Tomorrow's Door - War or Peace? Who is going to be your next president?

War hasn't worked yet !!!!
And who is competent enough to achieve peace, a fine balance between strength and diplomacy?
(At title to entry, in a temper tantrum after Abbas's propaganda regarding al Qaeda didn't provide enough impetus for Israel to annihilate Hamas in Gaza, he withdrew from peace talks.)


A Simeulue islander passes by a jumble of houses and shops brought down by a massive earthquake in Sinabong, the island's capital in this April 2, 2005 file photo. The fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami has ruptured nearly 20 times this month, with three strong quakes in the last 24 hours alone. The activity shows the stress the seam is under and could be a harbinger of worse to come, scientists warn. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)
Strong earthquake rocks Indonesia (click here)


Police investigate deadly attack on ex-rebels in Aceh (click here)
The Associated Press , Jakarta Mon, 03/03/2008 8:04 PM National
Former rebels in Aceh warned of fresh conflict Monday after a 100-strong mob torched one of their offices, killing six people and underscoring tensions in the region since a 2005 peace deal.
It was unclear whether the attackers burned the victims alive or hacked them to death before setting the building alight, officials said.
The attack happened early Sunday in Aceh's central highlands.
Ibrahim Syamsuddin, a spokesman for the former rebels, said the incident was related to a dispute between the ex-fighters and a local union over control of revenues from a local bus station.
Syamsuddin also alleged some of the attackers were former members of a pro-Jakarta militia blamed for attacks on separatists and civilian sympathizers during the conflict. Their relationship with the union members was not immediately clear.
Many ex-rebels and militia members turned to gang warfare since the war ended. Bus stations and other transport hubs in Indonesia are often targeted by criminal gangs seeking illegal levies....


General criticises Afghanistan troop restrictions (click here)
By David Blair in Kabul
Last Updated: 2:24am GMT 03/03/2008
Nato's commander in Afghanistan voiced his "frustration" with the restrictions imposed on the Alliance's forces yesterday and said these "national caveats" were hindering the fight against the Taliban.
General Dan McNeill, leader of Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), called for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan and gave the Daily Telegraph a vivid description of the difficulties he faces.
Some of the 40 nations who have contributed troops to his command, including France and Germany, have imposed limits on what their soldiers can do.
"I would like the force to be resourced to a level which I think is appropriate for the task in hand and within the force I would like the caveats to be eliminated," said Gen McNeill....



Thriving Taliban Drugs Show Afghan Woes (click here)
By ANNE GEARAN – 2 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban have built a huge and profitable drug operation in Afghanistan while provincial governors look the other way, the latest grim sign of backsliding in a country the U.S. has spent six years and billions of dollars trying to salvage.
A report Friday on drugs — it said Afghanistan now produces 93 percent of the world's opium poppy — comes hand in hand with the resurgence of Taliban militants despite U.S. anti-insurgent efforts. Also on the rise: terrorist violence such as roadside bombs, suicide bombings, and attacks on police....


NATO chief disputes US intelligence assessment on Afghanistan (click here)

WASHINGTON: NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer took issue with the U.S. intelligence chief's recent estimate that the Afghan government controlled only about 30 percent of the country.
In a speech Friday, de Hoop Scheffer also chided U.S. officials for publicly criticizing the contribution of other NATO members to the alliance's mission in Afghanistan.
Earlier, speaking after a White House meeting with President George W. Bush, de Hoop Scheffer stressed the importance of the Afghan mission. He said that besides supporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people, "We're also there because we are fighting terrorism, and we cannot afford to lose. We are not losing; we are prevailing."...



Canadian soldier among over 20 killed in Afghanistan - Summary (click here)

Kabul - A Canadian soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, while Afghan and international forces killed or wounded more than 20 Taliban in separate operations, officials said Monday. Michael Yuki Hayakaze, a Canadian soldier serving under the banner of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), was killed when his patrolling vehicle was struck by a roadside mine in the Panjwayi district of southern Kandahar province on Sunday, the Canadian Defence Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
"This cowardly attack will not deter us from carrying out this important and much needed mission with our NATO partners," Canadian Defence Minister Peter Gordon MacKay was quoted in the statement as saying.
Hayakaze is the 79th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan since 2002, and a Canadian diplomat was killed there in 2006.
The majority of Canada's 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan are deployed in Kandahar province, but their involvement in the conflict has caused political controversy in the North American

nation....


Six injured in Nandigram violence (click here)
Special Correspondent
KOLKATA: Violence erupted in Nandigram area of West Bengal’s Purbo Medinipur district on Sunday when activists of the Trinamool Congress-led Bhoomi Ucched Pratirodh Committee clashed with Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers.
Six persons were injured in the incident , according to the district police. Rapid Action Force personnel have been deployed in the area.
State Congress president Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said here that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, his administration and the CPI(M) were responsible for the violence in Nandigram on March 14, 2007 in which 14 persons were killed in police firing. The CPI(M)’s other partners in the Left Front could not be blamed for the violence, he said.


Witnesses: Missiles Hit Somali Town (Click here)
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN – 1 hour ago
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Planes fired three missiles at a Somali town held by Islamic extremists early Monday, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people, including four children, residents and police said.
The missiles that struck Dobley, some four miles from the Kenyan border, were from military aircraft, but it was not clear from which country they originated, witnesses said. Remnants of an Islamic force that had once ruled much of southern Somalia took over Dobley last week.
Last year, the U.S. shelled suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia, one of the most lawless and violent countries in the world. Neither U.S. Africa Command nor U.S. Central Command said it was aware of Monday's missile strike. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, whose mandate covers Somalia, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
"We woke up with a loud and big bang and when we came out we found our neighbor's house completely obliterated as if no house existed here," a resident of the town, Fatuma Abdullahi, told The Associated Press. "We are taking shelter under trees. Three planes were flying over our heads."
A police officer who gave only his first name, Siyad, because he was not authorized to speak to the media said the eight wounded were hit by shrapnel. He also said the planes were military aircraft.
An aid worker in Dobley said up to six people were still trapped in the rubble at midday. It was not clear if these victims were included in the police officer's tally.
"A minimum of two bombs were dropped," the aid worker, who asked that his name not be used because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told the AP by telephone. "Between four and six people are in the rubble."
Clan elder Ahmed Nur Dalab said a senior Islamic official, Hassan Turki, was in town Sunday to mediate between his fighters and a militia loyal to the government. Turki's forces took over Dobley last week.
In early 2007, Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies drove out a radical Islamic group to which Turki is allied that had taken over much of southern Somalia. The Islamic forces have fought to regain power.
Somalia has been mired in chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other.


Suicide bomb kills 40 in Pakistan (click here)
By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad
Last Updated: 2:24am GMT 03/03/2008
A suicide bomber targeted an assembly of tribal elders yesterday killing more than 40 people in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province.
More than 100 people were injured in the attack in Darra Adam Khel tribal district which has become one of the province's flashpoints in recent months....

Sher Zaman, 32, one of five men in custody in the Bhutto assassination.
(Special To The Washington Post)
Extremist Accused in Bhutto Killing (click here)
By ZARAR KHAN – 2 days ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police on Saturday formally accused the top Taliban leader in the country and four others of planning the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
Police filed preliminary charges in court against Baitullah Mehsud, who had been named by the Pakistani government in the Dec. 27 killing of Bhutto in a suicide and gun-attack during a public rally. Mehsud, alleged to have al-Qaida connections, is underground and it is not clear if the police are anywhere close to catching him.
"Police submitted preliminary charges in the Bhutto case before an anti-terrorism court, and the judge issued non-bailable warrants of arrest against Baitullah Mehsud and four other accused" persons, said Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, the chief investigator in the case.
Mehsud was named by President Pervez Musharraf within days of the assassination, but the filing of the preliminary charges Saturday completes a legal formality. It is the first legal step before an arrest can be made.
Mehsud is the commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban, an umbrella group of Islamic militant groups linked to al-Qaida. Mehsud is believed to be based in the volatile South Waziristan province at the border with Afghanistan, and has been blamed for a series of suicide attacks across Pakistan....


Israeli ground troops pull out of Gaza (click here)
JERUSALEM, March 3 (UPI) -- Israeli troops Monday pulled out of Gaza, prompting Hamas to declare victory in the recent cross-border fighting in which more than 100 people died.
The withdrawal from Hamas-controlled Gaza is a reversal of Sunday's recommendations by Israeli military leaders to keep up pressure, Haaretz reported.
Even though ground troops left, a government spokesman said, "We will continue with our defensive actions against those who fire lethal rockets at our civilians."
Hamas spokesman Taher a-Nunu told the Jerusalem Post Hamas leadership asked several Arab countries to intervene in in reaching a cease-fire with Israel. He said Hamas had invited Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa to visit the Gaza Strip as a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.
He said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the only Arab leaders who were actively working toward reaching a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.
A dozen Palestinians died in the Gaza Strip Sunday, some in clashes that day with Israeli soldiers and other from injuries sustained in skirmishes Saturday, Haaretz said.


Annan peace deal: the crucial steps ahead (click here)
By LUCAS BARASA and KENNETH OGOSIA
Last updated: Mon, Mar 03, 2008 00:26 AM (EAT)
...Following the deal signed on Thursday, it will no longer matter where MPs sit in Parliament following the power-sharing deal between ODM and PNU. The two parties will now form a coalition. “What matters is what they do and say”, Mr Kilonzo told Nation by phone Sunday....


The NEW Border War is no longer Iran-Iraq, it's Iraq/Iran versus Turkey !

Kurd-Arab Kirkuk Clash Is `Ticking Time Bomb,' UN Mediator Says
By Bill Varner
Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The struggle between Kurds and Arabs for control of the city of Kirkuk and its oil amounts to a ``ticking time bomb'' in northern Iraq, according to the new United Nations envoy trying to broker a settlement.
Mediator Staffan de Mistura said in an interview that he has about four months left to solve ``the mother of all crises'' in Iraq. ``If that takes place, we will have contributed substantially to avoiding a new conflict at the worst possible time,'' he said.
Turkey's military incursion into Iraq last week to fight Kurdish rebels may remind Iraqi Kurds that their designs on more territory and oil have limits. Turkey is concerned that the Kurdish regional government would use Kirkuk and its oil to seek independence, displace minorities in the city and embolden breakaway Kurds on Turkish soil....


Iraq: Iran's President Pays Landmark Visit To Baghdad (click here)
Growing Influence
Ahmadinejad's two-day trip -- which comes amid a major Shi'ite religious event in the holy city of Karbala attended by hundreds of thousands of Iranian pilgrims -- appears intended to drive home the message that Tehran is a major regional power able to play a positive, or negative, role in the neighboring Arab state. It is a message aimed in particular at Washington, which accuses Iran of arming and supporting Iraqi Shi'ite militias behind a number of attacks, including on U.S. forces.Ahmadinejad's visit to Baghdad is also seen as a show of Iranian support for the Shi'ite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. In another twist of irony, that same government's chief ally and security guarantor is the United States. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to hold talks with al-Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani....


Kosovo is Sui Generis Case: Heads of UN and OSCE Missions in Kosovo (click here)

The "A Team."

PACE says Medvedev won Russian polls, but doubts fairness (click here)

Bush at an all time low approval rating. He now matches Cheney's lowest !

George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has dropped to a new low in American Research Group polling as 78% of Americans say that the national economy is getting worse according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy,...

...14% approve and 79% disapprove.

Among Americans registered to vote, 18% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 78% disapprove. When it comes to the way Bush is handling the economy, 15% of registered voters approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 79% disapprove....

...Overall, 19% of Americans say that they approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, 77% disapprove, and 4% are undecided.

This isn't about FARC. Columbia and Equator have a right to defend their sovereignty.

A FARC member.

This is a 2005 population map of South America. Bush needs to stop cross border intrusions between Columbia and it's neighbors.

Colombia boosts security against possible rebel retaliation (click here)
BOGOTA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Colombia stepped up its security Sunday against possible retaliation from the country's largest rebel group after the killing of the group's No. 2 leader Raul Reyes.
Colombia's Interior Minister Carlos Holguin said he doubted the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had the capacity to revenge the death of Reyes, whose real name is Luis Edgar Navia Silva.
Reyes, a possible successor to the group's head Manuel Marulanda, was killed in an attack on a jungle camp across the Colombia-Ecuador border Saturday.
Ecuador has recalled its ambassador to Colombia, Fransisco Suescum, to protest the attack, which it says took place three km inside Ecuadorian territory.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has also criticized the Colombian forces for entering the Ecuadorian territory.
In a public move backing Ecuador, Venezuela has placed its armed forces on high alert, closed its embassy in Colombia and mobilized troops to the Colombian border.
Editor: Jiang Yuxia

Chavez didn't say anything about FARC, his focus is on the sovereignty of nations and the fact Columbia launched an attack across the border with Ecuador. Columbia's aggression could be viewed as a hostile act against Ecuador by crossing the border. Columbia had no right to do that. Just that simple.

Since September 11, 2001, George Walker Bush has poured billions of $US into Columbia to fight 'The Global War on Terror."

FARC has been around forever. It is a paramilitary organization but also sanctioned by many as 'rebels with a cause.' That 'cause' if you will, is the fact BEFORE there was a Global War on Terror by Bush there was 'drug money' and plenty of it. That money is everywhere and is used in transactions that even elect political figures. FARC is not a terrorist organization, in that, it had not a darn thing to do with September 11, 2001. Yet, rather than fight the war that should have been fought in Afghanistan, Bush and Cheney start conflicts all over the world and this is still another one.

The relationship of the USA in Columbia has been a long standing one in that the USA sponsors 'anti-drug' campaigns. The USA has done this for years without any success. Why? Because Columbia is supported by the drug trade. So, in order to keep the monies flowing from the USA, Columbia is obligated to carry out an attack against FARC, just to keep everything legitimate with the outcomes the USA is seeking. This time Columbia went to far. They launched a cross border attack into another sovereign nation in order to kill a high profile NARC member.

Now, Columbia is afraid the paramilitaries will retaliate. They probably will. Here again, if Columbia is willing to cross the border of Ecuador to kill FARC members and in response there is an increase in violence at the borders of Columbia with the rebels, neither Ecuador or Venezuela need the violence trickling back into their countries. By securing their borders against infiltration of the anticipated escalation of bloodshed in Columbia, both Ecuador and Venezuela are limiting the impact of that reality to their country, hence, keeping it all in Columbia, where quite frankly it belongs.

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Bush's Tinder Box - You had to know, as soon as Abbas stated al Qaeda was in Gaza and sponsoring greater violence with Hamas,...

...that Israel wasn't going to wait patiently to find out if Abbas was right. Israel will end up taking back Gaza and will more than likely return the Palestinians to a 'province' within Israel. This isn't going to end soon, either militarily or legislatively. Today is Shabbat in Israel. I would anticipate a legislative resolve to re-establish superiority in Gaza either tonight or tomorrow. This is huge. There are already two IDF soldiers dead (click here).

There is no leadership in DC regarding any Middle East policy. Russia has prudently entered the diplomatic frey to limit any escalation. I believe Russia is more concerned about the USA 'using' this to escalate tensions throughout the region.

This is the kind of disaster that Bush/Cheney propagates with their lack of leadership. When are these men going to be impeached? They haven't got a policy that works and they are killing people without cause in Iraq.

Russia needs to be aggressive in whatever diplomatic initiatives they can establish, including immediately moving to the United Nations. IF there is an al Qaeda presence in Gaza it needs to be proven with intelligence. Israel is very capable of 'targeted strikes' against militants. They took down "The Sheik" without spilling an ounce of civilian blood. They need to put all this into context and realize Abbas may be escalating tensions between Hamas in Gaza and Israel based on 'fear' alone.



Palestinian Hamas militants take position next to a burning barricade during an Israeli army operation east of Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 1, 2008. Twenty-one Palestinians, including at least eight civilians, were killed late Friday and early Saturday in escalating Israeli-Palestinian fighting that renewed threats of an Israeli invasion of Gaza and clouded peace efforts. A baby and two teenagers were among the dead, and dozens of people were wounded, Palestinian medical sources said.(AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

Hamas is going to strike Israel with anything it can. This is escalation. As each incident deploys the higher the price to pay and the increasing danger to all in Israel and Palestine. Abbas should be sharing 'intelligence' with Israel, not using it as propaganda in the press. There are 'real' lives in danger at Abbas's political and public comments, he needs to be ridiculed for his politics !

5 hurt in Ashkelon as close to 50 rockets hit southern Israel (click here)
By Mijal Grinberg and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Tags: Qassams, Sderot, Avi Dichter
Five Israelis were wounded in two separate strikes on the southern port town of Ashkelon on Saturday, as Palestinian militants in Gaza launched some 50 rockets at southern Israel over the course of the day. Meanwhile the Palestinian death toll in clashes with Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip climbed to 34, since the operation to halt rocket fire began in the morning hours. On Saturday afternoon, three people were wounded when rockets hit the marina in Ashkelon, some 15 kilometers from the Gaza Strip. One of the three sustained moderate wounds, while the other two were lightly hurt. A number of people at the scene of the attack were treated for shock....

The Incompetents are 'at it' already

WHERE IS OSAMA BIN LADEN, GEORGIE ???

America Can't Ignore Al Qaeda's Resurgence (click here)
...External events aside, the preference of al Qaeda's leadership for Naji's approach over Suri's reflects a long-standing inclination for centralization. Osama bin Laden originally formed al Qaeda to keep the vanguard of jihad alive after the Soviet Union's defeat in Afghanistan. West Point's Combating Terrorism Center has translated a number of documents captured during the Afghan and Iraq campaigns that the Department of Defense has declassified from its Harmony Database. These documents depict a clear al Qaeda hierarchy dating back to bin Laden's residence in Sudan between 1992 to 1996....

Abbas: Hamas helping Al-Qaida establish base in Gaza Strip (click here)
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said that Al-Qaida militants have infiltrated the Gaza Strip and are receiving assistance from Hamas in establishing a base of operations in the Strip. "An alliance has formed between these two organizations," Abbas told the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat on Wednesday....

Abu Laith al-Libi

Al-Qaeda Deputy Vows to Avenge Death of Afghanistan Commander (click here)
By Ed Johnson
Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda deputy commander Ayman al- Zawahiri vowed to avenge the death of a commander fighting NATO- led forces in Afghanistan, according to a U.S.-based group that monitors extremist Web sites.
Zawahiri made the threat in a videotaped eulogy to Abu Laith al-Libi, who was killed in Pakistan's tribal region last month, according to a transcript e-mailed today by IntelCenter.
``No chief of ours has died a natural death. Nor has our blood been spilled without a response,'' Zawahiri said in the 10-minute recording released yesterday by al-Qaeda's media production group, as-Sahab....

Two Roadside Bombs Kill 8 in Eastern Afghanistan (click here)
By VOA News 26 February 2008
Afghan authorities say two separate roadside bombs in northeastern Paktika province bordering Pakistan have killed five Afghan policemen, two Polish soldiers and a child.
The authorities say the first bomb struck Tuesday morning near the city of Khost, killing five policemen and a child. Officials blamed the attack on the Taliban.
Hours later, a second blast near a Polish base in Sharana killed two Polish troops and wounded another one. Polish Defense Ministry says the troops were returning to the base after a humanitarian mission when one of the vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
Poland has 1,200 soldiers in Afghanistan and plans to send 400 more later this year.
Taliban militants intensified their attacks on Afghan, NATO and U.S.-led security forces last year.
At least 6,000 people were killed in the violence last year, which was the deadliest since the Taliban were driven from power in 2001.


Brown in talks on 'hostage' video (click here)
A man saying he is Peter Moore appears in the video
'Hostage' video Prime Minister Gordon Brown has held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Nouri Maliki about a video apparently showing a Briton captured in Iraq.
The footage, aired on an Arabic TV channel, appears to show one of five captured Britons appealing to Mr Brown to help secure their freedom.
The man says in English: "My name is Peter Moore, I have been held here for nearly eight months now."
Downing Street said Mr Brown and Mr Maliki had spoken on the telephone.
In the footage, the man asks Mr Brown to free nine Iraqis in exchange for the release of the Britons, who were seized in May 2007...


The USA military creates it's own problems. When citizens die because the USA military is incompetent in its mission, the 'citizen' soldiers in Iraq see it as another Saddam issue and act ACCORDINGLY by launching retaliatory strikes against USA soldiers, which would seem to have their supplies delayed and therefore causing more American deaths.

We don't belong in Iraq !!!

We never did !!

The FIFTH year in Iraq will conclude on March 19, 2008. The American Dead will probably make it to 4000 by that day !

American War Dead since war began (3/19/03) : 3973

American War Wounded since war began : 29203

The latest American War Death was on February 25, 2008:
Spc. Kevin S. Mowl, 22, of Pittsford, N.Y., died Feb. 25 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., of wounds suffered in Baghdad, Iraq on Aug. 2, 2007, when the vehicle he was in encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis Wash.

US troops kill man with broken arm (click here)
Updated 4 hours 10 minutes ago
US soldiers mistakenly shot dead a man with a broken arm after he ignored warnings and approached their patrol in the Iraqi city of Baquba, a US military spokesman said.
The incident occurred yesterday when a group of US soldiers who were on a patrol saw a man wearing a bulky jacket approach, Major Brad Leighton said.
"The soldiers fired a warning shot but he kept approaching. They then fired on him and killed him," he said.
The soldiers searched the man and discovered that underneath his jacket, he had a cast on one arm which made his clothing "look bulky."
"There was nothing suspicious found upon him but the incident is under investigation. It was a mistake... an unfortunate incident," he said.
Baquba has seen a series of suicide attacks against security forces and civilians.
The city is in Iraq's dangerous Diyala province - a known Al Qaeda in Iraq stronghold. US and Iraqi forces are currently involved in a massive crackdown in the province targeting Al Qaeda militants.
- AFP

Iraq attacks leave 25 dead, injured
Published: Feb. 27, 2008 at 10:33 AM
BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- At least 25 Iraqis were killed or injured in separate incidents in Kirkuk and Mosel, security officials reported Wednesday.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives while riding a bus Tuesday in Mosul, killing 15 people and injuring six others, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Wednesday.
In Kirkuk, masked gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint, killing two and injuring two others.
Security forces in Baghdad told KUNA 12 Iraqis were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint set up by terrorists.
Iraqi security forces reported thwarting a terrorist attack on pilgrims visiting Shiite shrines. Acting on a tip, security forces raided an area west of Karabla, confiscating about 80 missiles apparently meant to be used against Shiites, KUNA reported.
Please click on the link below to view the entire article.http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/27/iraq_attacks_leave_25_dead_injured/2153/



THE BENCHMARKS ARE NOT BEING MET !!!

Does this 'sparing' duo care? NO !


How did Al Qaeda in Iraq form? Because of Bush's illegal war !

Is Osama bin Laden still alive and in control of al Qaeda's agenda? Yes !

Where is Osama bin Laden? In Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Where is the war that should be fought? In Iraq? NO !!!!!

Al Qaeda in Iraq is INSIGNIFICANT to the security of the USA.

Where the USA military goes so goes al Qaeda. Hello????????

Iraq election call rejected
BAGHDAD: Iraq's presidential council rejected a plan for new provincial elections yesterday in a major blow to one of the key measures aimed at promoting national reconciliation among the country's Sunni and Shi'ite Arab communities and the large Kurdish minority.
The three-member panel, however, approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody. Those laws will take effect once they are published in the Justice Ministry gazette.
The White House tried to put the best face on the setback, saying "this is democracy at work."
Meanwhile, Turkey stepped up its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq yesterday and refused to set a pull-out timetable, despite a US warning that the incursion should last no more than "a week or two."
One of five Britons held hostage in Iraq since May was shown in a video aired by Al Arabiya television, which said the captive called for the release of nine Iraqis in return for their freedom.
"My name is Peter ... I have been held here for nearly eight months now," a man said on the undated video.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke by telephone yesterday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki following the release of the video.

Boycott the Academy Award Winners - A Open Letter to Michael Moore

Hi Mike,

I love you and your work. I thought the humanitarian message you gave in "SiCKO" was more profound a statement about the American Healthcare System than any message you ever could have delivered on that topic.

Look, Mike, you and I both know the Academy of Arts and Sciences is a political organization and that was never more evident than last night.

The entire "documentary" designation of the Academy Awards yesterday evening was a complete afront to anyone that would oppose the war. First, the troops in Iraq were rolled out to announce the nominees in the category of "Short Takes" of which most of those entries were anti-war themes. Tell me that was appropriate.

Then, the "Feature Documentaries" were announced by the one man that could sustain any criticism to his image, namely Tom "the man everyone loves" Hanks. Then, the winner was one that never was nominated before and followed a theme that would be 'acceptable' to the American culture no matter who wins the 2008 elections.

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The Winner of the Best Documentary Feature "Taxi to the Dark Side" was featured at The Traverse Film Festival. I saw this film.

While interesting, it ain't the quality of "SiCKO." It's time to stop placing films at the Academy of Arts and Sciences for competition.

...continued...

...continued - Open Letter to Michael Moore

It's time to stop giving the 'establishment' in DC the opportunity to take 'pot shots' at the Master.

The Academy of Arts and Sciences played it 'safe' AGAIN. They chose a film they felt was least politically offensive. Everyone is opposed to the torture regime in DC that Republican uphold as the ultimate in achievement for Neocons. It was the 'safe' road that the Academy chose as they always do. They opted for the 'Safe Road' when it came to Fahrenheit 911 as well.

The Academy rolls it's political dice and people profit. They literally have a 'which ever way the wind blows' application to their principles that exclude the American voice so much as the politically correct voice. There is no freedom of speech at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, there is simply 'surviving the day.'


While "Taxi to the Dark Side" was more than poignant and I support it's content and approach, it addresses human rights abuses at the extreme of the Bush Regime. At the other end of the extreme of the Bush Regime is the human rights abuses of the American Healthcare System and "SiCKO" did it brilliantly. The American People needed the endorsement of the Academy of Arts and Sciences last night, but, due to the favoring of Bush Cronies and it's lack of political will, 'The Academy' again fell short of it's moral obligation to support people it seeks as patrons.


Don't change your methodology one bit, Mike. We love you and count on you to bring home a message in an emotionally competent manner that reaches the conscience of every American that values their democracy.

Thanks for being the bravest of filmmakers. We need you. Perhaps, the first 'best step' to heal the void between The Academy and people that support American Values would be to make you at least a presenter. Charity begins at home and as "SiCKO" pointed out, the detainees at Gitmo received better healthcare than Americans that served at the destroyed World Trade Towers in New York City.


Best regards,
Elisa Barrett

There is more than one way to keep a Bush dictatorship intact !!!

Musharraf pushes Swiss to prosecute Zardari
Corruption case against PPP leader resurrected

Beleaguered president in bid to sink coalition talks

The battle for power in Pakistan took a fresh twist yesterday when the government reinvigorated a Swiss corruption case against the opposition leader Asif Zardari on the eve of post-election power sharing talks that threaten President Pervez Musharraf.
Government lawyers urged a court in Geneva to prosecute Zardari - whose Pakistan People's party won the most seats in Monday's election - on 10-year-old charges of stashing $55m in kickbacks in a Swiss bank account.
The move was seen as a pressure tactic against Zardari, the husband of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, as he prepared to start negotiations later today for a coalition government with the second-placed opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, who has campaigned to oust Musharraf.
Despite a massive anti-Musharraf factor in Pakistan's general election, the retired army chief rejected calls for his resignation from the presidency, indicating that he would serve out his five-year term of office. His staunch ally, the US, urged the opposition to work with him.
The Swiss case against Zardari stalled last year after Musharraf struck a "reconciliation" deal with Bhutto under which all corruption charges would be dropped. But since her assassination on December 27, and this week's election victory, all bets appear to be off....

Vicki Iseman in middle of McCain lobbyist scandal

Keating Five (click here)
The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional scandal related to the collapse of most of the Savings and Loan institutions in the United States in the late 1980s.
Following the deregulation of the banking industry in the 1980s, savings and loan associations (also known as thrifts) were given the flexibility to invest their depositors' funds in commercial real estate. (Previously, they had been restricted to investing in residential real estate.) Many savings and loan associations began making risky investments. As a result, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency that regulates the industry, tried to clamp down on the trend. In so doing, however, the FHLBB clashed with the Reagan administration, whose policy was deregulation of many industries, including the thrift industry. The administration declined to submit budgets to Congress that would request more funding for the FHLBB's regulatory efforts....

Silvarado Savings and Loan (click here) - Once a Republican, always a Republican. It's the only way to stay out of jail. Republicans insure their constituency has enough 'assurance' that political control is the only way to "Stay Out of Jail Free." It's all a game called Monopoly.

...There are several ways in which the Bush family plays into the Savings and Loan scandal, which involves not only many members of the Bush family but also many other politicians that are still in office and still part of the Bush Jr. administration today. Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt).
Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out....

Troops home in 60 days - No Draft - Ready to take on Climate Change - Sounds good to me !!!

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, left, meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, right, in Baghdad on Jan. 13. Clinton was on a one-day visit for talks with top Iraqi and US military leaders, and traveled with fellow Democratic Senator Evan Bayh and Republican Congressman John McHugh.

For those that stop in regularly. Thank you. I want to let you in on how I've been spending my time.

To begin if you click on the title, you'll find an online petition to Save UNCW Forest. I invite everyone to sign it.

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.

Judge Nixes Bush Bid to Keep Sonaring Whales Off Malibu Coast

LFAS / Active Sonar In the News (click here)
Active Sonar (including LFAS - Low Frequency Active Sonar) is a set of anti-submarine technologies which emit very loud pulses of sound into the ocean, and then listen for echoes in order to paint a snapshot picture of all objects within their range. Click here for an overview of Active Sonar....
The US Navy has stated that have "developed complex and costly measures to minimize risks to marine mammals" and that they "investigated the possiblity that there could be something in the structure of the LFA signal that posed a special risk for behavioral disruption in marine mammals." "Although some responses were measured, none of the responses indicated a potential for the disruption of biologically important activities." Click here for source...
However, the following articles document instances all over the world where whales have died on the same day that US and NATO Navy forces utilized active sonar nearby....

US judge rejects Bush's Navy sonar exemption
Posted Wed Feb 6, 2008 8:10am AEDT
A Los Angeles judge has rejected a decision by United States President George W Bush to allow the Navy to use sonar equipment accused of endangering marine life, saying there is no justification to override environmental laws.
In a 36-page opinion, US District Judge Florence Marie Cooper says the Navy must now abide by a previous order which outlawed the use of submarine-hunting sonar in areas off the coast of California known to be populated by whales.
Last month Mr Bush granted an exemption to the Navy, arguing sonar was vital for military preparedness exercises.

Sonar tied to deaths of 400 dolphins? (click here)
Zanzibar scientists look for clues; U.S. Navy task force in area

ZANZIBAR - Scientists are studying the remains of some of the 400 dolphins that washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.
Among other possibilities, marine biologists were examining whether U.S. Navy sonar threw the animals off course.
Villagers and fishermen on Saturday buried the remains of the roughly 400 bottlenose dolphins, which normally live in deep offshore waters but washed up Friday along a 2.5 mile stretch of coast in Tanzania's Indian Ocean archipelago....

Antarctica Ice Chime

Rip Rap Road, Nearby Park Under Water

September 6, 2004
Covington, Kentucky
At the Kentucky Nature Center

The Photographer from Near Celina, Ohio is pictured above. I live in Ohio. I'm a disabled three tour vietnam veteran. This site really makes my day easier. It helps me through the day to see all the pictures. Thank You. Ham radio call KE8XO saintnick.


February 7, 2006
Near Celina, Ohio


February 7, 2008
Near Celina, Ohio
The photographer took a heck of a chance to sail that close to quickly rushing water in Lake St. Marys.

...In Celina, Grand Lake St. Marys overflowed its banks flooding nearby parking lots, roads and yards....

Antarctica continues to remain warm with some cooling in higher altitudes with the approaching solstice.

February 9, 2008
0600 PM
Antarctica Surface Wind Satellite (click here for 24 hour loop)

The surface winds offer some interesting insight. The coastal areas are experiencing on shore winds with high velocity, while the winds at the top of the Blue Ice are moving off those higher altitudes and falling to lower latitudes mixing with those incoming heat transfers. This time however, as compared to the previous event whereby so much of the frigid aire of the top Blue Ice, which is far denser than the coastal, warmer air, moved to the right in this satellite photo and was pushed from a long standing area of East Antarctica; is different. This time the top altitude seems to have an 'equal' distribution of air movement in both directions from the Blue Ice which might very well indicate there is a loss of ice and a leveling of the top altitude Ice Mass. I find this air movement different than any previous and may be due to the changing shape of the Blue Ice due to sublimination.


February 9, 2008
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream

In the satellite picture below, showing the entire southern hemisphere, it's obvious from that and the Jet Stream satellite above that the Antarctica Vortex is still reaching higher latitudes while chronically bringing in heat. At 8 PM in the image above a significant heat transfer is noted arriving to the Antarctica Ice Sheets. This while the center of the vortex remains consistently steady and primarily unaffected. That lends itself to a potential for a return to a deeper freeze, at least at the highest elevations of the Blue Ice.


February 9, 2009
12 PM UTC
Temperature Satellite



February 9, 2008
1323 gmt
Antarctica


The warmest reporting stations in Antarctica:


Base Esperanza, Antarctica (Airport)

Time :: 1 PM on 2/9/08

Elevation :: 43 ft / 13 m

Temperature :: 37 F / 3 C

Conditions :: Scattered Clouds

Humidity :: 49%

Dew Point :: 25 F / -4 C

Wind :: Calm

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.66 in / 1004 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 9.0 miles / 15.0 kilometers

Clouds :: Few 886 ft / 270 m
Mostly Cloudy 4921 ft / 1500 m
(Above Ground Level)




Great Wall, Antarctica (Airport)

Time :: 1 PM on 2/9/08

Time :: 1:00 PM EST

Temperature :: 38 F / 4 C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 57 %

Dew Point :: 28 F / -2 C

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

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.67 in / 1005 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 19.0 miles / 30.0 kilometers



King Sejong, Antarctica (Airport)

Time :: 1 PM EST on 2/9/08

Temperature :: 37 F / 3 C

Conditions :: Mostly Cloudy

Humidity :: 82%

Dew Point :: 33 F / 1 C

Wind :: 12 mph / 18 km/h from the SW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.59 in / 1002 hPa (Steady)

Visibility :: 16.0 miles / 25.0 kilometers

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m



The coldest reporting station in Antarctica:

Vostok

Time :: 6 PM VOST on February 09, 2008

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3429 meters

Temperature :: -36 F / -38 C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 41%

Dew Point :: -45 F / -43 C

Wind :: 14 mph / 22 km/h from the WSW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: Rising

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers



Siple Dome

Updated: 6:50 AM NZDT on February 10, 2008

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: - 51 F / -46 C

Conditions :: Ice Crystals

Windchill :: -78 F / -61 C

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h / 4.1 m/s from the ENE

Pressure :: 28.20 in / 955 hPa (Falling)

Windchill :: -78 F / -61 C

Visibility :: 5.6 miles / 9.0 kilometers

UV :: 1 out of 16

Clouds :: Few 3000 ft / 914 m
(Above Ground Level)



Dome C

Time :: 12:20 PM EST on 2/9/08

University Wi Id 8904, Antarctica (Airport)

Updated: 1 hr 35 min 42 sec ago

Elevation :: 10761 ft / 3280 meters

Temperature :: -56 F / -49 C

Wind :: 2 mph / 4 km/h from the WSW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa

The weather at Scott Base, Antarctic (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Flood warnings cover most of saturated state

February 6, 2008
Tidioute, Pennsylvania
Photographer states :: We had several inches of rain this past day and the river came up about 5 ft. This is downriver in our backyard.

Waters Rise Again in Flood-Torn Ohio (click here)
By JOHN SEEWER – 9 hours ago
FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Shandale Collins spent the past five months renovating his home after floodwaters destroyed nearly everything. Now he's wondering whether he'll have to do it all over again.
Rising waters lapped at his garage Wednesday and crept closer to his home and others in the city of about 40,000 along the Blanchard River.
It was another blow to residents and business owners who were just getting over August flooding that displaced hundreds and caused millions of dollars in damage.
"We had the place completely gutted," said Scott Adams, who was loading musical equipment from his downtown music store into a trailer to try to keep it dry. "I don't see fixing the place again."...


February 6, 2008
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Photographer states :: Auglaize River


Snow, warm temperatures and heavy rain have created the soggy conditions that led to flooding over two-thirds of the state.
Nearly all of Indiana is under a flood warning for the second time in a month, as high water is expected on every substantial river and creek, including White River....

February 6, 2008

Logansport, Indiana

Photographer states :: after the flood, thewater level of the Eel River rose over 10 feet in just a few hours.

It's not just a moral issue. It's a survival issue. It must be interesting to be demised in the very vehicle that contributed to Earth's warming.

The tornado season of the USA is now continuous, it only gets worse from here. By the time the November 2008 elections roll around, there won't be anyone alive in the Red States of the country.

There were at least 135 tornadoes reported in the US in January 2008, of which at least 80 were confirmed.


Extensive tornado damage was common across many areas of the Midwest and Southern States in early January including in Kenosha County, Wisconsin (Courtesy of NWS Milwaukee)


F3
158-206 mph
Severe damage. Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown.

F4
207-260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated.

F5
261-318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses leveled off foundations and swept away; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 yards; trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur.
LiveScience / SOURCE: NOAA

This is the devastation of an F-4 tornado.

February 6, 2008
The American Press are attempting to limit the fear of the CONTINUOUS tornado season. This photo is from the BBC (click here).

They didn't have a chance unless they heard the roar of the F4 tornado about to destroy everything in it's path. There are reports of brick homes being leveled and causing death, being moved off their foundations? That is an F4 by any definition I know !


February 6, 2008
Mountain View, Arkansas



I don't feel sorry for Americans anymore. They were warned for nearly five decades and they ignored it, especially the Red States, that the build up of carbon dioxide results in Human Induced Global Warming leading to Climate Change. Well. Welcome to Climate Change.

You reap what you sew.

Febrary 6, 2008
Mountain View, Arkansas
Photographer states :: Traveling along Main Street, past the hospital...