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Civilian border patrols watched U.S. warns Mexico about Minutemen
By Sara A. Carter Staff Writer
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen - and telling the Mexican government where they are.
According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants - and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements - that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_3800653
$10 will get you $20 that when the National Guard is deployed Bush will start arresting the "Minutemen" as well as illegal aliens.
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What's in a Murdoch-Clinton Alliance? Something for Both Sides
WASHINGTON, May 9 — Strengthening a pragmatic rapprochement, Rupert Murdoch has agreed to give a fund-raiser this summer for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the latest sign of cooperation between the conservative media mogul and the Democratic lawmaker who has often been a prime target of his newspaper and television outlets.
Asked about her relationship with Mr. Murdoch, Mrs. Clinton described him as simply "my constituent," and she played down the significance of the fund-raiser. Both sides said that Mr. Murdoch and Mrs. Clinton were joining forces for the good of New York, where Mr. Murdoch's $60 billion News Corporation employs about 5,000 workers.
"I am very gratified that he thinks I am doing a good job," Mrs. Clinton said in the Capitol on Tuesday, according to a transcript made available by her office after word of the fund-raising event was first reported by The Financial Times.
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Sudan to award OVL two more blocks for oil and gas exploration
10-03-06 ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) will be getting another two oil and gas blocks for exploration purpose in Sudan on nomination basis shortly because of its outstanding performance for exploration of oil and gas in the country, the Sudan Ambassador in India, Abdalmahmood A. Mohammad said, according to reports. Addressing a Seminar on “India-Sudan Economic Relations” organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), Mohammad said that the Sudan government was also planning to award several other projects on nomination basis to Indian entrepreneurs in other key areas of economic activities which include railways, cyber city, tourism and airports.
The Sudanese experience with Indian businessmen in the recent past has been so amazing and excellent and particularly with ONGC Videsh Ltd. which currently owns five blocks for oil and gas exploration that it has decided to award a good number of projects to Indian state owned and private businesses on nomination basis, said the Sudanese Ambassador. Deepak Vohra, Ambassador of India in Sudan said that Government of India has so far committed a credit line of $ 850 mm to Sudan and it would be the effort of Indian Embassy in Sudan to accelerate extension of credit line to Sudan as the country desperately needs funds to uplift its infrastructure for attracting foreign capital.
The Assocham Chief also stressed the need for having direct air linkages between India and Sudan as also added that the State Bank of India should open up its branch in Sudan so that profit repatriation of Indian businessmen to their mother country becomes easier.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61290.htm
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Kenya stands on threshold of severe fuel crisis
24-02-06 Kenya is standing on the threshold of a severe fuel crisis following an order stopping the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) from supplying oil to 10 top petroleum companies in the country. Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) issued the order citing failure by the companies to pay taxes as required by law. The companies, including market leaders Kenya Shell and Kenol/Kobil, have been engaged in a bitter war with the taxman over the new rule that requires them to pay taxes within 30 days of collecting the oil from KPC.
Some of the oil companies have deliberately refused to pay up arguing that it was unfair for the taxman to demand that they pay taxes while it was sitting on billions of shillings in Value Added Tax and suspended duty refunds. Industry experts said the KRA order may throw the entire Eastern African region into a severe fuel crisis since some of the barred companies like Kenol/Kobil are market leaders in regional markets such as Uganda and Rwanda. In a letter to KPC, KRA Commissioner General Michael Waweru said the companies, including Mobil, the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK), Mobil, Total and Triton, be immediately barred from accessing oil from KPC depots until they clear outstanding taxes.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61071.htm
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How Relevant is President Bush to Election 2006?
May 5, 2006--When it comes to issues they consider important, 44% of Americans say they trust Democrats in Congress more than President Bush. Just 36% prefer the President.
However, when the choice is between Republicans in Congress and Democrats in Congress, the result is a toss-up--42% say Democrats and 40% Republicans.
The Republicans do better in this second match-up among both GOP voters and unaffiliateds. When the choice is between Bush and Democrats, unaffiliateds break for the Democrats 38% to 26%. When the choice is between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, unfaffiliateds are more evenly divided (34% Democrat, 30% Republican).
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/May%20Dailies/Is%20Bush%20Relevant.htm
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Bush's "Big Brother" Blunder
George W. Bush’s warrantless phone data collection may not only violate the U.S. Constitution but expend so much money and manpower that America is made less safe – by diverting resources away from more practical steps, like inspecting cargo and hiring translators.
Yet, because the operation is wrapped in layers and layers of secrecy – based on the dubious argument that al-Qaeda might not realize it’s being spied on – the public doesn’t know how much the project costs, who’s getting contracts and whether it does any good.
So far, however, what administration officials and computer experts have been willing to describe shouldn’t give Americans much confidence that their trade-off of Fourth Amendment freedoms for a little extra safety is a particularly good deal.
The project’s designers say the National Security Agency’s electronic warehousing of trillions of phone records from calls made by some 200 million Americans is intended to seek out “patterns” from conversations involving alleged terrorists and then to apply the digital outline to the stockpiled records.
That search, presumably, then spits out the phone numbers of other callers in the United States who fit into the “patterns.” These computer-generated tips then go to the FBI, which may question the suspects or use other investigative strategies.
There are, however, logical flaws to this “Big Brother” computer scheme, especially the idea that the project is likely to discern many usable “patterns” of phone calls that if applied to the population would detect much suspicious activity.
The 9/11 hijackers, for instance, made very few substantive calls about their plot, recognizing the risk of electronic surveillance and preferring face-to-face meetings as a way to avoid detection, according to the 9/11 Commission Report.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/051206.html
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Ex-Aide With Abramoff Ties Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
WASHINGTON, May 8 — A former top aide to Representative Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring with the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to corrupt public officials and said gifts had been "corruptly offered to and accepted by" Mr. Ney.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/washington/09inquire.html?ex=1304827200&en=90e68ad6ae938234&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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China's appetite for African oil grows
12-02-06 China, the world's second-largest energy consumer, now imports about 28 % of its oil and gas from sub-Saharan Africa, compared with about 15 % for the US. In the past few years, China's leading energy companies -- Sinopec, China National Petroleum Corp., and CNOOC -- have signed oil contracts from Equatorial Guinea to Algeria to Angola. Chinese President Hu Jintao's African trips have included pocket-sized Gabon, whose 1.4 mm people could fit into a corner of Shanghai but which has more than two bn barrels of oil reserves.
When China's Foreign Minister, Li Zhaoxing, toured the region in January, he spent several days in Nigeria. "We haven't been totally invaded by China yet, but it will come," says Iheanyi Ohiaeri, head of business development for Nigeria's National Petroleum Corp. "I get calls and e-mails daily from Beijing, from people looking to buy oil."
The calls are being answered, in part because African governments view China as a more cooperative partner than the West. China has refused to back regular Western rebukes of African corruption and human-rights abuses and last year used its permanent seat on the UN Security Council to block genocide charges against Sudan -- source of about 7 % of China's oil -- for the massacres in Darfur. "The US will talk to you about governance, about efficiency, about security, about the environment," says Mustafa Bello, head of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, who has visited China seven times. "The Chinese just ask, 'How do we procure this license?'"
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61086.htm
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Sasol signs deal for clean soy biodiesel
10-02-06 Sasol's slow progress with plans to build a plant to make diesel from soy took a step forward when the company said it had signed an agreement with the Central Energy Fund (CEF) for further studies. Sasol spokesman Johann van Rheede said that earlier speculation had prompted farmers in areas such as Newcastle to start planting soy. The speculation also had a knock-on effect in property prices in the area, he said. The group said the new feasibility study would be done by year-end. It said the study followed an earlier prefeasibility study that had been conducted together with the CEF and had spanned several years. The earlier study had indicated "potential for commercial-scale production, if supported by appropriate fiscal incentives".
A petrochemicals industry commentator said this probably meant Sasol would build the plant only if it received substantial support from government. The commentator said the biodiesel venture, which would produce small volumes of diesel, was unlikely to be highly profitable for Sasol, if at all. It would, however, win the petrochemicals group environmental kudos, among other things, as biodiesel made from soy is environmentally friendly. Soy contains less sulphur and is clean-burning, says Sasol. "This environmental initiative is in line with Sasol's value of continuous improvement."
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60950.htm
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CAN WE PLEASE STOP USING OIL? NOW ? Prolonging the use of oil only prolongs these countries from developing a real economy rather than one that continually expoits their natural resources.
Libya may hire foreign companies to help develop 300 oil fields
07-02-06 Libya, holder of Africa's largest oil reserves, is preparing to hire foreign companies to develop more than 300 untapped fields after an increase in energy prices made it an economically viable way of raising output. After awarding 41 exploration permits last year to almost 30 companies including ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum, the North African state is turning its focus to known fields that haven't been developed because they are too small, Energy Minister Fathi Ben Shatwan said. An “old'' study showed they hold at least 3 bn barrels in total, he added. “We're taking a break'' from exploration, Shatwan said on Jan. 30. “We're thinking about giving service contracts to develop existing fields.''
Oil prices have doubled in three years, prompting companies to return to deposits that weren't considered worthwhile before, from the North Sea to the old war zones of Sudan. Libya's oil industry, seeking to rebound from two decades of sanctions, has one of the world's lowest extraction costs, in cases as little as $ 1 a barrel, according to the US Department of Energy. “The companies stand to do some profit because the oil is already there,'' said Jason Schenker, an economist at Wachovia Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina. “All they have to do is take it off the ground.''
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60959.htm
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If China is going to use Ethopian resources then support the Ethopian government to improve the quality of life for the people there as well. There is high incident of abuse and violence against women in Ethiopia as well as demoralized villages that once farmed and flourished but are now caught up in profound drought and/or flooding but never water management from dams.
The entire of Ethiopia needs rebuilding.
China can do this with the Ethiopian government if they sincerely want to be a leader in humane societies. Where private companies exploit other countries resources without conscience they are engaged in simply looking the other way for the sake of profits. That should never be allowed at an international level.
If Ethiopian companies were exploring for oil and managing their own fields with profits that benefit the Ethopian government and people, the justice of taking those resources is obvious.
For foreign interests to take resources from a country without reverence to the people those resources belong that is gross injustice. That is like saying Ethiopia is a desert without people losing their resources to others. It's wrong.
Whenever a third world country allows it's natural resources to be taken by private companies there needs to be an understanding the citizenry receives a majority of that profit to improve their quality of life. The need for health care alone is dire in Africa. There needs to be a 'conscience' in the oil business and the country receiving the benefit, in this case China, needs to enforce that conscience. Oil companies are 'soulless and they conduct their business interests in the same way, as stark example is Nigeria and the killing fields of the oil companies there.
If China needs the energy resource that is understandable. However, to allow oil companies to exploit for extreme profits to shareholders while conscienceless is a human rights violation. How can a capitalistic society use the natural resources of a country such as Ethiopia without conscience as to how that energy resource was obtained, the deaths that procurement cost and the existing and unchanging poor conditions of that society. That is imperialism. When a country's people suffers regardless the exploitation of it's natural resources by a First World country in need of an energy resource is gross misjustice and that is putting it lightly. Capitalism was never accused of having a conscience, quite the contrary. Any business interest that uses other country's resources needs to be accompanied by a State Department chaperone to insure the well being of the people of the other country is provided for. I know China will seek to do the right thing. China needs to outshine the very poor relationship established by teh West and Third World countries. How is Nigeria to see the USA as a benevolent entity when it's companies are ruthless and criminal? China should be 'the country of chioce' to do business with as it seeks not profit but energy while setting example to human rights in their business dealings.
Chinese firm embarks on oil exploration project in Ethiopia
30-01-06 Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bearu (ZPEB) is to start drilling an oil exploration well in the Gambella region, in western Ethiopia. ZPEB is contracted by the Malaysian company, Petronas, which was granted a concession in Gambella two years ago. In June 2003, Petronas and the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) signed a petroleum development and production sharing agreement that enables it to prospect and develop oil in the Gambella basin.
Recently, Petronas subcontracted ZPEB for the well-drilling project. Abiy Hunegnaw, head of the petroleum operation department with MME, said that ZPEB will start drilling the first exploration well in Gambell in February. He said the drilling work will take three to four months. "This is the dry season in the region convenient for well drilling. The company anticipates to finalize the drilling before the rainy season sets in," Abiy said.
Representatives of ZPEB said that they had imported an oil rig and other equipment required for the task from China. They said they were transporting the machines from Djibouti to Gambella. "Some of the machines have already arrived in Gambella and some of them are in Addis Ababa and Djibouti," they added.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60966.htm
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The followers of criminals are brainwashed, Anderson. Ask the man if he thinks followers are brainwashed?
These families need help in settling into mongamous status even if that is defined as single parent families. The social workers need to report the change on a regular basis in the status of the movement to single families not interrelated in support either financial or emotional or religious. These families need to identify with the recognized Mormon Church and not their own ideas of Mormonism. If families fail to become mainstream then the children need to be placed rather than warehoused with dysfunctional families that will only propogate the same hardship generation after generation. The sad truth of begetting polygamy into generation after generation is noted today by the son of Jeffs.
ConocoPhillips to invest $ 700 mm in Libya
25-01-06 ConocoPhillips said it will invest about $ 14 bn in its businesses in 2006, including the cost of boosting its ownership in LUKoil to 20 % by the end of the year from the current 16.1 %. The capital budget also includes $ 700 mm it expects to invest in Libya, Chief Financial Officer John Carrig said. ConocoPhillips is one of three companies that were recently granted an extension of concessions suspended 20 years ago after the US declared sanctions against the country.
Increased spending in the exploration and production business reflects "quite a bit of pressure in terms of the cost of operations and maintaining production," Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Mulva told analysts and investors. Besides cost pressure resulting from the limited availability of oilfield-service contractors, "there are fewer lump-sum bids, and more that are cost-plus," which will drive finding and development costs higher across the industry, he said.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60638.htm
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
Aaron Brown needs to be happy that he was a very successful anchor at a very tough news hour.
...Cooper averaged 710,000 viewers in April versus 907,000 for predecessor Aaron Brown during the same month a year ago. Cooper's ratings among adults 25-54 were down 36 percent, averaging just 198,000 versus 307,000 for Brown.
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Political Victory for Bush?
Frankenstein has a feature video all his own. I'm tellin' you this is the future of CNN's idea for an anchor. They already use faceless 'anchors' on their "CNN Presents." They did it with the North Korea presentation.
1002
John Roberts - Tax cut hollow to 77 percent of the USA.
1004
John King - Laura Bush. She doesn't set policy.
Bush nominated Abramoff associate same day Abramoff visited the White House in 2001
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_nominated_Abramoff_associate_same_day_0510.html
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff went to the White House on the same day President Bush nominated one of Abramoff's former colleagues to be Assistant Secretary of Labor, RAW STORY has found.
President Bush announced his intent to nominate Patrick Pizzella, who worked with Abramoff at his former lawfirm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, the same day Abramoff made a visit to the White House, according to Secret Service records released today.
On Mar. 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m., according to Cox News Service, which obtained the records from the government watchdog Judicial Watch today
Abramoff’s White House visits
By Ken Herman Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 03:54 PM
Secret Service records released today under court order show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff made only two visits to the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001.
On March 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m. On Jan. 20, 2004, he went in at 10:42 a.m. and left at 11:29 a.m. The records do not show who he saw or what the topic was. Bush delivered a State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2004.
The records were sought by Judicial Watch, a public interest group curious about Abramoff’s White House connections. A federal judge ordered the records released.
Judicial Watch noted today that Secret Service records it procured while President Clinton was in office also showed “visitee” and room number, information not on the records released today.
“At first glance, these documents seem incomplete when compared to other White House visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch. We therefore have reason to believe there are additional details about Jack Abramoff’s visits to the White House that have not been disclosed,” said Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president. “However, now we know there are at least two visits by admitted felon Jack Abramoff that the White House must explain. What was Jack Abramoff doing at the White House? With whom did he meet? The public deserves to know answers to these questions.”
White House spokeswoman Erin Healy declined to offer any further information concerning the visits.
Abramoff, once one of Washington’s top lobbyists, pleaded guilty in January to federal corruption charges linked to his congressional lobbying work. He raised more than $100,000 for Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and had boasted about his close links to the White House.
The administration has downplayed those ties. Spokesman Scott McClellan last week said the Secret Service records should not be viewed as a “complete historical record” of Abramoff’s visits to the White House. McClellan offered no details or explanation. He previously had said Abramoff’s only visits were for “a few staff level meetings” and Hanukkah receptions in 2001 and 2002.
Abramoff told Washingtonian magazine he had nearly a dozen meetings with Bush.
http://www.coxwashington.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2006/05/10/abramoffs_white.html
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The John's Debate 'stuff' - The old Republican Playbook
The discussion segment leading up to this debate was to justify the NSA nomination to the FBI. This 'debate' is already old news that was part of the rhetoric leading upto the invasion into Iraq and an aspect of the Culture of Fear. For years this 'so called' pattern of tracking al Qaeda is empty in it's meaning. For all the alerts and fear it had generated nothing ever manifested.
Some of the best in the business bought into it.
JIM LEHRER: Life signs from al-Qaida. Margaret Warner has that story.
MARGARET WARNER: Last night's FBI warning of another possible terrorist attack on the U.S. follows several signs this week of a resurgent al-Qaida. They include an audio message from Osama bin Laden broadcast by al-Jazeera on Sunday, warning that "the youth of Islam" are preparing to target key sectors of the U.S. economy.
Also Sunday, an unexplained explosion on a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen. Then a second audio interview broadcast Tuesday from bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al- Zawahiri, threatening continuing attacks on "America and its allies," and also Tuesday, the killing of a U.S. Marine on exercises in Kuwait by two gunmen who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. A string of coincidences, or part of a pattern?
We talk to three reporters covering different parts of this story-- Christopher Cooper covers the Pentagon and State Department for the Wall Street Journal; Walter Pincus covers intelligence for the Washington Post; and Eric Schmitt covers the Pentagon for the New York Times.
Welcome to you all.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/terror_10-10.html
Following the money of al Qaeda generated by the poppy crops in Afghanistan has done some good.
Testimony of Dennis M. Lormel, Chief, Financial Crimes Section, FBIBefore the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsFebruary 12, 2002 Financing Patterns Associated with Al Qaeda and Global Terrorist Networks
Good afternoon Madam Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. On behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), I would like to express my gratitude to the Subcommittee for affording us the opportunity to participate in this forum and to update the Subcommittee on what the FBI has learned since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks about the patterns of financing associated with Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, and the extent to which U.S. anti-money laundering statutes provide the necessary tools to detect and disrupt those patterns.
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/lormel021202.htm
WHY THEN would a president nominate anyone who runs a basically poor performing program to the top rank at the FBI? More of the Culture of Fear to be expected? What else is one to conclude. General Hayden has run mostly a program of eavesdropping on Americans without even an outcome that justifies breaking the law. There is no reason to nominate General Hayden when his current resume' reveals illegal as well as poor performing programs that instill fear in the American people.
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The News Secretary
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Warren Jeffs. He's wanted for crimes. What is there to say? Except. Perhaps. It would be better if he would simply surrender and stop putting all his victims, especially children, through any more humiliation and social ridicule. We also don't need another Waco. If he feels he is being a victim then he can plead 'not guilty.' But, to put primarily his family through this is not an expression of a compassionate man.
Get off the subject already.
I am sure he'll appear on America's Most Wanted.
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I'm not interested in this nonsense. It victimizes women as sheep and baby machines. Brain washing is the issue. No woman whom understands her opportunities in the 'real society' would participate willingly in any multiple marriage. The 'polygamist marriages' that currently exist is due to a failure of government. Polygamy is a crime. What's the issue already?
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enough.
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Political Victory for Bush?
Frankenstein has a feature video all his own. I'm tellin' you this is the future of CNN's idea for an anchor. They already use faceless 'anchors' on their "CNN Presents." They did it with the North Korea presentation.
1002
John Roberts - Tax cut hollow to 77 percent of the USA.
1004
John King - Laura Bush. She doesn't set policy.
Bush nominated Abramoff associate same day Abramoff visited the White House in 2001
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_nominated_Abramoff_associate_same_day_0510.html
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff went to the White House on the same day President Bush nominated one of Abramoff's former colleagues to be Assistant Secretary of Labor, RAW STORY has found.
President Bush announced his intent to nominate Patrick Pizzella, who worked with Abramoff at his former lawfirm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, the same day Abramoff made a visit to the White House, according to Secret Service records released today.
On Mar. 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m., according to Cox News Service, which obtained the records from the government watchdog Judicial Watch today
Abramoff’s White House visits
By Ken Herman Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 03:54 PM
Secret Service records released today under court order show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff made only two visits to the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001.
On March 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m. On Jan. 20, 2004, he went in at 10:42 a.m. and left at 11:29 a.m. The records do not show who he saw or what the topic was. Bush delivered a State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2004.
The records were sought by Judicial Watch, a public interest group curious about Abramoff’s White House connections. A federal judge ordered the records released.
Judicial Watch noted today that Secret Service records it procured while President Clinton was in office also showed “visitee” and room number, information not on the records released today.
“At first glance, these documents seem incomplete when compared to other White House visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch. We therefore have reason to believe there are additional details about Jack Abramoff’s visits to the White House that have not been disclosed,” said Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president. “However, now we know there are at least two visits by admitted felon Jack Abramoff that the White House must explain. What was Jack Abramoff doing at the White House? With whom did he meet? The public deserves to know answers to these questions.”
White House spokeswoman Erin Healy declined to offer any further information concerning the visits.
Abramoff, once one of Washington’s top lobbyists, pleaded guilty in January to federal corruption charges linked to his congressional lobbying work. He raised more than $100,000 for Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and had boasted about his close links to the White House.
The administration has downplayed those ties. Spokesman Scott McClellan last week said the Secret Service records should not be viewed as a “complete historical record” of Abramoff’s visits to the White House. McClellan offered no details or explanation. He previously had said Abramoff’s only visits were for “a few staff level meetings” and Hanukkah receptions in 2001 and 2002.
Abramoff told Washingtonian magazine he had nearly a dozen meetings with Bush.
http://www.coxwashington.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2006/05/10/abramoffs_white.html
1011
The John's Debate 'stuff' - The old Republican Playbook
The discussion segment leading up to this debate was to justify the NSA nomination to the FBI. This 'debate' is already old news that was part of the rhetoric leading upto the invasion into Iraq and an aspect of the Culture of Fear. For years this 'so called' pattern of tracking al Qaeda is empty in it's meaning. For all the alerts and fear it had generated nothing ever manifested.
Some of the best in the business bought into it.
JIM LEHRER: Life signs from al-Qaida. Margaret Warner has that story.
MARGARET WARNER: Last night's FBI warning of another possible terrorist attack on the U.S. follows several signs this week of a resurgent al-Qaida. They include an audio message from Osama bin Laden broadcast by al-Jazeera on Sunday, warning that "the youth of Islam" are preparing to target key sectors of the U.S. economy.
Also Sunday, an unexplained explosion on a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen. Then a second audio interview broadcast Tuesday from bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al- Zawahiri, threatening continuing attacks on "America and its allies," and also Tuesday, the killing of a U.S. Marine on exercises in Kuwait by two gunmen who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. A string of coincidences, or part of a pattern?
We talk to three reporters covering different parts of this story-- Christopher Cooper covers the Pentagon and State Department for the Wall Street Journal; Walter Pincus covers intelligence for the Washington Post; and Eric Schmitt covers the Pentagon for the New York Times.
Welcome to you all.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/terror_10-10.html
Following the money of al Qaeda generated by the poppy crops in Afghanistan has done some good.
Testimony of Dennis M. Lormel, Chief, Financial Crimes Section, FBIBefore the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsFebruary 12, 2002 Financing Patterns Associated with Al Qaeda and Global Terrorist Networks
Good afternoon Madam Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. On behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), I would like to express my gratitude to the Subcommittee for affording us the opportunity to participate in this forum and to update the Subcommittee on what the FBI has learned since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks about the patterns of financing associated with Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, and the extent to which U.S. anti-money laundering statutes provide the necessary tools to detect and disrupt those patterns.
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/lormel021202.htm
WHY THEN would a president nominate anyone who runs a basically poor performing program to the top rank at the FBI? More of the Culture of Fear to be expected? What else is one to conclude. General Hayden has run mostly a program of eavesdropping on Americans without even an outcome that justifies breaking the law. There is no reason to nominate General Hayden when his current resume' reveals illegal as well as poor performing programs that instill fear in the American people.
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The News Secretary
1021
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Warren Jeffs. He's wanted for crimes. What is there to say? Except. Perhaps. It would be better if he would simply surrender and stop putting all his victims, especially children, through any more humiliation and social ridicule. We also don't need another Waco. If he feels he is being a victim then he can plead 'not guilty.' But, to put primarily his family through this is not an expression of a compassionate man.
Get off the subject already.
I am sure he'll appear on America's Most Wanted.
1030
commercials
I'm not interested in this nonsense. It victimizes women as sheep and baby machines. Brain washing is the issue. No woman whom understands her opportunities in the 'real society' would participate willingly in any multiple marriage. The 'polygamist marriages' that currently exist is due to a failure of government. Polygamy is a crime. What's the issue already?
1031
enough.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Are the Iranian Students STILL freely protesting? Is there oppression? Why?
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I find Nancy Grace's pursuit nothing short of hero status. Ladies have it rough enough.. Helping and especially the truth tellers of journalism is a very valuable message. Thank you.
Frankenstein is always a 'Here's Johnny' kidda guy.
Lives being saved in Iraq. True. That has to be so, Anderson? There is permission in that statement in that the war must go on. In other words, if there are people that need to be saved in the way of civilians then there is permission for the war, right? The Iraqis have to develop their own military, their own police to keep the civilians alive. They didn't have to do that before Bush invaded the country. The amount of Iraqi civilians including children dead since the Bush invasion would fill up a few mass graves. Oh, wait. In Fallujah, they already do.
So this isn't about civilians. It' s not about Iraqi civilians because they don't have state of the art in Iraqi hospitals.
Suicide Truck Bomber Kills 17 in Iraq
Tuesday May 9, 2006 10:46 PM
AP Photo BAG110
By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide truck bomber attacked a crowded market in Tal Afar late Tuesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 in a city cited by President Bush as a success story in battling insurgents.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5810990,00.html
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
27 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Twenty-seven people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, while 12 mutilated bodies were found including three beheaded corpses of Iraqi army soldiers, security officials said. At least 17 people were killed and 35 wounded by a suicide car bomb in northern Iraq. The bomber detonated a pickup truck full of flour parked at a busy marketplace in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, as shops were closing at around 8:00 pm, police said. Two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb attack against a patrol of Facility Protection Service (FPS), a special security unit tasked with guarding ministry buildings and power stations. Four members of the patrol were also wounded in the Baghdad attack.A Sunni cleric, Raed Mohammed al-Dulaimi, was also killed in southern Baghdad. The Iraqi Islamic Party said Dulaimi was the 150th Sunni cleric to be killed in Iraq since 2003. An Iraqi army soldier was killed and two others wounded when their patrol was attacked by gunmen near Kirkuk, police said. Gunmen shot dead a judge in western Baghdad, while a baker was also killed in Baghdad’s notorious southern Al Dura neighbourhood. Two brothers were also killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad. A civilian and a political activist were mowed down by bullets in Amara, police said. Also, police found 12 bodies of men killed around Baghdad and central Iraq. Three of the corpses, found beheaded, were Iraqi army soldiers. Their bodies washed up on the banks of the river Al-Malaeh, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad. The three were kidnapped on Monday, police said. Two deliverymen working for an Iraqi army catering service company were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in northern Iraq, police said. Agencies
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C10%5Cstory_10-5-2006_pg7_54
1006
Iran hasn't 'one upted' anything. The Iranian president is trying to distract from the priority of their nuclear program. You are missing the most important point to the letter. It doesn't matter how irreverent Bush is to God. What does Bush's lack of reverence have to do with a nuclear weapon? Bush is not threatening Iran with a nuclear weapon. Iran is threatening to annihilate Israel. The countries of the UN Security Council are moving to stop a nuclear exchange in The Middle East. Bush's complete and absolute folly is to engage in any 'name calling' internationally. It's hideous.
The folly of the United Nations Security Council leading Russia and China to resist any more resolutions because of Bush's desire to invade any and all countries he dares to is to INCLUDE the entire of Iran in their resolutions. In other words, before the current President of Iran took power there was not this much extremism. Just because this genicidal leader was elected somehow that entitles him to stay as president? Was Milosevic ever qualified to be a leader? No. He never was. Just as Milosevic (click on) was allowed to carry on for too long the 'impetus' to remove 'Genocidal Leaders' has to come during the time of the 'threat' not the genocide.
U.S. and Europe Plan New Offer to Entice Iran Away From Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10nukes.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
UNITED NATIONS, May 9 — The United States and its European negotiating partners are preparing to repackage economic incentives aimed at inducing Iran to cooperate in eliminating its suspected nuclear weapons program, and to add some "new ideas" for Iran to consider, American and European officials said Tuesday.
A senior State Department official said the "new ideas" would not substantially change the package of economic incentives offered to Iran last August, when the Europeans told the Iranians they could achieve a full political and economic relationship with the West if Iran ended its nuclear activities suspected as part of a weapons program.
WITH IRAN everyone should believe without doubt that all the rantings by their leadership madmen is only to delay the plans they want to complete. Iran has to progress with their nuclear reactor open and transparently.
Russia's willingness to provide fuel rods to any country seeking a reactor so there is no reason for ANY country outside the five nuclear nations to have enrichment facilities needs to be made INTERNATIONAL law. All the countries currently moving toward nuclear weapons are doing so illegally in the international community and under current Non-Proliferation Treaties.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty cannot be voluntary anymore.
Just as Kyoto was ratified at 55%, the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be ratified by 55% of the UN membership wtih REAL penalities for any country that continues to break international law. Why should 'certain' countries have nuclear weapons while others don't.? The impetus to war, nuclear war is shortening everyday. What is to stop Iran from developing long range weapons and launhcing against a completely neutral country like Sweden or the United States of Brazil. This outrageous Nuclear Proliferation has to stop NOW. The five nuclear nations MUST stop this insanity.
Russis is more than doing it's part. Russia is fronting the BEST EFFORT to facilitate enforcing Non-Proliferation. It is time Russia be placed front and center to facilitate International LAW and not 'treaties' to ENFORCE very dangerous manifestos by even India and Bush's outrageous treaties with India regarding nuclear proliferation. President Vladimir Putin is the current leader of peace in the world promoting measures to REVERSE nuclear proliferation.
Where is everyone else?"
As far as I am concerned the USA is breaking international law with the negotiations with India. Bush is placing the USA at the center of a 'impetus' to war by other major powers if he continues to proliferate nuclear technology as if it were a 'bubble gum machine.'
Students heckle Iranian president
Khatami: Accused of failing to stand up to conservativesIranian students have interrupted a speech by President Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at Tehran university.
Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
A visibly-shaken Khatami defended his record and criticised the powerful hardliners who have closed newspapers and jailed dissidents.
He asked students to stop heckling and accused his critics of intolerance.
Students were once some of President Khatami's strongest supporters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4072887.stm
Enough.
I find Nancy Grace's pursuit nothing short of hero status. Ladies have it rough enough.. Helping and especially the truth tellers of journalism is a very valuable message. Thank you.
Frankenstein is always a 'Here's Johnny' kidda guy.
Lives being saved in Iraq. True. That has to be so, Anderson? There is permission in that statement in that the war must go on. In other words, if there are people that need to be saved in the way of civilians then there is permission for the war, right? The Iraqis have to develop their own military, their own police to keep the civilians alive. They didn't have to do that before Bush invaded the country. The amount of Iraqi civilians including children dead since the Bush invasion would fill up a few mass graves. Oh, wait. In Fallujah, they already do.
So this isn't about civilians. It' s not about Iraqi civilians because they don't have state of the art in Iraqi hospitals.
Suicide Truck Bomber Kills 17 in Iraq
Tuesday May 9, 2006 10:46 PM
AP Photo BAG110
By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide truck bomber attacked a crowded market in Tal Afar late Tuesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 in a city cited by President Bush as a success story in battling insurgents.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5810990,00.html
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
27 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Twenty-seven people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, while 12 mutilated bodies were found including three beheaded corpses of Iraqi army soldiers, security officials said. At least 17 people were killed and 35 wounded by a suicide car bomb in northern Iraq. The bomber detonated a pickup truck full of flour parked at a busy marketplace in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, as shops were closing at around 8:00 pm, police said. Two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb attack against a patrol of Facility Protection Service (FPS), a special security unit tasked with guarding ministry buildings and power stations. Four members of the patrol were also wounded in the Baghdad attack.A Sunni cleric, Raed Mohammed al-Dulaimi, was also killed in southern Baghdad. The Iraqi Islamic Party said Dulaimi was the 150th Sunni cleric to be killed in Iraq since 2003. An Iraqi army soldier was killed and two others wounded when their patrol was attacked by gunmen near Kirkuk, police said. Gunmen shot dead a judge in western Baghdad, while a baker was also killed in Baghdad’s notorious southern Al Dura neighbourhood. Two brothers were also killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad. A civilian and a political activist were mowed down by bullets in Amara, police said. Also, police found 12 bodies of men killed around Baghdad and central Iraq. Three of the corpses, found beheaded, were Iraqi army soldiers. Their bodies washed up on the banks of the river Al-Malaeh, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad. The three were kidnapped on Monday, police said. Two deliverymen working for an Iraqi army catering service company were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in northern Iraq, police said. Agencies
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C10%5Cstory_10-5-2006_pg7_54
1006
Iran hasn't 'one upted' anything. The Iranian president is trying to distract from the priority of their nuclear program. You are missing the most important point to the letter. It doesn't matter how irreverent Bush is to God. What does Bush's lack of reverence have to do with a nuclear weapon? Bush is not threatening Iran with a nuclear weapon. Iran is threatening to annihilate Israel. The countries of the UN Security Council are moving to stop a nuclear exchange in The Middle East. Bush's complete and absolute folly is to engage in any 'name calling' internationally. It's hideous.
The folly of the United Nations Security Council leading Russia and China to resist any more resolutions because of Bush's desire to invade any and all countries he dares to is to INCLUDE the entire of Iran in their resolutions. In other words, before the current President of Iran took power there was not this much extremism. Just because this genicidal leader was elected somehow that entitles him to stay as president? Was Milosevic ever qualified to be a leader? No. He never was. Just as Milosevic (click on) was allowed to carry on for too long the 'impetus' to remove 'Genocidal Leaders' has to come during the time of the 'threat' not the genocide.
U.S. and Europe Plan New Offer to Entice Iran Away From Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10nukes.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
UNITED NATIONS, May 9 — The United States and its European negotiating partners are preparing to repackage economic incentives aimed at inducing Iran to cooperate in eliminating its suspected nuclear weapons program, and to add some "new ideas" for Iran to consider, American and European officials said Tuesday.
A senior State Department official said the "new ideas" would not substantially change the package of economic incentives offered to Iran last August, when the Europeans told the Iranians they could achieve a full political and economic relationship with the West if Iran ended its nuclear activities suspected as part of a weapons program.
WITH IRAN everyone should believe without doubt that all the rantings by their leadership madmen is only to delay the plans they want to complete. Iran has to progress with their nuclear reactor open and transparently.
Russia's willingness to provide fuel rods to any country seeking a reactor so there is no reason for ANY country outside the five nuclear nations to have enrichment facilities needs to be made INTERNATIONAL law. All the countries currently moving toward nuclear weapons are doing so illegally in the international community and under current Non-Proliferation Treaties.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty cannot be voluntary anymore.
Just as Kyoto was ratified at 55%, the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be ratified by 55% of the UN membership wtih REAL penalities for any country that continues to break international law. Why should 'certain' countries have nuclear weapons while others don't.? The impetus to war, nuclear war is shortening everyday. What is to stop Iran from developing long range weapons and launhcing against a completely neutral country like Sweden or the United States of Brazil. This outrageous Nuclear Proliferation has to stop NOW. The five nuclear nations MUST stop this insanity.
Russis is more than doing it's part. Russia is fronting the BEST EFFORT to facilitate enforcing Non-Proliferation. It is time Russia be placed front and center to facilitate International LAW and not 'treaties' to ENFORCE very dangerous manifestos by even India and Bush's outrageous treaties with India regarding nuclear proliferation. President Vladimir Putin is the current leader of peace in the world promoting measures to REVERSE nuclear proliferation.
Where is everyone else?"
As far as I am concerned the USA is breaking international law with the negotiations with India. Bush is placing the USA at the center of a 'impetus' to war by other major powers if he continues to proliferate nuclear technology as if it were a 'bubble gum machine.'
Students heckle Iranian president
Khatami: Accused of failing to stand up to conservativesIranian students have interrupted a speech by President Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at Tehran university.
Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
A visibly-shaken Khatami defended his record and criticised the powerful hardliners who have closed newspapers and jailed dissidents.
He asked students to stop heckling and accused his critics of intolerance.
Students were once some of President Khatami's strongest supporters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4072887.stm
Enough.
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
"Class" Matters
1000
Nancy Grace. Polygamy and Ambien.
1001
"... and yet another scandal?"
I suppose. You know JFK, Jr. did some outrageous things in his life. He was vicious when it came to the press and Carolyn. I do believe the pressure of public life through him over the edge confronting paparazzi in NYC. Ah, to have it back to focus on in the American Press. To have "George" magazine back.
Being a Kennedy is hazardous. I do believe Patrick Kennedy was involved with medication that caused him some issues in his personal life. The 'so called' scandals revolved around priviledge and interpersonal relationships. It is well known that people with issues surrounding medication dependency, perscribed or not, manifest behaviors in their personal relationships that are dysfunctional. It's the medication ruling their lives that causes the dysfunction. I congratulate Mr. Kennedy for going to the Mayo Clinic. He was taking some very dangerous mixtures that we know of, he needed to be monitored to be sure all the medications were replaced with safe combinations. I look forward to his return.
1011
Talk about men who manipulate people through religious precepts all you want. There are many.
1014
General Marks thinks it's important to have a militarized civilian agency.
You know North Korea is one of the most militarized governments in the world. How about that, huh?
1020
Erica wears a green leather jacket. I don't think they use sea turtles for tanned leather, do they?
1021'
commercials
1025
Anderson, the 911 Memorial is not a military memorial. It is in the middle of New York City, the capital of the world. Had the Bush administration expedited the will of the families and friends of those murdered in NYC by funding the Memorial five years ago, the cost would have been much, much less. The cost of construction is skyrocketing because of the heavy dependency on OIL. Perhaps Dick Cheney could get Halliburton to DONATE all the fuel necessary for all the contruction of the Memorial. It would cut the cost drastically.
1028
Nancy Grace is covering this subject of Warren Jeffs inside and out. Got something to add?
S&P raises Halliburton's debt ratings
Fri May 5, 2006 12:25 PM ET
NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Friday raised Halliburton Co.'s debt ratings, citing the company's improved operating performance.
"The ratings upgrade is based on marked improvement in Halliburton's operating performance in its oilfield services business, that, coupled with meaningful debt reduction over the past year, has significantly improved its credit measures," S&P said in a statement.
Also, Halliburton's management has taken steps to spin off the KBR Inc. business unit, which has helped improve credit quality.
S&P raised Halliburton's corporate credit and senior debt ratings to "BBB-plus," which is three notches above junk, from "BBB." The outlook is stable, the ratings agency said.
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-05-05T162500Z_01_N05330072_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON-S-P.XML
As company priorities shift, fewer get AAA debt rating
By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY
The AAA-rated company is an increasingly endangered species.
Already one of the most exclusive in Corporate America, the AAA club could soon be down to just seven members. Tuesday, Fitch Ratings stripped American International Group of its AAA rating, while the two largest ratings companies, Moody's Investor Services and Standard & Poor's, said they are considering doing the same.
AAA-rated U.S. companies
AIG
Automatic Data Processing
Berkshire Hathaway
ExxonMobil
General Electric
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer
United Parcel
ServiceSource: Moody's
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-03-15-aaa-usat_x.htm
There are several reasons for the decline in AAA-rated companies:
•More tolerance of risk.
... the article continues. If the infrastructure of the USA is in decline then the solvency of the debt of the country is in question. These companies have lowered their expections of their own mission, products and services to satisfy needs to expand through loans. This is not a healthy economy. I don't care what anyone says.
enough.
Nancy Grace. Polygamy and Ambien.
1001
"... and yet another scandal?"
I suppose. You know JFK, Jr. did some outrageous things in his life. He was vicious when it came to the press and Carolyn. I do believe the pressure of public life through him over the edge confronting paparazzi in NYC. Ah, to have it back to focus on in the American Press. To have "George" magazine back.
Being a Kennedy is hazardous. I do believe Patrick Kennedy was involved with medication that caused him some issues in his personal life. The 'so called' scandals revolved around priviledge and interpersonal relationships. It is well known that people with issues surrounding medication dependency, perscribed or not, manifest behaviors in their personal relationships that are dysfunctional. It's the medication ruling their lives that causes the dysfunction. I congratulate Mr. Kennedy for going to the Mayo Clinic. He was taking some very dangerous mixtures that we know of, he needed to be monitored to be sure all the medications were replaced with safe combinations. I look forward to his return.
1011
Talk about men who manipulate people through religious precepts all you want. There are many.
1014
General Marks thinks it's important to have a militarized civilian agency.
You know North Korea is one of the most militarized governments in the world. How about that, huh?
1020
Erica wears a green leather jacket. I don't think they use sea turtles for tanned leather, do they?
1021'
commercials
1025
Anderson, the 911 Memorial is not a military memorial. It is in the middle of New York City, the capital of the world. Had the Bush administration expedited the will of the families and friends of those murdered in NYC by funding the Memorial five years ago, the cost would have been much, much less. The cost of construction is skyrocketing because of the heavy dependency on OIL. Perhaps Dick Cheney could get Halliburton to DONATE all the fuel necessary for all the contruction of the Memorial. It would cut the cost drastically.
1028
Nancy Grace is covering this subject of Warren Jeffs inside and out. Got something to add?
S&P raises Halliburton's debt ratings
Fri May 5, 2006 12:25 PM ET
NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Friday raised Halliburton Co.'s debt ratings, citing the company's improved operating performance.
"The ratings upgrade is based on marked improvement in Halliburton's operating performance in its oilfield services business, that, coupled with meaningful debt reduction over the past year, has significantly improved its credit measures," S&P said in a statement.
Also, Halliburton's management has taken steps to spin off the KBR Inc. business unit, which has helped improve credit quality.
S&P raised Halliburton's corporate credit and senior debt ratings to "BBB-plus," which is three notches above junk, from "BBB." The outlook is stable, the ratings agency said.
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-05-05T162500Z_01_N05330072_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON-S-P.XML
As company priorities shift, fewer get AAA debt rating
By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY
The AAA-rated company is an increasingly endangered species.
Already one of the most exclusive in Corporate America, the AAA club could soon be down to just seven members. Tuesday, Fitch Ratings stripped American International Group of its AAA rating, while the two largest ratings companies, Moody's Investor Services and Standard & Poor's, said they are considering doing the same.
AAA-rated U.S. companies
AIG
Automatic Data Processing
Berkshire Hathaway
ExxonMobil
General Electric
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer
United Parcel
ServiceSource: Moody's
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-03-15-aaa-usat_x.htm
There are several reasons for the decline in AAA-rated companies:
•More tolerance of risk.
... the article continues. If the infrastructure of the USA is in decline then the solvency of the debt of the country is in question. These companies have lowered their expections of their own mission, products and services to satisfy needs to expand through loans. This is not a healthy economy. I don't care what anyone says.
enough.
Saturday, May 6, 2006
"The CNN Spin" spins no more. Keeping them honest rather than rhetorically politically biased.
1000
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.
1010
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.
1015
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.
1021
commercials
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.
1010
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.
1015
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.
1021
commercials
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
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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1045
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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commercials
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..
1052
There is Aaron Brown's soldier honor segment again.
1054
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.
1057
Enough
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.
1041
commercials
1045
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?
1047
commercials
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..
1052
There is Aaron Brown's soldier honor segment again.
1054
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
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Aaron Brown is censored by CNN
Hey, what's Aaron Brown up to?
Posted Apr 28th 2006 2:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Cable, News, Talent
So what has Aaron Brown been up to since leaving CNN over six months ago? The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Tim Cuprisin caught up with the ex-anchor and finds out that he has a lot to say, but really can't say anything because he still has another 18 months to go on his CNN contract.
"Because I have an employer, I can't do as much of it as I would like, and I can't always say everything I would like to. That's OK. I get their position."
Brown reveals he has been approached to do game shows, but he'd love to do an interview show. Something between what Larry King does and what Charlie Rose does. I can picture that.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/28/hey-whats-aaron-brown-up-to/
Nancy Grace is retrying the Moussaui trial. She has no right except to support the decisions of the jury. She is making fools of the jury and making Moussaui a martyr. Do we need this? No !!
Nancy Grace has common sense above all other people and especially women. My, my.
Anderson, you're the control freak fall guy for the exploitation of the cable news of CNN while Nancy Grace tries to 'spin' the issue of justice By the People and For the People.
1017
commercials
CNN has no respect for the American people or the USA Constitution. Grow up Nancy. I thought you were less the problem. I was wrong.
1019
Nancy Grace is appauled at the cost of housing a world class terrorist. Is she appauled at Gitmo?
The Moussaoui can live in misery and welcome to it if that is what the jury of this case decided. Don't think for one minute the rest of the world isn't impressed. Most of countries of Europe don't have the death penalty. I don't want to hear how that is why the London Bombing happened. The London Bombing happened because George Walker Bush never took the assault against al Qaeda seriously and the mastermind of 911, Osama bin Laden is still on the lamb. Where is Nancy's Graces's critique of this administration and it's illegal war in Iraq. Why is Osama bin Laden STILL on the WANTED? Because Bush didn't listen to the CIA and FBI and the report "Osama bin Laden deteremined to strike the USA." Moussaoui was HANDLED by the FBI in this country. He was stopped. Bush should be able to say the same thing.
1023
"You are going to believe them?" The Federal Prosecutor had a lot more information than Nancy Grace. Too bad Nancy, you aren't 'in the security clearence loop' that the US Justice Department is. The 911 families made their wishes known. Nancy Grace, being the Neocon she is just can't accept the will of the victims families. Oh, yeah, she is an advocate alright.
1139
commercials
1043
Back to the 'life style' track of "Michael Jackson in Bahrain." I think the American integrity has been saved from the Neocon Propaganda of CNN's Nancy Grace.
1050
Well, Aaron's soldier 'honor segment' turns up on the Nancy Grace hour. Interesting. I guess Aaron Brown had a lot to offer except the 'toe the line' propaganda of CNN.
1056
2nd hour of AC 360
commercials
Breaking News and an attack against a "Kennedy"
There is Anderson Cooper's boy toy Frankenstein again.
1059
Kennedy blames accident on medications
By ANDREW MIGAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness.
Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said, "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_Patrick_Kennedy.html
NORMAL PROCEDURE?
Wow, a potential video.
Ambien blackouts, sleepwalking, memory lossMessage posted by kevin williams (jkwilliams@intermedia.com) on 5:1:51 1/7/2001
Message:
i need to hear from anyone that has taken ambien to help them sleep and afterward had bizarre experiences including sleepwalking, blackouts, and memory loss and any other strange behavior after taking the med. i particulary want to hear from those that did anything distructive including auto accidents etc that you have no recall of. i totalled my vehicle 3 nights ago at 130am and was told of several bizarre behaviors leading up to the accident. i have absolutely no recall of any of these events. please advise with your experiences. thanks.
http://www.sleephomepages.org/discussions/basic/messages/msgs08802.html
Promethazine(proe METH a zeen)Phenergan, Promethegan
What is the most important information I should know about promethazine?
•
Call your doctor immediately if you experience uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or legs. These could be early signs of dangerous side effects.
•
Use caution when driving, operating machinery, or performing other hazardous activities. Promethazine may cause dizziness or drowsiness. If you experience dizziness or drowsiness, avoid these activities.
•
Use alcohol cautiously. Alcohol may increase drowsiness and dizziness while you are taking promethazine.
What is promethazine?
•
Promethazine is an antihistamine. It blocks the effects of the naturally occurring chemical histamine in your body.
•
Promethazine is used to treat allergic symptoms and reactions such as itching, runny nose; sneezing; itchy, watery eyes; hives; and itchy skin rashes.
•
Promethazine is also used to cause sedation (sleep), to assist in controlling postoperative pain, to control nausea and vomiting (especially after surgery), and to prevent motion sickness.
•
Promethazine may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.
http://www.drugs.com/promethazine.html
1110
Don Rumsfeld has more stories than a bus load of pregnant nuns.
commercials
1113
"Why did Don Rumsfeld lie about Iraq?" He stated he didn't. That's the scary part. They actually believe their own lies.
1119
enough
Posted Apr 28th 2006 2:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Cable, News, Talent
So what has Aaron Brown been up to since leaving CNN over six months ago? The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Tim Cuprisin caught up with the ex-anchor and finds out that he has a lot to say, but really can't say anything because he still has another 18 months to go on his CNN contract.
"Because I have an employer, I can't do as much of it as I would like, and I can't always say everything I would like to. That's OK. I get their position."
Brown reveals he has been approached to do game shows, but he'd love to do an interview show. Something between what Larry King does and what Charlie Rose does. I can picture that.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/28/hey-whats-aaron-brown-up-to/
Nancy Grace is retrying the Moussaui trial. She has no right except to support the decisions of the jury. She is making fools of the jury and making Moussaui a martyr. Do we need this? No !!
Nancy Grace has common sense above all other people and especially women. My, my.
Anderson, you're the control freak fall guy for the exploitation of the cable news of CNN while Nancy Grace tries to 'spin' the issue of justice By the People and For the People.
1017
commercials
CNN has no respect for the American people or the USA Constitution. Grow up Nancy. I thought you were less the problem. I was wrong.
1019
Nancy Grace is appauled at the cost of housing a world class terrorist. Is she appauled at Gitmo?
The Moussaoui can live in misery and welcome to it if that is what the jury of this case decided. Don't think for one minute the rest of the world isn't impressed. Most of countries of Europe don't have the death penalty. I don't want to hear how that is why the London Bombing happened. The London Bombing happened because George Walker Bush never took the assault against al Qaeda seriously and the mastermind of 911, Osama bin Laden is still on the lamb. Where is Nancy's Graces's critique of this administration and it's illegal war in Iraq. Why is Osama bin Laden STILL on the WANTED? Because Bush didn't listen to the CIA and FBI and the report "Osama bin Laden deteremined to strike the USA." Moussaoui was HANDLED by the FBI in this country. He was stopped. Bush should be able to say the same thing.
1023
"You are going to believe them?" The Federal Prosecutor had a lot more information than Nancy Grace. Too bad Nancy, you aren't 'in the security clearence loop' that the US Justice Department is. The 911 families made their wishes known. Nancy Grace, being the Neocon she is just can't accept the will of the victims families. Oh, yeah, she is an advocate alright.
1139
commercials
1043
Back to the 'life style' track of "Michael Jackson in Bahrain." I think the American integrity has been saved from the Neocon Propaganda of CNN's Nancy Grace.
1050
Well, Aaron's soldier 'honor segment' turns up on the Nancy Grace hour. Interesting. I guess Aaron Brown had a lot to offer except the 'toe the line' propaganda of CNN.
1056
2nd hour of AC 360
commercials
Breaking News and an attack against a "Kennedy"
There is Anderson Cooper's boy toy Frankenstein again.
1059
Kennedy blames accident on medications
By ANDREW MIGAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness.
Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said, "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_Patrick_Kennedy.html
NORMAL PROCEDURE?
Wow, a potential video.
Ambien blackouts, sleepwalking, memory lossMessage posted by kevin williams (jkwilliams@intermedia.com) on 5:1:51 1/7/2001
Message:
i need to hear from anyone that has taken ambien to help them sleep and afterward had bizarre experiences including sleepwalking, blackouts, and memory loss and any other strange behavior after taking the med. i particulary want to hear from those that did anything distructive including auto accidents etc that you have no recall of. i totalled my vehicle 3 nights ago at 130am and was told of several bizarre behaviors leading up to the accident. i have absolutely no recall of any of these events. please advise with your experiences. thanks.
http://www.sleephomepages.org/discussions/basic/messages/msgs08802.html
Promethazine(proe METH a zeen)Phenergan, Promethegan
What is the most important information I should know about promethazine?
•
Call your doctor immediately if you experience uncontrollable movements of your eyes, lips, tongue, face, arms, or legs. These could be early signs of dangerous side effects.
•
Use caution when driving, operating machinery, or performing other hazardous activities. Promethazine may cause dizziness or drowsiness. If you experience dizziness or drowsiness, avoid these activities.
•
Use alcohol cautiously. Alcohol may increase drowsiness and dizziness while you are taking promethazine.
What is promethazine?
•
Promethazine is an antihistamine. It blocks the effects of the naturally occurring chemical histamine in your body.
•
Promethazine is used to treat allergic symptoms and reactions such as itching, runny nose; sneezing; itchy, watery eyes; hives; and itchy skin rashes.
•
Promethazine is also used to cause sedation (sleep), to assist in controlling postoperative pain, to control nausea and vomiting (especially after surgery), and to prevent motion sickness.
•
Promethazine may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.
http://www.drugs.com/promethazine.html
1110
Don Rumsfeld has more stories than a bus load of pregnant nuns.
commercials
1113
"Why did Don Rumsfeld lie about Iraq?" He stated he didn't. That's the scary part. They actually believe their own lies.
1119
enough
Aaron is always complimented with affection.
'I get my fix in a 2-newspaper town'
Some people crave java shots each morning. I hunger for newsprint. And, thankfully, I get my fix in a two-newspaper town, where I savor a robust mix of stories.
If MediaNews Group were to water down the Pioneer Press, the Twin Cities would not only become more like Sanka than a Starbucks espresso roast, but a community and regional artery would be severed.
As a kid in northern Wisconsin, I spent hours at the library, where I'd often find the Saint Paul newspaper and read news and see pictures from a place that had what my hometown didn't — skyscrapers, whales, a state Capitol, pro sports and more. That newspaper opened a window.
The Twin Cities has cranked out some pretty good wordsmiths. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, CBS' Eric Sevareid, "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor, NPR's Michele Norris, Thomas Friedman and Ira Berkow of the New York Times, CNN's founding anchor Mary Alice Williams and its departing anchor Aaron Brown, and Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated's weekly lead-off hitter, have all put pen to paper here.
They, I believe — like me and every other Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reader — have benefited from twice the analyses, viewpoints, voices, angles, and pictures of most towns. But how can we be one of America's most literate communities if half of our words disappear?
1000
The program is always insulting with it's artificial voices to ? enhance ? human beings to watching the show?
1003
The drug 'issue' with Mexico is old. Fox was just going to make it leagal that's all especially since the USA won't allow Medical Marijuana.
This is just another example of border and national insecutiry. What's the name of that gamg from South America? M19 or M 13, something like that? What do you think their stock and trade is? Columbian Gold. This is nothing new. Fox was just decriminalizing from the Mexican side. He doesn't have recourse really. He doesn't have jails big enough or control of very violent border towns. Fox also recognizes there is an economy in the drug trade with the USA imports. So, Mexico just wants their courts freed up and their tourist trade intact. It's interesting thhis was a so called surprise to Bush. Interseting. I would say he is just plain out of touch.
Mexico's Fox won't sign drug law
ReutersWednesday, May 3, 2006; 8:59 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday.
The president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.
I love the 'attitude' regarding CNN's glibness regarding the 911 families and the Moussoui verdict. This news team insists that Moussaoi is nobody in the terrorist network and that jailing him will be the same as any other dangrous criminal in our prisons. I would be surprised that would be the case. The more domestic criminals are in, I believe it was Colorado? None of the New York Terrorists from 1003 are there. They are secured in areas that would not necessarily be a target of more terrorist attacks.
Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID STOUT
Published: May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 — A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001.
The issue of preparedness and security belongs at the state level under this administration. They have proved over and over again they are unable to protect this country from everything from terrorists, to outsourcing and economic decline measured best by the direct ratio of national debt to economic improvemnt. Bush is buying an economy with debt. That is not an economy, it does't grow. It only exploits and rewards those that reap the profits from the exploitation.
The states need to formulate their own plans realizing Bush has washinged his hands of the Bird Flu Pandemic in time to do something in time. He isn't compeltely stuipd. He knows when people's lives are on the line and when he can't do anything about it. The Governors are the heroes here and it should be an election issue.
US plan aims to slow bird flu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans should prepare for travel restrictions and school closures if an influenza pandemic hits, but such measures can only temporarily slow the inevitable spread of disease, the government's new flu plan says.
The White House influenza plan released on Wednesday builds on an earlier plan to combat a potential pandemic of H5N1 avian influenza, including preparations to build a stockpile of vaccines and drugs, already under way, and work to develop newer and better vaccines.
"In terms of its scope, the impact of a severe pandemic may be more comparable to that of a war or a widespread economic crisis than a hurricane, earthquake or act of terrorism," the report reads.
Mr. Firedman has been an advoccate for a gas tax a long time now. I am surprised he allowed Anderson to steer him into calling a compromised society as a bunch of addits. Addition is not the issue, it's CHOICES THAT ARE THE ISSUE. Anderson has got it "W"rong again. Thomas Freidman is incorrect as well. This issue's resolve has always been thwarted by Republicans. The Democrats, and the classic example is California, has the toughest fuel standards in the country.
My son is graduating from college and entering the business field. He wants a new car. He's right, he should have that reward for achieving a stepping stone in life. But. I have advised him to wait. The 'Flex Fuel' and cars are the best short term answer. Given there is little to know alternatives to high priced fuel, he'll be driving one of th e older carsin the family due to DIRTY FUEL alternatives sponsored by Georgie Gaa. There isn't anything 'secure' or 'predictable' or 'stable' about the future for this 2- something generation. There are Republican criminals running the country that line businesses with the promise of our children and their enjoyment in life. My son should not have to wait to make the BEST CHOICE in car buying, he did all the work. He desreves to have life by the tail. Under this Republican dominated country, he is denied MUCH of the Promise of being American.
High energy prices affect small businesses
JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Rebecca Boegnik has had to go ahead and raise prices, while Rebecca Herwick is keeping more inventory on hand. And Blair Whitworth's company is using technology to accomplish the tasks that used to be done on road trips.
For small business owners like these, the problems caused by soaring energy prices go far beyond filling gas tanks. Freight costs are continually rising, materials are getting more expensive by the month and travel is becoming too costly. Companies are finding whatever ways they can to cut costs, but many are faced with the prospect of raising their own prices - a move they fear could hurt their competitiveness.
Two years ago, a barrel of crude was selling for $40, an astronomical sum at the time. Now, it's in the low $70 range, while gasoline, which sold for about $1.80 in early May 2004 now costs over $3 in many places.
"It's an interesting dilemma," Boegnik said of rising prices.
1046
Anderson you are as much a loser as the Republican Party that Candy Crowley seems to advocate tolerance with. No one is interested in tunnel construction. People are interested in border security. What a jerk.
Where is the news secretary? Anderson perfer his 'cheaper' boy toy Frankenstein than flirting with the lady of the evening? This is nothing but propaganda that has nothing to d with reality and internatinal policy. You are not going to tell me Fox didn't know about the tunnels either.
Oh, here we go with the Sago Mine tragedy. $10 will get you $20 that he ends the segment with "...and carbon monoxide poisoning kills X amount of people a year as well as radon."
1052
Laura Bush and John King making politics with the National Anthem and the Bible. She as bad as her husband in that she is a political icon that can 'roll back' Georgie's opinons as that of a misguided spouse. How sweet.
Nice book shelf, is there a copy of "My Pet Goat?"
1054
There is the News Secretary. See, CNN needs a chaperone all the time. Shame on them. Do penance. Ask the Pope for absolution.
1056
There you go Anderson, nice kiss up with the very endangered Loggerhead Turtle and onto Australia, who wouldhave guessed?
1056
commercials
1059
The LA Edition. No thanks. This is nothing but advertisements for 'converting gangs.' It's always stuipd and out of context.
1100
John King in New Orleans. He's monitoring the border from your hometown, Anderson? What border? Mexican? Talk about the need for a geography lesson, huh?
Enough.
Some people crave java shots each morning. I hunger for newsprint. And, thankfully, I get my fix in a two-newspaper town, where I savor a robust mix of stories.
If MediaNews Group were to water down the Pioneer Press, the Twin Cities would not only become more like Sanka than a Starbucks espresso roast, but a community and regional artery would be severed.
As a kid in northern Wisconsin, I spent hours at the library, where I'd often find the Saint Paul newspaper and read news and see pictures from a place that had what my hometown didn't — skyscrapers, whales, a state Capitol, pro sports and more. That newspaper opened a window.
The Twin Cities has cranked out some pretty good wordsmiths. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, CBS' Eric Sevareid, "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor, NPR's Michele Norris, Thomas Friedman and Ira Berkow of the New York Times, CNN's founding anchor Mary Alice Williams and its departing anchor Aaron Brown, and Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated's weekly lead-off hitter, have all put pen to paper here.
They, I believe — like me and every other Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reader — have benefited from twice the analyses, viewpoints, voices, angles, and pictures of most towns. But how can we be one of America's most literate communities if half of our words disappear?
1000
The program is always insulting with it's artificial voices to ? enhance ? human beings to watching the show?
1003
The drug 'issue' with Mexico is old. Fox was just going to make it leagal that's all especially since the USA won't allow Medical Marijuana.
This is just another example of border and national insecutiry. What's the name of that gamg from South America? M19 or M 13, something like that? What do you think their stock and trade is? Columbian Gold. This is nothing new. Fox was just decriminalizing from the Mexican side. He doesn't have recourse really. He doesn't have jails big enough or control of very violent border towns. Fox also recognizes there is an economy in the drug trade with the USA imports. So, Mexico just wants their courts freed up and their tourist trade intact. It's interesting thhis was a so called surprise to Bush. Interseting. I would say he is just plain out of touch.
Mexico's Fox won't sign drug law
ReutersWednesday, May 3, 2006; 8:59 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday.
The president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.
I love the 'attitude' regarding CNN's glibness regarding the 911 families and the Moussoui verdict. This news team insists that Moussaoi is nobody in the terrorist network and that jailing him will be the same as any other dangrous criminal in our prisons. I would be surprised that would be the case. The more domestic criminals are in, I believe it was Colorado? None of the New York Terrorists from 1003 are there. They are secured in areas that would not necessarily be a target of more terrorist attacks.
I doubt seriously the FBI that exposed Moussoui thought he was a 'small fish.' Anderson obviously forgets that Moussoui was stopped by the FBI. He was unsuccessful. He was nabbed and compromised so that he could not participate. Given those facts, Moussoui can only be a small fish if all the other 19 terrorists from 911 were.
Jerks.
Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID STOUT
Published: May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 — A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001.
The issue of preparedness and security belongs at the state level under this administration. They have proved over and over again they are unable to protect this country from everything from terrorists, to outsourcing and economic decline measured best by the direct ratio of national debt to economic improvemnt. Bush is buying an economy with debt. That is not an economy, it does't grow. It only exploits and rewards those that reap the profits from the exploitation.
The states need to formulate their own plans realizing Bush has washinged his hands of the Bird Flu Pandemic in time to do something in time. He isn't compeltely stuipd. He knows when people's lives are on the line and when he can't do anything about it. The Governors are the heroes here and it should be an election issue.
US plan aims to slow bird flu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans should prepare for travel restrictions and school closures if an influenza pandemic hits, but such measures can only temporarily slow the inevitable spread of disease, the government's new flu plan says.
The White House influenza plan released on Wednesday builds on an earlier plan to combat a potential pandemic of H5N1 avian influenza, including preparations to build a stockpile of vaccines and drugs, already under way, and work to develop newer and better vaccines.
"In terms of its scope, the impact of a severe pandemic may be more comparable to that of a war or a widespread economic crisis than a hurricane, earthquake or act of terrorism," the report reads.
Mr. Firedman has been an advoccate for a gas tax a long time now. I am surprised he allowed Anderson to steer him into calling a compromised society as a bunch of addits. Addition is not the issue, it's CHOICES THAT ARE THE ISSUE. Anderson has got it "W"rong again. Thomas Freidman is incorrect as well. This issue's resolve has always been thwarted by Republicans. The Democrats, and the classic example is California, has the toughest fuel standards in the country.
My son is graduating from college and entering the business field. He wants a new car. He's right, he should have that reward for achieving a stepping stone in life. But. I have advised him to wait. The 'Flex Fuel' and cars are the best short term answer. Given there is little to know alternatives to high priced fuel, he'll be driving one of th e older carsin the family due to DIRTY FUEL alternatives sponsored by Georgie Gaa. There isn't anything 'secure' or 'predictable' or 'stable' about the future for this 2- something generation. There are Republican criminals running the country that line businesses with the promise of our children and their enjoyment in life. My son should not have to wait to make the BEST CHOICE in car buying, he did all the work. He desreves to have life by the tail. Under this Republican dominated country, he is denied MUCH of the Promise of being American.
High energy prices affect small businesses
JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Rebecca Boegnik has had to go ahead and raise prices, while Rebecca Herwick is keeping more inventory on hand. And Blair Whitworth's company is using technology to accomplish the tasks that used to be done on road trips.
For small business owners like these, the problems caused by soaring energy prices go far beyond filling gas tanks. Freight costs are continually rising, materials are getting more expensive by the month and travel is becoming too costly. Companies are finding whatever ways they can to cut costs, but many are faced with the prospect of raising their own prices - a move they fear could hurt their competitiveness.
Two years ago, a barrel of crude was selling for $40, an astronomical sum at the time. Now, it's in the low $70 range, while gasoline, which sold for about $1.80 in early May 2004 now costs over $3 in many places.
"It's an interesting dilemma," Boegnik said of rising prices.
1046
Anderson you are as much a loser as the Republican Party that Candy Crowley seems to advocate tolerance with. No one is interested in tunnel construction. People are interested in border security. What a jerk.
Where is the news secretary? Anderson perfer his 'cheaper' boy toy Frankenstein than flirting with the lady of the evening? This is nothing but propaganda that has nothing to d with reality and internatinal policy. You are not going to tell me Fox didn't know about the tunnels either.
Oh, here we go with the Sago Mine tragedy. $10 will get you $20 that he ends the segment with "...and carbon monoxide poisoning kills X amount of people a year as well as radon."
1052
Laura Bush and John King making politics with the National Anthem and the Bible. She as bad as her husband in that she is a political icon that can 'roll back' Georgie's opinons as that of a misguided spouse. How sweet.
Nice book shelf, is there a copy of "My Pet Goat?"
1054
There is the News Secretary. See, CNN needs a chaperone all the time. Shame on them. Do penance. Ask the Pope for absolution.
1056
There you go Anderson, nice kiss up with the very endangered Loggerhead Turtle and onto Australia, who wouldhave guessed?
1056
commercials
1059
The LA Edition. No thanks. This is nothing but advertisements for 'converting gangs.' It's always stuipd and out of context.
1100
John King in New Orleans. He's monitoring the border from your hometown, Anderson? What border? Mexican? Talk about the need for a geography lesson, huh?
Enough.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Aaron is always complimented with affection.
Citation at the end of this entry.
'I get my fix in a 2-newspaper town'
Some people crave java shots each morning. I hunger for newsprint. And, thankfully, I get my fix in a two-newspaper town, where I savor a robust mix of stories.
If MediaNews Group were to water down the Pioneer Press, the Twin Cities would not only become more like Sanka than a Starbucks espresso roast, but a community and regional artery would be severed.
As a kid in northern Wisconsin, I spent hours at the library, where I'd often find the Saint Paul newspaper and read news and see pictures from a place that had what my hometown didn't — skyscrapers, whales, a state Capitol, pro sports and more. That newspaper opened a window.
The Twin Cities has cranked out some pretty good wordsmiths. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, CBS' Eric Sevareid, "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor, NPR's Michele Norris, Thomas Friedman and Ira Berkow of the New York Times, CNN's founding anchor Mary Alice Williams and its departing anchor Aaron Brown, and Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated's weekly lead-off hitter, have all put pen to paper here.
They, I believe — like me and every other Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reader — have benefited from twice the analyses, viewpoints, voices, angles, and pictures of most towns. But how can we be one of America's most literate communities if half of our words disappear?
1000
The program is always insulting with it's artificial voices to ? enhance ? human beings to watching the show?
1003
The drug 'issue' with Mexico is old. Fox was just going to make it leagal that's all especially since the USA won't allow Medical Marijuana.
This is just another example of border and national insecutiry. What's the name of that gamg from South America? M19 or M 13, something like that? What do you think their stock and trade is? Columbian Gold. This is nothing new. Fox was just decriminalizing from the Mexican side. He doesn't have recourse really. He doesn't have jails big enough or control of very violent border towns. Fox also recognizes there is an economy in the drug trade with the USA imports. So, Mexico just wants their courts freed up and their tourist trade intact. It's interesting thhis was a so called surprise to Bush. Interseting. I would say he is just plain out of touch.
Mexico's Fox won't sign drug law
ReutersWednesday, May 3, 2006; 8:59 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday.
The president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.
I love the 'attitude' regarding CNN's glibness regarding the 911 families and the Moussoui verdict. This news team insists that Moussaoi is nobody in the terrorist network and that jailing him will be the same as any other dangrous criminal in our prisons. I would be surprised that would be the case. They
Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID STOUT
Published: May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 — A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001.
'I get my fix in a 2-newspaper town'
Some people crave java shots each morning. I hunger for newsprint. And, thankfully, I get my fix in a two-newspaper town, where I savor a robust mix of stories.
If MediaNews Group were to water down the Pioneer Press, the Twin Cities would not only become more like Sanka than a Starbucks espresso roast, but a community and regional artery would be severed.
As a kid in northern Wisconsin, I spent hours at the library, where I'd often find the Saint Paul newspaper and read news and see pictures from a place that had what my hometown didn't — skyscrapers, whales, a state Capitol, pro sports and more. That newspaper opened a window.
The Twin Cities has cranked out some pretty good wordsmiths. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, CBS' Eric Sevareid, "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor, NPR's Michele Norris, Thomas Friedman and Ira Berkow of the New York Times, CNN's founding anchor Mary Alice Williams and its departing anchor Aaron Brown, and Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated's weekly lead-off hitter, have all put pen to paper here.
They, I believe — like me and every other Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reader — have benefited from twice the analyses, viewpoints, voices, angles, and pictures of most towns. But how can we be one of America's most literate communities if half of our words disappear?
1000
The program is always insulting with it's artificial voices to ? enhance ? human beings to watching the show?
1003
The drug 'issue' with Mexico is old. Fox was just going to make it leagal that's all especially since the USA won't allow Medical Marijuana.
This is just another example of border and national insecutiry. What's the name of that gamg from South America? M19 or M 13, something like that? What do you think their stock and trade is? Columbian Gold. This is nothing new. Fox was just decriminalizing from the Mexican side. He doesn't have recourse really. He doesn't have jails big enough or control of very violent border towns. Fox also recognizes there is an economy in the drug trade with the USA imports. So, Mexico just wants their courts freed up and their tourist trade intact. It's interesting thhis was a so called surprise to Bush. Interseting. I would say he is just plain out of touch.
Mexico's Fox won't sign drug law
ReutersWednesday, May 3, 2006; 8:59 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday.
The president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.
I love the 'attitude' regarding CNN's glibness regarding the 911 families and the Moussoui verdict. This news team insists that Moussaoi is nobody in the terrorist network and that jailing him will be the same as any other dangrous criminal in our prisons. I would be surprised that would be the case. They
Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID STOUT
Published: May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 — A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Who keeps who honest ?
1000
Anderson if you want to be taken seriously then get rid of the nameless and faceless 'public service' announcer.
1002
Duke's sexual assault case.
Accuser in Duke lacrosse case previously reported rape
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14445204.htm
THIS MEANS NOTHING. The "Kobi Full Court' press is trying to discredit the victim again. Her identity should be kept confidential this time.
1005
Manchin Reacts to McCloy's LetterPosted 4/27/2006 06:14 PM
Governor hopes letter can shed some light on what happened.
Story by Jack Kane Email Bio Governor Manchin spent countless hours with the miners family members as they awaited word from inside the mine. And, he later attended memorial services for those that lost their lives. Manchin referred to Randall McCloy as West Virginia's miracle.
Manchin is currently in Europe on a trade mission. But, the governor's press secretary, Tom Hunter, says Manchin hopes Mcloy's letter can shed some light on what happened. Hunter adds, "He's very eager to return to the state for the beginning of public hearings on Tuesday. It is his hope a lot of these questions can be addressed at these hearings".
http://www.wvnstv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=10490
What difference does it make if change has come, Anderson. It certainly didn't come in time for these miners. Or this one either.
28-year-old coal miner dies in Pike County Man is fourth killed this year
Associated Press
Friday, April 21, 2006
FREEBURN, Ky. -- A coal miner died yesterday when material from a pillar fell on him at a Pike County mine, the state said.
David Chad Bolen, 28, of Harold in Floyd County, was moving a shuttle car anchor in the Tri Star Coal LLC No. 1 mine about 2:30 p.m. when he was killed, according to the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060421/NEWS01/604210417/1008/NEWS01
1013
Carbon Monoxide 'Culture of Fear.' Where do mine deaths have anything to do with carbon monoxide or radon? Jerks.
1017
April 27th, 2006 3:36 pm
Dead soldier posts farewell note on MySpace
By Aabhi Raghunathan / St. Petersburg Times
Before signing off his webpage on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world.
"Jesus, I don't know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that's what lifes about," Meyer wrote. "When it is all said and done, and all the b------t is cleared away, it is the ones you love who you will remember."
The next morning, Meyer was found dead in the Army barracks at Fort Gordon in Georgia. He was 20.
Because the Army is still investigating, officials would not release the cause of Meyer's death or say if he committed suicide. But the note on Meyer's MySpace page seemed to tell many in the tight community at Gibbs High School, which Meyer attended, that he had taken his own life.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6658
Oh, I agree Anderson, the Bush White House needs more carma. Is this guy for real?
1025
Speaking of failures in government: Bush toured the area. That might explain this. New Orleans insurgents.
April 27th, 2006 7:19 pm3 New Orleans Drainage Pumps Catch Fire
By Brett Martel / Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Three massive drainage pumps caught fire during heavy rain Wednesday and will be out of commission at least a month, city officials said.
Insulated wiring in dozens of pumps, including the three that caught fire, was damaged by salt water that flooded the city after major levee breaks caused by Hurricane Katrina.
"Salt water and 100-year-old insulation on wires is not compatible," said G. Joseph Sullivan, general superintendent for the city's Sewerage and Water Board.
Because the salt-water flooding was caused by breaks in federal levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has pledged to pay nearly $37 million to repair the pump motors at 24 stations around the city.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6665
1033
Getting Bush's mojo working
This Article is no longer available on dailybreeze.com. Click here to search our Archives.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/articles/2561691.html
1039
Georgie Gas and I don't mean methane.
Quality of gasoline declines as prices billow
Aftermarket Business,
May, 2005
by Sativa Ross
Deposit-control additives have been required by the EPA in all gasoline since 1995; however, research shows that as much as 50 percent of the fuel on the market is formulated with less effective additives that employ the minimum additive legally required (known as the lowest additive concentration, or LAC), according to Scott Cushing, sales manager at ChevronTexaco. Although it conforms to EPA regulations, many believe that LAC gasoline provides inadequate valve cleanliness.
"LAC was actually created to help reduce exhaust emissions by keeping fuel injectors and intake valves and ports clean," says Cushing. But the testing requirements were flawed such that even low doses of additives could pass the test, which results in excessive deposits that cause driveability upset. High fuel prices have forced consumers to shop around for the lowest cost, but when they purchase inexpensive gasoline, they may very well be buying LAC gas and unknowingly contributing to engine deposits, explains Cushing.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3306/is_5_115/ai_n14867128
1047
The clock is running according to Conti as the month for Iran to respond to the UN resolution is clsing in. Perhaps, the answer has already been made. It would be Conti Rice whom would ignore the anwers.
Apr. 19, 2006 22:32
Updated Apr. 28, 2006 3:07
Disarmament board chooses Iranian as vice chair
By NATHAN GUTTMANWASHINGTON
As the international community looks into ways of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an Iranian representative was elected to be the vice chair of the UN's disarmament commission.
The commission, which began its annual conference last week, was established by the UN General Assembly in the early 50's in order to promote disarmament and to review international treaties dealing with nuclear energy.
The commission does not have any authority to enforce its decisions and is not connected to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the international nuclear watchdog that is now investigating Iran's nuclear program and is expected to report to the UN Security Council by the end of the month.
The new Iranian vice chair, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, who is also the country's ambassador to the UN, said last week that Iran will cooperate with the IAEA and will "seek an acceptable venue for holding transparent talks with interested parties." The ambassador, who is one of three vice-chairpersons, said during the meeting of the commission that Israel's nuclear stockpile is among "the major sources of concern with regard to global peace and security."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498879817&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
1048
The Preacher Feature
Enough.
Anderson if you want to be taken seriously then get rid of the nameless and faceless 'public service' announcer.
1002
Duke's sexual assault case.
Accuser in Duke lacrosse case previously reported rape
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14445204.htm
THIS MEANS NOTHING. The "Kobi Full Court' press is trying to discredit the victim again. Her identity should be kept confidential this time.
1005
Manchin Reacts to McCloy's LetterPosted 4/27/2006 06:14 PM
Governor hopes letter can shed some light on what happened.
Story by Jack Kane Email Bio Governor Manchin spent countless hours with the miners family members as they awaited word from inside the mine. And, he later attended memorial services for those that lost their lives. Manchin referred to Randall McCloy as West Virginia's miracle.
Manchin is currently in Europe on a trade mission. But, the governor's press secretary, Tom Hunter, says Manchin hopes Mcloy's letter can shed some light on what happened. Hunter adds, "He's very eager to return to the state for the beginning of public hearings on Tuesday. It is his hope a lot of these questions can be addressed at these hearings".
http://www.wvnstv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=10490
What difference does it make if change has come, Anderson. It certainly didn't come in time for these miners. Or this one either.
28-year-old coal miner dies in Pike County Man is fourth killed this year
Associated Press
Friday, April 21, 2006
FREEBURN, Ky. -- A coal miner died yesterday when material from a pillar fell on him at a Pike County mine, the state said.
David Chad Bolen, 28, of Harold in Floyd County, was moving a shuttle car anchor in the Tri Star Coal LLC No. 1 mine about 2:30 p.m. when he was killed, according to the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060421/NEWS01/604210417/1008/NEWS01
1013
Carbon Monoxide 'Culture of Fear.' Where do mine deaths have anything to do with carbon monoxide or radon? Jerks.
1017
April 27th, 2006 3:36 pm
Dead soldier posts farewell note on MySpace
By Aabhi Raghunathan / St. Petersburg Times
Before signing off his webpage on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world.
"Jesus, I don't know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that's what lifes about," Meyer wrote. "When it is all said and done, and all the b------t is cleared away, it is the ones you love who you will remember."
The next morning, Meyer was found dead in the Army barracks at Fort Gordon in Georgia. He was 20.
Because the Army is still investigating, officials would not release the cause of Meyer's death or say if he committed suicide. But the note on Meyer's MySpace page seemed to tell many in the tight community at Gibbs High School, which Meyer attended, that he had taken his own life.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6658
Oh, I agree Anderson, the Bush White House needs more carma. Is this guy for real?
1025
Speaking of failures in government: Bush toured the area. That might explain this. New Orleans insurgents.
April 27th, 2006 7:19 pm3 New Orleans Drainage Pumps Catch Fire
By Brett Martel / Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Three massive drainage pumps caught fire during heavy rain Wednesday and will be out of commission at least a month, city officials said.
Insulated wiring in dozens of pumps, including the three that caught fire, was damaged by salt water that flooded the city after major levee breaks caused by Hurricane Katrina.
"Salt water and 100-year-old insulation on wires is not compatible," said G. Joseph Sullivan, general superintendent for the city's Sewerage and Water Board.
Because the salt-water flooding was caused by breaks in federal levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has pledged to pay nearly $37 million to repair the pump motors at 24 stations around the city.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6665
1033
Getting Bush's mojo working
This Article is no longer available on dailybreeze.com. Click here to search our Archives.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/articles/2561691.html
1039
Georgie Gas and I don't mean methane.
Quality of gasoline declines as prices billow
Aftermarket Business,
May, 2005
by Sativa Ross
Deposit-control additives have been required by the EPA in all gasoline since 1995; however, research shows that as much as 50 percent of the fuel on the market is formulated with less effective additives that employ the minimum additive legally required (known as the lowest additive concentration, or LAC), according to Scott Cushing, sales manager at ChevronTexaco. Although it conforms to EPA regulations, many believe that LAC gasoline provides inadequate valve cleanliness.
"LAC was actually created to help reduce exhaust emissions by keeping fuel injectors and intake valves and ports clean," says Cushing. But the testing requirements were flawed such that even low doses of additives could pass the test, which results in excessive deposits that cause driveability upset. High fuel prices have forced consumers to shop around for the lowest cost, but when they purchase inexpensive gasoline, they may very well be buying LAC gas and unknowingly contributing to engine deposits, explains Cushing.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3306/is_5_115/ai_n14867128
1047
The clock is running according to Conti as the month for Iran to respond to the UN resolution is clsing in. Perhaps, the answer has already been made. It would be Conti Rice whom would ignore the anwers.
Apr. 19, 2006 22:32
Updated Apr. 28, 2006 3:07
Disarmament board chooses Iranian as vice chair
By NATHAN GUTTMANWASHINGTON
As the international community looks into ways of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an Iranian representative was elected to be the vice chair of the UN's disarmament commission.
The commission, which began its annual conference last week, was established by the UN General Assembly in the early 50's in order to promote disarmament and to review international treaties dealing with nuclear energy.
The commission does not have any authority to enforce its decisions and is not connected to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the international nuclear watchdog that is now investigating Iran's nuclear program and is expected to report to the UN Security Council by the end of the month.
The new Iranian vice chair, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, who is also the country's ambassador to the UN, said last week that Iran will cooperate with the IAEA and will "seek an acceptable venue for holding transparent talks with interested parties." The ambassador, who is one of three vice-chairpersons, said during the meeting of the commission that Israel's nuclear stockpile is among "the major sources of concern with regard to global peace and security."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498879817&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
1048
The Preacher Feature
Enough.
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