The USA isn't going to be there that long !!!!!!!!

In this image released by the Iraqi government, Iraq's Cabinet votes to approve a security pact with the United States during a session in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Iraq's Cabinet on Sunday approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year, the government said. The decision followed months of difficult negotiations and, pending parliamentary approval, will remove a major point of contention between the two allies. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government, HO)

Well done, Rummy and every Republican between here and Dorothy's Kansas !

Karzai Offers Passage to Taliban Leader for Talks
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, said Sunday that he would guarantee the safety of the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar if Mr. Omar agreed to negotiate for a peaceful settlement of the worsening conflict in the country.
Mr. Omar, a fugitive with a $10 million American bounty on his head, has been in hiding since the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, and is believed by Western intelligence agencies to be living somewhere in the region of Quetta in western Pakistan....

Americans had to wait all this time to displace the liars?

Why?

The Bush/Cheney Executive Branch and the majority Republicans LOST the War against Global Terrorism. Do you know how this is going to resonate across the globe? Every nation's leaders needs to 'batten down the hatches.' Without a doubt in my mind ! Border security and strong alliances, NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Portraits of Grief (click here)


It was the day when the unreal became the unimaginable. Sept. 11, 2001, the crystalline morning when planes dropped from the skies and toppled the World Trade Center and punctured a hole in the Pentagon, was a demarcation point that shattered the security of the country and introduced a nebulous and virulent enemy previously unfamiliar to most citizens. Nearly 3,000 people died that morning, the vast majority of them in the gnarled rubble of the Lower Manhattan towers, others at the Pentagon and in a rural Pennsylvania field. A numbed country with red-rimmed eyes came to understand the ugly menace of terrorism....



...The echoes of that horrific day have radiated outward in myriad directions, indelibly altering peoples’ concept of what it means to feel safe in the modern world. Investigations were undertaken into how something of such magnitude could have happened, and conspiracy theorists trotted out diverging notions. A war on terror was set in motion that gravitated from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq. The long-running and problematic Iraq war has opened fissures in the nation and abroad, and advanced to the forefront of political dialogue.


Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (click here), left, and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walk after a lunch meeting in Dharamsala, India, Friday, March 21, 2008. Pelosi, called on the world community Friday to denounce China in the wake of its crackdown in Tibet, calling the crisis "a challenge to the conscience of the world." (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)





Buddhist bishop spoke against injustice (click here)
Robert Davila
Sacramento Bee
Article Launched: 11/14/2008 08:12:25 AM PST
The Rev. Newton Ishiura, a former bishop of the Buddhist Church of Canada who retired at the Buddhist Church of Florin, has died at age 90.
He died Nov. 6 from complications of pneumonia, said his daughter Asoka Ishiura-Lluch.
The Rev. Ishiura's lifelong ministry followed a tradition of Buddhist priests in his family dating as far back as ninth-century Japan. He was born in 1918 in Kilauea, Hawaii, where his father ministered at a sugar plantation, and moved with his family to Japan in 1935.
He studied Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto and graduated and was ordained in 1941. He returned to the United States to serve in the Los Angeles area, where he was arrested under World War II internment orders and sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona.
He went to Yale University in 1943 to teach Japanese to Army soldiers and served as a minister at the New York Buddhist Church. He ministered in Hawaii after the war and campaigned to allow the Buddhist wheel of life symbol to be placed on the headstones of Buddhist veterans....






Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 16, (click here) meditates under a peepal tree in the remote village of Ratanapuri village on March 8, 2006 in Bara district Nepal. Pilgrims and followers have been visiting the boy after word spread that he has been meditating without drinking water for nine months and that he will carry on for another six years until he gains enlightenment. Pilgrims from as far as Korea and Japan worship him as the reincarnation of the Buddha. Relatives and neighbours said Bamjan undertook meditation when he returned from a tour of Lumbini, where Buddha was born, and monasteries in Pokhara in Nepal and Dehradun in India. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)

Burma, Myanmar: Young Female Journalist Jailed For 2 Years (click here)
By Ashin Mettacara A young female journalist from Econ Vision Wewkly Journal has been sentenced to 2 years in jail for covering Nargis cyclone news. Ma Eint Khaing Oo, 24, was sentenced today by a court in Rangon's Tar Mwe, said a witness. She was arrested in front of the head office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Yangon on June 10....




August 2000: "It's nothing to do with ideology... It's about the culture and history of the country... We're not opposed to this exhibition in principle because the exhibits are part of our history. And everything which happens in the country becomes part of the country and the government is obliged to preserve it." - Naqibullah Ahmad Yarn, Taliban president of the National Museum of Afghanistan


February 2001: "It has been decided to break down all statues/idols present in different parts of the country. This is because these idols have been gods of the infidels, who worshipped them, and these are respected even now and perhaps may be turned into gods again. The real God is only Allah, and all other false gods should be removed." - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar

Palin actually expects to have a career in politics with an entire planet melting down while pumping oil out of the Arctic Tundra? I don't think so.

Post election of 2008 is a perfect time to reflect on the past eight years of Bush propaganda and a completely failed USA strategy against terrorist networks that did NOTHING but facilitate exploitation of the USA Treasury by complete incompetents !

..."The main economic argument McCain made during this campaign was earmarks," Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana told the Republican Governors Association. "We've got real ideas. We can't just be the party of 'no,' " he continued in a later interview.... (click here)

One might pay attention to 'the chronic campaigning' of the Republican Party. During this week FOX News is presenting 'an exclusive' on "The Palin's in Alaska." Maybe FOX didn't get the word, the Palins aren't 'The First Family,' except maybe of comedy.


The Republicans ONLY hope for 2012 and beyond is if President Elect Obama completely falls on his face. It ain't going to happen. The Demcrats is where the talent is and always has been. The Republicans having NOTHING going for them, nor have they. Even Reagan had 'no ideas' all he had was a huge biotic content of the USA to deregulate and rake in the profits.

...LIKE A COMET racing across the political sky, Sarah Palin's moment on the national stage was both bright and brief....

The Chronic Campaigning of the Republican Party WAS the reason for all the problems both the USA and the Global Community face. They left the 'real' war in Afghanistan for an Oil War in Iraq, while using images and rhetoric the entire time to brainwash a nation and demoralize every ally. Do they actually think they are going to get away with this? Some kind of 'tolerance' to the 'insanity' of the past eight years. It was more than just politics. It was treason for profit !


Let me put this into perspective for Dear, Sweet Sarah.

OBAMA IN 2012 !!!

I mean 'GET REAL.'

Palin puts 'brutal' 2008 behind her, looks to 2012 (click here)
By ANN SANNERThe Associated Press Tuesday, November 11, 2008; 10:14 PM
WASHINGTON -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has put the "brutal" 2008 campaign behind her and has the next presidential race in her sights. John McCain gave her a hearty thumbs-up, saying Palin didn't damage his own White House bid.
Palin is stepping out with a flurry of national television interviews and a high-profile appearance at the Republican Governors Association meeting this week. It is a marked departure for a vice presidential candidate who was held to tightly controlled appearances for much of the fall campaign....

Research without death: $6m whale plan

Gathering data ... a Japanese whaling ship with a subject for research.
Photo: Reuters

Stephanie PeatlingNovember 17, 2008
THE Federal Government will spend $6 million on a whale research program which it hopes will debunk Japan's claims that whales need to be killed in order to be studied.
"Modern-day research uses genetic and molecular techniques, as well as satellite tags, acoustic methods and aerial surveys, rather than grenade-tipped harpoons," the Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, said.
The money will be announced today as part of the preparation for Australia's participation in the next round of International Whaling Commission talks, to be held next month.
The program will be called the Southern Ocean Research Partnership and be Australia's attempt to bring together anti-whaling countries under the banner of research....
..."The investment is about debunking once and for all the need to kill whales in the name of science and providing capacity to support non-lethal research partnerships, as well as promoting the economic value of whale-watching," Mr Garrett said....
...Last week, the respected Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, reported that the Antarctic minke whale quota would be reduced from 850 to 700 this summer, the first reduction in more than 20 years.
Opponents of Japanese whaling cited the figures as evidence that the struggling industry is in retreat.

Severe storm - Destructive wind gusts and Large Hail : Ipswich Australia October 21 2008 (Video toward end of entry. thank you)

Cartoon: It was a dark and stormy night...from The New Zealand Herald

This is a high tropospheric distrubance over Antartica that has completely displaced the Arctic Air Mass over the Blue Ice.
The coastal areas of Antarctica have faired well, the warmest on the coastal (low altitude/elevations) is Base Orcadas at 0 Centigrade / 33 Fahrenheit.
The lower elevations/altitudes have faired well because that is where the frigid air mass located. Considering the massive amount of frigid air that left the Blue Ice at elevation of 3 miles, the coastal plains are still quite warm.

Data Source: GMS-5 data from Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA) (click here)
GOES-9 data from NOAA and JMA
via Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Degrees Celsius Colour
-68 Very pale orange (off-white)
-61 Pale orange
-55 Orange
-47 BRIGHT BRICK-RED
-40 Dull reddish-green
-33 Dull green (red tinge)
-27 Dull green (slightly reddish)
-20 BRIGHT LIGHT GREEN
-12 Medium green (bluish)
-6 Dark Green (blue/green)
+1 Light Blue
+8 Medium Blue
+15 Dark Blue
+22 Dark grey/blue
>22 Black

New Zealand Satellite picture Sunday 16 Nov 09:00PM
Auckland
Issued at10:39 AM

17 Nov 2008 NZDT
Area Description

Manukau and Waitemata Harbours, Hauraki Gulf and Bream Head to Cape Colville

Situation

A front is moving eastwards across the North Island today, followed by an unsettled west to southwest flow over the area through to Thursday. Northerlies developing over the region on Friday as a large trough aproaches New Zealand from the west.

Warning

Wind warning in force for the Hauraki Gulf and for Bream Head to Cape Colville

Forecast

For the Manukau and Waitemata Harbours: Today: Northerly 20 knots gusting 30 knots, change southwest this afternoon. Sea moderate. Poor visibility in rain, easing to fair in showers this evening. Tomorrow: Southwest 20 knots gusting 30 knots, easing to 15 knots at night. Moderate sea becoming slight at night. Fine and cloudy periods, with a few showers. For the Hauraki Gulf and for Bream Head to Cape Colville: Today: Northerly 25 knots gusting 35 knots, changing southwest 20 knots gusting 30 knots late afternoon. Rough sea easing to moderate late afternoon. Poor visibility in rain, easing to fair in showers this evening. Tomorrow: Southwest 20 knots gusting 30 knots. Sea moderate. Fine and cloudy periods, with a few showers. OutlookOutlook until midnight Friday: Wednesday: Southwest 20 knots. A few showers. Thursday: Southwest 15 knots, easing to 10 knots later. Fine and cloudy periods. Friday: Northeast 10 knots rising to northerly 20 knots later. Cloudy periods. SwellSwell forecast to midnight Friday: East Coast: Easterly half a metre or less. West Coast: Southwest rising to 2 metres today and to 3 metres for a time Tuesday and early Wednesday, easing to 1 metre Friday.

Source: Image from Japan Meteorological Agency satellite MTSAT-1R via Bureau of Meteorology.
Captured: Monday 17 November 2008 00:30 UTC
UTC is equivalent* to: 17 November 11:30 EDT
17 November 11:00 CDT
17 November 09:30 WDT


Relationship between the continents of Australia and Antarctica today/now (11/16/2008 @ 7:32 PM EST - 1232 GMT.


Nature's wrath ... wild storms have caused death and destruction in Queensland.
A TEENAGER was killed and tens of thousands of homes remain without power after the worst storms in Queensland in over 10 years.
In yesterday's storm tragedy, police said the 19-year-old victim and a 20-year-old friend were taking photographs in a drain behind the Westfield Chermside shopping centre in Brisbane's inner north when they were overwhelmed by flash flooding....
...More than 230,000 homes and businesses lost power and State Emergency Service volunteers have fielded hundreds of calls for assistance, while firefighters worked to save those trapped in floodwaters.
A couple trapped in their vehicle on Chaprowe Road, The Gap, were saved after firefighters discovered live power lines across the vehicle.
And the Keperra Sanctuary Nursing Home was partially evacuated after significant structural damage.
Energex workers were this morning still working to restore power to more than 103,000 homes and businesses, but the supply might not be reconnected until the afternoon due to the extent of the damage.
Energex spokesman Danny Donald said the storm was one of the worst seen in Brisbane for more than 20 years. "It's the worst storm we've recorded on the network in at least a decade, if not back to 1985," Mr Donald said.
"More than 650 power lines equivalent to 33km of wire were ripped from poles by trees and tree branches being carried by high winds.
Some areas in the northwestern Brisbane suburbs of Albany Creek, Ferny Grove and The Gap were described as looking like a "war zone" after roofing iron was torn from homes and thrown into the 33,000-volt network.
Further south, the ferocious storm marched in from the west about 2.30pm, delivering the hardest blows to Wonglepong near Beaudesert, Mt Tamborine and Wongawallen.
About 70mm of rain deluged Mt Tamborine in 30 minutes.
"There's carnage from one side of the mountain to the other," one fire officer said.

Above Current Image of Antarctica via Google Earth.


November 16, 2008
12:00 PM
Antarctica (click here for 24 hour loop) - huge amount of air mass movement off the top ice/ Blue Ice.


November 16, 2008
1927 gmt
Antarctica - has lost its frigid air mass !


Vostok is at an all time high of -42 Centigrade and -52 Fahrenheit.


November 16, 2008
12:00 PM
Antarctica - (click for 24 hour loop) or what is left of it now that it is unrelentingly HOT !
That video was three weeks ago. This article with video is TODAY !


Storm cuts power to 145,000 homes, brings death and destruction (click here)
Michael Wray, David Earley and Greg Stolz
November 17, 2008 06:30am
UPDATE: TENS of thousands of homes remain without power and commuters face delays after the worst storms in 20 years, in which a man drowned.
In yesterday's storm tragedy, police said the 19-year-old victim and a 20-year-old friend were taking photographs in a drain behind the Westfield Chermside shopping centre when they were overwhelmed by flash flooding....
Another Video of today's storms.
100,000 homes left without power after storm hits Queensland

http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Weather/tabid/316/articleID/80162/cat/61/Default.aspx#video

65 Days until Inauguration

Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this is a direct result of Human Induced Global Warming. The high winds are resultant from huge 'heat transfer systems' off the Equator.

The culmination of decades of neglect to the biotic balance of Earth has 'come home to roost.' The only hope for any of this is evacuation, which means the interior of the USA has to be able to absorb all those people along with a 'wish for rain' and an abatement of the winds. Not likely to happen soon.

What will begin to happen is that these fires usually cause their own storms to accumulate and will eventually be extinguished by those storms. The soot delivered to the troposphere begins to accumulate water vapor at higher altitudes and then a huge rain storm results. Because of the chronic logistics of the soot the rain results over the source. The source of the soot is the densest concentration of 'condensation nuclei.'

The Senate Bill and subsequent House Bill that will return biotic balance to Earth by reducing Carbon Dioxide and treating as a New Source Review component gas is urgent and necessary. In that bill should include issues with fires and fire fighting and how people are facilitated into areas of the country away from same fires for purpose of survival.

This fire is scary. Scarier than many of the past. It has enormous fuel opportunities and the wind simply is out running all attempts to contain it.

We have problems in the USA. Huge problems. It would behooze the International Community to work together to not only stop terrorist networks, but, to reverse the deadly tend of Human Induced Global Warming and return economic viability to their countries WHILE focusing on economies with 'environmentally correct and benevolent' priorities. This global economic collapse may very well be a 'gift to humanity' that few are appreciating for 'the opportunity' to start 'anew' with a 'planet friendly agenda.'