Oh no, not again…
Climate change destroys a dynasty. I blame the SUV’s!
Prairie Policy Centre presents the next in a discussion series, “Oil – What does it mean to Saskatchewan?” ( January 10th at the Willows Golf & Country Club, Saskatoon) Registration form
The planned American University of Iraq
…is modeled after the famous private universities in Cairo and Beirut. The project’s managers have a board of trustees; a business plan recently completed by McKinsey & Company, an international consulting firm; three candidates for university president; and $25 million, much of it in pledges from the American government and Kurdish sources. To fulfill their dream, they need much more: $200 million to $250 million over 15 years, said Azzam Alwash, the board’s executive secretary.
“bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA” – It almost reads like a bumper sticker.
This isn’t your father’s Momobile.
Add yours in the comments.
Castro is being treated in Spain. So much for that world-class health system in Cuba that the leftards keeps bragging about…
Good thing Canada shares that wonderful communist system with Cuba and North Korea!! Wouldn’t want a US-style health system where dear leader has to stay home and receive the best care on earth!
3w.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=426119&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490
Earth sculpture collapses
ATLANTA (AP) — A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth’s fragility, made its point a bit early — just three months after it’s unveiling, it collapsed.
The 175-ton “Spaceship Earth” lay in ruins at Kennesaw State University after mysteriously falling to pieces last week.
The engraved phrase “our fragile craft” was still visible amid the debris.
“Kind of ironic,” said Mary-Elizabeth Watson, a university employee. “I had no idea it was made up of so many pieces.”
University officials say they suspect water damage or glue failure, but agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are also looking into the possibility of vandalism, said Frances Weyand, a spokeswoman for Kennesaw State.
The Finnish-born sculptor who goes by one name, Eino, had called the work “Spaceship Earth” to honor environmentalist David Brower, a leader of the Sierra Club. It depicted a bronze figure of Brower standing atop the globe. The founders of California-based PowerBar had paid for it.
“How can stone collapse by itself?” Eino asked. “I’m devastated.”
He said he used a resin made specially for stone, worked with an engineer and was assured that the globe would stay in one piece.
Eino, who lived in Georgia in the late 1990s and now lives outside Las Vegas, vowed to restore “Spaceship Earth” to its former glory, with structural modifications. Rebuilding will start as early as next month, he said.
“I want to rebuild it and build it stronger than ever,” Eino said. “It has to be made safe.”
Reported under Weird News, canoe.ca.
Where is Mao Strong’s Ark?
Here:
http://www.endtime.com/magarchive.asp?ID=21
“Um, Robert, or should I call you Mr. Haney, there were four cute occupants of the water tower.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 3, 2007 11:53 PM ”
well ya at one point there was 4 of them but then I took the 4th out on a date where we had sex the next 24 hours straight and she never went back to the show. LOL !!!
also: “Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction” merely gives the mathematics to calculate what to expect given an induction system.
it doesnt explain the essence of what induction IS or how it WORKS any more than ‘work = force X distance’ tells us ANYTHING about where the force precisely originates. so why dont you enlighten us BA BSc types and ANSWER THE FUKING QUESTION FINALLY as to how megawatts of power can pass thru the insulators in a transformer. how mr st vistus dance???? hmmm ???
also mr minchau:
“If it was all about oil, wouldn’t they invade Alberta rather than Iraq? and wouldn’t they, you know, keep the oil themselves no matter where they invaded?”
simplistic simplistic simplistic.
the reason they dont invade alberta is we’re not a hostile nation putting the supply at risk. we freely sell the stuff to them, cripes they have owned most of the wells at some point anyway.
furthermore, it has been murmured in the past by powerful american senators that canada does present a juicy target if at some point we withold vital resources. you up to speed on ‘manifest destiny’ yet???
also: ” You’re saying that America sent 150000 troops halfway around the world of oil. Sent them to a country where ”
Im not saying that. Im asking if that is the equation that explains american intervention in iraq. do you deny that 3000 american mil. personnel are now dead because of iraq war II ??? do you deny that it has been repeatedly put forth in this blog that there is big progress in other areas of iraq society, complaining that it is not properly reported by the MSM ???
Im merely trying to find out if there is a connection and if so, who in the white house decided to make bring about that cause and effect.
in the mean time, drink up !!!
and dave here is also in denial regarding the veritable tsunami of chinese merchandise showing up on the shelves:
“certain histrionic style similarity between Mr. bollocks and a certain obnoxious leftard who Kate”
pointing out this factoid apparently causes my GPS bearings to suddenly be in the left of the political spectrum.
and while I have your attention o entrenched dyed in the wool righties, who among you still uphold the exclusively rightist support for monarchy?
(it sure aint mr piroette turdeau and I very douby the new democraps maintain support for qe II and gilles duceppe’s bunch never have either)
support for monarchy has always been the domain of conservatists.
well I got news for ya, monarchy is the single biggest fraud and scam imposed on the human race in all our history.
quick version:
go back back back hundreds of generations and you bump into Adam & Eve in the garden of eden or one of the monkeys whose ancestors scampered about said garden.
neither of which were royalty, altho I can think of certain royals nowadays who act like a bunch of monkeys.
so, we seem to have a dilemma here seeing at royalty is based on ‘blue blood’. BOTH the parents have to be royals and thus ALL the grandparents and now we’re up to EIGHT great grandparents have to be royals. see where this is leading?
it is mathematically impossible to create and sustain a royal lineage.
or maybe the trick is to do like napoleon or some mongol invader and pull off spectacular conquest and simply declare yourself royalty.
is that the trick?? but no longer an option ?? just what are the rules going back to antiquity as to how to git yerself in the blue blood lineage and thus number such-and-such in succession to the throne???
its all a collosal FARCE AND SCAM and her majesty elizabeth 2 is the WORST con artist alive.
but right wing conservatists choose to ignore this unpleasantness eh ?
deny deny deny.
gotcha !!!
Bollocks: Plebeian (have you learned how to spell it yet?)
” do you deny that 3000 american mil. personnel are now dead because of iraq war II ??? ”
Iraq War II? Are you under the impression that the invasion of Iraq in the early 90s and the invasion of Iraq in 2003 are somehow separate wars?
They are not. There was a 12 year ceasefire (contingent on Saddam doing things like allowing the UN full access to inspect for weapons of mass destruction, among other conditions with which he did not comply), and then the war simply resumed. There was never a peace treaty signed, and the US was technically still at war with Iraq throughout the entire Clinton administration.
The fourth cutie in the water tower was literally a dog — youtube.com/watch?v=D1vb8RwZxR4 — so I guess, folks, well, now we know.
….”Things are getting tighter,” Ms Stronach said. “We need a competitiveness strategy to keep and create jobs. We rely on a resource-based economy. Manufacturing is going to countries where it can be done less expensively. We need to manufacture here, keep and create jobs here….
yorkregion.com/yr/yr4/YR_News/Newscentre/Era_Banner/Aurora/story/3781341p-4373321c
Magna Part of China’s Booming Auto Sector
…currently Magna International Inc. has 18 production facilities in China, said Mr. Rogers. Seventeen of the facilities are focused on manufacturing components for consumption on vehicles made in China. One plant is an export facility where more than 70 per cent of its output is sold to the North American market. The rest is shipped to other countries in Europe and Japan, according to Mr. Rogers….
embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/november/1/magna/
Pet Owners . . . Dog owners . .
JM*s Excellent find above . . .10:15am
**Those vets say the tests were introduced because BCVMA members were angry that Indo-Canadian veterinarians were charging significantly less for basic veterinary procedures, such as spaying or neutering a dog or cat, than other BCVMA members were charging…
tinyurl.com/ykb2oq
Posted by: JM at January 4, 2007 10:15 AM **
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And not just in B.C., but other provinces as well. The *accented language trick* was used on a Vet in Quebec to kill off his lower priced practice. I heard his accent on TV and he was easy to understand.
Why do we allow these Dental, Medical, Chiropractic, Physiotherapy, Vetrinary and other groups to fix their own prices at the highest possible levels that the *Wealthy* can bear???
$750 for a small tooth drilled and stuffed with rubber, [root canal = 30 minutes]. Seems high to me. Other patients also being served in other rooms. $1500 per hour. Where does it stop? = TG
Socialist support for Muslims, the French and how things are done. . . This says it all.
*Most of the Muslims speak French and vote for the Socialists, and Ms. Onkelinx needs their votes to stay in office,* he says.
Ritual Sacrifice?
Not on My Street,
Some Belgians Say
Muslim Tradition Stirs
Ire of Animal Activists;
Seat-Belting a Sheep By MARY JACOBY
January 4, 2007; Page A1
BRUSSELS — At a slaughterhouse here last week, Mohamed Mimoun wrestled a sheep between his legs and took a number. He gasped: It was a two-hour wait to sacrifice his animal for Eid al-Adha, an important Islamic religious festival.
“I should have done this at home, like everyone else,” he moaned.
That would have saved Mr. Mimoun a long wait in drenching rain, but it would have been against the law. Killing an animal at home to eat it is legal in Belgium. But a 1988 law expressly forbids the ritual slaughter of animals at home.
Living cheek by jowl in Brussels with the many bureaucrats who run the European Union, Muslims in the city turned an estimated 25,000 sheep toward Mecca this year and cut their throats to celebrate the story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son to God. Eid al-Adha commemorates God’s reprieve which allowed Abraham to kill a ram instead of his son. While some, like Mr. Mimoun, head to official slaughterhouses, many Muslims, fearing long waits, kill their sheep illegally in their backyards and basements instead.
Whether at a slaughterhouse or at home, the practice raises the ire of animal-rights activists. For years, they have held anguished protests against the manner in which the sheep are slaughtered, arguing that the sheep should be stunned first to lessen their pain. “It’s not normal to have thousands of sheep slaughtered like this in the middle of a major European city,” says Ann De Greef, a Belgian animal-rights campaigner.
On his way to the slaughterhouse, Mr. Mimoun was fined by a policewoman for transporting a live sheep in the closed trunk of his Toyota. By law, it should have been in the back seat.
“She told me I needed to have a seat belt on the sheep,” Mr. Mimoun said. The policewoman later said she was joking about the seat belt.
Brussels’ Muslim population has grown to more than 15% of the city’s one million inhabitants, and what began two decades ago as a debate over animal welfare and hygiene has been transformed into a test of political might. The result is a stalemate.
“We have the right to practice our religion,” says Coskun Beyazgül, head of the Muslim Executive Office, a state-sponsored Islamic authority.
While Muslim authorities in France sanction the use of electronic stunning methods, Muslim authorities in Belgium forbid it. For the sacrifice to be completed in accordance with Islam, says Mr. Beyazgül, the lamb must die from a loss of blood while its head is turned toward Mecca in Saudi Arabia, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. Stunning the animals before slitting their throats, he says, could lead to the animal dying prematurely, against Islamic principles.
Mr. Beyazgül is also against making donations of money to charity in lieu of sacrificing a live animal, as many Muslims do in the U.S. and other countries. He adds that Muslims here ignore the home-slaughtering ban because Belgian authorities aren’t willing to invest in enough capacity at legal slaughtering facilities.
While similar conflicts play out across Europe, the tensions are particularly acute in Brussels, Europe’s political capital. Unlike France and other nations with large Muslim minorities, Muslims in Belgium aren’t concentrated in ghettos outside major cities; they often live side-by-side with EU officials and other professionals in gentrifying urban neighborhoods.
One man got his lamb home last year on a leash. “It looked like his pet,” says Pierre-Yves Lambert, a local political commentator and social worker. “But everyone knew where it was going.”
To ease the strain on slaughterhouses, city leaders have suggested the Muslim community spread out the sacrifice over the three days of the festival, which ended this year on Jan. 1. Nothing doing, says Mr. Beyazgül. “Everyone wants to kill their sheep in the morning of the first day,” he says. “They want to eat their sheep for lunch.”
The rush to slaughter so many sheep within hours led to catastrophe during last year’s festival. A temporary slaughterhouse became overwhelmed with long lines and malfunctioning water and drainage systems. In a hurry to get home, some celebrants began slaughtering sheep on top of live sheep as large pools of blood formed.
In response, Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker last year introduced a bill that would have required Muslims to stun the sheep before killing them. Muslims protested, and the bill died.
Mr. Dedecker, who hails from Belgium’s Dutch-speaking North, blames Laurette Onkelinx, Belgium’s Justice Minister and a French-speaking Socialist, for its defeat. *Most of the Muslims speak French and vote for the Socialists, and Ms. Onkelinx needs their votes to stay in office,* he says.
Representatives of Ms. Onkelinx did not return phone calls.
Ms. De Greef and her group, Global Action in the Interest of Animals, scored a win in 2003, when they successfully sued to stop municipal authorities from placing collection bins on city streets for animals’ remains. Providing such bins is tantamount to sanctioning illegal home sacrifice, she says.
“The Muslims portray this as an attack on their religion,* says Ms. De Greef. “But we think the law is for everybody.*
Still, authorities in several towns outside Brussels continued to provide waste bins for last week’s festival, drawing protests from Ms. De Greef’s group. More than 100,000 sheep were sacrificed in Belgium this year for the religious festival, Mr. Beyazgül said.
But for Muslims like 48-year-old Mr. Mimoun, who want to slaughter their sheep in legal facilities, the annual festival can be costly.
Mr. Mimoun paid a farmer $230 for his sheep. Then he paid $60 to have a certified Muslim sacrificateur perform the ritual killing for him at the slaughter facility. And he’ll have to pay a fine — the amount of which will be determined by a judge — for transporting the animal in the trunk of his car.
But Mr. Mimoun, who moved to Belgium from Morocco when he was 4 years old, said it was worth it. “I am a Belgian. This is Europe. I respect the law,” he said.
Besides, he added: “I don’t like blood.”
Write to Mary Jacoby at mary.jacoby@wsj.com
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The Totalitarian Template
Saddam’s place in the pantheon of modern dictators.
By Anne Applebaum
Hitler shot himself before capture, Stalin received a grand state funeral, and Pol Pot died while under house arrest. In late December, the brutal leader of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, died of natural causes. In fact, when the noose tightened around his neck early Saturday morning, Saddam Hussein became one of a surprisingly small number of modern dictators actually executed by their own people: Benito Mussolini, Nicolae Ceausescu—and now the man who once called himself Iraq’s president for life. Of those three, Saddam is the only one who had anything resembling a trial.
Other than that, though, there is no reason to view Saddam as an exceptional or unusual heir to the 20th-century totalitarian tradition. He saw himself as part of the pantheon of modern dictators. Allegedly, he boasted to KGB agents in Baghdad of his personal admiration for Stalin.
…
Even now, in the wake of his execution, our instincts are to argue about what Saddam meant to us, not what he meant to the Iraqis. His death is being analyzed for its impact on Iraq’s civil war and therefore for its impact on our troops. The chaos of his trial and execution are another excuse to attack the White House. Write that Saddam really was an evil man, and you’ll be thought an apologist for George Bush. Write that Saddam’s regime resembled Stalin’s, and you’ll be called a right-wing ideologue. …-
http://www.slate.com/id/2156767/?nav=ais
L. Beria also admired Stalin.
He denies soliciting murder and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior with intent to stir up racial hatred …
Well, y’see, that’s what the jury gets to decide, bubela.
“That would increase U.S. energy reliance on Canada, which already supplies 16% of its imported oil and oil products and about 85% of its imported natural gas.”
Energy From Another Backyard
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 4, 2007 | Norval Scott
The oil and natural-gas industry is increasingly looking to Canada as a home for big energy projects Americans don’t want in their backyards.
A patch of coniferous forest near here, on Canada’s Atlantic coastline, represents both the promise and the challenges of that approach. The land, owned by closely held Canadian energy company Irving Oil, is earmarked for the possible construction of a 300,000-barrel-a-day crude-oil refinery that would cost $5 billion to $7 billion — the first new refinery in the U.S. or Canada in more than 25 years. Irving hopes a refinery, if it chooses to build one, would be operational by 2013. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762491/posts
one for the x-dictator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDL5fb7TTI
Just remember, Mo . . . mo’ money, mo’ problems.
Bushism. Good one. …-
Bush talks about Iraq war plan, Saddam
AP
President Bush said Thursday he wished the execution of Saddam Hussein “had gone in a more dignified way.”…-
AP Locates Jamil Hussein?
The Associated Press says the Iraqi Interior Ministry has confirmed the existence of police Capt. Jamil Hussein—and they’re planning to arrest him for talking to the AP: Iraq threatens arrest of police officer. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media. …-
LGF
The 2006 LGF Award Winners
I’m pleased as punch to announce the winners of the Idiotarian (the “Fiskie”) and Anti-Idiotarian (the “Fallaci”) Awards for 2006. In a rather felicitous juxtaposition, both of these proud recipients worked at the United Nations. Ladies, gentlemen, and lizards, I give you: ??
(Thanks to Cox & Forkum as always for their excellent illustration.)
Canada continues its headfirst plunge down the slippery slope:
http://tinyurl.com/y86m87
“Battle lines forming after court condones three-parent family
TORONTO – Critics are calling it unnecessary judicial activism, another attack on traditional values by a court that took it upon itself to redefine the family.
Same-sex parents say it is simply a reassuring recognition of reality.
But for an Ontario woman known only as A.A., this week’s decision bestowing her with the status of mother means much more than mere legal acknowledgement of her practical, but non-biological role in a five-year-old boy’s life.”
The fourth cutie in the water tower was literally a dog — youtube.com/watch?v=D1vb8RwZxR4 — so I guess, folks, well, now we know.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 4, 2007 01:38 PM ‘
well I got news for you st vitus dance, IM A CANINE TOO.
you been arguing with a 4 legged critter with powerful jaws that can outrun a 10 speed bike at full tilt.
the boss rigged up a touch screen sose I can upload all manner of sarcasm aimed at the likes of you.
so far its working.
meanwhile when the fuck are you gonna answer the question about precisely how induction works by somehow conveying millions of watts of power across the insulators in a transformer.
any chance of progess there ???
you dont know do you. you smarmy right wing moonbat havent got a clue how it works just that it does and only because someone else told you.
har har har !!!
woof woof woof !!!
p.s. I ate the queens corgies for xmas dinner !!! woof woof woof !!!
pt I:
The fourth cutie in the water tower was literally a dog — youtube.com/watch?v=D1vb8RwZxR4 — so I guess, folks, well, now we know.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 4, 2007 01:38 PM ‘
well I got news for you st vitus dance, IM A CANINE TOO.
you been arguing with a 4 legged critter with powerful jaws that can outrun a 10 speed bike at full tilt.
pt II:
the boss rigged up a touch screen sose I can upload all manner of sarcasm aimed at the likes of you.
so far its working.
meanwhile when the fuck are you gonna answer the question about precisely how induction works by somehow conveying millions of watts of power across the insulators in a transformer.
pt II:
the boss rigged up a touch screen sose I can upload all manner of sarcasm aimed at the likes of you.
so far its working.
pt III
meanwhile when the fuk are you gonna answer the question about precisely how induction works by somehow conveying millions of watts of power across the insulators in a transformer.
any chance of progess there ???
pt IV:
you dont know do you. you smarmy right wing moonbat havent got a clue how it works just that it does and only because someone else told you.
har har har !!!
woof woof woof !!!
p.s. I ate the queens corgies for xmas dinner !!! woof woof woof !!!
“Um, Robert, or should I call you Mr. Haney”
feel free.
and I will henceforth address you as Arnold Ziffel. he was the pig. oink oink.
So there you have it folks. When considering the opinions of Mr. Bollocks in the future, you can now keep in mind his behaviour here, and the legacy of Robert. Sorry for skating on the margins of the SDA comment policy, Kate.
a couple other things there st vitus, what do YOU find ‘cute’ about a dog??
it was meredith mcrae I shagged all night not the dog by the way.
and we can all consider that it was YOU st vitus that absolutely had to dredge up past grievances back here:
“Um, Robert, or should I call you Mr. Haney, [as in country bumpkin] there were four cute [his words not mine st vitus finds dogs ‘cute’ in the same context as humans]occupants of the water tower.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 3, 2007 11:53 PM ”
cant resist the urge to make it personal eh st vitus?? and you get it right back eh ???
answer the question st vitus, what is the mechanism by which induction works. how does electric power somehow breach the insulators or air gaps or other separation in transformers, induction motors, flourescent ballast and any and all other electrical devices where there is a discontinuance in the conductors but the device still functions ??? hmmm ????
ah, he doan wanna answo. mebee he stoopid.
remember st vitus and all who peer at the exchange: YOU STARTED IT.
Say it isn’t so.
Suzuki is the new motorcycle at 24 Sussex, Ottawa.
Has Harper swallowed the Red-Green swill?
Will Mao Stlong return to Canada with the victory of Kyoto in a Chely?
Will Canada become the rice bowl for China and its population of 1.3 billion appetites/stomachs to feed?
Will Canadians send billion$ to China with nothing in return but an economy in thrall/enslaved by the Red-Greens of Mao Stlong? Will Canada become an hollowed out shell with its economy/prosperity moved offshore to China?
Will Mao Strong’s visions/dreams of the destruction of capitalism be realized in Canada?
Say it isn’t so, Mr. Harper, Mr. Baird.
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The coming Tory war on prosperity
Terence Corcoran
Financial Post
Who would have thought that a vote for Harper’s Conservatives would turn into a vote for David Suzuki’s warped war on modern prosperity. That Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now openly flirting with Suzukiism was reinforced yesterday as he explained his Cabinet shuffle and the government’s new environmental focus. He said he aimed to tackle long term environmental issues that have been badly neglected. “Most Canadians simply don’t understand how far Canada is behind on major environmental indicators compared to other developed countries — not the developing world — compared to other developed countries we are behind.”
In a newspaper interview just before Christmas, Mr. Harper said Canada’s environmental record is “the worst in the developed world … in just about every measure.” In an interview with CTV, he said Canada’s environmental performance “is, by most measures, the worst in the developed world. We’ve got big problems.” Now defunct Environment Minister Rona Brockovich made the same claims earlier in the year.
There is only one study model by only one group in the world that ranks Canada as the worst environmental performer among developed nations, and that’s the work of David Suzuki and a collection of academic activists associated with Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria. The latest in the line landed last month from the Suzuki Foundation, a report that begins: “Canada has among the worst environmental record of any developed country, ranking 28th out of 30 OECD countries.”
Authority for this claim, absurd on its face — ranking Canada behind the likes of Greece, Poland, Turkey and Mexico–is a 2005 report, The Maple Leaf in the OECD, produced by the Suzuki Foundation and environmental academics from Simon Fraser. That report in turn draws on Canada Vs. The OECD: An Environmental Comparison, a 2001 work by David R. Boyd, eco-research chair of environmental law at the University of Victoria.
The 2001 Boyd report, the founding catalogue of misleading indicators, warped assumptions and outrageous conclusions should send the Harper Tories running for cover. Instead, the government has adopted the report’s methodology as legitimate foundation for political policy….-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=c93a911d-bb49-4c86-9827-5792654fa6d0&p=1
Good year expected for market
Calgary Sun
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Montreal Gazette | Layoffs batter town
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s Valleyfield plant will cease manufacturing tires and cut 800 workers this summer, in the latest blow to Quebec’s troubled manufacturing sector.
Yell asked. . . .
Why can’t we blow up their oil industry and bankrupt them? Seems like something we could do within the 72-hour window granted by the War Powers Act.
Posted by: The Yell at January 3, 2007 10:48 PM
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The last thing we want to do.
The majority of Iranians may not be fond of the US, but they do want to lead a free and democratic life.
Oil and infrastucture belong to Iranians and our target is only the minority of extremist Mullahs.
There may be reasons to prescision bomb a nuclear consentrating plant if it can be singled out , but any damage to citizens and their resources would only turn world opinion against the West.
A better way to devalue oil and reduce Iran*s , Venezualas,[and Alberta*s] vast profits is to switch to hybrid, electric, and hydrogen power use.
This is well underway, as a fleet of GM hydrogen vehicles are in use by the Ontario government .
You can see the EV [electric vehicle], situation through;
TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
= TG
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Earlier this month, Nawaf Obeid, an adviser to the Saudi embassy in Washington, spoke of *massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis* if the United States withdraws from the country.
Saudi citizens are also reportedly raising funds for Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
Earlier this month, about 30 prominent Saudi Wahhabi clerics called on Sunni Muslims around the Middle East to support their brethren in Iraq against Shiites and praised the anti-American insurgency.
Thousands of Iraqis have been killed this year in sectarian bloodshed between the majority Shiites and the Sunni Arab minority, who lost their dominance after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Saudi Arabia, like most Arab countries, is predominantly Sunni but has a significant Shiite minority.**
canadafreepress.com/2007/cover010207.htm
====== The hatred between Shiites and Sunni tend to make Iraq difficult to sort out, however, if a charismatic Islamic leader could get both factions to bury the hatchet, would we have a more focused, more severe problem with terrorism? = TG