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Doozy admits the truth you won't see in the US corporate media. The Colombian bourgeoisie does not want peace. It's why they murdered Gaitán. It's why when the left unilaterally put down the gun in the mid 1980s and ran fo
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This all started when the right wing murdered Gaitán in 1948. Then the US began coming into Colombia heavily into the 1980s. The left wanted to end the violence so founded UP in the 1980s and ceased violence. The landowners, AUC, CIA etc.
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>> Someone with so little exposure on US airwaves over the decades is not a celebrity. > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159008/ 165 credits as himself on different programs. 155 in the last 20 years. Well th
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> their topic of expertise Who is the expert on how the pie should be divided up?
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The subtitle is "Piecing together a celebrity scientist". A celebrity? I've seen him interviewed once on Charlie Rose. In May 2002 CNN put him on with Bill Bennett. In 1986 he debated Boston university president John Silber o
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Everett himself debunked Everett. Originally he said Piraha was recursive. Then he changed its mind and said it wasn't, thus, all of Chomsky's theories are wrong. He learned to speak Piraha training to be a Christian missionary
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The big companies don't want decentralization, so the trend has been away from decentralization towards centralization: * Usenet was a decentralized forum, like a decentralized HN in a sense. The first attack on it were the small-time
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Comparing an 80 year old Palestinian in Nablus whose family has been in Nablus for centuries with a Mexican who moved to the US five years ago is silly. Also, there was a 2000 amnesty bill, so it is Mexicans who chose to move to the US wit
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> You could just as well ask why illegal/undocumented mexicans do not have representation in congress. You're comparing a Mexican who made the decision to cross a border yesterday, or last year, or a decade ago, with say a Pale
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If that is the case, why don't Palestinians have representatives in the Knesset? Why do Israelis claim Israel is the "only democracy in the Middle East" if only Jews living in the West Bank can vote? Israel can't claim i
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In East Germany in 1949, you had a left coalition like in the 1948 Italian election. It gained 66% of the vote to the 34% of the opposition. In the 1947 Hungarian election, the communists got the most votes. So how come we never hear that
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I said they're still referred to as Indians because they're still referred to as Indians. The point is the very name shows the nature of the ingrained misconceptions about them - the idea that they're from India for one. Ye
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> All this complicated dance of indirect elections (that the current parties would like to remove) has been put in place after the WW2 to avoid too much power being in the hands of these high-profile figures or of a single party. All of
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There are two ways producing widgets can grow 10%. The standard way is where production methods stay the same, and 10% more offices/factories are added and 10% more workers are added. The reason this would be done is because there was
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Can Silicon Valley take care of its own long term needs? Basic math and science research now is the soil Silicon Valley needs in the future. But government budgets are cut, and there's a philosophy that predominates that government is
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This is a straw man argument like the article. My last point is that the Catholic church was not able to change any texts (or creeds or customs) in the east. It just ignored them. Somehow you read those words and somehow divined that somew
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> The bible is critical of the establishment He doesn't really give many examples. One of the big ones is the prophet Elijah confronting the king of Israel, Ahab. At that time the kingdom of Judah incorporated Jerusalem and the cen
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> Even hunter-gatherers have chiefs and elders. Hunter-gatherer bands do not have chiefs. Looking at the Wikipedia article for "Tribal chief" it says "Historically, tribal societies represent an intermediate stage between
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> what evidence Archaeological evidence Evidence from literate civilizations writing about their uncivilized neighbors, which goes back to the earliest known works Evidence from writers encountering such societies up to the modern day, a
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> Similarly, the Soviet Union initially instructed the Chinese Communist Party to cooperate with the KMT in the 1920s, because they believed that full development of productive forces, under a capitalist regime, was a necessary precursor
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> embracing of capitalism Zhao Ziyang embraced capitalism, and he was arrested after the June 4th incident. Capitalism run by the communist party of China? Also, Mao and Zhou Enlai are who made peace with the USA, not Deng Xiaoping. &gt
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Yes, the PRC has been run so incompetently by the standing committee of the Politburo of the CPC it has become by some measures the largest economy in the world. How about when they were so eager to increase production that they failed to p
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I neglected to mention, FNB only serves food in Tompkins Square Park on Sunday. In your situation, forget about a job that involves R machine learning, unless you already have an in. Get a job as a messenger, or supermarket stocker, or McD
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I consulted at a Fortune 100 investment bank in New York City 15 years ago. It's difficult to hide that layoffs are coming - managers are pulled into meetings to rank their employees, they tell their friend, word gets around. Someone
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> Lenin was pushing for dictatorship of the working class ... While one may say that whose ideologies are of different colors, structurally they are the same and thus produced similar results - totalitarian states. Lenin was born into a
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I would suggest... If you're homeless in NYC, there used to be a squatter scene in the Lower East Side. That's changed over the past decades, but ABC No Rio at 156 Rivington used to be a squat, and they have a calendar of open ev
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If there was a "deliberate campaign of genocide by starvation" happening, I'm sure I could look in the New York Times archives of the period and read about that. If I consult the archives, the reporters going through the Ukr
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10000 years ago the entire world was not socialist but communist, and none of what you mentioned happened. It was the formation of class societies of workers and parasites 10000 years ago which led to violence, suppression of the population
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> I'd skip an industrialization like that That's how the British empire industrialized (in India, Ireland) etc. The western countries bordering Ukraine had food shortages the same year the Ukraine did, no mention of that. Also
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You refer to a market in the US that sells radishes for dollars as "free", which presumably means the identical market selling radishes for rubles in the USSR is unfree, and I am the one playing around? I have trouble fathoming d

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