interesting how many people have cited wealth and military power as the reasons why the US is the "best country in the world." i would think that the best country in the world, if such a thing exists at all, should be about whether citizens are happy and fulfilled.
Thank you @LopesInsights. This deserves to be said louder. Africa represents 20% of the world’s population and enormous geographic, cultural, and epidemiological diversity. Yet disease outbreaks get generalized to the entire continent while similar issues in Europe are treated as isolated, local stories. That’s not reporting. That’s narrative construction.
@XivTroy Depends on how the inhabitants of Karen got there. They might be dealing with a guilty conscience and religion helps with this. Or if dumb luck or superstition got them there then they gravitate to church.
America is back fighting a war we already won because Iran shot down an Apache helicopter with a military we already destroyed, and it's all over nukes they never had and a strait that was wide open.
Is that about right?
The plan was that all the PR about FIFA World Cup was going to be led and coordinated by the United States and then it would eventually trickle down to Canada and Mexico. Unfortunately, the tournament has found US with a lot on its plate.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Did America not realise that the ‘soccer’ World Cup would involve people from all over the world visiting?
Is it the Baseball ‘World Series’ that has confused them?