Hear Noam Chomsky's Vancouver Speech (March 20)

Hey that link looks familiar... Much faster too.

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"So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." - t-shirt I saw @ school

My guess is that the original server is overwhelmed by people downloading from it. And yes, the link should look familiar, thanks for posting it!

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Jesse

Oh goody, we get to hear him speak again. Has he come up with a solution yet?!

This is great! Thank you so much for posting this, I would have loved to have gone to the Vancouver rally, sounds like it was very big.

Yeah, the Vancouver rally was big and well-organised. Because it was the day after Svend Robinson's 25th anniversary (25 years in parliament), pretty much the entire NDP party was out. Most, if not all, NDP MP's were there as well as Jack Layton, Carole James. Of course we all know Noam Chomsky was there.
Tifani, check out the forum. Poz and I have been trading messages on Chomsky's talk on the Israel-Palestine situation Saturday morning.

-KY

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Kory Yamashita

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

So what does prophet Noam say about the conflict?

Well most of what he covered was history, or his interpretation of history in the region. My own familiarity with that history isn't really that strong, so I had trouble discerning which views went against mainstream opinions. However, he did end up taking a fairly neutral perspective. He blamed both sides equally, and named several times when both acted in seemingly illogical manners, but I think the more interesting part of his speech was the possible solutions.

Upon questioning, he revealed that he envisions the creation of two states, both with access to the water. This is just an intermediate solution so as to establish peace. He says he hopes that at this time moves towards a single all-inclusive state can be made.

Hopefully Poz can comment on this to rectify whatever butchering I've done. I, after all, am not a poli-sci student or a linguistics major, so it's a little harder for me to explain it.

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Kory Yamashita

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

In Edmonton and likely elsewhere they broadcast the speech live over speakers at the rally after the peace march, so I got to hear it, albeit not very well. It was introduced by NDP leader Jack Layton, incidentally.

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I hope Layton doesnt't associate himself too much with anarchists. He should steer clear of Chomsky speeches anywhere other than BC.

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Explain, anonymous what "Torrents" are?

<p>Well I have no idea what Torrent's are, but google knew what it was It seems like a interesting program. Check it out: <p><a href="http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html">BitTorrent Introduction</a>

torrents are files that BitTorrent clients use to establish many simultanious P2P connections between downloading peers and the hosting seeder(s). i currently use Azureus (<a href="http://azureus.sourceforge.net/">http://azureus.sourceforge.net/</a>) on FreeBSD, and the BT library is ported to most *nix's. also, there are many clients that run on WinDoze.<br />
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the benefit to your site is bandwidth savings; ie: that as you host the file, many users will take turns getting the pieces you upload. they then share those pieces amongst themselves, so the original machine rarely has to upload the same piece twice. once there are a few downloaders-turned-seeder (by completeing the download and keeping it active as a seed), the original machine can cease hosting the file, but still keep the "swarm" alive via the BT Tracker it is running, and by continuing to provide the torrent file to new downloaders.<br />
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FYI, i have been participating in a site that is built on this concept of communal information, and have uploaded a few informative documentaries there (<a href="http://firefiles.org/userdetails.php?id=25126">http://firefiles.org/userdetails.php?id=25126</a>), and i will be uploading a torrent of 6 Noam Chomsky interview/documentaries (2 gigs), and again the beauty of torrents is that all i have to do is make sure that atleast 1 user reaches 100%, and then the swarm can perpetuate itself to completion (for months, in some cases) without my continued uploading. and the BitTorrent libraries are *free*.<br />
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