We'll never really know if he was planning on going to Syria or if he really wanted to get clean and being a crackhead he may well not known as well. As for what the police believe, well they're going to parrot the prevailing current meme that all Muslims are terrorists and all terrorists are Muslim.
The crackhead who attacked Parliament was pissed off that he couldn't get a passport and leave the country or even get thrown in jail to clean himself up.
It's one thing to claim that the Theory of Gravity isn't quite right because it can't get Mercury's orbit just right, it is another to claim that gravity doesn't exist. One is an example of skepticism, the other is an example of insanity
And yet it is right wing governments that are currently implementing the police state in the majority of the western world, usually with the libertarians cheering them on as long as they get a tax break and are allowed to socialize their losses.
You mean like the USSR, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? Generally what there are are a bunch of countries using (claiming) socialism to strive for communism and it is the propaganda that labels them communist. Socialism like so many political ideologies, comes in many forms and when implemented in countries with a history of authoritarianism usually ends up authoritarian. Similarly countries with a history of freedom usually end up more free.
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
From dictionary.reference.com
communism definition. An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism).
From thefreedictionary.com
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
Then we get your definition and after we get from wikipedia,
Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state; as well as a social, political and economic ideology and movement that aims to establish this social...
Then from www.businessdictionary.com
Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state; as well as a social, political and economic ideology and movement that aims to establish this social...
These were all displayed by Google when searching for "define communism" and I'm too lazy to add all the proper URLs Note that a couple of these definitions include "no state" https://www.google.ca/search?q...
San Marino elected a communist government. Later they voted them out. Seems the communists didn't take all their rights away which is the question you asked, which country has been communist and retained their rights. You seem to be thinking of feudalism, where the government did own everything including the labourers.
(if we were to assume for the moment that the US government works for the welfare of the American people)
That's a pretty big assumption. The people don't pay the large campaign costs. The people don't supply the well paying jobs doing nothing for the politicians after their public service is done. At that the idea of helping people is a left-wing idea and anti-American.
San Marino, the oldest republic in the world. The problem with all your examples is they were authoritarian states that became communist, not democracies with a history of personal freedoms. As Russia and China show, becoming a democracy in Russia's case or a corporatist in China's place didn't change the authoritarian aspect of their governments. Lots of authoritarian governments have been right wing as well, look at the middle east and at various times most of Central and South America. Was the common Cuban more free in 1958? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't forget no gravity, needed for traction in mining (try using a shovel or bulldozer in zero gravity and then there are explosives) and needed for purifying the metal through the trick of lighter things floating on heavier things.
By definition, communism is government control of productive capacity
Are people this uninformed? by definition communism does not have a government. As others have pointed out, there has never been a communist nation state, just socialist and socialism comes in many varieties form authoritarian to libertarian, government ownership to things like co-ops and credit unions. The problem is the huge amount of successful propaganda that has been used on the people of America and that it has leaked to the rest of the world. Propaganda like Obama empowering the insurance industry even more by implementing a right wing medical system is socialist or communist.
Some of it is taxes, right wing governments, both Provincial and Federal campaigning on low taxes who cut income taxes and then raise other taxes to make up for the shortfall but mostly because the oil companies can get away with it and our governments don't want to do anything about it including building refineries so we don't have to import our gasoline from Texas. They're business types who believe in maximum short term profits rather then sustainable profits that also employ more people.
West coast of Canada. Last week, it was still $1.10 or so a liter with 4.54 liters to an imperial gallon. This week it dropped to $1.03 in Vancouver. I'm just outside the metro area where the tax is 15 cents a litre less (no transit tax) and gas is 98.9 cents a litre.
Managed to get up to 38% of the people who actually voted last time, with a lot of close ridings and quite a bit of fraud, though they've changed the law so that in this election we'll never know about any investigations for fraud. We have the tyranny of the minority due to multiple political parties.
You guys don't pay taxes on internet access in the US!? I feel even more angry at our Canadian ISPs now..
Blame our ant-tax federal government. If you want to win votes by cutting (income) taxes, you have to raise (all other) taxes (and fees). Notice how gas is still almost $5 a gallon? That is so the feds can fund things like sports. Shit we even get taxed on the taxes thanks to our wonderful anti-tax government.
That would be great, free hookers and blow and a good job doing nothing to replace the job/business that is now gone after having too spend too much time in Washington, and all I'd have to do is vote a certain way.
You misunderstand. The idea is to move the bitumen to China as the Americans aren't willing to pay the world price for Canadian bitumen. The pipeline to Vancouver, the Northern Gateway and Keystone all are different plans to get the oil to China and planning started before Obama when we got the right wing Albertan centered federal government in 2006 and now that the Keystone has been delayed new plans are to reverse the flow of the pipeline to Atlantic Canada and to build a pipeline to the Arctic as well as shipping by train to all coasts. Currently here in BC we have to import oil as all the Albertan product is earmarked for China and there is none available for the last refinery in Vancouver and if Keystone is ever completed, it won't be to sell Americans cheap oil, it'll be to put the oil on tankers and ship it to the far east. Being Canadian product, the rules about selling unrefined product that America has don't apply.
Work is starting on twinning the pipeline to Vancouver and the pipeline to Prince Rupert has been OKed but no-one is happy about the idea of tankers full of bitumen plying the rugged coastline shipping Canadian jobs to China so the oil companies (mostly Texan but our government doesn't have a problem with selling us out to China and Indonesia as well) can make a quicker buck. BC will get very little benefit from Albertan oil getting shipped to China and Indonesia. They just want to ship as much product as cheaply as possible.
People, including the environmentalists want to build refineries in BC but the governments don't want to. Even better to build them in Alberta so that at least semi-refined product is flowing through the pipeline as it would be much easier to clean up then the raw bitumen and dilutates that need to be added to make it flow. The problem is right wing governments who want to run the place like a business, profits right now to drive up the stock price mentality rather then long term profits to keep Canadians working, productive and earning a living. I've been to ex-copper mines and lead mines. After a hundred years they're still dead zones. Grew up around the terminus of a oil pipeline as well, miles of beach (much rocky) where you could dig down a few inches and find a tar like substance. Currently that refinery (Chevron in Burnaby) has to import oil even though the tankers load a mile away as the government has decided that it is more important to ship the oil to China then refine it in BC and maybe get our gas prices down below a $1.10 a litre. Harpers stupid, if he wanted support for the bitumen industry, he could pressure the oil companies to sell the gas for a reasonable price and instead of using gas taxes to offset income tax and support sports, he could cut the gas tax or at least make the GST not apply to taxes.
It would be a lot safer to move at least semi-refined product. Bitumen is a bitch to clean up and the stuff they add to thin it down enough for it to flow can be nasty.
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What a coincidence, the biggest threat to my freedom also comes from your government.
We'll never really know if he was planning on going to Syria or if he really wanted to get clean and being a crackhead he may well not known as well. As for what the police believe, well they're going to parrot the prevailing current meme that all Muslims are terrorists and all terrorists are Muslim.
He didn't want to go to Syria at all, rather to Libya.
The crackhead who attacked Parliament was pissed off that he couldn't get a passport and leave the country or even get thrown in jail to clean himself up.
It's one thing to claim that the Theory of Gravity isn't quite right because it can't get Mercury's orbit just right, it is another to claim that gravity doesn't exist.
One is an example of skepticism, the other is an example of insanity
And yet it is right wing governments that are currently implementing the police state in the majority of the western world, usually with the libertarians cheering them on as long as they get a tax break and are allowed to socialize their losses.
Shouldn't that be 1985 (released in '86). Couple of better links, with screen shots, second includes a zip, third includes more images as well as a (broken?) simulator. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mu... http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mu... http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc...
You mean like the USSR, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics? Generally what there are are a bunch of countries using (claiming) socialism to strive for communism and it is the propaganda that labels them communist. Socialism like so many political ideologies, comes in many forms and when implemented in countries with a history of authoritarianism usually ends up authoritarian. Similarly countries with a history of freedom usually end up more free.
You must have checked out a few definitions before finding that one. From Google,
communism
kämynizm/
noun
noun: communism; noun: Communism; plural noun: Communisms
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
From dictionary.reference.com
communism definition. An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism).
From thefreedictionary.com
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
Then we get your definition and after we get from wikipedia,
Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state; as well as a social, political and economic ideology and movement that aims to establish this social ...
Then from www.businessdictionary.com
Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state; as well as a social, political and economic ideology and movement that aims to establish this social ...
These were all displayed by Google when searching for "define communism" and I'm too lazy to add all the proper URLs Note that a couple of these definitions include "no state"
https://www.google.ca/search?q...
San Marino elected a communist government. Later they voted them out. Seems the communists didn't take all their rights away which is the question you asked, which country has been communist and retained their rights.
You seem to be thinking of feudalism, where the government did own everything including the labourers.
(if we were to assume for the moment that the US government works for the welfare of the American people)
That's a pretty big assumption. The people don't pay the large campaign costs. The people don't supply the well paying jobs doing nothing for the politicians after their public service is done. At that the idea of helping people is a left-wing idea and anti-American.
San Marino, the oldest republic in the world. The problem with all your examples is they were authoritarian states that became communist, not democracies with a history of personal freedoms. As Russia and China show, becoming a democracy in Russia's case or a corporatist in China's place didn't change the authoritarian aspect of their governments. Lots of authoritarian governments have been right wing as well, look at the middle east and at various times most of Central and South America. Was the common Cuban more free in 1958?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't forget no gravity, needed for traction in mining (try using a shovel or bulldozer in zero gravity and then there are explosives) and needed for purifying the metal through the trick of lighter things floating on heavier things.
By definition, communism is government control of productive capacity
Are people this uninformed? by definition communism does not have a government. As others have pointed out, there has never been a communist nation state, just socialist and socialism comes in many varieties form authoritarian to libertarian, government ownership to things like co-ops and credit unions.
The problem is the huge amount of successful propaganda that has been used on the people of America and that it has leaked to the rest of the world. Propaganda like Obama empowering the insurance industry even more by implementing a right wing medical system is socialist or communist.
Some of it is taxes, right wing governments, both Provincial and Federal campaigning on low taxes who cut income taxes and then raise other taxes to make up for the shortfall but mostly because the oil companies can get away with it and our governments don't want to do anything about it including building refineries so we don't have to import our gasoline from Texas. They're business types who believe in maximum short term profits rather then sustainable profits that also employ more people.
West coast of Canada. Last week, it was still $1.10 or so a liter with 4.54 liters to an imperial gallon. This week it dropped to $1.03 in Vancouver. I'm just outside the metro area where the tax is 15 cents a litre less (no transit tax) and gas is 98.9 cents a litre.
Managed to get up to 38% of the people who actually voted last time, with a lot of close ridings and quite a bit of fraud, though they've changed the law so that in this election we'll never know about any investigations for fraud.
We have the tyranny of the minority due to multiple political parties.
You guys don't pay taxes on internet access in the US!? I feel even more angry at our Canadian ISPs now..
Blame our ant-tax federal government. If you want to win votes by cutting (income) taxes, you have to raise (all other) taxes (and fees). Notice how gas is still almost $5 a gallon? That is so the feds can fund things like sports. Shit we even get taxed on the taxes thanks to our wonderful anti-tax government.
That would be great, free hookers and blow and a good job doing nothing to replace the job/business that is now gone after having too spend too much time in Washington, and all I'd have to do is vote a certain way.
It's only socialist when it helps the common man. If it helps the rich or other aristocratic type, then it is not socialist and therefore good.
Aren't you guys allies with Pakistan, the enemy of India?
You misunderstand. The idea is to move the bitumen to China as the Americans aren't willing to pay the world price for Canadian bitumen. The pipeline to Vancouver, the Northern Gateway and Keystone all are different plans to get the oil to China and planning started before Obama when we got the right wing Albertan centered federal government in 2006 and now that the Keystone has been delayed new plans are to reverse the flow of the pipeline to Atlantic Canada and to build a pipeline to the Arctic as well as shipping by train to all coasts.
Currently here in BC we have to import oil as all the Albertan product is earmarked for China and there is none available for the last refinery in Vancouver and if Keystone is ever completed, it won't be to sell Americans cheap oil, it'll be to put the oil on tankers and ship it to the far east. Being Canadian product, the rules about selling unrefined product that America has don't apply.
Work is starting on twinning the pipeline to Vancouver and the pipeline to Prince Rupert has been OKed but no-one is happy about the idea of tankers full of bitumen plying the rugged coastline shipping Canadian jobs to China so the oil companies (mostly Texan but our government doesn't have a problem with selling us out to China and Indonesia as well) can make a quicker buck. BC will get very little benefit from Albertan oil getting shipped to China and Indonesia.
They just want to ship as much product as cheaply as possible.
People, including the environmentalists want to build refineries in BC but the governments don't want to. Even better to build them in Alberta so that at least semi-refined product is flowing through the pipeline as it would be much easier to clean up then the raw bitumen and dilutates that need to be added to make it flow. The problem is right wing governments who want to run the place like a business, profits right now to drive up the stock price mentality rather then long term profits to keep Canadians working, productive and earning a living.
I've been to ex-copper mines and lead mines. After a hundred years they're still dead zones. Grew up around the terminus of a oil pipeline as well, miles of beach (much rocky) where you could dig down a few inches and find a tar like substance. Currently that refinery (Chevron in Burnaby) has to import oil even though the tankers load a mile away as the government has decided that it is more important to ship the oil to China then refine it in BC and maybe get our gas prices down below a $1.10 a litre.
Harpers stupid, if he wanted support for the bitumen industry, he could pressure the oil companies to sell the gas for a reasonable price and instead of using gas taxes to offset income tax and support sports, he could cut the gas tax or at least make the GST not apply to taxes.
It would be a lot safer to move at least semi-refined product. Bitumen is a bitch to clean up and the stuff they add to thin it down enough for it to flow can be nasty.