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Go with electrician first. The chances are great that those skills will carry over into other things like electronics. You can still take classes for renewable energy technician at night after work. There is no need to end your education simply because you have gained a career.

Electrician is a proven and lasting career field. Go with it.
Renewable Energy still has a long way to go before it can offer you a promising future you can depend on.

Jack
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Thats his CHANGE.

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Your question is written very poorly

Not really sure what you are trying to say.

I guess you mean which degree is better for a student interested in renewable energy.

The answer is electrical or mechanical engineering…..but these are harder engineering degrees to obtain

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Republicans believe that giving business more freedom and less regulation stimulates growth. As for renewable energy, they are optimistic of the market eventually coming up with its own renewable energy but they’re opposed to the government sponsoring money to invest in it. On education, they believe that the US Dept of Education is useless and should be abolished. Their argument is that the states should have the right to create their own standards without the federal government intervening.

There I’ve summed it up in a non-biased way.

@ NDMA: I agree with your response. Invisible thumbs up!
@ wgac: Do you have any links to show that subsidies were given to companies that ship labor overseas?

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The bill is still in congress, but looks like it should be passed soon.

But are you having a hard time speaking? I suggest going back to school. You can take night classes if you are working during the day. You can do it! Many people have gone from illiterate to literate, with hard work and a good teacher!

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Hi,

From my own knowledge, jobs open for Sustainable Engineering degree are Electrical Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Admin., Project Manager etc.

Some consultancies provide solar installation courses, but I am not sure if it is what you want to do.

And sustainable engineering is a vast concept, you may need to choose your major orientation later, like wind energy, bioenergy, or solar…

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“How sustainable is the issue of the Mexicans migrating to the USA illegally?”

What is this sentence supposed to mean? It’s gibberish.

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Live plants, cleaner shrimps, and a substrate that will feed the live plants 😛

this hopefully helped you 🙂

regards.

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You can do much of the research for details yourself, as i asusme you are doing a theme paper.

First off, in the US, “planning” is not always practiced. Often when it is, politics has great influence over the final product. In most areas where there is some degree of planning, it is only a loosely assembled set of guidelines. There are oftentimes unexpected circumstances which require some variance to those guidelines, often if a hardship is encountered or if the development is truly desired.

Sustainable development is not mandatory. It is usually the initive of the developer.

On a global scale, there are efforts underway to make the building codes that are used in the US and Canada, to blend them with EU standards, to achieve a global standard for buildings, plumbing, electrical and heat. It is not applied globally yet, and not likely to be anything more than some suggestions to countries who have other more pressing concerns.

There are some programs like RoHS which are not mandatory, but are being embraced by many industries. That is just an illustration of one of several third party entities that exist in almost all areas relating to construction and manufacturing that are being adopted voluntarily that influence the final product, be it wire, be it insulation, be it components of the municipal infrastructure.

The short of it is- the ideas of sustainable development are not driving municipal planning directives most of the time- the sustainable development is the voluntary initiative on the part of the developer. This is not to say there is not some influence in the planning process, it just means there is no requirement upon a development to BE sustainable. And there should not be.

There are some issues with cluster housing, that while promote single family homes in a “sustainable” manner, there are some problems with ground water contamination, namely nitrates and other trace pharmaceuticals that will contaminate the water wells in some of those developments in the future due to the surrounding of the well intakes with septic systems. That subsurface flow is not vertical, it follows gravity to some extent, but it also follows and pools bounded by subsurface impervious layers that slope, or they even follow the hydrostatic suction of water wells.

Another problem with sustainable development when taken to an extreme of “smart growth” is it artificially raises the price of property that is available. And often in large urban areas, those areas that are avaiable are far from desirable neighborhoods in many cases. That means higher prices in order to cover costs and expenses.

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If a city has already been established, constructed, etc, the urban planners would have had to design it to take on a growing population in my opinion. A growing population will need sustainable public transport. If you haven’t allowed for growth, how could you possible allow for any type of reasonable transportation? You have no land to build on what you already have. What if a great idea will improve waste and pollution involved with public transport but requires quite a bit of land? Take Oklahoma City for example, it was poorly designed, i had to live there this past year for undergrad. Just by looking at the layout of Oklahoma’s street’s, (virtually no individual turning lanes so traffic on one street is backed up to the previous intersection just because one car want to make a u-turn), you can tell that OKC did not plan for growth. There is no way OKC could had sustainable transport to its city if the transport required more land, its already a cramped little place. So, in short, i think sustainable transport will come easier to cities that were planned to take on growth from its population.

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I agree it’s not really the best term. But, we should look at what it means, not the literal interpretation. Humans need to utilize resources at some level just to survive. Even hunters and gatherers had to remove some plants and animals from the environment for food and tools. The term isn’t meant to give the impression that it’s non-impact, just better that the alternative. Like with most things, eco-friendliness isn’t really best measured on a yes/no scale, but as a matter of degree. If the product is something completely useless that we don’t need anyway, it’s best to not use it all, second best to use a greener alternative, and worst to use something completely destructive and non-renewable.

Bamboo used for manufacturing doesn’t come from forests, it’s farmed in a plantation method. Yes, this means that land is being allocated to mono-cropping instead of natural growth, so that has it’s inherent non-friendly aspects, but it’s not exactly the same as ripping the food right from the panda’s mouth. Mono-cropping has it’s eco downsides, but it is more land-efficient than natural growth so in some ways it’s better.

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The cane idea is good but I think there is one already. How about a walking stick that holds water (eliminates water bottles) it could also have a water filter built in.

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‘Elmer’s casein glue is made of milk protein and ‘eco-friendly’.
Most sealants are not bio-degradable by nature.
The most ‘eco-friendly’ woud be shellac, (all organic,
both the lacuer and the alcohol solvent), but it’s far from the
best sealant you can get.
It should be adequate for indoor use though.
It’s available in both ‘gloss’ and ‘matte’ finish.

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Yes, it is call Thuracide Baccillius. A naturally occurring fungus that attacks certain caterpillars such as Tomato Horn Worm, Tobacco Horn Worm and others.
It has no effects on people, animals and other worms.
Thuracide is grown in the lab, and then sold so you can spray it in your garden to get rid of vegetable eating caterpillars. Buy it at most garden shops.

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Depending on how much time you have before hand, you could make your own products! If you have old scraps of material (such as tshirts etc.) you could make and sew bean bags (like the kind you toss) and fill with beans or rice. Then you could write things like GO GREEN! Or something on them with fabric marker. T-shirts don’t have to be expensive, you can buy cheap bulk shirts and decorate them yourself, but it could get expensive if you did various sizes. If you wanted to buy and decorate something, I would suggest buying and decorating reusable shopping bags. That way, they could use them instead of taking plastic bags from the store! You could also do fun things for younger kids, like reuse water bottles and fill them with pebbles or rice to make noise makers, and decorating them with ribbons and messages and your school colors. Hope this helps! The possibilities are endless!

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I can’t answer this question without the dimension… The area size. You figure this out by setting your technological stage… Say are you back in the 16th century living or the 21st with computers, etc… Then based on this, you determine what specifice jobs are necessary: farm workers, doctors, dentist, grocers, etc… Then based on this you do a ratio of x number of persons to each job.

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OH MY GOD!!!!!!! You question is longer than the Nile river.

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Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation.

Toxic waste is a waste which is toxic (poisonous or hazardous) for a variety of reasons. It originates with industry in most cases, particularly chemical and plastics manufacturing.

The Troposphere is the lowermost portion of Earth’s atmosphere. It is the densest layer of the atmosphere and contains approximately 75% of the mass of the atmosphere and almost all the water vapour and aerosol.

The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest. The Sun Belt has seen substantial demographic and economic growth in recent decades compared to the Rust Belt states of the Northeast and Midwest.

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Do your own homework………..im not here to do it for you

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Start with wikipedia

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“Eat less, save money, loose weight!” — Saturday Night Live

I have chickens. We found a place for free grain (beer brewery in my town).. Smells like beer (bleg) but the animals love it. My chickens also get all the table scraps, plate scrappings, all bones and meat scraps… Weeds from my garden, grass clippings when I mow. They get them in their pen and about every 3 days I rake out what they don’t eat and put that in the compost bin… That earthworms grow in.. That the chickens eat too. My 30 chickens eat a bag of regular chicken feed once every 2 months. $17 for feed for two months and I have extra eggs to sell and make more than that back on. The chickens don’t even eat all the grain between days we get it.. We could easily grow a couple pigs off of it too. Before we found it the brewery saw most of their used grain go to the dump.

There should be restaurants around a person could buy all the leftover food from and do the same thing. We throw away so much food in our country.. It’s just sad.

Going a bit overboard, IMO, there is a Japanese Scientist who is separating protein from sewage sludge and making it into a ‘synthetic beef’. I saw the article on Fox News.. Http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/

Now, maybe the proteins could be separated and put into an animal feed.. I think that would be more reasonable.

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Only on the Sims.

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Yes. It is a promising future for food development. As the world population continues to explode it will be absolutely necessary to Develop these types of crops.

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Food should be processed and distributed in ways that does not contribute to wanton waste, and excessive use of resources.

See the “McDonaldization of America”

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I think yes, there could be enough food for the population in 2222, and the emphasis is on the word “could.” However, nobody knows if there actually will be enough – it all depends on how farsighted humans will be with regard to many other challenges that are poised to wipe us out before 2222. We’ll have to put aside self-interest and start doing what’s good for the world. Such things as stopping or reversing population growth, ending wars, respecting the sovereignty of other nations and taking care of the planet are obvious goals, but achieving them may depend heavily on whether we can shed our hang-ups and start being kind to one another. Pres. Obama is off to a good start.

The reason we have to be kind to one another is that it is the only way to get people to cooperate. It’s contrary to our nature, which is left over from when we depended on bluster and deception for survival. But we could free up lots of resources if we could make progress in this area. And we might even get people more personally involved in population control.

There are organizations that are trying to do something about the population explosion. PCI Media Impact is one of them – they produce TV soap opera programming in third world countries that deals with birth control and sexual attitudes.

I think humanity will succeed in reaching 2222. We evolved this far, and we should have no trouble tackling new problems. Science is developing more productive food crop varieties. We’re going about climate change better than I ever dreamed we would.

When 2222 rolls around, I imagine I’ll be relaxing on the front porch munching on a Soylent Green wafer and thinking of new ways to be kind to the new neighbors.

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When looking for garden Furniture I would recommended looking for FSC furniture which means at least efforts have been made to replace the trees used. FSC wood is from managed forests and is a much better option. Www.gardeneco.co.uk has tips and advice on FSC garden Furniture buying and what FSC means.

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Http://allanswerr.pandzik.eu
A very informative website, kindly stay a minute in website and check anyone categories link in left side.

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Check here
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Banana leaf furniture is non-existent in both the cities.

Cane furniture : please enquire with KVIC ( Khadi and Village Industires Commission) emporiums. They are authentic and reliable. In Mumbai KVIC has a huge store on D N Road, Fort.

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I am all for solar panels, but the environmentalists won’t let us use power lines to get light from the desert to the city.

But to answer your question, I think it is a good idea, as long as it’s not too much money. Maybe like a tax deduction or something.

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Sorry, I cannot agree with you. Technology takes a long time to perfect.

Also tax breaks are NOT subsidies. Subsidies are a big fat check the Government sends out. Tax breaks are being allowed to write off the cost (all, or partial) on ones taxes. I can write off the interest I pay on my mortgage, ever year on my taxes. Thank heavens their are ways to recieve tax breaks.

Did you know Hoover Dam was built with huge funding from the Government (subsidies) and tax breaks. Do you believe the technology in Hoover Dam is “unproven” and doesn’t work?

Did you know the oil companies not only recieve TITANIC tax breaks from the Government, they also recieve TITANIC subsidies from the Government? Do you believe that oil and gas are unproven technologies? Or does your car do fairly well getting you from point A to point B? Perhaps you would feel better if the Government subsidies to the oil companies went away, so we in the U.S.A. Could pay $10-$12 a gallon for our fuel, just as the Europeans are?

There’s another slight problem with your argument. Wind, & solar have not been worked on steadly for the past 25 years. Everyone was ga-ga for wind and solar in the 1970’s during the first gas crunch. Then oil prices began to drop, and drop like a stone. Did you know that in the 1990’s the U.S. Could often purchase oil for $11 a barrel? Sometimes even cheaper. Oil and gas were so dirt cheap, there was no way to get funding to do research on wind and solar. Nobody saw any way that money put into researching wind and solar would ever be recovered.

Now the second gas crunch is here, and people are screaming for wind and solar. Those technologies has improved by leapes and bounds. My husband works on the commercial wind turbines.

There’s an old wind farm they are upgrading to the new, modern wind turbines. There are over 600 old wind turbines at the wind farm. For every new, modern wind turbine they put up, they rip out NINTY of the old ones! One modern wind turbine has the same energy output as 90 of the older wind turbines. That’s amazing! Imagine if our cars kept that kind of pace up! All cars would be getting a few hundred miles to the gallon.

The problem with the “cheaper resources” is they are all based on some form of fossil fuel (except nukes). Fossil fuels WILL eventually run out. I’d much rather see investment, and infrastructure into alternative energies right now, instead of waiting until it’s too late.

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

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They “suicide” anyone who goes public with anything that might danger their business.

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I’m not sure who is hiring exactly, but since your background is in ME, you may want to consider obtaining your LEED Green Associate credential. If you have taken any course relating to sustainability or green buildings (even if it’s loosely related, such as anything related to building systems), then you qualify to take the exam.

Although it’s focus is not strictly alternative energy, it is very good to have when job seeking. It’s fairly simple to obtain, and you will stand out much more with it on your resume. Believe me. ME’s with this credential are hard to come by.

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This is such a broad statement, it isn’t really worth answering.

All I can say is there is money to be made in the near future in the alternative energy industry. If you have a solid business plan and are a capable businessperson, you will be in for some good times.

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The air quality is fine (except maybe in China and India) CO2 is not a pollutant it’s plant food. Without it plants would die. Things like scrubbers on coal power plants are worth the economic cost. Cap & tax is not worth the economic cost.

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It would take some good solid scientific research not the stuff that is produced by employees of the oil industry.

I dare you to see Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth. You might be surprised. It is not what you think.

Silent:
The articles you list say that one cow emits more VOC’s than one car. The articles agree that global warming is real. They just add that the dairy industry is a significant source of CO2.

The question is, are you wiling to gamble that there is no global warming? It doesn’t harm the Earth to reduce our CO2 emissions global warming or not. But it certainly could be a disaster for Humans if we stick our heads in the sand and it turns out that global warming is real.

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I think to ask the question is to answer it.

People who grew up or have lived in rural areas know what it is like to bathe in cold water and to have no heat when it is freezing outside.

People who have lived in cities all of their lives have no concept what life would be like if we stopped the use of all fossil fuels.

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Real scientists are ALWAYS open to debate.

The so-called “scientists” who have decided that global warming is closed to debate are mostly SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, not the math/physics/chemistry/biology types of scientists. And, while their scientific background only includes the study of “social science” or “political science” or “economics” they gleefully promote “global warming” and support a dufus like Al Gore although NONE OF THEM HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND. Gore has an undergraduate degree in journalism (for Pete’s sake); he flunked out of divinity school and was rejected for law school.

Those who are intent on manipulating the world know that people will be willing to sit on their lazy butts to watch the lies of “An Inconvenient Truth” but they are not smart enough to read, and understand, Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear.”

Even worse, the Hollywood crowd promotes these phony “scientists” without understanding the first thing about academia; many of them didn’t even finish high school and the ones who went to college majored in “theater arts” (no science) and they don’t ever see the opposing side because the media “lies by omission”.

Smart people read the writings of Ball, Sorenson, and Gray. The dummies watch Al Gore’s movie and run around like Chicken Little. [Some days I fear we have re-entered the Dark Ages.]

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There are no such issues.

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It is actually a nice form of energy. Unfortunately it has a few negatives
1: Only available during the day (unless power produced goes to storage)
2: Only produces full power on sunny days
3: Requires a large array to supply decent amount of power, requiring larger area for the array.
4: Storage facility (so you have power at night) requires space and maintenance.

This is where wind is claimed to be better but if the wind dies the generator stops, but if wind it operates day, night, cloudy or rain and usually at night puts power back into the grid and can do so during the day while you’re at work.

Solar is great for low power demand items like lights (you can now get a variety of low power lighting systems) and chargers for cell phones and other devices. To run larger devices you need a large array and power converters and a power storage (batteries) with enough capacity to supply the demands of your devices. The whole system can be quite expensive but yes in the long run could save you money. Note that storage devices require weekly maintenance and checking for problems as they die after a few years so you have to replace them.

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One of the reasons this is difficult is that companies do a lot of different things that produce greenhouse gasses (and so do individuals).
Just to name a few:
– Heat buildings and furnaces
– Operate many, many different kinds of machinery
– Drive vehicles short distances
– Drive vehicles across the country
– Operate ships and airplanes
A solution that works well for one of these purposes usually doesn’t work well for others. So we keep coming up with solutions for individual problems. And make a little progress.

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Many options, but you do not give any grade level to make a reasonable suggestion. Many projects are simple that you can actually put use at your home, from a solar box oven, even a black piece of plywood, a car inner tube, and a pane of glass will capture enough heat for you to put a cast iron pot or black enamel pot in and cook up a rice based dish in a few hours.

There are also heat penals you can make from spare windows and a scrap of black metal that you can use as a dupplemental heat source for your home, or a coil of copper tubing in that same basic box to make a thermo siphon water heater, and if made with food grade materials, could be used for making coffee,tea, or whatever you want.

There are a multitude of ideas here: http://www.builditsolar.com just go through the projects section and you will find something.

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You are correct.

Massive taxes on energy will NOT solve the problem – it will just cause more suffering for people already just trying to make ends meet.

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The ground temperature several feet beneath your home is fairly constant at around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take a few degrees. Circulating water or some other liquid through this region and returning it to your house, delivers to you a source to heat or cool your home to 60 degrees, even if the outside temperature is -10 degrees, or +120 degrees. Now you have solved most of your heating/cooling problems, and all you need is to let the outside air raise the inside temperature from 60 to 74 degrees in the summer, and install a simple secondary heating system (enough to only raise the temperature about 14 degrees) in the winter. Added insulation will even reduce further the need for the winter heat supplement.

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Looks pretty good.

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Yeah sure like I should listen to a idiot movie star on how to save the earth. When they do thier part then they can talk.

Julia Roberts drives a Prius, which gets (at best) 60 miles to the gallon, shaving 30 miles off a normal car’s mpg. She flew Chicago/LA, 1,749 miles in a private jet, the route she took with Rupert Everett while shooting “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
She guzzeled 2,100 gallons of jet fuel. Julia would have to drive 30,000 miles, or roughly once around the earth and then some to even out her consumption in the air.

J-Lo tools around in her 60 miles-per-gallon Prius. She Flew LA /New York, 2,475 miles in a private jet. Lopez was actually sued by a private jet company for allegedly skipping out on the bill, though she says it’s all a misunderstanding and she was not supposed to be billed. She guzzled 2,750 gallons of jet fuel. She’d have to drive 45,000 miles, and that’s a lot longer for Jenny than just going down the block. It’s actually more like twice around the earth.

Eco-champ Brad is yet another Prius-lover, and he reportedly has several hybrids in his stable. He Flew Los Angeles/Namibia, 9,400 miles in a private jet. He Guzzled 11,000 gallons of jet fuel.
Brad burned enough fuel to take a Prius to the moon.

And my Favorite Self riteous Liberal George Clooney favors a Tango, an electric car that gets a whopping 135 miles to the charge. He flew Los Angeles/Tokyo, 5500 miles in a private jet.
He Guzzled 7,000 gallons of jet fuel. Even with his super-saver Tango, he’ll have to drive over 57 oceans — Pacific Oceans to break even.

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You can always try:

http://www.google.com
http://www.wikipedia.com
http://www.readyourtextbook.com

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In turmoil because of muslim aggression!!!

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USA has the highest population of teams at the World Cup and had the most fans at the World Cup. They bought the most tickets to games.