The USA backed a military coup that ousted the Haitian government in 1991. The US again backed a military coup that ousted the same president, Aristide, in 2004. The president in the 2004 coup was transferred from the…
Ho-hum. The military campaign which lead to these people's deaths was planned by one man. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi plucked from obscurity when the US government began (via ISI) heavily arming him so that he could oust…
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…
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…
I have pictures too... 1950 US memo talking about the orders to machine gun Korean civilians https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/No_Gun_R... and some of the dead bodies…
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.…
> Have you ever read anything his law clerks wrote for him while on the court? (fixed)
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=f9HtoWea72A&list=RDf9HtoWea7...…
And people like this wonder why people are flocking to Bernie Sanders and blocking Google buses.. > I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution. There is, and this parasite will be one of the first ones up…
> 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 (…
> 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…
> 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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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.
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…
> China has a big us against the world mentality In 2001, George Bush ordered the Air Force to fly along the Chinese border, to purposefully set off China's attack systems. Then, one of the fighter jets rammed into a…
Hugo Chávez has been dead for three years, and the Venezuelan parliament is controlled by right wing parties. Obviously economic problems of today are attributable to someone buried three years ago, not the right wing…
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…
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…
> 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…
A startup is a corporation with angels and VCs (who raise money from LPs). Over time, the larger startups go on NASDAQ or the NYSE, and then after time issue dividends. They expropriate the surplus labor time from the…
> If you attack economic inequality, you're indiscriminately attacking both the good and bad causes. Graham keeps returning to this point, which is a little silly. His class owns and controls the corporate media, which…
> 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…
The USA backed a military coup that ousted the Haitian government in 1991. The US again backed a military coup that ousted the same president, Aristide, in 2004. The president in the 2004 coup was transferred from the…
Ho-hum. The military campaign which lead to these people's deaths was planned by one man. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi plucked from obscurity when the US government began (via ISI) heavily arming him so that he could oust…
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…
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…
I have pictures too... 1950 US memo talking about the orders to machine gun Korean civilians https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/No_Gun_R... and some of the dead bodies…
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.…
> Have you ever read anything his law clerks wrote for him while on the court? (fixed)
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=f9HtoWea72A&list=RDf9HtoWea7...…
And people like this wonder why people are flocking to Bernie Sanders and blocking Google buses.. > I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution. There is, and this parasite will be one of the first ones up…
> 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 (…
> 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…
> 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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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.
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…
> China has a big us against the world mentality In 2001, George Bush ordered the Air Force to fly along the Chinese border, to purposefully set off China's attack systems. Then, one of the fighter jets rammed into a…
Hugo Chávez has been dead for three years, and the Venezuelan parliament is controlled by right wing parties. Obviously economic problems of today are attributable to someone buried three years ago, not the right wing…
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…
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…
> 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…
A startup is a corporation with angels and VCs (who raise money from LPs). Over time, the larger startups go on NASDAQ or the NYSE, and then after time issue dividends. They expropriate the surplus labor time from the…
> If you attack economic inequality, you're indiscriminately attacking both the good and bad causes. Graham keeps returning to this point, which is a little silly. His class owns and controls the corporate media, which…
> 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…