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by imbokodo 8y ago
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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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 "legal". Cubans reclaiming what Americans
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 there because the US put nuclear missiles into Turkey. The U
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 time and what have you. In the past, those who work or
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 to set the stage to end this from happening again. I
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by imbokodo 8y ago
It costs money to intern Irish patriots without trial in your colony's concentration camps
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 death, buses burned, riots on school integration, dogs and
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 nuclear weapons, particularly article 6, that they would
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 newspapers from 100 years ago? I concur with your observa
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 verge of collapse. It gave a very false picture -
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 government smear campaign, against someone who did so muc
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 business or force it to move operations - normally out of shee
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 to a place which is nice because of a homeowner associat
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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, fair-minded etc., and one "political". Obviousl
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 in the news in Europe and the US? Things exist whic
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 they belonged - into the dustbin of history.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 really upend anything majorly. It just means what it sa
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 industry was pushing for Iran to turn more towards nucl
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 England handed Czechoslovakia over to Hitler? In my eyes,
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 negative effect on the Venezuelan economy. One reason f
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 - Palestinians living in Israel in the West Bank can't vote.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> 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 differ from what the US always termed as an inva
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by imbokodo 8y ago
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 ...I could point to dozens more for China, the latest article
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by imbokodo 8y ago
China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are three countries that have never invaded the United States, all of which were invaded by the United States.
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> Israel is a democracy, and therefore (at least in theory) the government represents the people. Netanyahu says the West Bank is Israel, and within Israel de facto and de jure it is. Yet Palestinians in the West Bank can not vote, and
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by imbokodo 8y ago
To translate what happened into HN terms and analogy: the Open Source Initiative is an umbrella organization which advocates for Mozilla, Linux, Debian, Python, Apache and other open source projects. Riseup.net is similar. It is not a grou
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by imbokodo 8y ago
You are correct. Their about page says "We oppose all forms of prejudice, authoritarianism and vanguardism". Opposing authoritarianism is implicitly saying they are not communist, saying they are against vanguardism (a word used
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by imbokodo 8y ago
> riseup is a communist organization The Communist Manifesto ends with the words "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare..." Thus, to be a communist means to openly declare that you are a co
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The whole thing is so absurd it seems beyond explanation. The concept that there exists a subset of gifted, "high-achieving" 4 year olds is so ridiculous on the face of it I wouldn't even know how to dissuade someone who tho
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by imbokodo 8y ago
The parents of "gifted" white 4 year olds trying to keep black kids out due to their "gifted" 4 year olds hard work and their grind and the meritocracy...I mean it sounds like a parody. "It's not due to racism

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