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....That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.
Obama Feels Your Pain
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism.
We are confronted by two types of social contradictions -- those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves. The two are totally different in their nature. To understand these two different types of contradictions correctly, we must first be clear on what is meant by "the people" and what is meant by "the enemy." At the present stage, the period of building socialism, the classes, strata and social groups which favor, support and work for the cause of the people, while the social forces and groups which resist the socialist revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people.
Originally posted by guohua
Just some of the likenesses I see in the present administration and the American People. We or should I say, Most of us are not like them and we don't want to be told what to do and controlled from Cradle to Grave, but they have another idea of how your daily life should be lived.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
They really need to get over all this political BS and allow us to drill our own damn oil.
I wish we can hold special elections where we vote on what to do with hot Topics.
Drill for oil in Alaska?
(X) YES
( ) NO
Stuff like that. Because our politicians are clueless as to what we acually want.
Originally posted by guohua
It is This, I keep Waiting For Obama's Red Book To Become Mandatory Reading
Originally posted by toepick
Originally posted by guohua
It is This, I keep Waiting For Obama's Red Book To Become Mandatory Reading
haha so true, I love it, and I can honestly say that I DO feel your pain!
also...sounds like you have some very interesting stories to share, I hope that you post some of them here on ATS
TV stations were under tight control: Between 1967 and 1976, the only so-called "entertainment programs" shown on Chinese television were eight revolutionary model operas. A British broadcaster, who happened to visit China in 1970, found, much to his surprise, that within a 26-minute principal evening news broadcast by the Beijing TV Station, 18 minutes were devoted to rolling captions of Chairman Mao's quotations against a background of music praising Mao.
With the Cultural Revolution, China's TV service comes to a standstill. Beijing TV Station announced:
In answer to Chairman Mao's call that "you people should be concerned about the important affairs of our country and should carry out the Great Cultural Revolution to its full extent," we have decided to launch a general, all-out offensive on a tiny handful of inner-Party power holders who have been taking the capitalist road. As a result, from January 3, 1967 on, this station will suspend normal broadcasting service except on important matters and occasions
China has announced It's Cultural Revolution and that by reorganizing the current small farming collectives into great communes workers would be released to work in industry.
With the Cultural Revolution came persecution of radical students and teachers and colleges were effectively closed down, and Chairman Mao also used the time to purge his rivals. A bi-product of the Cultural Revolution was that grain output declined leading to the country's largest famine in history.
Originally posted by Mikeyy
They really need to get over all this political BS and allow us to drill our own damn oil.
I wish we can hold special elections where we vote on what to do with hot Topics.
Drill for oil in Alaska?
(X) YES
( ) NO
Stuff like that. Because our politicians are clueless as to what we acually want.