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XB234C on Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:59:32 AM
Remember the "rolling hunger strikes" from a week or two ago? Now, Danny Glover, Susan Saradon, Sean Penn and Ed Asner have proposed a "rolling disembowelment campaign" to protest the illegal invasion of Iraq. Each celebrity will perforate and remove a 1/4 inch slice of intestine in an act of civil disobediance. Rolling shotgun blasts, die ins, coffee spills and shaving accidents are said to be in the works to coincide with the November mid-term elections...
Rove! Blast! I knew it!
Who outed Valerie Plame? It appears her husband or Who's Who in America did:
Bob Novak:
For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew -- independent of me -- the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003. A federal investigation was triggered when I reported that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was employed by the CIA and helped initiate his 2002 mission to Niger. That Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
Something Victoria Toensing has been saying all along...
Following my interview with the primary source, I sought out the second administration official and the CIA spokesman for confirmation. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who in America."
Fitzmas fizzles. If someone is a Covert Operative we all know where to look from now on: "Who's Who in America."
Kos: Trouble in Paradise:
As reported here on June 30, revelations about Kos’s friend and former business partner Jerome Armstrong – from stock fraud allegations to accepting consulting fees from not so liberal candidates – have cast a cloud over the blog and its leader. This pall has also undermined the stellar relationship Kos has had with the traditional media up to this point.
There is no terrorist threat:
NEW DELHI — At least 190 people were killed Tuesday when a series of bombs tore through packed commuter trains during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India's commercial capital. Hundreds were injured in the terror attack.
Eight explosions ripped through the trains, one after another, beginning around 6:30 p.m.
There was no claim of responsibility.
Muslim militant groups have been fighting Indian troops for years in Kashmir, a Himalayan territory claimed by both India and Pakistan. The train explosions in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, came hours after grenade attacks killed eight people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Those attacks resembled earlier strikes by Islamic terrorists.
There were no immediate indications that the attacks were tied to global terror groups. However, some separatist groups in India have been linked to al-Qaeda.
Uh oh. Halliburton Gravy Train to end:
The Army is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, a decision that could cut deeply into the firm's dominance of government contracting in Iraq.
The choice comes after several years of attacks from critics who saw the contract as a symbol of politically connected corporations profiteering on the war.
Who will we blame all of the World's problems on now? Michael Moore's shares in Halliburton will plummet. Murkier and murkier... Bubba opines:
The Republican strategy is weak, he said.
Proving a stopped clock is right twice a day. Let's see....what can I blame on Global Warming today? Here's something guaranteed to knot the undergarments of environmentalists:
In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, at least one child has died and many more will have suffered needlessly from a disease that is entirely preventable and curable.
Malaria is responsible for the death of approximately one million African children every year and as many as three million people worldwide. Malaria is not only a human tragedy; it is an economic one as well.
In 2000, Sachs and Gallup estimated that in malarial countries the disease reduces per capita economic growth by 1.3% per year.
This equates to approximately $12 billion in forgone income.
Therefore, controlling malaria will not only reduce human suffering, but it will also allow people to work and sustain themselves and their families, which will help to alleviate human misery and poverty.
As has been widely reported and commented upon, one of the best ways to control malaria and reduce the burden is to stop the deadly anopheles mosquitoes from biting humans. One of the most effective ways of doing that is to spray tiny quantities of the insecticide environmentalists love to hate, dichloro-diphenyl-trichlo roethane (DDT), on the inside walls of houses in a process known as indoor residual spraying (IRS). DDT lasts for up to a year and primarily repels mosquitoes so that they won't even enter a sprayed house.
However, should they enter, it will kill the cunning beasts and protect the residents.
Despite its remarkable life-saving properties, DDT has a bad name, which it gets mostly from Rachel Carson's 1962 blockbuster book Silent Spring. Her writing raised the dark suspicion that DDT was upsetting the balance of nature. She was entirely dismissive of the fact that the chemical had saved millions of lives and continued to do so. Nor did she make it clear how judiciously and selectively the public-health community deployed DDT.
Carson's criticism was based almost entirely upon the fact that in agriculture, DDT was being sprayed indiscriminately. One of DDT's biggest assets, its inability to be broken down quickly, created the suspicion that it adversely affected the environment. It was for this reason that it was named as one of the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and included in a list of organic substances known as the dirty dozen. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies DDT as a possible carcinogen.
The World Health Organisation advocates the controlled use of DDT for public health and notes "the improvement in health resulting from malaria campaigns using DDT has broken the vicious circle of poverty and disease resulting in ample economic benefits" such as increased productivity of workers, lower rates of morbidity and the use of previously unoccupied areas that were ravaged by the parasite.
The World Health Organization has concluded that people are more productive and able to contribute to a burgeoning economy when they aren't dead. Rachel Carson's legacy lives on...