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Tyranny of business

lundi 17 octobre 2016 à 02:00

People who reject the business-supremacy treaties are not against "trade", they are against the tyranny of business.

Anti-Muslim militias

lundi 17 octobre 2016 à 02:00

Anti-Muslim terror-militias are rising in some US states.

Uranium shells

lundi 17 octobre 2016 à 02:00

The motive for Depleted (or Dirty) Uranium shells was to attack armored vehicles. Most of the time when A10 fighters fired them in the conquest of Iraq, they were aimed at cars and trucks.

This meant a lot of the fallout pollution was not even military useful: nonradioactive shells would have done just as well.

Posting this does not mean I think that Dirty Uranium are shells are legitimate at all. And would you want your army to pollute your country for millions of years in defending against an invasion?

Small nuclear reactors

lundi 17 octobre 2016 à 02:00

Are small nuclear reactors a good idea?

Not needing pumps, they could be inherently safer than the traditional designs. But that doesn't mean they can't have spectacular failures. It doesn't necessarily mean they can't melt down, for instance. The high-temperature liquid in a reactor tends to cause corrosion. Structure which is quite safe can alter under the influence of corrosion and become unsafe. There is no way to see where things have moved to.

In addition, making 10 little reactors instead of one big reactor increases the opportunities to build one wrong.

Cease-fire in Yemen

lundi 17 octobre 2016 à 02:00

The US calls for an immediate cease fire in Yemen.

Better late than never.

It was the US that kept the conflict going. When the US and Salafi Arabia intervened, the Houthis were rapidly defeating the previous government. If they had not intervened, the war could have been over more than a year ago. Iran is no friend of al-Qa'ida; the Houthis might have suppressed it there. And no one would be blaming the US for intervening.