At what point is enough trash too much trash. Tourists are canceling reservations and shortening stays in Naples because the stench from the trash is overwhelming, fires are erupting through out trash piles across the town not only spontaneously but also as residents attempt, in futility, to burn the trash, and CNN reports that the U.S. Navy has sent for chemical and biological testing of on-base water supplies to see if whether or not the piling trash has also effected the drinking water. The U.S. Navy has stating in Naples about 1,200 service members and their families, and there is a NATO contingent based in a Neapolitan suburb who would also be wanting to see the results of that water test.
The water testing comes as cheese from the Naples region has been found to have higher then acceptable levels of toxins in it, probably due to the fact that residents are taking trash and dumping it in the countryside. Barges are taking trash out of Naples and sailing it to Germany for processing, but this only seems to make a dent in a very large problem.
The piling trash is due to collectors refusing to pick up trash citing that the landfills are full. Only a few problems rise out of this tremendously stupid argument. First, landfills don’t get full unless they’re hundreds of feet high; correct reprocessing of plastics and other recyclables (no matter the fact that recycling doesn’t help the environment) can lead to a decrease in overall garbage volume defeating the “landfills are full” argument. Secondly, there does exist an Armed force in Italy, that, last I checked, does take orders no matter what they are. Why won’t the government order the military to service the trash needs of the city? Lastly, an organization, such as the trash collectors of Naples (whatever their official name may or may not be) don’t just come up with idiotic arguments because they believe it to be true. The fact is organizations use idiotic arguments as a facade to what is really going on. The question is what is really going on with the trash collectors?
The Italian Government says that criminal entities have infested the trash collectors and are instigating their insurrection. While there is no way to confirm that, it does seem plausible, if the trash collectors aren’t acting with criminal backing, then it just makes them look that much more idiotic.
Update:Reading the short-term history on this, it does seem that the criminal Camorra entity has taken over the waste-management industry. It seems that the Italian government, with all its Army, Police, governmental-like qualities can’t stop the criminals from occupying the basic service regimes of which the Italian people pay taxes in order for the government to take on such basic services.
The Italian example here is a perfect reason against the fundamental Republican economics of “let the people handle it.” Obviously the people aren’t handling it, they’ve given it up to the other end of governance which is criminality. In fact the people have protested against the government, even violently, halting the construction of new incinerators and the opening of new landfills. The “people” cite the health risks such new measures would pose of the populace near such incinerators and landfills.
While the people have a point, they somehow forget to mention the health risk associated with not containing the trash, like the leaking of toxins into the basic food supply. Furthermore it’s not out of the question that the people who protest are not goaded or even bought into the process of protesting by Camorra, who would have a lot to loose if the government starting taking care of the trash. What makes these peoples protesting against government action so ironic is that it is well documented that Camorra, through it’s waste-management line of companies, have taken in toxic waste from other parts of Italy and dumped them into river(s) in Campania (Province where Naples is located). This dumping of toxic waste has led to clusters of cancer sprouting up through out Campania.
Far reaching lessons can be learned from the trash escapades of Naples, Italy. The criminal control over basic services can cripple a nation. What the people need to understand is that they need to demand the basic services owed to them from the government and the government needs to combat against the false rapprochement of services offered by seemingly well-to-do organizations. Examples would include Hamas providing food, electricity, and health-care for Gazans as well as certain militias providing electricity for citizens in Iraq.
When the President of the United States has to go to another country to talk politics, it’s downright disgusting. This week we saw the H.V. President of these United States of America stand before the elected Knesset-body of Israel and denounce “negotiating with terrorists and radicals.” The President went on to claim that such efforts at negotiations ultimately result in an appeasement policy similar to the one Western Europe used with Nazi Germany. A few things are wrapped up in the H.V. President’s speech.
Appeasement vs. Negotiations
First he misconstrues the term “negotiations” to be synonymous with “appeasement.” However, 99% of the rest of the population *should* understand that negotiations at the very least involve talking to an adversarial party. At most, negotiations entail talking with the adversary with the explicit task of making demands and giving ground on certain issues, a give and take, if you will. Appeasement, on the other hand, involves only giving into the demands of the aggressor, whereby talking and discussion may or may not take place. Two entirely different terms, and anybody with a dictionary and a brain can realize the difference.
Democrats
H.V. President’s speech also dealt with the fact that America should not negotiate with “terrorists orradicals.” Lumping the two into the same statement, shows the idiocy of the President. Terrorist may also be radicals, but radicals may not be terrorists. Which is too bad for the President and his administration because they’ve already undertaken negotiations with radical regimes around the world, some of which supported terrorism. The H.V. President must, therefore, be attacking certain Democrats who have openly stated and undertaken similarly actions to those taken by the current President’s regime. Unless of course we are to ascertain that he is not attacking Democrats in which case he is then attacking his own policies, which would only further prove he is a complete bumbling idiot.
But let’s assume he is attacking Democrats who have undertaken certain policies similar to that of the H.V. President. For example former H.V. President Jimmy Carter, who openly spoke with an exiled Hamas leader. Carters actions were opposed by Israel and the U.S. Israel went so far as to refuse to provide security for the former President while he stayed and toured in Israel. Another example of who the H.V. President attacked would be H.E. Senator Barack Obama. Obama openly supports direct, face-to-face, talks with our adversaries, but not with leaders of terrorist organizations. The current President, however, has maintained that low-level talks amongst non-significant, politically appointed, State Department officials and our advesaries will achieve peace and stability around the world. A dumb-ass policy by the sound of it.
Donna Brazile, CNN Analyst and apart of the best political team on television (BPTT), was in a panel discussion on the Situation Room. She said to Wolf 1 in 6 West Virginians are on Food Stamps.
Wolf started to respond, “that’s pretty pa…” he was about to say pathetic, but wisely caught himself and used the ‘new appropriate term,’ “that’s pretty shocking.”
That phrase was said by outgoing President George Washington to incoming President John Adams. What tonight has shown, and what the following days will highlight, is that the divisive race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will bring about this same phrase albeit with a 21st Century kicker. The headline going into the rest of the month of May and into the first week of June will be Clinton is fairly out, and Obama is fairly in, but don’t count out Clinton, unfairly coming back in.
Lake County makes up 8.0% of Indiana’s population. It has two major cities, Hammond and Gerry (or Gary). The County of Lake told the media that they would not release their election returns until all +11,000 absentee ballots were counted. The Mayor of Hammond says that he turned in his ballots half an hour after the polls closed, but the County held those returns and is just beginning to report them, which all sounds a bit fishy.
The Mayor (of Hammond) stated that he had talked to surrounding council chairs and mayors throughout Lake County and stated, on CNN, that Clinton looked to be winning the majority of those precincts. He, however, failed to mention that most of those precincts surrounding Hammond are smaller and rural, therein the vote and the differential is smaller. The Mayor did concede that the other major city Gerry (or Gary) would fall to Obama with it’s larger African-American community, and larger populace.
This could all swing the state to Obama’s favor. All-in-All he would probably only gain 1 or 2 delegates.
+50% of Clinton voters would notvote for Obama if he is the nominee, in both states.
+60% of Obama voters would vote for Clinton if he is the nominee, in both states.
What does this mean? It could mean a number of things.
1) Clinton has greater support among Blue Collar, rural, voters who are not educative enough and would vote for anybody that they “like” never mind those candidates policies or actions. (Yes, I just called them non-educative)
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2) Republicans who are registering as Democrats or Independents, are voting, where allowed, for Hillary in order to cause chaos in the Democratic Party.
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3) The Democratic Party is officially divided.
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What’s interesting is that a simple majority of Clinton voters aren’t voting based on policy, they are voting based on who they like MORE than Obama. Going from voting for Clinton to, if having to, vote for McCain is a complete reversal in ideologies, and is far from reasonable thinking.
“If Iran attacks Israel, we will obliterate Iran.”
John Roberts says:
“Iran is already aiding and abetting terrorists who go on to kill our soldiers in Iraq, as President what would you do to stop this?”
She says:
‘Well umm… you know maybe I could juggle a couple of six-shooters and down a Crown Royale or something.’
I was of course being sarcastic in the last bit there, but what’s suprising about the esteemed Senator from New York is that, as President, she would obliterate Iran if they attacked Israel, however, as President, she doesn’t have an answer to what she would do to stop Iran from killing our soldiers (she didn’t provide a discernible one in her interview). Nice how Clinton supports Israel more then our own troops.
I respect the Crown of England, though being Indian I’d kinda like you to return all the stuff you stole from India, or at least work with India to work out some payment or sharing options.
In any case, the Tories have won a majority of the local council seats in Wales and England, even winning London. This sets the Conservative Tory Party up to win the most seats in Parliament next election cycle and appoint their own government and therein Prime Minister. The Tories also don’t like the Crown much, more precisely they don’t want to remove the Royal Family, but ratherthey want to eliminate many of the current powers entrusted to the Crown and her Ministers. The Tory leadership want to remove those powers inherent to the Ministers and render them to the entire Parliament while still in keeping those privileges strictly given to the Crown.
I admire their courage though, to go head to head with the Crown and her reign, as many hundreds have done before them for more then 600 years.
Very few shows are the best shows on television. For all its failures Battlestar Galactica (2003) is still better then 80% of television, but Boston Legal is by farbetter then all the rest. Tonight’s episode only hardened the shows standing at the top; for that matter every episode of Boston Legal is better then the last, and that’s say something since the first one was pretty damn good.
Nothing can sum up the outstanding quality and depth of show then “…this is WolfgangBlitzkrieg with the Best Political News Team on Television…” Actually, tonight’s balcony scene is something worth remembering and knowing, like you know the back of your hand.
The President becomes Presidential when a reporter doesn’t stop asking questions.
If only that guy had been President for the last 8 years. In this clip you can see that somewhere under all that, is an actually intelligent guy. Too bad…
