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Military brat (14th generation American) with unassuaged wanderlust. By age 11, schools in four states and three foreign countries (in 3 languages). Left home at 17. Degree from top-five US university. After two years service to my country, PhD and post-docs in top-twenty international universities. Since then, professional scientist/consultant, including with three Nobel Prize winners, in four states and five foreign countries. Spent time in another 30 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Mideast and Oceania (ahora busco algo interesante en America Latina!), partly in projects aiding poorer countries. Fully trilingual in three of the five langauges I have learned. Value highly tolerance, respect towards others and adore learning from human diversity. Detest "religious" fanaticism and "superpatriotism" as two of the worst historical and current malignancies of mankind.

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Alinsky Does Afghanistan »

• Mental Health Institutions: Aldous Huxley predicted, “And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so ...

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• Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression ...

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• Well, the process has been going on for some time now. The real question is when we will summon up the courage to end abuse ...

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• Ah my! More "moslem hate propaganda" from the israel-first traitors again!
  
  The quickest way to start getting America out of its present morass ...

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Did Amanda Knox Receive a Fair Trial? »

• Oh those kinds of systems are common all over Europe. In many ways they work better than our jury system which has distorted into a ...

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• Think it is any worse than ours? Especially if one is not seriously rich?

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Feingold: Troop Surge Will Be "Difficult to Stop Now" But "We'll Do Whatever We Can" | Video Cafe »

• Can one really look at such plans and attitudes, and at the towering, Everest-like mountain of corpses produced by American polices – just in the ...

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• This is the system we have. It’s right out in the open. There is a deep-rooted expectation – and not, alas, just among the elite ...

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• Oh, the escalation in Afghanistan makes lots of sense. It is all about corruption and payoffs.
  
  Savvy to a Fault: Coming to Terms With ...

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Canada's role in Afghanistan »

• Well, maybe your friend has connections to the drug dealers. Both Canada and the US should get out immediately.
  
  Americans Are Deeply Involved In ...

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Why Does the Public Oppose ObamaCare? »

• Rationing sounds like an excellent idea if it means that 50 million Americans start to get some basic health care.
  
  Frankly the present ...

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• Actually most of the "problems" you list would be better solved by a true national health scheme of the kinds that many other countries use ...

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Copenhagen: The Science Is Settled; The Policy And Politics Aren't - The Atlantic Politics Channel »

• Frankly it is time to start calculating the "emissions per capita" and to put international surcharges on the exports of all countries that exceed resonable ...

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Palin Left Hawaii Because Asians Made Her Uncomfortable »

• Well, that Palin liked Alaska and Idaho shows that already at a young age she was happier in a racially restricted sect. Pretty sad that ...

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Lies and the Lying Lies about Science, and Also, the Lies - Firedoglake »

• Sure does take up LOTS of room Klarissa. Nobody stores data on paper anymore for that very reason. As noted above, the data is still ...

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“Make Us Gods Who Will Go Before Us”« »

• You are mistaken. Avoth wants "god's chosen people" to run things.

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Civil Conspiracy Lawsuits Filed Against Climate Change Deniers »

• There was no falsified data Slate. You have been suckered into a "feeding frenzy for the gullible" again.

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• Well, those are nice slogans to chant anyway.
  
  What this whole debate really reveals is that it is time to put an end to ...

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Iranian TV Monitor Project »

• Frankly avoth, given that we have been attacking mideast countries for oil and israel for about 75 years now, it is only surprising that it ...

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• More israel-first propaganda from MEMRI avoth? Should we consider anyone who posts israeli military propaganda here as an American? Actually MEMRI is a good example ...

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How the War Hawks Caged Obama »

• Maybe even worse than Bush.
  
  Victory at Last!
  
  It’s been a long time coming, but finally American war commanders have effectively marshaled ...

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• Actually it is time to weed the israel-firsters out of our government, politics, media and military. They infest both political parties and lead to a ...

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The Invention of the Jewish People »

• Here is an inerview with Shlomo Sands
  
  “The Invention of the Jewish People"
  
  Video - Riz Khan - Changing perspectives on Israel
  
  

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Find God, Get out of Jail, Slaughter Again »

• We already elected one fringe evangelical president - Bush Jr. Did you never hear in our corporate media (state-propaganda organs) how non-plussed Jacques Chirac was ...

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Why they hate us (II): How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years? »

• Well, in some ways the most interesting response were the drops. If you want to have a quick summary of which participants here on propeller ...

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