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Please look the following video from minute one to minute 3. At least some 'serious' people seem to know really really little.




Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 10:47:41 AM EST
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Dragging out Chamberlain and not knowing about the partitioning of Czechoslovakia? That's so pathetic it isn't even funny.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 11:01:03 AM EST
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It's not only pathetic, it extremely weird why they let such a raving lunatic go on TV. Okay, I buy why they let lunatics go on TV, but why one which raves incoherently?

Anyone?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 08:45:44 PM EST
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He didn't expect to be called on it. If he hadn't been called on it, he would have just repeated the talking point and gone on to the next talking point.

They aren't arguing. They are advertising. And advertisement works by repetition, endless repetition. One small screwup - even a major screwup like this one - is as unimportant as a faulty transmission of a soap ad. There are thousands of other repetitions to fall back on.

Historical insight (or basic intelligence, for that matter) isn't necessary to spew talking points, and they have better uses for the educated, intelligent cadre, so the idiots get to go on TV.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Aug 12th, 2008 at 11:38:31 AM EST
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