Sorry USA, you don't get an "arab spring"

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gevorg

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Arab springs "happen" in weak/chaotic countries. In a major power like USA, there is very little (if any) chance of successful revolt.



 

werepossum

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would your attitude change if it was proved that every election has been systematically "rigged" since about the Kennedy era? what if you furthermore found out that 911 was indeed a false flag carried out by our own supposed "government."

just a hypothetical.

i'll tell you what changed it for me, when i learned how the federal reserve worked, and then i saw how our media was spinning the issue about our "deficit."

after i had learned about how the fed worked, and i realized that in fact, our debt, gives our money it's intrinsic value, and thus, our deficit actually works IN OUR advantage... but the conservative main stream media was pushing this idea that we needed to cut spending, and lower our deficit..... it seemed utterly.... backhanded, and actually an insult to the American people's intelligence.

that's when it all made sense to me why we DO have the largest, most advanced, military in the world... and why countries who are not trading with the dollar, are in fact our enemies... our military's main purpose is to destabilize working economys, destroy the infrastructure (usually oil or gas) that allows their economys to work without the dollar... and then to protect the global energy companies, while they rebuild said infrastructure, thus, putting said infrastructure under the control of the banks...

and how "foreign aid," is actually nothing more than a control mechanism as well...because of the way the fed and the IMF work, the aid can never actually be repaid, and by default, we gain control of the country... all with the dollar, and the federal reserve banking system.

after i learned all of this, it also became clear to me why China, is allowed to own our debt, and then....it became utterly clear why North Korea is the way they are, and why Israel is the way it is. and then i had this crazy idea, that maybe, just maybe....NK is actually, the last "free" country. the last not global corp/banking cartel controlled company., you have to look at the LONG CON here.

it's not moral.
I don't know what you're smoking, but I hope it's not soon legalized.

Those are police? I knew they had some new toys but they look like combat soldiers.
Hard to tell the difference anymore.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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You might want to read about the revolutionary war and why it was fought


A genuine deposing of the government is not possible today. The Arab Spring was possible because their governments were weak even if cruel. Ours is virtually indestructible for a whole host of reasons. What we have is what you get and collectively we inscribe "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" on our fate.
 

doubledeluxe

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Eventually something has to break. Or do you think it's just inevitable that the USA becomes a 3rd world country that has a high GDP?
 

rommelrommel

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Don't remember all the details, but the original enemy was going to be China. Somehow, Red China used some kind of pressure and the movie makers changed the enemy to NK.

A little more realistic with them invading than NK. Not much more though, being that their navy would be obliterated long before reaching the West Coast.

FYI, It was originally China. Before release the studio decided making the Chinese the villains might hurt the box office in China so they reworked the finished film and made North Korea the bad guys.

-KeithP

I remember hearing something about that, at least China is semi plausible as they have a working airforce, and access to a lot of commercial airlines and ships. North Korea probably doesn't have the fuel or food to attack South Korea successfully.
 

zanejohnson

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i really think the protests will continue to grow in size and destructiveness until they take over a police station, or other gov buildings in the downtowns of one of these cities,.... it may not be in this string of protests, we may have to wait on a few more kids to be murdered in cold blood before the people get really pissed. you can see by their body language they aren't quite pissed enough yet, still smiling while protesting.. because they are thinking these protests are going to actually help, they think police are going to change the way they respond to these types of situations...

what they dont know is that these cops are just ITCHING to use all there new military toys.. they dont realize that when the crowd DOES turn. it's going to get ugly quick. someone's gonna shoot a riot cop in the face, or a riot cop is going to beat on a woman protesting, and the crowd is just going to rush them. i give it 2 years.
 

Blanky

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There are definitely too many whiners in the West. We in the US, canada, Western Europe, and a handful of other nations at the most, do have it good. Most of us have plenty of food, security, decent healthcare.

It is just a facet of human nature to complain though, and it is still important to keep an eye on cancers and remove them before they spread.
 

unokitty

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In Ferguson, police SWAT Teams, machine guns, and armoured vehicles didn't stop the riots... And they didn't keep the peace...

What they did was promote the idea that the police are at war. And that the citizens are the enemy...

Tell me again, what was the name of that group that was supposed to 'protect and serve' the citizens?

Uno
 
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zanejohnson

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There are definitely too many whiners in the West. We in the US, canada, Western Europe, and a handful of other nations at the most, do have it good. Most of us have plenty of food, security, decent healthcare.

It is just a facet of human nature to complain though, and it is still important to keep an eye on cancers and remove them before they spread.

what are you talking about, i can drive 20 mins into the ghetto of my small town and find places where people have no power, no food, no healthcare options (besides the emergency room), no running water... and their is children living like that.

i can drive an hour into the real ghettos of DFW and it's way worse, hoards of homeless, drugs and gangs rampant, people who will kill you over a 20 dollar bill.
 
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