Thursday, June 13, 2013

UA (University of Arizona) - Developed App Warns Drivers of Dust Storm Danger (click here) 

April 4, 2013 

Available for free download on iTunes, the app uses a person's geographical location anywhere in the country to determine if there is danger of a dust storm, or any other type of storm, in the area. The warnings come directly from the WeatherBug service.
In addition to storm alerts, the app provides a list of specific tips for what to do when a dust storm hits, such as:

  • Do not drive into or through a dust storm.
  • Do not stop in a travel lane or in the emergency lane.
  • Look for a safe place to pull completely off the paved portion of the roadway.
  • Turn off all vehicle lights, including your emergency flashers.
The app also offers a place to list emergency phone numbers or insurance policy numbers drivers may want to have readily available in a storm, as well as a list of things people should keep in their cars as part of a Dust Storm Survival Kit. Some of those items include water, snacks or energy bars, a basic first aid kit, flashlight, dust mask and a whistle or pocket siren to signal for help....

Dust Storm(click here)

By University of Arizona

Open iTunes to buy and download apps.

It is already June 14th in Iran. Preliminary elections are today.

...Of five hardline candidates (click here) professing unwavering obedience to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three are thought to stand any chance of winning the vote, or making it through to a second round run-off in a week’s time. Of those three main conservative hopefuls only one, current chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, advocates maintaining Iran’s robust, ideologically driven foreign policy.

The other two, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, have pledged never to back away from pursuing Iran’s nuclear program but have strongly criticized Mr. Jalili’s inflexible negotiating stance. They face a single moderate candidate, the only cleric in the race, Hassan Rohani. Though very much an establishment figure, Mr. Rohani is more likely to pursue a conciliatory foreign policy....
This Monday June 10, 2013 photo provided by the Nevada Highway Patrol shows a 26-vehicle pileup on Interstate 80, three miles west of Winnemucca, Nev. (AP Photo/Nevada Highway Patrol)

June 11, 2013
By Michelle Rindels

Twenty-seven vehicles slammed (click here) into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck driver, seriously injuring several other people and sapping already thin emergency resources, officials said.

Humboldt County sheriff's dispatchers called in virtually every medical, law enforcement and fire worker in the sparsely populated area after drivers reported "near-apocalyptic" conditions Monday evening on I-80 at Winnemucca, according to officials at Humboldt General Hospital there. A mine rescue crew also assisted, and a charter bus was used to transport victims who were uninjured.

"It was kind of surreal," said Jared Oscarson, captain of clinical services at the hospital, describing a curtain of blowing dirt that at times hid the crash scene from rescuers' sight. "There was kind of just chaos and destruction everywhere."...


Looking for previous dust storms in Nevada there is this in the Library of Congress from 1940.

Date Created/Published: 1940 Mar. (click here)

There was one in 2004 found by NASA.
 
A fierce dust storm blew across northwestern Nevada on April 28, 2004, with winds that gusted up to 70 mph. This image of the blowing dust, which reduced visibility to nearly zero in some places,...



I believe there was a person killed in that pile up a couple of days ago. I hope that didn't happen because there was little to no emergency response able to reach them.

Kind of scary to think there is such weather conditions that can actually disturb the best plans of emergency services.

Ravi Dyer, 51, from Chicago, killed when his truck rear-ended vehicle. (click here)
 
How very sweet, FOX News is worried about President Obama's credibility. I can assure them his announcement about Assad's Sarin attacks on his own citizens didn't come from "Curveball." It is okay, Mr. O'Reilly, everything will be fine.

I am sure the floods in Europe will also be a centerpiece to the G8.


Unprecedented rainfall (click here) and flooding continued to plague central Europe in mid-June 2013, causing billions of dollars in damage. The Elbe, Danube, Saale, and other river systems rose well above their banks and breached flood defenses in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. Many news outlets and some government sources were describing it as the worst flooding since medieval times, surpassing the devastating floods of 2002 in many areas....

...At the time of the June 7 image, the river stage stood at 6.7 meters (about 22 feet) in Wittenberg. On June 11, 2013, police shut down the center of Wittenberg as crews worked to shore up sandbag dikes and other defenses. The Elbe River was expected to crest again near the city, following another rainfall over the weekend. Downstream in Magdeburg, the surging river had already burst a dam and forced evacuations

According to the Austrian Meteorological Agency (ZAMG) and meteorologist Jeff Masters, several months worth of typical rainfall soaked southern Germany and western Austria between May 29 to June 6. That precipitation landed on soil that was already soaked from above-average spring rains.

“The primary cause of the torrential rains over Central Europe during late May and early June was a large loop in the jet stream that developed over Europe and got stuck in place,” Masters wrote. “A blocking high set up over Northern Europe, forcing two low pressure systems to avoid Northern Europe and instead track over Central Europe. The extreme kink in the jet stream ushered in a strong southerly flow of moisture-laden air from the Mediterranean Sea over Central Europe, which met up with colder air flowing from the north due to the stuck jet stream pattern.”

G8 is next week.

UN report says children are recruited, maimed or raped by government forces and armed groups

Published: 10:32 June 13, 2013
United Nations: (click here) Syrian troops and rebels are recruiting children to fight in the country’s civil war and some have been tortured by government forces for having links to the opposition, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Wednesday.

The report issued after Ban’s special envoy for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, visited Syria in December said thousands of children have been killed in the violence, “while thousands more have seen family members killed or injured.”

The United Nations considers anyone aged under 18 to be a child. Ban said that in Syria, torture and ill-treatment of children accused of associating with opposition forces was a worrying trend.

“There were a number of accounts of sexual violence against boys to obtain information or a confession by the state forces, largely but not exclusively by members of the state intelligence services and the Syrian armed forces,” the report said.

The G8 leaders will want to avert any possibility of arming a number of different groups of rebels. Such actions would result in escalation of ethnic and sectarian violence rather than a consolidation of rebel authority. The G8 leaders will want to resolve to consolidate an oppositional authority to bring about a coalition government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) will fly to Britain a day before next week's G8 summit for talks with David Cameron on the conflict in Syria, the British prime minister announced Wednesday. 

...The two leaders will meet at Cameron's Downing Street office on Sunday, before heading to Northern Ireland for the summit of Group of Eight nations on Monday and Tuesday.
"We should use the G8 to try and bring pressure on all sides, to bring about what we all want in this House, which is a peace conference, a peace process and a move towards a transitional government in Syria," Cameron told the House of Commons.

"I'm delighted to tell the House that President Putin will be coming in advance of the G8 for meetings in Downing Street on Sunday, when we can discuss this."
Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has with the United States proposed an international peace conference to get the two sides in the conflict to the negotiating table....

S. Amendment 711 - legal guns - continued

The NRA celebrates the Six Month Anniversary of the Newtown Deaths with a
bigoted ad. Thanks, Joe.
 
The NRA never admits the list of legal guns are so numerous it takes a long
time to work through the particulars to be accurate about the generosity of 
the Assault Weapons Amendment.
 
The NRA is immoral in it's content. When are members going to be outraged
by this level of hatred to stop it? Bigotry? The members of the NRA don't have
a solid basis for the right to their guns? They have to front hatred to justify
their rhetoric? They should be ashamed.

4900 Americans have died within our borders since the deaths in New Town,
Connecticut. Some of the most recent were in Santa Monica at a college 
university. One of the most tragic was to realize a man that worked on the 
campus lost his dear daughter in this most recent incident. He will relive that
over and over when he returns to his job.
 
In the past six months the Senate bill for background checks was defeated with
a 56 vote majority. The US House has done nothing. There has been no bill or any
constructive debate to move forward with better law to protect the people of 
this country. Nothing.
 





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June 13, 2013
1840z
UNISYS Mid-Atlantic Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

Get off the road. Planes, especially small private planes need to rethink their flight plans.

These are the kind of winds that pick up tractor trailers and throw them around the road.

By Scott Dance
The Baltimore Sun
June 13, 2013  

Severe storms (click here) are forecast across Maryland and much of the mid-Atlantic Thursday afternoon, bringing potential for damaging wind gusts, heavy rains and flooding, and isolated tornadoes. But the highest risk for dangerous conditions has shifted to the south.

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Baltimore and Baltimore, Harford, Howard and Anne Arundel counties through 7 p.m. A flash flood watch was meanwhile in effect across the state through 8 p.m.

A few wind gusts as strong as 70 mph are possible, along with an inch or more of rain, and some isolated tornadoes, according to the weather service....

Cat One hurricanes start at 74 mph. This is worse than a hurricane. At least hurricanes are sustained winds that can be compensated from, but, straight line winds are not sustained, they are gusts.
 
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

...According (click here) to a wind advisory issued by the National Weather Service in Tulsa, wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour were common in Benton County on Monday....

Senator Elizabeth Warren state today, "The USA government will make $56 Billion on the back of our students and the Republicans propose adding $16 Billion to that."

Senators split on rising student loan rates

Casey wants to extend current level; Toomey rejects proposals from both parties. (click here)

June 11, 2013
By Sam Kennedy and Scott Kraus, Of The Morning Call
Pennsylvania's senators are split on what do to about a key student loan interest rate set to double soon unless Congress intervenes.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. backs his party's plan to extend current rates, affecting subsidized Stafford loans, for two years.
But Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is opposed to an extension — as well as to his own party's plan, which would tie student loan rates to a variable rate set by the U.S. Treasury.

The enormous college debt carried by a generation of American neglected by their government for the past decade and faced college graduation with unemployment are unable to contribute to the USA economy besides. 

Jun. 9, 2013 4:20 PM 
...Richard Cordray, director of the CFPB, (click here) noted in prepared remarks that U.S. Census data show nearly 6 million Americans ages 25 to 34 lived with their parents in 2011. It’s estimated that this age group made up 27% of all home buyers in 2011, the lowest share in the past decade, according to the National Association of Realtors.“Young consumers bowing under large debt loads may be unable or unwilling to buy a car or a home,” Cordray said.

Another chemical plant explosion in the south? Again? Source of cause unknown, I am sure.

Published: June 13, 2013 14:30
Edited time: June 13, 2013 15:33

@CherylMercedes

After the initial blast, (click here) clouds of thick black smoke could be seen billowing towards the sky, visible from a local school. Flames could be seen rising from two separate locations.  

“It looked like a pretty big explosion – it looks like Williams have taken all the precautions they can do to evacuate all the personnel.

The firefighters are responding as needed,”  witness Ryan Meador told local station 90 WAFB.
“Everyone evacuated to the road. Everyone is trained for something like this.”

Meador released witness footage of the fire's aftermath:

Use the Deep Web. Get off the circus train of Wall Street. Go where PRISM can't.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Death is the ultimate oppression.

Bradley Manning's actions was to end the oppression of the USA military. Either Iraq is an example of an immoral war or it isn't, because, 100s of thousands are now dead, including USA military personnel caught up in the meat grinder. 

In a country like Iraq with a population of 25 million, one hundred thousand people can be an entire sector of it's population. There are estimates of 800,000 dead from the Iraq War. That is three percent of the population. In a country like the USA, three percent of the people, including infants, is 9 million people.

Now, if we are to believe invasion of a country in an immoral war is wrong, then that decision has to begin with the voter that puts these monsters into office in the first place. That means such wars are conducted with the influence of political goals.

If national security can be breached by people with minimal reason to be quiet about the nation's secrets, as in the case with Carlyle's Snowden, then there is no moral dictate to prevent corrupt political paradigms that put monsters in office all the time. 

Carlyle makes lots of money, that money corrupts morals all the time. It corrupts the morals of citizens benefiting from those monies as well as the politicians put into office with those monies. Now, if Carlyle has national security clearance from their well paid personnel that means they can leverage power in the political STABILITY of the USA and leverage power over forever wars that rob resources from other nations, like Iraq.

If that power to leverage political outcomes is due to mass surveillance, then it would seem to me Mr. Snowden had a conscience and not just a naive state of mind.

Mr. Snowden closes the circle on the ability of Wall Street to dictate the power of Wall Street over the USA, it's people and the actions of it's military. He may or may not have intended that, but, he knew at a rudimentary level he was doing the right thing. He, himself, rejected the idea anyone could tap into his knowledge about his life and use it to their advantage. That is the USA. That is the citizenry of the USA. 

Mr. Snowden is not the problem here, the loose regulation over national security clearance and IT'S LONGEVITY after FORMER military, intelligence and basically employees and interns no longer work for the government is DEFINITELY the problem.

Mr. Snowden is not a stupid person. Most Americans, if not all including those with disabilities, are not stupid people, because they understand their own lives and how it is impacted by forces they can't control. Mr. Snowden knew he was in territory compliments of Carlyle where he should not have been and he disdained that ability and the fact he was compromising his fellow Americans. That is not naivety, it is being a loyal patriot and good citizen. Heck, Cub Scouts learn that very early on.

And let me make one other aspect of Mr. Snowden's reality understood. He was blackmailed, coersion, by Carlyle. That is what Wall Street does to their employees, they compensate them with high salaries, benefits, perks and status to maintain them within their corporate sovereignty. 

Ask Mr. Snowden if his services were realistic to his salary? He would say no. That is also part of what disturbed him. He was over compensated for his silence while his national security clearance was being used for the Carlyle's purpose.  Snowden is a moral man. There is no doubt in my mind he is a moral man with a clear understanding of the importance of his nation to his life.

Carlyle brought all this on themselves, no one else did.

So, there you have it. The media now has the understanding they can seek to pivot on to justify their own leverage of power.
Wisconsin has to remember and be ready to litigate these issues.

The best example in the country is the highly offensive North Carolina legislature. They are horrible. But, this mess in North Carolina has gone on under both Democratic and Republican governors. The legislature is noted in newspapers as successful, so it becomes political victories, you see.

But, when issues are important enough, someone finds the money within an impoverished (in many ways, not only financial) North Carolina and begins the march to the Virginia 4th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. It is the Fourth Circuit that governs North Carolina democracy, not the people. The people are often lead around by the nose by their own newsprint.

The 4th Circuit decisions rarely make the evening news or newspapers in the state, if at all, so the people believe they have to live with the mess the NC legislature passes. People are oppressed in North Carolina, only they rarely realize it.

The Wisconsin Democrats have a very serious mission. They have to uphold democracy and be prepared to defend it in court. They should prepare for it before their state is as demoralized and impoverished as the south.

I mean there is the homogenized "States Rights" that have to make it through the courts as well. ALEC. It actually removes states rights and attempts to create a parallel federal government. There are many reasons to seek relief from Wisconsin's Republican Laws.

Democracy Lost. The bill is already unconstitutional, even at the Wisconsin state level.

As typical in Wisconsin the laws are past without a democratic process. That is the case here. It will have to be litigated and the law will be defeated, but, they do it anyway. The Kochs are demanding this, the RNC is demanding this mess.
When Representative Weiner demanded respect on the US House Floor it was within a debate. That is not what this is. This is a tandrum. That is all this is. It is a tantrum to 'take away' the democratic process needed to pass any law. 
This bozo is acting to please the Kochs after a telephone call to the Governor. We have witnessed the pandering the Governor pulls when he thinks he is talking to the only people in the entire world that believes he is worthy of substantial campaign funding.
When Republican Weiner spoke out with volume it was to enforce his rights to be heard. Huge difference. But, the law will fail in court because it violates democratic process.

The Democrats have real talking points about many issues. Invasion of privacy in restrictive and invasive abortion procedures is one. It is a good talking point for a national dialogue actually. I mean invasion of privacy stated long before the Virginia Governor Ultrasound. 

But, the Wisconsin Democrats have incredibly wonderful talking points based in 'Democracy Lost.' 

The "What's his name governor?"...????????...Oh, yeah, Walker and his majority Republican legislature violate democratic processes unendingly. They think they are getting away with it until the courts start to rule against them.

But, the Democrats need to be correct. They don't want the hubris demonstrated on their state Senate floor today. The Wisconsin Democrats talking points about "Democracy Lost" is vital and not just a political position. It is necessary to end the idea it is okay to overthrow the USA Constitution.

When some of the judges begin to rule against this disaster of a Wisconsin governorship and legislature just think of all the money spent on absolutely nothing but hubris. Taxpayer money spent on nothing.

Why is it important for a government to actually governor? That is what they are paid for. They are paid to conduct the state or federal business of the country. They aren't paid to play politics by obstructing votes with 60 Senate margins. McConnell is a huge offender of money wasted to defeat the resolve of the country. McConnell is conducting politics, not governance. Lots of money. Not just little bit of money. Besides the salaries, remember when problems go unresolved, my example; greenhouse gas emissions, then more money is spent when the problems are not resolved. In the case of the climate, that price is paid for in lives and property as well as dollars.

So, there are many talking points about the tantrum today. Now, isn't there?

By David Edwards
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 13:15 EDT 
Republican state senators in Wisconsin (click here) on Wednesday silenced Democratic lawmakers while passing a bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound procedure before being able to receive an abortion.
Wednesday’s Senate session began with state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout (D) reading letters from several constituents who opposed the bill.
“The idea of — quote — small government is in direct conflict with big government Republicans sticking their nose my vagina,” one voter named Suzanne wrote. “How can we get the conservatives — mostly men — to quit blaming women, many times girls, solely for unwanted pregnancies?”...
Accuweather (click here) 
The Associated Press 
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:55AM EDT
An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, (click here) lightning and tree-toppling winds Wednesday could affect more than one in five Americans as it rolls from Iowa to Maryland.
Meteorologists were even warning about the possibility of a weather event called a derecho (duh-RAY'-choh), which is a storm of strong straight-line winds spanning at least 240 miles. The storms are also likely to generate tornadoes and cause power outages that will be followed by oppressive heat, said Russell Schneider, director of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
"We're becoming increasingly concerned that a major severe weather event will unfold," Schneider said. "The main thing is for folks to monitor conditions and have a plan for what to do if threatening weather approaches."
For the first time this year, the center was using its highest alert level for parts of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The storms will start in late afternoon in eastern Iowa, Schneider said, and could hit Chicago around rush hour....

Jeep needs to recall their vehicles. There are more for sale on front yards these days.

Jeep is ruining it's reputation. The 

Crown Victory had to be recalled for a less deaths than this.


Consumers will run, not walk, in the other direction if they hear that a company is not willing to err on the side of safety.


Jeeps are frequently family vehicles. It just isn't a good idea to refuse to do the right thing. They cannot dismiss 44 deaths as nothing to worry about. The FIRST one was something to worry about.

No lie, in my neighborhood alone there are three new Jeeps for private sale. They are not trading them in, they are getting rid of them. They don't want them. They are selling them now before their value falls any further. This neighborhood survives on 4-wheel drive and front wheel drive. So, this is something these folks are not going to deal with, they want out.

The dealers probably don't want them either. That is probably why they are being sold privately. If dealers can't move them off their used lots they won't take them. Not around here. The market is fairly specific. If the vehicles aren't valued in a real way they won't be on found on lots for sale.

Jeeps were hard to come by, they were so popular. That's all changing.

Yep, the dealers that still have Jeeps are making them down. Jeep has a problem now.

2005 Jeep Liberty Limited 4WD
155243 miles
$6,500
Special $5,990

Last Updated 1 hour ago


2004 Jeep Liberty Sport 4WD
114304 miles
$7,500
Special $6,900

Last Updated 1 hour ago


2007 Jeep Compass Sport
98211 miles
$10,999
Special $8,999

Last Updated 4 hours ago


2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4WD
119416 miles
$8,995
Special $7,600

Last Updated 20 hours ago


2002 Jeep Liberty Sport 4WD
109311 miles
$5,990
Special $5,690

Last Updated 2 days ago


2006 Jeep Liberty Sport 4WD
76000 miles
$11,790
Special $10,990

Last Updated 8 days ago


Ya think I'm jokin'. Not. People don't want these machines anymore. The dealers are dumping them as fast as they can. They can't unload them fast enough. Give 'em another 24 hours and they'll be selling them "Buy one, get one free."

James R. Healey
11:40 a.m. EDT June 6, 2013 
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (click here) sent the automaker a letter late Monday asking it to recall the 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty. NHTSA says the rear-mounted gas tanks in those vehicles are too vulnerable to leaking and catching fire in a rear-end crash.
Chrysler said Tuesday it "disagrees with NHTSA's recall request," and won't honor it.
Government data show 44 deaths in 32 rear-end crashes and fires involving the Grand Cherokees that it wants recalled, and seven deaths in five Liberty rear-impact/fire crashes....

They are safer to use and use far less fuel when carrying out Civil Surveillance of emergencies.

No different than satellites, some of these drones are used to determine 'the state of Earth' using far less fuel than regular helicopters. They can provide accurate data to engineers building projects to protect human life as well. Their video ability can construct maps and allow information to where emergency services can find people stranded.

...Geodis of the Czech Republic (click here) and Skyeye in Slovakia are companies that have used pilotless aerial technology to document the extent of regional flooding from a bird’s-eye-view for mass-market media.


Czech publicly-funded broadcaster Ceska Televize contracted Geodis to provide footage for its round-the-clock news coverage of floods that forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people, while in Slovakia daily newspaper SME hired Skyeye to send its helicopters above the Danube.
In Hungary a pilotless plane has been used  to monitor floods.
The drones being used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are closer to a children’s remote controlled helicopter than to the high-tech U.S. pilotless planes that fly over Pakistan to monitor suspected terrorist groups or to attack targets.
These small devices are cheaper to rent than helicopters or planes. A further advantage over planes is their ability to hover above a single location to provide sweeping, 360 degree images, their operators say....

I don't hold a lot of hope for a hurricane today.

June 12, 2013
1015 GMT
The Weather Channel Temperature Map

1015 GMT is 6:15 EDT. It was hot at 6:15 am in the USA. It will grown hotter during the day.

It looks as though there is a minor disturbance north of Panama,but, nothing significant enough to believe there will be relief for terrestrial tornadoes.

Tornadoes Confirmed in Four States following Monday's Storms (click here)

Published: Jun 11, 2013, 6:46 PM EDT
The National Weather Service has confirmed tornadoes in four states stemming from storms that pushed across the East on Monday.
A confirmed twister touched down near Adairville, in south-central Kentucky on Monday. The NWS office in Louisville said the EF2 tornado plowed a path estimated at five miles long and as wide as 300 yards.
The assessment team said the tornado that struck around 2 p.m. Monday had winds of 135 mph. It killed some livestock and injured several horses that were expected to be put down. There were three known injuries in Logan County, none of them life-threatening....


June 12, 2013
1330:18z
UNISYS GOES East Water Vapor Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

The water vapor is too high in the troposphere for it to simply spawn hurricanes in reaction to the heat. This disturbance near Panama is a NEAR SHORE turbulence. Near Shore is where the WAVES distribute water vapor when it they crash against the shore line. There is also more tropical rainforest in this region.

The 'normal physics' that most living generations are used to is gone. This is an entirely new physics and it is not benevolent. Not by a long shot. The 'normal physics' is what we have to achieve to return to otherwise there are dire consequences from here on. Earth's balance was changed due to the negligence of governments, primarily the USA, to achieve any stewardship of the only planet human beings will ever call home for eternity.

Any idea stating a 'shifting baseline' to Earth's climate is tolerable and even desirable is completely wrong. Without a doubt, that thinking is nothing but a path to self-destruction.

Get for real. He just opened his library and Clinton and Obama was there.

June 11, 2013
by Jeffrey M. Jones

Former President George W. Bush's Image Ratings Improve (click here)

Views of Bush more positive than negative for first time since 2005

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' views of former president George W. Bush have improved, with 49% now viewing him favorably and 46% unfavorably. That is the first time since 2005 that opinions of him have been more positive than negative.

I don't think his assignment has gone very well. Haiti's only problem is they don't have oil fields to invade. Otherwise, I am sure Cheney and the petroleum industry would be on board, too. Again, it hasn't proven to be a boom for the people of Nigeria, though. See, how well propaganda works.

2 out of 3 People Face Hunger as Haiti Woes Mount (click here)

BELLE ANSE, Haiti June 10, 2013 (AP)

The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.

The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age — the tell-tale signs of malnutrition.

Mabriole town official Geneus Lissage fears that death is imminent for these children if Haitian authorities and humanitarian workers don't do more to stem the hunger problems.

"They will be counting bodies," Lissage said, "because malnutrition is ravaging children, youngsters and babies."

Three years after an earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and international donors promised to help Haiti "build back better," hunger is worse than ever. Despite billions of dollars from around the world pledged toward rebuilding efforts, the country's food problems underscore just how vulnerable its 10 million people remain....