Saturday, May 6, 2006

"The CNN Spin" spins no more. Keeping them honest rather than rhetorically politically biased.

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Go get 'em Nance. Lovely and becoming of a woman of your reputation. Don't do the 'CNN Spin' again. It's unbecoming and certainly not your forte. Respect begets respect. Unfortunately, the management of CNN hasn't learned that yet. They obviously don't care about their anchors' image expect to 'achieve' mean spirtied dominance as if it was necessary in the first place. Nancy Grace has the potential to be a powerful role model for 'the safety and rights' of especially young women, but, NOT if she is going to be a battering ram for altering 'descency' to achieve political goals that are corrupt across the board.

Just my opinion. "Class" matters and I am not talking about socio-economic class either. There is little 'classy' about disrespect.

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Tom Foreman and Anderson's reporting abvot the Kennedy 'issue.' There is a strong similarity between this 'persciption' medication issue and a Repuglican radio personality.

Rush Limbaugh Deal Includes Drug Tests

And of course there was complete empathy for 'Good Ole Boy Rush' and it was all the cleaning lady's problem. I do remember "The Kobe Strategy" working back then. Blame the Dame and Exonerate the the Embattled Male. Amazing.

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You are saying the name of the medication "Phenergan" WRONG !

It is "Fen - Er - Gen." Gupta said it right.

For some patients combining perscibed medications is deadly, ie : "Elvis"

The 'reason' a person would go into 'pain killer additction' is because the 'abuse' is the same. A patient SOUGHT medical professionals and not drug dealers for their addiction. Addictions? Hm? Do you suppose American needs to attend clinics to extract their GAS ADDICTION? OH, WAIT, OIL ADDICTION.

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The International Coalition for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Western Sahara.

"Kerr-McGee Corporation is a global energy and inorganic chemical company based in Oklahoma City. [KMG is] a recognized leader in oil and natural gas exploration and production. [It is] also the world's third-largest producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigment, the preferred whitener and opacifier for a variety of everyday products. Kerr-McGee was founded in 1929 and [its] stock has been traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 1956. We have global assets of more than $14 billion [assets at September 30, 2004: $ 14,5 bln -E&P $12,2 billion, Chemical $ 1,6 bln, other $0,7 bln]. In addition, [it supplies] titanium dioxide pigment to customers in about 100 countries. KMG and Westport Resources Corp. merged on June 25, 2004, creating one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the U.S. The end-of-year 2003 proved reserves from the combined companies is more than 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent".
KMG produces oil and natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico, onshore USA, UK sector of the North Sea, China’s Bohai Bay. Currently, KMG is conducting exploration activities in offshore Alaska, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada and "Western Africa" (i.e. Western Sahara- cf. KMG website).
KMG has approximately 63 million gross undeveloped acres, with more than 55 million acres in global deepwater locations (half of which are in WS) as of June 2004.
4,638 employees.
Initially involved in the nuclear weapons industry: KMG was charged with numerous instances of radioactive pollution. This led to the infamous killing of an employee, Karen Silkwood, in 1974 as she was about to reveal to the US media the radioactive pollution caused by the company’s weapons plant in Oklahoma City. This incident received widespread publicity following its adaptation into a movie, Silkwood, with Meryl Streep.
A familiar face to international legal disputes and illegal exploitation as attests its contested involvement in the Timor Gap (a Western Sahara "twin case").

What’s the scandal about?
Contracting with an illegal occupying power
Active in an occupied territory in total disrespect of international law and of the wishes and interest of the indigenous Saharawi people
Total lack of transparency of its activities



http://www.arso.org/KMGBackgr.htm

KMG website refers to the area as an "undeveloped lease-holding" in Morocco7 in spite of the fact that no country world-wide or the UN has recognised the sovereignty of Morocco over the territory.

Statement on the US-Morrocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
August 17, 2004
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
Today, the President signed the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. This agreement will help create jobs and new opportunities for Americans by deepening our trade ties with an important friend in the Arab world. Morocco's leadership has been steadfast in its support for economic and political liberalization and with this agreement, Morocco joins Jordan and Israel as our FTA partners in the region. This agreement also advances the President's goal of a U.S.- Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) by 2013. The President's goal envisions an ever-widening circle of free trade that will help integrate the Middle East region into the global trading system. The openness, prosperity, and hope that free trade will engender will help make the region and America safer.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040817-2.html

Background Note: Morocco

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5431.htm



Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in MoroccoTom Walker Rabat and Sarah Baxter
THE United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources.
The sources confirmed last week that building was under way at Ain Aouda, above a wooded gorge south of Rabat’s diplomatic district. Locals said they had often seen American vehicles with diplomatic plates in the area.

The construction of the new compound, run by the Direction de la Securité du Territoire (DST), the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substantial body of evidence that Morocco is one of America’s principal partners in the secret “rendition” programme in which the CIA flies prisoners to third countries for interrogation.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036185,00.html

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A Former First Lady might be able to help the good Senator. Maybe not. How many 'persciption medication victims' have doctors that write the persciptions in complete empathy of 'the need?'

http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/welcome/programs.php

The Betty Ford Center is a non-profit organization that provides treatment for the disease of alcoholism and other drug addiction for the entire family – including patients, their families and their children. Our clinical staff provides a comprehensive continuum of care. We provide specialized treatment for licensed professionals.

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Bush is converting the FBI and CIA into the NSA. Amazing. Another 'lowering of the bar.' Russia has it all over the USA.Look out ! Here comes 'eavesdropping' as precedent bia J. Edgar Hoover tenure.

GENERAL MICHAEL V. HAYDEN
Michael V. Hayden is Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D.C. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he is the first person to serve in this position. General Hayden is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the national intelligence program. He is the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces.

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5746

It is amazing. Bush's appointees screws up the Gulf Coast and the Bush Image and the military is sent in. Bush screws up and breaks 'the law' by outing a CIA agent, spies on Americans and send in his conspirator NSA chief to cover his hiney. When will the military NOT be ;abused by Bush?

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Ah, Nancy just isn't up to the 'class act' and indulges her Neocon side into the Moussaoui imprisonment again. Shame, shame. A lady? Debateable..

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There is Aaron Brown's soldier honor segment again.

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US accuses BP of 'world-class accounting scandal'

Terry MacalisterWednesday July 10, 2002

The Guardian

BP, Britain's largest company, found its accounting procedures under fire from US politicians yesterday who accused it of failing to provide properly for clean-up costs in Alaska.Edward Markey, a Democrat member of the US House of Representatives, who has championed environmental causes, said it was a "world class accounting scandal".BP dismissed the allegations as "nonsense" and while most Wall Street analysts tended to agree some feared it could draw attention to legitimate worries about the complexity of the accounts of the world's oil majors.

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Enough