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Reply to Al Qaeda's not playing a game, Islamo Fascism is real in Politics JoeUser Forums

ves, you just don't get it... do you? America supports the Shaw of Iran and his murderous thugs for oil... America supports S. Hussein and his murderous thugs for oil... America support tyrants all over the middle east (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait etc)... for oil! so these people who suffer under these tyrants and are denied functioning democracies are forced into desperate measures know who their enemies are.... they are the ignorant

Reply to Why do people hate America? in Politics JoeUser Forums

actually, if all you can talk about is those damn "frenchies" well then i know that you feel informed by reading a billionaire owned newspaper or nbc(microsoft and ge's propaganda machine! here's a good article on what words to watch out for in printed meda and tv... http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zarticle.cfm?Url=articles/june97herman.htm

Reply to Why do people hate America? in Politics JoeUser Forums

people don't like americans because... 1) they directly supported the chilean coup against a democratically elected government (1973 documents now declassified) 2) they continue to mess with central american politics due to the outright ownership of the regions most precious agricultural land by three american companies (united fruit, national fruit etc...). any attempt to pull the people out of poverty using their own nations wealth and democr

Reply to Al Qaeda's not playing a game, Islamo Fascism is real in Politics JoeUser Forums

well, i don't live in the u.s.... sure glad billions of dollars of my tax money aren't feeding the military industrial complex to feed this whole situation. note that the number of americans killed by terrorism ever is still below the number of americans killed by work related accidents in one year (less than 5,500). the amount of money spent on the iraq war could provide health care for all americans without health care insurance for a decade.

Reply to Life's Not Fair When You're Ralph Nader in International JoeUser Forums

voodoostation, i suggest looking around at 80 other democratic countries in the world and deciding whether more than two parties is possible or beneficial. let haiti be a warning. here is a democratic country in name only. because any choice has first been chosen first by the those in control of wealth. a country where five percent of the population control 95 percent of its wealth. and now after decades of "democracy" the people are

Reply to Life's Not Fair When You're Ralph Nader in International JoeUser Forums

indeed, good article. as i've said before. democracy and capitalism are held up as golden rings in our society without a whisper at to their quality. yes, there is a quality associated with democracy and capitalism. one could argue that a democracy with two choices is not far off from a democracy with one choice... which is not democracy at all but communism! by the same token capitalism has no quality if huge monopolies exis

Reply to Reducing Most of Us to The Lowest Common Denominator in Politics JoeUser Forums

bakerstreet: no one is talking about abondoning capitalism. and this is the slogan neo-conservatives like to advertise (not refering to you specifically here). but we need to set rules for engagement in our markets. but this is exactly what those who control monopolies would have us exterminate... government regulation! for example, bill gates is of course all for the removal of government regulation. look at the anti trust suites! <

Reply to What does an old founding father know, anyway! in Politics JoeUser Forums

much of this conversation seems to ignore why the debt exists in the first place. it is a convenient method of avoiding the redistribution of a nations wealth (built with the countrys natural resources and labor) back to the citizens of the country through the progressive taxation tool. the double whammy is the government borrowing from the wealthiest who have avoided this taxation thus stuffing their pockets further with interest! according t

Reply to Reducing Most of Us to The Lowest Common Denominator in Politics JoeUser Forums

there is also a great deal of talk about globalization without any real facts about how it is suppose to help our economy... i suggest that the real scenario is this: you are a fat cat who got into the widget market and made a killing. now you have a widget factory! you may have some competition but you have a bought supply chain and the ability to force anyone smaller than yourself out of the game at any time. you participate in an widget

Reply to Reducing Most of Us to The Lowest Common Denominator in Politics JoeUser Forums

there is continuous talk of "capitalism" while rarely mentioning is quality. the same goes for democracy. one could easily argue that a democracy with two choices isn't much better than a democracy with one choice... which i guess is communism. these topics are conveniently avoided by those who tell us what to think. one of the strengths of capitalism is that competition forces the prices of a commodity down. here is one quality that american capit