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Re: Obama, the hypocrite.
I certainly won't create an equivalence between Chinese censorship and the censorship the Obama administration favors. There's a huge difference in the scale of the violations of the transparancy principal. But there is a similarity in the reasoning behind the censorship. Ask a well-meaning member of the Chinese leadership and they'd insist ...
Posted to Kausfiles Special by Arkady on November 16, 2009
Re: How long before the Iranian Mulluhs...
Corruptbuddha: ...invoke 'Allah's Will' and put all this unrest to bed? I say it happens tonight. They're already beating people with clubs and one guy just got shot. The Iranians won't stand down and the gov't has now promised an ''inquiry'' into the election. I imagine it will be as much of an ''inquiry'' as the Florida ''recount'' was ...
Posted to Ballot Box by Nick_Danger on June 15, 2009
Re: Obama and Libertarians
Libertarian practices have been given short shrift -- that doesn't mean they are wrong. The fact that governments usually favor one or another set of oligarchs (what anthropologists call ''the iron rule of oligarchy) doesn't mean that oligarchy is a good thing. What I can show you is that for many years Hong Kong, a small island with almost no ...
Posted to Tanked by trapdoor on January 28, 2009