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May 17, 2016
Hitler was only the second most destructive thing Germany country had unleashed upon the world.
Worse by far, he said, were the ideas of Karl Marx. ....
How this "miracle" crashed down into ruin is something yet to be explained. Suffice it so say there is unexpectedly no food, no electricity, nor even gasoline in this oil-rich nation. In the the ultimate irony "gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking units ... are currently down ... with critics blaming shortages of spare parts, lack of maintenance, and a shaky electrical grid for outages and unplanned stoppages." Looting is epidemic. Trucks are being swarmed by mobs on the highway. Army troops -- crucial for regime survival -- have been reduced to foraging to make up a meal. The Atlantic, hardly a right wing publication, writes "Venezuela is falling apart".More Powerful Than a Bomb
Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 17, 2016 9:56 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Let's stop whining and shifting blame.
The most destructive thing is the failure to implement adequate critical thinking regarding value systems, and to act adequately on the findings.
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at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM
That is called judgment but judgment is considered a bit too "biblical" and we just can't have that in a post literate world.
Posted by: indyjonesouthere at May 17, 2016 1:49 PM
Germany would be last on my list of things to blame for Karl Marx, and didn't even exist until he died, stateless, in London.
Posted by: james wilson at May 18, 2016 10:50 AM