Myanmar cyclone death toll soars past 22,000: state radio

Banyan Trees


Giant Banyan Trees with aerial roots

Banyan Tree with aerial roots

Banyan Tree with aerial roots

A Myanmar Buddhist Monk makes his way past a fallen tree following a devastating cyclone, Sunday, May 4, 2008, in Yangon. The death toll from the cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station has said. The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said Monday that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town in the country's low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area. (AP Photo/Barry Broman)

April 15, 2008

Cyclone Nargis (click here)

May 5, 2008

The littel coastal country called Myanmar was also hit with sea level rise when the cyclone landed. This is a completelly flooded area and the body count, no different than the tsunami, will never be completely realized because bodies have been washed out to sea.

This is a biologically sensitive area where species are being demised due to a turbulent troposhere as I write this. There needs to be a full dispatch of scientists to assess the damage and discover the economic impact from the biotic loss of the region.

There are tree species in Myanmar that are used on the global cosmetics market. There is huge economic losses due to this cyclone.

Conservationists need to start immediately to restore the biotic content of the devastated area, otherwise, there will be vast impoverishment of the people surviving this tragedy.

2 more U.S. soldiers‘ deaths in Iraq raise doubts about MRAP vehicle

Was there any question when these machines were built that this would happen?

No.

Why?

Because anything with rubber tires is an act of stupidity in a war zone.

They call it "Urban Warfare." Its nothing but stupidity and an excuse for war when there is actually none. Conventional warfare doesn't lend itself to anything but killing, whereby, 'urban warfare' is some kind of 'extreme' SWAT mission. It's stupid. It creates and legitimizes conflict where none existed before.

War takes place between sovereign nations, not nations of locals.

Iraq. The war for Real Estate !

Other peoples' lives + other peoples' money = A Forever War in Iraq

House to vote on Iraq funds this week (click here)
By ANDREW TAYLOR – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the House plan to pass legislation this week funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year.
The plan would allow anti-war lawmakers to vote to force the withdrawal of most combat troops by December 2009 of next year, said a senior House Democratic aide, though the Senate probably won't go along.
The $178 billion-plus measure will also carry legislation costing $16 billion over two years to extend unemployment insurance coverage for jobless people whose benefits have run out. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan would begin to receive a big boost in college aid.
Barring any unexpected developments, the war funding bill would be the last one passed during President Bush's tenure in office. It would bring the amount approved by Congress since Sept. 11, 2001, to fight terrorism and conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to $875 billion....

US Zone of Influence, or was that affluence, maybe it was effluent?

Pentagon Backs Plan To Build U.S. ‘Zone Of Influence’ Of Hotels And Resorts In Baghdad
The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has “no desire for permanent bases” in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking to leave its footprint on Iraq through other means. The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to “transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone” into a “centerpiece for Baghdad’s future,” resulting in “big paydays for early investors“...

It would seem as though the military initiatives of The Surge were to clear people from future building sites. Yep.

Iran: Talks With US on Security in Iraq Useless (click here)
By VOA News 05 May 2008
Iran says it will not hold a fourth round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq, as long as U.S. forces continue what it called "open bombings" in Iraq.
Speaking in Tehran today MondayIranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali Hosseini said under the current circumstances, any new talks would be meaningless.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have fought fierce battles against Shi'ite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City for the past month.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the U.S. is still ready for security talks with Iran, but said they are meaningless as long as Tehran does not change its behavior. The U.S. has repeatedly accused Iran of supporting militias in Iraq, which Tehran denies....

President Bush speaks in the Rose Garden as US Vice President Dick Cheney (l) looks on at the White House in Washington, DC.

Remember the article about Disney placing a complex within the Green Zone. Well. It would seem occupiers need distraction from the blood bath once in awhile !

Iraq: US Is Digging in for the Long Haul (click here)
Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk

It doesn’t look as though Americans in Iraq are going anywhere anytime soon. Officially Iraq’s sovereignty was handed back to its rightful owners years ago, which means the occupiers remain in the country at the invitation of the Iraqi government. OK, try not to laugh!
Fact is the occupying power is digging in for the long haul and there is little the Iraqi leadership can do about it even if it wanted to. When challenged about their supersized, superfortified embassy sprouting on prime land — which one must assume was sequestered rather than gifted by Iraq — and their mushrooming permanent military bases, the Americans cite the postwar German/Japan models.
In other words, they are saying the victor has a perfect right to hang around the necks of the vanquished in perpetuity.
In this case, I don’t blame Arab governments for refusing to send their diplomatic personnel into the jaws of danger merely to hobnob with Iraqi officials for the purposes of affording them legitimacy when, as we know, the real decision-making takes place in Washington.
It could be that the Pentagon’s new plan to transform the so-called Green Zone into a walled-off oases of 21st century Western luxury is, in part, an attempt to lure reluctant ambassadors into lending credibility to the game with their mere presence and encourage their own diplomats to put their lives on the line.
According to the Associated Press, the US has a $5 billion, “five-year development ‘dream list’ to create a zone of influence around the new $700 million embassy to serve as a kind of high-end buffer for the compound”. In fact, it is now likely to cost more than $1.3 billion as we know from an emergency supplemental funding request delivered by President Bush to Congress in 2006....

The only other filly to win the Derby was Regret in 1915. Eight Belles will be the 39th to start the race.

The Fillies need their own turf and nothing else. A rare unblemished finish against colts isn't enough to continue to allow owners of fillies to risk their lives. The 'odds' are against them doing well or surviving.

Belles was a 20 to 1 odds entry. What does that mean?

That means if the owner of the horse placed a $10,000 wager on Belles and she won, he was due to receive $200,000 in winnings and a cool $190,000 take home profit in cash !

In what other sport can that be the case? None.

Belles finished 2nd due to the 'run' in her and she paid 16 to 1 even though she is now DEAD ! (click here)

Her ticket holders are still winners with a second place victory and I guarantee you, her owners are still taking home money without her in the trailer, and that doesn't include the 'prize money.'

You know, sometimes the odds with a good horse in a big race is just enough to make the mortgage payment this month !

It is time to charge the owners of Fillies with Cruelty to Animals. It is nothing but greed and ego that caused the deaths of either of these Fillies

Ruffian (click here) died in a 'match race' with a colt, Foolish Pleasure. It should have never taken place. The owners, trainers and jockeys should be prosecuted for Cruelty to Animals.


Dead Horse Walking - Having fillies race against colts at this level of competition is a death sentence from the beginning. The fillies have as much 'heart' to win if not more, but, their bone and muscles structures are different and they suffer unrecoverable injuries as a result because they are 'competition' horses from their birth. They don't know when they are going to hurt themselves and they are the innocent in a game of 'horse play' where millions if not billions of dollars ride on the outcome of their performance.

ENOUGH !!!

2008 Kentucky Derby: Eight Belles An Underlay at 20-1 (click here)
Written by John O'Brien
Saturday, 03 May 2008
"2008 Kentucky Derby: Eight Belles An Underlay at 20-1"
Online sports betting giant Sportsbook.com has the lone filly in the 2008 Kentucky Derby Eight Belles at 20-1 betting odds in today's race at Churchill Downs. Eight Belles is red hot coming into the 2008 Kentucky Derby on a four-race win streak with an average speed rating of 96.5. Eight Belles is a female but she comes from championship caliber stock with her sire Unbridle’d Song regarded as the most talented horse to run in the 1996 Kentucky Derby.
Eight Belles is a well-schooled horse that is as strong as her male counterparts but untested against anything but ordinary competition. History is not on Eight Belles side as only 3 filly’s in the 134 years of the Kentucky Derby have been winners....

Everything east of the Mississippi should be on alert by now.

Newark International is starting to experience delays over 2 hours on arrivals due to weather (click here)

Due to WEATHER / LOW CIGS, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Newark International Airport, Newark, NJ (EWR). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 2 hours and 28 minutes.

In viewing the Oklahoma film of the vorticity actually 'on the ground' it was noted that it jumped in more instances than not as the 'drag' by the ground was causing skids of the upper winds that sheered off the funnel only to redirect its energies into still another funnel cloud. The tornado also lasted a long time in the video. Poses huge danger in its capacity and ability to direct its own path.


May 3, 2008
0230z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (12 hour loop click here)

In this West Coast view of the same system there is a moisture feed off the equator into the continental vortex that will add heat 'capacity' with increased water vapor, hence, causing greater turbulence and more danger.


May 3, 2008
0130z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here)

In 12 hour loop, noted the system spawning tornadoes in the middle of the continent actually extends from the equator to the Atlantic. Noted that the extreme turbulence over the continent is a result of the 'severe' tornatic activity over the Northern Atlantic causing an acceleration of the air masse over the continent, with accumulation of velocity that causes an independant vortex formation over the North America continent.

May 3, 2008
0130z
UNISYS Water Vapor Hemisphere Satellite

Oklahoma Video (click here)

Tornados Kill 7 in Arkansas (click here)
DAMASCUS, AK (CBS/AP) -- Tornadoes and severe storms ripped through four states Friday, leaving homes and businesses damaged and killing seven people in Arkansas, including a teenager while she slept in her bed and a father and his son.

Police said the 15-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell through a bedroom where she was sleeping at her home in Siloam Springs in north Arkansas. The father and son were in their mobile home in central Arkansas when they were killed, the Conway County Sheriff's Office said.

Three deaths also were confirmed in Van Buren County and another person was killed in Pulaski County. At least 13 people were injured throughout the state, emergency officials said.

In Oklahoma, storms produced tornadoes, strong winds and large hail, causing structural damage and power outages but no serious injuries, authorities said.

About 10,000 electric customers in the state lost power at one point, but most were back on by Friday afternoon.

At least three tornadoes raked across central and northern Oklahoma, including one in Osage County near Tulsa that was an estimated 100 yards wide.

The enormous weather-maker produced 24 tornadoes in 24 hours, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan....

Longshoremen Don't Mess Around ! How cool is this ? Very, very cool ! Gives me that 60s Vietnam Conflict feeling all over again !

Who are you going to trust with your port security ? (click title to entry)

By William Yardley / New York Times
SEATTLE — West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their union leaders said was a one-day, one-shift protest against the war in Iraq.
Cranes and forklifts stood still from Seattle to San Diego, and ships were stalled at sea as workers held rallies up and down the coast to blame the war for distracting public attention and money from domestic needs like health care and education.
“We’re loyal to America, and we won’t stand by while our country, our troops and our economy are being destroyed by a war that’s bankrupting us to the tune of $3 trillion,” the president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Bob McEllrath, said in a written statement. “It’s time to stand up, and we’re doing our part today.”
About 25,000 union members are employed at 29 West Coast ports, but the protest took place only during the day shift. A spokesman for the main West Coast employers’ group, the Pacific Maritime Association, said it appeared that about 6,000 workers did not show up for work, which meant that about 10,000 containers would not be loaded or unloaded from about 30 cargo ships....


Union Solidarity & Military Materials Resistance at US Ports (click here)
Battle in Seattle Tribute
Video of previous protest. They are awesome people. They stand up for the best of the USA !

Weather stalls planting - So much for commodities

May 2, 2008
0930z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite

IT IS CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE ! Pump that oil from ANWR, dump more carbon into the troposphere and watch the disaster humans have created destroy there 'livable' Earth. Go ahead. Be the idiots Bush/Cheney Republicans are counting on all of you to be. Go ahead.

May 2, 2008
0931z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite

Forecasts for showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Friday will dampen more than the start of the Mushroom Festival. More rain is the last thing area farmers need right now.A cold and wet spring has delayed planting corn by two weeks, and is creating concerns of lost yield potential.


Only 8 percent of Missouri corn has been planted, compared to 41 percent last year, according to the National Agriculture Statistic Service. University of Missouri agriculture research projects that after May 5, corn yields will decrease by 8 percent.“Just today [Tuesday], some customers have started planting,” said Gregg Steele, owner of Richmond Farm and Lawn. “For every day after May 1, they’ll lose yield a bushel per acre. If the forecast is right for another rain, it will be in the first 10 days of May before all the corn is planted.”...

May 2, 2008
0930z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite

May 2, 2008

0930z

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite

Chances of severe weather in the Midwest.

New Severe Weather Outbreak (click here)

It wasn't rocket science to know that Bush/Cheney were lying profiteers in the lead up to an illegal and immoral war !!!

As weapons inspectors return to Baghdad after a four-year absence, BBC News Online examines key moments in their chequered relationship with Iraq's leadership.

...18 November 2002:

Hans Blix leads UN inspectors back to Baghdad to start their mission.

"...we were being played here...it was about oil...if one hundred million people could figure that out..."

Michael Moore Unplugged

He is magnificent !!!

The 'Mind Think' of 'so called American innocence' developed to exploit by the Neocons to provide 'MARGINAL LIFESTYLES AND INCOME' to the 'godly grateful.'

Go, Michael Moore, Go !!!

Stop social and economic impoverishment in America !

Just set the psychology straight - President Calls On Congress to Open ANWR

How Are You Dealing With High Gas Prices? (click here)
What Will You Do When Gas Hits $4 a Gallon?

Polar Bear at ANWR

Bush official fails to show for polar bear hearing (click here)
Senator wanted Interior chief to explain indecision on endangered listing

"...And I think that will help the psychology of the country...."

That's what I always say, "The hell with life and death, just make sure we set the psychology right." Don't you? Don't you always want to 'set the psychology straight?"

April 29, 2008
Suffolk, VA
Photographer states :: Taken from Godwin Blvd in Suffolk VA, Tornado hit yesterday - 4/28/08

At his news conference today, Mr. Bush found it important to focus on 'the psychology' of the country as well as others. Evidently, the 'psychology' of the moment is important and why it is important to SEND A MESSAGE.

Bush is a sociopath. Just that simple. Psychology. Okay then.

"...And so part of this is to make -- set the psychology right that says to the world, we're not going to become more beholden on your oil, we're going to open up and be aggressive and have an aggressive energy policy. Secondly, we're going to send the signal we're going to be building new refineries.

But there is no magic wand to wave right now. It took us a while to get to this fix. That's why I told you that if Congress had responded -- matter of fact, Congress did pass ANWR in the late 1900s -- 1990s -- and the 1900s -- (laughter) -- 1990s. But it didn't go forward. And it's my considered judgment, given the technological advances, to say this is -- we'll destroy the environment is just -- I don't think it's an accurate statement.

And so I think it's very important, Sheryl, for Congress. The other thing Congress can do, if you want to send a good signal during these uncertain times, is make the tax cuts permanent, is to let people -- send the signal that people are going to be able to keep their money. And I think that will help the psychology of the country...."

April 29, 2008

Suffolk, Virginia

Photographer states :: Taken from Godwin Blvd in Suffolk VA, Tornado hit yesterday - 4/28/08

Americans have to go to Australia to get the truth - At least one dead in Virginia

April 29, 2008
Driver, Virginia
Photographer states :: The Driver Antique Store was behind that truck. Tornado hit yesterday - 4/28/08

April 29, 2008

Suffolk, Virginia

Photographer states :: Taken from Godwin Blvd in Suffolk VA, Tornado hit yesterday - 4/28/08

THE PRIMARY MESSAGE FROM THE AMERICAN MEDIA WAS - "Primarily minor injuries." What exactly is the definition of MINOR ! Amazing. Destroyed lives, ruined homes, but only minor injuries. Idiots, Immoral Idiots !

It only takes a storm to become homeless these days.

Angel Brinkley walks with her baby, Cheyenne, along a stretch of road with debris after apparent tornadoes hit Suffolk, Va. Monday April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Delores Johnson)


....The twister in this city outside Norfolk cut a fickle, zigzagging path 25 miles long through neighborhoods, obliterating some homes and spraying splintered wood across lawns while leaving those standing just a few feet away untouched....
...The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes struck Suffolk, Brunswick County, about sixty miles west, and Colonial Heights, about 60 miles northwest. Meteorologist Bryan Jackson described Suffolk's as a "major tornado."
The Brunswick County tornado was estimated at 86 mph to 110 mph, and cut a 300-yard path of destruction, Jackson said. It struck first, at about 1 p.m., said Mike Rusnak, a weather service meteorologist in Wakefield.
The second struck Colonial Heights around 3:40 p.m., he said.
The tornado believed to have caused damage over a 25-mile path from Suffolk to Norfolk touched down repeatedly between 4:30 and 5 p.m., Rusnak said.
At least 200 were injured in Suffolk and 18 others were injured in Colonial Heights, south of Richmond, said Bob Spieldenner of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management....

A house in Driver, Va. is shown after a tornado blew the side off of it Monday, April 28, 2008. The National Weather Service said three tornadoes touched down in Virginia on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Daily Press, Dennis Tennant)

What do these three men have in common? The successful diversion of the War of September 11th !

The first shot sounded sharply. It was clear something was wrong.
I heard the second crack, and a third, fourth, fifth, and at that point all the journalists were on the ground, ducking from the whizzing bullets. The Taliban were attacking a ceremony led by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
"Get down! Get down!" people yelled to each other.
Karzai and hundreds of Afghan and foreign dignitaries had been preparing to take to their seats across from Kabul's largest mosque. They were marking the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime in Afghanistan.
The gunfire broke out as a marching band was playing the national anthem....


...Two American soldiers who had been saluting in the bleachers near the president pointed to some nearby houses, from where the gunfire appeared to have come. They still put their hands back up to their caps in salute as the anthem ended.
Dozens of parliamentarians looked around in puzzlement before realizing the danger and scrambling for cover. Two lawmakers wearing turbans in the front row were hit by bullets. One was hit in the stomach and fell to the ground, the other slumped back in his seat, just 30 meters (yards) from where Karzai was sitting.
Karzai was hustled away, unhurt, by bodyguards to an exit at the back of the stand, and driven away in a convoy of four black SUVs.
Several minutes of automatic gunfire followed and a few louder explosions from rockets.
There was chaos as hundreds of people made their escape. The Cabinet ministers and foreign ambassadors sped away in their SUVs....



....I ran toward a three-meter (10-foot) -high wall with several other journalists clutching video cameras and tripods. To our surprise, uniformed soldiers and armed police followed hot on our heels. Uniformed musicians of the marching band also ran away.
"The security is so bad. How could they get so close to this event and fire right at us?" one army officer complained, panting with exhaustion, his face white with fear.
Soldiers barked at me to turn off my phone, fearing that anyone using a mobile phone could be helping to coordinate the attack.
Security appeared tighter than last year for the annual pageant.
Karzai had inspected assembled troops from a U.S.-supplied Humvee jeep, looking from a hatch in the roof, metal shields on either side of him. Last year he appeared in open-top jeep.
Soldiers in military vehicles had blocked off the main avenues leading to the ceremony site two days ago, and pedestrians were barred from surrounding hilltops overlooking the ceremony.

The Big One - There has been a lot of activity for quite some time now in the northeast Pacific

The Global Activity with less activity in the southwest Pacific and more in the northeast. The techtonic activity is increasing. I could 'get into' what I believe, but, hard rock geologists always say it is nonsense. The Earth is a planet of FLUID. Air/atmospheres is a fluid. Water is a fluid. And magma is a fluid. They are all related and they all absorb the turbulence of Earth's troposphere and lower stratospheric ionic vortices caused by Human Induced Global Warming.


A man who said his name was Juan cleans up the groceries that toppled from the shelves at Save Mart in Northwest Reno after Friday night's strong earthquake April 25, 2008. The quake had a preliminary reading of 4.7 and is the latest of 100's of earthquakes that have swarmed the northwest Reno area in the past six weeks with the quakes getting progressively stronger. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette Journal - Marilyn Newton)


Magnitude 4.7 - NEVADA (click here)
2008 April 26 06:40:10 UTC


Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue (click here)
By MARTIN GRIFFITH – 10 hours ago
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors.
More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.2 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The latest quake swept store shelves clean, cracked walls in homes and dislodged rocks on hillsides, but there were no reports of injuries or widespread major damage....


Magnitude 5.2 - ILLINOIS (click here)
2008 April 18 09:37:00 UTC

Aftershocks expected for weeks to come (click here)
(Published April 26, 2008)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Geologists who gathered a week after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Midwest said they expect mild aftershocks to rattle the region for several weeks.
The latest aftershock, a 3.7 magnitude temblor, was felt in Evansville on Friday as geologists from nine states met in the southwestern Indiana city to discuss the recent quakes....

U.S. Geological Survey Says WA, OR Are On Shaky Ground. Home and Business Owners Should Be Prepared and Consider Earthquake Insurance, Notes I.I.I. (click here)

NEW YORK, April 24, 2008 — The revised earthquake-hazard maps released this week by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provide greater understanding of the seismically active areas of the country, particularly the Pacific Northwest, while also highlighting the need for property owners to consider purchasing earthquake coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.)....



Magnitude 6.6 - ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA (click here)
2008 April 16 05:54:19 UTC

Moderate quake shakes up northwest Alaska (click here)
By The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE — A moderate earthquake is being reported in the Bering Strait region.
The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says the quake struck at 5:41 a.m. today. It had a preliminary magnitude of 5.0.
The earthquake was centered 34 miles southwest of Point Hope.
Dorcus Rock, a Point Hope resident, tells Alaska Public Radio Network that she was making coffee when she felt the quake. Rock says she initially thought she heard a tractor trailer passing by.
There are no immediate reports of damage.

Petraeus promotion ensures future for Bush war policy

Richard Dvorin is working the night shift, answering a hotline for those who have felt war's pain -- a pain he feels deeply every day. (click here)

Everyone needs to 'Get it Right.' Regime change in Washington, not business as usual ! Read my lips, NO NEW TAX CUTS !!

Obama wraps up day with hoops (click here)
By THE ASSOCIATED

KOKOMO, Ind. - For Barack Obama, figuring out how to cap a long campaign day in basketball-crazy Indiana was a no-brainer - you shoot some hoops.
After a noisy campaign rally, Obama donned sweat pants and a "USMC" shirt for a little action on the courts, with no ordinary companions. His 3-on-3 team included Alison Bales, a member of the WNBA's Indiana Fever.
Blake Hancock, a Marion high schooler was picked to take part in the game because he collected 150 voter registration forms, and he picked some high school friends and they joined Obama for about 15 minutes of half-court hoops....

The Propaganda of the Middle East still reigns in the American Press

The appearance of propriety and legitimacy of the USA military is the greatest threat to the world's people, including its own citizens.

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on Friday.

What is normally coined as a crime in the USA, is simply the way of life in the Middle East !!!

When one considers the impoverishment the Shias face on a regular basis while fending off hostile regimes of power, from that of the USA and sanctioned militias of the Green Zone Iraqis to the unrepresented leaders of Hamas whom know their people will fight to the death; the importation of arms through Iran to the militias that hold their ground against such power structures; this is NOT an escalation of war in the Middle East but simply an IMPOSED way of life to sustain them against genocidal trends !!!

There is NO war in the Middle East that oppresses regimes of power that are a threat to the security of the USA. The American military has become a power structure in servatude to the Neocon Republican political machine and the American media continues to be its puppet !

Smuggling necessary facet of life for villages along Syrian border (click title here)
Heating oil, bread and vegetables among goods trekked over frontier
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Rita Daou
Agence France Presse
AYHA: As night falls on remote villages in eastern Lebanon that border Syria, streets and alleyways bustle into life as a small army of pick-up trucks, mules and cars are readied for action. Loaded up with whisky, bread, metal and other goods, drivers head for the dirt roads that zig-zag through nearby hillsides and valleys to deliver loads to fellow smugglers across the border before returning with staples such as heating oil, laundry detergent and vegetables.
"We work from around 9 p.m. until dawn," said one smuggler, who spoke to AFP on the condition he would only be identified by his initials of M.Z. "We leave home in our pick-ups, cars and even mules loaded with alcohol and other products."...

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