Michael !! Michael Moore !! I love this. I simply love it. Thank you. Thank you.

Michael Moore Live (click here)

Here Comes Trouble

At the Grand Canal Theatre Monday 17th October 2011

It would seem as though the benevolent Libyan Rebels are indeed in control of their country.

Journalists caught by a Reuters photographer at the basement of the Rixos before they were set free.  (click  title to entry - thank you)


It would seem as the next huge responsibility for the Rebels is to meet up with NATO and secure any WMD storage facilities before some wise guy decides to try to use them against the people of Libya.


The Newspaper printing this article online is "The Tripoli Post."  Libya has working capital and enterprises intact to report the nation's news.  I congratulate the Rebels for indeed proving they love their country above any corrupt intent.


It must be a relief to the journalists and their families all are safe.  The freed journalists can now thank their peers for being so vigilant.

I am sure "Virgin Galactic's" creator worries about Corporate Espionage all the time.

It is just so very odd so many incidents regarding space travel and the people that line its hallways are having such trouble all at one time.

Academy Award-winning actress (click title to entry - thank you) Kate Winslet helped rescue Richard Branson's elderly mother from a fire that destroyed his Caribbean home.

The Virgin Group boss said in his blog that he wanted to offer “many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90 year (old) mum out of the main house to safety.” He joked that Ms. Winslet “was wondering when a director was going to shout ‘CUT!'”

In a separate statement Tuesday, Mr. Branson praised Ms. Winslet's two children, 10-year-old Mia and 7-year-old Joe, who were also staying in the house when it caught fire. He called them “two of the bravest kids I've ever come across.”...

The USA Space Shuttle, no different than the ISS is a PEACEFUL venture.

There is always some military advantage to these vehicles in one way or another, but, sending up High School Projects into outer space isn't what I would call a DEFENSE strategy for the USA.


We mourned the dead of a school teacher some time ago.  It is a dangerous mission.  We watched as O-Rings failed while freezing temperatures contracted to a size they weren't able to do their jobs.


The Chinese Space Program is a matter of national pride.  I don't know of any REASONABLE directive in the USA that would see either the Chinese or Russian Space Program as an impingement to USA national security to the point where the Space Shuttle would become a weapon of mass destruction to either Russia or China.  


It gives an entire new definition to 'Star Wars.'


I don't think it is funny and if any of USA capacity is in PLAY to destroy sovereign space programs while a PRIVATE venue is being nurtured in the USA by NASA, then heads are going to have to role and I'll volunteer to operate the guillotine.


The frontier of space for any country is dangerous enough without imperiling its safety.  Odd, these two incidents happened so close together.  

Is the USA Cyber Unit working overtime?

18:57 24/08/2011

MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti)

The wreckage (click title to entry - thank you)  of the Russian Progress M-12M space freighter which sent a breakdown report while separating from the carrier rocket on Wednesday, fell in South Siberia's Altai Republic, a source in the region's law enforcement structures said.

"At 5:25 p.m. Moscow time [13:25 GMT] we received information about falling wreckage from the M-12M space freighter," the source said.

The head of the South Siberian republic's Choya District, where the wreckage presumably fell, said a powerful blast was heard within a 100-km radius....

It is highly unusual for a Russian spacecraft to fail.  Someone in the USA Defense Department having a "FIT" over the end of the Shuttle Program?


Lousy thing to think?


No, not really.  Not when one considers such problems with sovereign nations a potential for war.


And especially when a similar incident occurred in China last week!

The failure of a Chinese Long March (click here)  rocket last week will not affect the country's plans to launch a 19,000-pound space station module later this year, a senior Chinese space official told state media.

The mishap occurred Thursday (Aug. 18) during the launch of an experimental Shijian 11 satellite aboard a 138-foot-tall Long March 2C rocket. It was the first problem during a Chinese space launch since 2008, when an Indonesian communications satellite was placed in an incorrect orbit.

God help them if it is USA interference in these sovereign programs.

It looks as though Vice President Biden stopped in Japan after leaving China.

Strange he should be in Japan on the day a historic earthquake shook a nuclear reactor in Virginia. Odd. The timing of it all.

But not missed by the right wing extremist media of the USA was a comment made by the Vice President in China regarding their one child policy.

Nixon went to China in 1972 when H.W. was 'an envoy' to mainland China. H. W. was actually in Taiwan because the USA did not enjoy an embassy at that point.

The first USA Embassy in China was opened in 1979, the very year China decided to institute its "One Child Policy."

The Right Wing Anti-Abortion Crowd can condemn the 'idea' of a restrictive policy for political reasons, but, at the time China had a lot people and serious human rights issues including profound poverty. The One Child Policy was a daring way for the Chinese nation to begin to reduce their enormous population that would result in less and less stress on China's ability 'to provide' for their people and enhance the potential for building schools and universities to build the country's brain trust.

I do believe it is better for the Chinese people to speak to their government regarding this than anyone else. A few years ago as there became a 'wealthy class' of citizens. Not just a ruling class, but, a wealthy class, they began to speak out against the now institutionalized policy. The women among the wealthy wanted more than one child. They were able to address the topic in a social venue as a method to move the government to consider lifting the ban that has been in existence for over 30 years now.

What Vice President Biden did was to bring practicality to the topic of allowing families to decide about the number of children. His hopes are not to return poverty to China, but, to provide the Chinese government a reason to consider changing the dynamics of this policy to educate their people regarding population growth and choices.

I applaud the Vice President for even breaching the idea. He did it well without insulting his hosts, the Chinese government and people. I am confident his words fell on the ears of those eager to hear them and encourage a dialogue to change the policy.

The One Child Policy was a very brave step for China to take. It worked for the most part. It reduced the burden of a growing populous that would be forever in poverty and allowed breathing room for change within China.

When Vice President Biden addressed China about this topic he did it well and with diplomatic grace, honoring the USA and China. You know. That is a real switch for Joe.

No one knows where Saif surfaced?

There are flags in the video. I suppose he could have driven somewhere. Saddam was in hiding in a rat hole or so it was called for months, but, there are land marks to this location. Someone has to know where he came from at this point. Just saying this though will cause them to move to a different location. That movement could eventually result in them being caught. "Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide." Tripoli isn't that big, if the location 'on camera' is within Tripoli. I hope the rebels are able to settle their issues about this. I think they should simply take it in stride and figure they will find them all IN HIDING. The 'hiding' is a victory all by itself.

The journalists NOT AT the Rixos Hotel that can find a way to bring attention to their peers....

Journalists sit it out in a hallway as gun battles continue around the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, Libya.(Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press / August 23, 2011)

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times

August 24, 2011

Reporting from Tripoli, Libya — 

Behind his aviator shades, (click title to entry - thank you) the driver of the silver sedan had that hired-killer stare as he pulled up alongside our minibus. He kept pace as the bus, ferrying 13 journalists away from Libya's crazed capital in June, lurched toward the sanity of post-revolutionary Tunisia. He pointed his rifle directly at us.

We dived for the floor or crouched down in a pathetic bid for cover, but there was no escape: The Kalashnikov rounds would penetrate the bus' skin like hot arrows tearing through papier-mache....

...at the Rixos Hotel would be best to approach some commander or trusted military agent to ask them to please not kill every journalist in the building.  They might ask to negotiate a settlement with TRAPPED loyalists to Kadafi.  The loyalists could be allowed to exist the hotel, unarmed and without retribution so journalists that have supported the rebels can continued to do so.


If the loyalists will fight to the death there is little to no chance they will surrender to be prisoners of war.


BUT.


They might very well kill the hostages.

Romney to unveil jobs plan Sept. 6 (click title to entry - thank you)

That is pure genius.  Completely.  It might actually be PURE GENUINE GENIUS if Mitt Romney was the first to announce that as the date he would unveil his new Jobs Plan.


The truth of the matter is, Mitt Romney has NO CLUE why he is unveiling his new jobs plan on September 6, 2011, BUT, President Obama might.


Gee, whiz.  President Obama, now campaigning for his second term thought it would be FUN  to announce his new jobs plan to the Working People of the USA after LABOR DAY.


Why would he think it would be fun and not funny?


Because Congress will be returning.  


It is a notable day to bring memory to the initiative.


AND.


AND.


It is HIS idea for his campaign and campaigns are suppose to be fun to those that volunteer for him.


Something "W"rong with that?  Seems interesting to me.

In case there are honest Democratics running for office against big money candidates...

...they need to take example of Gerry Brown's career, especially interesting is his run for President in 1992.  (click title to entry - thank you)


In 1992, during the Democratic Primaries, Gerry Brown stated in his run for President he would accept only $100 donations for his campaign.


He raised a considerable amount of money and came in third in the primaries.  He received matching government funds during those primaries.  He didn't win that nomination, but, he was an wonderful example of how average Americans believe in HONEST candidates.


He is again Governor Brown of California.  I am confident any candidate needing insight on how to raise campaign contributions can reach him for advice.


Oh, yeah.


There is another Democrat that FIRST asks his 'grassroots' for support through contributions they can send him.  He raised nearly $700,000 alone from his grassroots this year.  That HONEST Democrat is President Barak Obama.  I believe he did that through internet requests and keeping in touch on a regular basis to update all those that support him.  Interesting guy, the President.


Good luck.

For the extremist faithful in the USA that have no other explanation.

The earthquakes today, near the country's capital and effecting its architecture, started near Mount Vernon and extended to Lincoln's Illinois.  It was caused by our forefathers rolling over in their graves.










OH, My Lord God Bird !

East Coast Offshore Fissure

There is a fissure offshore of the East Coast.  It is at the edge of the continental shelf I believe.  NASA and NOAA need to REASSESS this area.  I'd bet good money on the fact there was slippage along there.

One more thing.

If "Irene" hits open ocean without contact with any land mass it will accelerate to Cat FIVE within a short period of time.  I have already noted how quickly it accelerated once it crossed into the Atlantic.  Expect the worst.  Sorry.  It is the way I see it.  Earth is one hot troposphere.  There are still tornadoes in the USA while there is a huge storm in the Atlantic.  There are a lot of verified reasons to make this statement!

Monster Earthquake with epicenter in Virginia. Reports from New Hampshire at least as far south as North Carolina.

An earthquake (click title to entry - thank you) sent tremors from the nation’s capital to New York City Tuesday afternoon, the result of what officials said was a 5.8 magnitude earthquake based in Virginia.

There were no immediate reports of damage.

It is not clear how far the earthquake spread, but tremors were felt throughout New York City office buildings and as far north as Concord, N.H....

There was an earthquake in Colorado as well.  I am telling you the hydraulic fracturing the petroleum industry is engaged in destroying the North American craton.  I wonder how this vibration translated in Haiti?

Magnitude 5.3 - COLORADO (Click Here)

2011 August 23 05:46:19 UTC

15 km (9 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado

33 km (20 miles) NW of Raton, New Mexico

54 km (33 miles) S of Walsenburg, Colorado

290 km (180 miles) S of Denver, Colorado


This isn't going to be the end of it.  The craton is being altered in its 'attitude' both internally from dissolving chemicals of hydraulic fracturing therefore changing the distribution of weight in the magma AND due to the loss of Arctic Ocean ice CAUSING "Isostatic Rebound."  


There will be more quakes.  Absolutely.  The North American continent is huge in mass and it will effect a lot of movement of the plates it touches.
Haiti and adjacent PLATES will have to be checked by phone calls and assessment.  Any tremors can be misreported due to Irene striking this region.

Hurricane Irene to Hit Bahamas, Could Become Category 3 Storm (click here)

The tremor in High Point, North Carolina lasted at least 30 seconds.  Easily.  It began, grew in strength, diminished about 20 seconds into the tremor and then accelerated again.  It was significant.  

Whom in Guatemala is being paid off by Drug Cartels? Belize is running into trouble with enforcement cooperation agreements regarding Border Patrols.

Major Dalton Roches, the operations and training officer of the BDF (Belize Defense Force)

...The incident unfolded (click title to entry - thank you) at approximately 11:05 a.m. today, Monday.

  

Major Roches explained that the BDF conducts routine “linkups” with Guatemala about three times a month, as part of Confidence Building Measures between both countries, done under the auspices of the Organization of American States.

  

Under the program, the Guatemalans and Belizeans exchange information on the events taking place on both sides of the border. However, the BDF ended up abandoning today’s “linkup” mission, Roches reported.

  

He told us in an interview this evening that while the BDF soldiers were “on patrol at the ‘linkup’ position; …doing their security of the area”, they saw 5 Guatemalans coming across the borderline into Belize. “One of them had an AK-47 assault rifle,” he recounted, “and the others had short arms along with machetes. The Security Century [the patrol group]...asked the individuals to halt.”

  

According to Roches, the illegal Guatemalans reached for their weapons: “At that point, the security team, BDF, had to open fire at the individual who pulled the assault rifle. It is believed that one person got injured, because they saw this individual fall and the others grabbed that individual and pulled him in the bush, “ he said....


This is AT LEAST the second such incident along the border.  It is getting to be a habit that the Guatemalans are abandoning their agreement and allowing violence to intimidate the Belizean Defense Force.

Earthquake Jolts Colorado

According to USGS records there have been NO earthquakes greater than 3.5 in North Dakota, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia for 30 years.  Let's see if that trend continues.  I have my doubts.

Colorado was rattled by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake (click here) Monday night, the largest tremor to hit the state in 40 years. The quake was felt in Trinidad, a few hours south of Denver, and was preceded by at least two smaller ones. "I thought maybe a car had hit my house," a 70-year-old Trinidad resident told the Associated Press. Back in 2001, Colorado experienced a smaller series of earthquakes. Geophysicist Shengzao Chen tells the Associated Press, “The area seems to be active again.”

NATO's Victory and the victory to the Arab Nations. Now, the real work must begin and only the Libyan people can conduct it.

The good news is that there IS a Rebel Commander.  That is a good thing.

August 22, 2011 6:58 pm

Rebel commander’s prediction comes true (click title to entry - thank you)

By Simeon Kerr in Dubai

Three weeks ago, a Libyan rebel commander said a new offensive would soon push on towards Tripoli, “a gift” for the rebels during the holy month of Ramadan.

Weapons were being smuggled into towns around Tripoli to allow residents to rise up and challenge the forces of Muammer Gaddafi that held strategic entry points to the capital, said Ismail al-Sallabi, operations commander for one of the largest armed groups operating under the Union of Revolutionary Brigades....

Military power and armament is the last thing Libya needs now.  There needs to be much diplomatic work that brings a Constitution to Libya which empowers its people and elects representative government.  The militarization of Libya is the very last priority for these people.


They have a lot of rebuilding to do.  Their children needs schools and their economy needs to be organized to support the people as independent business people with store fronts in the local market place.  Peace and prosperity for all the people of Libya should be the priority of a people that received decades of terror within their own borders as well as being asked to cause harm to others abroad.


The Libyan Rebel Commander should be inviting diplomats, NATO Commanders and Arab League Commanders to tour the country for control of weapons and removal of armaments that carry deadly force in the wrong hands.  The last image Libya needs to the world is one of a hostile and chaotic country.  Libya needs normalcy.  The country needs it now and should be asking for consultation with its allies.  The Libya Rebels now have allies.  Those allies can help end the violence in the country and remove stigma of Rebels gossiped about as terrorists.  Libya needs to disarm in order to guarantee its peace at this point.  It sovereignty need for a national military can be included in the new Constitution which could actually demand a  diffuse placement of Libya's military so no one city has more power over 'the human experience' than another.  


When this battle for Libya began it was due to a one sided military strength against innocent citizens.  That cannot be ignored and while the former leaders and his sons will certainly be held responsible that does not change the reality for the reason for the internal war in the first place.


This was a hard fought war for removal of a dangerous dictator and his sons.  It was not about any one group having military domination over another.  Libya needs to remember its recent history of four decades and seek to never repeat it.  I believe the capacity of these people for a peaceful and productive nation is extremely high as they value the future of their children and the quality of life Libya can provide in good governance. 


If I had a wish today it would be for all nations of the Middle East to realize the power their natural resource called oil has over their lives.  There are remarkable similarities in the hostile dictatorships that caused such pain to the people of those nations.  They were not benevolent dictators.  They caused hardship with overwhelming single handed power.  Why?  Because the world demanded the oil above that of human rights.


If the Battle for Libya means anything it means the people are more powerful than the 'value of their resources.'  People have value.  They have greater value today than at any time in the five previous decades.  Children have hopes for peace and a happy future.  That is what NATO and the Arab League helped bring to bear today.  I thank them all.

"Stand Up for Israel"

I need to explain this and was going to wait until the weekend, but, this is a billboard along Interstate Route 75 that actually witnessed.  


I took offense to it and not because we are allies to Israel, but, because 'the intent' is to negate the Presidency of President Obama.  This has little to nothing to do with the USA's commitment to Israel.  It is political speech intended to rob President Obama of his accomplishments.


This is also very unfortunate as it wasn't really paid for by the Tea Party.  It was paid for by a private citizen that can't afford it according to her own testimony on the Limbaugh Radio Channel.


This 'statement' is irrelevant.  Expensive and irrelevant.  It was placed on Interstate 75 (I noticed it while traveling to Northern Michigan.  I have a cousin that was married on Drummond Island recently.)  to make a fool of the Obama Administration and his international accomplishments.  See, the entire movement affiliated with this 'propaganda' is to INFER an understanding that Israel is in dire needs of friends they cannot find in the Obama Administration.  


That 'tone' of placing negative comment on accomplishments of the Obama Administration has become a hallmark of the Right Wing Extremist Movement.  They believe they can take any accomplishment by this administration by marching through some period of history or philosophy, turn it into propaganda and make President Obama look as if a fool.  See, only the Right Wing Extremists know THE REAL TRUTH about President Obama.  No one else does.


What is more disturbing is that the Tea Party is joined at the hip by extremist media propagandists that reward self-destructive behavior.  It was self-destructive of this woman to place the billboard along Route 75 because she sincerely could not afford it.  Then when she boasted about it on Beck's Radio program on the Rush Limbaugh radio channel she was rewarded with a free membership to GB-TV.  So much for the infamous ability of the Right Wing to be financially responsible even to themselves.  This self-destructive behavior by the listening audience to Rush Limbaugh's Channel clearly illustrates the inability of their audience to discern their best interests because they are moved on a 'Religiously Spiritual' level to justify foolish decision making.  This woman felt compelled to carry this expression of loyalty out because she lived in a Condo with no front yard, etc.  So in order to prove to herself, her religious friends and political affiliates and to the Limbaugh Radio Network that she is a loyal fan and devoted political hack she did what she claims was her only way of providing a 'participatory sign' of 'good faith.'


This is not the first time powerful right wing media has been able to instill self-destructive behavior in the way of financial loss with their viewership.  Repeatedly over the years there have been profound sacrifice by people unable to provide it without financial harm to themselves to deliver messages to the public.  There have been bus tours and all kinds of dynamics that play out without sponsorship to carry the message.  These folks don't realize if there isn't sponsorship for what they claim as 'Good Works' then it is not a concept the 'majority' of Americans can identify with and that is why sponsors are not flocking to their side.  There political message gets lost not because they didn't try, but, because 'the market share' of their 'product - political idea' is NOT THERE !


This billboard is offensive for one reason and one reason only and that is because it takes A TRUTH and makes it into a lie. 


The USA has always been a strong ally to Israel.  The USA has always stood by Israel, during its most difficult times and even when the decision making of Israeli leadership could be questioned.  Israel is important to the USA, has never been abandoned and never will be.  Israel's people have suffered atrocities of humanity that no people and few have.  Rwanda is another country.  Darfur is another.  Where atrocities have forced new nations to grow in order to protect a populous of people from genocide and cultural destruction.  


There is NOTHING new about this billboard.  NOTHING.  Yet the Right Wing Extremists would have everyone believe they have a holy war with President Obama over the USA loyalty to Israel.  


This form of propaganda is an abomination to the First Amendment, not a compliment to it.  The First Amendment can be an enemy to itself and this is one of those instances.


The woman that displayed this billboard was rejected by the first company she asked to display her ad because 'they don't do' political speech.  There is wisdom in that.  There is suppose to be separation of church and state in the USA.  Obviously this extremist political group 'doesn't get it' and seeks to hate President Obama rather than applaud him.

I think we have a major hurricane brewing in the Atlantic. I live to be wrong about this mess. Okay?

August 21, 2011
2330:15z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click title to entry for 12 hour loop - thank you) 

Date: 20-22 AUG 201
Tropical Storm IRENE
ADV  LAT    LON      TIME     WIND  PR  STAT
  1  14.90  -58.50 08/20/23Z   45  1006 TROPICAL STORM
  2  15.30  -59.90 08/21/03Z   45  1006 TROPICAL STORM
 2A  16.00  -60.40 08/21/06Z   45  1006 TROPICAL STORM
  3  16.40  -61.30 08/21/09Z   45  1006 TROPICAL STORM
 3A  16.50  -62.00 08/21/12Z   45  1005 TROPICAL STORM
  4  17.00  -63.20 08/21/15Z   45  1007 TROPICAL STORM

Position 4 appears to have passed over a land mass even if a small one that caused a pause in the velocity.

4A  17.50  -63.70 08/21/18Z   45   999 TROPICAL STORM

Position 4A 3 hours later shows a central pressure that has dropped 8 millibars.

5  17.70  -64.40 08/21/21Z   45   999 TROPICAL STORM

It is my estimation this storm is about 200 miles wide from its' eye and over open Atlantic waters.  I am not surprised this is accelerating as it is.  The Longitude may be recorded a bit south of its actual location.  It is not easy to discern these storms sometimes.  This is a Climate Crisis storm and it has diffuse patterns.

 5A  17.80  -64.90 08/22/00Z   50   995 TROPICAL STORM

There is a chance the eye is still in the Caribbean, but, the acceleration for that area of the Caribbean surprises me.  Unless, those waters are hot, hot, hot.  I still stand by the estimation, even in the Caribbean, it is over open water at Position 4A.  

It's just that I hate surprises when it comes to lives.

It is pushing more north right now than south.  If it continues to accelerate there are going to be significant tidal surges.

I believe 'direct solar rays' helps pinpoint the central eye pressure.  So, depending on where the sun's light falls tomorrow morning, the eye won't be far away.

I think the direct solar rays are in the Atlantic at this longitude.  The water vapor will be assisted in 'concentrating' at that point tomorrow morning.  With the intense heat in the 'ground level' troposphere, the direct solar rays are like a prisom, if you will.  A spark to the fire.

I am going to go way out on a limb at this point, but, right now I am going to say ... ???? ... South Carolina ... hm ... around ... Briarcliffe Acres.

Muammar get out of town !

You are going to kill everyone, you damn jackass!


Take your family or wants left of it and leave.

Four strong explosions rock Tripoli (click title to entry - thank you)

August 21, 2011 - 1:34PM

Four strong explosions have rocked Tripoli amid clashes in several quarters of the Libyan capital between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels challenging his long rule.

The pre-dawn blasts on Sunday were heard in the heart of the city as NATO warplanes flew overhead, an AFP journalist said. The targets were not immediately identifiable.

© 2011 




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