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by obrero 11y ago
Hanssen was posting stories to Usenet's alt.sex.stories in the late 1990s, stories of voyeurism about his wife ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.sex.stories/3e1fHGTW_Pc/... ). He can't be
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> Mr. Xi has often discussed the seven years he spent exiled to a rural village during the latter part of the Cultural Revolution, including in a speech in Seattle on Tuesday, casting that chapter of his life as an uplifting story of a c
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The old party line of the Communist Party USA was to not only not support charity, but on some level to work against charity. As Europe and North America shifted from farming and feudalism, a new group came into existence, the "reserv
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> The time and manner of invention and evolution do not yield to government nor even recognize its purview. I think it's becoming clear to all of us that the internet will not abide government Well you must be rather young and have
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The fiery crash landing in China was the pre-PRC era, where China was so weak that it was being carved up by the Europeans, Americans and Japanese. The Cultural Revolution kicked off an era of double digit GDP growth in China, which persist
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> There's even an outside possibility that China's economic miracle could end up in a fiery crash landing People have been saying this since Deng Xiaoping took over, over 35 years ago. Actually, they've been saying it for
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Sure, I've sabotaged outside vendors that came in myself. One Fortune 500 company I worked for set up a fledgling out-sourcing group. I would see the tickets come up and I grabbed every one of them. I also watched for their caller ID
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> Bill Gates and Madonna are both college drop outs. It doesn't appear to have hurt either of their careers. Bill Gates was also born with a million dollar trust fund, so make sure you have a safety net and starting capital like tha
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by obrero 11y ago
I'm always puzzled by these articles looking at the Great Firewall of China as if it is an alien thing. Much of it was designed in the US, by American engineers, working for companies like Cisco ( http://www.wired.com/
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> trickle down I was just reading the convention speech of the Democratic candidate for president in 1896, William Jennings Bryan. In his speech ( http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/ ) he says "There ar
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Exactly...we hear "free market economy" "advantage in efficient resource allocation" talk when Wall Street demanded deregulation, and that Glass-Steagall be repealed. Then when the rentiers start going broke it becomes
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> I am forced to recognise that the ideals of the regime in Caracas are not translating into a robust economy even though I wish they were. What about prior to 1999? The people running Venezuela had many decades and centuries to create
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The phrase communist country is a contradiction, communism means there are no countries. The people drawing cave paintings in Chauvet 30,000 years ago were living in a communist society. 10,000 years ago the entire world was communist. Th
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George Orwell wrote in 1984 about how much effort was put into propagandizing to the professional-managerial class by the state. He should know, he was an informant against the left for the Foreign Office via Celia Kirwan. Just go to the f
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> US police is notorious for its brutality, but are these killings ordered by top officials in chain of command? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Fred_Hampton > If factory workers go on a strike in
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> Then again he also apparently had himself talked in circles to make his findings fit the labor theory of value. And what are the record and movie companies imploring us with, when they say we shouldn't copy ("pirate") so
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If this is true (and I take these things with an enormous grain of salt), it is an unfortunate thing. Tools are created to get rid of jobs, yet they create yet more work? In a rational society, more jobs being destroyed would be something
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Here's a video from 1990 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6eE9BIUfBg&t=16m43s Note how he says to Mandela - "the assets of the white people - I have worked for my banks, my mines, my businesses, and my farms
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Also, pretty much all physicists want to know things such as, why there is more matter than anti-matter, if a good explanation for that can be found. If someone came up with a relatively solid answer to that question, the physics community
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> Unions are generally for people that...Don't have good negotiating skills Wow, it's amazing that you have such incredible negotiating skills that you can beat out a Fortune 500 companies human resources department, their ou
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> inheritance taxes are taxes on illiquid assets This is why estate planning exists. Any business that actually plans for estate taxes will not have this problem at all.
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> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals And military front lines. The US has had a system to allow the children of the rich to avoid the military during wars since World War II - the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Atlas_Shrugged_and_Ob... In 1951 Rand moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she gathered a group of these admirers around her. This group (jokingly designated "The C
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Usenet is a way for the ordinary person to be able to talk unfettered to other ordinary people - without a need for a central authority, without the approval and shilling of advertisers etc. So, after decades of the taxpayer funding R&
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Also, the US nuclear power industry was bragging about how Iran was developing as a nuclear power in the 1970s ( https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674080998749170/ ). You could say the US thinks the current Iranian l
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Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865. In 1923, 58 years later, one of the first cartoons produced by Disney was Alice's Wonderland. In 1924 - 91 years ago - he made another Alice movie. That second movie is still under copyrigh
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In 1887, their grandfather, Czar Alexander the third had Lenin's brother put up against a wall and shot. How unfortunate for the czar who signed that death warrant to have his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren fall into the hands
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I forgot to mention that the Fair Labor Standards Act was a follow-up to the National Labor Relations Act. That act gives rights to share wage information, prevents employers from interfering with that, and court rulings since then have af
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> enforced secrecy Not that the US government enforces labor law (for the workers creating the wealth any how), but it is illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act for an employer to tell employees they can't share what their salar
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> Like a software system, it's extremely naive to think that complexity is a sign that a system is rotten. The reality is, the derivatives market is larger than the actual market. More capital is invested in calls guessing if Googl

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