Reasons

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less than 900 to go

 

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I might do it in 2 days

 

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or a week

 

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might be tonight

 

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or in a day

 

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but by Dec 30th at least

 

[Tough Old Man]

Why Are You Wasting All Of Robert's Bandwidth Space On This Dumb Fucking Thread.

 

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Why Are You Wasting All Of Robert's Bandwidth Space On This Dumb Fucking Thread.

After I have made 12,000 posts on my whore threads you finally decide to show up.

 

[maniclion]

I have no idea....you tell me

Matisse did do a very shitty work called "Le Bateau" \

who would have even cared if it was upside down or sideways? That's the upside down version by the way.

 

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That is not art.....just total crap IMO

 

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'rocky' Stallone Knocked Out Cold

 

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HOLLYWOOD hardman Sylvester Stallone was knocked out while filming a scene for the latest Rocky film.

 

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Stallone, 59, was laid out cold after taking a sharp blow to his head on the set of Rocky Balboa.

 

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But the crew left cameras rolling at the Las Vegas boxing ring where they were filming because they thought he was acting.

 

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They finally came to his aid after he lay unconscious on the canvas for several minutes.

 

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Stallone made a full recovery, and filming soon resumed The new film, which is due for release in 2007, is the sixth Rocky and will feature an ageing, widowed Rocky Balboa who decides to get into the ring "just to compete", according to Stallone.

 

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It also stars Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Rocky's son and real-life IBO light heavyweight world champion Antonio Ta r ve r Mr T is believed to be returning as his Rocky III character, Clubber Lang, who will this time be a commentator.

 

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We are All Complicit
Noam Chomsky

 

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Prospect, January, 2006

 

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turned with interest to Oliver Kamm's critique of the "crude and dishonest arguments" he attributes to me (Prospect, Nov. 2005), hoping to learn something.

 

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And I did, though not quite what he intended; rather, about the lengths to which some will go to prevent exposure of state crimes and their own complicity in them.

 

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His substantive charges are as follows.

 

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To demonstrate "a particularly dishonest handling of source material," Kamm alleges that "[Chomsky] manipulates a self-mocking reference in the memoirs of the then US Ambassador to the UN...to yield the conclusion that Moynihan took pride in Nazi-like policies."

 

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Kamm wisely evades the statements of Moynihan that I quoted from his 1978 memoirs.

 

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The topic is Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, condemned by the Security Council, which ordered Indonesia to withdraw.

 

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But the order had no effect. Moynihan explains why: "The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about.

 

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The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook.

 

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This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success." He then refers to reports that within two months some 60,000 people had been killed, "10 percent of the population, almost the proportion of casualties experienced by the Soviet Union during the Second World War" - at the hands of Nazi Germany, of course.

 

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His comparison, not mine, as Kamm pretends. And his clearly expressed pride: there is not the slightest hint of self-mockery, and the only "manipulation" is Kamm's, in his desperate effort to deny truly horrendous crimes of state; his state, hence his complicity.

 

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Far more Timorese had been killed by the time Moynihan's memoirs appeared in 1978, thanks to immediate US military and diplomatic support (or as Kamm prefers, Ford's "indolence, at best"), joined by the UK in 1978 as atrocities were peaking, and continuing through the final paroxysm of violence in August-September 1999, until Clinton finally ordered a halt a few weeks later, under great international and domestic pressure. Indonesia instantly withdrew, making it crystal clear who bears responsibility for one of the closest approximations to true genocide of the post-war period.