Category Archives: USA

Glowing sands

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Post here about how unhappy Iran is that the USA have sent a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf.

A strike group is made up of about 7,500 servicemembers, an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, six to 10 destroyers, and 65 to 70 aircraft. It is the single largest operational unit of the U.S. Navy and is used as a mighty display of force.


This has been pointed out before and has a ring of truth to it – this beast is due to be decommissioned. It’s going for scrap. The US Navy does not value the thing. It is also nuclear powered. The US Navy have never dismantled a ship that glows before. That will be expensive and dangerous. It would be ever so convenient – maybe even economically sound – were it to stay in the Gulf, in bits. And from the US point of view that would also be environmentally sound. I’m sure someone in the US Navy will be describing this as a win-win. Or maybe I’m just too cynical.

Kony

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… Invisible Children’s viral media smash follows Barack Obama’s decision to deploy 100 troops to Uganda last October with the aim of “removing” Joseph Kony from the picture.

In fact, during a period of relative calm that has not been seen in years, Mark Kersten from Justice in Conflict says Uganda’s recently-discovered oil reserves, which “may produce between 2.5 billion to 6 billion barrels of oil…
Kony 2012: Viral video for the misinformed? — RT.

USA / violence / oil. Where next?

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.