scott_harpell

anyone can get someone to learn to read if the stick a gun in their face. sure... literacy is good, but AT WHAT COST? Literacy is not much good when you are starving, your parents are dead and your culture is fading befoer your very eyes.

Here are my top 10 affiliations. 1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) 2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) 3. Seventh Day Adventist (87%) 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (82%) 5. Liberal Quakers (80%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (70%) 7. Hinduism (70%) 8. Unitarian Universalism (68%) 9. Bahá'í Faith (66%) 10. Eastern Orthodox (66%)

What are you?

this shows how little you know. litteracy rates were boosted so that the propaganda would be more easily dispersed. another element necessary for a stable democracy is not believing that you are going to be killed by your own government. a girl in my history class back east was telling a story about how her grandfather rolled a cigarette on a newspaper that had a picture of a government official on it and disapeared the next day... never to be seen again... quite the story an there are millions more like it.

still gonna have to call this B.S. The change in literacy rates to the current 99%? Or improvement? but what were they reading? another example of how little stats mean.

still gonna have to call this B.S.

paid a pretty high price for litteracy dontchya think?

go on.

did you notice that 1/2 of them posting are RNU or another murderous nationalistic group. the most outspoken rarely speak for any group. they are also suggesting that the landing on the moon was faked. i have found that the most politically outspoken are usually not the brightest crayons in the box.

mabe the fact that we put missiles in turkey aimed at russia before they put them in cuba aimed at us.

Many of the things they say are ludicrous. Some there say that the U.S. Government sponsored 9-11. but it is indeed good to get both sides of the story. Bring up the cuban missile crisis and you will get a much more likely sounding story from them than the garbage they feed us in school.

what gets me are the dumbasses living here that post anti-american shit there. MOVE! you should see it in russian!

wouldn't put it above them.

It has to do (i think) with the biblical connotations (as the armenians are not only an ethnic group but a religious on based in russian orthodox faith) as well as the role it played in the painter's early life and perhaps also the general mystique about ararat given it is a banned zone and the converging point of so many hostile countries. also interesting is the juxtaposition of the religious aspects of ararat and the desacration by the smuggling (of gas and drugs). dunno though. brilliant film maker for sure.

...for the first time since i was a little boy. egoyan's ararat was amazingly intense. the protrayal of the armenian genocide watched with my armenian best friend was a bit too much for comfort. for all of you who are not aware of the various atrocities committed in turkey, ukraine or (in modern times) the congo, check out this adam egoyan film.

but i like the cover of maudite. the satanic canoe. what is the story? that they had to get to the church without passing over a cemetary or they would be cast into hell? french class was long ago and my memory fades quickly.

I miss stiprausis!

yeah we got all three last night and only talked in french while watching amelie.

Yeah like that justifies the most inequitable society in the history of the world. Tool. aint a history major are ya cheif?

quebecois are good for something! making strong beer. 9% in 750ml bottles.

God forbid you fat fuckers ever walk anywhere.

fuckin A

Hmm...

Like they did in Iraq? or like in Kosovo where 100,000 killed turned into a few hundred. any difference in politicians is either facade or a perpetuation of the campaign tactics used to gain office. we may never know the real reason clinton encroached on yugoslav's soil. perhaps it was as the russians said ' a plot to undermine the progress of russia.' either way, it is difficult to understand where the liberal 'whistleblowers' were then. again, this just demonstrates the partisan pupetry that that has suckered you all in. coservatives (probably unwisely) support bush and lambast clinton. while the inverse is true for the liberals. anyone else see a pattern?