JackLuis
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Memorial Day
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BotanyBoy
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No one in america gives a flying fuck...it's BBQ and beer day.
As long as they don't have to look at it the war is going on FOREVER because contractors need paychecks.
Flood all media with it 100% until it's over? Cut people off from the Kardashians and Kanye West?? Omfg....We would have a full extraction formulated and executed in 18 fucking hours.
As long as they don't have to look at it the war is going on FOREVER because contractors need paychecks.
Flood all media with it 100% until it's over? Cut people off from the Kardashians and Kanye West?? Omfg....We would have a full extraction formulated and executed in 18 fucking hours.
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In the First and Second World Wars, the civilian population of the UK was liable to attack from the air and by sea.
Part of my family lost their home to a Zeppelin-dropped bomb in 1915; some of my wife's family were wounded by German naval shelling of the North East Coast; another part lost their home during the 1940 Blitz on London. I lost a friend to the IRA bombing campaign. I was responsible for security in some high-risk buildings during that IRA campaign. Some of my extended family lost friends (of several nationalities) in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
That makes perception of war very different.
Our local war memorials show people who died in the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, the Suez campaign, The Falklands, Iraq 1 and 2 and Afghanistan, and other minor events such as insurgency in Aden. Their families still remember them.
Part of my family lost their home to a Zeppelin-dropped bomb in 1915; some of my wife's family were wounded by German naval shelling of the North East Coast; another part lost their home during the 1940 Blitz on London. I lost a friend to the IRA bombing campaign. I was responsible for security in some high-risk buildings during that IRA campaign. Some of my extended family lost friends (of several nationalities) in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
That makes perception of war very different.
Our local war memorials show people who died in the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, the Suez campaign, The Falklands, Iraq 1 and 2 and Afghanistan, and other minor events such as insurgency in Aden. Their families still remember them.
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oggbashan
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We Brits have been as warlike:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html
British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg.
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.
A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.
The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British.
Among this select group of nations are far-off destinations such as Guatemala, Tajikistan and the Marshall Islands, as well some slightly closer to home, such as Luxembourg.
List of wars involving Britain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom
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Wow. Almost 90%
MrRandyWatson
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Are you familiar with the expression "bread and circuses"? Substitute "Big Macs and iPhones" and you have modern America.
BotanyBoy
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Oh for sure......
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Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton’s State Department…
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Nah, nothing shady here.
Via IBT:
Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States’ oil-rich ally in the Middle East.
Israeli officials were agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region’s fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.
But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At a press conference in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared that the deal had been “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”
These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing — the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 — contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.
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Nah, nothing shady here.
Via IBT:
Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States’ oil-rich ally in the Middle East.
Israeli officials were agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region’s fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.
But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At a press conference in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared that the deal had been “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”
These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing — the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 — contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.
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a better pic....MAY THE OP STARTER BE EXTERMINATED!!!! ASAP
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/27/13/291847E600000578-3099131-Poignant_This_giant_bird_of_prey_was_photographed_as_it_perched_-a-14_1432728028173.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/27/13/291847E600000578-3099131-Poignant_This_giant_bird_of_prey_was_photographed_as_it_perched_-a-14_1432728028173.jpg
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^^ Votes regularly to de-fund the VA, cut veterans, survivors families and soldiers pay/programs/benefits......prob has yellow ribbon bumper sticker.
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100 years, ago
12 June 2015
2,000 brave souls who scrawled their monikers on the walls would have been killed or injured on the front-line of the Somme just a few miles away. It was one of the deadliest battles of the whole war, with one million men killed or wounded, the British and Canadians suffering 57, 470 casualties on the first day - July 1, 1916 - alone.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/haunting-world-war-graffiti-found-9445377
12 June 2015
2,000 brave souls who scrawled their monikers on the walls would have been killed or injured on the front-line of the Somme just a few miles away. It was one of the deadliest battles of the whole war, with one million men killed or wounded, the British and Canadians suffering 57, 470 casualties on the first day - July 1, 1916 - alone.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/haunting-world-war-graffiti-found-9445377
