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Kirbati: Swallowed by the Sea

In 1992 I traveled to Rio de Janeiro to cover the Earth Summit for the television news agency I then worked for. One of the more memorable interviews I conducted was with a minister from a South Pacific nation.  The man was unusually articulate on the matter of global warming and put the then dubious phenomena in context for me. He said that as the sea level rises, his entire country, the whole nation would begin to disappear.  I've aways remembered the  dramatic image his comment fostered in my mind and have occasionally used it anecdotally when writing about or discussing GW--especially with skeptics to refuse to acknowledge reality.  So, now comes this British newspaper report.  Could it be any clearer?

The Surge is Working ?

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CIA admits using torture

USA TODAY

PANAMA CITY — President Bush strongly defended U.S. interrogation practices for detainees held in the war on terrorism Monday, insisting, "We do not torture."


CIA Admits 'waterboarding' al-Qaida suspects

OBAMARAMA-- De Niro

"Barack Obama does not have the experience to be president (?)...He wasn't experienced enough to vote to authorise the invasion of Iraq."

OBAMARAMA: THE ISSUES

Obama's stand on the issues--not the  petty quarreling.  Click here and listen to what he says, not what others say about him.

OBAMARAMA

"What I am opposed to is a dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."

OBAMARAMA

"I don't want to just end the war, I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place."