Nice V for Victory sign there, Al. Now. Live up to it.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Morning Papers - continued...
Michael Moore Today
"We already have many volunteers ready and raring to go start the petition process..."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
October 7th, 2007 11:02 pm
DC Draft Gore Prepared to put Al Gore on Primary Ballot
DC Draft Gore
Organizers of DC Draft Gore have decided to continue the nationwide trend and will gather the necessary signatures to place former Vice-President Al Gore on the district's primary ballot next year. In addition to the 1,000 signatures that must be collected from registered Democratic Party voters, Al Gore must submit a candidate affidavit. "We already have many volunteers ready and raring to go start the petition process once the proper forms become available on October 12th," said James Skoufis, one of the drive's organizers.
The District of Columbia would only be the most recent of many efforts nationwide to put the Oscar, Emmy, and perhaps soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize winning statesman on their primary ballot. Michigan, California, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, among other states already have petition drives underway. "He was the first major American politician to oppose the Iraq War, he has single-handedly made climate change a global priority, and, lets face it, has already won a presidential election before," says Nelson Jacobson, the group's founder.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10370
"(Gore's) Nashville office didn't return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story."
-- Newsweek
October 8th, 2007 3:40 pm
A Nobel Candidate
Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push?
By Jamie Reno / Newsweek
Oct. 8, 2007 - Al Gore is not running for president. But might the publicity and sheen of a Nobel Peace Prize change his mind? Some Democratic activists sure hope so.
Grass-roots Gore loyalists have been buzzing for weeks about the Nobel Prize announcement scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore was nominated for his work on global warming, and several longtime Nobel observers believe this could be the year that a champion of climate change gets the prize. “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize … then he can’t not run for president,” says Roy Gayhart, a San Diego-based organizer of a California draft Gore group.
For Gore supporters like Gayhart, the real inconvenient truth is that the former veep is not a candidate—and may never become one, no matter what happens in Oslo on Friday. Gore, who won an Emmy last month for his Current TV channel and whose film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Oscar last February, has said nothing to indicate that he would run, and his Nashville office didn’t return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story. But unlike 2004, when his Shermanesque statement stopped supporters dead in their tracks, Gore has not completely closed the door on the idea.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10373
'Draft Gore' organizers take lack of a definitive 'no' as a green light to keep working
October 11th, 2007 3:41 pm
Gore Supporters’ Movement Lacks a Candidate
By Jim Rutenberg / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — With talk of a Nobel Peace Prize in the air and election deadlines looming, supporters of Al Gore have been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for petition drives and advertising campaigns in a last-ditch effort to draft him into the Democratic presidential primaries.
Draft Gore, a national group that for several years has been trying to pull Mr. Gore into a presidential race, ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, as well as commercials on liberal radio talk shows, saying he had an obligation to seek the presidency again and address from the White House a variety of moral issues facing the country.
The group said it had collected small donations over the Internet to pay for the ads. The Times advertisement alone cost roughly $65,000, a standard rate for ads not slotted to run on a particular day, a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10393
October 11th, 2007 6:05 pm
Could Nobel Nod Spur Gore's '08 Run?
Another Accolade Could Provide 'Climatic' Opportunity
By Nitya Venkataraman / ABC News
Oct. 11, 2007 — While eight Democrats scramble around the country seeking the office he aspired to as many years ago, Al Gore's 2007 has been a breezy stroll down the red carpet, and a near endless loop of will-he-or-won't-he speculation surrounding a potential second run for the White House.
For the former vice president's legion of grassroots supporters, the suspense has been agony as they wait for the "Gore-acle" to divine, what they deem to be, an infallible political future.
After the Oscars, the release of yet another book and the Live Earth concerts on July 7, Friday's long-awaited, much-anticipated Nobel Peace Prize announcement could provide the most "climatic" and climactic opportunity to date for the Democratic presidential nominee of 2000 to announce White House intentions for 2008.
Will He or Won't He?
Former Gore strategist Chris Lehane said though his former boss's entrance to the presidential race would be more than fashionably late, he "would be uniquely positioned" if he chose to contest the Democratic nomination.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10395
Bob Alexander Drives Around MI update
Bob Alexander Weekly Schedule to Drive Around Michigan to meet with petitioners and supporters who want to sign the Gore Nomination Petition...
Each of the remaining three weeks Bob Alexander will Drive Around Michigan to meet with petitioners and those who just want to sign a Nomination Petition to place Al Gore on the Jan. 15 Presidential Primary ballot. Alexander is the Manager of the Michigan Nominate Al Gore Petition drive.
Detailed locations & times are at the bottom of the page, grouped geographically.
Sunday is the North Drive Around to Mt. Pleasant, Grayling, Traverse City, Cadillac, Big Rapids and Grand Rapids.
Monday is an evening South Drive to Jackson, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.
Tuesday during the day is the SE and East Drive to Livonia, Dearborn, Detroit (WSU), Royal Oak, Clarkston, Flint and Perry.
http://mivolstodraftgore2008.blogspot.com/
October 8th, 2007 12:26 am
Iraq veteran organizes war protest
Soldier says the United States has blundered in its military effort
By Mike Belt / Lawrence Journal-World
When Mike Sanger returned from military duty in Iraq in 2004, he disdained war protesters.
“I thought what I was doing was for the good of the world. I was fighting terrorists, fighting for a good cause,” the Lawrence resident, 31, said recently.
Now he is one of the protesters. And he is president of the Kansas City chapter of the national Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Sanger’s attitude about the war started to change while he was still in Iraq, he said.
“A lot of us still tried to believe in what we were doing even though we did not like the circumstances we were in,” he said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10371
Mike Sanger's duty in Iraq October 7, 2007
Lawrence resident Mike Sanger, center, says his views on the Iraq War changed while he was still in the country on active duty. Now he is the president of the Kansas City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Special to the Journal-World
http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/galleries/2007/oct/07/pictures_iraq/
One Of Petraeus' Own Advisers Says General's Testimony On Iraq Was Misleading
October 8, 2007 -- 11:46 AM EST
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has now weighed in with a new column analyzing a key topic -- the constant conflicts between the different ways civilian casualties are counted in Iraq. Hoyt interviewed a number of experts about the topic, and towards the end of the piece he mentions in passing what appears to be a significant piece of news.
Specifically, Hoyt reports that he spoke to one of Petraeus' own advisers, and despite having advised Petraeus he still says that the General's recent testimony to Congress about Iraq may have been misleading in key ways:
Stephen Biddle, a scholar at the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, said Petraeus's December number was "very high" but was likely the result of "statistical noise" — the tendency of Iraq numbers to jump all over the place. Biddle was an adviser to Petraeus last spring but believes the general's testimony was "potentially misleading" because it didn't discuss all the reasons why the numbers might have improved.
He said the best way to analyze statistics from Iraq is to gather all the numbers from all sources and look for broad trends instead of picking isolated points, as Petraeus did. Biddle examined data from nine sources on Iraqi civilian deaths, including the U.S. military, independent organizations like Brookings and Iraq Body Count and four news organizations. Although the specific monthly numbers varied widely, he said they all showed declines since late 2006.
Did we know that even one of Petraeus' own advisers thinks the General's methodology was suspect? I didn't know it. Spencer Ackerman, TPM's resident casualty count guru, says he thinks this is significant, and if Ackerman says this is important, well, it is. Yet as best as I can determine Biddle's view of the matter hasn't received any real attention.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/10/one_of_petraeus.php
"The Army's having trouble filling numbers so they're going anywhere -- they're even going on college spring breaks and sending recruiters down in uniform to Cabo San Lucas." -- Sgt. Patrick Campbell
October 9th, 2007 11:20 pm
Military Recruiters Invited To Jail Job Fair
NBC News4
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Both the Army and the Marines went to the Alexandria City Jail to pitch their case to soon-to-be-released inmates.
Jail officials invited the recruiters to the biannual job fair, News4's Jane Watrel reported.
With the military stretched thin, the military can accept ex-convicts into their ranks.
"The Army's having trouble filling numbers, so they're going anywhere," said veteran Sgt. Patrick Campbell. "They're even going to college spring breaks, sending recruiters in uniform down to Cabo San Lucas."
Campbell said standards for recruits have dropped.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10384
Same jail as American Taliban, John Walker Lindh
Lindh Admits Guilt to Two Charges
Under Plea Bargain Deal, Lindh Will Serve 20 Years in Prison
By a Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 15, 2002; 5:18 PM
John Walker Lindh, the suburban American who converted to Islam and later volunteered his services to the Taliban army in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Alexandria to two felonies that will land him in prison for up to 20 years.
The surprise plea was negotiated mostly over the weekend and concluded early this morning, Lindh's lawyers said. It was announced to a packed courtroom awaiting the start of what was to be a crucial evidentiary hearing on whether Lindh's statements while he was in custody in Afghanistan could be used against him at a trial that was scheduled to begin in August.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6499-2002Jul15
Same jail as DC Sniper, John Allen Muhammad
Sniper case linked to Ga. slaying
ATLANTA (AP) — Police said Thursday that ballistics tests connect the two Washington-area sniper suspects to yet another slaying — that of a man who was shot outside an Atlanta liquor store in September.
The victim, Million Woldemarian, a 41-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, was shot shortly after midnight on Sept. 21. He had walked out of the store, where he worked, to check on a suspicious car parked outside the store, police said.
Later that same day, a woman was shot to death and another was wounded in a holdup attempt outside a liquor store in Montgomery, Ala., about 150 miles away, in an attack that police have blamed on sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-11-07-georgia-sniper_x.htm
October 9th, 2007 3:09 pm
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.
Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.
The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10380
U.S. Constitution not for cowards
October 9th, 2007 3:05 pm
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
By Eric Lichtblau and Carl Hulse / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess. Some Democratic officials concede that they may not come up with enough votes to stop approval.
As the debate over the eavesdropping powers of the National Security Agency begins anew this week, the emerging measures reflect the reality confronting the Democrats.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10379
October 9th, 2007 2:44 am
Edwards backers seek impeachment
By Nancy Foster / New Hampshire Union Leader
Amherst – Though Elizabeth Edwards was in town to talk about her husband's universal health insurance plan, once she turned the floor over to the audience, the conversation quickly turned to impeachment.
Several people from the audience of nearly 100 who packed into the clubhouse at The Fells of Amherst pressed Senator John Edwards' wife about the presidential contenders stance on impeachment.
Edwards said that her husband opposes plans to impeach President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
She said that devoting valuable time and money to ousting the administration would tie up Congress and wouldn't likely have the outcome pro-impeachment are hoping for.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10378
Sen. Reid Struggles for Reason to Oppose Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-10-09 03:43.
Impeachment Video and Audio
By David Swanson
Christiane Brown (KJFK, Reno) interviews Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this audio clip from last week and presses him on why he admits impeachable offenses have been commited but opposes impeachment. Reid says that impeaching Bush would just give you Cheney, but Brown points out that Cheney can be impeached too (in fact, the only impeachment bill in Congress right now is to impeach Cheney). Reid says there's not enough time, but Brown points out how swift past impeachments have been. Reid struggles and fails to find a coherent explanation.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27549
The culture hasn't changed much from the days of John Lennon, has it? Lennon was a genius. We are far worse off as a global community for being without him. The Anti-War Movement is more subdued today in the USA, but, growing still. I have noticed over the last year, more and more people 'thinking 60's.' It's interesting, the more life is different, the more it is the same.
Give Peace a Chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emichaelmoore%2Ecom%2F
Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
Power To The People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpsF_0-ta_A
Instant Karma - John lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4
John & Joko - I don't want to be a soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA-N2O-O2Bw
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Imagine all the people living life in peace
John Lennon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON - 9th October 1940
http://www.imaginepeace.com/
U.S., Iraqis probe civilian killings
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi officials Wednesday were investigating yet another shooting of Iraqi civilians by a heavily armed security firm linked to U.S. government-financed work in Iraq.
The bodies of Marou Awanis and Geneva Jalal, the Christian women killed in the Tuesday shooting, were taken, meanwhile, to Baghdad's Armenian Orthodox Virgin Mary Church for funeral services.
Iraqi authorities blamed the women's deaths on guards working for Unity Resources Group, a security company owned by Australian partners but with headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Unity provides security services to RTI International, a group based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., that promotes governance projects in Iraq for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ag2S3Ib4C68XxChzUsXRN.ys0NUE
October 9th, 2007 7:57 pm
Parents recall fallen soldiers
By Bob Kalinowski / Scranton Times-Tribune
JENKINS TWP., PA - It was a conversation about the war, but not about the politics behind the conflict. The discussion was about people, about soldiers - the human cost of war.
Three area families who lost a loved one in the Iraq war gathered the courage Thursday night to go on live television to speak about their loss.
To most people, the families said, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, of Plymouth; 1st Lt. Michael Cleary, of Dallas Township; and Sgt. Sean Thomas, of Hughesville, Lycoming County; are only statistics outside their home communities.
The parents of the men said they agreed to come together Thursday for the hourlong program at the WVIA-TV studio to tell residents of Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania something about the young men who paid the ultimate price.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10383
October 8th, 2007 8:44 pm
1,000-plus war protesters in Berkeley spell out opposition to Bush
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY, CA -- It all began with a simple conversation around the kitchen table on a Saturday afternoon. Sarah Newsham, 9, asked her dad if he knew about Google Earth. Taking one look at the satellite images, Brad Newsham had an epiphany: The anti-war movement needed visuals.
On Sunday, nearly one year later, Newsham directed more than 1,000 people to lie on the grass at the Berkeley Marina to spell out "IMPEACH!" while photos were taken from helicopters whirring above.
Anti-war Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan, who recently announced her run for Congress against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appeared at the rally and took a spot on the lawn to help form the letter C. She called ending the war in Iraq "the most important issue of our time."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10377
The Nightwatchman - Alone without you - Live @ Cologone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xh824dgtKA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emichaelmoore%2Ecom%2F
Artist on Artist: Tom Morello & Michael Moore
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8272191
The Nightwatchman
http://www.nightwatchmanmusic.com/
H.R.676
Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/24/2007) Cosponsors (85)
Latest Major Action: 2/2/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@N
Make Sure Your Rep. Supports H.R. 676
"Which congressional district am I in?"
CLiCK here and enter your address to find out.
If there is already a green check next to your Representative's name, don't hesitate to thank them.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/boxscore/index.php?action=print
BIG THANK YOU GOES TO ::
Information on
Representative Stephen Lynch
of Congressional District number 9 of Massachusetts
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=MA09&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=MA&zipcode=&plusfour=
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military..." -- Jimmy Carter
October 11th, 2007 3:35 pm
Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
"You know he's been a disaster for our country," Carter said. "I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10392
H.RES.333
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (20)
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00333:@@@N
October 11th, 2007 5:08 pm
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
By Rick Weiss / Washington Post
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects."
Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too.
"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "
That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10394
Precious and few are the moments we two can share...
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 10/8/2007 8:10PM
Fred Thompson's Daughter Seen Chomping on Diaphragm During Fox 'News' Interview!
(Though We're Open to Other Explanations of This One...)
Hat tip to BRAD BLOG commenter Floridiot for this one! But yes, that does seem to be a diaphragm that Fred Thompson's daughter (grand daughter?) is munching on at the beginning of a recent Fox "News" interview...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5147
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "Sicko." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=219
October 10th, 2007 8:33 pm
Rare march in Baghdad against new U.S. wall
By Haider Salahuddin / Reuters
BAGHDAD - More than a thousand Iraqis marched in west Baghdad on Saturday in a rare public demonstration to protest against a wall they say the U.S. military is planning to erect around their neighborhood.
Carrying an Iraqi national flag and banners condemning the wall the marchers in the predominantly Shi'ite district of al-Washash chanted "No, no to the wall. No, no to America."
The U.S. military sparked international outrage earlier this year when it began erecting a high concrete barrier to shield the Sunni Arab enclave of Adhamiya in east Baghdad from neighboring Shi'ite communities.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10390
October 10th, 2007 6:11 pm
Some at Winthrop critical of CIA's visit
Professors, staffers plan rally during recruitment meeting
By Jessica Schonberg / The Herald
A recruiting visit from the CIA is causing a stir at Winthrop University.
More than 20 professors and staff members plan to picket and rally today while the government agency hosts a lunchtime recruitment meeting at Dinkins Student Center.
"Our collective idea is that the CIA has a right to recruit on campuses. We don't have the power to stop that," said Chris Van Aller, a political science professor. "We merely say that lately, the CIA has been accused of doing a number of reprehensible things that, at least in my opinion, are not in the national interest."
Van Aller cited the CIA's interrogation tactics and allegations of torture as among the issues that he finds troubling. The CIA has come under criticism in recent months for what human rights groups and some Washington lawmakers call its inhumane treatment of terror suspects.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10388
GO SEE SiCKO by MC ARTIFICIAL -- ABBREVIATED VERSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSPSRcX3Qw
continued…Zoos as usual…coming right up…it's been a busy week...I appreciate any readers patience...thank you...
"We already have many volunteers ready and raring to go start the petition process..."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
October 7th, 2007 11:02 pm
DC Draft Gore Prepared to put Al Gore on Primary Ballot
DC Draft Gore
Organizers of DC Draft Gore have decided to continue the nationwide trend and will gather the necessary signatures to place former Vice-President Al Gore on the district's primary ballot next year. In addition to the 1,000 signatures that must be collected from registered Democratic Party voters, Al Gore must submit a candidate affidavit. "We already have many volunteers ready and raring to go start the petition process once the proper forms become available on October 12th," said James Skoufis, one of the drive's organizers.
The District of Columbia would only be the most recent of many efforts nationwide to put the Oscar, Emmy, and perhaps soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize winning statesman on their primary ballot. Michigan, California, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, among other states already have petition drives underway. "He was the first major American politician to oppose the Iraq War, he has single-handedly made climate change a global priority, and, lets face it, has already won a presidential election before," says Nelson Jacobson, the group's founder.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10370
"(Gore's) Nashville office didn't return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story."
-- Newsweek
October 8th, 2007 3:40 pm
A Nobel Candidate
Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push?
By Jamie Reno / Newsweek
Oct. 8, 2007 - Al Gore is not running for president. But might the publicity and sheen of a Nobel Peace Prize change his mind? Some Democratic activists sure hope so.
Grass-roots Gore loyalists have been buzzing for weeks about the Nobel Prize announcement scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore was nominated for his work on global warming, and several longtime Nobel observers believe this could be the year that a champion of climate change gets the prize. “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize … then he can’t not run for president,” says Roy Gayhart, a San Diego-based organizer of a California draft Gore group.
For Gore supporters like Gayhart, the real inconvenient truth is that the former veep is not a candidate—and may never become one, no matter what happens in Oslo on Friday. Gore, who won an Emmy last month for his Current TV channel and whose film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Oscar last February, has said nothing to indicate that he would run, and his Nashville office didn’t return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story. But unlike 2004, when his Shermanesque statement stopped supporters dead in their tracks, Gore has not completely closed the door on the idea.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10373
'Draft Gore' organizers take lack of a definitive 'no' as a green light to keep working
October 11th, 2007 3:41 pm
Gore Supporters’ Movement Lacks a Candidate
By Jim Rutenberg / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — With talk of a Nobel Peace Prize in the air and election deadlines looming, supporters of Al Gore have been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for petition drives and advertising campaigns in a last-ditch effort to draft him into the Democratic presidential primaries.
Draft Gore, a national group that for several years has been trying to pull Mr. Gore into a presidential race, ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, as well as commercials on liberal radio talk shows, saying he had an obligation to seek the presidency again and address from the White House a variety of moral issues facing the country.
The group said it had collected small donations over the Internet to pay for the ads. The Times advertisement alone cost roughly $65,000, a standard rate for ads not slotted to run on a particular day, a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10393
October 11th, 2007 6:05 pm
Could Nobel Nod Spur Gore's '08 Run?
Another Accolade Could Provide 'Climatic' Opportunity
By Nitya Venkataraman / ABC News
Oct. 11, 2007 — While eight Democrats scramble around the country seeking the office he aspired to as many years ago, Al Gore's 2007 has been a breezy stroll down the red carpet, and a near endless loop of will-he-or-won't-he speculation surrounding a potential second run for the White House.
For the former vice president's legion of grassroots supporters, the suspense has been agony as they wait for the "Gore-acle" to divine, what they deem to be, an infallible political future.
After the Oscars, the release of yet another book and the Live Earth concerts on July 7, Friday's long-awaited, much-anticipated Nobel Peace Prize announcement could provide the most "climatic" and climactic opportunity to date for the Democratic presidential nominee of 2000 to announce White House intentions for 2008.
Will He or Won't He?
Former Gore strategist Chris Lehane said though his former boss's entrance to the presidential race would be more than fashionably late, he "would be uniquely positioned" if he chose to contest the Democratic nomination.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10395
Bob Alexander Drives Around MI update
Bob Alexander Weekly Schedule to Drive Around Michigan to meet with petitioners and supporters who want to sign the Gore Nomination Petition...
Each of the remaining three weeks Bob Alexander will Drive Around Michigan to meet with petitioners and those who just want to sign a Nomination Petition to place Al Gore on the Jan. 15 Presidential Primary ballot. Alexander is the Manager of the Michigan Nominate Al Gore Petition drive.
Detailed locations & times are at the bottom of the page, grouped geographically.
Sunday is the North Drive Around to Mt. Pleasant, Grayling, Traverse City, Cadillac, Big Rapids and Grand Rapids.
Monday is an evening South Drive to Jackson, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.
Tuesday during the day is the SE and East Drive to Livonia, Dearborn, Detroit (WSU), Royal Oak, Clarkston, Flint and Perry.
http://mivolstodraftgore2008.blogspot.com/
October 8th, 2007 12:26 am
Iraq veteran organizes war protest
Soldier says the United States has blundered in its military effort
By Mike Belt / Lawrence Journal-World
When Mike Sanger returned from military duty in Iraq in 2004, he disdained war protesters.
“I thought what I was doing was for the good of the world. I was fighting terrorists, fighting for a good cause,” the Lawrence resident, 31, said recently.
Now he is one of the protesters. And he is president of the Kansas City chapter of the national Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Sanger’s attitude about the war started to change while he was still in Iraq, he said.
“A lot of us still tried to believe in what we were doing even though we did not like the circumstances we were in,” he said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10371
Mike Sanger's duty in Iraq October 7, 2007
Lawrence resident Mike Sanger, center, says his views on the Iraq War changed while he was still in the country on active duty. Now he is the president of the Kansas City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Special to the Journal-World
http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/galleries/2007/oct/07/pictures_iraq/
One Of Petraeus' Own Advisers Says General's Testimony On Iraq Was Misleading
October 8, 2007 -- 11:46 AM EST
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has now weighed in with a new column analyzing a key topic -- the constant conflicts between the different ways civilian casualties are counted in Iraq. Hoyt interviewed a number of experts about the topic, and towards the end of the piece he mentions in passing what appears to be a significant piece of news.
Specifically, Hoyt reports that he spoke to one of Petraeus' own advisers, and despite having advised Petraeus he still says that the General's recent testimony to Congress about Iraq may have been misleading in key ways:
Stephen Biddle, a scholar at the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, said Petraeus's December number was "very high" but was likely the result of "statistical noise" — the tendency of Iraq numbers to jump all over the place. Biddle was an adviser to Petraeus last spring but believes the general's testimony was "potentially misleading" because it didn't discuss all the reasons why the numbers might have improved.
He said the best way to analyze statistics from Iraq is to gather all the numbers from all sources and look for broad trends instead of picking isolated points, as Petraeus did. Biddle examined data from nine sources on Iraqi civilian deaths, including the U.S. military, independent organizations like Brookings and Iraq Body Count and four news organizations. Although the specific monthly numbers varied widely, he said they all showed declines since late 2006.
Did we know that even one of Petraeus' own advisers thinks the General's methodology was suspect? I didn't know it. Spencer Ackerman, TPM's resident casualty count guru, says he thinks this is significant, and if Ackerman says this is important, well, it is. Yet as best as I can determine Biddle's view of the matter hasn't received any real attention.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/10/one_of_petraeus.php
"The Army's having trouble filling numbers so they're going anywhere -- they're even going on college spring breaks and sending recruiters down in uniform to Cabo San Lucas." -- Sgt. Patrick Campbell
October 9th, 2007 11:20 pm
Military Recruiters Invited To Jail Job Fair
NBC News4
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Both the Army and the Marines went to the Alexandria City Jail to pitch their case to soon-to-be-released inmates.
Jail officials invited the recruiters to the biannual job fair, News4's Jane Watrel reported.
With the military stretched thin, the military can accept ex-convicts into their ranks.
"The Army's having trouble filling numbers, so they're going anywhere," said veteran Sgt. Patrick Campbell. "They're even going to college spring breaks, sending recruiters in uniform down to Cabo San Lucas."
Campbell said standards for recruits have dropped.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10384
Same jail as American Taliban, John Walker Lindh
Lindh Admits Guilt to Two Charges
Under Plea Bargain Deal, Lindh Will Serve 20 Years in Prison
By a Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 15, 2002; 5:18 PM
John Walker Lindh, the suburban American who converted to Islam and later volunteered his services to the Taliban army in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Alexandria to two felonies that will land him in prison for up to 20 years.
The surprise plea was negotiated mostly over the weekend and concluded early this morning, Lindh's lawyers said. It was announced to a packed courtroom awaiting the start of what was to be a crucial evidentiary hearing on whether Lindh's statements while he was in custody in Afghanistan could be used against him at a trial that was scheduled to begin in August.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6499-2002Jul15
Same jail as DC Sniper, John Allen Muhammad
Sniper case linked to Ga. slaying
ATLANTA (AP) — Police said Thursday that ballistics tests connect the two Washington-area sniper suspects to yet another slaying — that of a man who was shot outside an Atlanta liquor store in September.
The victim, Million Woldemarian, a 41-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, was shot shortly after midnight on Sept. 21. He had walked out of the store, where he worked, to check on a suspicious car parked outside the store, police said.
Later that same day, a woman was shot to death and another was wounded in a holdup attempt outside a liquor store in Montgomery, Ala., about 150 miles away, in an attack that police have blamed on sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-11-07-georgia-sniper_x.htm
October 9th, 2007 3:09 pm
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts
By Joby Warrick / Washington Post
A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the al-Qaeda release.
Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's Web site. By midafternoon that day, the video and a transcript of its audio track had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.
The founder of the company, the SITE Intelligence Group, says this premature disclosure tipped al-Qaeda to a security breach and destroyed a years-long surveillance operation that the company has used to intercept and pass along secret messages, videos and advance warnings of suicide bombings from the terrorist group's communications network.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10380
U.S. Constitution not for cowards
October 9th, 2007 3:05 pm
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
By Eric Lichtblau and Carl Hulse / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess. Some Democratic officials concede that they may not come up with enough votes to stop approval.
As the debate over the eavesdropping powers of the National Security Agency begins anew this week, the emerging measures reflect the reality confronting the Democrats.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10379
October 9th, 2007 2:44 am
Edwards backers seek impeachment
By Nancy Foster / New Hampshire Union Leader
Amherst – Though Elizabeth Edwards was in town to talk about her husband's universal health insurance plan, once she turned the floor over to the audience, the conversation quickly turned to impeachment.
Several people from the audience of nearly 100 who packed into the clubhouse at The Fells of Amherst pressed Senator John Edwards' wife about the presidential contenders stance on impeachment.
Edwards said that her husband opposes plans to impeach President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
She said that devoting valuable time and money to ousting the administration would tie up Congress and wouldn't likely have the outcome pro-impeachment are hoping for.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10378
Sen. Reid Struggles for Reason to Oppose Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-10-09 03:43.
Impeachment Video and Audio
By David Swanson
Christiane Brown (KJFK, Reno) interviews Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this audio clip from last week and presses him on why he admits impeachable offenses have been commited but opposes impeachment. Reid says that impeaching Bush would just give you Cheney, but Brown points out that Cheney can be impeached too (in fact, the only impeachment bill in Congress right now is to impeach Cheney). Reid says there's not enough time, but Brown points out how swift past impeachments have been. Reid struggles and fails to find a coherent explanation.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27549
The culture hasn't changed much from the days of John Lennon, has it? Lennon was a genius. We are far worse off as a global community for being without him. The Anti-War Movement is more subdued today in the USA, but, growing still. I have noticed over the last year, more and more people 'thinking 60's.' It's interesting, the more life is different, the more it is the same.
Give Peace a Chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emichaelmoore%2Ecom%2F
Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0
Power To The People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpsF_0-ta_A
Instant Karma - John lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4
John & Joko - I don't want to be a soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA-N2O-O2Bw
Working Class Hero-John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Imagine all the people living life in peace
John Lennon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON - 9th October 1940
http://www.imaginepeace.com/
U.S., Iraqis probe civilian killings
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi officials Wednesday were investigating yet another shooting of Iraqi civilians by a heavily armed security firm linked to U.S. government-financed work in Iraq.
The bodies of Marou Awanis and Geneva Jalal, the Christian women killed in the Tuesday shooting, were taken, meanwhile, to Baghdad's Armenian Orthodox Virgin Mary Church for funeral services.
Iraqi authorities blamed the women's deaths on guards working for Unity Resources Group, a security company owned by Australian partners but with headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Unity provides security services to RTI International, a group based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., that promotes governance projects in Iraq for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ag2S3Ib4C68XxChzUsXRN.ys0NUE
October 9th, 2007 7:57 pm
Parents recall fallen soldiers
By Bob Kalinowski / Scranton Times-Tribune
JENKINS TWP., PA - It was a conversation about the war, but not about the politics behind the conflict. The discussion was about people, about soldiers - the human cost of war.
Three area families who lost a loved one in the Iraq war gathered the courage Thursday night to go on live television to speak about their loss.
To most people, the families said, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, of Plymouth; 1st Lt. Michael Cleary, of Dallas Township; and Sgt. Sean Thomas, of Hughesville, Lycoming County; are only statistics outside their home communities.
The parents of the men said they agreed to come together Thursday for the hourlong program at the WVIA-TV studio to tell residents of Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania something about the young men who paid the ultimate price.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10383
October 8th, 2007 8:44 pm
1,000-plus war protesters in Berkeley spell out opposition to Bush
San Francisco Chronicle
BERKELEY, CA -- It all began with a simple conversation around the kitchen table on a Saturday afternoon. Sarah Newsham, 9, asked her dad if he knew about Google Earth. Taking one look at the satellite images, Brad Newsham had an epiphany: The anti-war movement needed visuals.
On Sunday, nearly one year later, Newsham directed more than 1,000 people to lie on the grass at the Berkeley Marina to spell out "IMPEACH!" while photos were taken from helicopters whirring above.
Anti-war Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan, who recently announced her run for Congress against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appeared at the rally and took a spot on the lawn to help form the letter C. She called ending the war in Iraq "the most important issue of our time."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10377
The Nightwatchman - Alone without you - Live @ Cologone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xh824dgtKA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emichaelmoore%2Ecom%2F
Artist on Artist: Tom Morello & Michael Moore
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8272191
The Nightwatchman
http://www.nightwatchmanmusic.com/
H.R.676
Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/24/2007) Cosponsors (85)
Latest Major Action: 2/2/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@N
Make Sure Your Rep. Supports H.R. 676
"Which congressional district am I in?"
CLiCK here and enter your address to find out.
If there is already a green check next to your Representative's name, don't hesitate to thank them.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/boxscore/index.php?action=print
BIG THANK YOU GOES TO ::
Information on
Representative Stephen Lynch
of Congressional District number 9 of Massachusetts
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=MA09&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=MA&zipcode=&plusfour=
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military..." -- Jimmy Carter
Go, Jimmy Carter, Go !!!!
October 11th, 2007 3:35 pm
Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
"You know he's been a disaster for our country," Carter said. "I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10392
H.RES.333
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (20)
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00333:@@@N
October 11th, 2007 5:08 pm
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
By Rick Weiss / Washington Post
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects."
Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too.
"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "
That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10394
Precious and few are the moments we two can share...
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 10/8/2007 8:10PM
Fred Thompson's Daughter Seen Chomping on Diaphragm During Fox 'News' Interview!
(Though We're Open to Other Explanations of This One...)
Hat tip to BRAD BLOG commenter Floridiot for this one! But yes, that does seem to be a diaphragm that Fred Thompson's daughter (grand daughter?) is munching on at the beginning of a recent Fox "News" interview...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5147
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "Sicko." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=219
October 10th, 2007 8:33 pm
Rare march in Baghdad against new U.S. wall
By Haider Salahuddin / Reuters
BAGHDAD - More than a thousand Iraqis marched in west Baghdad on Saturday in a rare public demonstration to protest against a wall they say the U.S. military is planning to erect around their neighborhood.
Carrying an Iraqi national flag and banners condemning the wall the marchers in the predominantly Shi'ite district of al-Washash chanted "No, no to the wall. No, no to America."
The U.S. military sparked international outrage earlier this year when it began erecting a high concrete barrier to shield the Sunni Arab enclave of Adhamiya in east Baghdad from neighboring Shi'ite communities.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10390
October 10th, 2007 6:11 pm
Some at Winthrop critical of CIA's visit
Professors, staffers plan rally during recruitment meeting
By Jessica Schonberg / The Herald
A recruiting visit from the CIA is causing a stir at Winthrop University.
More than 20 professors and staff members plan to picket and rally today while the government agency hosts a lunchtime recruitment meeting at Dinkins Student Center.
"Our collective idea is that the CIA has a right to recruit on campuses. We don't have the power to stop that," said Chris Van Aller, a political science professor. "We merely say that lately, the CIA has been accused of doing a number of reprehensible things that, at least in my opinion, are not in the national interest."
Van Aller cited the CIA's interrogation tactics and allegations of torture as among the issues that he finds troubling. The CIA has come under criticism in recent months for what human rights groups and some Washington lawmakers call its inhumane treatment of terror suspects.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10388
GO SEE SiCKO by MC ARTIFICIAL -- ABBREVIATED VERSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSPSRcX3Qw
continued…Zoos as usual…coming right up…it's been a busy week...I appreciate any readers patience...thank you...
Weather warning issued for lower North and upper South Island
October 11, 2007
0900
New Zealand Infrared Satellite
October 12, 2007
0600
Pressure gradient map
Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:54p.m.
The Met Service has issued a severe weather warning for North Canterbury, the Marlborough Sounds, Wellington, and the Wairarapa.
Severe northwest gales of up to 130kmph are set to batter the regions today and will continue throughout the afternoon.
Drivers in exposed hilltop areas such as the Rimutaka Road are being warned to take extreme care.
Heavy rain is also forecast in the Buller and Tararua ranges.
Camp Victory, Iraq attacked. At least two dead, many wounded. Get the troops out of Iraq.
This is a 2002 preinvasion image of the camp, at link to entry there is a 'toggled' image to the 2005 image. Some of the difference between the images is picture quality. I doubt the color of water changed that much, but, anything is possilbe.
Many injured in US base attack (click here)
Camp Victory is the headquarters of the US military in BaghdadThe United States military in Iraq says two soldiers have been killed and about 40 people wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on Baghdad's main US base.
A statement described the two soldiers as members of the coalition forces but did not give further details.
The attack happened on Wednesday at the sprawling base known as Camp Victory, home of the US military HQ in Iraq.
Camp Victory and other US bases often come under fire, but attacks with such a large number of casualties are rare.
The US military also said two "third country nationals" were wounded, a term usually used for non-Iraqi, non-US contractors in Iraq.
Most of the troops stationed at Camp Victory are American.
In September, one person was killed and 11 were wounded when Camp Victory was attacked with what the US military said was a 240mm rocket supplied by Iran to Shia extremists.
By THOM SHANKER
Published: October 11, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials.
The idea by the Marine Corps commandant would effectively leave the Iraq war in the hands of the Army while giving the Marines a prominent new role in Afghanistan, under overall NATO command.
The suggestion was raised in a session last week convened by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and regional war-fighting commanders. While still under review, its supporters, including some in the Army, argue that a realignment could allow the Army and Marines each to operate more efficiently in sustaining troop levels for two wars that have put a strain on their forces.
As described by officials who had been briefed on the closed-door discussion, the idea represents the first tangible new thinking to emerge since the White House last month endorsed a plan to begin gradual troop withdrawals from Iraq, but also signals that American forces likely will be in Iraq for years to come.
At the moment, there are no major Marine units among the 26,000 or so American forces in Afghanistan. In Iraq there are about 25,000 marines among the 160,000 American troops there.
It is not clear exactly how many of the marines in Iraq would be moved over. But the plan would require a major reshuffling, and it would make marines the dominant American force in Afghanistan, in a war that has broader public support than the one in Iraq....
Published: October 11, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials.
The idea by the Marine Corps commandant would effectively leave the Iraq war in the hands of the Army while giving the Marines a prominent new role in Afghanistan, under overall NATO command.
The suggestion was raised in a session last week convened by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and regional war-fighting commanders. While still under review, its supporters, including some in the Army, argue that a realignment could allow the Army and Marines each to operate more efficiently in sustaining troop levels for two wars that have put a strain on their forces.
As described by officials who had been briefed on the closed-door discussion, the idea represents the first tangible new thinking to emerge since the White House last month endorsed a plan to begin gradual troop withdrawals from Iraq, but also signals that American forces likely will be in Iraq for years to come.
At the moment, there are no major Marine units among the 26,000 or so American forces in Afghanistan. In Iraq there are about 25,000 marines among the 160,000 American troops there.
It is not clear exactly how many of the marines in Iraq would be moved over. But the plan would require a major reshuffling, and it would make marines the dominant American force in Afghanistan, in a war that has broader public support than the one in Iraq....
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