World's Best Businessman Award goes to...

...US vice-president, Penis Cheney!

As the price of oil pollutes through the roof, and oil companies make the biggest profits ever know in the history of mankind, oh and...the world suddenly discovers we can't afford to feed the poor as a result of the knock on effect...Mr Dick is wandering around the safe streets of picturesque Baghdad...doing what he does best...

"Iraq is preparing to allow four of the biggest western oil companies to renew exploitation of the country's vast reserves for the first time in almost four decades.

Iraq's oil ministry stepped up talks with BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Total after the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, visited Iraq in March..."

Bush Oil Inc. fucks up the world, now their own country

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Renowned for its wildlife, Arctic Refuge is inhabited by 45 species of land and marine mammals, ranging from the pygmy shrew to the bowhead whale. Best known are the polar, grizzly, and black bear; wolf, wolverine, Dall sheep, moose, muskox, and the animal that has come to symbolize the area's wildness, the free-roaming caribou. Thirty-six species of fish occur in Arctic Refuge waters, and 180 species of birds have been observed on the refuge.

Eight million acres of the Arctic Refuge are designated Wilderness, and three rivers (Sheenjek, Wind, and Ivishak) are designated Wild Rivers. Two areas of the refuge are designated Research Natural Areas. Because of distinctive scenic and scientific features, several rivers, valleys, canyons, lakes, and a rock mesa have been recommended as National Natural Landmarks.

Perhaps the most unique feature of the refuge is that large-scale ecological and evolutionary processes continue here, free of human control or manipulation. A prominent reason for establishment of the Arctic Refuge was the fact that this single protected area encompasses an unbroken continuum of arctic and subarctic ecosystems. Here, one can traverse the boreal forest of the Porcupine River plateau, wander north up the rolling tiaga uplands, cross the rugged, glacier-capped Brooks Range, and follow any number of rivers across the tundra coastal plain to the lagoons, estuaries, and barrier islands of the Beaufort Seas coast, all without encountering an artifact of civilization.

The refuge encompasses the traditional homelands and subsistence areas of Inupiaq Eskimos of the arctic coast and the Athabascan Indians of the interior.

Image: Dec 14th, 2007, local residents try to remove dense crude oil at a beach in Taean, South Korea

Official..Afghanistan is about to invade Britain!!!

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has revealed Afghanistan's intention to invade the United Kingdom.

"We have resolved ... it is in the British national interest to confront the Taliban in Afghanistan, or Afghanistan would come to us," Brown said at the conference.

India - ode to the motor car!

More than 100,000 people died, and an estimated 2,000,000 were seriously injured in Indian road accidents! These are the latest available figures from 2006.
Cars kill more people in India than malaria, TB and AIDS combined!
Add this to the release of the new super-cheap Indian car, which will only increase deaths, the cost of rising fuel impacting family budgets and food costs, global warming...etc, etc.
Surely the 100,000 deaths is enough to wake up this fast-growing nation to invest NOW in alternatives to the personal motor car.

Becoming your own enermy

Gordon Brown (unelected prime minister of the UK) has pushed through his proposal to increase the time that terrorism suspects can be held without charge. If the measure becomes law, Britain will have the toughest anti-terror laws in the Western world.
What is a terrorist? What is civilized behavior, the Geneva Convention, International Law etc?
How can you win the supposed "war on terrorism" when you become as bad as the very people you are fighting?
This is a sad day for British history...

Just who are the "Taliban" that we murder?

Once upon a time in a war-torn country, there was a revolution of the popular masses that sided with the Taliban, who brought some peace to the land.
This country was very poor, the environment very hostile, enveloped in clan warfare, recovering from a Soviet and American proxy war and flooded with small arms, an economy dependent on opium, a population addicted to opium, corruption, undeveloped health systems, a 1999 literacy rate of 36%, isolation from the outside world...to put it in a nutshell, a nation that comes close to living in the middle ages.
Then a super modern army lead by Bush, invades their land. Being mostly Christian and English-speaking, they use high tech weapon systems, super-sonic stealth bombers, cruise missiles, chemical weapons, night/heat vision sensors, satellite imagery, and big mutha-funking bombs!
They trample through villages and homes, destroying cash crops and insulting culture, bribing locals and officials who are approachable and detaining those who are not.
A large portion of the people who are resisting the foreign invasion are just ordinary tribesman protecting their family and their land. If they are Pashtun people (who populate Afghanistan and bordering Pakistan) they have become targets by ethnicity.
Unfortunately, the foreign soldiers and their pin-point weapons have been largely unsuccessful. Almost half the bodies blown apart are civilians. Also a large number of the killed "taliban", are most probably uneducated locals given an AK and told to defend their homeland and culture(religion).
This foreign invasion (Bush's one)has a catalysis effect. It radicalises the local populace, and draws "outsiders" to defend their cause. These outsiders have other agendas; be it a product of their own radical religious brainwashing, or the desire to justify the continuation of their own bloody misguided cause...the end result is that it is the ordinary civilians of this historic land are the ones who pay the price.

What Afghanistan needs is the slow lifting of the standard of living for the country, with health and education at the forefront. Not missionaries with bibles and Korans, McDonald's and Starbucks, genetically modified seeds and gasoline guzzling motorcars...Afghans need the means to empower themselves and chart their own destiny...free from the bullet and the bomb!

The Military Industry Top 100

For a taster, the Top 10 for 2006 with country and Arm sales 2006

1. Boeing (USA) $30 690 000 000
   
2. Lockheed Martin (USA) $28 120 000 000
   
3. BAE Systemsd (UK) $24 060 000 000
   
4. Northrop Grummane (USA) $23 650 000 000
   
5. Raytheon (USA) $19 530 000 000
   
6. General Dynamics (USA) $18 770 000 000
   
7. EADSf (W. Europe) $12 600 000 000
   (BAE Systems Inc. (USA) $11 280 000 000
   (BAE Systems, UK))
8. L-3 Communications (USA) $9 980 000 000
   
9. Finmeccanica (Italy) $8 990 000 000
   
10. Thales (France) $8 240 000 000
    

(view this web-link for the Top 100!)
The SIPRI Top 100 Arms Producing Companies (excluding China) 2006

Red, White and Blue...and Black...

Barack Obama

In one of his first acts after he secured the Democratic nomination for president of the US, Senator Barack Obama told Aipac, America's most powerful pro-Israel lobby, that he would do everything in his power to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He repeated the word "everything" several times.

John McCain
During the campaign for his party's nomination, he once sang "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' classic "Barbara Ann".

The US election is not looking good for the world. Good for Oil Companies and the Military Industry.

Israels Right To Exist

In theory, Israel has no right to exist.
But in reality, Israel does exist and it is impossible to ignore this fact.
While Israel has UN seats, billions of dollars of yearly US Aid, nuclear bombs, high-tech weapons and delivery systems, armies of bullet-proof bulldozers, seemingly unlimited and an unchallenged right to torture, oppress and starve....WHAT DO THE PALESTINIANS HAVE?
So if Israel exists, then it must also give that right to the Palestinian people, whose houses and land the Israelis now live in.
You can't change what happened, but you can fix it...

Sticks and stones may...

On Iran...
Dr Rice says..."violent and extremist"

Sen John MaCain says..."continued pursuit of nuclear weapons" posed an "unacceptable risk"

Olmert says..."The Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means,"

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says..

"Look at behaviour of the US president and members of his team, their words are like those of the mentally ill, sometimes they threaten … and sometimes they ask for help – it's like mad people staggering to and fro."

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Iran - Let's scare the fuck out of voters

With the US election coming up(bored already!), the Republican choice(who so far hasn't had a fatal heart attack, yet) Sen McClain is swinging the bat at Iran.
It seems that 9/11 proved that if you scare the US public, you can get away with anything. Invading Iran would make the Oil administration(Iran has so much oil), Israel(major power in US politics), and well...the Christian Zionists happy (believe that by strengthening and supporting the state of Israel, they are more likely to bring about the "second coming" of Jesus as prophesied in the Bible).

Invading Iraq was easy (apart from all those WMDs), but Iran is a much different kettle of fish. And of course it will be the innocent masses on both sides that will pay the price.
With oil reaching over $500 a barrel, food will become too expensive for most of the developing world. At this price, the Oil administration will also become so rich that they will be able to own the world. The Middle East will explode. The war will spread across Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Iraq (Jordan probably will sell supplies to all sides and get very rich). The US-backed governments of Saudi and Egypt could face a rebellion from their angry oppressed masses that would further complicate the region. China would would have their say about the ownership of the world's oil being stolen by the US...

So to get the ball rolling...how about the new president using the tried and tested WMD line which worked well in Iraq...what about...Iran is getting a nuclear bomb!