VictorPath

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by VictorPath 4y ago
Sahlgren (not Shalgren) is an ideologue with an axe to grind. Finland has gotten good PISA scores for a while and still gets them, he sits figures fir his purposes. Also Chinese PISA scores come from top schools in Beijing, whereas Finlan
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Google "super exploitation".
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> Since he took office in 2000, Putin has been eroding the space for public debate in Russia. He moved from dismantling independent media Right, Russia bans independent media, while those in the free EU can go read https://www
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IT People used to talk on Usenet, then a bunch of young free software guys started Slashdot, which took VC and corporatized, then a seed fund started this web site. The medium determines the message and this board is filled with white, upp
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> national security information The word national security used to mean protecting a country just invaded, then moved to troops on the border looking like they'll invade. Now you've stretched it to the government doing mass su
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> The West has embraced Russia's democracy right after the fall of the iron curtain. Right like Clinton and the US congress cheering Yeltsin bombing Russia's elected parliament.
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What do you mean, like when Clinton and the US Congress cheered Yeltsin bombing Russia's elected parliament (Duma). Then Yeltsin appointed Putin and here we are. The US has positioned Russia exactly where it wants it - it has positio
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The US is actively seizing another sovereign nation's territory, it is seizing Guantanamo in Cuba, which Cuba has requested the US leave for decades.
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The article could also mention that Britain has a heavily armed presence in the six counties of north Ireland, which colluded with and armed loyalist death squads, when it wasn't locking up the native population in concentration camps
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The US Navy sailed guided missle cruisers along and just outside Chinese waters Sunday. The headline in that case neglected to proffer that they were "heavily armed", I guess the objective news only mentions that if they're
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> the people held at Guantanamo are responsible for killing humans via cowardly terrorists attacks, either indirectly or directly. The people held at Guantanamo Bay are not considered POWs by the US, nor have they been given a trial. Th
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> the perperators will get to live lavish lives off the proceeds of their artwork once released The US has released some people from Guantanamo, saying they picked up the wrong person. Of course such things happen when people are impris
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> Why such a long queue?”...“Well,” sighs Marx, “Sometimes we’re out of oil, sometimes we don’t have I've been immersed in shortages for the past two years (try to go buy a car for MSRP), why some UK paper is writing about some far
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If the US can afford to send $40 billion in weapons to Ukraine, it can afford some help to people going to college. The government subsidizing a more educated US workforce is a "giveaway", but you don't hear that word applied
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For modern topics, read the Monthly Review ( https://monthlyreview.org ). This article on the 2008 financial crisis has lots of interesting references to government data. Then you can see if you reach the same conclusions as th
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In thanks for his decades of work getting the Internet going, Postel spent the months before he died getting trashed by anonymous government officials in the Washington Post and elsewhere.
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> a surveillance society run by engineers would feel like to its inhabitants with a nauseating accuracy that did not become fully apparent until the rise of the modern tech surveillance complex. Dick used to write letters to the FBI in t
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> Here in India, British barely spent money on education, or industrialising the country. It's beyond even that. The English spent the nineteenth century deindustrializing India - textiles, steel etc.
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> He'd been in power since 1941 Does that include when he had fled to Italy in 1953? The reports were he had little desire to go back to Iran, and the CIA and SIS met trying to figure out how to get him to go back to Iran > the
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> Egypt and Iran are similar Mossadegh wanted a secular independent Iran, England empowered the mullahs and worked for decades to destroy the secular left in Iran (along with the US). Eventually even the mullahs and bazaari turned again
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> he'll go through your science and find your errors and get a colleague he can deny knowing to publish that. Chomsky did this to the Piraha linguist. "Go through your science and find your errors" is science. Commendatio
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> Studies show test prep makes very little difference Your cited studies show a 10-37 average increase, which means some prep improves half the preppers even more. > Also, “hundreds of dollars” as a one time expense per kid isn’t unaf
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> whining We workers are bombarded consistently with whining about estate taxes, carry interest and that sort of thing. Actually the recent senate bill was held up over the fight over carried interest, a fight which was won by the funds
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> tak(x)ing away any raise and disposable income your employer gave you An employer does not give a raise and disposable income to a worker. The worker is the creator of wealth, and the heirs collecting dividend profits are who are bein
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In 1985, FARC entered a peace process and began working electorally and non-violently. The right never went for this and despite the government agreeing to a peace settlement, the right slaughtered political candidates, trade union leaders
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This is a strawman argument. It is a diversion. It is not about billionaires and their wealth. It is about the expropriation of a worker's surplus labor time by the heirs. It is about control of all the worker's work time (surp
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> uhh. The article appears to suggest that we change who controls our labor... > #1 - we do, we can quit anytime we want and find another place to work for. We change who controls our labor by making those who control our labor us, th
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Iraq? From 1958 to 2003 Iraq preserved its cultural heritage fine. Then the UK invaded and the Iraq museum treasures were lost. The UK of course blames this on the Iraqis. The country is thrown into turmoil, to a tut-tut by upper middle
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Destroyed like the English banning the Irish language in schools in trying to destroy the Irish language? Insofar as radical Islamists, the English sided with and supported radical Islamists in Iran against Mossadegh and then against the se
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This is correct. The US does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country. The Taiwanese government doesn't recognize itself as a separate country from mainland China. I guess some people want Apple to have some US ultra-jingoist

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