Well there you go, my initial reaction is 'What if they turn them on us'?

Having a lot of American war junk just over our back yard fence doesn't exactly make anyone feel safe now does it?

What did Romania get for having the 'parasites' plant a war tree on their veg patch? Did they get offered help with their economy? Help with all the orphans? The abject poverty all their people live in, that every Romanian aid charity here are sending truckloads of help to?

I doubt it very much. The backhander for allowing the missiles and war machine in their veg plot will end up in some private officials account.
 
If America wanted to give the equivalent in foreign aid, (the cost of those weapons that their honest working tax payer just paid for, and their government are bankrupting middle america to plant abroad to cause more mistrust and wars).

Foreign aid would have made some real sense, with no strings attached! When you help the poor, you help yourself, because improving the quality of life for other people, and putting them on a sound economic footing releases you from merely giving charity to people who can't make a living or economy because their government wants to keep them in poverty.

Spending on raising the standard of living and education and training for real jobs made available to the bottom end of society rises up through the economy like bubbles in a glass of wine.

Us lot over here in Europe can't afford any more wars, How about all of Middle America getting onto the streets to demand their Government goes in and dismantles those sites and brings those weapons home?

What if some third party terrorists or a change of politics in Romania got hold of those missile sites? The missiles are supposed not to have warheads, but it isn't difficult to stick some in them if they wanted to. The repercussions could be terrible.

Besides, what is Hilary Cilinton up to as Secretary of State? The bases aren't built yet, and missiles not deployed, so what if the American People themselves demanded the agreement torn up. It might let the rest of the world know what the actual American People wanted, instead of their politicians.

American foreign policy has got to stop interfering in the balance of power, and causing mistrust between other nations. Sort out the problems at home first. Especially those private prisons, and putting your own people in gaol for minor offences, so that 'people farming' has become a big business that supports political campaigns.

In our little Island we make our 'naughty people' do community service. This means they have to go do something useful for doing something like driving a car without insurance, or tax... We only put our criminals in gaol. You Americans don't realise just how few 'little freedoms' you have left. You certainly don't look like you actually have real freedoms at all.

Besides, even America can't afford to annoy us Europeans, and Russians right now. How about we offer the Romanians a deal to solve their poverty rather than go ahead with the missile agreement?

This is the Reuters Report. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/us-usa-romania-missiles-idUSTRE78C62N20110913

I have been waiting all week to watch this. Well that was informative!

I know it has been possible to change the weather for a long time, and that there are realy wierd weapons around. I also know that the land is poisoned long after a war. That harmful dioxins, and particles just drift around all over the place and make everyone sick.

Call me a cynic, but this is also good for the drug companies, as they can then sell drugs to combat the effects.

One of the huge discoveries after 9/11 was when the airplanes were grounded for a couple of days. The average temperature without all the normal jet trails rose immediately over America by 1 degree celcius.

Perhaps this is the true 'silver lining' to this desperate loss of life, and terrible memory.

I remember feeling unwell that day, and when a client came in and told me about it my legs went, and I had to sit down for a while.

What we don't realise with our passion for flying everywhere cheaply is how much this is affecting our weather patterns. Even if the reports of this warology documentary are true, and that this is a warfare that is actually happening. The damage to our weather patterns, and the 'greenhouse' it is causing in the upper atmosphere because the sunlight doesn't reach the Earth properly and generate the correct gasses at sea level, la la la... you can look this up online.

10/9/2011 (British Date) I was trying to remember the statistics, If I remember, over certain heavily used areas, the vapour trails cut down almost 20% of sunlight reaching the ground, which obviously has an effect on photosynthesis, and normal vitimin D production. At the time I wondered if this was a reason so many more of us get SAD syndrome throughout the year, and why it seems to take longer for plants to mature these days.

We have a larger challenge to deal with in undoing the dependence on air travel. It is possible to put in the infrastructure of those very smart high speed trains that the Chinese are investing in, see a previous post on that.

Obviously this creates new jobs on the ground as well!

We do need planes, just not so many, and very efficient ones running on different fuel. I don't have a problem with train and boat travel, I love it. In fact we can't take long 'plane journeys as Himself has the problem of DVT to think of.

Further comment; Yesterdays news on RT said the Russions intend to reduce the number of airlines to between 5-7 and increase air safety as a result of the desperately sad loss of life in Yaroslavl. What an unbearable burden for families and friends to see the flower of youth and expectation lost.

My heart goes out to everyone who has been affected by this loss, and to those families who's loved and cherished children must live with this loss, I am sure the whole world grieves with you as I do.

We have the internet for conferencing now, and it might be better to consider permanent trade exhibitions that companies worldwide can book slots for and meet and see their buyers 'on the road'.

Even better, would be floating trade fairs, I know a couple of old aircraft carriers going cheap somewhere.... get them done up and use them as floating trade centres to move round the world.

Each port of call, they can swap stands. If there was a bit of accomodation as well that was good value, It might be a great way to see the world.

I checked out Reb Jeff's new post this morning, and yes it is difficult to see suffering, misery and tragedy.

When this is caused by a lack of will to help our family or neighbour in a kind of xenopobic myopia, no one benefits in the end.

Yes some neighbours can be a nightmare! I have had problems myself. It doesn't matter how intractable they are, how much they try to frighten you, damage your property, nick stuff off you, and be bloody minded. Damage limitation is the only answer. Some people have a very mistrusting nature, and because they are dishonest, and vindictive they expect everyone else to be the same.

Well I just think they must be miserable, and if they don't get invited to any parties it serves them right.
So long as you put a nice stong border round them so they can't get into your country until they want to be nice and play properly, they will have to play with themselves and suffer the consequences of not getting any trade deals, or holidays abroad.

And yes I do have to give my neighbour rights to his electric and water supplies over my property. So long as he doesn't tap into them without paying for it, I can be generous enough to accommodate his needs. All you have to do is put a meter on each end and make sure you are getting out the pipeline what you put in. If there is a difference, send a bill. Also, I can tell you from experience, there is nothing you can do if they don't pay for it! Just consider it a gift, and get some sleep. You have to put a lot of things down to experience, and count past mistakes as a valuable lesson.

Better to write off a loss, and not waste any more time trying to recover money, and get on with making some more, before it costs you your health and a shed load more, trying to get something back that has been lost, spent, and can't be recovered. Like water under a bridge, or water nicked out of your system. It has gone, and you just hope that you are going to get rained on.

We are farmers and growers, we like rain, it's called 'Liquid Sunshine' round here. We had to call off the massive annual air display for the first time ever yesterday, because we had a large slice of it dished up.

Dont sell any weapons or arms that mean people have the ability to kill each other with anything but hand held swords or bows and arrows, and make peace based on genuine mutual respect.

We have too much to lose, and nothing to gain by continuing with the industry of war.

Besides, how are those Sun Spots coming on, I haven't checked them lately. What would happen if the Sunspot activity went dormant for a very long time? Hmmm... might get a bit cold!

I don't think any scientist has got to the point where they can do a thing with the Sun's activity. You might want to consider that if you are playing God with the weather.... God does a far better job, .. .. .. .. how about leaving some things in His hands, and spending all that money sorting out the problems on the ground.

Just checked;http://spaceweather.com/ Sweet Spot! I wonder if Messenger is going to get a teensy weensy bit scortched here, might end up looking like the toast I had for breakfast.

Anyone running a book on how much it's going to get damaged?

Ooops, another shed load of money torched!