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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

Invading and annexing the two neighboring countries that you’ve signed peace deals with seems like a really smart idea…
 
Jimjamesak said:
Invading and annexing the two neighboring countries that you’ve signed peace deals with seems like a really smart idea…
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Not to mention, those are the first two Arab countries Israel signed peace treaties with. Israel gave up the Sinai for Egypt's peace deal. He's probably pissed about that. But they did keep the West Bank from Jordan, so what else is he looking for? To actually declare war against one of the best armed Arab countries? (Yes, all rhetorical questions...)
 
Just do it!

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A farewell to arms? Hamas considers its options

Also on the daily podcast: the overlooked emotion driving the markets, and our last “Archive 1945” instalment, on VJ day
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An interesting 11-minute conversation about pressure on Hamas to disarm coming from Qatar, Turkey and Egypt among others, and supposedly there are talks taking place in Cairo with leaders of Hamas.
 
While some forms of mainstream Protestant Christianity can be tolerable if you don’t take the God and afterlife parts too seriously, every branch/school of Islam is at least as conservative as the SBC if not moreso.

But don't kid yourself - ultraconservative Xtians would love to get films like that canceled or censored in the US, too. And at the rate we're going, they may very well get the opportunity. They just don't yet have the legal framework to get away with it.

And no, cons, libs didn't try en masse to get theaters to stop showing Kirk Cameron's and/or Kevin Sorbo's dumb movies.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
While some forms of mainstream Protestant Christianity can be tolerable if you don’t take the God and afterlife parts too seriously, every branch/school of Islam is at least as conservative as the SBC if not moreso.

But don't kid yourself - ultraconservative Xtians would love to get films like that canceled or censored in the US, too. And at the rate we're going, they may very well get the opportunity. They just don't yet have the legal framework to get away with it.

And no, cons, libs didn't try en masse to get theaters to stop showing Kirk Cameron's and/or Kevin Sorbo's dumb movies.
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I don’t like them either
 
This is great: whose occupied country are you standing on right now?

I am currently enjoying the rape of Hohokam. Hey, thanks guys!

Per this I am just north of their canal network, the most extensive in the Western hemisphere.

Edit: to be fair, they had died out prior to white, um, engagement. These are the folks we actually raped.

The American era (A.D. 1853–1950), began in 1853 with the Gadsden Purchase, when the US acquired southern Arizona. New markets were developed, initially to supply immigrants heading for California. Grain was needed for horses of the Butterfield Overland Mail and for the military during the American Civil War. As a result, the Akimel Oʼodham experienced a period of prosperity. The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) was established in 1859. The 1860 census records the Akimel Oʼodham villages as Agua Raiz, Arenal, Casa Blanca, Cachanillo, Cerrito, Cerro Chiquito, El Llano, and Hormiguero.

After the American Civil War, numerous Euroamerican migrants came to settle upstream locations along the Gila, as well as along the lower Salt River. Due to their encroachment and competition for scarce resources, interaction between Native American groups and the Euro-American settlers became increasingly tense. The U.S. government adopted a policy of pacification and confinement of Native Americans to reservations. Uncertainty and variable crop yields led to major settlement reorganizations. The establishment of agency headquarters, churches and schools, and trading posts at Vahki (Casa Blanca) and Gu U ki (Sacaton) during the 1870s and 1880s led to the growth of these towns as administrative and commercial centers, at the expense of others.

By 1898 agriculture had nearly ceased within the GRIC. Although some Akimel Oʼodham drew rations, their principal means of livelihood was woodcutting. The first allotments of land within Gila River were established in 1914, in an attempt to break up communal land. Each individual was assigned a 10-acre (40,000 m2) parcel of irrigable land located within districts irrigated by the Santan, Agency, Blackwater, and Casa Blanca projects on the eastern half of the reservation. In 1917, the allotment size was doubled to include a primary lot of irrigable land and a secondary, usually non-contiguous 10-acre (40,000 m2) tract of grazing land.

The most ambitious effort to rectify the economic plight of the Akimel Oʼodham was the San Carlos Project Act of 1924, which authorized the construction of a water storage dam on the Gila River. It provided for the irrigation of 50,000 acres (200 km2) of Indian and 50,000 acres (200 km2) of non-Indian land. For a variety of reasons, the San Carlos Project failed to revitalize the Oʼodham farming economy. In effect the project halted the Gila river waters, and the Akimel Oʼodham no longer had a source of water for farming. This began the famine years. Many Oʼodham have believed these wrong and misguided government policies were an attempt of mass genocide.
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