Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Heavy Stuff

Two Readers have sent in so much food for thought that I can take the day off to do some research. Tomorrow I’ll be talking about Roxana Saberi’s sentencing in Iran, among other things.

From Timmy Timbit:

Regarding this quote from Iggy: [See Friday's entry under the heading: Canada]

“And remember the next time gasoline prices rise, due to the predicted “oil shortage”, that Ignatieff said there are 100 years

worth of oil deposits in Alberta.”

Iggy is either ignorant or disingenuous take your pick. As the peak oilers point out, when considering the state of world oil supplies, its just as important or even more important to consider how accessible the oil is rather than just the total amount of oil that we believe lies under the surface.

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April 19th, 2009 | Category: energy, environment, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism | Leave a comment |

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