Moving right along… 13 June 2010
Posted by marisacat in Afghanistan War, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iran, Iraq War, Israel/AIPAC, Pakistan, Riyadh, Turkey, WAR!.trackback
A diver feeds a turtle at an aquarium in Hefei, Anhui province, China [REUTERS]
An Iranian relief convoy is getting closer to leaving for Gaza:
Iran aid ships for Gaza awaiting ministry nod
(AFP) – 3 hours agoTEHRAN — An Iranian Red Crescent official said in a report on Sunday that two aid ships organised by the humanitarian group were ready and awaiting foreign ministry approval to leave for Gaza.
”We are ready but are awaiting permission from the foreign ministry given the political, military and security conditions in the region,” Mojtaba Majd, a senior Red Crescent official, was quoted as telling Mehr news agency.
Separately the Red Crescent said that of the two ships, the one carrying foodstuffs and medicines was expected to leave this week.
Majd said more than 100,000 Iranians have registered to go to Gaza as volunteers on the second ship, but added only those “who have some expertise” would be sent to the Palestinian territory. snip
And the CSM helpfully tells us why…
[A]nalysts say that Iran’s reaction – including Ahmadinejad’s repeated reminders that the Islamic Republic has championed the Palestinian cause since the 1979 Islamic revolution – is designed to recapture from Turkey part of its self-declared role as the regional bastion of militant resistance that fights for the oppressed.
“The Iranians are trying to say, ‘We can still talk the talk,’ ” says Meir Javedanfar, an Iran specialist in Israel. “This is Iran trying to say that it’s still in charge of the Palestinian issue, to milk the international backlash against Israel after the flotilla incident.”
snip
And, so the article says, too many children in Gaza being named for Tayyip Erdogan… too few for Mahmoud A.
This from the previous thead…
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.
To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.
“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”
Sources in Saudi Arabia say it is common knowledge within defence circles in the kingdom that an arrangement is in place if Israel decides to launch the raid. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing,” said one. ….
I guess we will know when the sabre rattling ends and the shooting war begins…
Exxon Valdez veterans say Gulf Oil Spill is off to a bad start. (Gee no shit) Fortunately it seems there is communication btween the two groups, EV and the BP mess.
One EV vet quoted in the article said in ’89 NOAA was a big help… but so clearly not now. Utterly subsumed and it is very obvious.
Read more: LINK to McClatchy
Greg Palast on BP
He speaks:
The good news, only about 15 mins.
wow, and only two months after the crime! Way to jump on it, Barry.
He’s probably going to tell us there’s nothing they can really do … don’t want to hurt the shareholders etc.
I think hsi big “announce” is he TOO is asking for an escrow account. Yes siree… he can too take a page from the AG of FLorida and somebody or other in La… and AL.
And so on.
Elizabeth Warren Wants To End Exploding Mortgages
I think there are waves and waves of RE trouble yet to come. Legalese or not……
Contractors raking in mad cash in wake of BP disaster
New Rule: Stop Talking About Jobs Being Lost in a Murderous Hateful Industry Like It’s a Bad Thing
Exactly. When my daughter’s father passed away 2 years ago of cancer, one of the regrets he had was that he had worked in the oil industry – having found an appreciation for the environment too late in life. I thought that was a rather humbling admission from someone who truly believed that money makes the world go around – his world, at least.
Speaking of Chevron (BooHooHooMan, last thread): Chevron in the news. Richmond, California (for those unfamiliar, just a few miles from San Francisco, and Berkeley), with its majority African American population, must be breathing a sigh of relief that this US Chevron news, wasn’t in the vicinity of their kids playgrounds:
Chevron in the news:
Official: Oil spill hasn’t reached Great Salt Lake
Jun 13, 2:35 PM EDT
By BROCK VERGAKIS
Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Emergency workers believe they have stopped a 21,000 gallon oil leak from reaching the environmentally sensitive Great Salt Lake, one of the West’s most important inland water bodies for migratory birds that use it as a place to rest, eat and breed.
An underground pipeline in the mountains near the University of Utah broke Friday night, sending oil into a creek that flows through neighborhoods, into a popular Salt Lake City park and ultimately the Jordan River. The pipeline wasn’t shut off until Saturday morning.
Spokesman Jason Olsen said Sunday that emergency workers believe they have contained the spill in the Jordan River, which flows into the Great Salt Lake.
But the spill still took its toll on birds on Red Butte Creek and a pond at Liberty Park. More than 100 birds were coated in oil, and a few have died, Olsen said.
Most of the birds were Canada geese, although some ducks were also covered.
Most of Liberty Park reopened on Sunday. The pond remained closed and Olsen urged those who live near affected waterways to stay away from them.
sorry, the italics in the first paragraph were only meant for the word Chevron
And I forget to include the snip whippety note at the end.
Speakin of darker skinned persons without ‘connections,’ coming to all US Metro Areas soon:
U.S. soldiers fight crime in Puerto Rico
yup,
movin right along there……..
On a side note, re Chevron and kos, ….doin the devil’s advocate thang re kos: could it have been because the San Francisco; don’t count, Richmond & Oakland; and Berkeley area’s (in which he presumeably resides) public TV Network, KQED was sponsored, for so very long (still? …don’t know, as I turned it off for the most part quite awhile ago, along with NPR) by CHEVRON?
(No I don’t believe that’s his reason either, just welcoming some even more powerful assholes into the fray……)
yeah ……..KQED, with way too frequent appearances of Charlotte Maillard Swig, whatever the fuck other sir name ‘our’ Texan belle latched onto, now Mrs. Tiger Ass, Hoover Institute George Schultz, of Iran Contra Infamy…………
(known as the woman who almost collapsed the Golden Gate Bridge, with her ginormous sense of do goodery, and social protocol….)
Chevron still advertises on KQED. their motto is PEOPLE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
figures….
The creepy ownership of UPI by Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (since 2000, POST Helen Thomas’ employment there), aside, there are at least seven (some with duplicate pics) interesting collections of Gulf Spill pictures on UPI’s website (some appear to have possibly been taken by Government members: ex. caption = UPI/Coast Guard/HO ), including these:
Timeline (to June 4, at least currently, this page includes links to the other six photo collections)
Effects of Gulf oil spill on wildlife
BP Officials testify before Senate committee
President Obama tours beaches
(of course some of the captions might have to be taken with a grain of salt.)
Haven’t looked through them all yet, but there are a few interesting shots in this collection also:
Fenced-in-a-photo-montage (Features a shot of two future terrerist busboys for some swank Orange County, California Restaurant)
like:
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Features/Fenced-in-a-photo-montage/3413/6/ ( a young, armed terrerist …look closely at the deadly device in his right hand)
and
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Features/Fenced-in-a-photo-montage/3413/10/ (young, fingered terrerists)
the photographs tho (just starting on them) are wonderful. I understand what you mean, but there are decades of photography at the border… however propagandistic it is or may be in the ultimate use…
yeah, they are good photos, I’ll have to check out UPI’s photo collections more often, some of their articles are very interesting also, caught one a while back that was hilarious, featuring Al Gore in Saudi Arabia, discussing all the money to be made from $Green Tech.
I’ve never minded UPI no matter who owned it.. always a bit off center. Uusual angles avoided by the mass media.
Unusual angles avoided by the mass media.
yeppers …………………..
say hon, on your local circuit, is that Bronstein in the leather jacket, pre lizard moment?
Bronstein? Do ou mean the editor of the SF Chronicle? That one?
none other.
oopser doopsers,
pre lizard moment linksy
another interesting shot from 2001, captioned:
Protesters demolished a fence line and blocked a perimeter road at the U.S. Naval installation Camp Garcia, after,/b> the U.S. Navy resumed practice bombing in the area on April 27, 2001 on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. US Navy Photo/Johnny Bivera ”
…………….a stunning, shot
on so many levels
….
Just starting on them, the photos from the Gufl are wonderful (horrible but wonderful)
I liked a lot of the shots that showed little peeps cleaning the birds, it helped stomach some of the others.
I caught an interesting line in a report, think it was CBS, on cleaning up oil covered turtles… For now, they are not flying them anywhere for release, which earlier on they had been doing. And the reason? Not sure where is ”safe” to release them. The further reason was unstated, but I took it to mean, where the hell will the oil NOT go.
They have been releasing the pelicans and others to te Eastern side of FL… but i wonder how long that will go on… NC is working to raise their cap on liability for oil spill damage.. so I am guessing they want to be safer than sorrier.
I’d been wondering if it was feasible, at least for the pelicans, to relocate some to Cali, since there are Brown Pelicans on the western seaboard.
I on’t know.. no idea about migratory patterns.
Earlier on I saw a wonderful clip, weeks ago, of a larger turtle (took 4 to carry him) who had been cleaned up, and was being loaded to be taken somewehre for release… he had these wonderful rosy flushes on his under arms… and he was unusual… something about him. He kept moving his front arms back against the two holding up his front, he wanted to get walking… You could almost see him thinking…
Thank guys.. really! for the mayonnaise wipe down, the Dawn washes…the eye flushing!… the fish meal… I’ve checked my poop, I have flushed the oil out, things are going great! Can ya just let me go now? It was nice to meet you all, but enough is enough!
keep that wit up hon, if ya can
(jeesh if not for my own self centered reasons …blushy emoticon)
and yeah it would seem that birds, can move much quicker and may be prone, like ladybugs …to ….…fly away Home, … even though,…. their …………
home has been ……….BURNT DOWN
shit, sorry for throwing the margin out to the left.
I noticed some pics were taken at the bird rescue at Theodore AL… I noticed Ob is going there, to Theodore I mean, on his two-day-very-serious-over-night drop in.
Special Promo: 2 days, 1 night, Marvels to be Seen! To be Believed! Feast your eyes! A culture and way of life is passing! Catch it now!!
So prepare for Obby to use rescued birds as props.
I suggest he b photographed at the “Bird Morgue” out back.
Etc.
sounz like a reel MONSTER event ……..
America’s less than excellent adventure in the Gulf… and continuing:
AP
We seem to be back to the Rumsfeldian “known unkowns”. So blessed are we. I doubt anyone is surprised, at least among those watching…
oh I forgot to add, all of this is a frantic hurry up effort, as there were no plans on file, nor did BP have any developed, for a relief well, much less 2…. so other than frantic busyness nothing really got going for about 2 weeks.
I heard last night, Greg Palast on KGO… apparently oil has been found off Thailand and Cambodia and those countries are requiring relief wells be drilled at the same time as the actual well.
requiring relief wells be drilled at the same time as the actual well.
that of course requires a bit too much forethought ….consideration ….not the way things are done with in the US with the CorpsGuv.
yes the AP article says that Canada requires plans be filed for relief wells… but I have read that Canada also requires that a relief well be drilled at the same time as the actual well…
Poor America. Slit her own throat.
and still slitting,
at least in the US portion of the Americas ….
:0(
Washington, DC junk yard, March 23, 2004
we’ve cum a long way babee………………
From the weh-heh-hell whuddayaknow? department.
US identifies vast riches of minerals in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and Blackberries.
The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.
So it’s not just for the pipeline, I guess.
FUCKING MONSTERS ……..
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at
work
Pretty stunning, almost 10 years later. I just heard the other night, 850 children die every day in Afhanistan from hunger and malnutrition. The number is so high I wonder if that includes new borns who are born compromised and fail to thrive.
Somehow I don’t see that changing with all the mineral wealth. Extraction to the fullest, I would assume.
I wonder how many more will die from depleted uranium.
…”Saudi Arabia of lithium,” …
can we say Big Pharma too …………….(along with kidney destruction, in human tampered, PSYCHE MED DOSES, (must put on a happy face, when one has every single reason to feeeeeeel pretty fuckin bleak!) …..ooopsy, along with OBESITY, in the form of water weight………………)
lithium
seen it first hand, along with the “doctors” who long since, lost their voactions, and pumped it into
sad peepsies……
misspell, in the “morally upright,” English Language:
vocations
indeed
the sane, are insane
and the insane
are sane.
There can be no transformative leader in a paralyzed government
Gnu
LINK
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Madman, I moved your last comment, the snip from Kilkenny, forward to the new thread…