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by obrero 11y ago
But the US did "do business" with the Khmer Rouge. The moment the Khmer Rouge fell from power in 1979, the US began fighting for them to keep control of the Cambodian United Nations seat. The US began arming them as well. This t
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by obrero 11y ago
I'm too impatient for negative replies...let me write my own. Let me try to get into the mind of some Phillips Exeter heir who now lives in the Mission and is working for Zynga or something... Uh...this is "whataboutism". L
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by obrero 11y ago
I used to work in IT at an investment bank. We got no overtime, and had to work all hours - 9 hours a day, sometimes starting at 7 AM, weekend work, pages in the middle of the night. The electricians all left at 5 PM. They belonged to the
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by obrero 11y ago
> Have you ever read anything his law clerks wrote for him while on the court? (fixed)
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by obrero 11y ago
Harry Shearer did an excellent mini-series three years ago called "Nixon's the One". It's just a verbatim reenactment of conversations from Nixon's tapes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HtoWea72
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by obrero 11y ago
> Israel is threatened by Iran and Iran's leaders have said they would wipe Israel off the map. This was not said, it's just Zionist propaganda. Even the Washington Post says so ( https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F
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by obrero 11y ago
> Don't forget that Egypt and Jordan get foreign Aid, 1.5B$ while Israel gets 3B$ What? Egypt got no "foreign aid" until some post-Nasserite forces in Egypt got together and decided to kow-tow to Israel and the US during
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by obrero 11y ago
> only liberal democracy in the middle east What a laugh. A Palestinian in Hebron whose family has been there for thousands of years gets no vote, whereas a Jew from Brooklyn who just got off a plane and steals his land does get a vote
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by obrero 11y ago
The language in this is Orwellian. She talks about how new construction is needed and how people are stopping it. Then she points to examples where people are not stopping it, just not letting developers do whatever they want (the dangero
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by obrero 11y ago
> industrial capacity has been rising that is what "more capital equipment exists" means. Its utilization of 87%+ in the late 1960s to below 77% in 2011 is the problem. > inflation-adjusted hourly compensation has never bee
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by obrero 11y ago
Debt is a symptom, not the disease. Excessive debt is a method of not dealing with problems and kicking the can down the road. Of course it makes things ultimately worse, but why do people need to go into debt they can't get out of,
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by obrero 11y ago
When I went into Facebook's bathroom, at eye level over each urinal was posted a weekly newsletter, which talked about changes to their PHP API.
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by obrero 11y ago
The facts which Wittes gives are way off. He links to "civil suits against the companies who provide service to ISIS and other bad guys". The civil suit is regarding a Jordanian police officer who shot and killed an American mil
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by obrero 11y ago
The US taxpayer and government funds public research, and the results are given as private profit to publishers. Swartz downloads papers en masse, something he may have had a murky right to do as an MIT fellow. This results in MIT, JStor,
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by obrero 11y ago
USA: Extermination of natives, slavery, company towns and child labor, Jim crow etc. England: English colonialism from Drogheda to Amristar, plus the domestic Peterloo, child labor etc. Also, how many millions did England deliberately star
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by obrero 11y ago
> For examples of the atrocious consequences of "basic income" divorced from free markets, see the Soviet Union, East Germany, Red China What are those atrocious consequences? For Russia? First satellite in space? First man i
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by obrero 11y ago
> If you're going to lump together everything even tenuously connected to the military (all of NASA? all of the State Department? all of the Department of Energy?) I very clearly said I am not going to lump together NASA and the DoE
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by obrero 11y ago
> I worry that the New Republic is too damaged by now -- that it can't be what it was before Before what? Before was Stephen Glass's invented anti-black stories (and other invented stories). Bell Curve are blacks genetically
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by obrero 11y ago
The DoD is the third biggest agency but does not include Veterans Affairs (3.7% of budget), the State Department (1.6% of budget), Homeland Security (1.5%), or the CIA (1.4%). I don't even include the DoE, which among other things han
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by obrero 11y ago
> Iqbal was imprisoned because he entered into a business relationship with Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, not because of the content of the broadcast. From the New York Times: You quote from the Times but leave out the next senten
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by obrero 11y ago
> the public conversation about economic inequality is way too sloppy, and that we should focus not on crude statistical measures like economic inequality but on the specific underlying components This is a ridiculous thing to day. For
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by obrero 11y ago
Income inequality, unemployment etc. are necessities for that dynastic wealth as well. If you're not going to make money by working and creating wealth, you have to make it as a rentier, expropriating wealth created during surplus labo
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by obrero 11y ago
It's not that Zuckerberg went to Harvard. It's that he went to Phillips Exeter Academy. A high school that costs over $36,000 a year (tack on more than $10k more if you're boarding there). Zuckerberg is rare among these creat
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by obrero 11y ago
> For example, instead of attacking economic inequality, we should attack poverty. The problem is the people on the rentier side of the economic inequality scale are doing the opposite. They want poverty. The need poverty. It is the c
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by obrero 11y ago
The first major bloodletting of the Bahai in Iran was in 1955 - two years after the US and UK conspired to overthrow Iran's secular parliament and install the Shah, with the backing of the ayatollahs. In 1955, the Shah and his strong
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by obrero 11y ago
This has been noted in the western press too. For example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1... Well, it says that an Islamic militia backed by the US gave up its arms to Al-Q
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by obrero 11y ago
The ayatollahs got into control because the Shah used them to overthrow the parliament (Behbahani and Falsafi and finally Kashani), used them to attack the left etc. In fact, as I mentioned in another post, one of their first acts (1955) w
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by obrero 11y ago
Did you just take the opportunity of reading a note that the US and UK overthrew Iran's secular parliament and empowered the ayatollahs, only to take your western hand and shake a holier-than-thou hand at Iran that it is abusing human
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by obrero 11y ago
Iran had a parliamentary democracy until 1953. In 1953, the prime minister, Mosaddegh, began talking about nationalizing Iran's oil. The UK and the USA went by the normal playbook, bankrolling minorities, religious and otherwise to s
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by obrero 11y ago
Usenet probably did play some small part in taking power away from the government and Gosplan, and handing it to the people of the USSR. This is one of the main reasons the US government and the corporations which monopolize the last mile o

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