>> ^hpqp:

Can someone explain the llamas?


They're a South American camelid.

http://www.hacer.org/chile/?p=22

Naomi Klein’s disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist.

In the future, if you tell a student or a journalist that you favor free markets and limited government, there is a risk that they will ask you why you support dictatorships, torture, and corporate welfare. The reason for the confusion will be Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

In a very short time, the book has become a 21st-century bible for anticapitalists. It has also drawn praise from mainstream reviewers: “There are very few books that really help us understand the present,” gushed The Guardian. “The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.” Writing in The New York Times, the Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called it “a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries."

Klein’s basic argument is that economic liberalization is so unpopular that it can only win through deception or coercion. In particular, it relies on crises. During a natural disaster, a war, or a military coup, people are disoriented, confused, and preoccupied with their own immediate survival, allowing regimes to liberalize trade, to privatize, and to reduce public spending with little opposition. According to Klein, “neoliberal” economists have welcomed Hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Asian tsunami, the Iraq war, and the South American military coups of the 1970s as opportunities to introduce radical free market policies. The chief villain in her story is Milton Friedman, the economist who did more than anyone in the 20th century to popularize free market ideas.

To make her case, Klein exaggerates the market reforms in question, often ignoring central events and rewriting chronologies. She confuses libertarianism with the quite different concepts of corporatism and neoconservatism. And she subjects Milton Friedman to one of the most malevolent distortions of a thinker’s ideas in recent history.

Some people don't like "hispanic" because, essentially, it is referring to the Spaniards conquering a people, then raping their culture and their women. "Latino" or "Latina" is strange to me too, because I don't know where the reference to Latin is coming from other than the language.

The reason why it's harder to classify people than it is to classify animals is because we're all the same species. You can't call people of indigenous South American tribes "brownies" any more than you can call Jews "big noses" because people from the Middle East are also brown, just like Italians also have big noses. And Indians would really throw everybody off because they've got big noses like the Jews, dark skin like the Mexicans and hairy chests like Russian women.

The fact of the matter is, if it hasn't been conquered by the Spaniards or the British empire, it's probably a shit place to be. The French tried, but who the hell wants to go to Vietnam?

And that's how you offend a lot of people at once...>> ^bareboards2:

One pride movement that is starting, quietly, is the idea of Mexican Pride. I have only seen this a couple of places, and I am cheering it on.
Unfortunately, in America, the very word "Mexican" carries with it the echo of the phrase "dirty Mexican" -- one of the reasons we use back away to be "nice" and say Hispanic/Latino/Latina, when someone is clearly Mexican.
"Nice" becomes really ugly, when the word Mexican should be a descriptive word and not pejorative just by itself.
There are some Mexicans out there who are sick of it, and are starting to reclaim their national identity.
I had never thought of it this way, until I heard this famous actor interviewed (do wish I could remember who it was -- Salma Hayek? Someone smart and beautiful, I remember that.)
I have been trying to use the word Mexican ever since, and have screwed up, because it turns out I can't tell Guatamalen from Brazilian, so I end up insulting folks anyway. But I'm trying.
Mexican. Mexican. Mexican.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^raverman:
If you're going to declare war, you better be sure you can defend as well as attack.
They are legion...
Are you? Can you fight off 10 to 1 highly skilled and motivated individuals?

If the US government is on your side and they think it's important enough to find out where these people are and kill them then yeah. Obviously that's not what happened here...just a dumb CEO making claims he can't back up.
Look I love Anon, and Wikileaks, but if the US wanted to be big bad Empire...they could spill a LOT of blood.

I agree, but I think the U.S. would lose that war eventually unless they can get everyone (they can't) everywhere (they won't, that's war; playing illegal arrest on foreign grounds). The U.S. is not Superman. But, Anonymous has one very deadly weapon, knowledge and a plan of action (as proofed by this guys upheaval). They would lose as a PR game. Sure in the U.S. things might seem semi-peachy, but outside we'd have little footing to stand on. I literally think it would cause an inverted response that you may think they're ready for, but the U.S. has sucked at International PR for a long time. Causing people to "disappear" or arresting them only unleashes the dogs of war.
I frankly don't see the U.S. being able to hold up (certainly, as some countries like China would be happy to have anon). It would be a terrible decision and one they won't make, as we'll be a dictatorship by then. If Colbert is giving them kudos what do you think really happens in that scenario?


Eventually yes...they would have to try and convince the public that these Hackers are a threat to them. They could convince many governments or convince others to go along with them and help them...that's not hard since Wikileaks is challenging almost all power centers. Anonymous may have right and guts on their side but they are still human beings. What happens to human beings in a group when a few of them get taken to Guantanamo Bay or just killed outright.

Sometimes that type of suppression works and sometimes it doesn't. With the backing of other governments the US could shut down the internet as a response. Also China wouldn't be happy with Anon at all unless they had them under their thumb.

What Anon has to do is appeal to the public which I've seen a bit of but would like to see more. Take any south american country...kill a few social activists there using US proxy forces and as long as the media doesn't report it much it's all fine...stays quiet. Anon having roots in the activist community in the US and some sympathy from the broader public and it's a difference story when one of them gets taken out.

Supporting Anon means being realistic as to who they are and what they can do. Not just saying "Yay Anon do it for the Lols!" They need wide support or we have nameless people being thrown in jail or killed somewhere in the world and no one cares because we have no fucking clue who they are or what they represent.

South Americans must be inured to the sound of a whistle.
Everytime I (a North American) hear it I'm like "What? ...What did I do wrong?"

>> ^LordOderus:

Does anyone have any idea what the hell it was he hit that bus with?Sledgehammer bomb?>> ^LordOderus:
Also, where can I get one?
Unsurprisingly, in Mexico.

"What Happens when an Alligator Bites an Electric Eel?"
I don't know, but when that caiman bit the electric eel it got a hell of a shock.

ok, I'll stop being a smart ass now,
but alligators are restricted to North America and China, electric eels are South American. While caiman are in the family Alligatoridae, the common name "alligator" wouldn't apply. ..oh crap.. there I go again.

oh, and yes, the does have something is his mouth, a fishing lure. You can see the fishing line in the videographer's hand.

South American episode was the best....by far.

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Absolutely hilarious, but it's been around a couple of times already.

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Colombia I think. Weird that they got their own voices.

>> ^Mandtis:

Those are surely not the voices we get here in Spain, I guess it must be from some central/south american country maybe :?

Those are surely not the voices we get here in Spain, I guess it must be from some central/south american country maybe :?

>> ^Crunchy:

Oh lordy! those spaniards have taken it too far, you'd think dubbing the show with horrible voice actors that makes a woman, a robot and a freaking lion all sound like a middle aged spanish man on speed they've now gone ahead and mirrored it aswell.