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Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program

The former top aide to Donald Rumsfeld seeks to explain major discrepancies in his statements.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, May 12, 2008 09:13 PM

    um .. thanks for those links

    you know, economic theory goes through phases, and economic theory in the USA was always behind economic theory in Europe, because Europe had used up its land resources long before the USA had. This explains why Marx could accurately say that in the European context, theories like George's, that treated rent as the most problematic form of income, rather than interest on mobile investment capital, were already out of date by his day.

    If anybody cares, I have a more successful translation of a Hadag Nachash song (along with an absolutely mind blowing video) here:

    http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/hadag-nachash-aize-kif/

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