What is your point Asher? Israeli and Palestinian equivalence in attempting to kill civilians? Doesn't Israel claim to have Western values and the most moral army in the world as opposed to Palestinian terrorists?
If they really are equivalent, why are are we not calling both sides terrorists?
The US is providing unquestioning backing for the seizure of Chinese islands by Imperial Japan in its expansionist phase. During the same years Japan seized Taiwan and tightened its grip on Korea. This Japanese aggression continued for nearly fifty years and resulted in slavery and death for millions of Asians - many Chinese.
Now the Japanese leaders visit the shrine containing war criminals and right wing Japanese deny the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army ever took place.
The territorial dispute -at least between China and Japan - is not one to charge in to simply because Japan is currently an ally.
I suspect George wrote to all his old friends - Blair, Chirac, . Merkel, Olmest, Karazai, Sarkozy, Harper, Havel. Koizuma -asking for their photo and didn't get a single reply.
What is a man to do except paint from the internet when the whole world shuns him?
And igneous rocks? How do volcanic rocks absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide? Perhaps you mean sedimentary rocks such as limestone which contain calcium carbonate from sea shells.
If we are going to counter scientific illiteracy, then we should counter with hard facts. Exaggeration will be seized upon and derided.
Are you suggesting Antarctica will lose all ice by claiming "loss of all surface ice" or that the ice ages of the last 150 000 years - when sheets of ice covered most of the planet - were minor compared to a change in 3 degrees Celsius? Are we really talking about Earth as a planet where lead could be molten when you talk about Venus? How much sea level rise will it take to cover one third of the land?
Do we seriously put forward the proposition human life can not exist on a planet warmed by 3 degrees Celsius?
Of course there will be serious consequences to global warming but why give critics ammunition to portray this as a fantasy?
Amnesty International asked Obama to use a female secret service agent to drive him in a country where women are not allowed behind the wheel of a car. Nor are they allowed to travel on their own or without the presence of a male relative.
Did Obama have the courage to even make this quiet protest against a regime which has so much discrimination against women?
I can not think of any instance where Saudi interference has lead to a positive result. From their leading role in creating feudal fundamentalism in Afghanistan to the 911 bombing and on to repression in Bahrain, the support of the worst elements in the Syrian opposition and to their backing of Egypt's junta. they have always opposed democracy and supported the most intolerant forms of Islam.
Why this misogynist feudal monarchy is treated with any respect is a mystery to me. All I can think of is the Saudi Royal family pays hard cash and political donations and a well paying retirement job trumps morality.
Am I being too critical of the Saudis? Perhaps we should pity a nation fast following in the footsteps of Nauru - although I am sure the 5000 member royal family won't be hanging around when the oil flow slows.
I know a quarter of a trillion dollars does not go far these days but surely it gets you something better than the Egyptian Army? The British use Ghurkhas who seem prepared to fight and die for their employers and a million mercenaries at $50 000 each for wages and equipment is only $50 billion. The Egyptian's last victory on the battlefield was during the pyramid building era.
Despite the tens of billions of dollars pumped in to the Egyptian military since 1979, their main success has been in shooting civilians and forming repressive juntas. Perhaps it is these skills which are valued by the despotic monarchs?
So now the West is against part of a nation breaking away even if the majority of the population want to secede?
Did 911 not only produce endless undeclared borderless wars and the global panopticon but also destroy Western support for self-determination and the democratic process?
What is your point Asher? Israeli and Palestinian equivalence in attempting to kill civilians? Doesn't Israel claim to have Western values and the most moral army in the world as opposed to Palestinian terrorists?
If they really are equivalent, why are are we not calling both sides terrorists?
The US is providing unquestioning backing for the seizure of Chinese islands by Imperial Japan in its expansionist phase. During the same years Japan seized Taiwan and tightened its grip on Korea. This Japanese aggression continued for nearly fifty years and resulted in slavery and death for millions of Asians - many Chinese.
Now the Japanese leaders visit the shrine containing war criminals and right wing Japanese deny the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army ever took place.
The territorial dispute -at least between China and Japan - is not one to charge in to simply because Japan is currently an ally.
I suspect George wrote to all his old friends - Blair, Chirac, . Merkel, Olmest, Karazai, Sarkozy, Harper, Havel. Koizuma -asking for their photo and didn't get a single reply.
What is a man to do except paint from the internet when the whole world shuns him?
And igneous rocks? How do volcanic rocks absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide? Perhaps you mean sedimentary rocks such as limestone which contain calcium carbonate from sea shells.
If we are going to counter scientific illiteracy, then we should counter with hard facts. Exaggeration will be seized upon and derided.
Are you suggesting Antarctica will lose all ice by claiming "loss of all surface ice" or that the ice ages of the last 150 000 years - when sheets of ice covered most of the planet - were minor compared to a change in 3 degrees Celsius? Are we really talking about Earth as a planet where lead could be molten when you talk about Venus? How much sea level rise will it take to cover one third of the land?
Do we seriously put forward the proposition human life can not exist on a planet warmed by 3 degrees Celsius?
Of course there will be serious consequences to global warming but why give critics ammunition to portray this as a fantasy?
Amnesty International asked Obama to use a female secret service agent to drive him in a country where women are not allowed behind the wheel of a car. Nor are they allowed to travel on their own or without the presence of a male relative.
Did Obama have the courage to even make this quiet protest against a regime which has so much discrimination against women?
I can not think of any instance where Saudi interference has lead to a positive result. From their leading role in creating feudal fundamentalism in Afghanistan to the 911 bombing and on to repression in Bahrain, the support of the worst elements in the Syrian opposition and to their backing of Egypt's junta. they have always opposed democracy and supported the most intolerant forms of Islam.
Why this misogynist feudal monarchy is treated with any respect is a mystery to me. All I can think of is the Saudi Royal family pays hard cash and political donations and a well paying retirement job trumps morality.
Am I being too critical of the Saudis? Perhaps we should pity a nation fast following in the footsteps of Nauru - although I am sure the 5000 member royal family won't be hanging around when the oil flow slows.
I know a quarter of a trillion dollars does not go far these days but surely it gets you something better than the Egyptian Army? The British use Ghurkhas who seem prepared to fight and die for their employers and a million mercenaries at $50 000 each for wages and equipment is only $50 billion. The Egyptian's last victory on the battlefield was during the pyramid building era.
Despite the tens of billions of dollars pumped in to the Egyptian military since 1979, their main success has been in shooting civilians and forming repressive juntas. Perhaps it is these skills which are valued by the despotic monarchs?
So now the West is against part of a nation breaking away even if the majority of the population want to secede?
Did 911 not only produce endless undeclared borderless wars and the global panopticon but also destroy Western support for self-determination and the democratic process?