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From the centre of the mayhem: Prince Hassan of Jordan
Nouse.co.uk  20 Nov 08 The world is closer to World War Three than it ever has been, and the breeding ground is the Middle East, said Prince Hassan of Jordan in an interview following his inaugural lecture on peace prospects in the Middle East. “It is more possible today than it was back then [the Prince warned about the possibility of a Third World War back in 2004]. If you look at the players today, with Iran becoming a potential nuclear power, you are looking at six nuclear realities in Asia alone…This will be a very destabilising force.”……………………“People have this illusion about a ball-park figure of several hundred millions or billions that will make the problems in the Middle East go away. I want to say that the money will be misspent unless it is monitored from the ground up.” He backs this up with an alarming statistic. For every $1 spent on conflict prevention, $1,885 was spent on weapons in the region………………………The second largest export from Iraq is scrap metal. Our children are dying as we speak; from eating out of cooking pots that are uranium depleted; from climbing on climbing frames that are uranium depleted………………………….He talked briefly about commodities, saying that the three most important commodities that any region possesses are water, energy, and the human environment. In all three areas, he feels that humanity has let itself down badly, but particularly water

Nouse.co.uk » From the centre of the mayhem: Prince Hassan of Jordan

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November 20, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized