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To: Malyshek who wrote (104560)	2/23/2014 4:58:46 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217895

Malyshek , you brought up many good points, lets only hope that things will indeed change in Ukraine to the better. The issue of corruption you mentioned is so prevalent that I also doubt it can overcome easily, but one must hope. As I mentioned before there are also other OECD countries that are utterly corrupt to the degree that peoples lives are threaten and even people disappear, and no one in the OECD countries question their so called "democracy" or legal system. the main difference is that certain countries know how to hide better than others the wide putrefied web of corruption which takes various forms including that of supposed public assistance.

To: Malyshek who wrote (104560)	2/23/2014 11:03:14 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Respond to of 217895

Very well said. Nice post. For some reason humans often utilize greedy algorithms, especially where passions are involved and a "grass is greener on the other side" situation arises. Yet, anyone who has worked with a problem for which an optimal or near-optimal solution is required or "hell, we'll take a half-optimal solution as long as things will tend to get better in the long run" knows, greedy algorithms only work in certain cases, and these are few. They are usually the first thing to test when other algorithms are not known or need effort to develop. Why? Because they are cheap. For Ukraine to say Russia is corrupt, we need to go with the EU ....... to my (possibly naive) mind seems to be a greedy algorithm. There may be only two options, but it doesn't mean the choice is simple based on what you see as obvious. Nearly always, to reach optimal or near-optimal .... and at times, even half-optimal, you have to take the seemingly tortuous path. This is why algorithms like simulated annealing (really, the result of bright minds from as long ago as 1956 ..... that suddenly became recognized in the 1980s) hold back and don't jump into what seems the "obviously" best choice. Sometimes --- fairly often, depending on parameters --- they take the "left-fork" and eventually ........ reach the promised land. Perhaps I could have said all this more simply. But it's been a long day, and this is the tortuous path my mind took to half-optimal. :)

To: Malyshek who wrote (104560)	2/24/2014 12:34:20 AM
From: bruiser98	1 Recommendation Recommended By teevee Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217895

Thank You! Those two articles were terrific. I myself dismissed Paul Craig Roberts as a Reagan wingnut until recently. His comments from this article are profound. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/20/ukraine-drifting-toward-civil-war-great-power-confrontation/ >>>>Humans are brainwashed by enculturation and indoctrination. Patriots respond with hostility toward criticisms of their governments, their countries, their hopes and their delusions. Their emotions throttle facts, should any reach them. Aspirations and delusions prevail over truth. Most people want to be told what they want to hear. Consequently, they are always gullible and their illusions and self-delusions make them easy victims of propaganda. This is true of all levels of societies and of the leaders themselves.<<<<< Comments ring true to me because I was brainwashed. The history texts you study in school reveal very little of the skullduggery that went into making USA the most powerful country on earth. You don't have to be a Russia expert to see Iran 1953 parallels with the Ukraine riots. >>>> The world has witnessed this American self- righteousness for eons as Washington overthrows one democratic government after the other and imposes its puppet, as Washington did in Iran in 1953 when the CIA, as it now admits, and as Ervand Abrahamian proves in his book The Coup (The New Press, 2013), overthrew the elected government of Mossadeq, and more recently the elected government of Honduras and many governments in between. Currently Washington is working overtime to overthrow the governments of Syria, Iran again, and Ukraine. Washington has also targeted Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Brazil, and in its wildest dreams the governments of Russia and China<<<<< http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/06/washington-destabilizes-ukraine/