Michael Powell is polluting the newsprint in New York City again.

It is a clear indication that the former chair of the FCC seeks to find a controlling influence in the mass media. What the New York Times is engaged in is 'unprincipled.' They were strongly critical of the Powell leadership of the FCC and now we find his poor point of view on the very pages he once distained. What do you call that? It's hideous. Powell is trying to re-establish an influence. He's a horrible man and a member of a horrible administration and a horrible party. What's he doing writing for a newsprint that once held him as a contemptable American?

There was a report on a website citing how an FCC study was shelved due to it's stance in favor of local media (click here). The direct link to the paper is here (click here or link in previous article). If that report were to influence the 'trend' in media it could undermine 'control' of the Republican message. Since, Powell has been writing at The New York Times the paper has a tone that is oppressive in it's blogs and is made to proport how 'happy' people are with every aspect of journalism favoring Conservative views. The NYTimes is NORMALLY a place where one can feel safe reading the articles and putting forth an opinon, but, someone is pushing influence and in my opinoin is attempting to run a campaign to benefit Giuliani since penning his signature desires.

Look, Michael Powell believes in propaganda and controlling the media to influence elections. He was draconian in limiting freedom for years at the FCC and a lot of the garbage in television entertainment was influenced by his preference for Christian values while counting on pundits to write letters ad nauseum to the FCC as justification for his actions.

I find it odd that all of a sudden access to the New York Times is no longer 'Select' while they moderate comments that are only friendly to conservatives. There are minor comments insulting the 'pro-war' and 'exploitive economics of conservatives' on some of the blogs but that is only to balance a more substantial set of conservative entries otherwise. I don't agree with the change in tone of the paper and I find it insulting to the readers that have sought some degree of expertise in reporting within a framework of unbiased truth.

As a highly controversial chair of the FCC and one that made many unpopular decisions, I believe Michael Powell needs to take a back seat to promoting politics while focusing on being a better citizen. He continues to propagate an ideology of a president with a current 25% approval rating, the lowest in his presidency while the USA is trying to move on and find solutions to the incompetency Powell was a contributor. I believe he is hooked on being a powerbroker and considering the administration he was a part are such troublemakers he needs to remove himself from the craft of journalism and perhaps join the military, I hear they are taking people into their sixties now.

Two articles within 48 hours of each other. Here we go again.

When Giuliani Filled the Air, Pulling Punches With No One (click here)
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 5, 2007
So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC -- the one called ''Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani'' -- and whine and complain and get in his face without answering back?
Puh-leeze.
When Joe from Manhattan called in 1998 to complain about the city government giving special parking privileges to a white-shoe law firm, Mayor Giuliani emitted an audible groan into the microphone.
''Well, let me give you another view of that rather than the sort of Marxist class concept that you're introducing,'' Mr. Giuliani said.
When a National Rifle Association member opposed a ban on assault rifles in 1994, Mr. Giuliani really got annoyed....

Managing Up, Down and Sideways (click here)

By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 7, 2007
AH, the heartache of the presidential adviser.
In 1966, White House aides found themselves precariously perched between apprehension of looming disaster in Vietnam and the need for candor with their boss, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Disaster seemed a safer choice.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was a logical candidate to speak the truth to his boss. Mr. McNamara told the historian and Kennedy confidant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in January over dinner and drinks that he regarded a military solution as impossible, according to Mr. Schlesinger's diaries, which have recently been published as ''Journals: 1952-2000.'' A sensible objective, Mr. McNamara told them, would be ''withdrawal with honor.'' Seven months later, the defense secretary was still publicly urging a widening of the war....

I've had enough.

I have watched my country fight an illegal war while private mercenaries assassinated innocent and unarmed people in Iraq, with Osama bin Laden still living within the safety nets of Pakistan with a current dictator who is so entrenched in his own political wars he no longer concentrates on the mass murderer of the victims of September 11, 2001, a record setting fiscal deficit that Paul Krugman showed yesterday is reflected by the Bush Tax Cuts (click here), a country not yet secure from terrorism, allies battered and bruised by terrorists for simply being allies, unending rhetoric from a president and vice that committed genocide in a sovereign country that was absolutely no threat to the USA and I could go on and on.

I want my country back.

Michael Powell doesn't belong at The New York Times, he is mind pollution. He and the administration and party he is a part makes me vomit ! They need to take their personal vendetta against the people of the USA that haven't yet capitulated to their influence and wealth priorities elsewhere.

The Antarctica Ice Chime

The heat transfer vortexes are chronic and the overall 'chill' on the ice continent is reduced.(24 hour loop with 12A, 12P, 3P, 9P views missing)

October 17, 2007
0600 PM UTC
Antarctica Surface Wind Map (click here)

When considering the dynamics of the map of Antarctica and it's surface winds, the length of the arrows indicate the velocity of the winds. In this animation of the surface winds this week, it is noted the majority of arrows are consistently the same length. That is grossly unusual for Antarctica and it is in response to the fact the heating is chronic and being delivered at a consistent and CHRONIC rate.


October 17, 2007
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream (click here for animation, thank you)

The repeated arrival of heat transfer vortexes is noted in the week's time loop. They also are evident in this image as well, but, over time it is noted not to change in it's dynamics at the beginning of spring.


October 17, 2007
0600 PM UTC
Antarctica Temperature Map


The coldest temperature reporting stations of Antarctica

Vostok, Antarctica

Time :: 12:00 AM VOST

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

Temperatures :: -69 °F / -56 °C

Conditions :: Low Drifting Snow

Humidity :: 44%

Dew Point :: -75 °F / -60 °C

Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h from the SSW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 1.0 miles / 1.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16



Amundsen-Scott, AA

11:40 AM NZDT

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -56 °F / -49 °C

Conditions :: Ice Crystals Blowing Snow Mist

Wind :: 17 mph / 28 km/h / 7.7 m/s from the North

Pressure :: 28.72 in / 972 hPa (Steady)

Windchill :: -94 °F / -70 °C

Visibility :: 1.2 miles / 2.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 1500 ft / 457 m
Mostly Cloudy 3000 ft / 914 m
(Above Ground Level)


The warmest temperature reporting stations of Antarctica:

Palmer Station, Antarctica

3:00 PM CLST

Elevation :: 26 ft / 8 m

Temperature :: 29 °F / -2 °C

Conditions :: Light Haze

Humidity :: 41%

Dew Point :: 15 °F / -10 °C

Wind :: 4 mph / 7 km/h from the ENE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.98 in / 981 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.0 kilometers



Vernadsky, Antarctica

Time :: 9:00 PM GMT

Elevation :: 36 ft / 11 m

Temperature :: 25 °F / -4 °C

Humidity :: 53%

Dew Point :: 15 °F / -10 °C

Wind :: Calm

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.05 in / 984 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 31.0 miles / 50.0 kilometers

Flight Rule :: VFR ()

Wind Speed :: 0 mph / 0 km/h /

Wind Dir :: N/A
Ceiling:
100000 ft / 100000 m


October 17, 2007
1921 gmt
South Pole Satellite


October 16, 2007
1324 gmt
South Pole Satellite

Just a few words. They are alarming words, not alarmist words about the Arctic Ocean before moving to Antarctica.

While the Arctic Ocean is melting at record rates, so is the Greenland Ice Sheet (click here) and for the same reasons. There is absolutely no reason to 'study' further information regarding the melting as alluded to by NASA Scientists in the film clip, whom under Bush, never come out and say anything conclusive, except for perhaps Jim Hansen at Goddard Labs. The reason for the ice melt is exactly the winds. The winds I have noted on this blog for years, called vortexes, heat transfer vortexes.


The scientists at NASA should be stating what they believe along with their reporting and they are not. They are limited to reporting facts without conclusions. Discussion and conclusions are an accepted and long time demanded part of any scientific paper, the NASA scientists for years now limit their information to the public as facts and the public is left to draw conclusions. The papers coming out of NASA to the public are 'academically' incomplete.


Quite possibly internal documents at NASA and NOAA would reveal the conclusions that lack in the material availed to the public. Those documents might be attained through The Freedom of Information Act. It would be interesting to pursue and would open a new door for THE USA SCIENTISTS now trapped in never, never land along with the inhibition of 'correctly' released documents.


Arctic Ocean Circulation - It enters on the left and slowly, or at least it used to be slowly circulates to the right. In at the narrows between Alaska and Russia and out between Canada and Greenland and Europe and Iceland, past Greenland.


Three contour lines appear on this image. The red line is the 2007 minimum, as of September 15, about the same time the record low was reached, and it almost exactly fits the sea ice observed by AMSR-E. The green line indicates the 2005 minimum, the previous record low. The yellow line indicates the median minimum from 1979 to 2000.

Video (click here)

This is the graphic that accompanies the article by NASA Earth Observatory. I can only hope to relay the 'obvious' to those that may be thinking "At least there is still ice in the Arctic Ocean." There is always danger to making the public aware of some realities that haven't occurred to them as it also makes aware those that would like to see the demise of the Arctic Ocean for reasons of 'wealth' rather than 'life.' And I'll explain the idea of planet demise as I view it as well in a minute.

The map is oddly oriented and I don't believe there is anything sinister in that, it's just the way NASA placed the map. It was obviously a view of the current ocean opposed to the previous oceans. The Arctic Ocean is in the center, North America, Canada specifically on the left while Europe and Asia is to the right of the image.

It is sometimes strange to realize a huge ice ocean can have a circulation, but it does and it is easily discerned in the map above. Now, it's easy to come to understand that ice floats on water, especially ocean water, because ice even in the ocean is 'fresh water' with less density than salt water. Ice floats in most beverages in a glass because it has different molecular structure even though it is water, it is solid water and between atoms of H2O in the solid state there is space. That space has no density, hence ice is lighter per cubic centimeter than water.

So realize while looking at this image produced by NASA that the current 'ice mass' still called The Arctic Ocean is at the 'exit' side of the ocean. The ice mass is at the boundaries along the 'wider' exit side of Canada, Greenland, Europe and Iceland. That is a very somber reality. This year scientists reporting on this profound ice loss noted that sea ice was now making it's way out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Atlantic Ocean in large amounts. As a matter of fact the sea ice was floating out of the Arctic Circle in record amounts.

At this point I want to call attention to the fact there is a 'warming' current noted in the drawing of the Arctic Ocean circulation above. It is noted as an orange arrow in the right margin of the picture. It is headed toward the Arctic Circle. That arrow indicates the residual circulation into the Arctic Circle of the Gulf Current. The Gulf Current visits the North Atlantic and helps warm England. It also proceeds somewhat to the north and the Arctic Circle which is normal to some extent. So therefore, the Arctic Ocean is compromised by it's lack of frozen mass and the increased sea ice loss into the North Atlantic directly into the path of The Gulf Current.

Realizing there is 'sluffing' of ice into the North Atlantic brings to mind the fact the most dense water to the Atlantic Ocean Basin comes off the Arctic Ocean. This dense subaquatic waterfall into the North Atlantic is the source to the deep water currents known as "The Ocean Conveyor Belt" (click here).

In examing the 'placement' of the current ice mass at the exit to the Arctic Ocean circulation and realizing significant amounts of sea ice are floating PAST the coastlines of Greenland which is also melting as no surprise to warmer waters now circulating closer to the Greenland Ice Sheet, it is a logical conclusion to state, WHEN the Arctic Ocean Ice Mass finally losses enough of it's size, it will literally break up and within hours and certainly in less than a week, the entire ice mass will be floating 'very temporarily' in the Atlantic Ocean until it finally melts. I believe that event is as soon as two years. Perhaps. Less.

The reason that is such a very bad idea is because Earth will have lost it's thermostat. It will no longer have a benevolent environment created by it's much cooler oceans. The reason humans and any biotic life can live on Earth is because the polar regions wax and wane in ice formations to cool the troposphere. That ability will have been destroyed when the last of the 'large' ice masses are gone and the oceans only have the ability to continue to heat and while some would say the oceans will take a long time to heat. Not so. The surface waters of the ocean are a 'layer' all of itself and does not readily mix with the lower layers of ocean waters. The surface layer of ocean is currently what brings benevolent temperatures to any land mass. The ocean conveyer belt will lose it's contribution from the Arctic Ocean as well.

When I first noted there were vortexes in the troposphere over the North Atlantic and North Pacific on October 4, 2002, THE WINDS the NASA scientists refer to inconclusively, I calculated it would be about five years before humans would profoundly regret their denial of Human Induced Global Warming. I was right about the 'concept' of regret, I just don't know if nations actually do regret it yet.

At the time I made testimony to The New Source Review regarding Human Induced Global Warming in April and May of 2003, I noted the 'excuse' by some scientists to justify the continued emissions of carbon dioxide was an ancient Earth event called "Younger Dryas (click here)." I also noted at the time, humans were not among the species on Earth in number they are now AND the ability of Earth to continue to heat was limited by the natural mechanisms of Earth to emit CO2. Those natural mechanisms have been eliminated as the sole source of CO2 and replaced with continuous emissions by a nation fully capable of reversing it's pollution while other countries continue to struggle to do so.

I don't care anymore what some might say or think regarding my statements, I have been correct about my estimations and I refuse to be silent of what I believe as an American citizen in demand of action by this government rather than a government oppressed by pandering to economics that are destroying the future of Earth to be benevolent to generations to come. It's an outrage this is the condition of the Arctic Ocean and an even greater outrage so many have consented to it.

The Ugly Face of Bigotry - "The Cheney Observer"

This was an editorial that appeared in "The Arab News" on October 16, 2007. It's a good thing the Middle East is finding commentary to counter the 'Light and Fluff' or normally Western newsprint that advocated peace, such as the New York Times. Today, the New York Times is not accepting 'stinging' responses on their blogs, but, only comments that make 'nice, nice' for all their readers. This type of editorial is necessary for the 'balance' needed in the public venues of information. I congratulate them for accomplishing the best editorial about this snakes I've ever read, especially at a time when the Bush White House is at the UN ranting again one more time about an invasion, but, this time into Iran as the financial markets are gasping for air.

Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk

I’ve long believed that Fox News contributor, author, and slash-and-burn right-wing columnist Ann Coulter was either a nut job or a calculating avaricious alligator-skinned prima donna, who would say just about anything to get her books on the best-seller list. Others have put in the category of a harmless loud-mouthed prankster, whose malicious outpourings should be taken with a shovel of salt.
Lest you’ve forgotten, this is what Coulter had to say in her Sept. 12, 2001 column:
“We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers; we carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war”. Seems Ms. Coulter is either an insider or clairvoyant.
She was later to say: “If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines we could dispense with airport security altogether.”
Coulter has also pressed law enforcement to racially profile Muslims and has used blatantly racist comments to depict Arabs and Muslims that are too offensive to be reproduced here.
It is, therefore, incredible that instead of being ostracized for her verbal detritus, until recently Coulter has been a regular guest on Fox News and has been invited to speak on college campuses and at evangelical meetings.
But now the emaciated plastic blonde with the serpentine tongue may have crossed a line too red even for right-wing, Bible-thumping America to swallow.
Coulter has taken on the Jews.
Her latest despicable attack poured forth during an appearance on CNBC’s “The Big Idea”, hosted by Donny Deutsch.
When asked about her vision of a perfect America, she said it would “look like New York City during the Republican National Convention”. So far so good, but when pressed to expand, she said, “People were happy. They’re Christian. They’re tolerant. They defend America, they...”
Naturally, this made Donny Deutsch, a self-confessed practicing Jew, sit up and take notice. “Christian — so we should be Christian. It would be better if we were all Christian,” he asked. “Yes”, answered Coulter before inviting her disbelieving host to attend church.
Things then went from bad to worse.
Deutsch: So I should not be a Jew, I should be a Christian, and this would be a better place?
Coulter: Well, you could be a practicing Jew, but you’re not.
Deutsch: I actually am. That’s not true. I really am. But — so we would be better if we were — if people — if there were no Jews, no Buddhists...
“We just want Jews to be perfected...” Coulter explained.
“Wow, you didn’t really say that, did you?” responded an incredulous Deutsch who was later to say he was personally offended by remarks he considered anti-Semitic.
“Don’t you see how hateful, how anti-Semitic?” asked Deutsch.
Coulter: No!
Deutsch: How do you not see? You’re an educated woman. How do you not see that?
Coulter: That isn’t hateful at all.
“I don’t want you being offended by this,” she went on shoving her feet even further down her mouth. “This is what Christians consider themselves...We consider ourselves perfected Christians. For me to say that for you to become a Christian is to become a perfected Christian is not offensive at all”.
The Lobby is up in arms. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a press release condemning Coulter’s “anti-Semitic comment that Christians ‘want Jews to be perfected’.”
“Coulter’s remarks are outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries-old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism. The notion that Jews are religiously inferior or imperfect because they do not accept Christian beliefs was the basis for 2,000 years of church-based anti-Semitism,” went the missive. “Clearly, Ann Coulter needs a wake-up call about the power of words to injure others and fuel hatred.”
Exactly! But where was the ADL when her target was Muslims and Arabs?
Richard Sideman, the president of the American Jewish Committee said: “Ms. Coulter’s assertion that Jews are somehow religiously imperfect smacks of the most odious anti-Jewish sentiment.” The National Jewish Democratic Council has called on “mainstream media outlets” to quit inviting Coulter on their programs.
In Israel, the media reaction to Coulter’s comments is less griping and more analytical. It seems the penny may have finally dropped as to the weird Zionist-evangelical buddy-buddy relationship.
Here’s what Penina Taylor has to say in her column “Thank you, Ann Coulter”, published in Aretz Sheva:
“Help me out here. I’m a little confused. The entire Jewish world is up in arms about what Ann Coulter said...Ann was caught saying out loud what every evangelical Christian has been saying behind our back (and not behind our back) for two thousand years.
“What gets me isn’t that Ms. Coulter thinks that all Jews need to be Christians — I could have told you that. What gets me is that the Jewish world has convinced itself that the evangelical Christian right doesn’t really want us all to convert to Christianity. Hello? Is anyone home out there?” Ha’aretz columnist Bradley Burston appears to have experienced an epiphany in his column “Ann Coulter’s dream of a Jew-free America”.
He points out that Coulter has “waded into the mess first made by Republican White House hopeful John McCain when he referred to America as a nation founded on the principles of Christianity, indicating that he would like to see a fellow Christian in the White House”.
Burston then says his mea culpas:
“I was wrong to write off as mere stand-up racism her advice after the September 11 attacks” concerning Coulter’s comments about “swarthy-looking males”.
He also admits he was wrong to write-off her suggestion that John Edwards should have been assassinated and her disgusting depiction of Islam.
“I was wrong to see her as some highly intelligent, well-educated, perversely gifted panderer to the lower common denominator. I should have taken her seriously,” he said.
“I’ll never underestimate her again,” he promises. “Ann Coulter has a plan for the Jews. She has one for Muslims as well. And it’s her people who are exactly the kind of Americans who could find the way to carry it out”. Couldn’t have said it better myself! If you come to Cairo, Bradley, I might even offer to buy you a fuul sandwich.
Coulter has emerged as an unintentional whistle-blower. The next time groups of messianic evangelicals decide to tour the Holy Land bearing fistfuls of dollars for the “poor, downtrodden Israelis” who need to get on with building their temple as a prerequisite to the Second Coming — their welcome may not be quite as warm.

Another 'wedge' issue to endorse war at any cost. Cheney seeks WWIII over his coveted Caspian Sea

Turkey Set to Approve Military Moves Against Rebel Kurds in Iraq (click here)
By VOA News 17 October 2007
Turkey's parliament is expected to vote Wednesday on a government motion authorizing cross-border military operations against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says passage of the motion will not mean a military operation is imminent. But he says Turkey will act to defend itself at the right time and under the right conditions....

Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote (click here)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution backed by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.
Almost a dozen lawmakers had shifted against the measure in a 24-hour period ending Tuesday night, accelerating a sudden exodus that has cast deep doubt over the measure’s prospects. Some made clear that they were heeding warnings from the White House, which has called the measure dangerously provocative, and from the Turkish government, which has said House passage would prompt Turkey to reconsider its ties to the United States, including logistical support for the Iraq war....

Caspian Sea countries' summit in Iran - 16 Oct 07 (click here)

Caspian summit in Tehran ends with final declaration (click here)
The second summit of the Caspian Sea states ended in Tehran today. The presidents of Iran, Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan attended the summit. Speaking at the summit, Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said that "Turkmenistan rejects the practice of unilateral activities in the Caspian Sea, first of all with regards to exploration of disputable oil fields." The president emphasized that Turkmenistan strictly observes the universally recognized norms and principles of international law designed to ensure respect of sovereignty and equitable relations between regional partners. "The legitimate rights and interest of Turkmenistan should be treated the same way," Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said. A joint declaration was adopted in the end of the summit. The declaration defines a set of principles of behavior for the Caspian Sea states. It is designed as a political guide in the Caspian affairs until the adoption of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. In particular, the declaration acknowledges sovereign rights of the Caspian Sea states in relation to the Caspian Sea and its resources, the need for urgent joint efforts to resolve ecological problems in the region, determines the navigation regulations in the Caspian Sea exclusively for the Caspian Sea states' ships. The document asserts the right of countries to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The declaration also notes that the Caspian Sea states will not allow other states to use their territories for committing aggressions and other military activities against any Caspian Sea state. In the course of the Tehran summit the sides will also discuss and agree on a number of issues of bilateral and multilateral nature. In particular, it is expected that a trilateral agreement on construction of a railroad through the territories of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran will be signed. It should be noted that Turkmenistan was the initiator of the first Caspian summit. It took place in Ashgabat in April 2002. The next Caspian summit will be held in Baku in 2008.