... Though I'd think the real beef here is with the Soviets, the Saudis, and the CIA. Or was safety a pressing problem before the rebellion and invasion as...
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Michael E. Holmes
Michael_E_Holmes@...
Jul 2, 2003 10:54 am
Re: the Afghan "safety" problem, which many observers have credited with the rise of the Taliban. Your comment about the CIA, Soviets, etc is misplaced. ...
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Recognizing the importance of the new Department of Homeland Security, the House and Senate are working on legislation that would...
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Alan Turin
artpath2001@...
Jul 2, 2003 1:36 pm
Add to this the following: the notion of authority, that there is some institution or person, who has the right to rule or at least reign, was destroyed in...
The question I posed was whether such problems preceded the invasion, the rebellion, and their destabilizing effects. I don't think they did. Am I wrong?...
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Ken MacLeod
ken@...
Jul 2, 2003 6:19 pm
In message <20030702110848.55335.qmail@...>, Alan Turin <artpath2001@...> writes ... Daoud was an Iranian puppet??? -- Ken MacLeod...
I've just read some odd allegations that Nick Herbert (Discordian physicist, author of *Quantum Reality* and *Elemental Mind*) has been writing...
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Michael E. Holmes
Michael_E_Holmes@...
Jul 2, 2003 8:39 pm
re:>>The question I posed was whether such problems preceded the invasion, the rebellion, and their destabilizing effects. I don't think they did. Am I...
... OK. The reason why you seem to think I'm blaming everything on the CIA is because the CIA brainwashed you to think that. So there....
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CarltonHobbs
carltonhobbs@...
Jul 3, 2003 12:41 pm
I'm guessing the Bakuninists, but does anyone have any specifics. I think I may have read this quote in J.J. Martin's "Men Against the State." However, I...
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Alan Turin
artpath2001@...
Jul 3, 2003 2:20 pm
The Afghans had a king up to 1973. The Shah thought his reign was backwards [he had much respect, but no real state and tribal leaders ruled were they were],...
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Michael E. Holmes
Michael_E_Holmes@...
Jul 3, 2003 11:09 pm
re: Afghan chaos. Well, Alan Turin has partly convinced me of CIA culpulibility. The Shah was installed in 1953 by a CIA backed effort to oust the previous ...
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Michael E. Holmes
Michael_E_Holmes@...
Jul 3, 2003 11:09 pm
re:>> If you want to blame everything on the CIA, fine. OK. The reason why you seem to think I'm blaming everything on the CIA is because the CIA brainwashed...
... Nineteenth-century American Anarchism (which Ken MacLeod introduced me to in his novels) was split between the "Boston Anarchists" represented by Benjamin...
ANOTHER dreary, maudlin 'Independence Weekend' recitation? OR rather than tedious pomposity, an inclusive celebration! Lady Liberty Fireworks Use your mouse...
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Alan Turin
artpath2001@...
Jul 5, 2003 1:28 am
Believe it was Gorgios who wrote, "There is no truth, but if there was, we couldn't understand it. And if we could understand it, we couldn't utter it." your...
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CarltonHobbs
carltonhobbs@...
Jul 7, 2003 6:50 pm
Here are a few thoughts that ended up being longer than a couple parapraphs when I thought of the idea. Any opinions appreciated. ... In this comparison, I'm...
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Milton Batiste
miltonbatiste@...
Jul 9, 2003 9:02 pm
I recently discovered that "A Treatise on the Alteration of Money" by Juan de Mariana is now available online. Mariana’s position was that the “king, ...
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Ken MacLeod
ken@...
Jul 9, 2003 9:02 pm
In message <BAY7-F27h5fL09hQztY00007240@...>, Kevin Carson <kevin_carson@...> writes [re my short story 'Nineteen Eighty-Nine'] ... Mercifully...
Here's to you, Robert Heinlein. Without you, I would have had a lot smaller attendance at my birthday parties (the following day), a smaller circulation to my...
... True. It might be more accurate to say that the ethical variants of the labor theory are closer to Marx's concept of "social labor," which is common to...
With the exception of one remark below, I believe I dealt with most of your comments in my two replies to George. ... By the money privilege, I do not refer to...
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Michael E. Holmes
Michael_E_Holmes@...
Jul 10, 2003 10:01 pm
Sam, you're 56? I feel like a youngster, though only a bit younger than you. You should find someone to translate your Klingon motto : "Today is a good day to...
... Absolute zero does not exist either, in the sense of a magnitude of temperature describing any actual object. The longer the time-frame, the closer one...
... I would just add that the state plays a huge role in maintaining this buyers' market. And in those cases where the employer does NOT have the advantage of...
