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. they got jesse ventura now! we gotta save him.democrats and republicans gave trump $80 billion in increased defense spending (more worldwide terrorism). hillary wouldve supported this as well.
free education in america wouldve only cost $47 billion.
america does believe in free things, except most of it is war.
free education in america wouldve only cost $47 billion.
america does believe in free things, except most of it is war.
Non sequitur
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Unfortunately the united states are the world police. We don't like it but honestly who the hell else can be trusted to do it.
you dont follow the law which is what being a police officer sorta implies, and your not trusted.
look up the polls.
its so comforting hearing trump and kim jong
talk about nuking each other on the daily.
It will be fine
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Don't kid yourself, we like it just fine. It's why free trade works and we can get all those cheap goods from China.
america spent $80 billion more on defense (increased worldwide terrorism) but cant help out its own territory
Mark BermanVerified account @markberman 10h10 hours ago
Puerto Rico's governor pleads for help, saying: We're U.S. citizens and "we've been essentially devastated" http://wapo.st/2wQpVig
Mark BermanVerified account @markberman 10h10 hours ago
Puerto Rico's governor pleads for help, saying: We're U.S. citizens and "we've been essentially devastated" http://wapo.st/2wQpVig
the american government kills more of its own citizens than ISIS and it terrorizes millions world wide.
i give you: the vietnam war.
"Burns says he is grateful to “the entire Bank of America family” which “has long supported our country’s veterans”. Bank of America was a corporate prop to an invasion that killed perhaps as many as four million Vietnamese and ravaged and poisoned a once bountiful land. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed, and around the same number are estimated to have taken their own lives."
The Killing of History
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To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam”, the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse.
The “meaning” of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIA man on whom Graham Greene based his central character in The Quiet American.
Quoting Robert Taber’s The War of the Flea, Lansdale said, “There is only one means of defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert.”"
and some future american terrorism:
Nothing has changed. When Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on 19 September – a body established to spare humanity the “scourge of war” – he declared he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people. His audience gasped, but Trump’s language was not unusual.
His rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, had boasted she was prepared to “totally obliterate” Iran, a nation of more than 80 million people. This is the American Way; only the euphemisms are missing now.
i give you: the vietnam war.
"Burns says he is grateful to “the entire Bank of America family” which “has long supported our country’s veterans”. Bank of America was a corporate prop to an invasion that killed perhaps as many as four million Vietnamese and ravaged and poisoned a once bountiful land. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed, and around the same number are estimated to have taken their own lives."
The Killing of History
"
To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam”, the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse.
The “meaning” of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIA man on whom Graham Greene based his central character in The Quiet American.
Quoting Robert Taber’s The War of the Flea, Lansdale said, “There is only one means of defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert.”"
and some future american terrorism:
Nothing has changed. When Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on 19 September – a body established to spare humanity the “scourge of war” – he declared he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people. His audience gasped, but Trump’s language was not unusual.
His rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, had boasted she was prepared to “totally obliterate” Iran, a nation of more than 80 million people. This is the American Way; only the euphemisms are missing now.
Future
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Bro ... Hillary ...was never even a thought too help r country ....she is completely a POS
and so was trump and possibly every president up to carter.
terrorism when they do it. spreading democracy when we do it lol.
Banoo Bux @banoobux1 8m8 minutes ago
Replying to @MaxBlumenthal @AliAbunimah
No wall can keep the US and Israel from bombing the rest of the world
Banoo Bux @banoobux1 8m8 minutes ago
Replying to @MaxBlumenthal @AliAbunimah
No wall can keep the US and Israel from bombing the rest of the world
oldngray
nowhere special
Saudi women are allowed to vote.
Why would a monarchy be a democracy? Different systems. Neither one is necessarily better or worse.
ok 2015. you mustve bombed them into doing it
you dont think a democracy is better than a monarcy??
oldngray
nowhere special
ok 2015. you mustve bombed them into doing it
you dont think a democracy is better than a monarcy??
Democracy is often better but not always. The main problem with a monarchy if they might be good but also could potentially be very bad.
Neither system is inherently better or worse.
... don't you like your monarchy?
im not really familiar with it to tell you the truth.
the queen, and diana.ralph nader is more in favor of our parliamentary system than yours because he says yours doesnt get enough done. one of the issues in canada is we dont have proportional representation, so if america could please bomb the first past the post out of our country, id greatly appreciate that.
oldngray
nowhere special
im not really familiar with it to tell you the truth.
ralph nader is more in favor of our parliamentary system than yours because he says yours doesnt get enough done. one of the issues in canada is we dont have proportional representation, so if america could please bomb the first past the post out of our country, id greatly appreciate that.
So you know little about your own system of government but are an expert on everyone else's?
Got it.
heres a good article from a reputable journalist:
Women Beware: Saudi Arabia to Help Shape Global Standards for Female Equality
Saudi women are forced to keep their faces and bodies covered outside the home. (Tribes of the World / CC BY-SA 2.0)
By Medea Benjamin
Saudi women are forced to keep their faces and bodies covered outside the home. (Tribes of the World / CC BY-SA 2.0)
It’s hard to sink to a greater depth of hypocrisy than voting Saudi Arabia onto a United Nations Commission charged with promoting women’s equality and empowerment. And yet, on April 23, that is precisely what the U.N. Economic and Social Council did. Of the 54 countries on the council, 47 of them agreed to add Saudi Arabia to a four-year term on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
How did the United States ambassador to the U.N. and the democratic champions of Europe vote? The ballot was secret, and is it any wonder that the U.N. representatives refuse to reveal their votes? What is undeniable, however, is that the Saudis could not have received 47 votes without support from the Western democracies.
The Saudi regime is notorious for its abysmal treatment of women. Outside the home, women are forced to wear an abaya, a loose-fitting black cloak that conceals the shape of their bodies, and a hijab, or headscarf, to cover their hair. The fundamentalist dress code is enforced by zealous religious police who fine and beat women who dare to violate the code. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving, a practice that severely limits women’s independence and autonomy.
Saudi Arabia is unquestionably the most gender-segregated society in the world. The government enforces sex segregation in virtually all workplaces except hospitals, and fines businesses that fail to comply. In food outlets, including U.S. chains such as McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken, all lines and eating areas are separated to keep unrelated men and women apart. The men’s section is usually the airy, front section, while the women and children are relegated to the back, shielded from public view. The majority of public buildings have separate entrances for men and women. Some even ban women from entering.
The most oppressive aspect of life for Saudi women is the strict guardianship system. This system requires every female, from birth to death, to have a male guardian who controls her ability to travel, study, work, marry or even seek certain forms of medical attention.
you bet. i knew enough not to vote for conservative harper, liberal trudeau, or any of the corrupt parties which ran in my province and had the bar so low.
i donate alot to the revolution, and i go out to protest.
so apparently i know better than i dunno 99% of hte population.
hedges calls the saudis an autocracy:
An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection). Absolute monarchy (such as Saudi Arabia) and dictatorship (such as North Korea) are the main historical forms of autocracy. In very early times, the term "autocrat" was coined as a favorable feature of the ruler, having some connection to the concept of "lack of conflicts of interests". Wikipedia
teleSUR English @telesurenglish 13m13 minutes ago
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