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Author: Robert Morpheal, Morphealism, Bob EzergailisRobert Morpheal, Morphealism, Bob Ezergailis
Date: Dec 26, 2008 10:48
GUINEA’S JUNTA AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION’S FAILINGS:
There has been some debate as to whether the world community should
“talk” to Guinea’s junta, after its successful coup, taking over the
government of that nation. It is a strange debate.
We must keep in mind that what makes it a strange debate is that there
is no proper and legal mechanism to overcome and bring down from power
a truly corrupt and oppressive government.
We do not live in a world where civilization has advanced to the
extent that a people can prepare a case against a government, take it
to a world court, and have the leader or government, removed by the
world community, using legal means. That step in the advance of
civilization might chance to come, someday, but likely not very soon.
There are too many bad leaders and bad governments, which fear that
they too would be removed from power for their actions in regard to
violating their own people’s rights and the rights of other nations.
Yes, of course, other nations could ask for a removal from power, if a
leader in the community of nations, was overstepping peaceful bounds,
and violating their fundamental rights. An alternative to war...
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Author: Edwin IEdwin I
Date: Dec 26, 2008 07:27
"Class is a dirty word"
"Class is a dirty word in that it gets close to the truth
about who governs and for whose benefit."
-Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti interviewed by Jason Miller
12/24/08
In the land of those who think they're free and the home
of savage capitalism, class is indeed a dirty word. Remember,
we're a nation of Joe the Plumbers. If we just work hard enough
and fend off those socialist vampires who want to suck us dry
by redistributing our hard-earned wealth, we can all be
financial successes. And if you're a faux-progressive
presidential candidate-like Obama, you're doomed to political
perdition unless you sign a blood oath disavowing your ties to socialism.
...
Parenti recently answered a few questions Jason Miller
threw his way. Let's see how much further he traveled on
the road to perdition...
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Author: Laughing JackLaughing Jack
Date: Dec 25, 2008 18:45
On Dec 24, 5:17 am, n...@ nada.net (Peter BP) wrote: > Anarcissie gmail.com> wrote:>> Another _New_Yorker_ writer who will probably soon have
>> 'wingers frothing at the mouth is Malcolm Gladwell, who has
>> published a book arguing that unusual accomplishment is more
>> a product of luck than will or character. Here are a couple of
>> reviews.
>
> snip
>
> I've been called "rightwinger" more times than I care to count (and
> leftwinger quite a few times too, to my amusement), though I'd reject
> either label.
>
> Nevertheless, I'm not frothing at the mouth at all, but I know from
> experience that these hypotheses always inspire collectivists and
> determinists to attack libertarians and individualists on logically
> strained grounds about the non-significance of individuals, the
> irrelevance of the will to act, self-reliance, self-responsibility,
> merit and the payoff for long hard work, etc. and this is often a pain ...
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Author: Laughing JackLaughing Jack
Date: Dec 25, 2008 18:36
On Dec 24, 2:40 am, Just Me gmail.com> wrote:> On Dec 21, 5:27 am, montewelk live.com> wrote:
>>> egos bloated like the livers of geese.
>
> I'll have to take a lesson from this. What better way to avoid being
> taken for an egotist than to go around with all your sentences getting
> started in lower case?
>
>> literacy is wasted upon
>> peasants.
>
> There's a backhanded slap against the likes of . . . who? Me? Try
> Rimbaud, if you know a proper "peasant" upon whom literacy was
> "wasted" once you saw it done up real good!
>
>> and fat goatee growers.
>
> Hell, yeah. Around Charleville-Mézières they had bistros and
> bordellos full of those fat goatee growers, right along with the fat ...
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Author: Beldin the SorcererBeldin the Sorcerer
Date: Dec 25, 2008 10:07
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:34:10 +0000, Beldin the Sorcerer wrote:
>
>>> On 12/23/2008 00:51, A Man Beaten by Jacks wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's another reason it isn't (necessarily) a Ponzi scheme. The
>>>> government can reduce benefits or raise revenues as appropriate. Part
>>>> of the disaster of a Ponzi scheme is it is the result of free market
>>>> choices. There is nothing (or little) free about the funding of
>>>> Social Security. It is backed up by the coercive powers of the
>>>> government. (One could argue and many have that this, rather than
>>>> being a Ponzi scheme, is what is wrong with SS. I wouldn't agree with
>>>> them, but it would be a coherent argument.)
>>>
>>>
>>> SS is a pyramid structure, and is clearly identified as such.
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Author: Stan de SDStan de SD
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:25
On Dec 18, 1:46 pm, "Freedom Fighter" once.net> wrote:>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>> Scholar: Cheney confessed to war crime
>
> < snip >
>
> The time has come to subject terrorist Cheney to the same "interrogation"
> techniques used on other alleged terrorists to wring the truth out of him
> about his role in the 9/11 INSIDE JOB attacks.
The time has come to have the nice young men in the clean white coats
come to take you away... :O|
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Author: bulegogebulegoge
Date: Dec 25, 2008 08:21
On Dec 24, 7:47 am, Usagi gmail.com> wrote:>
(Still 1d) Usagi,
This mess was caused the same way that the Great Depression was
caused. Namely, a massive debt buildup prior to the pop. There is so
much bad debt that must be written off that its not funny. That bad
debt is in the form of bonds and other financial instruments that
millions of people are counting on for their retirement and running
their businesses. Funny thing is, the money that everyone thinks is
there - isn't. The debts won't be paid in full and therefore everyone
that owns the debt will have to readjust their lives based upon how
much wealth they actually have.
I think the good news, relative to the great depression, is that we
possess the means to produce what we need. We can grow the food, make
the machines, build the planes, but there is such a guessing game
going on as to who controls what and who really owns something, that
it will screw things up for a while.
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Author: travisgodtravisgod
Date: Dec 25, 2008 07:16
On Dec 24, 7:47 am, Renli gmail.com> wrote:> Here is what I think is about to happen.
>
> Obama is probably told every day that the world is being swept by
> fear, causing (money) velocity to plunge, and he is the only person
> who can do anything about it. He is the de facto president of the
> world.
>
> I think Obama and his gang are preparing some kind of PT Barnum
> spectacular for his inaugural address January 20th.
>
> If it works, (money) velocity will reverse, and we will go back to
> where we were August 07 through June 08—meaning the early stages of a
> runaway inflation, with non-dollar assets heading for the
> stratosphere. Gold, oil, copper, art, antiques, almost everything you
> can name will go to new highs within a few months, and the dollar will
> plunge.
>
> If the PT Barnum spectacular does not work, (money) velocity will
> continue falling, and we will spiral on down into a depression. Non- ...
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