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mears said:
Oh and do you have a job?

Or is it people like me who have to pay taxes so you can sit around a post on internet forums?
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Nah, mears. Both Vimto and I have to rob people like you at knifepoint. :cool:

Face it. The world doesn't dance to your tune anymore, bushbot. :)
 
mears said:
OK, I will get educated. Tell me one writer or polictician who delves into an "alternative world view" or an "alternative intelllectual position"
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Here you go, mears. Try these. :)

http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=6831

http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution.html

Actually, you may have a point. I don't know if the US media reported it, but everyone else on the planet got together and decided to form one big country to oppose you.

We even have our own flag... :)
 
mears said:
Oh and do you have a job?

Or is it people like me who have to pay taxes so you can sit around a post on internet forums?
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Low shots, that's bound to work!

Try some Popper if you want some real, applicable, criticism of the current closed society.

As far as Bolivia goes it should be fine with its control of resources. They will re-negotiate, but they should beware of scaring all investors too much, and concentrate on creating real jobs, education etc. That's the real task. Conglomerating the resources will even gain from economies of scale, and the poor will spend more money.

Oh yeah, and i've got a job, since those without don't seem to have the right.
 
Gmarthews said:
Low shots, that's bound to work!

Try some Popper if you want some real, applicable, criticism of the current closed society.

As far as Bolivia goes it should be fine with its control of resources. They will re-negotiate, but they should beware of scaring all investors too much, and concentrate on creating real jobs, education etc. That's the real task. Conglomerating the resources will even gain from economies of scale, and the poor will spend more money.

Oh yeah, and i've got a job, since those without don't seem to have the right.
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Vimto called me a parasite and asked if I had a job and I responded yes. Just asking him in return.

Looks like the answer is no.
 
Backatcha Bandit said:
Here you go, mears. Try these. :)

http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=6831

http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution.html

Actually, you may have a point. I don't know if the US media reported it, but everyone else on the planet got together and decided to form one big country to oppose you.

We even have our own flag... :)
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Why are you posting up the constitutions on Venezuela and Iran?

Are these countries offering an alternative world view? Why do you have such a problem articulating?
 
Mears you wouldn't recognise and intellectual position if it hit you with a smoked kipper and left you smelling like a fish market because the concept of a well argued, consistent argument doesn't square with your worldview that anyone who doesn't subscribe to your views is necessarily a commie or yank h8r (altho in fairness some of the anti-Americanism on Urban would be called 'racism' were it directed at many other nations or continents IMV...)
 
kyser_soze said:
...in fairness some of the anti-Americanism on Urban would be called 'racism' were it directed at many other nations or continents IMV...)
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I agree. Americans of the US persuasion have many good personal and national characteristics - their love of freedom, their constitution and their immeasurable contributions to science and culture come to mind. :)
 
mears said:
OK, I will get educated. Tell me one writer or polictician who delves into an "alternative world view" or an "alternative intelllectual position" - those are you words so you must know a specific name.

Actually, I doubt you can give a specific name.

But I'm sure someone around here will try to help you out.
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Karl Polanyi, J.K. Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes. That'll do for starters.
 
Mayday in Venezuela: two marches

Here’s shots of two marches organised in Caracas on Mayday. The first was organised by the countries' main union federation in support of the Bolivarian Revolution:

mayday_caracas2.jpg


This substantially smaller march was organised by the CTV “union” has-beens who demanded the release of the disgraced coup leader Carlos Ortega:

mayday_caracas1.jpg
 
Bolivian nationalisation may spur Andean leftists

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060503...ITa7KcB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Evo Morales' sudden energy nationalization in Bolivia could fuel growing demands for an end to the free-market economic policies that have done little to ease grinding poverty across the Andean region.

For Bolivia's indigenous majority, this week's nationalization decree an troop deployment at gas fields is the culmination of a struggle for the control of natural resources that is being played out in Ecuador and Peru too.

It also comes against the backdrop of growing state control of the oil sector in Venezuela, orchestrated by Morales' main foreign ally, leftist President Hugo Chavez.

…His decision resonated in Peru, where the camp of nationalist Ollanta Humala, the first round winner of a presidential race, applauded the move.
…By nationalizing vast natural gas reserves, Bolivia's first indigenous president has taken up the baton of increased state control from Chavez, even at the risk of alienating Brazil, its massive neighbor whose energy investments will suffer.

The hardline stance against Washington's free-market prescriptions, which have done little for the 100 million Latin Americans living on $1 a day, is popular.

…In unstable Ecuador, indigenous peasants have blocked roads in recent months to protest negotiations on a U.S. free trade pact.
Indigenous groups have also called for nationalization of the energy sector and particularly the expulsion of U.S. companies from South America's No. 5 oil producer.

"(Bolivia's nationalization) represents an important outside reference point for Ecuador's indigenous movements that have lost power in recent years," said Hernan Reyes, sociology professor at Ecuador's branch of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.
 
mears said:
Vimto called me a parasite and asked if I had a job and I responded yes. Just asking him in return.

Looks like the answer is no.
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I save lives...you don't.

I fucking hate parasites me
 
Oh and good on the social/economic resolutions coming from our brothers and sisters in the southern part of the Americas. Long may it continue.

Aint we blessed :D
 
JoePolitix said:
Read Congressman Connie Mack’s take on the situation in Latin America. I was going to post up a quote from this diatribe but the whole thing is so fucking funny it must be read in full:

http://tinyurl.com/jk6n6
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Yeah, but even if he doesn't believe in all that shit, Mack still has to say it, what with all those rightwing Cubans living in his district. Mucho votes there if you're willing to hold your nose and wallow in shit the way Mack does. Anything that knocks Fidel and his friends, Mack'll put his weight behind.
 
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