More Interesting News February 13, 2007

1 dead as powerful storm hits New Orleans area

Al-Qaeda's Hand In Istanbul Plot
Journalist Karl Vick, who seems to specialize in such reports, makes it half way down the page before he inserts the Rovian explanation that the bombs that hit Istanbul in November 2003 were the results of plots that started long before the US invaded Iraq.  The participants were also people who had visited al Qaeda training camps in the 1990s.  You remember the 90s when Clinton wanted to bomb the training camps, but the right wing howled first that they were just pounding dirt.  I guess a lot of that dirt was passing out instructions to terrorists.  BTW, the plot might have been conceived before the invasion of Iraq, but obviously, much of the US intelligence community was occupied elsewhere after the Bush people made the decision in the summer of 2002 to invade the oil rich nation.  Otherwise, maybe they would have helped our ally stave off the attack.  We expect our allies to help us, but we should be helping others in return instead of invading nations for resources.  Why should our allies continue to try to help us when we use our strength to destroy other nations?  Now that we know how much the Bush administration manipulates the news, you have to wonder.

Ex-CIA official may face charges   Excerpt: Prosecutors are seeking charges of honest services fraud and conspiracy against Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA until his resignation in May, and San Diego defense contractor Brent Wilkes, two government officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

But Foggo played Little Jack Horner in more than one way.   Also see: Water Deal Illuminates Secret Contracts  Suddenly the booze and sex parties at the Watergate are beginning to pale in comparison.

'I'm Doing Fine,' President Tells Worried Father  Puff piece on the president reeks of pandering.  BTW Bush's father was agitated and distressed when his son won the presidency too.  In fact he and Bob Dole tend to threaten their interviewers with walking off the set if they aren't treated like a combination emperor and god and not challenged in the slightest.  I think it's more about being too used to immense wealth and power.  Little Bushie is already getting that way, too.

I still think the lives have been wasted by our government.  Imagine dying so ExxonMobil can get that oil.

More details on Shopping Mall Killing Spree

Sharing of Bison Range Management Breaks Down

Mitt Romney Joins 2008 Presidential Race  Yawn

Whaler, anti- whalers collide Feb 12.  Blame thown both ways.  You decide who's spouting propaganda.  "They're like pirates!  Help help!"

Anti-whalers lose Japanese fleet in Antarctic waters Feb 13. Also from the same report we learn that a special session of Whaling Commission Opened by Japan featuring their paid stooges.
Excerpt:

Meanwhile, a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission is underway in Tokyo today, with host Japan and like-minded countries hoping the gathering will build momentum to resume commercial hunting.

Japan insists its controversial annual whale hunt in the Southern Ocean is for scientific purposes, but admits the whale meat ends up on restaurant tables.

Japan has made no secret of its desire to resume commercial whaling, and hopes to use today's meeting to shift the commission's focus to whale management rather than a moratorium.

But with some 26 anti-whaling nations - including Australia, New Zealand and the United States -boycotting the meeting, prospects for dialogue in the polarised organisation appear slim.

Thirty-four of the commission's 72 members were attending and another two expected to show up at the three-day meeting, which Japanese officials have termed a final attempt to save the commission by drafting proposals to submit at its annual meeting in May.

The report also notes that Japan is considering returning to commercial whaling after the IWC meeting in May.  We already know that the Japan can't even sell all the meat from the whales they slaughter now as Japanese no longer have a taste for the food and one enterprising company tested making dog food out of it.  I suppose they can ship it to the US pretending it is somekind of sea food that people actually want to eat.

Wait a minute, a Japanese whaler causes an accident yesterday and then cries about being "attacked", and today the Japanese controlled IWC is starting it's meeting.  Are you getting a picture here?

Fake Fish Flooding Restaraunts  That fish on your plate may not be what you ordered, but another fish, imported inferior catfish from Asia, and tainted with disease and pesticides.  Do we even need to mention the fact that bringing in fish from half a world away, not only drains the resources of that region, but also causes global warming from the trip?

What W. B. Yeats’s ‘Second Coming’ Really Says About the Iraq War

California's future may be paved with toll road fees  Thanks, Governor Schwarzenegger

Utilities Crews on High Alert for Later Today

Will Distress Home Buyers Hurt the Market Further?  Well, apparently they have the first part down pat. Buy low, but then that makes the market go where?

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