katie Couric will do it," when I asked if he thought the "Today" star would move to anchor "The CBS Evening News," a much-discussed possibility. "I hope she does. I think the world of her. She should ignore all those people who say it's too big of a risk."
-- "I like David Gregory a lot," referring to the brash NBC White House correspondent, "He's a good news guy. He's not afraid of those guys" in the Bush administration "and is doing what reporters ought to do."
-- ABC's Peter Jennings, who died of lung cancer last year, was "the best anchor ever. He mattered. When he died, I was an emotional mess."
-- "Uh, no," with a laugh, when I suggested that he might have been the role model for Albert Brooks' high-minded TV news correspondent ("AARON Altman") in the film "Broadcast News." In fact, Brown politely declined the filmmaker's invitation to appear in his most recent movie, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" - even though Brooks remembered to point out their "Aaron" connection.
-- On the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown asked fabled CBS anchor Walter Cronkite how he felt when strangers often asked what it was like to report such a remarkable story. Mindful of Brown's excellent work on 9/11, Cronkite smiled and told him: "You'll see."
Odyssey
Brown grew up in Hopkins, Minn. As a teenager, he did a radio show in nearby Minneapolis and found his calling.
Shunning a college education, he eventually moved to Los Angeles and got a radio gig at the age of 21.
Anxious to try TV, he recalled: "I called KING in Seattle every Thursday for four friggin' years." He worked in Seattle for 18 happy years.
Will Brown's odyssey continue in the talk-show universe?
He said interviewing guests appeared to him because he'll "ask almost anything and I'm good at drawing people out."
If he had a wish list of guests, he'd place at the top of it Bob Dylan ("I'd ask him what was going through his mind when he made 'Blonde on Blonde!'"), Barry Bonds and Paul Simon.
"If there's another professional act in my career, it ought to have risk," Brown said. "Game on. I'm absolutely ready for that."
Brown doesn't worry that the critics might attack him if he returned to broadcasting. Leaning forward for emphasis, he said:
"I've been called God's gift to anchoring and the world's biggest jerk. I get it. It's about proving to yourself what you've got. I don't have a damn thing to prove to anybody."
MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY: What did you like - or dislike - about Aaron Brown's work on TV?
FRIDAY STORY OF THE WEEK: "Fly into a Building? Who could Imagine" by Maureen Dowd (New York Times, March 22)
A READER RESPONDS to my question asking whether President Bush is sincerely turning over a kinder, gentler leaf with the media or is scrambling to pander to voters: "It's a good question and it was never answered. The American people deserve to know the truth since their kids are bleeding and we will eventually pay for it., if we ever get an administration that pays it bills. Don't build the President up. He is a liability not an asset." Steve Aspinal
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Whom is John King voting for this fall?
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Update 16: Details Released on Iraq Hostages' Ordeal
Peggy Gish, a member of the Chicago-based group for which the former hostages worked in Baghdad, said the men were bound and their captors left the building "right before the intervention."
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/03/24/ap2620252.html
Their statement is far more interesting than any other fact of this story:
http://www.cpt.org/iraq/response/06-23-03statement.htm
"Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies even when they have committed acts which caused great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families. In the spirit of the prophetic nonviolence that motivated Jim, Norman, Harmeet and Tom to go to Iraq, we refuse to yield to a spirit of vengeance. We give thanks for the compassionate God who granted our friends courage and who sustained their spirits over the past months. We pray for strength and courage for ourselves so that, together, we can continue the nonviolent struggle for justice and peace.
Throughout these difficult months, we have been heartened by messages of concern for our four colleagues from all over the world. We have been especially moved by the gracious outpouring of support from Muslim brothers and sisters in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. That support continues to come to us day after day. We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being detained illegally by the U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.
During these past months, we have tasted of the pain that has been the daily bread of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Why have our loved ones been taken? Where are they being held? Under what conditions? How are they? Will they be released? When? ..."
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It’s a chilling scenario. A public official takes steps to defend the integrity of elections in his county, and he is promptly identified as a threat who needs to be removed. It would be bad enough if the Sancho affair were limited to Florida, but really it has implications all over the country. The more we find out about the expensive computerized systems being installed in county after county, and state after state, the more it becomes apparent that the processes to inspect and certify them are wholly inadequate and may well be opening the door to election-stealing on a scale this country has never seen before.
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State ordered to produce HAVA plan
HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT - Corruption personified. Florida disenfranchises minority voters throwing the election for the president to Bush and to 'save face' Bush enacts a law that disenfranchises voters at will across the country.
Oil above $64 on renewed supply woes
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Insecurity in Nigeria's oil delta here to stay
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A retroactive gas tax. Now, that is what I call a plan.
UPDATE 1-Venezuela hits BP with $61.4 mln tax demand
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Chavez: No plan to suspend US oil shipments
Good night. Oh, by the way, it is an educated guess most of the CNN staff only flips 'The Republican Party' lever in the voter booth. I think it is part of their contract.
Surpise. Surprise. Suprise.
Update 16: Details Released on Iraq Hostages' Ordeal
Peggy Gish, a member of the Chicago-based group for which the former hostages worked in Baghdad, said the men were bound and their captors left the building "right before the intervention."
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/03/24/ap2620252.html
Their statement is far more interesting than any other fact of this story:
http://www.cpt.org/iraq/response/06-23-03statement.htm
"Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies even when they have committed acts which caused great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families. In the spirit of the prophetic nonviolence that motivated Jim, Norman, Harmeet and Tom to go to Iraq, we refuse to yield to a spirit of vengeance. We give thanks for the compassionate God who granted our friends courage and who sustained their spirits over the past months. We pray for strength and courage for ourselves so that, together, we can continue the nonviolent struggle for justice and peace.
Throughout these difficult months, we have been heartened by messages of concern for our four colleagues from all over the world. We have been especially moved by the gracious outpouring of support from Muslim brothers and sisters in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. That support continues to come to us day after day. We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being detained illegally by the U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.
During these past months, we have tasted of the pain that has been the daily bread of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Why have our loved ones been taken? Where are they being held? Under what conditions? How are they? Will they be released? When? ..."
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It’s a chilling scenario. A public official takes steps to defend the integrity of elections in his county, and he is promptly identified as a threat who needs to be removed. It would be bad enough if the Sancho affair were limited to Florida, but really it has implications all over the country. The more we find out about the expensive computerized systems being installed in county after county, and state after state, the more it becomes apparent that the processes to inspect and certify them are wholly inadequate and may well be opening the door to election-stealing on a scale this country has never seen before.
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State ordered to produce HAVA plan
HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT - Corruption personified. Florida disenfranchises minority voters throwing the election for the president to Bush and to 'save face' Bush enacts a law that disenfranchises voters at will across the country.
Oil above $64 on renewed supply woes
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Insecurity in Nigeria's oil delta here to stay
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A retroactive gas tax. Now, that is what I call a plan.
UPDATE 1-Venezuela hits BP with $61.4 mln tax demand
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Chavez: No plan to suspend US oil shipments
Good night. Oh, by the way, it is an educated guess most of the CNN staff only flips 'The Republican Party' lever in the voter booth. I think it is part of their contract.
Surpise. Surprise. Suprise.
Friday, March 24, 2006
AC 360, aka : "Emoting 'R' Us"
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This is about a young girl who stood in opposition to her parents and went to live with a man who then 'kept' her. It is about domestic violence more than it is about a psychological disorder. Women live in fear all over this country with no way out and they are far older than Ms. Kach.
Affidavit: McKeesport beautician helped Tanya Kach
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_436166.html
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The volunteers of America's colleges and universities.
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An issue of sovereignty. Good.
Venezuela to Cut Size of Oil Drill Areas
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/23/financial/f155118S70.DTL
Rumsfeld lost the war against al Qaeda. The Brits might succeed with NATO five years after the attacks on the USA in Lower Manhattan. New York was never much of a Republican stronghold anyway. Right George? Better to have a scapegoat of fear and profits from Iraq.
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Next for New Orleans: A Jewish Mayor?By TYLER BRIDGESMarch 24, 2006
NEW ORLEANS — A three-man band played bluesy tunes from a makeshift stage.
A woman conducted business ladling out gumbo at $7 per Styrofoam cup.
A tall man in slacks and comfortable shoes worked the crowd as residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood here held a street party Saturday to cheer themselves up and proclaim that they will rebuild their neighborhood in the center of this hurricane-ravaged city.
"We're hurting," the man, Ron Forman, told one couple. "We're all hurting."
Forman, a Democrat, is aiming to become the first Jewish mayor of New Orleans in what may be the most important election in the city's history.
http://www.forward.com/articles/7547
The preacher murder.
SEXUAL ABUSE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: CATHOLIC CLERGY AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS
Special Report by Catholic League for Religious and Civil RightsFebruary
In a 1993 survey by the Journal of Pastoral Care, 14 percent of Southern Baptist ministers said they had engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior,” and 70 percent said they knew a minister who had had such contact with a parishioner.[xvii] Joe E. Trull is co-author of the 1993 book, Ministerial Ethics, and he found that “from 30 to 35 percent of ministers of all denominations admit to having sexual relationships—from inappropriate touching to sexual intercourse—outside of marriage.”[xviii]
According to a 2000 report to the Baptist General Convention in Texas, “The incidence of sexual abuse by clergy has reached ‘horrific proportions.’” It noted that in studies done in the 1980s, 12 percent of ministers had “engaged in sexual intercourse with members” and nearly 40 percent had “acknowledged sexually inappropriate behavior.” The report concluded that “The disturbing aspect of all research is that the rate of incidence for clergy exceeds the client-professional rate for physicians and psychologists.”[xix] Regarding pornography and sexual addiction, a national survey disclosed that about 20 percent of all ministers are involved in the behavior.[xx]
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The news secretary.
CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13292.html
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Blah, blah, blah
This is about a young girl who stood in opposition to her parents and went to live with a man who then 'kept' her. It is about domestic violence more than it is about a psychological disorder. Women live in fear all over this country with no way out and they are far older than Ms. Kach.
Affidavit: McKeesport beautician helped Tanya Kach
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_436166.html
1013
commercials
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The volunteers of America's colleges and universities.
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commercials
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An issue of sovereignty. Good.
Venezuela to Cut Size of Oil Drill Areas
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/23/financial/f155118S70.DTL
Rumsfeld lost the war against al Qaeda. The Brits might succeed with NATO five years after the attacks on the USA in Lower Manhattan. New York was never much of a Republican stronghold anyway. Right George? Better to have a scapegoat of fear and profits from Iraq.
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Next for New Orleans: A Jewish Mayor?By TYLER BRIDGESMarch 24, 2006
NEW ORLEANS — A three-man band played bluesy tunes from a makeshift stage.
A woman conducted business ladling out gumbo at $7 per Styrofoam cup.
A tall man in slacks and comfortable shoes worked the crowd as residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood here held a street party Saturday to cheer themselves up and proclaim that they will rebuild their neighborhood in the center of this hurricane-ravaged city.
"We're hurting," the man, Ron Forman, told one couple. "We're all hurting."
Forman, a Democrat, is aiming to become the first Jewish mayor of New Orleans in what may be the most important election in the city's history.
http://www.forward.com/articles/7547
The preacher murder.
SEXUAL ABUSE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: CATHOLIC CLERGY AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS
Special Report by Catholic League for Religious and Civil RightsFebruary
In a 1993 survey by the Journal of Pastoral Care, 14 percent of Southern Baptist ministers said they had engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior,” and 70 percent said they knew a minister who had had such contact with a parishioner.[xvii] Joe E. Trull is co-author of the 1993 book, Ministerial Ethics, and he found that “from 30 to 35 percent of ministers of all denominations admit to having sexual relationships—from inappropriate touching to sexual intercourse—outside of marriage.”[xviii]
According to a 2000 report to the Baptist General Convention in Texas, “The incidence of sexual abuse by clergy has reached ‘horrific proportions.’” It noted that in studies done in the 1980s, 12 percent of ministers had “engaged in sexual intercourse with members” and nearly 40 percent had “acknowledged sexually inappropriate behavior.” The report concluded that “The disturbing aspect of all research is that the rate of incidence for clergy exceeds the client-professional rate for physicians and psychologists.”[xix] Regarding pornography and sexual addiction, a national survey disclosed that about 20 percent of all ministers are involved in the behavior.[xx]
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The news secretary.
CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13292.html
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Blah, blah, blah
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Really news? Too much to hope for. Amazing. There is a conscience at CNN.
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Dana Bash (Bush) seems to think 'the news conferences' and 'question and answer session' with the public is something the White House has no choice in 'performing.'
There is an alternative, Ms. Bash did not explore. Impeachment.
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The Democratic Candidate from Chicago. How about that? A segment worth watching.
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David Gergen. I would think you would be more positive about the Democrats, David. After all they didn't lie, they didn't corrupt the nation, or run the country into debt. They ARE the candidates with conscience and good government. Come now, Mr. Gergen. Let's get over this already.
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I told you so. There are a lot of dead people buried on the Gulf Coast yet. "An intimacy" of one human being searching for another. Did the desire for searching of every increment of remains not exist after 911? It's high time that same sentiment arrived on the Gulf Coast. That love of fellow citizens should have existed long before, LONG BEFORE, Katrina ever arrived. The Gulf Coast just like every other case of negligence and incompetent became a 'Blame Game' i.e. "The problem..." according to MIchael Brown, "...were the Democrats in Louisiana." If that is not politics in the face of human tragedy don't ask me what is?
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The news secretary. Steady as she goes, Anderson. It is about time you all started looking like Americans rather than Bush's puppets.
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Rob Marciano. One degree centigrade since 1975. That is a lot of calories when one considers the size of the oceans.
The 'storms' of the Atlantic have increased in intensity since the vortices of the in October 2002. The 'end of the storm season.'
This is the lack of conscience that is also immoral.
Let's start with this:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
Again. The ONLY place on the planet that debates the issues is Bush's America.
Sempra ranked near bottom on global warming
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060322-9999-1b22sempra.html
Public service ads aim to raise awareness about global warming
BY SANDY BAUERS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA - Your favorite TV show has ended. You've just seen the ads for Lipitor and light beer, and here comes another:
"Tick. Tick. Massive heat waves.
One after another, the faces of small children appear.
Tick. Tick. Severe droughts.
The kids look serious, maybe even upset.
Tick. Go to www.globalwarming.com. While there's still time."
Yikes - did some ad exec get lost on a horror movie set? Not quite.
Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, has teamed with the Ad Council, which has challenged social norms with public service campaigns like "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and Nancy Reagan's "Just say no."
In a series of TV and radio spots that one publicist termed "edgy" - and that a global warming skeptic called "the ultimate triumph of propaganda over science" - the group is hoping to spawn a massive shift in social awareness that will send millions rushing to turn down their thermostats, inflate their car tires and recycle their plastic.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/14161947.htm
and
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=GLOBALWARMING.COM
Denial of the fact this is high level of carbon dioxide due to human induced reasons is complete suicide. So what if the storms were increasing over the last nine years. Global warming has been an issue since the invention of the the railroads in the late 1800s. Xince 1960 scientists have been measuring the makedly noticable trend. I am assuming you all have heard of the Mauna Loa Labortories? This is the most hideous argument I have heard by a '?climatologist?' - Rob? I mean for real already. Are you actually that unsure? I am not and most of the world scientists are not. Time to join the communities of conscience. Perhaps you have heard about the conscience driven Christians that have come out to support the opposition to the continued abuse of the planet. I can't believe after all this time this news team has no clear message about Global Warming and Climate Change but simply uses the subject to promote it's popular exploitation of extreme weather. It's a darn shame. AC360 the staff of 'fence sitters.'
1045
I think ConocPhillips needs Russia more than the other way around.
China key role in Russia's oil strategy: oil tycoon
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 00:31:15
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- China is a long-term strategic partner for Russia's energy sector and plays an important role in Russia's Asian oil strategy, Russian oil tycoon Sergei Bogdanchikov said here Wednesday.
In an interview with Xinhua, the president of the Russian oil company Rosneft said by the end of the year, Russia and China willset up a joint venture in each country that will engage in the exploration, production and processing of crude oil and oil products in Russia, and the sale of such products in China and other countries.
Asian and Pacific countries, particularly China, could be the major markets for oil from Russia's Siberia and Far East regions, he said, adding that Rosneft will set up an Asian office in Beijing.
Rosneft has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Development Bank which provide financing for increased oil exports from Russia to China. Rosneft and the bank will also jointly finance the development of two oil and gas fields.
Bogdanchikov said Rosneft plans to increase its export of crudeoil and oil products to China from 7.1 million tons in 2005 to 12.7 million tons this year.
End item
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333700.htm
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Oil giants unite on refineryChina's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.Thursday, 23 March, 2006China's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.
This would be the first joint-venture refinery project between PetroChina and Sinopec and is projected to be built by 2010.
The actual size of the refinery or investment costs have not been pinned down, but officials expected the capacity to be around 200,000 barrels per day, or larger, and cost 12-13 billion yuan (HK$11.52 billion-HK$12.48 billion) to build.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=22&art_id=14850&sid=7183032&con_type=1
DOES America and AC360 ever feel like the world has them over a barrel? Ha, ha, ha.
Work to begin on oil pipeline: Russian FM
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 02:37:41
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Work on a new oil pipeline from Russia to China will begin in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference on the Year of Russia in China, Lavrov said the two countries will conduct a technical feasibilitystudy on the pipeline, which will be a branch of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline.
Russian natural gas company Gazprom on Wednesday signed an agreement with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on the joint designing and construction of the oil pipeline from Russia's Skovorodino to the border of the two countries.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333784.htm
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It's time for the LA Terror Hour of AC360. Frankenstein is still insulting the viewership.
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Dana "Bash" Bush
"It's time to put a government in place (in Iraq.)" Bush.
It's time? It's long past time. It is however time to put a government in Washington, DC.
1104
The Kents believe Mr. Kent is a better journalist than any other news media service.
Oh?
He states the bridge the GIs were building was a priority for Iraq.
Oh?
I thought bridges were important for transport vehicles like the trucks Halliburton runs around Iraq. Right? Bridges? They are a strategic issue for the military. The soldiers are doing their job in the heat because it is a military project. Military projects aren't supposed to be the mechanism whereby Iraq is rebuilt. The Iraqis are supposed to be rebuilding Iraq. This such nonsense.
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Journalists are endangering soldiers. Excuse me but these men and women that report the war are doing so as imbeds. Not only that but they put their lives on the line. Nic is right the American media is not recruiting Jihadists. We call them suicide bombers. Al Jazeera calls them martyrs. This is more hideous stuff. You tell them, Nic.
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Michael Yon is an asshole. He is nothing but 'mind speak.' He has to be for his closed minded readership. The GIs are complaining about the media because they have such poor leadership. I am sure they complained about the media in Vietnam as well. Too bad. The nation is not about to stand behind immorality, prisoner abuse, lies and deceit for the sake of blowing smoke up the butts of GIs so they can have their morale'. Sorry. Lives are more important than egos here. The media far outshines in helping rather than hindering any effort in Iraq. If it weren't for the media like The New York Times, the American Soldier wouldn't have improving conditions or remotely adequate armor. Any 'insurgent' network does not need the American media to carry out it's plans. That is so stupid. How many people in Iraq even speak English, yet alone understand the sophisticated debate the American people engage in daily. Go straight to hell Anderson. You are NOT a good pier to other journalists. You know countries jail journalists for exactly these issues. Go straight to hell. This discussion is a 'designer' discussion to change the tone of the debate at a time when Bush is struggling for votes for his party this Novermber.
Get over it. People that criticize the media NEVER speak about the good the profession brings. If it weren't for The New York Times, there would never be the identity of 'The Military Class' instead of The Lower Middle Class where they were once consider to be and there would never be improved death benefits for families whom in the past lived in poverty worse than their military service poverty. The criticism is hideous.
1122
Enough.
Dana Bash (Bush) seems to think 'the news conferences' and 'question and answer session' with the public is something the White House has no choice in 'performing.'
There is an alternative, Ms. Bash did not explore. Impeachment.
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The Democratic Candidate from Chicago. How about that? A segment worth watching.
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David Gergen. I would think you would be more positive about the Democrats, David. After all they didn't lie, they didn't corrupt the nation, or run the country into debt. They ARE the candidates with conscience and good government. Come now, Mr. Gergen. Let's get over this already.
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commercials
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I told you so. There are a lot of dead people buried on the Gulf Coast yet. "An intimacy" of one human being searching for another. Did the desire for searching of every increment of remains not exist after 911? It's high time that same sentiment arrived on the Gulf Coast. That love of fellow citizens should have existed long before, LONG BEFORE, Katrina ever arrived. The Gulf Coast just like every other case of negligence and incompetent became a 'Blame Game' i.e. "The problem..." according to MIchael Brown, "...were the Democrats in Louisiana." If that is not politics in the face of human tragedy don't ask me what is?
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The news secretary. Steady as she goes, Anderson. It is about time you all started looking like Americans rather than Bush's puppets.
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commercials
1026
Rob Marciano. One degree centigrade since 1975. That is a lot of calories when one considers the size of the oceans.
The 'storms' of the Atlantic have increased in intensity since the vortices of the in October 2002. The 'end of the storm season.'
This is the lack of conscience that is also immoral.
Let's start with this:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
Again. The ONLY place on the planet that debates the issues is Bush's America.
Sempra ranked near bottom on global warming
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060322-9999-1b22sempra.html
Public service ads aim to raise awareness about global warming
BY SANDY BAUERS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHILADELPHIA - Your favorite TV show has ended. You've just seen the ads for Lipitor and light beer, and here comes another:
"Tick. Tick. Massive heat waves.
One after another, the faces of small children appear.
Tick. Tick. Severe droughts.
The kids look serious, maybe even upset.
Tick. Go to www.globalwarming.com. While there's still time."
Yikes - did some ad exec get lost on a horror movie set? Not quite.
Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, has teamed with the Ad Council, which has challenged social norms with public service campaigns like "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and Nancy Reagan's "Just say no."
In a series of TV and radio spots that one publicist termed "edgy" - and that a global warming skeptic called "the ultimate triumph of propaganda over science" - the group is hoping to spawn a massive shift in social awareness that will send millions rushing to turn down their thermostats, inflate their car tires and recycle their plastic.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/14161947.htm
and
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=GLOBALWARMING.COM
Denial of the fact this is high level of carbon dioxide due to human induced reasons is complete suicide. So what if the storms were increasing over the last nine years. Global warming has been an issue since the invention of the the railroads in the late 1800s. Xince 1960 scientists have been measuring the makedly noticable trend. I am assuming you all have heard of the Mauna Loa Labortories? This is the most hideous argument I have heard by a '?climatologist?' - Rob? I mean for real already. Are you actually that unsure? I am not and most of the world scientists are not. Time to join the communities of conscience. Perhaps you have heard about the conscience driven Christians that have come out to support the opposition to the continued abuse of the planet. I can't believe after all this time this news team has no clear message about Global Warming and Climate Change but simply uses the subject to promote it's popular exploitation of extreme weather. It's a darn shame. AC360 the staff of 'fence sitters.'
1045
I think ConocPhillips needs Russia more than the other way around.
China key role in Russia's oil strategy: oil tycoon
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 00:31:15
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- China is a long-term strategic partner for Russia's energy sector and plays an important role in Russia's Asian oil strategy, Russian oil tycoon Sergei Bogdanchikov said here Wednesday.
In an interview with Xinhua, the president of the Russian oil company Rosneft said by the end of the year, Russia and China willset up a joint venture in each country that will engage in the exploration, production and processing of crude oil and oil products in Russia, and the sale of such products in China and other countries.
Asian and Pacific countries, particularly China, could be the major markets for oil from Russia's Siberia and Far East regions, he said, adding that Rosneft will set up an Asian office in Beijing.
Rosneft has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Development Bank which provide financing for increased oil exports from Russia to China. Rosneft and the bank will also jointly finance the development of two oil and gas fields.
Bogdanchikov said Rosneft plans to increase its export of crudeoil and oil products to China from 7.1 million tons in 2005 to 12.7 million tons this year.
End item
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333700.htm
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Oil giants unite on refineryChina's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.Thursday, 23 March, 2006China's two state oil giants are expected to join hands to build a US$1.5 billion (HK$11.7 billion) refinery in the country's southwest, under Beijing's mandate to merge two proposed competing plants, company officials said Wednesday.
This would be the first joint-venture refinery project between PetroChina and Sinopec and is projected to be built by 2010.
The actual size of the refinery or investment costs have not been pinned down, but officials expected the capacity to be around 200,000 barrels per day, or larger, and cost 12-13 billion yuan (HK$11.52 billion-HK$12.48 billion) to build.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=22&art_id=14850&sid=7183032&con_type=1
DOES America and AC360 ever feel like the world has them over a barrel? Ha, ha, ha.
Work to begin on oil pipeline: Russian FM
www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-23 02:37:41
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Work on a new oil pipeline from Russia to China will begin in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference on the Year of Russia in China, Lavrov said the two countries will conduct a technical feasibilitystudy on the pipeline, which will be a branch of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline.
Russian natural gas company Gazprom on Wednesday signed an agreement with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on the joint designing and construction of the oil pipeline from Russia's Skovorodino to the border of the two countries.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/23/content_4333784.htm
1101
It's time for the LA Terror Hour of AC360. Frankenstein is still insulting the viewership.
1102
Dana "Bash" Bush
"It's time to put a government in place (in Iraq.)" Bush.
It's time? It's long past time. It is however time to put a government in Washington, DC.
1104
The Kents believe Mr. Kent is a better journalist than any other news media service.
Oh?
He states the bridge the GIs were building was a priority for Iraq.
Oh?
I thought bridges were important for transport vehicles like the trucks Halliburton runs around Iraq. Right? Bridges? They are a strategic issue for the military. The soldiers are doing their job in the heat because it is a military project. Military projects aren't supposed to be the mechanism whereby Iraq is rebuilt. The Iraqis are supposed to be rebuilding Iraq. This such nonsense.
1111
Journalists are endangering soldiers. Excuse me but these men and women that report the war are doing so as imbeds. Not only that but they put their lives on the line. Nic is right the American media is not recruiting Jihadists. We call them suicide bombers. Al Jazeera calls them martyrs. This is more hideous stuff. You tell them, Nic.
1116
Michael Yon is an asshole. He is nothing but 'mind speak.' He has to be for his closed minded readership. The GIs are complaining about the media because they have such poor leadership. I am sure they complained about the media in Vietnam as well. Too bad. The nation is not about to stand behind immorality, prisoner abuse, lies and deceit for the sake of blowing smoke up the butts of GIs so they can have their morale'. Sorry. Lives are more important than egos here. The media far outshines in helping rather than hindering any effort in Iraq. If it weren't for the media like The New York Times, the American Soldier wouldn't have improving conditions or remotely adequate armor. Any 'insurgent' network does not need the American media to carry out it's plans. That is so stupid. How many people in Iraq even speak English, yet alone understand the sophisticated debate the American people engage in daily. Go straight to hell Anderson. You are NOT a good pier to other journalists. You know countries jail journalists for exactly these issues. Go straight to hell. This discussion is a 'designer' discussion to change the tone of the debate at a time when Bush is struggling for votes for his party this Novermber.
Get over it. People that criticize the media NEVER speak about the good the profession brings. If it weren't for The New York Times, there would never be the identity of 'The Military Class' instead of The Lower Middle Class where they were once consider to be and there would never be improved death benefits for families whom in the past lived in poverty worse than their military service poverty. The criticism is hideous.
1122
Enough.
Replacing Anderson by a designer journalist that is a name sake for the Chief Justice? How does it feel, Bubba?
Blood, Ink, and Oil: the Case of Darfur
The real reason may lie with the oil money that has backed George W. Bush from early in his first campaign for president.
U.S. oil companies, sidelined since 1997, are clearly eager for a piece of the action in Sudan. One of the recent oil deals signed with Khartoum is worth noting. On June 10, a "British" oil tycoon named Friedhelm Eronat acquired for $8 million the largest stake in a drilling contract signed two years ago on behalf of Cliveden Sudan, a company owned by Eronat at that time and had registered in the Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes. Until then, Friedhelm Eronat had been an American citizen. He swapped his American citizenship for British just before signing the contract, thereby avoiding a jail sentence or fine.
But was Eronat - a high-risk wheeler-dealer who owns extensive drilling rights in neighboring Chad, where he played the Chinese against Canadian oil interests - acting on his own behalf in the recent deal, or was he fronting for other interests? Eronat has fronted for Exxon Mobil and other companies in the past. He narrowly escaped indictment on corruption and fraud charges in connection with a deal allegedly involving shell companies, bribery, and the swapping of Iranian oil for oil from Kazakhstan in order to circumvent the American law against trading with Iran.
You want to stop the genocide in Darfur? Divest from any company that supports the killing no matter how indirect it seems.
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Maryland Lt Governor urges divestiture of Sudan investments
Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:30.
March 21, 2006 (ANNAPOLIS) — Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele asked state pension system managers Monday to withdraw $1.9 billion from investment funds that hold stocks of companies that do business in Sudan to protest what he called "some of the most egregious human rights violations our nation has ever been witness to."
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=14658
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Rumsfeld never defeated General Shinseki. After Shinseki left all that was left were cowards and 'yes' men. Right General Marks?
Pentagon Contradicts General on Iraq Occupation Force's Size
Blood, Ink, and Oil: the Case of Darfur
The real reason may lie with the oil money that has backed George W. Bush from early in his first campaign for president.
U.S. oil companies, sidelined since 1997, are clearly eager for a piece of the action in Sudan. One of the recent oil deals signed with Khartoum is worth noting. On June 10, a "British" oil tycoon named Friedhelm Eronat acquired for $8 million the largest stake in a drilling contract signed two years ago on behalf of Cliveden Sudan, a company owned by Eronat at that time and had registered in the Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes. Until then, Friedhelm Eronat had been an American citizen. He swapped his American citizenship for British just before signing the contract, thereby avoiding a jail sentence or fine.
But was Eronat - a high-risk wheeler-dealer who owns extensive drilling rights in neighboring Chad, where he played the Chinese against Canadian oil interests - acting on his own behalf in the recent deal, or was he fronting for other interests? Eronat has fronted for Exxon Mobil and other companies in the past. He narrowly escaped indictment on corruption and fraud charges in connection with a deal allegedly involving shell companies, bribery, and the swapping of Iranian oil for oil from Kazakhstan in order to circumvent the American law against trading with Iran.
You want to stop the genocide in Darfur? Divest from any company that supports the killing no matter how indirect it seems.
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Maryland Lt Governor urges divestiture of Sudan investments
Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:30.
March 21, 2006 (ANNAPOLIS) — Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele asked state pension system managers Monday to withdraw $1.9 billion from investment funds that hold stocks of companies that do business in Sudan to protest what he called "some of the most egregious human rights violations our nation has ever been witness to."
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=14658
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Rumsfeld never defeated General Shinseki. After Shinseki left all that was left were cowards and 'yes' men. Right General Marks?
Pentagon Contradicts General on Iraq Occupation Force's Size
In a contentious exchange over the costs of war with Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking official today disparaged a top Army general's assessment of the number of troops needed to secure postwar Iraq. House Democrats then accused the Pentagon official, Paul D. Wolfowitz, of concealing internal administration estimates on the cost of fighting and rebuilding the country.
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Commercials
1024
PanAfrica: Africa: Group Slams Janus Face of U.S. Policy
The report, which comes on the eve of a critical decision by the African Union (AU) whether to ask the United Nations to absorb its 7,000-strong peace monitoring force into a larger and more robust U.N. peacekeeping operation in Darfur, points precisely to Sudan as a prime example of the administration's competing priorities in Africa.
On the one hand, the administration has accused Khartoum of "genocide" in Darfur and has spoken out strongly -- most recently in an appeal Thursday by Secretary of State Robert Zoellick -- in favour of a strong U.N. mission to end the violence that has recently spread to Chad.
On the other hand, Washington has ruled out deployment of its own troops on the ground in Darfur and appears to be forging an alliance with Sudan's intelligence services in the context of its "war on terror", reportedly even building a listening post near Khartoum to gather intelligence in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. To the extent that Washington relies on Khartoum's cooperation, its efforts to end the Darfur crisis are constrained.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200603100066.html
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NPPA Awards
Posted Mar 21st 2006 3:21PM by Jay Savage
The National Press Protographer's Association has started naming winners in their Best of Photojournalism 2006 still photography awards. The crop at right is from David Burnett's portrait of Joseph C. Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame that won the category of "News Protrait and Personality." Other categories include "Domesic News," "Art of Entertainment," "Celebrity News Single," "Natural Disaster," "Sports Single," "Team Sports," and around two dozen other categories. Judging should continue through the wekk, culminating with awards for "Photojournalist of the Year (under 115,000 circulation)," and "Photojournalist of the Year (over 115,000 circulation)." All of the more than 45,000 pictures entered are available in the online archive.
http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/21/nppa-awards/
Joe Wilson knocks Iraq policyFormer ambassador wants coalition to sit down and talkBy Diane Hirth DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
The man who rattled the White House by disputing President Bush's 2003 State of the Union claim that Saddam Hussein sought uranium in Niger to build a nuclear arsenal, said he did so simply as a patriot doing his duty.
Joe Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq who spent 23 years in public service under Democratic and Republican presidents, told several hundred attentive listeners at Florida State University: "What I did was not extraordinary. It's the environment in which we act that makes this truth-telling event revolutionary. There's something wrong with this picture."
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS01/603210331/1010/NEWS01
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Halliburton CEO says planning acquisitions
Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:38 AM ET
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NEW ORLEANS, March 21 (Reuters) - Oilfield services company Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to acquire companies to complement its existing businesses and broaden its geographic reach, Chairman and Chief Executive Dave Lesar said on Tuesday.
"These are going to be technology acquisitions, bolt-on acquisitions to our product lines, product extensions or geographic extensions," Lesar told the Howard Weil energy conference.
Halliburton, the world's second-largest oil field services company, has seen its revenues climb due to robust spending by oil and gas producers seeking to boost output to take advantage of high energy prices.
The company has said it plans to launch an initial public offering for 20 percent of its engineering and construction unit KBR, which is the Pentagon's biggest private contractor in Iraq.
Halliburton recently raised its quarterly dividend by 20 percent, putting the first-quarter dividend per share at 15 cents.
1101
Anderson and his boy toy, Frankenstein can't extrapolate the obvious. The parents of the boy don't want him to be another Billy with two children by an older woman persecuted on his part. This mother states "I pray he can leave this behind him."
1103
Business Digest
Port firm weighs options at key time
SSA Marine of Seattle, the largest U.S.-based port terminal operator, said it has engaged Citigroup to explore its "strategic alternatives" at a pivotal moment for the nation's ports.
SSA said it has received "recent inquiries from many companies looking to partner with, or invest in SSA Marine, as well as the opportunities to acquire additional operations."
SSA is seen as a potential bidder for the U.S. operations that Dubai Ports World has agreed to divest. The Seattle company already is a joint-venture partner in three of the terminals — in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., and Camden, N.J. — that Dubai Ports bought before its acquisition of port operator P&O ran into congressional opposition.
"None of the alternatives we are exploring would involve selling control of our U.S. operations to a company owned by a foreign government," SSA spokesman Bob Watters said late Friday.
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Farrell knocks Shays on port security
BRIDGEPORT -- Democratic congressional hopeful Diane Farrell criticized U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays yesterday for not doing enough to enhance port security.Some House votes by Shays have kept additional federal dollars from ports security, Farrell said.
... Farrell's plan would implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission; institute a review of the effectiveness of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism; implement funding to improve security at the nation's most vulnerable ports first; and repair communications between U.S. Coast Guard field offices.
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N.J. lawmakers: Make ports safer
Home News Tribune Online 03/19/06By RAJU CHEBIUMGANNETT NEWS SERVICErchebium@gns.gannett.com
WASHINGTON — Capitalizing on the attention generated by the now-defunct Dubai Ports World deal, some New Jersey lawmakers are trying to get Congress to further fortify the country's 361 ports against potential terrorist attacks.
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Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a measure Tuesday seeking $965 million for port security after touting his proposals in a speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
After initially proposing $250 million for port security, the Republican-controlled Senate adopted a measure by Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to allocate $978 million to make ports safer. However, that allocation — part of a bigger bill the Senate approved Thursday 51-49 — isn't binding because it is but one piece of a package of proposed governmental spending ceilings over the next five years.
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS/603190440/1001
Repuglicans always lie and manipulate.
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Proposal for ports may aid air Ships could be forced to power down enginesWarren Lutz Record Staff Writer Published Sunday, Mar 19, 2006
STOCKTON - Newly proposed rules aimed at reducing pollution at California ports could help improve the air San Joaquin Valley residents breathe - but exactly how the regulations will be met remains unknown.Port of Stockton officials are preparing to submit comments to state air officials over draft regulations that could require visiting ships to "cold iron" their vessels, or power down the combustion engines that spill pollutants into the atmosphere.The San Joaquin Valley is already one of the dirtiest air basins in the nation and has one of the highest asthma rates in the state. During winter, stagnant air traps pollution in the Valley for days, sending many residents to hospitals.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS01/603190326/1001
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The AC360 new broadcast is laughable. They are criticizing the media and reporting of Iraq because Bush says so. This by a man who oppresses the media, fines CBS relentlessly and USES the media at every turn including the Iraq war to terrorize the USA electorate. The reason Bush came out on attack on the media because he was being attacked. He's a Neocon. He doesn't turn tail and run. He victimizes. Allowing a news conference with a seasoned journalist like Helen Thomas, his best defense was an offense. He literally told the American Press to stop reporting the war and propagandize the war to the benefit of the Repuglican re-elections of November 2008. There is always a method to Bush's madness. Literally, madness. Daddy got mad at the media for making his job tougher with a war he designed and used the media to brainwash the American public to believe it was connected to 911. I think the word is 'hypocrit.'
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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
#1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government
#2 Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death
#3 Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage
#4 Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In
#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
#6 The Real Oil for Food Scam
#7 Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer’s Mandates
#9 Iran’s New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
#10 Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy
#11 Universal Mental Screening Program Usurps Parental Rights
#12 Military in Iraq Contracts Human Rights Violators
#13 Rich Countries Fail to Live up to Global Pledges
#14 Corporations Win Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers
#15 Conservative Plan to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom
#16 U.S. Plans for Hemispheric Integration Include Canada
#17 U.S. Uses South American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region
#18 Little Known Stock Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy
#19 Child Wards of the State Used in AIDS Experiments
#20 American Indians Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others
#21 New Immigration Plan Favors Business Over People
#22 Nanotechnology Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny
#23 Plight of Palestinian Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem
#24 Ethiopian Indigenous Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations
#25 Homeland Security Was Designed to Fail
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Did I hear how the product should be taken off the market? Do I detect more hypocracy by this administration and it's crony meida?
FDA To Mull Celebrex, Bextra
WebMD) The fate of a highly controversial class of painkillers is likely to be decided at a federal inquiry scheduled to open Wednesday. In three days of hearings, the FDA and a panel of outside experts will investigate the safety of arthritis drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors. This group includes Vioxx, Celebrex, and Bextra. FDA documents show that the hearings will focus on evidence that the drugs increase the risk of heart attacks and stroke, a finding that pushed Vioxx's manufacturer to pull it from the market in September 2004. This has also led many experts to call for a broad re-evaluation of the other Cox-2 inhibitors.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/15/health/webmd/main674248.shtml
Here you go Anderson, the Bush Administration believes in LABELS like the ones on cigarettes. An oversight on your part I am sure. Women have their place and they should be happy in it, right, Bubba?
Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra: COX2 Inhibitors Unsafe Warns FDA Panel
The FDA advisory panel, a joint meeting of the agency's Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, also recommended that the FDA require strongly worded black box warnings for each of the three COX 2 inhibitors currently approved in the United States - celecoxib, valdecoxib, and rofecoxib. The decision about rofecoxib was needed, according to FDA officials, because the drug was not ordered off the market but was withdrawn voluntarily.
DeLay needs to come out of the re-election closet he is hiding in and debate his oppositon.
Prosecutors hope to reinstate charges against Delay
AUSTIN (AP) — Prosecutors will try to persuade a Texas appeals court Wednesday to reinstate some of the criminal charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, who is trying to win re-election to Congress while under indictment.
In December, a judge threw out some of the conspiracy and money laundering charges against the former House majority leader, saying the conspiracy law DeLay allegedly violated did not exist at the time.
Prosecutors say that it did. Both sides will argue their cases before the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals. DeLay will not attend.
Because of the dispute, no trial date has been set.
DeLay is accused of funneling illegal corporate donations to Republican candidates for the Texas House. The Republicans went on to win control of the Legislature in 2002 and pushed through a DeLay-engineered redistricting plan that helped Texas send more Republicans to Congress in 2004.
The most incredible and crass behavior tonight was when Rob Marciano did a segment on extreme wheather due to Global Warming while being stabbed in the back for his efforts by repeated oil company commercails. Talk about disrespect for the talent. The two subjects don't belong together in the same program. Either this news team is completely out of touch with reality or they simply don't care. Every viewer is an opportunity to exploit for a change of mind. Corrupt and dishonest journalism.
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