Posts by David R
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disinformation
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to Tinakori,
Funny you should bring Iran up, as pragmatically, the US performing a 180 and cosying up to them and getting them actively involved in stabilising the region is the least bad of all the terrible options. As someone already mentioned, there are no clean hands here. Assuming we don't see Iran sponsored Shiite death squads again, that could work.
Of course, once this happens Saudi Arabia goes ballistic and Israel starts threatening to nuke everyone.
Foreign policy is hard :(
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Thanks for hipping me to Norman Jay, playing for free, no less!
Truly, Auckland is blessed :)
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Jesse Easton,
Soylent Brown
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The 30mm autocannons on the Apache are not "precision" weapons so shooting them anywhere near civilians is asking for them to die. Watch enough of the garish gun camera footage and you'll agree. The dispersion on the bursts can be rather large.
Anyway, we shouldn't be focusing on that. We should perhaps be focusing on why these people are being killed in our name. Perhaps it was an accident, but civilians deaths are the inevitable result of war and whether the Americans did it,whether we did it is besides the point.
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Call me simple but I believe profit trumps idealogy everytime.
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I'm pretty distraught that Ghost Jobs didnt get in....
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to James Butler,
so Ghost-Jobs as Paul mentioned, but with a capital J. Double whammy.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Richard Grevers,
Zizek ( !!! ) had something to say about that
http://occupywallst.org/article/today-liberty-plaza-had-visit-slavoj-zizek/
Zizek owns, eternally. -
Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Felix Marwick,
I usually just treat them with respect as I would any other person and tell them I am not interested.
Did I do the abusing evangelicals story right?