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Have some angels on me.....
Copper turns green when it has weathered the storms
God is my strength
gabriel
champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to
Daniel (8:16) to explain the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and to
communicate the prediction of the seventy weeks (Dan. 9:21-27). He announced
also the birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:11), and of the Messiah (26). He
describes himself in the words, "I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of
God" (1:19).
Gabriel, God is my strength
GAG ---- Initials of the Hornblower Gabriel, everyone else just blow your whistles while we get things straightened out.
No politics right?
Here's my morning rant so if you want to chat, chant this a few times first and call me in the evening when I wake up to the new moon and the dusk of a heavy day of sleeping giants.
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
Forgive them and let the dead bury the dead for they will not become martyrs in the eyes of humanity.
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
Forgive him for he will not be reelected and he knows not what he does to humanity...
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
Good joke...you should be able to view the pics on the interview link...
I dreamed I had an interview with God!
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
The music, the story, its the product of the infinite infinitor of infinities...
LOL---I dreamed I had an interview with God!
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
Too many angels from heaven flying around the planet?
I dreamed I had an interview with God!
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
I dreamed I had an interview with God!
THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
-author unknown
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
Are you ready for 911Gate?
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2754599
No. No. It used to. Respect is earned. I don't think, therefore I am not a sheeple. I know, therefore I am of the people. Its the crown, and septre of the first King of Hungary, King Saint Stephen and I am whatever you perceive me to be...perhaps a legend in your own mind like yourself..
http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/forint_e.html
If you are hungry for the truth, feed yourself!
http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/history.html
Himnusz
Isten, áldd meg a magyart
Jó kedvvel, bôséggel,
Nyújts feléje védô kart,
Ha küzd ellenséggel;
Balsors, akit régen tép,
Hozz rá víg esztendôt,
Megbûnhôdte már e nép
A múltat s jövendôt!
(1823)
Do extra-terrestrial beings exist? - the Nobel Prize winning Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, was once asked by his disciples in California. Of course, Fermi answered - they are already here among us, they are called Hungarians...
Do what thy will but harm none shall be the whole of the law!
And now for the rest of the story...
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2753606
Repeat....
How to Topple the Bush Administration - Phase II
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him now.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2752385
Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep Throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
Respect the truth and the truth shall respect you.
Now we are finally getting to the bottom of this terror heap!
How to Topple the Bush Administration - Phase II
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him now.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2752385
Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep Throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
Looks like the elephants just got a bad case of fleas up their noses with no place to run, no place to hide, and no place to sneeze them out:
How to Topple the Bush Administration - Phase II
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him now.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2752385
Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep Throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
It is grand
This land
Is your land
Is my land
From whereever you are
To whereever we go
All you need to know
Is someone just had to say go
And the lid is off the cover bro...
GAG
Repeat....
How to Topple the Bush Administration - Phase II
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him now.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
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Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep Throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
How to Topple the Bush Administration - Phase II
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
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Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep Throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
How to Topple the Bush Administration
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2752385
Now that's patriotic...
Toot toot...Can't ya hear the whistle blowing...Dinah Blow Your Horn...
Dinah won'tya blow, ....
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
02 April 2004
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
Bloss..deplane, deplane..."quick Tuto, or whatever your name is, get me Bernstein and Woodward".
Is that the sound of a Deep throat I am hearing or are the frogs just ribbeting again this sweet springtime...?
GAG - The Initials of Gabriel the Horn Blower...the rest of you just keep blowing on those whistles that god gave you for Christmas...its Easter Time....and the sinner is just around the corner.
"Woodward, do you smell what I smell?"
"Yeh, smells like burning Bushes, no wonder the price of oil is rapidly falling this past week. Who lit that fire anyway?"
Take back all the pennies first...the suits will suit themselves for a bit while longer...
Why is he called "The Penny King?"
The retired banker appeared to be homeless. He had placed all his assets into a blind trust offshore, and like a good pirate, buried his treasures. He had thereafter taken a vow of poverty.
But the homeless who wandered the streets of Portland by day, and slept under the bridges by night, began to recognize him as the benevolent idiosyncratic monkish King of Portland Pennies.
One day, while walking near the fountain at Paranoid park, across from the police station at 9th and Stark, and kitty corner to the Federal Reserve Bank Portland Branch, (it was called Paranoid Park because many of the customers of the street dealers would buy and sell their drugs under their noses, constantly looking behind their backs to see if they were coming) a street kid came up to him and asked him for some spare change.
"Do you have a penny?" he asked.
"You don't need a penny do you, you don't look like you do," replied the teen.
"Give me a penny and I will tell you why I am asking you for one," he replied.
The young man dug into his pockets and handed him a shiny 1995 penny.
"The next time I see you, I will buy all of your pennies for a nickel each!" he told the youth, and promptly disappeared behind the trees lining the park.
The next day, the youth spotted him sitting near the fountain and walked up to him with a handful of pennies. There were 20 in all, for which he promptly gave him four quarters.
"Why would you do this?” asked the beggared young lad.
"Because you believed in my words, and you took the time to save those pennies, gather them up, and if you ever want to learn how to invest your money and eventually get off the streets of Portland, you need to start by saving all your pennies", he said with a grin.
It did not take long, and two weeks later, at least two dozen people were exchanging their pennies with him for a nickel each. A cadre of moneychangers was being formed.
He chose a core group of young gals and guys and taught them how to collect pennies politely from people as they pounded the pavement.
"When you ask someone for all the spare coins in their pocket, they are offended and think you are lazy. But if instead you ask them for one penny, they are more inclined to look to see if they have one to give. In many instances they will ask you why you are asking for just one penny, and if it is for a good cause, they may give you more than a penny."
Soon, as the word spread through the streets of Portland, hundreds of teenagers, street kids all, were asking strangers for pennies. Instead of loitering around in front of stores and in the parks, he taught them that the more you ask, the more you will receive.
"Take half of all you freely receive and give it away like I am doing. Do as I do, not as I say", he would tell them. "Buy pennies from your fellow man for a nickel each, and you will increase your wealth by 500% for every penny you save, and you will gradually increase the purchasing power of all your fellow street walkers by the same amount. And sooner or later you will have enough money to get off the streets and quit sleeping under the cold bridges."
"How long have you been doing this?" asked one young 20-year-old girl who had been addicted to methampetamines since she was 16.
"I started saving all my pennies when I was twelve, 24 years ago", he told her. "I am leaving for Los Angeles in a few days, I'm going to hitch hike, why don't you come with me and I will teach you everything I know about money, people and life?
"I couldn't", said the drug addict.
Ok, then, save all your pennies, and if I ever see you again, I will buy all of them from you for a nickel each. If it doesn't happen in ten years, you will still make a 50% return a year on your savings, that will at least give you something to remember me by," he responded.
The day before he was to leave for Los Angeles, a young man about 30 years old with a backpack weighing him down spotted him in the Park.
"Hey! You are the Penny King!"
"What?" he asked.
"Yeh man, you're the dude that has been buying up all the pennies from everyone on the streets of Portland for the past few months for a nickel each."
"Oh, yeh, that, what about it?"
"Well, check this out man, I've got a whole knapsack here full of pennies. I've been looking for you for weeks!
"Whoa!" he said, "the bank is closed today, but meet me here tomorrow at 4 PM and I will give you a nickel for each of them!" and he walked away.
The next day, at precisely 4 PM, they met again and the trade took place. The happy camper got $40 for the roughly 800 pennies that changed hands that day.
They both agreed not to count them; it was easier to guess how many pennies were in the knapsack. The Portland penny shortage was well under way.
That night, he left for Hollywood to make a film on the big screen of life, aptly called "The Penny King"
Two weeks later, he was admitted to the West Hollywood homeless shelter near Santa Monica Boulevard and La Brea. It was here that Penny King Productions was borne. But that is the subject of another story, and a movie in the making on the big screen of life!
GAG
Of course a horse is a horse is a horse of course unless its the famous Mr. Bush.
How to Topple the Bush Administration
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
[...]
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2752385
Now that's patriotic...
How to Topple the Bush Administration
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him.
Repeat Steps One through Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes. Roasted and well done!
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 2, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02PANE.html
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
The White House confirmed on Thursday that it had withheld a variety of classified documents from Mr. Clinton's files that had been gathered by the National Archives over the last two years in response to requests from the commission, which is investigating intelligence and law enforcement failures before the attacks.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said some Clinton administration documents had been withheld because they were "duplicative or unrelated," while others were withheld because they were "highly sensitive" and the information in them could be relayed to the commission in other ways. "We are providing the commission with access to all the information they need to do their job," Mr. McClellan said.
The commission and the White House were reacting to public complaints from former aides to Mr. Clinton, who said they had been surprised to learn in recent months that three-quarters of the nearly 11,000 pages of files the former president was ready to offer the commission had been withheld by the Bush administration. The former aides said the files contained highly classified documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda.
The commission said it was awaiting a full answer from the White House on why any documents were withheld.
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Now that's patriotic...
Bernstein, get your pen ready, the sword has failed to make its mighty permanent mark upon the world and my typewriter is down...take some notes...we are about to make history....
How to Topple the Bush Administration
1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell the whole truth
3. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
4. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth because his God won't help him.
Repeat Steps Four until the Bush has fully turned to ashes.
Fire in the Hull! All hands on Deck!
Calling on the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
Perhaps it's a sign of politics inching back toward business as usual: Congressional Republicans were exploiting the Sept. 11 terror attacks to push the Bush administration's plan for an all-out increase in energy production, and drilling advocates are likely to continue invoking terrorism fears as they argue for more oil development while continuing to profit from higher and higher oil prices. Bush has recently failed to convince OPEC to stop curtailed production.
Bush, of course, has long maintained that his energy plan will increase America's "energy security" -- meaning the nation's access to relatively inexpensive electricity and fuel. To that end, he had proposed a package of measures intended to encourage greater production of oil, along with other fossil fuels and nuclear power.
In a victory that surprised even Republicans, the House of Representatives in August of 2001 endorsed much of Bush's approach, including $33 billion worth of tax incentives for oil companies. But where is the beef? Oil prices have soared because of the falling dollar on world markets and bad foreign policy after the invasion of Iraq.
Oil, as long as the dollar continues to fall, is inching closer to $40 per barrel than the much more comfortable level of $10, certainly a more reasonable price in any consumers estimation.
The U.S. is mired down in the occupation of a land that has an estimated $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves but it will take another decade to get it to market at the current rate of turmoil.
Some people say that the reason behind the hatred of the US by Mideast extremists can be summed up in one word: oil. This is why we have a military presence there and why we have supported corrupt regimes (Saudi Arabia a la Carlyle Group and reciprical trades via Citi Group) that do not pursue democratic or equitable societies.
If I Had $33 Billion from the Federal Government I would invest it in alternative energy projects such as alternative vehicles production that didn't use oil and gas to run on. I would put the Japanese auto makers to shame with that kind of investment.
There are plenty of those types of opportunities out there. But trying to put a fund like that together against the grain of the military industrial financial media complex is like trying to milk honey out of a dried turnip.
It was questionable even then whether these steps announced by the Bush administration would in fact guarantee stable energy prices. Given the power that OPEC and the international oil companies have to manipulate production, the usual rules of supply and demand don't apply to the oil business.
And even if Bush's approach had worked, it would only affect the price of oil in a narrow sense: what a barrel of light crude fetches on the London spot market, what a gallon of gasoline for the family automobile costs at the pump.
What matters more is what should be called the real price of oil. This is comprised of two elements: petroleum's market price, plus the many indirect costs that its production and consumption impose on nature, public health, and future generations.
Under Bush's old plan, for example, the real price of oil would have included not only those $33 billion in subsidies, but the potential destruction of Alaskan caribou calving grounds. Increased production also means a growing possibility of more oil spills like the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, as well as continuation of the less-publicized release of an average of 10 million gallons of petroleum into the oceans every year from tanker accidents.
America needs to either increase its oil production by 10 million barrels per day or cut it in half. The cost of increasing it is far greater than investing in alternative energy transport systems in the major cities of America.
There are literally thousands of alternative transport projects on the boards that could use $33 billion in federal government subsidies which could be implemented within the next 24 months. It all boils down to bad administration and Bush has certainly been bad for the majority of small and medium sized businesses. Only the most powerful and wealthiest of businesses have benefited from the Bush administration's energy and foriegn policies.
Needless to say, without tapping into Alaska's reserves, invading Iraq has cost an additional $200 billion to date, leaving the tab for oil closing in on a quarter trillion dollars in hard tax dollars, let alone the mounting cost of human life.
This is a clear sign of a failed energy policy as well as the remaining unanswered questions surrounding the Cheney Energy meetings. Perhaps when the death toll from the war reaches 3,000, America will wake up and realize that lives and families are worth more than the blood of any nation.
Further raising oil's real price will increase air pollution made possible by Bush's relaxation of environmental regulations. Already, diseases stemming from car exhaust kill some 30,000 Americans each year, according to a 1995 Harvard University study. And back in 1993, the Worldwatch Institute estimated the damage to human and environmental health from vehicle emissions at $93 billion a year. Bottom line, the US Energy Policy is costing closer to half a trillion a year in total.
For the world at large, the most serious consequence of continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels will be accelerating climate change in the 21st century. Though a number of factors contribute to the greenhouse effect, oil remains a major culprit. Some 40 percent of America's greenhouse gas emissions stem from automobiles.
This is a solvable problem that requires more than just money backing reforms. It requires a global revolution toward an industrial overhaul of energy policy and educating the consumers who are hooked on oil by no choice of their own.
Getting support for that is near impossible due to the monopolies enjoyed by US multinationals and OPEC, their global media reach, and the vested interests of the multinational bankers behind them.
Even a more open disclosure policy by major oil companies who pay soveriegns for the use of their natural resources is being pushed from various NGO's around the world, but the process is slow going.
Scientists have noted that already -- after a mere one-degree increase in temperatures over the past century -- glaciers are melting and catastrophic storms becoming more severe and frequent. They expect the planet to warm an additional 4 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit in the 21st century, bringing yet more violent weather, flooded coastlines, killer droughts and social havoc. One insurance industry study projects that climate change will impose $304 billion of additional direct costs on the global economy every year.
Aside from these hypotheticals, the solution is not in spending another trillion dollars on Mars exploration until we put our own global house in order. A trillion dollars spent on alternative energy over the next decade would result in ten trillion dollars in total global costs during the same period.
Bush has rightly been criticized for rejecting the Kyoto accord on global warming. But the truth is, America has never been shy about expecting the rest of the world to support its oil habit. Presidents and Congresses of both US political parties have for decades affirmed military and diplomatic policies aimed at guaranteeing American access to overseas oil; the CIA-assisted overthrow in 1953 of Iran's prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh -- who had advocated nationalizing the country's oil supplies -- is but one of many examples.
According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, an eco-think tank that analyzed Pentagon and Department of Energy spending data for the mid-1990s, federally funded research and development provided at least $300 million annually in subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry.
And at least $50 billion of the US annual military budget during those years paid for forces whose primary purpose is to safeguard Middle Eastern oil fields and shipping lanes -- and whose presence, especially in the Islamic holy land of Saudi Arabia, provokes bitter resentment in much of the Muslim world.
Since its inception, the United States has spent over $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons research and has created over 80,000 metric tons of hazardous chemical wastes which are estimated to cost between $1.7 to $2 trillion to clean up over the next decade. This money, even half of it, could have created a national electric transportation grid without the incumbent debt currently driving up fuel prices to record levels.
Economists use the term "externalities" to refer to costs that are not included in a commodity's market price, but are borne by society as a whole. Society, of course, also has benefited from the past century's increase in oil consumption: The US economy underwent an extraordinary expansion during the 20th century, when cheap oil fostered first the automobilization of the nation and, after World War II, its suburbanization. Oil also made possible a transportation system built around individual mobility and personal convenience that in many respects remains the envy of the world.
But the impending threat of climate change suggests that our reliance on oil has reached a point of diminishing returns. It's time for a new strategy -- a shift to energy efficiency in the short term and to solar and other renewable energy forms in the long term. Such a Global Green Deal would not only reduce ecological damage, but yield substantially more jobs, profits and economic prosperity than today's system does.
Investments in energy efficiency create two to ten times more jobs per dollar than investments in oil and nuclear power -- a crucial concern as the global economy slides into depression due to the collapsing dollar.
Bush is still betting that the nation is willing to pay whatever it takes to keep oil flowing, and he may be right. In the House of Representatives, the president's plan was supported by Democrats and Republicans, labor and corporate interests.
The majority of hard working Americans may ultimately agree with Bush that maintaining their oil habit is worth any price. But we should at least acknowledge the full cost of such a decision -- not only for Americans, but for the six billion people we share the planet with.
A $33 billion energy fund would create at least 3 million jobs and build a national electronic mass transport system in every major city in North America within four years. The technology already exists. Perhaps the democrats should consider such a fund in their political platform this coming November and get more backing from the likes of Buffet, Soros, Gates and Turner.
The four of them alone could provide the necessary seed money and create the starter fluid to get the entire project moving forward. Certainly Buffet could provide the insurance, Gates the software, Soros the political might, and Turner the United Nations development support to get the rest of the world and the media behind it. The only risk to them might be their becoming known as the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
What do you think?
Mark Hertsgaard originally contributed to this story. Edited by G! Alex Gabor
Calling on the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
Perhaps it's a sign of politics inching back toward business as usual: Congressional Republicans were exploiting the Sept. 11 terror attacks to push the Bush administration's plan for an all-out increase in energy production, and drilling advocates are likely to continue invoking terrorism fears as they argue for more oil development while continuing to profit from higher and higher oil prices. Bush has recently failed to convince OPEC to stop curtailed production.
Bush, of course, has long maintained that his energy plan will increase America's "energy security" -- meaning the nation's access to relatively inexpensive electricity and fuel. To that end, he had proposed a package of measures intended to encourage greater production of oil, along with other fossil fuels and nuclear power.
In a victory that surprised even Republicans, the House of Representatives in August of 2001 endorsed much of Bush's approach, including $33 billion worth of tax incentives for oil companies. But where is the beef? Oil prices have soared because of the falling dollar on world markets and bad foreign policy after the invasion of Iraq.
Oil, as long as the dollar continues to fall, is inching closer to $40 per barrel than the much more comfortable level of $10, certainly a more reasonable price in any consumers estimation.
The U.S. is mired down in the occupation of a land that has an estimated $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves but it will take another decade to get it to market at the current rate of turmoil.
Some people say that the reason behind the hatred of the US by Mideast extremists can be summed up in one word: oil. This is why we have a military presence there and why we have supported corrupt regimes (Saudi Arabia a la Carlyle Group and reciprical trades via Citi Group) that do not pursue democratic or equitable societies.
If I Had $33 Billion from the Federal Government I would invest it in alternative energy projects such as alternative vehicles production that didn't use oil and gas to run on. I would put the Japanese auto makers to shame with that kind of investment.
There are plenty of those types of opportunities out there. But trying to put a fund like that together against the grain of the military industrial financial media complex is like trying to milk honey out of a dried turnip.
It was questionable even then whether these steps announced by the Bush administration would in fact guarantee stable energy prices. Given the power that OPEC and the international oil companies have to manipulate production, the usual rules of supply and demand don't apply to the oil business.
And even if Bush's approach had worked, it would only affect the price of oil in a narrow sense: what a barrel of light crude fetches on the London spot market, what a gallon of gasoline for the family automobile costs at the pump.
What matters more is what should be called the real price of oil. This is comprised of two elements: petroleum's market price, plus the many indirect costs that its production and consumption impose on nature, public health, and future generations.
Under Bush's old plan, for example, the real price of oil would have included not only those $33 billion in subsidies, but the potential destruction of Alaskan caribou calving grounds. Increased production also means a growing possibility of more oil spills like the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, as well as continuation of the less-publicized release of an average of 10 million gallons of petroleum into the oceans every year from tanker accidents.
America needs to either increase its oil production by 10 million barrels per day or cut it in half. The cost of increasing it is far greater than investing in alternative energy transport systems in the major cities of America.
There are literally thousands of alternative transport projects on the boards that could use $33 billion in federal government subsidies which could be implemented within the next 24 months. It all boils down to bad administration and Bush has certainly been bad for the majority of small and medium sized businesses. Only the most powerful and wealthiest of businesses have benefited from the Bush administration's energy and foriegn policies.
Needless to say, without tapping into Alaska's reserves, invading Iraq has cost an additional $200 billion to date, leaving the tab for oil closing in on a quarter trillion dollars in hard tax dollars, let alone the mounting cost of human life.
This is a clear sign of a failed energy policy as well as the remaining unanswered questions surrounding the Cheney Energy meetings. Perhaps when the death toll from the war reaches 3,000, America will wake up and realize that lives and families are worth more than the blood of any nation.
Further raising oil's real price will increase air pollution made possible by Bush's relaxation of environmental regulations. Already, diseases stemming from car exhaust kill some 30,000 Americans each year, according to a 1995 Harvard University study. And back in 1993, the Worldwatch Institute estimated the damage to human and environmental health from vehicle emissions at $93 billion a year. Bottom line, the US Energy Policy is costing closer to half a trillion a year in total.
For the world at large, the most serious consequence of continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels will be accelerating climate change in the 21st century. Though a number of factors contribute to the greenhouse effect, oil remains a major culprit. Some 40 percent of America's greenhouse gas emissions stem from automobiles.
This is a solvable problem that requires more than just money backing reforms. It requires a global revolution toward an industrial overhaul of energy policy and educating the consumers who are hooked on oil by no choice of their own.
Getting support for that is near impossible due to the monopolies enjoyed by US multinationals and OPEC, their global media reach, and the vested interests of the multinational bankers behind them.
Even a more open disclosure policy by major oil companies who pay soveriegns for the use of their natural resources is being pushed from various NGO's around the world, but the process is slow going.
Scientists have noted that already -- after a mere one-degree increase in temperatures over the past century -- glaciers are melting and catastrophic storms becoming more severe and frequent. They expect the planet to warm an additional 4 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit in the 21st century, bringing yet more violent weather, flooded coastlines, killer droughts and social havoc. One insurance industry study projects that climate change will impose $304 billion of additional direct costs on the global economy every year.
Aside from these hypotheticals, the solution is not in spending another trillion dollars on Mars exploration until we put our own global house in order. A trillion dollars spent on alternative energy over the next decade would result in ten trillion dollars in total global costs during the same period.
Bush has rightly been criticized for rejecting the Kyoto accord on global warming. But the truth is, America has never been shy about expecting the rest of the world to support its oil habit. Presidents and Congresses of both US political parties have for decades affirmed military and diplomatic policies aimed at guaranteeing American access to overseas oil; the CIA-assisted overthrow in 1953 of Iran's prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh -- who had advocated nationalizing the country's oil supplies -- is but one of many examples.
According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, an eco-think tank that analyzed Pentagon and Department of Energy spending data for the mid-1990s, federally funded research and development provided at least $300 million annually in subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry.
And at least $50 billion of the US annual military budget during those years paid for forces whose primary purpose is to safeguard Middle Eastern oil fields and shipping lanes -- and whose presence, especially in the Islamic holy land of Saudi Arabia, provokes bitter resentment in much of the Muslim world.
Since its inception, the United States has spent over $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons research and has created over 80,000 metric tons of hazardous chemical wastes which are estimated to cost between $1.7 to $2 trillion to clean up over the next decade. This money, even half of it, could have created a national electric transportation grid without the incumbent debt currently driving up fuel prices to record levels.
Economists use the term "externalities" to refer to costs that are not included in a commodity's market price, but are borne by society as a whole. Society, of course, also has benefited from the past century's increase in oil consumption: The US economy underwent an extraordinary expansion during the 20th century, when cheap oil fostered first the automobilization of the nation and, after World War II, its suburbanization. Oil also made possible a transportation system built around individual mobility and personal convenience that in many respects remains the envy of the world.
But the impending threat of climate change suggests that our reliance on oil has reached a point of diminishing returns. It's time for a new strategy -- a shift to energy efficiency in the short term and to solar and other renewable energy forms in the long term. Such a Global Green Deal would not only reduce ecological damage, but yield substantially more jobs, profits and economic prosperity than today's system does.
Investments in energy efficiency create two to ten times more jobs per dollar than investments in oil and nuclear power -- a crucial concern as the global economy slides into depression due to the collapsing dollar.
Bush is still betting that the nation is willing to pay whatever it takes to keep oil flowing, and he may be right. In the House of Representatives, the president's plan was supported by Democrats and Republicans, labor and corporate interests.
The majority of hard working Americans may ultimately agree with Bush that maintaining their oil habit is worth any price. But we should at least acknowledge the full cost of such a decision -- not only for Americans, but for the six billion people we share the planet with.
A $33 billion energy fund would create at least 3 million jobs and build a national electronic mass transport system in every major city in North America within four years. The technology already exists. Perhaps the democrats should consider such a fund in their political platform this coming November and get more backing from the likes of Buffet, Soros, Gates and Turner.
The four of them alone could provide the necessary seed money and create the starter fluid to get the entire project moving forward. Certainly Buffet could provide the insurance, Gates the software, Soros the political might, and Turner the United Nations development support to get the rest of the world and the media behind it. The only risk to them might be their becoming known as the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
What do you think?
Mark Hertsgaard originally contributed to this story. Edited by G! Alex Gabor
Thoughts rule the world!...
Calling on the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
Perhaps it's a sign of politics inching back toward business as usual: Congressional Republicans were exploiting the Sept. 11 terror attacks to push the Bush administration's plan for an all-out increase in energy production, and drilling advocates are likely to continue invoking terrorism fears as they argue for more oil development while continuing to profit from higher and higher oil prices. Bush has recently failed to convince OPEC to stop curtailed production.
Bush, of course, has long maintained that his energy plan will increase America's "energy security" -- meaning the nation's access to relatively inexpensive electricity and fuel. To that end, he had proposed a package of measures intended to encourage greater production of oil, along with other fossil fuels and nuclear power.
In a victory that surprised even Republicans, the House of Representatives in August of 2001 endorsed much of Bush's approach, including $33 billion worth of tax incentives for oil companies. But where is the beef? Oil prices have soared because of the falling dollar on world markets and bad foreign policy after the invasion of Iraq.
Oil, as long as the dollar continues to fall, is inching closer to $40 per barrel than the much more comfortable level of $10, certainly a more reasonable price in any consumers estimation.
The U.S. is mired down in the occupation of a land that has an estimated $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves but it will take another decade to get it to market at the current rate of turmoil.
Some people say that the reason behind the hatred of the US by Mideast extremists can be summed up in one word: oil. This is why we have a military presence there and why we have supported corrupt regimes (Saudi Arabia a la Carlyle Group and reciprical trades via Citi Group) that do not pursue democratic or equitable societies.
If I Had $33 Billion from the Federal Government I would invest it in alternative energy projects such as alternative vehicles production that didn't use oil and gas to run on. I would put the Japanese auto makers to shame with that kind of investment.
There are plenty of those types of opportunities out there. But trying to put a fund like that together against the grain of the military industrial financial media complex is like trying to milk honey out of a dried turnip.
It was questionable even then whether these steps announced by the Bush administration would in fact guarantee stable energy prices. Given the power that OPEC and the international oil companies have to manipulate production, the usual rules of supply and demand don't apply to the oil business.
And even if Bush's approach had worked, it would only affect the price of oil in a narrow sense: what a barrel of light crude fetches on the London spot market, what a gallon of gasoline for the family automobile costs at the pump.
What matters more is what should be called the real price of oil. This is comprised of two elements: petroleum's market price, plus the many indirect costs that its production and consumption impose on nature, public health, and future generations.
Under Bush's old plan, for example, the real price of oil would have included not only those $33 billion in subsidies, but the potential destruction of Alaskan caribou calving grounds. Increased production also means a growing possibility of more oil spills like the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, as well as continuation of the less-publicized release of an average of 10 million gallons of petroleum into the oceans every year from tanker accidents.
America needs to either increase its oil production by 10 million barrels per day or cut it in half. The cost of increasing it is far greater than investing in alternative energy transport systems in the major cities of America.
There are literally thousands of alternative transport projects on the boards that could use $33 billion in federal government subsidies which could be implemented within the next 24 months. It all boils down to bad administration and Bush has certainly been bad for the majority of small and medium sized businesses. Only the most powerful and wealthiest of businesses have benefited from the Bush administration's energy and foriegn policies.
Needless to say, without tapping into Alaska's reserves, invading Iraq has cost an additional $200 billion to date, leaving the tab for oil closing in on a quarter trillion dollars in hard tax dollars, let alone the mounting cost of human life.
This is a clear sign of a failed energy policy as well as the remaining unanswered questions surrounding the Cheney Energy meetings. Perhaps when the death toll from the war reaches 3,000, America will wake up and realize that lives and families are worth more than the blood of any nation.
Further raising oil's real price will increase air pollution made possible by Bush's relaxation of environmental regulations. Already, diseases stemming from car exhaust kill some 30,000 Americans each year, according to a 1995 Harvard University study. And back in 1993, the Worldwatch Institute estimated the damage to human and environmental health from vehicle emissions at $93 billion a year. Bottom line, the US Energy Policy is costing closer to half a trillion a year in total.
For the world at large, the most serious consequence of continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels will be accelerating climate change in the 21st century. Though a number of factors contribute to the greenhouse effect, oil remains a major culprit. Some 40 percent of America's greenhouse gas emissions stem from automobiles.
This is a solvable problem that requires more than just money backing reforms. It requires a global revolution toward an industrial overhaul of energy policy and educating the consumers who are hooked on oil by no choice of their own.
Getting support for that is near impossible due to the monopolies enjoyed by US multinationals and OPEC, their global media reach, and the vested interests of the multinational bankers behind them.
Even a more open disclosure policy by major oil companies who pay soveriegns for the use of their natural resources is being pushed from various NGO's around the world, but the process is slow going.
Scientists have noted that already -- after a mere one-degree increase in temperatures over the past century -- glaciers are melting and catastrophic storms becoming more severe and frequent. They expect the planet to warm an additional 4 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit in the 21st century, bringing yet more violent weather, flooded coastlines, killer droughts and social havoc. One insurance industry study projects that climate change will impose $304 billion of additional direct costs on the global economy every year.
Aside from these hypotheticals, the solution is not in spending another trillion dollars on Mars exploration until we put our own global house in order. A trillion dollars spent on alternative energy over the next decade would result in ten trillion dollars in total global savings costs during the same period.
Bush has rightly been criticized for rejecting the Kyoto accord on global warming. But the truth is, America has never been shy about expecting the rest of the world to support its oil habit. Presidents and Congresses of both US political parties have for decades affirmed military and diplomatic policies aimed at guaranteeing American access to overseas oil; the CIA-assisted overthrow in 1953 of Iran's prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh -- who had advocated nationalizing the country's oil supplies -- is but one of many examples.
According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, an eco-think tank that analyzed Pentagon and Department of Energy spending data for the mid-1990s, federally funded research and development provided at least $300 million annually in subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry.
And at least $50 billion of the US annual military budget during those years paid for forces whose primary purpose is to safeguard Middle Eastern oil fields and shipping lanes -- and whose presence, especially in the Islamic holy land of Saudi Arabia, provokes bitter resentment in much of the Muslim world.
Since its inception, the United States has spent over $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons research and has created over 80,000 metric tons of hazardous chemical wastes which are estimated to cost between $1.7 to $2 trillion to clean up over the next decade. This money, even half of it, could have created a national electric transportation grid without the incumbent debt currently driving up fuel prices to record levels.
Economists use the term "externalities" to refer to costs that are not included in a commodity's market price, but are borne by society as a whole. Society, of course, also has benefited from the past century's increase in oil consumption: The US economy underwent an extraordinary expansion during the 20th century, when cheap oil fostered first the automobilization of the nation and, after World War II, its suburbanization. Oil also made possible a transportation system built around individual mobility and personal convenience that in many respects remains the envy of the world.
But the impending threat of climate change suggests that our reliance on oil has reached a point of diminishing returns. It's time for a new strategy -- a shift to energy efficiency in the short term and to solar and other renewable energy forms in the long term. Such a Global Green Deal would not only reduce ecological damage, but yield substantially more jobs, profits and economic prosperity than today's system does.
Investments in energy efficiency create two to ten times more jobs per dollar than investments in oil and nuclear power -- a crucial concern as the global economy slides into depression due to the collapsing dollar.
Bush is still betting that the nation is willing to pay whatever it takes to keep oil flowing, and he may be right. In the House of Representatives, the president's plan was supported by Democrats and Republicans, labor and corporate interests.
The majority of hard working Americans may ultimately agree with Bush that maintaining their oil habit is worth any price. But we should at least acknowledge the full cost of such a decision -- not only for Americans, but for the six billion people we share the planet with.
A $33 billion energy fund would create at least 3 million jobs and build a national electronic mass transport system in every major city in North America within four years. The technology already exists. Perhaps the democrats should consider such a fund in their political platform this coming November and get more backing from the likes of Buffet, Soros, Gates and Turner.
The four of them alone could provide the necessary seed money and create the starter fluid to get the entire project moving forward. Certainly Buffet could provide the insurance, Gates the software, Soros the political might, and Turner the United Nations development support to get the rest of the world and the media behind it. The only risk to them might be their becoming known as the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse of the Global Oil Industry.
What do you think?
Mark Hertsgaard originally contributed to this story. Edited by G! Alex Gabor
Filler up...high octane please!
So where is the rest of the story?
Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc. Receives Letter of Intent to Design and Install Electrical Chemical Hydrogen Fuel Reactor at Terra Nova Nurseries
Thursday February 12, 6:00 am ET
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 12, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc. (OTC BB:HYVR.OB - News) received a letter of intent from Terra Nova Nurseries to install its Electrical Chemical Hydrogen Fuel Reactor (ECHFR). The letter outlines the agreement to have a unit designed and installed to supplement both the existing hydronic root heating system, as well as providing hydrogen to be consumed through its converted natural gas burning commercial heating units within the greenhouse.
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``This exciting project is the ideal forum to showcase our technology,'' says interim CEO Mark Shmulevsky. ``It permits us to utilize all three aspects of our reactor. The first application is our heat recovery process. The unit will recapture the BTU or heat energy generated during the chemical reaction and channel it to provide heated water to the green house hydronic root heating system. The second application demonstrates our ability to provide Hydrogen gas to the converted natural gas burning commercial heating units. The third and emerging application is that of the collection of the re-sellable byproduct produced during the running of the ECHFR. The goal of this project is to reduce the overall costs and dependence on natural gas, as well as facilitating Terra Nova's aspiration to become a truly 'green' green house. We are extremely pleased to be working with a partner like Terra Nova Nurseries. Their award winning contributions and worldwide reputation for innovation in their field is a great foundation for us to begin building our relationship. The success of this project will allow us to further explore additional opportunities in the agricultural sector.''
About Terra Nova Nurseries
Terra Nova Nurseries is a privately owned company founded in 1991. It is an innovative plant production company developing, introducing and producing new, hardy perennials for the international marketplace. Terra Nova has created a niche of premium perennials, the majority unavailable at any other nursery in the world. Their marketing is primarily done through mail order nurseries, garden centers, specialty nurseries, and premium plant wholesalers. Web site: http://www.terranovanurseries.com
About Hydro Environmental Resources
Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc. holds the rights to the Electrical Chemical Hydrogen Fuel Reactor (ECHFR), which is one of the first hydrogen reactors that eliminates the need for an outside energy source to produce a pure commercial-grade of hydrogen at low pressure. This proprietary process delivers a highly mobile, more cost-effective and physically safe production of hydrogen than alternative methods, which require outside energy sources such as electricity, solar power and fossil fuels. The Company (HERI) was founded in 1998 with the primary goal of exploring avenues to improve the global environment through the development of safe and efficient methods of alternate energy production. The HERI team is focused on the production of alternate energy in the form of hydrogen gas, heat recovery, clean and potable water, through its breakthrough technologies. Today the ECHFR can provide environmentally safe and cost-effective hydrogen and heat energy to meet the needs of the enormous alternative energy industry.
Safe Harbor: This press release may include statements which are considered ``forward-looking'' within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ``believe'', ``expect'', ``plan'', ``anticipate'' and similar expressions identifying forward-looking statements. Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because they are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Hydro Environmental Resources. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following: the cost and timing of development and market acceptance of Hydro Environmental Resources hydrogen generation systems competitive factors, such as price competition and new product introductions, other factors detailed from time to time in Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc. filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
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Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc.
Mark Shmulevsky
Sonus says receives listing letter from Nasdaq
Tuesday March 30, 5:13 pm ET
LOS ANGELES, March 30 (Reuters) - Telecommunications equipment company Sonus Networks (NasdaqNM:SONS - News) on Tuesday said it has received a letter from the Nasdaq indicating that it is not in compliance with listing requirements because of a delay in filing its annual report.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Sonus said it would request a hearing with a listing qualifications panel and its stock will continue to be listed on Nasdaq pending the hearing.
Dollar Surges on Strong U.S. Jobs Data
Friday April 2, 9:03 am ET
By Manuela Badawy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar surged against major currencies on Friday as a much stronger than-expected March U.S. employment report signaled that the U.S. economy is on a firmer path to recovery.
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The robust number indicated the U.S. labor market was firmer than previously thought, which, if sustained, could enable the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates from their current 1958 low of 1 percent.
Rate increases would be widely viewed by analysts as a bullish prospect for the dollar because it would burnish the allure of dollar-denominated assets for foreign investors.
The euro dived more than 1 percent against the dollar to session lows around $1.2120 (EUR=). The dollar rose to 104.71 yen(JPY=) from a session low of 103.67 yen.
Against the Swiss franc, the dollar rose 1.3 percent to session highs around 1.2848 francs(CHF=). Sterling fell more than 1 percent against the dollar to $1.8272.
Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000 and well above the 103,000 rise expected on Wall Street.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7 percent from the two-year low of 5.6 percent seen in January and February.
"Very strong and a big surprise. Just confirmed rumors of a strong number. The dollar jumped even before the data so somebody must have known about the strong figures," said Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist, Scotia Capital in Toronto.
"Gains in jobs were in the services sector. This is supportive for the dollar going forward. But the Fed needs consistently strong jobs reports before it can raise rates," he said.
(Additional reporting by Gertrude Chavez)
Oil Slips as U.S. Mulls Waiving Gas Rules
Friday April 2, 9:16 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped slightly on Friday and traders said the market remained subdued following news Washington is considering requests to temporarily waive gasoline specification rules that have contributed to fears for a supply crunch.
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A big U.S. crude build reported earlier in the week had set prices off on a gasoline-driven losing streak that has taken more than two dollars off the price of oil since a high on Wednesday.
New York light crude futures fell 14 cents to $34.13 a barrel. London Brent futures slipped 93 cents to $30.62 a barrel, catching up with a big fall late on Thursday on the New York exchange, which closed an hour later than the London market.
Fears for gasoline tightness have kept up the market for much of the last month, analysts said.
U.S. government figures showing commercial crude stocks rising to their highest level in 19 months, and gasoline inventories building to above year-ago levels, unwound some of those concerns, and helped U.S. gasoline futures ease about eight percent from a record high set on Wednesday, triggering bearish sentiment in the crude market.
Traders said skepticism about compliance had limited the impact of OPEC's (News - Websites) agreement on Wednesday to forge ahead with its April 1, million-barrel-per-day supply cut.
A Reuters survey last week of physical crude market participants showed OPEC members' cuts were likely only to meet about a third of the stated reduction in April.
Skeptics have also drawn attention to efforts by the United States to persuade cartel members to supply more oil to the market.
President Bush expressed disappointment at OPEC's decision to cut, and, signaling its support, Kuwait said it did not want to see prices rise any further.
OPEC members Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had recommended to the cartel's Wednesday meeting that the group consider delaying tighter restrictions to allow oil prices to cool.
Much of the recent gasoline market tightness has been blamed on U.S. federal rules requiring refiners to blend dozens of different kinds of gasoline for various states.
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Thursday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was seriously considering requests from three states for temporary exemptions to requirements.
But some analysts said that the clean-burning fuel requirements were secondary to capacity problems and low stock levels in explaining gasoline prices.
"Our view is that even if some of these measures are introduced they will not help much in easing gasoline supply. This is because they do not address the central issues currently contributing to U.S. gasoline market tightness, namely low stock levels, accelerating demand and the inability of the U.S. refining system to respond to surges in demand for its products," Barclays Capital said.
"The big problems of low gasoline inventory and the inability of the US refining system to cope with surging demand still remain."
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March Job Growth Strongest in 4 Years
Friday April 2, 8:28 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment rose last month at the fastest pace in nearly four years, easily outstripping expectations, as workers returned after a grocery store strike and construction hiring bounced back on better weather, a government report on Friday showed.
The latest report from the Labor Department offered comfort to President Bush as the jobs market - a hot political issue in the U.S. presidential campaign -- finally made a decisive break to the upside.
Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000 and well above the 103,000 rise expected on Wall Street.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7 percent from the two-year low of 5.6 percent seen in January and February.
Upward revisions to January and February payrolls helped contribute to the positive tone of the report, which could fuel expectations that the Federal Reserve may be closer to raising overnight interest rates from their current 1958 low of 1 percent than had been thought.
The March rise in payrolls reflected the resolution of a labor dispute at grocery stores in southern California that had idled 72,000 workers. The department said the return of those workers helped fuel a 47,000 increase in retail employment last month, but it did not quantify the impact.
Economists had said the return of those workers would boost payrolls, but that the impact was hard to gauge because it was unclear how many temporary replacement workers were being let go.
The report showed job gains were widespread across industries.
While a long-hoped for rise in manufacturing employment did not appear, the department said factory payrolls were unchanged in March, finally breaking a string of 43 consecutive monthly declines.
How timely....
March Job Growth Strongest in 4 Years
Friday April 2, 8:28 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment rose last month at the fastest pace in nearly four years, easily outstripping expectations, as workers returned after a grocery store strike and construction hiring bounced back on better weather, a government report on Friday showed.
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The latest report from the Labor Department offered comfort to President Bush as the jobs market - a hot political issue in the U.S. presidential campaign -- finally made a decisive break to the upside.
Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000 and well above the 103,000 rise expected on Wall Street.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7 percent from the two-year low of 5.6 percent seen in January and February.
Upward revisions to January and February payrolls helped contribute to the positive tone of the report, which could fuel expectations that the Federal Reserve may be closer to raising overnight interest rates from their current 1958 low of 1 percent than had been thought.
The March rise in payrolls reflected the resolution of a labor dispute at grocery stores in southern California that had idled 72,000 workers. The department said the return of those workers helped fuel a 47,000 increase in retail employment last month, but it did not quantify the impact.
Economists had said the return of those workers would boost payrolls, but that the impact was hard to gauge because it was unclear how many temporary replacement workers were being let go.
The report showed job gains were widespread across industries.
While a long-hoped for rise in manufacturing employment did not appear, the department said factory payrolls were unchanged in March, finally breaking a string of 43 consecutive monthly declines.
That's where its headed...
March Job Growth Strongest in 4 Years
Friday April 2, 8:28 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment rose last month at the fastest pace in nearly four years, easily outstripping expectations, as workers returned after a grocery store strike and construction hiring bounced back on better weather, a government report on Friday showed.
ADVERTISEMENT
The latest report from the Labor Department offered comfort to President Bush as the jobs market - a hot political issue in the U.S. presidential campaign -- finally made a decisive break to the upside.
Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000 and well above the 103,000 rise expected on Wall Street.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7 percent from the two-year low of 5.6 percent seen in January and February.
Upward revisions to January and February payrolls helped contribute to the positive tone of the report, which could fuel expectations that the Federal Reserve may be closer to raising overnight interest rates from their current 1958 low of 1 percent than had been thought.
The March rise in payrolls reflected the resolution of a labor dispute at grocery stores in southern California that had idled 72,000 workers. The department said the return of those workers helped fuel a 47,000 increase in retail employment last month, but it did not quantify the impact.
Economists had said the return of those workers would boost payrolls, but that the impact was hard to gauge because it was unclear how many temporary replacement workers were being let go.
The report showed job gains were widespread across industries.
While a long-hoped for rise in manufacturing employment did not appear, the department said factory payrolls were unchanged in March, finally breaking a string of 43 consecutive monthly declines.
Providential Holdings' CEO Henry D. Fahman Selected as a Businessman of the Year
Thursday April 1, 3:01 am ET
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004--National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Congressman Tom Reynolds of New York announced the selection of Fountain Valley business leader Henry D. Fahman, Chairman and CEO of Providential Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:PRVH - News; Berlin and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges: PR7, WKN 935160) (www.phiglobal.com), as a Businessman of the Year.
Mr. Fahman was selected for involvement as a community and business leader, steadfast support for Republican ideals such as lower taxes and limited government and for generous support for the Republican Party.
Mr. Fahman will be formally recognized at an award ceremony to be held at the 2004 Congressional Tax Summit in Washington D.C. today to honor these accomplishments. President Bush, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, California Governor Schwarzenegger and Congressional Republican leaders will be in attendance at the Spring Gala in Washington, D.C.
About Providential Holdings:
Providential Holdings, Inc. is a diversified holding company committed to creating shareholder value through growth. The Company focuses on selective technologies, capital and financial services, international markets, and special situations.
Products and services include mobile entertainment systems, information technology, identification technology, infrastructure development, telecommunications, trade commerce, and mergers and acquisitions, especially in the U.S. and emerging overseas markets with high potential for growth.
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Contact:
Providential Holdings, Inc.
Henry Fahman, 714-642-0571
www.phiglobal.com
or
Business Advisory Council
National Republican Congressional Committee
866-655-6731
www.nrcc.org
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