It’s fighting Friday.
Listened to a very informative Ideas program last evening. Mr. Wrights lecture puts a lot in perspective, have not read the book but must get hold of it. Below is from the Ideas program schedule.
Thursday, May 10AL QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11 CDLawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them.
One highlight of his presentation was the fact that the combined Arab countries with a total of 300 million population have a combined GDP lower than what Nokia the cell phone company has. Good nesting ground for discontent for sure.
Then there is the obvious fact that while the west is “bringing democracy” to Iraq and Afghanistan most other Arab states are just as oppressive and abuse human rights on a daily basis. These are the same states that are propped up and or supported by the west. And it’s not about the oil eh???
Via Ed I got to this story on the damage done by bottom trawling. The original article is subscription only, but I have one of the images here.
Listened to a very informative Ideas program last evening. Mr. Wrights lecture puts a lot in perspective, have not read the book but must get hold of it. Below is from the Ideas program schedule.
Thursday, May 10AL QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11 CDLawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them.
One highlight of his presentation was the fact that the combined Arab countries with a total of 300 million population have a combined GDP lower than what Nokia the cell phone company has. Good nesting ground for discontent for sure.
Then there is the obvious fact that while the west is “bringing democracy” to Iraq and Afghanistan most other Arab states are just as oppressive and abuse human rights on a daily basis. These are the same states that are propped up and or supported by the west. And it’s not about the oil eh???
Via Ed I got to this story on the damage done by bottom trawling. The original article is subscription only, but I have one of the images here.
It would be interesting to get some images of trawling inside and outside the Canadian 200 mile limit would it not?
I’m coming across many photos of the tulips out down south. It’s a different pretty here with nice white snow falling covering up the yucky spring dirty snow run off stuff.
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