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by Context_free 6y ago
> Also "rigged" is just conspiracy language. YOU CAN LITERALLY LOOK UP THE INDEX YOURSELF. The idea that the government inflation indexes are rigged is conspiracy language. They are talking as if people from conservative think
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About a week after the US invasion of Iraq happened, something which New Yorker editor David Remnick heavily pushed, the magazine ran a 10000+ word hit piece on anti-war critic (and theory of computation Chomsky Normal Form creator) Noam Ch
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by Context_free 6y ago
> Perhaps you meant Taipei, the capital? What is the name of the island Taipei is on?
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by Context_free 6y ago
> A few kilometers away, the Chinese coast was faintly visible from Lin’s boat. He was on the lookout for Chinese sand-dredging ships encroaching on waters controlled by Taiwan. Right. The mainland is less than 6 miles from Matsu. Taiw
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by Context_free 6y ago
> Which lines are going up? the ones the government is most involved in. Which lines are going down? the ones with the least(by comparison) regulated markets. Aha. So the two Baby Bell descendants own virtually all of the last mile land
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by Context_free 6y ago
Emma Goldman was writing about yellow journalism about prostitution and "the traffic in women" and liberal response to it back in 1910. It's 110 years later and Nicholas Kristof et al. are still publishing the same dreck in
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by Context_free 6y ago
You can find the answer here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... This is the first thing that came to my mind as well...the current data on falling rentier rates, crises of political economy
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by Context_free 6y ago
Reading the New York Times article mentioning women and trafficking reminded me of this old American classic from over a century ago, about the yellow journalists of the day spinning the same stories, sans the modern streaming element http
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It takes some tricky math to get where military spending is only 12% of federal spending. First, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan and being treated in a VA hospital would have to have that cost excluded from the budget. The department of en
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Also if we look at the so-called "self-made" billionaires, Bill Gates went to a fancy prep school where grammar school students had access to a computer in the late 1960s . His great grandfather was a bank president, and he was