Click on for 12 hour loop

August 27, 2006.

0330z.

Enhanced Infrared Satellite of the Northwest Hemisphere of Earth.

Might want to note the way the heat turbulence follows land. It's nearly a complete square.

As a matter of fact in the 12 hour loop it is easy to discern, if you care to closely, that the oscillation dynamics of the current storm in the Caribbean has a wobble caused from the 'northern' pull of the Atlantic segment of the system and the 'southern' pull by the Latin American segment of the system.

Yep. A discernable wobble. Like I said. Unpredictable.

Good night and good luck.

Click on for 12 hour loop

August 27, 2006.

0330z.

GOES East Enhanced Infrared Satellite.

August 27, 2006.

0319 gmt.

Tropical Atlantic Satellite.

August 27, 2006.

The Caribbean Sea Satellite.

August 27, 2006.

The Gulf of Mexico Statellite.

The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans in January 2006

Katrina

As of May 27, 2006, the deaths from Katrina reached 1,836 (click on)

And the accounting is not yet finished, as only 32 states, with 480 deaths, have filed reports with Louisiana. Louisiana State Medical Examiner Louis Catalde said that his team would be reviewing all of the evacuee deaths to determine how many of them were actually caused by the storm. This link has examples of several deaths of evacuees that were purportedly caused by the storm.

As of November 21, 2005 the number missing from Katrina were 6,644 (click on)

The whereabouts of 6,644 people reported missing after Hurricane Katrina have not been determined, raising the prospect that the death toll could be higher than the 1,306 recorded so far in Louisiana and Mississippi, according to two groups working with the federal government to account for victims.

Bush and Cheney are good at making American's into statistics. I've never embarked on the exercise, but, I wonder what the statistics look like both domestically and abroad in regard morbidity and mortality; country by country, state by state, under the policies of this administration looks like.

Are the people of the Sudan doing better?

What about HIV/AIDS?

Black women in America?

Gays and Lesbians and the survivability of their relationships on a long term basis?

Women in countries the USA seeks to assist. Their health. Their sense of purpose. Their political involvement. Their ability to be educated.

I could go on for a while with this list, but, I think everyone will get the drift.

You wouldn’t catch me dead in Iraq

The Bush White House calls the Civil War 'sectarian violence.' It looks like war to me.


Scores of American troops are deserting — even from the front line in Iraq. But where have they gone? And why isn’t the US Army after them? Peter Laufer tracked down four of the deserters.

They are the US troops in Iraq to whom the American administration prefers not to draw attention. They are the deserters – those who have gone Awol from their units and not returned, risking imprisonment and opprobrium.

When First Lieutenant Ehren Watada of the US Army, who faced a court martial in August, refused to go to Iraq on moral grounds, the newspapers in his home state of Hawaii were full of letters accusing him of “treason”. He said he had concluded that the war is both morally wrong and a horrible breach of American law. His participation, he stated, would make him party to “war crimes”. Watada is just one conscientious objector to a war that has polarised America, arguably more so than even the Vietnam war.


2,620 U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ (click on)

August 27, 2006, 12:08 am


19,890 U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ (click on)

August 27, 2006, 12:10 am

US Army reviewing combat deaths

The Face of Afghanistan


Error to shift focus from bin Laden to Iraq (click on)

This administration and Congress "cut and run" from Osama bin Laden to invade Iraq. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for 9/11, not Iraq. We now have our military bogged down in the middle of an Iraqi civil war with no end in sight. All due to inept judgment and poor planning with no oversight or accountability by Congress (" Bush acknowledges U.S. under strain," News, Tuesday).


Bush acknowledges U.S. under strain (click on)

....The president was also politically combative during the 56-minute conference....

.... He rejected suggestions that attempts to forge democracy in Iraq and other places in the Middle East create more violence. Bush called that a "stir-up-the-hornet's-nest theory" that "just doesn't hold water." ....


These prisoners came from Afghanistan. Now they are going back? This is good government?

US moves 5 Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Afghanistan (click on)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Saturday said it transferred five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, leaving about 445 detainees at the naval base in Cuba.
"These detainees were all recommended for transfer due to multiple review processes conducted at Guantanamo Bay," the Pentagon said in a statement posted on its Web site on Saturday.
The Pentagon did not disclose the names of the prisoners being transferred to Afghanistan or disclose any further details.
About 120 of the remaining 445 detainees may be eligible for transfer or release pending a series of reviews, the statement said

He said proposals by some Democratic elected officials would create chaos in Iraq and give terrorists an oil-rich base for attacks. "If you think it's bad now, imagine what Iraq would look like if the United States leaves before this government can defend itself and sustain itself," Bush said. "Chaos in Iraq would be very unsettling in the region."

"... a wire tap requires a court order ... when you think Patriot Act, Consitutional Guarantees are in place .. because we value the Constitution."

George Walker Bush on Wiretaps.

The appearance of good insight reaffirms and legitimacizes the corruption.


NSA wiretaps ruled illegal (click on)
Judge orders program halted; U.S. to appeal

By Gail Gibson, Tribune Newspapers. Baltimore Sun; Sun staff writers Julie Davis and Siobhan Gorman and Tribune news services contributed to this reportPublished August 18, 2006
A federal judge in Detroit on Thursday struck down the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, calling it unconstitutional and an illegal abuse of presidential power. The ruling marked the first court rejection of the controversial monitoring program and amounted to a rebuke of the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terrorism."In this case, the president has acted, undisputedly, as [federal intelligence law] forbids," U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said in a 43-page decision that sided with the American Civil Liberties Union challenge to the government system of warrantless eavesdropping. "Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution."

CORPORATE CONDUCT: THE PRESIDENT; BUSH DEFENDS SALE OF STOCK AND VOWS TO ENHANCE S.E.C.

George Walker Bush, the corrupt inside trader of Harken Industries.

At issue are 212,140 shares of Harken stock that Mr. Bush sold on June 30, 1990, for $4 a share, or $848,560, eight days before Harken finished its second quarter with a loss of $23.2 million. By August, the share price had fallen to $2.37. The S.E.C. investigated on suspicions that the transaction was conducted on the basis of insider information, a potential crime, but dropped the investigation in 1993, saying that ''at this time no enforcement action is contemplated.''


"The Buck Stops Here" is no truer than with George Walker Bush, where it literally stops, without regard to accountability. After the collapse of two Bush companies, both bankrupt oil ventures, he took a consultant position with Harken. It was part of the conditions of the sale of the company. His compensation would come in the way of stock options. Using insider information, he sold his stocks of Harken only eight days before the stocks fell to all time lows. This was no coincidence.

Bush claims the SEC had no basis to hold him responsible for his secret insider trading scam. That's not the truth. The Security and Exchange Commission stopped the proceedings in 1993 because George H. W. Bush was President of the United States. Bush's father.

William Jefferson Clinton would be elected in 1994.

The SEC never expected Junior to be President. When he was appointed as President in 2000, the SEC again took up the investigation. As president, Bush made vast changes at the SEC in personnel, hence slowing down any investigative or litigation of George Walker Bush. By 2002, the SEC was so quagmired in 'the process' that it shelved the investigation again. Bush's suspected charges in this case have never been completely dismissed, but, simply filed away. The SEC never cleared "The President of the United States of America" of wrong doing. Bush is as guilty as the day is long.

Audit says US should repay Iraq. How is it the American People are held responsible for shoddy work by Halliburton?

Halliburton Building in Houston

And there are people that wonder why there are protestors? I mean really? The entire nation should be protesting Hallibuton.

Photos from Halliburton Shareholders protest (click on title)
by Winston Smith
Wednesday, May. 18, 2005 at 11:36 AM
Photos from the May 18th Halliburton Shareholders protest


10.24.2003 (This article originally was published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
HALLIBURTON FOUND LIABLE FOR 70MILLION IN DAMAGES
Oil giant loses in court again - Houston man cheated by Halliburton
Jury Awards $70M Against Halliburton A jury has awarded $70 million to a Houston man who claimed that Halliburton and another oil company cheated him out of the chance to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in the late 1990s. Scott Van Dyke and his company, Anglo Dutch Tenge, sued the Halliburton and Ramco Oil in 2000. A jury found in favor of Van Dyke's company on Friday. Van Dyke's attorney John O'Quinn said his client was promised a concession for an oil field near the Caspian Sea when he met the Turkish president. Halliburton contacted him in 1997 and signed a confidentiality agreement not to disclose data that Van Dyke allowed the company to review, O'Quinn said. After opting not to invest, Halliburton located another company with ties to the Kazakhstan government and bought the field out from under Van Dyke, according to the lawsuit. Yet another chink in the battered armor of Halliburton. Can't these guys do anything without cheating?


All In The Family (click on)
Company Official Defends No-Bid Army Contract

Halliburton nearly doubled the value of federal contracts it received – from $1.2 to $2.3 billion – during the five years Cheney was its CEO.

THEN, the former CEO went to the Vice Presidency and increased the wealth on all the contracts he prepared while he was head of Halliburton. It's not only corrupt and conflict of interest, it's a planned escalation in areas of war and oil that would deliberately bring profits to his personal stockholdings regardless of their supervision in a 'blind trust.' When Richard Cheney 'conned' his way to a nomination for Vice President he didn't see service to his country first, he saw his own wealth.

Army to End Expansive, Exclusive Halliburton Deal (click on)
Logistics Contract to Be Open for Bidding

The Army is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, a decision that could cut deeply into the firm's dominance of government contracting in Iraq.
The choice comes after several years of attacks from critics who saw the contract as a symbol of politically connected corporations profiteering on the war.

Halliburton's record over the past six years is impressive. It's exclusive contracts with military has already been demeaned solvent regardless of 'bad' bookkeeping.

Memo from Jack Maskell, Legislative Attorney; to Senator Frank Lautenberg regarding Cheney's corruption

Richard Cheney.

The Former CEO of Halliburton.

Corrupt.

Known to be Corrupt.

He is one step away to be President of the USA. What would happen to us if he were president. He never made campaign promises he had to keep. In his second inaugural address he stated Irsrael should act against Iran. Is he the person we need at the top of our government should the president be struck down?

Profile: Lewis 'Scooter' Libby

I. Louis "Scooter" Libby outed a CIA agent. He did it to distract from the lies made by the administration he worked for, namely Bush and Cheney, regarding the uranium from Niger.

There were no shipments of uranium from Niger to Iraq.

George Walker Bush lied.

He blamed it on bad intelligence.

If it was bad intelligence, then why did Libby out a CIA agent? Because it wasn't bad intelligence.

The truth.

The truth to men like Libby has to be contained. The truth is, there were no shipments of uranium to Iraq. Iraq had been disarmed by a very successful United Nations program.

The Bush/Cheney Administration manipulated the intelligence of the CIA. It was 'customized' for their purpose. There would be no other reason to build such a strong need to place this country in harms way by outing a CIA agent.

The people that toss this event as if it were nothing have no love for their country and certainly no regard for the people that place trust in the highest levels of government. Louis Libby outed a CIA agent and in doing so put our country directly in harm's way. He compromised the security of our nation.

The correct way of handling anything inappropriate, IF, that was the case, was to have investigations leading to trials within the agency. But. To out a CIA agent was strickly an attempt to discredit credible information about an administration that flatly lied to the American people in a State of the Union Address.

These men need to be impeached.

I love my country.

They don't.

Hatred mounted by control, scapegoating and bigotry. There is a reason why powerful men fall from grace.

Tom DeLay speaking at Justice Sunday II, in Nashville, Tennessee on August 14, 2005.

When you listen to the speech by Jerry Sutton listen for the 'control' accompanied by the 'bigotry.' Tell me that when power accompanies people with a controlling agenda of bigotry that innocent people will not suffer unnecessarily.

The labels Mr. Sutton uses is nothing but scapegoating the innocent. And here in the middle of it was Tom DeLay, the Majority House Leader of the United States of America. He should have just worn a white sheet.

Jack Abramoff - A Time Line

Jack Abramoff

It's Saturday Night

"Corruption" by Iggy Pop

From the drip drip drip of the teardrops
To the chink chink chink of the cash
To the end end end of the friendships
To the wack wack wack of the bash
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul


From the tick tick tick of your time's up
To the yes yes yes of 'I'll sell'
From the fact fact fact of the souless
To the pact pact pact with hell
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones


From the scream scream scream of the babies
To the retch retch retch of the youth
From the lie lie lie of the righteous
To the lost lost lost way I feel
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
CorruptionCorruption


Order in the court
Decision to abort
The monkey wants to speak
So speak, monkey speak
Speak monkey, speak
Speak monkey, speak
Speak monkey, speak


Everything leads to corruption
Everything leads to corruption
Corruption

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Why did the Kanga-rooster cross the road?
(It's winter in Australia.)

To get his Morning Papers.