[ExI] riots again

[John Clark]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012  BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forget all the metaphysical crap about religions. That's just a
> convenient tool to manipulate populations.
>

Forget it?? That makes no sense at all, if the enemy has a tool of that
power it would be crazy to pretend that they didn't have such a weapon.


> > The West has built a civilisation dependant on oil. End of story. If the
> oil stops, Western civilisation collapses. So it is not negotiable. The US
> will do anything to ensure oil supplies and to install friendly governments
> over the oil resources.


If true, if civilization depends on it, then the West has been engaged in a
very enlightened foreign policy and I hope they continue.

> Defending against and killing terrorists is required because the Western
> interference has upset some of the Arabs.


Cartoons and YouTube.


> The West has to move to alternative energy or perish in the process.
>

And for some reason nuclear energy is not considered a alternate energy
source to hydrocarbons, and the naive continue to expect to power blast
furnaces with windmills and moonbeams.

  John K Clark
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