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Re: Your country sucks ass

Post by rainbow » Thu Feb 10, 2022 4:59 am

laklak wrote:
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Mswati III just bought himself a new jet, an Airbus 340. Reports say his total expenditure for the jet, refurbishment, and a new hanger is E2.7 billion, appx. $180 million. This motherfucker has a death wish and I certainly hope the citizens of Swaziland grant him that, preferably publicly, on a guillotine. I know a decent carpenter who can knock together a tumbrel cart. What a fucking asshole.

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It's not far from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:47 am

Cowards. In Scotland the Chieftan's strangler would dispatch them with dignity.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:33 pm

strangler? I thought you Scots preferred the ol' Maiden or other public spectacles of it.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Feb 13, 2022 11:10 am

What's going on in the country of Africa? Image
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Post by laklak » Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:27 pm

How can they have different governments in one country?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by JimC » Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:08 pm

"US-trained officers" does not mean "a growing US military presence in Africa". Presumably they are ex-US military who have taken the lucrative mercenary route...
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Post by rainbow » Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:26 pm

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How can they have different governments in one country?
It is the Nambian Empire.
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Post by Hermit » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:33 am

JimC wrote:
Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:08 pm
"US-trained officers" does not mean "a growing US military presence in Africa". Presumably they are ex-US military who have taken the lucrative mercenary route...
The US is known for contracting its more questionable military activities out to mercenaries. Remember Blackwater? One of the first contracts, worth $488 million, was helping the US forces out in Afghanistan, mainly doing jobs the official army could not afford to be seen doing.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:43 am

Also for taking budding militarists under its wing. See the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas. In this instance, 'US trained' appears to be something along those lines.
Ouagadougou’s new leader, Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, took part in many United States led AFRICOM (Africa Command) exercises and an American sponsored military intelligence course.

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Post by Hermit » Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:12 am

Australia sucks arse big time on the environmental front, and it is not solely down to the conservative coalition currently in government. During the last election campaign the Labor party could not bring itself to tell Adani, and the electorate, that the company has no future here if it wins the election. Adani has a coal mining project in the works in Queensland. Although it had to scale it down, it is still huge. It now plans to produce 10 million tonnes of coal per year. According to the environmental impact statement, the mine was expected to produce 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, based on a 60-year lifespan. Adani also needs 12.5 billion litres of water per year to wash the coal, which will drop the water table by several metres. Goodbye, artesian wells. So far it has lost two cases regarding its planned water consumption brought to court by conservationists, but it is currently having another go at getting it approved. The conservative government is doing everything it can to oblige.

Labor? :crickets:

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And only predicted to create a couple of hundred jobs.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:10 am

But less nagging from the billionaire media and an awful lot of donations.
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Re: Your country sucks ass

Post by JimC » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:25 am

Hermit wrote:
Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:12 am
Australia sucks arse big time on the environmental front, and it is not solely down to the conservative coalition currently in government. During the last election campaign the Labor party could not bring itself to tell Adani, and the electorate, that the company has no future here if it wins the election. Adani has a coal mining project in the works in Queensland. Although it had to scale it down, it is still huge. It now plans to produce 10 million tonnes of coal per year. According to the environmental impact statement, the mine was expected to produce 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, based on a 60-year lifespan. Adani also needs 12.5 billion litres of water per year to wash the coal, which will drop the water table by several metres. Goodbye, artesian wells. So far it has lost two cases regarding its planned water consumption brought to court by conservationists, but it is currently having another go at getting it approved. The conservative government is doing everything it can to oblige.

Labor? :crickets:

Fucking useless, hypocritical arseholes.
Additionally, it is a state Labor government that is assisting the Adani scum...
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Re: Your country sucks ass

Post by JimC » Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:27 am

Hermit wrote:
Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:33 am
JimC wrote:
Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:08 pm
"US-trained officers" does not mean "a growing US military presence in Africa". Presumably they are ex-US military who have taken the lucrative mercenary route...
The US is known for contracting its more questionable military activities out to mercenaries. Remember Blackwater? One of the first contracts, worth $488 million, was helping the US forces out in Afghanistan, mainly doing jobs the official army could not afford to be seen doing.
The Blackwater thing (egregious as it was) was within countries that the US military was also engaged. Without ruling it out, I have not read of any suggestion of US government policy in Africa being assisted by mercenaries...
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