The movie Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore famously laid the blame of invading Afghanistan on an oil pipeline plan pushed for by Unocal. The problem with that picture is that Unocal is currently owned by the Venezuelan’s. However, there were a large pile of contracts related to oil and natural gas…
This morning Islamic Extremists attacked Brussels, with suicide bomb attacks at the Brussels International Airport and in a Subway station near the European Union HQ. This is the latest in a series of attacks on targets in The West, and is probably not the last. It followed the attacks in…
This report by RT News looks into how ISIS .. a.k.a. Da-esh .. came into existence. Their portrayal is incomplete – they describe ISIS as having come out of nowhere, when in reality it was an outgrowth of the power vacuum created in Iraq by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and…
Dangerous cargo’s, including crude oil, are being transported by rail around the U.S. This last week an oil train derailed in a remote part of Eastern Montana, and while it fortunately didn’t go boom it could have done so. A few months ago another oil train derailed near Galena Illinois, and…
Like everyone I’m in shock over the Charlie Hebdo massacre this week. It’s the latest in a long string of running battles between the West and “terrorists” associated with the Muslim world. In trying to understand why this happened, and I’m thinking of this through the lens of the global…
Nigerian States which have some form of Sharia Law, as of December 2006. Source: Wikimedia A couple weeks ago over 200 young Nigerian girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok area of the north-eastern state of Borno and then apparently sold as slave-wives to Islamist fighters/insurgents. …
