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So tell me Andy, if these snipers are seeking a global audience, why indulge them? Offering free advertisements to recruitment?
Well then we should all feel so 'inside' the movement. Who's side are you on anyway?
Oh, now, it's a 'propaganda' campaign by the rebels. I see. The 'talking head' retired general states the USA uses sniper teams as well. I guess we all know where they learned the technique, huh?
You know, the Iraqi military was basically incompetent before the USA invasion. Not only that but they didn't have high quality explosives either, those explosives were all under UN seals.
1007
Koffman states the snipers know what they are doing. I want to know if the bullets are armor piercing? There have been videos absconded from snipers in Iraq before. The American soldier goes down, the Iraqi rebel states 'God is Great' in his language and then the American soldier stands up again to chase down the snipers, capture them and then treat them for their wounds.
There is nothing new here Anderson !!!!!
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By maneuvering the 'information' away from the place the USA military attacks Iraqi towns causing the high death tolls, it focuses on the so called 'specialized killers' and not the reason why the deaths occurred in the first place.
Ramadi, Iraq
U.S. October death toll in Iraq hits 70
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=8148
The military says the sharp increase in U.S. casualties — 70 so far this month — is tied to Ramadan and a security crackdown that has left American forces more vulnerable to attack in Baghdad and its suburbs. Muslim tenets hold that fighting a foreign occupation force during Islam's holy month puts a believer especially close to God.
Ramadi was a favorite place for Saddam to kill Shi'ites:
After the Gulf War cease-fire, a promise was made by Saddam Hussein on November 3, 1992 in Ramadi that "the mother of battles . . . has continued, and will continue."
There were anti-government demonstrations in al-Ramadi province in 1995. About 2,000 people arrested following the demonstrations were held without charge or trial, as were tens of thousands arrested in previous years.
On February 19, 1999, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the most senior Shi'a religious leader in Iraq, was killed in downtown Najaf when the car he was riding in was boxed in by two other cars and hit by machine gun fire. Outside Baghdad illegal assemblies of Shi'a took place in most of the major cities of the south in reaction to the al-Sadr killing. Nine demonstrators reportedly were executed in Ramadi. To prevent them from leading religious gatherings, the chief Shi'a clerics of Basra and Nasiriyah reportedly were arrested. These government actions ultimately silenced the mourners and protesters, and the disturbances had ended by late February 1999. In April of 1999 about 100 detainees from Radwaniyah prison reportedly were taken to Ramadi province where they were buried alive in a pit.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htm
The people in Ramadi are hardened to war and attack. These so called insurgents are rebels. They have been rebels since before the invasion into Iraq by Bush. All this violence and rebellion had to be well known to The USA Coalition before they invaded. So, much for thinking the USA would be received with open arms and welcome. When the USA invaded Iraq the heirarchy of the military already knew about the nightmare and Cheney and Bush knew it would be a windfall profits issue for their cronies, especially Halliburton. Iraq was never a threat to the USA. Saddam had his hands full with resident Shi'ites that rebelled long ago. The 'al Sadr' referred to above was the father of the current Cleric al Sadr. They are freedom fighters for the Shi'ites. This doesn't make sense. Bush is making enemies of the same people that Saddam did and seeks the same actions against them.
1024
Well now that we know something about the rebels that were established in Iraq before the Iraq invasion we can look at the attacks today.
Where? Baghdad. Why only Baghdad? Because that is the ONLY place the USA has encampments that are safe enough to lauch attacks into the cities of Iraq.
11 more U.S. troops reported killed in Iraq
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/15790990.htm
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military announced Wednesday that 11 American troops had been killed in Iraq since Tuesday, mostly in Baghdad, the apparent result of the United States' latest attempt to quell intensifying violence in the capital.
The Green Zone is the only place the USA military has control. Possibly not even Baghdad IF they are saying rebel snipers have infiltrated the Green Zone area to kill USA military personnel.
1035
The progress of the USA military against the rebels of Iraq has been limited to Baghdad. The next step is out of the country or be crushed
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Turning point
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061018/NEWS/610180333/1038/OPINION01
The news from Iraq continues to get worse.
Journalists who have spent time in Iraq are now telling us several things. For one, the Iraqi government does not function beyond the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. It does not collect taxes. It does not protect the Iraqi people. Instead, the nation is governed by an anarchic patchwork of tribal organizations, militias, and gangs.
This weekend another reality became evident. The bloodletting in the village of Badal showed that the sectarian violence engulfing the nation for months is now sliding into outright civil war, with militias and death squads laying waste to villages. This weekend when scores of Sunnis and Shiites were killed in the Badal region, the U.S. military stayed away for two days. The official line was that they had not been asked to intervene.
Nor did they want to. As Iraq descends into chaos, the United States has an increasingly marginal role. The inaction of U.S. troops shows that someone has decided the United States cannot referee a civil war. And yet civil war is rising up all around them.
These are not happy days for the United States, whose foreign policy appears to have been hijacked by rigid ideologues incapable of admitting error. They are less happy for the Iraqi people, who are looking ahead to a future of ethnic cleansing, forced migration, and tyranny. There have been a variety of turning points during this debacle, and some observers saw the massacres at Badal this weekend as another turn toward the worst.
1040
Don Rumsfeld needs to 'fix' the Iraqi police and military to make sure they are the 'side' they are paid to be on rather than the government of their choice. I didn't know the Iraqi military and police were mercenaries for the Central Government? If the 'volunteer' Iraqi forces don't hold loyality to their government then there really isn't an Iraqi force, now is there?
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Blah, blah.
Change of subject a bit. Following the London Bombings that were directly linked to a Pakistan Muslim community; London took on the challenge of outreach.
Mahabba Unlimited presents: A Uniting for the Prophet (saw) event: ::: ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS :::
http://www.minhajuk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1747&sid=f491421c8baca9deb51622e2ec634bc6
with Habib Ali Al-Jifri and friends... A day of celebration, singing, poetry and spiritual upliftment.
Sunday, 30th April 2006
Wembley Conference Centre
London, United Kingdom.
... This year's event promises to be even more poignant and important given the attacks in London last year and the recent controversy over the caricatures published in Denmark and across Europe. This is an important time for Muslims to come together with their friends to promote the Prophetic message of mercy, civic action and peaceful coexistence. We are expecting the event to be even more popular than last year and we are expecting guests from across Europe, including France, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
Why is this important? Because we all are important and need to live together on Earth. That's why.
http://www.mahabbaunlimited.org/
Iraq is not about terrorism. It's about instability for as long the USA stays in that country.
The attacks on London, Madrid and Amman happened because of our invasion. London was never a target before. They are now fighting a war in Afghanistand the USA was supposed to fight but didn't.
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One more thing. Iran. From the Jordan Times:
Iran nuclear issue tops Olmert’s Kremlin talks
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
MOSCOW (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought President Vladimir Putin's support at talks here Wednesday for a tougher stance against Iran's nuclear programme, in which Russian engineers are building the country's first reactor.
"We are at a critical juncture and the entire international community must join ranks to block Iran's true intention of arming itself with nuclear weapons," Olmert told journalists after talks with Putin in the Kremlin.
"I leave this meeting with the sense that President Putin understands that danger." Olmert described Iran's atomic project — which Tehran insists is restricted to a civilian power programme — as "a threat to Israel which we cannot reconcile ourselves to". The Israeli leader was due to hold talks with Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov later Wednesday and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, as well as meeting Jewish community leaders. Russia is constructing Iran's first civilian nuclear power station at Bushehr and has resisted a push for UN sanctions, arguing these could provoke a regional crisis. Moscow also supplies the Islamic republic with sophisticated conventional weapons.
Backed by its US ally, Israel says sanctions are necessary following Tehran's failure to suspend uranium enrichment, a process Israel, the United States and several European powers say hides a secret nuclear weapons programme.
Israel — widely considered the Middle East's sole, if undeclared nuclear weapons power — considers Iran its chief foe, pointing to calls from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe the Jewish state off the map and alleged Iranian backing for the Lebanese Hizbollah and Palestinian groups.
Olmert's trip marked the 15th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic ties between Russia and Israel, following the Soviet collapse. Although tensions over Moscow's ties with Iran and Syria topped the agenda, both leaders stressed their countries' close relationship.
Putin said after talks that the struggles against "terror, extremism and nationalist disputes" united the two countries. The Russian foreign ministry issued a statement praising joint efforts "against modern challenges and threats, including the fight against international terrorism". Olmert hailed Russia as a "dominant and crucial factor in the world" and recalled that Putin had promised during his visit to Israel last year that "Russia's relations in the Middle East will no longer be one-sided." Iran is not the only sticking point, however.
Israel also claims that Russian weaponry sold to Syria has been passed on to Hizbollah fighters, who allegedly used the latest Russian-made anti-tank rockets to deadly effect during fighting with the Israeli army in July and August.
Moscow has also raised eyebrows in Israel and the United States by maintaining contacts with the Palestinian movement Hamas.
The Vremya Novostei daily reported Wednesday that Putin was furious over reports that Syria had supplied Hizbollah with weapons sold by Russia.
"However, this does not mean that Russia will completely stop selling weapons to Iran and Syria, as the Israelis want," the daily predicted. "Cooperation with Tehran and Damascus, including in the oil and gas and atomic [energy] spheres, bring Moscow dividends — and not only material. Russia plays a unique middleman role." Russia, along with the European Union, the United Nations and the United States, is part of the so-called Quartet that sponsors the floundering Middle East peace process but an Israeli government official has made it clear that efforts to revive it were off the agenda of this week's talks. "At the moment, the peace process is not an issue on the agenda," the official said.
Olmert reiterated at the Kremlin that he was ready to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. However, he said peace with the Palestinians was impossible without recognition of Israel's right to exist and an end to attacks.
enough
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Is the Bush Administration ever certain of what any intelligence means?
1000
Kim states, "Sanctions are a declaration of war." I think that needs to be taken seriously.
North Korea means it. It's a fools game to believe it doesn't.
I believe China is taking it seriously. The are moving away from their alliance with North Korea. I don't look forward to the continued suffering of the North Koreans. It is a delicate balance between putting pressure on Kim and destroying the countries' infrastructure, thus bringing the North Korean government to collapse. That would not be a good idea. I think the region has to have faith in China's focus and the pressure it can bring.
1007
Chaos will happen in North Korea when energy supplies and food are cut off. There is a real possibility the people of North Korea could turn on their government. There could be anarchy. If the military takes up the part of the people there could be an internal stuggle that would allow destabilization to allow an outside influence to take over. I don't recommend causing severe suffering of the people of that country.
1011
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I'm getting bored and with John Mark Karr on the agenda, I am getting bored quickly.
Ah, the hell with it.
enough
Kim states, "Sanctions are a declaration of war." I think that needs to be taken seriously.
North Korea means it. It's a fools game to believe it doesn't.
I believe China is taking it seriously. The are moving away from their alliance with North Korea. I don't look forward to the continued suffering of the North Koreans. It is a delicate balance between putting pressure on Kim and destroying the countries' infrastructure, thus bringing the North Korean government to collapse. That would not be a good idea. I think the region has to have faith in China's focus and the pressure it can bring.
1007
Chaos will happen in North Korea when energy supplies and food are cut off. There is a real possibility the people of North Korea could turn on their government. There could be anarchy. If the military takes up the part of the people there could be an internal stuggle that would allow destabilization to allow an outside influence to take over. I don't recommend causing severe suffering of the people of that country.
1011
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I'm getting bored and with John Mark Karr on the agenda, I am getting bored quickly.
Ah, the hell with it.
enough
Saturday, October 14, 2006
This is propaganda for a Pre-eminent War on North Korea
1000
What we know? For sure? We know that Georgie is a chronic liar. We know that CNN has this information because they are in the back pocket of the Bush White House and Karl Rove has his own apartment at the CNN Washington offices.
1003
Suzanne Malveaux is taking a 'hard look' at the information that might be debatable by Jamie McIntyre's reporting. Wow. I am so glad this administration is so very, very careful about information they got while spying on Americans. I mean that is where Negropointe got the information regarding the radioactivity of the AIR of North Korea, right?
You know what I find odd. The explosion was underground. Hm.
1005
Chernobyl was and is above ground. No lie. I can prove that.
1010
Russians Fear Radioactive Pollution After North Korea Nuclear Test
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/10/prepareforradiation.shtml
People rushed to buy radiation meters in Russia’s Vladivostok after North Korea performed an underground nuclear test, Interfax reports. The Far East Maritime Territory shares a short border with North Korea....
...The current radiation does not exceed normal levels, he said. At the moment meteorologists constantly take air probes to reveal any traces of radiation as soon as possible.
North Korea on Monday announced that it had set off an atomic weapon underground, a test that thrusts the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations. A top Russian military officer has said that according to Russian intelligence data the report was true.
1012
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UN Near Compromise on N.Korea Sanctions As Russia, U.S. Agree on Georgia
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/13/compromise.shtml
... “I don’t want to say we’ve reached agreement, but many, many of the significant differences have been closed,” John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador, said after the meeting. “But I’m very pleased with the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s close to the point where we will have an agreement.”
“It was a good meeting,” added French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere. “We will now send the outcome of this meeting to our capitals. We are close to an agreement.”
... A U.S.-backed draft resolution presented to the council earlier Thursday would impose an arms embargo on North Korea, ban all trade linked to its programs for ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and permit international inspections of North Korean cargo.
The U.S. text would also prohibit North Korean trade in luxury goods, and would ban travel and freeze assets of individuals involved in the country’s prohibited weapons programs. North Korea would be given 30 days to halt its nuclear activities or face additional international penalties.
China has resisted the U.S. approach as too tough, instead favoring U.N. sanctions that would narrowly target North Korea’s programs for nuclear and ballistic missiles. In an effort to address China’s concern, the United States has agreed to include more restrictive language on the scope of military sanctions and inspections....
Hm.
1021
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No news secretary, Andy? Oh, yeah, just the second half. Can't handle the competition?
1024
Oops. Why am I NOT surprised?
It's all falling apart because of Bush.
U.S. Hits Obstacle in Getting a Vote on North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/14/world/asia/14nations.html?hp&ex=1160798400&en=70612224e0e64a78&ei=5094&partner=homepage
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 13 — The United States pressed for a Saturday vote on a Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear test, but questions from China and Russia on Friday evening cast the timing and possibly the content of the document into doubt.
I guess it's all about that NEW 'contaminated aire' evidence. You know if there is radioactive air anywhere that is building due to a nuclear explosion that 'leaked' to the surface then there needs to be people evacuated for a technological error causing damage to people and property.
It's getting huge, isn't it? Out of control. False statements. Exploitive nature of fear. Why is the USA even bothering to gather information against North Korea when they are doing nothing but slapping Kim on the wrist for his indiscretions. It's important to 'contain' the potential with ship inspections and interruptions of any missile building materials but the rest of the mess including 'the luxury tax' issue is superfluous to the issue at hand. If the USA is simply engaging in passive aggression by wording the UN document to later interpret the permission for an invasion then they need to leave the table and hand over 'the big boy' decisions to the people that can make them. If I was Japan, I would insist on it.
1033
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You my favorite LIE of CNN? No? It was the statements by Paula Zahn that there were terrorist threats against the Democratic National Convention in Boston. That was real cute. Now ask me if I think CNN is capable of lying to invoke war? Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, they did. Along with FOX, while everyone else was left to follow liars and carpetbaggers.
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The British military was very smart to take on the Basra area of Iraq to fight. It's ethnic mix is minimal and STILL there are attacks on their troops. They need to leave Iraq. London should not be compromised. The US Coaliton 'gave the Iraqis' a chance for something other than a religious theocracy. They don't want it.
1038
Bush's behavior about any military issue is predictable. He steps out of the shadows to make policy ahead of every other country, especially in Asia, to control the 'business interests' of his cronies above all else. In Asia, the Bush Family can't afford a war, yet alone Russia and China. If a war broke out with Kim the Bush Family would suffer financially. That simply is not allowed.
Given that Japan and South Korea would suffer significant infrastructure disruption and economic instability with potential threat to their sovereignty with a war that might escalate to a conflict between three major powers, which is what Bush wants IF that were to occur, it is in the best interest of everyone to 'control' the bomb building capacity of North Korea while seeking to support the humanitarian outreach to the North Korean people.
1041
To continue the issue of Bush Bullshit on policies of aggression. He always starts out with a policy that all countries involved would find reasonable, while inserting that 'special' paragraph; the fine print if you will; that if compliance is not met there will be a military solution. "All Cards on the Table." is Condi Rice's favorite expression I believe.
It's all horseshit and manipulated to an end for PROFIT and not a humanitarian solution OTHERWISE the Bush White House would be talking to North Korea. Currently, it is my opinon the 'Six Party Talks' is the only way to keep a balanced approach to the Bush Policy of Pre-Emption and Occupation and Chronic War for crony constituency.
1049
Environmental contamination can affect the wellness of Pets.
http://www.newsagepress.com/media/petsatrisk/book_text/PAR-Chapter1.pdf
You can't make this stuff up.
1056
Hayworth, Mitchell lock border horns
http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/1013ar-debate1013Z14.html
U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth and his Democrat challenger, Harry Mitchell, argue immigration policy today in the first of four in-print debates that will appear on these pages before the Nov. 7 election.
The debate was conducted via e-mail, with The Arizona Republic asking a question and each candidate responding in turn.
Today's question: Those debating illegal immigration generally agree on the need to secure the border. But there are already an estimated 11 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country. What would you do about them and the jobs they fill?
ARE THEY SURE THE CANDIDATES ARE ANSWERING THE e-mails spontaneously without help when responding by e-mail as would be the case in a live debate? Not that this isn't a legimate way of doing things but a verification process would be nice IF that is the understanding above the simple submission of 'position' in the answer to questions.
1100
AHhhhhhhh - Anderson is AGAIN trying by teleivsion the Jon Benet Ramsey case.
enough
What we know? For sure? We know that Georgie is a chronic liar. We know that CNN has this information because they are in the back pocket of the Bush White House and Karl Rove has his own apartment at the CNN Washington offices.
1003
Suzanne Malveaux is taking a 'hard look' at the information that might be debatable by Jamie McIntyre's reporting. Wow. I am so glad this administration is so very, very careful about information they got while spying on Americans. I mean that is where Negropointe got the information regarding the radioactivity of the AIR of North Korea, right?
You know what I find odd. The explosion was underground. Hm.
1005
Chernobyl was and is above ground. No lie. I can prove that.
1010
Russians Fear Radioactive Pollution After North Korea Nuclear Test
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/10/prepareforradiation.shtml
People rushed to buy radiation meters in Russia’s Vladivostok after North Korea performed an underground nuclear test, Interfax reports. The Far East Maritime Territory shares a short border with North Korea....
...The current radiation does not exceed normal levels, he said. At the moment meteorologists constantly take air probes to reveal any traces of radiation as soon as possible.
North Korea on Monday announced that it had set off an atomic weapon underground, a test that thrusts the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations. A top Russian military officer has said that according to Russian intelligence data the report was true.
1012
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UN Near Compromise on N.Korea Sanctions As Russia, U.S. Agree on Georgia
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/13/compromise.shtml
... “I don’t want to say we’ve reached agreement, but many, many of the significant differences have been closed,” John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador, said after the meeting. “But I’m very pleased with the progress we’ve made, and I think it’s close to the point where we will have an agreement.”
“It was a good meeting,” added French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere. “We will now send the outcome of this meeting to our capitals. We are close to an agreement.”
... A U.S.-backed draft resolution presented to the council earlier Thursday would impose an arms embargo on North Korea, ban all trade linked to its programs for ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and permit international inspections of North Korean cargo.
The U.S. text would also prohibit North Korean trade in luxury goods, and would ban travel and freeze assets of individuals involved in the country’s prohibited weapons programs. North Korea would be given 30 days to halt its nuclear activities or face additional international penalties.
China has resisted the U.S. approach as too tough, instead favoring U.N. sanctions that would narrowly target North Korea’s programs for nuclear and ballistic missiles. In an effort to address China’s concern, the United States has agreed to include more restrictive language on the scope of military sanctions and inspections....
Hm.
1021
commercials
No news secretary, Andy? Oh, yeah, just the second half. Can't handle the competition?
1024
Oops. Why am I NOT surprised?
It's all falling apart because of Bush.
U.S. Hits Obstacle in Getting a Vote on North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/14/world/asia/14nations.html?hp&ex=1160798400&en=70612224e0e64a78&ei=5094&partner=homepage
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 13 — The United States pressed for a Saturday vote on a Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear test, but questions from China and Russia on Friday evening cast the timing and possibly the content of the document into doubt.
I guess it's all about that NEW 'contaminated aire' evidence. You know if there is radioactive air anywhere that is building due to a nuclear explosion that 'leaked' to the surface then there needs to be people evacuated for a technological error causing damage to people and property.
It's getting huge, isn't it? Out of control. False statements. Exploitive nature of fear. Why is the USA even bothering to gather information against North Korea when they are doing nothing but slapping Kim on the wrist for his indiscretions. It's important to 'contain' the potential with ship inspections and interruptions of any missile building materials but the rest of the mess including 'the luxury tax' issue is superfluous to the issue at hand. If the USA is simply engaging in passive aggression by wording the UN document to later interpret the permission for an invasion then they need to leave the table and hand over 'the big boy' decisions to the people that can make them. If I was Japan, I would insist on it.
1033
commercials
You my favorite LIE of CNN? No? It was the statements by Paula Zahn that there were terrorist threats against the Democratic National Convention in Boston. That was real cute. Now ask me if I think CNN is capable of lying to invoke war? Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, they did. Along with FOX, while everyone else was left to follow liars and carpetbaggers.
1034
The British military was very smart to take on the Basra area of Iraq to fight. It's ethnic mix is minimal and STILL there are attacks on their troops. They need to leave Iraq. London should not be compromised. The US Coaliton 'gave the Iraqis' a chance for something other than a religious theocracy. They don't want it.
1038
Bush's behavior about any military issue is predictable. He steps out of the shadows to make policy ahead of every other country, especially in Asia, to control the 'business interests' of his cronies above all else. In Asia, the Bush Family can't afford a war, yet alone Russia and China. If a war broke out with Kim the Bush Family would suffer financially. That simply is not allowed.
Given that Japan and South Korea would suffer significant infrastructure disruption and economic instability with potential threat to their sovereignty with a war that might escalate to a conflict between three major powers, which is what Bush wants IF that were to occur, it is in the best interest of everyone to 'control' the bomb building capacity of North Korea while seeking to support the humanitarian outreach to the North Korean people.
1041
To continue the issue of Bush Bullshit on policies of aggression. He always starts out with a policy that all countries involved would find reasonable, while inserting that 'special' paragraph; the fine print if you will; that if compliance is not met there will be a military solution. "All Cards on the Table." is Condi Rice's favorite expression I believe.
It's all horseshit and manipulated to an end for PROFIT and not a humanitarian solution OTHERWISE the Bush White House would be talking to North Korea. Currently, it is my opinon the 'Six Party Talks' is the only way to keep a balanced approach to the Bush Policy of Pre-Emption and Occupation and Chronic War for crony constituency.
1049
Environmental contamination can affect the wellness of Pets.
http://www.newsagepress.com/media/petsatrisk/book_text/PAR-Chapter1.pdf
You can't make this stuff up.
1056
Hayworth, Mitchell lock border horns
http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/1013ar-debate1013Z14.html
U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth and his Democrat challenger, Harry Mitchell, argue immigration policy today in the first of four in-print debates that will appear on these pages before the Nov. 7 election.
The debate was conducted via e-mail, with The Arizona Republic asking a question and each candidate responding in turn.
Today's question: Those debating illegal immigration generally agree on the need to secure the border. But there are already an estimated 11 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country. What would you do about them and the jobs they fill?
ARE THEY SURE THE CANDIDATES ARE ANSWERING THE e-mails spontaneously without help when responding by e-mail as would be the case in a live debate? Not that this isn't a legimate way of doing things but a verification process would be nice IF that is the understanding above the simple submission of 'position' in the answer to questions.
1100
AHhhhhhhh - Anderson is AGAIN trying by teleivsion the Jon Benet Ramsey case.
enough
Thursday, October 12, 2006
A 'state of the art' plane was flown by a 'challenged' pilot.
1000
Miles O'Brien is a pilot and was able to provide insight to a possible danger of small planes flying in high population areas.
New York City has 8 billion people living there. It realize 'pleasure' flights by private planes could also involve danger to those people is simply outrageous to consider. It outrageous to realize Post-September 11th this hasn't been addressed sufficiently by Homeland Security.
The other side of the river is a another large city with slightly more than 8 million people, actullay about 8.5 million; in the city of Newark.
This is silly. What is so important about 'sightseeing' from a small plane that can't be better served to a 'Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan?'
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1016
The Former House Republican Foley is a concern. I don't have to say anymore except what happened involved Bush as well when one considers 'the unspoken promise' of "I'll rub your back if you rub mine."
Foley did a lot of politica favors for the Republicans to elect Bush in 2000. In turn, Bush simply decided to 'live with' Foley while shunning him as a Gay Man that sexually admired young men.
Foley says White House snubbed him
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201073.html
ReutersThursday, October 12, 2006; 4:52 PM
MIAMI (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley complained to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush two years ago that the White House snubbed him during presidential visits to the state, according to e-mails obtained by the Palm Beach Post.
(http://www.palmbeachpost.com) on Thursday, Foley asked the
In reality, Bush simply looked the other way for the corrupt deeds he 'pulled' during Bush's Florida Vote of 2000. I think Mr. Bush knew fully well what Mr. Foley was all about.
1041
I think I've had enough. North Korea is an issue. How this finally resolves may very welll be a 'shame' rather than a victory to Bush's America. There will be no invasion. There better not be a nuclear weapon. The people of North Korea need lots of assistance. Bush won't confront the Asian nations directly. His family wealth is tied up there.
... tomorrow is another day ...
Miles O'Brien is a pilot and was able to provide insight to a possible danger of small planes flying in high population areas.
New York City has 8 billion people living there. It realize 'pleasure' flights by private planes could also involve danger to those people is simply outrageous to consider. It outrageous to realize Post-September 11th this hasn't been addressed sufficiently by Homeland Security.
The other side of the river is a another large city with slightly more than 8 million people, actullay about 8.5 million; in the city of Newark.
This is silly. What is so important about 'sightseeing' from a small plane that can't be better served to a 'Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan?'
1013
commercials
1016
The Former House Republican Foley is a concern. I don't have to say anymore except what happened involved Bush as well when one considers 'the unspoken promise' of "I'll rub your back if you rub mine."
Foley did a lot of politica favors for the Republicans to elect Bush in 2000. In turn, Bush simply decided to 'live with' Foley while shunning him as a Gay Man that sexually admired young men.
Foley says White House snubbed him
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201073.html
ReutersThursday, October 12, 2006; 4:52 PM
MIAMI (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley complained to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush two years ago that the White House snubbed him during presidential visits to the state, according to e-mails obtained by the Palm Beach Post.
(http://www.palmbeachpost.com) on Thursday, Foley asked the
In reality, Bush simply looked the other way for the corrupt deeds he 'pulled' during Bush's Florida Vote of 2000. I think Mr. Bush knew fully well what Mr. Foley was all about.
1041
I think I've had enough. North Korea is an issue. How this finally resolves may very welll be a 'shame' rather than a victory to Bush's America. There will be no invasion. There better not be a nuclear weapon. The people of North Korea need lots of assistance. Bush won't confront the Asian nations directly. His family wealth is tied up there.
... tomorrow is another day ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Anderson Cooper said something remarkable during his two hours on TV
He said, 'There was a study out today...
Death Toll of Iraqis Exceeds 600,000, Report Says (Update2)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS6sG2eDrPiQ&refer=home
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- More than 600,000 people have died violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to a study released today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Gunshots were the most common cause of death, with males ages 15 to 44 accounting for 59 percent of the total as of July 2006. The estimates were made after a nationwide survey of 1,849 Iraqi households between May and July 2006.
President George W. Bush dismissed the findings even as he acknowledged that ``the brutality of Iraq's enemies has been on full display in recent days.''
... and President Bush doesn't believe it, I don't believe it, do you?
Hey, Anderson. Do you believe one innocent civilian died in the Iraq War?
Just one, Anderson.
One innocent civilian died at the hand of American Forces engaged in a war that is illegal, immoral, entered into by liars.
JUST
ONE
INNOCENT
IRAQI
LIFE !
Anderson Cooper must believe in one innocent Iraqi life being snuffed out by a President that is a war criminal, now don't you Anderson?
Because,
I
do !
Death Toll of Iraqis Exceeds 600,000, Report Says (Update2)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS6sG2eDrPiQ&refer=home
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- More than 600,000 people have died violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to a study released today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Gunshots were the most common cause of death, with males ages 15 to 44 accounting for 59 percent of the total as of July 2006. The estimates were made after a nationwide survey of 1,849 Iraqi households between May and July 2006.
President George W. Bush dismissed the findings even as he acknowledged that ``the brutality of Iraq's enemies has been on full display in recent days.''
... and President Bush doesn't believe it, I don't believe it, do you?
Hey, Anderson. Do you believe one innocent civilian died in the Iraq War?
Just one, Anderson.
One innocent civilian died at the hand of American Forces engaged in a war that is illegal, immoral, entered into by liars.
JUST
ONE
INNOCENT
IRAQI
LIFE !
Anderson Cooper must believe in one innocent Iraqi life being snuffed out by a President that is a war criminal, now don't you Anderson?
Because,
I
do !
Using Direct Talks seemed to stop escalation of insecurity by North Korea just fine !
In pictures: Mrs Albright's visit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/986411.stm
North Korea is taking the first steps towards a new era after five decades of hostility, with a visit by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
STOP your Blubbering Anderson, it's unbecoming. You haven't got a leg to stand on. Bush is incompetent.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Out of Africa - Andy is back
1000
North Korea and the Bomb
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/opinion/10tue1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
That component is the people of North Korea. Some live under deplorable conditions, some don't. By putting a complete ending to the interaction of North Korea with the outside world would lead to the demise of many of the people. The winter is coming and they need to live through it.
Let's just go where no person is willing to go.
China and Russia don't want a war in the region. I don't blame them. The West, Japan believe that a war can be waged to dismantle North Korea to a limited extent. That is not a realistic view.
Currently, and I am not making excuses, the 'explosion' that occurred yesterday is not considered to be the capacity of a nuclear weapon. It may have been a poor construction, poor science, incomplete construction; but; across the board there is some question about the 'capacity' of this weapon that was significant to set off the Richter Scale.
The region can easily escalate especially with Bush and Cheney salivating over Russia Oil and the Chinese economy. It's not realistic to start a war to dismantle North Korea.
The people of North Korea need an aggressive program of relief, and dare I say it; a North Korean 'Oil for Food Program," but the difference is what would the North Korean's trade. At least Iraq had something to trade. At the same time this takes hold the current leadership of North Korea has to be tried before the World Court. Either there is reason to remove these men or there isn't. Everyone puts out all kinds of information about that country regarding violations of Human Rights, but, nothing is done about it.
The world needs to focus on the people and children of that nation while placing tight controls on how North Korea handles itself. The circumstances aren't good for the people there. They, like Iraqis, are governed by 'nationalism' and there is every reason to believe if the government of North Korea was to collapse the same anarchy would insure and THEN where would be stand in regard to LOOSE NUKES.
Where is Osama bin Laden?
The actions taken against North Korea has to be controlled while supportive of the populous there.
Are there any questions?
1009
Condi Rice is an arrogant Neocon. She hasn't said anything constructive, but, only inflammatory. WHERE IS THE 'PLAN' FOR NORTH KOREA? She hasn't got one and just one day in her capacity of Secretary of State she should sound like one.
1011
Bush is STILL out of touch. Clinton had a conversation, UN seals and control. Bush has yet to have a conversation. Who's kidding who?
Tell 'em Governor Richardson.
1018
Scientific world gathers data on 'nuclear test'
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10256-scientific-world-gathers-data-on-nuclear-test.html
Scientists around the world are taking a cautious wait-and-see attitude after North Korea claimed to have successfully conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday.
Only careful analysis of data returned by seismic or atmospheric sensors will determine whether the blast was a success or a damp squib, they say. Nor could they rule out the possibility of a scam, in which North Korea blew up a huge stock of conventional explosives to bolster its claim to have joined the nuclear club.
There are significant discrepancies between reports into the size of the blast.
The Korea Earthquake Research Centre in South Korea said there was a 3.58-magnitude tremor from North Korea's North Hamgyong province – the equivalent of 0.8 kilotonnes of TNT explosives.
1021
EXACTLY, whom was it that caused the escalation of nuclear proliferation anyway?
China Braces for Uncertainty as ABM Treaty Unravels
http://taiwansecurity.org/News/2001/ST-122701.htm
Despite its low-key reaction, Beijing views Washington's unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty negatively and is devising plans carefully to brace China for a more uncertain and insecure world resulting from the United States' move.
According to a source close to the Chinese military, such planning involves both tactical and strategic aspects.
From the tactical point of view, by abrogating the ABM, the US gains a free hand to develop and deploy the national and theatre missile defences (NMD and TMD) which will effectively nullify China's minimal nuclear-deterrence capability.
Besides, as the ABM laid the foundation for 32 other international treaties limiting an arms race, its jettisoning would undermine the validity of all these treaties and open the world for a new round of arms race.
The source predicts that the US move will prompt an arms race in three directions.
Countries whose nuclear-deterrence capability is nullified would step up their own weapon programme to develop land, sea, air and space-based missile-launching pads, and also increase the size of nuclear arsenals and upgrade the quality of warheads as well as a whole range of space weapons such as satellite-killers in order to pierce through the missile-defence shield.
Those facing potential threats from the US would be compelled to develop their own missile-defence shields. Others would step up their development of chemical and biological weapons.
The source admitted that any tactical planning would have to take into consideration all these aspects.
However, many in China, including some in the military, fear that meeting the US challenge would lead China into the quagmire of an arms race with the US and repeat the bitter experience of the former Soviet Union that collapsed under the pressure of such a race.
Many Chinese strategists believe that an important contributing factor leading to this collapse was the country's attempt to meet the challenge imposed by America's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). To avoid the pitfall, the source said that China has to map out a new way of response. He refused to go into details but simply outlined several points.
In raising its overall strategic capability, China should not stop short of the nuclear race but should also explore other options.
In building up its arsenal, China should minimise the military-civilian divide to facilitate a flow of technology and resources between both sectors.
In enhancing its overall security, China should develop long-term strategies instead of haphazardly figuring out ad hoc responses to contingencies.
By doing so, China may solve the dilemma of expanding military spending while avoiding the arms-race quagmire.
Mr Yang Ming-jie, director of the Studies on Arms Control and Security of the Institute of Modern International Relations, said that from the strategic point of view, the manner in which the US dropped the ABM shows that its unilateralism is going to dominate the world in the years to come.
The US claims that the ABM is obsolete as the Soviet Union is no longer existent, disregarding the fact that as late as Nov 29 this year, the United Nations adopted with overwhelming majority (80-3) a resolution demanding respect and adherence to the ABM.
This is the third year in a row that the UN did so, proving that the international community still values the ABM as a means for maintaining the global strategic balance.
According to Mr Yang, the way the US defined obsolescence unilaterally reminds China of a potential danger that surfaced briefly during the presidential campaign last year.
Mr George W. Bush's Republican Party had claimed then that the 'one-China principle' was obsolete and that the 1971 Shanghai Communique expounding that principle and laying down the foundation of Sino-US relations had outlived its value.
The rationale was that Taiwan had undergone full democratisation and marketisation, rendering today's Taiwan totally different from what it was when the Shanghai Communique was signed and that America's China policy had to take such changes into consideration.
'If the US applied the same unilateralism in defining obsolescence, grave trouble awaits China,' said Mr Yang.
Indeed, the US intention to include Taiwan in the TMD programme signals a disregard of its commitment under the 'one-China principle', he added.
A broader strategic consideration is whether China would become the potential target of America's NMD and TMD programmes.
A source close to the Foreign Ministry said that although China deliberately keeps a low profile on this issue, there is no denying that internally, it is very concerned about this possibility.
The source pointed out that a Kyodo dispatch from Washington, dated Dec 14, concluded, after talking to undisclosed State Department sources, that by jettisoning the ABM, the US is targeting China, not Russia.
Strategic planning against such an eventuality calls for a major overhaul of China's foreign policy in general and its Taiwan policy in particular, and China is carefully weighing all options, according to the source.
1045
The News Secretary
1105
I've had enough of the dribble.
North Korea and the Bomb
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/opinion/10tue1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
That component is the people of North Korea. Some live under deplorable conditions, some don't. By putting a complete ending to the interaction of North Korea with the outside world would lead to the demise of many of the people. The winter is coming and they need to live through it.
Let's just go where no person is willing to go.
China and Russia don't want a war in the region. I don't blame them. The West, Japan believe that a war can be waged to dismantle North Korea to a limited extent. That is not a realistic view.
Currently, and I am not making excuses, the 'explosion' that occurred yesterday is not considered to be the capacity of a nuclear weapon. It may have been a poor construction, poor science, incomplete construction; but; across the board there is some question about the 'capacity' of this weapon that was significant to set off the Richter Scale.
The region can easily escalate especially with Bush and Cheney salivating over Russia Oil and the Chinese economy. It's not realistic to start a war to dismantle North Korea.
The people of North Korea need an aggressive program of relief, and dare I say it; a North Korean 'Oil for Food Program," but the difference is what would the North Korean's trade. At least Iraq had something to trade. At the same time this takes hold the current leadership of North Korea has to be tried before the World Court. Either there is reason to remove these men or there isn't. Everyone puts out all kinds of information about that country regarding violations of Human Rights, but, nothing is done about it.
The world needs to focus on the people and children of that nation while placing tight controls on how North Korea handles itself. The circumstances aren't good for the people there. They, like Iraqis, are governed by 'nationalism' and there is every reason to believe if the government of North Korea was to collapse the same anarchy would insure and THEN where would be stand in regard to LOOSE NUKES.
Where is Osama bin Laden?
The actions taken against North Korea has to be controlled while supportive of the populous there.
Are there any questions?
1009
Condi Rice is an arrogant Neocon. She hasn't said anything constructive, but, only inflammatory. WHERE IS THE 'PLAN' FOR NORTH KOREA? She hasn't got one and just one day in her capacity of Secretary of State she should sound like one.
1011
Bush is STILL out of touch. Clinton had a conversation, UN seals and control. Bush has yet to have a conversation. Who's kidding who?
Tell 'em Governor Richardson.
1018
Scientific world gathers data on 'nuclear test'
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10256-scientific-world-gathers-data-on-nuclear-test.html
Scientists around the world are taking a cautious wait-and-see attitude after North Korea claimed to have successfully conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday.
Only careful analysis of data returned by seismic or atmospheric sensors will determine whether the blast was a success or a damp squib, they say. Nor could they rule out the possibility of a scam, in which North Korea blew up a huge stock of conventional explosives to bolster its claim to have joined the nuclear club.
There are significant discrepancies between reports into the size of the blast.
The Korea Earthquake Research Centre in South Korea said there was a 3.58-magnitude tremor from North Korea's North Hamgyong province – the equivalent of 0.8 kilotonnes of TNT explosives.
1021
EXACTLY, whom was it that caused the escalation of nuclear proliferation anyway?
China Braces for Uncertainty as ABM Treaty Unravels
http://taiwansecurity.org/News/2001/ST-122701.htm
Despite its low-key reaction, Beijing views Washington's unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty negatively and is devising plans carefully to brace China for a more uncertain and insecure world resulting from the United States' move.
According to a source close to the Chinese military, such planning involves both tactical and strategic aspects.
From the tactical point of view, by abrogating the ABM, the US gains a free hand to develop and deploy the national and theatre missile defences (NMD and TMD) which will effectively nullify China's minimal nuclear-deterrence capability.
Besides, as the ABM laid the foundation for 32 other international treaties limiting an arms race, its jettisoning would undermine the validity of all these treaties and open the world for a new round of arms race.
The source predicts that the US move will prompt an arms race in three directions.
Countries whose nuclear-deterrence capability is nullified would step up their own weapon programme to develop land, sea, air and space-based missile-launching pads, and also increase the size of nuclear arsenals and upgrade the quality of warheads as well as a whole range of space weapons such as satellite-killers in order to pierce through the missile-defence shield.
Those facing potential threats from the US would be compelled to develop their own missile-defence shields. Others would step up their development of chemical and biological weapons.
The source admitted that any tactical planning would have to take into consideration all these aspects.
However, many in China, including some in the military, fear that meeting the US challenge would lead China into the quagmire of an arms race with the US and repeat the bitter experience of the former Soviet Union that collapsed under the pressure of such a race.
Many Chinese strategists believe that an important contributing factor leading to this collapse was the country's attempt to meet the challenge imposed by America's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). To avoid the pitfall, the source said that China has to map out a new way of response. He refused to go into details but simply outlined several points.
In raising its overall strategic capability, China should not stop short of the nuclear race but should also explore other options.
In building up its arsenal, China should minimise the military-civilian divide to facilitate a flow of technology and resources between both sectors.
In enhancing its overall security, China should develop long-term strategies instead of haphazardly figuring out ad hoc responses to contingencies.
By doing so, China may solve the dilemma of expanding military spending while avoiding the arms-race quagmire.
Mr Yang Ming-jie, director of the Studies on Arms Control and Security of the Institute of Modern International Relations, said that from the strategic point of view, the manner in which the US dropped the ABM shows that its unilateralism is going to dominate the world in the years to come.
The US claims that the ABM is obsolete as the Soviet Union is no longer existent, disregarding the fact that as late as Nov 29 this year, the United Nations adopted with overwhelming majority (80-3) a resolution demanding respect and adherence to the ABM.
This is the third year in a row that the UN did so, proving that the international community still values the ABM as a means for maintaining the global strategic balance.
According to Mr Yang, the way the US defined obsolescence unilaterally reminds China of a potential danger that surfaced briefly during the presidential campaign last year.
Mr George W. Bush's Republican Party had claimed then that the 'one-China principle' was obsolete and that the 1971 Shanghai Communique expounding that principle and laying down the foundation of Sino-US relations had outlived its value.
The rationale was that Taiwan had undergone full democratisation and marketisation, rendering today's Taiwan totally different from what it was when the Shanghai Communique was signed and that America's China policy had to take such changes into consideration.
'If the US applied the same unilateralism in defining obsolescence, grave trouble awaits China,' said Mr Yang.
Indeed, the US intention to include Taiwan in the TMD programme signals a disregard of its commitment under the 'one-China principle', he added.
A broader strategic consideration is whether China would become the potential target of America's NMD and TMD programmes.
A source close to the Foreign Ministry said that although China deliberately keeps a low profile on this issue, there is no denying that internally, it is very concerned about this possibility.
The source pointed out that a Kyodo dispatch from Washington, dated Dec 14, concluded, after talking to undisclosed State Department sources, that by jettisoning the ABM, the US is targeting China, not Russia.
Strategic planning against such an eventuality calls for a major overhaul of China's foreign policy in general and its Taiwan policy in particular, and China is carefully weighing all options, according to the source.
1045
The News Secretary
1105
I've had enough of the dribble.
Monday, October 9, 2006
It's can only improve from here. It's hard to believe the level of danger Bush allows to exist.
1000
Bush has escalated the arms race and now the UN, Russia and China will de-escalate it. North Korea has made record advancements toward nuclear weapons on Bush. What else is there to say? Bush comes out opposing the potential nuclear weapon after he suspended all talks to North Korea when he entered office. The entire mess is directly Bush's blunder.
1006
Did you catch Keith Olberman on MSNBC tonight? He is postponing the Bush/Republican assault on Habeous Corpus. He's bringing it up on his program tomorrow night. He finds it appauling that while the nation has been seeking information about Foley, the Republicans have been up to no good. I'm looking forward to it.
1007
The Foley Feasco is more than anyone expected. He engaged in sex with a Page who eventually came 'of age.' He's a predator. He stalks them. He likes his sexual partner young but without commitment to a relationship that sustains him. It's a worry. He sees young men as sex objects. He doesn't value long term commitments? It's a worry.
Ethics Committee Gears Up for Foley Testimony
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-foley10oct10,0,6622932.story?coll=la-home-headlines
By Richard Simon and Noam N. Levey, Times Staff Writers6:24 PM PDT, October 9, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee this week ramps up its investigation into a sex scandal that has roiled the Republican-controlled Congress, with the first witnesses coming to an otherwise quiet Capitol to testify behind closed doors on what they knew, and when, about ex-Congressman Mark Foley's contacts with male pages.In what is shaping up as a classic "he said/he said" discourse, Kirk Fordham, a former Foley aide, is expected to testify this week that he warned House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's office in 2003 or earlier about the former Florida Republican's inappropriate interest in teenage pages.
And now the 'lack of interest' in the Republican Congressman Foley's prowling of Pages to the House by the Republican majority extends to teh year 2001.
Oh.
1012
Governor Richardson - he's right. We need to pick up where Clinton left off. With North Korea, Palestine, Israel and evidently Iraq and Iran which share their ethnic base.
Of course, Governor Richardson didn't put it that way, but, he is saying things that Bush could never achieve or ever tried to embark on.
1014
There you go, John Roberts creating a 'generic' understanding of 'the facts' to water down the issue enough to make it less threatening and therefore less a Bush Blunder.
I feel better tonight than I did this morning about the security of the Korean Peninsula, but, not because the President of the USA provided that margin of control, but, because Russia and China did. The United Nations will succeed. It has some very powerful partners.
enough
Bush has escalated the arms race and now the UN, Russia and China will de-escalate it. North Korea has made record advancements toward nuclear weapons on Bush. What else is there to say? Bush comes out opposing the potential nuclear weapon after he suspended all talks to North Korea when he entered office. The entire mess is directly Bush's blunder.
1006
Did you catch Keith Olberman on MSNBC tonight? He is postponing the Bush/Republican assault on Habeous Corpus. He's bringing it up on his program tomorrow night. He finds it appauling that while the nation has been seeking information about Foley, the Republicans have been up to no good. I'm looking forward to it.
1007
The Foley Feasco is more than anyone expected. He engaged in sex with a Page who eventually came 'of age.' He's a predator. He stalks them. He likes his sexual partner young but without commitment to a relationship that sustains him. It's a worry. He sees young men as sex objects. He doesn't value long term commitments? It's a worry.
Ethics Committee Gears Up for Foley Testimony
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-foley10oct10,0,6622932.story?coll=la-home-headlines
By Richard Simon and Noam N. Levey, Times Staff Writers6:24 PM PDT, October 9, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee this week ramps up its investigation into a sex scandal that has roiled the Republican-controlled Congress, with the first witnesses coming to an otherwise quiet Capitol to testify behind closed doors on what they knew, and when, about ex-Congressman Mark Foley's contacts with male pages.In what is shaping up as a classic "he said/he said" discourse, Kirk Fordham, a former Foley aide, is expected to testify this week that he warned House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's office in 2003 or earlier about the former Florida Republican's inappropriate interest in teenage pages.
And now the 'lack of interest' in the Republican Congressman Foley's prowling of Pages to the House by the Republican majority extends to teh year 2001.
Oh.
1012
Governor Richardson - he's right. We need to pick up where Clinton left off. With North Korea, Palestine, Israel and evidently Iraq and Iran which share their ethnic base.
Of course, Governor Richardson didn't put it that way, but, he is saying things that Bush could never achieve or ever tried to embark on.
1014
There you go, John Roberts creating a 'generic' understanding of 'the facts' to water down the issue enough to make it less threatening and therefore less a Bush Blunder.
I feel better tonight than I did this morning about the security of the Korean Peninsula, but, not because the President of the USA provided that margin of control, but, because Russia and China did. The United Nations will succeed. It has some very powerful partners.
enough
Friday, October 6, 2006
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear but AC 360 tries all the time.
1000
Q :: How does a soldier act as an ambassador to people with a gun in his hand?
A :: A solider can't and should not try, that is for the State Department and policies of government that keeps soldiers out of hideous circumstances that place them in positions of redundancy.
1006
Jamie McIntyre - I've had enough of the stupid conversation about an illegal and failed initiative in Iraq. Nothing you have to say matters. Senator Warner is an old Republican hack and nothing more. He's asking the American People to keep trying? That's his question?
Here is his answer :: NO !
enough
Q :: How does a soldier act as an ambassador to people with a gun in his hand?
A :: A solider can't and should not try, that is for the State Department and policies of government that keeps soldiers out of hideous circumstances that place them in positions of redundancy.
1006
Jamie McIntyre - I've had enough of the stupid conversation about an illegal and failed initiative in Iraq. Nothing you have to say matters. Senator Warner is an old Republican hack and nothing more. He's asking the American People to keep trying? That's his question?
Here is his answer :: NO !
enough
But, do something other than point to tragedy. Take a stand. Make it happen.
Walk the Talk, Anderson
Bill Proposed Banning Contracts for U.S. Firms That Benefit from Darfur Conflict (click on for source)
Date: Thursday, October 05, 2006By: Vincent Sherry, Howard University News Service
Black congressional leaders and activists are urging the United States to help end genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region by placing economic sanctions on some prominent American companies.
Last week, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and 48 co-sponsors announced a bill that would bar companies benefitting from the conflict in Darfur from receiving federal business contracts.
Meanwhile, activists are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force to seize control of the volatile situation.
"No one should have to worry that their tax dollars are supporting genocide," Lee said at a Capitol Hill press conference. "The bill is designed to wash the blood off of our federal contracts, protect the rights of states to divest their own public pension funds from companies doing business in Sudan and increase financial pressure on Khartoum to end the genocide in Darfur."
It is estimated that companies associated with the conflict have amassed about $600 billion since 2004, according to data from the government’s General Services Administration (GSA) Procurement Data System. Precise figures cannot be known since no comprehensive list of businesses said to profit from the conflict exists.
The bill, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act, would require that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission compile such a list. Criteria for making the list would include doing business with Sudan’s government-related entities or selling them military and other equipment that could be used to hurt civilians.
"It is urgent that the international community come together to take decisive action to save the lives of those in Darfur," U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), a co-sponsor of the bill. "I urge my colleagues to adopt, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2006 and o support the effort to end genocide in Darfur."
The legislation is supported by activists, though many insist stronger action is needed.
As activist organizations mount pressure and the situation further deteriorates, Darfur is beginning to receive more attention from the international community. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice issued an ultimatum to the Sudanese government on accepting a UN peacekeeping force just last week.
"We are not going to sit by and watch this kind of death and destruction continue and we will use whatever tools are necessary, through the U.N., to be able to stop that" Rice said."
In response to concerns, President George W. Bush has appointed a new special envoy to the region, whose task will be to employ diplomacy to end the conflict.
Human rights organization Africa Action still questions U.S. commitment to ending the conflict. In a statement, acting Co-Executive Director Anna Louise Colgan praised President Bush’s recent appointment of a special envoy, but called it insufficient.
"The appointment of a special envoy for Darfur cannot substitute for a U.S. plan of action to break the deadlock and stop the genocide. The credibility of the U.S. on Darfur will be judged by the successful pursuit of a diplomatic offensive ... to overcome [Sudan’s] opposition to a UN force and galvanize Security Council Action to protect the people of Darfur."
A resolution approved by the UN would place 17,000 peacekeepers in the region, according to the organization’s web site. But Sudan’s government has rejected it as a violation of its sovereignty.
This has led activists to call upon the U.S. to pressure Sudan to change its position.
But the U.S. confronts several obstacles in the Security Council and elsewhere. China and Russia, Sudanese allies and trade partners, wield veto power on the council. Plus, Sudan is expected to expand nascent oil operations in coming years. Damage to the U.S. relationship with its government could hurt American prospects for access to that oil. Also, as the Bush administration has often noted, Sudan provides intelligence on terror.
"We acknowledge the U.S. has several competing priorities in having a relationship with the government of Sudan," Diana Duarte, 22, a program associate in Africa Action’s Policy Analysis and Communications Department, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
"I would really highlight that this is a genocide, and that creates a moral imperative to act. I would also highlight that those factors [sharing intelligence and the U.S. role in ending the Sudanese civil war] are examples of a long-standing relationship with the Sudanese government," she said.
Duarte also notes relations between the U.S. and Russia and China and says these ties can be used to compel their cooperation in allowing UN peacekeepers into Sudan.
Currently, the African Union, an organization of African states, maintains a peacekeeping force of 7,000 in the region. It was just given UN approval to continue its efforts in the region, which have so far failed to end violence. Some activists have criticized the effort as underfunded and lacking in manpower.
The conflict began in Feb. 2003 when Arab militias believed to be supported by the government began attacking the western region known as Darfur, where rebel groups live. The conflict has largely been cast as racial and religious, given the targeting of blacks and Christians. Both groups have historically lacked political power.
Death toll estimates vary wildly, though it’s now believed that at least 200,000 have died since the conflict began. This figure, taken from a scientific study from journal, Science, differs sharply from estimates once putting the toll at just 70,000. Africa Action says 500,000 have died; the UN estimate is 400,000.
Last month, the NAACP joined other humanitarian and civil rights groups at rallies in front of the White House and in New York City as part of a continuing campaign to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
"In recent months, the media has begun to display the desperation in Darfur to the world community, but the situation continues to worsen," Crispian Kirk, NAACP director for international relations, said in a statement. "We must take action. Without our help, thousands more will suffer and die."
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUDAN. A local report adds some information that 'changes' some of the perspective but can't dismiss it. This is the perspective that seeks to dismiss the problem and dismiss the need for a peacekeeper force.
Darfur Eyewitness (click on for more content)
Dreadful events in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur continue to dominate world headlines.
The conflict in Darfur erupted in February 2003 between local tribes and the Janjaweed, an armed group allegedly backed by Khartoum. The conflict involves control over natural resources. More than 180,000 people have been killed in the conflict and more than 2.2 million have been displaced. ...
... There have been horrible images from Sudan such as rape and destitution. Has it changed since 2002?
In a very strange way, in terms of Darfur, actually malnutrition has gotten better in a lot of places in Darfur since the rebellion, because there’s been access for aid agencies. Many of the aid agencies that left Darfur when the Sudanese government was put on the sanctions list went back in when the emergency was at its peak.
In a very strange way, for a lot of people, aside from the people who are dying as a direct result of the war in a lot of parts of Darfur, when the food supply line can be made possible (the violence does break up the supply line), then the nutrition situation is better.
Khartoum is very different. It’s very difficult to explain, because Sudan is so incredibly big and Khartoum to Darfur is a two-and-a-half to three-hour flight. When you land in the capital, in Khartoum, it’s very disconcerting because you see this very thriving and modern African city. There’s a lot of investment coming into Khartoum, there are coffee shops, restaurants. Then you fly out to Darfur and it’s like going back in time.
The Janjaweed continue to hold many people in Sudan hostage. You have some eyewitness accounts of what’s still happening. Tell us about what you saw.
The situation at the moment is that the Sudanese government is in the middle of a military offensive, an aerial bombardment. In recent weeks they have been moving troops in on the ground.
One of the rebel groups signed a deal with the Sudanese government, so they brought with them the territory that they had under their control in southern Darfur. But in northern Darfur other rebel groups, which didn’t sign the deal, have taken a lot of the territory away from the main rebel group, the SLM. This is where the Sudanese government is concentrating its firepower at the moment. It’s no longer a situation where it’s the deniability of the Janjaweed militias just moving in and doing an offensive on the part of the government. This is now full-scale warfare.
You write “yet another orphan, yet another widow, yet another raped girl, Reeling, you end up too busy fighting for breath to fight the tears like a proper journalist would.” Can you talk about this element – the widow, the orphan, the raped girl – how it still continues in spite of world reaction and the many humanitarian agencies that have come into Darfur.
I think what’s so horrific about Darfur is that every time you go back you hear the exact same story. Two-and-a-half, nearly three years down the line, nothing has changed. I think there can be nothing worse than the death of hope. The first few times I went in, people really saw you as a journalist, as bringing hope that people cared. There was a real innocence that “people in the world can’t possibly know what we’re going through because if they did, it would stop.” I think that’s the most horrible thing about going back to Darfur. You can’t lie to these people any more. You go back to the same places and you see a lot of the same people, because it’s the same people who have been sitting in these makeshift shelters for three years. ...
... It’s an emotional story that continues to unfold out of Darfur. You go there as a reporter, come back and tell your story, as do others. You’ve watched over the years what has or hasn’t happened. What do you think will make the world understand how bad the situation continues to be?
There was a day for solidarity with Darfur, when people were going out on the ground and talking about the need to do something. But people need to understand that there’s a lack of political will.
When you’re standing there and lobbying in the U.N., I really feel that if there were the political will, whether in the U.S. or in the UK, for this to actually happen… it’s just such a mess and it’s such a difficult place to operate in. ...
... Can you provide some statistics on the death toll and the rape toll since the beginning of the war?
Both the death and the rape tolls have gone down in the past year. We were hearing much reduced numbers, but in this last offensive they’ve gone up again. The problem is, it’s so difficult to work. I was actually pulled out by my company the last time I was in. A friend of mine, a local Sudanese journalist, was killed in Darfur. I think that’s the problem, that aid agencies can’t put together definitive figures.
My understanding is that in this recent offensive, over 60,000 have been displaced. That’s just within Darfur and we’re talking about a community that doesn’t really have anywhere else to go. There’s nowhere left to run for them. So if 60,000 people have been displaced, that’s a huge shift and that’s without having any figures for the people who have gone into Chad again, and there’s a war brewing in Chad. There’s just no safe place anymore.
Even when you talk about 60,000 [displaced] and you talk about over 1,000 rapes in this recent offensive, you just don’t know. It could be worse than that, it could be less. There’s just no access, there’s no way to go in and that’s the awful thing – the Sudanese government has achieved impunity because there is no way to independently verify any of the figures we’re hearing.
Courageously, you’ve ventured into war-torn Darfur and you’ve been nominated for several awards for your courage. Are journalists taking the same interest now as they have? Are many still frequenting Darfur in order to report what’s happening?
It’s very, very hard. The last time I was there, my colleagues at the Al-Jazeera bureau in Khartoum, in one week they were attacked four times by Sudanese security. It’s impossible to go in as a foreign journalist because you need a travel permit. You saw recently with the Chicago Tribune journalist and the Serbian envoy that going in through Chad is not only dangerous; now that the Sudanese have repaired relations with the Chadian government, it’s almost impossible. ...
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Bill Proposed Banning Contracts for U.S. Firms That Benefit from Darfur Conflict (click on for source)
Date: Thursday, October 05, 2006By: Vincent Sherry, Howard University News Service
Black congressional leaders and activists are urging the United States to help end genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region by placing economic sanctions on some prominent American companies.
Last week, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and 48 co-sponsors announced a bill that would bar companies benefitting from the conflict in Darfur from receiving federal business contracts.
Meanwhile, activists are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force to seize control of the volatile situation.
"No one should have to worry that their tax dollars are supporting genocide," Lee said at a Capitol Hill press conference. "The bill is designed to wash the blood off of our federal contracts, protect the rights of states to divest their own public pension funds from companies doing business in Sudan and increase financial pressure on Khartoum to end the genocide in Darfur."
It is estimated that companies associated with the conflict have amassed about $600 billion since 2004, according to data from the government’s General Services Administration (GSA) Procurement Data System. Precise figures cannot be known since no comprehensive list of businesses said to profit from the conflict exists.
The bill, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act, would require that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission compile such a list. Criteria for making the list would include doing business with Sudan’s government-related entities or selling them military and other equipment that could be used to hurt civilians.
"It is urgent that the international community come together to take decisive action to save the lives of those in Darfur," U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), a co-sponsor of the bill. "I urge my colleagues to adopt, the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2006 and o support the effort to end genocide in Darfur."
The legislation is supported by activists, though many insist stronger action is needed.
As activist organizations mount pressure and the situation further deteriorates, Darfur is beginning to receive more attention from the international community. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice issued an ultimatum to the Sudanese government on accepting a UN peacekeeping force just last week.
"We are not going to sit by and watch this kind of death and destruction continue and we will use whatever tools are necessary, through the U.N., to be able to stop that" Rice said."
In response to concerns, President George W. Bush has appointed a new special envoy to the region, whose task will be to employ diplomacy to end the conflict.
Human rights organization Africa Action still questions U.S. commitment to ending the conflict. In a statement, acting Co-Executive Director Anna Louise Colgan praised President Bush’s recent appointment of a special envoy, but called it insufficient.
"The appointment of a special envoy for Darfur cannot substitute for a U.S. plan of action to break the deadlock and stop the genocide. The credibility of the U.S. on Darfur will be judged by the successful pursuit of a diplomatic offensive ... to overcome [Sudan’s] opposition to a UN force and galvanize Security Council Action to protect the people of Darfur."
A resolution approved by the UN would place 17,000 peacekeepers in the region, according to the organization’s web site. But Sudan’s government has rejected it as a violation of its sovereignty.
This has led activists to call upon the U.S. to pressure Sudan to change its position.
But the U.S. confronts several obstacles in the Security Council and elsewhere. China and Russia, Sudanese allies and trade partners, wield veto power on the council. Plus, Sudan is expected to expand nascent oil operations in coming years. Damage to the U.S. relationship with its government could hurt American prospects for access to that oil. Also, as the Bush administration has often noted, Sudan provides intelligence on terror.
"We acknowledge the U.S. has several competing priorities in having a relationship with the government of Sudan," Diana Duarte, 22, a program associate in Africa Action’s Policy Analysis and Communications Department, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
"I would really highlight that this is a genocide, and that creates a moral imperative to act. I would also highlight that those factors [sharing intelligence and the U.S. role in ending the Sudanese civil war] are examples of a long-standing relationship with the Sudanese government," she said.
Duarte also notes relations between the U.S. and Russia and China and says these ties can be used to compel their cooperation in allowing UN peacekeepers into Sudan.
Currently, the African Union, an organization of African states, maintains a peacekeeping force of 7,000 in the region. It was just given UN approval to continue its efforts in the region, which have so far failed to end violence. Some activists have criticized the effort as underfunded and lacking in manpower.
The conflict began in Feb. 2003 when Arab militias believed to be supported by the government began attacking the western region known as Darfur, where rebel groups live. The conflict has largely been cast as racial and religious, given the targeting of blacks and Christians. Both groups have historically lacked political power.
Death toll estimates vary wildly, though it’s now believed that at least 200,000 have died since the conflict began. This figure, taken from a scientific study from journal, Science, differs sharply from estimates once putting the toll at just 70,000. Africa Action says 500,000 have died; the UN estimate is 400,000.
Last month, the NAACP joined other humanitarian and civil rights groups at rallies in front of the White House and in New York City as part of a continuing campaign to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
"In recent months, the media has begun to display the desperation in Darfur to the world community, but the situation continues to worsen," Crispian Kirk, NAACP director for international relations, said in a statement. "We must take action. Without our help, thousands more will suffer and die."
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The Howard University News Service provides articles and photographs to fulfill a public service obligation to contribute to fair and equitable representation of all people in the news media.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUDAN. A local report adds some information that 'changes' some of the perspective but can't dismiss it. This is the perspective that seeks to dismiss the problem and dismiss the need for a peacekeeper force.
Darfur Eyewitness (click on for more content)
Dreadful events in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur continue to dominate world headlines.
The conflict in Darfur erupted in February 2003 between local tribes and the Janjaweed, an armed group allegedly backed by Khartoum. The conflict involves control over natural resources. More than 180,000 people have been killed in the conflict and more than 2.2 million have been displaced. ...
... There have been horrible images from Sudan such as rape and destitution. Has it changed since 2002?
In a very strange way, in terms of Darfur, actually malnutrition has gotten better in a lot of places in Darfur since the rebellion, because there’s been access for aid agencies. Many of the aid agencies that left Darfur when the Sudanese government was put on the sanctions list went back in when the emergency was at its peak.
In a very strange way, for a lot of people, aside from the people who are dying as a direct result of the war in a lot of parts of Darfur, when the food supply line can be made possible (the violence does break up the supply line), then the nutrition situation is better.
Khartoum is very different. It’s very difficult to explain, because Sudan is so incredibly big and Khartoum to Darfur is a two-and-a-half to three-hour flight. When you land in the capital, in Khartoum, it’s very disconcerting because you see this very thriving and modern African city. There’s a lot of investment coming into Khartoum, there are coffee shops, restaurants. Then you fly out to Darfur and it’s like going back in time.
The Janjaweed continue to hold many people in Sudan hostage. You have some eyewitness accounts of what’s still happening. Tell us about what you saw.
The situation at the moment is that the Sudanese government is in the middle of a military offensive, an aerial bombardment. In recent weeks they have been moving troops in on the ground.
One of the rebel groups signed a deal with the Sudanese government, so they brought with them the territory that they had under their control in southern Darfur. But in northern Darfur other rebel groups, which didn’t sign the deal, have taken a lot of the territory away from the main rebel group, the SLM. This is where the Sudanese government is concentrating its firepower at the moment. It’s no longer a situation where it’s the deniability of the Janjaweed militias just moving in and doing an offensive on the part of the government. This is now full-scale warfare.
You write “yet another orphan, yet another widow, yet another raped girl, Reeling, you end up too busy fighting for breath to fight the tears like a proper journalist would.” Can you talk about this element – the widow, the orphan, the raped girl – how it still continues in spite of world reaction and the many humanitarian agencies that have come into Darfur.
I think what’s so horrific about Darfur is that every time you go back you hear the exact same story. Two-and-a-half, nearly three years down the line, nothing has changed. I think there can be nothing worse than the death of hope. The first few times I went in, people really saw you as a journalist, as bringing hope that people cared. There was a real innocence that “people in the world can’t possibly know what we’re going through because if they did, it would stop.” I think that’s the most horrible thing about going back to Darfur. You can’t lie to these people any more. You go back to the same places and you see a lot of the same people, because it’s the same people who have been sitting in these makeshift shelters for three years. ...
... It’s an emotional story that continues to unfold out of Darfur. You go there as a reporter, come back and tell your story, as do others. You’ve watched over the years what has or hasn’t happened. What do you think will make the world understand how bad the situation continues to be?
There was a day for solidarity with Darfur, when people were going out on the ground and talking about the need to do something. But people need to understand that there’s a lack of political will.
When you’re standing there and lobbying in the U.N., I really feel that if there were the political will, whether in the U.S. or in the UK, for this to actually happen… it’s just such a mess and it’s such a difficult place to operate in. ...
... Can you provide some statistics on the death toll and the rape toll since the beginning of the war?
Both the death and the rape tolls have gone down in the past year. We were hearing much reduced numbers, but in this last offensive they’ve gone up again. The problem is, it’s so difficult to work. I was actually pulled out by my company the last time I was in. A friend of mine, a local Sudanese journalist, was killed in Darfur. I think that’s the problem, that aid agencies can’t put together definitive figures.
My understanding is that in this recent offensive, over 60,000 have been displaced. That’s just within Darfur and we’re talking about a community that doesn’t really have anywhere else to go. There’s nowhere left to run for them. So if 60,000 people have been displaced, that’s a huge shift and that’s without having any figures for the people who have gone into Chad again, and there’s a war brewing in Chad. There’s just no safe place anymore.
Even when you talk about 60,000 [displaced] and you talk about over 1,000 rapes in this recent offensive, you just don’t know. It could be worse than that, it could be less. There’s just no access, there’s no way to go in and that’s the awful thing – the Sudanese government has achieved impunity because there is no way to independently verify any of the figures we’re hearing.
Courageously, you’ve ventured into war-torn Darfur and you’ve been nominated for several awards for your courage. Are journalists taking the same interest now as they have? Are many still frequenting Darfur in order to report what’s happening?
It’s very, very hard. The last time I was there, my colleagues at the Al-Jazeera bureau in Khartoum, in one week they were attacked four times by Sudanese security. It’s impossible to go in as a foreign journalist because you need a travel permit. You saw recently with the Chicago Tribune journalist and the Serbian envoy that going in through Chad is not only dangerous; now that the Sudanese have repaired relations with the Chadian government, it’s almost impossible. ...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
This scandal of the House of Representatives reaches beyond the Capital Dome.
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Foley has opened Pandora's Box. This man has been lusting after young men for years while everyone looked the other way. You aren't going to tell me this is a surprise to Jeb Bush. He and Foley were involved on many issues regarding Missing and Exploited Children.
Florida has a completely horrible record regarding children and attracting pedophiles. This is huge. Years of systematic evasion of law enforcement. I don't know. It seems much larger than just a resignation. It doesn't track well with this level of negligence at all levels of government including Florida government.
It's smells all "W"rong to me.
I want children to be safe, young Pages to be safe. It just seems as though not knowing how demented Foley actually is leaves a large 'gap' in knowing where to turn to begin. The Page Program needs to be in contact 'confidentially' to be sure they aren't having issues. To know that they are doing well or at least not affected by any of this influence.
I am worried. Very worried. Pedophiles, and we don't know whom he covets exactly, (A warrant to search Foley's residence should be conducted.) don't easily resolve their fetishes.
I just don't feel good about this. It's leaves too many unanswered questions. Years of them.
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Anderson, where is George Clooney?
Sweden's PA gains 85% of Congo oil licence
Sweden's PA Resources has agreed to buy ADECO Congo BVI, whose subsidiary ADECO Congo SA owns 85% of an oil production sharing agreement offshore the Republic of Congo, the Oslo-listed energy firm said on Tuesday.ADECO Congo SA holds the stake in the production sharing contract in the offshore block Marine XIV, which is an area of about 265 square km, PA Resources said. The national oil company of Congo, SNPC, holds the remaining 15% interest."Marine XIV lies in shallow water, in the heart of the main producing region of Congo Brazzaville, where adjacent field production is currently around 75 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)," PA Resources AB said in a statement.PA Resources said earlier exploration on the block made at least one oil discovery, testing at rates of 1 500 bopd."The discovery was estimated by an independent auditor to contain probable reserves of 45-million barrels of oil," it said."Given rig availability our plan is to develop this block as soon as possible," PA Resources Chief Executive Ulrik Jansson said in the statement.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/today/?show=94856
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Deaths in eastern DR Congo attack ITURI,Congo (bbc) -- Fourteen people have been killed in fighting between rebels and government forces in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A local army commander said 12 militiamen and two soldiers were killed during an attack by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI).
In July three rebel groups in Ituri agreed to a ceasefire ahead of the first round of presidential elections.
The second round is due to take place at the end of October.
United Nations officials had hoped the east would remain quiet ahead of the second round.
"The fighting was very serious and lasted seven hours," General Nsiona Mbuayama told Reuters news agency by phone from near Bunia. "The militia fled in the end, taking some dead, but they left at least 12 bodies."
Some of the worst fighting during DR Congo's conflict has taken place in the north-eastern Ituri region, where local ethnic conflicts have been fuelled by clashes over minerals.
The FRPI militia, led by a man known as Cobra Matata, is one of several groups that has not joined the peace process. President Joseph Kabila and ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba are contesting the run-off polls on 29 October.
The UN is spending $1bn a year on its 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in DR Congo - the largest in the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=005
Yeah, a lot of people have died. What are you doing about it beside adding celebrity status to the issue. I mean everyone at CNN ridiculed Daryl Hannah when she stood up for the people over landowners in Southern California citing her millions vs. what she was doing with those millions. So, what do you say, Anderson? What are you doing about this mess.
You want to know why the rebellions? You want to know the people that are making differencess? Look at this.
Church see progress in reporting on Republic of Congo's oil revenues
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605494.htm
Dieudonne Serge Mounthou, program director of the justice and peace commission of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Congo, said that in 1999 his bishops asked: "How can one understand that during the last three decades the frequent discovery and start-up of oil wells, always important, has not been accompanied by any kind of visible sign of economic transformation or rectification of the social situation of our population? Our oil must be an instrument for the life and not the death of our people."
IMAGINE THAT. Catholic Bishops seeking justice for people with programs paid for by the revenues of their governments income from oil. Hm.
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It's easy to state facts about a country. Population. Terrain. Impoverished dominant economy, but, it's really far more interesting to understand HOW it all got so stupid and people end up being rebels in their own country to stop corrupt governments from killing them.
All the African countries are dominated by impoverished agriculture and untouchable oil wealth of government. "Let them eat cake, I suppose."
Congo's economy consists mainly of village agriculture, an urban informal sector or "grey economy" (i.e. unregulated business, commercial, and service activities), and an industrial sector dominated by oil and oil-related services with few linkages to the rest of the economy. Since the 1980s, the oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports, replacing timber production and exports as the principle growth sector. Oil accounts for about 67% of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP)-about 78% of the government budget-and about 95% of Congo's export earnings.
In spite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Congo's business and administrative infrastructure was badly damaged during the recurrent fighting, increasing the petroleum sector's dominance of the economy (since oil production was not directly harmed by the fighting). Rebel attacks and subsequent shut-downs along the CFCO railway, which runs from the port of Pointe Noire to the capital Brazzaville and the interior, severely curtailed the movement of goods and people. Economic activity was further hampered by the fact that over 800,000 Congolese, nearly 30% of the population, fled their homes during the conflicts.
The Congo is the fifth largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Oil accounts for a large portion of Congo's GDP and the majority of the country’s exports. Current proven reserves are estimated to be 1,291 million tonnes of crude and large reserves of associated natural gas exist. Congo is one of the West African countries where Energy Africa is active.
The downstream oil industry is also an important element in the country's economy. The oil industry is predominantly run by foreign companies and is centred on the coastal city of Pointe Noire where the Congolaise de Raffinage (Coraf) operates the 21,000 bpd Pointe Noire refinery. The refinery has been out of commission for four years and has only recently started operating again.
The labour situation in the Congo is sensitive and investors should consider this. Obligations on employers are considered onerous and political restructuring is largely dictated by organised labour. Despite the potential barriers to investment in the Congolese oil industry, however, the sector is experiencing a period of growth.
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CORRUPTION. The world is full of corruption laced in inextricably with Big Oil.
It's far too simple to 'pit' one ethnicity against another as a way to create a warfare that gives the populous a faux sense of 'purpose' in the war leaving the oil companies innocently on the sidelines while they rape the country of oil and wealth while 'the politics of the day' states 'what a shame it is the people of these oil countries just can't get their act together and rather be hate filled of each other.'
THE TRUTH is that villages of impoverished farmers end up being militias to stop the killing of innocents who protest the policies of their corrupt government elite who are the only members of the society that benefit for the paltry royalities by oil companies while even the oil companies pay government police and military to kill protesting villagers.
The sequela that results on a social scale is ethnic hatred, resulting in senseless killing, rapes and basically dehumanized populous who after generations have forgotten what started the hatred in the first place.
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Where is George Clooney? At least he tries to do something about it.
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The local villagers try to create tourism as an appreciation of their land.
http://www.gocongo.com/
CITY TRIP KINSHASA 7 – DAYS
Discover Kinshasa and its surroundings with Go Congo Tour Operator . Kinshasa, the capital of the D.R.Congo, used to be referred to as "Kin La Belle" - meaning "Beautiful Kinshasa". The many years of turmoil have broken down on this image. But slowly and surely, Kinshasa is regaining its splendour. Some of the major sites include the "Grand Marché", the tomb of former President Laurent Kabila, the "Gare Central" and” Symphonie des Arts” for those who like African art, the rapids of Kinsuka just downstream from the city and the Bonobo Reserve, a sanctuary for orphaned Bonobo-monkeys, one of the five Great Apes, and the closest to mankind.
More info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/299.shtml
These tours aren't necessarily for light weights. They can have their rewards.
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Get your act together Anderson. YOU ARE A LIAR. A PATHETIC pandering liar ! The Janjaweed are Darfur, NOT, Congo. Got to tell these people everything and they are the ones with the contacts, the cameras and the money. They have the contacts because of their cameras and money. They are propagandists with meaningless messages.
Africa: Let's Run Africa's Murderous Old-Style Rulers Out of Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030639.html
What the African Union and the world need to do is take a chance and do something about Darfur that could well be disastrous - attack the Khartoum and Janjaweed forces in Darfur. If the Sudanese government decided to fight it out, then take the war to it in Khartoum.
HELLO? Anyone out there?
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The exposure of gorrillas to humans started with Dian Fossey in 1978 with the bonding that occured between she and Digit.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International\
http://www.gorillafund.org/
We all know the sad story about Digit. It was wrong but it occurred because the senseless wars don't even esteem people, citizens, yet alone Mountain Gorillas.
Tourism. It works in Kenya.
I am sure you know Kenya, Anderson. Elsa, the lion and the folks that gave Kenya a place in the hearts of millions of Americans so long ago in the movie called "Born Free."
Elsa.
Nice lion everyone loved.
BUT.
I am sure just to be whiney and contrary you'll find some scandal about Elsa's offspring and the Democrats.
http://www.magicalkenya.com/
AAaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH...... these people are so pathetic !
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Blah, blah, blah. The ONLY way Bush can exonerate his party at this point is to personally 'water board' Foley on National television.
enough.
No George Clooney.
Anderson Cooper is a liar and a CHEAT !!!
Foley has opened Pandora's Box. This man has been lusting after young men for years while everyone looked the other way. You aren't going to tell me this is a surprise to Jeb Bush. He and Foley were involved on many issues regarding Missing and Exploited Children.
Florida has a completely horrible record regarding children and attracting pedophiles. This is huge. Years of systematic evasion of law enforcement. I don't know. It seems much larger than just a resignation. It doesn't track well with this level of negligence at all levels of government including Florida government.
It's smells all "W"rong to me.
I want children to be safe, young Pages to be safe. It just seems as though not knowing how demented Foley actually is leaves a large 'gap' in knowing where to turn to begin. The Page Program needs to be in contact 'confidentially' to be sure they aren't having issues. To know that they are doing well or at least not affected by any of this influence.
I am worried. Very worried. Pedophiles, and we don't know whom he covets exactly, (A warrant to search Foley's residence should be conducted.) don't easily resolve their fetishes.
I just don't feel good about this. It's leaves too many unanswered questions. Years of them.
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Anderson, where is George Clooney?
Sweden's PA gains 85% of Congo oil licence
Sweden's PA Resources has agreed to buy ADECO Congo BVI, whose subsidiary ADECO Congo SA owns 85% of an oil production sharing agreement offshore the Republic of Congo, the Oslo-listed energy firm said on Tuesday.ADECO Congo SA holds the stake in the production sharing contract in the offshore block Marine XIV, which is an area of about 265 square km, PA Resources said. The national oil company of Congo, SNPC, holds the remaining 15% interest."Marine XIV lies in shallow water, in the heart of the main producing region of Congo Brazzaville, where adjacent field production is currently around 75 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)," PA Resources AB said in a statement.PA Resources said earlier exploration on the block made at least one oil discovery, testing at rates of 1 500 bopd."The discovery was estimated by an independent auditor to contain probable reserves of 45-million barrels of oil," it said."Given rig availability our plan is to develop this block as soon as possible," PA Resources Chief Executive Ulrik Jansson said in the statement.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/today/?show=94856
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Deaths in eastern DR Congo attack ITURI,Congo (bbc) -- Fourteen people have been killed in fighting between rebels and government forces in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A local army commander said 12 militiamen and two soldiers were killed during an attack by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI).
In July three rebel groups in Ituri agreed to a ceasefire ahead of the first round of presidential elections.
The second round is due to take place at the end of October.
United Nations officials had hoped the east would remain quiet ahead of the second round.
"The fighting was very serious and lasted seven hours," General Nsiona Mbuayama told Reuters news agency by phone from near Bunia. "The militia fled in the end, taking some dead, but they left at least 12 bodies."
Some of the worst fighting during DR Congo's conflict has taken place in the north-eastern Ituri region, where local ethnic conflicts have been fuelled by clashes over minerals.
The FRPI militia, led by a man known as Cobra Matata, is one of several groups that has not joined the peace process. President Joseph Kabila and ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba are contesting the run-off polls on 29 October.
The UN is spending $1bn a year on its 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in DR Congo - the largest in the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/4/2006&Cat=4&Num=005
Yeah, a lot of people have died. What are you doing about it beside adding celebrity status to the issue. I mean everyone at CNN ridiculed Daryl Hannah when she stood up for the people over landowners in Southern California citing her millions vs. what she was doing with those millions. So, what do you say, Anderson? What are you doing about this mess.
You want to know why the rebellions? You want to know the people that are making differencess? Look at this.
Church see progress in reporting on Republic of Congo's oil revenues
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605494.htm
Dieudonne Serge Mounthou, program director of the justice and peace commission of the Diocese of Pointe-Noire, Congo, said that in 1999 his bishops asked: "How can one understand that during the last three decades the frequent discovery and start-up of oil wells, always important, has not been accompanied by any kind of visible sign of economic transformation or rectification of the social situation of our population? Our oil must be an instrument for the life and not the death of our people."
IMAGINE THAT. Catholic Bishops seeking justice for people with programs paid for by the revenues of their governments income from oil. Hm.
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It's easy to state facts about a country. Population. Terrain. Impoverished dominant economy, but, it's really far more interesting to understand HOW it all got so stupid and people end up being rebels in their own country to stop corrupt governments from killing them.
All the African countries are dominated by impoverished agriculture and untouchable oil wealth of government. "Let them eat cake, I suppose."
Congo's economy consists mainly of village agriculture, an urban informal sector or "grey economy" (i.e. unregulated business, commercial, and service activities), and an industrial sector dominated by oil and oil-related services with few linkages to the rest of the economy. Since the 1980s, the oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports, replacing timber production and exports as the principle growth sector. Oil accounts for about 67% of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP)-about 78% of the government budget-and about 95% of Congo's export earnings.
In spite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Congo's business and administrative infrastructure was badly damaged during the recurrent fighting, increasing the petroleum sector's dominance of the economy (since oil production was not directly harmed by the fighting). Rebel attacks and subsequent shut-downs along the CFCO railway, which runs from the port of Pointe Noire to the capital Brazzaville and the interior, severely curtailed the movement of goods and people. Economic activity was further hampered by the fact that over 800,000 Congolese, nearly 30% of the population, fled their homes during the conflicts.
The Congo is the fifth largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Oil accounts for a large portion of Congo's GDP and the majority of the country’s exports. Current proven reserves are estimated to be 1,291 million tonnes of crude and large reserves of associated natural gas exist. Congo is one of the West African countries where Energy Africa is active.
The downstream oil industry is also an important element in the country's economy. The oil industry is predominantly run by foreign companies and is centred on the coastal city of Pointe Noire where the Congolaise de Raffinage (Coraf) operates the 21,000 bpd Pointe Noire refinery. The refinery has been out of commission for four years and has only recently started operating again.
The labour situation in the Congo is sensitive and investors should consider this. Obligations on employers are considered onerous and political restructuring is largely dictated by organised labour. Despite the potential barriers to investment in the Congolese oil industry, however, the sector is experiencing a period of growth.
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CORRUPTION. The world is full of corruption laced in inextricably with Big Oil.
It's far too simple to 'pit' one ethnicity against another as a way to create a warfare that gives the populous a faux sense of 'purpose' in the war leaving the oil companies innocently on the sidelines while they rape the country of oil and wealth while 'the politics of the day' states 'what a shame it is the people of these oil countries just can't get their act together and rather be hate filled of each other.'
THE TRUTH is that villages of impoverished farmers end up being militias to stop the killing of innocents who protest the policies of their corrupt government elite who are the only members of the society that benefit for the paltry royalities by oil companies while even the oil companies pay government police and military to kill protesting villagers.
The sequela that results on a social scale is ethnic hatred, resulting in senseless killing, rapes and basically dehumanized populous who after generations have forgotten what started the hatred in the first place.
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Where is George Clooney? At least he tries to do something about it.
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The local villagers try to create tourism as an appreciation of their land.
http://www.gocongo.com/
CITY TRIP KINSHASA 7 – DAYS
Discover Kinshasa and its surroundings with Go Congo Tour Operator . Kinshasa, the capital of the D.R.Congo, used to be referred to as "Kin La Belle" - meaning "Beautiful Kinshasa". The many years of turmoil have broken down on this image. But slowly and surely, Kinshasa is regaining its splendour. Some of the major sites include the "Grand Marché", the tomb of former President Laurent Kabila, the "Gare Central" and” Symphonie des Arts” for those who like African art, the rapids of Kinsuka just downstream from the city and the Bonobo Reserve, a sanctuary for orphaned Bonobo-monkeys, one of the five Great Apes, and the closest to mankind.
More info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/299.shtml
These tours aren't necessarily for light weights. They can have their rewards.
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Get your act together Anderson. YOU ARE A LIAR. A PATHETIC pandering liar ! The Janjaweed are Darfur, NOT, Congo. Got to tell these people everything and they are the ones with the contacts, the cameras and the money. They have the contacts because of their cameras and money. They are propagandists with meaningless messages.
Africa: Let's Run Africa's Murderous Old-Style Rulers Out of Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030639.html
What the African Union and the world need to do is take a chance and do something about Darfur that could well be disastrous - attack the Khartoum and Janjaweed forces in Darfur. If the Sudanese government decided to fight it out, then take the war to it in Khartoum.
HELLO? Anyone out there?
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The exposure of gorrillas to humans started with Dian Fossey in 1978 with the bonding that occured between she and Digit.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International\
http://www.gorillafund.org/
We all know the sad story about Digit. It was wrong but it occurred because the senseless wars don't even esteem people, citizens, yet alone Mountain Gorillas.
Tourism. It works in Kenya.
I am sure you know Kenya, Anderson. Elsa, the lion and the folks that gave Kenya a place in the hearts of millions of Americans so long ago in the movie called "Born Free."
Elsa.
Nice lion everyone loved.
BUT.
I am sure just to be whiney and contrary you'll find some scandal about Elsa's offspring and the Democrats.
http://www.magicalkenya.com/
AAaaahhhhhhhhHHHHH...... these people are so pathetic !
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Blah, blah, blah. The ONLY way Bush can exonerate his party at this point is to personally 'water board' Foley on National television.
enough.
No George Clooney.
Anderson Cooper is a liar and a CHEAT !!!
Florida is Foley Country
There has been a lot of issues with pedophilia in Florida including negligence of child safety that spawned Jessica's Law.
'Jessica's Law' Eyes Sex Offenders
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/earlyshow/main684190.shtml
ARRON at one time reported on Florida's negligence of State Supervised Children
Where is Rilya Wilson?State of Florida loses child, doesn't notice for 16 months
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27646
Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/03/florida.child.welfare/
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This is an odd entry about the fascinations of Mr. Foley. Keeping the attention off himself was more than likely a priority.
Letter to Governor Jeb Bush From Congressman Mark Foley
By Mark Foley
CNSNews.com
Information Services
June 20, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Congressman Mark Foley to Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking to shut down a children's nudist camp in Tampa, Fla.)
June 18, 2003
The Honorable Jeb BushGovernor, State of Florida
PL05 Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
The Honorable Charlie CristAttorney General, State of Florida
PL01
The CapitolTallahassee, FL 32399-1050
Dear Governor Bush and Attorney General Crist:
The New York Times today carried an article I found truly disturbing. Headlined "Old Enough to Make a Lanyard, and to Do It Nude," it is a story about a nudist camp for children - ages 11-18 - at the Lake Como Resort in Land O'Lakes, Florida.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2272370
You have to wonder if he'd ever been there. Did anything ever come of it or was it simply lip service.
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The introduction to this program was about killing and more killing. Death and the like. The Forte' of CNN.
It's not called pedophilia, but necrophilia.
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Here is another Florida pedophile. It must be the hot weather and light clothing that attracts them.
On June 7, 2006, U.S. citizen Frank Parsolano, of Cape Coral, Florida, was returned to the United States from Guatemala to face justice on felony probation violation charges in Lee County, Florida. The fugitive’s return was coordinated among the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Frank Parsolano was released on his own recognizance on November 14, 2000 after violating parole on a 1998 sex offense charge and conviction. In February of 2001, he pled guilty to violation of parole and was placed on 4 years probation again. After failing to check in with court officials, he was listed as absconded on the sex offense database.
Diplomatic Security special agents at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala received a tip in early June 2006 that Parsolano was in Guatemala boasting that he was wanted in America. Diplomatic Security confirmed the Lee County warrant and contacted the U.S. Marshals Service to see if they were willing to take over the warrant for Lee County.
The Guatemalan Police and Guatemalan Immigration were contacted for assistance. Four days later, Diplomatic Security and Guatemalan Police located Parsolano in a very remote part of the country. He was detained there by local police and transported back to Guatemala City until his departure to Miami International Airport on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 under Diplomatic Security escort. Parsolano was expelled by the Guatemalans for being an undesirable based upon crimes of moral turpitude and the U.S. warrant for his arrest.
U.S. Marshals Service personnel took custody of Parsolano at Miami International Airport and transferred him to the Lee County Jail. Parsolano is expected in Lee County Magistrate Court this week.
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/67964.htm
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Killing in America, it's become a past time.
If any news agency is going to 'report' deaths in this country, they also need to report on what is being done to end it. That isn't being done. The NRA overrides all other perspectives to stop killing in the USA. The media ONLY reports the deaths without what the government is doing to stem the violence. In Texas, Bush would excute murderers as a means of prevention of killing. He had a record number of excutions during his governorship.
As with most instances these cases the 'socio-economic' focus is noted. It is those dynamics that is chronically viewed as 'the problem' and NOT the abundance of guns in the USA under this administration. Never once has the Bush White House even alluded to The Brady Bill. Mr. Brady was injured by a bullet when an assassination was attempted against Mr. Reagan. It took Bill Clinton's candidacy for President to bring forward The Brady Bill. It has been undermined by the Bush White House ever since. The current escalation in violence in the USA reflects Bush's ineffective policies.
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'Jessica's Law' Eyes Sex Offenders
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/earlyshow/main684190.shtml
ARRON at one time reported on Florida's negligence of State Supervised Children
Where is Rilya Wilson?State of Florida loses child, doesn't notice for 16 months
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27646
Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/03/florida.child.welfare/
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This is an odd entry about the fascinations of Mr. Foley. Keeping the attention off himself was more than likely a priority.
Letter to Governor Jeb Bush From Congressman Mark Foley
By Mark Foley
CNSNews.com
Information Services
June 20, 2003
(Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Congressman Mark Foley to Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking to shut down a children's nudist camp in Tampa, Fla.)
June 18, 2003
The Honorable Jeb BushGovernor, State of Florida
PL05 Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
The Honorable Charlie CristAttorney General, State of Florida
PL01
The CapitolTallahassee, FL 32399-1050
Dear Governor Bush and Attorney General Crist:
The New York Times today carried an article I found truly disturbing. Headlined "Old Enough to Make a Lanyard, and to Do It Nude," it is a story about a nudist camp for children - ages 11-18 - at the Lake Como Resort in Land O'Lakes, Florida.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2272370
You have to wonder if he'd ever been there. Did anything ever come of it or was it simply lip service.
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The introduction to this program was about killing and more killing. Death and the like. The Forte' of CNN.
It's not called pedophilia, but necrophilia.
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Here is another Florida pedophile. It must be the hot weather and light clothing that attracts them.
On June 7, 2006, U.S. citizen Frank Parsolano, of Cape Coral, Florida, was returned to the United States from Guatemala to face justice on felony probation violation charges in Lee County, Florida. The fugitive’s return was coordinated among the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Frank Parsolano was released on his own recognizance on November 14, 2000 after violating parole on a 1998 sex offense charge and conviction. In February of 2001, he pled guilty to violation of parole and was placed on 4 years probation again. After failing to check in with court officials, he was listed as absconded on the sex offense database.
Diplomatic Security special agents at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala received a tip in early June 2006 that Parsolano was in Guatemala boasting that he was wanted in America. Diplomatic Security confirmed the Lee County warrant and contacted the U.S. Marshals Service to see if they were willing to take over the warrant for Lee County.
The Guatemalan Police and Guatemalan Immigration were contacted for assistance. Four days later, Diplomatic Security and Guatemalan Police located Parsolano in a very remote part of the country. He was detained there by local police and transported back to Guatemala City until his departure to Miami International Airport on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 under Diplomatic Security escort. Parsolano was expelled by the Guatemalans for being an undesirable based upon crimes of moral turpitude and the U.S. warrant for his arrest.
U.S. Marshals Service personnel took custody of Parsolano at Miami International Airport and transferred him to the Lee County Jail. Parsolano is expected in Lee County Magistrate Court this week.
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/67964.htm
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Killing in America, it's become a past time.
If any news agency is going to 'report' deaths in this country, they also need to report on what is being done to end it. That isn't being done. The NRA overrides all other perspectives to stop killing in the USA. The media ONLY reports the deaths without what the government is doing to stem the violence. In Texas, Bush would excute murderers as a means of prevention of killing. He had a record number of excutions during his governorship.
As with most instances these cases the 'socio-economic' focus is noted. It is those dynamics that is chronically viewed as 'the problem' and NOT the abundance of guns in the USA under this administration. Never once has the Bush White House even alluded to The Brady Bill. Mr. Brady was injured by a bullet when an assassination was attempted against Mr. Reagan. It took Bill Clinton's candidacy for President to bring forward The Brady Bill. It has been undermined by the Bush White House ever since. The current escalation in violence in the USA reflects Bush's ineffective policies.
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Africa and why are the people there so negliected.
There are no effective polices. Bush has addressed issues such as HIV/AIDS and the Millenium Challenge Account/Corporation but these are very slow deployed programs. Last count there were about 16 countries that qualified for the MCC and of that not all were from Africa. There is also no support for UN Peacekeepers by the USA Military.
Nigeria: Dam Collapses, 100 Feared Dead
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610020169.html
During times of peace, the USA is a vast assistant to world order and peace. It is unfortunate under this administration that capacity has been reduced to a few programs rather than the primary means of support to the world order. That's what corruption does. It takes from those most in need and diverts hope to profits of a few. When the USA leaves the world out of it's priorities there are very bad effects. That is what the return to old world Republicanism does.
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Bob Woodward finally got the information he needed to 'make the case' against the Bush White House. The Washington Post is still the paper, isn't it? It's interesting to watch the major papers of the country take turns exposing the corruption that lead to an illegal war and attempts by Bush to undermine democracy. They all took the 'heat' in different ways. They have all suffered in circulation sales. I think that has to do with the lack of wealth of the people that normally buy newspapers as well. The American People and the world for that matter need to realize the advocacy these newspapers take to preserve liberty and 'the truth.' My hat off to Mr. Woodward. He hasn't let us down yet.
Falling on His Sword
Colin Powell's most significant moment turned out to be his lowest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html
"The president would like to make a change," Card said, using a time-honored formulation that avoided the words "resign" or "fire." He noted briskly that there had been some discussion of having Powell remain until after Iraqi elections scheduled for the end of January, but that the president had decided to take care of all Cabinet changes sooner rather than later. Bush wanted Powell's resignation letter dated two days hence, on Friday, November 12, Card said, although the White House expected him to stay at the State Department until his successor was confirmed by the Senate.
Card has been noted to state he was surprised it was he that resigned and not Rumsfeld.
Card resigns as White House chief of staff
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-28-card_x.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to revive his troubled presidency, President Bush replaced longtime chief of staff Andy Card with budget director Joshua Bolten on Tuesday and gave Bolten authority to make further changes in a White House staff that even Republicans have complained is tired, insular and lacking fresh ideas.
Card plans to stay on the job until April 14, when the switch with Bolten takes place.
Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images
Appearing with Bush in the Oval Office, Bolten gave no hint about what, if any, shake-up he might order. But White House officials said no one should doubt his ability to replace Bush aides. "He'll have all the authority he needs ... to make the decisions that he feels best, working with the president," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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Bush just can't make the boggy man go away.
Top Bush Aide Loses a Post in Overhaul
WASHINGTON, April 19 — The overhaul of the White House staff intensified today as Karl Rove, one of the president's most powerful and feared advisers, gave up day-to-day control over administration policy to concentrate on the midterm elections and Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, said he was stepping down.
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Central African Republic: 'Severe' Violence Forces Almost 250,000 to Flee - UN
http://allafrica.com/stories/200610010035.html
Almost a quarter of a million people in northern parts of the Central African Republic (CAR) have been forced to flee their homes in recent months because of "severe levels of violence" perpetrated by armed groups, including Government soldiers, the top United Nations aid official in the impoverished country said today, warning of the regional impact of this unrest.
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The Bush 'answer' to African strife is Nation Building. Chronic Nation Building in countries where war, disease and genocide reduce the populous to dangerously low levels causing the near collapse of sovereignty. If Bush's White House and State Department cannot do better than this, there won't be nations to build.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609270821.html?page=5
QUESTION: I am concerned about the rule of law. I work with the African Judicial Network and with Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer on an African Judiciary Commission for Africa. And so how do you see the role of the rule of law and the African judiciary in view of the AU court that's in the process of trying to get established affecting some of these critical issues in the Continent?
SECRETARY RICE: Yes. Well, thank you. I think there may be no more important institutional reform that can take place in the countries of Africa, on the Continent of Africa than respect for rule of law. Very often, though, when we talk about respect for rule of law, we don't recognize that sometimes just the instruments, the tools, the knowledge, the expertise to actually have a system that functions under rule of law, a judicial system, a police system, they're just absent in some of these countries. And so the United States has actually had as a part of its assistance programs a focus on trying to help people to actually develop the institutions of rule of law: the training of judges, the training of prosecutors, getting away from corruption of the police. And I want to thank you for being part of this effort, because we now are trying to do something continent-wide that would bring resources. And by this I mean not just money but resources like yourself, people who have been involved in rule of law to be technical assistants, to help train -- I would hope that we would have more exchanges at the private level between the bar associations and those in Africa that we could get students here who could spend some time; that we could get professors lecturing in Africa.
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Dennis Hastert - the lesson there is that Republicans practice politics even at the esteem of a young page. The Party before all else.
GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley
Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring
By Jonathan Weisman and Charles BabingtonWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, October 1, 2006; Page A01
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.
Hastert did not dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), and his office confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages respectfully.
Anderson's Time in Africa is to promote Rumsfeld as a follow up to the Weekend Edition of "Man of War." I always thought he was a racehorse. The Anderson Focus is completely irrelivant to the well being of the African people.
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