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News? What have you got? Since everyone already knows George Bush got a break from the ME crisis by meeting the American Idol contestants
In admidst the daliy dose of smatterings concerning Janet Jacksons tit (still in the news?)...Pamela Andersons St Tropez marriage (married? again?)
what is there left to blog about? No pun intended as in what is there LEFT to blog about
save Chavez thoroughly embracing Iran (Reuters report)
as Iran also
announces its rejection of a UN draft resolution demanding it
give up its quest to make nuclear fuel.
Thank heavens summer is known as the silly season and no one really takes these things seriously. And for vacations.
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French savor vacations but Americans feel guilty.
BEWARE, the article reads, Lonely Planet Publications tells readers of its guide to France: "This country largely closes down in August. "
Thanks for the cautionary tale I say, maybe I'll wait until spring.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/French_savor_vacations_Americans_guilty.htm
"The Georgian Parliament has instructed the government to prepare for the immediate suspension of Russian peacekeeping operations in the conflict zones of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Georgian authorities accuse the Russian peacekeepers of violating their mandate by supplying arms to separatist forces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Russia of attempting to permanently annex Georgian territory. Georgia wants to internationalize the peacekeeping operations. Russia's role in the conflict regions has been cited as a reason for Georgia not to support their neighbor's accession to the World-Trade-Organization. This is the sixth resolution by the Georgian legislature requesting the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers." -Deborah Wild
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/fsrn/fsrn_060720.html
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War in Caucuas over? Heres an article that pinpoints someone with an eye on the ball...Georgia (thats Tblisi Georgia) and Iran are getting cozy.
Guess Georgia must be thankful for those oil and gas supplies, huh?
"The Georgian Parliament's decision on Russia's peacekeeping mission in Abkhazia and South Ossetia may become the last straw to break relative stability and to trigger a chain reaction of tension in the region." -South Caucasus expert Alexander Ivaskov
"This is more of a flashpoint than even the Balkans and with Moscow already engaged heavily in the North Caucasus fighting Islamic groups supported by Ankara-Tehran. The entire region is a crossroads of energy pipelines, the center of Tehran's economic agenda and the industrialized world, led by Berlin, cannot afford for Moscow to lose control over it."
http://newsblaze.com/story/20060722232657payn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html
At a time when the al-Zarqawi's and Basayev's are dying and being killed and the deaths trumpeted across our newspaper headlines
(a story here reports the latter terrorist slash freedom fighter was outed from the inside)
and at a time when the Australians newspaper is asking its readers and themselves to consider the question : Why are we assisting a suspected terrorist?
when Canadian soldiers die overseas in Afghanistan ...it behooves any citizen to ask themselves why indeed.
Well, heres what I see...
I see that at the same time that Pakistan digs in and offers more help to help capture terrorists
days after attacks in the city formerly called Bombay
(first arrests in blasts made)...
that a flight from Lahore Pakistan to Uzbekistan which used to take 24 hours now takes 2.5....
and
while the latter country cuts off gas to Tajikistan for unpaid debts
"The energy infrastructure in Central Asia was built in Soviet times, when borders between the now-independent countries were virtually meaningless. [creating] a complex system of interlocking dependencies, which is still in place 15 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. "
and opens a diplomatic mission in Shanghai
all at the same time that an intelligence chief of an Afghan district on a major drug trafficking route to Tajikistan was caught with 33 kilograms (73 pounds) of heroin.
We do have to ask why.
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But heres a look at the world shortly after nine eleven 2001...heres a snippet from the Press on international reaction..about a month afer the towers were bombed
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Chechen MD: West ignores brutality
LONDON - Khassan Baiev, a Chechen doctor who has treated victims on both sides of the lines in Chechnya, said in an interview published in The Independent on October 18 that the West has failed to pay attention to Russian brutality in Chechnya. The same day, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told journalists that during the talks in Shanghai, Washington will press Moscow to seek a political settlement in Chechnya, Agence France-Presse reported.
U.S. envoy thanks Uzbekistan's Muslims
TASHKENT - Meeting with staff members of the Muslim Spiritual Board of Uzbekistan, U.S. Ambassador John Herbst thanked Uzbekistan's Muslim community for their support of the U.S.-led anti-terrorist strikes against neighboring Afghanistan, Interfax reported on October 17.
Russians don't support alliance
MOSCOW - A survey of recent polling data published in Izvestia on October 15 suggested that most Russians do not support President Vladimir Putin's decision to ally Moscow with the U.S.-led counter-terrorism effort. That is not because Russians are ignorant or supportive of terrorism, but rather because they do not trust the United States and believe that Washington will try to exploit the campaign for its own broader geopolitical and economic interests, according to a commentary on the poll findings. The article noted that this should not surprise anyone because most Russians have still not decided whether Russia should be part of the West or pursue a special course with the East.
Commentators: U.S. faces tough going
MOSCOW - Former Prime Minister Yevgenii Primakov told ITAR-TASS on October 15 that the United States may find itself sinking "into a quagmire" in Afghanistan much like the one in which the Soviet Union found itself in the past. Meanwhile, an article in Parlamentskaya Gazeta on October 13 suggested that Osama bin Laden is likely to prove difficult and perhaps impossible to capture. Russian ecologists believe that it is completely possible that the Taliban and the other terrorists may have and use biological weapons, Interfax reported on October 15.
Paper says U.S. guilty of terrorism
MOSCOW - An article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on October 13 said that the U.S. has been guilty of provoking and carrying out terrorist acts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his regime. It suggested that the U.S. might use the cover of the anti-terrorist campaign to attack Castro again. The same issue of the paper carried another article suggesting that American intellectuals are concerned that the war against terrorism will give birth to a new outburst of McCarthyism in the United States.
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Whats it all mean? Wheres it all headed? Well, in my view, some people are wondering with the Chechen seperatist leader gone, the war in the Caucaus is over...and if the President of Pakistan is helping to out terrorists maybe he will end up assassinated by America Al-Jazzera asks (attempts have been made before) and some people, like the folks at the LA Times, are wondering if this means World War III. But everybody knows Bill Clinton wanted a oil route across the Caspian Sea to avoid Iran.
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Yeah. So this it. These are the times. Why bother understanding...we are just consumers: of news and of oil. And there are no political solutions. And dont you know thats why war starts.
Update on an old thread for the Flaggers...
Just as Kid Rock was arrested and charged, those investigating the story will find that this doesnt make him guilty of anything...As such, in similar vein, Order of Canada recipient, former soldier
David Ahenakew's hate crime conviction has been overturned by a Saskatchewan judge
Shame on the Flaggers. As if they know of such a thing as shame.
Next step for the Courts is for them to decide if they even want another trial or if its worth it.
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In other news you wont find on the Flag, a kidnapped 15 year old native american girls captors have been arrested and charged.
It is known the 15 year old girl was a My Space user and believed to have met her captors through the Internet.
http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/3403656.html
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Gak! Pamela Anderson...you are so a-bweu-ti-ful. I wove you!
See: Pam officially engaged to Kid Rock(again!), marriage in St Tropez July 29th, pregnancy rumours abound, Kid Rock jailed in Switzerland
If I use my imagination, I can reason that Kid Rock looks a little like me...
Aw, shucks but I aint no bad boy. Damn. Too bad.
Jump in Flaggers. Jump in cold.
http://boards.vanityfair.com/thread.jspa?messageID=18188
DJ Moby is related to the renowned author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
Nicknamed Moby, Richard Melville Hall was born September 11, 1965, in Harlem, New York.
http://www.comebackalive.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19364&sid=77a19c68492bd2e71137f3ab4aac0f25
Bet Moby reads Rolling Stone. Don't you?
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, began as an article in the rock no roll industry magazine. Henceforthly next a movie.
If profits drive corps. to fatten chickens faster and grow them closer together and obesity rates rise and bring harm to our failing health care system (cliche!) ...we would all do better to give some pause for thought on our tacit support of the fast-food industry. It would probably help.
Think about your idling engine next time youre at a drive thru.
But speaking of Lebanon, heres an old film from almost two decades ago that shows why it may be better to feel depressed at news filtered through the "glass tit" and refuse to blame MTV for wars in the Middle East and just watch what you eat (garbage in-garbage out) than ......anything else.
Heres the review from the WP from Sep 11, 1987
"If senseless killing, random bombings, a confusing array of political factions, deserted children and jaded journalists have anything to do with Beirut -- and we know they do -- then "Deadline" is right on the mark. A movie ostensibly about a journalist stuck in this recent mess, "Deadline" reiterates the news-as-usual about war: Man is one lethal and stupid creature"
Read the rest here..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/deadlinerhowe_a0b0fa.htm
Not a bad little film btw. You can get it on DVD if you know where to look..
A new study from the University of California on twins and smoking has come up with some casual causal explanations as to why men and women take up the deadly habit.
Women seem to be more influenced by environmental factors and men: genetics.
Interesting study.
http://www.emaxhealth.com/58/6391.html
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Interesting blog comments made about the death of Assistant Secretary of Commerce
William Lash, also Chairman of the U.S. Iraq Reconstruction Task Force
http://www.rec-dev.com/conferences/conferences/past/irs/feb10_04/index.asp
Professor Lash was apparently father of an autistic child. Just last week, a trailblazing pioneer in the field of studies of autistism died at the age of 79.
http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/458599.html
http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2006/07/professor_bill_lasch.html