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August 15th, 2018, 08:18 AM | #1861 | |
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Diminutives are not always an insult but a lazy way to express the full word or a form of conviviality. |
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It conjures up images in the mind of a smelly unkempt person raging at a protest rally and hurling insults at the police. Whereas an actual communist would be some Russian guy in a KGB Border Guards uniform asking for your papers if you should decide to visit Russia, or some dumpy bald guy in a bad suit glaring at everyone in a Politburo meeting.
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August 17th, 2018, 09:51 PM | #1863 | |
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Amazingly, Fox & Friends Ainsley Earnhardt yesterday discussed the "US victory over Communist Japan"
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Its not that its a mistake-- people get facts wrong, they mis-speak, that's life. But this stray comment reveals that in what passes for this dim bulbs grey matter, there are just a bunch of labels for "us" and "them" sloshing around. We're "Land of the Brave" and they're "communists" or "Islamists", or . . . or what? I may read too much into this, but notice the -ists that she doesn't mention us fighting-- "fascists" . . . because as we've learned from Fox, "anti-fascists" are bad people too. More seriously, though, Japan had a communist party, and a Japanse friend once joked to me, "if anyone could have made communism work, it would have been the Japanese". |
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August 17th, 2018, 10:34 PM | #1864 | |
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I'm sure Tojo and Emperor Hirohito are rolling over in their graves. Maybe the Fox news person remembered something from a text book about the "Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and thought that was Communist. Why I don't pay a lot of attention to the media these days, I don't need fake news spoon-fed to me by idiots whose education is so clearly inferior to mine.
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August 17th, 2018, 10:44 PM | #1865 | ||
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August 19th, 2018, 12:02 PM | #1866 |
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The plant was going through a wind down and now closed.
2001, voluntary redundancies 2006, 2 occasions, voluntary redundancies 2011, voluntary redundancies 2013, involuntary redundancies 2016, plants closed. Nobody lost out, When I left the deal was, 4.5 weeks pay for every year of service plus all your outstanding annual leave and long service leave and half your unused sick leave, the company though offered and extra weeks pay for every year of service bringing it to 5.5 weeks for every year. In the end, I got almost 3 years pay to leave, here in Australia when you're made redundant your leave entitlements are taxed at normal rate, the redundancy part is taxed at only 5%, so quite a few people like me who had been there many years got a sizeable amount. The 2013 people who were made redundant involuntarily got the same with leave pay but got 6 weeks pay for every year of service plus a lifetime discount on any Ford product for themselves and immediate family, those who were there till the end got the same. Nobody lost out and the company pumped a lot of money to the city council for future developing businesses and to help the city out, something they didn't have to do but did. I see no evil there.
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August 19th, 2018, 12:57 PM | #1867 | |
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Worth taking a moment to observe Venezuela, which is an almost uniquely disastrous example of central planning and one party rule.
The irony here is that Venezuela was historically a wealthy country, with big oil revenues. Its entirely possible to distribute oil revenues to citizens without creating a socialist State-- Alaska does, for example But Chavez and now Maduro have utterly destroyed the economy of a nation that until very recently exported a lot of oil, and which had what are likely the world's largest unexploited oil prospect . . . in short, a lot of money, an an economy where folks are now starving. Today's news is that Maduro has come up with a new idea: he's created a cryptocurrency, called the "Petro" and an associated new currency for the nation, the "Sovereign Bolivar". Behind all the mumbo-jumbo, this amounts to a %95 devaluation. No one with any savings in Venezuela has anything at this point. I particularly like Maduro's proud claim that "no experts were involved" in designing this new scheme Quote:
As a benchmark, consider Chile. In 1980, Venezuelans were twice as wealthy as Chileans, today Chlleans are twice as wealthy as Venezuelans. And the most staggering thing about all this is that Venezuela has one of the easiest hands to play in economics, even for a socialist state: pump oil. They can't even do that (oil production is collapsing, about half of what they were a few years ago). |
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Not that I would dispute the reality of the present condition of Venezuela, I would ask a question about how they got there. I suspect the Venezuelans, like many South American economies, got a lot of help in messing up their economy from Langley.
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The US made Venezuela rich. US oilmen found the oilfields and developed them. The US has historically been Venezuela's largest oil market-- Asia is now larger, but roughly a third of Venezuelan oil is sold to the US, and much of it is refined in the US. Hard to argue that this is some made in the USA disaster, when the US buys about 400K barrels per day, that's a lot of oil (though as Venezuelan production collapses, the number goes down). As Venezuela grew richer, they developed a highly regarded national oil company PDVSA. PDVSA trained excellent engineers, sending them to school around the world to train so that they could run their own show. They developed a very highly regarded company and expertise. Its Chavez and Maduro who've trashed all that. No CIA, just predictably stupid things like Quote:
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None of this is made in Langley, they may not produce much in Venezuela anymore, but this is "made in Caracas" Last edited by deepsepia; August 19th, 2018 at 02:03 PM.. |
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US capitalists do that for their own wealth, they pay the workers little and line their own pockets at the expense of the poor. They destroy the ecosystem drilling for oil, they want more population to buy more products that depend on oil as it's base. Venezuela would be rich if the US had no trade embargo , not fair Capitalism must be destroyed. How's that for paying attention to bullshit
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