My Thoughts on Changes

Thank you for sharing your vision.
HNN – HuntingtonNews.Net

Born in Fort Scott, Kan. In 1912, Gordon Parks was the youngest of 15 children. After his mother died when he was 16, Parks left Kansas for Minneapolis and supported himself by working as a piano player, busboy, basketball player and Civilian Conservation Corpsman. At the age of 25, Parks began to seriously consider photography. While working as a waiter on the Northern Pacific Railroad, he read voraciously, wrote music and through reading the magazines of the day, was introduced to pictures made by social documentary photographers for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) Historical Section. The photographers he studied were Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange, John Vachon, and Walker Evans. “They were photographing poverty, and I knew poverty so well,” Parks recalls.

I suppose Mr. Gonzalez was busy chasing or pushing some other issues at the time, but I wonder what does he thinks about all the “torture by proxy” the U.S. carried out in South America in the 60’s and 70’s and well into the 80’s, in countries where they sponsored military coups and governments. Maybe he never heard of the “School of the Americas”…
Nowadays, priorities are different and the theater of operations has moved elsewhere (for the moment, that is) but make no mistake, that theater is very shifty and may come back to the South, any time.
Proxy, now, that’s a keyword if I’ve seen any…
CNN.com – Attorney General Gonzales defends American anti-terror tactics – Mar 7, 2006

Alberto Gonzales also said the U.S. did not transport terrorism suspects to nations where it was likely they could be tortured.
Human rights groups and other European critics have alleged that U.S. planes may be using European airports and air space to send suspects to nations that may torture them. They have also criticized the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo, and a U.N. report last month called for the facility to be closed “without further delay” because it is effectively a torture camp where prisoners have no access to justice

I’ll sin of being politically incorrect here, but if this doesn’t fall into the German pragmatic stereotype, I don’t know what does…
Hey,! before you start shooting arrows at me, I’m Hispanic, so don’t tell me about stereotypes.
IOL: Germans ditch their cats after bird flu death

Berlin – Hundreds of German cat-owners have dumped their pets at shelters since the country recorded the first case of a cat dying of bird flu in the European Union, the German animal welfare society said on Thursday.
“Nationwide, several hundred cats have been left with us. People are scared their cats have bird flu,” a spokesperson for the group, Jan Pfeifer, told AFP.

Judged by a jury of his peers….
I mean, I’ll accept the explanation and even the “oops, I did it and I’m sorry”, but Fox News?? Give me an effing break.
Fox News wins battle for Cheney interview

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News Channel in an exclusive interview Wednesday afternoon that he believed he properly handled the disclosure of his involvement in a hunting accident in Texas last week.

I was just watching CNN live on my PC and they were showing a press conference in which the media was grilling White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, about the VP Cheney’s hunting accident (note to self: never accept a hunting invitation by the VP…), a real fiasco, if yoiu ask me and goes to show what kind of timely information we get from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In any case, when McClellan got tired of dodging spit balls, he tried to change the subject and of course, Iran and their nuclear program came up. One of the reporters asked the Press Secretary about a piece of news that supposedly appeared in the British media about Brasil enriching uranium with the opening of a brand new plant to supply their two, and operating, nuclear power plants. The alleged report appears to have all kinds of hyperbolic extrapolations about potential threats, nuclear proliferation, etc., etc., and comparing Brasil to Iran on an issue where the similarity begins and ends on “uranium”, the mineral. McClellan claimed not to know anything about the report or of the facts themselves. Weird, if it wasn’t impossible not to notice such an elephant in the room, I might even believe him. “Might” is the keyword, but the weird thing is that I searched Google News on two simple terms, “Brasil” and “uranium”, and as of today, Feb/13/2006 1320hrs EST, there were only four articles about that new plant, all from a Brasilian news agency and they were released back on January 23rd. Three weeks ago! Not a peep from anybody else in the News Googlesphere!!
Now, how come not even Iran itself used the news to their advantage, citing international hypocrisy, for example? Don’t get me wrong, like I’ve said, the similarity between Iran and Brasil on the issue of uranium enrichment, begins and ends on “uranium”, period, beyond that there are no real or fabricated comparisons. Still, just now, three weeks after it was noted in “one” Brasilian news agency, the slow digestion is begining to shed some crap. One word: Amazing!
Who the fuck controls the media? Not sure I want to know, but if you have an answer, please share, nevertheless.
Portal da Cidadania

Brazil’s nuclear program is peaceful
07:38
Alana Gandra
Reporter Ag

If and when something as described by Debka happens, I wonder how will the world react. There is a lot of hypocrisy in the world of international politics and Russia’s covert, and not so cover, meddling in the Middle East and Iran in particular, is one of the great examples. However, I doubt Russia will remain silent if Iran actually test such a device. However, of all variables, China is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
If it wasn’t such a deadly proposition, the whole Iran nuclear affair would make for a great fiction book.
Heck, I despise GW&Co. as much as anybody with a few grams of gray matter, but the thought of a country dominated by frothing-in-the-mouth Muslim Clerics bent on “wiping another country out of the face of the earth” would give some of his rhetoric a place to stick. Not sure if I’m more disappointed by the route Iran is taking or for them fullfilling some of GW’s prophecies…
DEBKAfile –

According to Lavrov, Russian intelligence estimates that Iran is now capable of detonating this non-weaponized nuclear device – or in other words carrying out its first nuclear test.
DEBKAfile sources add: This estimate which Russian president Vladimir Putin passed to President George Bush some weeks ago is challenged by US and Israeli nuclear experts, who do not believe Iran is up to the stage of a nuclear device. However, on Jan. 21, the opposition FDI claimed Iran would carry out its first nuclear test before the Iranian new year, which falls on March 20.

Hmm. the difference between Nagin’s God and Robertson’s God is that Nagin’s is 75% Cocoa. Hey, you can’t go wrong with dark chocolate!! Is good for your health (and soul?)…
Telegraph | News | ‘This is how God punished us for invading Iraq’

The mayor of New Orleans has provoked new outrage by calling Hurricane Katrina God’s punishment for invading Iraq and insisting the city become “chocolate” again.

Glad to read some sense. Fire and brimstone for the Big Mouth!!
al.com: Opinion – Who’s going to muzzle the man with the mouth?

If Pat Robertson were a doctor, we could strip him of his medical license. If he were a lawyer, we could disbar him.
But what do you do with a “televangelist” who is given to declaring God’s will for political leaders, resort communities and, indeed, entire nations? Is there no one to muzzle this self-
appointed, self-anointed man of God?

For those of you who cannot get enough of Pat Robertson: Pat’s Shake. Hmm, hmmm, hmmm. Don’t forget your fiber supplements to get some of that out of your system…