| To: sea_urchin who wrote (21298) | 7/5/2004 7:46:50 AM | | From: mcg404 | | | | Searle, <video conversation with Chalmers Johnson> 58 minutes...and it restarts if you hit pause! maybe later. he did get me interested in the first few minutes with his reference to 'the search for new enemies' after the collapse of the FSU. Enemies - a basis human need? My enemy, you complete me.
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| To: mcg404 who wrote (21316) | 7/5/2004 10:21:36 AM | | From: sea_urchin | | | | John > sad little functionaries seeking to prevent the sort of religious war that plagued Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.> Perhaps the same for the american prison guards at Abu Ghraib
Identical situation. It's always the "good" guys who are eradicating "evil". Just like here:
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And how does one know who the good guys are? They are the ones who support the government. |
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| To: mcg404 who wrote (21317) | 7/5/2004 10:32:41 AM | | From: sea_urchin | | | | John > You give americans too much credit for rational analysis
So, no-one can accuse me of being "anti-American"!
I'm satisfied, in my own mind, why the Iraqi invasion came about and that opinion doesn't change from week-to-week. In fact, it hasn't changed at all. Therefore, I just find it strange that others can have opinions which vary from moment to moment, apparently depending on a speech or an incident or a poll or whatever.
Accordingly, because the quoted opinion keeps changing, and for nonsense reasons, the American "analysis" isn't rational at all -- it's irrational! |
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| To: mcg404 who wrote (21319) | 7/5/2004 10:42:15 AM | | From: sea_urchin | | | | John > Are you liking gold shares these days?
My comments about the XAU "consolidating" were not predicated on my "liking" gold shares.
Shares go up and down all the time and it seems like it is time (on the chart) for gold/shares to go up a bit. There's nothing more than that -- no secret knowledge, no special belief in the Chinese economy, no imminent end of the world disaster, no hyper-inflation, no gold selling conspiracy, no nothing. Just me looking at some charts. |
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| To: mcg404 who wrote (21320) | 7/5/2004 10:49:36 AM | | From: sea_urchin | | | | John > Enemies - a basis human need? My enemy, you complete me.
I also didn't get it all so I can't fill in for you. But I did get most of it. I get pissed off these days with so many different audio/video formats, each requiring a special player or something different. If one could just download the file as an mpeg or mp3 and then play it at one's leisure, it would be a whole lot easier and better, but that's too simple. Everyone has to have at least six players connected to innumerable advertising streams --- and even then you have to be very lucky. |
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| To: sea_urchin who wrote (21323) | 7/5/2004 10:50:04 AM | | From: philv | | | | "I'm satisfied, in my own mind, why the Iraqi invasion came about and that opinion doesn't change from week-to-week."
I couldn't resist replying, as the invader himself doesn't seem sure, and has been constantly shifting his reason for the invasion. It has now come down to something like this: "Saddam was a bad guy, therefore taking him out was a good thing."
Quite a change from WMDs, clear and present danger, Al Qaeda links, nuclear weapons program, 9/11, etc. etc. which were all thrown in, in the beginning. |
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| To: philv who wrote (21326) | 7/5/2004 10:55:59 AM | | From: sea_urchin | | | | Phil > the invader himself doesn't seem sure, and has been constantly shifting his reason for the invasion.
He's sure, OK. The problem he has is that none of the reasons he told us are the real ones so he keeps making up new ones because he doesn't want to tell us the truth. |
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