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by nibepins 6y ago
That's a great question
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by nibepins 6y ago
About 10 minutes after this submission made to the top of HN's homepage, it disappeared from the homepage
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by nibepins 6y ago
They do that, it happens that "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are
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US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars(watson.brown.edu)
103 points by nibepins 6y ago|60 comments
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by nibepins 6y ago
Summary: - Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly - Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting - 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons
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The Filthy Hypocrisy of America’s “Clean” China-Free Internet(theintercept.com)
6 points by nibepins 6y ago|1 comments
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by nibepins 6y ago
"The Trump administration wants to keep other countries from weaponizing technology the way the U.S. and its allies already have."
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by nibepins 6y ago
One of the great things about the Corbett Report is that you don't have to believe it, you can just look at the sources because every source is referenced. The case in point over Google's Sergey Brin and the NSA comes from a Freed
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by nibepins 6y ago
"More details emerged from a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, which revealed that Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt were not only on a first name basis with then-NSA chief General Keith Alexander, but that Google was part of a “s