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It's almost harder to find a metro/subway/underground tunnel that didn't find interesting archaeology, provided that archaeologists were allowed in.

Just hope that your new subway project doesn't run into an old plague pit.

One, it is pointless because it won't happen.

If you told me 20 years ago, that a self-identified "Democratic Socialist" (and a bona-fide Communist underneath) will soon have a fair shot at becoming President of the US, I would've dismissed it with the same derision... But today's youth does not care any more — the Socialism/Communism's 100 years of failure (and mass-murder) are not taught in schools.

Two, it is a pointless claim because there are no democrats currently in Washington who are willing to propose anything that even slightly resembles an initiative to "give control of healthcare to the government".

Currently is the caveat-emptor, is not it? Look on this very board — numerous people speak in favor of "single payer", and they all vote...

Even the most socialized of all medical systems still give the physicians at least as much autonomy as our system does.

TFA is not about "authority" — it is about incompetence. When doctors become government-employees — as they are in Cuba so beloved by the likes of Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore, and other worker paradises — the healthcare will suck just as it does there.

And we are on our way — by many indications, Obamacare was designed to fail, and is failing as "CO-OPs" go bankrupt, and major commercial insurers threaten to withdraw. It did not "bend the curve" of the costs either — the grows of healthcare costs is accelerating.

It will continue to suck. Which will allow the next "progressive" President to claim "the market approach has failed" — and turn to a government-owned (euphemistically called "single payer") system. Obama himself would've done it — with enthusiastic support from morons like certain anonymous cowards replying to you — but "the nation was not ready" so he simply laid down the ground work for the future:

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House."

In other words, you are just parroting standard slashdot conservative FUD.

You seem like the kind, who'd be trying t

http://www.latinamericanstudie...

I was hoping that the authorities were exaggerating, but looking at the pic on this page one can see that they aren't :-(

To be fair during the revolutionar period they did hi jack a plane, but the tactics and ethics were different.

It *would* have become a free, democratic nation if we hadn't originally spruned Castro's overtures of friendship.

But as to your assertion of Castro's non-communist beginnings, check this out. It's the first one I could find. Google suggests this might contain a counterpoint, but I can't access it.

If you have anything to back up your assertion, let us know.

I remember reading something about this in Skousen's The Naked Communist, but as I don't own that one I can't tell you what exactly it says.

People say the same thing about Ho Chi Minh, that he was just out to unite the country, and if we'd just been nice to him we'd all be friends and float around like angels, but I don't buy it.

With current technological advances being exponential, it is perfectly conceivable that we will find ways to survive on a logistical and technological level.

Far more worrisome is whether we as a species are able to overcome basic human nature. Greed for want of power has almost wiped us out already, and I'm sure it will happen again. Now consider that the ability to, and the amount of people that would like to have that power is also becoming exponential.

My money is on us killing us.

Eh, delay? He hijacked the airplane and forced its occupants to fly to Cuba. From '71 Hijacker Gets Term of 15 Years

Grant did not deny hijacking the plane, which had been scheduled to fly from Milwaukee to Detroit on Jan. 22, 1971. He first ordered the plane flown to Africa and then decided on Cuba when he became convinced that Africa was too far for the plane to travel.

Playing dumb, vinn01, only makes you look dumb.

None of us thought it could happen here ???

One clue .. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4595173/

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/0 9/08_clarke.shtml

oh.. wait - he's just a "disgruntled employee" http://electromagnet.us/dogspot/modules.php?name=N ews&file=article&sid=67

Does that mean this event didn't happen in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/f ebruary/26/newsid_2516000/2516469.stm

Or this one? http://www.virtualboricua.org/Docs/hs01.htm

Are the groups identified here not terrorists?
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/puertorico/dan iel-james.htm

How about the KKK or any group who has the word Aryan in their name?

Terrorism has been occuring in this country since its founding. The fear-mongering regarding terrorism is much more dangerous to the stability of this nation.