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dr. strangelove, because dr. angelove on the one hand, it's a comedic farce, it's black comeby, one of stanley kubrick's greatest movies ever. he had a lot of them, 2001, clockwork orange, et cetera, but it really gives you a sense of what the cold war was like. it's not a coincidence that if you notice at the very beginning of the movie there is a disclaimer that says this is fictional and the u.s. military says there's no way this could actually happen, but the notion of b-52 bombers being poised to take off and overfly russia and deliver unbelievable destruction was real. i don't think there really was a doomsday machine but it was an essential doomsday scenario. i personally grew up in columbus, mississippi, which was the home of a strategic air command base and i was there when the base was closed during the cuban missile crisis as was depicted in dr. strangelove. they closed the base and that was real. people sat at the end of the runway ready to jump into a b-52 and go nuke everything. this is the war room,
dr. strangelove, because dr. angelove on the one hand, it's a comedic farce, it's black comeby, one of stanley kubrick's greatest movies ever. he had a lot of them, 2001, clockwork orange, et cetera, but it really gives you a sense of what the cold war was like. it's not a coincidence that if you notice at the very beginning of the movie there is a disclaimer that says this is fictional and the u.s. military says there's no way this could actually happen, but the notion of b-52 bombers being...
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dr. strangelove there, really concerned. they knew if he could put a satellite into space and a significant payload into space or orbit, you can put a warhead anywhere. the soviets actually beat us in he race. same thing here. iranians started out with the peaceful side ally program and eventually, if they wish to, develop an intercontinental ballistic missile program. the intelligence community believes that maybe soon as next year. afghanistan -- another thing we have in them talking about but as you know, there are 30,000 americans fighting there. i worry -- what i really worry is what we're seeing in iraq is what we will see in afghanistan in the coming years. i didn't talk a lot about iraq but it has not gone well since u.s. forces left at the end of 2011. i worry that is what we will see in afghanistan. we are reducing the troops. they will be totally gone. we may have an interim force. we are waiting for new president to get on board and have some political problems with vote counting in everything. we are looking for
dr. strangelove there, really concerned. they knew if he could put a satellite into space and a significant payload into space or orbit, you can put a warhead anywhere. the soviets actually beat us in he race. same thing here. iranians started out with the peaceful side ally program and eventually, if they wish to, develop an intercontinental ballistic missile program. the intelligence community believes that maybe soon as next year. afghanistan -- another thing we have in them talking about...
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them for sending at any of this energy out so what i'm saying in the opening you compare this to dr strangelove so here we have the situation of a parody of a fake war created by these sort of the military industrial complex the energy industrial complex which are one in the same and they're encouraging americans to want to because they can't make money because they're losing money they're losing fifty cents or losing one hundred cents on every single dollar they spend in order to frack but because of the closed market in the united states because most americans are broken can't afford energy anyway that the price is very low there is like a third of the price that you they can get by selling it to europe so this is part of the reason i'm saying in this article the numbers don't add up so the reason they have to convince americans that they must spend three times as much for their natural gas prices they need to triple the price because we need to defeat you know we need we we must close the mine shaft gap i challenge your original arbitrage theory that u.s. versus u.k. because in a bring it ba
them for sending at any of this energy out so what i'm saying in the opening you compare this to dr strangelove so here we have the situation of a parody of a fake war created by these sort of the military industrial complex the energy industrial complex which are one in the same and they're encouraging americans to want to because they can't make money because they're losing money they're losing fifty cents or losing one hundred cents on every single dollar they spend in order to frack but...
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dr. strangelove there, really concerned. they knew if he could put a satellite into space and a significant payload into space or orbit, you can put a warhead anywhere. the soviets actually beat us in the race. same thing here. iranians started out with the peaceful side ally program and eventually, if they wish to, develop an intercontinental ballistic missile program. the intelligence community believes that maybe soon as next year. afghanistan -- another thing we have in them talking about but as you know, there are 30,000 americans fighting there. i worry -- what i really worry is what we're seeing in iraq is what we will see in afghanistan in the coming years. i didn't talk a lot about iraq but it has not gone well since u.s. forces left at the end of 2011. i worry that is what we will see in afghanistan. we are reducing the troops. they will be totally gone. we may have an interim force. we are waiting for new president to get on board and have some political problems with vote counting in everything. looking for a bil
dr. strangelove there, really concerned. they knew if he could put a satellite into space and a significant payload into space or orbit, you can put a warhead anywhere. the soviets actually beat us in the race. same thing here. iranians started out with the peaceful side ally program and eventually, if they wish to, develop an intercontinental ballistic missile program. the intelligence community believes that maybe soon as next year. afghanistan -- another thing we have in them talking about...