Pak returns Indian soldier, Mirwaiz says nature’s fury must unite both

The Recently Opened "Peace Bridge" in Kashmir.

I am pleased the USA is sending monies to the area, HOWEVER, how is the world assured with this nuclear country that the CASH will be used for the purpose of peace and care of the people affected.

Caption :: 'Peace bridge'
For years this disused bridge was battered by mortar shells fired from bunkers on either side. Now it has been rebuilt by Indian soldiers and renamed the 'Peace bridge'.
The first buses will drive up to either side and then the passengers will walk across to the other side. More than 50 years after Kashmir was split into two, a small step is being taken to bridge that divide.

October 9, 2005. Osimo (AN), Italy. Photographer states :: A creek that yesterday rised over its banks, flooding a road and threatened some houses in the countryside! It rained hard yesterday, with amounts up to about 4 inches (about 100 mm.)!!! CIAO!
 

October 8, 2005. Osimo (NA), Italy. This picture is distrubing realizing this is causing a great deal of flooding in towns that line it's banks. However, where the waterway is taking small twists and turns in it's travel reveal a high velocity of the water in the 'raised' water of the 'whirlpool' in the foreground. Dredging these waterways are necessary to contain future flooding. Photographer states :: This is normally just a little creek, but today it looked like this after hours of thunderstorms with heavy rains!!! It threatened many houses and many industries in the area!
 

October 8, 2005. Osimo (AN), Italy. Photographer states :: I'm a volunteer of the Protezione Civile (the Italian equivalent of the American FEMA) and today we had a lot to work due to the flooding rains!!
 

October 8, 2005. Osimo, Italy. Photographer states :: Near a little river that was flooding a small area near my house! Today at 2,10 pm.
(Sometimes European languages use comas where Americans use periods. Interpretation which is definately allowed is "Today at 2:10 pm.") A littel scary to have a familiar stream roaring past your house all of a sudden. The quiet ripples were places of meditation and the cool breeze under the trees a place of heat relief. This surprise is more than upsetting as it also changes our favorite places after the flooding recedes. Terrible in every way. 

October 8, 2005. Osimo (AN), Italy. Photographer states :: Not much to come out ... ...and flood the town!!! This is normally just a small creek but today it was scary! Many floods in my area after hours of heavy rains and thunderstorms! CIAO!
(Translation from any language to another is still translation and not an exact fit of language. An extrapolation in minor meanings go a long way to realize familiar experiences.) 

October 8, 2005. Osimo, Italy. Photographer states :: These is how the lower streets of my town looked this morning, after many hours of heavy rains!!! Tot rain at my house: 66 mm. (2.5 inches).
 

October 8, 2005. Osimo, Italy. Photographer states :: in the countryside near my house thies early morning, after hours of heavy rains and thunderstorms! CIAO!
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October 8, 2005. Osimo, Italy. Photographer states :: A strong and long thunderstorm stayed over the coast of my area (Conero Riviera) last night: some streets were flooded! Lots of lightnings too!
 

October 8, 2005. 09:22 gmt. Italy was under a vortex. The African continent is still relatively quiet but there is added activity in the Southern Hemisphere as the solar radiation traverses below the Equator. 

October 8, 2005. Easton, Pennsylvania. This is a car traffic bridge. Very often passenger bridges, either auto or pedestrian are 'fancier' than the practical and durable design of rail bridges. Although these picture are worrisome, stop from time to time to appreciate the engineers of your world. It can be interesting to realize how obscure their talents are under appreciated. The photographer states :: Delaware River looking North from Easton, PA. Easton-Phillipsburg free bridge in back ground. US Route 22 bridge a liitle further upstream. Not yet crested/at flood stage.
 

October 8, 2005. Easton, Pennsylvania. The Delaware River before it crested. Keeping in mind as this river flows without cresting that defines lower rivers and deltas that have also not realized the highest waters they are to finally reach. The question of a river losing it's banks cannot be known immediately after the end of the rain. This is a railroad bridge. 

When the waters finish rising there is a chance someone driving or walking can find themselves in the middle of rushing waters. The lower bridge is a roadway. The upper bridge is a railroad tressel. 

The waters are rising.  

October 8, 2005. Easton, Pennsylvania. The confluence of the rivers Lehigh and Delaware. Even though the rain has stopped and the skies are blue does not define the highest point the river will reach.  

October 8, 2005. Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. Closing Flooded streets. Always listen to the authorities that protect us. Don't take the chance 'the water doesn't look that deep.' The people who monitor issues like this for our safety aren't playing games and they have appreciation the shortest way home at the end of a work day. They risk their lives to some extent to be sure the people of their town are the safest they can be. Please no silly risks that end up endangering THEIR lives and our, too. Never assume you know more than they. 

October 8, 2005. 1015 z. GOES East Infrared Satellite. A supercell under the carbon dioxide density from the USA.  

October 8, 2005. The Schuylkill river in the background just the other side of these trees. The river lost it's banks and endangered people and property. 

October 8, 2005. Emergency workers including fire personnel went through town to insure people has evacuated their homes as the Schuylkill flooded with 11 inches of rain forced the river over it's banks at 5 feet above flood stage. 

October 8, 2005. Douglassville, Pennsylvania. The Schuykill flooding.  

October 6, 2005. Claryville, New York. The "Neversink River" after 24 hours of heavy rains. 

Bush's Ludicrous Speech - A True Constructionist

The speech was 4353 words with little interruption for applause.

George Walker Bush’s speech writers pulled out all the ghosts of this administration along with hostile language used to describe this administration over the previous five years and found a way to reclaim that language while assigning it to an imaginary enemy his base could relate to and hate. He would have his enemy and reassign his language of hate in a definition that in no way resembles democracy.

At that I realize this speech took place at the National Endowment for Democracy. A speech regarding democracy should decry all else and not be masked in war, hatred, excuses and blaming. Democracy and it’s promotion should be obvious in any presidential address. I defy anyone to find it’s definition within the speech given by Bush on Thursday, October 6, 2005.

“Since the day President Ronald Reagan set out the vision for this endowment, the world has seen the swiftest advance of democratic institutions in history. And Americans are proud to have played our role in this great story.”

The fall of the Berlin Wall and break down of the USSR is primarily what he is referring to. The role then and not now is that of passivity and economic wealth. International pressure from the Superpower that had economic durability to invest in burgeoning democracies and expansive capitalism. It worked. Without war. Now, the USA is among the needy while making the mistake that all third world countries make when in a war for natural resources. The treasury is used for war and NOT the promotion and well being of it’s own and greatest resource. It’s people. Bush never goes into oppression of economies in Third World countries which gave rise to terrorist networks. Bush has placed the USA in profound debt destined to last generations, unless this generation takes on the task of returning it's democracy in elections, that will result in the domination of autocratic governments that build wealth and excude other countries with war agendas. The cooperation for nuclear disarmament globally is actually an economic mandate for the USA if it is to reacquire it's economic strength and refashion it's support of expansionist democracy, hence, insuring it's own.

“In this new century, freedom is once again assaulted by enemies, determined to roll back generations of democratic progress. Once again, we're responding to a global campaign of fear with a global campaign of freedom.”

I am assuming by New Century as simply crossing over from 1999 to 2000 because it hasn’t been a century since the touted events occurred and the collapse of that democratic movement begin under Bush’s watch while he went against world order invading a disarmed country that has seen civilian causalities 35 times that of the attacks of September 11, 2001. An invasion into an unarmed country which had nothing to do with September 11th causing the disruption of social order in Iraq itself as well as the entire region. Even today Egypt is seeing repeated terrorist attacks as is Bali. There have been successful attacks on nearly every coalition member and many have seceded from that alliance. Successful attacks indicating the coalition members are not even capable of warding off terrorist attacks within their own borders yet alone combat them in Iraq.

I see this ‘tone setting’ paragraph of the speech as an indirect apology for the War in Iraq while it blames fear on the enemy and not his own propaganda at home. In virtually leaving Afghanistan, which was never adequately manned to begin with, to Karzi’s political machinery in ‘handling’ but not ‘defeating’ the warlords; Bush entered into the very passivity he decries as the weakness of the USA prior to his administration.

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Portugal and Spain abandoning the Coalition Ship. The war in Iraq allowed these small countries to bolster their treasuries, pay off debt and place themselves, many of them in a better position to be a part of the EU. If the EU survives the end of this decade without a constitution. In some ways, the Iraq War caused greater independance or each participating country and may have very well done away with the need for the EU. Time will tell.