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This sounds like neither TEPCO nor NISA had the credentials or the qualifications to hold such…
Posted in: TEPCO planned review of tsunami risk, but too late
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Duh! P*ss off half the Muslim world, and they send you Christmas cards? OF COURSE they'll come back to bite you in the rear. Americans would do likewise, and be hailed as heroes. So too the Yemenis. REALLY hard to take, isn't it? Go Home!
Posted in: Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen
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LIBERTAS
Course he did. All men and women are not equal. Just American men and women.
Posted in: Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting in Baghdad
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LIBERTAS
If he had been a US service wo/man who had infiltrated an enemy occupying base, the word used would be "hero". Parades, medals and flag draped casket. That's what he was to the Afghanis. Hard to take, isn't it? Go home!
Posted in: Suicide bomber was invited onto base in Afghanistan
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LIBERTAS
Well, depression is one of the number one killers/suicide causes in Finland. Lack of winter light. Add loneliness, a touch of alcohol and freezing temperatures, and I wonder how long it would take even well balanced people to go off track? Guns are the irrelevant item here. Japan has more attacks like this with kitchen knives. (Check the stats before you knee-jerk and fire back, please!)
Posted in: Gunman kills 5, then himself, in Finland
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LIBERTAS
Afghanistan: Where Empires go to die. Slowly, painfully and very publicly. Anyone learn any lessons from this yet? Thought not.
Posted in: 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians killed in attacks in Afghanistan
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LIBERTAS
Well, Mr. O has just declared war on Yemen. He should read this first: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24292.htm It's entitled, "Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History." Fairly accurate I thought. Probably applies to geography too.
If he thought Iraq & Af-Pak was bad, he ain't seen nuthin' yet!
Posted in: Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout
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LIBERTAS
See the story above about the yet unformed (?) DNA centre! Will they find this guy's? Doubt it.
Posted in: Man robs dry cleaner of Y70,000; gets away on bicycle
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LIBERTAS
That's right, Dickster. From the mouth of the greatest war criminals since George W. Bush and Ehud Olmert.
Posted in: White House hits back at Cheney criticism
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LIBERTAS
LIBERTARIAN, if you don't mind.
Posted in: Obama vows to use every element of power to thwart terrorists
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LIBERTAS
Firstly, he's not MY president. Secondly, so far anyhow, his administration has proven to be worse than Bush's. Bush was dumber than a bag of hammers. Obama's staff are deliberately and knowingly deconstructing the Constitution and the established social order, with nefarious intent. I'm a big fan of Jefferson, trade with all and entangling alliances with none.
Posted in: Obama vows to use every element of power to thwart terrorists
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LIBERTAS
Suggestions for you Mr. O: (1) Stop messing with other peoples' countries. (2) Stop drone raids which kill innocents. (3) Stop the expansion of empire; take your troops home. Stay there. (4) Pay your bills and have America live within its means. (5) Apply the law to everyone. "All men are born equal" means just that. A L L. And, (6) for now anyhow. Withdraw all support for your fictitious friends in Israel. Look where they've got you down to now: A chump!
Even doing just (1) or (6) above and you'll be reducing terror threats to US interests almost instantaneously. Happy New Year Mr. O!
Posted in: Obama vows to use every element of power to thwart terrorists
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LIBERTAS
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Given the above statements, that the police were not using firearms, and that the video circulating cannot be verified, it is probably wise to assume that we are being fed a line, by the usual suspects, you know: WMD, Mushroom Clouds, 45 minutes to Armageddon etc. etc. Typical Tel Aviv & Langley "Booga Booga!" And even if both were true, it is a domestic issue, none of our business.. It's the Iranians' problem. Let the Iranians sort it out their own way. Look how well Eye-Rak was liberated!
Posted in: At least 5 Iranian protesters reported killed
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LIBERTAS
Desperation on the cusp of madness to slouch ever closer to a war with Iran, based as usual, on a pack of lies.
Posted in: N Korea weapons smugglers leave trail around world
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LIBERTAS
That would be giving up liberty for supposed security, and then we'd deserve neither, to paraphrase Ben Franklin. You think Israeli Airlines are that secure? Paranoid maybe, but secure? No more or less than any when it comes to this kind of thing. You're also confusing democracy in Europe with what passes for democracy in both the US and Israel.
Short of flying naked, more effective security checks are obviously needed. Amsterdam, apparently, had the latest of full-sized x-ray machines, but they missed whatever this loonie was carrying. That is where things fell apart. Let's not condemn the entire planet to USDHS norms because of a machine failure. Especially when the whole thing was a non-event.
Posted in: Nigerian man sets off explosive device on plane landing in Detroit
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LIBERTAS
Let me offer the writings on this topic by Jewish writer Gilad Atzmon:
Hardly the voice of an anti-semitic, is it? After all, the original Semites are the Palestinians! It begs the obvious question.
Posted in: Polish police find stolen Auschwitz gate sign cut into 3 pieces
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LIBERTAS
Folks, the US Government isn't even being clever here.
Iran denies grabbing an oil well.
Irag denies that Iran grabbed an oil well.
Iran is way too smart to risk war over a single oil well when Iran already has more oil than it can refine.
This is Iraq's "Yellow cake" all over again.
It looks like the US is planning to start the invasion of Iran from inside Iraq, a new Iran/Iraq war, built on a fiction of a stolen oil well.
I wonder what will the pro-war jingo be,
"Remember the oil derrick!"
"Better tan than Iran."
"Oil profits or death!"
On a more serious note, a US invasion of Iran will kick off WW3. We will all find ourselves in the crossfire of a war with Russia and China, and they really DO have nuclear weapons and the delivery systems to use them.
Posted in: Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran
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LIBERTAS
That quote, like the vacant stream of unconsciousness in the form of questions would seem to indicate zero knowledge of the topic at hand. Far from unraveling the country is slowly closing ranks against oppressors from outside. Stomp on the tiger's tail, I dare you!
Posted in: Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border
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LIBERTAS
A contract is only as good as its enforceability. In this case, none.
Posted in: Obama brokers climate deal, but poorer countries don't like it
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LIBERTAS
This is why it's a "disputed border" and why "Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law."
Posted in: Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border
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LIBERTAS
These fundamentalist "Pro-Life Hypocrites" don't think twice about signing off on mass murder elsewhere. Just wait until it's THEIR secretary/mistress, daughter or niece who needs an abortion, and that's when the "exceptions" will start to apply. The rules only apply to other people.
Posted in: Holdout senator rejects abortion compromise