I'm involved in saving this very precious forest. It's been a busy week and we now have legal council. We are also finding corruption and it's not easy to deal with it in a City like Wilmington, North Carolina. There are a lot of folks that believe government officials don't lie and don't deceive, well the reality is that they do and in recent revelations by the press corp in Wilmington has revealed the Mayor, Bill Saffo has been making deals for a convention center with State University Funds.
These are the significant links involved in that discovery:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080125/NEWS/801250425/1004/news01
and
http://www.wwaytv3.com/uncw_meeting_center_could_rival_citys_convention_center/01/2008
and
http://www.wwaytv3.com/saffo_proposed_uncw_conference_center_wont_compete_with_citys/01/2008
It would appear that the University's chancellor, Rosemary DePaolo has been planning a huge building campaign behind everyone's backs along with the Board of Trustees. The building of a HOTEL and a CONFERENCE CENTER on UNCW property was NOT in the 2005 Master Plan. The 2005 Master Plan is also deceptive in it's covert intention to eliminate the degree conferring capacity of the Biology and Environmental Studies Program by destroying a rare and pristine Long Leaf Pine Ecosystem, right there on campus. That ecosystem is studied by the students of that university and the administration has completely disregarded the fact the degrees conferred are related to the studies in that forest.
Amazing now lazy a corrupt administration can be, isn't it? But, the chancellor, Ms. Rosemary DePaolo is a Bush Conservative and typical of any Republican is corrupt and will rob you blind before you know it. Money, money, money. No matter the way they get it so long as they get it.
But, isn't been a somewhat interesting week around the globe, so I'll share some of my thoughts here with you.
It would seem as though Kenya has settled down a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if the potential is more 'latent' than anyone wants to believe. What I find more than odd is that as Kenya was settling down, Chad started to have problems. When one looks closely at the 'types' of assassinations of Kenya's leadership, it sort of looked like that of Bhutto.
I believe some of those behind the violence in Kenya simply picked up their weapons and plans and moved to Chad. I suppose the next stop is Somalia.
The British concluded their study of the Bhutto murders with the evidence allowed to them. The British investigation stated according to the x-rays they examined there was no bullet wound found in the Former Prime Minister Bhutto's skull. Hm. It's contrary to witnesses on the scene that stated they heard shots and saw her fall back into the vehicle before the blast went off. Another Warren Commission Report, it would seem that will go on and on forever.
Robert Gates has his nerve doesn't he? He isn't even involved in Afghanistan, has refused the USA Marines their wish to return to Afghanistan and then he challenges the Europeans who are sacrifying their blood and treasure that they are abandoning their posts through NATO deployment. Amazing. Canada went to Afghanistan to 'assist' as an ally in the NATO alliance the USA when we invaded Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. Bush abandons his post in Afghanistan and moves the USA forces into Iraq in an illegal invasion. The Canadians get tired of fighting the war the USA abandoned and in cooperation with the Europeans and now Gates feels he has the right to harass the Europeans because the numbers in NATO are falling with Canada leaving. Amazing the Gall the Bush Neocons have, isn't it?
Maybe Gates needs to stop his harassment of Europe and fight the war in Afghanistan that Bush abandoned in March of 2003, nearly five years ago !!!!
Iraq is still a mess. The suicide bombers are at work still. You know when Cheney went to Afghanistan the insurgents tried to kill him, Gates goes to Iraq and the people of Iraq get killed. That should tell him something ! Like the time it takes to look at himself in the mirror of the Baghdad Hilton at the USA Embassy in the Green Zone, it's been five years of an illegal USA occupation, maybe it's time to leave Iraq to the Iraqis. You think, maybe? Gates just doesn't 'get it.' They protest differently in Iraq. They kill each other.
You have to know it's time to leave Iraq when a single civilian, not ten, but one happens to stumble across six sleeping GIs and ends up dead only to have the American GI that killed the innocent Iraqi jailed for ten years for manslaughter.Now, I know all the rationale for the GI shooting someone that startled them. But, that is not the issue. The issue is that it happened in the first place. As bizarre as it is for a startled GI to be charged with murder is enough and it's done completely for political reasons so the Shi'ite Leadership in Baghdad continues to tolerate Bush and Gates. But, the 'idea' that a single civilian would stumble across six sleeping GIs without causing any harm to them before that civilian was discovered and killed is simply outrageous.
Bush claims that Iraq is getting calmer. We all know it's because the Mahdi Army declared a 'cease fire' to facilitate Bush's understanding that they can indeed control their aggressions and Iraq can be a far calmer place if the USA would just leave. Then to realize, the GIs are asleep. Six of the them. Completely asleep only to be startled awake by a passing civilian, where do you think the Mahdi Army gets its impetus to be aggressive in the first place? This is hideous. If there were people so dangerous in Baghdad or Iraq that they needed GIs to protect them, those GIs if discovered asleep would never have the opportunity to kill again. Who's kidding who here? The American presence in Iraq, a country the size of Texas, has a huge military presence that creates it's own problems. When are Americans going to wake up to the fact they have been 'had' and do something about it before more Iraqis and their children are forced to realize the safest place for them are refugee camps where Iran sends humanitarian supplies?
Did you hear about this? Probably not if you're in the USA, they only talk about the political races. A ethnic Somalie woman tried to hijack a commuter plane in New Zealand. She's a New Zealand citizen. Sort of like those medical doctors in Britian that tried to attack the airport building. Remember them? You have to wonder who's pulling the strings here, don't you?
http://voanews.com/english/2008-02-08-voa8.cfm
I wish they'd annihilate Osama bin Laden already. I really wish they would.
You hear about the sink hole? I bet you didn't. There has been so much adverse weather, freezing, melting, run off that a sink hole developed under a major highway in Denver. Yeah, seriously.
http://www.komotv.com/news/national/15441526.html
Oh, too busy watching all the election news, huh? Look. Does it really matter? It would be nice to have a woman president or a black president and a wonderful victory for either of them, but, in reality what difference does it make who gets elected, the USA is in such bad condition economically there aren't going to be many choices. The USA has suffered terribly under the Bush/Cheney administration and the nation is a mess. It's priorities in the global community is all wrong. No matter who moves into the Executive Branch of the White House will find it difficult to continue the war or have any rational to expand it. If they try, the USA will find itself in a war to end it's capacity to make war and don't think for one minute the world's cannons aren't already prepared for that impetus. They are. I guarantee you they are and a 'Superpower that is a global threat' will receive fire power from every other nation on Earth, just to 'end it.' You know it's true. The persons elected to the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch need to be huge pundits of peace and nothing else. I mean it.
You want to know how bizarre this is going to get once the general election gets started? I'll tell you. Ready?
There will be only two choices Americans will take seriously, unless Al Gore decides to throw his hat into the ring. But, the two choices are this.
A Republican that will promise to stop the carbon dioxide polluting ways of the USA, like the team of McCann and Lieberman, while continuing the war effort abroad. How bizarre is that? How much of a complete lie is that? A nation committed to stopping it's carbon dioxide as the largest polluter on Earth is going to continue to cause war which destroys biotic content and the military is a huge polluter of carbon dioxide. Huge. There is no such thing as a set of Neocons that believe they can stop carbon dixoide pollution. There just isn't.
The other choice is a Democrat committed to ending the war while setting the USA on a path of economic improvement through a new economy built on the manufacture of electric cars, new mass transit including government backed high speed magnetic rail to stop the carbon dioxide pollution of the USA to end Human Induced Global Warming and prevent human suffering on Earth.
Now, which agenda is more 'doable.' The Democrats agenda. Except to promise a new economy based in spending will make people think twice if it means a larger debt. Right? Well. If you stop killing people in Iraq, there will be monies for a well financed, government backed, return to sanity economic strategy for the USA.
Think about it.
It's time to take back the country.
Good night.
