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Who would the prophet jesus hate more: gays or the people who invaded IRaq.....;} August 18, 2012 Getting ill - don't do it in Iraq. The Iraqi physicians that once were welcomed all over the world for their knowledge and skills are no longer available. Either they left the country and did not return, or they have retired. And they are badly missed: healthcare in today's Iraq is a disaster. Electricity in Iraq is a disaster. Letter from John Yoo to Alberto Gonzales DATE: August 1, 2002 SUBJECT: N/A AUTHOR: John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
John Yoo writes to White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales warning of potential threats of international prosecution regarding the administration’s interrogation policies. Yoo notes that "Interrogations of al Qaeda members … cannot constitute a war crime" because of the Presidential determination that Geneva’s protections do not apply. Memo from Jay Bybee to the CIA DATE: August 1, 2002 SUBJECT: Memorandum for [REDACTED] Interrogation of [REDACTED] AUTHOR: Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
Written by the Office of Legal Counsel’s Jay Bybee and sent to the Central Intelligence Agency, this heavily redacted document was released to the ACLU in 2008. It details "advising the CIA regarding interrogation methods it may use against al Qaeda members," and in one un-redacted portion, argues that "to violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering. Based on the information you have provided us, we believe those carrying out these procedures would not have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering."
You think the invasion of Iraq and the War of Terror which has reduced America to a Kleptocracy was good. What more do I need to say. That Texas names it's airports after the bush crime family.....;} If that's your religion, I want no part of it....;}
The existence of high-jackers, whether these or others, is confirmed by telephone calls made by several passengers to members of their families. Unfortunately, these conversations are known to us only by hearsay and have not been published, even in the case of those that were recorded. Thus, it has been impossible to verify that they were actually made from a particular cell phone of from a telephone on board. Here, too, we are asked to take the FBI at its word. Further, it was not indispensable to have high-jackers to carry out the attacks. The Global Hawk technology, developed by the Air Force, makes it possible to take control of a commercial airliner regardless of the intentions of its pilot(s) and to direct it by remote control. There remains the case of Osama bn Laden. If it is generally admitted that he was a CIA agent or collaborator during the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the current version of events claims that he turned coat and became public enemy number one of the United States. This story does not bear up under scrutiny either. The French daily le Figaro revealed that last July, Osmam bn Laden was a patient at the American hospital in Dubai, where he was visited by the head of CIA regional office. CBS television in the United States has revealed that, on September 10, Osama bn Laden was undergoing dialysis at the Rawalpindi military hospital, under the protection of the Pakistani army. And the renown French journalist Michel Peyrard, who was a prisoner of the Taliban, has recounted how, last November, Osama bn Laden was living openly in Jalalabad while the United States was bombing other regions of the country. It is difficult to believe that the greatest army in the world, come to Afghanistan to arrest him, was unable to do so, while the mollah Omar was able to escape from United States military force on a moped.
Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:7PM GMT 15 The US, the British, the French and indeed the Israelis are now apoplectic.” American author Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley An American author and historian says the United States, the Israeli regime, France and the UK are “apoplectic” due to the failure of their anti-Syria plots, Press TV reports. “The US, the British, the French and indeed the Israelis are now apoplectic,” said Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley in an interview with Press TV on Friday. “That’s what you see with Fabius. I would call attention to the language he decided when he says the Syrian regime should be smashed fast,” Tarpley added, referring to recent remarks by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
Hey zioFundies! Your Empire for jesus is falling apart....;} #668. To: All (#667) # INSIGHT-Workers to warriors: union war batters S.Africa mines Reuters - 1 hour ago Turf war for members was backdrop to Lonmin mine killings* Worker demands show popular anger over poverty, services* Platinum sector struggles with soaring costs, weak demand* Fears ... Top News · India Insight · World ... Reuters is now just another Hack site. Like the BBC. The end is near. Bet Impala is never mentioned in that article. And 'weak demand'? So as Platinum has the Very Same chart formation as Gold, is Gold And silver suffering from 'weak demand' as well? LMFAO mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-19 9:13:41 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #669. To: All (#0) Friday, August 17, 2012 The Americas against the Anglosphere Excellent news! According to SkyNews, The Organisation of American States (OAS) has called a meeting of foreign ministers for August 24 to discuss the stand-off sparked when Ecuador granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Twenty-three countries voted on Friday for the resolution proposed by Ecuador to convene the meeting at its Washington headquarters to discuss Quito's stand-off with Britain over Assange. The US, Canada and Trinidad and Tobago voted no. We couldn;'t get Honduras on board? WTF is the point of having colonies?.....8D mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-19 9:50:50 ET
Empire for Jesus...kinda like the Caliphate for Al Qaeda....I like that....;} Re: Politics and Doomcasting... Post Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:41 am by mcgowanjm What kills Empire is not the predicted....but the Rosa Parks events.... Twenty-three countries voted on Friday for the resolution proposed by Ecuador to convene the meeting at its Washington headquarters to discuss Quito's stand-off with Britain over Assange. The US, Canada and Trinidad and Tobago voted no. The vote was taken at emergency talks to discuss the Assange case (...) The US envoy to the OAS, Carmen Lomellin, said a meeting of its foreign ministers 'would be unhelpful and harmful to the OAS's reputation as an institution'. Furthermore, Lenta.ru reports that Ecuador is also calling for an extraordinary meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to discuss the Assange case. It seems that the Anglosphere is now isolated from, and on a collision course with, the rest of the Americas. Good! (I can't believe that even Colombia voted against the USA... amazing, no?) Posted by VINEYARDSAKER And It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. — Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 1901, describing the United States playing the European-style imperialist game in the Philippines. For globalism to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is.…The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist—McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. — Thomas Friedman, What the World Needs Now, New York Times, March 28, 1999. Quoted from Backing Up Globalization with Military Might BBC News 1. Ousted ANC leader tells South African miners police were wrong to shoot them Detroit Free Press - 9 hours ago Miners and their families welcomed expelled politician Julius Malema on Saturday as he told the thousands who gathered at the site where 34 miners were killed last ... Jeff Wierenga was 25 years old in 1982 when he got the news few ... ANC members had shares in the Lonmin platinum mine and implied ... OOoops.... :shock: mcgowanjm Post Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:54 am by mcgowanjm Re: Politics and Doomcasting... Post Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:54 am by mcgowanjm Three take aways from this article: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Tho ... e_12294646 Police captain Dennis Adrio said police units would remain at the mine for as long as necessary. Adrio declined to discuss specifics regarding the police's plans, though it appeared late yesterday afternoon that officers would largely stay away from the communities and watch from a distance. Adrio said officers were aware of the dead body near where the miners had gathered yesterday and that they would attempt to recover it. "Our objective is to civilise the situation on the ground," the captain said. "The second objective is to find who killed our two officers and those who killed the other dead." Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Tho ... z240A49fYQ What got my attn was that the Jamaican paper was highlighted by google with the 'latest' info on the Platinum mines. You know, a vast majority black paper to give you the 'what's really happening' aspect. Except that the # killed is '10'. One less than what the 'original story line had. Do ALL USSan MSM's automatically knock down the initial number? Which is now up to 34 btw.... :twisted: Then, the Banner Ad on the paper's site. 50 YEARS of Independence :!: Now what happened 50 years ago....1962...the Brit's Empire is Finally shuttered as the Cuban Missile Crisis Hots Up..... :twisted: And Jamaica's an OAS member voting against it's 'former' Empire(s). How convoluted, yet, timely. 2012 will be remembered as the time the USSA's colonies began to break away. mcgowanjm Post Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:00 am by mcgowanjm Re: Politics and Doomcasting... Post Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:00 am by mcgowanjm And back to Assange/Ecuador/Embassy. Just like Rosa Parks, what cause the revolution was that she was just too tired to walk any further....and so sitting down sparked the revolution.....how easy is that..... :twisted: Commentary: Even though I had little doubt that Ecuador would grant asylum to Assange, it was really heart-warming for me to listen to the absolutely beautiful statement of Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, in particular after learning of the mind-boggling arrogance of the Brits who dared to cross a line very few, if any, governments ever dared cross: threaten to violate the sovereignty of an embassy (the only other example I can think of is the USAF bombing the PRC embassy in Belgrade - which everybody forgot, of course). Does anybody remember that even the Iranian revolutionary government did not dare to openly say that it had seized the US embassy in Tehran, but that it hid behind a student movement instead? Yes, I know, this was a *very* thin fig-leaf for a regime which right in the wake of the Islamic revolution was rather over the top in most of its actions at the time. But even that regime did not have the arrogance to openly declare that it had violated one of the most basic rules of civilized behavior: one does not directly violate the diplomatic immunity of an official embassy. The Brits just fcuked up Big Time... :twisted: A slave doing what it thinks it's Master would have wanted....ANOTHER underrated cause of Empire collapse...... :twisted: :roll: :shock: :? 8-)
[quote="Widgeon"]Methylene Chloride. They've been dumping Methylene Chloride into these cavers. WTF else is down there. I guess a pre-requisite for being "in charge" is having a demonstrated ability to not give two fucks about any future generations.[/quote] Best quote that I can't find now.... Dealing with the 'whistleblowers' on the Klamath Basin Dams that are about to come down. 'It will take 5 000 years to undo the damage caused by these dams. Since the damage is already done, we might as well go ahead and get the immediate benefits.' Couldn't have put Humanity's MEME better if I tried.
Only weeks away now. The Empire reaches and falters..... http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/ "19 August 2012 John Ralston Saul: The Collapse of Globalism "The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as 'western civilization,' they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience... Ever since the democratic systems permitted their various courts to give corporations the status of persons, the individual as citizen has been on the defensive. How could it be otherwise? If you are a person before the law and Exxon or Ford is also a person, it is clear that the concept of democratic legitimacy lying with the individual has been mortally wounded..."
* Print * Permalink * RSS Andrew Freedman By Andrew Freedman In May, the U.S. Agriculture Department predicted a record corn yield after farmers planted the largest area of corn and soybeans since 1937. Three months later, after a searing drought engulfed a wide swath of the continental U.S., those crops lie in ruin. Despite all of the resources at forecasters’ disposal, the worst drought to strike the U.S. in nearly 50 years came on largely without warning across the fields of the Midwest and High Plains during late spring and early summer. Between May 1 and July 24, the drought footprint in the lower 48 states expanded from an already high 38 percent to a devastating 64 percent, engulfing more than a dozen states in the process, including nearly the entire corn and soybean growing region. Judging by past droughts, the drought of 2012 will likely cost the U.S. somewhere on the order of tens of billions of dollars."
#676. To: All (#0) Republicans rape themselves. will they now abort themselves. And will they be legitimate Republicans once they do. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......8D mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-20 21:39:10 ET
www.economic-undertow.com...s/2012/08/CBL-0818121.png To sum up: emissions have dropped in the U.S., thanks to a form of energy that’s ultimately not much cleaner than coal, and which has stalled conversion to truly clean energy. Meanwhile, worldwide emissions are still growing, putting CO2 into the atmosphere as though it were some sort of global Roach Motel where molecules can check in, but they can’t check out. This may make some experts optimistic. It doesn’t do a lot for me. www.climatecentral.org/bl...ead-the-fine-print-14832/ Google CO2 AP
neven1.typepad.com/ There are several scientific organisations that keep an eye on the Arctic sea ice cover and put out graphs to inform us of the amount of ice that is left. You can see most, if not all, of them on the ASI Graphs webpage. I expect the record on most of these graphs to be broken in weeks to come. After Uni Bremen sea ice extent and Arctic ROOS sea ice area another big domino has fallen with Cryosphere Today sea ice area:
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Just what the Zionists that are running and ruining this nation want and need, another empty-headed, no questions asked full blown supporter of Apartheid Israel’s malevolent policies. Todd Akin’s rape remark has GOP fretting BTW, Todd old boy, just what in the hell is ‘legitimate rape?’ Is that what happens anytime a rep from AIPAC comes into your office and you get down on your hands and knees?
The AP, USAToday and the WSJ have yet to connect this Heat Wave/Drought to Climate Change. Not one mention. STUDY: TV Media Ignore Climate Change In Coverage Of Record ... mediamatters.org/research....climate-change.../189366 6 days ago – Climate Change Largely Absent From Media Reports On Extreme Heat ... But the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today mentioned it ... Only 8% Of Coverage Pointed Out That Human Activities Are Driving ...
Why would Akin leave the GOP. What's the difference? " It was bad enough that Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made his comments on "legitimate rape" in the first place. The comments are offensive in the cruelest way. It was worse from Romney's perspective that his vice presidential candidate has a close affiliation with Akin on a bill before the House that gives full rights of personhood to eggs upon fertilization (Turn out the lights, the party's over) Now this! Mr. Akin’s comments, made in an interview Sunday with a St. Louis television station, were not the only factor propelling abortion prominently into the national political dialogue. Meeting in Tampa, Fla., ahead of next week’s National Republican Convention, the party’s platform committee on Tuesday adopted a policy statement calling for a ban on abortion without an exception for rape. The Democratic National Committee immediately labeled that “the Akin Plank” as they tried to create a gender gap in both the presidential and Congressional races. Akin Says He Is Staying in Senate Race, Defying G.O.P., New York Times, August 21"
What's the difference? Ain't that the truth. He's their poster boy.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
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You don't get it. And the POTUS will have about 45 sec to make the call....;) What is happening to the Empire is, ironically, a process I would call of "Israelization": a dynamic in which it is rather obvious that the world's elites dare not speak against it, but the rest of the planet hates and despises it. We can think of "Israelization" as the inevitable backlash resulting from a systematic disregard for international law combined with an equally systematic use of violence or threat thereof (which is, of course, a form of violence in itself). Of course, the imperial rulers are far too ignorant of history, to full of hubris and racist arrogance and, frankly, too stupid to realize how dangerous this process is for them. They will "get it" only by the time it is way too late to stop it. "
Living in the Conspiracy "Living in the Middle Ages" "Todd Akin: The man who said too much" "'Rape can't cause pregnancy': A brief history of Todd Akin's bogus theory" Akin was surprised by the reaction, as he naturally assumed the people he was talking to would see nothing controversial in what he was saying. His mistake was that this type of comment is supposed to be limited to discussions with the like-minded, and not on a television interview that anybody can see. Being a Republican is like being a habitual liar: it is damn hard to keep your stories straight.
I joined LP right before KAtrina. Happy Anniversary!!!!!!! ;}
* Re: Isaac Forecast Lounge Less Praying, More Generators, Water, Boats.... See any similarities? www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/KATRINA_graphics.shtml Friday, August 26, 2005 At 1:00 AM EDT, maximum sustained winds had decreased to 70 mph (110 km/h) and Katrina was again downgraded to a tropical storm. At 5:00 AM EDT, the eye of Hurricane Katrina was located just offshore of southwestern Florida over the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Key West, Florida. Maximum sustained winds had again increased to 75 mph (121 km/h) and Katrina was upgraded again to a Category 1 hurricane. By 8:00 AM CDT (1300 UTC), in New Orleans, water was seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal. At approximately 8:14 AM CDT (1314 UTC), the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning for Orleans Parish and St Bernard Parish, citing a levee breach at the Industrial Canal. The National Weather Service predicted three to eight feet of water and advised people in the warning area to "move to higher ground immediately."[14] By 9:00 AM CDT (2100 UTC), there was 6–8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward.[15][16] Many of the new ground based wind measurements were published on the New Orleans National Weather Service web site on Friday, October 7, in their post-storm report on Katrina. The highest sustained winds measured at any ground-based site were 90 mph on Lake Pontchartrain. The highest gust measured on the ground was 135 mph in Poplarville, MS. Many wind measurement sites failed during the storm, so we will have to rely on aircraft and Doppler radar to arrive at the true wind speeds of Katrina at landfall. Here's a few highlights of the highest winds measured at the ground during Katrina, before instrument failure: New Orleans Lakefront Airport: sustained winds of 69 mph, gusting to 86 mph. Biloxi's Keesler Air Force Base: sustained winds of 54 mph, gusting to 90 mph. Gulfport airport: 46 mph, gusting to 58 mph. Lake Ponchartrain mid-lake buoy: 90 mph, gusting to 114 mph. Many of us heard that Category 5 winds were measured by the National Weather Service in Katrina. These rumors were aired as fact by television stations and other media outlets during the storm. However, as the post-storm report above outlines, these were just rumors, and no such winds were measured. If you listened to NPR last night, you also might have heard the story of how television stations in Baton Rouge were reporting a huge crime wave in Baton Rouge after the hurricane, and that an armed gang had even taken over the Mayor's office. These reports, later found out to be completely untrue, led to four-hour waits to buy guns at local gun stores in Baton Rouge. According to NPR, there was no increase in crime in Baton Rouge after the hurricane. The media, at times, did a poor job in separting fact from fiction during the storm, and there were in reality no sustatined winds above Category 1 measured on the ground during Katrina. Obviously, a demotion of Katrina to Category 3 status would have political consequences. classic.wunderground.com/...comment.html?entrynum=182 All we need are shots of Cantore, the Angel of Doom, on the River Walk, with oblivious tourists walking along Jackson Square. And the $15 Billiion figure being thrown around is just about as accurate as the Amount of $$$ that got to Haiti from their Earthquake relief fund. O and the ContraFlow? That's where the Inbound Lanes are reserved for Emergency Personnel, nothing more.
Friday, August 26, 2005 At 1:00 AM EDT, maximum sustained winds had decreased to 70 mph (110 km/h) and Katrina was again downgraded to a tropical storm. At 5:00 AM EDT, the eye of Hurricane Katrina was located just offshore of southwestern Florida over the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Key West, Florida. Maximum sustained winds had again increased to 75 mph (121 km/h) and Katrina was upgraded again to a Category 1 hurricane. Sound familiar?....;}
Re: Isaac Forecast Lounge [Re: TXEB] #93764 - Mon Aug 27 2012 08:26 AM E We're about to find out via rapid intensification or not, Quote: Hurricane forecast models (the same ones that were used to predict Katrina’s path) indicate a tendency for more intense (but not overall more frequent) hurricanes when they are run for climate change scenarios (Fig. 1). Figure 1. Model Simulation of Trend in Hurricanes (from Knutson et al, 2004) In the particular simulation shown above, the frequency of the strongest (category 5) hurricanes roughly triples in the anthropogenic climate change scenario relative to the control. This suggests that hurricanes may indeed become more destructive (1) as tropical SSTs warm due to anthropogenic impacts. http://www.realclimate.org/index...canes-and-global-warming/ As far as I can tell, Katrina and Isaac are almost Identical at this point. corrections Always welcomed. The NHC Still has very little in the way of Intensity predictions. and the only thing that's changed in NO, is that it's 7 inches lower in elevation and the GOM is at least 3 inches higher.
One more difference. The Superdome and Airpirt will be guarded against people seeking shelter.....8D Why would it be any other way?
Good Morning to All. The NO Mayor Landrieu said on NBC last nite that if you haven't left by 11 PM, then it's too late and Shelter in Place. I don't know why he said that. But at least a 1/4 million will now be living below sea level. That's an eye. And according to Shortwave the Circulation Symmetry looks perfect. www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ECMWF_0z/ecmwfloop.html Dvorak: North Half fills in and it's a Cat 2 + at landfall. Watching for reduced forward speed now.
#4. To: Skip Intro, nolu chan, all (#3) Arkansas had a drought. We needed water. That NO has to go thru this for us to get it is just the way the planet works. This is a watershed moment....8D From an LSU sports site: GhostofJackson Tulane Fan Member since Nov 2009 1792 posts Online re: Hurricane Isaac Tracking Thread (Updated...80mph, 970mb at 6am CT) (Posted on 8/29/12 at 6:15 a.m. to Smalls) quote: This is a beast. Yeah I'd like to find all the guys making fun of this thing yesterday and have them come clean up the damage in this area. They were laughing about playing golf yesterday...... mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-29 7:42:27 ET
I post some other sites. Right now Isaac's not even registering. As Obama will be defined by Isaac. expect that the WH is getting the Bad News now with an 8 hour news embargo or as long as they can hold it.
Obama will be speaking live to the Nation today. The Only question is when.
e The Good News: This is the First Beneficial Event to happen in the MS River Estuary since the USSAbpEcocide....;} New Orleans is your future. the Worst possible scenario unfolding. radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php Guy Laigast, director of the parish's emergency preparedness, says that an 18-mile stretch of the parish east bank back levees might be overtopped from Braithwaite to White Ditch and that some points might be seeing 110 miles per hour winds. There are many varying reports of wind speeds, generally ranging between 80 and 110 miles per hour. "The devastation of my house is worse than Katrina aand the flooding in Woodlawn is worse than Katrina, so those things tell me that the damage on the east bank is worse than Katrina," Nungesser said this morning. Probably at about 8 o clock tonight Wow, amazing projections were off by nearly 12 hours, this thing is just sitting there
WWL TV: Rescues in Plaq Parish using facebook while in the boat to rescue folks. As bad or worse than Katrina. "We can not believe how fast the water rose."
mcgowanjm * Profile * Private message User avatar VIP VIP Posts: 5057 Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am Post Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:55 am by mcgowanjm Re: PEAK OIL, TOTAL COLLAPSE, AND THE ROAD TO THE OLDUVAI Post Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:55 am by mcgowanjm A,lot of this post was deleted. Inappropriate the Mod said... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll: :? 8-) Re: Isaac Forecast Lounge [Re: ralphfl] #93762 - Mon Aug 27 2012 07:14 AM Edit post Edit Reply to this post Reply Reply to this post Quote Quick Reply Quick Reply Less Praying, More Generators, Water, Boats.... See any similarities? www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/KA ... hics.shtml Friday, August 26, 2005 By 8:00 AM CDT (1300 UTC), in New Orleans, water was seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal. At approximately 8:14 AM CDT (1314 UTC), the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning for Orleans Parish and St Bernard Parish, citing a levee breach at the Industrial Canal. The National Weather Service predicted three to eight feet of water and advised people in the warning area to "move to higher ground immediately."[14] By 9:00 AM CDT (2100 UTC), there was 6–8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward.[15][16] Many of the new ground based wind measurements were published on the New Orleans National Weather Service web site on Friday, October 7, in their post-storm report on Katrina. The highest sustained winds measured at any ground-based site were 90 mph on Lake Pontchartrain. The highest gust measured on the ground was 135 mph in Poplarville, MS. Many wind measurement sites failed during the storm, so we will have to rely on aircraft and Doppler radar to arrive at the true wind speeds of Katrina at landfall. Here's a few highlights of the highest winds measured at the ground during Katrina, before instrument failure: New Orleans Lakefront Airport: sustained winds of 69 mph, gusting to 86 mph. Biloxi's Keesler Air Force Base: sustained winds of 54 mph, gusting to 90 mph. Gulfport airport: 46 mph, gusting to 58 mph. Lake Ponchartrain mid-lake buoy: 90 mph, gusting to 114 mph. Many of us heard that Category 5 winds were measured by the National Weather Service in Katrina. These rumors were aired as fact by television stations and other media outlets during the storm. However, as the post-storm report above outlines, these were just rumors, and no such winds were measured. If you listened to NPR last night, you also might have heard the story of how television stations in Baton Rouge were reporting a huge crime wave in Baton Rouge after the hurricane, and that an armed gang had even taken over the Mayor's office. These reports, later found out to be completely untrue, led to four-hour waits to buy guns at local gun stores in Baton Rouge. According to NPR, there was no increase in crime in Baton Rouge after the hurricane. The media, at times, did a poor job in separting fact from fiction during the storm, and there were in reality no sustatined winds above Category 1 measured on the ground during Katrina. Obviously, a demotion of Katrina to Category 3 status would have political consequences. classic.wunderground.com/blog/Je ... trynum=182 (Off-topic material removed - this really belongs in the Hurricane History Forum.) Edited by Ed Dunham (Mon Aug 27 2012 04:25 PM) Cantore Canal St Downtown NO: Sustained winds: 46 mph. Gusts common: 93 mph. Isaac still 60 miles SSW.
Cantore Canal St Downtown NO: Sustained winds: 46 mph. Gusts common: 93 mph. Isaac still 60 miles SSW. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-29 10:30:51 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #692. To: All (#0) Isaac's here. Right over the Most Extensive Drought in AR. Amazing. All the way from Africa. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-31 9:05:09 ET
"We dodged a bullet." No. No, we did not. We took the bullet. Shattered the femur. Gangrene setting in. "About half of Louisiana was without power on Aug. 30 as Tropical Storm Isaac moved inland. The Public Service Commission said 903,000 homes and businesses around the state — about 47 percent of all customers — were without power. A word from our sponsor: Sponsored by: Sullivan Group. Click here for more info. As the market turns, what is the broker's role? About half of Louisiana was without power on Aug. 30 as Tropical Storm Isaac moved inland. The Public Service Commission said 903,000 homes and businesses around the state — about 47 percent of all customers — were without power. A word from our sponsor: Sponsored by: Sullivan Group. Click here for more info. As the market turns, what is the broker's role? The soft market is turning... If carriers decide they must raise prices, will customers pay them? As the market turns, what role should brokers play? Sullivan gives his views. Click Here to Watch Now. Entergy says that included about 686,000 of its customers. Another 87,000 were customers of Cleco Corp. Nearly all customers were without power in Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist parishes, while at least three-quarters of homes and businesses had power outages in Iberville, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, St. Charles, St. James, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne and West Feliciana parishes. The soft market is turning... If carriers decide they must raise prices, will customers pay them? As the market turns, what role should brokers play? Sullivan gives his views. Click Here to Watch Now. Entergy says that included about 686,000 of its customers. Another 87,000 were customers of Cleco Corp. Nearly all customers were without power in Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist parishes, while at least three-quarters of homes and businesses had power outages in Iberville, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, St. Charles, St. James, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne and West Feliciana parishes." The Good News is that Amerika can't here from those who don't have electricity...;} mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 9:01:59 ET
Read the USSA Version. CBS: Twin suicide Wardak, Numerous Amerikan injuries..... WRH: Scores of American invaders killed in twin mortar attack; helicopter shot down Zabihullah Mujahid E-mail Print PDF Saturday, 14 Syawal 1433 Saturday, 01 September 2012 14:31 WARDAK, Sept. 01 - The first blast was conducted by Ahmad, a brave martyr-seeking Mujahid on foot hitting a US invaders military base in Syed Abad, Wardak on early Saturday morning which eliminated almost all of the security checks and barriers followed by a massive explosion from a truck bomb by another Mujahid that destroyed much of the base facility allowing Mujahideen to get into the base compound and unleashed a face to face fighting with the American terrorist soldiers within the base, a Mujahideen’s official said. Several dozens of the invading terrorists were killed and wounded in the resulting fighting, setting the base facility on fire and a number of the military vehicles and tanks were destroyed in the blast and fighting, whereas an attack helicopter among many hovering overhead which, in turn, were bombing and targeting Mujahideen combatants, got shot down by Mujahideen during the fight. Meantime, enemy’s spying balloons were destroyed and the center of district got badly damaged as a result of the successful operation increasing the death and injury toll. According the recent reports, more than 30 puppet soldiers were retrieved from beneath the rubble by the bulldozers and the dead and the wounded were being carried by about 30 ambulances, whereas the ambulance helicopters were busy carrying the dead and wounding. According to the witnesses to the scene, more than 10 government buildings were unbelievingly flattened and became piles of rubble. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 21:31:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #697. To: All (#696) Note to Imperial Defense Command: To successfully prosecute a Colonial War, the First Item on the Agenda is to make sure the Insurgency in the Colony can't get their version of events out to the world as fast as you want to get yours..... 2: The Colonial War ain't over til the Insurgents say it is. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 21:37:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #698. To: All (#0) Two Suicide Near NATO Base in Afghanistan Kill Over a Dozen The glaring failure that is the war in Afghanistan is being almost completely omitted from the political debate by John Glaser, September 01, 2012 Print This | Share This Two suicide bombings in central Afghanistan carried out by the Taliban have killed at least nine civilians and four Afghan policemen, in the latest illustration of an unhindered insurgency and burgeoning chaos in America’s near-forgotten war zone. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 21:57:37 ET
" Faced with defeat on all fronts, Washington planners, nonetheless, continue to uphold the delusional dream of an indefinite US stay in Afghanistan. Imperial dreams die hard." In lieu, then, of discussing Afghanistan and US militarism more broadly, the presidential campaign devolves into spectacle and triviality. Substance, where it is to be found, is limited to squabbles over who promises to cut the most from the already gutted American social safety net. The fact that the Pentagon appropriates over half the US budget (52 percent in 2011, according to the War Resisters League) in order to conduct campaigns of misery and terror abroad, leaving the hollow mantra of “shared sacrifice” in its wake at home, is beyond debate-beyond the pale. US militarism is simply an unquestionable pillar of the American way of life. Something the people of the world (from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Korea and beyond) have come to learn firsthand." We're getting our ass handed to us. And Clint Eastwood is our model. Pack up the band...it's now all over. Waiting for the False Flag that will project us into the Post 9/11 Shock Doctrine.
It's going to be 100 F today... And tomorrow. It will cool off to 97 by Wed. No one has to tell me, I don't have to google to know this is a Record....... It used to cost one barrel of oil to get about 100 barrels of oil out of the ground. These days one barrel only gets us 10 barrels back, and declining. And that means it's not cheap anymore.
So far, 48 NATO troops – including the three Australians killed on Wednesday – have died in 31 separate attacks. This month, during Ramadan, 11 US soldiers were killed in nine days. The high number represents 14 per cent of all combat fatalities this year and though it is still only August, the figure is already significantly higher than last year, when 31 troops died. The numbers are so high that some analysts claim they may represent the highest incidence of intentional friendly fire attacks in recorded military history...
When San Diego does this to you, you need to take the hint: ""Go ahead, nurse. Make my bed." A man's got to know his limitations and Clint Eastwood's performance at the Republican National Convention earned him notices the likes of which he hasn't received since City Heat. "Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him." - Roger Ebert "That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen at a political convention in my entire life." - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow "Tremendous!" - Academy Award-Winner, Jon Voight Eastwood began his career talking to trees and now he's addressing a chair. It's like watching the dummy without Paul Winchell.
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I like that review best. A twofer.....;}
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