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Ian Bell on the CBC reading William Markle Pecover

If you read this year’s Remembrance Day posts [1,2] you will be familiar with the passage that I read on air for CBC’s On the Coast on November 11th.  My Great Grandfather survived Vimy Ridge largely unscathed, until he went back there in the 1980s and...

Going To War With Halliburton..

*http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml Halliburton: All In The Family* April 27, 2003 After dropping more than 28,000 bombs on Iraq, the United States has now begun the business of rebuilding the country. And it promises to be quite a...

Nigeria Descends Toward Chaos..

Money talks? No… Oil talks. Oil politics will dominate the news for the next few years as developing nations like Iraq, Somalia and Nigeria continue to attempt to resist Western domination and exploitation of their resources. With widening perception throughout...

Must Read: Gore Vidal on the Bush Conspiracy..

http://dks.thing.net/EnemyWithin.html Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Ben Franklin (1706-1790) Historical Review of Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. On 27 October...

FW: Black Hawk Down: The Real Battle of Mogadishu

—— Forwarded Message From: Patrick Redding Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:40:26 -0800 To: Ian Andrew Bell Subject: Re: @F: Black Hawk Down: The Real Battle of Mogadishu There is much about this incident that is often glossed over in the current media discussion...