Interview with Naomi Wolfe....

Worth watching if you care about democracy.

So let me get this straight.

At the moment the Americans are rattling their sabres at the Iranians who, it is alleged bought their nuclear secrets from Halliburton and Halliburton is the company that is profiting most from the rebuilding of Iraq after the war.

Meanwhile the Israeli's are threatening Iran too. And in turn the Iranians are threatening to retaliate against the US, Israel etc.

In the Gulf States the arabs are getting concerned about the potential for there to be a nuclear conflict and to have to deal with fall out. Who can blame them?

Meanwhile it is alleged that an Israeli by the name of Oded Yinon actually came up with the idea in 1982 of creating a war in Iraq that would destablize the region in order to get all the various arab and muslim cliques to go against each other.

At the same time there are stories around on the internet that the Iranians have bought Russian missile technology and that it is superior to the American technology that the Israelis and of course the Americans have.

If the latter is true I can understand why the Israelis would be so paranoid... and why they would want to light a fire under the Americans to get them to upgrade the technology and pronto!

What I really don't get is what the entire world will do in the event that all the oil in the Middle East is radioactive!

I just can't really see all of wanting to fill the tanks of our cars with glow in the dark petrol regardless of the price!

Of course it could make Venezuelan oil look very attractive....

Some interesting history of transportation courtesy of Rense.com

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

 

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.

 

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

 

Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

 

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to u se any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

 

So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

 

And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

 

So the next time you are handed a Specification/ Procedure/Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story:

 

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.  The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah .  The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.  The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

 

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important?  Ancient horse's asses control almost everything....and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else!