OREO 08 27 08
` ` OREO 08 27 08 ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: 1 ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` __STATE TERRORISM__ ` ` ** Hundreds of Factory Workers Are Held in Immigration Raid 01 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26raid.html ` "detaining at least 350 workers" at "factory belonging to Howard Industries Inc" in Laurel MS ` Howard Industries: 02 ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Industries ` "world's largest manufacturer of distribution transformers, and...largest employer in Laurel" ` Transformer types | Oil cooled transformer: 03 ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_types#Oil_cooled_transformer ` "large transformers used in power distribution or electri- cal substations" ` ` ` __STATE TERRORISM__ ` ` Child protection database 'will be used to prosecute young people' | A flagship database intended to protect every child in the country will be used by police to hunt for evidence of crime in a "shocking" extension of its original purpose 04 ` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2621163/Child-protection-database-will-be-used-to-prosecute-young-people.html ` "police officers, council staff, head teachers, doctors and care workers will use the records to search for evidence of criminality and wrongdoing to help them launch prosecutions against those on the database --even long after they have reached adulthood." ` ` ` Stolen children adopted in Australia: report 05 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080823/wl_nm/australia_adoptions_trafficking_dc ` "an Indian-based adoption agency [>] renamed children and [>] fabricated their histories, complete with photographs of [>] fake mothers offering them for adoption." ` Indian-based? CIA-BASED ` ` ` U.S. border cops nab airman driving [illegal] migrants 06 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2516687320080825 ` "member of the U.S. Air National Guard" ` ATTN: GATES ` ` ` Report Faults Medicare Audits | Agency Missed Many Payment Errors, HHS Review Finds 07 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502157.html ` "The rate of improper payments...is significantly higher than the government has estimated" ` IF THAT, THEN WHAT ELSE? ` ` ` New Pentagon Media Agency Seeks to Fill Top Job 08 ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401670.html ` "[Defense Media Activity] combines... ` Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, ` the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and ` the Pentagon Channel on television." ` "It...includes ` the DefenseLink Web site and ` the military services' Web sites, ` the Bloggers Roundtable, and ` the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine magazines." ` ` NOW YOU KNOW WHAT "MONOPOLY" IN STATE MONOPOLY CAPITALISM MEANS ` ` ` 2 AFRICA ` ` NIGERIA ` Nigerian rebels accuse military of killing 12 civilians 09 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/wl_africa_afp/nigeriaoilunrestkillings ` Attacked "A civilian commercial transport boat which plies the Yenagoa-Fropa (southern Ijaw) route of Bayelsa state" ` ` Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta: 10 ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Niger_Delta ` To be read with circumspection. ` ` Bayelsa State | Geography: 11 ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayelsa_State#Geography ` "Bayelsa has a riverine and estuarine setting." ` Image:NigerDeltaStates.png: 12 ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NigerDeltaStates.png ` 3 = Bayelsa ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` War Veterans’ Concussions Are Often Overlooked 13 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26tbi.html ` "Mild brain injury was widely overlooked by the military and the veterans health system until recently." ` Even though "traumatic brain injury...[is] the signature injury of the Iraq war" ` DUMMY UP ` ` ` Demonstrators Call for Dismissing [puppet] Finance Minister 14 ` http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/3121-demonstrators-call-for-dismissing-finance-minister-.html ` "Dozens of Ministry of Industry's employees demonstrated at the Firdous Square in central Baghdad Monday" ` ` ` Air traffic delayed at U.S. airports: FAA 15 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSWBT00961720080826 ` "network problem" ` ` ` Suicide bomber kills 28 police recruits in Iraq 16 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLP67913620080826?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true ` "wounded 45" ` IT IS SUICIDE TO SERVE THE OCCUPIERS ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Pakistan's ruling coalition collapses amid dissent 17 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080825/ap_on_re_as/pakistan ` "because it failed to restore judges fired by Musharraf" ` AS PROMISED ` ` ` U.N. Envoy’s Ties to Pakistani Are Questioned 18 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/washington/26diplo.html ` "Khalilzad had spoken by telephone with...Zardari, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, several times a week for the past month until he was confronted about the unauthorized contacts" ` NOW YOU KNOW WHY-- ` Pakistan's ruling coalition collapses amid dissent ` permanentsubversion@the superpower.gov ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PHILIPPINES) ` Philippine military C-130 with 9 crew missing 19 ` http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Philippines-Plane-Missing.html ` "disappeared shortly after takeoff in the southern Philip- pines" ` ` ` INDIA ` Tens of Thousands Protest Site of Auto Plant in India 20 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/asia/25car.html ` "40,000 protesters" "4,000 policemen" ` THE 4 000 ARE ARMED ` ` ` KASHMIR ` Four killed in Kashmir protests: police 21 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/wl_sthasia_afp/indiakashmirunrestreligion ` The newsstory itself says "at least four," meaning-- ` MANY MORE ` and ` India extends curfew to quell Kashmir protest 22 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSP24482720080826?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true ` "biggest anti-India protests in two decades showed no sign of abating." ` ANTI-INDIA = PRO-INDEPENDENCE ` ` ` THAILAND ` Thousands of protesters besiege Thai PM's offices 23 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBKK4753820080826?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true ` "stormed the compound of Thai Prime Minister..., a TV sta- tion and several ministries on Tuesday" ` PM's "at army headquarters" ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` NATO ` Beginning of Meeting with Russian Permanent Envoy to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation...Rogozin 24 ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2008/08/25/1802_type82912type82913_205719.shtml ` ROGOZIN: ` "I can report to you [Medvedev] ` [a] on the situation with Russia’s cooperation with the NATO member countries, and also ` [b] on our proposals for changing the extent, quality and timetable of this cooperation in connection with the posi- tion NATO took during the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. ` In our view, ` [a] NATO has applied a policy of double standards to Rus- sia’s actions and ` [b] has in a sense departed from the spirit of the partner- ship that had existed in our relations up till then. ` I am ready to make [>]specific proposals [>] right away. ` ` MEDVEDEV: ` "the NATO member countries have greater interest in this cooperation than does the Russian Federation. If they sever these ties of cooperation, essentially it would have no real effect on us. We are ready to look at any solution, up to and including breaking off relations in full, though this would of course be the most difficult development of events. ` I simply hope that our partners will reflect on this." ` ` EU MAY SHOOT ITSELF AGAIN ` Considering it shot itself in one foot in WW 1 and, only twenty-one years later (1918 - 1939), shot itself in the other foot in WW 2 -- ` it's unreasonable to expect anything different now, except this time it'll shoot itself in the groin like that dude in *8 Mile.* ` AND ` Text | Medvedev’s Statement on South Ossetia and Abkhazia 25 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/europe/27medvedev.html ` "The Georgian leadership was methodically preparing for war, while the political and material support provided by their foreign guardians only served to reinforce the perception of their own impunity." ` Foreign guardians? # 1: THE SUPERPOWER ` "Saakashvili opted for genocide to accomplish his politi- cal objectives. ` By doing so he himself dashed all the hopes for the peace- ful coexistence of Ossetians, Abkhazians and Georgians in a single state." ` AND ` Victor Yushchenko* | Georgia and The Stakes For Ukraine 26 ` *"president of Ukraine" ` http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401856.html ` "Recent events have made clear how perilous it is for the international community to ignore 'frozen conflicts.'" ` Really... ` "It is clear that in addition to the political dimensions of issues involving breakaway regions, we need to cope with the social and economic aspects of this phenomenon." ` Victor's afraid that if NATO tries to take over Ukraine, half or more of Ukraine's citizens will declare the inde- pendence of BREAK AWAY UKRAINE and Victor will end up as the president of RUMP UKRAINE with a corresponding drop in the "social and economic aspects" of his wallet. ` ` ` MOLDOVA ` Beginning of Meeting with President of Moldova...Voronin 27 ` http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/08/25/1719_type82914_205715.shtml ` MEDVEDEV: ` "recent events have shown what potential for conflict the so-called frozen conflicts conceal. This has been fully illustrated in South Ossetia’s case, where, after the Georgian leadership ‘went crazy’ [try: lost his marbles] ...and launched an act of aggression, all of these pro- blems came to a head and resulted in armed conflict. ` This is a very serious warning to us all and I think that in this context we also need to examine the other problems [= Trans-Dniester] that exist. ` VORONIN: ` "This kind of frozen, dormant conflict is a volcano and you never know what will trigger it and when it might erupt again. ` Of course, taking into consideration the recent events, it would be best to once again summon our wisdom and ability to ensure that nothing of this kind happens with us." ` ` ` UK ` Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida 28 ` http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/26/alqaida.uksecurity ` "The government campaign is based upon the premise that al- Qaida is waning worldwide and can appear vulnerable" ` What's this really mean? ` 1) There is not now, and never has been, an international top-down organization named al-Qaida ` 2) There is now, and has been for a number of years, a CIA invention named al-Qaida ` 3) At first The Superpower's International Media Dictator- ship created such a rumpus about the imaginary al-Qaida that EVERYONE KNEW FOR A FACT there was such a thing. ` 4) After several years, people finally began to gradually and reluctantly sober up. Not all people --but enough to cause a CIA HEADACHE. ` 5) So the UK's "secret propaganda war against al-Qaida" is actually its public propaganda war FOR the CIA's in- vention named al-Qaida. ` WE GOTTA SHORE UP SUPERPOWER *S* ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` CUBA ` Reflections of Fidel | A gold medal for honor 29 ` http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/agosto/mar26/reflexiones35.html ` ` ` HAITI ` Haiti hit with new protests over food costs 30 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2525843120080825 ` "Several hundred demonstrators...were dispersed by U.N. peacekeepers and Haiti police firing tear gas." ` BLUE HELMET GANGRENE ` ` ` HONDURAS ` Honduras Joins Venezuelan Pact; Chavez Promises Oil 31 ` http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-honduras-venezuela.html ` "On Monday, Honduras joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, which is based on complementary trade and cooperation instead of free-market competition." ` ` ` 6 SUPERPOWER ` ` Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study 32 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2540397020080825 ` and ` Covering The Uninsured In 2008: Current Costs, Sources Of Payment, And Incremental Costs [text] 33 ` http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.27.5.w399/DC1 ` ` ` U.S. nonprofit hospitals face mounting pressures: reports 34 ` http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2561246620080825 ` "reports released on Monday by Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services." ` THE RATINGS TRUMPET IS ANNOUNCING THE END ` ` ` Home Sales Increased 3.1% in July 35 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/business/26econ.html ` "At least a third of properties purchased in July involved foreclosed homes snapped up at bargain-basement prices or homes sold at a loss by owners who had no alternative" ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Wall St. Rattled by Bank News; Stocks Sell Off 36 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/business/26stox.html ` "Shares that went up on Friday plummeted on Monday." ` ` Amtrak Train Runs Out of Fuel 37 ` http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26train.html ` __DUH OF THE DAY__ ` "It’s not uncommon for trains to run out of fuel here" ` ` FDIC: 117 troubled banks, highest level since 2003 38 ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_bi_ge/troubled_banks ` "federally-insured banks and savings institutions earned $5 billion in the April-June period, down from $36.8 bil- lion a year earlier." ` 36.8 - 5.0 = 31.8 POOF! ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` `
