1000
Cease fire is a nice sentament, but, hardly a solution. There is no dealing with a terrorist network. They have to be eliminated. Israel cannot be held hostage for release of prisoners. That only propagates more.
The IDF have their heads straight about this. I trust them completely. I am sure they are aware of the Anti-Semitic plans of Iran. I am sure the IDF has their eye on that target as well.
To be honest. The sooner the nations of the area control their borders and end the occupation of terrorist networks the sooner Israel will have no impetus for war or the escalation of it. If the Arab countires are unable to control their borders or prevent armament of those terrorist networks then others capable of providing peace will. Either way, Israel will see security and peace out of this assault by Hezbollah. The 'idea' that Syrian authorities are actually calling for release of prisoners by Israel to settle this current conflict is the most hideous of resolve. They should be relieved the resolve of Isreal is to permenantly remove Hezbollah from Syria's border. Syria should be an ally, but, it would seem it wants to be an enemy to peace.
Like I said. I trust the leadership of Israel without question. The IDF has the best intelligence of the area and are prepared to act on that intelligence. It is completely irresponsible for Arab countries' leadership to escalate this conflict with advocating for Hezbollah or Hamas and their demands. Completely irresponsible.
1014
There is no further legitimizing terrorsts anymore. Terrorists networks are not to be respected as political parties. They are not trustworthy. We tried to encourage 'conversion' of elements like Hamas to be empowered as political parties. It doesn't matter. They have long held agendas of hate and violence. Evidently, they are incapable of peace.
1035
Zogby is trying to 'infantize' Israel with 'baggage.' Excuse me, Mr. Zogby? Israel was attacked. I think you need to grow up, Mr. Zogby. Israel doesn't need George Walker Bush, they need peace. Bush is not capble of peace. There is no international First World icon with more 'baggage' than Bush. He lies. He conspires against his own democratic constitution. When Mr Zogby comes to terms with the USA's crinimal president then and only then he can address Israel's circumstances as the ONLY real democracy in the Middle East.
1041
Erica, the news secretary, wants to blame oil prices on Israel as well. Go to hell !
I've been insulted by CNN and their Neocon political spin...
...enough
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
It can't be both ways.
1000
There has to be end to the terrorist networks in the Middle East. Bush should have accomplished that a long time ago by destroying al Qaeda. He didn't and the people of those countries are victim to ever evolving terrorist networks.
Israel will clean it up if the other countries don't have the backbone. The world can thank Israel later.
There has been a stalemate in regard to indictments of the Hariri murder due to the arrogance of Syria, when in fact they should be completely transparent and rid themselves of the violent element of their society. Isreal will clean up the neighborhood. The USA need not apply. The USA only drops the ball when it suits their political style and greedy cronies. Israel can provide real resolve, not a political theater.
1015
commercials
1018
Fires occur in this dynamic because of Climate Change over time. We know it for a fact A forest will become a tinder box because of drought, no other reason. Controlled burns are not performed in tinder boxes, but, in forests with moist soil and healthy canopy.
Bush is "W"rong in his 'thinning' the forests by his timber buddies. The real danger areas cannot be avoided. It's called stopping Human Induced Global Warming.
1035
Vladimir Putin could not be more correct about Dick Cheney. He doesn't see the entire danger but only when too late and his friends/allies are damaged/dying because of it.
The Bush Administration is a failed and expensive set of politicians.
Hm.
Bush the Juggler. How do they say that in Russian?
1036
I'll pick up with the facts tomorrow morning.
enough.
There has to be end to the terrorist networks in the Middle East. Bush should have accomplished that a long time ago by destroying al Qaeda. He didn't and the people of those countries are victim to ever evolving terrorist networks.
Israel will clean it up if the other countries don't have the backbone. The world can thank Israel later.
There has been a stalemate in regard to indictments of the Hariri murder due to the arrogance of Syria, when in fact they should be completely transparent and rid themselves of the violent element of their society. Isreal will clean up the neighborhood. The USA need not apply. The USA only drops the ball when it suits their political style and greedy cronies. Israel can provide real resolve, not a political theater.
1015
commercials
1018
Fires occur in this dynamic because of Climate Change over time. We know it for a fact A forest will become a tinder box because of drought, no other reason. Controlled burns are not performed in tinder boxes, but, in forests with moist soil and healthy canopy.
Bush is "W"rong in his 'thinning' the forests by his timber buddies. The real danger areas cannot be avoided. It's called stopping Human Induced Global Warming.
1035
Vladimir Putin could not be more correct about Dick Cheney. He doesn't see the entire danger but only when too late and his friends/allies are damaged/dying because of it.
The Bush Administration is a failed and expensive set of politicians.
Hm.
Bush the Juggler. How do they say that in Russian?
1036
I'll pick up with the facts tomorrow morning.
enough.
Anderson the Terrorist
1000
Andy's boy toy is at it again. The man slave loves his master.
1001
163 killed in Mumbai blasts
KRITTIVAS MUKHERJEE IN MUMBAI
AT LEAST 163 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday as bombs ripped through packed commuter trains and railway stations in India's financial hub city of Mumbai.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the evening rush hour attacks, the worst in the city for more than a decade. But suspicion is likely to fall on Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule in disputed Kashmir, who have been blamed for several bomb attacks in India in the past.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1014282006
This isn't about al Qaeda, UNLESS, al Qaeda now runs the conflict between Musharraf's Pakistan and Indian in Kashmir. Has anyone during this news propaganda segment said anything about Kashmir? I didn't think so. They are desperately trying to analogize the Indian city to New York City.
Propagandists. Pure and simple.
MUSHARRAF has some questions to answer.
1005
Chicago Train Derails, Dozens Evacuated
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4040713.html
By MEGAN REICHGOTT
CHICAGO — Dozens of commuters were evacuated from the city's transit system Tuesday after a train derailed and fire filled a subway line with smoke during the evening rush hour. Terrorism was not suspected, officials said.
The evacuations began about an hour after the last car of an eight-car commuter train slipped off the tracks and material beneath the train caught fire, said Chicago Transit Authority President Frank Kruesi. The blaze filled the subway line with thick smoke and covered some commuters in soot....
...Bomb and arson detectives were on the scene, but there was no evidence of foul play, Police Superintendent Philip Cline said.
1010
The dangers with trailers well known. North Carolina ALWAYS sets warnings for people living in trailers when severe weather is expected. These are permanent residence in some cases, not just FEMA trailers.
This is an article from 1986 which appeared in The New York Times on July 4th.
Three Killed When Storm Hits Trailer Park in North Carolina
Published: July 4, 1986
Emergency workers lifting piece of rubble from a mobile home in search of victims after a severe storm, possibly a tornado, hit Jacksonville Wednesday night.
Three people, two of them children, died and eight others were injured. The park is used mainly by the families of marines stationed nearby at Camp Lejeune. (AP)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DB1231F937A35754C0A960948260
1014
You aren't capable of being honest, Anderson. Peter Bergin or whom ever that jerk was, should be ashamed of his role in trying to stir hysteria in a country hs is supposed to love.
Forum to evaluate trailers
The school district will ask the public about the mobile classrooms
Thomas Jamieson-Lucy, decked out in the summer uniform of a baseball hat, T-shirt and shorts, talked about trailer classrooms with the same easygoing attitude that seemed to rule his summer afternoon.
“Sometimes (the trailers) would smell real bad because things would live under them,” the seventh-grader at Smithton Middle School said, referring to a skunk who lived under one classroom trailer before its removal.
Thomas’ mother, Jacui Jamieson, has no problem with the portable classrooms and said her daughter, Allison, a junior at Rock Bridge High School, enjoyed her time in them.
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=20449
1022
Today in Kashmir:
Eight killed, 37 injured in grenade attacks in Kashmir
Shujaat Bukhari
http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/12/stories/2006071207111200.htm
SRINAGAR: In a series of grenade attacks by militants here on Tuesday, eight persons, including five tourists from West Bengal, were killed and 37 injured. One person was caught while hurling a grenade and handed over to police by civilians.
At 11.40 a.m., militants hurled the first grenade into a mini bus near Dalgate, injuring over 15 people. They had come from Kolkatta and were planning to stay here for 10 days. While five of the injured died, others have been admitted to hospital.
Soon, another grenade was thrown towards a Maruti car with Haryana registration number in Regal Chowk. Police said Nitin Roy Shrivastava, a security personnel from Lucknow currently posted in Ladakh, was on a holiday with his family when militants hurled a grenade at his vehicle injuring four persons. Three persons, who were standing nearby, were injured.
AND OF COURSE because this didn't involve a ally, with 'big city' analogy those dead TODAY are insignificant.
1027
Let's see if there is a more realistic analogy. Perhaps? Hm? Iraq? How many did CNN's news secretary say died? 18? Try that again Erica.
About 60 killed in escalating attacks in Iraq; legislators demand answers
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=52ce1764-137b-45dc-8b20-d9bad9077091&k=90726
Canadian PressPublished: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
BAGHDAD (AP) - More than a dozen bombings killed about 60 people in Iraq on Tuesday, part of a recent surge in violence that prompted legislators to ask the government to explain why its security plan for the capital is failing.
Suicide bombers struck across the street from Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, killing up to 16 people - the deadliest attack in a wave of bombings and shootings that threatened to shatter confidence in Iraq's new government.
In all, about 60 people died in more than a dozen bombings, shootings and ambushes - mostly in the Baghdad area, police reported. The dead included 10 Shiite Muslims slain by gunmen who fired on their bus as it left the capital for a funeral in southern Iraq, police said.
1034
Here is an article for you Anderson.It has at least as much truth 'built into it' as any of yours and CNN. You guys are a joke. The Onion has more credibility than you do Anderson. At least they know their humor is based in a bizarre reality called 'DC Moronity.'
Life Jackets Issued To All Americans For Some Reason
June 5, 2002 Issue 38•21
WASHINGTON, DC—Assuring the nation that "there is no need for alarm," the Office of Homeland Security issued all U.S. citizens life jackets for some unexplained reason Monday.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27821/print/
1035
And they said all the cost overruns would fix any problem the tunnel had. Do you know how long this has been going on?
The slide who from The Boston Globe entitled "Boston reacts to tunnel tragedy"
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/tunnel_tragedy_reaction/
1050
Probably a homless man. Predator that gets his needs met off the streets he lives on. With the rape component to the murders it sort of screams 'privacy' to me. Not only wanting to get away with the crime, but, seeking privacy in his sexual acts removes his actions from being witnessed. Think of it as urinating in public. When a 'guy' wants to 'take a leak' they will go out of their way to do so in an out of the way place. Behind trees, scrubs. Motorists will even pull off the road, regardless of the act being against the law, to 'relieve' themselves only to be ticketed by the police.
I think this murderer has THAT edge to his covert nature. It's a privacy issue and hence no witnesses.
34 shootings likely connected, police say
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0711serialshootings11-ON-CR.html
Associated PressJul. 11, 2006 05:30 PM
Thirteen random shootings during the past two months are probably connected to an earlier set of assaults, slayings and animal shootings in the city, with 34 shootings in all now believed to be tied to the same suspect or suspects, police said Tuesday. Everything about the serial shootings points to the same perpetrators, Phoenix police Cmdr. Bill Louis said at a press briefing, but so little is known about them that detectives are frustrated and need help to break the case.“We have no description,” Louis said. “This has been very perplexing for us.
“To have this many incidents without at least one witness, it’s not making sense.” Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon announced a $100,000 reward for information about the serial shooter or a second serial criminal know as the Baseline Rapist. Louis said the first shootings were reported in May 2005 and the most recent early Saturday morning. Four people have died — two homeless men, a woman and a man sitting at a bus stop.Police announced the most recent series of 13 shootings on Saturday, but didn’t conclusively connect them with the earlier shootings. That changed Tuesday, when Sgt. Andy Hill said investigators had connected the two sets of violent crimes after discovering new information. Hill wouldn’t elaborate on the kind of information police received.“We believed this possibility existed all along,” Hill said.The serial shootings are concentrated on major Phoenix streets, occurring late at night or in the early morning and target lone pedestrians.Detectives have been tracking the shootings as part of an unusual crime wave in Phoenix. Since August, a separate task force also has been trying to catch a serial killer dubbed the Baseline Rapist who they believe is responsible for five killings and a series of rapes and assaults.
enough
Andy's boy toy is at it again. The man slave loves his master.
1001
163 killed in Mumbai blasts
KRITTIVAS MUKHERJEE IN MUMBAI
AT LEAST 163 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday as bombs ripped through packed commuter trains and railway stations in India's financial hub city of Mumbai.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the evening rush hour attacks, the worst in the city for more than a decade. But suspicion is likely to fall on Muslim militants fighting New Delhi's rule in disputed Kashmir, who have been blamed for several bomb attacks in India in the past.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1014282006
This isn't about al Qaeda, UNLESS, al Qaeda now runs the conflict between Musharraf's Pakistan and Indian in Kashmir. Has anyone during this news propaganda segment said anything about Kashmir? I didn't think so. They are desperately trying to analogize the Indian city to New York City.
Propagandists. Pure and simple.
MUSHARRAF has some questions to answer.
1005
Chicago Train Derails, Dozens Evacuated
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4040713.html
By MEGAN REICHGOTT
CHICAGO — Dozens of commuters were evacuated from the city's transit system Tuesday after a train derailed and fire filled a subway line with smoke during the evening rush hour. Terrorism was not suspected, officials said.
The evacuations began about an hour after the last car of an eight-car commuter train slipped off the tracks and material beneath the train caught fire, said Chicago Transit Authority President Frank Kruesi. The blaze filled the subway line with thick smoke and covered some commuters in soot....
...Bomb and arson detectives were on the scene, but there was no evidence of foul play, Police Superintendent Philip Cline said.
1010
The dangers with trailers well known. North Carolina ALWAYS sets warnings for people living in trailers when severe weather is expected. These are permanent residence in some cases, not just FEMA trailers.
This is an article from 1986 which appeared in The New York Times on July 4th.
Three Killed When Storm Hits Trailer Park in North Carolina
Published: July 4, 1986
Emergency workers lifting piece of rubble from a mobile home in search of victims after a severe storm, possibly a tornado, hit Jacksonville Wednesday night.
Three people, two of them children, died and eight others were injured. The park is used mainly by the families of marines stationed nearby at Camp Lejeune. (AP)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DB1231F937A35754C0A960948260
1014
You aren't capable of being honest, Anderson. Peter Bergin or whom ever that jerk was, should be ashamed of his role in trying to stir hysteria in a country hs is supposed to love.
Forum to evaluate trailers
The school district will ask the public about the mobile classrooms
Thomas Jamieson-Lucy, decked out in the summer uniform of a baseball hat, T-shirt and shorts, talked about trailer classrooms with the same easygoing attitude that seemed to rule his summer afternoon.
“Sometimes (the trailers) would smell real bad because things would live under them,” the seventh-grader at Smithton Middle School said, referring to a skunk who lived under one classroom trailer before its removal.
Thomas’ mother, Jacui Jamieson, has no problem with the portable classrooms and said her daughter, Allison, a junior at Rock Bridge High School, enjoyed her time in them.
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=20449
1022
Today in Kashmir:
Eight killed, 37 injured in grenade attacks in Kashmir
Shujaat Bukhari
http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/12/stories/2006071207111200.htm
SRINAGAR: In a series of grenade attacks by militants here on Tuesday, eight persons, including five tourists from West Bengal, were killed and 37 injured. One person was caught while hurling a grenade and handed over to police by civilians.
At 11.40 a.m., militants hurled the first grenade into a mini bus near Dalgate, injuring over 15 people. They had come from Kolkatta and were planning to stay here for 10 days. While five of the injured died, others have been admitted to hospital.
Soon, another grenade was thrown towards a Maruti car with Haryana registration number in Regal Chowk. Police said Nitin Roy Shrivastava, a security personnel from Lucknow currently posted in Ladakh, was on a holiday with his family when militants hurled a grenade at his vehicle injuring four persons. Three persons, who were standing nearby, were injured.
AND OF COURSE because this didn't involve a ally, with 'big city' analogy those dead TODAY are insignificant.
1027
Let's see if there is a more realistic analogy. Perhaps? Hm? Iraq? How many did CNN's news secretary say died? 18? Try that again Erica.
About 60 killed in escalating attacks in Iraq; legislators demand answers
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=52ce1764-137b-45dc-8b20-d9bad9077091&k=90726
Canadian PressPublished: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
BAGHDAD (AP) - More than a dozen bombings killed about 60 people in Iraq on Tuesday, part of a recent surge in violence that prompted legislators to ask the government to explain why its security plan for the capital is failing.
Suicide bombers struck across the street from Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, killing up to 16 people - the deadliest attack in a wave of bombings and shootings that threatened to shatter confidence in Iraq's new government.
In all, about 60 people died in more than a dozen bombings, shootings and ambushes - mostly in the Baghdad area, police reported. The dead included 10 Shiite Muslims slain by gunmen who fired on their bus as it left the capital for a funeral in southern Iraq, police said.
1034
Here is an article for you Anderson.It has at least as much truth 'built into it' as any of yours and CNN. You guys are a joke. The Onion has more credibility than you do Anderson. At least they know their humor is based in a bizarre reality called 'DC Moronity.'
Life Jackets Issued To All Americans For Some Reason
June 5, 2002 Issue 38•21
WASHINGTON, DC—Assuring the nation that "there is no need for alarm," the Office of Homeland Security issued all U.S. citizens life jackets for some unexplained reason Monday.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27821/print/
1035
And they said all the cost overruns would fix any problem the tunnel had. Do you know how long this has been going on?
The slide who from The Boston Globe entitled "Boston reacts to tunnel tragedy"
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/tunnel_tragedy_reaction/
1050
Probably a homless man. Predator that gets his needs met off the streets he lives on. With the rape component to the murders it sort of screams 'privacy' to me. Not only wanting to get away with the crime, but, seeking privacy in his sexual acts removes his actions from being witnessed. Think of it as urinating in public. When a 'guy' wants to 'take a leak' they will go out of their way to do so in an out of the way place. Behind trees, scrubs. Motorists will even pull off the road, regardless of the act being against the law, to 'relieve' themselves only to be ticketed by the police.
I think this murderer has THAT edge to his covert nature. It's a privacy issue and hence no witnesses.
34 shootings likely connected, police say
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0711serialshootings11-ON-CR.html
Associated PressJul. 11, 2006 05:30 PM
Thirteen random shootings during the past two months are probably connected to an earlier set of assaults, slayings and animal shootings in the city, with 34 shootings in all now believed to be tied to the same suspect or suspects, police said Tuesday. Everything about the serial shootings points to the same perpetrators, Phoenix police Cmdr. Bill Louis said at a press briefing, but so little is known about them that detectives are frustrated and need help to break the case.“We have no description,” Louis said. “This has been very perplexing for us.
“To have this many incidents without at least one witness, it’s not making sense.” Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon announced a $100,000 reward for information about the serial shooter or a second serial criminal know as the Baseline Rapist. Louis said the first shootings were reported in May 2005 and the most recent early Saturday morning. Four people have died — two homeless men, a woman and a man sitting at a bus stop.Police announced the most recent series of 13 shootings on Saturday, but didn’t conclusively connect them with the earlier shootings. That changed Tuesday, when Sgt. Andy Hill said investigators had connected the two sets of violent crimes after discovering new information. Hill wouldn’t elaborate on the kind of information police received.“We believed this possibility existed all along,” Hill said.The serial shootings are concentrated on major Phoenix streets, occurring late at night or in the early morning and target lone pedestrians.Detectives have been tracking the shootings as part of an unusual crime wave in Phoenix. Since August, a separate task force also has been trying to catch a serial killer dubbed the Baseline Rapist who they believe is responsible for five killings and a series of rapes and assaults.
enough
Saturday, July 8, 2006
The Subject matter is "W"rongly presented
BOYCOTTED
Kelly Arena is completely irrelivant.
If these terrorists are 'known' to our intelligence there isn't anything to worry about. What don't we know?
I sincerely don't want any person to die. I also don't want a nation of frenzied arrests of people basically unable to carry out a terror plot.
The real concern to Americans is the day to day possibility that someone will take the notion to commit murder no matter the cause. THAT is what needs to be the focus of National Security. The railways, roadways, tunnels, planes, etc. need to be terrorist proof. When that occurs then we will have accomplished something. I really think that is upto the mayors and governors to secure their citizens. I also believe there are people whom are defeatists when they state there will be another terrorist attack. They especially seek to tell the public as authority figures that it is impossible to secure our Nation.
Really?
Well. I guess if they are going to compromise our ports, our borders and our immigration policy then we will have other attack potential. We don't need them.
We need people that can secure our Nation regardless of 'shareholder' interests of their portfolios. We need dedicated leaders with the right values.
It's just that simple.
If you were elected to office what would you do? Would you stop Global Warming? Would you secure the ports with American workers and investors? Would you close our borders while seeking a complete and supportive relationship from our neighbors? Would you actively seek a relationship with North Korea to replace it with a functional one, that liberates through peaceful measures?
Ask yourself. How many of the current leaders in the USA have satisfactory answers to those questions?
Act accordingly. Listening to inflammatory programming won't help you.
enough
Kelly Arena is completely irrelivant.
If these terrorists are 'known' to our intelligence there isn't anything to worry about. What don't we know?
I sincerely don't want any person to die. I also don't want a nation of frenzied arrests of people basically unable to carry out a terror plot.
The real concern to Americans is the day to day possibility that someone will take the notion to commit murder no matter the cause. THAT is what needs to be the focus of National Security. The railways, roadways, tunnels, planes, etc. need to be terrorist proof. When that occurs then we will have accomplished something. I really think that is upto the mayors and governors to secure their citizens. I also believe there are people whom are defeatists when they state there will be another terrorist attack. They especially seek to tell the public as authority figures that it is impossible to secure our Nation.
Really?
Well. I guess if they are going to compromise our ports, our borders and our immigration policy then we will have other attack potential. We don't need them.
We need people that can secure our Nation regardless of 'shareholder' interests of their portfolios. We need dedicated leaders with the right values.
It's just that simple.
If you were elected to office what would you do? Would you stop Global Warming? Would you secure the ports with American workers and investors? Would you close our borders while seeking a complete and supportive relationship from our neighbors? Would you actively seek a relationship with North Korea to replace it with a functional one, that liberates through peaceful measures?
Ask yourself. How many of the current leaders in the USA have satisfactory answers to those questions?
Act accordingly. Listening to inflammatory programming won't help you.
enough
Friday, July 7, 2006
An after thought
I want to know, of these cases being acted on by the FBI regarding so called terrorists that have no concrete proof of their ability to carry out a plot; how long have they been under surveillance?
Were they about to be terminated under FISA court regulations because their longevity was actually becoming an issue of 'privacy' vs. 'evidence?'
Were they about to be terminated under FISA court regulations because their longevity was actually becoming an issue of 'privacy' vs. 'evidence?'
Thursday, July 6, 2006
The Optimist "Things don't happen quickly."
900 pm
North Korea is a non - issue in regard to National Security or the security of the nations surrounding North Korea. The humantarian issues are enormous in regard to North Korea. That is where the 'interest'of the USA and it's six party 'talks' belong. The missiles are a nonissue.
Bush states diplomacy just never worked with Iraq. He lies. Iraq was completely disarmed and 'contained' prior to the invasion at Bush's demand. There was no reason to invade Iraq. The invasion inspired a Civil War between the Shia and Sunnis. And not only that, it's allowed an explosion of instability in the region causing Iran's president to state anti-semistism as a priority. It allowed the growth of Zarqawi's al Qaeda connections leading to attacks in Amman. Bush straight faced lied about the diplomacy before the invasion. It worked. Hussein was contained. Bush opened the storehouses of munitons in the Iraqi desert. Does he actually think there is going to be an end to the violence in Iraq after he armed the resistance through gross negligence to detail before his invasion?
Comparing Japan's turn from imperialism to democracy has absolutely no comparison to Iraq. Japan signed treaties of surrender. There were terms. They were nuked. Their culture is hugely different. That is like comparing apples to oranges.
917 pm
Oh, yeah, opinion polls don't bother him at all. He accepted the resignation of a female Supreme Court nominee caused by the opinions of his party before she ever got to hearings, but, of course Bush never succumbs to polls. In comparison, Bush always finds the backbone to deny Rumsfeld's resignations twice.
919 pm
Honoring the dead troops by completing 'the mission' is the wrong reason. The dead are not the reason to go forward. Sound reasons for war is why the mission continues or ends. We have done enough in Iraq. It's upto Iraqis to handle the security of their country.
925 pm
Laura is a lovely lady. However, when it comes to issues of the nation, she always reverts to an answer regarding a home front approach. Children. That wasn't the question. She stated she doesn't approve of censorship of any kind. That was the answer we were looking for in her opinion. She disagrees with the priorities of her husband's administration and "The Patriot Act." No one disagress that 'the children's section' should exlude pornography, however, The Patriot Act does not include censorship, it is about disclosure of personal information to the government. She never answered the question about libraries and The Patriot Act. If Laura's understanding of The Patriot Act reflects that of the women of her party it is a profound disappointment in how they preceive their government and their world.
931
George's approach to the immigration issue is to pacify all those involved including employers, by rewarding the illegal and low paid immigrant and the low paying employer by issuing a temporary worker card. The immigrants need to be stopped from killing themselves in their desperation. But the real change in illegal immigration rates will come when employers are sought out and prosecuted from breaking the law. When illegals can't find work, they'll stop coming and working in adverse conditions. If jobs go unfilled then they are jobs that should not exist in the state they are today !
937 pm
North Korea is a non - issue in regard to National Security or the security of the nations surrounding North Korea. The humantarian issues are enormous in regard to North Korea. That is where the 'interest'of the USA and it's six party 'talks' belong. The missiles are a nonissue.
Bush states diplomacy just never worked with Iraq. He lies. Iraq was completely disarmed and 'contained' prior to the invasion at Bush's demand. There was no reason to invade Iraq. The invasion inspired a Civil War between the Shia and Sunnis. And not only that, it's allowed an explosion of instability in the region causing Iran's president to state anti-semistism as a priority. It allowed the growth of Zarqawi's al Qaeda connections leading to attacks in Amman. Bush straight faced lied about the diplomacy before the invasion. It worked. Hussein was contained. Bush opened the storehouses of munitons in the Iraqi desert. Does he actually think there is going to be an end to the violence in Iraq after he armed the resistance through gross negligence to detail before his invasion?
Comparing Japan's turn from imperialism to democracy has absolutely no comparison to Iraq. Japan signed treaties of surrender. There were terms. They were nuked. Their culture is hugely different. That is like comparing apples to oranges.
917 pm
Oh, yeah, opinion polls don't bother him at all. He accepted the resignation of a female Supreme Court nominee caused by the opinions of his party before she ever got to hearings, but, of course Bush never succumbs to polls. In comparison, Bush always finds the backbone to deny Rumsfeld's resignations twice.
919 pm
Honoring the dead troops by completing 'the mission' is the wrong reason. The dead are not the reason to go forward. Sound reasons for war is why the mission continues or ends. We have done enough in Iraq. It's upto Iraqis to handle the security of their country.
925 pm
Laura is a lovely lady. However, when it comes to issues of the nation, she always reverts to an answer regarding a home front approach. Children. That wasn't the question. She stated she doesn't approve of censorship of any kind. That was the answer we were looking for in her opinion. She disagrees with the priorities of her husband's administration and "The Patriot Act." No one disagress that 'the children's section' should exlude pornography, however, The Patriot Act does not include censorship, it is about disclosure of personal information to the government. She never answered the question about libraries and The Patriot Act. If Laura's understanding of The Patriot Act reflects that of the women of her party it is a profound disappointment in how they preceive their government and their world.
931
George's approach to the immigration issue is to pacify all those involved including employers, by rewarding the illegal and low paid immigrant and the low paying employer by issuing a temporary worker card. The immigrants need to be stopped from killing themselves in their desperation. But the real change in illegal immigration rates will come when employers are sought out and prosecuted from breaking the law. When illegals can't find work, they'll stop coming and working in adverse conditions. If jobs go unfilled then they are jobs that should not exist in the state they are today !
937 pm
no entry - I not interested in commenting on Ken Lay. The relationship with Bush is expected, actually.
944
Bush is very wishy washy about emergency relief. He uses the word 'desire' to cover up any of his own responsibilty beforehand. There is no 'desire' about it. When the National Weather Service states a Cat 5 storm is headed for the USA, there IS evacuation. There is relief to the area. Bush's 'idea' about 'proper' paperwork to be submitted is bizarre and an excuse to avoid blame. The facts regarding incoming storms by the National Weather Service should never require proper documentation NOR should there be the 'option' of evacuation based on desire. Bush is already negligent, before that fact.
949 pm
Besides the issue of rapes and deaths perhaps Mr. Bush would like to comment on this:
ACLU sues over '04 Bush incident
By Sanne Specht / Mail Tribune (Medford, OR)
The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file suit today against federal and local law enforcement agencies for the "violent disruption of peaceful protesters" during President Bush's 2004 campaign visit to Jacksonville, according to ACLU officials.
"We will be filing our suit against the Secret Service and a number of local police agencies including Oregon State Police, the Jacksonville Police Department and the Jackson County Sheriff's Department," said David Fidanque, executive director of the Oregon ACLU.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7446
952 pm
Bush gets daily briefings everyday. There you go. "We have an 'intel' briefing everyday except Sunday. They did before 911, too. It didn't matter than either.
957 pm
Laura speaks again about 'housewife' priorities and the living in the White House. I think that is fine. That was a regular topic with Jackie Kennedy as well. If that is her focus then she should be happy with it. Talk about the house you live in then, Mrs. Bush. I'm sure people will eat it up. If government doesn't interest her, then she should leave it alone and enjoy her experience. Many of the previous first ladies were different.
Exercise. Fine.
1001
That insulting automated voice introduces a 'tape.' So what. The authorities in London and across Britain have changed a lot. They have literally swept London's streets of hate mongers and suspected terrorists. There won't be another bombing. But, that is not what one will hear on this news program. Only hysteria and attempts to escalate the Culture of Fear. This man is dead. He cannot predict the outcome of any event today from the grave.
That is why boycotting CNN is simple. Just turn it off.
enough.
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
The Control Freaks are 'at it' again
0900
Senator Brownback doesn't pay attention. He makes political propaganda statements as if everyone in the globe NEEDS to listen to the USA as if every nation in the area of North Korea isn't already engaged.
Russia is already engaged. They don't need a USA senator to tell them what to do.
North Korea's decision to fire the seven to 10 missiles was a violation of its own seven-year moratorium on tests and threatened to lead to international action against the maverick Communist regime.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev expressed "serious concern" to North Korean Ambassador Pak Ui Chun during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry, the ministry said.
"It was emphasized that North Korea's missile launches damage peace and stability in the region and complicate the potential for resolving the nuclear problems on the Korean Peninsula to the benefit of all interested states and the international community as a whole," it said in a statement.
The ambassador promised to "swiftly inform Pyongyang of Russia's position," it said.
The ministry last summoned him less than two weeks ago, when it became clear that Pyongyang was considering tests. It told him then that Russia opposed any threat to regional stability.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/06/001.html
916 pm
There is no danger imposed by North Korea. Bush caused this and is why everyone is picking up after his mess. North Korea wants a defense against the USA. They aren't going to stop. The economic interests of North Korea has to be nurtured otherwise there will be a complete stalement for a long time while Kim tries to get a missile that will fly. That may never happen. Military intervention is out of the question.
919 pm
China has been engaged with North Korea for a long time. The people of North Korea rely on China for sustanence. With China enjoying a thriving economy, I have a hard time believing they aren't interested in assisting North Korea into a modern economy. The reason there is such nationalism in North Korea is to provide a numerous and dedicated military to protect itself behind a DMZ. That won't change. But, a viable economy with a modern day emphasis will enhance the potential of the people of North Korea to move into a better quality of life.
North Korea has no potential to cause problems that any regional nation cannot defend from. To lend offers of opportunity to the economy of North Korea in respect of their needs and allowing the 'esteem' of their nation to be defined by it's benign China-like factories and products as well as their admirable nationalism is the best outcome of all this.
China expresses serious concern over DPRK's missile test-firing
printResizeButton();
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Wednesday that China is "seriously concerned" over the tensions caused by the missile test-firing by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
"We are seriously concerned with what had happened," Liu said in a press release.
He urged the parties concerned to keep calm and exercise restraint, make more efforts to promote peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the northeast Asia and avoid actions that further intensify and complicate the situation.
China has made unremitting efforts to ease the tensions in the Korean Peninsula, maintain regional peace and stability and push forward the negotiation process of the six-party talks, Liu said.
"We'll continue to work together with all the other parties and play a constructive role," Liu said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200607/05/eng20060705_280357.html
932 pm
Refugees from North Korea is not workable. Trying to empty a nation in order to attack it is not a good foreign policy. Promoting refugees is not an idea that any country would acknowledge as a good option except the Republicans of the USA. which has a large Iraqi refugee PROBLEM already that didn't exist before the invasion and INSTABILITY.
As a matter of fact, encouraging refugess is the frank LACK of policy.
\
Opening immigration to North Koreans is about the best any country could do and should. They should have immigration policies in effect regardless of the isolation of North Korea.
940 pm
Senator Brownback doesn't pay attention. He makes political propaganda statements as if everyone in the globe NEEDS to listen to the USA as if every nation in the area of North Korea isn't already engaged.
Russia is already engaged. They don't need a USA senator to tell them what to do.
North Korea's decision to fire the seven to 10 missiles was a violation of its own seven-year moratorium on tests and threatened to lead to international action against the maverick Communist regime.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev expressed "serious concern" to North Korean Ambassador Pak Ui Chun during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry, the ministry said.
"It was emphasized that North Korea's missile launches damage peace and stability in the region and complicate the potential for resolving the nuclear problems on the Korean Peninsula to the benefit of all interested states and the international community as a whole," it said in a statement.
The ambassador promised to "swiftly inform Pyongyang of Russia's position," it said.
The ministry last summoned him less than two weeks ago, when it became clear that Pyongyang was considering tests. It told him then that Russia opposed any threat to regional stability.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/06/001.html
916 pm
There is no danger imposed by North Korea. Bush caused this and is why everyone is picking up after his mess. North Korea wants a defense against the USA. They aren't going to stop. The economic interests of North Korea has to be nurtured otherwise there will be a complete stalement for a long time while Kim tries to get a missile that will fly. That may never happen. Military intervention is out of the question.
919 pm
China has been engaged with North Korea for a long time. The people of North Korea rely on China for sustanence. With China enjoying a thriving economy, I have a hard time believing they aren't interested in assisting North Korea into a modern economy. The reason there is such nationalism in North Korea is to provide a numerous and dedicated military to protect itself behind a DMZ. That won't change. But, a viable economy with a modern day emphasis will enhance the potential of the people of North Korea to move into a better quality of life.
North Korea has no potential to cause problems that any regional nation cannot defend from. To lend offers of opportunity to the economy of North Korea in respect of their needs and allowing the 'esteem' of their nation to be defined by it's benign China-like factories and products as well as their admirable nationalism is the best outcome of all this.
China expresses serious concern over DPRK's missile test-firing
printResizeButton();
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Wednesday that China is "seriously concerned" over the tensions caused by the missile test-firing by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
"We are seriously concerned with what had happened," Liu said in a press release.
He urged the parties concerned to keep calm and exercise restraint, make more efforts to promote peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the northeast Asia and avoid actions that further intensify and complicate the situation.
China has made unremitting efforts to ease the tensions in the Korean Peninsula, maintain regional peace and stability and push forward the negotiation process of the six-party talks, Liu said.
"We'll continue to work together with all the other parties and play a constructive role," Liu said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200607/05/eng20060705_280357.html
932 pm
Refugees from North Korea is not workable. Trying to empty a nation in order to attack it is not a good foreign policy. Promoting refugees is not an idea that any country would acknowledge as a good option except the Republicans of the USA. which has a large Iraqi refugee PROBLEM already that didn't exist before the invasion and INSTABILITY.
As a matter of fact, encouraging refugess is the frank LACK of policy.
\
Opening immigration to North Koreans is about the best any country could do and should. They should have immigration policies in effect regardless of the isolation of North Korea.
940 pm
Brownback "We need to USE Japan to lead the way on this." The arrogance is unbelievable.
The "Korean Herald" is the major English newsprint in South Korea. It is wall to wall articles to assess the events while reassuring their readership. The reason why all regional countries need to descent without aggression is to reassure South Korea they are not alone and certainly not in danger.
947 pm
The leading article out of the Korean Herald shows a casual approach to the subject.
N. Korea plays missile card
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/06/200607060036.asp
The programing of Larry King Live is lagging in impulsion and has become 'mind speak.' Former Secretary Albright noted quiet correctly this was not an issue under the past administration where she had met with North Korean administration. I disagree this is a dangerous situation. It is however a tragic one, whereby the ONLY hope the USA offered to keep open channels open have been destroyed.
954 pm
I doubt there is anything more to say, especially from an automated voice mail from AC 360.
To ask China to stop trade with North Korea would cause an even greater hardship to the people in North Korea. It's inhumane. The people making that statement have 'no clue' what to do.
1000
Anderson you're a jerk. The best story you have is in New Orleans.
enough
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
You call yourselves Americans? Where are the fireworks from around the country?
9:59 pm
You are all ludicrous. North Korea is not news. They carried out successfully a test launch of it's missiles across the Sea of Japan. They'll do it again. North Korea has no capacity to date to carry nuclear weapons aloft. Any discussion otherwise is mute.
Bush began this international circus when he made a hate filled speech to begin his illegal march into Iraq. He called North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil." That fictious, dangerous and bigoted depiction of North Koreans, Iranians and Iraqis. It will be ultimately upto Bush to resolve a peace with North Korea and roll back all the damage done to date since North Korea removed the seals from it's nuclear facility after the Axis of Evil speech.
Currently, six member talks primarily seek stability to the region. Every nation has a defense. It has a right to develope any and all defenses to protect it's nation. That is exactly what Kim has done today. The 4th of July ? can ? be seen as a message to the USA but that is nothing but narcisstic nonsense. It is an insignificant date to every other nation in the six member council. All have their own national holidays and all have had events happen on them in some fashion they would have seen as internationally adverse.
1011
Currently and after over 50 years oppression by the USA at the DMZ, North Koreans live in complete poverty, vulnerable to faminine, disease and starvation. That is a direct result of it's closed policy to the world outside of it's only economic trading partner, China. North Korea practices widespread nationalism and protectionism. It doesn't allow foreign aide workers in because they seek exploitation of the events and compromise any 'esteem' North Korea has left. The West has sentenced the people of North Korea to doom for decades now.
It has to stop.
You are all ludicrous. North Korea is not news. They carried out successfully a test launch of it's missiles across the Sea of Japan. They'll do it again. North Korea has no capacity to date to carry nuclear weapons aloft. Any discussion otherwise is mute.
Bush began this international circus when he made a hate filled speech to begin his illegal march into Iraq. He called North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil." That fictious, dangerous and bigoted depiction of North Koreans, Iranians and Iraqis. It will be ultimately upto Bush to resolve a peace with North Korea and roll back all the damage done to date since North Korea removed the seals from it's nuclear facility after the Axis of Evil speech.
Currently, six member talks primarily seek stability to the region. Every nation has a defense. It has a right to develope any and all defenses to protect it's nation. That is exactly what Kim has done today. The 4th of July ? can ? be seen as a message to the USA but that is nothing but narcisstic nonsense. It is an insignificant date to every other nation in the six member council. All have their own national holidays and all have had events happen on them in some fashion they would have seen as internationally adverse.
1011
Currently and after over 50 years oppression by the USA at the DMZ, North Koreans live in complete poverty, vulnerable to faminine, disease and starvation. That is a direct result of it's closed policy to the world outside of it's only economic trading partner, China. North Korea practices widespread nationalism and protectionism. It doesn't allow foreign aide workers in because they seek exploitation of the events and compromise any 'esteem' North Korea has left. The West has sentenced the people of North Korea to doom for decades now.
It has to stop.
1016
The United Nations Security Council will meet without event. North Korea will be discussed. China will veto any economic sanctions. Russia will be less interested in a veto except for upholding any understanding with China's Friendship Pact. The other members will have various statements of diplomacy. Life will go on as always because Bush has no solutions or apologies for any of his inflammatory remarks.
Militarily. We know the Patriot System works against Scuds. We know allies such as South Korea and Japan have advanced warning systems against against medium range missiles. The long range program is still very much in the experimental stages and poses no problems. There is no telling that it ever will.
The one incentive that might, but probably won't cause China pause is:
Asian Stocks Slide on North Korean Missile Tests; Toyota Drops
July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks declined for the first time in five days after North Korea launched at least six missiles over the Sea of Japan today, raising the specter that the country will threaten the region's security.
Toyota Motor Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. led declines among the biggest companies in Japan and South Korea.
``This is going to be a blow to investor sentiment and will weigh on the market until the situation is resolved,'' said Park Jae Hoon, who helps oversee about $800 million at Tong Yang Investment Trust Management Co. in Seoul.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=am64aBjrumXQ&refer=
USA Domestically. The Republicans will try to snowball the issue into a political 'chip' for November elections seeking monies for nuclear weapon proliferation, spending programs for this reason or that, increases in military budgets, mo' money for the missile shield, and basically spin it to create high levels of anxiety before November to reinvigorate their Culture of Fear.
IT
IS
ALL
HORSE SHIT !!!
CNN should be ashamed for it's participation on the Fourth of July for propagating hate and fear. This is our Nation's Birthday and they are running films to create greater hatred of North Korea after it just fired test missiles.
Like I said. Everything is back to the usual junk/funk. The Republicans needs anti-psychotics.
1032
Friday, June 30, 2006
There needs to be public hearings.
1003
If our troops are at fault the people of this country have a right to know the truth. The entire truth. I want to hear the words myself. I don't want to hear about any investigation through the 'filter' of a press conference. A good use of C-Span should be to record the hearings, TRANSPARENTLY, to the American Public. I don't want to hear how the National Security is at stake. This is Iraq. This is the military movements in Iraq. It has nothing to do with National Security.
1006
There it is AGAIN. Any excuse is a good excuse. I don't care about the 'information.' Osama bin Laden is out there. That is all I understand. That reality is an atrocity against the people of this country and complete disrespect to the victims of September 11, 2001. All this is nonsense. Afghanistan and Pakistan is NOT that big. It has been nearly five years of a failed compaign against al Qaeda. This is the failure of the Bush White House to stop the terrorist networks from sustaining and spreading. A tape can get to Al Jezeera but Osama bin Ladne can't be found. Iraqi military under Saddam can be heard from thousand of feet in the air with spy planes and listening devies but al Qaeda can't be stopped, but, Saddam could. Pakistan is a country under a 'coup' leader which is pandered to by Bush with millions of dollars sent over the years. Could be billions actually. But, yet, the Pakitani government can't contain the violence of their nation, their poverty that breeds terrorist networks and women are still raped and murdered.. You call that an administration intereseted in the well being of this country? I dont !!!
1014
commercials.
1018
Smart Enegy Solutions
http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/
Scientists Find Global Warming Hurts Crops
By Frank Ling Washington30 June 2006
Scientists have found that global warming could decrease crop yields, not increase them as once thought. VOA's Frank Ling reports that this finding suggests future crop estimates may have to be lowered.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-30-voa64.cfm
SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
http://www.ucsusa.org/
Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases by using the technology, know-how, and practical solutions already at our disposal.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
1024
Kerr McGee exerts no oversight of subcontractors. Thety had recourse in this case because they wirte it inot the contract and turn their affiliates loose regardless their 'real' liability.
http://www.isc.idaho.gov/opinions/domin.pdf
1034
I covered citations to responsible organizations that track these death events at 'theme parks last night.
The zoo is safer !
1037
boring
1042
There is 'bin.' Forever being himself. I guess he's one of those guys the FBI just can't catch.
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm
Eventually "bin" will die of old age. But, then there is his heirs. It isn't enough to have him on a 'Ten Most Wanted List." He needs to be apprehended and Islamic Jihadists need to come to terms with his capture and/or death. Haivng a picture of him on the loose isn't what I call 'effective' government. How much has the USA gone into debt to 'end this?' It just doesn't seem to end.
Five years and he is still out there. Five years. He should have been defeated in the first hours of the invasion if the force that was sent to Iraq was sent to Afghanistan. This is excusable. He needs to be captured or killed. He needs to be behind bars along with his friend Moussaoui.
1047
The Japanese Prime Minister Dream Come True. He should have a good time.
1052
I don't know anyone on the Ten Most Wanted List. My friends don't know any of the Ten Most Wasted. We don't want to know the Ten Most Wanted. This is irrelivant information to life.
enough
If our troops are at fault the people of this country have a right to know the truth. The entire truth. I want to hear the words myself. I don't want to hear about any investigation through the 'filter' of a press conference. A good use of C-Span should be to record the hearings, TRANSPARENTLY, to the American Public. I don't want to hear how the National Security is at stake. This is Iraq. This is the military movements in Iraq. It has nothing to do with National Security.
1006
There it is AGAIN. Any excuse is a good excuse. I don't care about the 'information.' Osama bin Laden is out there. That is all I understand. That reality is an atrocity against the people of this country and complete disrespect to the victims of September 11, 2001. All this is nonsense. Afghanistan and Pakistan is NOT that big. It has been nearly five years of a failed compaign against al Qaeda. This is the failure of the Bush White House to stop the terrorist networks from sustaining and spreading. A tape can get to Al Jezeera but Osama bin Ladne can't be found. Iraqi military under Saddam can be heard from thousand of feet in the air with spy planes and listening devies but al Qaeda can't be stopped, but, Saddam could. Pakistan is a country under a 'coup' leader which is pandered to by Bush with millions of dollars sent over the years. Could be billions actually. But, yet, the Pakitani government can't contain the violence of their nation, their poverty that breeds terrorist networks and women are still raped and murdered.. You call that an administration intereseted in the well being of this country? I dont !!!
1014
commercials.
1018
Smart Enegy Solutions
http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/
Scientists Find Global Warming Hurts Crops
By Frank Ling Washington30 June 2006
Scientists have found that global warming could decrease crop yields, not increase them as once thought. VOA's Frank Ling reports that this finding suggests future crop estimates may have to be lowered.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-30-voa64.cfm
SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
http://www.ucsusa.org/
Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases by using the technology, know-how, and practical solutions already at our disposal.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
1024
Kerr McGee exerts no oversight of subcontractors. Thety had recourse in this case because they wirte it inot the contract and turn their affiliates loose regardless their 'real' liability.
http://www.isc.idaho.gov/opinions/domin.pdf
1034
I covered citations to responsible organizations that track these death events at 'theme parks last night.
The zoo is safer !
1037
boring
1042
There is 'bin.' Forever being himself. I guess he's one of those guys the FBI just can't catch.
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm
Eventually "bin" will die of old age. But, then there is his heirs. It isn't enough to have him on a 'Ten Most Wanted List." He needs to be apprehended and Islamic Jihadists need to come to terms with his capture and/or death. Haivng a picture of him on the loose isn't what I call 'effective' government. How much has the USA gone into debt to 'end this?' It just doesn't seem to end.
Five years and he is still out there. Five years. He should have been defeated in the first hours of the invasion if the force that was sent to Iraq was sent to Afghanistan. This is excusable. He needs to be captured or killed. He needs to be behind bars along with his friend Moussaoui.
1047
The Japanese Prime Minister Dream Come True. He should have a good time.
1052
I don't know anyone on the Ten Most Wanted List. My friends don't know any of the Ten Most Wasted. We don't want to know the Ten Most Wanted. This is irrelivant information to life.
enough
Andy considers hearing from Osama bin Laden important. I don't I consider his death/capture big news.
952 pm
I find the escalation of al Qaeda messages important from the standpoint of what is happening in the Middle East. I can't say it often enough. There has been movement by the 10s of thousands of people in Iraq over the last month. For as sad as that is, realizing all the advocacy by Bin Laden promoting violence after the death of Zarqawi, I believe there is a real message to the USA military in that reality.
Iraq conflict leaves at least 130,000 displaced
By Hiba Moussa and Michael Georgy / Reuters
BAGHDAD - Iraq's sectarian violence of the past four months has pushed the number of displaced people to above 130,000, parliament heard on Monday as members urged ministers to give more aid and security to contain the crisis.
"There should be more field visits to understand their plight," Sunni Arab parliamentarian Dhafir al-Ani told the assembly. "The government should take direct steps and provide security for displaced families, including at their camps."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7358
1001
At one time in the USA it was prohibited to allow this type of television announcement by Bin Laden for the concern of 'stimulating' terrorist cells. What happened to that directive? Iguess we don't have that issue in this country anymore. I didn't know our borders were so secure that only drug dealers could cross.
1015
Anderson this is all very convenient for you while you repromote Mueller's attempt to make the American Public paranoyd about each other with their Home Grown Agenda. The people whom need to be most concerned is Bush for not successfully defeating al Qaeda and the USA military that now faces retaliation by who knows whom in Iraq.
1018
The Supreme Court protects the US Consitution, not the Bush agenda for the USA Constitution. Bush is NOT the legislature. Bush is supposed to ANSWER to the legislature. He's not ! Get over it. The ruling is more than appropriate, it's Bush that is out of line with his boasted 'exectutive authority.' This moronic. Bush is supposed to carry out the will of the people of this country. He is an employee, not a dicatator.
This is a stupid debate. Hysteria by the right is typical. Oh, my. Oh, my. We don't have control of the courts yet !!! Is Bin Laden in Gitmo? I didn't think so.
1021
"ode to the right wing repubicans"
The Executive Branch is Article II ofthe USA Constitution.
Not Article I.
Article I is The Legislature.
The Legislature is SUPPOSED to reflect the will of the people.
The 'duties' of the president and veep are very limited to their autonomy.
Section I of the USA Constitution Article II 'defines the election and QUALIFICATIONS of the Executive Branch. Unfortunately it makes no mention of compentency. The Founding Fathers assumed the people of the country would seek that out. Who knew?
For those of the right wing Repubican party that can read, I seek to be helpful. See below. No need to thank me. I know growing up in the south primarily revolves around tabacco and the military. The 'idea' of the Commander and Chief, 'being the man' comes all too easy.
Section. 2.
Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Clause 2:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Clause 3:
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Section. 3.He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
1039
It would seem the rest of the show is revolving around 'gossip.
Blah, blah, blah. The news secretary should be coming along soon.
1043
Cognitive Moderators of Negative-Emotion Effects: Implications for Understanding Media Context - group of 3 »JP Murry Jr, PA Dacin - The Journal of Consumer Research, 1996
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-5301%28199603%2922%3A4%3C439%3ACMONEI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P&size=LARGE
1048
Safer Parks
http://www.saferparks.org/
Another Crushed Child
Editorial by Kathy Fackler - June 21, 2006
Last Sunday afternoon at a California carnival, Sophia Castillo entrusted the life of her little boy to an amusement ride and the people who make their living selling excitement to the masses. Six-year-old Reuben met the 42” minimum height limit for children riding alone, a measure set by the ride's manufacturer and, presumably, enforced by the ride's operator. Witnesses say the child appeared to panic when his car reached the summit. He fell to his death as his mother and the ride operator looked on.
http://www.saferparks.org/saferparks_agenda/editorials/another_crushed_child.php
1050
How Safeis ThatRoller Coaster?
By Richard O'Brien
E very year some 319 million people visit amusement parks in the United States. Most of these fun seekers line up for the ever-faster, ever-more-towering roller coasters for what they hope will be the ride of their lives. Should they stop to wonder if it could be the last ride of their lives?
http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/rollercoaster02.asp
1053
Amusement Safety Organization
http://www.amusementsafety.org/
1055
I am still waiting for the pitch for fear mongering of Home Grown Osamas.
Not forthcoming I take it. The commercial interruuption announcement during the news event is it?
This is boring.
Anderson this is a manipulated mess. You are a liar. I have no use for this program. You know, Anderson , it's time you went back to being a real journalist rather than one that seeks to out thrill as the persona of Steven King right out of Pet Cemetary.
This is a darn shame.
1109
enough
Addendum
The 120 second or so segment out of a 120 minutes about defendants of Mueller that appeared at the 'end' of a repeated hour was an insult to the east coast viewershi. That viewership was expected to get a second dose of the terrorist and 911 mastermind Osama bin Laden whom continues his campaign of global terror due to a failed war by Bush. The program proceeded past that with the boring gossip segment about Starr Jones, more pictures of waterlogged America, a second news secretary blurb which was the only 'diifernece' between the hour before just to dangle it's announced 'of interest' segment to the end of the program. The segment didn't really contain the information I was looking for and that was the previous criminal history of the defendant, their eductional levels, impressions of people they ?worked? with, attended Mosque with, related to daily other than the other defendants. The upset mother, the defending lawyer was all very predictable and also adds a shadow of suspicion to the charges but does not portray a true understanding of the 'character' issue that will no doubt enter the fray during a trial about terrorist charges rather than that of a trespasser. Note to self: Why did you sit through the second lousy hour of that show? Answer: Because that news team is untrustworthy and I can always look at satellites for another hour without being bored.
end (How many jumble words can one find in English out of end? Den, Ned. I think that is it.
Oh, yeah. The segment about the Mueller terrorist didn't even make the transcript. Somethign tells me this news team doesn't consider it important or the producer when home about the time I quite reviewing the program.
I find the escalation of al Qaeda messages important from the standpoint of what is happening in the Middle East. I can't say it often enough. There has been movement by the 10s of thousands of people in Iraq over the last month. For as sad as that is, realizing all the advocacy by Bin Laden promoting violence after the death of Zarqawi, I believe there is a real message to the USA military in that reality.
Iraq conflict leaves at least 130,000 displaced
By Hiba Moussa and Michael Georgy / Reuters
BAGHDAD - Iraq's sectarian violence of the past four months has pushed the number of displaced people to above 130,000, parliament heard on Monday as members urged ministers to give more aid and security to contain the crisis.
"There should be more field visits to understand their plight," Sunni Arab parliamentarian Dhafir al-Ani told the assembly. "The government should take direct steps and provide security for displaced families, including at their camps."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7358
1001
At one time in the USA it was prohibited to allow this type of television announcement by Bin Laden for the concern of 'stimulating' terrorist cells. What happened to that directive? Iguess we don't have that issue in this country anymore. I didn't know our borders were so secure that only drug dealers could cross.
1015
Anderson this is all very convenient for you while you repromote Mueller's attempt to make the American Public paranoyd about each other with their Home Grown Agenda. The people whom need to be most concerned is Bush for not successfully defeating al Qaeda and the USA military that now faces retaliation by who knows whom in Iraq.
1018
The Supreme Court protects the US Consitution, not the Bush agenda for the USA Constitution. Bush is NOT the legislature. Bush is supposed to ANSWER to the legislature. He's not ! Get over it. The ruling is more than appropriate, it's Bush that is out of line with his boasted 'exectutive authority.' This moronic. Bush is supposed to carry out the will of the people of this country. He is an employee, not a dicatator.
This is a stupid debate. Hysteria by the right is typical. Oh, my. Oh, my. We don't have control of the courts yet !!! Is Bin Laden in Gitmo? I didn't think so.
1021
"ode to the right wing repubicans"
The Executive Branch is Article II ofthe USA Constitution.
Not Article I.
Article I is The Legislature.
The Legislature is SUPPOSED to reflect the will of the people.
The 'duties' of the president and veep are very limited to their autonomy.
Section I of the USA Constitution Article II 'defines the election and QUALIFICATIONS of the Executive Branch. Unfortunately it makes no mention of compentency. The Founding Fathers assumed the people of the country would seek that out. Who knew?
For those of the right wing Repubican party that can read, I seek to be helpful. See below. No need to thank me. I know growing up in the south primarily revolves around tabacco and the military. The 'idea' of the Commander and Chief, 'being the man' comes all too easy.
Section. 2.
Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Clause 2:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Clause 3:
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Section. 3.He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
1039
It would seem the rest of the show is revolving around 'gossip.
Blah, blah, blah. The news secretary should be coming along soon.
1043
Cognitive Moderators of Negative-Emotion Effects: Implications for Understanding Media Context - group of 3 »JP Murry Jr, PA Dacin - The Journal of Consumer Research, 1996
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-5301%28199603%2922%3A4%3C439%3ACMONEI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P&size=LARGE
1048
Safer Parks
http://www.saferparks.org/
Another Crushed Child
Editorial by Kathy Fackler - June 21, 2006
Last Sunday afternoon at a California carnival, Sophia Castillo entrusted the life of her little boy to an amusement ride and the people who make their living selling excitement to the masses. Six-year-old Reuben met the 42” minimum height limit for children riding alone, a measure set by the ride's manufacturer and, presumably, enforced by the ride's operator. Witnesses say the child appeared to panic when his car reached the summit. He fell to his death as his mother and the ride operator looked on.
http://www.saferparks.org/saferparks_agenda/editorials/another_crushed_child.php
1050
How Safeis ThatRoller Coaster?
By Richard O'Brien
E very year some 319 million people visit amusement parks in the United States. Most of these fun seekers line up for the ever-faster, ever-more-towering roller coasters for what they hope will be the ride of their lives. Should they stop to wonder if it could be the last ride of their lives?
http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/rollercoaster02.asp
1053
Amusement Safety Organization
http://www.amusementsafety.org/
1055
I am still waiting for the pitch for fear mongering of Home Grown Osamas.
Not forthcoming I take it. The commercial interruuption announcement during the news event is it?
This is boring.
Anderson this is a manipulated mess. You are a liar. I have no use for this program. You know, Anderson , it's time you went back to being a real journalist rather than one that seeks to out thrill as the persona of Steven King right out of Pet Cemetary.
This is a darn shame.
1109
enough
Addendum
The 120 second or so segment out of a 120 minutes about defendants of Mueller that appeared at the 'end' of a repeated hour was an insult to the east coast viewershi. That viewership was expected to get a second dose of the terrorist and 911 mastermind Osama bin Laden whom continues his campaign of global terror due to a failed war by Bush. The program proceeded past that with the boring gossip segment about Starr Jones, more pictures of waterlogged America, a second news secretary blurb which was the only 'diifernece' between the hour before just to dangle it's announced 'of interest' segment to the end of the program. The segment didn't really contain the information I was looking for and that was the previous criminal history of the defendant, their eductional levels, impressions of people they ?worked? with, attended Mosque with, related to daily other than the other defendants. The upset mother, the defending lawyer was all very predictable and also adds a shadow of suspicion to the charges but does not portray a true understanding of the 'character' issue that will no doubt enter the fray during a trial about terrorist charges rather than that of a trespasser. Note to self: Why did you sit through the second lousy hour of that show? Answer: Because that news team is untrustworthy and I can always look at satellites for another hour without being bored.
end (How many jumble words can one find in English out of end? Den, Ned. I think that is it.
Oh, yeah. The segment about the Mueller terrorist didn't even make the transcript. Somethign tells me this news team doesn't consider it important or the producer when home about the time I quite reviewing the program.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
June 24, 2006.
Lecco, Italy.
Photographer states :: 6/24/06 h.8.34pm: In less than an hour a sunny warm day like many others has turned into the stormiest in this Summer for us. The photo shows probably a shelf cloud (not actually one of the neatest examples, but these are not the Plains!) of a huge multi-cellular system with overshooting top passed on almost the whole Northern part of Italy. Despite its size, its frightning appearance and the number of lightning strikes, this storm left ridiculous amounts of rain, probably because humidity in the air was low.
Burn Down the House
1000
A stupid robot. They use a stupid robot as if that adds something. How moronic does 'treating the public' get? You know, Aaron's 'whip around the world' was an introduction with real journalists. Aaron never felt threatened by his piers and would share the stage with them the entire hour. He'd wouldn't dream of doing it differently and what does Cooper do? Replaces piers with a robot. Boy, it's impressive, I'll tell you.
1003
Human Induced Global Warming.
I need to move to my other computer. In a minute.
1010
The news secretary.
I have to download a satellite view to illustrate the oddity. You can't make sense of this my looking at individual storms.
Anderson shut up. The New York Times simply reported the information Bush officially leaked. Stop being so stupid. Bush and Cheney have a long history of officiating leaks from this government. There is a former senior White House aide on indictment because he won't admit to it to protect his boss, whom was scapegoating him the entire time. And now, because The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal have so kindly obliged Bush and Cheney's official leaks they are being 'set up' as treasonist organizations. You are an asshole, Anderson. You actually believe pathological liars like Bush and Cheney? You are a bigger fool than Aaron Brown could ever bring himself to be !! Jerk ~
Satellite next.
A stupid robot. They use a stupid robot as if that adds something. How moronic does 'treating the public' get? You know, Aaron's 'whip around the world' was an introduction with real journalists. Aaron never felt threatened by his piers and would share the stage with them the entire hour. He'd wouldn't dream of doing it differently and what does Cooper do? Replaces piers with a robot. Boy, it's impressive, I'll tell you.
1003
Human Induced Global Warming.
I need to move to my other computer. In a minute.
1010
The news secretary.
I have to download a satellite view to illustrate the oddity. You can't make sense of this my looking at individual storms.
Anderson shut up. The New York Times simply reported the information Bush officially leaked. Stop being so stupid. Bush and Cheney have a long history of officiating leaks from this government. There is a former senior White House aide on indictment because he won't admit to it to protect his boss, whom was scapegoating him the entire time. And now, because The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal have so kindly obliged Bush and Cheney's official leaks they are being 'set up' as treasonist organizations. You are an asshole, Anderson. You actually believe pathological liars like Bush and Cheney? You are a bigger fool than Aaron Brown could ever bring himself to be !! Jerk ~
Satellite next.
Let me know when Anderson starts saying something important. Thank should give me plenty of time.
June 29, 2006. 0130z.
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite - Hemispheric.
I'm going to put a dialogue to this image. Take a good look at it. Come to your own conclusion and then we'll see if we agree. I already know I am right, but, I keep an open mind.
Ready.
I usually take the time to allow my mind to fill with the image enough to draw on it's own memory to impose difference from the past. It's a tedious exercise I put myself through. I could compare satellite images with other satellite images but I work completely from memory. I trust my mind.
I already know people are going say, this broad is off the wall. Not so.
Confusing looking image, isn't it? I agree. Let's break it down.
Where is the light part of the image?
Where is the dark?
The 'light' cloud cover type of color is exclusively in the north. Yes, it is. There is no 'color' that matches anything in the south that is in the north. Don't believe me to believe me. Decide. Color, intensity, pattern, DIVISION.
See, it yet?
Now. Let's look at the north. I'd like to say it is all due to 'the jet stream.' Would I love to say that and never have to look another satellite image again. But, it isn't. There are vortices at every 'scallop.'
I am not going to explain the dynamics of vortices. Just recall that most of the 'water' is in the north. Leave it there. Tuck it under your pillow. You might want to ask, what it is doing there.
Okay.
The southern aspect of the picture.
Take a good look.
It's void of water. Isn't it? Compared to the north. It's mostly void of water.
Except for where?
Where? The coastlines of the North American Continent. Yes? Yes.
Why? Hm. Coastlines. Water at the coastlines. Cooler water than the continent. Hm. Turbulent air. Yep. Storms.
But, what about the center of the continent? What gives?
Drought. Simple as that. All the water is in the north spinning around the Arctic Circle. There is precious little water over the continent because it's hot. The terra firma of the USA is hot. Carbon dioxide blankets this nation and the heat intensity has grown so much that it has no dew point at ground level. The water 'vapor' in the troposphere over the continent evaporates before it ever hits the ground.
So what is that line across the bottom. That's turbulent, too. There is water there. What is that all about?
Hm. The equatorial air. Oh, that. Well. Take a good look. Where is the land along that line? The North American continent where it approaches South America. There is only a tiny piece of land to interfer with the equatorial air and it's travel around Earth. That air mass at the equator is probably the most 'healthy' aspect of the picture. At least for now.Try to imagine where the 'solar rays' are hitting. Then come to understand they are far from the equator. Just south of the equator is a huge rainforest. The Amazon. The beautiful and ever endangered Amazon. It absorbs carbon dioxide in huge amounts whenever the sun is up. It also provides moisture to the air. So there is an equatorial dynamics that plays out separately from that above the Tropic of Cancer. The Tropic of Cancer is 23.5 degrees north (click on).
But there is one other aspect to this.
The curve of Earth. You all know about curves. Women worry about them. Men adore them. Well. Earth's curves aren't quite that enticing. But it exists doesn't it? In that 'click on' map, Earth is curved. The way inwhich the solar rays hits Earth depends on it's angle, rotation and curve at any one location on this planet in it's relentless travel around Sol providing a benevolent biota in a very hostile universe.
Do me a favor. Learn to love Earth. It loves you. Let's get this stuff right. With any luck, the lives we save will appreciate the fact they were saved and will want to do the same to the planet that sustains them.
Shalom.
I really don't give a hoot about what Anderson has to say for the rest of the next hour or the one that just transpired. He has no 'agenda' of benevolence and seeks to back a president intent on 'burning the house down' including the planet that loves us.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Die Hard Propagandists
2157
Let's Party Larry. You support the victimization of the poor in this country? You support Mueller's Campaign Season for Home Grown Oppression? You want to drag John Walsh into this mess out of desperation?
Fine.
John Walsh seems compelled to back Mueller regardless the lack of evidence of al Qaeda support. According to John Walsh a person does NOT have to overtly appear to be a member of al Qaeda. He cited the Lackawanna Seven to support that claim. John Walsh needs to check his facts before he makes statements that victimize 'entrapment' of homeless, Black Americans whom have no resources or any way of carrying out a crime against the people of the USA. I got an idea. Maybe John Walsh can give some homeless jobs working for the protection of American's children. You know. Reform the poorest in this country rather than allowing them to live in warehouses without windows.
Oh, by the way, there are more Senators that are Democrats backing tough laws to prohibit crimes against children as well.
The Lackawanna Seven were not poor. They were not entrapped. They were hardened Al Qaeda. (click on).
Yasein Taher was voted "friendliest" by his 1996 graduating class at Lackawanna High School. Five years later, in the spring of 2001, he was in an Al Qaeda training camp attending military lectures and learning how to use a Kalashnikov.
The 25-year-old former soccer team co-captain married his high school sweetheart, a former cheerleader. Friends said Taher became more interested in Islam as he entered his early twenties. When he returned from the camp in Afghanistan, relatives said he appeared less devout, going out to nightclubs again and shaving his beard.
Taher worked at a collection agency and had attended a local community college. He was living with his mother at the time of his arrest. He pled guilty in May 2003 to providing material support to Al Qaeda, and was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in December 2003.
Described by his lawyer as a "sports nut," Shafal Mosed, 25, was a frequent gambler at the casinos across the border in Canada, according to members of the Lackawanna community. "He had his wild side," a friend remembers.
Mosed was enrolled in community college and worked as a telemarketer at the time of his arrest. He was living with his wife and two-year-old son. He also cared for his disabled mother.
Mosed pled guilty to material support in March 2003. In his plea deal with the U.S. government, he admitted to knowing beforehand that the planned trip was illegal and that the training camp they were going to was associated with Osama bin Laden. He said he performed guard duty at the camp and also received training in mountain climbing and weapons. He told the government that he heard bin Laden speak of "50 men who were on a suicide mission" when the Al Qaeda leader visited the camp. Mosed was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2003.
At the request of the CIA, Bahraini police picked up Mukhtar al-Bakri, 23, on his wedding night from a hotel room in the capital city of Manama. FBI agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz interviewed him the next day, Sept. 11, 2002. During a subsequent interrogation, al-Bakri admitted he trained in the use of weapons and explosives at an Al Qaeda camp.
Al-Bakri was the first to admit that the group had not attended religious training in Pakistan, but rather traveled to the terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. His confession paved the way for the FBI to bring charges against the Lackwanna men.
In Afghanistan, al-Bakri and the others met Osama bin Laden, who visited the camp. Al-Bakri says he told the Al Qaeda leader he was worried because his parents didn't know where he was. He hoped that he would be allowed to leave but he says bin Laden responded by suggesting he write his parents a letter, telling them where he was. Al-Bakri also said that he was made to stay an additional week at the camp for "extra training."
Al-Bakri came under increased surveillance after the U.S. government reviewed and analyzed an e-mail he sent while traveling in Saudi Arabia months before his arrest. The e-mail referred to an upcoming "big meal" that authorities interpreted as a code for an impending terrorist attack. Al-Bakri told the FBI he had overheard a conversation about an attack but did not know any details. He said he had used a code because he was afraid his e-mail was being monitored.
Al-Bakri says in his heart, he never considered himself an Al Qaeda member despite having attended the training camp.
In June 2003, he was the last of the six arrested men to plead guilty to material support, and he was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in December 2003.
In May 2003, the U.S. government unsealed an indictment charging Jaber Elbaneh, 37, with providing material support to Al Qaeda.
According to Sahim Alwan, Elbaneh admired Kamal Derwish who encouraged the young Lackwanna men to become more religious. Derwish, who is believed to have been an Al Qaeda recruiter, organized the summer 2001 trip into Afghanistan.
Elbaneh traveled to Afghanistan with al-Bakri, Alwan and Yahya Goba. At the camp, Elbaneh told Alwan that he wanted to fight with the Taliban and was willing to become a martyr.
Elbaneh never returned to the U.S. after his trip to Afghanistan and in September 2003, the FBI announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. He was believed to be living in Yemen.
January 2004 Update: According to U.S. and Yemeni officials familiar with the case, Elbaneh has been taken into custody in Yemen. These officials gave no details of his arrest, but U.S. officials say that negotiations concerning Elbaneh's possible extradition are under way between the U.S. and Yemeni governments.
Sahim Alwan, 30, is a college-educated, married man with three children who worked as a counselor with the Iroquois Job Corps Center, a job training facility located in Medina, NY. He was active in the Lackawanna Yemeni community and served as president of the mosque.
He is the first American citizen to have gone to an Al Qaeda training camp, met personally with Osama bin Laden and given a formal interview about his experience.
Today, Alwan says he regrets the trip and maintains that he never intended to become a terrorist. Even though he knew going to Afghanistan was wrong, he admits he let his curiosity get the better of him.
Hungry to learn more about Islam, Alwan says he was frustrated by the limited opportunities to study his religion in depth in Lackawanna. When Alwan first met fellow Yemeni-American Kamal Derwish, he was intrigued by this "very likable guy" who seemed knowledgeable about Islam.
In spring 2001, with Derwish's encouragement, Alwan and the others embarked on their trip. However, Alwan claims he very quickly had a change of heart and begged the camp authorities to let him to return home. He was allowed to leave, but first was taken to a personal meeting with bin Laden, in which the Al Qaeda leader asked about the status of Muslims in the U.S.
After the meeting with bin Laden, Alwan was asked by a bin Laden associate to carry videotapes of the USS Cole bombing to a guesthouse in Pakistan on his way back. Alwan admits to transporting the tapes.
Once Alwan returned home to Lackawanna, he did not report what he'd learned about Al Qaeda to authorities. Despite already having a contact at the FBI from an earlier, unrelated case, Alwan kept silent about his trip, even after the Sept. 11 attacks. He said he was scared that he'd be turned into a scapegoat at such an emotional time. "We talked about keeping your mouth shut, and just letting this thing die out," he says. After being confronted with information obtained from the arrest and interrogation of Mukhtar al-Bakri, Alwan confessed to FBI agent Edward Needham and was arrested on Sept. 13, 2002. He pled guilty to material support of terrorism in April 2003, and was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in December 2003.
Goba, 26, did not grow up in Lackawanna. Born in the Bronx, he was raised for a while in Yemen, and moved to Western New York in the late 1996. Later he moved in with Al Qaeda recruiter Kamal Derwish. The two men would host Islamic education sessions at their home, where Derwish would lecture, and the group would order pizza and socialize.
In May 2001, Goba traveled with Sahim Alwan, Jaber Elbaneh and Mukhtar al-Bakri to Pakistan, where the group split up and made their way into Afghanistan to an Al Qaeda training camp. Goba was considered one of the group's leaders and after returning from Afghanistan he maintained phone and e-mail communication with Derwish, who remained overseas. In his March 2003 guilty plea, Goba admitted having trained to use firearms, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, as well as explosives. He also said that Osama bin Laden had spoken at the camp of men "willing to become martyrs for the cause." In December 2003, Goba was sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison.
Galab, 27, was a part-owner of a gas station in Lackawanna, where he spent much of his time. Growing up, Galab, like the others, seemed to be a typical American teenager, interested in clothes, partying, and going to casinos. He was a star soccer player and loved watching the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. He spoke only minimal Arabic.
According to his brother Moses, Faysal Galab became interested in religion in his early 20s, when he got married and started having children. Galab traveled with the first group that left for Afghanistan, on April 28, 2001.
In January 2003, Galab was the first of the "Lackawanna Six" to plead guilty to material support of terrorism. In his plea, he admitted to traveling to the camp, knowing that the trip was illegal, and receiving weapons training. He also acknowledged Osama bin Laden had spoken at the camp. Galab, according to the plea agreement, left the camp before he had completed the training course, and eventually returned to Lackawanna with Shafal Mosed and Yasein Taher in June 2001. In December 2003, he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
enough
Let's Party Larry. You support the victimization of the poor in this country? You support Mueller's Campaign Season for Home Grown Oppression? You want to drag John Walsh into this mess out of desperation?
Fine.
John Walsh seems compelled to back Mueller regardless the lack of evidence of al Qaeda support. According to John Walsh a person does NOT have to overtly appear to be a member of al Qaeda. He cited the Lackawanna Seven to support that claim. John Walsh needs to check his facts before he makes statements that victimize 'entrapment' of homeless, Black Americans whom have no resources or any way of carrying out a crime against the people of the USA. I got an idea. Maybe John Walsh can give some homeless jobs working for the protection of American's children. You know. Reform the poorest in this country rather than allowing them to live in warehouses without windows.
Oh, by the way, there are more Senators that are Democrats backing tough laws to prohibit crimes against children as well.
The Lackawanna Seven were not poor. They were not entrapped. They were hardened Al Qaeda. (click on).
Yasein Taher was voted "friendliest" by his 1996 graduating class at Lackawanna High School. Five years later, in the spring of 2001, he was in an Al Qaeda training camp attending military lectures and learning how to use a Kalashnikov.
The 25-year-old former soccer team co-captain married his high school sweetheart, a former cheerleader. Friends said Taher became more interested in Islam as he entered his early twenties. When he returned from the camp in Afghanistan, relatives said he appeared less devout, going out to nightclubs again and shaving his beard.
Taher worked at a collection agency and had attended a local community college. He was living with his mother at the time of his arrest. He pled guilty in May 2003 to providing material support to Al Qaeda, and was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in December 2003.
Described by his lawyer as a "sports nut," Shafal Mosed, 25, was a frequent gambler at the casinos across the border in Canada, according to members of the Lackawanna community. "He had his wild side," a friend remembers.
Mosed was enrolled in community college and worked as a telemarketer at the time of his arrest. He was living with his wife and two-year-old son. He also cared for his disabled mother.
Mosed pled guilty to material support in March 2003. In his plea deal with the U.S. government, he admitted to knowing beforehand that the planned trip was illegal and that the training camp they were going to was associated with Osama bin Laden. He said he performed guard duty at the camp and also received training in mountain climbing and weapons. He told the government that he heard bin Laden speak of "50 men who were on a suicide mission" when the Al Qaeda leader visited the camp. Mosed was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2003.
At the request of the CIA, Bahraini police picked up Mukhtar al-Bakri, 23, on his wedding night from a hotel room in the capital city of Manama. FBI agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz interviewed him the next day, Sept. 11, 2002. During a subsequent interrogation, al-Bakri admitted he trained in the use of weapons and explosives at an Al Qaeda camp.
Al-Bakri was the first to admit that the group had not attended religious training in Pakistan, but rather traveled to the terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. His confession paved the way for the FBI to bring charges against the Lackwanna men.
In Afghanistan, al-Bakri and the others met Osama bin Laden, who visited the camp. Al-Bakri says he told the Al Qaeda leader he was worried because his parents didn't know where he was. He hoped that he would be allowed to leave but he says bin Laden responded by suggesting he write his parents a letter, telling them where he was. Al-Bakri also said that he was made to stay an additional week at the camp for "extra training."
Al-Bakri came under increased surveillance after the U.S. government reviewed and analyzed an e-mail he sent while traveling in Saudi Arabia months before his arrest. The e-mail referred to an upcoming "big meal" that authorities interpreted as a code for an impending terrorist attack. Al-Bakri told the FBI he had overheard a conversation about an attack but did not know any details. He said he had used a code because he was afraid his e-mail was being monitored.
Al-Bakri says in his heart, he never considered himself an Al Qaeda member despite having attended the training camp.
In June 2003, he was the last of the six arrested men to plead guilty to material support, and he was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in December 2003.
In May 2003, the U.S. government unsealed an indictment charging Jaber Elbaneh, 37, with providing material support to Al Qaeda.
According to Sahim Alwan, Elbaneh admired Kamal Derwish who encouraged the young Lackwanna men to become more religious. Derwish, who is believed to have been an Al Qaeda recruiter, organized the summer 2001 trip into Afghanistan.
Elbaneh traveled to Afghanistan with al-Bakri, Alwan and Yahya Goba. At the camp, Elbaneh told Alwan that he wanted to fight with the Taliban and was willing to become a martyr.
Elbaneh never returned to the U.S. after his trip to Afghanistan and in September 2003, the FBI announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. He was believed to be living in Yemen.
January 2004 Update: According to U.S. and Yemeni officials familiar with the case, Elbaneh has been taken into custody in Yemen. These officials gave no details of his arrest, but U.S. officials say that negotiations concerning Elbaneh's possible extradition are under way between the U.S. and Yemeni governments.
Sahim Alwan, 30, is a college-educated, married man with three children who worked as a counselor with the Iroquois Job Corps Center, a job training facility located in Medina, NY. He was active in the Lackawanna Yemeni community and served as president of the mosque.
He is the first American citizen to have gone to an Al Qaeda training camp, met personally with Osama bin Laden and given a formal interview about his experience.
Today, Alwan says he regrets the trip and maintains that he never intended to become a terrorist. Even though he knew going to Afghanistan was wrong, he admits he let his curiosity get the better of him.
Hungry to learn more about Islam, Alwan says he was frustrated by the limited opportunities to study his religion in depth in Lackawanna. When Alwan first met fellow Yemeni-American Kamal Derwish, he was intrigued by this "very likable guy" who seemed knowledgeable about Islam.
In spring 2001, with Derwish's encouragement, Alwan and the others embarked on their trip. However, Alwan claims he very quickly had a change of heart and begged the camp authorities to let him to return home. He was allowed to leave, but first was taken to a personal meeting with bin Laden, in which the Al Qaeda leader asked about the status of Muslims in the U.S.
After the meeting with bin Laden, Alwan was asked by a bin Laden associate to carry videotapes of the USS Cole bombing to a guesthouse in Pakistan on his way back. Alwan admits to transporting the tapes.
Once Alwan returned home to Lackawanna, he did not report what he'd learned about Al Qaeda to authorities. Despite already having a contact at the FBI from an earlier, unrelated case, Alwan kept silent about his trip, even after the Sept. 11 attacks. He said he was scared that he'd be turned into a scapegoat at such an emotional time. "We talked about keeping your mouth shut, and just letting this thing die out," he says. After being confronted with information obtained from the arrest and interrogation of Mukhtar al-Bakri, Alwan confessed to FBI agent Edward Needham and was arrested on Sept. 13, 2002. He pled guilty to material support of terrorism in April 2003, and was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in December 2003.
Goba, 26, did not grow up in Lackawanna. Born in the Bronx, he was raised for a while in Yemen, and moved to Western New York in the late 1996. Later he moved in with Al Qaeda recruiter Kamal Derwish. The two men would host Islamic education sessions at their home, where Derwish would lecture, and the group would order pizza and socialize.
In May 2001, Goba traveled with Sahim Alwan, Jaber Elbaneh and Mukhtar al-Bakri to Pakistan, where the group split up and made their way into Afghanistan to an Al Qaeda training camp. Goba was considered one of the group's leaders and after returning from Afghanistan he maintained phone and e-mail communication with Derwish, who remained overseas. In his March 2003 guilty plea, Goba admitted having trained to use firearms, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, as well as explosives. He also said that Osama bin Laden had spoken at the camp of men "willing to become martyrs for the cause." In December 2003, Goba was sentenced to the maximum of 10 years in prison.
Galab, 27, was a part-owner of a gas station in Lackawanna, where he spent much of his time. Growing up, Galab, like the others, seemed to be a typical American teenager, interested in clothes, partying, and going to casinos. He was a star soccer player and loved watching the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. He spoke only minimal Arabic.
According to his brother Moses, Faysal Galab became interested in religion in his early 20s, when he got married and started having children. Galab traveled with the first group that left for Afghanistan, on April 28, 2001.
In January 2003, Galab was the first of the "Lackawanna Six" to plead guilty to material support of terrorism. In his plea, he admitted to traveling to the camp, knowing that the trip was illegal, and receiving weapons training. He also acknowledged Osama bin Laden had spoken at the camp. Galab, according to the plea agreement, left the camp before he had completed the training course, and eventually returned to Lackawanna with Shafal Mosed and Yasein Taher in June 2001. In December 2003, he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
enough
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Is that anyway to treat 'the truth.'
1000
Iraq General Proposes Troop Reductions; Democrats Call Plan A Political Move
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1535073/20060626/index.jhtml?headlines=true
With election-year issues such as flag burning, gay marriage — and the latest addition to the team, immigration — gaining momentum in advance of this November's midterm congressional elections, Democrats charged Monday that Republicans are planning to steal a page from their playbook and add troop reductions in Iraq to the list. Just days after a pair of Democratic initiatives to begin a troop withdrawal went down in fiery defeat in the Senate (see "Senate Rejects Call For Withdrawal From Iraq; Cheney Slams Democrats"), Democrats were fuming Monday (June 26) over The New York Times reports that General George W. Casey, the top military commander in Iraq, met privately with President Bush on Friday and proposed a gradual drawdown of troops that could begin this fall. Their source of anger was word that the proposal was similar to one of the defeated Democratic plans offered up on Thursday, which Republicans had publicly assailed as an attempt to "cut and run" or set an artificial timetable for withdrawal.
1015
John Robert's lies to mount an attack on The New York Times and their reporting of the Casey Draw Down. The Levin Amendment completely reflects flexibility in troop withdrawals.
Reid: Bush Republicans Stand Alone on Iraq
6/26/2006 3:22:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both of the Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
WASHINGTON, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the U.S. Senate, calling on Bush Republicans to put aside their partisan slogans on Iraq to support a real plan for the future. Democrats, America's generals, and Iraq's government are united behind the need for change in Iraq, and it is time for Bush Republicans to explain why they are standing alone behind a failed policy, said Reid.
The text of Senator Reid's remarks, as prepared, is below.
Mr. President, here is the lead sentence from an article in yesterday's New York Times. It ran under the headline of "U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts." Quote:
"The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68270
CNN's focus is to invalidate the truth.
1023
The news secretary
commercials
1027
Gerald Ford namesake of new aircraft carrier in Senate amendment
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/UPDATE01/60615006
Kakie UrchThe Desert Sun
June 15, 2006
June 15, 2006
WASHINGTON – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday joined Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., in introducing an amendment to name the CVN-78 aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Gerald Ford.
1029
Rebuilding New Orleans
Tent cities are being addressed. These tent cities in New Orleans reflects the Public Housing. There are a lot of problems when a complete city is destroyed and it ain't all traffic lights either. These problems were never solved by FEMA. Tent cities should never have been a necessity. There should be FEMA trailers for all those displaced.
6/22 New Orleans shows a glimmer of hope through Public Housing residents, Common Ground and Music
By Diane Greene Lent
See more photos at dianelent.com. I returned to New Orleans June 2-6, 2006 to photograph the rebuilding. The tent city went up in front of St. Bernard Housing Project. I toured Common Ground sites and heard a lot of great music. I had been previously, in March and things seemed pretty grim, but this time I left with hope. The people are demanding their right of return. The musicians are back and playing all over the place and making it New Orleans.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/71842.shtml
1034
commercials
1037
Pray for CNN. They need the help.
1041
commercials
New Orleans mayor sees rebuilding plan by year-end
Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:37pm ET
By Peter Henderson
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans may take until the end of the year to develop rebuilding plans for all the neighborhoods of the storm-savaged city, Mayor Ray Nagin said on Monday, dismissing criticism that the process is dragging.
Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city last August, soaking tens of thousands of houses in fetid water for weeks. The disaster left residents uncertain where to rebuild, yet also gave the city a chance to reshape itself.
Even 10 months later, many areas of the city are still cleaning up rather than rebuilding, with only isolated signs of construction in hard-hit areas full of empty houses.
Nagin described a neighborhood planning process led by the city council -- a process slowed due to funding problems earlier in the year -- while critics have said the mayor should develop a vision for the entire city that would act as a framework for citizens in different areas.
"At the latest before the end of the year we should have every neighborhood pretty well done. But the key neighborhoods that were most devastated, they are on track, and some of them are 80 percent done with their planning process," he said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-06-27T003737Z_01_N26455767_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-HURRICANES-REBUILDING.xml&archived=False
The rebuilding of New Orleans regardless of funding will take time especially since there has no focus to the return of the wetlands vigorously.
The descension that accompanies the focuses on invalidating 'the truth' is simply amazing. And they say others have problems, when the propaganda suits them. The decension is a distraction all by itself. It is a hope of 'returning' influence to the Republicans whom are grappling with their lies, cronies and corruption. I can understand why Nagin stated he doesn't know where people are stating he doesn't have a plan. This is in "The Times Picayune." Don't ask me. I don't 'get it.' Are these '100 day plans' as Nagin promised during his re-election bid purely being measured according to 'actual' physical progress? Plans don't necessarily take the same meaning as 'construction.'
Nagin plans to reorganize local government
(page down)
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_06_26.html#155348
By James Varney Staff writer Offering a sneak preview of his second-term administration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday that he plans to reorganize local government to better respond to the city’s post-Katrina needs. Nagin did not provide concrete details of his plans during a meeting at The Times-Picayune. But he outlined a three-pronged attack that he hopes will help his administration better manage the massive cleanup and redevelopment tasks the city will face in the next four years. The mayor said he plans to combine housing, economic development and planning under one organizational umbrella. In addition, he said he will create an Office of Recovery to tackle tasks related specifically to the disaster, while his Chief Administrative Officer Brenda Hatfield focuses on day-to-day governmental tasks.
enough
Iraq General Proposes Troop Reductions; Democrats Call Plan A Political Move
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1535073/20060626/index.jhtml?headlines=true
With election-year issues such as flag burning, gay marriage — and the latest addition to the team, immigration — gaining momentum in advance of this November's midterm congressional elections, Democrats charged Monday that Republicans are planning to steal a page from their playbook and add troop reductions in Iraq to the list. Just days after a pair of Democratic initiatives to begin a troop withdrawal went down in fiery defeat in the Senate (see "Senate Rejects Call For Withdrawal From Iraq; Cheney Slams Democrats"), Democrats were fuming Monday (June 26) over The New York Times reports that General George W. Casey, the top military commander in Iraq, met privately with President Bush on Friday and proposed a gradual drawdown of troops that could begin this fall. Their source of anger was word that the proposal was similar to one of the defeated Democratic plans offered up on Thursday, which Republicans had publicly assailed as an attempt to "cut and run" or set an artificial timetable for withdrawal.
1015
John Robert's lies to mount an attack on The New York Times and their reporting of the Casey Draw Down. The Levin Amendment completely reflects flexibility in troop withdrawals.
Reid: Bush Republicans Stand Alone on Iraq
6/26/2006 3:22:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both of the Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
WASHINGTON, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today delivered the following remarks on the Floor of the U.S. Senate, calling on Bush Republicans to put aside their partisan slogans on Iraq to support a real plan for the future. Democrats, America's generals, and Iraq's government are united behind the need for change in Iraq, and it is time for Bush Republicans to explain why they are standing alone behind a failed policy, said Reid.
The text of Senator Reid's remarks, as prepared, is below.
Mr. President, here is the lead sentence from an article in yesterday's New York Times. It ran under the headline of "U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts." Quote:
"The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States military presence there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts coming this September, American officials say."
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68270
CNN's focus is to invalidate the truth.
1023
The news secretary
commercials
1027
Gerald Ford namesake of new aircraft carrier in Senate amendment
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/UPDATE01/60615006
Kakie UrchThe Desert Sun
June 15, 2006
June 15, 2006
WASHINGTON – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday joined Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., in introducing an amendment to name the CVN-78 aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Gerald Ford.
1029
Rebuilding New Orleans
Tent cities are being addressed. These tent cities in New Orleans reflects the Public Housing. There are a lot of problems when a complete city is destroyed and it ain't all traffic lights either. These problems were never solved by FEMA. Tent cities should never have been a necessity. There should be FEMA trailers for all those displaced.
6/22 New Orleans shows a glimmer of hope through Public Housing residents, Common Ground and Music
By Diane Greene Lent
See more photos at dianelent.com. I returned to New Orleans June 2-6, 2006 to photograph the rebuilding. The tent city went up in front of St. Bernard Housing Project. I toured Common Ground sites and heard a lot of great music. I had been previously, in March and things seemed pretty grim, but this time I left with hope. The people are demanding their right of return. The musicians are back and playing all over the place and making it New Orleans.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/71842.shtml
1034
commercials
1037
Pray for CNN. They need the help.
1041
commercials
New Orleans mayor sees rebuilding plan by year-end
Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:37pm ET
By Peter Henderson
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans may take until the end of the year to develop rebuilding plans for all the neighborhoods of the storm-savaged city, Mayor Ray Nagin said on Monday, dismissing criticism that the process is dragging.
Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city last August, soaking tens of thousands of houses in fetid water for weeks. The disaster left residents uncertain where to rebuild, yet also gave the city a chance to reshape itself.
Even 10 months later, many areas of the city are still cleaning up rather than rebuilding, with only isolated signs of construction in hard-hit areas full of empty houses.
Nagin described a neighborhood planning process led by the city council -- a process slowed due to funding problems earlier in the year -- while critics have said the mayor should develop a vision for the entire city that would act as a framework for citizens in different areas.
"At the latest before the end of the year we should have every neighborhood pretty well done. But the key neighborhoods that were most devastated, they are on track, and some of them are 80 percent done with their planning process," he said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-06-27T003737Z_01_N26455767_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-HURRICANES-REBUILDING.xml&archived=False
The rebuilding of New Orleans regardless of funding will take time especially since there has no focus to the return of the wetlands vigorously.
The descension that accompanies the focuses on invalidating 'the truth' is simply amazing. And they say others have problems, when the propaganda suits them. The decension is a distraction all by itself. It is a hope of 'returning' influence to the Republicans whom are grappling with their lies, cronies and corruption. I can understand why Nagin stated he doesn't know where people are stating he doesn't have a plan. This is in "The Times Picayune." Don't ask me. I don't 'get it.' Are these '100 day plans' as Nagin promised during his re-election bid purely being measured according to 'actual' physical progress? Plans don't necessarily take the same meaning as 'construction.'
Nagin plans to reorganize local government
(page down)
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_06_26.html#155348
By James Varney Staff writer Offering a sneak preview of his second-term administration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday that he plans to reorganize local government to better respond to the city’s post-Katrina needs. Nagin did not provide concrete details of his plans during a meeting at The Times-Picayune. But he outlined a three-pronged attack that he hopes will help his administration better manage the massive cleanup and redevelopment tasks the city will face in the next four years. The mayor said he plans to combine housing, economic development and planning under one organizational umbrella. In addition, he said he will create an Office of Recovery to tackle tasks related specifically to the disaster, while his Chief Administrative Officer Brenda Hatfield focuses on day-to-day governmental tasks.
enough
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)