Your connection between UXO and car crashes I must say is rather spurious. The decimation of rural indigenous populations has been a major US policy for the past 60 years and continues to this day. Perhaps there is a more fundamental question to be asked, i.e. why were these crimes perpetrated in the first place and I include the First World War in the scheme of things here also. I would also imagine instances of UXO explosions in France is minute in comparison with what is happening accross Indo-China today. Let us not forget the empirically true fact that if all …
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Well you will surely be aware that everything revolves around money regardless of personal opinion. For instance I disagree inherently with the whole concept and believe it is the mainstay of greed. Pretty basic comments. However it was economics that will be the cause of interference in Latin American Democracy, it was economics that drove the United States into the jungles of South Vietnam. However much we may treat it with personal disdain. Therefore the bottom line in this probably terminal phase of human evolution is the dollar and the euro. It has been the deciding factor in the construction of …
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Thank you for the reply. Yes I can give you examples of countries that, or at least large parts of countries that have been ostensibly free from greed at least in a more communal sense. I cannot comment on individuals. I would suggest you look at the Barcelona Anarchists of the Spanish Republic who were simply crushed by Franco's fascists. I am not writing from Italy, it is an Irish flag (green white and orange, they are similar). The Israeli Kibuzzin might be considered another example, I am not sure how true it is today but certainly before they were quite …
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Thakn you very much Maria. I am sure your "old age" should not be so much of an impediment to you. I am only 20, I still have to enter the workforce and when I do I am afraid I cannot promise that I will continue with my efforts.As is all too obvious work is the main system of control. I hope I can continue. Unfortunately, these capabilities are being crushed on a daily basis. Unlike Franco they no longer need tanks and guns to suppress us, they have television and public relations to do that for them. I of course …
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Yes I would also like to know where Maria is also!! haha It appears we do agree on some of the fundamenals but I must always feel that greed is a product of society. We are assuming here that history is following some sort of cyclical pattern here. We must instead assume that these are the times to be alive. The very fact we are here discussing such things means that there is something telling us that things are not right. I must say that there would be more than a mere system of restriction stopping me from taking something that …
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I can confirm that these are also major problems in Cambodia and Vietnam. Another major problem still faced by both countries is the fact that there was also used in abundance chemical defoliants such as Agent Orange. The calculated use of these products by US forces throughout Indochina has also meant that much of the land has been left barren even to this day. Birth defects from this are also a very prevalent problem and also continue to this day. Even now Israel are using cluster munitions against Lebanon and in Palestine, which has been strongly spoken against by Human Rights …
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I will finish with this. Chomsky's popularity is backed up by his hard cold fact. He has been writing for forty years and any factual error has been corrected by himself. If you consider him " a real nut" then I just cannot respond. His clarity of thought and exposition cannot be faulted. If you consider him so then I must merely say you have not investigated his statements or his ideas. The New York Times said about him he is "arguably the most important intellectual alive". You will see this on every book he has written, however as he himself …
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I must reply by saying Chomsky's ideas are pro-US. His ideas depend on a recognition that your government and mine do not serve our interests, his hopes are pinned on the citizenry of the US. To simply disregard him with ad hominem tactics such as calling him a nutcase do no justice to anybody. I would implore you to give him a chance and see if inconsistencies are there. I do not know what parts of Chomsky's arguments have turned you away from him so fervently, his books are for not just the head but the heart. Some deceny is required …
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All of the evidence you are putting forward to me is totally anecdotal. I am not aware of these people's existence so this constitutes no real research whatsoever. I never denied that the Communitsts suprressed people in Eastern Europe, my own girlfriend is from Poland and grew up in that era. What I was saying, if you were listening, was their nuclear capability and their influenece on smaller countries around the world was a convenient excuse for Western governments to decimate indigenous national liberation struggles to create favourable economic climates for large corporations. I dont think you should enjoy paying a …
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The National Rifle Association??????? I am fully aware of the complexity of the real world. Again you have missed my point. I have fully researched all of the accusations put forth by people like Chomsky and Palast and came out with essentially the same conclusions. You are talking about small fringe groups manipulating our thoughts. What about the massive lobbying groups who do the same. We pay a very high mental price for the level of advertising we are forced to consume. I am aware of the obnoxious history of the Public Realtions industry including advertisers to cover-up specialists like Burson …
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Yes the ordinary honest citizen is forbidden to own firarms in Europe generally, that is why we dont have 12,000 gun murders every year. You missed my point about the institutional analysis. I was saying that what is construed as a conspiracy theory is often just simple analysis. I do take much of what I get from the Internet. There are many websites dedicated to archiving extensive amounts of internal policy documents. The Avalon Project at Yale is just one but there are countless others. The Virtual Vietnam Archive and the US Diplomatic History Resources Index is another. I do not …
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The Iran-Contra affair was one small issue that fell through the cracks. Good reporters understood that in the months after this things would be more open for a while. It was the same after Watergate. I am not selecting any information I read widely on US diplomatic history. I have read from Arthur J. Schlesinger to Noam Chomsky, I find a majority to be apologetics. It is true that real objectivity can never be fully achieved that is why if I hear something said confidently I will always ask "Is that true?". If the media operates fairly then address the figures …
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With regards to your secular state, If your atae was truly secular then you would not have any moral laws. By this I mean anti-choice abortion laws, and vice laws. Your state is secular in name only.
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Yes the point about feminism was particularly well articulated, I am tired of hearing about how Madonna is supposed to be some sort of modern day Sylvia Pankhurst. However, there is an obviously pragmatic societal function to celebrity culture. That is to dull the minds of the contemptible masses and ensure their isolation from matter which actually affect them and that they might have some idea about changing given sufficient opportunity. Unfortuinately given the overwhelming success of these things, such as the lauding how disgustingly wealthy these people are opportunities are few and far between Tony, Ireland
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We must realise that we pay attention to Holly wood as the lines have become, for me anyway, very much blurred between the news media and clebrity culture. If atrocities continue in Lebanon then it should be linked directly to celebrity culture. It is true a lot of attention is focussed on celebrities and we should consider large amounts of passivity and docile consumption as complicit in these atrocities. There is no line between watching the vacuous and trite matters forced upon by Hollywood and others, and the lies foisted upon us by FOX, Sky News, CBS, or whatever your respective …
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