Chom Noamsky
10/15/2012 12:18:00 AM
On 10/14/2012 3:54 PM, clairbear wrote:
> "Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote in news:k5f0bf$oap$1@dont-email.me:
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>> "Chom Noamsky" <chom@noamsky.here> wrote in message
>> news:k5esuh$1ff$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 10/14/2012 8:56 AM, Sid9 wrote:
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>>>> "Chom Noamsky" <chom@noamsky.here> wrote in message
>>>> news:k5dish$k8v$2@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 10/13/2012 8:16 PM, Sid9 wrote:
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>>>>>> "Barry Bruyea" <damnthetorpedoes@duck.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:r4sj78hckir4ovhe0cudiuuj5kutap0eq7@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:52:31 -0400, Viejo Vizcacha
>>>>>>> <elbie_jovis_kasha@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 13/10/2012 03:16 p.m., simplicity wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Oct 13, 11:53 am, Viejo Vizcacha
>>>>>>>>> <elbie_jovis_ka...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 13/10/2012 11:28 a.m., simplicity wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> On Oct 13, 4:14 am, Barry Bruyea <damnthetorped...@duck.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:19:13 -0700, Chom Noamsky
>>>>>>>>>>>> <c...@noamsky.here>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/12/2012 7:35 AM, Sid9 wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EU deserved the prize.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You don't understand the significance of the EU.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After centuries of destructive nationalistic wars in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Europe the EU has
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> made war in among members of the EU virtually impossible.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately for that theory, the EU has been barely
>>>>>>>>>>>>> staving off
>>>>>>>>>>>>> collapse which most believe is inevitable. Collapse will
>>>>>>>>>>>>> mean war, and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> according to Poland within ten years. The EU should have
>>>>>>>>>>>>> never given
>>>>>>>>>>>>> membership to the lazy, corrupt, socialistic southern
>>>>>>>>>>>>> European states.
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>>>>>>>>>>>> The statement made yesterday that the E.U. has given Europe
>>>>>>>>>>>> 60 years
>>>>>>>>>>>> of peace was beyond ridiculous. But, I could be wrong, as I
>>>>>>>>>>>> always
>>>>>>>>>>>> thought Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Albania, Roumania
>>>>>>>>>>>> were in Europe.
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>>>>>>>>>>> I thought EU was created in 1993. But to hell with facts, I
>>>>>>>>>>> guess.
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>>>>>>>>>> The EU has been around, though with a different name, for
>>>>>>>>>> about 60 years.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Care to throw some of them?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> European Economic Community, aka European Common Market, which
>>>>>>>> was the
>>>>>>>> daughter of the European Coal and Steel organization, whose goal
>>>>>>>> was to
>>>>>>>> prevent Europeans from slaughtering each other as they had been
>>>>>>>> doing for more than 25 centuries.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> VV
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ask the component countries of the former Yugoslavia how that
>>>>>>> went.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Religion and nationalism kill.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, 20-50 million in the Soviet Union alone. Oh wait, that was an
>>>>> atheistic socialist revolution with international aspirations.
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>>>> So? An estimate 60 million humans died because of Hitler.
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>>>> Religion and nationalism kill.
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>>> Absolute power kills, this is the real common denominator in all
>>> cases of systemic, mass human rights abuse. Blaming religion is too
>>> simplistic because a lot of Christian intellectuals have been behind
>>> the development of liberal human rights codes. Can't say the same
>>> for Islam, which should be labelled the new Nazism.
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>> Killing for religious reason continuous this very day.
>> Men have been killing man over religious beliefs for millennia.
>> Men have been killing man over nationalism for millennia.
> Me have also killed over greed, land, race, ethnicity, jealousy, women
> and other causes As usual you are showing a lieberal, atheist bias,
>> Please don't complicate simple issues.
> Complicated issues give simpletons like you a headache don't they
>> The EU, the use of the Euro, go a long way to reducing the killing in
>> Europe.
> The single urrency ha slittle to do with peace in Europe The rise of
> consumerism and the fall of communism have a lot more to do with it than
> the Euro
Not to mention the development and enforcement of human rights codes.
>> They earned the Nobel prize
> Like Obama earned it, that's a load of bovine scatology
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