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In the new year, Rooting Out Evil will be sending a team of volunteer weapons inspectors into that greatest of rogue nations, the United States of America. We have selected the US as our first priority based on criteria provided by the Bush administration. According to those criteria, the most dangerous states are those run by leaders who:

1) have massive stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons;
2) ignore due process at the United Nations;
3) refuse to sign and honour international treaties; and
4) have come to power through illegitimate means.

"On the basis of President Bush's guidelines, it is clear that the current U.S. administration poses a great threat to global security."

"All my life, I have loved statistics and the reason for this love is the inaccuracy that they represent when compared to reality. For example, all of us would have statistically less than 10 fingers, because the stats would take into account people who unfortunately are amputees and some people who have had accidents and lost fingers. So statistically, we have less than 10 fingers on our two hands, but for most of us, that isn’t the case. Such statistics are just wrong. Often with medical statistics, I too have my doubts. For example recently, I saw that fat mothers produce children less likely to have diabetes than thin mothers, and I chuckled at that one too. The more statistics that come out, the more I chuckle. I don’t know if you have this feeling, but I certainly do, that if we were to follow statistics as to what we should eat, do, drink etc, we would never eat, drink or do anything, because so many things are carcinogenic and so many things induce other problems. The statistic I ultimately came up with last week proves my point. There is obviously an element of humour to this and the reason I bring it up is because I have long held the view that women and men should not be distinguished for the purposes of being in business or in any other respect, other than clearly the differences that exist in the makeup of both sexes. In other words, I don’t think Parliament should have a ratio of 50% men, 50% women, but rather Parliament should have 100% of the best people possible for the job and if that should be 100% women, so be it, or if it were 100% men, then so be it. But political parties now have put into place certain minimum requirements in regards to women parliamentarians. Equally, the trend has gone to increasing the numbers of women on public company boards. I don’t give a damn what sex they are. I just want the best possible people on boards."
- Rene Rivkin