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It's safe for Eurosavages & Canadians to buy up oil rights in Iraq, but they refuse to help excavate the mass graves or capture Saddam.  What a bunch of fucking assholes!

Bash in the heads of all Canadians!    

Foreign Companies Eye Oil Reserves in Iraq

February 3, 2006 - From: www.krg.org

By Scheheresade Faramarzi

IRBIL, Iraq - Kurdish officials are inviting foreign oil companies to explore untapped reserves in their northern region, angering Arab countrymen and raising concern about chaos in Iraq's oil industry.

Kurds, their self-ruled federation firmly enshrined in Iraq's constitution, believe they are reclaiming their right to control northern oil fields after successive Iraqi regimes purged Kurds from the industry to bring it under exclusive Arab control.

Despite the Iraqi industry's many problems - falling production, crumbling infrastructure and relentless insurgent attacks - the prospect of drilling in the world's second-largest proven reserves has led eight small foreign companies to invest in Kurdish-ruled territory.

One of them, Det Norske Oljeselskap, or DNO, of Norway, struck oil in December, less than a month after starting to drill in Zakho near the Turkish border.

Major oil companies have so far shied away from Kurdistan until the new Iraqi parliament elected in December clarifies articles in the constitution on the control of oil and until security improves.

The constitution stipulates that the federal and regional governments will share management of existing oil fields, as well as strategies for developing future areas and distributing the profits.

The document, however, also makes ambiguous references providing compensation for areas such as the Kurdish and Shiite regions that were "damaged" and "unjustly deprived" under Saddam Hussein.

The constitution, ratified in a referendum in October, defers a decision on the future of Kirkuk, the center of the northern oil fields, which Kurds want to be part of the Kurdish federation.

Because each region will control future oil discoveries in its own area, the Sunni minority, which lives Iraq's oil-poor center, may not benefit equally from the riches.

However, Western oil officials in northern Iraq say the entire country is floating on unexplored oil reserves, including the central regions.  Iraq is estimated to have 265 billion barrels of unproven reserves and 125 billion barrels of proven reserves.

Of those, an estimated 36 billion barrels are in northern Iraq.  Less than 10 percent of the region has been explored, according to Heritage Oil, one of the eight foreign companies carrying out studies in Kurdistan.  Iraq is also estimated to have 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

"Saddam regarded the oil in Kurdistan as his personal property," said Delshad Abdul-Rahman Mohammed, head of the Oil Projects in the Kurdish regional government of Sulaimaniyah.

"Kurdistan's share of the profits was the money Saddam received to buy chemical weapons to decimate the Kurdish people."

Kurdish officials in both Sulaimaniyah and Irbil insist that they will share the oil wealth with the rest of the country and that agreements made with foreign companies are made in coordination with the central government in Baghdad.  "This oil belongs to all Iraqis.  Profits from the oil don't only go into the pockets of Kurdistan," said Mohammed.

He said oil companies signed memorandum of understanding with the Kurdish regional governments and the central government "so that the regional government will not have any problems in the future."

In addition to DNO, oil companies exploring in Kurdistan include Petoil and General Energy Corp., both of Turkey; Woodside of Australia; and Canadian companies Western Oilsands Inc. and Heritage Oil Corp., which has formed a joint venture with Eagle Group of Iraq, based in northern Iraq.

Western oil experts predict friction between the Kurdish regions and the central government on future oil explorations, but according to Western oil company officials, it's a risk worth taking.

Iraqi oil experts are not as confident.

"Without a central unified policy it is expected that disharmony and competition ... would be the rule of the day, a situation which is in contrast to that of a unified federated country, and which shall have serious consequences for technical reasons," said oil consultant Tariq Shafiq in a report.

Iraqi and Western oil experts say Kurds lack technical and managerial skills needed to go it alone. They say officials in the ministry of natural resources in the new Kurdistan regional government are inexperienced in the oil business. But Kurdish officials are not apologetic and blame the previous regimes for purging the oil industry of Kurdish talent and skills, especially in Kirkuk, and replacing them with mostly Arabs.

"We can buy trained men," said Mohammed.  "Saddam's ethnic cleansing policy against Kurds drained the region of its best qualified men.  There are scores of educated Kurds who currently work with international companies and who can help us." The region, he added, will also seek the help of Iraqi Arabs in the field.


Duh!

Increasing Muslim Violence in Europe is Not Being Reported

March 19, 2006 - From: news.yahoo.com

By John Leo

Like many news junkies, I've noticed that stories putting Muslims in a bad light tend to be sketchy and underreported.  A minor example is this comment by the head Muslim chaplain of New York City's prisons: "The greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House."  In Manhattan, remarks like that are nearly as conventional as talk about the weather, so the controversy was fairly small.

It might have been larger if the media had shown any interest in other points the imam made.  For instance that Muslim prisoners are being tortured in Manhattan, and that Muslims must be "hard against the kaffir" (i.e., nasty to infidels), which presumably city employees are not paid to recommend.  (By the way, why are clergymen city employees at all?)

A much bigger example is the misleadingly low-key reporting of the Ilan Halimi murder in Paris.  We now know that Halimi was killed as a classic expression of Jew hatred.  But with so much evasiveness and misdirection by police, government and press, it took a month to get that fact clearly on the table.  Halimi, a cell phone salesman, was kidnapped and held for ransom by a mostly Muslim gang.  He was horrifically tortured for three weeks, then slain.  From time to time, neighbors had come to watch the torture or to participate in it.  Nobody called the gendarmes.

At first the government and the press presented this story as a straightforward kidnapping for ransom.  A spokesman said Jewishness may have played a role simply because the kidnappers thought Jews were rich.  AP and UPI, in feeds to the United States, barely mentioned the possibility of anti-Semitism.  After arrests were made, the BBC worked hard to avoid using the word "Muslim," though verses from the Quran were recited during the torture.

The Los Angeles Times account of Feb. 28 shows how hard candor can be.  It reported that the gang made hundreds of abusive phone calls to Jews and had systematically tried to kidnap Jews.  But the reporters wrote this: "Rather than a premeditated anti-Semitic murder, it seems a more complex product of criminality and dysfunction in the narrow world of thug culture: a poisonous mentality that designates Jews as enemies along with other faces of 'outsiders.'"

Oh, please.  If whites had tortured and killed a black man, I doubt that reporters would be carrying on about how complex and unpremeditated it all was.  They would just say it was a lynching.

In an excellent article last week, Colin Nickerson of The Boston Globesaid the crime was being attributed to a "predominantly Muslim youth gang" notorious for "virulent anti-Semitism."  The gang's taunting phone calls to Halimi's father were filled with anti-Semitic slurs and a rabbi had been told, "We have a Jew."  The Globe said hatred of Jews is now a hallmark of what's cool in France, even among young immigrants from non-Muslim nations.  Very strong article.  No dancing around, just good reporting.

Governments and the media often avoid calling terrorism by its proper name.  Presumably the idea is to calm the public and avoid embarrassing Muslims.  It took nine months for the FBI and the government to admit that the attack on L.A. airport in 2002 was a terrorist operation.  We had been told that personal reasons might explain why a pro-Palestinian gunman, who openly admitted the desire to kill civilians, would kill two people at an El Al counter.

The same verbal dance took place recently when an Iranian student rented a large van and tried to run down and kill as many students as possible in North Carolina.  He said he was attempting to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world."  But the university tried desperately to avoid the obvious T-word.

Tony Blankley wrote a Washington Times column, March 8, on the underreporting of Muslim violence.  He said British politicians tell him there is increasing radical Muslim street violence, explicitly motivated by radical Islam, but not reported or characterized as such.  Blankley said rioting Moroccan youths in Antwerp went on a rampage, beating up reporters and destroying cars, but police were instructed not to arrest or stop them.  A database search shows little reporting on Antwerp riots.

The scary riots in Australia last December, pitting Lebanese immigrants against native whites, were well-covered.  But nobody seems quite sure that we are getting the full story about other serious disturbances.  From time to time the Internet carries reports of riots that don't make the newspapers, but they are mostly uncheckable.

Suppressing news, whether out of multicultural deference or fear, is a perilous business.  We can't know how to react to upheavals if we aren't told about them.


Unbelievable.  Math be racist!

Dept. of Justice Says Chesapeake Police Department Discriminates in Exams

March 15, 2006 - From: home.hamptonroads.com

By Mike Gruss and Cindy Clayton

CHESAPEAKE - The city's Police Department discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants on its entrance exam, according to a letter released Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The finding is nearly identical to a ruling against Virginia Beach's Police Department last month and its problems are rooted in similar discrepancies on the National Police Officer Selection Test.

Between March 1, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2005, Chesapeake required applicants to score 70 percent or higher on the mathematics section of the entrance exam.  But when the Department of Justice reviewed scores, 57.34 percent of black applicants passed, compared with 88.91 percent of white applicants.

The Department of Justice said the test had "a significant adverse impact against both African-American applicants and Hispanic applicants" and that the city failed to "demonstrate that its use of the POST mathematics test is job-related for the entry-level police officer position."

City Attorney Ron Hallman said Chesapeake leaders will meet with Department of Justice officials in the next two weeks in hopes of avoiding a civil rights lawsuit.  The city received the letter Friday.

"We don't agree with it," he said.  "We're dealing with a standardized test here."

Chesapeake officials have until March 31 to come to an agreement with federal officials to avoid a civil rights lawsuit, according to the letter.

Eric Holland , a Justice spokesman, said he could not comment on the letter to Chesapeake nor he could say how many other police departments nationwide are under comparable scrutiny.  In 2004 , Justice Department officials examined the cities of Chesapeake, Virginia Beach and Hampton, and Chesterfield, Henrico and Fairfax counties.

Locally, the source of the problem was the math portion of the National Police Officer Selection Test, given to Chesapeake and Virginia Beach police recruits.  Justice officials have said the exam discriminated because the pass rate for blacks and Hispanics was less than 80 percent of the pass rate for whites.

The "80 percent rule" is a longtime general practice used by the federal government to evaluate possible discrimination cases.  If there is a significant disparity among groups taking an entrance exam, the Justice Department wants to know if the hiring process can be challenged.

Chesapeake officials changed how the test is scored earlier this year.  Now, the city requires a 70 percent average for the four parts of the test, and no longer disqualifies an applicant for a single score below 70 percent.

On Jan. 21, Chesapeake administered its first police recruit test in two years.  About 92 percent of white applicants passed the test as a whole, compared with 77 percent of blacks and 77 percent of Hispanics, city Human Resources Director Mary Bullock said last month.

The letter released Wednesday suggests the city should take steps to end the discrimination and to "provide sufficient relief to make whole applicants."

"I don't know how you quantify it," Hallman said.

Over the past year, Chesapeake officials have hoped to bolster minority recruitment by attending job fairs and reaching out to students for possible public safety careers.  They also planned to talk to civic leagues, church groups, high school seniors and people ready to leave the military.

This year, 50 of 357 sworn officers, or 14 percent of the Chesapeake force are black or Hispanic.

"We tried to improve," Hallman said.

The Justice Department, in a letter released last month, threatened to file a civil rights lawsuit against Virginia Beach on March 7 if the city could not work out a compromise.

Last week, the department extended that city's deadline while both sides meet to resolve a dispute.  The Department of Justice claims that the math portion of the Virginia Beach Police Department's entranceexam discriminated against blacks and Hispanics, Deputy City Attorney Mark Stiles said.

During a closed-door meeting Tuesday, the City Council was briefed on the progress of the negotiations.  Justice and Virginia Beach officials continue to talk, but a resolution has not been reached, Stiles said.


Can those damn Eurosavages do anything right?

Iranian Negotiator Boasts of Fooling Europeans

March 6, 2006 - From: smh.com.au

By Philip Sherwell

THE man who for two years led Iran's nuclear negotiations has laid out in unprecedented detail how the regime took advantage of talks with Britain, France and Germany to forge ahead with its secret atomic program.

In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 until last year, revealed how Tehran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear program was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002.

He boasted that while talks were taking place in Tehran, Iran was able to complete the installation of equipment for conversion of yellowcake - a key stage in the nuclear fuel process - at its Isfahan plant while convincing European diplomats that nothing was afoot.

"From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything'.  The Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them'," he said.

Revelation of Mr Rowhani's remarks comes at an awkward moment for the Iranian Government, before a meeting today of the United Nations atomic watchdog, which must make a fresh assessment of Iran's banned nuclear operations.  The International Atomic Energy Agency's judgement is the final step before the case is passed to the UN Security Council, where sanctions may be considered.

In his address to the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, Mr Rowhani appears to have been seeking to rebut criticism from hardliners that he gave too much ground in talks with the Europeans.  The contents of the speech were published in a regime journal that circulates among the ruling elite.

He told his audience: "When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Tehran we were still installing some of the equipment at the Isfahan site ... In reality, by creating a tame situation, we could finish Isfahan."

America and its European allies believe that Iran is clandestinely developing an atomic bomb, but Tehran insists it is merely seeking nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Iran's negotiating team engaged in a last-ditch attempt last week to head off Security Council involvement.  In January the regime removed atomic energy agency seals on sensitive nuclear equipment and last month it resumed banned uranium enrichment.

Iran is trying to win support from Russia, which opposes UN sanctions, having tried unsuccessfully to persuade European Union leaders to allow it more time.  Against this backdrop, Mr Rowhani's surprisingly candid comments on Iran's record of obfuscation and delay are illuminating.

In a separate development, the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran has obtained a copy of a confidential parliamentary report making it clear that Iranian MPs were also kept in the dark on the nuclear program, which was funded secretly, outside the normal budgetary process.


  


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The following was written shortly after Emmanuel Goldstein's arrest...

                     \/\The Conscience of a Pedophile/\/

                                    by

                           +++The Molester+++
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        Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.  "Old Man
Arrested in Child Molesting Scandal", "Pedophile Arrested after Playground
Tampering"...

        Damn pedophile.  They're all alike.

        But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's ethics,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the pedophile?  Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

        I am a pedophile, enter my world...

        Mine is a world that begins with hacker meetings... I'm sexually
attracted to the younger boys, this woman crap, bores me...

        Damn pedophile.  They're all alike.

        I'm at a New York 2600 meeting.  I've listened to police explain
for the fifteenth time how to not to touch little boys.  I understand it.  "No,
Bernie S., I didn't take him to the zoo.  We did it in the bathroom..."

        Damn pedophile.  Probably lied about it.  They're all alike.

        I made a discovery today.  I found a computer.  Wait a second, this is
cool.  It does what I want it to.  If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up and didn't log out of my email account.  Not because it doesn't
like me...
                Or feels threatened by me...
                Or thinks I like young boys...
                Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...

        Damn pedophile.  All he does is surf NAMBLA.  They're all alike.

        And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.

        "This is it... this is where I belong..."

        I've thought about molesting everyone here... even if I've never met 
them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

        Damn pedophile.  Tying up a parent's phone line again.  They're all 
alike...

        You bet your son's ass we're all alike... we've spoon-fed baby food to
older boys when we hungered for young ones... the bits of meat that you did let
slip through were too old and suspicious.  We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic.  The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.



        This is our world now... the world of the pedophile and NAMBLA, the
beauty of the boy.  We make use of a sexual service already existing without 
paying for what could be dirt-cheap, if it wasn't so fucking illegal, and you 
call us criminals.  We molest... and you call us criminals.  We seek after our 
sexual desires... and you call us criminals.  We stalk young boys based on 
skin color, nationality, and religion... and you call us criminals.
You build complex electronic devices, data networks, you invent, create jobs, 
and protect us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the 
criminals.

        Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of touching little boys.  My 
crime is that of touching young, 12 year old boys, not the older, legal ones. My
crime is that of molesting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

        I am a pedophile, and this is my manifesto.  You may stop this 
individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.