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If you didn't notice, there's an asston going on in the world today.
 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Given its ginormous implications and the huge involvement of the US, the Greece/Euro bailout and all that's going on with that should be headlining like everyday in the US, but it's barely even a topic because propaganda machines have little use for it, and the tabloids don't focus on non-US much. Since that's about 98% of US media.....
Kim Jong-Il wants to create a war-like atmosphere in N. Korea to allow for the transitioning of power to his son, Kim Jong-un.
Israel just killed 9 civilians during the raiding of a boat filled with tons of aid and a few thousand pounds of foreign diplomats.
There's a hole in the Earth's crust gushing oil into an ocean that's also being hammered by chemical dispersant agents. Those who are tasked with closing it only identify one metric for success; the profits of their shareholders.
India's economy is going gang-busters while one of it's biggest exporting manufacturers is suffering through a bout of on-site suicides.
America is constantly towing some incredibly delicate line while lobbing bombs all over some sandy cities and China is looking like a sensible country these days.
So it might only barely be a topic, but it's an enormous one trying to find a voice in a battle of equally enormous stories demanding attention.
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