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Michael Ramirez on Jimmy Carter at Coretta Scott King’s Funeral
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy Paid by Cadiz Real Estate
Los Angeles Times: Gov.’s Top Aide Was Paid by Developer
Susan Kennedy is pushing to fix the state’s water system. In 2005, she consulted for a firm with an aquifer project.And didn’t we RECALL Gray Davis to get rid of these conflicts – pay to play politics?
Governor Schwarzenegger needs to “clean house” quickly or put a fork in him for November.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Preparing Military Strikes Against Iran Nucear Sites
News Telegraph: US prepares military blitz against Iran’s nuclear sites
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort” to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Oh, how surprising…….
They are reporting to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, as America updates plans for action if the diplomatic offensive fails to thwart the Islamic republic’s nuclear bomb ambitions. Teheran claims that it is developing only a civilian energy programme.
“This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment,” said a senior Pentagon adviser. “This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months.”
A message to Iran’s Mullahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: STAND DOWN or……..
The prospect of military action could put Washington at odds with Britain which fears that an attack would spark violence across the Middle East, reprisals in the West and may not cripple Teheran’s nuclear programme. But the steady flow of disclosures about Iran’s secret nuclear operations and the virulent anti-Israeli threats of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the fresh assessment of military options by Washington. The most likely strategy would involve aerial bombardment by long-distance B2 bombers, each armed with up to 40,000lb of precision weapons, including the latest bunker-busting devices. They would fly from bases in Missouri with mid-air refuelling.
The ball is in the Mullah’s court…….
Stay tuned……
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NHS Dentistry Watch: NHS Dental Office Queues Banned
Mirror.co.uk: DENTIST QUEUES BANNED
QUEUES to sign up with new NHS dentists are to be banned by the Government.
Instead, people will have to make an appointment or register by phone to halt the long lines that have embarrassed Labour.
Dentistry minister Rosie Winterton told Primary Care Trusts it was “unacceptable” that people were forced to queue up for hours.
She added: “Of course, we want to consign the queues to history.”
So, rather than fix the abysmal National Health Service system and promote the privatization of British dentistry the Tony Blair Labour government decides it is better to “cover-up” the problem.
Labour has failed on Tony Blair’s 1999 promise that everyone in Britain would able to see a dentist for free within two years.
In some parts of the country, just one in five people have access to an NHS dentist.
Unpopular contracts being introduced by the Government are likely to make the problem worse.
The BBC reported that in parts of the country, NHS dentists who are converting to private practice in protest at the new contracts have been barred from continuing to treat children for free.
An “All or Nothing” mentality with the NHS will sink the entire NHS system.
Is this what British dentistry needs? A revolutionary private system?
You betcha…….
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Cox & Forkum: Undeniable
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Global War on Terror Watch: Mayor Villaraigosa – “I did not overreact”
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa comments on President Bush’s lack of communication with his office Thursday, Feb . 9, 2006, during a news conference in Los Angeles City Hall. Villaraigosa said he was blindsided by President Bush’s announcement of new details on a purported 2002 hijacking plot aimed at a downtown skyscraper, and described communication with the White House as ‘nonexistent.’ In the background: Assistant Chief of Police James McDonald, Councilmember Wendy Greuel, and Los Angeles Fire Chief William Bamattre.
ASSociated Press: L.A. Mayor, Chief Disagree on Terror Plot
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California’s homeland security chief disagreed Friday over whether the Bush administration mishandled the release of new details about an alleged 2002 terrorist plot aimed at Los Angeles’ tallest building.
Echoing comments from a day earlier, Villaraigosa said he should have been notified directly by the administration that
President Bush would divulge new information about the purported plot in a speech Thursday. By contrast, he said, he was alerted at home last year when the federal government confirmed a credible terrorist threat to the city.Before Thursday’s speech, “We did not get a direct call from the White House or the Department of
Homeland Security in the way I was accustomed,” the mayor said at a joint appearance with Matt Bettenhausen, California’s top homeland security official.“I did not overreact,” the mayor added.
But, Mayor AV you were on your treadmill when the President made his speech.
You shoot your mouth off about being “BLINDSIDED” and previously your city staff had communicated with the White House.
But Bettenhausen told reporters there can be differences in the way such information is handled, depending on whether it involves a current threat to a city or details from an investigation years ago.
“I think the terrorist information was handled appropriately,” Bettenhausen said.
There is no dispute that City Hall and the Los Angeles Police Department were notified prior to the speech, but the mayor has said important details were withheld, without providing specifics.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s remarks were a partisan “cheap shot” at President Bush.
Mayor have your facts correct before you shoot your big mouth off again…….
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Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Federal Judge May Delay Execution
A San Jose federal judge on Thursday suggested he may be willing to postpone California’s next scheduled execution later this month so he can hold a full-blown evidentiary hearing to consider a constitutional challenge to the state’s lethal-injection procedure.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel did not rule on convicted killer Michael Morales’ bid to delay his Feb. 21 execution date, but said he would issue a decision by Tuesday on whether his legal challenge to lethal injection deserves more thorough consideration. Morales’ lawyers argue the state’s lethal-injection method amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Noting that similar challenges have been filed on the eve of other recent executions, Fogel indicated the time may be ripe to address the central issues.
“It seems to me that people’s confidence in the integrity of this process may be assisted by some sort of evidentiary proceeding,” Fogel said. ``There is a window of opportunity here.”
If Fogel holds a hearing to consider expert testimony and other evidence related to the constitutionality of lethal injection, it could be no more than a temporary reprieve for Morales. The judge said he believed he could hold such a hearing within 60 to 90 days, so if Morales loses, he could face another execution date later this year.
Window of opportunity for what? Morales was originally convicted of murder which was committed in 1981 – over 25 years ago.
This delay is BS.
Assistant Attorney General Dane Gillette, who opposes any delay, said the state would appeal a stay.
Morales was sentenced to die for the 1981 rape and murder of a 17-year-old Lodi girl. He is one of many death row inmates around the nation who argue that the progression of drugs used in executions masks pain and suffering that would violate the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Most legal experts doubt the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually ban the use of lethal injection, but it could be a year or more before the issue is resolved in the lower courts.
Morales’ lawyers hope to use medical and eyewitness evidence from other California executions to prove problems in the process, one of the reasons the judge is considering the need for testimony and more detailed information. State prosecutors and death penalty supporters say there is no evidence inmates suffer in lethal injection executions.
Meanwhile, Morales’ lawyers on Thursday asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to hold a hearing to consider his request for clemency. Morales has backing from the judge who sentenced him to die, as well as six jurors at his 1983 trial. San Joaquin County prosecutors oppose clemency, saying Morales’ crime was particularly brutal.
More dealy is unwarranted and is simply a tactic to forestall the inevitable – the “BIG JAB” for Morales.
Flap will have more on the six Ventura County jurors in a subsequent post – it seems letters submitted by Morales’ attorneys last week to Gov. Schwarzenegger misstate the feelings of six Ventura County jurors who convicted Morales.
Justice for Terri Lynn Winchell…..
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Natanz Uranium Processing Plant has Restarted
Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers, 255 miles, south of capital Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2005. The conversion facility in Isfahan reprocesses uranium ore concentrate, known as yellowcake, into uranium hexaflouride gas. The gas is then taken to another site at Natanz and fed into the centrifuges for enrichment.
NewsTelegraph: Iran plant ‘has restarted its nuclear bomb-making equipment’
Iran’s controversial Natanz uranium processing plant has successfully restarted the sophisticated equipment that could enable it to produce material for nuclear warheads, according to reports received by Western intelligence.
In the past few days Iranian nuclear scientists have reportedly restarted four of the centrifuges required to produce weapons-grade uranium, and have begun feeding them with uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, a key component in the production of nuclear bombs.
These developments along with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blatant taunting of Israel over the holocaust is evidence that Iran desires a confrontation with the European Union, Israel and the United States.
This crucial development follows Iran’s decision to withdraw its co-operation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna after the body decided last week to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council.
Iranian officials have moved quickly to obstruct the work of the UN nuclear inspectors still working in the country’s nuclear facilities.
Intelligence officials say restrictions have been imposed on the inspectors’ movements between the various facilities at Natanz.
They have been specifically excluded from those areas where the Iranians have announced they would resume uranium enrichment, and have ordered the UN inspectors to report to officials running the plant on a daily basis. Security cameras installed by IAEA officials to monitor key facilities have been disabled.
Having effectively excluded the UN inspection teams from the most sensitive sites, Iranian nuclear scientists have removed the seals from the P-2 centrifuges that Iran acquired from Pakistan through the secret nuclear network operated by Dr A Q Khan, the “father” of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb.
They have also begun installing tanks in underground bunkers that are designed for industrial enrichment.
The United States and Israel will await the formal sanctioning of Iran by the United Nations Security Council.
Flap handicaps Iran will respond by provoking the West with an oil embargo or disruption of oil supplies.
The United States will then along with its allies invade Iraq and change its regime.
End Game for Iran’s nuclear program and the fanatical Ahmadinejad.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia
Women shout slogans to demonstrate among 1,200 other Muslims against the Mohammed cartoons next to the Danish embassy in Berlin on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. The posters read:’ A insult is not freedom of opinion and freedom of the press.’ , right, ‘Do not confound the freedom of the press with defamation ‘ left, and ‘Against cartoons of the prophet we demand censorship’, background.
Reuters: Denmark pulls diplomats out as cartoon row simmers
Denmark said on Saturday it had withdrawn diplomats and staff from Indonesia and
Iran because of security threats, while Muslims held demonstrations in European cities over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.The diplomats’ departure follows that of Danish embassy staff in Syria who left on Friday on the grounds that the security provided by Syrian authorities was inadequate.
Denmark has been the target of protests in Islamic countries since cartoons of the Prophet, first published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September, were reprinted by other European newspapers in January.
In Turkey:
Islamic Turks step on Danish flags as they shout anti-Europe slogans close to Danish Embassy to denounce the publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in some European newspapers, in Ankara, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006
In other parts of Europe there were additional demonstrations:
France:
French police estimated that 7,200 people took part in a march through central Paris, waving banners and chanting, but the atmosphere was peaceful and many families took part.
France’s Muslim Council had urged the country’s five million Muslims to stay calm. The council had tried in vain to block the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo from reprinting the cartoons earlier this week.
London:
In London, up to 4,000 demonstrators converged on Trafalgar Square on Saturday, joining the capital’s Mayor Ken Livingstone in a protest against the publication of the cartoons.
In marked contrast to angry demonstrations outside the Danish embassy in the British capital last week, the protest was good-natured and there was no sign of the extreme anti-Western placards brandished at the embassy protest. No British newspapers have reprinted the cartoons.
The British press like the American MSM cower at the threats of Islamic fanaticism.
Pitiful…….
The Danish government should order the Iranian, Syrians, and Indonesian ambassadors out of their country.
Stay tuned…..
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Iran Nuclear Watch: “MYTH” of the Holcaust Redux
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clenches his fist, at the conclusion of his speech of tens of thousands of Iranians massed in a ceremony marking 27th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the Azadi (Freedom) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. The Iranian president on Saturday rejected Western pressure to freeze the country’s nuclear program and issued a veiled threat to walk away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
AFP: Ahmadinejad repeats Holocaust is a ‘myth’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeated his view that the Holocaust of Jews under Nazi Germany was a “myth” and argued that Palestinians and Iraqis were suffering from “the real Holocaust”.
“Questioning the myth of the Holocaust and the creation of the phoney regime of Zionism has haunted them,” the president said in a speech marking the 27th anniversary of
Iran’s Islamic revolution.“For more than 60 years, this myth has enabled the Zionists to blackmail the Western countries, justify the killing of women and children and make them refugees in occupied land,” he said.
“The real Holocaust is happening today in Palestine and Iraq. If you are looking for the real Holocaust, look at the poor Iraqi people,” he said in the speech to huge crowds gathered in central Tehran Saturday.
Ahmadinejad is a fanatical extremist who is deliberately provoking Israel.
Does the Iranian President REALLY think he will get away with this? Or is there a sense of martyrdom with the returning Imam fallacy?
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clenches his fist, at the conclusion of his speech of tens of thousands of Iranians massed in a ceremony marking 27th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the Azadi (Freedom) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006.
Now, onto Ahmadinejad’s pronouncements on the Muhammad caricatures……
Speaking out against the publication in Western newspapers of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed, he said: “They are hostages to the Zionists.”
“How come insulting the prophet is free, but investigating the Holocaust is banned,” asked the president, who has already drawn Western condemnation for his questioning of the Holocaust and his call for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.
“We suggested to them that we will send an unbiased group to look at your documents in Europe and inform the nation, but you will not even allow your own scholars to invesigate the Holocaust,” Ahmadinejad said.
“This is the same way as you dealt with things in the dark ages.”
Flap handicaps Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not survive the year as President of Iran.
Tens of thousands of Iranians listen to the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, in a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the Azadi (Freedom) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. The Iranian president on Saturday rejected Western pressure to freeze the country’s nuclear program and issued a veiled threat to walk away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The Azadi (Freedom) tower is seen at left.
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