Letters to Layla

June 17, 2007 by

[Editor's Note: I began wrting to Layla Anwar sometime ago when I first discovered her writings on the net. She was always kind enough to reply to my letters. Due to a heavy workload over recent months I've been unable to keep up the correspondence but today I found the time to write to her again. I thought I would publish this for others to read.]
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June 17th, 2007
Father’s Day

Dear Layla,

Forgive me. It has been way too long since I last wrote to you. Not that I have forgotten all that you have done for me via your writings. It is impossible to forget. Just the sound of your name alone is enough to release the trap door within my mind wherein lies hidden from my daily life the horror, the destruction and the insanity that is Iraq today.

One of the English Romantic poets, I’m not sure which one for I have a memory similar to yours when it comes to names, (I think it was Shelley) once wrote that “a heavy weight of hours has chained and bound one too like thee, (speaking of the Skylark) tameless and swift and proud.” I feel like that of late. My time to myself in order to reflect on your beleaguered nation, as you are wont to do on a 24/7 basis, is so limited, so circumscribed by daily events of such a mundane order that it is almost puzzling that a world could exist wherein such variance occurs in different parts of what is ultimately a seamless whole.

When I read your reports of the atrocities and the unabashed and blatant brutality and bloodletting that is all a part of your daily fare in Iraq I question whether or not we’re actually living in the same world.

Not that my world is without relative challenges but the challenges that I and the majority of us here in Canada face pale in comparison with those that are occurring in your God-forsaken country.
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Filed Under: Arab Perspectives, Arthur Topham/ Contributor, Conspiracy, Editor's Zone, Fascist U.S.A., Global Warming, Iraq, Jewish Banking Cartel, Law & Justice, Layla Anwar/arabwoman'sblues, Letters, Mainstream Mindcontrol Media (M3), Middle East, Political Zionism, U.S. Foreign/Domestic Policies, U.S. Terrorism, Zionist Atrocities

MORE RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD DOG

April 13, 2007 by


[Editor's Note. Well it appears that Kurt Vonnegut isn't the only old codger who has a thing or two to say about how the world is progressing (or not!) :-) Nonny Moose has a way of putting the b.s. into language that most everyone can understand and appreciate. Many thanks Nonny for your latest revelations on politics and life in general.]
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MORE RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD DOG

BY NONNY MOOSE
April 10, 2007

Well, I figured I’d not make any comments before I got a bit of a look at 2007, see if anything looks like it’s changing for the better.

There is one somewhat hopeful sign, and that is all those politicians jumping on the climate change bandwagon. I guess the drastic storms from coast to coast made some citizens take note, and probably a few phone calls were made, and presto subito: even Steven Harper (Steve to you George) sees global warming is real. At least till the next election.

But I have a strange feeling that it is all just for show. For example, when you open the March Issue of Common Ground one of our own BC magazines that has some sensible articles in it, you see on page 13 an article titled “BC’s secret river piracy”, that tells us the sell-out of hydro to private interests is going on apace on the q.t.

It says “On March 22, World Water Day, we need to talk about dividing resources among the populations of Earth as corporations increasingly “buy” public water assets. Canadians are no different from the people of the Congo or Bolivia.” We are not immune to these thefts of our public assets, politely known as privatization, since Prime Minister Mulroney made sure to agree “to a NAFTA provision which included water as a commodity after promising Canadians he would never sign away our water”.

By the way I watched our favourite PM on The Hour recently, where he said of himself that after he stopped being PM he became a Statesman. Isn’t it good to have a positive self image? We’ll all remember him fondly, as our public water flows from corporate taps, and the poor increasingly become the great unwashed.

Somehow I don’t see the gurus of the bottom line becoming stewards of the environment. It just isn’t part of the corporate culture. To change matters, something else than profit would have to be sold to the shareholders. And that is truly difficult. They do need a return on their investment, why else would they be investing, than to enhance their income?
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Filed Under: B.C. Politics, Canadian Identity/Sovereignty, Canadian Politics, CanUSMex Issues, Corporate Fascism, Corporations, Editor's Zone, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, NAFTA, Nonny Moose, North American Union (NAU), U.S. Foreign/Domestic Policies

HOW THE 200-MILE CONSUMER MAY SAVE DISAPPEARING GLACIERS

December 5, 2006 by

HOW THE 200-MILE CONSUMER MAY SAVE DISAPPEARING GLACIERS

Oct 30, 2006

By Rob Matthies
robert04mat@yahoo.com

Some seven winters ago, in a very small town in cold, cold Northern Michigan where furnaces run 11-1/2 months a year, I huddled by the fire in the library reading a stack of magazines. It was amazing to see nearly 75 different magazines available in a library of an American town, population 1,500 souls, according to its Welcome sign.

The main story in an obscure magazine’s back issue was about how the magazine contracted one of this planet’s super-geniuses to devise an action plan by which any person (not just governments or corporations) could make a really big impact on global warming, and save the environment. One result of his research, oddly enough, was many recipes for novel dishes, mainly vegetarian. The magazine article told of a very simple way to save the planet: ‘Eat nothing grown outside of a 200-mile radius of your home, and you will help put an end to increasing greenhouse gasses, wars, and even pollution-caused cancers.’ Wow.

The 200-mile diet advocated by this magazine claimed the power put an end to many of mankind’s ills. For example, it would make nuclear power plants, wind turbines, protests over coal-burning and highway expansion, largely unnecessary. Environmental groups could be disbanded, as would secret police and death squads in countries with resource conflicts.
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Filed Under: Editor's Zone, Environmental Issues, Global Warming

Ross Ice Shelf could ‘collapse quickly

December 5, 2006 by

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20840754-23109,00.html

Ross Ice Shelf could ‘collapse quickly’
November 29, 2006 08:28am
Article from: www.NEWS.com.au

SCIENTISTS working in Antarctica fear the Ross Ice Shelf, an ice platform the size of France, could collapse quickly and trigger a rapid rise in sea levels.

A research team drilling in the frozen continent has recovered three million years of climate history, New Zealand newspaper The Press reported today. An analysis of sea floor samples near Scott Base suggested the Ross Ice Shelf had collapsed before, probably suddenly.

Scientist Tim Naish said the sediment record gave crucial evidence about how the Ross Ice Shelf would react to climate change. “If the past is any indication of the future, then the ice shelf will collapse,” he told the newspaper.

“If the ice shelf goes, then what about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? What we’ve learnt from the Antarctic Peninsula is when once buttressing ice sheets go, the glaciers feeding them move faster and that’s the thing that isn’t so cheery.”

Antarctica stores 90 per cent of the world’s water, with the the West Antarctic Ice Sheet holding an estimated 30 million cu km. In January, British Antarctic Survey researchers predicted that its collapse would make sea levels rise by at least 5m, with other estimates predicting a rise of up to 17m.

Mr Naish, a sedimentologist with the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, said the team was retrieving a detailed history of the ice shelf. “We know from the Larsen Ice Shelf (which collapsed on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2002) that they go extremely quickly,” he said.

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Filed Under: Editor's Zone, Environmental Issues, Global Warming