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Post by sigurdur on Nov 14, 2015 1:47:40 GMT
The whole geo-political energy thing gets old. Russia at least exports what it has, while the US imports 7.5 million barrels a day, and now wants to export? HOW damn dumb can one get?
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 14, 2015 2:24:52 GMT
The whole geo-political energy thing gets old. Russia at least exports what it has, while the US imports 7.5 million barrels a day, and now wants to export? HOW damn dumb can one get? As dumb (bought) as a politician can get ... no particular limit that I can see!
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Post by magellan on Nov 14, 2015 3:55:03 GMT
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Post by magellan on Nov 14, 2015 4:19:13 GMT
Magellan, Your complaints seem to be based more on fiscal issues. But I think the primary focus of the investigation was corruption. Granted the way they are managing some public pensions borders on fraud. Certainly stupidity and yes maybe even corruption. "The State Integrity Investigation used extensive research to grade the states based on the laws and systems they have in place to deter corruption." How much more corrupt can it be than running your state into bankruptcy by promising funds that can never be delivered? But they have "integrity"? So laws are followed that permit the states with high rated integrity to have unfunded liabilities that will never be sustainable. Hilarious.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 15, 2015 10:51:01 GMT
I think that if I wanted America and the West to fail I would assist IS aka ISIL aka Daesh and their militant Islamic supporters to to achieve their aims. This Der Spiegel article was written in 2005. Note that we are in Phase 5 of the steps toward Islamic victory and that the western governments actively assisted and the US continues to actively assist the conclusion of Phase 4. "The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that "the creeping loss of the regimes' power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida." At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.
The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.
The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of "total confrontation." As soon as the caliphate has been declared the "Islamic army" it will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden."As a project manager I would be pleased with the execution of that plan. Read the article to see phase 7 All written 10 years ago.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 15, 2015 15:45:08 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-vows-to-help-france-hunt-down-perpetrators-of-paris-terror-attacks/2015/11/15/a4628faa-8b74-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.htmlThis article is unimportant on its face ... but it becomes ever more apparent that the phrase, 'hunt down the perpetrators', which continues to be used like you were out to round up a rather large gang of bank robbers, is sadly misapplied. It fails to understand that throughout history, the largest and bloodiest conflicts have been clashes of civilizations and their values. While the administration and many others in the West prefer to see this as a police effort, where you merely have to round up a few 'bad guys' ... then all will be well, I fear they may be very much mistaken. The 'values' for which these fighters are willing to surrender their lives are a particular interpretation(s) ( Sunni and Shia alike) of their civilizations' defining beliefs and paradigms, which are based in the tenents of Islam. These are shared at their basic level by an unknown but arguably 'large' proportion of their civilization's members ... other Muslims ... irrespective of nationality. All of this is, of course, a thesis. All historical events are different, but what proportion of the German or Japanese populations vehemently supported similar interpretations with tragic consequences. With the Japanese, it was very much religious and their culture was definitively different. With the Germans, it could be argued as quasi-religious even though they were an important part of western civilization. But when push-came-to shove, overwhelming proportions on all sides 'went-along-with' the effort. Fortunately, the numerical size of these 'civilizations' (or call them what you will ... deviant sub-civilizations?) was relatively small in comparison to the world's population. Yet the effort to 'suppress' (or choose a phrase ... neutralize,defeat, bury, etc.) was very costly. In the end, western liberal attempts to 'civilize' war were, in part. abandoned in the effort to win ...the carpet bombing of cities with high explosives, incendiaries and ultimately, atomic bombs. We need not mention internment camps. Other historical examples come to mind, as in the 'Conquest of the New World'. So, are we only hunting down a few desperados? Or is this a war between civilizations, contrary to what our last two Presidents have been willing to state? Does nationality trump religion? So far there is no sign, outside of a few 'Jack'-Moslim royal families and the occasional talk show apologist, that there is any serious attempt to separate in anything other than words from what appears to be the dominant(?) paradigm of the so-called 'religion of peace'. The tea leaves are looking rather bad.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 15, 2015 15:59:44 GMT
How true. Can you imagine after the Lusitania or Pearl Harbor if the presidents had said "we will hunt down the perpetrators....."
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2015 1:36:16 GMT
The Press can be counted on to exaggerate many things ... not just climate issues.
The Chicago Tribune reports today ...
France launches 'massive' air strikes on Islamic State in Syria as manhunt continues
Tribune wire reports
France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.
Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said.
Twenty?? Really ... 20?? Do these people ever read? In WWII massive was when you sent in bombers wingtip to wingtip in depth dropping 1000s of bombs and incendiaries ... exterminating whole sections of cities such as Dresden and Tokyo.
Twenty whole bombs ... is that the best that can be done? I doubt that they were shocked or awed. Is this the war without pity that the French President promised?
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 16, 2015 1:54:08 GMT
The Press can be counted on to exaggerate many things ... not just climate issues. The Chicago Tribune reports today ... France launches 'massive' air strikes on Islamic State in Syria as manhunt continues
Tribune wire reports France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. Twenty?? Really ... 20?? Do these people ever read? In WWII massive was when you sent in bombers wingtip to wingtip in depth dropping 1000s of bombs and incendiaries ... exterminating whole sections of cities such as Dresden and Tokyo. Twenty whole bombs ... is that the best that can be done? I doubt that they were shocked or awed. Is this the war without pity that the French President promised? It is the best they could do in the time - the aircraft that will be dropping thousands of rifles will arrive tomorrow.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 16, 2015 2:12:11 GMT
Amazing how they found the amo dump, the control center etc in such a short time. It's almost like they already knew it was there.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2015 2:31:27 GMT
The Press can be counted on to exaggerate many things ... not just climate issues. The Chicago Tribune reports today ... France launches 'massive' air strikes on Islamic State in Syria as manhunt continues
Tribune wire reports France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. Twenty?? Really ... 20?? Do these people ever read? In WWII massive was when you sent in bombers wingtip to wingtip in depth dropping 1000s of bombs and incendiaries ... exterminating whole sections of cities such as Dresden and Tokyo. Twenty whole bombs ... is that the best that can be done? I doubt that they were shocked or awed. Is this the war without pity that the French President promised? It is the best they could do in the time - the aircraft that will be dropping thousands of rifles will arrive tomorrow. But they blew up the ammo ... is there a second plane?
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2015 14:07:44 GMT
Amazing how they found the amo dump, the control center etc in such a short time. It's almost like they already knew it was there. The results of the first 'attack without pity' cannot be two goats and a camel.
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Post by magellan on Nov 16, 2015 18:39:37 GMT
I think that if I wanted America and the West to fail I would assist IS aka ISIL aka Daesh and their militant Islamic supporters to to achieve their aims. This Der Spiegel article was written in 2005. Note that we are in Phase 5 of the steps toward Islamic victory and that the western governments actively assisted and the US continues to actively assist the conclusion of Phase 4. "The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that "the creeping loss of the regimes' power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida." At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.
The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.
The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of "total confrontation." As soon as the caliphate has been declared the "Islamic army" it will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden."As a project manager I would be pleased with the execution of that plan. Read the article to see phase 7 All written 10 years ago.Yes, but Obama says Climate Change is the bigger threat, and now according to some (don't sell Obama short on this either) ISIS is not to blame because of the "real threat". The following is my kind of satire illustrating the madness in the minds of radical groups. Which group I'm referring to is left up to the reader www.cornwallalliance.org/2015/11/16/why-isis-should-support-cop21-in-paris/?utm_source=Cornwall+Alliance+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e64f408d34-Why_ISIS_Should_Support_11_16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b80dc8f2de-e64f408d34-131657257
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 16, 2015 19:17:10 GMT
Yes I have noticed the outbreaks of radical terrorism in Los Angeles and San Francisco caused by the drought.
I think that the Democrats have got a huge amount of money and power riding on 'climate change' taxes and carbon credits etc. There is now an existential threat to their wallets hence the hyperbole.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2015 19:42:53 GMT
As usual, Sovereign Man, raises serious points. Many of us I think subscribe to Thomas Jefferson's statements that government, in general, is not to be trusted to any great degree. This is surely true when it is 'out of the sunshine' for any length of time. I must also point out to Sovereign Man, that since ISIS has acquired some territory and has adopted the mantle of control ... it too, is now a government. Thus, it provides a relative comparison of what the dark nature of absolute power looks like. Assuming we needed a reminder? As the world's nations and peoples contemplate what is to be done with the very dark side of Islam, we should be very careful to remember that the enemy of our enemy may also be our enemy ... with a slightly more folksy air. 'You're from the government and you're here to do what? ?' www.sovereignman.com/articles/
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