Trump is appointing the daughter-in-law of Amway's founder to run the Department of Education. No surprise, she sees it as a money-making (charter school) opportunity for corporations.
> The entire concept of fiat currency is abstraction Then why does the US still maintain over 8000 tons of gold at Fort Knox and elsewhere, 45 years after closing the gold window? Of course even before 1971 paper…
> The 'idle' class is not actually 'idle', and if they are then usually their parents were not 'idle' Heirs who do not work and live off the profits of worker's labor are idle. Certainly their parents are idle as well.…
> Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. If everybody is working in this process, then where do the…
One thing missing from the list: a real worker's movement that is threatening to the wealthy. People remember the Russian Revolution toward the end of World War I, what they tend to forget is that Hungary had a…
> free trade Who said TPP had anything to do with free trade? Various powerful interest groups lobby and shove economic capture for themselves into these deals, transferring power over these matters from American voters…
One person who has been clear-headed about this for weeks is Michael Moore. Michigan and Wisconsin were supposed to be in the bag for Hillary, but that looks like where the surprise swing is coming from. Moore said from…
Many of the people on HN are in their twenties, some of us are slightly older. In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black church in Birmingham and killed four little girls, because the church supported the rights of…
Far down in this article, Apple co-founder Rod Holt explains what he thought it was about Steve Jobs that put him into the vanguard. http://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs Particularly the part where he talks…
One reason the Industrial Revolution happened in northern England is manor lords began seizing the land that belonged in common to the peasants and enclosing it. Newly impoverished peasants would then become cheap labor…
Putting aside who is better, Trump or Clinton - Clinton and the DNC establishment support National Security Letters, NSA spying, PRISM, Echelon, the idea that if you're not doing anything wrong, you have no expectation…
From 1933 to 1953, the Democratic party held the presidency in the United States. Twenty years out of power is said to have been one of the factors leading to McCarthyism. McCarthy called it "20 years of treason" (then…
> they should not be forced to join the union (with whom they disagree) just to be able to provide for their families. But you're obviously OK with people being forced to join corporations (with whom they disagree) just…
Maduro was elected president. There's no vote upcoming, just yet another recall referendum, this one which failed to get going in the courts. Honduras on the other hand had an elected president. Obama bankrolled his…
> the effective kind of cocky/jerk behavior that works well with some women Some guys come to think that they are not cocky/jerky, but other guys are, and that this behavior "works well with some women". It's odd to me…
> I don't understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. I don't understand how 43+% of the country supports Hillary. A lot of what Trump says makes sense to me - questioning why the US military is involved all over…
Cambodia had a monarchy and stability (relative to its neighbors), but Sihanouk refused US requests to get involved in the Vietnam war, so the US began a campaign to destabilize the country, eventually replacing…
> I don't see any fundamental change in scarcity in the last few years. I do. There have always been economies of scale, but the first shipment of Call of Duty costs tens of millions of dollars. Shipments #2 to #1000000…
> most people tend to be mediocre As the article points out, most jobs are mediocre. Good work is not appreciated, a company can't form a team that works normal hours and uses tests and version control, autonomy and…
> No change is necessary. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why was it changed in 1998? ISI was perfectly capable of handling the function. Ted Cruz is indignant that the US Department of Commerce is transitioning out of…
> What exactly is wrong with the current setup? What exactly was wrong with the 1998 setup? ISI and Jon Postel were managing fine back then. I also don't recall a "US control over ICANN" that could be "relinquished"…
The author, Michael Straight, later said he was a KGB operative at the time he wrote this.
It talks about effects on the culture, but things mentioned like the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan happened over half a century ago. You may as well talk about how World War I affected the culture. Kids don't listen…
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…
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…
Trump is appointing the daughter-in-law of Amway's founder to run the Department of Education. No surprise, she sees it as a money-making (charter school) opportunity for corporations.
> The entire concept of fiat currency is abstraction Then why does the US still maintain over 8000 tons of gold at Fort Knox and elsewhere, 45 years after closing the gold window? Of course even before 1971 paper…
> The 'idle' class is not actually 'idle', and if they are then usually their parents were not 'idle' Heirs who do not work and live off the profits of worker's labor are idle. Certainly their parents are idle as well.…
> Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. If everybody is working in this process, then where do the…
One thing missing from the list: a real worker's movement that is threatening to the wealthy. People remember the Russian Revolution toward the end of World War I, what they tend to forget is that Hungary had a…
> free trade Who said TPP had anything to do with free trade? Various powerful interest groups lobby and shove economic capture for themselves into these deals, transferring power over these matters from American voters…
One person who has been clear-headed about this for weeks is Michael Moore. Michigan and Wisconsin were supposed to be in the bag for Hillary, but that looks like where the surprise swing is coming from. Moore said from…
Many of the people on HN are in their twenties, some of us are slightly older. In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black church in Birmingham and killed four little girls, because the church supported the rights of…
Far down in this article, Apple co-founder Rod Holt explains what he thought it was about Steve Jobs that put him into the vanguard. http://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs Particularly the part where he talks…
One reason the Industrial Revolution happened in northern England is manor lords began seizing the land that belonged in common to the peasants and enclosing it. Newly impoverished peasants would then become cheap labor…
Putting aside who is better, Trump or Clinton - Clinton and the DNC establishment support National Security Letters, NSA spying, PRISM, Echelon, the idea that if you're not doing anything wrong, you have no expectation…
From 1933 to 1953, the Democratic party held the presidency in the United States. Twenty years out of power is said to have been one of the factors leading to McCarthyism. McCarthy called it "20 years of treason" (then…
> they should not be forced to join the union (with whom they disagree) just to be able to provide for their families. But you're obviously OK with people being forced to join corporations (with whom they disagree) just…
Maduro was elected president. There's no vote upcoming, just yet another recall referendum, this one which failed to get going in the courts. Honduras on the other hand had an elected president. Obama bankrolled his…
> the effective kind of cocky/jerk behavior that works well with some women Some guys come to think that they are not cocky/jerky, but other guys are, and that this behavior "works well with some women". It's odd to me…
> I don't understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. I don't understand how 43+% of the country supports Hillary. A lot of what Trump says makes sense to me - questioning why the US military is involved all over…
Cambodia had a monarchy and stability (relative to its neighbors), but Sihanouk refused US requests to get involved in the Vietnam war, so the US began a campaign to destabilize the country, eventually replacing…
> I don't see any fundamental change in scarcity in the last few years. I do. There have always been economies of scale, but the first shipment of Call of Duty costs tens of millions of dollars. Shipments #2 to #1000000…
> most people tend to be mediocre As the article points out, most jobs are mediocre. Good work is not appreciated, a company can't form a team that works normal hours and uses tests and version control, autonomy and…
> No change is necessary. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why was it changed in 1998? ISI was perfectly capable of handling the function. Ted Cruz is indignant that the US Department of Commerce is transitioning out of…
> What exactly is wrong with the current setup? What exactly was wrong with the 1998 setup? ISI and Jon Postel were managing fine back then. I also don't recall a "US control over ICANN" that could be "relinquished"…
The author, Michael Straight, later said he was a KGB operative at the time he wrote this.
It talks about effects on the culture, but things mentioned like the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan happened over half a century ago. You may as well talk about how World War I affected the culture. Kids don't listen…
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…
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…