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3 Arrested In Shooting Of Baltimore Officer Officer Shot Twice In Jaw

 

POSTED: 8:54 pm EST January 23, 2009 UPDATED: 9:13 pm EST January 24, 2009

 

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore police said Saturday that three people have been arrested after an undercover police officer was shot twice in the face Friday while working a drug detail.

 

Watch: Josh Davidsburg's Saturday P.M. Report officer Dante Arthur, 33, was listed in critical but stable condition Saturday afternoon at Shock Trauma.

 

The men taken into custody were identified as Antwan Cox, Sean Cox and Sean Smith.

 

Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said the officer, who has been on the force for about eight years, was one of two plainclothes officers who approached a group of people they believed were selling drugs.

 

During the attempted purchase, Bealefeld said the officer was shot and his partner returned fire.

 

The incident occurred in the 500 block of Orchard Street. The names of the three arrested haven't been released.

 

Bealefeld said Friday night that two people at local hospitals might be linked to the shooting and police were investigating.

 

"I don't have any information on the extent of their injuries," Bealefeld said of the pair. The shooting occurred Friday night in the 500 block of Orchard Street.

 

Arthur is married, has a teenage son, was born and raised in Baltimore, and attended public schools in the city, according to authorities.

 

Mayor Sheila Dixon said the officer's wife, son and parents were at the hospital Friday night. "They are in deep prayer," she said.

 

"This incident just indicates that our officers are out there working hard every day to make the city safe and going after bad guys, violent offenders, drug activities," the mayor said. "This is a strong, strong officer working with other individuals trying to make the city safe. Our prayers are with the family."

Top Mexico Cops Charged With Favoring Drug Cartel Last Edited: Saturday, 24 Jan 2009, 2:50 PM CST Created: Saturday, 24 Jan 2009, 2:50 PM CST Santiago Meza Lopez, 45, center, aka "el pozolero del Teo", who allegedly worked for Teo, a drug lord from the Tijuana area, is escorted by Mexican soldiers and Federal police agents as they leave the place where he allegedly buried his victims, in the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Meza Lopez, the number 20th on the FBI most wanted list, allegedly helped a drug cartel dispose of hundreds of victims by dissolving them in acid. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) or just enabling jstl so that we can just write ${bean.property} and jsp takes care of the new lines. -->By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY  --  President Felipe Calderon's war on drug trafficking has led to his own doorstep, with the arrest of a dozen high-ranking officials with alleged ties to Mexico's most powerful drug gang, the Sinaloa Cartel.

The U.S. praises Calderon for rooting out corruption at the top. But critics say the arrests reveal nothing more than a timeworn government tactic of protecting one cartel and cracking down on others. 
Operation Clean House comes just as the U.S. is giving Mexico its first installment of $400 million in equipment and technology to fight drugs. Most will go to a beefed-up federal police agency run by the same people whose top aides have been arrested as alleged Sinaloa spies.  "If there is anything worse than a corrupt and ill-equipped cop, it is a corrupt and well-equipped cop," said criminal justice expert Jorge Chabat, who studies the drug trade.  U.S. drug enforcement agents say they have no qualms about sending support to Mexico.  "We've been working with the Mexican government for decades at the DEA," said Garrison Courtney, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. "Obviously, we ensure that the individuals we work with are vetted."  Agents who conduct raids have long suspected Mexican government ties to Sinaloa, and rival drug gangs have advertised the alleged connection in banners hung from freeways. While raids against the rival Gulf cartel have netted suspects, those against Sinaloa almost always came up empty -- or worse, said Agent Oscar Granados Salero of the Federal Investigative Agency, Mexico's equivalent of the FBI.   "Whenever we were trying to serve arrest warrants, they were already waiting for us, and a lot of colleagues lost their lives that way," Salero said.  The U.S. government estimates that the cartels smuggle $15 billion to $20 billion in drug money across the border each year.  Over the last five months, officials from the Mexican Attorney General's office, the federal police and even Mexico's representatives to Interpol have been detained on suspicion of acting as spies for Sinaloa or its one-time ally, the Beltran Leyva gang. An officer who served in Calderon's presidential guard was detained in December on suspicion of spying for Beltran Leyva.  Gerardo Garay, formerly the acting federal police chief, is accused of protecting the Beltran Leyva brothers and stealing money from a mansion during an October drug raid. Former drug czar Noe Ramirez, who was supposed to serve as point man in Calderon's anti-drug fight, is accused of taking $450,000 from Sinaloa.  Most of such tips are coming from a Mexican federal agent who infiltrated the U.S. embassy for the Beltran Leyva drug cartel. No such infiltrators have been found for the Gulf cartel, which controls most drug shipments in eastern Mexico and Central America. Sinaloa controls Pacific and western routes.  The DEA's Courtney agrees that there has been a greater crackdown on the Gulf Cartel in both the U.S. and Mexico, with more than 600 members of the gang arrested in September. But he declined to answer questions about Mexico favoring Sinaloa.  Calderon has long acknowledged corruption as an obstacle to his offensive, which involved sending more than 20,000 soldiers to battle drug trafficking throughout the country. The U.S. aid plan includes technology aimed at improving the way Mexico vets and supervises police.  The president vows to create a "new generation of police," consolidating agencies under Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, who heads all federal law enforcement.  That's what worries Granados Salero and other agents. So many of Garcia Luna's associates are under suspicion of Sinaloa ties that many wonder how he could not have known.  Calderon has publicly backed Garcia Luna, calling him "a man of great capacity."  "Obviously, if there was any doubt about his honesty, or any evidence that would call into question his honesty, he would certainly no longer be the secretary of public safety," the president said recently.   But some see the alleged Sinaloa ties with Garcia Luna's lieutenants as an old tactic used widely under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years with a tight fist. Officials in the past preferred to deal with one strong cartel rather than many warring gangs -- what Calderon faces now. More than 5,300 people died in drug-related slayings in 2008.   "I fear that Secretary Garcia Luna ... is working on the idea that once one cartel consolidates itself as the winner, that is, Sinaloa, the violence is going to drop," said organized crime expert Edgardo Buscaglia, who tracks federal police arrests and has studied law enforcement agencies' written reports.  Garcia Luna has denied being involved in corruption. He has acknowledged that authorities in the past chose the path of managing cartels. But in an interview with the newspaper El Sol, he said that approach only strengthens the gangs in the long run.

Others say the high number of Sinaloa infiltrators is a reflection of the two cartels' very different styles.

The Gulf cartel is led by military-trained hit men so violent that they reportedly planned to attack even U.S. law enforcement agencies.   
"They don't necessarily try to build networks of corruption. They prefer networks of intimidation," said Monte Alejandro Rubido, who leads Mexico's multi-agency National Security System.  Sinaloa, on the other hand, appears to use bribery and infiltration at least as much as its gunmen. Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman bribed his way out of a Mexican prison in 2001, provoking suspicions the government was on his side.  Many Mexicans worry about giving so much money and power to a still corrupt force. Of more than 56,000 local and state police officers evaluated between January and October last year, fewer than half met the recommended qualifications, Calderon reported to Congress in early December. No similar numbers are available for federal police. 
Agents like Granados Salero wonder who is in charge of police integrity.  "We agents find out about a lot of things," he said, "but who can we turn to?"

Mexican military says trafficker confessed to dissolving 300 bodies

By Sandra Dibble (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer, Jose Luis Jimenez Union-Tribune Staff Writer   8:32 p.m. January 23, 2009

TIJUANA — The Mexican military Friday announced the capture in Ensenada of a suspected drug trafficker who confessed to having dissolved the bodies of 300 victims in acid.

Santiago Meza López, 45, was among three men and a girl detained by members of the First Amphibious Group Special Forces Unit and the Federal Police near the toll road between Ensenada and Rosarito Beach.   In a brief interview with reporters in Ensenada, Meza said he was a former construction worker who worked for a drug trafficker named Eduardo Teodoro García Simental, who is known as El Teo. Law enforcement authorities say García is a one-time member of the Arellano Félix cartel who broke off from the organization this year and is believed to be behind much of the brutality in recent months as drug gangs fight over territory.   Meza said the victims were already dead by the time he received them and that he didn't know their identities. He said it took about 24 hours to dissolve them in barrels filled with acid. A military communique described the victims as García's enemies and debtors.   Also detained were Héctor Manuel Valenzuela Lobo, 45, who said he worked as a cook for García, and Fernando López Alarcón, who said he was Valenzuela's assistant.   In Tijuana on Friday, a prominent businessman was shot to death in the morning while driving to a gym for his daily workout, but his death is not connected to the recent drug violence in the region, according to the Baja California Attorney General's Office.   Rafael Fimbres Hernández, 55, was part of the family that owns and operates the Calimax supermarket chain and are also partners with the Smart & Final stores in Mexico.   Fimbres was found about 7:30 a.m. in his 2006 Audi with a bullet wound in the chest. He was in the Hipodromo neighborhood, where many prominent locals live, Attorney General Rommel Moreno Manjarrez said at a news conference.   He was taken to the state-run Hospital General, where he was declared dead about one hour later.   The attorney general, who said he will personally lead the investigation, said Fimbres was not being kidnapped when he was slain. Further, the homicide was not the work of organized crime, Moreno said. Investigators are still seeking a motive.  Including this slaying, there have been 10 homicides in Tijuana in the past week, according to data provided by the attorney general's office. The total so far this year is 57.   Fimbres was the nephew of José Fimbres Moreno, whose family founded Calimax in 1939 and gave back to the community through private educational institutions. It is not clear what his role was with the company; messages left with the corporate office were not returned. The family also declined to comment.

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'India's Enron' Blitzes U.N. Procurement Divisions Last Edited: Friday, 23 Jan 2009, 11:43 PM CST Created: Friday, 23 Jan 2009, 10:43 PM CST or just enabling jstl so that we can just write ${bean.property} and jsp takes care of the new lines. -->By George Russell

01/23/2009  -- 

What kind of special relationship has Satyam Computer Services Ltd., the Indian-based computer giant at the center of a $1 billion fraud scandal, been trying to cultivate with the United Nations?

The full extent of the company's relationship to the world body is not publicly known. But, U.N. documents obtained by FOX News strongly indicate that it continued to deepen even as Satyam slid into trouble.

The relationship is special enough, apparently, that in the days and months after the World Bank, a U.N. institution, suspended Satyam as a supplier last February for financial improprieties involving a top World Bank official, other U.N. agencies simultaneously accepted different branches of Satyam as suppliers.

The World Bank suspension, upgraded to a complete ban on Sept. 22, 2008, brought an end to a strategic partnership that had sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Indian computer firm since 2003. But as FOX News subsequently reported, the World Bank sanctions were not conveyed by the institution to other agencies in the sprawling U.N. system.

According to internal U.N. procurement documents obtained by FOX News, no fewer than four major U.N. agencies — the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) — suddenly adopted a Geneva, Switzerland-based branch of Satyam as a provisional supplier on March 3, 2008 — the same day that the company applied for acceptance.

• Click here to see the Swiss branch's registration.

The extraordinary salvo of lightning-fast U.N. acceptances, at a time when Satyam itself knew it had been suspended by the World Bank, did not end there.

Same-day approval was also given to the Swiss branch of Satyam by the U.N.'s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), based in Rome, on Aug. 6, 2008, according to the same documentation from the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM), a central registry of U.N. suppliers based on information from the separate agencies.

That was roughly a month before the World Bank converted its February suspension of India-based Satyam into a formal ban — a fact that the public only learned on Dec. 22, via FOX News.

And again on Oct. 3, 2008 — after the World Bank's formal ban had taken effect — yet another branch of Satyam, this time based in Parsippany, New Jersey, emitted a flood of requests to be accepted as a U.N. vendor, and got same-day approval from UNICEF.

The Parsippany branch's Oct. 3 request was also approved by IFAD, but at a more leisurely pace — on Dec. 18, 2008. That was four days before FOX News revealed the months-long World Bank suspension and ban.

A number of other U.N. agencies also received the Oct. 3 request from Satyam USA, but apparently did nothing, according to the UNGM records.

• Click here to see the Parsippany branch's registration.

What exactly was going on?

For one thing, as FOX News pointed out earlier this month, Satyam was continuing to make money from contracts with the U.N., in part because the World Bank did not make its suspension and subsequent banning of Satyam known to other U.N. agencies. One of those contracts was a $6 million service agreement with the U.N. Secretariat to customize and manage its sensitive human relations software around the world.

But the latest documentation to see daylight reveals something else — a blitzkrieg effort by Satyam to install different parts of itself in the U.N. system, even as it sank into the swamp of financial fraud and sanctions imposed by the World Bank.

The significance of at least one part of the re-registration effort seemed clear from the records examined by FOX News: each time Satyam applied for a new vendor registration, it received a new ID number, known as its "UNGM Number," in the Global Marketplace system, which allowed it to be recorded as a separate supplier.

The different registrations allowed the respective Satyam branches to remain in the Global Marketplace as separate entries alongside the original India-based main company (UNGM Number 108808).

• Click here to see the main company registration.

The Swiss-based branch of Satyam was issued UNGM Number 149527, and the Parsippaney-based branch got Number 145821.

These separate identities were maintained even though all of the different companies offered up the same Web address at UNGM — www.satyam.com — .Whether each of the distinct companies may have played some role in Satyam's final financial implosion, which may not be fully entangled by Indian investigators for months, or even years, is also not known.

The same separate identities also allowed different branches of Satyam to continue to try to offer services to the U.N. — which it was already, in some cases, doing. Among the U.N. contracts underway even after the Indian company imploded were a $6,035,000 contract to customize and manage sensitive human resources software for the U.N. Secretariat, made public by FOX News on Jan. 12.

As soon as FOX News began questioning that contract, U.N. officials began scrambling to suspend Satyam's status — but only as the existence of each separate branch of the company was made known to them by FOX News.

Thus, the Indian branch of Satyam (Number 108808) was officially suspended by the U.N. Global Marketplace, through the sites manager, known as the U.N. Office for Project Services, or UNOPS, on Jan. 14 after the FOX News article on its human relations software contract appeared.

• Click here to see the suspension announcement.

But the Parsippany and Geneva branches of Satyam were only marked as suspended on some views of the UNGM website on Jan. 22, the day after FOX News asked all of the U.N. agencies that had suddenly embraced the firm to account for its status with them.

• Click here to see the amended suspension announcement.

When it came to answering questions about their registration of Satyam and their contractual relations with the firm, the U.N. agencies offered varying and sometimes contradictory explanations.

The United Nations Development Program told FOX News that it had contracted for one year with Satyam, branch unspecified , to the tune of $1.7 million starting in December 2007, and was currently "evaluating" phase-out of the contract — apparently still in force after the one-year term had expired. (A check of other U.N. data bases revealed that most of the UNDP contracts were with a British-based branch of Satyam that did not show up in the Global Marketplace listing at all.)

Geneva-based IFAD, a relatively little-known U.N. agency that finances agricultural development in poor countries, told FOX News that it has a three-year "Long Term Agreement" with the Parsippany branch of Satyam, which went into effect last June. Such long-term agreements are typically open-ended, but in IFAD's case, a spokesman said, it has so far involved two consultancy contracts, with a value of about $100,000.

IFAD did not say what the consultancies involved, or whether the agreement would be terminated in light of the fraud charges engulfing Satyam's parent company. Nor did it explain why the Global Marketplace website only listed the Parsippany branch of Satyam as being "evaluated" as a supplier in December, 2008, months after the consultancies were contracted.

The Geneva-based United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that it had never formally registered Satyam's Swiss branch at all, and any record of that registration on the Global Marketplace was apparently mistaken. "In Satyam Geneva's case they were never pre-qualified, approved or registered by UNHCR in our vendor database because we never received the required follow-up documents from them" a UNHCR spokesman maintained, basing his reply on answers he got from UNHCR procurement in Budapest. "The UNGM platform you read is only used by UNHCR as an entry portal for potential vendors to communicate to us their interest in being registered with us or as a platform for us to advertise tenders that are open to all."

According to a spokesman for the managers of the U.N. Global Marketplace, however, any status of the companies noted on the website only got there because the solicited U.N. entity approved. As one of them put it, each U.N. entity "manages its own set of potential suppliers in UNGM and independently approves, rejects, and suspends suppliers, which actions appear in the database via the website www.ungm.org."

And in the UNGM database, Satyam Switzerland is clearly listed as approved for UNHCR. In the case of some other agencies approached in the Swiss company's registration blitz, requests for registration are noted, but approval is not indicated.

UNHCR officials insisted, however, that "we have never entered into any contract with any of the Satyam companies, and although they may have submitted tenders in open tender procedures, they were never successful with those."

According to UNICEF, Satyam's request for registration involved nothing more than an on-line form. "Any company can list the particular services that it claims to sell, and indicate it wants to sell them to UNICEF," a spokesman for the children's fund said. "UNICEF's only role at that point is to confirm that the supplies/services in question are ones we buy. If so, the company is "registered" with the UNGM. Registration in one day is not uncommon."

A subsequent further review of Satyam within UNICEF, the spokesman added, confirmed its eligibility — "including (among other things) a review of its financials." Satyam received a stamp of approval from UNICEF's own purchasing organization on October 16, the spokesman said — an approval that was rescinded this month after revelation of the World Bank's ban. UNICEF, the spokesman emphasized, "has not done any business with them."

According to the World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO), its own vendor registration policy "does not require any pre-qualification or vetting of the companies that wish to register as potential suppliers." Companies are only thoroughly vetted when they respond to contract tenders. A WIPO spokesman said that acceptance of a company through UNGM would be "automatic."

Yet despite the fact that the Swiss branch of Satyam's acceptance at WIPO dates from March 12, 2008, the spokesman also reported that the same branch "won a WIPO open international tender in 2007 for the provision of a range of IT consulting services." The spokesman did not specify the value of the contract. That ongoing contract with Satyam had been "evaluated" since the revelations concerning the parent company's misdeeds, but only, it seemed, from the viewpoint of whether the Swiss branch might run out of money as a result of the financial scandal.

That risk, the spokesman reported, had been deemed "negligible." No other reason for a change in the supplier had apparently been contemplated.

One of the broader issues raised by the Satyam case is whether any public source of information about U.N. contracting actually reveals the true state of its dealing with companies that, as in the case of Satyam, have engaged both in financial fraud and in unacceptable financial dealings with U.N. officials.

But the same issue has been true, of course, in regard to the U.N.'s internal and non-public information systems.

Last May, for example, FOX News revealed that United Nations Development Program auditors had reported that the agency's multibillion-dollar procurement business was a shambles, rife with shoddy paperwork and faulty or non-existent bidding practices, full of unqualified personnel, and with no sure way of knowing whether its vendors even had been registered with the rest of the U.N. as maintaining terrorist ties.

The case of Satyam may well raise the issue of whether a similar audit is needed across the entire U.N. system.

 

 Bilderberg group?

"The task force was unable to confiscate the arms, despite the violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that prohibits Iran from selling arms, because there is no enforcement mechanism in place."-DogJ (how convenient)

UN and the "Globalization" process?

How do they funnel funds?

 

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"Weather control, chem trails, global warming", those D scientist working in conjuction for the evil influences that rule the world, AIG lapped up the gravy on this secret.  (Katrina, Ike, Floods) 

Now why was there a sudden tornado that cropped up on the south side of town in a white rich area in Denver while Obama was there, and no other place was affected, nor was the tornado predicted or forecasted.  HUM...............................................  Call it a sort of test drive presentation for Obama. 

Why did the Mexicans get credit without ID's, home loans by the "Bank of America", SSN account?  Bush administration and "Pelousi" wanted to pi-s off the American people, the creation of racial indifferences, remeber part two of the master plan. 

Pit race against race.

Scientist forced the "change", having Bilderberg group on your resume can get you everywhere even a transcontinental pass. ( maybe that's why the Supreme Court did not request a "look see" at the birth certificate)

Phase two of the master plan, the "race" is on. 

Tornadoes, floods, do not happen in the Middle East so wars have to be created (population control)

With this brewing the 2010 plan could be just a waste of time, that sucks.

North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium

updated 7:20 p.m. EST, Sat January 17, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/17/korea.
nuclear/index.html

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Senior North Korean officials say the communist regime has "weaponized" its stockpile of plutonium, according to a U.S. scholar, in a move suggesting that North Korea may have significantly hardened its stance on nuclear negotiations.  Asian newspapers reported in September that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was seriously ill.   Selig Harrison, one of the few U.S. scholars granted access to senior North Korean officials, said at a news conference in Beijing that the officials told him they had weaponized 30.8 kilograms of plutonium, enough for four or five warheads.

The director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, who just returned from a five-day visit to Pyongyang, said senior North Korean officials told him the warheads will not be open for inspection.  If it is true, the news portends a gloomy outlook for the future of the six-party talks that began in 2003 with the goal of getting North Korea to end its nuclear program.  "It does change the game," Harrison said.  South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia are participating in the talks.  A 2007 agreement calls for scrapping nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula in return for energy aid to the North, normalized relations between the North and the United States and Japan, and a formal peace pact.  The North Koreans told Harrison they want the rest of the fuel aid that Japan has promised them.

North Korea had agreed to disable the reactor that had produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. But the United States and its allies have asked it to give up the plutonium it already has, an estimated 30 kilograms, as well as details of any other bomb-producing programs.  Harrison said one possible reason for Pyongyang's tough new stance could be the declining health of leader Kim Jong Il, who reportedly suffered a stroke last year and may no longer be involved in day-to-day decisions.  "People I talked to have many indications that some important things are submitted to him, but he is not working in the way he used to," Harrison said.  He said military hard-liners have taken the lead in demanding from the United States a full declaration and verification of all nuclear weapons sent to South Korea between 1957 and 1991. The hard-liners also seek full normalization of relations with Washington before more talks about scrapping their nuclear arsenal.  On Tuesday, during her Senate confirmation hearing for the secretary of state position, Sen. Hillary Clinton made it clear: de-nuclearization first, then diplomatic normalization.  President-elect Barack Obama has stated his willingness to talk to the North Korean leader.  Harrison also said the North demanded the completion of the light-water reactors as compensation for the dismantling of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.  The light-water reactor, which is not capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, was promised to North Korea in the early 1990s for the North giving up its nuclear weapons. Its construction has been suspended.  North Korea has long considered its nuclear program integral to its national security.   North Korea tested a nuclear weapon in 2006. In June, it acknowledged producing about 40 kilograms of enriched plutonium.

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Reyes, state reps may have contributed to veto's upholding

 

on the other hand

Homeland Security ready for drug-war escalation into U.S.

military on border

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It is called "CHANGE A PET’S LIFE DAY", animal shelters around the nation will be involved, adoptions fees will be waived totally, January 24, 2009.  Check it out!

 

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Did everyone catch Bush's exiting speech?  Did you get all warm and tingley inside?  Not me, I almost threw a shoe at my TV.   

What was it he stated about liberty and freedom that we have.  HUM.......................................

Wasn't this the same guy that stood in front of America a few months ago and threatened us with martial law if we did not bail out AIG and others?  For what, what have they done with their money?  Yeah, I was feeling the "freedom" and "liberty" in America then. 

Bush talked about other countries having the opportunity to do better now due to the war.  Ooooops, I guess doing better in America wasn't on his list.  While he was so called improving other countries and their economical opportunities he forgot about his own.  I think there is a saying "don't clean up someone's backyard, until you have cleaned your own".   Maybe if he had started at home the "big balloon" BS would have been properly addressed, instead of putting your people and their familiies in the streets or sleeping in camps.  Yeah, that was a real selling point to other countries how democracy works.  To say you have a better remedy for other governments you should be able to prove it.

He brought up the subject of truth and honesty.  Then why wasn't the truth ever exposed about 9/11.  Why has that been such a secret?  Why has he stood on his head to make sure that it is not investigated.  Were we lied to, he sure doesn't want us to know the facts.

The "war", I do not think one country and their government should go into another countries government and tell them how to run their country.  We would not like that, so why do it to others.  If they wanted democracy then it is up to them and their responsibility to fight within their own country to achieve it.  Stay on your side of the fence and we will stay on ours.  When we started mixing it up is when problems began.  If people are going to come from different countries then have their country of origin pay for their health insurance, shelter, etc.  til they are independent.

The great American SSN account give away?  Thanks Bush, not that any American broke his back working in his country for some small future.  Beings the wall street investors were allowed to throw our money away.    SSN should become a option rather than automatic deduction if it is going to be handed to other countries.   Can we have Mexico's  SSN account? Can we take "Pelousi's"?

 Did you and Chertoff ever communicate about protecting America's economical system from financial devestation?  So who and what department was responsible for detecting and exposing corruption?  What happened?  What happen to the American governing system that made it economically fall on its face? American Dream, well the Bush administration left his own people and his economy behind while he gave other countries opportunities.  

Afghanistan, is Ms. Bush still going to send money to charities located in Afghanistan, lets make sure those funds do not funnel and fuel the militants of our next war.  Yeah Bush you kept them safe, but you also threw them into the streets and broke without jobs.

Enjoy Texas,  Mr Bush

P.S.  They wear boots down there.

 

 

Obama did choose a "Cadi" for his transportation, right?

Ruth Bates better never, ever work in the car industry, because you need a tough skin to put up with all the jokes and comments made at auctions, dealerships, and otherwise.  If she was soo damaged then why did she hang out with the Funks?  Just a minute I am getting my shovel, it is getting deep in KCMO.  Funks why did you ever trust someone in your sector that was like this, see how you were taken advantage of.

Peanut butter recalled amid salmonella outbreak

(CNN) -- King Nut Companies issued a total recall of peanut butter that it distributes Saturday amid fears of a salmonella outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said has infected 399 people in 42 states.

Salmonella bacteria are transmitted to humans by eating contaminated foods. Ohio-based King Nut acknowledged in a statement that salmonella had been found in an open 5-pound tub of King Nut peanut butter.  "We are very sorry this happened," Martin Kanan, president of King Nut Companies, said in the statement. "We are taking immediate and voluntary action because the health and safety of those who use our products is always our highest priority."  King Nut peanut butter was identified as the source of an outbreak that may have contributed to one death in Minnesota, state public health officials said Friday.  King Nut said Saturday that peanut butter sold under its label was manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America. The release gave no other details on the manufacturer, but Peanut Corporation of America's Web site lists its headquarters as Lynchburg, Virginia, and says it has processing operations in Virginia, Georgia and Texas.  Peanut Corporation of America could not be immediately reached for comment.

The CDC is working with public health officials in the 42 affected states to determine the cause of the outbreak of a type of salmonella called Typhimurium. Learn more about salmonella »

CDC investigating salmonella outbreak in 42 states

The first cases were reported September 3, but most cases occurred between October 1 and December 31, the CDC said. About 18 percent of victims were hospitalized as a result of their illness, and patients' ages have ranged from 2 months to 98 years.  California is reporting the highest case count, with 55, followed by Ohio with 53 cases, Massachusetts with 39, Minnesota with 30 and Michigan with 20.  The other 37 states are each reporting fewer than 20 cases.  Eight states have reported no cases connected to the outbreak. They are Montana, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Alaska and Hawaii.  In its statement, King Nut said it distributes peanut butter "only through food service accounts. It is not sold directly to consumers."

Salmonella infection

The statement added, "King Nut does not supply any of the ingredients for the peanut butter distributed under its label. All other King Nut products are safe and not included in this voluntary recall."  Strains of salmonella linked to previous outbreaks have been traced to contaminated eggs, meat, poultry, vegetables, pet food and peanut butter.  Salmonella infections can be treated with antibiotics, though some strains are resistant to these drugs, according to the CDC. Most people infected develop diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps within a few days of infection, and their illness can last up to a week.  Most recover without treatment, but some may suffer dehydration and, in severe cases, require hospitalization.  Children, senior citizens, people with chronic illnesses and those with weak immune systems tend to be at highest risk for complications, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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How stupid, I can remeber when prisons were built outside of city limits for obvious reasons.  Notice it states "private", not state, not city, so who will the prison serve?  Or is this a media bloop?

INDEPENDENCE, MO  --  Some residents in Independence are upset over a proposed private prison being built near 23rd Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard. They say that the prison would affect their safety and property values, but the developer says that facility will be secure and will bring jobs to the area. FOX 4's Monica Evans has the report.

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