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benny

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  1. Bottom line: If you stick to a backward political system, a foreign military technology may well be created to thwart the system on which your life depends.
  2. Culture is like a second nature: it produces illusions like love and free will.
  3. A forum is not a chat room.
  4. There is no such thing as global economics, there is rather a global political economy.
  5. Just like nukes, we have to be ready to use the most sophisticated voting devices in order to elect representatives able to resist international pressures.
  6. Negative externality if you prefer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
  7. A culture is a dialectics of freedom and enslavement.
  8. Confronted with such entrenched roadblocks, true democracy gears up towards a revolution.
  9. The executives of the bailout American carmakers travel more distance in private jets than in cars.
  10. I perceive a lot of wishful thinking in your selling pitch.
  11. I rather think that global capitalism is the engine that drives factitious, short-term prosperity for the few and real cumulative misery for the billions.
  12. You will gladly pay your taxes voluntarily as soon as you will notice that the vermin comes from your neighbors.
  13. I myself see also the two Canadian Communist Parties in the mix since it becomes more and more obvious that global capitalism and global cataclysms are closing linked.
  14. Enslavement is rather the precondition to become master: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_dialectic
  15. It takes an American to peddle such thing!
  16. You are making the non-sense that you then denounced.
  17. Your post mentioned Maya and Aztec in regard of extinction, not of enslavement.
  18. A system cannot be said universal if that kind of exceptions are possible.
  19. hint: carbon tax
  20. All to the contrary, children have to be taught by adults to reject candies offers coming from strangers.
  21. Forgiveness or turning the other cheek can be a solution but only if we understand that it is the most violent one.
  22. Stay focus on the topic!
  23. It was truly a white prejudice of the time though.
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