Update on Russian Train Bomb Blast

Here is an update on the Russian train bomb blast. Orginally I posted the thread here with the enclosed statement.

Chechen terrorists to blame for Russian train crash

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....No mention of it on Kavkazcenter.com....

There are conflicting reports on this. Some passengers said they heard no explosion and some say they heard a "loud slap."

If the Chechens did this, they will proudly state they did and post it... This is a wait and see story..

Never fear.... Chechen terrorists come through by posting their proud acts of terrorism on Kavkazcenter. Below is the cached screen shot on the Caucasian Mujahideen taking claim for the bombing.

A.P. Throws Bogus Headline on Palin to see if it Sticks (update)

Palin book tour host to foreign press: stay away

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — She's no longer the chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor." And in English only, please.

That was the message sent out by officials at the Mall of America this week, who told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate by her former title. The guidelines also banned foreign reporters, allowing "only English speaking press."

Mall officials said the guidelines were a mistake, and apologized Wednesday to Palin for the mix up, which they called "an internal miscommunication" that was "inadvertently distributed."

"That should never have been in any kind of press release," said Tina Andreadis, a publicist for publisher HarperCollins in New York, who added foreign reporters would be welcome at Palin's Mall of America stop.

"That's not the message the governor wants to send out," she said.

Drum roll please.....................................................................

A.P throws their spit-ball in the story.......

The guidelines were likely to be mostly irrelevant either way. Palin hasn't been speaking to most reporters — either local or from abroad — during her tightly controlled, stay-on-message book tour.

So why and who would put out such a press release when Palin while on the tour hasn't been speaking to reporters.....

Who in the hell is putting this type of information out? That's not Palin's style to do that.

A.P. continues to throw spit-balls and miss.

Update:

The Star-Tribune has a story on this A.P. story.

MOA apologizes to Palin

Jasper said the internal notes were sent to one AP reporter who had contacted the mall about the guidelines for Palin's visit from noon to 4 p.m. Monday for her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."

Using "Governor" in reference to Palin was a note to mall staffers "as a sign of respect," Jasper said.

(...)

Jasper didn't have a copy Wednesday night of what was sent out and didn't say what else was included.

Maybe the A.P. has a copy of the "internal notes"? That would make sense wouldn't it?

Mall staff were instructed by the MOA to call Palin governor. A lot different situation than what was reported by an A.P. reporter..

Mo. — She's no longer the chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor." And in English only, please.

That was the message sent out by officials at the Mall of America this week, who told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate by her former title. The guidelines also banned foreign reporters, allowing "only English speaking press."

(emphasis added)

Big difference between telling reporters what to say, then instructing how your own staff should address Palin...

The A.P. continues on their roll.

No Laughing Matter for Huckabee: Clemency for Maurice Clemmons

Two documents that end Huckabee's chance for the presidency..

China Reports Steep Rise in H1N1 Deaths

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Ten days after China’s Ministry of Health called for more accurate reporting on the spread of H1N1, results are being seen.

Liang Wannian, the head of the ministry’s health emergency response department, said at a briefing in Beijing that the number of reported deaths from H1N1 now stands at 178, more than triple the number two weeks ago. (Transcript of briefing, posted on the MoH Web site late Tuesday, in Chinese here.).Overall, China has confirmed more than 91,000 cases of the virus, Liang said.

(...)

At the time of Dr. Zhong’s statements, there had been only 53 deaths reported out of nearly 70,000 confirmed cases. World-wide, the mortality rate for H1N1 has been 4 deaths per 1,000 cases of illness, according to the WHO.

Meanwhile, in this article, it is stated:

Virologists and influenza authorities are becoming increasingly concerned that the 2009 A-H1N1 flu virus could “reassort” with the highly virulent H5N1 avian flu that’s still prevalent in parts of the world like China, and that a mutation could occur resulting in a new strain that has the lethality of H5N1 and the human transmissibility of A-H1N1.

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Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in China's southern Guangdong province, warned that China has to be on high alert to any mutation and changes in the virulence of A-H1N1.

"This is something we need to monitor, the change, the mutation of the virus. This is why reporting of the death rate must be really transparent,” he told Reuters Television, adding, China, as you know, is different from other countries. Inside China, H5N1 has been existing for some time, so if there is really a reassortment between H1N1 and H5N1, it will be a disaster.”

WHO reported more than half-a-million laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 worldwide in mid-November and close to 7,000 deaths, but stressed that in reality that figure is likely much, much higher.

As pointed out here on this website, the CDC was trying to develop a reassortment of the H1N1/H5N1 virus. And an avian type mutation of the H1N1 was found in Ireland.

In September of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported the CDC had conducted tests on ferrets to see the effect of combining the H1N1/H5N1 strains.

What is it About Palin and Turkeys?

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

The Turkeys being Olbermann and Moore...

There they go again talking about Alaska Natives and co-opting the Alaska Native cause when Obama their loved one, stripped benefits funding from Alaska Natives that fought in WWII.

Misquoting someone has less impact than cutting their benefits....

As we say in Alaska, "Go Sarah Go!"

By Eddie Burke

Some people in the Lower 48 might be saying," what is with you people up in Alaska?"

You might be wondering why people in our State would kick Sarah Palin around like she's the enemy? Also, you must think some of us are crazy to file 20 Ethics complaints on our former Governor that were all dismissed? If you ask me, these people who filed the complaints are crazy!

Prior to Sarah running with McCain, her popularity in Alaska had peaked at about 92%. Sarah had bi-partisan support on Oil and Gas legislation; she signed into law new ethics laws. She actually had Democrats that were praising her. She was a "Rock-Star" in Alaska. Sarah was the most liked Governor in the Nation.

Excerpt, read the rest here.

China Laying the Gaunlet Down on Iran: More Talk

China: More talk, not sanctions, needed on Iran

BEIJING — China said Tuesday that more dialogue, not sanctions, is needed to resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear program.

Iran announced Sunday that it plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities. That brought quick condemnation from officials in Europe and the U.S., which has been pressing China to take a stronger stand on the issue.

Time continues to run out...

Law of the Sea 'should deal with climate change'

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The international community should come together to revise the Law of the Sea treaty to take climate change into account as this phenomenon becomes a growing global concern, international maritime law expert David Attard said.

The 1982 treaty, that defined nations' rights and responsibilities in their use of the world's oceans, did not address the legal repercussions of climate change.

Regulating shipping emissions and allocating liability to countries for inaction that had repercussions elsewhere were examples of how the law could tackle climate change, he explained.

Prof. Attard, who also specialises in human rights, had foreseen the climate change challenge in 1988 when his advice spurred the Maltese government to request the United Nations to take action to protect the climate.

This proposal led to the 1992 UN Convention on the Protection of Global Climate and the subsequent 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

"Today, climate change is becoming an important issue in maritime law as oceans are considered to be carbon dioxide sinks and ships are a source of environmental degradation.

"The subject is prevailing in all sectors of the global economy as research shows we're heading for an ecological disaster," he said.

Next month, delegations from over 190 countries will be attending the Copenhagen climate summit, which will attempt to draw up a global climate treaty to replace Kyoto. There is concern that no legally binding treaty will emerge from talks in Copenhagen.

It will be interesting to see if the LOS treaty is raised in Copenhagen..

Palin's Bus Tour Scandal: Move Along, Nothing to See Here (Update)

Does it really matter?

According to HarperCollins, they were the ones that set-up the tour and the logistics on how the tour was going to be conducted....

A spokesperson for Sarah Palin’s publisher has just confirmed to me that she took a privately chartered jet plane on several legs of her book tour, despite the fact that it had been billed as a bus tour.

But the spokesperson argued that she had only taken three plane trips, and that her plane travel had been “minimal” and only for “logistical” reasons.

There was the RNC expensive cloths fiasco that was set-up by McCain staffers and the fiasco was put on Palin.

And now you have this issue the talking point on Palin, when it should never have become a talking point.

Like I said before, Palin has some lousy handlers and advisors.

Palin can only go Rouge so many times, before these meaningless events drag her down....

And these type of events will.... She will always have her base, but others will have enough of it and move on...

Update: CBS is now pimping the story.

HarperCollins did not respond to questions about who was paying for the jet or who flies on it. But Palin has acknowledged flying during at least some portion of the trip, tweeting that she "Just got off flt" on November 21st.

It's a Book Tour........ It is evident by Palin's tweets that she was flying...

A lot of time and conspiracies developed by the nutcases like Andrew Sullivan and the idiot at Palingates.

The Palin Virus (S1P1 virus) in Alaska: Will it Take its Toll on Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates?

If you think the H1N1 virus is sweeping Alaska and causing havoc, think again…..

The Palin virus which I will call the S1P1 virus, is infecting the fringe within the Democratic Party in Alaska and the diagnosis of the S1P1 virus is not looking good.

Unlike the H1N1 virus, the S1P1 virus affects the temporal lobes of the brain and causes the synapse to go haywire.

And the diagnoses is called the Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS).

Even though it affects the left in Alaska, PDS has shown up in very, very, staunch supporters of Palin and so-called conservatives who have issues with Palin, but for this article, the focus is on the fringe in the Democratic Party here in Alaska and the effect it is having.

When looking for signs of PDS, one of the main signals of having PDS is there is an “Euphoric cadence” (it has a catchy sound to it) in speech patterns when it comes to talking about Sarah Palin’s son Trig, her family or the father to Palin’s grandsons, Levi Johnston.

Thus the PDS patient has repeated illusions of Trig not being Sarah Palin’s child, but someone else’s child, Sarah and Todd are getting a D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Palin is having a nervous breakdown or Levi has the “goods” on Palin.

Some homeopathic types, have suggested cures of constructing hats out of tin foil and wearing them, but to no avail, that hasn’t worked.

What is interesting about the virus is how contagious the S1P1 virus is and how the S1P1 virus started here in Alaska and is thought to have infected one of Alaska’s “left coast” bloggers and then have been transmitted to other leftwing bloggers in Alaska. The virus is so strong, that it eventually infected the cable T.V. networks and their shows like the Rachael Maddow Show and Keith Olbermann’s Countdown (to irrelevance) that air on MSNBC.

Excerpt, read the rest here.

If Al Gore is Right: Then the Earth is Flat

It only makes sense....

Some Food for Thought: Animals Don't Go and Get Vaccinations

Dogs Test Positive For H1N1 In China

China's Ministry of Agriculture has called for intensified monitoring and investigation of A/H1N1 flu in animals after two samples from sick dogs tested positive for the virus, according to a recent AFP report.

The veterinary clinic of College of Veterinary Medicine at the China Agricultural University reported Wednesday that two out of 52 samples from sick dogs tested positive for A/H1N1 flu virus, the ministry said late Friday.

Since pets and animals can catch the flu, how many pets and animals will go and get the vaccine? Will ObamaCare cover a vaccination program for pets? You see where I am going with this?

Because when you have crazy headlines that read: Infected dogs 'no threat to humans'

Then in the article it is stated:

Health experts in China have assured pet-lovers they need not panic following the discovery of two dogs infected with the deadly H1N1 flu at the weekend.

The animals were diagnosed in Beijing and, while it is possible for pets to transfer viruses to their owners, scientists said there is no evidence to suggest pets are already spreading the illness.

"If animals can get infected from humans, then the reverse is also true," said Feng Zijian, director of emergency response for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

"But there is no need to panic in this case."

Given the fact that scientists were suggesting the first incident of the H1N1 in Mexico started when it was transferred from a pig to a young boy; you have to ask yourself, how in the hell do they really know if there is no evidence to suggest that pets or animals are not spreading it?

Poland Sticking With Their Guns: Poland, Russia may not agree gas contract in 2009

I was wondering if Poland was going to get tough with Russia on this deal.

KRAKOW, Poland, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia and Poland may not agree a gas contract by the end of this year, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak said on Monday, contradicting earlier comments by Warsaw and Kremlin officials.

"In the current situation, I am not so certain anymore that we will reach the gas agreement by the end of the year," Pawlak told reporters. (Reporting by Wojciech Zurawski, writing by Gabriela Baczynska, editing by Anthony Barker)

Related Threads:

Good News From Poland: Poland and Bulgaria look to Qatar gas

Bad News for Poland April 27th if They Sign With Gazprom

More on the Global Warming Myth: More Scientists are Weighing In

Are Submarine Supertankers in Alaska’s Future?

Back in April of this year, I had made a post on my own website that was titled: What Ever Happened to This Idea: Submarine Tanker Plans for LNG.

What I didn’t expect was who would come to the website to read it.

When you have the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Australian Department of Defence, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in the U.K., SACLANT Undersea Research in Italy and Gazprom in the U.K. to name a few, come and visit, then you have to question, why the interest?

Now given what has transpired with the newly discovered e-mails from scientists who have manipulated the climate data to show a global warming pattern, the issue of submarine tankers and the interest from the named organizations, takes on new meaning with regard to the polar ice caps and polar bear habitat.

Excerpt, read the full story here.

Russian Train Crash: Explosion Caused 1 Meter-Diameter Crater (Update)

Chechen terrorists to blame for Russian train crash

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....No mention of it on Kavkazcenter.com....

There are conflicting reports on this. Some passengers said they heard no explosion and some say they heard a "loud slap."

If the Chechens did this, they will proudly state they did and post it... This is a wait and see story..

(Update)

Some have picked up on the fact that threats had been made and posted on Kavkazcenter by Muslims in country, that on November 25th, an attack would be made.

However, as shown here, a communique on who did what, has come out days later:

Chechen Mujahideen Claim Sabotage Bombing of Russian Natural Gas Storage Facility

By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqué issued by a group calling itself “Muwahiidun ar-Rusi” ("The Russian Monotheists") claiming responsibility for the bombing of "the largest subterranean natural gas storage facility in the world" in Stavropol, Russia. The communiqué was posted by Kavkaz Center, the official mouthpiece of the Chechen insurgents. Kavkaz stated that it "does not have reliable evidence about the organization...Let us remind that the same organization announced its participation in the sabotage at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant."

The complete text of the communique can be accessed via the NEFA Foundation website.

November 28, 2009 04:41 PM Print

So it remains to be seen who takes credit. And if the communique is legitimate..

Russia to Delivery S-300 Missile Defense System: Israel has no Ally

Russia 'will' deliver S-300 to Iran in 2 months

Time is running out....... Once these are installed, Iran will complete their nuke program...

Obama has said nothing about this system....

And on the S-300 system, it was stated on this site here.

Meanwhile the Israelis are selling spy drones to Russia in hope that Russia will not sell the anti-aircraft missile system to Iran.


Russia admitted that it signed a deal, two years ago, to sell Iran a billion dollars worth of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems. Russia has shipped some components, and trained some Iranian troops, but has not completed delivery. That's because Russia has been negotiating with the U.S., Israel and European nations, to obtain a bribe of sufficient size to make it worthwhile to lose the sale to Iran. This has not pleased the Iranians, but there's not much they can do about it.


Any bets on if Russia stops selling the anti-aircraft components to Iran in a round about way?


The Washington Times had it wrong as did Israel...

As do some people who write into the Wall Street Journal:


In "Obama and Putin's Russia" (Review and Outlook, July 6), you cite the pro-Kremlin analyst Gleb Pavlovsky that "there's not a single serious global issue where the United States is dependent on Russia today." In fact, Washington is counting on Russia to help solve the Iranian nuclear crisis.

Moscow offered Tehran the option of sending its spent nuclear fuel to Russia for reprocessing. That plan permits Iran to pursue peaceful nuclear power while preventing use of spent nuclear fuel to build bombs. Russia has also frozen the sale of its sophisticated S-300 antimissile system to Iran. Without it, Iran would find it difficult to defend itself against Israeli or U.S. air strikes.

Russia is helping to solve the Iranian nuclear issue peacefully, even though it would benefit enormously from an Israeli or American attack on Iran. Russia and Iran are among the world's top exporters of oil and natural gas. If military action in the Persian Gulf damaged Iran's exports or closed the Strait of Hormuz, the price of oil and gas would skyrocket. The Russian economy would rise like a phoenix from the ashes on surging oil revenues.

A defanged Iranian nuclear program would undermine the U.S. rationale for a missile defense in Eastern Europe. Without a nuclear Iran, Russia might persuade the U.S. to dismantle the missile defense on its doorstep.

Russia is acting responsibly regarding the Iranian nuclear issue and, in the process, can help U.S. interests.

Frank Richter
Detroit

There are no options left. No sanctions, no embargo, no more talk.....

Air strikes now.... But that won't happen.....