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Stepping backwards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquKthpVAfo

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AlJazeera English, simply the best news available on the Internet:

In depth coverage of the currency war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8LbSMcoeGw

In depth coverage of the IMF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtSqQDCIVY

In depth coverage of the Taliban:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9es9n8xFQ

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Whoops, there was supposed to be a link, with it. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwpng9GCyz0

1948 and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2unZIzIwp0&feature=sub

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piston wrote: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/life/10952 ... f-the-lit/

By the way, any tattoo fans here?

The fad was probably spurred on by Megan Fox:

And I love tattoos.

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Cambodia, over three decades after the Khmer Rouge

Khmer Rouge

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I hope they side with Phelps.

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Now here's an idea I can get fully behind.

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absinthe wrote:What were you responding to?
I also don't think you indicated "that it wasn't well within their rights as sovereign states
to act in their own interests."

I'm going to be honest. I don't know exactly what you're saying here.

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E. Online

From various sources, my two favorites are Bloomberg and Al Jazeera.

I also love abyznewlinks.com, which offers links to all of the major (and minor) news sources from every country in the world (I believe).

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Nonsense. France is/was acting within European law to repartriate the Romas. They may not have liked it but that's how it is. Italy did something similar recently but accompanied by less objection. Visiting one of these places would facilitate an understanding of the action. I don't think I indicat...

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Well please do enlighten us Philoctetes. Not my place, but to give an example of what I mean, simply view the 'ethinic' politics of France, where they have moved from a slightly more liberal position, to one that would be classifed as a far right position (using the typical slider) in regards to th...

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I think if they bring the motion up again, that the issue will be fully forced and Israel will have to finally be honest about what exactly they possess, and sign the NPT (which Iran is party too). Aha, now the subject is sincerity. Well it's insincerity in regards to Iran, but sincerity in regards...

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Well what did you mean by insincere? The US very sincerely wants Iran not to have nuclear weapons but equally sincerely doesn't much care that Israel (or Great Britain, or France) does, and that is as it should be. I'm taking it to mean that they aren't being completely up front with everything. I ...

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jbuck919 wrote:
Philoctetes wrote:The Insincerity of the West

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew0fk0wvsDk&feature=sub
Not a double standard--different strokes for different folks.

Does insincere mean double standard or we you simply adding a new element to the conversation?

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The Insincerity of the West

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew0fk0wvsDk&feature=sub

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Please read: http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-end-of-the-siesta-20100924-15qh6.html Welcome to like 40 years ago. Goodness! Is Europe so backward!!! :lol: It has not improved or changed in 40 years? I do pity you. No wonder all the Brits want to migrate to Australia. Not to worry, Sharia Law might i...

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Agnes Selby wrote:Please read:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-end-of- ... 15qh6.html

Welcome to like 40 years ago.

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Well, you sure seem more concerned with the killer than the people she killed. That's quite a presumption. I'll admit that this is the second or third time, since I've begun posting on this forum, that people have attributed things to me that simply weren't there. I'll admit that is quite an annoya...

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Tiger wrote:
Right, why bother remembering that she snuffed out two other lives.

Did anyone say that?

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Hopefully no one celebrated in her death, or mistook this act for justice. I always thought we were enlightened beings, but sometimes we can be such barbarians. It was sad to hear that her life had ceased.

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The other night I got a phone call for a legitimate poll. (It was the Siena Research Institute, which New Yorkers will recognize as an important source that politicians and the press use to assess the ever-changing status of candidates and issues in the state.) One thing they asked was which in a l...

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All of this is trivial. Unless some kind of dramatic spending cuts are implemented, we are going down. Exactly at what pace or how that will play out is of course unknown. I don't think that the US will ever go down, mainly thanks to the interdependency that globalization created. The US will be al...

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You're right, we won't agree.

I can easily separate the terms, but I can understand the difficulty in doing so.

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Semi-reply to jbuck919 Well the issue is that our growth has stagnated, and we're stuck, sort of to the left of the curves. So while we're not technically in a recession, we've had positive growth since, the growth is not enough to really overcome the stagnation. So our current situation is almost a...

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Yes, that's what I'm saying. That it is never justifiable to kill someone.

I didn't say that it wasn't necessary to kill someone, though.

Their two different clauses.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMe1Ljq3fP0

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Clearly you didn't.

You interpreted in such a way just so you could go on a little tangent, that said nothing about the quote, but said a lot about what you projected onto it.

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Here is a piece that raises questions as to whether the President is really interested in giving honest responses to criticisms of the health care packages: What are you implying? That president's lie? That president's distort the truth? That president's don't really want to explain their actions? ...

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It's simply saying that killing another human being is wrong.

It doesn't extend it's commentary to whether it is necessary, but it does say that it cannot be justified.

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Who exactly are you replying too?

Your response really has nothing to do with the quote.

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Yes. It's a comforter.

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Tax work on an upside down parabola.

You can raise them to the apex, and you'll gain revenues, but once you pass the apex, the revenues drop. The starting point and the ending points are both zero.

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"Killing fellow human beings, however noble the ideal, is in hindsight a moral embarassment."
Donald and Lorna Miller (authors of Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide)

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I agree with most of the article, but isn't this simply the process of 'creative destruction'?

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And I don't think I need to get to know someone who knows someone who repeatedly says inflammatory things in a forum like this any better. All we have to judge each other on is what we write. And I've not seen the full extent of your interactions with each other, but from what I've seen, thus far, ...

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I obviously have no stake in how you and your family get along, but I really have a difficult time reconciling your behavior towards your family with some of your comments on the other thread about growing the board membership. It seems to me you're doing the very thing with them that you say is so...

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I don't know where my picture went, but I've been listening to Kocsis playing Bach's Art of Fugue, and I'm enjoying myself thoroughly. He's got the technical skill to keep all of the lines together. It's a very clean reading though, it's not self-indulgent like the Gould, meaning that essentially th...

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I don't really care for my family, you might have gathered. Under the circumstances, lucky you. Very. And I sort of lucked out even more, in a kind of morbid way. I've had two recent deaths that gave me more reason to not really hang around my family. But I do enjoy people who get riled up easily. ...

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But also be sure to listen to what one of the greatest scientists ever, Feynman, has to say. He will readily concede that we may not be able to find out "everything" - but that has nothing to do with religion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCHiUe1et0 And I think that's a fairly common theme among...

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I do, and it's always quite a fun time. They have a tendency to take things personally, which just makes things all the more fun for me. :D That's interesting. Can you give us some details? Well for instance, absolutely anything that has to do with homosexuality bothers them quite a bit. So I reall...

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Agnes Selby wrote:
It is difficult to ignore the stirers and I seldom succeed. I will watch myself
and ignore them.

Just don't mistake 'those who stir things up' with 'those that simply disagree with your position'. From what I've seen so far on this site, this demarcation is clearly not obeyed.

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On the BBC, if their coverage of the Middle East and issues involving Israel is so rational and objective, why did they spend so much to prevent the release of the Balen Report on whether their reporting on Israel is bias?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451138/Report-BBCs-anti-Israel-bias...

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Please Read: http://www.smh.com.au/world/frantic-search-for-afghan-exit-20100922-15mzp.html Nothing all that enlightening, or really fresh and new. I find it strange, how people these days reports news as if it is actually new. I mean political infighting, haphazard military strategy, short-sighted...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11393836 "In a 56-page report, the UN panel said: "There is clear evidence to support prosecutions of the following crimes within the terms of article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: wilful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing grea...

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There, done. Though the best way to exclude non-Americans is a bit of SQL checking the IP Addresses. That ensures people can't cheat mis-declaring their location even if it were made a mandatory field. Quit being so childish. Barry, I agree with Cosi. It is best to ignore Abs. remarks. When I worke...

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Not really. I made a sincere reply here and was attacked straight away which has given rise to my subsequent posts in defence of myself. The substance of the attack refers to another topic some time ago which, as far as I was concerned, was wrapped up. Seems I had touched a deeper nerve root or the...

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absinthe wrote: No relationship to think of. I offered my response to the topic in the 2nd reply. Nothing more to add.

I think you're being disingenuous.

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Barry, try to ignore absinthe. We all know that you are a scholar and truly a gentleman. It's absinthe who thrives on stirring up trouble. Now I don't know the history their relationship, nor do I really care, but these are the kind of posts that I find really bothersome. Especially, since in my li...

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The intensity of reaction to Israel is way out of whack with the reaction to other regimes which I see as legitimately evil. And by the way, the rest of my last post was a response to your comment on Israel not being a legitimate entity. It was an explanation of why they ARE as legitimate as Britai...

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