Thursday - July 07, 2005
Another Close Call For Rudy Giuliani
Former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, just can’t win. This morning he was in London. Only yards away from the first bomb explosion ....
(Daily Mail-UK) Former Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani said the London terror strikes were an “eerie reminder” of 9/11 . Mr Giuliani, who led the Big Apple through the devastating attacks, said he was only yards away from the first explosion this morning, while on a visit to London.
The politician said: “They are a very eerie reminder of September 11, I was right near Liverpool (St) station when the first bombing took place, so I could hear the sirens and then kept hearing reports of different bombing, in different parts of the city.
“As we were walking through and driving through the streets of the city, it was remarkable how the people of London responded calmly and bravely.”
He said the hearts of New Yorkers would go out to Londoners.
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Permalink • The Line In The Sand
The current tally for the IslamoFascist’s terror attack on London: 40 dead, 360 injured.
I have been in e-mail contact with several friends in the UK, checking up on everyone. So far, everyone I know is OK. All are mad as hell though, in addition to being tremendously saddened at the loss of innocent civilian lives. Ordinary people just going about their business on an ordinary day. Just like September 11, 2001.
Isn’t it past time to get serious with these cowardly thugs? Where do we draw the line in the sand? How many more must die before the Western countries realize we are under full-blown attack by murderous madmen? Are we going to keep talking about it and fighting amongst ourselves or are we going to band together? It’s time to circle the wagons, people .. and I include all civilized people. The savages are picking us off one by one. Their grievances don’t mean s**t to me anymore. I couldn’t care less if some raghead feels deprived or offended. All I want that raghead to do now is .... DIE! DIE, DAMN YOU!
Here in the US, the Department Of Homeland Security has just raised the threat level to ORANGE for all mass transit systems. Personally, I’m getting sick and tired of living under a cloud of fear and terror. We need to do more to take the fight to the enemy. Afghanistan and Iraq were just the start. We need to go much further before we can call ourselves safe again.
I extend my sympathies and heartfelt concern to all of our British friends. I will be praying for all the civilized people in that great country. From this day on, we need to stick together .. until the last terrorist is dead.
God save the Queen ....
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LONDON—Half a dozen explosions rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, police said. At least two people were killed and nine injured in the nearly simultaneous blasts, and officials shut down the entire underground transport network.
The explosions came a day after London was awarded the 2012 Olympics and as the G-8 summit was getting under way in Scotland. Initial reports blamed a power surge for the subway explosions, but officials were not ruling out an attack.
“There have been a number of dreadful incidents across London today,” said Home Secretary Charles Clarke, Britain’s top law enforcement officer. He said there were “terrible injuries.” A senior Israeli official said Scotland Yard told Israel minutes before the explosions that it had received warnings of possible terror attacks. Italy’s European commissioner, Franco Frattini, called the explosions a terrorist strike, the Apcom and ANSA news agencies reported.
Sir Ian Blair, London’s police chief, said he was concerned the explosions were a coordinated attack but said he wouldn’t speculate on who was responsible. He said officials had found indications of explosives at one of the sites. Bloodied and bandaged witnesses reported panicked crowds fleeing as the blast rained glass and other debris onto the street. One witness, Darren Hall, said some passengers emerging from an evacuated subway station had soot and blood on their faces. He told BBC TV that he was evacuated along with others near the major King’s Cross station and only afterward heard a blast.
Police confirmed an explosion destroyed a double-decker bus at Russell Square in central London and said they suspected a bomb caused the blast. Dow Jones Newswires reported that police said there were explosions on two other buses. A witness at the Russell Square blast said the entire top deck of that bus was destroyed. “I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air,” Belinda Seabrook told Press Association, the British news agency.
She said the bus was packed with people. “It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air,” she said. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was hosting the world’s most powerful leaders at Gleneagles, Scotland, was expected to make a statement at 7 a.m. EDT. It was not clear if the G-8 gathering focusing on climate change and aid for Africa _ but from which Iraq has largely been left off the agenda _ would have to be postponed.
Police said incidents were reported at the Aldgate station near the Liverpool Street railway terminal, Edgware Road and King’s Cross in north London, Old Street in the financial district and Russell Square in central London, near the British Museum. Bradley Anderson, a subway passenger, told Sky News that “there was some kind of explosion or something” as his train reached the Edgware Road station in northeast London.
“Everything went black and we collided into some kind of oncoming train,” Anderson said. Simon Corvett, 26, who was on an eastbound train from Edgware Road station, said: “All of sudden there was this massive huge bang.”
“It was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered,” he said. “There were just loads of people screaming and the carriages filled with smoke. “You could see the carriage opposite was completely gutted,” he said. “There were some people in real trouble.”
London’s cell phone network was working after the explosions but was overloaded and spotty, limiting communication. The explosions sent stocks plummeting in Europe, with several of the major indexes down 3 percent.
The UK Guardian is live blogging.
The BBC is also talking to survivors.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair vows “Terrorists won’t win”.
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Permalink • French Fries
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 06, 2005
Fingernails On The Blackboard
Normally, I don’t comment on the so-called “sensationalist” stories that the mainstream media just loves to cover in excruciating detail. Take Michael Jackson .... please. Just kidding. I maybe spent a total of ten seconds watching news of his recent trial before I changed the channel. The ditzy “Runaway Bride”? Ditto. I figure the MSM will bore you all to death with these stories, which are to real news what a bowl of grits are to real nutrition.
Usually Fox News is pretty good about not driving us crazy with this crap but lately they have been piling on with all the rest. Case in point: the case of the missing Natalee Holloway who went partying with a bunch of strange kids on a small Caribbean island and wound up .... gone. Nobody knows where. Dead? Maybe. Off on a fling on another island? Maybe. Who knows. The Aruban government is trying to investigate this case the best they can, even calling in help from the “mother country”, The Netherlands.
Now to the point of this post .... I want the poor girl’s mother to just SHUT THE F**K UP AND GO SIT DOWN! I have a good idea how she feels but, dammit, this woman is starting to get on my nerves, like fingernails on the blackboard. She has pressured Alabama Senator Richard Shelby to pressure the Aruban government. She has made a complete ass out of herself on Fox News nearly every night during O’Reilly’s show and Greta van whatsername’s show. Somebody please put this woman out of my misery.
One final note: I’m from Alabama and I know this high school in Birmingham where this teenager went to school and I know the neighborhood where these kids live. This is pure upper-crust society in B’ham and folks there are used to getting their way. Need I say more ....?
To make a long story short, the people in Aruba are also getting fed up with this woman ....
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - A latent but growing resentment here became evident for the first time when more than 200 people, some wrapped in Aruban flags, said they were incensed by statements made by the mother of a missing American teen.
Those assembled outside the colonial courthouse in this Caribbean capital Tuesday night said they fear their tiny island nation is falsely being portrayed as not doing enough to find Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who vanished May 30 on a graduation trip with her high school class.
Two brothers, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, who had been held as suspects were released Monday for lack of evidence. In a brief and tearful statement Tuesday, Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee’s mother, accused Aruba of letting guilty people free. “Two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter,” she said.
“These criminals are not only being allowed to walk around among the tourists and citizens of Aruba,” she said, but there were no limits on where they could go.
The protesters took umbrage with those statements.
“Respect our Dutch laws or go home,” read one sign. “Innocent until proven guilty,” read another. One suggested the missing girl might not be dead but partying in Brazil or nearby Venezuela. There were complaints that some American television coverage unfairly depicted the island, which depends overwhelmingly on tourism, and as being crime- and drug-ridden.
Though poverty is widespread in the Caribbean, Aruba has an unemployment rate of less than 1 percent and one of the higher standards of living. And it has few worries. Tourism and a major refinery bring in the money. Diplomatic and defense needs, such as they are, are provided by the Netherlands.
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Permalink • Tuesday - July 05, 2005
Dump Africa
I have had it with Africa. Ever since the natives threw out their colonial “masters” the entire neighborhood has gone to the dogs. Poverty is rampant as former tribal warlords build little empires and exterminate their rivals with genocide that is unparalleled in world history. Entire countries full of people are being displaced by these petty tyrants who hire gangs of thugs to roam the countryside raping, murdering and destroying everything in their path.
AIDS is running rampant on the continent and millions are dying every year because of unprotected sex, tribal taboos, superstitions and the local government’s complete lack of concern. The people who don’t fall prey to AIDS are dying of deadly viruses like Ebola that are spreading due to lack of any kind of hygiene or sanitation. Again, local governments don’t seem to care.
The West has poured billions of dollars into the continent, the majority of it from the United States and the money is being pissed away by the warlords like Robert Mugabe who spend the money on guns and armaments for their militias instead of food and medicine for their people. In addition to the billions donated to these “nations” in Africa, more billions are borrowed by these countries to finance fancy palaces for the tribal warlords who are now in control.
How far should the West go before we have to just throw in the towel and give it up as a lost cause? They say if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. What do you do if the idiots refuse to learn how to fish and fight among themselves over the fish you’re giving them? In my personal opinion, sooner or later you have to cut your losses and give up. Let them revert all the way back to savagery instead of temporarily holding them halfway between barbarism and civilization. If you don’t, they’ll just keep begging for more handouts while they drain the world’s resources in a vain attempt to help them ....
(BBC) Leaders at the African Union summit in Libya are preparing to release a final declaration expected to appeal for the continent’s debts to be wiped out. They are also likely to call for fairer terms of trade with the West, while stressing their desire for better governance and transparency. The meeting ends a day before the G8 summit of the world’s richest nations.
On Monday, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told other African leaders to “stop begging” for Western charity.
But the final declaration is likely to urge the G8 to end all $350bn of African debt, not just the $40bn planned. The statement will also see a call for Africa to be given two permanent seats on the UN Security Council - although how the two posts will be allocated remains undecided. African Union chairman and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told the 53 delegates the continent was moving from a past of military coups to a future of good governance.
Mr Obasanjo, who will be attending the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, called for “massive” financial help from the West and to expand debt relief for Africa. “This is not the time for a lot of talk but more of a time for serious and concerted action,” he told the gathering in the town of Sirte. The BBC’s Mike Donkin says the meeting in Libya has also been about proving to hopefully committed Western partners that African leaders will honour their side of any future bargain.
Mr Obasanjo’s remarks contrasted with those of Col Gaddafi, who said Africa should refuse all conditional aid and some offers of help from former colonial powers. In a 30-minute speech which received muted applause from African leaders, the Libyan leader said: “We are not beggars at the doorsteps of the rich.”
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Permalink • Russia & China Gang Up On US
Here we go again. Russia and China, along with a group of their “satellite” states in central Asia are demanding a timetable for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. It seems they’re not too pleased with the US military presence in their sandbox ....
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - An alliance of Russia, China and central Asian nations called for the U.S. and coalition members in
Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing from member states, reflecting growing unease over America’s regional military presence.Alliance members Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan both host U.S. bases whose troops are involved in Afghanistan.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, at a summit in the Kazakh capital, said in a declaration that a withdrawal date should be set in light of what it said was a decline of active fighting in Afghanistan.
“We support and will support the international coalition which is carrying out an anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan, and we have taken note of the progress made in the effort to stabilize the situation,” the declaration said.
“As the active military phase in the anti-terror operation in Afghanistan is nearing completion, the SCO would like the coalition’s members to decide on the deadline for the use of the temporary infrastructure and for their military contingents’ presence in those countries,” the declaration continues.
A Kremlin foreign policy adviser, Sergei Prikhodko, said the declaration was not intended as an ultimatum, “but they have to say how much longer they will stay.”
Both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are former Soviet republics that Moscow regards historically as part of its sphere of influence. The Kremlin did not object when those states agreed to host U.S. troops following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
However, the statement appears to reflect growing uneasiness with the U.S. presence and increasing concerns that the United States is encouraging the overthrow of Central Asia’s authoritarian governments.
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Permalink • Big Trouble In Big China
Trouble is brewing on the other side of the Pacific. China is rapidly growing its economy and building up its military forces to unprecedented levels. Currently, there is a huge trade imbalance between the US and China. They’re selling cheap over here and have frozen their currency at an artificial level that only makes it worse. On top of all that, the Chinese are driving up the price of oil with their drive to industrialize. Did I mention the Chinese are continuing their saber-rattling at Taiwan? Yep, things are getting a little squirrely over there.
Now, they’re attempting to buy US oil companies to help feed their hunger for more of the world’s energy. Congress finally slapped down its hand and said “NO”. The Red Chinese aren’t taking it too calmly. This could be big trouble brewing while our military forces have their hands full in the Middle East ....
SHANGHAI, July 4—The Chinese government on Monday sharply criticized the United States for threatening to erect barriers aimed at preventing the attempted takeover of the American oil company Unocal Corp. by one of China’s three largest energy firms, CNOOC Ltd.
Four days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging the Bush administration to block the proposed transaction as a threat to national security, China’s Foreign Ministry excoriated Congress for injecting politics into what it characterized as a standard business matter.
“We demand that the U.S. Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicizing economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of the two countries,” the Foreign Ministry said in a written statement. “CNOOC’s bid to take over the U.S. Unocal company is a normal commercial activity between enterprises and should not fall victim to political interference. The development of economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States conforms to the interests of both sides.”
Those words, the latest rhetorical volley in an escalating trade battle, officially elevated the takeover battle for Unocal into a bilateral issue involving Washington and Beijing, raising the stakes of the outcome.
CNOOC’s bid comes as China’s emerging force in the global economy continues to sow international tensions over competition for natural resources, impacts on the environment, trade balances and security relationships. The deal would be the latest in a string of Chinese purchases of foreign companies as Beijing encourages domestic firms to seek new markets abroad and secure raw materials for China’s aggressive industrialization. The Chinese government has urged energy companies in particular to buy foreign oil fields as China’s consumption soars, deepening worries about the country’s access to supplies.
Already, CNOOC’s bid has taken China across a new threshold: It has unleashed the first takeover battle between a Chinese company and a U.S. firm, the oil giant Chevron Corp., which has its own deal to buy Unocal, for $16.5 billion. If completed, CNOOC’s purchase—its bid is for $18.5 billion—would be the largest foreign takeover ever made by a Chinese firm.
But as the price of oil continues to soar, underscoring the finite supply of global stocks, some members of Congress portray China’s appetite for energy as a threat to U.S. interests. They are painting CNOOC’s effort to buy Unocal as an attempt to siphon off oil that would otherwise land in the United States, a proposition that analysts call dubious because most of Unocal’s outstanding contracts supply customers in Asia.
As the House adopted its resolution Thursday by a 398 to 15 vote, some noted that CNOOC remains under the majority control of the Communist Party-led state, suggesting that this alone made the deal a threat.
“We cannot, in my opinion, afford to have a major U.S. energy supplier controlled by the Communist Chinese,” said Rep. William J. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat. Monday’s reply from Beijing reinforced what CNOOC has said from the beginning—that the deal is nothing more than an attempt to expand its business opportunities and invest capital sensibly.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 03, 2005
Spam From Outer Space
OK, show of hands here, people. How many of you have received at least one or more e-mail phishing scams from some Nigerian government official who needs your help getting millions of dollars out of that country? Let’s see .... 1-2-3-20-50-430-5300- ....... OK, put your hands down. I see nearly everyone out there has gotten this crap from our Nigerian friends.
Now, how many of you can name the only remaining Commie superpower in the world (hint: see post below this one). Great! Now what do you think would happen if these two countries got together ....? Well, in my opinion, we’re all in deep s**t now because the Commies are going to build and launch a satellite for the Nigerian spammers ....
CHINA PRESS: China To Build, Launch Satellite For Nigeria
07-03-05 06:56 AM ESTBEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China Great Wall Industry Corp. will build and launch in orbit at the beginning of 2007 a communication satellite expecially designed for Nigeria, the China Daily reported Sunday.
The satellite, named NIGCOMSAT-I, will make China both a manufacturer and a launcher of satellites for foreign customers, the paper reported, citing Great Wall president Wang Haibo.
China has so far never manufactured a satellite for other countries, the report said.
China Great Wall Industry is the only Chinese company allowed to launch satellites.
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Permalink • Land-Snatch: Chinese Style
Memo from Red China:
You silly Americans whine and cry because your high court says your capitalist-pig government can take your land. Hmph! Your stupid court still says they have to pay you something for your land and you can always hire a scum-sucking capitalist lawyer to hold them off for a while to jack up the price. You whining, sniveling pampered dolts don’t know when you’ve got it good. Now, here in China, we are more efficient at land-snatching. Trust me ....
Sincerely,
Yuan Chu Fat
BEIJING Thousands of farmers in China’s southern Guangdong Province demonstrated against government-backed land-requisition policies, with clashes erupting after the police detained some protesters, a rights group said Sunday.
On Thursday, the first day of the protests, four people were taken into custody by the police after farmers tried to prevent bulldozers from leveling about 670 hectares, or 1,655 acres, of land near the village of Sanshangang, according to the Empowerment and Rights Institute, an independent rights group.
On Saturday, the third consecutive day of protests, demonstrators surrounded the public security bureau in Sanshangang and demanded the release of the farmers who had been arrested, according to Maggie Hou, an official with the rights institute.
The police in Sanshangang declined to comment, saying only that inquiries should be directed to higher officials. Officials in Nanhai county, which administers Sanshangang, also declined to comment.
At least one person, identified as Shao Shuntian, was arrested Saturday after clashes broke out between protesters and law enforcement officers, according to Hou. “Police clubbed her with a baton and began kicking her after she fell down,” Hou said. “She tried to fight back and so they took her away.”
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Permalink • Thursday - June 30, 2005
Little Black Sambo Lives In Mexico
So what’s up with Mexico and the Mexican government? Are they just going out of their way to piss off Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? They seem to be trying real hard lately with Vicente Fox’s remarks about Mexican border-jumpers taking jobs that “not even blacks in America want to do”. Fox apologized for that. Now, the Mexican government has issued a series of postage stamps with pictures of “Little Black Sambo”, or at least that’s what it looks like to me. I could be wrong but I distinctly remember a childhood coloring book I had back in the 1950’s (that is banned nowadays) about a young African lad who was chased by a tiger and who ran around and around a banyan tree so fast with the tiger in hot pursuit that the tiger eventually melted into butter, which Sambo poured on his next meal of flapjacks and syrup. I never did figure out how the flapjacks recipe made it to Africa .... unless it was carried there by a swallow .... African, of course.
(BBC News - Thursday, 30 June, 2005) Mexico faces renewed accusations of racism over the issue of stamps showing a popular black cartoon character.
US civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson said the stamps depicted African-Americans in a negative manner and asked Mexico to withdraw them. The Mexican Embassy said the depiction was a cultural image that had no meaning and was not intended to offend. In May President Vicente Fox apologised for saying Mexican migrants in the US did jobs “even blacks don’t want”. He said the comment was taken out of context, which had been made to express frustration with tough new immigration legislation approved by the US Senate.
The latest row comes after the Mexican government issued a series of five stamps of Memin Pinguin. The cartoon character from a comic book created in the 1940s has exaggerated eyes and lips. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) called the stamps “injurious to black people who live in the United States and Mexico.”
“It is offensive,” Mr Jackson said.
Mexico insisted that like Speedy Gonzalez - a cartoon mouse with a Mexican accent, aired in the US - Memin Pinguin should not be seen as a racial slur.
The Mexican leader has yet to comment.
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Permalink • A Good Idea
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 29, 2005
Your Outsourced Tech Support Is Currently Unavailable
An undersea cable that connects Pakistan, India the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Djibouti to international telephone communications and the internet was accidentally cut yesterday. All helpful help desk support people are currently unable to help you and will be unavailable for up to two weeks .... as if most of them ever could with their mangled English accents ....
Damage to the undersea telecommunications cable SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW3) Monday initially disrupted most of Pakistan’s international telephone and Internet connections, but the outage spread to India, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Djibouti as repairs were started yesterday.
Call centers in India using connections through the Reliance Group, India’s largest corporate conglomerate, to SMW3 to reach customers in the U.S. were experiencing service outages for the past day, they reported to InternationalStaff.net, a company that specializes in offshore process migration, call center program management, turnkey software development and help desk management.
Mark Lewitt, an American manager at the Godrej Upstream call center in Mumbai, India, said today that the better-funded Indian call centers were using satellite backup systems, where available, but that not all centers relying on Reliance had invested in satellite connections.
Established Indian call centers scrambled to obtain backup capacity after a fire last September at a switching facility in that country disrupted last-mile service to most Indian call centers.
The SMW3 fiber optic cable was reportedly damaged on the floor of the Arabian Sea 21 miles south of the port city of Karachi, Pakistan. A service vessel belonging to E-Marine, a UAE company, was dispatched from the United Arab Emirates to undertake repairs.
There have been conflicting reports on the expected duration of the service disruptions caused by the damaged cable. The Press Trust of India, Reuters and Xinhua have all reported that disruptions are anticipated to last for two weeks.
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 28, 2005
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day
Boy Scouts in Belgium can no longer learn wilderness survival the .. umh .. hard way ....
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium plans to stop Boy Scouts from slaughtering chickens and other small animals at summer camp, despite Scout leaders’ defence of the practice as a lesson in wilderness survival.
The Health Ministry said in a statement issued on Monday that one Scout group had refused to stop teaching its lads how to carry out the bloody task even after complaints from parents.
“These kids have to be taught how to kill an animal in order to feed themselves,” the ministry quoted one of the group’s representatives as saying.
However, the ministry took the view that the Scouts learnt nothing from using animals in this way.
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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