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Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence, a three-judge appeals court has reduced the sentence of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to 20 years in prison. Kambakhsh was charged with circulating an article on women's rights that he found online. From the article: 'Family members have said Kambakhsh was beaten and threatened with death until he signed a confession and that local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.'"
You should check around for some more recent stats. like this
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Tabacco causes far more being legal, cheap and highly addictive (far more than heroin).
In fact (according to the American Cancer Society circa 1993 for the USA) annual death statistics are:
Total tobacco related: 434,000
Heroin/Morphine: 2,400
And to sate your curiosity, here are the other common killers:
Alcohol-related: 105,000
Car accidents: 49,000
Suicide: 31,000
AIDS: 31,000
Murder: 22,000
Fire: 4,000
Cocaine: 3,300
Food for though, eh!
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Marijuana: 0 (It does not have to be smoked prohibition raises the price to where smoking is more economical for the user)
Most of the north didn't want to get rid of slavery either. Nor did most of the soldiers fighting for the north.
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Where do you think they put the black people who fought with them? The front lines.. in front of all the white people.. so they died first.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Right up until the end of the war (and again in the World Wars) black US soldiers had to fight their own command structure to be allowed to fight on the front lines. Of course, this was still deeply racist, but it was racism of a very different kind than the Confederacy's.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
22% is "military aid," which still leaves the US as the #1 producer of non-military foreign aid. Now figure out what percentage of that 22% is in the form of disaster relief and other aid operations using the US military (classified as "military aid" by the state department.
Pre-Civil war, when one referred to the US, it was in the form of "The United States are...." After the Civil War, it became "The United States is...." so it seems we thought of the states as sovereign entities, much like the "city states" of Greece. The word "state" itself, actually originally refers to a sovereign entity (e.g. "Secretary of State", "state sponsored terrorism") whereas a province is a dependent subdivision.
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.