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To avoid my usual diatribe to my friends on why Canada should not be in Afganistan, we will never "win" there as long as the US military thinks it is ok to put a bomb into a school or house, killing kids and other innocents just because they saw a "Talaban" run into the place. This in the end converts the population to the other side and was one of the reasons Viet Nam was never going to be a victory.
There is no good out but in the end, negotiating with the Talaban with the goal of freezing out Al Quaeda seems the only least of all evils solution. The war lords and drug organisations in the north may be the real stop to any solution.
This is the same Taliban who said they would hand over OBL
if the US showed proof of 911 Connection.
Why did we attack Afghanistan?
And notice how the "war lords and drug organizations" are having no trouble staying in Afghanistan.
Especially since the 'evil' Taliban had managed to cut it's opium crop by 96% in one year! (2000/2001) The 'war lords and drug organizations' must be in a place called Washington, DC.
Mike C Ruppert, who ran the From The Wilderness site, was not always correct, but correct far far too often for my taste.
whatever happened to Mike Ruppert. Flamed out in Venezuela, it was reported. Is he just going to join all the "disappeared" scientists and journalists who got too close to the truth?
Go over to Carolyn Baker's site.
She's been keeping tabs and doing a yeo(wo)man's
job of reporting.
http://carolynbaker.net/site/
Last I heard, he was in NY getting treatment for serious medical problems. He's said he's planning to move back to Oregon when he can.
As I understood - he got sick about the same time he got threatened and left the US of A. Went to Venezuela, then to Canada and may be visiting the US of A for treatment.
Considering any of us can 'get' cancer from viruses, various mycotoxins, many different industrial chemicals, and the various radio-isotopes - plenty of fertile ground to grow conspiracies to be watered with historical deceptions/behaviors of humans VS other humans.
It would be impossible to prove any conspiracy-- not enough people care.
Mike Ruppert cut as close to the flame as anyone could -- he may have been burned, or maybe his illness was just "natural".
Either way, he is missed, I can say that for myself, anyway.
Either way, he is missed, I can say that for myself, anyway
Ditto. I found out about Peak Oil at www.FromTheWilderness.com back in 2001.
We miss ya Mike.
"I found out about Peak Oil at www.FromTheWilderness.com"
As did I, from one of his staffer's articles. There was definitely a lot of good stuff there...
Yes. A shame he could not continue his work.
If 90% of the people cared, there is no 'proof' for some - even if someone were to show a film of them doing the conspiortial act.
We, the readers of TOD will never know. But with the history of 'black bag/wet operations' of people in power VS people who make statements not flattering to power - there will allways be people who will feel it was some form of assassination.
(And you want that kind of suspicion to stop? Support open records in every place you can.)
Watch this:
Takes less than 5 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veGk9Gj2sjU
Jenna Orkin's blog mentions Mike sometimes. I think she is a friend of his. Or at least an admirer; note the URL of the blog.
Yes, Look at the Opium production graphs for something interesting.
A January 10, 2002
Creeping Collapse in Credibility at the White House:
From ENRON Entanglements to UNOCAL Bringing the Taliban to Texas and Controlling Afghanistan
http://www.counterpunch.org/tomenron.html
1997 Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
A TIMELINE OF OIL AND VIOLENCE in AFGHANISTAN
http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm
The only thing new in the world is history you don't know
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I have no problem if Canada wants to send troops to Afghanistan, but I don't want to pay for it because I don't support it. The purpose of the military is to protect OUR nation, not to be a freakin charity. I think that if people had the option of supporting the miliary financially for peacekeeping missions (this is what Afghanistan really is), those with a blind faith in military action wouldn't be so quick to pony up the cash to back up their belief.
Jografy: We already won. The taliban did a major number on the global heroin trade-since we have been there, the Afghan crop is as safe for production as previously-I think this year was a record output.
The Taliban were paid 22 million dollars in April 2001 for reducing Poppy production, which leads to argument that the US Government financed 9/11 through its ridiculous drug war.
The Taliban, at the time, did not slash poppy fields for moral reasons or ‘agreements’ only. They did it to make prices rise and for reasons of control. Recent history is known.
The main problem is that without a banking system farmers cannot borrow for other crops, only opium affords credit and certain revenue, as well as protection and so on. The UN, the FAO, the US, NATO, none of them have done anything to change this system. (imho. Nothing serious.) The burning of crops and the dismantling of labs is symbolic. There is prostitution and AIDS in Kaboul - where none was before. Right at the end of the chain small sellers become users. Women are very affected as well - begging soon turns to prostitution and to relieve the pain drugs help.