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And you're not going to defend pink slime are you?
Is it worse the hot dogs or bologna? Has anyone ever died from eating it? If we stop using it here could it help feed the third world? Is it more or less nutritious then regular beef?
Is it worse the hot dogs or bologna? Has anyone ever died from eating it? If we stop using it here could it help feed the third world? Is it more or less nutritious then regular beef?
Stone, you are making too much sense here for him to possibly comprehend.
Irans main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
Is it worse the hot dogs or bologna? Has anyone ever died from eating it? If we stop using it here could it help feed the third world? Is it more or less nutritious then regular beef?
I think what most object to is the lack of truth in advertising. Ground round or chuck is certainly not chopped lips, dicks and eyeballs.
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
But we have no idea what the pay out's going to be.
"Now, health insurance is a strange proposition to start with, because everyone dies, and nobody dies healthy, so most people require medical treatment at some point. (A few people spontaneously combust, I suppose. They are still none too healthy during the few seconds before they die, but that's not long enough for them to avail themselves of medical attention. But that's a very rare case.) The point is, if all houses burned down at some point, there would be no fire insurance, and if all houses flooded at some point, there would be no flood insurance. But everyone dies, and yet there is health insurance. How is that?"
"I wanted to know the adjusted price beforehand, but I was told that they do not give out this information. The adjustments are generated by an inscrutable computer program, which determines the numbers on the spur of the moment based on a set of formulas. Now, normally I don't do business with companies that refuse to quote a price before I place the order. That's where the tax penalty is most helpful to them: it leaves me no choice but do business with, and get robbed by, this company."
We're going top get Single Payer Medicare/VA. The question is how bad the USSA's Empire's doin' when it happens.
The more you process by definition, it's less 'nutritious'.
The higher on the Food Chain, the more toxic the product.
Yep. Everywhere air, steel, hands, even gloves contact meat, there is potential for all sorts of contamination.
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
The Tuareg taking over an area twice the size of France.
"We can hear heavy fire coming in the direction of the main military camp," a Reuters reporter said.
"People here are running all over the place and all the shops are closing."
Mahamane Diakite, an aide to the governor of Gao, told AFP: "We can hear heavy weapons fire. We have also seen two helicopters taking off to shoot. Rebels have entered the town."
In the afghans:
"A member of a U.S.-backed Afghan village police force has killed nine of his fellow officers as they slept in a volatile eastern area, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
The gunman opened fire with his assault rifle after waking up at 3 a.m. on Friday, ostensibly to take over guard duty at a small command post for the Afghan Local Police in Paktika province. He killed everybody inside, including the post's commander, according to officials. He then took their weapons, piled them in a pickup truck and sped away.
These people are getting away. All of them. There is no collateral damage for the Taliban. And that is the deadliest formula for the USSA.
"Another ALP member was accused of involvement in the killing of nine members of his unit in March in southern Uruzgan province. They also were shot and killed while asleep at their post in the village of Oshi in the province's Charchino district. It remains unclear if he killed them or allowed a killer into the post, but he was never apprehended."
BBC map
Mali's government forces have struggled to drive back the rebels. Mid-ranking officers in the military overthrew the government this month, saying the army needed more equipment to fight.
And you can bet BPA's all over/in your meat product:
Published on Friday, March 30, 2012 by Common Dreams FDA Keeps BPA in Food, Fails Public Health Again 'FDA should remove "responsible for protecting the public health" from its mission statement' - Common Dreams staff
Today the Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will not take steps to bar bisphenol-A, or BPA, a known toxic chemical, from canned food and liquid infant formula containers.
Studies show that BPA leaches from epoxy linings of cans into food and drink, and resurfaces in breast milk, saliva, urine, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord blood; the contamination is linked to many health problems including birth defects.
And speaking of someone not giving a rat's ass about feeding the Third World....
My responsibility is to feed my family, not the third world.
If the people in the third world want to eat, they should overthrow their socialist dictators and go to work.
Irans main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
And that's exactly right but I was talking about Toxic accumulation in the Fats.
The problem for Corporations is that they've gone as far as they can.
The fewest workers, the most chemicals, the biggest machines, the longest transport, the most captive gov't.
And all the infrastructure designed to run on $20 the BBL fuel.
We're going back to local and Corporations will be left high and dry.
I think they still have lots of wiggle room. The cheapest way for manufacturers to dispose of toxins is to get something to eat it. Whether eukaryote or prokaryote.
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
There comes a time in every wo/man's life when a decision has to be made.
Do I live on my knees or die on my feet.
Congress has a <10% approval rating.
They don't even do polls on the approval of SCOTUS.
The Dems got zero for their asquiescence in the overthrow of Democracy December 14, 2000.
When the Gov't no longer represents the view of the people
(See the COG/State of Emergency, Patriot Act, and Citizen's United 'case' for details;)
the people have the right to overthrow that gov't.
just for shites and giggles I googled:
Deficit Reduction and Economic Recovery. The following is an ex of the pp of bulls**t that I got back:
The Unnecessary Pivot From Economic Recovery to Deficit Reduction Posted Jun. 14, 2011 By Loren Adler and Shai Akabas James Kennedy contributed to this post. Less than three years ago, the U.S. financial system barely averted a catastrophic meltdown, and the nation was embroiled in a severe recession. Our economy was analogous to a car rolling backwards down a hill at an uncomfortably quick pace. Thankfully, Americas leaders were able to hit the brakes and stop the skid with policies that, while far from ideal, returned the economy to a forward gear.
Oftwominds, Charles H SMith:
We have all experienced the disorientation and "brain freeze" that stress triggers. It seems these symptoms of stress have become normalized in countries where the authorities keep promoting phony "economic recoveries." The disconnect between what the authorities are claiming and what people are actually experiencing is widening, and that leads to stress. No wonder more and more people are "losing it" in public as their neural circuitry melts down under the strain of synthesizing what they experience (austerity) and what they're told (official spin about the "recovery").
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:20:08 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #98. To: nolu chan (#93)
As for Obama, even if he were found to be an alien, his actions would not be null and void. See de facto officer.
Obama's a war criminal.
Just like bush43 before him.
Worse. Anyone saying they can kill anyone at anytime for any reason is Evil.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:23:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #99. To: nolu chan (#93)
If we are to have universal health insurance,
the USSA will have to be mortally threatened.
Only then does the State attempt to gain the support of the Bottom 99%.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:24:33 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #100. To: nolu chan (#94)
It is deliberately misnamed
Just like you never see the word 'insurance' in the same sentence with Credit Debt Swaps.
And that CDS' 'sole' purpose is implied to be insurance against default.
Insurance proclaims a contract between parties.
Health Insurance is a tax, enforced/collected by the state for the benefit of private corporations who will not tell you the cost of what you're purchasing until after....
Just one more criminal enterprise on Planet Hell.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:28:40 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #101. To: nolu chan (#95)
O and Corporations, one way or another will be gone in 10 years.
Nah, they're like society's cockroach.
Only in that cockroach's can survive nuclear fallout.
Corporations can't survive the fall of the state.
10 years.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:30:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #102. To: nolu chan (#96)
supporters of the Act to turn out at the polls in November.
To vote for who.
If voting changed anything it would be made illegal.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:31:18 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #103. To: All (#102)
Behaviorally, stress breaks down self-control, so it is no surprise that stress leads to bingeing, addictive behavior, impluse buying, etc.--all "knock-on" effects with negative consequences.
Chronic stress permanently degrades our ability to rationally analyze and plan, and so we act irrationally or erratically, as we are no longer able to stick to a conscious plan of coherent action. With the rational mind and self-control centers permanently suppressed, we are prone to "zombie" passivity, "sleepwalking" though life. This may help explain Americans' remarkable passivity as their civil liberties are taken away and their financial insecurity increases.
Many of the features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are visible in "everyday Americans," and an understanding of how stress erodes rational thought and self-control helps explain why. -Charles H Smith
"February 26, 2012 They Won't Stop Until There's No One Left to Kill The awful Drudge links this:
The Pentagon is readying for the possibility of intervention in Syria, aiming to halt Syrian President Bashsar Assad's violent crackdown on protesters, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday, citing a US military offical.....;}
If the mandate and all of the Affordable Care Act gets flushed by SCOTUS, it may greatly energize the supporters of the Act to turn out at the polls in November. Such could contribute to the reelection of Obama, leading to Obama making several appointments to the Court, changing the balance of power at the Court. Thats one way to look at it.
Governor Romney has been the voice of reason in the Republican primaries, and has refused to turn his back on his core values or change his positions despite the scurrilous attacks from his opponents. Were he not running against a successful incumbent, I would have no hesitation in bestowing upon him my full endorsement.
Governor Romneys excellent qualifications are, however, trumped by the superior record while in office of the incumbent, Barack Obama. Taking the presidential oath in the middle of the worst financial crisis since World War Two, Mr. Obama hit the ground running and was quickly able to restore the publics confidence in the financial markets with his aggressive actions to curtail the shady dealings of Wall Street hucksters. Even before taking office, Mr. Obama signaled that he would not be representing business as usual by his staunch opposition to the Troubled Assets Relief Bill at the height of the 2008 campaign. Mr. Obamas boldest move was unleashing the FBI and Department of Justice prosecutors on Wall Street, who then secured indictments against the big players who were most responsible for the rampant fraud that caused the housing bubble and the resulting crash in the financial markets.
So I wholeheartedly give my endorsement to Barrack Obama for the Re Election of the President of the United States.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-01 8:55:34 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit
If the people in the third world want to eat, they should overthrow their socialist dictators and go to work.
And here's your problem du jour, jw.
You think poverty happens because the poor got to the gravy train station 10 minutes too late, when the actuality is that the poor are being held up at gunpoint daily.
The unemployment rate for those age 16 to 24 with bachelor's degrees stood at 8.1% in February, up from 4.6% four years earlier. Many others find themselves underemployed.
-CNN
The above is wrong. You don't get a bachelor's before age 21 for ex.
The frightening thing is that this is just the beginning. Things are going to get a lot worse in Greece. And in case you haven't been paying attention, these kinds of conditions are coming to the United States as well. We are heading down the exact same road as Greece went down, and the economic pain that this country is eventually going to suffer is going to be beyond anything that most Americans would dare to imagine.
we know weather is warmer and that human activity is the cause.
For global records, 2010 is the hottest year on record, tied with 2005.
The WMO, part of the United Nations, said the warmest 13 years of average global temperatures have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. That has contributed to extreme weather conditions which increase the intensity of droughts and heavy precipitation across the world, it said.
"Global temperatures in 2011 are currently the tenth highest on record and are higher than any previous year with a La Nina event, which has a relative cooling influence," it said
Paul Michaelwaite from Netweather said: As strange as it is to say this in March, its going to be a barbecue weekend.
Its pretty rare for it to be this warm, especially if you consider the average maximum temperature for March in the UK is just below 9C.
"The Tuareg are a traditionally nomadic and pastoralist ethnic minority group of some 1.5 million people who seek to secede from the Malian republic and form an independent nation called Azawad; the group has traditionally existed in a territory scattered across the Sahel and Sahara countries largely operated by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)."
Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like? Just look at Greece. Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow and Greek citizens were thoroughly enjoying the bubble of false prosperity that all that debt created. Those that warned that Greece was headed for a financial collapse were laughed at and were called "doom and gloomers". Well, nobody is laughing now.
" Two years later, fourth generation oysterman Nick Collins said there is nothing but dead shells in the Louisiana oyster beds that produced 60 to 80 sacks of oysters a day before the BP spill.
"Has anyone found a successful spring spat set on their leases yet?" asks Mississippi-based oyster expert Ed Cake. "Is there any evidence that the long-awaited oyster industry recovery has begun east of the (Mississippi) River or in the Barataria Bay area?"
Oyster spat are larvae that successfully attach to a solid substrate, usually other oyster shells on an oyster bar, and begin growing and forming shells.
Many Gulf residents think BP just wants to close the book on the disaster. That's unlikely to happen until the environmental bill is paid, and funds are set aside to restore Gulf ecosystem.
The herring fishery in Prince William Sound is only now beginning to recover, 22 year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and the oyster fishery in Mexico's Terminos Lagoon has not fully recovered 32 year after the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill, says Cake.
If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it? Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.
The ruling class and opinion leaders are dominated by linear thinkers that believe the world progresses in a straight line. Despite all evidence of history clearly moving through cycles that repeat every eighty to one hundred years (a long human life), the present generations are always surprised by these turnings in history. I can guarantee you this country will not truly experience an economic recovery or progress for another fifteen to twenty years.
And this fellow doesn't appreciate climate change and PO....;}
There is too much debt, too little cash-flow, too many promises, too many lies, too little common sense, too much mass delusion, too much corruption, too little trust, too much hate, too many weapons in the hands of too many crazies, and too few visionary leaders to not create an epic worldwide implosion. Too bad.
The linear thinkers will continue to predict a recovery that never arrives.
Looks like the Sarkozy/Mossad 'Al qaeda' option flopped:
Although German Chancellor Angela Merkel at first declined French Presidential challenger Francois Hollandes offer to meet, Berlin is increasingly resigned to the likelihood that, after May, it will be dealing with the Socialist leader. The Chancellery has begun forging tentative ties with Hollandes camp, but this is going to be a prickly process: Hollande has already announced that as President he would immediately renegotiate parts of the fiscal pact.
"Conservatives may find that they werent careful about what they wished for in opposing Obamacare, Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA School of Law, told TPM. The economic, social and political pressure for health care reform arent going to just disappear. Theres a reason every major industrialized country has national health care. If the Supreme Court invalidates the Affordable Care Act, we are likely to see a government takeover of health care in the next decade.
Sooner than that. We leave the Afghans and w/in a year we'll have Medicare/VA for all.
OK. The USSAns must be suffering an extreme shortage of Chinooks in the Afghans now.
OR
somewhere in our Empire, because we keep moving Chinooks into the Afghans from other parts.
"According to a statement released by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force on Monday, an International Security Assistance Force helicopter made a forced landing in eastern Afghanistan today.
The statement further added, ISAF is in the process of assessing the circumstances to determine more facts; however, initial reporting indicates that there was no enemy activity in the area.
The statement did not disclose further information regarding the exact location of the incident.
ISAF confirmed all crew members have been recovered. The site of the incident is secure and no fatalities were reported."
All of the above is bullshit.
1) Because the Taliban claimed to have shot down the Helo in the exact same place Sunday:
"14 US-Nato invaders killed as Nato helicopter downed in Ghazni Zabihullah Mujahid E-mail Print PDF Sunday, 09 Jamadil Awal 1433 Sunday, 01 April 2012 17:25
GHAZNI, Apr. 01 A recent news report indicates that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate brought down Nato helicopter in Andar district of Afghanistans Ghazni province on Sunday.
The helicopter was shot down with artillery fire close to the US PRT base at 9:00 a.m. local time after it was about to land, causing the it to set on fire, witnesses to the scene said.
A Mujahideens official said that as many as 14 US-NATO invaders are believed to have been killed in the shoot-down, adding that the shoot-down site was cordoned off by the US invaders with a large number their tanks."
My question is how the USSAns are covering the deaths. And the now missing Chinook. "The third reason for rising Gulf consumption is the inefficiency of domestic energy markets. About 65 percent of Saudi electricity is generated using black gold, even as successive price shocks and the relative inefficiency of oil generation have seen it all but phased out in rich countries.
Thursday, 06 Jamadil Awal 1433 Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:44 HELMAND, Mar. 29 Heavy fighting broke out early this morning in Kofki area of Babaji region, Lashkargah when Mujahideen engaged US invaders that landed by helicopters for an operation.
It is said that the fighting is still ongoing at the moment (late afternoon time), causing the enemy heavy losses. More details will be updated later.
20 killed in 'intense' firefight after NATO convoy is ambushed in Afghan mountains By msnbc.com news services and NBC News
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents ambushed a NATO coalition supply convoy in a mountainous area of western Afghanistan, sparking a three-hour firefight in which an Afghan soldier, five security guards and at least 14 attackers were killed, Afghan officials said Thursday.-msnbc
Same battle where the Afghans shot down the Chinook killing 30 on board.
8 killed including commander, two wounded in Ghazni battle Zabihullah Mujahid
Thursday, 06 Jamadil Awal 1433 Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:56
GHAZNI, Mar. 29 A news report states that on Thursday Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate carried out a surprise attack on the enemy combat convoy that triggered a one-hour long fighting in Muqur district of Afghanistans Ghazni province in which 8 puppets including their commander were killed and two more wounded with two of the enemy vehicles destroyed. The area come under heavy airstrikes by the US invaders shortly afterwards.
The Taliban say they have shot down an American helicopter in Afghanistans eastern province of Ghazni, Press TV reports.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed on Monday that at least 14 US soldiers were killed after the chopper was downed in Andar district on Sunday.
He said that the militants have targeted the helicopter with an 82mm rocket.
Afghan and American officials have not yet commented on the report.
Several choppers belonging to US-led military forces have been downed in recent months in the war-torn country.
#1: The Taliban militants have set fire to a convoy of NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign forces in southwestern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. Afghan officials said the militants destroyed at least six fuel tankers in an ambush in Dilaram district of Nimruz province late on Monday.
This is while the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that the militants destroyed nine tankers along with seven escorting vehicles. Dilaram governor Abdul Karim Barahawi said at least four Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike fallowing the attack.
A similar ambush last week destroyed five NATO fuel tankers. Dozens of Taliban militants were gunned down in the ensuing clashes.
And ALL of the above is where the helo was shot down and the battle took place in the posts above.
Summary:
The USSAns are now reduced to patroling their SUPPLY routes which are being heavily interdicted by the Resistance.
"Depending on whos doing the counting, the ANA consists of 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers, but only 1 percent of their units can operate without direct NATO assistance, according to Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, an officer with the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in a recent interview with Military.com.
Scaparrotti appears to think it is somewhat redeeming that after $12 billion of U.S. investment in 2011 alone, 42 percent of the ANA units are capable of leading security operations with advisers.
Thanks a lot considering that after this weeks riots, NATO didnt even deem its advisers safe enough to let them continue their work in the ministry buildings. ...
As of this moment there is almost ZERO interaction between this MultiBillion Army and ISAF/NATO/USSA...;}
Mullah Omar could give the order today and how many of that Army would fight under the White Taliban flag?
After 11 years and this is our effort revealed?
It's looking more and more like Saigon 1975.
Mujahideen clash with invaders Qari Yousuf Ahmadi E-mail Print PDF Sunday, 09 Jamadil Awal 1433 Sunday, 01 April 2012 13:27
HELMAND, Apr. 01 Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate clashed with cowardly US invaders earlier today in Nahr Siraj regions Yakhchal area, causing the enemy heavy casualties and losses.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday that the deaths of coalition troops at the hand of Afghan soldiers had sapped spirits among its forces. "Although the incidents are small in number, we are aware of the gravity they have as an effect on morale," ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson said in Kabul.
And of course in Iraq on the 9th Anniversary of the Battle of Saddam Int'l.
Everything's as bad as it has been.
" It appears that the "experts" who assessed the implications of the statue coming down were all wrong. The U.S. military was not met with a flower-throwing public; almost 5,000 U.S. soldiers, 5,000 U.S. civilian "security" personnel; and hundreds of other foreign nationals have been killed since April 9, 2003. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers have been severely wounded since that date. There is no democracy in Iraq. There is no government in Iraq. There is no peace in Iraq. It looks like the experts were a little premature in their basking in glory.
April 9 was supposed to be a national holiday in the "new" Iraq. On the first anniversary, Bush had planned to visit Baghdad and lead a huge parade in the area of Saddams statue. Something occurred along the way to make Bush change his plans: a fierce resistance.
On April 9 this year, the square will look the same as it has every April 9 since the U.S. invasion. It will be cordoned off and no one will be allowed to enter. This is a long way from having millions of people flood the area."
And I distinctly remember getting a flock of shite from across the spectrum on how the toppling of the Statue in Al Fir Square was the genuine rejoicing of the Iraq people......LMFAO....;}
March 29, 2003, 0924hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow - During the past day the situation on the US-Iraqi front remained largely unchanged. The US is continuing reinforcing the attack group near Karabela for a thrust toward Baghdad. By the morning of March 29 up to 20,000 coalition troops were massed in the area of Karabela. This forces includes up to 200 tanks, 150 artillery systems and more than 250 helicopters. The order for the attack will be given by the coalition commander Gen. Tommy Franks, who, according to intercepted radio communications, will personally inspect the troops during the next several hours.
Around 1900hrs yesterday an Apache attack helicopter crashed. Intercepted radio communications show that the helicopter was heavily damaged in a combat mission. The helicopter's pilot lost control during landing and the helicopter crashed, causing serious damage to another helicopter that landed earlier.
The coalition troops have so far failed to take An-Nasiriya despite of the categorical orders from the command and more than 800 combat missions by the strike aircraft. All attempts to break through the Iraqi defense were met by Iraqi counterattacks. After 24 hours of fighting the coalition troops only managed to advance several hundred meters in two sectors near An-Nasiriya at the cost of 4 destroyed armored personnel carriers, no less that 3 Marines killed by sniper and mortar fire, 10 wounded and 2 missing in action. The exact Iraqi losses are being determined.
The Americans have also failed to advance near An-Najaf. Every coalition attack was met by massive artillery barrages from the Iraqi side. Later during the day the Iraqis mounted a counterattack throwing the US forces back by 1.5-2 kilometers. No fewer than 10 Marines were killed or wounded. After exchanging fire for six hours both warring sides remained in the same positions. Iraqi losses in this area are estimated to be 20 killed and up to 40 wounded.
Near Basra the British troops pushed the Iraqi defense lines on the Fao peninsula but were unable to capture the entire peninsula. The British advance was a maximum of 4 kilometers from the highway leading to Basra. Radio intercepts show that in this attack the Iraqis shot down a British helicopter. Additionally, two tanks and one APCs were destroyed by landmines. At least 2 [British] servicemen were killed, around 20 were wounded and 15 were captured by the Iraqis.
Exchange of fire continued in the area of the Basra airport. The Iraqis destroyed one coalition APC wounding two coalition soldiers. The Iraqi losses are difficult to estimate, but available information suggests that up to 20 Iraqi soldiers and local militia members might have been killed in the air and artillery strikes.
All attempts by the British troops to break through the Iraqi defenses from the south along the Al-Arab river have yielded not results. The British command reported that it is unable to storm Basra with the available forces and will require no less than two additional brigades and at least five additional artillery battalions. Thus, to avoid further casualties the British are adopting defensive tactics, while trying to maintain a tight blockade around Basra and trying to improve their positions with small localized attacks. The British are also maintaining pressure on the Iraqi positions on the Fao peninsula.
The psychological levels among the city's residents, according to interviews, is far from critical. The Iraqi military made several public announcements to the residents offering them a chance to leave the city. However, most of the residents do not want to leave, fearing the faith of the Palestinian refugees, who, after losing their homes, gained pariah status in the Arab world. Basra's residents were extremely depressed by the video footage aired by the coalition command showing Iraqis on the occupied territories fighting for food and water being distributed by the coalition soldiers. The city's population views this as a sample of what awaits them if the Americans come...
At the Al-Kuwait airport the unloading of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division is continuing and is expected to be completed by the night of April 1. During a night flight one of the US military transport aircraft requested an emergency landing. What happened to the plane is still being determined.
Currently the coalition command is deciding how better use the 4th Infantry Division. The complete deployment [of the division] and preparations for combat are expected to take at least 10 days. However, the combat units require immediate reinforcements and it is possible that the [4th Infantry} Division will be joining combat in stages, as the units become ready. This will mean a considerable reduction of the Division's combat effectiveness.
A report was obtained, prepared by the Al-Kuwait-based [coalition] Psychological Operations Tactical Group for the [coalition] Special Ground Forces Command. The report analyzed the effectiveness of the information and propaganda war. According to the report, analysis of the television broadcasts, intercepted radio communications, interrogations of Iraqi POWs show that psychologically the Iraqis are now "more stable and confident" that they were during the last days before the war. This, according to the report, is due primarily to the coalition's numerous military failures.
"...Following nervousness and depression [of the Iraqis] during the first days of the war we can now observe a burst of patriotic and nationalistic feelings. ...There has been a sharp increase in the number of Iraqi refugees, who left the country before the war, returning to Iraq. A "cult of war" against the US and the UK is now emerging among the Iraqis...", the report states. [Reverse translation from Russian]
[Coalition] analysts believe that if this attitude of the Iraqis is not changed within the next 7 days, a "resistance ideology" may take over the Iraqi minds, making the final [coalition] victory even more difficult. In response to this report the US Army Psychological Operations command decided to combine all Iraqi POWs into large groups and to distribute the resulting video footage to the world media. A more active use of the Iraqi opposition was suggested for propaganda work in the occupied villages. The same opposition members will be used to create video footage of the "repented" Iraqi POWs and footage of the local [Iraqi] population "opposing Saddam."
Radio communications intercepted during the last five days suggest that the coalition is using Israeli airfield for conducting night air strikes against Iraq. Combat aircraft are taking off regularly from the [Israeli] Hatzerim and the Navatim airbases do not return to the same bases but fly toward the border with Jordan while maintaining complete radio silence.
Possibly these are just Israeli Air Force exercises, However, [Russian] radio intercept and radar units observe increased intensity of radio communications coming from the Jordanian air force and air defense communication centers during such overflights, as well as changes in the operating modes of the US Army "Patriot" tracking radars deployed in Jordan. This indicates the Israeli airbases as used as forward airfield or that some of the coalition air force units are based there. Normally the IAF F-15I fighter-bombers and A-4N strike aircraft operate from the Hatzerim airbase and the F-16 fighter-bombers operate from the Nevatim base.
Experts believe that these airbases may be used by the F-117 stealth bombers "officially" based at the Al-Udaid airbase in Qatar. Using these two locations minimizes the risk to the F-117s by allowing them to fly along the left bank of the Euphrates (in the direction of Turkey) and to avoid the dangerous maneuvering over Iraq.
The destruction of the telephone stations in Baghdad did nothing to disrupt the communications of the Iraqi army. The coalition command acknowledged this fact after analyzing the dense [Iraqi] radio traffic. Because of that the USAF was ordered to employ the most powerful available [conventional] munitions against predetermined strategic targets. This attacks will be carried out immediately before renewing ground advance.
(source: iraqwar.ru, 03-29-03, translated by Venik)