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Hark the herald angelarium screeches?

Posted by Niven on June 30, 2009

Take this with a grain of salt. I’ve decided to write a short sotry.

Solve the riddle before The Sphynx asks. Please.

If my ears are correct there is a type of bomb or something called an Angelarium.

Google or bing the word “angelarium”. You should come up with art work. There are a series of angels. memorize the names if you can. might be passwords or a complicated code.

..Hmm maybe just an advertising stunt or otherwise.

Yes, this is a long shot, but bare with me. I’ve heard worse and less. I’ll try to explain the hazards of intelligencia, the criminal mind and something like Dr. Moriarty.

Oddly enough I found a historical lead to the real dr. Moriarty. Nemesis of Dr. Sherlock Holmes… I’ll teach you also about Holmes method. Hopefully it won’t break you mind or necessary conditioning for military needs. I saw the ping backs and comments that go to Central and South America. Considering the coup in Honduras, I wonder. I gandered the Granma a communist cuban paper. News with a different angle and clue.

The first request for an in depth story was for the first bit on donations from Western countries. I’ll try more than a yes, we can  or no, we can’t approach.

Sleep well.

 

As for the ungratiousness of Iraq by the festivities, I only wonder for your sake your understanding of what it is like to be on the receiving end of life like being colonized. Those colonized will always feel, not grateful. Thank yourself it wasn’t like British occupation or colonization of countries in Africa or India. BTW: Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that was not colonized. I’ll tell you a story about Haille Sallaisse and Haiti another day. But, true, could have Iraq done it themselves, no (I assume.) There is never thanks to the agressors. And understand the u.S. must let them rule/govern themselves without intervention. By this festivities see it as a formal break of support. Sometimes the bird has got to learn to fly out of  the nest itself.

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Travel Warning

Posted by Niven on June 29, 2009

G-20 is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania… September 24-25, 2009.

Get a good seat.

1) Go to “O” and get a medium french fry for you and three other people and a coke. Sit there and shut up. You’ll hear the digs better than the music.Best seat if on the first floor is around the corner to the right of the ordering counter. Its been a while, but some places never change.

Sit up on the second floor if you need a quiet dark place for a deal to go down. The stairs are to the left of the ordering counter. If I could remember the name of the hoaigie place near Braddock, I think, you r head would turn. If you must insist on being taken for a local. Order some perrogies. Look it up. and with sauteed onions and sour cream. If you must seem like you always lived there. Eat them with apple sauce and liver and onions.

If you must stay longer that a week, try some white pizza and visit the point. Go on foot like any good gum and candy shoe would do.

Best view is on the highest hill in West Mifflin. You’ll get a gander at the whole city, including a defunct steel mill, the river and three river’s stadium.

Unfortunately there are no hotels there, but a pear tree that needs pruning.

Best spot to find a free wi-fi… might be triangulated between the front of UP library, the cathedral of learning, Carneigie library, Carneigie Museum, and the Aviary.

 

If you’ve never seen the colors of the leaves change in the fall it will be the best time to open your mind to nature and the power and beauty of weather.

Go for a hike in the woods, if you can brave it go off trail. (FYS: Spiders and Snakes are dormant going into fall and winter). Especially if you’ve never seen snow in you life or a deciduous tree. It bring home the importance of environmental consciousness in these green bill in the U.S. Congress. If you’ve never seenit, to you it doesn’t exist. To others it mean till you see it and smell it, you’ll never understand.

-Thomas Paine Frog, Esq. and Niven C. Constantine

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From the Ridge of the Coin

Posted by Niven on June 29, 2009

DEVELOPMENT: WESTERN AID DECLINES, FINANCIAL BAILOUTS MOUNT
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – As the world’s poorer nations warn about the gravity of the global financial crisis on their fragile economies, the United Nations has exposed an apparent contradiction by Western donors who cry poverty even while they raise trillions of dollars to rescue their beleaguered financial institutions. (#65737) 1005 words more
RIGHTS: U.N. ASKED TO PROBE CIA RENDITION
NEW YORK, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Human rights groups are asking United Nations officials to investigate the case of an Italian citizen and victim of the “extraordinary rendition” program of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who is currently being held in a Moroccan prison based on a confession coerced from him through torture. (#65730) 1257 words more
MIDEAST: IRAN ELECTORAL CRISIS RIPPLES OUTWARD
WASHINGTON, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – As the political crisis that erupted after Iran’s Jun. 12 elections enters its third week, it is becoming evident that this crisis will have repercussions in many parts of the Middle East – and far beyond. (#65732) 1531 words more
DEVELOPMENT: GREEN ENERGY FOR ALL BY 2030?
VIENNA, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – While industrialized countries struggle to switch from climate-damaging, carbon-based energy to greener energy sources, much of the world is desperately energy poor, with 1.6 billion people having no access to electricity and 2.4 billion relying on wood and dung for heat and cooking. (#65733) 836 words more
ECONOMY: GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM NEEDS IMMEDIATE OVERHAUL
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – The world community must take immediate action to overhaul the current global financial system – that’s what a vast majority of political leaders and policymakers from the developing world who are attending a three-day U.N. conference on the global economic crisis are saying. (#65734) 923 words more
DEVELOPMENT: U.N. MUST BE THE CENTER FOR REFORM, GROUP SAYS
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 26, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – A coalition of civil society organizations called the Global Social Economy Group (GSEG) is calling for the immediate and long-term financing needs of developing countries to take center-stage at the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis. (#65731) 994 words more
SOMALIA: U.S. CONFIRMS ARMS SHIPMENTS TO BOLSTER BESIEGED GOV’T
WASHINGTON, Jun. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – The U.S. State Department Thursday confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias which, according to some analysts, are linked to al Qaeda. (#65738) 1265 words more
IRAN: WOMEN DISPLAY NEW MILITANCY IN PRO-DEMOCRACY VIGILS
TEHRAN, Jun. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters ignored government warnings and gathered in Tehran’s Baharestan Square in front of the Parliament building Wednesday. They were met with some of the harshest violence seen since Iran’s post-election turmoil erupted nearly two weeks ago. (#65709) 1293 words more
Q&A: GAY RIGHTS ATTORNEY HAS HOPES FOR A NEW SOCIALIST CUBA
HAVANA, Jun. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Renowned for her work for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite and transgender people, Mariela Castro advocates a fairer, more inclusive, and above all more participatory socialism in Cuba. (#65739) 1710 words more
US-IRAN: MISREADING THE PROTESTS IN TEHRAN
WASHINGTON, Jun. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – After 30 years of enmity that closed off most lines of communication, the recent crisis in Iran has sparked a boom of U.S. interest in the Islamic Republic. (#65736) 1226 words more
MIDEAST: ISRAELIS CHAFE AS U.S. RAISES THE ANTE ON SETTLEMENTS
JERUSALEM, Jun. 24, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Middle East peacemaking has stalled for years over the following conundrum: whether to begin with the core issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict – borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem – and leave Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the side. Or tackle the settlements head-on, thereby opening the way for a peace drive. (#65676) 1030 words more
DEVELOPMENT: ACTIVIST SEES LITTLE HOPE FOR POOR AT U.N. CONFAB
BRUSSELS, Jun. 24, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Representatives from more than 140 countries are taking part in three-day talks on the ‘World Financial Crisis and its Impact on Development.’ With a spotlight on emergency and long-term responses to the crisis, especially on the world’s poorest countries, the talks, sponsored by the United Nations, began today in New York. (#65677) 715 words more
Q&A: DISSATISFACTION AMONG IRAQ WAR GI’s HITS NEW HEIGHTS
NEW YORK, Jun. 23, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Not since Vietnam have so many GIs objected to a war, and never have military families spoken out so strongly for withdrawal. (#65644) 1180 words more
EL SALVADOR: LEFTIST GOVT CLAMPS DOWN ON CORRUPTION
SAN SALVADOR, Jun. 23, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Central figures in the government of right-wing former Salvadoran president Antonio Saca (2004-2009) will face questioning by a commission led by Finance Minister Carlos Cáceres as part of a wide-ranging investigation into corruption. (#65646) 1055 words more
POLITICS: WORLD BANK, IMF HEADS SKIP SUMMIT ON GLOBAL CRISIS
UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 23, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – When a major international conference on financing for development took place in the Qatari capital of Doha last November, the heads of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) skipped the meeting. (#65647) 801 words more
MOROCCO: BEATEN, MISTREATED AFRICANS WANT OUT OF MOROCCO
RABAT, Jun. 23, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in Morocco. Several refugees say they have been beaten up by Moroccan UN personnel. (#65650) 732 words more
LITHUANIA: RIGHTS GROUPS IN UPROAR OVER BAN ON GAY SPEECH
BRATISLAVA, Jun. 19, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Lithuania’s parliament passed legislation this week that bans any discussion of homosexuality in schools or reference to it in public information available to children. (#65593) 1175 words more
SUDAN: RIGHTS GROUPS MISREAD DARFUR CRISIS, AUTHOR SAYS
CAPE TOWN, Jun. 19, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – With Darfur’s colonial and historical roots in mind, Mahmood Mamdani concludes that the crisis in Darfur is not a racially driven genocide as it is commonly framed by outside observers, but a fight for land, triggered by drought. (#65596) 1522 words more
Q&A: 30,000 EDIBLE PLANT SPECIES FACE ‘SILENT EXTINCTION’
ROME, Jun. 19, 2009 (IPS/GIN) – Self-described as the largest international research organization, “Bioversity International” is dedicated to promoting conservation efforts and the use of agricultural biodiversity. Emile Frison, director-general of Bioversity International, explains the critical role this science plays in meeting the development needs of people and societies. (#65595) 788 words more
AFRICA
full story Jun 25  POVERTY-MAURITIUS: JOB CUTS FORCE THOUSANDS INTO POVERTY (#65719)
full story Jun 25  TRADE-MAURITIUS: PARADISE ISLAND, PIRATES’ DEN (#65711)
full story Jun 25  ECONOMY-AFRICA: EXPERT URGES NEW AFRICAN STRATEGY (#65718)
full story Jun 24  RIGHTS-GAMBIA: WHO KILLED DEYDA HYDARA? (#65726)
full story Jun 24  POLITICS-SO SUDAN: WOMEN SEE THREATS TO THEIR POLITICAL GAINS (#65725)
full story Jun 24  ENVIRONMENT-MALAWI: HELPING ELEPHANTS OUT OF HARM’S WAY (#65724)
full story Jun 24  ECONOMY-NIGERIA: POPULATION FEARS FURTHER ECONOMIC PAIN (#65722)
full story Jun 23  ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: HARD TIMES ON THE COPPERBELT (#65655)
full story Jun 23  RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: ‘CUT, CUT AGAIN AND NOW TIE TIGHTLY’ (#65656)
full story Jun 22  ANGOLA: MILITARY RAIDS TARGET RESTIVE OIL-RICH ENCLAVE (#65626)
full story Jun 22  HEALTH-SO. AFRICA: AIDS DRUG DONORS PREPARE TO MAKE CUTS (#65623)
full story Jun 22  FINANCE-ZIMBABWE: WITH INVESTMENT AT A TRICKLE, JOBS DRY UP (#65622)
full story Jun 21  EGYPT: WATER-SHARING AGREEMENT HITS A SNAG (#65630)
full story Jun 20  AFRICA-AGRO: SEEKING DIVERSITY, RESILIENCE AND FARMER CONTROL (#65637)
full story Jun 19  SOUTH AFRICA: HATE LETTERS THREATEN SMALL SOMALI BUSINESSES (#65598)
full story Jun 19  Q&A: SHOPOWNERS FEAR ‘THE CAKE IS NOT ENOUGH’ TO SHARE (#65599)
full story Jun 18  TANZANIA: TREE CONSERVATION EFFORTS BENEFIT COMMUNITIES, TOO (#65603)
full story Jun 18  GAMBIA: EDITORS IN QUEST FOR MURDERED COLLEAGUE ARE DETAINED (#65604)
ASIA
full story Jun 25  ASIA: DAMS ACROSS THE MEKONG COULD TRIGGER A ‘WATER WAR’ (#65713)
full story Jun 25  DEVELOPMENT: CHINA LENDS SUPPORT TO U.N. FINANCE SUMMIT (#65728)
full story Jun 24  INDIA: CITIZEN OPPOSITION TO ‘NUCLEARISM’ BUILDS (#65727)
full story Jun 24  MALAYSIA: BLACKLISTED FOR NOT ENFORCING TRAFFICKING LAWS (#65649)
full story Jun 24  EAST TIMOR: UN HELPS TO MITIGATE DISASTER RISK (#65645)
full story Jun 23  FIJI: SWINE FLU SPREADS TO VULNERABLE PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS (#65648)
full story Jun 20  ASIA: REGIONAL RAILWAY LINKS AIM TO BOOST TRADE, COOPERATION (#65642)
full story Jun 18  INDIA: 25 YEARS LATER, U.S. POLITICIANS SAY, ‘CLEAN UP BHOPAL’ (#65606)
MIDDLE EAST
full story Jun 25  LEBANON: HOW NOT TO OPPOSE AN OPPOSITION (#65714)
full story Jun 25  MIDEAST: PALESTINIAN PRISONERS SHACKLED AND HIDDEN AWAY (#65712)
full story Jun 25  US-AFGHANISTAN: AIRSTRIKE REPORT BELIES “BLAME TALIBAN” LINE (#65710)
full story Jun 24  POLITICS: U.S. TO NAME AMBASSADOR TO DAMASCUS AFTER 4 YEARS (#65721)
full story Jun 24  MIDEAST WAR: REPORTER SAYS ‘FALSE LETTER’ LINKED IRAN, BOMBING (#65678)
full story Jun 23  MIDEAST: BLOODY SHOWDOWN AHEAD IF UNITY TALKS FAIL (#65654)
full story Jun 23  CONFLICT: SAUDI ACCOUNT OF KHOBAR BORE SIGNS OF FRAUD (#65657)
full story Jun 23  IRAN: HARSH CRACKDOWN EXTENDS TO LEADING OPPOSITION FIGURES (#65686)
full story Jun 22  SAUDI ARABIA: REPORTER SAYS SAUDIS BLOCKED TRUCK BOMB PROBE (#65624)
full story Jun 21  IRAN: TEAR GAS FAILED TO STIFLE ANGER OVER DISPUTED VOTE (#65627)
full story Jun 21  IRAN: POLITICAL CRISIS DEEPENS AFTER GUARDS DEPLOY LETHAL FORCE (#65629)
full story Jun 20  IRAN: PROTESTERS REJECT KHAMENEI-SANCTIONED VOTE .TEXT (#65631)
full story Jun 20  MIDEAST: AID AGENCIES CONDEMN GAZA BLOCKADE (#65634)
full story Jun 20  LEBANON: DEFEATED SHIAS PONDER UNCERTAIN FUTURE (#65635)
LATIN AMERICA
full story Jun 24  GUATEMALA: JOURNALISTS A TARGET OF ORGANIZED CRIME (#65723)
full story Jun 24  ARGENTINA: REGION’S LARGEST BANK LOAN TO CLEAN UP DIRTY RIVER (#65729)
full story Jun 23  ECONOMY-CUBA: HOLIDAY BLUES IN TIMES OF CRISIS (#65684)
full story Jun 23  COLOMBIA: SPYING IN THE NAME OF ‘DEMOCRATIC SECURITY’ (#65687)
full story Jun 22  RELIGION-CUBA: WOMEN IN THE PULPIT (#65658)
full story Jun 22  HEALTH-BRAZIL: BIRTH CENTRES VS. HOSPITALS (#65663)
full story Jun 22  SOUTH AMERICA: ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS TO FORM COMMON FRONT (#65665)
full story Jun 21  NICARAGUA: 27,000 WOMEN FIRED IN FREE TRADE ZONE OVER 3 YEARS (#65628)
full story Jun 20  URUGUAY: RURAL SCHOOLS THREATENED BY DEPOPULATION (#65632)
full story Jun 19  COLOMBIA: UN SEES ‘SYSTEMATIC’ KILLINGS OF CIVILIANS BY SOLDIERS (#65636)
full story Jun 19  PERU: NATIVE GROUPS WIN HALT TO MINING, DRILLING, LOGGING (#65638)
full story Jun 19  ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: GREEN PARTIES GOING IT ALONE (#65643)
full story Jun 18  PARAGUAY: BREAKING BARRIERS, 10 NATIVE STUDENTS ARE COLLEGE BOUND (#65601)
full story Jun 18  BRAZIL: GOVT TO HELP REALIZE VAST WIND POWER POTENTIAL (#65597)
full story Jun 18  MEXICO: COMMUNITY ECO-ALLIANCES PRIORITIZE HEALTH, NOT PROFIT (#65607)
US & CANADA
full story Jun 26  REPORT-PART 5: HOW FREEH BECAME “DEFENSE LAWYER” FOR SAUDIS (#65735)
full story Jun 23  POLITICS-US: OBAMA TAKES SHARPER TONE ON IRANI REPRESSION (#65680)
full story Jun 22  Q&A: FINANCIAL CRISIS UNPRECEDENTED SINCE 1930S* (#65660)
full story Jun 22  POLITICS-US: OBAMA’S RIGHT TURN (#65664)
full story Jun 22  U.S.: NEO-CONS, REPUBLICANS PAINT OBAMA AS WEAK ON “ROGUES” (#65659)
full story Jun 19  US-MIDEAST: CARTER ADDS WEIGHT TO SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY PUSH (#65641)
full story Jun 19  POLITICS-US: WHITE NATIONALISTS FIND A HOME IN THE MILITARY (#65640)
full story Jun 19  US-MEXICO: MORE MIGRANT DEATHS IN BORDER CROSSINGS (#65594)
full story Jun 19  Q&A: “MIGRANT WORKERS BRING VIBRANCY TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT” (#65639)
full story Jun 18  POLITICS: WOMEN’S GROUPS SEEK GENDER EQUITY AT U.N. SUMMIT (#65605)
full story Jun 18  POLITICS: U.S. GUNS ARM MEXICAN CARTELS (#65600)
EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
full story Jun 23  ALBANIA: POLL BRINGS OLD RECIPES, NEW EXPECTATIONS (#65651)
full story Jun 23  RIGHTS-SPAIN: LAWS DEFENDING ‘UNIVERSAL JUSTICE’ ARE AT RISK (#65681)
full story Jun 23  GREECE: NEW LAWS BEING RUSHED IN AGAINST MIGRANTS (#65652)
GLOBAL / UNITED NATIONS
full story Jun 25  Q&A: WATER SCARCITY THREATENS HALF THE PLANET (#65715)
full story Jun 25  REPORT-PT 4: FBI IGNORED COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF BIN LADEN ROLE (#65717)
full story Jun 25  ECONOMY: DEMOCRACY THE CURE FOR BROKEN SYSTEM, U.N. SAYS (#65716)
full story Jun 24  POLITICS: ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE IS SLOWING, U.N. SAYS (#65720)
full story Jun 24  WOMEN-MEDIA: GROUP UNDERTAKES MAJOR MEDIA STUDY (#65679)
full story Jun 23  Q&A: MAJOR U.N. CONFAB MARGINALIZED BY RICH COUNTRIES (#65682)
full story Jun 23  POLITICS: WILL WOMEN BE AN AFTERTHOUGHT AT U.N. CRISIS MEET? (#65653)
full story Jun 23  US-SUDAN: LIMITED PROGRESS MADE TO RESCUE PEACE ACCORD (#65683)
full story Jun 23  CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. LAUNCHES “SEAL THE DEAL” CAMPAIGN (#65685)
full story Jun 22  ENVIRONMENT: NO BREAKTHROUGH SEEN IN WHALING STALEMATE (#65661)
full story Jun 22  ECONOMY: POOR NATIONS FACE ANOTHER LOST DECADE (#65625)
full story Jun 22  US-IRAQ: FATE OF WITHDRAWAL PACT TO BE DECIDED AT THE POLLS (#65662)
full story Jun 20  ENVIRONMENT: EARTH CAN GENERATE SUMMER OUT OF WINTER (#656

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New Haven

Posted by Niven on June 29, 2009

Draft:

Personally I side with the firefighters and the U.S. Supreme Court as well. Too many times since PSAT testing have I heard the cries that SATs were culturally biased to help white students succeed. I offer this to you. Those tests contain standard information about Math, Social Studies, Reading, Spellin and Reading Comprehension. Basically corner stones on which education is built to give skill to gate way into ideological studies, theoretical musings and being able to handle to hardcore facts in more complex issues.

The argument of cultural bais makes me wonder what is being taught in some schools. To heavy on the self-esteem and subsidiary histories of the United States. Believe me , when in my sophomore year I was told that some students could not find their home state, let alone the United States of America on a map, I couldn’t help but laugh and feel sorry for them at the same time. Communication styles has nothing to do with why a person can not comprehend fundamental reading and writing issues. Or why they do or do not know basic and fundamental component of their jobs. It becomes an occupation safety issue and also a Human Resource issue as to why non-qualified people have a job. I’ve heard stories about people with no degree getting hired for laboratory jobs, etcetera. Sometimes too, an HR department does not have enough athority to throw out a candidate pool and try again.

So, to result always to law suits instead of taking the time to become more qualified by correcting your educational weaknesses is diappointing. New Haven is not the first and it won’t be the last. Their is a larger implication as the the education of lower than the median level of the U.S. workforce. If most American do not have an education to qualify for and thereby complete the tasks of a job, I have not problem with jobs going to another country. Speaking from a business owners viewpoint. In tandem I scream “Get off you ass and go back to school” There is money in Federal Grants. The caps for undergraduate college is around 100,000 dollars. I think graduate school is higher about 150,000 dollars. Combined you can get the Master of Business Administration and underwaterbasket weaving as well. Pay later yes. Debt is a past of life. But, remember this forever: Noone can take your education away from you. The car might get repoed, but you still know how to run a centerfuge and decant the slag don’t you?

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Class: Babd

Posted by Niven on June 29, 2009

definitons, lost

Not to be a pest

and this is just a guess.

Something is wrong. Iraqi Holiday and Honduras and Madoff.

The last time a string of high security new worthy stories were broadcast, the real hit came.

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