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Fortunately I will be long gone before either of those events have happened.

The US does not need more oil from the middle east, we have plenty of discoveries but our environut government won't allow us to use our own at any where near capacity available. We can not even build sufficient refineries to provide processed oil products and the current EPA is shutting down some we have. We have a crazy government in charge.

Canada and Mexico are both big providers of oil for the US but somehow we can not use our own pool of oil and we live right between the two countries.

www.globalpost.com/dispatch/100726/top-7-us-oil-importers
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Interesting as I lived between the Ute Mountain Utes and the Southern Utes. Both are doing quite well. Both are currently prosperous and running businesses and casinos. Considering there is no going back they have adapted quite well. I have worked with native Americans for more than 30 years, as a coworker not a sociologist or agent, and have had good times with them. None were so angry as some seem to be. One I have known for the longest is a Navajo and when he retires he wants to return to the Navajo Nation and retire to a small plot of land in the mountains and have a Hogan. He said he already has the land allocated to him by the council. Sounds like a good deal to me.

If you read some history of Israel, and maybe the link about Palestine that I posted, you will find that much of the history of those many years ago are pretty murky. I don't think there is any way to properly reconstruct those days of several thousand years ago. What has been agreed to many times in the years from the charter of the nation of Israel is for a compatible two nation solution. Ask Norway, twice, and how many times for the US, to have agreements to this until the times come to agree on paper. Then we always see the Palestinians to walk away from the handshake with the Jewish leadership. It is not just the Jewish that are the problem.

I will walk away now as someone in such a state of anger can never give another a fair listen.

www.navajo-nsn.gov/

www.discovernavajo.com/

www.utemountainute.com/index.htm

www.southern-ute.nsn.us/
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A very interesting movie. Thanks for posting it.
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Here is an interesting article. I have not read it all, just the very beginning paragraphs. Sure seems to be an interesting history statement. Wonder if it is true that the Palestinians by name are connected thousands of years back but the current folks claiming to be Palestinians are not really such folks at all.

Something to be considered in this discussion. Seems like the ones that cut up the middle east after WWII just drew lines on the map and had little to do with ethnic ties.

www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm

Myths, Hypotheses and Facts

Concerning the Origin of Peoples



The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians

In this essay I would like to present the true origin and identity of the Arab people commonly known as "Palestinians", and the widespread myths surrounding them. This research is intended to be completely neutral and objective, based on historic and archaeological evidences as well as other documents, including Arab sources, and quoting statements by authoritative Islamic personalities.
There are some modern myths -or more exactly, lies- that we can hear everyday through the mass-media as if they were true, of course, hiding the actual truth. For example, whenever the Temple Mount or Jerusalem are mentioned, it is usually remarked that is "the third holy place for muslims", but why it is never said that is the FIRST Holy Place for Jews? It sounds like an utterly biased information!
In order to make this essay better comprehensible, it will be presented in two units:
·1) Myths and facts concerning the origin and identity of the so-called Palestinians;
·2) Myths and facts regarding Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.

I - Origin and identity of the so-called Palestinians

Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against:

“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”
“We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag”.
“When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out”.

This declaration by a true "Palestinian" should have some significance for a sincerely neutral observer. Indeed, there is no such a thing like a Palestinian people, or a Palestinian culture, or a Palestinian language, or a Palestinian history. There has never been any Palestinian state, neither any Palestinian archaeological find nor coinage. The present-day "Palestinians" are an Arab people, with Arab culture, Arabic language and Arab history. They have their own Arab states from where they came into the Land of Israel about one century ago to contrast the Jewish immigration. That is the historical truth. They were Jordanians (another recent British invention, as there has never been any people known as "Jordanians"), and after the Six-Day War in which Israel utterly defeated the coalition of nine Arab states and took legitimate possession of Judea and Samaria, the Arab dwellers in those regions underwent a kind of anthropological miracle and discovered that they were Palestinians - something they did not know the day before. Of course, these people having a new identity had to build themselves a history, namely, had to steal some others' history, and the only way that the victims of the theft would not complain is if those victims do no longer exist. Therefore, the Palestinian leaders claimed two contradictory lineages from ancient peoples that inhabited in the Land of Israel: the Canaanites and the Philistines. Let us consider both of them before going on with the Palestinian issue.

(And much more in the link. - worth a thought.)
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We could also allow Canada to build the oil pipeline they want to build. New jobs and more oil to replace that expensive middle east oil. We could also allow the natural gas and oil companies the rights to use the lands they had permitted before the present government took over. A sizable number unemployed because of that action and lower available oil and gas from the US sources.

We need to be looking out for ourselves and not worrying about the middle east so much.
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Unfortunately the EPA is just another one of those special departments that are operating outside the Congress. Those folks in the EPA are writing regulations that go agaiinst things the Congress has already debated and voted no on. The EPA is going crazy with it's personal opinion of what it considers to be it's authorized power. Right now they are working on such things as regulating the amount of dust farmers can create while planting or harvesting their crops. The EPA needs to be pulled back into control or abolished.

The Congress has problems aplenty, just don't blame Congress for others ridiculous actions.
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