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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
November 09 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Future Social Scientists Will Judge Us By These - Cable-TV Presents 'Morality Stories'
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In The News:
Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files.
[In relation to the commentary see: "Getting Out of a Felony Because Your Employer Won’t Employ Felons" By Teddy Partridge @ Firedoglake]
"This could ruin a man's taste for sunrises" ~~'Pirate' Prentice, in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow on seeing a premature V-2 'brenschluss' over the North Sea - SOMEONE launched a missile off the coast of Los Angeles yesterday during the evening's 'drive-time' but no one knows who, or admits to, launching it. (see below for an addendum)
Razer Notes:
I've seen one of these from Santa Cruz California a number of year ago. The Pynchon quote above readily came to mind.
It turned out to be a launch from Vandenberg AFB towards Kwajalein
The one thing that impressed me above all else was the STAGE SEPARATION, and the concurrent supersonic dash for the horizon. Even though this military-visual intrusion was, like yesterday's, a sunset launch, that's about the time 'Pirate' Prentice' early-morning musing had meaning to me personally, and I thought... Is it time to "Duck and Cover"? "(Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures.)"
Odd that staging is not evident here (the missile I saw was gone in a wink of an eye after the stage separation 'flash', and only gave me a brief glimpse, 2 to 5 seconds of the contrail, unlike this video from an airborne platform).
Maybe some homemade single stage thing tossed together by a disgruntled but enthusiastic EX-JPL/NASA worker... Estes rocket on steroids (kidding really! This thing only makes 150ft. altitude... some make 600.) or somesuch.
The Pentagon IS 'investigating', but so far... My guess (especially the quip about the EX-Aerospace worker... Imagine a 'Flash' rocket 'working group'... but Razer SURELY runs astray of the 'reality principle' at this point... or perhaps not?) is as good as anyone else's.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...
Canada is pulling all 3,000 or so combat troops out of Afghanistan in 2011. They will leave 900+ social engineering specialists behind.
The flap over Keith Olbermann's campaign contributions may be over as he returns to MSNBC tonight.
Leave your Khat at home - You may no longer carry printer toner cartridges or printer material over 16oz onto US airliners, or ANYTHING from Somalia or Yemen without inspection.
Dateline Moldova - Moldova which has been independent since the breakup of the USSR, is going to have it's citizens vote in the upcoming elections on whether to join Romania, their historic homeland connection, or stay independent with closer ties to Russia.
Tell that to all the people in prison for supplying it Jackass... Yesterday Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California said "Nobody cares if you smoke a joint!"
In OTHER News:
Speaking of drugs, but ones that monetarily benefit the CIA's friends....
THERE SEEMS TO BE a thaw in Venezuela-Colombia relations that the CIA's drug-running friends WILL NOT like.
In August this year, Walid Makled GarcÃa was arrested in Colombia. GarcÃa, a Venezuelan who was named a “significant foreign narcotics traffickers” last year by President Obama, is going to be extradited from Colombia to Venezuela.
Tough luck for the American Enterprise Institute (One of the NeoCon think tanks that got us involved in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars), which thought he was going to be more safely (for the CIA's friends) extradited to the US to tell tall stories about how Hugo Chavez IS The "Cocaine Capo" to be used in the U.S. propaganda war against Venezuela.
(Caveat to the "Cocaine Capo" link above: The article was written by Vision Americas LLC propagandist Roger F. Noriega who WAS ambassador under George W. Bush to the Organization of American States from 2001 to 2003 and assistant secretary of State from 2003 to 2005.)
From the Latin American New Round-Up @ CEPR
Accused drug kingpin will go to Venezuela: Chavez
November 8, 2010
Reuters
HAVANA - Colombia will extradite a businessman accused of being a major drug kingpin back to his native Venezuela to face justice, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday on Cuban television.
Chavez said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos promised in a recent meeting that Walid Makled, known as "The Turk," would go to Venezuela, not the United States, where he is also wanted.
Chavez fears that the United States, with whom he has frosty political relations, would use Makled to try to discredit him.
Makled was captured in August in Colombia in a joint operation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the head of Colombian police said at the time he would be extradited to the United States.
He is accused of shipping tons of cocaine each month to the United States and Europe, in an alliance with Colombian leftist rebels.
Chavez said Santos told him in a meeting on Tuesday in Venezuela that "he was going to fulfill that commitment to send this bandit to Venezuelan justice and I'm sure he will fulfill it."
"I expect that soon we will have this bandit in front of Venezuelan courts," said Chavez, who was in Havana to sign cooperation agreements with Cuba, a close ally of socialist Venezuela.
After their meeting, Santos and Chavez said they agreed to improve relations between their neighboring countries. They had clashed last year over a Colombian plan to allow U.S. troops more access to its bases.
They did not disclose any accords on Makled, who has said in a television interview that he poured $2 million into a 2007 Chavez political campaign and in return got a concession at Venezuela's Puerto Cabello, his alleged shipping point for drugs.
Chavez said the United States would get Makled to "vomit" accusations against him and use them to justify putting Venezuela on Washington's list of countries that support drug trafficking.
"I am sure that the Colombian government is not going to take part in that game," he said.
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Monday, November 8, 2010
November 08 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Republicans Take Aim At ObamaCare - It's A Bad Bill But It' Better Than No Bill At All
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In The News:
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(In light of the commentary topic, see: "Obama Again Admits His Health Care Law Is Republican, Not Progressive" By Jon Walker @ Firedoglake)
President Obama spoke to the Indian Parliament today and also signed an "economic and technological exchange contract" which will add to and/or save 55,000 jobs on Boeing's payroll. His next stop is Indonesia, where security will be harder because there is a active volcano which could ground Air Force One at any time, and because Indonesia which is officially a Islamic country, protests are expected at any time as well.
Regarding those "economic and technological exchanges" which mostly seem to be DEFENSE related (See: "Obama backs permanent seat for India on Security Council" and "Unleashing US-India Defense Trade"), with little to offer the average American in the way of work, here's a list and write up on 19 iconic products that America doesn't make anymore (Warning: autoplay advertising video/audio)
Today it was reported that Obama 'defended' Pakistan, a long-time adversary of India to the Indian government. Juan Cole, Persian Gulf Scholar at the University of Michigan asks: "What does Pakistan think of Obama’s India Trip?"
Pakistanis are from all accounts rather miffed that President Barack Obama did not stop in Islamabad as part of his Asian tour. The officer corps is the angriest, but it is viewed widely as a put-down.
From a Pakistani point of view, the US and Pakistan have been allies since the 1950s. They stood shoulder to shoulder in the 1980s to fight the Soviet Union’s brutal occupation of Afghanistan. After the September 11 attacks, Pakistan abandoned the Taliban and so made it easier for them to be overthrown, even though they had been to some degree a project of the Inter-Services Intelligence. In recent years, the Pakistani army has waged hard-fought campaigns in Bajaur, Swat, and South Waziristan against Taliban elements, losing hundreds of troops’ lives in the process.
So, Pakistanis ask, why is Washington slighting us after we’ve hung together? [In Full]
Haiti is flooding now due to overflowing rivers and an ecologically de-nuded environment, spreading Cholera to other areas outside Port-au-Prince. Do you suppose the USS Iwo Jima, which is already on station (DoD source) is there to assist... or to prevent people from fleeing towards the US on whatever floats at their earliest opportunity?
The following is footage from approximately 6 months ago of a Haitian refugee camp having it's tents torn to shreds by a storm, and it's happening again, but THIS TIME, Cholera is epidemic as well.
In case you might be wondering where all that international aid money went...
Gleaned from a Cabale News Service report in January this year:
Haiti Gets a Penny of Each U.S. Aid DollarYou have to ask yourself, how much of that penny trickles down from the Preval 'government' to the Haitian people?
(and the US military receives $0.33c)
By The Associated Press
January 27, 2010 -- AP-- Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts. [In Full]
Dilapidating infrastructure is already endangering us due to our next 'clean' source of electricity - Two nuclear power plants on the East Coast are offline this morning. Indian Point in New York due to blown out transformers, and a Vermont plant leaking radioactive water.
Anwar al-Awlaki has now called for the killing of Americans anywhere anytime in response to a Yemeni Death Warrant issued due to US pressure for his killing or capture, despite the fact that he has never been accused or indicted for a single crime in the US.
The Republican grand plan to set the economy on the right track has been revealed... They intend to repeal the ObamaCare federal medical insurance package, and if they can't do that... They'll attack US agencies handling the funds.
Speaking of numbers and the obvious inability of Republicans to understand them, the Nutcase Republican Right spread the rumor that Obama's visit to India is costing US taxpayers $200 million a day, to which New York magazine ran the headline "Republican Anger Over Cost of Obama’s Trip to India Will Not Be Stopped by Facts."
In OTHER News:
The US is accused of spying on civilians in Denmark and Norway: "... between 15 and 20 people have been hired by the US Embassy in Oslo since 2000 to monitor local residents.", but no one seems to knows why.
Sweden says the US has carried out secret surveillance there as well:
"...the activities "seem to be similar" to those unveiled in Norway earlier this week, which included photographing and gathering information about individuals for surveillance and security purposes." [In Full]
ALMOST getting away with murder... The judge ruling in the trial of a BART Police officer charged with the shooting death of un-armed civilian Oscar Grant threw out the gun conviction on Friday, saying it was not supported by evidence, and gave former BART officer Johannes Mehserle a two year sentence for the involuntary manslaughter conviction, the shortest term possible
More on "Just-Us" in America...
It helps if you're wealthy, or closely affiliated with those who are:
"This is a nice trick, see if it works for you next time you find yourself facing felony charges:A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardise his job, it has been revealed.Neat trick, what?
Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, was set to face felony charges for running over a doctor who he hit from behind in his 2010 Mercedes Benz, and then speeding off. But now he will simply face two misdemeanour traffic charges from the July 3 incident in Eagle, Colorado.
Because his employment might be in jeopardy since he would need to disclose his felony convictions to clients and his employer (thus endangering his ability to earn a living, and pay restitution) Erzinger’s charges have been reduced to misdemeanor.
Justice, in this case, includes the capability to pay restitution, says District Attorney Mark Hurlbert..." [More @ Firedoglake]
And Finally, picked up EX Post Facto, From The EXiled:
How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, Collecting Billions While Nearly Destroying the Company
"...what few people outside of the investment community know is what a disaster Meg Whitman’s business career really was.
In fact, Meg Whitman’s record in the corporate world reads like a laundry list of failure: it’s a resume marked by fraud, gross incompetence, wasteful spend...ing and gross disregard for anyone’s interests but her own.
In her obsessive drive to become a billionaire, Whitman left a legacy of bitterness among untold numbers of jilted employees, shareholders and eBay clients, while enriching herself and a handful of fellow executives and investment bankers."
[More @ The EXiled... Mankind's only alternative]
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Friday, November 5, 2010
November 05 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Circadian Vs The Industrial - Certain Industrial Manifestations Remain Past Their Time
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In The News:
Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files.
The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery for it's 39th and perhaps last mission has been delayed again by a Hydrogen leak. They'll try again in a couple of days.
There has been a new blast in the eight days of volcanic eruptions from Indonesia's Mount Merapi. So far it's only a smoke plume, hot ashes, and gas, but that could change at any time and at least 100 are known dead so far. When Krakatoa, also an Indonesian Volcano, erupted in 1883 it caused a short-period of Ice Age.
The Taliban are apparently attempting to disrupt and/or sway the Afghanistan peace talks with death threats. Meanwhile, a Sufi leader who had been cooperating with the West has been wounded in an assassination attempt.
Also, "Louis Berger Group Inc., a New Jersey-based engineering consulting firm, was charged today with fraud in relation to reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq."
McClatchy notices the company's prosecution was 'deferred' and it "agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars":
One of the government's highest profile American contractors in Afghanistan has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle allegations that it overbilled the U.S. government.BusinessWeek claims “They manipulated the formula for allocating indirect costs of their work on the invoices they submitted for the reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq,”
In return, the Justice Department will end its investigation into allegations that Louis Berger was intentionally overcharging American taxpayers, individuals close to the investigation told McClatchy Newspapers on Thursday. The settlement, which could be as high as $65 million, would include civil and criminal penalties...
In Full @ KansasCity.com
But McClatchy goes further, claiming "In some instances the company is accused of shifting overhead costs from private clients to federal and state contracts, where they were less likely to be noticed."
That's fraud...
But U.S. Funded Reconstruction in Afghanistan is a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR industry and this sort of grifting is just what the empire expects. After all, the people who assign and oversee these contracts and the people who execute(sic) them are almost always industry insiders no matter which side of the contract they're signing, and those sides swap quite often.
Here's an example of America's attempt to not only 'nation-build' a country, Afghanistan, but strategically create a "New Regional Order" in the process:
A key construction project in the volatile south-eastern border region is the Washington-funded K-G Road - a $US100 million ($A114 million), 100-kilometre blacktop through wild Taliban country between Khost, on the Pakistan border, and the hub city of Gardez, south of Kabul.It's not the FIRST time the US has engaged in socio-cultural engineering in Afghanistan... We tried (and failed) in the 1950s. See: “Little America” in Afghanistan: Is the US Repeating a Failed 1950’s Experiment in Social Engineering? at Firedoglake for this little known piece of history about the American Empire.
The road is part of a grand design to break five strategic centres from economic and social dependency on neighbouring Pakistan. By linking them together and to the national ring-road, they might be hooked back into Kabul's orbit.
Overseeing the K-G Road is US engineer Steve Yahn, a 53-year-old Massachusetts father who has been building roads in Afghanistan since 2002 so that he can afford to send his children to college.
He is acutely aware of the challenge ahead... MUCH More @ theage.com.au
The Republicans are carving up the "staffing turkey" in the House... Meanwhile, President Obama leaves for Asia and India with a delegation of U.S. business people. Unlike America, in India, if you acquire a license to sell something, you have to manufacture it there. President Obama will also visit Indonesia and China on this trip. More at Foreign Policy Magazine
Haiti is beginning to feel the front edge of Hurricane Tomas which is threatening the Caribbean from Eastern Cuba to the Bahamas. The 1.3 MILLION people living in the earthquake refugee tent cities on low ground have been ordered to move... to Where?
Here's an available option gleaned from yesterday's synopsis:
(It's also notable there's enough vacant housing in the United States to house EVERY homeless person in the country for this winter. But when it comes to supplying some basic human necessities, the United States of America fails as dramatically as 'the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere')
Haiti... Remember Haiti? Earthquake earlier this year. Countless millions of dollars given to middleman NGOs (The American Red Cross said they were sweeping what they didn't 'need' into their general fund) for relief, and the world was said to have 'sprung into action'. Hurricane Tomas approaches... and despite that international 'effort', the displaced are experiencing an outbreak of Cholera for the first time in half a century, and they are STILL unsheltered, and endangered:
Haiti's Tent Cities to Bear the Worst of Hurricane TomasThat tragedy of a large unsheltered Haitian populations could EASILY exacerbate an epidemiological nightmare already in progress, and growing. Again, despite the 'efforts' of the UN, and countless 'relief' agencies and NGOs.
Wednesday 03 November 2010
by: Stephen Kurczy
The Christian Science Monitor - Report
As tropical storm Tomas speeds toward Haiti, threatening to turn into a hurricane before it passes just west of the island Friday morning, some 1.3 million people are virtually trapped in Port-au-Prince’s flimsy tent cities.
In the countryside, hundreds of thousands more Haitians still live in tents following the 7.0 earthquake the leveled the capital and surrounding areas in January.
Authorities have advised anyone living in makeshift camps to seek refuge in sturdier buildings, but many say they don't have that option.
“The majority of people have nowhere to go,” says Stefan Reynier, the head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in Léogâne, 18 miles west of the capital. “Those people will not be protected.”
This is despite the fact that more than 100,000 homes in Port-au-Prince sit vacant and in need of only minimal repairs since an earthquake rocked the country in January, according to aid organizations in the country. Each home could be repaired with only days worth of work and several thousand dollars in supplies, they say...
In Full @ Christian Science Monitor via TruthOut
"The total number of (Haitian Cholera) cases now stands at 6,742":
Haiti cholera deaths rise sharply
03 November 10 2010
The number of people known to have died from a cholera epidemic in Haiti has increased markedly. Health officials say 105 more people have died since Saturday, bringing the total to 442.They said there had been a 40% jump in the number of new cases.
On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control found that all the Haitian patients had the same strain of cholera, one that is most commonly found in South Asia. The UN is investigating allegations that excrement from Nepalese peacekeepers caused the epidemic. But Health Minister Dr Alex Larsen said it was unlikely the outbreak's origin would ever be known.
Haiti had not seen a cholera outbreak for about half a century," In Full @ BBC
In OTHER News...
This is winning the "War On Terror"? As the al Qaeda movement (IT IS NOT AN "ORGANIZATION") grows larger due to the West's actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa, it gets easier to infiltrate. More at the Washington Post, who don't quite state it like that.
[After the commentary... Joe Jackson is feeling a little pressed for time. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
November 04 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Post-Election Bloodsport - The Republicans Will Target ObamaCare And Financial Reform First
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In The News:
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Warfare on the cheap - The package bomb tactic is apparently going to be spreading as two more are found in London and Dubai. The one in London was seventeen minutes from going off using a cell phone as a detonator.
Also, Greece is shutting down all package deliveries outside the country after 13 different bombs are discovered, some addressed to dignitaries such as President Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Merkel of Germany, along with others... addressed to obscure people who are alleged to have committed massacres of Muslims. Expect copycats.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports:
"Many Yemenis See Terror as Business Model, Not Ideology"
Firedoglake, with an analysis:
In a remarkable article in Thursday’s New York Times, we find a very interesting analysis of some of the forces at play in Yemen, where the United States has decided that its largest al Qaeda threat now resides. According to the Times article, Yemenis take reports of al Qaeda presence with a sizable dose of skepticism, ascribing much of the internal violence as a mixture of secessionist movements and the “business” of terrorism, where groups first foment violence and then take government money in return for making it stop...Also see Le Monde diplomatique: Violence grounded in ancient tribal loyalties - Yemen’s hidden war
In Full, with linkage, at Firedoglake
The Federal Reserve is going to buy $600 Billion dollars worth of Treasury Bonds in what might be a last ditch effort to save the US economy-as-we-know-it.
Declaring "progress toward its objectives has been disappointingly slow," the Federal Reserve left rates at "exceptionally low" levels yet again and launched a second round of quantitative easing (QE2).
The FOMC announced plans Wednesday to buy $600 billion of Treasuries by the middle of 2011, at a pace of about $75 billion per month. That's not much in the grand scheme of the bond market, but the Fed will also continue to reinvest payments on its securities holdings; that could bring QE2's total to almost $1 trillion, a.k.a. "real money."
The Fed is on a "very dangerous path," says Axel Merk, president of Merk Mutual Funds. "The best case we can get is inflationary growth, but the downside risks are very high. [Bernanke] thinks a weaker dollar is going to stimulate the economy. Let's hope it's only a gradual decline, not a crash..." In Full @ Yahoo Finance
Where the Economic meets the Politic, Mark Weisbrot at the Center for Economic Policy and Research points out "Failure to Enact Bigger Stimulus Was (a) Fatal Mistake" for the Democrats in the elections.
YouTube is going to pull all of Islamic preacher Anwar al-Awlaki's English language videos due to the TOS violation "Inciting violence". That action happens in the wake of massive pressure from the US... and Britain, a country with a large English speaking Muslim population.
President Obama will meet with Republican leaders at the White House on November 18th to attempt compromise and coalition even as the Republican leadership swears it will dismantle and de-fund the Obama Health Care package.
There's a delay in launching the Space Shuttle Discovery on it's 39th and last mission. The shuttle program is being phased out, but the Obama administration intends to 'maintain some of it's capabilities'. More.
In OTHER News:
Haiti... Remember Haiti? Earthquake earlier this year. Countless millions of dollars given to middleman NGOs (The American Red Cross said they were sweeping what they didn't 'need' into their general fund) for relief, and the world was said to have 'sprung into action'. Hurricane Tomas approaches... and despite that international 'effort', the displaced are experiencing an outbreak of Cholera for the first time in half a century, and they are STILL unsheltered, and endangered:
Haiti's Tent Cities to Bear the Worst of Hurricane TomasThat tragedy of a large unsheltered Haitian populations could EASILY exacerbate an epidemiological nightmare already in progress, and growing. Again, despite the 'efforts' of the UN, and countless 'relief' agencies and NGOs.
Wednesday 03 November 2010
by: Stephen Kurczy
The Christian Science Monitor - Report
As tropical storm Tomas speeds toward Haiti, threatening to turn into a hurricane before it passes just west of the island Friday morning, some 1.3 million people are virtually trapped in Port-au-Prince’s flimsy tent cities.
In the countryside, hundreds of thousands more Haitians still live in tents following the 7.0 earthquake the leveled the capital and surrounding areas in January.
Authorities have advised anyone living in makeshift camps to seek refuge in sturdier buildings, but many say they don't have that option.
“The majority of people have nowhere to go,” says Stefan Reynier, the head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in Léogâne, 18 miles west of the capital. “Those people will not be protected.”
This is despite the fact that more than 100,000 homes in Port-au-Prince sit vacant and in need of only minimal repairs since an earthquake rocked the country in January, according to aid organizations in the country. Each home could be repaired with only days worth of work and several thousand dollars in supplies, they say...
In Full @ Christian Science Monitor via TruthOut
"The total number of (Haitian Cholera) cases now stands at 6,742":
Haiti cholera deaths rise sharply
03 November 10 2010
The number of people known to have died from a cholera epidemic in Haiti has increased markedly. Health officials say 105 more people have died since Saturday, bringing the total to 442.They said there had been a 40% jump in the number of new cases.
On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control found that all the Haitian patients had the same strain of cholera, one that is most commonly found in South Asia. The UN is investigating allegations that excrement from Nepalese peacekeepers caused the epidemic. But Health Minister Dr Alex Larsen said it was unlikely the outbreak's origin would ever be known.
Haiti had not seen a cholera outbreak for about half a century," In Full @ BBC
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish:
But THAT problem might be resolved over the next 25 years or so... The fish are going away. You know... "Peak Fisheries", Pacific Edition:Despite Heavy Oil, Louisiana Keeps Fisheries Open
By Dahr Jamail
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) - Massive slicks of weathered oil were clearly visible near Louisiana's fragile marshlands in both the East and West Bays of the Mississippi River Delta during an overflight that included an IPS reporter on Oct. 23. The problem is that, despite this, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has left much of the area open for fishing...
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..."They are literally shrimping in oil," Jonathan Henderson, the Coastal Resiliency Organiser for the environmental group Gulf Restoration Network, who was also on the flight, exclaimed as our plane flew over shrimpers trawling in the oil-covered area.
Others remain concerned about the use of toxic dispersants that BP has used to sink the oil.
"Potential ecosystem collapse caused by toxic dispersant use during this disaster will have immediate and long-term effects on the Gulf's traditional fishing communities' ability to sustain our culture and heritage," Clint Guidry of the Louisiana Shrimp Association told IPS.
"This has been an exercise in lessening BP's liability from day one. I think we're moving into a situation where the PR is saying the area is safe to fish and it's safe to eat, but that's not the reality," he said. In Full @ Inter Press Service
Further... Vertebrates are going away as well (some fish overlap this subphylum, as well as humans like you and I):Pacific fisheries face collapse by 2035: study
October 27, 2010
Pacific island fisheries face collapse in the next 25 years as overfishing, population growth and climate change threaten one of the region's main economic resources, a study warned Wednesday.
The report, published by the Noumea-based Secretariat of the Pacific Community, said the two billion US dollar a year industry was poorly managed, with a lack of coordination between the 22 island nations in the region.
It warned some types of tuna were already being dangerously overexploited and the problem would spread to other species as foreign fleets clamoured for access to rich fishing grounds amid a global fall in fish stocks.
"There is a dangerous misconception that these resources will always be there but this is not true," the report said....
In Full @ PhysOrg (Physics & Earth sciences)
Fifth Of Vertebrates Face Extinction - Study
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - About a fifth of the world's vertebrates are threatened with extinction, a major review has found, highlighting the plight of nature that is the focus of global environment talks.
The study by more than 170 scientists across the globe used data for 25,000 species from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of threatened species and examined the status of the world's mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fishes.
The authors found, on average, 50 species of mammals, birds and amphibians move closer to extinction each year because of expansion of farms and plantations, logging and over-hunting. Another factor was competition from other species, particularly those introduced from other areas.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
November 03 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Time To Roll A Fattie And Regroup - The Prospects For Legalized Pot Are Better Than Ever
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In OTHER news... Baghdad is blown up... All hell breaks loose in Baghdad Iraq with eighteen attacks (Juan Cole @ Informed Comment calls it 17 attacks), from ambushes to car bombs. The al-Maliki government's army and police are logistically and tactically overwhelmed. It is unknown whether the 50,000 US troops still in country will be able to handle the action if the attacks continue.
"Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" has just blown up Yemen's oil pipeline. It doesn't carry much oil but it DOES carry a majority of the country's revenue in it, in the form of oil transit taxes and other payments. Details.
More from Le Monde diplomatique:
Violence grounded in ancient tribal loyalties
Yemen’s hidden warYemen has become a refuge for al-Qaida fighters from Saudi Arabia. At the same time, secessionist opposition is growing in the south, united with the north in 1990, and insurrection threatens the Saada region in the northwest. Iran and Saudi Arabia are variously accused of meddling
by Pierre BerninSpeaking of al-Qaeda... BBC finally admitted in 2009 that the al-Qaeda organization never existed, but you'd never know it by reading a current newspaper or watchng TV news:
Hidden away from outside eyes, the Saada region in northwest Yemen, not far from the border with Saudi Arabia, has been the scene of violent struggle since June 2004.
This pits the Saada provincial authorities against a rebel group, the Huthis, first led by the former MP Hussein al-Huthi, then after his death in September 2004 by his young brother Abdulmalik al-Huthi, who became the group’s commander in 2006.
Despite a ceasefire announced in July 2008 (1), hostilities resumed this mid-August. Little is yet known about the spread of the conflict, its brutality, its tens of thousands of casualties and displaced people – and the risk of chain reaction in parts where the country’s principal tribes live...
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Regionally, in the California elections Jerry Brown, being formerly the youngest governor of the state, and now the oldest, with ideas he's been brooding on for 30 years, wins the governorship of California. Barbara Boxer also survived along with Harry Reid in Nevada. More.
California Proposition 19 the legalization of recreational marijuana law, which was badly written, failed.
California Proposition 20, taking redistricting out of the hands of the state legislature passed. It will now be done by a bipartisan independent commission including a contingent of voters. More.
Yesterday the British and French agreed they will commit to joint troop operations, including coordination of their nuclear arsenals.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
November 02 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The National Erections - Some Get Laid, Some Get Screwed, But I'm Doing My Astrology
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The voting has begun, or should we call it the American national reflexive reaction... The Democrats currently have a ten seat margin and they're expected to hold four of them which means the Republicans are expected to take the House of Representatives.
In a 'comprehensive attack' on "voter fraud" the Democrats and Republicans are out in force with their poll watchers... AKA voter harassment crews. If stopped or questioned by one of these interfering freaks feel free to shove them out of the way telling them "I'm going to vote now and the only way you will stop me is because the police will have me in custody for killing you."
The Iranians are postponing the trial of three hikers arrested in the country for spying. The Iranian court claims that one of the three defendants is not there. However there is no new trial date set perhaps because of US-Iran talks at the Afghanistan peace conference. Also see: Asia Times - Covert ops sabotage US-Iran ties for a sidebar.
The Yemenis have begun a trial in absentia or Anwar al-Awlaki, US-born Islamic cleric... He's still holed up in the hinterlands of the country, an area the Yemeni army has never managed to penetrate.
Tom De Lay, former Republican Majority Leader goes on trial today for money laundering and election tampering.
Hurricane Tomas has a very good chance of a direct hit on what is left of the island of Haiti.
Oh yeah, and then there's the recent Cholera epidemic that occurred right under the not-so-watchful eye of the U.N. and NGOs... Haiti's Cholera Disaster: Epidemic Underscores Lack of Progress after Earthquake - SPIEGEL.
Eric Verlo of Not My Tribe on what "refusing to vote" really means...
Again I anticipate hearing from a friend who monitors local precinct printouts and calls to whip his charges to the polls. I’ve lost count of how many Facebook prompts I’ve gotten to pledge to vote — but this time I’m going to make my ballot count. No amount of corporate-sponsored fear-based gap-closing civic-enthusiasm is going to coerce me to play this game. I will not support war, lack of health care, and class war unchallenged. The beasts unleashed by Citizens United will not buy my participation.
Neither the conservative assholes, nor the liberal bullshitters can have it.
They can have their tyranny, their obscene income disparity, their open war on nature and fellow-humankind. They can have their liberal pretense as the less bitter pill. It’s a dose of cancer either way. I would have a preference actually, if forced to choose between a quick execution and a slow death by hard labor, but I would rather resist than be compelled to voice it.
Silence is not consent, it’s none of the above. More
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Monday, November 1, 2010
November 01 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Notes On The Vote - Look Way Down The Ballot & You Will See Political Turmoil In The Future
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It's increasingly obvious that the war on Al Qaeda is in Yemen, and Somalia (see Below). Both Dubai and London discover explosive devices on cargo aircraft that were active and powerful enough to seriously damage the aircraft they were shipped on or the Synagogue that's gay friendly in Chicago they were addressed to. The Yemeni authorities swooped on a female law student (So much for 'suppressed Muslim women'... a female law student in an Islamic country!) who apparently had her identity stolen and the girl's mother. They were released after being held for 24 hours. The forensics on the bomb allegedly point to the person who put the 'poop' in the "underwear bomber's" drawers. The US is sending in special ops teams to find him (really... They're already there) considering the Yemeni government doesn't control the country outside it's capital for even one mile... Just like Somalia.
About Somalia... The OTHER "al Qaeda" stronghold...
The West tries desperately to maintain it's grip on this extractive resource 'Gold Mine'(sic) and "Elects" a Westernized Somali to lead the country:
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's parliament on Sunday approved a Somali-American as the country's prime minister, but some are already questioning whether he will be able to make a difference in the war-ravaged country under attack from al-Qaida-linked militants.
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who has taught at a community college in western New York, is now expected to name a Cabinet in the coming weeks.
The Somali government currently controls only a small part of the capital, Mogadishu. It has accomplished little since its inception in 2004 and the country hasn't had a fully functioning government in nearly two decades.
"Somalia is not America," Amina Nur, a mother of seven children, told The Associated Press referring to Mohamed's time spent in the U.S.
"Like many overseas Somalis that came from Western countries after the collapse of the government in 1991 and are now parliamentarians and government officials, he doesn't know the difficult situation of the country and cannot lead an effective Cabinet in the terms of the setting a comprehensive security plan to combat al-Shabab and terrorists," Nur said.
Mohamed was nominated on Oct. 14 by President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed but the vote on the nomination was delayed several times because of a disagreement between the president and the speaker over procedure. The president wanted lawmakers to vote by a show of hands, while the speaker preferred a secret ballot.
Lawmakers voted by a show of hands 297-92 on Sunday in favor of Mohamed, said Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, speaker of the transitional parliament.
Mohamed worked in the Somali Embassy in Washington from 1985 to 1988, according to the government's website. He has taught conflict resolution and leadership skills at Erie Community College in western New York and has a master's degree in political science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, according to his resume... In Full
Imagine that... getting prison time for fighting in a war as a soldier. An al Qaeda fighter who was captured at 15 years old when he tossed a hand grenade at US troops and housed at Guantanamo Concentration Camp By The Caribbean ever since has been sentenced to 40 years, with a reduction to eight years. Whether he will also get 'time served' on the seven years already spent incarcerated is unknown.
It's the last day of campaigning before the mid-term US elections and the Democrats are girding themselves for Republican polling suppression teams AKA "Poll Watchers"
Brazil has elected it's first woman president whose politics follows in the tenor of the 'termed out' Lula da Silva. Dilma Rousseff won over José Serra, the former governor of São Paulo, with 56% of the vote.
Another American icon bites the dust... GM has shut down it's Pontiac Division
"Homegrown terrorism"... Forensics and ballistics point to the same shooter in three of the four incidents that have occurred at various places in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area. An update from Newsy.com...
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Finally...
Your 'culture' is KILLING you!
Lancet Study: Alcohol 'harms more than heroin'
Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet.
The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who was sacked by the government in October 2009.
It ranks 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society.
Gavin Partington, of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, said alcohol abuse affected "a minority" who needed "education, treatment and enforcement".
The study also said tobacco and cocaine are judged to be equally harmful, while ecstasy and LSD are among the least damaging.
Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson. He went on to form the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, a body which aims to investigate the drug issue without any political interference.
One of its other members is Dr Les King, another former government adviser who quit over Prof Nutt's treatment.
Members of the group, joined by two other experts, scored each drug for harms including mental and physical damage, addiction, crime and costs to the economy and communities... In Full w/Graphics
AFTER the commentary, George Carlin, on the value of your vote... But let me add a thought in print on the day before election day:
"The Framers established a plutocracy and then they lied about it and said that it was a republic. It was never a republic or any other democratic form of government. It was and still is a plutocracy. Although they did grant some citizens a sham, symbolic vote, they made sure that the popular vote was not the final say and could be disregarded by the Electoral College, Congress, or the Supreme Court. Fearing "too much democracy," they did not allow any." source
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