Friday, May 11, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, May 11, 2012


No newsbites yesterday... but to make up for that lapse here's a song you may have never heard till now!

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William R. Barker said...

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/18306795/man-wearing-afghan-army-uniform-shoots-dead-isaf-soldier

"An Afghan Army soldier turned his weapon against US soldiers inside an Afghan-US military base in Kunar Province, killing one US soldier and injuring two others," provincial police chief Ewaz Mohammad Naziri told AFP.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

* THIS IS THE SAME TALIBAN OBAMA AND CLINTON HAVE BEEN "NEGOTIATING" WITH.

The Taliban announced the start of its "spring offensive" last Thursday. Seven Afghans, many of them children, died after a large bomb exploded in Kabul last week, with the Taliban claiming responsibility.

* THAT WAS RIGHT AFTER OBAMA'S "VICTORY LAP" IF MEMORY SERVES; LITERALLY WITHIN AN HOUR OF AIRFORCE ONE TAKING OFF TO BRING THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HOME.

(*SMIRK*)

[Today's announcement] comes just four days after three "coalition troops" were killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in eastern Afghanistan.

* AND WERE ANY OF THESE... er... "COALITION TROOPS" AMERICANS...???

A total of 20 NATO soldiers have been killed by Afghan colleagues in at least 15 separate attacks so far this year.

* "NATO SOLDIERS." WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE... THE PRESS GOES ALONG WITH THIS TRANSPARENT EFFORT TO MASK THE NUMBER OF U.S. DEATHS.

May 11, 2012 at 9:03 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-353581-state-scores.html

About 22% of California’s eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed...

* MEANING 78% FAILED...!!! MEANING NEARLY FOUR-FIFTHS OF STUDENTS FAILED...!!!

...ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday.

* CALIFORNIA HASN'T BEEN THE GOLDEN STATE IN DECADES. WHAT A SAD, SICK JOKE. LOOK AT WHAT THE DEMOCRATS AND RINOs HAVE DONE TO WHAT WAS ONCE THE GOLDEN STATE!

Nationally, 31% of eighth-graders who were tested scored proficient or advanced.

* MEANING 69% ARE NOT - REPEAT: NOT! - PROFICIENT...!!!

* NOTICE, FOLKS... THE FIGURES ARE DELIBERATELY QUOTED ASS-BACKWARDS IN THE HOPE THAT PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY TAKE A QUICK GLANCE MIGHT THINK THE FAILURE RATES ARE 22% INSTEAD OF 78%... 31% INSTEAD OF 69%... CAN YOU GET MORE DECEITFUL...???

May 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-11/midnight-was-movie-hour-nap-time-in-new-york-air-tower.html

When midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to watch movies, play games or gamble online.

Controllers on break inflated air mattresses and napped on the floor. Some left before their shifts were over. They cursed at managers, refused to train new controllers, and flouted rules requiring them to pass on weather advisories to pilots.

“It was blatant and in your face,” Evan Seeley, a former manager in the Ronkonkoma, New York, tower who came forward last year, said in a phone interview yesterday.

Those and other allegations made by Seeley were corroborated by investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration, according to reports released this week by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an agency formed to help and protect whistle-blowers inside federal agencies.

Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner sent a letter on May 8 to the White House and Congress detailing findings in Seeley’s case and six other verified whistle-blower complaints, saying the FAA and Department of Transportation were slow to address them or hadn’t acted.

In New York, investigators found a facility in which FAA managers were unwilling or afraid to discipline controllers’ union members, the reports said. Supervisors who tried to enforce the rules had their cars vandalized or were threatened. The result was widespread violations of rules that undermined safety, reviews by the special counsel and FAA found.

On Jan. 20, an AMR Corp. (AAMRQ) American Airlines Inc. jet and two U.S. Air Force C-17s almost collided while under the control of two New York controllers. They passed within 200 feet (61 meters) vertically and less than a mile of each other, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Poor communication between the controllers, one of the issues Seeley had raised, was one of the reasons for the incident, he said. He decided to take his story to the New York Post.

May 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM

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