And a lot of fantasy...
The nature of colonialism is forced occupation and oppression, destruction of identity and culture, internal divides and exploitation and robbery.
This will throw any society back into poverty. If the British occupation of India was so good, then why are the standards of living in both countries not the same?
I find this a great post, because it almost completely reflects my opinion.
Except that you left out Rockefeller's Total Oil that was confiscated by Iran and that he wanted back. And he got it back... for a while.
...the problem "we (the west)" faced with "carving up the Middle East and Africa".
Those problems weren't unintended. The general policy of 'the West' has always been the 'divide and conquer' policy.
Split up a homogeneous tribe (say, the Kurds, Macedonia, Iraq/Kuwait) in some parts and 'give' each neighboring country a slice of the pie. Weakness guaranteed.
...a culturally, linguistically, and religiously homogeneous population living within well-defined borders under a common set of laws, and with centralized government...
No, "individual" is not unknown. I'm just afraid that there aren't that many individuals that think like you, or at least the majority of American citizens doesn't.
The absolutely hypocritical statements by the current and most past governments' people suggests that the majority of the voters is as hypocritical as I described in my previous post. That's why I call it 'collective psyche'.
Well, granted, I didn't formulate it exactly as 'American collective psyche', but that's what I meant to say.
Maybe a more or less valid definition of 'American collective psyche' would be the average of the American psyches...
You were.
I was talking about companies, due to them being highly organized having power over individual prospective employees who aren't.
Countering that by saying that companies have no power by law makes totally no sense and has nothing to do with it.
That's called 'moving the goal posts'.
An employee denying his service to an employer has zero power in doing so, as for him 10 others.
An employer denying a prospective employee a job unless he accepts a much lower salary is using his power from being only one of the so many, and probably works in collusion (cartel) with other companies, so nobody gets a job nowhere unless he accepts a ridiculously low wage.
You're moving the goal posts.
I didn't say that employers are more powerful by law than employees.
But they are more powerful simply due to the fact that they are bigger and more powerful than any (prospective) employee, they are better organized (employees aren't, unless they're member of a union) through amongst others the Chambers of Commerce. So principally they are able to demand an employee to work for a ridiculously low wage in order to be employed, and the single employee can't do anything against that, because there's always some poor desperate guy that feels forced to accept the terms. But if the employees are (also) organized, in a union, there's more balance of power.
You don't get it.
China isn't doing 100% capitalism, and USA isn't doing 100% collectivism.
You haven't proven that either 100% capitalism or 100% collectivism is an optimal economic-political system, so I'll have to assume there is an optimum in between 100% capitalism and 100% collectivism.
So, if China and USA have not reached that optimum yet, it's still possible China needs some more capitalism and USA some more collectivism.
I agree with you all the way, except for the deductibility. I even don't completely understand what you mean by that.
If you mean that health care insurance should only cover the costs that one would otherwise in no way be able to cover, then I agree completely with you, but that criterion should not be applied ad absurdum in that you can only apply when all your assets are gone and you've basically become a beggar.
Actually: no.
"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is the English equivalent of the Japanese "The stake that sticks out gets hammered down".
Read your own link, I think you really need that seminar.:)
Further it's not totally clear to me why you posted this reply, because it's in the signature of the previous poster that it's a Japanese proverb, so for you there's nothing to add to the discussion with this, unless you misunderstood my reply by thinking I was denying it's a Japanese proverb, which I didn't, but which I--thanks to your link--do now indeed.
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And a lot of fantasy...
The nature of colonialism is forced occupation and oppression, destruction of identity and culture, internal divides and exploitation and robbery.
This will throw any society back into poverty. If the British occupation of India was so good, then why are the standards of living in both countries not the same?
I find this a great post, because it almost completely reflects my opinion.
Except that you left out Rockefeller's Total Oil that was confiscated by Iran and that he wanted back. And he got it back... for a while.
They've been told for twenty years that they're responsible for everything that's bad in the world.
Not them, their parents!
...the problem "we (the west)" faced with "carving up the Middle East and Africa".
Those problems weren't unintended. The general policy of 'the West' has always been the 'divide and conquer' policy.
Split up a homogeneous tribe (say, the Kurds, Macedonia, Iraq/Kuwait) in some parts and 'give' each neighboring country a slice of the pie. Weakness guaranteed.
...a culturally, linguistically, and religiously homogeneous population living within well-defined borders under a common set of laws, and with centralized government...
I think you perfectly described a tribe here.
That was not a suicide bomb, it was a bomb suicide.
Why should we be nervous? Flying is statistically still safer than any other alternative.
15m, meters? Something tells me you're not using the 'generally accepted' ISO units.
No, "individual" is not unknown. I'm just afraid that there aren't that many individuals that think like you, or at least the majority of American citizens doesn't.
The absolutely hypocritical statements by the current and most past governments' people suggests that the majority of the voters is as hypocritical as I described in my previous post. That's why I call it 'collective psyche'.
Well, granted, I didn't formulate it exactly as 'American collective psyche', but that's what I meant to say.
Maybe a more or less valid definition of 'American collective psyche' would be the average of the American psyches...
100% free, or 100% capitalism?
You can use the free market by going (how cynically :) to Cuba for your disease care.
You were.
I was talking about companies, due to them being highly organized having power over individual prospective employees who aren't.
Countering that by saying that companies have no power by law makes totally no sense and has nothing to do with it.
That's called 'moving the goal posts'.
An employee denying his service to an employer has zero power in doing so, as for him 10 others.
An employer denying a prospective employee a job unless he accepts a much lower salary is using his power from being only one of the so many, and probably works in collusion (cartel) with other companies, so nobody gets a job nowhere unless he accepts a ridiculously low wage.
Europe, Russia and China should gather in one Eurasia.
The imperialist neo-cons (Soros) lose, the rest of the world wins.
Indubitably very interesting, but I stopped reading at "pre ARTEP OPFOR". No, I'm not even going to ask what that means.
It's a headline fuck-up. Has (almost) nothing to do with power.
If your security depends on trust in private companies then you really are in trouble.
You're moving the goal posts.
I didn't say that employers are more powerful by law than employees.
But they are more powerful simply due to the fact that they are bigger and more powerful than any (prospective) employee, they are better organized (employees aren't, unless they're member of a union) through amongst others the Chambers of Commerce. So principally they are able to demand an employee to work for a ridiculously low wage in order to be employed, and the single employee can't do anything against that, because there's always some poor desperate guy that feels forced to accept the terms. But if the employees are (also) organized, in a union, there's more balance of power.
You don't get it.
China isn't doing 100% capitalism, and USA isn't doing 100% collectivism.
You haven't proven that either 100% capitalism or 100% collectivism is an optimal economic-political system, so I'll have to assume there is an optimum in between 100% capitalism and 100% collectivism.
So, if China and USA have not reached that optimum yet, it's still possible China needs some more capitalism and USA some more collectivism.
I agree with you all the way, except for the deductibility. I even don't completely understand what you mean by that.
If you mean that health care insurance should only cover the costs that one would otherwise in no way be able to cover, then I agree completely with you, but that criterion should not be applied ad absurdum in that you can only apply when all your assets are gone and you've basically become a beggar.
Actually: no. "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is the English equivalent of the Japanese "The stake that sticks out gets hammered down". :)
Read your own link, I think you really need that seminar.
Further it's not totally clear to me why you posted this reply, because it's in the signature of the previous poster that it's a Japanese proverb, so for you there's nothing to add to the discussion with this, unless you misunderstood my reply by thinking I was denying it's a Japanese proverb, which I didn't, but which I--thanks to your link--do now indeed.
If you want a salary that consistently (over decades that is) keeps up with inflation, then you have but one choice: Get rid of the central banks.
puke (finger in mouth)
Fuck! "by", I mean.
Europe has changed from attacks being just as rare as here, to attacks being common.
Maybe European citizens should also establish 'the right to bear arms'?
Let's not have that here.
Then buy all means, keep the guns!
Oh man! I would mod you up if I could! :)