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by binarray2000 7y ago
I wasn't precise, I am sorry: I get it that it was/is used for the support of US forces. I am interested in how the US can put a military base on a piece of land that in not so distant past (ten years prior to 9/11) was part
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by binarray2000 7y ago
Honest question (since it is essential for any further discussion and the article says nothing about it): Why the USA has to be in Uzbekistan?
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by binarray2000 7y ago
Are concentration camps (black sites, Guantanamo...) the reason why companies have left the USA?
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How NeoCon Billionaire Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel(mintpressnews.com)
1 points by binarray2000 7y ago|0 comments
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by binarray2000 7y ago
The Guardian also saw an increase of their circulation - in a dying industry - during the time when they've published WikiLeaks and Snowden documents. Which translates into an increase of ad spending and consequently revenue.
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by binarray2000 7y ago
(1) Even according to Wikipedia: "The Etruscans called themselves Rasenna, which was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna(...)" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization (2) Again, even according to Wikip
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by binarray2000 8y ago
USA has troops in European countries (and elsewhere) not to protect them, but to have (1) political, military, intelligence and economic influence there, (2) to use those countries as a launchpad to threaten (and eventually easier attack) c
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by binarray2000 8y ago
Well, it is not only the "Christian" "Democratic" Union that is attacking on freedom in Germany, "Social" "Democrats" are in a Grand coalition with them (for the uninformed: "Grand coalition&quot
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by binarray2000 8y ago
> You can, actually, especially if you aren't the president of that country, and I'm fairly confident none of us are. Following your logic: It would have been OK for morally bankrupt administrators of Nazi concentration camps t
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by binarray2000 8y ago
Why? Because, you cannot criticize others for crimes you are committing at much, much larger scale. All roads have to lead to the USA because the US meddles into affairs of other countries, it has numerous military and intelligence installa
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by binarray2000 8y ago
We weren't talking about "human rights issues" either, yet OP started talking about it. And when the OP moved the discussion in the other direction, one must also look at the track record of the USA in that particular area.
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by binarray2000 8y ago
Due to simplicity Russian tanks were also cheaper and easier ti build. Which is why they outnumbered the Germans.
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by binarray2000 8y ago
From a man who knew, what he's talking about, George F. Kennan: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, un
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The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data(eff.org)
3 points by binarray2000 8y ago|0 comments
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by binarray2000 8y ago
For anyone wondering, why the US oligarchy is so thirsty for war, I'll quote a man who knew what he talked about, George F. Kennan: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-indus
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by binarray2000 8y ago
USA, in most cases, doesn't have "an lucky, unfair hand" but it uses its muscles (political, economic, intelligence, military pressure) to force other countries to submit to US interests. Yes, it is normal that every country
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by binarray2000 8y ago
> Each country has a duty to protect its own interests; they also have a duty to promote and support its own intersts There are very few countries on the Earth that can withstand the pressure (political, economic, intelligence, military)
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by binarray2000 8y ago
USA carries out mass surveillance (dragnet). It spies not on special foreign targets of interest but on every human being using electronic communications on this planet. Which means that only those who use smoke signals and pigeons have the
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by binarray2000 8y ago
Indeed, foreign countries do block the US tech in sensitive areas. For example, Russia. Alleged partners (major EU and NATO members) do not, and they get spied on. Also, in the case of USG we do not presume anymore, we know for a fact that
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by binarray2000 8y ago
When US companies sell their phones and other electronic devices around the globe under the guise of free trade, that is OK. The world has to accept it. Even thou USG and its intelligence agencies have a proven track record of tampering the
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by binarray2000 9y ago
> If the demand for drug fighting just lost 90% of it's target, why do we need so many drug fighters? In terms of a real war, if an army just decimated 90% of it's enemy, it's time to send some troops back home. Well, thos
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by binarray2000 9y ago
"Uses" and "owns" are two different verbs. Around 20 countries own DU ammo. But, US is the only one that uses it.
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by binarray2000 9y ago
Thank you for the honest answer. Much appreciated! (And upvoted!)
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by binarray2000 9y ago
That is exactly my point. The link dade_ has posted has interesting new and interesting details on that. First sentence under "Dutch East Indies and the war in the Far East" heading is telling: > On December 8, 1941, the Neth
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by binarray2000 9y ago
Unfortunately, military use of radioactive elements doesn't stop at bombs. Today's use of depleted uranium - because of its elusiveness - is in some sense worse than the use of atomic/hydrogen bombs. (BTW, only USA uses DU!)
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by binarray2000 9y ago
Thank you for this honest post. When I read it I cannot help but think of how your grandfather fought thousands and thousands of kilometers away from his home (Japan, South Africa, Indonesia). In places that have never threatened him, his f
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by binarray2000 9y ago
I wonder, if USIC (US intelligence community) has used billionaires in the 1970s to cover up their secret operations, if they do it today?
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Salon to ad blockers: Can we use your browser to mine cryptocurrency?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by binarray2000 9y ago|0 comments
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by binarray2000 9y ago
Why am I not surprised? (1) You are a German. (2) You are advocating for German imperial interests. (3) "Drang nach Osten" (und Süden) is alive and kicking! Thus, if anyone interferes with that by quoting facts they are "cons
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by binarray2000 9y ago
It is ironic that a country, which reunited after tearing a wall between its people in 1989, had a major role in breaking an almost neighboring country apart, taking part in its destruction and (subsequently) raising walls between people. I

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