Escalation

Israel warns Gaza of escalation !!! Is there more escalation more than this !! For God sake more 800 people are already killed without counting those who are under the damaged buildings in the sector !! Is there more escalation more than using banned bombs on civilian areas !!?? What else Israel will use against the Palestinians ?? Mini atomic bomb !!?? I know that the Israeli cabinet is so

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( A personal note to my readers: I'm beginning to sense that I'm approaching an end to my ongoing research concerning our first President, at least for now.. Maybe one or two more posts, though. It might be time to switch gears soon.) Today we're going to re-visit some of the events leading up to George Washington's involvement in the French & Indian War, and his ultimate leadership of our nat

It is the type of vulnerability that Microsoft wanted to head off as long as possible, especially since Windows Vista’s new kernel was designed to thwart this possibility. Now, as the company acknowledged in a security bulletin yesterday, a malicious program running as a local or network service can leverage another local or network service running [...]

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Lock escalation is the process of converting a lot of low level locks(like row locks, page locks) into higher level locks (like tablelocks). Every lock is a memory structure too many locks would mean,more memory being occupied by locks. To prevent this from happening,SQL Server escalates the many fine-grain locks to fewer coarse-grainlocks. Lock escalation threshold was definable in SQL Server 6.5, butfrom SQL Server 7.0 onwards it's dynamically managed by SQL Server.

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Broiling heat wave in Southern and Eastern Europe. Drought and wildfires in California. Torrents of rain in England. Eight tornadoes hitting Canada in one weekend. These are some examples of weather extremes reported recently in the media. It seems as if the weather has gone slightly mad. Do the reports compose a mild teaser of what will hit us later on? Are things beginning to escalate?David Wasdell of the Meridian Programme gives an introduction to the Feedback Dynamics of Climate Change. A scary metaphoric story of running up a down going escalator. Here are some more videos of Wasdell at BigPictureTV.In the media:Guardian1Guardian2ThisIsLondonPhysorgAftonbladet1Aftonbladet2SVDDN

From the NY Times this morning: “Britain today escalated its dispute with Iran over the capture of 15 British naval personnel by revealing charts, photographs and previously secret navigational coordinates purportedly proving that the British sailors were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when they were seized six days ago.” Iran has to date offered two differing sets of coordinates, which is odd but not unexpected. The article is an indication of an escalation at least in the paper’s chosen title and Merriam-Webster defines “escalate” as: “intransitive verb : to increase in extent, volume, number, amount, intensity, or scope escalate into a huge ugly one -- Arnold Abrams>” So I guess the intensifying of the issue is where this word choice comes into play because of their responding with “revealing charts, photographs and previously secret navigational coordinates,” which of course does lend itself to an intensification of the game. But I belie

John Edwards, former North Carolina Senator and current presidential nominee, called out Senate Democratic leaders on the non-binding resolution opposing President Bush’s decision to adopt the “McCain Doctrine.” “Why don’t we go stand in the corner and stomp our feet like an 8-year-old?” (Hat tip: Political Wire)

Yesterday, MSNBC/NBC News reported that the Saudis will send forces to Iraq if the situation continues to deteriorate, citing skepticism that the plan to add 21,500 more U.S. forces will quell the violence. Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence there degenerate into chaos, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Tuesday. On the homefront, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) plans to push legislation with Senate Democrats Joe Biden (Delaware) and Carl Levin (Michigan) on a resolution opposing Bush’s recently outlined policy, dubbed the “McCain Doctrine.” Steve Soto notes that the White House and allies on the Hill are trying to frame Hagel’s position on Iraq as laying the groundwork for a 2008 presidential bid as the GOP anti-war candidate. Most of the more formidible Republican candidates have backed the escalation proposal. But, i

The Associated Press/Ipsos conducted polling on Iraq and found that 70 percent of those polled stated that they oppose the President’s plan to escalate troop levels. Seventy percent of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq, according to a new poll that provides a devastatingly blunt response to President Bush’s plan to bolster military forces there. Earlier today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced heavy Congressional opposition while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from both Democrats and Republicans. Crooks & Liars has the video and the Associated Press article on her testimony here. (Hat tip: Justin Gardner, Donklephant)

Recently, President Bush ordered that the U.S. military be increased by 70,000 soldiers. The Associated Press reports this morning that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommends the military be increased by 92,000 over the next five years. Secretary Gates has also stated that he unsure how long the escalation, or build-up as the AP reported it, would last. Ahead of testimony on Capitol Hill, Gates told a White House briefing it remains unclear how long the “temporary” military buildup ordered by Bush will last. In a departure from the standard operating procedures of his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, Gates said: Asked how long that buildup might last, Gates told the briefing, “It’s viewed as a temporary surge, but I think no one has a really clear idea of how long that might be.” The AP also reports that the “top Republican in the Senate” is planning to “filibuster any attempt by Democrats to block President Bush’s new Iraq war p

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) spoke to the National Press Club this afternoon and announced that he will introduce legislation that will require President Bush to seek authority from Congress before committing more troops and more money to Iraq. (The full text of his speech can be found here.) Recent polling shows that the American public, by a wide margin, opposes any “troop surge,” or escalation as it has become known. The Associated Press reports that 61 percent are in opposition with only 36 percent in favor. A CNN news alert says that a draft of President Bush’s policy speech on Iraq “says the aim is to have Iraqi forces in control of all security by November and for extra U.S troops to deploy by the end of this month, a U.S. official tells CNN.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) plans to open debate on a different bill opposing the President’s plan. The resolution trumps an effort by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, to r

ABC News transcript shows the painful details. Charlie Gibson speaking with newly sworn in Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-Kansas): Gibson: Would you vote in favor of money to support another 20,000 to 40,000 troops in Iraq? Boyda: I think we’re going to vote to support what the commander in chief and head of military asks to do. At least, I am certainly going to vote to support it. Gibson: If he wants the surge, he’ll get it. Boyda: Yes.… He is the commander in chief, Charlie. We don’t get that choice. Congress doesn’t make that decision. Gibson: But the polls would indicate, and indeed, so many voters when they came out of the ballot box, said, “We’re voting because we want something done about the war and we want the troops home.” Boyda: They should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice. Boyda is on the wrong side of escalation with a “Tough! Deal with it!” scolding and a wag of the finger.

(photo credit — Desert Rat Democrat) Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, argued on FOX News Sunday that any “surge” of American combat forces in Iraq should be permanent. Kristol’s advice stands in complete opposition to the current American sentiment. CNN (12/15–12/17): Oppose: 67 percent; Support: 31 percent Immediate Pullout: 21 percent; Out by December ‘07: 33 percent; As Long as Needed: 32 percent; Send More: 11 percent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg (12/8–12/12): Fixed Timetable for Withdrawal: 52 percent; Send More: 12 percent ABC News/Washington Post (12/7–12/11): Decreased: 52 percent; Increased: 17 percent CBS News (12/8–12/10): Remove All: 25 percent; Decrease: 34 percent; Increase: 18 percent Poll after poll show that Americans are diametrically opposed to an increase of combat forces in Iraq. The military has performed extremely well, especially so, considering civilians leaders botched this war from the beginni

You are thirsty as hell when you spot the soft drink machine. At last! You drop in the correct change and hit the button for your choice. Nothing happens, and the change return does nothing. Dumbfounded, you stand in front of the machine not knowing what to do. You dig into your pocket for more change. This is going to end up being one expensive can of soda, but you really want it. Again the money goes in, and again nothing comes out. Now from somewhere behind you, comes the words you had feared, "Dude, that machine's been broken for about a week now. The 'out of order' sign must have fallen off." Now what?If you are George W. Bush and this vending machine represents Iraq, you keep putting money into the machine. When you have none left and it is obvious to all rational persons that trying again is not going to result in a different outcome, you borrow more and keep going. Nobody can talk you out of it, and even though a part of you must recognize the futility, you are compelled to

I've always voted for the Democrats, and I have no question that progressive values are a better guide for America than the "family values" preached by conservatives. Still, I have some difficulty sticking to the party line that America should rapidly withdraw from Iraq because the Iraqi people are somehow not honoring their obligation to maintain their own security. In all honesty, I suppose you could say that this is a question on which I am still undecided.The American invasion and widespread destruction of Iraq were unjust and clearly a mistake. There were no links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Saddam bore no demonstrable responsibility for 9/11, and Iraq had no WMDs. The American people were misled to war and will pay the price of this betrayal for decades. The eventual outcome in this region, no matter how positive it could someday be, does not change these fact. The ends do not justify the means. The neocons took us into Iraq largely because of oil and the hope of permanent milit

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