Category Archives: USA

Running out of oil.

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“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: weaning society off fossil fuel.”

This weaning will require a large deployment of efficiency measures, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..

http://arstechnica.com

“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: controlling the fossil fuel.”

This weaning will require a large deployment of troops and other weapons of war. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..

FTFY.

Voter fraud

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South Carolina’s Attorney General, Alan Wilson says an analysis found 953 ballots cast by voters were people who are listed as dead. Link

And if this was even suspected in any other country anywhere the US politicians would be crying out for reform, claiming it was a fraud, deception, a violation of democratic human rights blah blah.

Get over it

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Q: I am upset because my puppy died / someone called me a bad name / I saw something bad / I am worried about x or y or z / any other inconsequential event

A: Get therapy.

There. A typical US forum/message board entry. Absolute nonsense. It should say

A: Get some coping skills.

Grammar

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A post from reddit on reddit today has this sentence:

please consider writing your representative and the sponsors of this bill:

So that means someone writes

your representative

and they are done. Missing quotes are immaterial, the fact is that the sentence is missing a whole 2 letter word: to

please consider writing to your representative and the sponsors of this bill:

makes sense. The former does not.

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As terrorists struck New York on September 11th, the United States vowed to fight back and protect their country, their people and their freedom. But 10 years on, it seems that freedom is just an illusion, and the US is becoming an Orwellian state.
The land of the no longer free — RT.

Biased? No more than any US outlet and in many cases far less.

Tapes from ATC

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“The sheer bafflement of America’s air traffic control network during the two hours when America was under attack on 11 September 2001 was put on vivid display yesterday with the release of complete audio-tape recordings of increasingly frantic communications as the crisis accelerated.”

“the tapes have never been available in their entirety before.”

Tapes reveal terror in air traffic control as 9/11 attacks unfolded – Americas, World – The Independent.

How coincidental that the US Govt released these in the last few days. A cynic would say they did this for their own reasons… next they’ll be saying there is a a new threat and they’ll have to put even more restrictions on people. For their own safety of course. Oh .. look .. they did already …