Category Archives: war

#iranelection

June 17, 2009 – 20:41

I’ve been watching the internet concerning the Iranian elections lately and I have to say that the information being delivered over the net is far more interesting than what traditional media has to offer, plus it’s a lot faster too. A few things are quite interesting about this whole thing from an geek point of [...]

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war ain't cheap

March 13, 2008 – 19:44

Photo by SGT Buttler, cc-licensed 3 trillion dollar. That’s what the war on terror has cost the US of A until today. I can’t even imagine how much that is, but if nobel prize winner Joseph Sitglitz says so, I bet he ain’t bullshitting. Check the link and google news for the details but you [...]

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life sucks and then you die

July 5, 2006 – 22:36

No this is not the typical teen angst negativist post you might be expecting, cause I’m way passed that teen stage and heading strong for that mid-life crisis we all love. This post is more of a counter reaction to those American dream-like, “be all you can be”, yoga-crap posts like this Be a dreamer [...]

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nuclear bunker buster loophole

May 10, 2006 – 20:09

If there’s one thing thats a scary development in the evolution of the US army it’s the fact that certain nuclear weapons -the nuclear bunker busters- have now become so called conventional weapons. This means these bombs can be deployed by any 4 star general as he sees fit, without having to go through the [...]

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bowling for columbine

May 18, 2005 – 10:09

I know it’s kinda late, but I saw Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine this weekend and even though a two hour documentary sounded like a boring idea to me at first it turned out to be quite excellent… which was sorta to what people had been telling me about it… The most interesting part of [...]

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