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imbokodo

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    Comment #17820859

    Startups solicit seed and angel money at their beginning, meaning from the start someone outside their company, who does not work at the company, has an interest in expropriating s…

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    Comment #17796570

    You might want to send a note to Amtrak's web site, as they say their policy is otherwise https://www.amtrak.com/passenger-identification

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    Comment #17796349

    The US invaded and seized Guantanamo Bay in 1898. What was the cause for that? It's a standard American imperial idea. The US seizure and continual occupation of Guantanamo Bay is …

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    Comment #17796178

    Cuba pointed missiles at the US because the US was openly gearing up for one of its many invasions of Cuba, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The Soviets put nukes the…

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    Comment #17795728

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    Comment #17752969

    What you're talking about used to be discussed a lot. You can go to Wikipedia, or elsewhere, and read about relations of production, alienation, the expropriation of surplus labor …

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    Comment #17741774

    You're correct, China had a long history of famines prior to the communist party coming to power in 1949. Shortly after they took power, and achieved stability in Korea, they began…

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    Comment #17650279

    It costs money to intern Irish patriots without trial in your colony's concentration camps

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    Comment #17643335

    > from a European perspective Go to Wikipedia and read about the 1960s in the US - Freedom Riders (whites and blacks sitting next to one another on a bus) almost being beaten to de…

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    Comment #17642942

    > There is zero commitment from the major nuclear powers for an eventual complete denuclearization The nuclear powers agreed as part of the 1970 treaty on the non-proliferation of …

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    Comment #17642648

    > You don't need microfilm to read the NY Times; the entire archive is available on their website. This was not the case when I did this thirty years ago. > You read ~1800 newspape…

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    Comment #17641015

    I once read the New York Times from 1917 to 1922 on microfilm, guided somewhat by an index. Every article was about how the government of "Mr. Lenine and Mr. Trotzky" was on the ve…

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    Comment #17635857

    Instructive is the smear campaign against SMTP Creator and IANA head Jon Postel by anonymous "senior government officials" in the months before his death. It was a classic governme…

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    Comment #17633678

    > Unions prevent those businesses from being able to maintain competitive pricing in global markets due to labor costs, so those obligations eventually put the company out of busin…

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    Comment #17628919

    A social worker I know told me about little girls with venereal diseases, which they got from their mother's boyfriends or stepfathers. Sometimes people make the decision to move t…

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    Comment #17604693

    > one is economic theory and one is political theory It is an absurd notion that there are two manners of discussing how the pie should be divided up - one objective, scientific, f…

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    Comment #17589810

    > What ordinary person would elect to time-travel one-way to 11:30PM on Diamond's clock, as opposed to living at 11:59PM? Perhaps those immigrants getting on boats that are so much…

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    Comment #17557015

    And Lenin's brother was murdered by the Tsar's father, and the Tsar murdered many other Russians of his own account. Those Bolshevik soldiers sent the parasitical Romanovs to where…

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    Comment #17546625

    First of all, this finding can be incorrect. It can be misdated, they may have made a mistake about the grain being processed into bread. Even if they are 100% right, it doesn't re…

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    Comment #17538360

    > Netanyahu...proved Iranian...intent to resume bomb production Israel has dozens, if not hundreds, of nuclear bombs. Why should Iran not have nuclear bombs as well? The US and US …

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    Comment #17537179

    > The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact - the green light for Hitler's invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II How about the earlier Munich Pact where France and Englan…

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    Comment #17512134

    The EU has sanctions on Venezuela and the US keeps piling on sanctions and newspaper reports say Trump is contemplating an invasion. Obviously these external pressures will have a …

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    Comment #17473546

    > They can vote in PA elections I can vote in my local Elks Club elections as well. People in the West Bank live in Israel but can not vote in Israeli elections. Actually - Palesti…

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    Comment #17473419

    > The US withdrew from Saudi Arabia. That doesn't mean they got there by invading. They didn't. The US says Russia invaded Afghanistan. How did the US occupation of Saudi Arabia di…

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    Comment #17472502

    You can just go to Wikipedia and look Russia: American Expeditionary Force, North Russia - American Expeditionary Force, Siberia China: Second Opium War - Eight-Nation Alliance ...…