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rauri
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# Posted: 6 Jan 2007 10:08
Quote:
The traveller was struck, too, by the wide variety of other visitors he encountered in the capital. "You look at these hundreds of thousands, these millions of people humbly streaming here from all over the face of the earth," he observes. "It is like a biblical picture, something out of Babylon, a prophecy from the Apocalypse coming to pass before your eyes."
But this was Fydor Dostoevsky writing in 1862, it hasn't changed much.
From a article in the Guardian comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1983887,00.html
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Kama
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Rishi
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# Posted: 6 Jan 2007 10:59
I know exactly how he felt 
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rauri
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# Posted: 9 Jan 2007 14:49
Reading how they were working out the value that immigration added to the economy I came across this article and thought it was an interesting comment:from this blog: http://freecommonwealth.blogspot.com/
"Today, we see too much in economic terms - as though money were the only measure of value. We're asked to argue about the economic value of migrants, as though friendships and cultural enrichment counted for nothing. Education and health are measured by their monetary value. Our children are valued not for their kindness, their ideas or themselves but their potential value to future employers. Skills are exalted above thought and questioning, because skills are marketable.
Today, in the Guardian, ex-Python Terry Jones takes this monetary approach to its logical conclusion. Seeing human lives - and deaths - in accountants' terms should be an absurdity. Tomorrow we might miss the irony.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1983817,00.html "
Works out that the US could have given each Iraqi $18,700 each using the money they have spent on the war.
Might have won a few hearts and minds that way?
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Cuni
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# Posted: 10 Jan 2007 13:46
If the americans give me $18700 I promise to go away and leave them alone otherwise I am never going to buy another Ford or Big Mac ever again.
or maybe I should give them $18700 if they agree to fuck off and leave us all alone.
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rauri
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# Posted: 11 Jan 2007 11:40
I hope it's just the people in power in the US at the moment that are
the problem and big business calling the shots.
I know hte solution 'Regime change'. Starting off with 'shock and awe' destroying all the infrastructure.
That's a sure way to end up with a peaceful democratic country.
If that don't work try a 'Surge' even if its like putting more fat on a fire.
Dollar cost counter:
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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