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Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War - By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
So my last lesson is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to figure out how to do this sort of thing better, because we're never going to do it well and it will rarely be vital to our overall security. Instead, we ought to work harder on developing an approach to the world that minimizes the risk of getting ourselves into this kind of war again.
iraq  war  lessons  usa  foreignpolicy 
9 weeks ago by sunpig
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Anyone who wants to know what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about need only look at the way Bank of America does business. It comes down to this: These guys are some of the very biggest assholes on Earth. They lie, cheat and steal as reflexively as addicts, they laugh at people who are suffering and don't have money, they pay themselves huge salaries with money stolen from old people and taxpayers – and on top of it all, they completely suck at banking. And yet the state won't let them go out of business, no matter how much they deserve it, and it won't slap them in jail, no matter what crimes they commit. That makes them not bankers or capitalists, but a class of person that was never supposed to exist in America: royalty.
banking  finance  fraud  government  royalty  bankofamerica  bofa  usa  matttaibbi  rollingstone  essay 
9 weeks ago by sunpig
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
I’m embarrassed by the patents I filed, but I’ve learned from my mistake. I’ll never file a software patent again, and I urge you to do the same.
andybaio  waxpancake  wired  patent  yahoo  facebook  attack  weapon  software  madness  usa  law  legal  litigation  copyright  protection  invention  creativity  from twitter
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics - The Washington Post
@brad_frost Get a "Don't euthanize me, bro!" bracelet as soon as you arrive! Saved my ass last time I saw my dentist!
santorum  politics  madness  usa  netherlands  holland  health  euthanasia  bracelet  statistics  fake  healthcare 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Newspapers Are America's Fastest-Shrinking Industry - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
LinkedIn and the Council of Economic Advisors mapped the fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking industries since 2007, the year the Great Recession started. Renewables are at the top and newspapers are at the bottom.
theatlantic  newspaper  print  news  media  advertising  industry  usa 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Paddy, Not Patty
It's Paddy, not Patty. Ever.
Saint Patrick's Day? Grand.
Paddy's Day? Sure, dead-on.
St. Pat's? Aye, if ye must.
St. Patty? No, ye goat!
paddy  patty  patrick  stpatrick  ireland  irish  mistake  usa  culture  funny  singleservingsite 
11 weeks ago by sunpig
New Statesman - A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
John Limbert, a former member of the Obama administration, has described US diplomacy on Iran as follows: "Never walk through an open door. Instead, bang your head against a wall. Second, never say 'yes' to anything the other side proposes. Doing so will make you look weak."
iran  usa  america  geopolitics  middleeast  uranium  nuclear  power 
12 weeks ago by sunpig
Android and iOS Now Control Over 80% of Smartphone Sales in U.S. - Mac Rumors
RT @grigs: Android and iOS Now Control Over 80% of Smartphone Sales in U.S.
mobile  smartphone  sales  us  market  usa  android  ios  iphone  rin  blackberry 
december 2011 by sunpig
Income Breaks, 2010
RT @ikirigin: Do you actually know how much income it takes to get into the top 1%? I didn't, so I looked it up:
income  tax  band  usa  1%  99%  percentile 
october 2011 by sunpig
Mexico and the Failed State Revisited | STRATFOR
"From Mexico’s point of view, interrupting the flow of drugs to the United States is not clearly in the national interest or in that of the economic elite. Observers often dwell on the warfare between smuggling organizations in the northern borderland but rarely on the flow of American money into Mexico. Certainly, that money could corrupt the Mexican state, but it also behaves as money does. It is accumulated and invested, where it generates wealth and jobs. "
mexico  stratfor  georgefriedman  politics  economics  drugs  warondrugs  capital  cartel  usa 
april 2010 by sunpig

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