CNN has a new motto. They no longer claim to the most trusted name on Cable TV. Their new motto : "Save the GOP"

Today Abbie used her time to promote the 'Young Republican' strategy on the net. Tonight on Larry King Live they are 'talking up' "The Party" and have avoided all mention of Jeb Bush. Joke, these people are a joke.

The Democratic National Committee has brilliant internet strategists without the assistance of an inept cable company. WORK IT ! Start Now ! Get the Young Dems up and rollin' and don't stop until Election Day. Thank you. Work it. Grassroots needs to sign up new voters. Poor are not to be overlooked as well as new voters elegable this November. Summer Sessions as colleges. Michael Moore could help with personal visits perhaps.

The CNN network is completely partisan. No sense to make any other assessment. They are an incompetent network. This blog has a long record of it. They pander to Bush as a propaganda network and are property of stockholders including Middle East Countries. It's over for CNN. They are not trustworthy with benevolence of the public.

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Blair calls for end to insurgency on visit to Iraq
Updated Mon. May. 22 2006 6:44 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
During a surprise visit to Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is no longer any excuse for an armed insurgency now that Iraq's unity government exists.
Blair, the first world leader to visit Iraq since its new government was inaugurated two days ago, said Monday that if the insurgents wanted foreign troops to leave the country they should lay down their arms.
The British leader flew to Baghdad and was taken by helicopter to the fortified Green Zone for a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060522/blair_iraq_060522/20060522?hub=TopStories

1007

The Gulf Coast is in the path of this season's storm, but, New Orleans may NOT be the only target. The 'pattern' of the cylcones in the Southern Hemisphere this season shifted. In addition, New Orleans will nowhave a mayor with four years of a Democrat to Fear. Ray will turn himself loose on DC now. I wish him luck.

U.S. Airstrike at Taliban Kills Civilians, Afghans Say
By RUHULLAH KHAPALWAK
Published: May 23, 2006
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 22 — American planes in pursuit of suspected Taliban fighters bombed a village in southern Afghanistan on Sunday night and early Monday, killing 16 civilians and wounding 15, among them women and children, the local governor and villagers said Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/world/asia/23afghan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The USA military is not in the hands of competent leadership. The Brits have redeployed to Afghanistan. It is upto Tony Blair to 'set the record straight' in regard to cooperative and competent leadership. Bush and Rumsfeld needs to bow out in the Afghanistan Theater turning the USA force to NATO and the Brits. There is no reason for these foul ups.

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NYSE Group secures Euronext board backing for §8bn bid

http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/62545.html

The investment opportunity will probably save the NYSE from Bush's economic collapse spawned by inflation and falling monetary value and confidence.

1018

Mrs. Holloway is reaching out to teens. I think she is a great Mom with a great message for High Schoolers, especially on the way to a Pier Trips outside the country. Responsible behavior that brings maturity to life rather than 'partying.as a last act of a graduating young adult. Maturity at that point is a must. Sophistication rather than reckless behavior before life as an adult even begins.

Natalee Holloway's Mother Speaks at Local High Schools
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0506/330028.html


1021

The greatest threat to any large animal after surgery is infection due to reduced circulation with reduced movement of the limb. A frequent swim across a pool will provide weightless exercise enhancing the circulation to the extremities. Colice of inactivity is a potential issue. I like a bran mash with mineral oil for horses injured or under the weather mixed with their usual feed nutrition and preference. A hungry boy will eat when he smells and tastes familiar ingredients. Carrots and anpples are a great incentive, too. He'll do well. I know he will. He's loved by many.

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Gitmo Returnees Face Trial: NaifArab News

JEDDAH, 23 May 2006 — Saudi Arabia will put on trial its 15 Gitmo returnees after establishing their involvement in terrorist activities through interrogation, Interior Minister Prince Naif announced yesterday before leaving for Abu Dhabi to attend a GCC meeting.
“It’s premature to talk about it now,” the prince commented when a reporter asked him whether the Saudi returnees from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba would be given back their government jobs.
“First of all, they will undergo investigation to establish whether they were involved in any terrorist activity or not. After that they will be transferred to court for trial,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted the minister as saying.
Prince Naif confirmed reports about the upcoming visits of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to the Kingdom’s different regions.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=82588&d=23&m=5&y=2006

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Use your common sense. The oil and gas industry milks the American public everyday without a care about those on fixed income. Get your information regarding the change to alternatives from Sierra Club. Get involved, join your local chapter and become educated and become an educator.

Sierra Club

http://www.sierraclub.org/

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Big Three auto CEOs make rounds in US Capitol
Last Update: 3:39 PM ET May 18, 2006
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Leaders of the top three U.S. automakers met with House and Senate leaders Thursday to discuss ways U.S. manufacturers can better compete abroad as well as developing a new generation of fuels.
"This is a great opportunity for the three of us to get together with the leadership to talk about the opportunities we have as a country and as an industry," Ford Motor Co. (F) Chief Executive Bill Ford told reporters.

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=google&guid=%7B86388E3C-7085-4213-8B62-9D8CA56C79A7%7D&keyword=

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Boehner was chairperson of the Senate committe on mines including their safety before becoming majority leader of the Seante. The deaths continue in USA mines as he washes hands of the involvement with them.

Connections to lobbyists
In 1995, Boehner provoked contentions of unethical conduct when he distributed money from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor to members who had voted in favor of tobacco interests. He later led the effort to change House rules and prohibit such practices from occurring. Boehner is also well known for chain smoking cigarettes -- even in his Capitol office. [2]
Boehner's PAC has raised $31,500 from four Indian tribes who at one time were associated with lobbyist Jack Abramoff[3], who is currently the central figure in an unfolding lobbying scandal. Boehner and spokesmen for the Indian tribes maintain that the contributions were not related to Jack Abramoff.
On February 8, 2006, it was learned that Boehner's Capitol Hill apartment is rented at market rates from a Washington lobbyist [4]. Boehner did not deny his close ties to "K Street" lobbyists and claims that his relationships are ethical. These claims are under investigation.
[edit]

Lawsuit against Congressman McDermott
Boehner is currently involved in a lawsuit, first filed in 1998, against fellow Congressman Jim McDermott — the first such case ever between two sitting Congressmen. Boehner v. McDermott centers on the release by McDermott to the media of an illegally taped conference call between Boehner, Newt Gingrich, and other Republican Congressional leaders. The call was a discussion of strategy over an investigation of Gingrich by the House Ethics Committee. [5] Gingrich had publicly pledged not to organize opposition to the probe. McDermott was ordered to pay $60,000 to Boehner in addition to attorney fees and costs and this verdict was upheld on appeal. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner#Connections_to_lobbyists

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US firm continues legal challenge to DP World
By Shakir Husain, Staff Reporter
Dubai: Unfazed by its failure to block DP World's acquisition of P&O in British courts, American firm Eller, a joint venture partner of P&O Ports North America at the port of Miami, is continuing its litigation against the deal in the United States.
DP World sources in Dubai and Washington yesterday told Gulf News that there was "nothing new" about Eller & Co's legal challenge. They declined comment on the ongoing court case. "Their arguments against the deal were rejected earlier," one source said, referring to Eller's petition in the London High Court. The court ruled that Eller's case against the P&O sale lacked merit.
Eller wants a state judge to undo the $6.8-billion sale under which DP World acquired container operations at six key US ports.

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/05/22/10041635.html

1054

Went to see MI III again this evening with my youngest son to celebrate yet another year gone by with a Birthday Dinner and Movie. He wanted see the movie with me regardless the second time. I love that picture. The ending is hokey. So, what. It Tom Cruise, he has have a happy ending.

enough

Border line issues. Have a good weekend.

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So Frankenstein says tonight it's sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Actually it's more than that. Anything Americans want they can find in Mexico.

Coalition Against Trafficking in WomenFactbook on Global Sexual ExploitationDonna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn and Vanessa Chirgwin

http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Mexico.php

Mexico -->
TRAFFICKING
16 and 17 year old girls from Central America are being trafficked to Chiapas, Mexico for prostitution. ("Women and Low Intensity Warfare," SIPAZ Report, Vol 3 No 1, January 1998)
The United Nations now lists Mexico as the number one center for the supply of young children to North America. Most are sold to rich, childless couples unwilling to wait for bona fide adoption agencies to provide them with a child. The majority are sent to international pedophile organizations. Many times the children are snatched while on errands for their parents. Often they are drugged and raped. Most of the children over 12 end up as prostitutes. Hector Ramirez, a former deputy, or Mexican Member of Parliament, stated that "many of the state and city authorities [are] doing absolutely nothing to stop what is going on." (Allan Hall, The Scotsman, 25 August 1998)

1010

Is National Security really a concern at out southern border? Besides drugs? Yeah.

http://www.noia.org/OCSSecurity/OCS%20Bulletin6-4-2004.pdf



The Coast Guard takes all interactions seriously.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/CustomsToday/2002/September/international.xml

Latin American port security advisory programs: stopping illegal drugs at source countries
The Customs Service is placing more and more emphasis on "pushing out the borders" of the United States for national safety and security. The most notable approach is the Container Security Initiative (CSI). But the Latin American Port Security Advisory Program, also aimed at protecting America, in this case from drugs, is another, very compatible example.

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For as much as Americans want to be compassionate, they first need to realize Mexico is not a good international partner. It isn't our place to criticize Mexico so much as realize as a neighboring country what exactly has to happen to solve the problem that Canada obviously doesn't have.

The relationship the USA and Mexico has is not 'normal' or productive. It compromises the American work force while victimizing Mexicans.

The two "magnets" which attract illegal aliens are jobs and family connections. The typical Mexican worker earns one-tenth his American counterpart, and numerous American businesses are willing to hire cheap, compliant labor from abroad; such businesses are seldom punished because our country lacks a viable system to verify new hires' work eligibility.

http://www.cis.org/topics/illegalimmigration.html

Thank you for your interest.

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enough

Inhumanity speaks to many people on both sides of the border but illegal immigration is not the answer. Neither is violence against those that try.

Increasing the Supply of Labor
Through ImmigrationMeasuring the Impact on Native-born Workers

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.html

By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent.

Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent.

The 10 million native-born workers without a high school degree face the most competition from immigrants, as do the eight million younger natives with only a high school education and 12 million younger college graduates.

The negative effect on native-born black and Hispanic workers is significantly larger than on whites because a much larger share of minorities are in direct competition with immigrants.

The reduction in earnings occurs regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal, permanent

I HAVE COMPASSION for anyone suffering under governments that are not benevolent. But. The issue of allowing illegal immigrants in the USA only extends the suffering and quite frankly increases it. The people that cross the border do it with great peril and can be involved in the drug economy. That is not a life. That is simply being a commodity. The issue is not 'compassion' for others by the USA, it is the USE by businesses that should not be conducting business at the cost of human integrity including that of Americans. The flow of illegals has to stop. They work of less than minimum wage and THAT is the issue and not the supply of labor !

1023

A comprehensive plan is needed. But, one that brings a viable econmy to Mexico and not a drug economy compliments of Mexican border towns and illegal immigrants.

I don't think a fence will do anything.

1025

Hayden broke the law with permission to do so by the president. Men that break the law knowingly don't have the capacity to uphold it. !

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The above study teaches many things,but, the one that elected official need to pay attention to is the fact immigration, legal or illegal, has to be limited or natural born Ameicans will never find a way to succeed so much as relinquish any hope of improving their lives when defeated by very poor government policy. Natural born Americans have rights, too !

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Brazil to Boost Cane Crop Area 50% in 8 Years, Rodrigues Says
May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil will increase its sugarcane crop area by half in eight years as flexible-fuel cars boost demand for ethanol made from the tropical plant, Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues said.
Sugarcane planting in Brazil, the world's biggest ethanol consumer and producer after the U.S., will rise to about 9 million hectares (22.2 million acres) by 2014, Rodrigues, 63, said in an interview at his office in Brasilia yesterday. Current crops represent 10 percent of the 60 million hectares of Brazilian land with potential for cane planting, he said.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aCrti6sStWuY&refer=news_index

1042

Great big flash of light followed by huge thunder spells trouble. I'm out of here.

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Former CNN 'NewsNight' anchor Aaron Brown said important issues, such as the war in Iraq, are being clouded over by 'mud-wrestling' that skirts substance. Brown spoke Tuesday at The Society of the Four Arts.



Brown has covered many newsworthy events, including the O.J. Simpson trial, the Columbine High School shootings, the death of Princess Diana, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the D.C. sniper, the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the tsunami in Southeast Asia. He was the founding anchor of ABC-TV’s World News Now and reported with Peter Jennings for World News Tonight. He recently served in CNN’s New York bureau as anchor for NewsNight With Aaron Brown and host of CNN Presents.

Aaron's Next Great Adventure

Former CNN Anchor joins faculty as Rhodes Chair

Former CNN Anchor Aaron Brown will join ASU's faculty in the spring semester as the John J. Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions at Barrett Honors College.

The Rhodes Chair was created in honor of the former Arizona congressman who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, including seven years as House minority leader.

Brown served as news anchor of CNN's flagship show, “NewsNight,” from 2001 – 2005, covering stories from the 9/11 attacks to the 2004 presidential elections and the Iraq War.

“We are delighted to have Aaron Brown accept our offer to come to ASU and interact with our faculty and students as the Rhodes Chair,” says Mark Jacobs, dean of the Barrett Honors College. “Print and broadcast media serve as an American institution that could not be more important to a democratic society, and we are privileged to have such a renowned and respected journalist on our campus for a semester.”

Brown will be the ninth Rhodes Chair, which is “dedicated to deepening theoretical and practical understanding of the nature and future of a democratic society.” Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was the first Rhodes Chair in 1998. Others include Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner.

Brown will teach a course on news media issues, deliver a major speech on the Tempe campus and be part of the faculty at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Barrett Honors College.

“This is a wonderful honor, and very exciting for me,” Brown says. “The Cronkite School and the Barrett Honors College are great places to exchange ideas about issues I deeply care about. I will have the opportunity to work with terrific faculty doing wonderful work, and I look forward to learning from them.”

The Barrett Honors College is home to more than 500 National Merit Scholars and was named the nation's top honors program last year by Reader's Digest.

The Cronkite School, named in honor of longtime CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite in 1984, this year finished second in the Hearst intercollegiate journalism competition – often referred to as the Pulitzers of college journalism – for the second consecutive year.

Speaking from his New York offices, Cronkite applauded the announcement.

“I am thrilled at the news that Aaron Brown, who distinguished himself as an able journalist in his four years on CNN, will be the John J. Rhodes Chair at ASU next year,” Cronkite says. “I've long admired Aaron's work.”

“Aaron Brown has been a news leader for many years, practicing the kind of high-quality, thoughtful and meaningful journalism that we want all of our students to learn,” says Christopher Callahan, dean of the Cronkite School. “Our students will benefit enormously from his teaching and mentoring.”

Leah Hardesty, leah.hardesty@asu.edu
(480) 727-3116

http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200605/20060516_aaronbrown.htm

ENOUGH !

Enough !

Enough !

Why don't you talk about Hamas and where they found the weapons to use against the Palestinian Authority? Probably Iran. Anarchy in the Middle East is just not a good idea. When the anarchy of IRaq meets the borders of Palestine there will be no dealing with the mess that will ensue !

Enough !

Enough !

I need a media 'insult free' vacation !

The dams of New England are fairly well constructed.

1000

How many kilowatts of power is running down that river? Anderson, the 'feeder system' off shore now that caused the flooding in New England isn't a tropical storm, babe. So, much for your record rainfall in Alvin, Texas.

1004

"This is a hard issue for many people." states Bush. IT'S A HARD ISSUE FOR Bush.

Isn't that right, George?

Being a Texas Governor was a bitch, huh? Getting all those illegal immigrants working in Texas to leave was a really tough job, huh? Ever hire Illegal Immigrants in Crawford or Midland?

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1013

The Senate kisses up to Bush regardless of the 'purpose' of the bill. ? Fascinating ? politics. The Senate isn't supposed to be about politics, Anderson. It's supposed to be about governing. Of course, you won't know the difference.

1018

The News Secretary. Verizon is denying compromising customer records because they are losing business. Do you the degree of business transacted over Verizon. Now, it is part of a lap top? Hello?

1019

Anderson, no one believes a missile was involved in the Pentagon attack. There are people dead and a plane missing. Jeeze, this news outfit will lie about anything.

commercials

1024

I have a gaming community waiting. I'm really not interested in lies. We hear enough of them from Bush and Cheney.

enough

Anderson does double duty

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Frankenstein has too many questions with no answers.

Anderson appears on split screen with Nancy Grace while they replay Bush's speech.

Very cute Grace's picture has a split screen with troops marching. Is there anytime soon when everyone gets serious about the issue. As a governor Bush never did anything about controlling the border with Mexico and Texas. He provided care to the illegals as they provided cheap labor for the Texas economy. The treatment of these people by these employers are deplorable. It's amazing to think the illegals actually perfer the inhumane treatment of southern Texas then living in Mexico.

I don't want to hear it. I've seen first hand the very serious mistreatment of illegals that work in McAllen, Texas, where they are called 'Wet Backs' because they sweat while they work. American employers in South Texas are such nice guys.

There is nothing humane about the treatment of illegals even when they cross the border. This isn't about illegals this is about American employers that commit human rights abuses of people neglected by their Mexican government to provide the Americans with their work force.

1016

Historically, immigrants come to the USA and in turn send monies back home. I don't care what country they come from it's always the same. Countries receive benefits from American immigrants. The more ILLEGAL immigrants the USA allows across the border with Mexico the indirect fiscal support Mexico gets for their people. Mexico has a welfare program. Did you know that? It's called 'Become an illegal alien. Support the family back home." Mexico President Fox is committing human rights violations by allowing the border crossings that misuse his citizens in inhumane work and living conditions.

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U.S., Libya establish full diplomatic relations after 26 years
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The United States announced Monday that it's re-establishing full diplomatic relations with Libya and removing it from the State Department's list of terrorism sponsors, completing a remarkable turnabout with a country whose leader was once at the top of the U.S. enemies list.
Senior State Department officials acknowledged that the move was aimed in part at influencing Iran to give up uranium enrichment, a process that can create fuel for nuclear weapons, and comply fully with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi voluntarily gave up his oil-rich country's nuclear weapons program in December 2003. The message to Iran, U.S. officials said, is that it will reap concrete benefits if it does likewise - although that prospect now seems remote.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14585990.htm

Non-oil sector finally drives growth in Libya
afrol News, 11 April - Since the lifting in 2003-04 of international sanctions, Libya has experienced a strong economic growth, mostly driven by high oil prices and investments in that run-down sector. In 2005, however, economic reforms and trade liberalisation has finally lifted Libya's under-developed non-oil sector to become the motor of economic growth. This comes despite the still persistent limits to foreign investments.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday published its conclusions from its annual economic consultations with the Tripoli government - the third ever IMF report on Libya's economic situation. The report is an account of fast and deep-ploughing macroeconomic reforms towards a market economy since 2003, followed by very positive economic results.

http://www.afrol.com/articles/18855

Renewed US ties breathe life into Libya oil sector

By Chris Baltimore
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' move on Monday toward normalized relations with OPEC member Libya should help the African nation in its quest to expand its crude oil production capacity, experts said.
Culminating a years-long rapprochement, Washington will reopen an embassy and remove Libya from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, rewarding the longtime pariah nation for scrapping its weapons of mass destruction programs.
Libya produces about 1.6 million barrels per day of crude oil, which puts it toward the rear of the pack of OPEC's 10 members. Led by the one-time U.S. antagonist Muammar Gaddafi, Libya badly needs foreign investment in its energy industry, estimated at about $30 billion. Libya has not pumped above 2 million bpd of oil since the 1979 oil price shocks.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-05-15T185359Z_01_N15455659_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIBYA-USA-OIL.xml

CONSIDER THIS. The instability in the oil market in supply. What is everyone doing? Why aren't we demanding rapid change in the source of energy for National Security. If the peoples of third world countries aren't rebelling against oil companies that kill them, then Jihadists are blowing up oil pipelines and wells. This makes sense to secure our Nation? No.

Venezuela's Chavez, bane of U.S., to meet Gaddafi

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060515-0521-libya-chavez.html

TRIPOLI – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose socialist course has won him the opprobrium of Washington, will visit Tripoli on Tuesday for talks with the Libyan leader who once bore the brunt of U.S. disapproval.
Muammar Gaddafi, whose country like Venezuela is a major oil producer, has in recent years toned down fiery anti-American rhetoric and opened its industry to Western investment. Chavez, a self-styled socialist revolutionary, has by contrast led a campaign to tighten state control over the energy sector.

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enough

Man of the Hour - Actually two men. My son graduates from his university as well.

“Broadcaster and Minnesota Native Aaron Brown is Macalester Commencement Speaker ”
May 13, 2006 at Macalester

St. Paul, Minn. - Aaron Brown, the longtime broadcaster and Minnesota native, will be the keynote speaker at Macalester's 117th Commencement at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, on the lawn outside Old Main.

Brown is perhaps best known for his coverage of the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Within an hour of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center, Brown was anchoring on CNN from a rooftop in New York. It was his first day as a CNN anchor. His coverage later became Newsnight with Aaron Brown, until he left the network late last year. He is widely respected for his compelling, concise and thoughtful approach to the news.

Since Sept. 11, he has anchored coverage of the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and fallout from Hurricane Katrina. He has won three Emmy Awards, a duPont-Columbia Award and a New York Film Festival World Medal, among other honors.
Brown has said he has "great respect for viewers; if you give them good information, they'll figure it out."

Prior to anchoring at CNN, Brown anchored ABC's World News Tonight Saturday and reported for World News Tonight with the late Peter Jennings. He also was an essayist for ABC. Before that he was a reporter and anchor in Seattle. A native of Hopkins, Minnesota, Brown attended the University of Minnesota. He began his broadcasting career as a radio talk show host in Minneapolis and later in Los Angeles.

Honorary degrees at Commencement will be presented to two alumni: writer Charles Baxter'69 and theologian Beverly Wildung Harrison'54. They will both receive Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

Baxter has written four novels, including Saul and Patsy (2003) and The Feast of Love (2000), four books of stories, three books of poetry, two books of essays, including Burning Down The House (1997). He has edited many books of criticism, contributed to dozens of anthologies of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. He was a finalist for a National Book Award in fiction in 2000 and a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award in fiction in 2004 Baxter taught English at the University of Michigan from 1989-2002 and became the Edelstein-Keller Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota in 2003.

Harrison is Carolyn Williams Beaird Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she taught for more than 30 years. Her academic work has been in Christian ethics and liberation studies. Her groundbreaking books include Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983) and Making the Connections (1985). A collection of her essays, Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics, was published in 2004. She says that she is most proud of the more than 60 theological and religious studies professors she advised and who are still active in their fields.

"I am extremely pleased to have a speaker and two outstanding honorary degree recipients who represent the best in their professions," said President Brian Rosenberg. "They are fine examples to our seniors and their families of how talented and committed individuals can make a difference and bring about change."

Neely Anne Crane-Smith '06, a political science major from Albuquerque , N.M., is the senior speaker.

Commencement ceremonies will include an academic procession led by the Macalester Pipe Band, flag bearers representing 34 countries of the 64 graduating international seniors plus the U.S. and U.N. flags, faculty in academic robes and 405 seniors.

Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,841 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement.

"Border - lines" of all definitions

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Civilian border patrols watched U.S. warns Mexico about Minutemen
By Sara A. Carter Staff Writer
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen - and telling the Mexican government where they are.
According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants - and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements - that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."

http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_3800653

$10 will get you $20 that when the National Guard is deployed Bush will start arresting the "Minutemen" as well as illegal aliens.

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What's in a Murdoch-Clinton Alliance? Something for Both Sides

WASHINGTON, May 9 — Strengthening a pragmatic rapprochement, Rupert Murdoch has agreed to give a fund-raiser this summer for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the latest sign of cooperation between the conservative media mogul and the Democratic lawmaker who has often been a prime target of his newspaper and television outlets.

Asked about her relationship with Mr. Murdoch, Mrs. Clinton described him as simply "my constituent," and she played down the significance of the fund-raiser. Both sides said that Mr. Murdoch and Mrs. Clinton were joining forces for the good of New York, where Mr. Murdoch's $60 billion News Corporation employs about 5,000 workers.

"I am very gratified that he thinks I am doing a good job," Mrs. Clinton said in the Capitol on Tuesday, according to a transcript made available by her office after word of the fund-raising event was first reported by The Financial Times.

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Sudan to award OVL two more blocks for oil and gas exploration
10-03-06 ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) will be getting another two oil and gas blocks for exploration purpose in Sudan on nomination basis shortly because of its outstanding performance for exploration of oil and gas in the country, the Sudan Ambassador in India, Abdalmahmood A. Mohammad said, according to reports. Addressing a Seminar on “India-Sudan Economic Relations” organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), Mohammad said that the Sudan government was also planning to award several other projects on nomination basis to Indian entrepreneurs in other key areas of economic activities which include railways, cyber city, tourism and airports.
The Sudanese experience with Indian businessmen in the recent past has been so amazing and excellent and particularly with ONGC Videsh Ltd. which currently owns five blocks for oil and gas exploration that it has decided to award a good number of projects to Indian state owned and private businesses on nomination basis, said the Sudanese Ambassador. Deepak Vohra, Ambassador of India in Sudan said that Government of India has so far committed a credit line of $ 850 mm to Sudan and it would be the effort of Indian Embassy in Sudan to accelerate extension of credit line to Sudan as the country desperately needs funds to uplift its infrastructure for attracting foreign capital.
The Assocham Chief also stressed the need for having direct air linkages between India and Sudan as also added that the State Bank of India should open up its branch in Sudan so that profit repatriation of Indian businessmen to their mother country becomes easier.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61290.htm

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Kenya stands on threshold of severe fuel crisis
24-02-06 Kenya is standing on the threshold of a severe fuel crisis following an order stopping the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) from supplying oil to 10 top petroleum companies in the country. Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) issued the order citing failure by the companies to pay taxes as required by law. The companies, including market leaders Kenya Shell and Kenol/Kobil, have been engaged in a bitter war with the taxman over the new rule that requires them to pay taxes within 30 days of collecting the oil from KPC.
Some of the oil companies have deliberately refused to pay up arguing that it was unfair for the taxman to demand that they pay taxes while it was sitting on billions of shillings in Value Added Tax and suspended duty refunds. Industry experts said the KRA order may throw the entire Eastern African region into a severe fuel crisis since some of the barred companies like Kenol/Kobil are market leaders in regional markets such as Uganda and Rwanda. In a letter to KPC, KRA Commissioner General Michael Waweru said the companies, including Mobil, the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK), Mobil, Total and Triton, be immediately barred from accessing oil from KPC depots until they clear outstanding taxes.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61071.htm

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How Relevant is President Bush to Election 2006?

May 5, 2006--When it comes to issues they consider important, 44% of Americans say they trust Democrats in Congress more than President Bush. Just 36% prefer the President.
However, when the choice is between Republicans in Congress and Democrats in Congress, the result is a toss-up--42% say Democrats and 40% Republicans.
The Republicans do better in this second match-up among both GOP voters and unaffiliateds. When the choice is between Bush and Democrats, unaffiliateds break for the Democrats 38% to 26%. When the choice is between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, unfaffiliateds are more evenly divided (34% Democrat, 30% Republican).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/May%20Dailies/Is%20Bush%20Relevant.htm

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Bush's "Big Brother" Blunder
George W. Bush’s warrantless phone data collection may not only violate the U.S. Constitution but expend so much money and manpower that America is made less safe – by diverting resources away from more practical steps, like inspecting cargo and hiring translators.
Yet, because the operation is wrapped in layers and layers of secrecy – based on the dubious argument that al-Qaeda might not realize it’s being spied on – the public doesn’t know how much the project costs, who’s getting contracts and whether it does any good.
So far, however, what administration officials and computer experts have been willing to describe shouldn’t give Americans much confidence that their trade-off of Fourth Amendment freedoms for a little extra safety is a particularly good deal.
The project’s designers say the National Security Agency’s electronic warehousing of trillions of phone records from calls made by some 200 million Americans is intended to seek out “patterns” from conversations involving alleged terrorists and then to apply the digital outline to the stockpiled records.
That search, presumably, then spits out the phone numbers of other callers in the United States who fit into the “patterns.” These computer-generated tips then go to the FBI, which may question the suspects or use other investigative strategies.
There are, however, logical flaws to this “Big Brother” computer scheme, especially the idea that the project is likely to discern many usable “patterns” of phone calls that if applied to the population would detect much suspicious activity.
The 9/11 hijackers, for instance, made very few substantive calls about their plot, recognizing the risk of electronic surveillance and preferring face-to-face meetings as a way to avoid detection, according to the 9/11 Commission Report.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/051206.html

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Ex-Aide With Abramoff Ties Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

WASHINGTON, May 8 — A former top aide to Representative Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring with the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to corrupt public officials and said gifts had been "corruptly offered to and accepted by" Mr. Ney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/washington/09inquire.html?ex=1304827200&en=90e68ad6ae938234&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


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China's appetite for African oil grows
12-02-06 China, the world's second-largest energy consumer, now imports about 28 % of its oil and gas from sub-Saharan Africa, compared with about 15 % for the US. In the past few years, China's leading energy companies -- Sinopec, China National Petroleum Corp., and CNOOC -- have signed oil contracts from Equatorial Guinea to Algeria to Angola. Chinese President Hu Jintao's African trips have included pocket-sized Gabon, whose 1.4 mm people could fit into a corner of Shanghai but which has more than two bn barrels of oil reserves.
When China's Foreign Minister, Li Zhaoxing, toured the region in January, he spent several days in Nigeria. "We haven't been totally invaded by China yet, but it will come," says Iheanyi Ohiaeri, head of business development for Nigeria's National Petroleum Corp. "I get calls and e-mails daily from Beijing, from people looking to buy oil."
The calls are being answered, in part because African governments view China as a more cooperative partner than the West. China has refused to back regular Western rebukes of African corruption and human-rights abuses and last year used its permanent seat on the UN Security Council to block genocide charges against Sudan -- source of about 7 % of China's oil -- for the massacres in Darfur. "The US will talk to you about governance, about efficiency, about security, about the environment," says Mustafa Bello, head of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, who has visited China seven times. "The Chinese just ask, 'How do we procure this license?'"

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna61086.htm

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Sasol signs deal for clean soy biodiesel
10-02-06 Sasol's slow progress with plans to build a plant to make diesel from soy took a step forward when the company said it had signed an agreement with the Central Energy Fund (CEF) for further studies. Sasol spokesman Johann van Rheede said that earlier speculation had prompted farmers in areas such as Newcastle to start planting soy. The speculation also had a knock-on effect in property prices in the area, he said. The group said the new feasibility study would be done by year-end. It said the study followed an earlier prefeasibility study that had been conducted together with the CEF and had spanned several years. The earlier study had indicated "potential for commercial-scale production, if supported by appropriate fiscal incentives".
A petrochemicals industry commentator said this probably meant Sasol would build the plant only if it received substantial support from government. The commentator said the biodiesel venture, which would produce small volumes of diesel, was unlikely to be highly profitable for Sasol, if at all. It would, however, win the petrochemicals group environmental kudos, among other things, as biodiesel made from soy is environmentally friendly. Soy contains less sulphur and is clean-burning, says Sasol. "This environmental initiative is in line with Sasol's value of continuous improvement."

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60950.htm

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CAN WE PLEASE STOP USING OIL? NOW ? Prolonging the use of oil only prolongs these countries from developing a real economy rather than one that continually expoits their natural resources.


Libya may hire foreign companies to help develop 300 oil fields
07-02-06 Libya, holder of Africa's largest oil reserves, is preparing to hire foreign companies to develop more than 300 untapped fields after an increase in energy prices made it an economically viable way of raising output. After awarding 41 exploration permits last year to almost 30 companies including ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum, the North African state is turning its focus to known fields that haven't been developed because they are too small, Energy Minister Fathi Ben Shatwan said. An “old'' study showed they hold at least 3 bn barrels in total, he added. “We're taking a break'' from exploration, Shatwan said on Jan. 30. “We're thinking about giving service contracts to develop existing fields.''
Oil prices have doubled in three years, prompting companies to return to deposits that weren't considered worthwhile before, from the North Sea to the old war zones of Sudan. Libya's oil industry, seeking to rebound from two decades of sanctions, has one of the world's lowest extraction costs, in cases as little as $ 1 a barrel, according to the US Department of Energy. “The companies stand to do some profit because the oil is already there,'' said Jason Schenker, an economist at Wachovia Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina. “All they have to do is take it off the ground.''

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60959.htm

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If China is going to use Ethopian resources then support the Ethopian government to improve the quality of life for the people there as well. There is high incident of abuse and violence against women in Ethiopia as well as demoralized villages that once farmed and flourished but are now caught up in profound drought and/or flooding but never water management from dams.

The entire of Ethiopia needs rebuilding.

China can do this with the Ethiopian government if they sincerely want to be a leader in humane societies. Where private companies exploit other countries resources without conscience they are engaged in simply looking the other way for the sake of profits. That should never be allowed at an international level.

If Ethiopian companies were exploring for oil and managing their own fields with profits that benefit the Ethopian government and people, the justice of taking those resources is obvious.
For foreign interests to take resources from a country without reverence to the people those resources belong that is gross injustice. That is like saying Ethiopia is a desert without people losing their resources to others. It's wrong.

Whenever a third world country allows it's natural resources to be taken by private companies there needs to be an understanding the citizenry receives a majority of that profit to improve their quality of life. The need for health care alone is dire in Africa. There needs to be a 'conscience' in the oil business and the country receiving the benefit, in this case China, needs to enforce that conscience. Oil companies are 'soulless and they conduct their business interests in the same way, as stark example is Nigeria and the killing fields of the oil companies there.

If China needs the energy resource that is understandable. However, to allow oil companies to exploit for extreme profits to shareholders while conscienceless is a human rights violation. How can a capitalistic society use the natural resources of a country such as Ethiopia without conscience as to how that energy resource was obtained, the deaths that procurement cost and the existing and unchanging poor conditions of that society. That is imperialism. When a country's people suffers regardless the exploitation of it's natural resources by a First World country in need of an energy resource is gross misjustice and that is putting it lightly. Capitalism was never accused of having a conscience, quite the contrary. Any business interest that uses other country's resources needs to be accompanied by a State Department chaperone to insure the well being of the people of the other country is provided for. I know China will seek to do the right thing. China needs to outshine the very poor relationship established by teh West and Third World countries. How is Nigeria to see the USA as a benevolent entity when it's companies are ruthless and criminal? China should be 'the country of chioce' to do business with as it seeks not profit but energy while setting example to human rights in their business dealings.

Chinese firm embarks on oil exploration project in Ethiopia
30-01-06 Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bearu (ZPEB) is to start drilling an oil exploration well in the Gambella region, in western Ethiopia. ZPEB is contracted by the Malaysian company, Petronas, which was granted a concession in Gambella two years ago. In June 2003, Petronas and the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) signed a petroleum development and production sharing agreement that enables it to prospect and develop oil in the Gambella basin.
Recently, Petronas subcontracted ZPEB for the well-drilling project. Abiy Hunegnaw, head of the petroleum operation department with MME, said that ZPEB will start drilling the first exploration well in Gambell in February. He said the drilling work will take three to four months. "This is the dry season in the region convenient for well drilling. The company anticipates to finalize the drilling before the rainy season sets in," Abiy said.
Representatives of ZPEB said that they had imported an oil rig and other equipment required for the task from China. They said they were transporting the machines from Djibouti to Gambella. "Some of the machines have already arrived in Gambella and some of them are in Addis Ababa and Djibouti," they added.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60966.htm

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The followers of criminals are brainwashed, Anderson. Ask the man if he thinks followers are brainwashed?

These families need help in settling into mongamous status even if that is defined as single parent families. The social workers need to report the change on a regular basis in the status of the movement to single families not interrelated in support either financial or emotional or religious. These families need to identify with the recognized Mormon Church and not their own ideas of Mormonism. If families fail to become mainstream then the children need to be placed rather than warehoused with dysfunctional families that will only propogate the same hardship generation after generation. The sad truth of begetting polygamy into generation after generation is noted today by the son of Jeffs.


ConocoPhillips to invest $ 700 mm in Libya
25-01-06 ConocoPhillips said it will invest about $ 14 bn in its businesses in 2006, including the cost of boosting its ownership in LUKoil to 20 % by the end of the year from the current 16.1 %. The capital budget also includes $ 700 mm it expects to invest in Libya, Chief Financial Officer John Carrig said. ConocoPhillips is one of three companies that were recently granted an extension of concessions suspended 20 years ago after the US declared sanctions against the country.
Increased spending in the exploration and production business reflects "quite a bit of pressure in terms of the cost of operations and maintaining production," Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Mulva told analysts and investors. Besides cost pressure resulting from the limited availability of oilfield-service contractors, "there are fewer lump-sum bids, and more that are cost-plus," which will drive finding and development costs higher across the industry, he said.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna60638.htm

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Aaron Brown needs to be happy that he was a very successful anchor at a very tough news hour.

...Cooper averaged 710,000 viewers in April versus 907,000 for predecessor Aaron Brown during the same month a year ago. Cooper's ratings among adults 25-54 were down 36 percent, averaging just 198,000 versus 307,000 for Brown.

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Political Victory for Bush?

Frankenstein has a feature video all his own. I'm tellin' you this is the future of CNN's idea for an anchor. They already use faceless 'anchors' on their "CNN Presents." They did it with the North Korea presentation.

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John Roberts - Tax cut hollow to 77 percent of the USA.

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John King - Laura Bush. She doesn't set policy.

Bush nominated Abramoff associate same day Abramoff visited the White House in 2001

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_nominated_Abramoff_associate_same_day_0510.html

Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff went to the White House on the same day President Bush nominated one of Abramoff's former colleagues to be Assistant Secretary of Labor, RAW STORY has found.
President Bush announced his intent to nominate Patrick Pizzella, who worked with Abramoff at his former lawfirm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, the same day Abramoff made a visit to the White House, according to Secret Service records released today.
On Mar. 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m., according to Cox News Service, which obtained the records from the government watchdog Judicial Watch today

Abramoff’s White House visits
By Ken Herman Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 03:54 PM
Secret Service records released today under court order show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff made only two visits to the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001.
On March 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at 4:49 p.m. On Jan. 20, 2004, he went in at 10:42 a.m. and left at 11:29 a.m. The records do not show who he saw or what the topic was. Bush delivered a State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2004.
The records were sought by Judicial Watch, a public interest group curious about Abramoff’s White House connections. A federal judge ordered the records released.
Judicial Watch noted today that Secret Service records it procured while President Clinton was in office also showed “visitee” and room number, information not on the records released today.
“At first glance, these documents seem incomplete when compared to other White House visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch. We therefore have reason to believe there are additional details about Jack Abramoff’s visits to the White House that have not been disclosed,” said Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president. “However, now we know there are at least two visits by admitted felon Jack Abramoff that the White House must explain. What was Jack Abramoff doing at the White House? With whom did he meet? The public deserves to know answers to these questions.”
White House spokeswoman Erin Healy declined to offer any further information concerning the visits.
Abramoff, once one of Washington’s top lobbyists, pleaded guilty in January to federal corruption charges linked to his congressional lobbying work. He raised more than $100,000 for Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and had boasted about his close links to the White House.
The administration has downplayed those ties. Spokesman Scott McClellan last week said the Secret Service records should not be viewed as a “complete historical record” of Abramoff’s visits to the White House. McClellan offered no details or explanation. He previously had said Abramoff’s only visits were for “a few staff level meetings” and Hanukkah receptions in 2001 and 2002.
Abramoff told Washingtonian magazine he had nearly a dozen meetings with Bush.

http://www.coxwashington.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2006/05/10/abramoffs_white.html

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The John's Debate 'stuff' - The old Republican Playbook

The discussion segment leading up to this debate was to justify the NSA nomination to the FBI. This 'debate' is already old news that was part of the rhetoric leading upto the invasion into Iraq and an aspect of the Culture of Fear. For years this 'so called' pattern of tracking al Qaeda is empty in it's meaning. For all the alerts and fear it had generated nothing ever manifested.

Some of the best in the business bought into it.

JIM LEHRER: Life signs from al-Qaida. Margaret Warner has that story.
MARGARET WARNER: Last night's FBI warning of another possible terrorist attack on the U.S. follows several signs this week of a resurgent al-Qaida. They include an audio message from Osama bin Laden broadcast by al-Jazeera on Sunday, warning that "the youth of Islam" are preparing to target key sectors of the U.S. economy.
Also Sunday, an unexplained explosion on a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen. Then a second audio interview broadcast Tuesday from bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al- Zawahiri, threatening continuing attacks on "America and its allies," and also Tuesday, the killing of a U.S. Marine on exercises in Kuwait by two gunmen who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. A string of coincidences, or part of a pattern?
We talk to three reporters covering different parts of this story-- Christopher Cooper covers the Pentagon and State Department for the Wall Street Journal; Walter Pincus covers intelligence for the Washington Post; and Eric Schmitt covers the Pentagon for the New York Times.
Welcome to you all.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/terror_10-10.html

Following the money of al Qaeda generated by the poppy crops in Afghanistan has done some good.

Testimony of Dennis M. Lormel, Chief, Financial Crimes Section, FBIBefore the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsFebruary 12, 2002 Financing Patterns Associated with Al Qaeda and Global Terrorist Networks
Good afternoon Madam Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. On behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), I would like to express my gratitude to the Subcommittee for affording us the opportunity to participate in this forum and to update the Subcommittee on what the FBI has learned since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks about the patterns of financing associated with Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, and the extent to which U.S. anti-money laundering statutes provide the necessary tools to detect and disrupt those patterns.

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/lormel021202.htm

WHY THEN would a president nominate anyone who runs a basically poor performing program to the top rank at the FBI? More of the Culture of Fear to be expected? What else is one to conclude. General Hayden has run mostly a program of eavesdropping on Americans without even an outcome that justifies breaking the law. There is no reason to nominate General Hayden when his current resume' reveals illegal as well as poor performing programs that instill fear in the American people.

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Warren Jeffs. He's wanted for crimes. What is there to say? Except. Perhaps. It would be better if he would simply surrender and stop putting all his victims, especially children, through any more humiliation and social ridicule. We also don't need another Waco. If he feels he is being a victim then he can plead 'not guilty.' But, to put primarily his family through this is not an expression of a compassionate man.

Get off the subject already.

I am sure he'll appear on America's Most Wanted.

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I'm not interested in this nonsense. It victimizes women as sheep and baby machines. Brain washing is the issue. No woman whom understands her opportunities in the 'real society' would participate willingly in any multiple marriage. The 'polygamist marriages' that currently exist is due to a failure of government. Polygamy is a crime. What's the issue already?

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There is absolutely nothing I even care to comment on.

Have a good one.

Are the Iranian Students STILL freely protesting? Is there oppression? Why?

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I find Nancy Grace's pursuit nothing short of hero status. Ladies have it rough enough.. Helping and especially the truth tellers of journalism is a very valuable message. Thank you.

Frankenstein is always a 'Here's Johnny' kidda guy.

Lives being saved in Iraq. True. That has to be so, Anderson? There is permission in that statement in that the war must go on. In other words, if there are people that need to be saved in the way of civilians then there is permission for the war, right? The Iraqis have to develop their own military, their own police to keep the civilians alive. They didn't have to do that before Bush invaded the country. The amount of Iraqi civilians including children dead since the Bush invasion would fill up a few mass graves. Oh, wait. In Fallujah, they already do.

So this isn't about civilians. It' s not about Iraqi civilians because they don't have state of the art in Iraqi hospitals.

Suicide Truck Bomber Kills 17 in Iraq
Tuesday May 9, 2006 10:46 PM
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By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide truck bomber attacked a crowded market in Tal Afar late Tuesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 in a city cited by President Bush as a success story in battling insurgents.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5810990,00.html



Wednesday, May 10, 2006

27 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Twenty-seven people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, while 12 mutilated bodies were found including three beheaded corpses of Iraqi army soldiers, security officials said. At least 17 people were killed and 35 wounded by a suicide car bomb in northern Iraq. The bomber detonated a pickup truck full of flour parked at a busy marketplace in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, as shops were closing at around 8:00 pm, police said. Two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb attack against a patrol of Facility Protection Service (FPS), a special security unit tasked with guarding ministry buildings and power stations. Four members of the patrol were also wounded in the Baghdad attack.A Sunni cleric, Raed Mohammed al-Dulaimi, was also killed in southern Baghdad. The Iraqi Islamic Party said Dulaimi was the 150th Sunni cleric to be killed in Iraq since 2003. An Iraqi army soldier was killed and two others wounded when their patrol was attacked by gunmen near Kirkuk, police said. Gunmen shot dead a judge in western Baghdad, while a baker was also killed in Baghdad’s notorious southern Al Dura neighbourhood. Two brothers were also killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad. A civilian and a political activist were mowed down by bullets in Amara, police said. Also, police found 12 bodies of men killed around Baghdad and central Iraq. Three of the corpses, found beheaded, were Iraqi army soldiers. Their bodies washed up on the banks of the river Al-Malaeh, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad. The three were kidnapped on Monday, police said. Two deliverymen working for an Iraqi army catering service company were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in northern Iraq, police said. Agencies

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C10%5Cstory_10-5-2006_pg7_54

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Iran hasn't 'one upted' anything. The Iranian president is trying to distract from the priority of their nuclear program. You are missing the most important point to the letter. It doesn't matter how irreverent Bush is to God. What does Bush's lack of reverence have to do with a nuclear weapon? Bush is not threatening Iran with a nuclear weapon. Iran is threatening to annihilate Israel. The countries of the UN Security Council are moving to stop a nuclear exchange in The Middle East. Bush's complete and absolute folly is to engage in any 'name calling' internationally. It's hideous.

The folly of the United Nations Security Council leading Russia and China to resist any more resolutions because of Bush's desire to invade any and all countries he dares to is to INCLUDE the entire of Iran in their resolutions. In other words, before the current President of Iran took power there was not this much extremism. Just because this genicidal leader was elected somehow that entitles him to stay as president? Was Milosevic ever qualified to be a leader? No. He never was. Just as Milosevic (click on) was allowed to carry on for too long the 'impetus' to remove 'Genocidal Leaders' has to come during the time of the 'threat' not the genocide.

U.S. and Europe Plan New Offer to Entice Iran Away From Arms

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10nukes.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

UNITED NATIONS, May 9 — The United States and its European negotiating partners are preparing to repackage economic incentives aimed at inducing Iran to cooperate in eliminating its suspected nuclear weapons program, and to add some "new ideas" for Iran to consider, American and European officials said Tuesday.
A senior State Department official said the "new ideas" would not substantially change the package of economic incentives offered to Iran last August, when the Europeans told the Iranians they could achieve a full political and economic relationship with the West if Iran ended its nuclear activities suspected as part of a weapons program.

WITH IRAN everyone should believe without doubt that all the rantings by their leadership madmen is only to delay the plans they want to complete. Iran has to progress with their nuclear reactor open and transparently.

Russia's willingness to provide fuel rods to any country seeking a reactor so there is no reason for ANY country outside the five nuclear nations to have enrichment facilities needs to be made INTERNATIONAL law. All the countries currently moving toward nuclear weapons are doing so illegally in the international community and under current Non-Proliferation Treaties.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty cannot be voluntary anymore.

Just as Kyoto was ratified at 55%, the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be ratified by 55% of the UN membership wtih REAL penalities for any country that continues to break international law. Why should 'certain' countries have nuclear weapons while others don't.? The impetus to war, nuclear war is shortening everyday. What is to stop Iran from developing long range weapons and launhcing against a completely neutral country like Sweden or the United States of Brazil. This outrageous Nuclear Proliferation has to stop NOW. The five nuclear nations MUST stop this insanity.

Russis is more than doing it's part. Russia is fronting the BEST EFFORT to facilitate enforcing Non-Proliferation. It is time Russia be placed front and center to facilitate International LAW and not 'treaties' to ENFORCE very dangerous manifestos by even India and Bush's outrageous treaties with India regarding nuclear proliferation. President Vladimir Putin is the current leader of peace in the world promoting measures to REVERSE nuclear proliferation.

Where is everyone else?"

As far as I am concerned the USA is breaking international law with the negotiations with India. Bush is placing the USA at the center of a 'impetus' to war by other major powers if he continues to proliferate nuclear technology as if it were a 'bubble gum machine.'

Students heckle Iranian president

Khatami: Accused of failing to stand up to conservativesIranian students have interrupted a speech by President Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at Tehran university.
Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
A visibly-shaken Khatami defended his record and criticised the powerful hardliners who have closed newspapers and jailed dissidents.
He asked students to stop heckling and accused his critics of intolerance.
Students were once some of President Khatami's strongest supporters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4072887.stm

Enough.

"Class" Matters

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Nancy Grace. Polygamy and Ambien.

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"... and yet another scandal?"

I suppose. You know JFK, Jr. did some outrageous things in his life. He was vicious when it came to the press and Carolyn. I do believe the pressure of public life through him over the edge confronting paparazzi in NYC. Ah, to have it back to focus on in the American Press. To have "George" magazine back.

Being a Kennedy is hazardous. I do believe Patrick Kennedy was involved with medication that caused him some issues in his personal life. The 'so called' scandals revolved around priviledge and interpersonal relationships. It is well known that people with issues surrounding medication dependency, perscribed or not, manifest behaviors in their personal relationships that are dysfunctional. It's the medication ruling their lives that causes the dysfunction. I congratulate Mr. Kennedy for going to the Mayo Clinic. He was taking some very dangerous mixtures that we know of, he needed to be monitored to be sure all the medications were replaced with safe combinations. I look forward to his return.

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Talk about men who manipulate people through religious precepts all you want. There are many.

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General Marks thinks it's important to have a militarized civilian agency.

You know North Korea is one of the most militarized governments in the world. How about that, huh?

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Erica wears a green leather jacket. I don't think they use sea turtles for tanned leather, do they?

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Anderson, the 911 Memorial is not a military memorial. It is in the middle of New York City, the capital of the world. Had the Bush administration expedited the will of the families and friends of those murdered in NYC by funding the Memorial five years ago, the cost would have been much, much less. The cost of construction is skyrocketing because of the heavy dependency on OIL. Perhaps Dick Cheney could get Halliburton to DONATE all the fuel necessary for all the contruction of the Memorial. It would cut the cost drastically.

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Nancy Grace is covering this subject of Warren Jeffs inside and out. Got something to add?

S&P raises Halliburton's debt ratings
Fri May 5, 2006 12:25 PM ET

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Friday raised Halliburton Co.'s debt ratings, citing the company's improved operating performance.
"The ratings upgrade is based on marked improvement in Halliburton's operating performance in its oilfield services business, that, coupled with meaningful debt reduction over the past year, has significantly improved its credit measures," S&P said in a statement.
Also, Halliburton's management has taken steps to spin off the KBR Inc. business unit, which has helped improve credit quality.
S&P raised Halliburton's corporate credit and senior debt ratings to "BBB-plus," which is three notches above junk, from "BBB." The outlook is stable, the ratings agency said.

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-05-05T162500Z_01_N05330072_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-HALLIBURTON-S-P.XML


As company priorities shift, fewer get AAA debt rating
By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY
The AAA-rated company is an increasingly endangered species.
Already one of the most exclusive in Corporate America, the AAA club could soon be down to just seven members. Tuesday, Fitch Ratings stripped American International Group of its AAA rating, while the two largest ratings companies, Moody's Investor Services and Standard & Poor's, said they are considering doing the same.


AAA-rated U.S. companies
AIG
Automatic Data Processing
Berkshire Hathaway
ExxonMobil
General Electric
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer
United Parcel

ServiceSource: Moody's

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-03-15-aaa-usat_x.htm


There are several reasons for the decline in AAA-rated companies:

•More tolerance of risk.

... the article continues. If the infrastructure of the USA is in decline then the solvency of the debt of the country is in question. These companies have lowered their expections of their own mission, products and services to satisfy needs to expand through loans. This is not a healthy economy. I don't care what anyone says.

enough.

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

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

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

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

Rush Limbaugh Deal Includes Drug Tests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Background Note: Morocco

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There is Aaron Brown's soldier honor segment again.

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US accuses BP of 'world-class accounting scandal'

Terry MacalisterWednesday July 10, 2002

The Guardian

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

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Enough