Nauru

Dec 19, 2008 01:16

If you've never heard of it, it's a speck of land in the Pacific Ocean. It was strip-mined almost into oblivion for decades, which brought in a ton of money that got squandered in the early 1990s.

So the government went into deeply shady off-shore banking and issuing passports to...well, Al-Qaeda, among other people.

Then they found a new source of money: being Australia's Guantanamo Bay. Thank dog, the new Australian PM shut it down a year ago. (Along with apologizing to the Indigenous Australians for historical abuses. I'm starting to like this guy.)

The US tried to get in on the potential for complete oblivion that being in the asshole of the world's biggest ocean offers. One of the conditions the CIA wanted for their involvement was Nauru signing on to a resolution that exempts the US from war-crimes charges.

Is there any single sleazy act that this country has NOT committed in the past eight years? What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck...


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fucktards in high places, depression, rl

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