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Obama says terrorist networks remain the greatest threat to the United States. “We have to remain vigilant,” he warned recently. But global terrorism has barely touched most Americans in the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, with 238 U.S. citizens killed in terrorist attacks, mostly in war zones, according to the National Counterterrorism Center’s annual reports. By comparison, the Consumer Product Safety Commission found that 293 Americans were crushed during the same stretch by falling furniture or televisions.
Beyond the United States, global statistics point undeniably toward progress in achieving greater peace and stability. There are fewer wars now than at any time in decades. The number of people killed as a result of armed violence worldwide is plunging as well — down to about 526,000 in 2011 from about 740,000 in 2008, according to the United Nations.
The candidates’ rhetoric, however, suggests that the globe is ablaze. “The world is dangerous, destructive, chaotic,” Romney said this summer in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nevada. Obama, though less apocalyptic than his Republican challenger, routinely talks about the critical need for “tested and proven” leadership in a “world of new threats and new challenges.”
"The world is safer. But no one in Washington can talk about it - Greg Jaffe
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"Anyone who helps the Mujahideen find the whereabouts of Obama and Hillary Clinton will be rewarded with 10 Camels to the information leading to Obama and 10 hens and 10 cocks for Hillary,” said senior Shabaab commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf in a statement reported on numerous websites."
Al Qaeda Offshoot Offers Camels for Obama’s Head, Hens for Hillary Clinton’s - Yahoo! News (via brooklynmutt)
They’re in Washington, D.C. Now where are my camels, hens, and cocks?
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"You’ve gotta look at the ongoing war on terrorism and say: If we now have to show our genitals to a man in a box, before we go on our holidays… I think they’ve won."
Dara O’Briain, Mock of the Week (via funsizedinseattle)(Source: annekebananake, via cocknbull)
Suitably vague terror threat. Figures.
The officials are getting some blowback from the questioners.
Are they going to raise the terror alert to orange? Or are they going to hold off on that until election season? (yes I am aware that system no longer exists. ‘sa matter you, you never heard of sarcasm?)
