In the past many weeks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced over $20 billion in new military spending. It is my opinion that world leaders have woken up to what will be the true battle of the 21st century. It will not be terrorism or climate change, though those will be both sideeffects, and scapegoats… …
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The Rise of Nuclear Power – Threat, or logical response?
Since it’s birth in the United States and Russia, Nuclear Power generation has been the domain of the developed world only. The “Old Core” powers (US, Russia, France, UK, and others…) had a nearly exclusive grip on the Atom as a source of increasingly clean, abundant, and reliable power. It seems, to me, that the …
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Australia: Iraq is for Oil
Out of the “well, duh” category… The ABC in Australia is reporting on the Aussie Defense Minister, Dr. Brendan Nelson, comments about why Australian troops are still in Iraq. Obviously the Middle East itself, not only Iraq, but the entire region is an important supplier of energy, oil in particular, to the rest of the …