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Posted by msrb on September 26, 2009
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MR Obama, We Need Jobs in the US, NOT War in Afghanistan!
‘GOD!’ How could this happen? How could it all go so horribly wrong?
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait for leaders as they arrive at the Phipps Conservatory for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 24, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young. Image may be subject to copyright.
Lord, I don’t want you to think that I’m ungrateful for being born here instead of Afghanistan!
I mean this is just a teargas canister, and people get worse things thrown at them every day. [A demonstrator kicks a tear gas canister fired by police. Photo: Reuters. Image may be subject to copyright.
When people of Afghanistan asked for more food, the President sent more soldiers with rockets and bombs to silence them!
Local villagers in Afghanistan bury some of the victims of an airstrike in a mass grave near Kunduz. Scores of people were feared killed in northern Afghanistan when NATO aircraft struck hijacked fuel tankers as villagers came to collect fuel, Afghan officials said. Photograph by: Stringer, Reuters. Image may be subject to copyright
When people of Pittsburgh asked for more jobs, the President sent them more policemen armed with teargas and smoke to shut them up!
I've gotta a job and you don't. And my CIC says I can throw at you all the sh*t that you see on me! [Policeman smiles sheepishly as he prepares more canisters of pepper spray and smoke to throw at the jobless marchers. Photo: AP. Image may be subject to copyright.]
It wasn’t long before police decided to fire the real stuff, teargas, at the marchers. Photo: GETTY IMAGES. Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted in Antiwar, G20, G20 conference, President Obama, The Gluttonous 20 Governments, barak obama, g20 summit pittsburgh, nato airstrikes, police brutality, war criminal obama, war in Afghanistan | Tagged: Climate Change, G20 Protester, jobless, Jobless G20 Protester, pepper spray, Pittsburgh 2009, tear gas | Leave a Comment »
Posted by msrb on December 15, 2008
Ecosystems stretched to the breaking point, unemployment soaring, poverty line beckoning …
The compassionate, environmentally conscious President-elect Obama will have orchids flown in from half away across the world for his inauguration!
The cost of Obama inauguration may exceed $50million dollars; however, the government will have spent millions more on security!
President-elect Obama, who has vowed to adopt an aggressive approach to global warming and the environment …
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) speaks during a meeting with former Vice President Al Gore in Obama’s transition office in Chicago December 9, 2008. Obama said on Tuesday attacking global climate change is a “matter of urgency” as he talked about the problem with Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes (UNITED STATES). Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted in Obama inauguration, hope and change, jobless total, poverty line | Tagged: aggressive approach to global warming, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Global Warming | 2 Comments »
Posted by msrb on December 14, 2008
Last year at least 73,152,696 automobiles and commercial vehicles were manufactured worldwide
Snow covered cars are parked in the car park of Simon car re-import company in Emmering westward of Munich December 12, 2008. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle. Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted in 6th Great Extinction, CO2 Emissions, Interred by Nature, auto sector | Tagged: auto industry, Automobile Obsolescence!, cars, Climate Change, National Security | 1 Comment »
Posted by feww on October 3, 2008
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If you thought GW Bush was the “Bard” of the US “lawmakers,” you would, unfortunately, be wrong!
Is Gov Palin’s below average IQ a plus for Alaska?
“As we rely more and more on other countries that don’t care as much about the climate as we do, we’re allowing them to produce and to emit and even pollute more than America would ever stand for,” said Sarah Palin, when commenting on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in Thursday’s U.S. vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Democratic nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) makes a point during the vice-presidential debate with Republican opponent, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 2, 2008. RICK WILKING/REUTERS. Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted in Energy, GHG emissions, environment, greenhouse gas, politics | Tagged: Alaska Gov., Climate Change, Joe Biden, sarah Palin, vice-presidential debate | Leave a Comment »
Posted by msrb on July 2, 2008
Could When Will Food Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?
Accelerated land degradation threatens food security of a quarter of the world’s population: FAO
An Egyptian rice farmer shows his drought damaged rice crop and cracks in the rice terrace soil caused by more than 30 days of no rain in a village near Balqis, northeast of Cairo June 14, 2008. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri. Image may be subject to copyright. See MSRB Fair Use Notice!
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Posted by msrb on June 21, 2008
The Best Caption Competition Winners:
- There’s no war here.
- Don’t trouble me with national emergencies, I have a war to fight.
- Our troops need all the money we can send them to fight the enemy over there.
- Don’t be sissies! This is nothing like the 1993 deluge.
President George W. Bush talks to the media after viewing receding floodwaters on Normandy Drive in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on 19 June 2008. EPA/MATTHEW HOLST / POOL. Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
“They all told us, `The levees are good. You can go ahead and build,”‘ said Parks, who did not buy flood coverage because her bank no longer required it. “We had so much confidence in those levees.”
“People put all their hopes in those levees, and when they do fail, the damage is catastrophic,” said Paul Osman, the National Flood Insurance Program coordinator for Illinois. “New Orleans is the epitome; a lot of those people didn’t even realize they were in a floodplain until the water was up to their roofs.”
This used to be a road, and we parked our trucks right there!
Volunteers sandbag a building submerged in Burlington, Iowa June 15, 2008. Officials moved paintings, books and documents out of harm’s way on Sunday as record flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES). Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
“We reported to the president in ‘94 that the levee system was in disarray, the levees were not high enough to take care of any potential problem. People didn’t understand their flood risk and there wasn’t good co-ordination across federal, state and local governments,” said Gerald Galloway, a professor of engineering and flood control expert.
“The same thing applies today,” Galloway said. “It’s amazing that in the face of [Hurricane] Katrina and now this particular challenge that we continue to relearn the same lessons.”
Galloway’s recommendations to improve the levee system were basically ignored. He said that he’s experiencing much the same response now from officials as in 1993.
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Posted by msrb on June 7, 2008
UNEP Clumsy Scaremongering Diminishes the Seriousness of Environmental Threats
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Posted by msrb on May 27, 2008
What a Wonderful World!
So Reassuring to Know the World Won’t End with a Whimper
Former US President Jimmy Carter speaking at the 2008 Hay Festival. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA. [Image may be subject to copyright. See MSRB Fair Use Notice!]
President Carter:
“The U.S. has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (Russia) has about the same, Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry … not only of enormous weaponry but of rockets to deliver those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target.” (Source)
What are those precious human qualities that President Carter has, but have eluded most presidents before him and certainly all Oval Office occupants after him?
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Posted by msrb on May 18, 2008
Wen Jiabao, Hu Jintao and the Politburo Gang: Criminally Incompetent, or Calculating Mass Murderers?
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao represent the worst of a country mired in corruption and sleaze. The criminal gang in the Chinese Politburo have once again proven that the Chinese people may not count on them for their safety and protection.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao (R) upon Hu’s arrival in Mianyang, a city in quake-hit southwestern Sichuan Province, May 16, 2008. Photo distributed by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. REUTERS/Xinhua/Ju Peng (CHINA).
What Others Say About the Corrupt Politburo Gang in China?
- Why was the quake nurse reduced to tears and had to beg the soldiers to rescue children?
- If rescuing the children wasn’t their priority, and clearly it wasn’t, what were the soldiers ordered to do?
- What were the orders soldiers own general gave them?
- When did the authorities decide they couldn’t cope with too many quake survivors?
“Although the time for the best chance of rescue, the first 72 hours after an earthquake, has passed [exactly as planned by CPC], saving lives remains the top priority of our work [believe what I say, not what I do, you 'ignorant peasants'],” the [doublespeaking] Chinese president, Hu Jintao, told the survivors. (Source)
The Riddle of the Chinese Paratroopers
1. There are an estimated 30,000 people burried in the area. How could 100 paratroopers help rescue such large number of victims?
2. The paratroopers landed two days after the mainshock had struck. By then the survival chances of the victims who had been buried alive had already been reduced by about 80 percent.
3. Anyone rescued from the rubble would need medical attention, freshwater, food, blankets, tents … to survive. Did the paratroopers carry all of the vital supplies in their rucksacks?
Therefore, the question remains: Are the paratroopers sent to rescue the “survivors,” or to “finish off the job,” i.e., bury everyone, alive or dead, to prevent potential outbreaks of plague and other pandemics? [The Beijing Olympics are just around the corner!]
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.” —Chinese Proverb
Wen Jiaboa and Hu Jianto, like the rest of the ruling gang in China are criminally incompetent officials, incapable of protecting the interest of the Chinese people.
“Wen, seen repeatedly on state TV cradling infants and offering hope to earthquake victims, hailed the ‘order the country has maintained for the past 80 hours,’ the report said.”
What if the order does break up? Will the ruling criminal regime send in the special forces to do a Tiananmen Square job?
Q: Is a corrupt, criminally incompetent regime in China good for the “Free world?”
About 6,900 classrooms were destroyed – weaker than other buildings in withstanding the shock. It has also said that as many as 390 dams could be at risk.
China is earthquake prone, Sichuan in particular experiencing a similar scale earthquake in 1933. China’s geologists had warned there was a one-in-10 chance of a recurrence within 50 years and buildings and dams should have been built to strict regulatory standards. They weren’t, especially those built most recently. This is not just corner cutting in the quest for fast growth, or the kind of loose practice that comes to light after disasters everywhere. It is the consequence of systemic non-enforcement of regulations in return for bribes – and everyone in China knows it.
Professor Hu Angang, an economist at Tsinghua university, estimates that one yuan in six is, in effect, corrupt. Even army officers buy their rank.
One mother told the Guardian: ‘Chinese officials are too corrupt and bad … They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don’t have money for our children.’ It is the same story when it comes to food safety, drug standards or environmental regulations, of which only 10 per cent are enforced. Corruption is ubiquitous, which is why so many buildings were deathtraps. Another woman drew attention to the government and party buildings that remained standing, plainly built to the right specifications.
Water shortages have become “extremely serious” in Sichuan province, according to Chinese Housing Minister Jiang Weixin. There is no running water in 20 counties and cities in the disaster area, he said.
A doctor, who had worked for two days without a break in the ruins of school buildings that entombed 900 students, lashed out at those responsible for sub-standard buildings that failed to protect victims of the earthquake.
“It’s nothing but corruption – they must have used sub-standard cement and steel,” said Dr Tian, who was reluctant to give his other name.
Three days after the quake struck, troops and fire engines queued idly along the roadsides waiting for orders.
“I saw a doctor walking along the lines of bloody bodies, checking pulses and looking at wounds. If he shook his head the nurses were instructed not to take the person to the operating theatre but move them to another room to die. It was like a scene from a war film,” she said.
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