UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES East Satellite - the 'energy wave' of Erin...

August 15, 2007

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Enhanced Infrared Satellite

The storm in the Gulf of Mexico is actually an oscillating energy wave. Although the storm is believed to be 'near shore' of Texas, it is actually oscillating/rotating back into the Gulf at the same time.

It is better seen in this satellite picture of the USA (click here) and the Southeast (click here). I used the Enhanced Infrared Satellite because it is visually easier to note the building 'storm behind the storm' in the green color. Literally what is occuring is an interaction between the 'system' in the Gulf and that in the Pacific, as a result 'Erin' isn't actually dissipating completely so much as 'returning' in a reverse flow back to the warmest waters of the Gulf with assistance of the humidity of the low pressure in the Pacific just the other side of the land mass of Central American.

The reason I write this is to be sure people 'on shore' don't completely 'come away' from precautions as the 'higher energy' is still in the vacinity and not completely dissipated nor has intentions to be just yet. Have a good evening, I'll be back tomorrow and put together a zoo section. Michael Moore's site is always on top of issues and I roared with laughter when he stated "Bush's loses Brain" with the resignation of Karl Rove (click here). The amazing aspect of "Sicko" that no one can deny is that it is a very important film and is demonstrated to be such in 'Red States' as well as 'Blue.' I congratulate Michael for bring a subject to a divided country that everyone can agree on. Until tomorrow.

Tropical Storm Erin from The Boston Globe

Executive Order 13224 - It's just a matter of bookkeeping, you understand. It's not like Iran actually performs acts of terrorism or anything...

...it's for the sake of 'making things look' as bad as they can so Bush's political cronies can see a burgeoning pot of gold at the end of the Neocon Rainbow, Bush has to create a 'new state' sorta like Palestine within Israel. In Iran there is the 'Revolutionary Guard State.' It's not like Iran is a terrorist nation or anything, but, just the Revolutionary Guard's sovereign right to exist is in question.

George Walker Bush has just declared Iran a terrorist state. When a sovereign entity is declared a terrorist entity that implies the entire nation is a terrorist entity. There is no such sovereign authority called The Revolutionary Guard. He is trying to treat The Revolutionary Guard as if it's a terrorist network such as al Qaeda. Bush is a moron. He doesn't even know how to behave in international affairs, when is the USA Congress going to impeach him, he and Cheney are out of control. They did this to make every nation including Iraq; whom's PM Maliki just met with Iran's president and Afghanistan whom's President Karzai just met with the Iranian President; rework any contracts and economic agreements INCLUDING the contract Iraq's PM just negotiated with Iran to refine Iraq oil.

Bush is having a hissy fit. The Executive Order is incompetent and valueless. There is no such sovereign entity called The Revolutionary Guard, just because he says so. Bush's Executive Order is bogus. If there are ramifications for other countries such as Iraq, Russia and Afghanistan they need to go before the World Court for relief of this idiocy.

I hope everyone caught the fact this is Executive Order 13224. 13224, 13224, 13224...what are the other 13223 executive orders about. That's got to be a record, right? 13224 executive orders in six years. Like, holy smokes. Bush the Emperor.

TO KEEP PERSPECTIVE, Bush currently, according to the Federal Register has 245 executive orders during his current term. Reagan has 381 over his eight years including 5 before the inauguration of G.H.W. Bush in 1989. Bush #41 wrote 163 Executive Orders during his one term in office, so by that standard, Bush's father had more Executive ink in pardons than his son. As a rule, Democratic presidents tend to write more executive orders while in office than Republicans, but, in the larger scheme of things; the ratio of executive orders to years of recent presidential leadership goes to Republicans whom held presidential office more years than Democrats.

Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu celebrating his overwhelming victory in the party's primary elections, Tuesday in Tel Aviv. (Alon Ron)


Netanyahu wins Likud primary with 73% of vote (click here)
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu won an overwhelming victory in the Likud primary elections Tuesday, receiving 73.2 percent of the final vote. The other two candidates in the leadership race - Moshe Feiglin and Danny Danon - received 23.4 percent and 3.4 percent respectively, Israel Radio reported.
Only some 40 percent of Likud voters cast their ballots in the party's primaries.
Netanyahu is expected to consider steps to limit the strength of Feiglin, a religious settler with a platform that calls for barring Arabs from the Knesset, encouraging non-Jews to emigrate and pulling Israel out of the United Nations....


IDF general: Syrian army signaling that Damascus doesn't want war (click here)
By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid, and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
IDF GOC Northern Command Gadi Eizenkot said Tuesday that the Syrian military is trying to send Israel the message that it is not interested in confrontation. "The Syrian army is trying to calm the sector down," said Eizenkot, during a tour of the North by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. "Syria is taking action in the field that is designed to signal to Israel that it is not interested in escalation." Meanwhile, Israel has learned that Damascus has recently received a new missile system, as part of a process of strengthening its army that has been ongoing in recent months....



India's leading imam to visit Israel (click here)
By HAVIV RETTIG

Hazrat Maulana Jameel Ahmed Ilyasi, president of the All-India Association of Imams and Mosques, will arrive in
Israel on Saturday as part of a "peace delegation" of Indian Muslim leaders.
"Our visit to Israel will be historical in terms of developing a dialogue between Judaism and Islam in the Indian subcontinent, where more than 40 percent of the world Muslim population lives," Ilyasi said in a statement ahead of the visit....



Our World: Bankrupting Iran is not enough (click here)

According to a spate of recent media reports, Iran's economy is on the skids. It works out that aside from being a messianic, genocidal killer, Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is also an economic dunce.
Ahmadinejad entered office two years ago after running a populist campaign pledging to share Iran's oil and gas revenues with the Iranian people. As his campaign slogan put it, Ahmadinejad would "put petroleum income on people's tables." But two years into his tenure, the economy is failing. While the government places inflation rates at 12-13 percent, Radio Farda reported that Iran's Parliament Research Center indicates that the rate is actually closer to 20 percent.
Interviewed on Radio Farda, Iranian economist Fereidun Khavand explained that most of Iran's economic woes are the direct result of Ahmadinejad's economic foolishness. The chaotic economic situation, Khavand noted came after Ahmadinejad "shifted the circle of economic decision-making from the Ministry of Finance and Economics, the Planning and Management Committee, and the Iranian Central Bank to the presidential administration solely."
Ahmadinejad's economic mismanagement, which includes discouraging international investment by destabilizing the region politically through his bellicose rhetoric and frenetic advance of Iran's nuclear weapons program and support for global jihad, has singled him out for opprobrium by Iran's intellectual elites. In June, 57 Iranian economists signed an open letter condemning Ahmadinejad's policies and accusing him of "ignoring the basic principles of economics." The economists warned that "government mismanagement is inflicting a huge cost on the economy and underscores that high oil revenues over the last two years can only delay the imminent economic crisis."...



Iran FM spokesman: Larijani-ElBaradei deputies meet on 20 August (click here)
TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (ISNA)-Iran's foreign ministry spokesman stated that the fourth round of talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the U.S would be held after summarizing and reviewing the previous talks.
"The third round of talks between Iran and the U.S. on Iraq are being summarized and the fourth round of talks will be held at the same level after our studies on the previous meetings have been finalized," said Mohammad Ali Husseini in an interview with Iranian stated TV channel.
"The main aims behind these meetings are reminding the U.S. of its duties as the occupier in Iraq, finding the roots of problems and ways to exit the current crises."
Husseini while referring to enforcing Nouri Maliki's government, respecting the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq as some of the issues considered by the Iran said, "We proposed these issues in the first round of talks, in the second round we expressed these issues with more emphasize and in the third round in addition to reminding the U.S. of its duties we suggested factors which are considered important by the Islamic Republic of Iran in establishing security and stability in that country."
Asked if Iran was to receive any concession for its help to U.S. over the Iraq issue, Husseini said, "No".
"We believe any help offered by Iran to restore security and stability to Iraq would benefit the Iraqi people and its government, as well as its neighbors and the region."
He also gave news that the third round of talks between Iran's supreme national security council deputy Javad Vaeedi, and IAEA deputy director general for safeguards, Olli Heinonen over Iran's peaceful nuclear program was to be held on the 20th of August.
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Want something to worry about? Worry about India and it's nuclear ambitions.

If India becomes a 'nuclear dealer' no other country will need the USA anymore. Arguably no other country will need Russia anymore. If India becomes a 'nuke dealer' than every country in the Middle East will have it's own reactor along with their own nuclear arsenal.

India cannot be allowed to deal in nuclear technology. It would destroy any all chances of nuclear disarmament of not only the Middle East but eventually, and this according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty which India refuses to sign, the 'five legal' nuclear nations will never disarm.


N-deal: India racing to get IAEA, NSG stamp (click here) - where it states 'videos' click on "Bush calls PM on nuke deal." I don't believe the USA legislature has even approved of this arrangement. Bush is pushing it as if it's a done deal.

NEW DELHI: While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares to address Parliament on Monday on the 123 nuclear pact, the government's deal makers are working to a punishing schedule to ensure the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers' Group’s waiver to India is wrapped up in time for the accord to roll out within the Bush administration's lifespan.
The realisation in New Delhi that the deal, attacked by non-proliferationists in US and Opposition in India, stands its best chance till president George Bush is in office, has seen Indian negotiators focussing attention on IAEA as a safeguard agreement with the organisation is needed before the NSG exception.
It is only when the safeguard protocol for Indian civilian nuclear facilities is worked out that the NSG can consider a request for permitting its members to engage in nuclear commerce with India even though its strategic facilities will be outside any sort of international inspection. The safety protocol with the Vienna-based organisation is largely negotiated by the Department of Atomic Energy....

This is big money. Who gets the international contracts? All this mess is about 'status' and Bush's desire to exploit currently peaceful/conventional weaponed nations for wealth. Power has little to do with it, there is more national security for every nation WITHOUT nuclear proliferation than with it.

Russia vows strong support in NSG (click here)
Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW: Russia will strongly support India on the lifting of nuclear cooperation curbs in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), and will not wait for an NSG waiver to sign an accord with India for building four additional reactors at the Koodankulam power plant,
India’s special envoy Shyam Saran said: “We can certainly sign an inter-governmental agreement with Russia before negotiating deals with the NSG [Nuclear Suppliers Group] and the IAEA,” the special envoy told The Hindu here on Tuesday after meeting Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Russia is the first country Mr. Saran visited as part of India’s effort to marshal support from key members of the NSG for the removal of sanctions against India. From Russia, the special envoy will go to Germany, Brazil and Argentina. Mr. Saran said the Russian Foreign Minister vowed to give India strong support in the coming NSG debate....

Nuclear Suppliers Group (click here)
ProvisionsTHe Nuclear Suppliers' Group consists of 30 nuclear suppliers and seeks to control exports of nuclear materials, equipment, and technology, both dual-use and specially designed and prepared. Russia is a member of this group and therefore bound by its controls, though other former Soviet nuclear republics -- particularly Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan -- along with other major suppliers like China and Brazil are not. The United States views observance of the NSG guidelines by these states as an important means of stemming the flow of nuclear materials and technologies.
The NSG Guidelines include a number of important conditions that help promote nuclear cooperation under sound nonproliferation arrangements. For Trigger List exports, the NSG Guidelines currently require, for example, (1) an agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the recipient state requiring the application of safeguards on all fissionable materials in its nuclear activities (also known as "full-scope IAEA safeguards") -- not just on the exported items, (2) physical protection against unauthorized use of transferred materials and facilities, and (3) restraint in the transfer of sensitive facilities, technology, and weapons-usable materials, i.e., exports that could contribute to the acquisition of plutonium or highly enriched unranium.
In 1992, spurred on by revelations about Iraq's illicit nuclear weapons program, the NSG adopted controls on nuclear-related dual-use goods, for example those with both nuclear and non-nuclear applications, that could make a major contribution to unsafeguarded nuclear activities or to nuclear explosive activities. The NSG Dual-Use Guidelines prohibit the transfer of controlled items for use in a non-nuclear weapon state in a nuclear explosive activity or an unsafeguarded nuclear fuel-cycle activity, or when there is an unacceptable risk of diversion to such an activity. To reduce the risk of diversion, the Guidelines require recipients to provide assurances 1) specifying how transferred items will be used, 2) stating that they will not be used for proscribed activities, and 3) stating that the suppliers consent will be obtained before any retransfers of the items. The NSG also agreed to control technology related to both Trigger List and controlled dual-use goods. By controlling technical information and assistance for the development, production, and use of controlled goods, NSG members limit the ability of proliferant states to use technical expertise or blueprints as part of a nuclear weapons program.
StatusThe United States proposed the formation of a Nuclear Suppliers Group following the 1974 nuclear explosion by India. The primary purpose was to ensure that suppliers uniformly applied a comprehensive set of guidelines to ensure that nuclear cooperation did not contribute to proliferation, and to involve a key non-NPT supplier, France. The NSG grew from seven to 15 countries by early 1978 when its guidelines and control list were published. The first 15 NSG members exchanged bilateral notes accepting the guidelines and control list and communicated these commitments to the IAEA Director General.
NSG members encourage all countries to adhere to the NSG Guidelines as the basis for responsible nuclear export policy. New members must adhere to the guidelines and are accepted as members only upon the unanimous agreement of all current members. Although suppliers consulted regularly on a bilateral basis, the NSG did not meet throughout the 1980s....

Bush can blow it out his barracks bag. By making Iranian military units terrorists it moves the Bush/Cheney agenda closer to confronting Russia

It is high time President Hamid Karzai puts Bush in his place. Someone has to and the leaders of the region have to bring about peace for their people the way their people need it and understand it. That is the reason Iraq and Afghanistan has sustained chaos for so long.

Behind Iran is Russia. Russia will not fight a war at it's borders. If Bush declares any aspect of the Iranian military as terrorists he does it to confront the 'right' to war with Iran and hence drag Russia into a global confrontation.

In the year 2007, the global concern should be defeating terrorist networks and not making terrorists out of sovereign authorities. If Iran is in Iraq it's to save the lives of the people currently suffering due to USA occupation.

President Karzai is finally confronting the regions instability and reality rather than being 'obedient.' The region needs a leader and I am glad to see the Afghan President take his rightful place.




Karzai: Afghanistan, Pakistan Must Work Together (click here)








Iranian president denies supporting Taliban (click here)

Iran, Afghanistan sign new deals (click here)

Karzai, Aziz stress unity to defeat Al Qaeda, Taliban (click here)

Bush can blow it out his barracks bag. By making Iranian military units terrorists it moves the Bush/Cheney agenda closer to confronting Russia

It is high time President Hamid Karzai puts Bush in his place. Someone has to and the leaders of the region have to bring about peace for their people the way their people need it and understand it. That is the reason Iraq and Afghanistan has sustained chaos for so long.

Behind Iran is Russia. Russia will not fight a war at it's borders. If Bush declares any aspect of the Iranian military as terrorists he does it to confront the 'right' to war with Iran and hence drag Russia into a global confrontation.

In the year 2007, the global concern should be defeating terrorist networks and not making terrorists out of sovereign authorities. If Iran is in Iraq it's to save the lives of the people currently suffering due to USA occupation.

President Karzai is finally confronting the regions instability and reality rather than being 'obedient.' The region needs a leader and I am glad to see the Afghan President take his rightful place.




Karzai: Afghanistan, Pakistan Must Work Together (click here)








Iranian president denies supporting Taliban (click here)

Iran, Afghanistan sign new deals (click here)

Karzai, Aziz stress unity to defeat Al Qaeda, Taliban (click here)