Clinton, Pot And Tai chi

15:49 20/10/2007

"The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.

Mrs Clinton's wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts."

That is something I been trying to get some info about. I been to other blogsites like, Rose Covered Glasses by Ken (Ta for the comments). How much the Industrial Military Complex have muscle in the democratic elections of US. May be we in UK got a similar system.

"After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates – Democrat or Republican.

This week, she said that, if elected president, she would not rule out military strikes to destroy Tehran's nuclear weapons facilities. While on the armed services committee, Mrs Clinton has befriended key generals and has won the endorsement of General Wesley Clarke, who ran Nato's war in Kosovo. A former presidential candidate himself, he is spoken of as a potential vice-presidential running mate."

Proof is there but need more info?


From:

Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18590.htm

And at the same time in NY Blair is talking war. The question is how much he is getting now or in the future from the IMC (Industrial Military Complex)? During the time he spent in Irish problems which side he made friends with? As this speech I read was delivered at a Charity dinner in front of New York's political and Catholic elite, which was held in honour of Al Smith, the former governor of New York who was the first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party to run for US president.

The annual event has gained a reputation as a major social gathering in election years, when organisers traditionally invite the presidential candidates to speak (from source).


15:35 20/10/2007


"According to the latest data from federal Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), more individuals are, in fact, enrolled in drug treatment for pot than ever before. However, this increase is a direct result of the fact that more Americans are being arrested for pot than ever before. (For example, a new study published in the online journal BMC Public Health reports among the 27,000+ adults entered into Texas drug treatment clinics between 2000 and 2005, a whopping 70 percent of them were diverted to treatment as a condition of sentencing, parole, or probation.) Faced with the choice of jail or attending drug treatment, most offenders -- not surprisingly -- choose treatment, whether they need it (most don't) or not."

From:
'Pot 2.0': Where Can I Get Some?

http://www.alternet.org/story/65594/


22:11 19/10/2007

In QI the tv series they were talking about Syphillis which I was talking about a few days back. So the QI boffins say that the Dutch call it Portugese desease and the Portugese call it the Dutch desease. So if the Spanish and the rest of the Europeans say that they got it from natives of the land called America, it must have come from Europe init?


21:53 19/10/2007

What is Tai chi ?

At the moment I am trying out ths exercise. Say I srand with my feet about shoulder width and keep the knees slack with the arms out stretched but not rigid. Feel all the muscles of the body and tense them while pushing against any painful areas.


11:36 18/10/2007

"Statistics UK


Worrying rise of self-inflicted deaths in prison

INQUEST is concerned about the worrying number of self-inflicted deaths in prison to the end of September this year. Already the number of self-inflicted deaths has overtaken the total for 2006. INQUEST believes these deaths must be seen in the context of the overuse of prison and overcrowding which reduces the Prison Service's ability to carry out its duty of care.


Deaths in prison 2007

Classification Number

Self-Inflicted 70

Non-Self-Inflicted 68

Homicide 2

Awaiting Classification 2


Deaths in police custody 2007

Type Number

Custody 19

Pursuit 8

Road Traffic Accidents 5

Shooting 4


Source: INQUEST casework and monitoring"


12:37 14/10/2007


Now as I am living in a flat I got a chance to finger my words into this blog everyday! So there will be a proper organisation of various points I am crazy about. Most of the current news stuff I put here will be taken out after a while; leaving my own musings and life style I am leading. Then I have the issue with the LABELS in this blog I have to master; which will be done as we go along.


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Uk Sporting Scene

08:53 22/10/2007

Black weekend for the sporting fans of UK. First our beloved Rugby team lost the World Championship to the bloody South Africans. Good lord they were good so nothing to despair that much but to grin and say "Oh! they played fine and lost huh?".

Then came the Grand Prix and my man Lewis lost the World Championship by a point. Man that was pure bad management on the side of the engineering team going upto the big boss. They fucked it up in China keeping him too long on the track with those tires. And in St Paulo they did a bloody three pit stops. Good idea to put the intermediate tires in the mid session for him to pass the slackers, why the hell did they not put enough fuel in to last the race after the second stop. Very unproffesional; hope they have a reason. I tried googling but it is too early I suppose for the analysis to be thorough. One thing I came across was Lewis Hamilton was West Indian descent to start with and then became British then English then British and now I think he will have to be sent back to where he comes from Init?

Last straw was when my man Ronne lost to the Chinese Marco at Snooker. After losing 3/1 to Marco he came back with 4/3 to Ronne at the first session. Then he got to 5/3 and then lost the next 2 and only manage to win one. Ended up with 9/6 to Marco and the Trophy went to China. Hope next week brings out something nice.


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