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POPSUS Media...Fair and Balanced? They have the audacity to call for "equal time" viz a vie the "fairness doctrine"...were it not for Fox News and conservative talk radio, there would be no "fairness"!
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POPSSarah Palin on Censorship Sarah Palin has the frightening quality of many who believe they are in possession of revealed, absolute truth: viz. that evidence is irrelevant when it contradicts revealed "truth." New evidence need not be considered, and toleration of it is a fault and temptation that needs to be eradicated. That's why she need not read a book she wants to ban.
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POPSRussia-Georgia: Russia vs. USA on Grand Chessboard A worthwhile read to see the bigger picture, and how Georgia attacked! under cover of the Olympics, then Putin immediately responded (not how it is being presented to you). Yes, Georgia was the aggressor, Russia responded (whereas my clips said they conducted a pre-emptive attack because of evidence Georgia would attack South Ossetia). From the day that the Russian tank brigade raced through the tunnel into South Ossetia, Russia has not made one wrong move. Mr Bush's remarks yesterday notwithstanding, In five days it turned an overreaching blunder by a Western-backed opponent into a devastating exposure of Western impotence, dithering and double standards on respecting national sovereignty (viz Iraq). The attack was short, sharp and deadly - enough to send the Georgians fleeing in humiliating panic, their rout captured by global television.
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POPS"Good Faith" Torture Deemed OK Interesting that they set a subjective standard for torture: viz., if the interrogator thought in "good faith" that the method wouldn't cause long-term mental harm. Note that it didn't require that the method would probably cause long-term mental harm, only that the interrogator didn't believe it would. By defining torture subjectively, the Bush administration: 1. Consigned the definition of torture to belief, thereby making it impossible to adjudicate by objective measures. 2. Totally marginalized the detainee's likely reaction to the method and, thereby, nullified the detainee's humanness and recognition as a rights-bearing being. This kind of sophistry one would expect of a brutal dictatorship.
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POPSCapitalism - The Only Possible Choice There is scarcely anything so absurd as the fundamental principle of Marx's materialist interpretation of history: "The hand mill made feudal society; the steam mill, capitalist society." It was precisely capitalist society that was needed to create the necessary conditions for the original conception of the steam mill to be developed and put into effect. It was capitalism that created the technology, and not the other way round. Liberalism - In the Classical Tradition Ludwig von Mises, 1927
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POPSThe True Liberalism "The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result from this fundamental demand." First published in German, 1927 Liberalism - In the Classical Tradition Ludwig von Mises
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POPSImplications of the Indo-US relationship China and India present a contrasting approach in their quest for global supremacy, or at the very least regional dominance. While China is increasingly striking it out alone, aiming to bypass not just Russia , India & Japan, but also the USA; India's is vying only with China. However in the hype about the rising stars of India & China, the "Land of the Rising Sun" viz. Japan must not be forgotten. Except for large quantities of human resource ( which it makes up for by their quality) , Japan has everything that a regional power must have.
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