How Shari’a-Compliant Financing Curtails Your Economic Freedom The Editors There has been much talk about Shari’a-compliant finance (SCF) in recent months, but many Americans are still in the dark about exactly what it is and what it portends for the American economy and the freedoms Americans enjoy. This may be why the judge in the Holy Land […]
By Howard Salter With roots going back to the 1953 Operation Ajax Coup and with a religious distaste for empires and economic colonialism that culminated in the 1979 Islamist overthrowing of a pro-U.S. government, with American hostages taken for 444 days at the embassy in Tehran , the United States and Iran severed political and […]
Our Master Politician Yes, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proven himself to be a master politician. First he secured his position as Prime Minister with coalition deals in the Knesset, and now he’s beginning to win grudging support from the Israeli public with headline-grabbing leaks and rumors.It’s clear now that Olmert is a captain […]
April 29, 2008 by TonyfromOz
ELECTRICITY PRODUCED BY NUCLEAR MEANS. (Part Four) Let’s pretend that the bean counters, and the lawyers, and the banks, and the NRC, and the people who live in the area, and the politicians in office at the time all give final approval for a nuclear power plant to be built, the major problem is the […]
April 27, 2008 by TonyfromOz
ELECTRICITY PRODUCED BY NUCLEAR MEANS (Part Three) Just how then does a Nuclear power plant generate electricity? This explanation is highly simplified, and for this example, I’ll just deal with the light water reactors. Remember the picture in the last post showing the blue water inside the reactor. You would have seen some long rods. […]
April 26, 2008 by TonyfromOz
A NATION BECOMES AUSTRALIA (Part Two) It’s been mentioned to me that the title of the ANZAC article might have raised some questions, so as a form of clarification, I’ll explain why I worded it in that manner. I used it as a sort of play on words, but one that goes directly to the […]
The New Pyramid Builders Edward Cline A mile-high tower will rise in a desert port town, and Americans will be helping to finance its £5 billion construction cost. It will rise in the town Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, halfway up the length of the Red Sea. At 5,250 feet, it will be twice the height of […]
April 25, 2008 by TonyfromOz
ELECTRICITY PRODUCED BY NUCLEAR MEANS. (Part Two) How long has the nuclear process been used for the generation of electricity? It was perceived quite early that the process itself probably had more uses in a civilian setting than as a weapon. The military had an urgency from the start, not for ulterior motives but from […]
April 24, 2008 by TonyfromOz
A NATION BECOMES AUSTRALIA The nets were dropped over the sides of the ships as the large rowing boats pulled alongside. In the dark, fully laden soldiers went over the side and moved down the nets into those boats. It was around 3 AM, and it was a Sunday morning. The boats were towed a […]
April 23, 2008 by TonyfromOz
ELECTRICITY PRODUCED USING THE NUCLEAR PROCESS. (Part One) I might guess some of you have been waiting to see how I might tiptoe around this subject, probably leaving it until the last and then only giving it a cursory mention. Contrary to tiptoeing, I might just stomp around yelling about it, and there might even […]
Against seemingly insurmountable odds we have seen a successful launch of Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed by Ben Stein in Movie Theaters around the country. However another vitally important movie Indoctrinate U has been struggling to get a solid booking in Movie Theaters nationwide. Indoctrinate U is a documentary film covering the assault on free […]
April 21, 2008 by TonyfromOz
NATURAL GAS AES Ironwood – Fuel: natural gas, 710-MW Lebanon, PA USA Photograph courtesy of Siemens Again it seems that I’ve strayed from the Kyoto title, further proving that this just goes to the heart of the matter, that it is more complex than it seems on the surface. First we have the expectation from […]
April 30, 2008 by papundits
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