War with Iran, will the UK help

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Also, the Goldcorp "human rights abuses" are confusing at best. A local Guatemalan mining company had started the mine prior to being bought by Goldcorp. The accusation of human rights violation were that the government had violated aboriginal land treaties when it sold the rights to the land. Goldcorp didn't even participate in that. This was also followed up by accusations of health risks driven by hysterical protesters, said accusations turned out to be without scientific proof and all studies have shown that local waters are within safety standards.

LOL. Sorry, that was a deliberate poke at you, and I did it to get a response. You know, it's like . . .





Though, I will answer some things, though they are not a dispute of your comments:

1. The U.S. carbon emissions are down by 9% since their peek (recessions aren't all bad).
2. Both oil companies and the U.S. Government have unequivocally stated that U.S. oil consumption has peeked and will likely never to return to such levels.
3. I was thinking about Barrick Gold in Papua New Guinea, but thanks for the info on Guatemala. I'll remember that next time I want to poke a Canadian just to see what happens.

I do it to my friend Ignatius, a professor of speech pathology at USC, all the time. I tell him he needs to take his American PhD back to Vancouver and teach Canadians to say "house" properly. Surely that is a great enough contribution for a MacArthur genius grant. He says he would do it if he was sure of a MacArthur.