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– Franklin P. Jones
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Where’s that “Coalition of the Willing ” go? Thislondon
My, my. Bush really might be down to only Barney and Laura supporting his Iraq misadventure.
Blair will soon be handing off to Gordon Brown who has indicated he intends to pursue a foreign policy that’s independent of U.S.
Smart man. On Iraq, Bush’s poll numbers at 26
I saw that 26% number and thought “how could this man persist in his war escalation insanity?” Then I remembered that the operative word was insanity…
Insanity quite the adjective and dead on – so you’ll admire this Steve Bell’s cartoon – The Guardian Uk, I’ve problem importing the image so her’e the link:
“Poised to surge”
AP/Yahoo
Looking at everything isn’t enough, Harry. We want you to actually DO something this time. Hope you’re up to the task.
No kidding CG…I’m tired of talk, talk and more talk-that gets us nowhere fast. We want solid concrete action to shut down bush’s insane escalation plan. Action with a capitol A.
wants to deny funding for the surge (with video): TPM muckraker
Joey Biden needs to shut his mouth and stopping helping the MSM cheer for the other team.
Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy, theoretically could detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the 1,000 nearest stars. A more detailed technical discussion is available here.
Scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate change. This finding suggests that quick-growing plants such as weeds may cope better with global warming than slower-growing plants such as Redwood trees — a phenomenon that could lead to future changes in the Earth’s plant life.
Astronomers have found the first example of a triple quasar, involving three separate black holes.
Indian holy men or sadhus threatened Monday to boycott a major religious festival, in which millions of people wash away sins in the Ganges river, saying it was too polluted. Thousands of sadhus in their saffron-colored clothes held protests for a second day Monday, demanding that the river be cleaned up before the next auspicious bathing day on Sunday, a Hindu leader said. “The water in (the) river is so dirty that no one can take a dip. It is dark red whereas the Ganges used to be bluish green,” said one religious leader.
Gas-giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn form soon after their stars do, according to new research. Observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show that gas giants either form within the first 10 million years of a sun-like star’s life, or not at all.
Increasing political momentum to address climate change? European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Monday challenged the United States to join Europe’s battle against climate change, days before the bloc is due to adopt a new energy plan. And the top United Nations official on climate change said on Monday he would ask new UN boss Ban Ki-moon to show true leadership and host a UN summit to breathe life into sagging efforts to fight global warming. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said he would make the pitch when he went to New York next week to meet the UN secretary general, who took office on January 1.
Tea drinkers should hold the milk if they want to protect themselves against heart disease, German researchers said. When drunk without milk, black tea seemed to improve cardiovascular function, researchers said. However, they said adding milk counteracts beneficial effects tea may have in protecting against cardiovascular disease, the Independent reported Tuesday. Proteins called caseins could be the culprits.
In a story of likely interest to denizens of the BooPond, it turns out that amphibians are tougher than they look: They bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis. The new research suggests that the amphibian class as a whole has recovered spectacularly from a series of mass extinction events that affected all life on earth, with explosive booms of speciation. After dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, at the Cretaceous-Tertiary border, there was a huge explosion of frog species. [When the dinosaurs die, the frogs take over… Sounds like there’s a metaphor hiding there…]
Cameron’s experiments were some of the most horrific ever. They’re detailed in John Marks’ excellent book “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.”
I hope she wins, and wins big. That’s the only disincentive to people aiding these efforts in the future.
What happened to the people involved in these experiments long-term?
He states hundreds of others could benefit.
And this:
Somalia, what’s going on? What’s behind the Opportunistic Airstrike against al-Qaeda after being rejected. Can’t hurt the poll numbers. – McClatchy
Bush Sr Caught in a lie (via Huffpost)
Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
“Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a ‘real shocker.’
But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush’s oil venture, Zapata, in the
early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting commercial asset” of the agency.”
And do read the following link -our foreign policy has not changed one iota.
Our man in real time: Eliot Abrams’ program for civil war between Hamas and Fatah
“In the immediate aftermath of the Palestinian elections won by Hamas last January, Abrams greeted a group of Palestinian businessmen in his White House office with talk of a “hard coup” against the newly elected Hamas government – the violent overthrow of its leadership with arms supplied by the US.”
While the businessmen were shocked, Abrams was adamant – the US had to support Fatah with guns, ammunition and training so that it could fight Hamas for control of the Palestinian government.
[t]he program has gone largely without notice in the US press, it is openly talked about and commented on in the Arab media – and in Israel. Thousands of rifles and bullets have been poring into Gaza and the West Bank from Egypt and Jordan, the US administration’s designated allies in the program.
(emphasis added)
My feelings on the US helping foment a civil war between Palestinians simply means more Palestinians killed which seems to be the true objective. If we really wanted to help we’d be doing intense and honest brokering for peace talks.