WWIII Green Light given by UN & USA

So the USA and the UN even a few Arab states are involved in military action to stop the attacks on Libya. Liberating people from a despot is such a lofty goal

Am I the only one that realizes our decision to get directly involved has given a green light to Iran to do EXACTLY the same thing in Bahrain? Liberating people from a despot is such a lofty goal, if we are doing it why shouldn't it be ok for Iran to do it?

Think I'm full of it? (could not resist that) here is a statement today from Iran ...think this will not escalate into Iran providing military support? Think that will not suck us into WWIII?

The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament (Majlis) issued a statement in support of the Bahraini people and called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to leave Bahrain's soil immediately, the Satellite Press TV reported on Saturday.

"The oppressed people of Bahrain are a part of the Islamic world and the Islamic Republic of Iran feels obligated to support them," the statement was cited as saying on Saturday.

The United States is definitely responsible for the murder of Bahrainis by ordering its "regional mercenaries" to invade the country and repress peaceful protesters, the statement added.

The statement also called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to take serious actions on regional developments.

Bahrain has slammed Iran's "interference" in its internal affairs after the latter communicated with international organizations expressing concern about the situation in the Kingdom.

This excerpt was taken from Zerohedge here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/uae-and-qatar-pledge-aircraft-libya-conflict-iran-calls-saudi-uae-leave-bahrain-immediately

Makes me very nervous as one of my boys is stationed in Bahrain, but makes me more nervous that we are being sucked into something much much bigger than we realize under the guise of supporting the rebels in Libya...

If a simple Engineer can read the writing on this wall...what does this say about the PTB?

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Chasing Rainbows: How the Green Agenda Defeats its Aims by Tim Worstall

Chasing Rainbows: How the Green Agenda Defeats its Aims by Tim Worstall
Matthew Sinclair  •  Economics 101  •  Saturday 19 March 2011

Tim Worstall has been very busy recently.  As well as maintaining his long running and superb blog, he has written a paper for the Institute of Economic Affairs about some of the myths at the heart of the UKUncut campaign’s attempt to convince people spending cuts aren’t necessary.  And that follows shortly on the heels of the book I’ve just finished reading, Chasing Rainbows: How the Green Agenda Defeats its Aims.

The book is well worth reading.  It isn’t about the science of climate change but instead sets out why, in a number of ways, the ideological preoccupations of the environmentalist movement cause them to adopt self-defeating policies.  Some examples are very relevant to TaxPayers’ Alliance research.

He looks at how attempts to encourage recycling aren’t informed by a proper understanding of the time that people have to spend sorting their waste.  Neither the British Government nor the European Union even know how much time it is taking to meet their requirements.   That means they don’t properly appreciate the cost in terms of reduced leisure time, making millions lives slightly more pressured and stressful.  It is a good explanation of why that sorting process has become so complicated as we showed in our report on the number of bins households across the country are given to sort their waste into.  That additional sorting in the home might seem like its saves money if you ignore the value of the time people spend doing the sorting.

He also looks at green taxes and makes the point we have in a number of studies: green taxes can be too high if they exceed the social cost of the emissions produced by activities like motoring and flying.  I think he is a bit too kind on the taxes.  He acknowledges but doesn’t quite describe the seriousness of the problems in setting the ideal carbon tax that many economists would like to see.  And the social cost estimate he uses from Stern was never really intended as a tool for policymaking.  When DEFRA translated the Stern Review’s findings into a tool for policy appraisal they came to a substantially lower number (the “Shadow Price”).  There is more detail on all that in our most recent report on green taxes and regulations.

Well worth reading.

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