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Once again depends by what metric.The metric of being able to go through armour, as should be obvious from the context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanab%C5%8D
I'm pretty sure this weapon could break bones through a knight's armour.
Well, the good thing about being Belgium is that you're too weak to do much. We didn't do much to protect our Jews in WWII. Our police was incompetent enough to search the house of our national monster (Marc Dutroux) while two kids were alive in his cave/sex dungeon and not find them. We killed Patrice Lumbumba, the last half-decent Congolese leader. We introduced ID cards with the ethnicity on them in Rwanda, and didn't do much to try to stop the genocide.
Does any one else get that annoying feeling of wanting to do something, but knowing they can't? Because I'm getting that right now.
The second one sounds more like OPEC members being stupid and the Saudis raging at them.
The current deal is due to supply and demand. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if the current one was a repeat of what happened in the 1980s.
The fact that Russia is so reliant on oil is their own fault, not the US's, not Belgiums, not anybody elses.
Iraq also accused Kuwait of exceeding its OPEC quotas for oil production. In order for the cartel to maintain its desired price of $18 a barrel, discipline was required. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait were consistently overproducing; the latter at least in part to repair losses caused by Iranian attacks in the Iran–Iraq War and to pay for the losses of an economic scandal. The result was a slump in the oil price – as low as $10 a barrel – with a resulting loss of $7 billion a year to Iraq, equal to its 1989 balance of payments deficit.[30] Resulting revenues struggled to support the government's basic costs, let alone repair Iraq's damaged infrastructure. Jordan and Iraq both looked for more discipline, with little success.[31] The Iraqi government described it as a form of economic warfare,[31] which it claimed was aggravated by Kuwait slant-drilling across the border into Iraq's Rumaila oil field.[32] At the same time, Saddam looked for closer ties with those Arab states that had supported Iraq in the war. This was supported by the U.S., who believed that Iraqi ties with pro-Western Gulf states would help bring and maintain Iraq inside the U.S.' sphere of influence.[33]
Lemme check really quick, are you going on a conspiracy theory about the US 100% controlling the oil market?
In April 1979, Jimmy Carter signed an executive order which was to remove market controls from petroleum products by October 1981, so that prices would be wholly determined by the free market. Ronald Reagan signed an executive order on January 28, 1981 which enacted this reform immediately,[12] allowing the free market to adjust oil prices in the US.[13] This ended the withdrawal of old oil from the market and artificial scarcity, encouraging increased oil production.[citation needed] The US Oil Windfall profits tax was lowered in August 1981 and removed in 1988, ending disincentives to US oil producers. Additionally, the Alaskan Prudhoe Bay Oil Field entered peak production, supplying the US West Coast with up to 2 million bpd of crude oil.
In September 1985, Saudi Arabia became fed up with de facto propping up prices by lowering its own production in the face of high output from elsewhere in OPEC.[16] In 1985, daily output was around 3.5 million bpd down from around 10 million in 1981.[17] During this period, OPEC members were supposed to meet production quotas in order to maintain price stability, however, many countries inflated their reserves to achieve higher quotas, cheated, or outright refused to accord with the quotas.[18] In 1985, the Saudis were fed up with this behavior and decided to punish the undisciplined OPEC countries.[19] They abandoned their role as swing producer and began producing at full capacity, which created a "huge surplus that angered many of their colleagues in OPEC".[20] High-cost oil production facilities became less or even not profitable. Oil prices as a result fell to as low as $7 per barrel.
The US is torturing prisoners to death and I'm not even surprised. Keep in mind that they were put there without trial and that a fair number of them have been found innocent. They even put one of Al jazzra's journalist in there.
I feel like Americans will end up finding this clip slightly less humorous in the coming years.
The CIA is not supposed to be doing that anymore, though I'm not entirely sure that they stopped. The torture stuff is old, back in the Bush adminstration, the report is simply getting released just now because it took so long to make it.
Yes the world is recoiling at the torture report, and they should, because it's our shame to bear. Better to be honest and bear the shame and move past it than hide it like an embarrassing secret and deny it never happened.
Also, the ACLU apparently thinks Obama should pardon everybody involved in that whole thing.
I'm sorry to infom you of this but the CIA has been supposed to stop doing things like that for most of its existence, they never did.
In all probabilities, this rapport change nothing, the government will say "this is very bad and not the American way", and they will punish absolutely no one, or maybe a few low level scapgegoat. Politicians will say that "they didn't know" and the American public will find that normal.
This IS the American way, and it has been the American way since the Vietnam at least.
In the end supremacism is false and disprovable, and once you disprove it and improve lining conditions it disapear.
