The ash plume caused by the eruption of the Klyuchevskoi volcano (Kamchatka) has spread for over 500 kilometers. The plume's direction has changed from north-western to eastern under the influence of atmospheric conditions, said the Kamchatka seismological center. Its movement can be distinctly seen on the space photographs provided by the Alaska volcano laboratory (USA). Ash keeps falling in the northern part of the peninsula. The snow is covered with a one-centimeter black layer in the volcano's surroundings, including near the village of Klyuchi, 40 kilometers away from Klyuchevsky.
The eruption of the Eurasian largest volcano (4,822 meters high) began on January 17. Lava flows are constantly coming down its western and northern slopes. The lava temperature is some 1,100 degrees Celsius. Volcanic bombs are being ejected every 10-20 seconds to the height of 700 meters. Gas and vapor emissions containing ash rise to 4 kilometers. At the moment the Klyuchevskoi eruption poses no threat to Kamchatka settlements. However, volcanic ash consisting of magma elements up to 2 millimeters in diameter can cause poisoning and other negative consequences. Moreover, ash emissions and plumes are dangerous to aircraft. There are currently 4 Kamchatka volcanos erupting and one went to Red yesterday meaning a major eruption is imminent. I'm curious to see how the MSM reacts given that volcanic eruptions are the most important short/medium influence on climate.
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Volcanos. Why do they hate us?
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"Iâm curious to see how the MSM reacts given that volcanic eruptions are the most important short/medium influence on climate."
Don't hold your breathe waiting for them to acknowledge that; I doubt they really give a flying fat rat's ass about climate change, other than as a hoked-up rationale for attacking those eeeeevil SUVs and the eeeeevil Republicans who drive them, our eeeeevil capitalist system, and Eeeeevil Big Oil.
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It's beginning to look like the magnitude 10 quake that caused the tsunami in Dec is only part of a major increase in tectonic activity around those plates.
It's gonna be an interesting year ... politically, economically, and now even geologically ....
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Iâm curious to see how the MSM reacts given that volcanic eruptions are the most important short/medium influence on climate.
I wouldn't be surprised at articles like, "US failure to submit to Kyoto triggers climate damaging volcanic eruptions. Commentary from Very Important Climate Scientists at 6."
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Man, the corrupt corporate MSM are in the pay of the ChimpHitler puppetmaster to suppress the truth about the Halliburton/Zionist volcano machine that is raping Mother Gaia and destroying our clean air.
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#4 AzCat - and since it's still dark there at this hour, the image is black.
I'd settle for some still photos of the eruptions.
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Thanks for the link AzCat, didn't realize it was one on the list. :)
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It's all George Bush's fault. How can he allow this volcano to erupt.
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MSM?
Nah they're too busy - its work hard to ignore the successes in Iraq and Afghanistan, while applauding and encouraging the figurative crucifixion of Terri Schiavo Schindler at the hands of the state.
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It's usually against my DNA programming to recommend anything from the BBC, but the two-part series they did last week, called "Supervolcano" was really good, if you have a chance to catch it.
It's a "what-if" scenario for what would happen if the large caldera that makes up Yellowstone Park explodes, as it does roughly every 400,000 years or so (we're at 460,000 years since the last eruption).
From the havoc shown in its scenario, a major nuclear strike might be more preferable.
Here's a U.K. Times story on it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1516780,00.html
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Seafarious---Link to Alaska Volcano Observatory HERE.
Things in Kamchatka are pretty active. Locally, we are keeping an eye on Mt. Spurr, which has the nasty habit of dumping ash all over South Central Alaska when it erupts. Lots of additional info at the site.
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Observatory, of course...I thought it said factory!
Nah they're too busy - its work hard to ignore the successes in Iraq and Afghanistan, while applauding and encouraging the figurative crucifixion of Terri Schiavo Schindler at the hands of the state.
Nah they're too busy - its work hard to ignore the successes in Iraq and Afghanistan, while applauding and encouraging the figurative crucifixion of Terri Schiavo Schindler at the hands of the state.
Saudi religious police have destroyed a clandestine makeshift Hindu temple in an old district of Riyadh and deported three worshippers found there, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or the religious police, Thursday stumbled across a room converted into a temple while raiding a number of flats suspected of being used to manufacture alcohol and distribute pornographic videos, pan-Arab Al-Hayat said. "They were surprised to find that one room had been converted into a Hindu temple," it said.
A caretaker who was found in the worshipping area ignored the religious police orders to stop performing his religious rituals, the paper added. He was deported along with two other men who arrived on the scene to worship.
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Ah, yes - the famed toleration of islam.
Of course, the leftists and MSM (but I repeat myself) will ignore this.
Unless it's to study it to figure out how they can deport all Christians in the U.S.....
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It's always good to point out that if Islam wasn't such a loser culture and religion, they wouldn't be so hypersensitive to the availability of other religions. Tolerance comes through confidence
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Not surprised here. Muslims are more traditional and family bonded than the judiciary of Scientology plagued Pinellas County. Muslims have their own culture of death that they inflict on others. Not on their own by pulling feeding tubes.
Islam is into body counts and a dead before his time Muslim means one less Muslim. The ummah is diminished.
French President Jacques Chirac told a concerned Japan that China's desire for the European Union to lift its arms embargo was "legitimate" and would not entail exports of sensitive weapons and technology. France has been a prime supporter of ending the ban on selling arms to China, a move opposed by both the United States and its ally Japan. "The prime minister told me of his concerns. He asked me for explanations," Chirac told a joint news conference after talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "I indicated to him that the decision of the European Union does not imply a change in exports of sensitive arms or technology to China as they are subject to rules which cannot be broken," Chirac said. "Hence the decision does not mean things would change. It's a political decision," he said. "We believe that this lifting is legitimately sought by China and that's why we have taken this decision."
Is it just me, or does that statement make no sense?
Koizumi reiterated Japan's opposition to lifting the embargo, imposed after China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. "We told the president that we are against it," Koizumi said. "In China, military spending had seen double-digit growth for more than 10 years. As for Japan, the defense spending has been on decline over the past three straight years," Koizumi said. "Japan does not regard China's economic growth as a threat. Rather we regard it as an opportunity. However, in relation to security concerns such as the Taiwan issue Japan has been asking for a peaceful resolution," Koizumi said.
The European Union had initially set a goal of lifting the ban by the end of June, when the presidency of the 25-member bloc shifts from Luxembourg to Britain. Britain had suggested that the end of the weapons sale ban could be delayed after China on March 14 gave its army legal power to invade Taiwan if the island seeks formal independence. But Chirac has vowed to push ahead and end the embargo by the end of June. A joint statement after talks between Chirac and Koizumi said the two countries sought to understand each other. "France expressed its desire to contribute actively with Japan to peace and the lasting stability of the region," the statement said. It said Japan believed "there are a number of major uncertainties" in "the security situation in East Asia." Chirac and Koizumi said the two countries agreed to expand dialogue "to follow the evolution of the situation in the region and to develop common views." Then the Japanese announced arms sales to the French terrorist organization AZF, "Which they have assured us are for peaceful uses only and would never be used to assassinate French politicians, you treacherous, round-eyed S.O.B."
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You know, I'm looking FORWARD to having Japan's population get pissed and militant again. China may be big, but the Japanese can be ruthless.
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"I indicated to him that the decision of the European Union does not imply a change in exports of sensitive arms or technology to China as they are subject to rules which cannot be broken," Chirac said.
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"I indicated to him that the decision of the European Union does not imply a change in exports of sensitive arms or technology to China as they are subject to rules which cannot be broken"
Not until, that is, until it becomes expedient to break them...
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China may be big, but the Japanese can be ruthless.
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Damn straight. What class of CVBGs, though? We're gonna hafta sneak them past their own people, for one ...
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Some of you may not speak Phrawg or Japanese, so here's the subtitles:
"The prime minister told me of his concerns. He was pissedHe asked me for explanations," I couldn't calm him down.Chirac told a joint news conference after talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
"I indicated to him that the decision of the European Union does not imply a change in exports of sensitive arms or technology to China as they are subject to rules which cannot be broken," Chirac said. Like our sacred Growth and Stability pact.
"Hence the decision does not mean things would change. It�s a political decision," he said.Political decisions change nothing. We do whatever we wish.
"We believe that this lifting is legitimately sought by China and that�s why we have taken this decision."China has agreed to pre-pay for all purchases
"We told the president that we are against it," I behaved well and wasn't rude.Koizumi said.
"In China, military spending had seen double-digit growth for more than 10 years. As for Japan, the defense spending has been on decline over the past three straight years," Koizumi said.But I'm still pissed
"Japan does not regard China�s economic growth as a threat. Rather we regard it as an opportunity. However, in relation to security concerns such as the Taiwan issue Japan has been asking for a peaceful resolution," Koizumi said.We don't want to kill anybody. But if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well. And we do killing well.
The European Union had initially set a goal of lifting the ban by the end of June, when the presidency of the 25-member bloc shifts from Luxembourg French whores with German accents to BritainGood blokes, they hope.
A joint statement after talks between Chirac and Koizumi said the two countries sought to understand each other.
"France expressed its desire to contribute actively with Japan to peace and the lasting stability of the region,"France will sell second rate arms to Japan, too. the statement said.
It said Japan believed "there are a number of major uncertainties" in "the security situation in East Asia."We aren't sure how many CVBGs we want to buy from the Americans
Chirac and Koizumi said the two countries agreed to expand dialogue "to follow the evolution of the situation in the region and to develop common views."Permanent Employment Act for Translators.
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Japan is more than capable of assembling/building any naval force it thinks necessary.
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If French arms are sold to China - they will ineveitably be used to kill American servicemen. I propose a shut off of ALL trade with France in the event that occurs. They are not our friend and we should make the costs clear. Same with Germany if they join in. NATO is over.
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A FORMER Scotland Yard detective now exposed as a Soviet spy has told how he helped the KGB set up fake identities for sleeper agents in Australia's government and intelligence agencies. John Symonds worked for the Soviet spy agency for eight years during the 1970s before being jailed in Britain for corruption. His claims to have been a KGB agent were backed up in secret papers smuggled to the UK by a Soviet defector in 1992 and published recently.
More revelations are to be released soon, including details of the KGB's work in Australia. Speaking from his home in England, Symonds said that he set up a string of fake identities in Australia using birth certificates from dead people. He said many of the agents — "my boys" — may still be living in Australia and working in key posts, possibly in intelligence. For years, rumours have persisted that the KGB had a mole in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. "They had spies everywhere, everywhere. Believe me," Symonds said. "Wherever I went there was always someone there to go back to if I needed help, put me up, or get me out of the country, whatever. They were brilliant."
Symonds was one of the KGB's top "Romeo" agents, who seduced female diplomats and Defence Department employees. He said a mole in the US State Department had provided a list of vulnerable diplomats to target. The KGB gave him a small fortune to bankroll his cover as a playboy sports fan in Australia to watch rugby and the Ashes cricket tour. In the summer of 1978-79 he lived in Melbourne and obtained fake passports and identity documents based on people buried in local cemeteries. He told how he loved his time spent watching cricket at the MCG and carousing in the city's bars and restaurants while attempting to seduce female employees of the Defence Department. He claims to have attended diplomatic cocktail parties in Melbourne and Canberra under the noses of ASIO. But his primary job was to pave the way for the KGB to place their best sleeper agents into the English-speaking world.
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Could you give a Yank a hint about that coment?
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Mrs. D, where to start? When I was there I described the climate as subarctic, an artistic leftist culture pervades the place and its only real attraction is proximity to the snowfields (ski areas). The perception from Western Australia is we make the money and they spend it.
A woman journalist was gunned down in front of her children on Thursday night in the southern Philippine city of Tacurong, police said yesterday. Police quoted witnesses as saying the gunman, accompanied by a lookout, entered the home of Marlene Esperat on Ilang-Ilang Street at about 7:30 p.m., greeted her "Good evening ma'am," then shot her on the right eye before fleeing on foot.
Charlie Garcia, the victim's elder brother, told the Inquirer that Esperat had been receiving threats, prompting the police to provide her with a security escort. But Garcia said his sister gave her security escort a Lenten break. "She told her bodyguard to go home as it was Holy Week," he said.
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According to the religious left and its death cult allies, the effort to save Terri Schiavo is some kind of nefarious plot by right-wing theocratic whack-jobs. Indeed, media-conformists accept this is as fundamental dogma, like the evils of McCarthyism or the wrong-headedness of the Vietnam War. There is another side, always has been, and New Media are giving it a platform:
The religious right, it is said, is conspiring to trample Terri's rights, to defeat Terri's wishes. But whatever the cynicism and hypocrisy of its leaders (and I agree there is plenty), I think the attitude held among those clamoring for her death is at least as religious. If Ms. Schindler-Schiavo is what their premises insist -- a faux-human husk -- she is not a thing capable of having wishes or rights. She is not in a position to hate her predicament or desire a way out of it. To say it is humane it kill her is to assume she is capable of appreciating humanity. To say she should be allowed to die with dignity is to assume that she is somehow more capable of demanding dignity than a corpse.
Indeed, the very reason that starvation has been allowed as the method for her demise is that she is well beyond suffering. If there was courage behind that conviction the expedient of a lethal injection or a bullet to the brain would be employed. Or, better yet, she'd be buried still breathing.
As I said here, I think she should be given the benefit of the doubt. There is no great harm in preserving her life. Nor is some great principle, some grand universal moral imperative, served by killing her. Keep in mind that it is nothing more than a wish of her husband. If he wished otherwise no one would have heard of her and certainly no one would be extolling the virtues of her death.
Keeping her alive is expensive, perhaps; a tube must be filled and her body cleaned. But the argument has little force in a nation awash in iPods and plagued by obesity. We can listen to one less song and eat one less hamburger. We can build more hospitals and still spend the money to save that little girl trapped in a well, or that woman trapped in her own body. And we are all safer in a nation populated by people like my friend Ashli, who (whatever their delusions about the afterlife), so madly embrace life in all its forms and at all its stages rather than give the presumption to death.
Terri will die on Easter and much will be made of that timing by people you detest. However tempted, I will not be mocking them here.
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I'd never have thought an Atheist and me, a fairly conservative Roman Catholic would ever be on the same page. (and Ralph Nader too!?!?!!!!). Despite the rather greusome images and postshots at religion, his is the ultimate "reductio ad absurdem" I have seen against those who would support this state sanctioned killing of the helpless.
Here is the nugget - and why the Left is such a danger in their opposition:
we are all safer in a nation populated by people [who] so madly embrace life in all its forms and at all its stages rather than give the presumption to death.
Its sad that we came to this. An abusive husband and a biased stubborn judge have just wreaked enormous damage on our society and governmental system. This fight has just begun. This was the clarion call against judicial fiat.
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If it were done in Kuwait or Pakistan, we'd call it an honor killing, and put it on Page 2 as background material.
I wonder if there's some nascent Charles Johnson somewhere in Pakistan posting about this on his website.
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I hope so (re: some LGF Paki equivalent) - sauce for the goose....
One thing Schiavo and Greer and the lawyers dont realize: They just lit a fire under Pro-Lifers of all stripes, and given them a great motivator and issue (activist judges, who will be painted as arrogant) for the 06 mid-term elections and for 2008. And that pressure will fall squarely on the Dems (whether deserved or not) in the coming confirmation fights.
I was resting pretty comfortably on the 04 election results, but this one has me fired up again. I know I will be a lot more involved in 06 than I originally thought.
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I'd never have thought an Atheist and me, a fairly conservative Roman Catholic would ever be on the same page. (and Ralph Nader too!?!?!!!!). Despite the rather greusome images and postshots at religion, his is the ultimate "reductio ad absurdem" I have seen against those who would support this state sanctioned killing of the helpless.
Here is the nugget - and why the Left is such a danger in their opposition:
we are all safer in a nation populated by people [who] so madly embrace life in all its forms and at all its stages rather than give the presumption to death.
Its sad that we came to this. An abusive husband and a biased stubborn judge have just wreaked enormous damage on our society and governmental system. This fight has just begun. This was the clarion call against judicial fiat.
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I hope so (re: some LGF Paki equivalent) - sauce for the goose....
One thing Schiavo and Greer and the lawyers dont realize: They just lit a fire under Pro-Lifers of all stripes, and given them a great motivator and issue (activist judges, who will be painted as arrogant) for the 06 mid-term elections and for 2008. And that pressure will fall squarely on the Dems (whether deserved or not) in the coming confirmation fights.
I was resting pretty comfortably on the 04 election results, but this one has me fired up again. I know I will be a lot more involved in 06 than I originally thought.
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I'd never have thought an Atheist and me, a fairly conservative Roman Catholic would ever be on the same page. (and Ralph Nader too!?!?!!!!). Despite the rather greusome images and postshots at religion, his is the ultimate "reductio ad absurdem" I have seen against those who would support this state sanctioned killing of the helpless.
Here is the nugget - and why the Left is such a danger in their opposition:
we are all safer in a nation populated by people [who] so madly embrace life in all its forms and at all its stages rather than give the presumption to death.
Its sad that we came to this. An abusive husband and a biased stubborn judge have just wreaked enormous damage on our society and governmental system. This fight has just begun. This was the clarion call against judicial fiat.
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I hope so (re: some LGF Paki equivalent) - sauce for the goose....
One thing Schiavo and Greer and the lawyers dont realize: They just lit a fire under Pro-Lifers of all stripes, and given them a great motivator and issue (activist judges, who will be painted as arrogant) for the 06 mid-term elections and for 2008. And that pressure will fall squarely on the Dems (whether deserved or not) in the coming confirmation fights.
I was resting pretty comfortably on the 04 election results, but this one has me fired up again. I know I will be a lot more involved in 06 than I originally thought.
I try to picture what this 16-year-old girl looks like, who she is. I heard that when she was waiting for her case to be called in the Alameda County courthouse last week, she stood on tip-toes, peering through the door of the holding room to see if her grandmother and sister had arrived yet, as if she were backstage at a school play. Yup...just a typical schoolgirl here...nothing to see...move on
Those who watched the court proceeding said the girl, who is charged with slashing the throat of a 75-year-old woman in Berkeley, seemed oddly energized, almost perky, on drugs turning in her seat at the defendant's table to smile at her family.
You are probably already familiar with the story. The victim was walking with her husband, heading home from a film class. As they passed the girl on the sidewalk near the Berkeley Rose Garden, the girl allegedly took out a knife, cut the woman under the chin and fled in a convertible BMW with another youngish woman. The girl, by all accounts, did not know the victim, did not get any money and was not earning membership into a gang.Un Huh... The woman survived after six hours of surgery on her throat and hand, which was cut when she tried to fend off the knife.
Yes, people are knifed and shot and clubbed every day. But generally not so randomly. And generally not by 16-year-old girls. That's why this story is so haunting and unsettling. We want to believe there is an explanation. There is ...bad seed.. Because if there's not, then we may have glimpsed the kind of amorality that some call evil, and everything in us says smooth-faced 16-year-old girls smiling at their grandmas cannot be evil.
Walter Jackson, an assistant district attorney in the Alameda County juvenile department, is prosecuting the case. Susan Walsh works on the other side of the aisle; she is in charge of the public defenders in the juvenile department. They agree that the most unsettling aspect of this case is the fact we think it is unusual. Or that we think it has anything to do with evil.
The only thing unusual about this case, they say, is its location. There hasn't been a violent attack other than the truth in that Berkeley neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember. But this girl seems like so many of the low-income, neglected, mentally ill kids Jackson and Walsh see every day. Here we go...society is the real evil
"If you sat in Juvenile Court, you would see tragic stories just like this one every day,'' Walsh said.
Neither she nor Jackson would reveal details about the girl because she is a juvenile. But they talked in general about the dearth of mental-health services in the county -- and throughout the state -- for troubled juveniles. Alameda County, Walsh said, has access to just five beds in the intensive, locked mental-health hospital, known as Level 14 facilities. The rest of the juveniles suffering serious mental illness are kept in the hall, sent home with medication and therapy, or given what are known as mental- health "shadows'' -- caseworkers who accompany the teen all or most of the day.
The woman in the BMW with the girl has been identified as a mental-health worker, interesting therapy..Go murder, it'll make you feel better but no other details have been released.
"The mental health system for juveniles in this state is really broken,'' said Nancy Yalon, assistant chief of juvenile probation for San Francisco. Her department has access to fewer than a dozen Level 14 beds, all of them at San Francisco General. "Facilities are going out of business, and others aren't emerging to take their place.'' Boot camp anyone?
Jackson, the prosecutor, says in his 30 years working in juvenile justice he has learned that no case is as straightforward as it can seem in the press. He is retiring at the end of the year at age 57, and he sounds tired. He is tired of kids like this girl coming into court without parents. He is tired of hearing rap lyrics that glorify self-centeredness and greed and brutality. Amen He is tired of seeing the strange disconnect between a juvenile detainee's casual demeanor and the seriousness of the crime being charged.
"We see kid after kid after kid with no parental upbringing. Abandoned, neglected kids with no value system at all,'' he said. "They're 11, 12, 13 years old and they have no empathy, no nothing. To me that's scary. It's a huge, huge issue. They have no moral base, and then they have mental issues on top of that. It's getting scarier.''
Walsh suggested, when I asked about the random nature of the attack, that it wasn't so random. "You don't know the facts,'' she said. "You are making assumptions that are not necessarily true.'' Perhaps the girl was triggered by something having to do with the mental-health counselor she was with. Perhaps she had a psychotic break. Walsh won't say. I can say no more..
"There is a level of poverty, a level of despair, a level of rudderlessness,'' Walsh said. "These kids have no anchor, no support system, no parenting -- or very little. They are living in a world where they step outside their doors and see murders, drug use, drug dealing. It is godforsaken. Kids in East and West Oakland are living in a war zone that's every bit as dangerous and damaging as any war-torn country.'' Which explains slashing an innocent how?
I don't know what this girl looks like, or who she is. But I have seen her before. I have heard her story a thousand times. The victims change. The location, the weapon, the action, they all change. But it always seems to be the same kid walking through the courtroom door in juvenile-hall-issued sweats. Over and over and over. How many more times do we need to see this kid before we figure out what to do? How about quit subsidising welfare births? Can we find solutions in more mental-health services, more parental accountability You Bet, better schools, safer streets? Do kids go mad because they live in madness?
I don't have the answer. Nobody has the answer, at least not an all- encompassing, string-theory answer. But the jolting horror of a 16-year-old's attack on an old woman at least can raise critical questions that might inch us closer.
Walsh has been around too long to get her hopes up.
"In a month,'' she said, "nobody is even going to be talking about this.''
Joan Ryan's column runs Thursday and Sunday. You can e-mail her at joanryan@sfchronicle.com.
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Oh, please! What about the kids who grow up in bad neighborhoods who don't turn into little psychopaths? If you listened to the media, you would think every kid in the 'hood is doomed.
I ran into more little psychos who came from "good" neighborhoods. Their parents were able to pay to get them special treatment from hospitals, and yes, the court system.
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Society's fault my red ass.I grew-up in a mining town,from a mining family,financially I'm worse off than my parents.But my 16 year old son hasn't robbed,beat,or killed anyboady.The kid is nothing but a killer,and just what the hell was the"Social Worker"doing,giving her pointers or was she just the get away driver?
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Thank you five justices of the Supreme Court. Remember law abiding productive citizens are expendable and have no value. Yet in a country with a population of 300 million and a planet of 5 billion we have to waste resources on this poor darling who has demonstrated her own value of life by her sociopathic behavior. I have an idea. Let's allow justice to return the victims and their families to be carried out. That power rested with the families before the government lied and promised it would carry out justice. Now that government no longer has the courage to continue to carry through with that responsibility, let it revert back to the people. Messy? Yes. However, no more messy than you continuing to insist we accept the butchery of our family and friends.
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Anonymous Coward,can you site a reference for your observation about antidepressants exacerbating bipolar cycles? I take Effexor, and know a bipolar who takes Effexor too, and I'm curious about this.
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Anyone who's bipolar should work closely with his/her doctor about meds .... it's a balance that tends to be personal and possibly to need adjustment over time. Antidepressants alone can definitely trigger more serious manic phases.
"As a spiritual aspirant for close to twenty-five years with definite monastic tendencies, my friends don't understand how I survive within the aggressive and often highly negative energies of the courtroom." (x)
"The urge behind this book is to encourage and impel you to utilize your life's endeavor, whatever it may be, to its highest purpose — to move from making a living from your work, to having your work make you more alive." (xi)
In the acknowledgments section, Felos notes that he has drawn from a wide range of spiritual teachers and teachings, with particular acknowledgment to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Throughout the book, Felos cites Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Native American and other spiritual traditions from which he draws his views.
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Chapter 22, "Collective Consciousness and the Fear of Death," has an extensive discussion of the hospice movement which Felos is deeply involved in, noting, "The force that created today's Hospice also propels the right-to-die movement. We sense that keeping one alive against his wishes—artificially perpetuating the body once the spirit is ready to depart—is a defilement of life's final rite of passage. It appeared so obvious to me that the ability to die with dignity, as that term is defined by each individual, is an essential personal right." (223)
Concerning the Florida Supreme Court's affirmation of his position in the Browning case (Mrs. Browning actually died while still being fed and before the case was argued before the Court): "A profound satisfaction welled up. I believed I had made a difference. The result of my efforts would touch many lives, now and in the future. I felt proud to be an attorney and was grateful to God for this extraordinary opportunity. I still am." (251)
Concerning his involvement in a income tax case in Federal Tax Court (which he ultimately won), Felos writes about his feelings while doing yoga on the eve of the trial: "I felt like an empty vessel, a vehicle through which Spirit does its own work. I felt deep gratitude for being endowed with the abilities that allow this work to be done through me. In a sense I lost, at least for that moment, a personal agenda. I became an agent and God was the principal. All I needed to do was permit the work to come through me." (268)
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Believes that we have the right to say some lives aren't worth living? Yes he does.
Believes tht we have a duty to take those lives? Yes he does.
Knowingly pays homage to the evil Macrobes? Yes he does.
Obsessed with enforcing acceptance of the evils of the age? Yes he is.
A Belburian, plain and simple. Wither, Frost, and Straik would be proud.
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Why am I not surprised. "New Age" is an umbrella term for a bewildering variety of beliefs that collectively constitute the state religion of the media culture. It enshrines commercial media values of physicality, narcissism, emotionalism, power-seeking, and elite status. It is spirituality for the soul-dead.
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The power of life and death is the holy grail for power-seeking elitists. The right to die movement offers this to its adherents on a massive scale, essentially a diffusion, a gift, of this power throughout society, to millions who could not have achieved it otherwise. Imagine the bossy nurse, the controlling teacher, the arrogant lawyer, the neurotic believer, all in a position to pass a death sentence on essentially their own word. It is a nightmare come to life and noone will be safe. As with Robespierre and the guillotine, we will eventually see this movement devouring its own.
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Thanks Korora, and great point AC: "the power of life and death is the holy grail for power-seeking elitists." So very true. I remember an early poster (25 years ago) from the pro-abortion movement, in which they had a representation of a aborted infant inside a chalice of blood--boldly illustrating their "sacrament" of death. They started with preborn infants, and are now moving up the ladder.
I am scandalized. If Terri is an avowed Roman Catholic, why isn't the State protecting her religious rights? It's important for Roman Catholics to receive Communion on their Easter Sunday. What's the harm? Of course, what's the harm in letting her live? It is incredibly disturbing to me that the State is, essentially, favoring one religion (cloaked though it may be) over another.
Even today, Terri tried to communicate to her mother (to say goodbye? to ask for help? to say she loved her mother? ). And the State is still refusing to acknowledge that her disability is NOT and SHOULD NEVER BE a reason to discontinue her life. see link
The corruption, judicial excess, anti-intellectualism, and mean-spiritedness surrounding this case has done a lot to discourage my faith in this country. In comparison, several hundred Australians are RIOTING over Moslem refugee detainees. I guess we just should have gone over to the Florida hospice center and started rioting.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again: Make no mistake, the new ager deconstructionists are a vicious, dangerous lot. Convinced of their own moral, intellectual, and religious superiority, they, literally will stop at nothing to further their agenda. They think that those who disagree with them "don't deserve to live," and though their grab for power won't change everything overnight, they will continue their endeavors in the social and political spheres, unless conservatives, constitutionalists, and true humanists stop them.
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One more thing: the staff at the hospice began giving Terri Schiavo morphine today. Hmmm. Wonder why that is. Guess they has some extra and didn't know what to do with it. Couldn't throw it away, couldn't save it for later. Probably just gave it to her to prove that injections don't hurt her because she's "not feeling any pain."
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but.. but ...Two visions of Terri Schiavo emerged Saturday: Her husband's attorney, George Felos, said he had "never seen such a look of beauty and peace upon her." Schiavo's father, Robert Schindler, whose family has compared her complexion to that of a concentration camp victim, said "she is fighting like hell to stay alive."
Felos and Greer will burn for this, as will Schiavo
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One result of this will be a significant evolution of the Right-to-Life movement. There will be broader issues, a more diverse constituency, and perhaps a new militancy. There have always been non-religious elements within this movement, but the media have done a good job of concealing this and presenting all right-to-life agitation as an attempt to inject religion into public policy.
In fact, as the complicity of the New Age and other cults, notably Scientology, in the death lobby becomes more evident, it would appear to be the other way around.
>"As I noted in an earlier Rave, to the religious left abortion is not a question of life or death: it's a matter of 'expressing your spirituality.' The religious right is, for the most part, more properly focused on the threshold question of the personhood of the fetus."
Of course, as noted earlier on Rantburg, that notorious right-wing Bible-thumper Ralph Nader has also weighed in to save Terri Schiavo.
I donât see what everybody is so upset about. The money M.Schiavo won from the medmal cases went to real good uses, and itâs all gone now, Iâm sure (see link re myths about Terri, MYTH: Terri's Medical Trust fund has been used to care for her).
In fact, with the approval of the lovely Judge George Greer, accounting for the expenses paid from Terriâs 1.2 Million Dollar medical trust fund (from a jury award in 1992), M.Schiavo in his November 1993 Petition alleges the 1993 guardianship asset balance as $761,507.50 following these expenses:
Atty Gwyneth Stanley_$10,668.05 Atty Deborah Bushnell$65,607.00
Atty Steve Nilson$7,404.95
Atty Pacarek$1,500.00
Atty Richard Pearse (GAL)$4,511.95 Atty George Felos__$397,249.99
1st Union/South Trust Bank__$55,459.85 Michael Schiavo_$10,929.95
_Total $545,852.34
IâM SURE THE OTHER $761,507.50 HAS ALREADY BEEN SPENT OVER THE LAST TWELVE YEARS IN SIMILARLY GOOD WAYS. So whatâs everybody so upset about?
//heavy sarcasm OFF//
Re Bushnell & Felos: âItâs 98% of the attorneys who give the other 2% of us a bad name.â
Meerwala rape victim Mukhtar Mai on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Lahore High Court's ruling acquitting five of the six suspects. Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel for Mai, said that she was disappointed by the judgment and requested the court overrule it. The petition was filed under Article 184 of the Constitution. "I hope the Supreme Court will provide me with justice," Mai told reporters after filing the petition. The alleged rapists who were acquitted by the LHC have already been arrested on the orders of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Mai had met Aziz and asked him to intervene.
On March 11, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) suspended the LHC judgment and decided to hear the case itself but human rights bodies expressed reservations about the matter because they feared that the Federal Court would hear the case under the controversial Hudood laws. Later taking su moto action, Supreme Court Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui asked the LHC and the FSC to send the record of the case. The SC is expected to hear the case next week.
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Bhutan has proposed a two-party political system to wield power in place of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck as it unveiled its first constitution on Saturday in public ceremonies across the country. The proposed constitution will replace a royal decree of 1953 giving the monarchy absolute power and transform the majority Buddhist nation of 534,000 people into a parliamentary democracy, officials said.
Thirty-four articles in the proposed constitution will outline the role of the monarchy, clergy, fundamental rights and duties of the people while creating new constitutional offices including National Council. Chief Justice Sonam Tobgye said he expects every family in Bhutan to receive a copy of the constitution for discussion before a referendum is held later this year on whether to adopt it. "It is posted in public domain for debate on the Internet in both English and the national language, Dzongkha, to extend the discourse on the constitution," Tobgye said. "This follows the king's constant reminder of the need for people to understand the constitution and to provide their views on it."
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Everybody Wangchuck tonight....
I'm sorry. It had to be done.
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A health ministry official said a pregnant woman died of the Marburg virus in a hospital in the northern province of Cabinda on Saturday, the first fatality outside the capital Luanda and the province of Uige, bringing the nationwide death toll to 120 in less than six months. "I can confirm that today (Saturday), a woman died in the hospital in Cabinda from heamorraghic Marburg fever," Filomeno Forte, the head of the health ministry's epidemiology department, told AFP. "This woman came from Uige, where there had been a death in the family from Marburg. She did not disclose the information when she arrived in Cabinda," located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) west of Uige and 300 kilometers north of Luanda. "It is the first and only case of Marburg in Cabinda," said Forte.
The Marburg virus continues to spread from Uige via visitors, doctors, and patients. Although there have been no recorded transmissions outside of Uige, the explosion in the number of cases, coupled with infections of health care workers, is cause for concern. There are now eight fatalities among health care workers and a ninth is infected. Three nurses died about a week ago, followed by two more nurses on Tuesday. An Italian pediatrician died on Thursday, followed by a Vietnamese physician on Friday. A sixth nurse died on Saturday and an Angolan physician is infected. Basic barriers such as gowns, gloves, and masks are lacking, facilitating the spread of the virus. There have been three deaths in Luanda, and at least two more infected patients in the capital. The death in Cabinda brings the number of geographical regions with infections up to three, and the death toll is up to 120. The explosion in the number of cases in the past 1-2 weeks will certainly lead to a record number of fatalities for an Ebola-like outbreak. The incubation period of 3-9 days suggests additional cases will develop in the next 1-2 weeks. This appears to be the largest outbreak ever identified of Marburg. One particularly scary aspect of this disease is that infection does not result in immunity. Even if you have been infected you are just as succeptible to future infection as anybody else and this seems to rule out a vaccine.
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Filomeno Forte? Marburg, along with the 3 varieties of Ebola that cause disease in humans, are the only members of the filovirus family. What an unfortunate name.
About the only "good" thing about Marburg I'm aware of is that it's "only" between 1/2 and 1/3 as fatal as its close cousin, Ebola Zaire - about 25% fatal vs 70%+. Marburg, like Ebola, is totally mysterious regards specific origin - host and geographic locale, why some die and others do not, etc.
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And if you think this will never spread in developed countries, then think again. It is called Marburg becuase it was first identified in Marburg Germany after an outbreak originating from monkeys killed about 10 people. Like most viruses it just needs to step up not to much in its infectiousness and this is a pandemic killer. Signs are it may have made that step up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Saudi religious police have destroyed a clandestine makeshift Hindu temple in an old district of Riyadh and deported three worshippers found there, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Members of the 
French President Jacques Chirac told a concerned Japan that China's desire for the European Union to lift its arms embargo was "legitimate" and would not entail exports of sensitive weapons and technology. France has been a prime supporter of ending the ban on selling arms to China, a move opposed by both the United States and its ally Japan. "The prime minister told me of his concerns. He asked me for explanations," Chirac told a joint news conference after talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "I indicated to him that the decision of the European Union does not imply a change in exports of sensitive arms or technology to China as they are subject to rules which cannot be broken," Chirac said. "Hence the decision does not mean things would change. It's a political decision," he said. "We believe that this lifting is legitimately sought by China and that's why we have taken this decision."
A FORMER Scotland Yard detective now exposed as a Soviet spy has told how he helped the KGB set up fake identities for sleeper agents in Australia's government and intelligence agencies. John Symonds worked for the Soviet spy agency for eight years during the 1970s before being jailed in Britain for corruption. His claims to have been a KGB agent were backed up in secret papers smuggled to the UK by a Soviet defector in 1992 and published recently. 
A woman journalist was gunned down in front of her children on Thursday night in the southern Philippine city of Tacurong, police said yesterday. Police quoted witnesses as saying the gunman, accompanied by a lookout, entered the home of Marlene Esperat on Ilang-Ilang Street at about 7:30 p.m., greeted her "Good evening ma'am," then shot her on the right eye before fleeing on foot.
Bhutan has proposed a two-party political system to wield power in place of King 
