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Boo Hoo: $6m AWB man cries about Iraqi atrocities

admin /3 October, 2006

AWB sent millions of dollars in foreign currency to Saddam Hussein so he could build concrete bunkers, which AWB executives speculated might be used by the regime to bury Kurds. The shocking email detailing the reinforced bunkers came on an extraordinary final day of the Cole inquiry in which a former AWB managing director broke Continue Reading →

Iraq since 1880

admin /30 September, 2006

http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm

The Ring Nebula timeline of Iraq details the political events since 1908 that have led to its current situation. With links to supporting documentation this is a useful starting point for anyone attempting to understand how one of the cradles of civilisation became a basket case. 

Iraq is Bush’s Reflection Pond

admin /30 September, 2006

Mike Whitney

iraq-morgue-aa.jpg Martial law is not liberation. Baghdad has been in a state of virtual lockdown since thousands of American Occupation Forces (AOF) were deployed to the city in a futile attempt to establish security. In the last two months, the number of dead appearing at the Baghdad morgue has skyrocketed; nearly 6,600 Iraqis brutally tortured and killed in July and August alone. In terms of population, this is the equivalent of 79,200 American casualties. Simply put, it is a massacre. Still, the AOF continues to execute its bloody mission with impunity regardless of the horrific cost.

Occupation is not freedom; it is servitude enforced at gunpoint. By every objective standard, life was better under Saddam Hussein. The people had reliable sources of electricity, clean water, food and medical supplies. Employment was high, crime was low, schools were open, markets were bustling and the socialist regime provided education and health services to the destitute.

Iraq was a dictatorship, but it was far superior in every way to the holocaust unleashed by the American invasion. In view of the ongoing devastation of infrastructure, the callous disregard for human life, and the absolute absence of personal security; Saddam’s Iraq must now seem like Nirvana.

Antarctica’s extreme chill another global warming indicator

admin /29 September, 2006

Super-cold temperatures that may be a further indicator of global warming have helped produce an Antarctic ozone hole this year that rivals the largest, reported The Age (27/9/2006, p.7).

Ozone hole expands as temps hit 93 below zero: Temperatures fell to minus 93 degrees in the upper atmosphere over the frozen continent in August, and the man-made hole expanded this week to nearly 28 million square kilometres.

South Pole’s coldest air in 30yrs: The coldest air in 30 years of measurements was part of yearly weather variation over the South Pole that could also be linked to climate change, the CSIRO’s Paul Fraser said on 26 August.

How global warming causes cooling: "Under climate change scenarios, there is global warming at the surface and increased cooling in the upper atmosphere," said Dr Fraser, the leader of the CSIRO’s changing atmosphere research group.

The Age, 27/9/2006, p. 7

Source: Erisk Net  

US occupation of Iraq fuels the spread of jihadists

admin /27 September, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Portions of a National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism that the White House released under pressure on Tuesday said that Muslim jihadists were “increasing in both number and geographic dispersion” and that current trends could lead to increasing attacks around the globe. The report, a comprehensive assessment of terrorism produced in April Continue Reading →