Cadmium and Cadbury..... mmm chocolate.

I have enjoyed surfing at You Tube recentely. A bit of fun... it would be good to incorporate a bit into this site. One neat one I saw was Nobody's Watching, and ya gotta google Little Loca and or Lisa Nova. She hugs a street person..."Hi, I'm Lisa....Lisa Nova!" (Lisa gets flowers.) Good for a laugh or 5.

The World Cup rolls along without the Aussies. Too bad so sad, but it was a fun ride. A little bit of refereeing madness saw an Italian player fall down.... so they got a penalty shot. Twelve seconds left. Their best player got to shoot and he won the match.... So where are we? Beckham put England ahead and they will play Portugal. ( now the quarter finals. ) Germany will have their hands full with Argentina, which should be an awesome game. Italy fights Ukraine. Brazil/Ghana and Spain/France still have to duke it out in order to get out of the round of 16 and into the Quarters. I predict a Brasil and hmmmm. Spain? France? Who do you think?


And Finally.

I was just doing some checking in the Middle East. Yes it is still there. Did you know that the ruling party in Iraq was Sunni. Thirty percent of Iraq (approx) is Sunni and 65 percent Shi'a. Egypt, is mainly Sunni, as is Turkey. If you recall, the US had trouble in getting support with Saddam's trading partner Turkey so they could station a base of operations there. Syria was threatened at one point for harbouring terrorists... mainly a Sunni nation, by the US. Egypt was told to back off. Divide and rule.

Now the one nation that didn't really have any diplomacy with the US was Iran. They are nearly all Shi'a Muslims. Officially, there are no diplomatic ties between the countries. The Swiss have a small section reserved in their consulate for the Americans, in Iran, and the Pakistani's have a small section in theirs in Yankee land for Iran. So does that mean for the Iranians and the Americans to officially speak to each other, Pakistan and Switzerland have to be the emissaries?

I have also come across some other data regarding Iran. Because Hussein was so harsh, and any attempts at destabilizing him were met with swift killings, any organizing against him was done in secret. (duh) Who would supply weapons then? Who would supply funds to keep the anti Sunni factions (Shia's) abreast of potential purges by the dictator, Saddam. Who would exchange intelligence of what was really going on in the government of the now defunct Iraq. Who wanted more influence within Iraq? Let us connect the dots. IRAN. I am sure they kept their hot little hands still and their emotions in check as they welcomed thousands of suffering refugees over the border. Those caught in the middle between Saddam and the invading US forces. It would all work well. America would pack up and leave at the first sign of a couple of friendly body bags ( like they did last time ) and Iran had all the influence they needed to in fact be "guiding" their former rival, Iraq. I wonder if we would find Iranian "lobby groups" supporting proponents of getting the US out of Iraq. On the other side of the fence they could supply the bombs and the bombers in creating more deaths, which of course increases the cry for the foreigners to leave. It kind of brings a whole new light as to what is really happening when our "Happy Mood" is in talks with "Dubya" and the gang, talking about their so called nuke program. I am sure they are doing more than talking about heavy water, and Harjinder passing the Cadmium rods. Who knows. I don't. Do you?


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