Gunman Kills 8 at Omaha Mall !
Something is starting to go terribly wrong in this country.
WTF !
NYTimes Extra Release
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy shopping mall Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his own life, police said. Five more people were wounded, two critically.
Shoppers and employees ran screaming through the mall and barricaded themselves in dressing rooms after hearing gunfire. The gunman was found dead on the third floor of the Von Maur department store.
Employees and shoppers at Von Maur said they huddled together inside the store and barricaded themselves in dressing rooms and other offices for at least half an hour while they heard dozens of shots.
Police received a call reporting a shooter about 1:45 p.m. and arrived six minutes later. Most of the victims were inside Von Maur, said Omaha Police spokeswoman Teresa Negron.
She said police believed the shooter used a rifle, and may have come to the mall in a vehicle. They believe so far that he had no accomplices.
Nebraska Medical Center spokeswoman Andrea McMaster said it had three victims from the mall shooting:
In the destructive element immerse-psychedelic pyrotechnics !
GONZO
The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. / By Jann S. Wenner and Corey Seymour
I am taking this moment to riff on Joe Klein’s review of the recently published biography of Hunter S. Thompson. ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ is a book that had a profound effect on the direction of my life. I spent one summer in the early 80′s living in that book due to the fact that there were no drugs to be had on the barren coast of New Hampshire at the time.
In many respects, the time could not be more timely for such a memorial to the giant of journalism. We are living in a period of great crisis for the media, a time of cynicism in which the need for visionaries who are not shills for global big corporate, who have the guts to steer through the difficult and dangerous waters of ‘truth’ and ‘freedom’.
Bigs words, spoken by this author, a tiny voice in the great wilderness, my words being the sounds of broken claws scrabbling about the rocks, unheard and distant, relevant, none the less….
Link to New York Times Book Review
Goodbye Kyoto, Hello Bali !
The final UN Report on Climate Change is about ready to be released, and it’s a biggie ! United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which just recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for it’s work:
““You look to a synthesis report to provide clarity, to clarify what was obscure in previous reports,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University. “Now, how can we take these findings and formulate a policy response that’s quick enough and big enough?”
“VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 16 — In its final and most powerful report, a United Nations panel of scientists meeting here describes the mounting risks of climate change in language that is both more specific and forceful than its previous assessments, according to scientists here.”
This report is going to go down in history in a big way, and the world is holding it’s breath…
“The report carries heightened significance because it is the last word from the influential global climate panel before world leaders meet in Bali, Indonesia, next month to begin to discuss a global climate change treaty that will replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. It is also the first report from the panel since it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October — an honor that many scientists here said emboldened them to stand more forcefully behind their positions.”
New York Times Link
