The flute in this song makes me hitty.

I love this radio station, you never fail to transport me while I am tinkering away at various projects, songs and segues just pop up that work really well!  Like now....

The flute in this song makes me hitty.

I believe so

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Isn't this the same awesome artist who does that piece from the Babel soundtrack?

The problem is that extreme capitalism is just as corrupt as extreme communism. Look at where we are today in the capitalist west - big corporations don't care at all about society, and libertarians only care about themselves. It's just the same (in reverse) as a communist state where everything is done in the name of society, no-one has any freedom and making money is considered to be evil.

I get so frustrated that people can't see the irony in the battle between left-wing and right-wing politics - they're both just as screwed up. The only way to a happy society (and hence to happy people) is for all of us to see that the right balance is, as always, somewhere in the middle, ie where the health of society is seen as important but concern for this doesn't dominate people's freedom. You have to be prepared to sacrifice some freedoms for its health, but it all has to be within bounds.

Follow Ayn Rand and all hope is lost, just as much as if you follow Marx!

Oh, and it really doesn't help anyone to drag us back to WWI and before - all countries and governments have things they should be ashamed of, but we really need to focus on the present right now...

Isn't this the same awesome artist who does that piece from the Babel soundtrack?

So is the movie. (And you don't have to be a supporter of the Cuban Revolution in order to like it.)

I don't believe I've heard this song before.  It is very pretty.

I get so frustrated that people can't see the irony in the battle between left-wing and right-wing politics - they're both just as screwed up.  

Ha! A Brit lecturing America about meddling in Iraq?

How about the British Mandate of Mesopotamia after WWI?

How about the Anglo-Iraqi War? Talk about a war for oil!

You guys practically DEFINED imperialism! Don't act like your shite don't stink.

Ha! A Brit lecturing America about meddling in Iraq?

How about the British Mandate of Mesopotamia after WWI?

How about the Anglo-Iraqi War? Talk about a war for oil!

You guys practically DEFINED imperialism! Don't act like your shite don't stink.

Cuba sucks on its own. It doesn't need any help at sucking. Communism always sucks. Such wonderful leaders too like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.

Which countries are prospering the most in South America right now? Brazil and Chile. Capitalist countries.

Which countries are going down the crapper? Venezuela comes to mind. Once the most prosperous country in all of Latin America. Now Hugo is grabbing with both hands, shutting down free press and radio, and voting himself dictator for life.

Oh by the way, was that line about Cuba not having death squads and not making dissents disappear supposed to be a joke?

. . . You guys practically DEFINED imperialism! Don't act like your shite don't stink. . . .

It's not a patch on many other regimes, most of which are supported by the US of A. The only reason that Cuba gets Uncle Sam's goat and is labelled as one of the "most repressive" regimes is that it's been sticking it to the US in its own imperial backyard. There's plenty wrong with Cuban Communism and I can't be doing with the regime's authoritarianism (which oppresses those to the Left of it, such as anarchists and libertarian Marxists, and damages the regime in the long run), but in terms of political repression it's a long way behind US client states in Latin America and beyond. Including, once upon a time, Saddam's Iraq... Political dissenters may be harassed and locked up in Cuba, but they're not murdered by death squads or 'disappeared'. Nice number, this. 7 from the Nottingham jury.

You hit it right on the head, Fred.