New Reason for War in Iraq

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/31/bush_gives_new_reason_for_iraq_war

The lie started with searching for WMD...and now when the lie discovered...Bush needs another lie to cover the first lie...and who knows when this series will end...

Now the new lie is to protect the oil fields from the hands of terrorists...!@

Katrina By God or Nature

The problem lies when the public still thinks it is the mother nature...

Corrention: It is not the mother nature...It is the creator of the nature who shows HIS wrath on those who sin and oppress....

On the day after, sobering lessons from Katrina

As the full impact of Hurricane Katrina began to sink in Tuesday - New Orleans flooding, scenes of devastation along the Gulf Coast, a death toll of dozens and rising - perhaps the broadest lesson was the reminder that in the contest of nature vs. man, nature at its most powerful retains the upper hand.

For all the satellites, mass communications and emergency preparedness that seem to convey omniscience and control, our ability to mitigate nature's fury is marginal. That said, some other painful lessons are already clear, and applicable to future disasters:

First impressions can be misleading. Reporters and officials at first reported jubilantly that the old downtown of New Orleans had been spared the worst. But by Tuesday morning, water was flooding in as levees and pumps failed. Officials discussed how to get the people remaining in the city out. The magnitude of the devastation there, and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, eclipsed Monday's initial assessments.

Even the most sturdy-seeming evacuation centers don't come with guarantees. The Louisiana Superdome, where 10,000 took refuge, had parts of the roof ripped off. "Vertical evacuation" to the upper floors of high-rise hotels, where many hid, didn't work as Katrina shattered windows. "There are no safe havens," was the understatement of Joseph Matthews, local emergency preparedness chief.

Preventive maintenance matters. New Orleans' failure to keep levees and pumps in prime condition is at least partly to blame for the flooding. The same applies for building codes in disaster-prone areas.

There are limits to what emergency services can do. That's an added reason to evacuate when officials give the orders to do so. Some people lost their lives because they didn't evacuate when they could have. Others remained trapped, unable to contact emergency services as phone networks have failed. All place an added burden on thousands of rescuers, including more than 1,600 Mississippi National Guardsmen who have been activated to help.

More lessons will emerge in the days and weeks to come as the full impact sets in of what is shaping up to be the most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Those lessons will surely need to be applied to future disasters; the only question is when.

Will another such storm strike in a year? Five? Thirty? When will that long-predicted killer earthquake hit Los Angeles or San Francisco? What about another tsunami?

They're all nature's secrets.

Bolton + Wolfowitz = World Destruction

George W. Bush managed to control the world with two hawks sitting on top positions to remote-control the world. They are Bolton at UN and Wolfowitz at the world bank.

These two organizations assure that the american agenda are working fine on the globe. They assure that the poor countries remain slaves of US and they keep their stretching begging hands spread towards US, and US gives few pennies in return of abiding by US agenda in their countries.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/opinion/edun.php

Hurricane Katrina's real name

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/opinion/edgelbspan.php

Hurricane Katrina's real name

By Ross Gelbspan The Boston Globe WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005

BOSTON The hurricane that struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.

When the year began with a 2-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.

When winds of 124 miles an hour shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and Britain, the driver was global warming.

When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the Missouri River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was global warming.

In July, when the worst drought on record triggered wildfires in Spain and Portugal and left water levels in France at their lowest in 30 years, the explanation was global warming.

When a lethal heat wave in Arizona killed more than 20 people in one week, the culprit was global warming.

And when the Indian city of Mumbai received 37 inches of rain in one day - killing 1,000 people and disrupting the lives of 20 million others - the villain was global warming.

As the atmosphere warms, it generates longer droughts, more intense downpours, more frequent heat waves, and more severe storms.

Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off southern Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.

The consequences are as heartbreaking as they are terrifying.

Unfortunately, few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

The reason is simple: To allow the climate to stabilize requires humanity to cut its use of coal and oil by 70 percent. That, of course, threatens the survival of one of the largest commercial enterprises in history.

In 1995, public utility hearings in Minnesota found that the coal industry had paid more than $1 million to four scientists who were public dissenters on global warming. And ExxonMobil has spent more than $13 million since 1998 on an anti-global warming public relations and lobbying campaign.

In 2000, big oil and big coal scored their biggest electoral victory yet when George W. Bush was elected president - and subsequently took suggestions from the industry for his climate and energy policies.

As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.

Against this background, the ignorance of the American public about global warming stands out as an indictment of the U.S. news media.

When the American press has bothered to cover global warming, it has focused almost exclusively on its political and diplomatic aspects and not on what the warming is doing to agriculture, water supplies, plant and animal life, public health and weather.

For years, the fossil fuel industry has lobbied the news media to accord the same weight to a handful of global warming skeptics that it accords the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reporting to the United Nations.

Today, with the science having become even more robust - and the impacts as visible as the megastorm that covered much of the Gulf of Mexico - the press bears a share of the guilt for our self-induced destruction with the oil and coal industries.

Where I live, in Boston, I am afraid that the coming winter will - like last winter - be unusually short and devastatingly severe. In early 2005, a storm knocked out power to thousands and dropped a record-setting 42.2 inches of snow on Boston.

The conventional name of the month was January. Its real name is global warming.

(Ross Gelbspan is the author of ''The Heat Is On'' and ''Boiling Point.'' This article first appeared in The Boston Globe.)

Katrina angry on America

Hurricane Katrina played real havoc in USA this year.
Katrina is a soldier among many soldiers of the Almighty God.
This soldier showed the public a little consequence of their sins and arrogance, hoping they will repent.
Katrina showed America the pain of Baghdad and Afghanistan.
Katrina showed most advanced nation their weakness in front of the Power of Allah.
Katrina carries lots of lessons for those who understand.

Mind Reflection

This is the first posting.
The objective is to post some thoughts that comes to my mind, and capture it before it is lost. Thanks Allah, today we have the tool to capture knowlede and share it to the world and watch the response.