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• Covertly overthrew President Salvador Allende in Chile and replacing him with Augusto Pinochet who would kill and torture over 100,000 people
• Currently providing over $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel while it systemically cleanses greater Palestine of non-Jews
• Currently providing over $3 billion a year to Pakistan and Egypt, despite wide-spread human rights abuses and lack of democratic rights
• Spearheaded efforts to impose a UN Blockade to Iraq, leading to an estimated 200,000 deaths in the late 1990’s
• Currently providing over $1 billion a year to Saudi Arabia, including $3 million dollars of electro-shock devices used to torture inmates and political prisoners
• Funded and headquartered in Georgia the School of the Americas Assassins (currently named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), which trained and armed ‘anti-Communist’ fighters in Latin America. These have included dictators and gross human rights abusers such as Bolivia’s Hugo Banzer and Panama’s Manuel Noriega.
• Overthrew the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953 and replaced it with the dictatorship of the pro-Western Shah
• Funded the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden, to fight the Soviets in the early 1980s
• Provided Saddam Hussein with the chemical weapons he would use to kill over 100,000 Kurds

• And that’s just a brief list, not including America’s involvement in Vietnam, the bombing of civilians in Cambodia and subsequent rise of the Khmer Rouge, the use of nuclear weapons against Japan, or the funding and arming of Contra death squads in Nicaragua.

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Bài thơ của em ông Nội tôi nhắc nhở con cháu trước khi xa nhà.

Bố nhắc con khi xa nhà
Con ra đi phải chăm chỉ học hành
Nhớ gia quyến nhà ta mà cố gắng
Đời cha con đã nhiều điều cay đắng
Từ tuổi thơ ông bà Nội qua đời
Bao cực khổ của quãng đời đi ở
Nhờ cách mạng vùng lên tháo gỡ
Bao xích xiềng nô lệ đã qua
Đời cha con khói lửa lại xông pha
Đuổi Nhật đánh Tây nước nhà no ấm
Trong quãng đời lòng con phải thấm
Bao nghĩa tình đồng đội đã khuất xa
Giành cho con một thế giới bao la
Con phải nhớ lời ông bà ta dạy
Muốn trí lớn phải có công rèn luyện
Muốn vinh quang phải khiêm tốn học hành
Muốn hạnh phúc phải đấu tranh xây dựng
Được phần chung sẽ có cả phần mình.

This scene is from Edward Yang’s A Bright Summer Day. He is known for Yi Yi, however I find A Bright Summer Day is such a masterpiece, an magnum opus.

Peter Schiff talked about many actual causes of the current economy problems. Few random points I still remember from the talk. At a time Yahoo was worth twice than the entire New Zealand. Clinton created an artificial boom that finally came back to bite us now – Bush just prolonged the recession and made it even bigger. Everyone wants to go back to a strict lending standard, but wants to keep the bubble housing prices; noone will be able to afford that price without all those gimmicks. Everyone is greedy, but in a (really) free-market greed is balanced by risk, but the gov removed the risk. The gov guaranties bank deposits, hence noone cares about which banks are good banks anymore. Obama has not changed anything policy-wise.

There are a lot good points in the talk, even you don’t agree with him, it is worth to watch.

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Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Modern reinterpretation of Little red riding hood. An excellent showcase of visual design and information presentation and communication.

Pinax is a interesting platform to build websites rapidly. Look like a promising strong competitor for Drupal.

Bill Maher’s show is always funny!

And seriously take time to read about fractional reserve banking described in a humor way:
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