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    missed something on steepandcheap.com?

    in Spray

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    Well, you just might catch it on the rebound on PDX craigslist! frown.gif Isn't DFA in NW PDX?

     

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    [TR] Mt. Challenger- Challenger Glacier (Wiley Lake High Route) 7/22/2005

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    Sounds like you were the party we ran into late Sat. afternoon as we were pulling into Beaver Pass. Did you find the flies any nicer down at Luna camp?

     

    I think we pulled a compass out twice on the bushwhack. We just started out a little S. of the shelter and moved directly upslope as much as possible, avoiding the heaviest brush. Brings you right up to the flat at 5700'.

     

    Did your map use NAD27? I believe the Mt Challenger quad is based on NAD83.

    Need more Galloway!!!

    in Spray

    Posted

    From j_b:

    just don't turn it into a witch hunt against the UN and the antiwar movement especially since US corps profited from the scam knowing full well what was going on (since they paid the surcharge to saddam),

    and from the US Senate report he linked:

    The Subcommittee Minority Staff has not seen evidence

    showing that U.S. companies knowingly purchased Iraqi oil on which an illegal surcharge had

    been paid; in fact, U.S. companies typically included a clause in their contracts requiring a seller

    to provide a warranty that no surcharge had been paid.

    And Bayoil seems to be the exception as the only US company to pay a surcharge. So we basically have one rogue US company, and no evidence that the US government knew what that company was up to.

     

    I implied j_b thinks it's fine for anti-war players to be on-the-take since this thread is called "Need more Galloway!!!" and he seems to be quite a cheerleader for him.

    Need more Galloway!!!

    in Spray

    Posted

    Actually, your source seems to be a bit of a leftwing shill...

     

    Your link to the Guardian says that US oil purchases accounted for over half of the kickbacks paid to Saddam. The Washington Post <link>("Oil-for-Food Benefited Russians, Report Says") makes it clear that there were no US "purchases" and that Bayoil's involvement was to facilitate the Russian's participation in the Oil-for-Food scam. It's true that they made profits on the deal, but they are now under federal indictment (that would be under Bush's Justice Dept.) I'd like to see just what the accusation is that the US Treasury failed to take action against Bayoil at the time.

     

    The documents outline a trail of oil and money that leads directly from Iraq to the Kremlin and the former chief of staff to Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president Boris Yeltsin. The report said Iraq sought to influence and reward the Russian government because it sits on the powerful U.N. Security Council that oversaw sanctions against the Hussein government. Russia repeatedly sided with Iraq on issues before the Security Council.

    ...

    At one point, Hussein ordered that Russians be rewarded for threatening in 2000 to veto a Security Council resolution to restrict illicit trade at Iraq's borders, the Senate reports said. The veto threat killed the resolution before it was formally considered, prompting more oil allocations for Russia as well as contracts for humanitarian goods, the documents said.

     

    The oil transactions involved a complex web of financial arrangements and middlemen, all of whom received a piece of the profits.

     

    Bayoil played a key role in a number of transactions, the report said. The company had conducted an "aggressive campaign" to buy Iraqi oil under the oil-for-food program, but its efforts were stymied by a Hussein policy forbidding direct contracting with U.S. or British companies. Iraq also required the company that purchased the oil to be in the same country as the recipient of the allocation.

     

    The report described cases in which Bayoil orchestrated transactions between Iraq and Zhirinovsky. The company arranged for a Russian entity to purchase the oil and, without ever taking possession, sell it to Bayoil. A letter from Bayoil described how the company paid an "agreed premium" to Zhirinovsky for his allocation.

     

    The report also described Iraqi documents showing that surcharges, or kickbacks, amounting to more than $4 million were paid to Iraq in connection with Zhirinovsky's transactions. The documents say Bayoil "facilitated" surcharge payments of more than $2 million to Hussein.

     

    So you think it's fine that the key anti-war players were all "on the take" from Saddam before the war, just because one US company found it's way in as a middleman?

    Cycling vs Running

    in Fitness and Nutrition Forum

    Posted

    I'd give cycling a thumbs up too. The most important thing is to pay attention to your cadence and keep it at least 80rpm - and more is better. I've found that many people who don't like training on a bike are'nt spinning nearly fast enough. "I can't push a hard enough gear without going up a big hill, and there aren't any good hills around here" is the wrong way to go about training on a bike. The flats are considered boring in road races because drafting allows a group to easily chase down breakaways--not because you can't get a good workout on them!

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