but suicide by fighter plane?
Stolen plane from Canada escorted by US fighters
By ROBERT IMRIE – 36 minutes ago
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A man suspected of stealing a plane in Canada and flying erratically across three states was trying to commit suicide, hoping he would be shot down by military fighter planes, a state trooper said Tuesday.
Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was arrested at a convenience store in Ellsinore, Mo., shortly after landing the single-engine, four-seat Cessna on a rural Missouri road Monday night, ending a six-hour flight, police said...
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Monday, April 06, 2009
Italy in desperate race to save the buried after the earthquake
From The Times
April 7, 2009
...The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck shortly after 3.30am local time,..
...L’Aquila, a 13th-century walled city 60km (about 40 miles) from Rome, bore the brunt of the devastation, although tremors awoke Italians as far away as Emilia Romagna, near Bologna, in the north, to Naples in the south. Emergency workers scrambled over the debris of collapsed churches and historic buildings in a desperate effort to pluck survivors from the rubble. The death toll was expected to rise...
Italy earthquake leaves 130 dead and scores more trapped under rubble
• Rescue effort hampered by debris blocking roads
• Up to 15,000 buildings destroyed by quake
...and at least 50,000 people are homeless.
That is a lot of damage and a lot of dead for a 6.3.
Update
Italy quake death toll rises, aftershocks continue
Wed Apr 8, 2009 3:14am EDT
* Italian quake death toll rises to 250, over 1,000 injured
April 7, 2009
...The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck shortly after 3.30am local time,..
...L’Aquila, a 13th-century walled city 60km (about 40 miles) from Rome, bore the brunt of the devastation, although tremors awoke Italians as far away as Emilia Romagna, near Bologna, in the north, to Naples in the south. Emergency workers scrambled over the debris of collapsed churches and historic buildings in a desperate effort to pluck survivors from the rubble. The death toll was expected to rise...
Italy earthquake leaves 130 dead and scores more trapped under rubble
• Rescue effort hampered by debris blocking roads
• Up to 15,000 buildings destroyed by quake
...and at least 50,000 people are homeless.
That is a lot of damage and a lot of dead for a 6.3.
Update
Italy quake death toll rises, aftershocks continue
Wed Apr 8, 2009 3:14am EDT
* Italian quake death toll rises to 250, over 1,000 injured
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Film Of Police Attack On G20 Climate Camp
(click on title link)
I'm reserving judgment till there is more information.
I'm reserving judgment till there is more information.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Anatomy of a Murder
How journalists dropped the ball on the Columbine massacre
Page Views — April 01, 2009 07:30 AM
By Steve Weinberg
Page Views — April 01, 2009 07:30 AM
By Steve Weinberg
Banksters explained on Moyers last night
By the regulator who figured out what happened to take down the savings and loan fraudsters in the 80's. I wish PBS would quit fucking around with the schedule here in San Diego. I missed Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald on Moyers last night also.
Yes Virginia there is such a thing as real journalists in the United States.
So instead of going outside and enjoying the lovely day, my ass is parked in front of the 'puter to watch something it was parked on the couch too late to watch last night.
Yes Virginia there is such a thing as real journalists in the United States.
So instead of going outside and enjoying the lovely day, my ass is parked in front of the 'puter to watch something it was parked on the couch too late to watch last night.
Friday, April 03, 2009
Rocket Fuel Chemical Found in Baby Formula
EPA Deems Perchlorate Levels Safe, But Advocacy Group Says Public Is at Risk
...Perchlorate has been found in the water supplies of 35 states and has been detected in everything from vegetables to milk. In the case of dairy, the rocket fuel in the water flows into grass, which is eaten by cows, and is then passed along into milk.
The perchlorate was found in levels within a range that's been deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency....
Who's EPA says it's safe? The Bush appointees lying sack of shit, let business do whatever it wants to increase profits EPA?
...After years of debate, EPA made a preliminary announcement in October that it wouldn’t limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, allowed in drinking water. This decision hands a victory to the Pentagon and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, which are responsible for contamination of some aquifers and waterways with the chemical. As C&EN went to press, EPA was expected to make this decision final by the end of 2008, a move that would lock the decision in place for years, even if the incoming Obama Administration wants to change it....
(December 22, 2008 Volume 86, Number 51pp. 27-31)
My friend was really upset about this.
I'm upset that if you pull this shit in China you get executed.
What are the consequences here?
...Perchlorate has been found in the water supplies of 35 states and has been detected in everything from vegetables to milk. In the case of dairy, the rocket fuel in the water flows into grass, which is eaten by cows, and is then passed along into milk.
The perchlorate was found in levels within a range that's been deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency....
Who's EPA says it's safe? The Bush appointees lying sack of shit, let business do whatever it wants to increase profits EPA?
...After years of debate, EPA made a preliminary announcement in October that it wouldn’t limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, allowed in drinking water. This decision hands a victory to the Pentagon and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, which are responsible for contamination of some aquifers and waterways with the chemical. As C&EN went to press, EPA was expected to make this decision final by the end of 2008, a move that would lock the decision in place for years, even if the incoming Obama Administration wants to change it....
(December 22, 2008 Volume 86, Number 51pp. 27-31)
My friend was really upset about this.
I'm upset that if you pull this shit in China you get executed.
What are the consequences here?
Legalizing marijuana
Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
TIME Magazine April 2, 2009
Ok, seriously, I never thought I would see an article like that in TIME magazine.
Clinton & Webb Tackle The Biggest Taboo of All
Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist
Posted April 3, 2009 | 01:29 PM (EST)
David Sirota
April 2, 2009, 3:27 pm NY Times
The War on the War on Drugs
By Eric Etheridge
This Is the Truth on Drugs ... Any Questions?
Posted on Apr 2, 2009
By David Sirota
Thursday April 2, 2009 12:20 EDT
The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal
Glenn Greenwald
On Bill Moyers Journal tonight are Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald.
Hopefully the Obama team is taking a good look at the realities and will not simply continue the failed drug policies of the last 50 years. It's also nice to see the alternative media pushing the mainstream media. I see a difference in the year since I wrote this post called Bush on Drugs.
TIME Magazine April 2, 2009
Ok, seriously, I never thought I would see an article like that in TIME magazine.
Clinton & Webb Tackle The Biggest Taboo of All
Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist
Posted April 3, 2009 | 01:29 PM (EST)
David Sirota
April 2, 2009, 3:27 pm NY Times
The War on the War on Drugs
By Eric Etheridge
This Is the Truth on Drugs ... Any Questions?
Posted on Apr 2, 2009
By David Sirota
Thursday April 2, 2009 12:20 EDT
The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal
Glenn Greenwald
On Bill Moyers Journal tonight are Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald.
Hopefully the Obama team is taking a good look at the realities and will not simply continue the failed drug policies of the last 50 years. It's also nice to see the alternative media pushing the mainstream media. I see a difference in the year since I wrote this post called Bush on Drugs.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Death on the Home Front
Women in the Crosshairs
By Ann Jones
Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they're not the boys who went away.
...This shouldn't be a surprise. Men sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for two, three, or four tours of duty return to wives who find them "changed" and children they barely know. Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans' services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help. That, by the way, is a mighty convenient belief for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which have been notoriously slow to offer much of that help...
Misogyny breeds misandrists.
I bit a misogynist one time, his thumb twitched for two weeks.
Fucker.
I told him he was hurting me, and asked him twice (nicely) to stop hurting me.
By Ann Jones
Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they're not the boys who went away.
...This shouldn't be a surprise. Men sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for two, three, or four tours of duty return to wives who find them "changed" and children they barely know. Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans' services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help. That, by the way, is a mighty convenient belief for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which have been notoriously slow to offer much of that help...
Misogyny breeds misandrists.
I bit a misogynist one time, his thumb twitched for two weeks.
Fucker.
I told him he was hurting me, and asked him twice (nicely) to stop hurting me.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
G20 Who they are and what they want ( BBC)
I have no idea why, but as I read this list of World Leaders as they get together to discuss the economic crisis I hear this line from "Good Morning Vietnam" in my head.
Army Corps of Engineers unleashes FART
...The project, formally titled FART - Fix America’s River Transportation - has been sought by petrochemical and shipping companies for years, whose many facilities line that reach of the river.
“Let’s clear the air: FART is real, red-blooded, kick-butt, take-no-prisoners American engineering at its best,” McGroin said. “It’ll make Boston’s Big Dig look like moving sand in a cat box. Heck, we may even find more bodies than they did! Maybe Hoffa’s there!”...
It's too bad they couldn't find a more appropriate term, like say, oh I don't know, maybe the R-U-N-S (really ugly nasty sh*t) that turns most of the Gulf of Mexico into a Dead Zone.
Well, maybe the geniuses at the G20 can figure out how to rid the dying planet of surplus humans.
Army Corps of Engineers unleashes FART
...The project, formally titled FART - Fix America’s River Transportation - has been sought by petrochemical and shipping companies for years, whose many facilities line that reach of the river.
“Let’s clear the air: FART is real, red-blooded, kick-butt, take-no-prisoners American engineering at its best,” McGroin said. “It’ll make Boston’s Big Dig look like moving sand in a cat box. Heck, we may even find more bodies than they did! Maybe Hoffa’s there!”...
It's too bad they couldn't find a more appropriate term, like say, oh I don't know, maybe the R-U-N-S (really ugly nasty sh*t) that turns most of the Gulf of Mexico into a Dead Zone.
Well, maybe the geniuses at the G20 can figure out how to rid the dying planet of surplus humans.
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