Farhad2000

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Engaging in ill informed political banter since 1984.

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enoch

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*promote

thanks man!
19 more sifts and maybe i can repay some of the help you and others have been giving me.
means a lot my friend..thank you.

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enoch

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you a tool fan?
this is a secret track..thought you might enjoy,the animation is brilliant.
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inflatablevagina

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Im stalking you to find out where you put the bombs not because i want your insignificant herpes ridden weiner.

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Stop stalking me. I told you I won't sleep with you.

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No no one likes you. It's different.

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No one fucks with me.

inflatablevagina

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No no one likes you. It's different.

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No one fucks with me.

inflatablevagina

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Bravo sir. You win. I declare you the winner.

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I know you want it. I read Tyson's book.

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is that a question that requires an answer?

inflatablevagina

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is that a question that requires an answer?

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You just want me to take belt and discipline you. How many times do I have to smack you before you act right?

You want to look like a raccoon?

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
I am too busy eating out your mom right now. You have to wait in line just like everyone else.
You're a fatty and a fake arab. What a let down.

....and yes sir.

inflatablevagina

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I am too busy eating out your mom right now. You have to wait in line just like everyone else.
You're a fatty and a fake arab. What a let down.

....and yes sir.

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Eat me. Oh wait don't. Fattie.

Go iron my shirts.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
I would but I am too busy making that food you asked me about.. oh i guess i did talk to today... well fuck you anyhow asshole.

inflatablevagina

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I would but I am too busy making that food you asked me about.. oh i guess i did talk to today... well fuck you anyhow asshole.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
<Dr Phil>

Tell me how you really feel.

</Dr Phil>

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Since i havent talked to you today let me clear my chest:

1.youre a dick
2.and a pussy
3.and you smell like piss.

Vote on my pq

inflatablevagina

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Since i havent talked to you today let me clear my chest:

1.youre a dick
2.and a pussy
3.and you smell like piss.

Vote on my pq

guymontage says...

I liked the True Blood clip you posted and listening to a vampire speak Norwegian got me thinking; have you seen Let the Right One In? Sure, its Sweedish but something about those 2 languages and vampires mixes very well. If you havent seen it, it's an amazing movie.

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Zifnab

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Thanks for the promote Farhad. I hadn't watched this in a while, it was good to watch it again

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*promote

inflatablevagina

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I love Nick Drake. I have everything by him.

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Home PC

1. Ventures - Rma Bunk Shush
60s/70s instrumental band still active today I believe.

2. Delta Force - Main Theme
Theme to a popular Novalogic online game. I used to play this obsessively.

3. Nick Drake - Man in a shed
/wrists stuff.

4. Lil' Flip and Judge Dredd - Glocks Up
Houston hiphop/rap mixtape

5. Lamb of God - 11th Hour
Metal, I nearly got to see them live but they canceled a show in Ottawa.

6. 07 - Easy Street
Random chillout minimal track. Most probably from M_nus.

7. Ventures - Frosty
More classic instrumental tracks.

8. The Roots - The Web
Hip hop live band?

9. Portishead - Better Things
Who doesn't know Portishead?

10. The Orb - Tong Poo
Who doesn't know the Orb?

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This is the type of aid the western world should be providing Africa, not just debt write offs and bundles of cash loans with strings attached. I worked with NGOs, with EWB specifically and witnessed their effect in Central Africa. While many mean well, their intrusion into the environment, short term provision of aid which dissipates once the mission leaves is only creating a beggar mentality in the African people.

An example is the provision of agricultural service to the populace, if there is a famine, the western world floods the nation with surplus food aid, this of course cures the immediate problem but destroys the local agricultural market, which means the nation becomes dependent on aid until the market recovers from an influx of goods (which is free don't forget). The western world never tries to actually work on the trade relations between nations which could easily support any famine relief themselves and in effect create a network of agricultural markets that could sustain and prevent further disasters. But borders are closed because of minor disputes between African leaders, the west could easily force borders open via negotiations, especially since WTO and IMF aid package negotiations allow this to happen to equip the economy for capitalization and recovery.

Further more, money donations such as the outburst of contributions seen last year with Live 8 Aid and Make Poverty History campaign, are <b>USELESS</b>. We never hear of the results these aid packages provide, there is no reportage or follow up, because most of the money is earmarked by the organization for self growth! How else do you think Make Povery History, AIDS and other campaigns get all those celebrity endorsements? Or the large office blocks these organizations possess? It's sick. This type of money aid has also been around for 40 years, combined totally over a trillion dollars worth of aid has been given to Africa since the 70s, clearly this doesn't work, actual GDP has fallen in most nations. Mostly because these aid packages go to naive inexperienced corrupt governments, that produce a large public sector snuffing private development, resulting in mismanaged economies. Most of these aid donations can be reflected in the shiny fleets of government Mercedez cars.

Time and time again it has been shown that provision of educational services, and on site training with available resources creates entrepreneurship and development, Engineers Without Borders works in such a way, providing engineering solutions to problems faced there everyday. These solutions are always built via locally available resources, training of the population ensures that the knowledge will be retained, and the systems could be rebuilt if broken, without NGO presence.

Once these aims are achieved actual economic growth can have a chance to take place. However the West has to finally come to a decision to whether it will continue undertaking economic policies that are determental to third world development. Currently both the US and EU maintain high tariffs and quotas on agricultural products coming from the third world, and subsidize their agricultural producers. Meanwhile 70% of Africa's economy is agriculturally based while in the US and EU this is only a small percentage, due to the subsidization, the agricultural industry in the west has ballooned to large inefficient size, government subsidizes created artificial demand and both have been producing surpluses, so much so that the EU pays farmers not to use a percentage of their land now! The government actually buys the surplus (to artificially raise the price), and then dumps the surplus into the world market which hurts the African producers even more.

There are layers and layers to this issue that I won't even dwell into, but the basic fact is that the west keeps it's markets closed to the third world which stumps growth of their economies. And this has to change, but the problem lingers as WTO after WTO meeting ends in deadlock over this pivotal issue.

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