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blah28722

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« on: August 21, 2009, 08:53:34 am »
Taiwan, a small country off the cost of China (governed by the Government that was driven out of China some sixty, seventy years ago), is one of the top weapons importers in the world (within the top three, iirc).

We get them from the US. There's tanks, missiles, and gun storage bunkers all over the small island country.
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2009, 09:03:05 am »
Lets see...
A person a day dies on our states roads. News rarely mentions that.
thousands a day die from starvation in third world countries. News rarely mentions that.
People get robbed, raped and murdered. News rarely mentions that.

But they know all about hollywoods latest scandal, "how the big banks are stealing your money" and "the tenants/neighbours/landlords/council from hell being bad to the local battler"...
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2009, 10:50:24 am »
There's a lot of stuff news doesn't mention. Rape and murder is a favorite, though.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2009, 03:37:28 pm »
Switzerland has long enabled criminals by giving them a place to raise nine kinds of fiscal heck. More on that here.

Conservative America hushes the construction of the first dirty bomb on U.S. soil by a rich white businessman. More on that here.

Microsoft manages to get their say in an EU Strategy Paper that looks at open source development. More on that here.

Two Kenyan civil rights activists shot in the head while involved looking into extrajudicial killing by the Kenyan police force. More on that here.

Germany has some problems regarding the freedom of information. More on that here.

Patents prevent innovation in 911 services. More on that here.

Missouri gets in hot water over its views on political views. More on that here.

These all come from wikileaks.org. They've got a lot of other stories there, I just picked a few that caught my eye. I knew I had that bookmark for a reason.
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2009, 03:39:59 pm »
Quote from: sneakey pete on August 21, 2009, 09:03:05 am
People get robbed, raped and murdered. News rarely mentions that.

Come to America, that's all we report on.
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2009, 06:44:36 pm »
China is blocking stuff that could cause dissent on google under the front of blocking porn.
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« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2009, 06:50:37 pm »
Strife continues to suffocate in the solitude that he prefers?

That was a joke based off a song. Don't ask.



Let's see here, the People's Republic of China continues to be an authoritarian government running an oppressive country without freedom of religion, while continuing to make outrageous sums of money off of the Bastion of Freedom.


Idiot student congress kids in ND STILL think that the idea of abandoning all military bases is worth discussion.
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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2009, 06:54:40 pm »
China is just full of suck that is not covered by the news.
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« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2009, 06:58:18 pm »
Pay raised on politicans!-Common
Yeah...
NK on the verge of declaring war again!-Rare
WHAT THE!?
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« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2009, 08:00:56 pm »
Quote from: ein on August 21, 2009, 06:44:36 pm
China is blocking stuff that could cause dissent on google under the front of blocking porn.

They talk about that a lot on newspapers, actually. Not much on TV though.
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« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2009, 08:04:05 pm »
The child/prostitute-trafficking thing that is so rampant in my country.

The news never covers that.

Also, the pedophiles who come here.
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« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2009, 08:11:53 pm »
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Also, the pedophiles who come here.

My friends are not paedophiles!

Really!
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« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2009, 08:17:37 pm »
General Motor's Chevy Volt is essentially a publicity stunt to get attention and appear to be doing something about the problem of gasoline why not actually doing anything. The Chevy Volt is basically imaginary, which they freely admit to when not addressing the general public.

Meanwhile the Tesla Roadster is production ready and on the road.
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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2009, 08:20:16 pm »
Quote from: Davion on August 21, 2009, 03:39:59 pm
Quote from: sneakey pete on August 21, 2009, 09:03:05 am
People get robbed, raped and murdered. News rarely mentions that.
Come to America, that's all we report on.
Which America are you living in?  I've just been seeing health-debate articles that try to make Obama look evil.  Plus the usual celebrity trash.
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« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2009, 08:20:59 pm »
Does it fire Tesla bolts? Because if it doesn't, then I will be sorely disappointed.

My country used to have a problem with illegal logging. That problem has stopped, because all the logging that used to be illegal is now legal.

The part that the news doesn't talk about?

The former heads of some the logging companies are also the people who hand out the licenses, because they were elected to head the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources). That is... the most monumentally stupid decision our government has ever, EVER made.
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