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...pumping. Despite having officially recognized the drought on June 4, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to declare a state of emergency that would lift some of the environmental restrictions on providing relief to the farmers - although he is pushing the state legislature to approve issuing an $11.9 billion bond for water management investments such as additional reservoirs, water recycling programs and better means of transfer...
...centuries the Roma community eked out a living as fiddlers, fortune tellers and dancers for the Ottoman court, and later for Turks from all walks of life - a tradition captured on-screen in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Their fortunes took a downturn in the 1990s, when their "entertainment houses" - private homes in which gypsy families would cook, strum and dance for wealthy Istanbulites - were shut down on allegations of gambling and prostitution...
...Missouri Senator Kit Bond, the ranking Republican on the committee, furiously wrote in his minority opinion, that the report was a blatant attempt by Democrats to politicize what turned out to be nothing more than bad intelligence on the part of the C.I.A. "We have been forced to waste countless man-hours to show what we and the American people already knew four years ago, that policymakers' statements turned out to be wrong after the war because the statements were based on flawed intelligence. The Committee's Phase I report, which investigated that intelligence failure and explained how it happened...
...Bond is so angry that he throws in some choice prewar statements that demonstrate that those in the Bush Administration weren't the only ones fooled by faulty intelligence. "I have come to the inescapable conclusion that the threat posed to America by Sadaam's weapons of mass destruction is so serious that despite the risks?we should authorize the President to take the necessary steps to deal with that threat." - Sen. John D. Rockefeller, Congressional Record, 10/10/02...
...Bond goes on, excerpting statements from Senators Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John Kerry, John Edwards, etc. to show that those in the Bush bubble weren't the only ones beating the drums...