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A police commander said on condition of anonymity that more than a hundred people were killed here however we have been told to stay mute about the casualties. He further said the second floor has still not been cleared (second day) while ambulances were making consecutive trips till nearly dusk time. The said person adds that after the attack, the area was cordoned off by foreign troops until dusk time and even the minister of interior was not allowed near the site. The foreign forces evacuated the dead foreign nationals from the scene then allowed the internal intelligence agency to participate in the clear up however the number of killed, most of whom were foreigners is still not known but the said person says that he believes the number reaches into hundreds. The commander who does not want to be named adds that he has never seen such destruction while all the workers near Qargha lakeside have been told to not talk to any news outlets about the casualties.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m89179&hd=&size=1&l=e
Just a note here on how Media are so selective with the Taliban site,
Reuters, et al, but NEVER do they quote actual Battle Posts from there....never.....;}
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Turkey asks Nato about a no-fly zone as Syria makes it clear that it's ready to fight dirty
per antiwar....
Justin needs to be more careful of who he puts up as sources.
Weiss is either MI6, CIA or MOSSAD. IF you think there's a difference....;}
The psychological literature does indeed say that if you scare people too much, they'll just turn off and say global warming isn't happening. And it's true, that's what people do, and of course this characteristic human behavior is not helpful as we face the future. Denial only makes a bad situation worse. Those who have not reacted this way to dire climate forecasts have remained upbeat because they believethey've been told by "experts" they trustthat solutions to the climate problem are readily available and cheap to implement. (For example, see my post Understanding Paul Krugman's View Of The Future.)
Optimists are becoming less sanguine as time goes on and no actions are taken, but if people actually understood what is required to fix global warming, many of them would probably react the way the North Carolina Senate did when they voted to ignore future sea level rise....
Experts say there are no clear answers to what comes next for Stockton or how its fall will affect the rest of the state. Other cities hit hard by the housing bust and state budget crisis are negotiating with employee unions for concessions and are watching to see if municipal bankruptcy proves medicine or poison.
See Greece and the EZ for details.
First one squeezing thru the door wins.
Expect everyone to look to get the SAME BEST DEAL.
The USSA disintegrates....
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 9:32:55 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #2. To: All (#1)
Went to my Wal MArt last night about 7.
IT was a ghost town.
Now this Wal Mart is one of Wal Marts Flagship stores.
A Model for it's system.
MY wife asked where were the Greeters.
The guy at the register said they'd been let go.
So how were we to mark Returns? (Formerly the Greeters' job.)
'Just go strait to Customer Service.'
A wizened Lady at a cash register next to, overhearing, stated (Like I said, They were DEFINITELY not busy;}
Next, Begging the Question:
'So what happens if the beeper goes off'.
And Everyone understood immediately what my wife meant by that....LMAO...8D
Wizened Lady:
'O it happens regularly, especially if I'm checking people out. They wave over their shoulder to me and I wave back.....'
The chart on the right shows U.S oil consumption. Take a look at the past few years: oil consumption has dropped nearly 2 million barrels per day since 2007. Over the same period, U.S. imports of oil have dropped 2.1 million barrels per day.
That's 4 MMBD and what the author does not realize is that,
Yes, we can and WILL stop oil imports.
The problem is the reason we're stopping.
There's No Return on Consumption.
No burning/wasting oil, no economic growth.
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
And speaking of debt...
How does the Lender get his collateral back on a loan for oil when the oil has been burned up....;}
Red, Miss Jimmie considers the USA "Fundie HQ". Ain't that funny?? What with all the drag queens, Gay Canaries, La Razas, Sharptons, Mexicans, Fascist-Atheists, Marxists, Tree-Huggers, mutant punks, and Union Thugs marching and parading around on CNN and MSNBC, WHO KNEW??
Yeah, some folk need to push away from the computer a bit and take a stroll down main street USA to get a reality check.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Wanted to give you a head's up that I mentioned you on another board...
Political / Re: Nuns vs. Romney: The Sisters Hit the Battleground State of Ohio « on: Today at 11:34:11 AM »
Quote from: brownsfan on Today at 11:14:33 AM
I know you *lie* with regularity,
Offering information that stands in direct opposition to your separate reality does not obviate that information and render it into one or several falsehoods.
In other words, your *arguments* are regularly decimated by me to the point of humiliation. This results in your melting down, calling me a lair and then attacking me personally.
That is a pattern that both you and MusicLady repeat ad infinitum. The host at LP, also an Ohioan, routinely suffers a similar fate at my hand and responds in like fashion to yours.
My conclusion? You Ohioans are pretty eff en stupid.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
The chart on the right shows U.S oil consumption. Take a look at the past few years: oil consumption has dropped nearly 2 million barrels per day since 2007. Over the same period, U.S. imports of oil have dropped 2.1 million barrels per day.
That's 4 MMBD and what the author does not realize is that,
Yes, we can and WILL stop oil imports.
The problem is the reason we're stopping.
There's No Return on Consumption.
No burning/wasting oil, no economic growth.
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
And speaking of debt...
How does the Lender get his collateral back on a loan for oil when the oil has been burned up....;}
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 10:14:53 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
That could be part of it. However, the freeways and toll roads are still full of cars. Traffic is as bad as ever here in SoCal.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the Bishop of Corum
Robin posted on 2012-06-29 10:20:58 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #3. To: Robin (#2) (Edited)
That could be part of it. However, the freeways and toll roads are still full of cars. Traffic is as bad as ever here in SoCal.
4 MMBD from 22 MMBD = 18 MMBD.
www.ceridianindex.com/index.php
The UCLA pulse of Commerce Index.
It's rolling over now.
To match this.
And Wonder how each and every one of those vehicles is paying for the fuel/car they're driving....;}
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 13:10:25 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
Looking forward to nothing but crickets here from all the totally diverse knowledgeable not Homosexual But not liking uppity women either all white men....LMFAO
As a cavalry scout, it is my job to stay hidden. Wearing a uniform that stands out this badly makes it hard to do our job effectively, he said. If we can see our own guys across a distance because of it, then so can our enemy.
The fact that the government spent $5 billion on a camouflage design that actually made its soldiers more visible and then took eight years to correct the problem has also left people in the camouflage industry incensed. The total cost comes from the Army itself and includes the price of developing the pattern and producing it for the entire service branch.
So, pray tell, how exactly did this particular clusterfuck happen, anyway?
The problem, the researchers said, was an oddly named branch of the Army in charge of equipping soldiers with gear Program Executive Office Soldier had suddenly ordered Naticks camouflage team to pick a pattern long before trials were finished.
They jumped the gun, said James Fairneny, an electrical engineer on Naticks camouflage team.
Researchers said they received a puzzling order: Take the winning colors and create a pixilated pattern. Researchers were ordered to basically put it in the Marine Corps pattern, Fairneny said.
For a decision that could ultimately affect more than a million soldiers in the Army, reserves and National Guard, the sudden shift from Program Executive Office Soldier was a head-scratcher.
LMFAO...even now this ARMY guy has ZERO idea of how ....
revealing.....;}....
his statement is:
" Its worth noting that, flawed as it was, the universal pattern did solve the problem of mismatched gear, said Eric Graves, editor of the military gear publication Soldier Systems Daily, adding that the pattern also gave soldiers a new-looking uniform that clearly identified the Army brand."
Yep...A CLEARLY IDed Army Guy...and that's EXACTLY what the Army was looking for....LMFAO...you can't make this up.
Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate. All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans opposed the mandate.(pdf) This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corporate giveaway, opposed by the majority of the population, and passed over their dissent.
In the U.S. military, fragging (from fragmentation grenade) refers to the act of deliberately assassinating another member, or members of the military, particularly (a) member(s) of ones own command or fighting squad. Additionally, the term can be applied to manipulating the chain of command in order to have an individual, or unit, deliberately killed, by placing them into harm's way with the intended result being their demise. An example would be to order a single soldier to perform a particularly hazardous task, and repeat the said task until they meet their demise. The term originated during the Vietnam War and was most commonly used to mean the assassination of an unpopular officer of one's own fighting unit.
The 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade is a unit of the United States Army .... was relocated from Fort Bragg to Fort Huachuca, where it was re-designated the ...
Sep 1, 1997 TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5, Force XXI, outlines the Armyís future warfighting requirements; .... Conduct human reconnaissance and surveillance.
Back in the pre Desert Storm years we had a Battalion Commander sent to our Battalion just as we were closing up the 2nd A.D. This LTC's first meeting with his NCO's began wih "It is my job to put as many of you as possible out of the Army as we downsize." It was pretty much down hill fast from there. So the Senior NCO's 7's and 8's all made an exit with a retirement in hand.......
Then we get informed we are going to Saudi Arabia in three weeks and to get the Tanks ready to go. Never have I seen a greater failure in Leadership. He was so hated he had to have an armed guard at his tent every night. He had his "special" boots stolen.He had one leg shorter than the other and foreverafter was known as Col. Halftrack.
Someone left a bullet on his pillow. He lost his weapon. Comming out of the minefield breech we leaned even with a GPS he couldn't read a map or keep a Battalion formation. He had so little respect at Division level (where he left) we couldn't get chow, fuel or supplies when we needed it.
He was so adept at implementing trumped up UCMJ charges and those who made it through his "Command" often had their careers damaged beyond repair. So cry all you like about the death of a "Hero", you never know the whole story unless you were there.
# J.M. Says: June 29th, 2012 at 7:14 am Ft Bragg ..
The 525 has had alot of criminal problems the past few years.
My SLC class had the current (at the time) BDE CDR as a guest speaker at Huachuca. He showed up late and smelling of booze, and spent more time talking about the leadership challenges (prostitution and drug rings run out of his barracks) then he did about MI.
# 8 Beretverde Says: June 29th, 2012 at 8:11 am Workplace violence? # 9 ROS Says: June 29th, 2012 at 8:42 am Dear God .
However, Obama could not have gotten that through Congress.
He had a Super Mandate which he IMMEDIATELY negated by saying he wanted to....
wait for it....
'Reach across the aisle for support'
You know what the 'repukes' (Head's up to google-I'm actually using that word now...Lulzz.) would be doing with a Super Mandate....LMFAO
This is the USSA...and we're an Empire....and as we grab it, it slips from our hands....;}
"They work for the good of the greatest number, and the greatest number is number one. "
Bull SHite...
So why are the Top .1% Richer than God, with the Greatest Concentration of Wealth ever known after and as continuing the Greatest Wealth Transfer in Human History is continuing..
" they've given up everything that matters -- is there anything at all you won't give up? This is the inevitable result of engaging in this manner with a fundamentally corrupt system:
Thus, the lesson: when you choose to be a critical part of a system that has become this corrupt -- and the endless corruptions of our corporatist-authoritarian-militarist system have been documented at great length here and in other places -- you will not ameliorate or "save" it. The system will necessarily and inevitably corrupt you.
That last point is absolutely critical, and it must never be forgotten......;}
-Arthur Silber
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-07-01 7:51:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #10. To: nolu chan (#6)
The vote in November may well turn into a referendum on whether to keep the Obama TAX
But Obama STILL calls it a MANDATE....;}
"The Democrats don't actually favor a repressive, authoritarian state. The Democrats are good, and they want liberty and peace for everyone, everywhere, for eternity, hallelujah and amen.
People who continue to believe this have evicted themselves from serious political debate, and they have willingly made themselves slaves to their enthusiastically embraced self-delusions. They confess a comprehensive ignorance of history, a stunning inability to understand the political developments of the last century, and a desire to place the story they have chosen, primarily because it flatters their own false sense of vanity and self-worth, above every relevant fact.