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‎”There are grounds for supporting or opposing the Iraq war, but the cost is utterly irrelevant to the economic catastrophe which this country has been plunged into in the last couple of years. Obama spent more than the entire seven year cost of the Iraq war in twenty minutes and nobody knows what he did [...]

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Posted 02 September 2010 † Roscoe § Iraq § Obama § economics § war ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

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The 20 (or whatever the correct number is) of dead terrorists from the flotilla ships are being proclaimed “innocent civilians.” They were neither innocent nor civilians. They were guilty terrorists. They opened fire on IDF soldiers, and attacked them with knives and pipes and other weapons. After two decades of pusillanimous pandering to such people [...]

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Posted 01 June 2010 † Roscoe § Islam § Israel § opinion § quote § war ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000. The rate of killing accelerates each month. And Washington covers its eyes like a kid at a scary movie. Well, the Mexican narco-insurgency, [...]

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Posted 03 May 2010 † Roscoe § Mexico § news § war ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

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Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China. The reason that the Google case is so significant is [...]

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Posted 19 January 2010 † Roscoe § China § quote § war ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

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Repeat after me, boys and girls: China is NOT our friend. China is NOT our friend. China is NOT our friend… … the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies. – ars technica From the recently released news report, Researchers identify command servers behind [...]

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Posted 14 January 2010 † Roscoe § China § security § war ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

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Demographic facts cannot be denied. And their implications should be taken with the utmost seriousness. A new study released Monday by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found that more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age are likely to find themselves unable to find women to marry come 2020. The reason? There just [...]

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Posted 13 January 2010 † Roscoe § China § quote § war ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,