That dirty Alberta oil will be looking pretty sweet when the whole Mideast area blows. I doubt we pass through 2016 with oil flows out of there still intact.
It’s inevitable. Which is a damn shame given King A seems like a good guy.
Fankly I’m hoping Turkey falls next, given Erdogan has aligned himself with the hardliners and his contempt for Israel.
Exactly. Where is a Kemal Ataturk when you need him.
Based on that article about Jordan’s demographics it does appear inevitable that that country is on the verge of an explosion.
The whole ME is a constant powder-keg. In hindsight it was a mistake to nation build all over the place. We should have just clobbered the crap out of group that tried to export their 7th century ideology. And now we are importing the 7th century ideology by the hundreds of thousands into western countries.
I think Churchill was quite as saying the biggest mistake that was made in the forties was to name Jordan Jordan. Had they named it Palestine a whole lot of problems could have been solved.
Our Liberal elites are worried about the demographics change Jordan – LOL
Well they could build a massive desert wall and have ZERO Refugee influx like Saudi Arabia did – or – they could flood their countries like Europe did and enjoy all that cultural enrichment. Take your pick.
The one thing that will be certain, is that Europe’s Liberal elites will stick they’re noses in everyone else business and make thinks far, far worse than they already are.
Quite true, Gord.
Jordan was established with the intent that it was the Palestinian homeland from the start.
After 400 years of Ottoman rule, the British pushed the Turks out the area known as Palestine (not that there had ever been a country by that name) and administered it for a time. Both Arabic and Jewish residents of that area lobbied the British to set them up in their own homelands. The British did so, dividing the area up into the much larger Arabic state called Jordan and the smaller (20% I think) Israel. They handed over Jordan to the Arabs but refused to hand over Israel for some reason (anti-Semitism?) until after WWII when they carved a lot more territory away from them.
If they’d handed over Israel at the same time as Jordan (Palestine) most of that conflict wouldn’t exist.
Done and done! Canada should keep out of the ME and let the chips fall where they may. I feel sorry for Israel but Canada has no role. Israel should make it very clear to their neighbours that they will utilize MADD as their defensive policy. In reality they have no choice as the Arabs once loose inside Israel will butcher them anyways. Israel might resort to aggressive self defense and I would sympathize with that choice as well.
Sing with me ! … SpringTIME … in Arabia … and the Iranian Theocracy …
Thank you Hillary, Obama, Kerry … and most of all … Jimmy Carter
“Fankly I’m hoping Turkey falls next, given Erdogan has aligned himself with the hardliners and his contempt for Israel
geezus sid, you really need to keep up a little better on Mideast happenings. Turkey, with about 77 million pop. has the 2nd largest military in NATO, with lots of modern equipment, like F-16s, and IS the bridge to Europe. The terrorists just salivate at such a out come. And Greece would fall in a couple of days in such a scenario. Also this would drag the rest of NATO into the mess, and that would just be great with the obungles idiot at the helm. Also, Israel is on the verge of signing a gas deal with turkey, because of turkey’s pissing match with Puhteen. It is ignorance as you display that certainly has me wondering how long democracy can survive even as a caricature of it’s former self.
Make regular visits to Glicks web site, shes quite informative on mid east dynamics
So Obama’s work in the middle east is almost done.
All our allies except Israel will have fallen.
All the proto-democracies destroyed and overrun by religious murders.
I am sure our Progressives will be cheering as Jordan burns.
It’s the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. There used to be the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq but it didn’t end well. There was a Hashemite Kingdom of Syria until the French took over because they were white. The Hashemi were from the family of Faisal of Mecca, Lawrence’s friend from WWI.
I asked before and ask again: so is it still Arab Spring?
That dirty Alberta oil will be looking pretty sweet when the whole Mideast area blows. I doubt we pass through 2016 with oil flows out of there still intact.
It’s inevitable. Which is a damn shame given King A seems like a good guy.
Fankly I’m hoping Turkey falls next, given Erdogan has aligned himself with the hardliners and his contempt for Israel.
Exactly. Where is a Kemal Ataturk when you need him.
Based on that article about Jordan’s demographics it does appear inevitable that that country is on the verge of an explosion.
The whole ME is a constant powder-keg. In hindsight it was a mistake to nation build all over the place. We should have just clobbered the crap out of group that tried to export their 7th century ideology. And now we are importing the 7th century ideology by the hundreds of thousands into western countries.
I think Churchill was quite as saying the biggest mistake that was made in the forties was to name Jordan Jordan. Had they named it Palestine a whole lot of problems could have been solved.
Our Liberal elites are worried about the demographics change Jordan – LOL
Well they could build a massive desert wall and have ZERO Refugee influx like Saudi Arabia did – or – they could flood their countries like Europe did and enjoy all that cultural enrichment. Take your pick.
The one thing that will be certain, is that Europe’s Liberal elites will stick they’re noses in everyone else business and make thinks far, far worse than they already are.
Quite true, Gord.
Jordan was established with the intent that it was the Palestinian homeland from the start.
After 400 years of Ottoman rule, the British pushed the Turks out the area known as Palestine (not that there had ever been a country by that name) and administered it for a time. Both Arabic and Jewish residents of that area lobbied the British to set them up in their own homelands. The British did so, dividing the area up into the much larger Arabic state called Jordan and the smaller (20% I think) Israel. They handed over Jordan to the Arabs but refused to hand over Israel for some reason (anti-Semitism?) until after WWII when they carved a lot more territory away from them.
If they’d handed over Israel at the same time as Jordan (Palestine) most of that conflict wouldn’t exist.
Done and done! Canada should keep out of the ME and let the chips fall where they may. I feel sorry for Israel but Canada has no role. Israel should make it very clear to their neighbours that they will utilize MADD as their defensive policy. In reality they have no choice as the Arabs once loose inside Israel will butcher them anyways. Israel might resort to aggressive self defense and I would sympathize with that choice as well.
Sing with me ! … SpringTIME … in Arabia … and the Iranian Theocracy …
Thank you Hillary, Obama, Kerry … and most of all … Jimmy Carter
There should have been an election where using our oil nationwide, instead of SA etc, was discussed, pros and cons. But we didn’t, did we. Same goes for federal carbon taxation. This is what is meant by an unethical mediocracy. We got what the ON LIVs deserved and are presently receiving from Wynne. Too bad the AB gravy train is running low on fuel, despite the denials.
Canada is probably headed into another recession, partly due the election of this pedestrian government and the daily gong show unfolding for the world to see and wonder how Canadians could have done this to themselves. Often perception is what tips the scales one way or another. We risk an economic implosion, with the feds trying to peddle negative interest bonds, as Japan and 15 other countries now do. When this is done in spite of inflationary but no growth domestic
The world is in a deflationary cycle, but will pick up later and we must remember commodity crashes are always followed by sharp rises, not to new highs necessarily, but on an upward trajectory. Though government is given too much credit or blame, this government has the potential, along with the AB and ON cousins to ensure that many firms, oil & gas, but others too won’t have survived the statist onslaught of taxation, regulation and anti-growth policies. IOW our industrial and energy development infrastructure will be too bloodied to participate in the commodities rally. If so, watch for major crash in the dollar, with little industry left alive to take export advantage, while central banks and government out of monetary and fiscal policy leverage.
This of course could get very ugly. Life will go on and this is where smart investors make their money. Anyway, no matter what goes wrong it will be, all together now, “Harper’s fault.”
Nationally we have the little eastern cabin boy who, besides being too weak to overcome the Maurice Strong effect, personally will not allow the building of the Canada East or other major pipeline projects. This will be Obama/Keystone replay.
The oilsands are the watermelon whipping boy for the world because fools like Suzuki know better than to disrupt ME, Venezuelan or other oil & gas operations. IOW they’re cowards, thinking they have easy prey to pick off for their enviro symbolism, refusing debate and proposing jail time for non-believers messing up their game with reality; how dare they. Next on the shakedown, followed on course by non approval – “indigenous license.”
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/tom-mulcair-takes-responsibility-for-ndp-s-extremely-cautious-campaign-1.3443873/pipeline-projects-need-indigenous-licence-says-afn-national-chief-1.3443901
Now we have the cabin boy to help them out. Cowards unite!! Maybe, as they hope business will throw up their arms and walk away. No worries from the Liberals or corrupt aboriginal elites; their lifestyles are already bought and paid for by the taxpayer. Besides, accountability is no passé these days.
“Fankly I’m hoping Turkey falls next, given Erdogan has aligned himself with the hardliners and his contempt for Israel
geezus sid, you really need to keep up a little better on Mideast happenings. Turkey, with about 77 million pop. has the 2nd largest military in NATO, with lots of modern equipment, like F-16s, and IS the bridge to Europe. The terrorists just salivate at such a out come. And Greece would fall in a couple of days in such a scenario. Also this would drag the rest of NATO into the mess, and that would just be great with the obungles idiot at the helm. Also, Israel is on the verge of signing a gas deal with turkey, because of turkey’s pissing match with Puhteen. It is ignorance as you display that certainly has me wondering how long democracy can survive even as a caricature of it’s former self.
Make regular visits to Glicks web site, shes quite informative on mid east dynamics
So Obama’s work in the middle east is almost done.
All our allies except Israel will have fallen.
All the proto-democracies destroyed and overrun by religious murders.
I am sure our Progressives will be cheering as Jordan burns.
It’s the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. There used to be the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq but it didn’t end well. There was a Hashemite Kingdom of Syria until the French took over because they were white. The Hashemi were from the family of Faisal of Mecca, Lawrence’s friend from WWI.
I asked before and ask again: so is it still Arab Spring?