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hifiguy

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13. In 50-100 years, when a thorough and objective history of the post-WW II era is written

Reply to Octafish (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 06:01 PM

Nov 2015

the hardest question to answer will be this one: Did Adolf Hitler or Milton Friedman cause more pointless death and human suffering?

My money's on Friedman. Hitler's murderous insanity died with him. Friedman's Frankenstein has been crushing the life out of uncountable numbers of human beings all over the world for nearly 50 years and shows no signs of being stopped anytime soon.

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Guardian: Chile admits Pablo Neruda might have been murdered by Pinochet regime [View all] villager Nov 2015 OP

Neruda was one of our time's great minds. Octafish Nov 2015 #1

Just as Reagan's ascension essentially finished the U.S., so did Thatcher's basically end England villager Nov 2015 #2

All that progress gone -- in the name of free-market capitalism. Octafish Nov 2015 #3

In 50-100 years, when a thorough and objective history of the post-WW II era is written hifiguy Nov 2015 #13

US tax dollars at work EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #5

The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll Octafish Nov 2015 #9

:( EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #10

All of this. hifiguy Nov 2015 #11

Of course they killed him malaise Nov 2015 #15

Truth. Octafish Nov 2015 #19

The Falklands War and the Grenada Invasion MinM Nov 2015 #17

Spot-on analysis, MinM. Just Cause for Panama was third appetizer... Octafish Nov 2015 #18

Michael Moore:Our Military Has Not Won a War Since World War II MinM Nov 2015 #20

I suppose it's good they admit it BainsBane Nov 2015 #4

In the same way that Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy hifiguy Nov 2015 #6

Exactly. villager Nov 2015 #8

Pinochet must have been crazy FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #7

His good friends Dick and (especially) Henry hifiguy Nov 2015 #12

Yup. Accessories to murder. villager Nov 2015 #14

K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Nov 2015 #16