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Canada must step away from the Obama and the Bush and the UN and IMF and the disgraceful betrayal of the world's people when politicians and $$$$ hijack our planet.... our troops matter way 2 much.... the best hour spent... and the feeling of betrayal.... love u Neda - and Raif- but Canada... the world is going batshit.... and we need 2 leave and just be Canadians and heal each other and our troops..imho.
AFGHANISTAN WAS A WAR OF NECESSITY- BIN LADEN - MORAL JUSTIFICATION- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
IRAQ WAR- WAS A WAR OF CHOICE...... 2003- this is why we have ISIS
28 minutes- ISIS....... EXPLAINS BRILLIANTLY ISIS
Friday, January 2, 2015
DENVER UNIV VIDEO: The ISIS Crisis, Iran's Policy Towards Iraq & Syria & Saudi Arabia
Published on Dec 23, 2014
A lecture by Mohsen Milani, with discussant Amb. Christopher Hill, framing the escalating conflict with ISIS/ISIL within the Iranian perspective and its regional geopolitical rivalry with Saudi Arabia. Hosted by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies' Center for Middle East Studies on November 11, 2014.
Mohsen Milani is the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. He has served as a research fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and Foscari University (Italy).
His book "The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic" (Second Edition) has been used as required reading in universities in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Iran. He is currently at work on a book about Iranian foreign policy.
Ambassador Christopher Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Former US Ambassador to Iraq, he is a columnist for Project Syndicate and the author of the memoir "Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy."
Mohsen Milani is the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. He has served as a research fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and Foscari University (Italy).
His book "The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic" (Second Edition) has been used as required reading in universities in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Iran. He is currently at work on a book about Iranian foreign policy.
Ambassador Christopher Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Former US Ambassador to Iraq, he is a columnist for Project Syndicate and the author of the memoir "Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy."
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11 Sep 2011 ... The Taliban government in Afghanistan offered to present Osama bin Laden for a trial long before the attacks of September 11, 2001, but the ...
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Passion, Compassion and love of our beautiful Canada, our peoples and our nice ways- gives us, this beautiful and glorious young nation - PASSION AND LOVE
The continuing extermination of Islam by Islam must stop being the world's problem- it's time Islamic nations talked- TIRED OF USELESS POLITICIANS AND DANCING PROTESTERS ABUSING OUR TROOPS- OUR CHILDREN.... get ur f**king act 2gether as nations and Islamic Persians Iran and Arabs Saudi blah, blah, blah... stop destroying your world.... our troops and our world deserves better. God bless our Canada- and all Canada's political parties carry the shame (each of personal political party agendas matter/ed more 2 them than our troops- the only one who ever gave a sheeet was Peter MacKay and every boots on the ground in Afghanistan knew it)- YEMAN SLAPS THE WORLD IN THE FACE OF REALITY! Shame- imho.
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CANADA- emily carr- native war canoe
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Afghanistan's election in April 5, 2015 was the greatest victory of humankind, courage, bravery and freedom of a beautiful people loved dearly by boots on the ground Nato troops/Aid/Diplomatic and Afghan troops and Policing- AFGHANISTAN WOMEN STEPPED UP IN THE MILLIONS STOMPING ON THE FACE OF EVIL BABY KILLING TALIBAN MACHINE AND HORRIFIC WEATHER.... and voted all across Afghanistan- that is the day that the world won the greatest humanitarian war many have ever seen and healed many of September 11, 2001- and bin Laden betrayal of the Islam Faith and good Islam people... with his death.
WHERE
WERE U WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED TURNING
Canada's April 9th Vimy Ridge Day
Proud Canadian Soldier- 2007- written by Canadian College in honour of 4 Canadians killed and 3 wounded in a single day in Afghanistan- reminding them of Canada's incredible courage on the battlefield 4 freedom - and on April 5, 2015 THE WORLD STOOD IN AWE AND AFGHANS VOTED IN THE MILLIONS 4 DEMOCRACY.... against all odds from baby killing Taliban machine 2 freezing sleeting weather... they marched women, babies, mommas, grannies, grandpas, youngbloods, disabled and showed the world.... our men and women did NOT die/wounded in vain... we love our Afghanistan peoples... and so does God
PROUD CANADIAN SOLDIER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtRE1gXUfRA
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SAYS IT ALL- THE JEW OF NEW YORK- WEARING -I LOVE NEW YORK IN ARABIC
Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says “I
love New York” in Arabic.
Robin Williams Peace Plan
by Robin Williams (an
archive of great patriotic E-mails, 2009)
I see a lot of people yelling for
peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here’s one plan:
1) The US will apologize to the
world for our “interference” in their affairs, past & present. You know,
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of
those “good ‘ole’ boys”, we will never “interfere” again.
2) We will withdraw our troops
from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East,
and the Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our
borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90
days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home.
After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately,
regardless of whom or where they are. They’re illegal!!! France will welcome
them.
4) All future visitors will be
thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No
one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don’t like it there,
change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to
anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign “students” over age
21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a
“D” and it’s back home baby.
6) The U.S. will make a strong
effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing
nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in
the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other
oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we
go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About
a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other
natural catastrophe in the world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray to
Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most
of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it
most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an
isolated island someplace. We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends
here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for
illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to
charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us “Ugly Americans” any
longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it…or LEAVE…Now, isn’t that a
winner of a plan?
The Statue of Liberty is no
longer saying “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.” She’s got a
baseball bat and she’s yelling, "You want a piece of me?"
If you agree, pass this link around....
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ANNE MURRAY- A LITTLE GOOD NEWS- 1983
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friend from USA shared this 2 enforce that real people understand that Canada is doing very, very well on renewable energy... thanks Donna
u are a child of the universe- u each matter
From a Grade IV student.... love ya honey.... and well yes- why not?
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Love our Canada Olympic Superstar Clara Hughes.. and amazing everybody talking and acting on Mental Health in Canada - so many local newspapers, magazines, internet, television, specials etc.... Canada is making everyday conversation and actions of change on mental health incredible...... love u Clara honey... and thank u.... God bless our troops.
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it's time 2 change our world and have fun and live and laugh and share and hug and be human and one with nature...imho..... and our troops mean the world 2 us... they are not toys 4 destruction and ignoring by political whim... like Taliban Jack days, or Paul Martin I don't give a sheeet Liberals.... or Tories indifference outside of Peter MacKay (still remember him with that 'Fly Emirates' hat in the House of Commons)
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century's biggest killer of humanity- Silence, Indifference and Political $$$
is with their man made wars- IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA HAVE DESTROYED ISLAM AND
USA'S NATO OWNED UN feeds the war machine killing innocents- O Canada /WARS
-IRELAND'S RELIGIOUS WARS
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(Lib. appt.McNeil's brother)... 2 the f**king ugly-IMF banks and stock markets
get a pass 4 stealing $$$trillion of our money/ 6 Nations and UN shove IRAN
down billions of women's throats -NEDA- #1BRising- no more excuses UN /Remember
Hilary Rodham Clinton Hijacked by her own party... and other memories.... and
back 2 the good- our troops and it's Easter and Christians still give a sheet
and Afghanistan Voted April 5, 2014-bravest of the brave nations/Girl Guides
and Boy Scouts Canada /Halifax Explosion/SHAME ON ELITES... TORONTO SYMPHONY-
let Valentina Play - SHAME ON U- Ukraine's White Man's War of Nato on Russia is
ugly and killing.
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: June26- Come Visit Nova Scotia-history-culture-
Music-jazz,blues,hiphop/rap, folk, humour,country, kitchen-check out r
cultures-the fun 4 all ages n disabilites-Mi’kmaq,Black Loyalist, French Acadians,Scots,Irish,China,India,Japan,Jamaica,German,Dutch-200
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know Canada declared war on Russia -January 11, 1914, Vilhjalmur
Stefansson?/IDLE NO MORE CANADA/ Terry Fox AND OUR SOCHI WINTER PARALYMPICS
2014 IN MOTHER RUSSIA WILL GO AHEAD- we all need dreams/Canada's
Wars/ARCTIC/NORAD/EU is no better than Russia - let Ukraine decide and Crimea
leave if they want- Canada needs 2 protect women and children we are afraid in
our nation- get back 2 basics/2wolves hate and love..who will u feed
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UNDERSTANDING CHINA- UNDERSTANDING UK- UNDERSTANDING HONG KONG-
British Rule never allowed Hong Kong 2 democratically elect their leaders-
China is saying the same thing... so in that effect - treaty of 1997 is not
broken- how can it be- DEFENDING HONESTY IN A WAY2DISHONEST WORLD- China
celebrates a glorious day- and they should- it's working/Canada celebrates
glorious days- and we should -check the facts ma'am -Sino-British Joint
Declaration- history of British Rule- Hong Kong is the global bank
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the mouths of the children- JUNE 26 UPDATE- CANADA DAY'S COMING-JULY 1- GET UR
CANADA ON -4 CANADA OLYMPIAN CLARA HUGHES BIG RIDE 4 MENTAL HEALTH FOLKS- send
her tweets of support and love- Hey it’s Canada –Mental Health matters. NEWS
UPDATES-Teen/Youth/PTSD/Abuse/Bullying stuff /Our Olympian Clara's completes
journey 4mentalheal-let's talk-July 1- Clara's in Ottawa CANADA DAY 2014/SEPT
24 NS RCMP- preventing violent encounters -respect homeless and psychiatric
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women in politics.... Canada and the West needs 2 do better... look at this find from 2007-8
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IGNORED-TZIPI LIVNI OVERLOOKED-. YEAR 2008- Shania Twain fan tells it like it
was in year 2008 and political betrayal of women candidates- women/girls
f**king matter- #1BRising- TELLING OF CBC AND ETCH A SKETCH JOURNALISTS OF 2
MANY MAINSTREAM ELITE GROUPIES- WHO ROUGHSHOD OVER ONE PARTY 4 ANOTHER - TRUTH
DON'T MATTER...2 sides of the story died with 'just the facts please- just the
news...period.- imho April 2015/Afghanistan women rose up and shook the world
voting April 14, 2014 for freedom in the face of horrific child killing
monsters among them Taliban /Mike Duffy only journalist 2 support Elizabeth May
AND..
Canada's Shania
Twain wrote Black Eyes, Blue Tears back in the 90s.... and put it 2 music and
played it around the world.... Shania kicked country music's ass and the black
hats... and woke the world up 2 girls count... girls are equal and ... girls
can do anything they dream on.... Shania Twain was adopted when she was 2 by
Objiway Gerry Twain (she adored her Grandpa Twain) who adored his wife, Sharon.
Shania grew up in the 'Reserves, Bands' of First Peoples of Canada - 10,000
years of history and knew exactly what it was like 2 live in poverty, despair
and the injustice of the horrible treatment of Canada's First Peoples as all
Governments of Canada and all politicial stripes- throwaway trash..... and way
2 often among her own peoples- the
abuse among First Peoples is horrendous second only 2 the horrific CHILDREN OF
THE SECRET.
Shania Twain is a
hero to so many women globally.... and has over one billion fans.... shania
walked the talk and kept her soul, her honour and the respect of herself and
her fans....
Shania started food banks at all her shows, including kids from each and every town, supported and played 4 troops be4 it became noticed, and said - feed your own kids first and those of your communities, villages and cities- 4God's sake look after ur kids..... Shania is one of China's favourite artists- and one of the world's - Shania made women matter and girls believe in empowerment of education and freedom... and equality....
Shania started food banks at all her shows, including kids from each and every town, supported and played 4 troops be4 it became noticed, and said - feed your own kids first and those of your communities, villages and cities- 4God's sake look after ur kids..... Shania is one of China's favourite artists- and one of the world's - Shania made women matter and girls believe in empowerment of education and freedom... and equality....
Black Eyes-Blue Tears- Shania Twain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Fd5Q2-VC0
"Black Eyes, Blue Tears"
Black eyes, I don't need 'em
Blue tears, gimme freedom
Positively never goin' back
I won't live where things are so out of whack
No more rollin' with the punches
No more usin' or abusin'
I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees
Begging please-no more
Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now
Definitley found my self esteem
Finally-I'm forever free to dream
No more cryin' in the corner
No excuses-no more bruises
I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees
Begging please-no more
Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now
I'd rather die standing
Than live on my knees, begging please...
Black eyes-I don't need 'em
Blue tears-gimme freedom
Black eyes-all behind me
Blue tears'll never find me now
It's all behind me, they'll never find me now
Find your self-esteem and be forever free to dream
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APRIL 11, 2015- JUST IN-
And soon enough... coming 2 a country near u...
Are we watching the opening act of an Islamic world
war?
By Jonathan Manthorpe
| Apr 10, 2015 3:57 pm
Shiite
rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons as they attend a protest
against Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 10, 2015. (AP
Photo/Hani Mohammed)
The
prospect of a 1,400-year-old religious dispute turning into a region-wide
Middle East war is building after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei on Thursday poured scorn on his Saudi Arabian rivals, accusing the
absolute monarchy of committing genocide in Yemen.
Khamenei’s
verbal bile adds rancour to what is already a proxy war across much of the
Middle East between adherents of the Sunni, or traditional version of Islam
championed by Saudi Arabia, and the Shiites led by Khamenei and senior Muslim
clerics in Iran.
Surrogates
for the two factions are already fighting in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where
Canadian air and ground forces are in a de facto alliance with Iran, fighting
the radical and murderous Sunni Islamic State group.
But Yemen
is now the focus of this conflict as Saudi Arabia leads a coalition of Gulf
States using air power to try to halt a drive to take over the country by
Shiite Houthis, supported and armed by Iran. As well as arming the Houthis,
Tehran is reported to have dispatched several thousand of its own soldiers to
fight alongside its fellow Shiites. And this week Tehran added to the military
build-up by sending a destroyer and supply ship to the waters off the coast of
Yemen “to protect Iranian shipping from piracy.”
The World
Health Organization says at least 600 people have been killed and over 100,000
displaced now that the Houthis have captured the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and are
close to occupying the economically crucial port city of Aden.
In
response, the Saudi coalition is contemplating a land invasion. But these plans
ran into a pothole today when the Pakistani parliament voted unanimously to reject a Saudi
request to send troops to join the invasion. The parliament slightly
diluted its rejection by adding that if the Houthis invade Saudi Arabia and
threaten the most holy Muslim sites in Mecca and Medina, then Islamabad will
give Riyadh military aid.
The
rejection is a blow to Saudi Arabia on two counts. Riyadh, which has an
expensively-equipped army that lacks actual fighting experience (other than
suppressing domestic dissent), desperately wanted contingents of battle-hardened
Pakistani troops. The Pakistanis have years of experience fighting Taliban
insurgent militias, much like the Houthis, in mountainous desert terrain
similar to that of Yemen.
The
second problem for the Saudis is access to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. While
Iran has for two decades been working to acquire the capacity to make an atomic
bomb, Riyadh has regularly threatened to start its own nuclear development
program, but has done nothing serious about it. The view of many outside
military observers has been that Riyadh has counted on having access, if need
be, to the large stockpile of nuclear weapons in predominantly Sunni Pakistan,
the development of which Saudi Arabia helped finance.
Pakistan’s refusal to get involved in Yemen may now prompt Saudi Arabia
to embark on a nuclear development program of its own. If it does, other major
players in the Middle East — such as Egypt and Turkey — may follow suit.
Pakistan’s
refusal to get involved in Yemen may now prompt Saudi Arabia to review this
strategy and perhaps embark on a nuclear development program of its own. If it
does, other major players in the Middle East — such as Egypt and Turkey — may
follow suit.
In his
televised condemnation of Saudi Arabia’s actions in Yemen on Thursday,
Ayatollah Khamenei also focused on the nuclear issue. His speech was his first
response to the April 2 framework agreement between Tehran and the United
Nations-designated P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security
Council — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — plus Germany)
on containment and international regulation of Iran’s nuclear development program.
Khamenei
poured cold water on the agreement, which has been applauded by the Washington
administration of President Barack Obama, and even by many people on the
streets of Tehran, as a turning point in the decades-old dispute. Washington
says the deal guarantees Tehran will not be able to make nuclear weapons. In
return, sanctions eventually will be lifted as Tehran complies with the deal,
Iran’s economy will be revived and the country will return to the community of
nations.
Khamenei,
however, says Tehran should only sign the deal if all sanctions currently
imposed on Iran by the U.S., the UN and the European Union are lifted
immediately. This is a non-starter in Europe and in Washington, where a key
element in Obama’s attempts to sell the agreement is that sanctions will only
be lifted incrementally as Iran’s compliance with restrictions on its nuclear
program is verified.
Iran and
the P5+1 group are due to meet again in June to start hammering out the details
of the timetable for Iran to give up its capacity to enrich uranium to a level
where it can be used to make nuclear weapons.
The
parallel agenda for the withdrawal of sanctions is not the only dispute on
which this whole deal could still collapse. Khamenei insisted in his speech
that while officials from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency will be
allowed in, “Iran’s military sites cannot be inspected under the excuse of
nuclear supervision.” Yet without inspection of military sites, the whole deal
becomes nonsense.
As the
proxy wars with Saudi Arabia inch closer and closer to direct conflict, Tehran
is less and less likely to want to deny itself the capacity to make nuclear
weapons. Not least of its worries is that, despite Iran’s significant
diplomatic and military clout in the Middle East, Shiite Muslims make up only
about 10 per cent of adherents to Islam. Shiites are the majority in Iran,
Iraq, Yemen and some of the Gulf States, but the big legions of Sunnis are with
Saudi Arabia.
The
Sunni-Shiite split in Islam was born immediately after the death of founding
Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD. None of Muhammad’s sons survived him, so there was
an immediate dispute about who should succeed to lead the Caliphate, the
political and religious government of Islam. Sunnis think that Abu Bakr, the
father of Muhammad’s wife Aisha, was Muhammad’s rightful successor. Shiites
believe that Muhammad divinely ordained his cousin and son-in-law Ali to be the
next Caliph.
These two
factions have, by and large, lived peacefully side by side for nearly a
millennium and a half — but now, the forces of regional power politics
have adopted this old divide as a call to battle.
Jonathan
Manthorpe is the
author of “Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan,” published by
Palgrave-Macmillan. He has been a foreign correspondent and international
affairs columnist for nearly 40 years. He was European bureau chief for the
Toronto Star and then Southam News in the late 1970s and the 1980s. In 1989 he
was appointed Africa correspondent by Southam News and in 1993 was posted to
Hong Kong to cover Asia. For the last few years he has been based in Vancouver,
writing international affairs columns for what is now the Postmedia Group. He
left the group last year and now writes for a range of newspapers and websites.
jonathan.manthorpe@gmail.com
The
views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and
contributors are the author’s alone. They do not inherently or expressly
reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.
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