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kamqute Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 06:45 PM
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Someone please help me teach this to a 10-year-old
This article
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ADI502A.html
is a very good rundown of the West's icky policies with regard to loan-sharking, astroturfing, petrodollar recycling; the works. I would appreciate it if someone would help me convert it, section-by-section, into kidspeak. No need to make it stupid, as only smart 10-year-olds will care anyway, but that would be helpful. Thanks! Public outreach is imperative, and telling a kid that the international flow of investment capital is used to hold foreign regimes hostage to an international hegemony of rich people who co-opt others' good intentions to create fake grassroots organizations to..bla bla bla--is much more difficult than telling them that Jesus died for them and therefore they should vote for Bush.
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 06:59 PM
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1. If only it could be easily converted to kidspeak!
We could actually reach shrub voters in a way meaningful to them.
They prefer not to reason with children though. It's so much easier for them to get their desired result through the threat of punishment.

Finish your peas or you're going to bed now!

Give your soul to Jay-sus or you'll roast in hell!

Vote for * or the terrorists will win!

I'm greatly encouraged to hear that you're willing to discuss the "whys" with your child, and I wish you the very best in your endeavor. So far for me the rewards have been great! :)
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kamqute Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 07:16 PM
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2. Well put :)--little sister, not child lol
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 07:31 PM
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3. Good heavens! My apologies for having prematurely aged you!
And for what it's worth, I think it's even nobler that you'd do that for your kid sister!
:yourock:
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