Posted on 02/25/2011 10:25:58 PM PST by Eyes Unclouded
Iraq's largest oil refinery was shut down on Saturday after militants carried out a bomb attack and set it on fire, the governor of Salahuddin province said.
The militants killed four people and planted bombs at production units for kerosene and benzene at the refinery in the town of Baiji, a former al Qaeda stronghold about 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, Governor Ahmed al-Jubouri said.
"There is a big fire in the refinery and the refinery has completely stopped," Jubouri told Reuters.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since the peak of sectarian conflict in 2006-07, but attacks still occur on a daily basis.
The Baiji refinery was controlled for a long time by al Qaeda militants, who used it to finance the insurgency.
(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...
Yeah, that nation building, religion of peace stuff worked out so well for us, didn't it Georgie??
Do you recognize the German (actually Austrian at the time, didn't get German citizenship until 1932) corporal on the right? Hitler's highest military rank was as a corporal, and he turned out to be a big pain in the tail. Iran has the potential to do the same. It's a question of gathering followers, not of the "corporal" in isolation, and Iran might gather quite a dangerous crowd.
“It is also associated with the assassination of Cesar”
Yes. “beware the Ides of March” means “beware the 15th of March”, when Caesar was assassinated, as the “prophet” told him in Shakespeare’s rendition. That’s all it means. It has no relevance outside of the number 15. But people use it as though it’s some spooky thing, because they come to an assumption in their own mind that it means something else. It can be a great revelation when you realize how much you are assuming. For me, it led me to read the Bible when I realized how many baseless assuptions I had about it.
yep, Thank You. Fits the times.
The headline says Iraq, not Iran. Go drink more coffee.
I too went off track ... my mind wonders (so much) these days. Reminds me of In The Living Years.
The only thing to do with Benzene is to let it burn.
ROFL
bttt
"..one of the baleful consequences of religious literalism or “fundamentalism” (which is not actually fundamental, but a very modern deviation) is that it places religious knowledge on the same horizontal plane as empirical or rational scientific knowledge.
"...our intellectual conceptions--our gnosis--are only true insofar as they reflect the Word. Real truth is not a construct or acquisition of the ego, but something to which we humbly submit. .."
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And yet how many billions of American taxpayer dollars are we still spending on these barbarians?
“...Oil is a huge commodity, one might even say the world runs on an oil standard. If the world wants oil they will need to trade in a new currency with ...Russia?...”
7/13/09
“Medvedev Shows Off Future World Money”
“...Russia and China have called for a “super currency” to replace the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the summit that the dollar’s supremacy as a reserve currency is outdated...”
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/medvedev-shows-off-future-world-money/379464.html
You’re credited to the pic at my post #54.
So where, (or when) does America, America's leaders, and America's people stand?
The time and choices are few ... mho
First Iran with its ships and now we see the announcement that their good comrade Russia is getting in on the action.
2/26/11
“Russia to sell anti-ship rockets to Syria”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/russia-to-sell-anti-ship-rockets-to-syria-1.345838
I think they’ve moved on from this idea of a solid coin.
Russia To Adopt Universal ID Card in 2012
http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/18/russia-to-adopt-universal-id-card-in-2012/
India is already working on converting
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Universal-ID-Going-beyond-smart-cards-databases/articleshow/4856509.cms
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