Venezuela Update
In recent days we have learned that support for Hugo Chavez is slipping in Venezuela and that he claims the free media is terrorizing his country and so-called socialist reforms. Just one month removed from the standoff with Colombia, now we are continuing to learn that Chavez has intentions to spread unrest to the rest of Latin America. The latest information comes from an article in the Christian Science Monitor and includes some of this information.In 2006, Hugo Chavez described then-President Alejandro Toledo and the current President Alan García, as “caimans from the same sewer.” The same type of rhetoric he has launched at the United States, Colombia, Mexico and Europe.
The García administration now claims that Chávez is using his oil money to foment unrest on many fronts. In recent weeks, Venezuela has been accused of supporting violent protests by farmers. García has complained that Venezuela’s new embassy in neighboring Bolivia could serve as a training camp for radical Peruvians, and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hinted that Venezuela was secretly sending money here to fund left-wing groups. These are some of the same claims levied by Colombia and the United States, among others.
In February, seven people were arrested upon returning from a meeting in Ecuador. They have been charged with terrorism for having attended a meeting of the Bolivarian Continental Coordinator, a Venezuelan group that Peru’s authorities have classified as a terrorist organization.
Peruvian authorities say that the seven attended the meeting to receive instructions from violent leftist groups, such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, on how to destabilize Peru. FARC commander Raúl Reyes, whose death in March during a raid by Colombia led to regional tensions, reportedly attended the meeting.
Many Peruvians believe the Colombian government allegations that Chávez is partially bankrolling the FARC, based on computers seized at the FARC camp in Ecuador. In a mid-March poll, 73 percent of the people surveyed agreed that Chávez has ties to the Colombian guerrillas.
Fear of terrorists arises from Peru’s recent history. The Shining Path and a smaller group, the MRTA, wreaked havoc throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, until their leaders were caught and jailed. A truth commission report published in 2003 put the number of victims at more than 70,000.
Mr. del Castillo, García’s cabinet chief, says that Peru can’t be complacent, noting that the FARC sits across its northern border and the indications that leftist groups here are getting outside funding. “There is a hand financing [these] groups. We know this, but right now we cannot say who it is, which is troubling,” says del Castillo.
The government’s interest is also political. Chávez’s principal political ally in Peru is Ollanta Humala, who heads the left-wing Nationalist Party. He lost to García in the 2006 election. In one March poll, 70 percent of people surveyed said Chávez’s influence in Peru is primarily through Mr. Humala. In a separate poll, 51.3 percent said Chávez was very involved in Peru’s internal politics.
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In reference to Chavez supporting FARC…
Here’s what a real investigation (compliments of independent reporter Greg Palast):
This past weekend, Colombia invaded Ecuador, killed a guerrilla chief in the jungle, opened his laptop – and what did the Colombians find? A message to Hugo Chavez that he sent the FARC guerrillas $300 million – which they’re using to obtain uranium to make a dirty bomb!
That’s what George Bush tells us. And he got that from his buddy, the strange right-wing President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.
So: After the fact, Colombia justifies its attempt to provoke a border war as a way to stop the threat of WMDs! Uh, where have we heard that before?
The US press snorted up this line about Chavez’ $300 million to “terrorists” quicker than the young Bush inhaling Colombia’s powdered export.
What the US press did not do is look at the evidence, the email in the magic laptop. (Presumably, the FARC leader’s last words were, “Listen, my password is ….”)
I read them. (You can read them here) While you can read it all in español, here is, in translation, the one and only mention of the alleged $300 million from Chavez:
“… With relation to the 300, which from now on we will call “dossier,” efforts are now going forward at the instructions of the boss to the cojo [slang term for ‘cripple’], which I will explain in a separate note. Let’s call the boss Ángel, and the cripple Ernesto.”
Got that? Where is Hugo? Where’s 300 million? And 300 what? Indeed, in context, the note is all about the hostage exchange with the FARC that Chavez was working on at the time (December 23, 2007) at the request of the Colombian government.
Indeed, the entire remainder of the email is all about the mechanism of the hostage exchange. Here’s the next line:
“To receive the three freed ones, Chavez proposes three options: Plan A. Do it to via of a ‘humanitarian caravan’; one that will involve Venezuela, France, the Vatican[?], Switzerland, European Union, democrats [civil society], Argentina, Red Cross, etc.”
As to the 300, I must note that the FARC’s previous prisoner exchange involved 300 prisoners. Is that what the ‘300’ refers to? ¿Quien sabe? Unlike Uribe, Bush and the US press, I won’t guess or make up a phastasmogoric story about Chavez mailing checks to the jungle.
[full story: http://www.gregpalast.com/300-million-from-chavez-to-farc-a-fake/
Part of an article for venezuelan journalist Marianella Salazar, that I read today:
Operación Yellow Cake: Según fuentes de inteligencia extranjeras, la mayor extracción de uranio en Venezuela está en el occidente del tepuy situado al margen izquierdo del río Urico, afluente del río Yuruán, distrito Roscio del estado Bolívar. Coordenadas: 6 grados 7 minutos, 40 segundos de latitud norte y 62 grados 40 minutos, 10 segundos de longitud oeste.
http://www.noticierodigital.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=367133
I will translate this as best as I can
Yellow cake operation: According to foreing intelligence sources, the greatest uranium extraction in Venezuela is west of the tepuy (old Venezuela’s mountain) located at the left bank of the Urico river, tributary of Yuruan river, Roscio district in Bolivar state. Latitude 6 degrees, 7 minutes, 40 seconds North, and longitude 62 degrees 40 minutes, 10 seconds West.
In a way, I kind of wish that Chavez would have made a move last month so he could have been arrested and brought to the world court, or whatever that place is called. That would have changed the direction of history.
Bush gives Congress 90 days to pass Colombia trade deal
Monday 7th April, 2008
(IANS)
US President George W. Bush Monday gave Congress until September to approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia, telling Democrats who oppose the deal that it is vital for the US economy and national security interests.
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has urged Colombia to remove obstacles to secure the release of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in captivity of leftist insurgents.
‘People who are responsible for leading the democratic institutions and facilitating the current humanitarian programme must share a bigger responsibility for her release,’ Fernandez said, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Monday.
Betancourt, 46, who was abducted by Colombia’s largest insurgency group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during an election campaign in 2002, is reportedly very ill.
Last month, a priest in the southern Colombian province of Guaviare claimed that he had seen Betancourt visiting a local clinic for treatment in February.
On Sunday, the Argentine president urged the FARC to release Betancourt, who holds dual Colombian-French citizenship.
Fernandez arrived in Paris Sunday to discuss Betancourt’s release with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
She also attended a march in the French capital to demand her release by the FARC.
Last week an international humanitarian relief team led by France was sent to Colombia to provide medical help for ailing Betancourt, though the team is yet to establish contact with her.
Spain and Switzerland are also participating in the mission. Her family said she has hepatitis B.
On Thursday, the Colombian president Avaro Uribe signed a decree approving the release the jailed guerrillas but insisted at the same time the first move must come from the FARC.
In response, the FARC said it had unilaterally released some of its hostages as a humanitarian move and Betancourt would be released after their jailed cadres were set free.
In February, the group released six of their hostages, including Betancourt’s running mate Clara Rojas, following intervention of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The US and the European Union has designated FARC as a foreign terrorist organisation. The group has around 10,000 armed rebels.
April 7- 2008
A Colombian engineer, who was abducted March 11 and kept chained in an empty swimming pool, was rescued by the police, Spain’s EFE news agency reported.
The police said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had abducted him, demanding a ransom of one billion pesos (around $550,000) for his release.
Pablo Heli Ariza was found in El Placer near Bogota and was in good health.
Three suspects in the case, two women and a man, have been arrested.
The FARC, which emerged in 1964, is Colombia’s largest leftist insurgency group and was founded in 1964.
Currently, the group is holding 35 high-profile hostages, including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three US contractors.
Hi KC.
KT has been busy working on a publication…..
Oooh Politics….. will jump over there and take a look. Will try to not be too obnoxious!
Karen 2
Howdy - By the way where is KT - have missed her
Adam posted a new political thread which I know will be one of her favorites!!! I think the last one he posted was 1210 blogs.
Wow. I had to step our for a bit, and again missed a lot!
Re: Global Warming…..
Last week, Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, who has been studying global warming, was asked if the Earth was still warming. She replied,
“No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.”
This is from the article on KT’s web site with links to the article in the news —— http://knowaboutcongress.com/itemsofinterest/
And read the Related Articles.
Susan and all,
i meant to write this the other day theres a new word going around
its Lecondel
which gets its name for condilliza rice
it means to go into meeting which produce nothing …. which is what condi does when she comes
here meeting meetings and nothing happens …
soo you can be like ” stop lecondeling”
global warming?? time to work on that tan, global freezing? lets go snowboarding….see I am very flexible, as far as ramming myself into the glass at JC penny’s…..nope, but I have noticed some jackace paralleling me through there, the guy isn’t even paying attention, everytime I look over there he is staring right at me, I can see people diving out of his way and he is oblivious to the tables he is hitting, I try and get in front of him, but he accelerates right along with me, the good news is, that after I flip him off (don’t worry he does the same to me) and make my final exit from the mall, i generally pick up a police escort, they are really kind to me, and try and direct me away from congestion with road blocks, of course I need to have a talk with them because some of the rookies are careless with their stops sticks and I generally pick up a few flat tires, about the time I merge back onto the interstate, they lose interest in escorting me (must be a crime going on somewhere) I make sure to turn on my blinker and get into the flow, It is kind of annoying though, when I can’s shake all the clothes racks, shopping baskets, display cases and the like, just because it tends to make my car pull a bit to the left.
Retread: Most of the climatologists who sent that letter were on the IPCC but complained that the summary was completed before the actual report, and the report was forced to agree with the summary.
Avi
There are …oh what hey everybody I’m baack …many world class scientists who disagree with the concept of man made global warming, including 77 scientists that sent an open letter to the UN asking them to back off on the whole global warming thing.
LDG and MAX KON
thanks for the sites, I will keep them around!
as in Richard
Adam….whats ya doin? Which story?
I think all at Fox missed you as well!!
They put you back to work already???
LDG……….lol, that’s fine……as long as Dick leaves his shotgun at home he’s more than welcome…………note to censors: I wrote ‘Dick’ not d*ck.
John…that was good!
((sends Darth Cheney to pay a visit to John))
Marie–
thanks– Ted Turner–
LDG left some great links on the Iraq thread– this one is my favorite-
this tells about life in Basra– and Michael who wrote this is awesome— Lots of pictures too depicting life there—
http://www.michaeltotten.com/
Mrs. Housley-
Patty………..LDG may be ‘George’. If you take the initials LDG and GWB and crunch them through an HP Zd582000XL and look for any similarities you will find one possibilty occurs when adding the reciprocal of the numerical values of each letter when added to the square root of the summation of the combined ages of the President and all his chiefs of staff, you get a sequence of numbers that equates to the intitials WMD………….which is what started all this mess to begin with.
Hiya Adam’s Mom
LDG…yep, not a good thing to repeat it all either…obviously! *L*
Patty: the oringinal report was released on tuesday. Apprently Paul Harvey was fooled.
Thanks Avi-will check out the website
Susan AZ Great Idea
Saw the piece on Ted Turner on O’Reilly
last night! Didn’t realize Mr. Turner was
that out of it!
@Patty
re: Betancourt
most welcome!
@Patty
“eww it was on Paul Harvey here….many take his word as from God! *L*”
oh, bad move by them. He has a pretty poor batting average actually.
Really Max? eww it was on Paul Harvey here….many take his word as from God! *L*
Thats easy! and it works. Now i understand!
had no clue that she has been held that long.
Now i understand susan’s comment on her will being gone.
THANK YOU!
Patty: i just looked that up, apprently it was a April Fool’s Joke.
@Patty
re: “can you easliy tell me who benancort is?”
quoting from Wikipedia:
“Íngrid Betancourt Pulecio (born December 25, 1961, Bogotá) is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist. Betancourt was kidnapped by the FARC on February 23, 2002 while campaigning for the presidency, after she decided to campaign in an area of high guerrilla presence and ignored warnings from the government, police and military not to do so. She is still being held by the FARC guerrilla group as a key hostage for a possible humanitarian exchange of prisoners for hostages with the government of Colombia.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Betancourt
how’s that for easy?
Yesterday the radio was talking about the Oldmobile name has a new owner.
Seems those at General Motors(?) “forgot” to renew the copyright to the name.
So Toyota picked it up….and will market cars with the Oldsmobile name!
How many people will buy those cars thinking it is the “american olds”?
My dad would roll in is grave knowing that! He didnt own anything but Olds.
@Marie
oooh, that’s the hydrogen-fuel-cell for light aircraft. I was thinking X-43D before I looked at the link, silly me.
Ok..so i dont understand all the chavez players. without me reading forever…can you easliy tell me who benancort is?
I get she is the “good guy” and that she is kidnapped and ill.
But where does she fall into all of it?
Max - Heathrow’s terminal #5 is back in the news….this time Naomi Cambell was arrested there.
In case anyone’s interested… Hydrogen-powered plane
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080403162501.d2gts0go&show_article=1
@Patty
“…what else can we blame him for?”
hehhehheh. make a list, you’d probably be more than half right, with my luck.
Ted Turners wife is Jane Fonda…go figure.
So we can blame the “monster” on LDG…what else can we blame him for?
Oh that’s right, his name isnt George!
;-(
LDG: She’s only a monster if she does not descriminate in her targets.
Susan: That someone who made the remark about people resorting to cannibalism was Ted Turner the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul !! Yes, and he too thinks that the Iraqi insurgents “patriots” who “don’t like us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody likes to be invaded.”
Max–
key word– efficiency! LOL!
LDG– egad… I’ve created a monster. ((grin))
Yup!
LDG posted a link with pictures– speaking of recycling– there was a picture of a woman in Basra-
A woman scavenges for recyclable materials inside a garbage bin on a road in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad April 1, 2008. Fighting between Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite militiamen last month has driven civilian deaths in the country to their highest level in more than six months, government figures showed on Tuesday.
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Susan: I think i got it from Special Report. My normal source for global warming news hasn’t been online for a while. I will have to check to see if he’s ok.
I try and minimize the quantity of materials that i use, efficiency is the only way forward.
“this just makes me want to just go ballistic- with one of those weapons you have taught me about- which one should I pick?”
egad… I’ve created a monster. ((grin))
Max–
yes– the homeless dig for cans here– I have brought my cans to the downtown area and handed them out– what they buy from the loose change, I have no clue–
LDG–
thanks for the follow up on Betancourt-
this just makes me want to just go ballistic- with one of those weapons you have taught me about- which one should I pick?
A mother of two who was educated in France, Betancourt has been chained to a tree after several attempts to escape her captors, freed hostages say.
I also read after so many years of this kind of treatment, her will is gone–
LDG–
Headed that way– #7
Max-
we have been watching the same shows—
Comment by Max Kon
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Retread: not just the last few years, all measured warming was gone, it was as cold as when accurate records started being kept around 100 years ago.
Kudos
@Susan-AZ
Good morning, and most welcome re: knocking down the propagandist.
Several items for you in the Blogging Baghdad #7 thread.
Energy– I think small steps one takes at home helps out a lot– don’t run the heat as if it were a furnace and the AC as it you want to live in a ice box– I walk into people’s home and they will have the heat or AC blasting away- We are very wasteful! and it is almost like a selfish thought- how can I be more comfortable? LOL
Patty: The problem is we don’t know if they are homeless and looking for cans or just insain
Comment by LDG
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
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LDG– YOU are the brain!! Eva– thanks for the lesson!
Patty– I heard too Obama is thinking about putting Gore on payroll- I don’t remember last night which channel — Beck?
Speaking of global warning– did anyone see Hannity last night? Some guy said with the changes we are going through, down the road, we will resort to cannibalism since there will be no vegetation left– Where the heck did this guy come from? I thought they lock people up like that in the looney hospitals– what an extreme way to predict the future!!!!
they do that here for the can’s also max.
Off topic…
Want to hear about “your” Homeland Security dollars and FEMA dollars being wasted?
KS had the ice storm Dec 12 ‘07. 1/2 the KS counties were declared a disaster. FEMA decided to let the Kansas Dept of Emergency Management (KDEM) take the reports and round up all the paper work since their man power is already localized.
Our County alone has had 4 meetings since with the guy from KDEM, including County, Cities, and Township officials. Most of the paper work is finished. 2 weeks ago, the last meeting, the townships were told they would have their checks in 6 weeks. Long story short…we recieved a phone call yesterday from a guy with FEMA…wants to set up a meeting to start rounding up the paper work, ect, to get things started. SAY WHAT? When he was told that we were done with paper work, he didnt care. He didnt know anything about the guy with KDEM, didnt care to have his info to get all the stuff from him. So 4 mths later we get to start over?
WOW, talk about “management problems”!!!
and FEMA officials want to know why they get a bad rap????
Homeland Security is a joke. The $$$”s that I see totally wasted is unreal. If people knew how much money they dish out for the asking, they’d all have coronarys! The sad part is…the homeland security grants are duplicate services that already exist in our communities.
A large self contained trailer being bid…gets bid in KS, but goes to FL to get outfitted. Go figure! It’s just more gov’t stupidity and no accountability.
Patty: and generally not as strong as fresh products.
Aluminium is great for recycling though, as the process for recycling it compared to getting it from ore uses 95% less energy. That’s why companies pay for them, so often you will see the homeless going through trash collecting aluminium cans, which they can then trade in for money.
Max…and then, what they do make with the recycled…no one can afford to buy!
Ever see the price of outside furniture, or decking materials that are recycled? its crazy!
Sunshine: most recycling polutes more than making fresh produce. Recycling a plastic bottle often uses up more petroleum than making a new one, since they use a lot of petroleum for fuel for the trucks carrying the bottles. In the UK they take all the recycling from London to sorting facilities in Kent, then they drive much of it all the way up the country to Scotland to reprocessing plants, having wasted more oil than having made a new bottle.
I’m all for efficiency, and using up less resources, but most of what is being forced on us does the opposite or very little impact.
yesterday as my son was doing his homework (required reading from his READING book - not science book). he was required to read it out loud to a parent. I continued with my job in the kitchen while he read his story. After 30 minutes of reading he was finished and I looked at him and said “well, that was a waste of 30 minutes”. He looked at me confused and I had to “deprogram him”. I had to explain how it seems to be the public school system’s job to make his generation environmentalist. The story was about a turtle from her birth until she was laying eggs herself on the beach. We had to hear how difficult it is for her to even survive the ocean what with all the fishing nets and so forth - she nearly died in one, then how difficult it is for her on the beach because so many condos and homes are built on the beach and their lights interfere with egg laying. I would say a good 70% all the subjects revolve around recycling or caring for the environment. Not that there is anything wrong with those things and yes I do recycle and do what I can but gee I’m sure there could’ve been another story he could’ve read that would educate him on some other subject.
Avi…….I’m not questioning whether our atmosphere is going through changes. But, I do question whether man produces the major impact to these changes as some “experts” believe. The history of the planet has shown that it is constantly going through changes, from it’s inner most core to the outer reaches of it’s atmosphere, the planet goes through cycles of change. Many of these changes have been occuring long before man even existed……..and will continue long after man is gone, IMO.
LDG: He also has his own website, http://junkscience.com/
They had a link on there to a dailiy satelite image of the ice caps, but i’m not sure where it went.
@Max, Avi and others,
not going to weigh in on the ‘global warming’ debate, but if you would be interested in the political side of the science, you probably want to look at a lot of what Steven Milloy has to say. Here’s his latest, with links there in to his archives:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342276,00.html
Hello All! (been quite busy lately) thought I’d just stop in and see what kind of fun you are having. When I saw some of our “funny” guys were on the blog I know there’d be something there that would cause me to break it in laughter while I’m home alone. Derek - Thanks for the laughs (your analogy of the turbines) lmbo!!!!!
Avi: this january the northern ice sheet reached and then exceded the largest size ever previously recorded.
It melts and refreezes every year.
@Marie
re: Obama opposing the Free Trade pact…
Sheesh, that and he gets endorsed by Jane Fonda and Jimmy Carter… So much for his “move to the center”, if he ever intended one.
re: More Colombia News
“French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made the release of Betancourt, a former lawmaker captured in 2002, a foreign policy priority. But so far few details have been revealed about the mission.
“I have some news, but given the sensitivity of the matter, I can not reveal anything,” Sarkozy said during a visit to Bucharest.”
from a Reuters report about the French Medical Team arriving in Bogota:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0344407120080403
Avi: deforestation isn’t caused by global warming. It’s caused because logging companies want to set up sustainable forrests, but environmental groups protest, and do not allow the forming of sustainable growth forrests, so many logging companies go to just removing the forrests.
It’s also not completely true, since there are either 3 or 5 times as many trees growing today as there were 100 years ago.
John,
the oceans is one thing you also got to good ozone the bad ozone the the layers of the atmosphere as well as the whole in the ozone.
all the bag gases are destroying our protection layer . i can tell you for certain that global warming is not hoax is a reality. Some reports are over the top but in general things regarding species and temps aint looking pretty. jUST look at North Pole those glaciers are melting quite fast….
we can go back and forth and we can read and write what we want and disagree but the bottom line is that the situation in the ozone layer which you dont wake up and see aint pretty.
Derek…….lol, but do you “drive” (attack) your own reflection in the glass of the JC Penney’s during your migration to the Starbucks at the mall?
Retread: not just the last few years, all measured warming was gone, it was as cold as when accurate records started being kept around 100 years ago.
Avi………..also look up the average temperatures of all the oceans combined over the past 3 years and you’ll find that the temperatures have actually dropped during that time frame. This, some “experts” say, means the globe is actually cooling………not warming. It is even baffling some global warming believers since this data does not appear to be flawed.
Avi
There is 38 parts of CO2 per 100,000 parts of ‘air’ in the environment that is 0.00038% most of that CO2 is natural.
Also (look it up) this years world wide temps (winter) have set new record lows and has completely wiped out the global warming of the past few years.
Global warming is real but it is not man made.
Gotta go be back in a while
God Bless all of you even the sneeky libs hiding in the dark corner
OT: We certainly do know how to support our friends… I’d hate to be our enemy!!
Obama Vows Opposition to Colombia Trade Deal
Nick Timiraos reports from Philadelphia, Pa. on the presidential race.
derek..that is a terrific analogy!
Derek
I concure. Total war has all ways worked in the past (if your side wins) The easiest example is our own Civil War. By the time Gens. Sherman and Grant got done the old Confederacy wasn’t just gone, the insurection was dead and any desire to continue the rebellion was also dead.
The next example would of course be WWII. Germany, Japan, Italy all renounced the ways that lead to their utter destruction.
Ancient history shows that all of the great empires Egypt, Babalon (sp) Greece, Rome, China, India, Aztecs, Incas ect mantained their way of life by crushing their enemies totaly…I’ve said it before, it is more humane to wage a short, intense and brutal campaign than to try and play ‘nice’ and minimize casualities and thus prolong the (1)the general war (2) you encourage a prolonged and wasteful insurgancy.
ahhhhh young minds, easily warped!!!
k2,
Global warming is Not a mYTH,
ive been studying the environment for the past 2 years as my major in israeli school ….. ( envt science)
If you look into biodiversity, deforstation, ecologcial footprint, c02, its not pretty.
Global warming means the worlds temp is rising it sure is…..
besides that gb is the least of our problems ….. referring to the topics above…
I love the wind turbines hurt the birds non-sense, it sounds to me that if the birds fly into the turbines, they deserve to go extinct, adapt to survive is the law of nature, so any non-adaptable birds are doomed for failure, now if you will excuse me, I have to drive across town and since they built that shopping mall in he way, it really cuts into my commute time, I am always trying to drive up the down escalator and most doors are to narrow for me, so I have to get a running start and plow through them, all while draging clothing racks from old navy….stupid mall, built right in my migratory path….sheesh
Derek - so true. Wars ended when the people gave up, or were no longer alive! Sad, but true.
Global warming is a myth - or actually it has become a religion. You either believe or you are spat upon! Absolutely amazing to me.
Here is an article based upon SCIENCE –
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
Patty - yep Ethanol is a joke….. we have known it for years here in MN, but it continues to be presented as an alternative fuel source. You don’t get any more miles per gallon. It takes oil to run the plant to make the ethanol. It takes a LOT of water and destroys the underground water table. And, the biggest - it uses a FOOD source!
@Derek
I commend your intentions fully, but there is that little matter of the post-WWII Geneva Conventions that make it less than legal to do things the old-fashioned “burn their huts, then kick over the ashes” way. Not that our enemies subscribe to such limitations on conduct, but we do.
The point you make about “let them win” however is far stronger. While the U.S. has backed Israel most all the way, the number of times they have been party to holding them back is embarrassing. The latest was the “cease-fire” in the 2006 Hezbollah fighting. Hezbollah was running out of ammo and men, the Israelis had gotten over their mistaken belief that pounding Lebanon hurt Hezbollah, and the push was on… And in came the diplomats.
beginsarcasm
I’m not bitter about it, no. I got over bitter when I had to stomach my own government rescuing Yassar Arafat and company from Beruit in ‘82 when ‘we’ had the whole lot of the thugs dead to rights. That was a great idea.
endsarcasm
Derek,
RIGHT ON….
LDG……….something for sure is that the “saber rattling” appears to be getting louder. IDF doing war drills, Syria calling up reserves, and as you said Iran’s becoming more and more friendly with Hezbollah every day and is blatently supplying them with arms. All signs of a possible rocky road ahead.