[Anyone] grim side of Va Tech shootings (and other thoughts)

[Thos Myers]

  Another grim side of VT shootings emerges on Internet


    Speculators hoping to cash in on the Virginia Tech shootings are
    rushing to register Internet domain names that hark to the day of
    violence

By Andrew Kantor

A grim side of the Virginia Tech shootings began to emerge on the
Internet within  minutes(!) of the shootings. Domain names related
to the massacre were snatched up, some by those with good intentions,
others by speculators hoping to cash in. They might sell those domains
outright to other speculators, or they might place ads on the Web sites
hoping to generate page views and clicks if people stumble upon them
while searching for information.

Joseph Parker of Christiansburg, for example, registered "vtmurders.com"
and "vtmurders.info," which he is offering to sell for $250,000 on his
Web site, The Etrader <http://theetrader.com>. Ditto for
"vtkillings.com" and "vtkillings.info." He also grabbed
"choseng-hui.com" and "choseung-hui.info," which he's offering for $1
million -- "serious offers considered <mailto:domains at theetrader.com>."

Other names registered in the minutes or hours after news of the
shootings broke include these:


virginiatechshooting.com
virginiatechshooting.net
virginiatechshooting.org
virginiatechshooting.info
virginiatechshooting.us
vatechshooting.com
vatechshooting.net
vatechshooting.org
vatechshooting.info
vatechshooting.us
vatechshooting.biz
vtshooting.com
vtshooting.info
vatechmassacre.com
vatechmassacre.net
vatechmassacre.info
vatechmassacre.biz
vtmassacre.com
vtmassacre.net
vtmassacre.org
vtmassacre.info
virginiatechrampage.com
vatechrampage.com
vtrampage.com
virginiatechmurders.com
virginiatechmurders.net
virginiatechmurders.org
virginiatechmurders.info
virginiatechmurders.us
vatechmurders.com
vtmurders.com
hokieshootings.com
hokiemassacre.com
blacksburgshootings.com
********

Other thoughts:
The other sad event is that "sackcloth and ashes" bush shows up making the
statement that the "World Shares Our Sorrow" (headine in the Albuquerque
Journal) when, on that same day more than 150 pepole are killed in bush's
war in Baghdad.  And each day in Iraqistan people are killed in that war.

I am morphing the war in Afghanitan and Iraq into one, because it really
is one holy jihad for the Muslims to rid the mid-east of the Americans.

The news from the mid-east is not good:
"In a briefing released in advance of an international conference being
convened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in
Geneva, 17-18 April 2007, the organization called for other states to
immediately help alleviate the situation of Iraqi refugees who have
increasingly flooded into Syria and Jordan, particularly since the
February 2006 attack by armed insurgents on one of Iraq's holiest shrines,
the Samarra' mosque. That attack sparked a new, more intensive bout of
sectarian bloodletting in which civilians from across Iraq's increasingly
divided communities have been among the principal targets.

"Syria and Jordan, who together now host some two million Iraqis, have
borne the brunt of the refugee exodus so far, but there must be a limit to
which they can continue to do so in the face of the continuing surge b'
Iraqis desperate to escape the conflict," said Malcolm Smart, Director of
Amnesty International's Middle East and North African Programme. "It is
vital that other governments now step in and deliver - not just pledge -
direct assistance in order to ensure that the refugees are adequately
housed and fed, and have access to health care and education, in Syria,
Jordan and the other countries which are now helping bear the consequences
of the disaster in Iraq.""
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041707G.shtml

"Terror claimed another 500 civilians lives this week, at least 21 of them
children.
On Monday 9 April 45 lose their lives. Tens of thousands of peaceful
protesters waving Iraqi flags and calling for US forces to leave Iraq
march into Najaf, marking the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
Torching American flags, Shiites and Sunnis voice their anger and
frustration over the US governments record in Iraq since it led the
invasion in 2003. The march comes as a response to a call by Shia cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr, who has demanded that US forces leave the country.
Sadrs statement to the crowds read: So far 48 months of anxiety,
oppression and occupational tyranny have passed, four years which have
only brought us more death, destruction and humiliationEvery day tens are
martyred, tens are crippled, and every day we see and hear US interference
in every aspect of our lives, which means that we are not sovereign, not
independent and therefore not free. This is what Iraq has harvested from
the US invasion (Los Angeles Times, April 10 2007). The speech, delivered
by cleric Abdelhadi al-Mohammadawi, was interrupted by chants of Leave,
leave occupier and No, no, to the occupation.
On Tuesday 10 April 85 civilians are reported dead, 19 of them police
recruits blown up by a suicide bomber at a police station in Muqdadiya. A
shocking 34 are reported dead in a US/Iraqi raid in Baghdad, while 16 are
found bound, tortured and executed in Baghdad, Falluja, Mahaweel and
Kirkuk.
On the most peaceful day of the week, 42 die on Wednesday 11 April. The
dead include 5 policemen, a mother and her son killed in Mosul, a teacher
shot dead in Baghdad, a radio journalist and her husband. Over 30 more
bodies are found, while 18 unidentified bodies are buried in Kut.
Over 50 are killed on Thursday 12 April. A suicide truck bomber kills 11
and blows up al-Sarafiya bridge in Baghdad. Up to 8 are reported killed
when a bomb explodes in the Iraqi Parliament, inside the Green Zone. Among
the dead on Thursday, 3 people killed during a US raid in Haditha and 13
bodies discovered in Baghdad and Kut.
Around 70 more are killed on Friday 13 April. Among the dead, an imam
killed with his brother on their way to the mosque in Mosul, a woman and
her child blown up by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, 2 interpreters killed in
an attack on US soldiers, and over 20 bodies found in Baghdad and Mosul.
Saturday 14 April is the worst day of the week, when around 110 die. A
suicide bomber blows up a car at a busy bus station in Karbala, killing 47
civilians, 16 of them children. A further 4 are killed in clashes with the
police after the bombing. Another car bomb kills 10 at Jadriya bridge in
Baghdad, while police find 28 bodies in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Kut and Mosul.
The week ends with nearly 100 victims of violence on Sunday 15 April, 80
of them in Baghdad. Among the victims 3 children, blown up by car bombs
that kill 18 in the Shurta al-Rabia area of Baghdad. "
http://iraqbodycount.org/editorial/weekiniraq/40/

And to keep Americans in the dark ( even the Dark Ages - education,
mores, morals, science) about events
outside our border Al-Jareera is not being carried by any major satellite
or cable company here in the US.  It is being broadcast in the mid-east
and even in Israel.  The companies state that it is because of political
pressure that they are not carrying Al-Jazeera.  100,000 households
worldwide receive the English language version, almost half of  CNN's
coverage.

(paraphrased from an article by Jim Krane - AP)

I am saddened by the shootings at Va Tech BUT, the media frenzy is, quite
frankly, disgusting considering what is happening because of bush and his
war in other parts of the world that the media treats as a sideline and
scrolling bar at the bottom of the news screen.

I have turned off the American news until the feeding frenzy is over.