U.K. Telegraph Readers speak out on terrorism

Muslims have to join this battle
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 08/07/2007

Admiral Sir Alan West, the man appointed to the Lords by Gordon Brown to oversee security in Britain, has made a comprehensive assessment of the terrorist threat currently facing us.
In the interview we publish today, he says the situation is worse than it was when Eliza Manningham Buller, who retired earlier this year as head of MI5, warned that there were at least 30 plots involving more than 100 dedicated terrorists.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PCO5IURPEUO5RQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/07/08/dl0801.xml

The New York Times: Forever Out of the Closet !

Today The New York Times lead editorial calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Newspapers around the world are reporting on this as some sort of historic occasion and I simply don't get it.

The New York Times has staged a continuous campaign to discredit this president and guarantee our failure in Iraq since the war began. The New York Times has day in, day out taken every negative spin possible and used it to castrate the Bush Administration. Now, today, without any details on how to handle the chaos such a departure would cause or what we face as a nation by leaving, The Times positions itself as having made some bold statement. Bullsh-t.

The New York Times has become a local, agenda driven tabloid, it's once well respected name now irreparably tarnished. It is nothing new and that is why this article will come and go and very few will care.

Editorial
The Road Home
Published: July 8, 2007
It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08sun1.html
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Earth Day Farce: Even Thomas Friedman Agrees

I found it amusing to see all the recent "hype" as Hollywood and the music industry geared up for it's tribute to bring much needed attention to our environmental difficulties, the highly publicized and extremely well marketed "Earth Day." No one could hope to possibly miss the massive promotions geared up by the entertainment industry as it promoted it's "stars" scripted contributions to our troubles facing our planet. All I can say is what a bunch of bullsh-t.

99% of the "stars" taking place in this series of performances don't have the slightest clue as to the cause and effect of what they performing about. The vast majority came in their high powered jets and gas guzzling hummers, transported them from their gluttonist 20,000 sq. ft. homes from around the globe to share time with the rest of us. Who do they think they are fooling?

More than anything else it was yet another self-serving marketing campaign to continue momentum for professional careers. Their commitment to "green" is as serious as Julia Roberts, on stage at the Hurricane Katrina benefit in jeans and a work shirt, staring at the camera as if she just arrived from digging out bodies while asking for your money before flying off in her private jet. Pure showbiz. Yea for us.

I speak because I am familiar with Hollywood's commitment to 'green". I am a green builder and for the past year I have been speaking with architects and interior designers all over the greater Los Angeles area, trying to sell green building products and have them incorporated into the homes of the powerful and rich elite of L.A. that can have influence. I am told almost always to get real, that the showbiz world is non-acting when it comes to any form of personal involvement. So far it has been fascinating to see the near universal disdain when it comes to personal participation. It really says "let the average schmuck do it, not me. Call me at showtime. Yesterday we did.

Below you will find an article from former Middle East consultant for the New York Times Thomas Friedman who we can all still read for profit when he keeps his juvenile personal politics mostly removed from an article.

Op-Ed Columnist

Live Bad, Go Green
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Published: July 8, 2007

Over dinner with friends in London the other night, the conversation drifted to global warming and whether anything was really being done to reverse it. One guest, Sameh El-Shahat, a furniture designer, heaped particular scorn on programs that enable people to offset their excessive carbon emissions by funding green projects elsewhere. “Who really checks that it’s being done?” he asked. And how much difference does it really make?

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08friedman.html