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    Civil Rights What's happening in Iran

    With that amount of cash, has Iran become an ally of the USA.
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    Noteworthy Events - news events that don't need a unique thread

    Here is one for reflection. Arsenal midfielder from Ghana denied entry into Canada due to charges of a sexual nature on London, UK, USA had OK'd his visa for that county and he is now staying in Boston, MA...
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    Civil Rights What's happening in Iran

    The guy was stuck in an unimaginative loop. Why not use real telephone poles, or better yet used railway ties/ A thousand flaming missiles coming your way would freak out any enemy. ( And no they poles would not burn up on the way in, but charcoal up in the same manner as a heat shield )
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    Noteworthy Events - news events that don't need a unique thread

    Don't forget about the Olympics which also wants to take the money and run. Suck the host country and fans as much as they can, do not let small business participate, skewer the neighbourhood. Ever sonce they went to the "Official Sponsor of the ......" mentality, a lot of folk get left out...
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    Civil Rights Male Chauvinism and/or Racism in US History

    If a group possessing particular categorizations of race, ethnicity, or whatever used to separate that group as being distinct from others, allows discrimination of its members based upon a class structure of power and wealth, does that constitute bigotry? EX. Company A with owners of ethnicity...
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    Strange world these times are.
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    That is pretty much a summary of the western world give or take a few years here and there for each country, as the happenings of one influenced by cross over the others. As far as I know, the showing proof of sterilization for gender transition has waned, and something along the lines of...
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    Other Not content to air strike only Muslim religious leaders, Trump opens a second front in his religious war

    Scorched earth policy was the doctrine for a whole lot of wars throughout history. Until it became a gentleman's game to settle disputes with supposed rules of conduct. I don't see the just war doctrine as being anything to advocate unless to convince your side that it is necessary.
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    That is the big question. As is often said One's terrorist is the next person's freedom fighter. Nothing. The US has no desire to invade Canada You might instead want to ask that to our wonderful leader what he would do? At present, Canada's land mass serves as a northern buffer for the...
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    Not an absolute statement. Hamas generated more terrorists by willing to sacrifice their own population. Hamas embedded their fighters and war machine within the civilian infrastructure. There are no Hamas military bases known to have existed. that could have been easy targets. Promoting...
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    Noteworthy Events - news events that don't need a unique thread

    The US us also incorporating the Bombardier Global 5000/6000 series of aircraft with modifications into their fleet for specialized purpose. The aging Boeing E3 AWACS NATA fleet needed replacement. As the US withdrew from the project, the only replacement available came to be the SAAB AEW&C...
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    Enviroment Tobacco being phased out in the UK

    Canada has had regulatory smoking laws on tobacco for several decades. I do not see anything earth shattering coming out of the UK. For tobacco products - no sale to anyone under 18, no display of products on shelves, no differentiation between cigarette packages ( ie generic packaging ), no...
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    Because what she said is deemed offensive. I find it offensive and I do not live anywhere near . Considering some of the laws being contemplated being passed against hate crimes in some jurisdictions, remarks deemed offensive by a person, group, or government can and will be met with the full...
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    Those are the countries that 'documented' to some extent the procedures that resulted in sterilization so that some data could be obtained, even if not recorded at the time of surgery, so that it looks as if the practice was only evident in the western world.. In others, data is difficult to...
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    Defense What will the military-industrial complex look like in 10 or 20 years?

    @Grinkle -- I expect this trend, if it happens, shrinks the market for US made military hardware One reason for the US to move a little bit out of NATO of they do not get the cash returns to compensate for the expense of the bases on Europe.
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