“The message I would hope to convey in today’s sentencing is twofold:
“First, that we have the resolve in this country to deal with the subject of terrorism and people who engage in it should be prepared to sacrifice a major portion of their life in confinement.
“Secondly, though, I would like to convey the [...]
The OFAC, an agency within the U. S. Treasury Department charged with investigating and blocking terrorist financing networks, has assigned five times as many agents to investigate those traveling to Cuba than to tracking bin Laden’s financing networks. As of the end of 2003 the OFAC had 21 agents harassing those traveling to [...]
Sunday was the first day on the air for Telesur, a satellite TV network that broadcasts throughout Latin America. The network is a creation of the governments of Venezuela, the largest shareholder; Cuba; Uruguay; and Brazil and is intended to provide an alternative to the U. S. and European owned satellite networks that now [...]
Why, of the developed nations of the world, does the U. S. spend the most per capita for health care and yet lag other nations in basic health indicators, such as life expectancy and child mortality?
I think it’s because the U. S. health care system is based upon the profit motive rather than upon the [...]
The London police shooting of an innocent “suspect” in the head at point blank range, after wrestling him to the ground, it seems to me, has provided a greater victory for the transit bombers than was provided by the bombings themselves. After all Britons now face summary execution at the hands of plain [...]
Read the Article Here My two readers will recall that in the “Judith Miller” post below I wrote:“There have been reports in recent days about a 2003 State Department memo, prepared weeks before Wilson’s NYT op-ed appeared, which, reportedly, discusses Wilson’s Niger mission and the identity of his wife. So weeks before Plame’s [...]
In announcing that he was canceling a $5 million consultant crontract he had with two body building magazines Schwarzenegger said
“‘I have no problem about the money — but my wife has a problem with that,”’ he said, referring to first lady Maria Shriver. “‘She was worried that means less diamonds every year or something [...]
Anonymous writes in response to my post below: “Judith Miller? Even if she did tell Rove – not likely in my opinion – where did she get the information? We are missing a name and I expect it yet to surface. I believe it is the unknown name for which Miller refuses to divulge [...]
Newsweek reported, this past weekend, that it had obtained copies of email messages from Time reporter Mathew Cooper that indicated that President Bush’s political guru and chief hatchet man, Karl Rove, perhaps in a felonious act, revealed to him that former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA “operative”, as she was characterized in [...]
London subways and busses are bombed, upwards of 50 people are killed, hundreds wounded, and what does FOX news have to say about it.
Here’s Brit Hume the top FOX newsperson (propagandist.)“My first thought when I heard – just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the [...]
John Lennon And Me In Havana Park
He Didn't Have Much To Say
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The header photo is of school children bouncing on the branch of a tree over looking the Vinales Vally in Pinar del Rio Cuba.
Welcome
As I proceed into my mid-life adventures, of travel and relocation, I intend to regularly post updates of my activities, subject to my ability to access the internet.
I also intend to post reminiscences, ruminations and editorial commentary on whatever subject is currently abrading a lesion under my saddle.
