Notable Quote
“This idea that what you love is often the opposite of what you want to be is a central paradox of masculinity.”
-Jack Donovan 7/29/13
The Empire Strikes Back
Death Star Online!
DARPA, the hideous acronym for the U.S. military’s premier doom science department, is well on it’s way to developing a submersible drone mother ship, an underwater aircraft carrier for the insect-size to model plane-size exploding gadgets that shall soon enable video game players to rule the world.
Number of nations in which the U.S. maintains military bases: 153
U.S. military bases worldwide: 900
U.S. bases on the island of Okinawa: 38 [Where do the locals live?]
U.S. troops in Okinawa commit how many more violent crimes than U.S. service personnel worldwide? The sad answer is four times normal.
The number of rapes and murders committed against Japanese citizens living on Okinawa by U.S service men stationed there, per month: 2
The number of U.S Marines required to rape a 12-year-old Japanese girl and still fulfill their social drinking commitments: 3
-source, Blowback by Chalmers Johnson, and Rt.com
The Body Count
The number of Iraqi civilians killed during the course of U.S. operations from 2004 thru 2012: 1 million
The number of ‘depicted’ deaths seen by an American child before adulthood: 8,000
-source, Culture In Decline.com
The number of slaves owned by the first president of the U.S.: 300
-source, Jacque Fresco
