One gigantic boat, we are all in it together. some rich, some poor, some supposed to be our smart ones, but it seems the dumb have figured out whats going on, but feel powerless to do anything about it! theres a behind the scene agenda, been there since time imortal. ok, you smart ones, what do we do about it? it’s only about good verses evil, who can change a mans heart!!!!!!!!! thats really the bottom line, its the human heart condition!!!

Kimmitt, represented in The Tennessean only as a “communications consultant,” now sells real estate in Franklin, which I suppose makes him an authority on matters scientific. His main source for his assertion that “thousands of respected scientists” have dissented from “the global warming storyline” was a list of 650 (not “thousands”) so-called scientists who supposedly challenged global warming orthodoxy — a list recently released by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Mr. Kimmitt complained that the mainstream media had given insufficient coverage to the committee report. What he did not reveal, however, was that the allegedly authoritative document was actually concocted by a single U.S. senator, James Inhofe, described publicly by one of his fellow committee members as a “Luddite,” and also frequently called the senator from Exxon, because of the enormous campaign contributions he has regularly received from oil and gas interests.

Inhofe has called President Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency “a Gestapo bureaucracy” and declared that global warming “is the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people.” One way to judge the credibility of Inhofe’s statements is to watch the hearings of his Senate committee on C-SPAN and notice how his fellow Republicans, like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, grimace and roll their eyes, like high school students listening to the class dunce.

Another way to assess the credibility of Inhofe’s “sound science” is to discover who funded the “research” of the so-called scientists he frequently cites. Over and over, the money has originated with sources like the American Petroleum Institute or Exxon-Mobil, or from front organizations funded by Big Oil. Moreover, some of the cherry-picked criticisms of global-warming theories cited by Inhofe turn out to have come from researchers who actually believe in global warming but disagree with some tiny aspect of the massive scientific literature on the subject.

Some of Inhofe’s 650 “authorities” have publicly disassociated themselves from his compilation. And many others could easily be described as pseudo-scientists, publishing in journals of questionable respectability, peer-reviewed by contrarians like themselves. The truth is that every national academy of science in every major industrial nation in the world has confirmed that global warming is real, that it is taking place largely because of human activity, and that it is a serious threat to life on Earth.

Using Sen. Inhofe as his principal authority for his attack on Gore and for his own denial of global warming says a lot about Mr. Kimmitt, whom The Tennessean failed to identify, as it should have done, as himself a former corporate “spokesman” employed by ExxonMobil Oil.

Yes maybe we failed to identify these new shinning stars as nothing more than spokesman for people who enjoy 8 million dollar houses and billions to those shinning starts to buy those houses and a few other shinning star stuff and these new people make P.T. Barnum look like a hotdog vender.

NEW DELHI: A DAY after Pakistan was reported to have mobilised its troops across the border, New Delhi said it will “rise to the challenge” and those who want to see India diminished will be “disappointed”. He also cautioned the political parties in the country to eschew communalism, as these “internal divides” were strengthening “enemies”.
Delivering the 29th Bhimsen Sachar memorial lecture here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “Those who wish to weaken our unity and hurt our nation should remember that India has always endured and emerged stronger.” Without referring to the previous conflicts between the two nations, Singh said, “The force of history is on our side. Those who wish to see us diminished will be disappointed. India knows how to rise to a challenge. It will.”

Earlier in the day, at Berhampore in West Bengal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee asked Pakistan not to deflect attention from the real issue of terrorism by whipping up a war hysteria. “I appeal to Pakistan and Pakistani leaders, do not unnecessarily try to create tension. Do not try to deflect (attention from) the issue. A problem has to be tackled face-to-face. Evading a problem will not help to get rid of it,” Mukherjee said.
“It is unfortunate that an atmosphere has been created in Pakistan, some sort of war hysteria… Indian express

India knows how to rise to a challenge. It will, and I hope they use reason and not instinct or that change we have been hearing so much about could happen in seconds. Side note the President elect Obama is in Hawaii on vacation and Bush is in Texas kicking back it’s all under control we have nothing to concern ourselves with and I’ll bet in Colorado deep inside the mountain they have a screen with India and Pakistan. Nice game of checkers anyone?

Somehow I just can’t imagine Obama “battling” anyone in power. We know Clinton never did (or if he did it wasn’t evident in all the legislation that turned over more and more of the commons to private interests). No fight in these wimps. As long as “progressives” keep backing these spineless politicians, than expect, the Republicans to be right back in there.

He has continued to frame US military actions as a ‘war on terror”. That is his foreign policy. One does not proclaim such a clear policy (continuation of the last administration’s) and then do an about face – unless, he 1) has convictions 2) the strength to fight for them.

While there are clearly limits to what can be done within the parameters of empire, a “leader” can demonstrate some fight. Nothing, absolutely nothing in his resume, in his person biography, in his 3 year stint as a “community organizer”, as a state sentator or as a US senator demonstrates that Barack Obama will do anything to jeopardize his political postures through the force of personal courage of his convictions (whatever else these may be).

I’d gladly entertain a contradiction to these comments (with references to his acts of “courage”). One does not advance a cause unless one has one and one is willing to lose.

So, it’s not surprising that he would go more deeply into Afghanistan.
How can anyone come away after a careful study of all of Obama’s public record and be impressed with him? He’s really not that smart. What he is good at is appealing to the power elite. There’s a kind of intelligence in that ability but he’s not going to solve any problems with his approaches. Not one.

“Russia is extremely concerned by the news that on both sides of the border there is a build-up of troops and military equipment,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

“The tension in this region has reached a dangerous level. There are worrying reports that New Delhi and Islamabad are not ruling out the use of force against each other,” it added.

NRDC calculated that 22.1 million people in India and Pakistan would be exposed to lethal radiation doses of 600 rem or more in the first two days after the attack. Another 8 million people would receive a radiation dose of 100 to 600 rem, causing severe radiation sickness and potentially death, especially for the very young, old or infirm. NRDC calculates that as many as 30 million people would be threatened by the fallout from the attack, roughly divided between the two countries.
Besides fallout, blast and fire would cause substantial destruction within roughly a mile-and-a-half of the bomb craters. NRDC estimates that 8.1 million people live within this radius of destruction.

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire at Chakoti Line of Control, causing panic among the locals. On Saturday night at 9:00 pm, Indian troops violating ceasefire opened indiscriminate firing at positions of Pakistan army in areas of Pando and Opi, Chakoti sector.

The Indian troops used small weapons and mortar guns in the firing that lasted more than one hour. Pakistan army retaliated with same force.”Online News

Not good, not good at all.

Btw, the Line of Control (LoC) in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Above top secret dot com

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire at Chakoti Line of Control, causing panic among the locals. On Saturday night at 9:00 pm, Indian troops violating ceasefire opened indiscriminate firing at positions of Pakistan army in areas of Pando and Opi, Chakoti sector.
The Indian troops used small weapons and mortar guns in the firing that lasted more than one hour. Pakistan army retaliated with same force.
Besides compelling people living in Chakoti sector and adjacent villages to shift to safer places, the firing has created panic among them because it was the first time Pakistan and Indian troops exchanged fire followed by Mumbai carnage.
Various families had been migrated to other places from Chakoti sector due to firing. According to eyewitnesses, firing was continued till Sunday morning. Word press

What defcon 3 now.