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Chad Myers - The focus could be a little more honest. Americans are creating their own severe weather circumstances under a dense blanket of carbon dioxide. When is the media going to relay to them the brevity of this issue. People are dying because of severe weather. Katrina was due to Human Induced Global Warming. It is the obligation of the American media to put forth not JUST THE NEWS but the consequences of a society's decision to neglect their well being. Warnimg the public about severe weather is necessary, but, if that is all the weather media in the USA is doing then they are condoning the deaths due to weather induced by high levels of carbon dioxide. I wish it were indictable. I am not sure it isn't.
Saddam Hussein - the last the Iraqis should do is broadcast the hanging live, but, it is what Bush will demand. There should be witnesses and a reporting of those witnesss and then a display of the body as his sons were displayed to let everyone witness the corpus.
PERRY: A report on the problem presented to the U.S. Congress confirms the desperation of Iraq's electricity minister, quoting him as saying: "Every day, I send repair teams, but they can want get to the area. There are too many insurgents. I have spoken to everyone. No one can help."
BUSH set up Iraq for failure. He allowed people with designs on money and not the dedication to the interests of the Iraqi people to come in as exiles to run the country. There are a lot of them that have probably embezzled Iraq for billions. This man was able to pay his way out of Iraq with the monies he stole. Iraq is corrupt. al-Samaraie has a home in Chicago. He never cared about the Iraqi people. Chalabi is the same way and he managed to con lots and lots of money from the Cheney/Bush deception machine. Then the USA leaves Iraq the opportunity to exploit not only the Iraqi treasury will stop, but the USA treasury besides. Long about now, I wish Iraq was completely divided and Kurdistan was making it's own international contracts and the Shi'ite nation doing that as well. The sooner these peoples declare their Independance of Iraq the sooner they will have control of their borders and treaties with their neighbors regarding those borders and whom crosses the. They are already running the border crossings now. They may as well do it under the soveriegny of a nation that seeks control of those borders and the crossing incomes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_iraq_escaped_official
In 2003, al-Samaraie became a member of the transitional Iraqi government that was set up after U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein' dictatorship. He was detained in August, convicted of corruption and sentenced to two years imprisonment. The charges concerned an estimated $2 billion in missing funds for contracts on rebuilding Iraq's electrical infrastructure.
On Dec. 19, al-Samaraie called the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times and said that a "multinational" group had helped him escape from a police station inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. He gloated about the escape, saying he got away "the Chicago way" — a reference to the 1987 film about Al Capone called "The Untouchables."
Iran - there was a report in the New Zealand Herald today that thwarts any theory by Bush that Iran is an oil nation that can run well without nuclear power. That doesn't seem to be the case.
Iran's oil problems deep-seated
Wednesday December 27, 2006
WASHINGTON - Iran's nuclear ambitions are motivated not just by a desire for regional supremacy but by a potentially devastating crisis in its oil industry, a researcher said.Iran's image is of a muscular oil producer with plentiful reserves, but in fact it could soon face its own energy crunch owing to failing infrastructure and lack of investments, Professor Roger Stern at Johns Hopkins University said.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the professor of geography and environmental engineering said Iran's oil problems have the potential to topple the clerical regime. "The regime's dependence on export revenue suggests that it could need nuclear power as badly as it claims."
Generous domestic subsidies for petrol mean that Iran's national oil company cannot make money at home and so needs to export as much as it can. But rapid population growth means that domestic demand is rising, while authorities have let their refineries and pipelines fray.
Despite being the second-biggest exporter in Opec behind Saudi Arabia, Iran has to import oil products like petrol to cope with demand. Since 1980, energy demand in Iran has risen 6.4 per cent, exceeding supply growth of 5.6 per cent. Exports have stagnated. For at least 18 months, Iran has failed to meet its quota for oil production.The strong suggestion is that oil production is now falling.- AFP
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10416872
This is from the New Zealand Herald, an ally to the USA. It is quoting the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an American Institution. Where the heck is Bush getting his INFORMATION FROM? Where is CNN getting theirs? What does it take to keep everyone honest here?
This reminds me of the Judith Miller phenomena where everyone believes the information coming from the White House is actually factual. CNN simply reports everything coming out of this White House as fact. It isn't. Not by a long shot and they report it without question and without dissent. That isn't journalism, that is stenography.
This reminds of the same 'intelligence' manipulations that went on before the invasion into Iraq. There were reports in the American Chemical Society environmental journal, I think it was June of 2002 and then repeated in the November or December 2002 issue of Nature that known chemical agents like VX gas were breaking down to neutral elements within hours of exposure to air, sunlight and concrete. These were experiments conducted by the USA Department of Defense to test a chemical agent meter to determine the level of contamination of cities, etc., should an exposure take place. At the time these reports were released Bush was demanding proof of disposed inventories of these agents. The Hussein government was stating they had no proof because they had no inventory to report. They didn't have an inventory because the darn stuff degraded in the Iraqi desert. Saddam didn't have the darn stuff. It was that 'believed' threat that Bush acted on and when the inventories were proven not to be there, he was completely a fool. The UN inspectors hadn't found anything. And these reports were known to the USA Department of Defense. Nature is a British scientific journal. This issue as present by the National Academy of Science is history repeating itself.
No one is going to argue that Iran should not have nuclear weapons. I don't believe they are after that, espcially now with this information before all of us. The President of Iran has stated he is interested in nuclear energy and has no intention of weapons. I believe the intent to create nuclear weapons and Iran's disregard of the Non-Proliferation Treaty should be entrusted to the IAEA and the integrity of Dr. Elbardei. No doubt in my mind.
If Anderson Cooper is going to be reporting this topic he needs to report on all of it and not just cherry pick his favorite political position. The Judith Miller Syndrome. To be avoided at all costs.
James Brown - His five year old child needs a home and an income with his mother.
SHARPTON: He was a pioneer in black entrepreneurship. He was the first black artist to buy several radio stations.And then the song in '68, "Say it Loud; I'm Black and I'm Proud," literally changed blacks from calling themselves Negroes to black. James Brown raised the consciousness of a whole downtrodden community. And because he came from nothing, and because he wasn't tall and strapping and light-skinned, which was the -- the accepted tone of black entertainers at the time, people could relate to him, because he was one of us that made it on his own terms.
It's winter. Not a good time to climb no matter the climate. What are these people trying to do? You do this in the summer months when there is less chance of severe weather at the peaks. Are they finding the snow to sparse in the summer? That doesn't mean the sun's traverse of the planet has changed and the winds have diminished. This is not a good idea. Someone needs to stop this silliness. If the snow is sparse in the summer than that's too bad.
U.S. Climbers Missing in China May Be Roped Together (Update1)
By Demian McLean
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The body of a missing American alpinist spotted on a remote Chinese peak may be roped to its climbing partner, said a friend who's coordinating search efforts from the U.S.
The unidentified mountaineer, whose legs and boots are poking through deep snow, is likely Christine Boskoff or her boyfriend, Charlie Fowler, said Arlene Burns of Telluride, Colorado. The pair was last seen alive more than a month ago.
Spotters are waiting to unbury the body till they've talked with Chinese authorities in Chengdu, southwest China, Burns said in a phone interview. They may identify the corpse tomorrow morning local time.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aYSskixePNm8&refer=asia
Donald Trump is like Halliburton, living off of ill gotten gains in a cash flow that could crash if the next lawsuit didn't pay off. Halliburton has government contracts and not lawsuits. If Donald Trump sold all his holdings and paid all his bills he wouldn't be able to afford the price of a used car out right.
This was September 15, 2005 and Katrina hit on August 29 as a Cat 3 pushing a Cat 5 storm surge in front of it because it didn't diminish it's strength until just before landfall. It hit with all the power of a Cat 5 but the winds were less.
This was darn decent of the Trump Orgnaization. I hope the building is coming along. It will serve to give the New Orleans residents jobs during the construction and after it's built. It will be a jewel in the New Orleans skyline. The thing about it is that he never toots his own horn about this.
Trump Will BuildTower in New Orleans
Less than three weeks ago, Donald Trump announced he would help develop the tallest building in New Orleans, a 70-story luxury condo/hotel hybrid.
Now, Trump's organization says it wants to go ahead with the tower. Allen Levin, president of Island Resorts Development Inc., of Pensacola, Fla., who is teaming with Mr. Trump to build the tower, said he remains committed to the project, though it might be delayed.
"We have no doubt we are going to do it," Mr. Levin said, adding that construction probably wouldn't start for about 2½ years. Mr. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also agreed. "We still intend on going forward," he said. "We are in no way abandoning the city. When the time is right, we will be there."
Like many cities, New Orleans was enjoying a boom in condo building and conversions, says Randy Crochet, a vice president of GMAC Commercial Mortgage and a 45-year resident of the city. Large numbers of new high-end projects and conversions, especially in areas like the relatively elevated Warehouse District, had gotten under way or finished in the last couple of years.
The Trump tower would be a $200 million bet on the future of big business in New Orleans since it would rise in the downtown central-business district.
With his partners, Mr. Trump would build about 650 units -- 200 of which would be traditional condos and the rest would be so-called condotels, which have out-of-town owners who allow their condos to be rented out while they're away
http://www.realestatejournal.com/columnists_com/plotsploys/20050915-plots.html
The guy is not all bad. I don't like the name calling with Rosey. It's very unbecoming and Mr. Trump should never resort to such things.
The second hour:
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, "THE HUFFINGTON POST": Well, no, I don't buy it's our responsibility in the sense that we can actually do something about it. Because after all, Iraq is made to choose to have a democratic government that works. We cannot impose a democratic government on them. And that is a key distinction. In fact, many military analysts on the ground keep telling us that we are making things worse by being seen as the occupier. We are actually exacerbating a lot of the conflicts going on. And we need to redeploy our forces as fast as possible. There are many in this country who have been arguing for that for over a year now. And it's amazing how slowly we are moving ahead towards the right solution.
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