Studies + Streetsmart Suggestions
So difficult to imagine community disruption when a foreign power kills most people & steals the land. Reject Anglo-American Arrogance! Take the weapons & withdraw military funding from politico shitbirds. Militarism is explosive - invest locally.
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I'm NOT in favor of Olympic boycott or to ban past athletes.
Boarding schools for indigenous kids & after-school activities such as scouts were too often designed to manipulate & indoctrinate children. The training process was often fun -- all the more disturbing.
Children were corrupted "during their receptive years"...
The explicit "Americanization" strategy
below was operating in 1922, almost 30 years after the American military triggered
illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii "with the active
participation of agents and citizens of the United States" (US Public
Law 103-150). Subversion by the colonizer.
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Should Olympic competition ban athletes from belligerent nations? Europeans have been murderous colonizers - how long should they be punished? The Vietnam War was widely condemned - should dirty wars stop US Olympians? What of UK fight for distant Falkland colony / Malvinas, or the murderous Troubles in Ireland? Make time for truce.
The Ukraine is pressing the Olympic movement to ban Russian & Belarus athletes or face boycott.
Media is shaping decisions! Wars are not new. Olympic truce promotes peace.
Sport & art are ways talent can blossom, potentially providing a path for emigration (defection). It's wrong to punish all people born under a violent government.
Skype and Microsoft are somehow allowed to hide your "inactive" funds from you. They make it difficult to salvage & retrieve your hard-earned money after 180 days of non-use; it's burdensome to learn how much Skype Credit you had (have). They claim reactivation is easy.
They are scum. For me it was not at all easy to see or retrieve my inactivated balance. Remember: this is a huge global software firm - but their Skype interface is confusing. I believe they make your Skype Credit reactivation deliberately difficult.
The simplest way to reactivate your Skype Credit is go to:
https://secure.skype.com/portal/settings/credit/reactivate
Login, and reactivate your money. It's easy to check again anytime and make sure your funds are active. That is easy. But if you are reading this, you've probably been frustrated by their suggested steps.
Why do Microsoft & Skype make this difficult? Please Don't Mistakenly Pay to buy more Skype Credit when the corporation holds your inactivated funds. These companies have hundreds of millions of customers. How much money has Skype and Microsoft "inactivated" which is unretrieved? Is this a type of embezzlement? I'm willing to start or participate in a class-action lawsuit to force Skype and Microsoft to be more transparent: they should be encouraged to modify their (shady &) badly-designed operations.
