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What a mess our military has made | Dan Plesch | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"Today, the idea that a political adversary might lay a military trap is incomprehensible to an ostensibly rational military establishment"
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al-Qaida probably lured the US into Afghanistan with the 9/11 attacks, envisaging that the resulting war with the Pashtun areas would enable them to repeat the empire-destroying victory over the Soviets.
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among the Arab diplomatic corps the idea is almost a given, while in the west it cannot even be discussed.
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Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape - War Room - Salon.com
Seymour Hersh: "those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
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those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.
Startups and Work: Europe vs the US
"Business-wise, I prefer the US. However, outside of that, there's a lot to be said for Europe. I also think that some of what's good about business in the US is coming to Europe, albeit slowly in some cases, in Europe. People my age here can see what's going on elsewhere, and try and copy what they like. A lot of what's good about Europe, though, might be more difficult to import into the US, especially the livability of the cities."
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Business-wise, I prefer the US. However, outside of that, there's a lot to be said for Europe. I also think that some of what's good about business in the US is coming to Europe, albeit slowly in some cases, in Europe. People my age here can see what's going on elsewhere, and try and copy what they like. A lot of what's good about Europe, though, might be more difficult to import into the US, especially the livability of the cities.
Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch
"all these two hour lunches over a bottle or two of great wine and general unwillingness to do whatever it takes to compete and win is the reason why all the big public Internet companies are U.S. based."
Keating's new world order
Excellent analysis of the shift of the global power balance, by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating
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66% of humanity lives in high income or high growth countries; up from 25% thirty years ago.
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We are currently living through one of those rare yet transforming events in history, a shift in the power in the world from West to East. For five hundred years Europe dominated the world, now for all its wealth and population it is drifting into relative decline.
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10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted
"Canada's system is not the same as the U.S. system. It's designed to deliver a somewhat different product [...]. But the end result is that the vast majority of Canadians get the vast majority of what they need the vast majority of the time."
gluttonous texting
"Rather than averaging a relatively conservative number of texts per month (like 200), gluttonous teen America is already on route to thousands of texts per month. They text like they IM, a practice mastered in middle school."
The Tasering of Andrew Meyer: Bush's America in a Nutshell
"The majority of the students who sat passively by while one of their own was tortured for speaking out represent the largely apathetic American populace."
20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States
Fact 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. Fact 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
Comment is free: Deficits do matter
"Why do persistent large trade deficits matter? The first reason concerns jobs. The current US economic recovery has been the weakest since the second world war, and this is significantly due to the trade deficit."
Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran
Frightening article defending the thesis that a US invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan may be inevitable.
Global System Rupture - Iran/USA - Release of global world crisis
LEAP/E2020 now estimates to over 80% the probability that the week of March 20-26, 2006 will be the beginning of the most significant political crisis the world has known since the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989
States Ranked by Total Taxes and Per Capita Amount: 2005
Total tax per capita: US $2,192, Vermont $3,600, Texas $1,434. Amazing.
Whiskey Bar: Mutually Assured Dementia
A nation that can live with the idea of launching a nuclear first strike isn’t likely to have much trouble with the rest of the program – particularly when its people, like their leader, are convinced they’ve been chosen to save the world.
Mapping religion in America (regionsofmind.blog-city.com)
Amazing set of maps showing how religious practice is distributed in the US. Looks like the Wild West is the least churchey part of America, with the lone exception of Utah's Mormons.
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