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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Part of the general trend of not talking about the bad things in our history, which has been happening for decades. It's just not profitable to publish school textbooks that challenge the idea that we're virtuous and heroic as a country. You usually have to go outside the school curriculum to find out the interesting stuff when studying history.
It's a damned shame, too. Yeah, there's difficult things in history, and that's because difficult things happen. And if you take out those difficult things, kids actually find it harder to find the subject interesting or connect with what they're taught in any meaningful way.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:05:37 PM by AceofSpades
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you mean HSBC?
Because unde NDAA HSBC executives could be arrested by the military and flown to Afghanistan in CIA flights, and waterboarded, without access to a lawyer and detained indefinetely, if a federal judge considers that said executive was more likely than not (with out prove nontheless) to have aided Al Qaeda.
And this ruling, would, of course, be secret.
So there ya go. And as much as I enjoyed the mental image of having a banker be brutalized by our defense stablishment, I hope it never ever happens (but it will, not to bankers, but to people who arent provided immunity because they arent filthy rich and who might be innocent but lets throw away the key and torture them!)
couldnt agree more.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:07:33 PM by Baff
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I fail to see the problem.
The article details all the productive, positive things the US Military was doing to Haiti.
EDIT: I just can not keep track of all these conversations.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:07:50 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Yeah, that was HSBC
. They sent over $60 trillion to the drug cartels and Al-Qaeda.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:07:05 PM by Serocco
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Yea, fair enough.
But dont you think the words "compassionate invasion" are incredibly offensive considering America's story in Haiti? And could you blame people for being cynical about this whole military thing.
Also the U.S basically gets to determine which polititians gets to get permission to land in Port Au Prince and which doesnt, or at least they had that power until rescently because they had the ability to schedual flights.
They use this very same perrogative to try to avoid the president they had toppled (who by the way was an adherent of the theology of salvation) to return to his country after the earthquacke.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:13:12 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.That's one of the reasons why I found history so boring and consistantly slept through it.
On another note, thanks for answering my question. It's been years since I've had a Texas history class and my memory is fuzzy on where exactly I found that information. I do remember reading Houston was disgusted with the vote in one of my books.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Representative Marsha Blackburn offers bill to defund Planned Parenthood
I believe your talking about HSBC.
Which is a British Banking corporation.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:56:02 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/04/1176160/-Thanks-GOP-for-SENATOR-Elizabeth-Warren#
I can't recall if this has been mentioned yet.
As for the Hostess thing: Well, the CE Os are still people that exist that did something. They violated a contract. Shouldn't they still be liable for that even if the company is being dissolved?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
edited 6th Jan '13 5:03:51 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.With Hostess, remember that "Corporations are People". Literally, in the sense that, when they "die", any obligations or contracts made by the corporation become null and void; they don't confer to their officers, shareholders, or anyone else.
Dissolving Hostess is a perfectly legal way to get out of its pension obligations.
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There was a corporation that funded drug cartels and Al-Qaeda. It's situated in America. All they got was a fine.
edited 5th Jan '13 9:01:25 PM by Serocco
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