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2011-03-04, 13:33 | Link #12282 |
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the Union or that he Detroit Auto company were ran by idiots who couldn't see the Forrest for the trees. The union have their share of fault in the big 3 almost going down but they weren't the ones driving the bus, that was the free corporate executives. Who regardless of the Auto Union would have made the same mistake.
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2011-03-04, 13:56 | Link #12283 |
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Aye.. *real* employee-owned businesses (not the "here's 1 share - you're an OWNER!! now shut up and keep doing this the stupid way"). They're statistically successful and they scare the hell out of plutocrats. My grandfather was part of one for the last 20 years of his life - they ran a special fuels cracking facility in the oil industry. Everyone in the company was an equal share partner. yeah there was internal drama - but none of this "fuck you I've got 99% you can fight each other over the bit of shit left, but off the clock, peasants".
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2011-03-04, 14:22 | Link #12284 |
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Libya has 'significant' stockpile of chemical weapons
"Libya has a "significant" stockpile of chemical weapons, developed during the
1980s, according to U.S. officials, but the U.S. also believes there is no evidence that he is prepared to use them against his own people. With the destruction of 3,500 aerial bombs in 2004, Gadhafi may not have the delivery systems needed. "We have no indication he is planning to use them against his population ... but he doesn't always make rational decisions," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity." See: http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...emical-weapons If Gadhafi decides to pull a Saddam, and gas his own people, this could get very ugly, very fast. |
2011-03-04, 21:04 | Link #12285 | |
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yes... a 4th front! here's where they at right now... South/Central Asia -> Afghanistan Middle East -> Iraq this should be officially a 3rd front, but no one from DC cares North America -> Mexico "Farmers and ranchers are being run off their own property by armed terrorists showing up and telling them they have to leave their land(!!!)" coming soon... North Africa -> Libya |
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2011-03-04, 23:41 | Link #12286 | |
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Why high-seas piracy is here to stay
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2011-03-05, 00:13 | Link #12287 | |
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1. hang the pirates and damn the human rights criticism. 2. allow the ships to carry guns. 3. make example of the villages that harbor pirate, burn them to the ground.
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2011-03-05, 00:16 | Link #12288 | |
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Talk about setting a good example. In Soviet Russia, the pirates don't hijack your boat, the boat hijacks and kills them!
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2011-03-05, 03:33 | Link #12290 |
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I'm still for setting up high price bounties on the pirates and/or setting up a system of privateers to hunt the pirates down for profit. Make it cost more to be a pirate than to hunt them down, or make the risk worth less than the rewards. Thus cutting the bottom out of the piracy market. (Privateers might even get creative with it and take out pirate strongholds for all we know).
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2011-03-05, 07:56 | Link #12292 |
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China internal security spending jumps past army budget
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNew...7222RA20110305
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2011-03-06, 09:38 | Link #12293 | |
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2011-03-06, 09:50 | Link #12294 |
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Well the firing of DShK HMGs have already sealed the fate of Libya. Though I wondered why the UKMOD decided to send their SAS troopers to talk to the rebels - they will be captured anyway.
If those 6 are going to fight their way out, it is going to be a three-way conflict. I wonder how are they going to get back home.
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2011-03-06, 10:47 | Link #12296 | |
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It would definitely be a failed escape, but approximately 300 rebels are going to die trying to put them down. And I mean outright kills, not subsequent death due to injury.
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2011-03-06, 11:26 | Link #12297 | |
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Someone from the Foreing Office or the SIS might have been a good compromise...
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2011-03-06, 11:32 | Link #12298 | |
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2011-03-06, 11:39 | Link #12299 | |
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Then again, these guys are trained to operate practically all the small arms in the world, so yeah.....they TECHNICALLY have enough gear to trip up the place (pun unintended).
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