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Because Trump thought that leaving 60 minutes in 45 minutes, and returning with a big book suggesting it is his healthcare plan would be a great piece of Political Theater.Not to the fact that it had a lot of blank pages, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act 2018 that removed the individual mandate for healthcare by taking away the tax penalty was its main content, and a few Congressional discussion papers as well as his health-related executive orders. I guess by the number of pages of the parts, there would be less than 300 pages of content in the big book. A book that size must have at least 2000 pages bound in there, depending on the weight of the paper used.https://fresh-news-now.com/2020/10/22/kayleigh-mcenany-handed-lesley-stahl-a-blank-book-of-trumps-accomplishments/ (https://fresh-news-now.com/2020/10/22/kayleigh-mcenany-handed-lesley-stahl-a-blank-book-of-trumps-accomplishments/)Leslie Stahl flicked through it and reported that it also contained some of the memos and executive orders that had variety of effects from zero to small, and some would be inactive without PPACA that supported them, such as the requirement for health insurers to accept pre-existing conditions. Some are not enforceable as only Federal Administration can be directed by the President, and Private or Commercial Entities do not have to agree or comply with any Presidential Directive that is not supported by legislation. So a request to lower drug prices can be ignored. The Healthcare Plan is only 8 pages !Donald Trump signs two executive orders on healthcare for Americans (Donald Trump signs two executive orders on healthcare for Americans)Trump signs EOs on health care, but does little to change existing legislation (Trump signs EOs on health care, but does little to change existing legislation)Trump's Executive Orders on Prescription Drugs (Trump's Executive Orders on Prescription Drugs)The actual achievements in health care reform can be distilled down to be included in these 16 items.**Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children** (Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children **Signed:09/25/2020Published: 10/02/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-10-02) FR Citation: 85 FR 62187 FR Doc. Number: 2020-2196 (Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children)**An America-First Healthcare Plan** (An America-First Healthcare Plan **Signed:09/24/2020 Published:10/01/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-10-01)FR Citation:85 FR 62179FR Doc. Number:2020-21914 (An America-First Healthcare Plan) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-10-01/pdf/2020-21914.pdf) 8 pagesSee: EO 13813, (Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States) October 12, 2017; EO 13861, (National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Suicide) March 5, 2019; EO 13877, (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First) June 24, 2019; EO 13879, (Advancing American Kidney Health) July 10, 2019; EO 13890, (Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors) October 3, 2019; EO 13887, (Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health) October 19, 2019; EO 13937, (Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications) July 24, 2020; EO 13938, (Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients) July 24, 2020; EO 13939, (Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen) July 24, 2020; EO 13941, (Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access) August 3, 2020; EO 13944, (Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States) August 6, 2020; EO 13948, (Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First) September 3, 2020**Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First** (Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First **Signed: 09/13/2020Published:09/23/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-09-23) FR Citation: 85 FR 59649FR Doc. Number:2020-21129 (Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First)PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-09-23/pdf/2020-21129.pdf) 2 pages Revokes: EO 13947, (Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First) July 24, 2020**Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States** (Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States **Signed: 08/06/2020 Published: 08/14/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-08-14)FR Citation: 85 FR 49929 FR Doc. Number: 2020-18012 (Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-08-14/pdf/2020-18012.pdf) 6 pages**Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access** (Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access **Signed: 08/03/2020Published: 08/06/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-08-06) FR Citation: 85 FR 47881 FR Doc. Number: 2020-17364 (Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access)See: EO 13603, (National Defense Resources Preparedness) March 16, 2012**Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen** (Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen)Signed: 07/24/2020 Published: 07/29/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-07-29) FR Citation: 85 FR 45759FR Doc. Number: 2020-16625 (Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-07-29/pdf/2020-16625.pdf) 2 pages**Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients** (Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients)Signed: 07/24/2020 Published: 07/29/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-07-29) FR Citation: 85 FR 45757FR Doc. Number: 2020-16624 (Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-07-29/pdf/2020-16624.pdf) 2 pages**Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications** (Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications **Signed: 07/24/2020Published: 07/29/2020 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2020-07-29) FR Citation: 85 FR 45755FR Doc. Number:2020-16623 (Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-07-29/pdf/2020-16623.pdf)2 pages**Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors** (Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors **Signed: 10/03/2019Published: 10/08/2019 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2019-10-08) FR Citation: 84 FR 53573 FR Doc. Number:2019-22073 (Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors)PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-08/pdf/2019-22073.pdf) 4 pages**Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health** (Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health **Signed: 09/19/2019 Published: 09/24/2019 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2019-09-24) FR Citation:84 FR 49935FR Doc. Number: 2019-20804 (Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-09-24/pdf/2019-20804.pdf) 5 pages**Advancing American Kidney Health** (Advancing American Kidney Health **Signed: 07/10/2019 Published: 07/15/2019 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2019-07-15)FR Citation: 84 FR 33817 FR Doc. Number: 2019-15159 (Advancing American Kidney Health) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-07-15/pdf/2019-15159.pdf) 3 pages**Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First** (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First **Signed: 06/24/2019 Published: 06/27/2019 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2019-06-27) FR Citation: 84 FR 30849FR Doc. Number: 2019-13945 (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-06-27/pdf/2019-13945.pdf) 4 pages**https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1** (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1)** **- a pdf would render 186 pages - at this link https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ97/PLAW-115publ97.pdf (https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ97/PLAW-115publ97.pdf) 186 pages**Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States** (Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States)Signed: 10/12/2017 Published: 10/17/2017 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2017-10-17) FR Citation: 82 FR 48385FR Doc. Number: 2017-22677 (Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-10-17/pdf/2017-22677.pdf) 3 pages**Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal** (Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal **Signed: 01/20/2017 Published: 01/24/2017 (Federal Register Document Issue for 2017-01-24)FR Citation: 82 FR 8351 FR Doc. Number: 2017-01799 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/24/2017-01799/minimizing-the-economic-burden-of-the-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-pending-repeal) PDF (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-24/pdf/2017-01799.pdf) 2 pagesAnd the VA Mission act, that Trump often calls ‘Veteran’s Choice Act’, the Similar act signed by Obama expanded upon but basically fixing some errors to allow Veterans access to any healthcare provider if VA resources are not available or convenient.**S. 2372 (115th): VA MISSION Act of 2018** (S. 2372 (115th): VA MISSION Act of 2018). The PDF runs to only 89 pages here https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2372enr/pdf/BILLS-115s2372enr.pdf (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2372enr/pdf/BILLS-115s2372enr.pdf)Thank you for the A2A, Rick.

China is a likely winner of the information age supply chain through ecommercePeace and Ecommerce, A Global Systems ViewBy L.M. Lane, MSIM, 2008Policy, Law, and Ethics in Information Management, University of WashingtonThe Research DiaryEducation justifies everything.Attending a required Masters class “Policy, Law, and Ethics in Information Management” it was only ethical to admit that I worked three months drafting and publishing policy documents for Microsoft, which was now our current class assignment, to research Web based privacy policies and other related documents such as terms of use, conditions of use, code of conduct and learn more about them, with a diary of examples in the wild, and related materials. The educational idea is that we would then be able to contribute meaningfully to creating policy statements and understand their underlying implications to end users and companies. But I had already done this work professionally, so it would be of questionable value for me to do the coursework on the same topic as if I had never done it before.The instructor of the class, Glenn Von Tersch assigned me to present information on freedom of speech, a topic I fell in love with, and wanted to research more. But for my final research, I needed something else.One of my favorite things to discuss in job interviews, or with anyone in earshot, is that I believe that the networked spread of ecommerce over the Web, filtering into even the poorest nations will aid in understanding through communication; that ecommerce leads to peace. In effect I believed that ecommerce contributes in a direct way to peace because it provides the fuel to grow and maintain the Internet. Also it seemed obvious that people and countries that are invested in and perform transactions with each other are less likely to go war against their own interests. Von Tersch said, “These topics you are interested in have more research value than freedom of speech, because 1st amendment rights have been heavily legislated, written about, and researched.” He mentioned something called “The McDonald’s Effect”, how having a McDonald’s outlet or franchise appears to contribute to peace between countries. So peace and ecommerce became my topic.What I did not expect to discover is in human society war is considered the norm and peace the exception. I did not expect to learn about how ugly the 3rd world poverty creating monster of WTO became according to one economist, even though I live in Seattle where the initial protests were. I was surprised to know how Reganomics theory hangs on, like an old B-grade movie on late night TV, because someone somewhere in the supply chain makes money. I did not expect to find that privacy and intellectual rights are so tightly interwoven, or how they relate to conflict, security, potential world dominance and growth.I had no way to guess that I would enjoy the study of economics – statistical, yes, nicely so, but dull no; as a global topic it is juicy-rotten, full of international spies, botched security, with rogue pirate computer chips, and unintended consequences.Who can accurately predict how patterns of global economics relate to peace, privacy, property rights, policies and their outcome in the one breath away from today, the next 20-40 years? Who would think that China - the nation, McDonalds - the corporation, and Chicago crack dealers and their foot soldiers share so much in common when you view their information through these fascinating multi-dimensional facets?One must be educated to search effectively for information. My knowledge about the nature of search is not just intellectual knowledge; this is conditionalized through my own experience of failure to produce relevant search results within massive library databases.My education began with a simple query on the Web “peace + ecommerce” which returned from Google “Theses on the Balkan War,” by Mike Haynes, from the International Socialism Journal, “Capitalism is inherently a competitively expansionist and therefore conflict-ridden system” , effectively laying the blame for war on the US and Western capitalist nations and on anyone claiming to be fighting a war with good intentions. I read it, thinking I would not see this relate to my project – also surprising very similar material was presented in the global economic books I read later.As mentioned the pursuit of ‘education justifies anything’, like looking at any results, so I also clicked on an article entitled “Dinosaur Extinction linked to change in Dinosaur Culture” I read it, and it made sense that something like author Daniel Quinn’s theory of “The Law of Limited Competition” is an operant factor in global markets today, with war being genocide, and countries struggling to win economically laying waste to the very place they live. A notable example is Beijing, the air pollution capital of the world struggling to host the Olympic Games this year. I stored that URL for future reference. The theory and the reality imply that in the race to catch up and compete in global economics, the Chinese are killing themselves off before they arrive at their desired goal.Then I queried in several of the University of Washington interconnected and extensive library databases on the same thing “peace + ecommerce” and found in all of them, zero returns, “0 Results”. My teacher was surprised and advised me to extrapolate and offer conjecture on what was likely, if few sources were available. I notified a friend studying economics who emailed related articles. Very frustrated I tried related queries and turned up articles on the economies of war . How perverse, I thought. I contacted a librarian through the online tool and chatted with her, explaining my quest. She suggested I query on “economics and public policy”. “How is public policy related to peace and ecommerce?” I asked. “Try Conflict Resolution” she replied.Thus the reason I couldn't find 'peace' is because the term used, in educated facet writers’ metadata which is designed to expose information to search, is 'conflict resolution' or ‘conflict prevention’. Oddly the social implication is that war is the norm. Maybe peace doesn’t exist anywhere. A reason I used 'ecommerce' instead of 'global economics' is due to consulting in that field for technology firms. Searching again returned few meaningful results -- the user interface was strange, very slow, and clunky. I longed for Google .Then I remembered the “McDonald's Effect” our teacher mentioned, and quickly I located a reference on the Web, but it was deeply nested in a staggering number of oddly worded articles. I stopped without uncovering where the concept originated. The next night I searched again, and found the author Thomas Friedman and his related books. I briefly scanned all the related Wikipedia articles. I realized quickly that to become educated enough on my two topics, I had to some understanding of economics. This is because even to scrape by enough to search among the many interrelated topics one needs to know the central facet. Very esoteric topics require specialized language and deep knowledge of the subject.More searches turned up substantial evidence that China lags behind other nations in ecommerce.For years I worked in ecommerce designing interfaces (for Microsoft 2003 and Amazon 2007-2008), and working with supply chain software (as a director of an ecommerce company). But because I didn't realize that one could understand it better, and that it is not as dull as computer science and its requisite cash register receipts , I never tried.The "McDonald's Effect" is named after "The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" created by the author Thomas Friedman's slightly in cheek comments and his book, “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” (the update now titled "The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization").Those books led me to order Amazon ecommerce overnight book delivery, and I read, 'The World Is Flat?: A Critical Analysis of New York Times Bestseller by Thomas Friedman', 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything' , 'Making Globalization Work' which reports that there is hope in the world for peace. The Nobel Prize winning author helps the reader extrapolate based on significant knowledge of statistics and global economic analysis through his personal, professional, and academic connections.Common Name Academic Name Book TitleMcDonalds Effect Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,aka democratic peace theory Lexus and the Olive TreeDell Theory The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention The World is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First Centurypeace conflict preventionecommerce global economics"In his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman proposed The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, observing that no two countries with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war with one another, a version of the democratic peace theory.""The Dell Theory stipulates: No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell's, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain."---------------------------------------------------------------------ReadingsThe World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas FriedmanLarry Page, Google Co-Founder quoted by Thomas Friedman, p. 179, entire paragraph. “The more global Google’s user base becomes, the more powerful a flattener it becomes…”From Friedman’s conversation with Google’s director of operations in China, Kai-Fu Lee, p. 181 entire paragraph ”In time individuals will have the power to find anything in the world at any time on all kinds of devices – and that will be enormously empowering.”The Quiet Crisis, entire pages 368, 369, chapter on research in China, beating out American innovation in research. “The Chinese government gave Microsoft the right to grant post-docs.” “They work through their holidays because their dream is to get to Microsoft.”“What are those?” She said the researchers get them from Microsoft every time they invent something that gets patented. How do you say Ferrari in Chinese.”p. 370 “… whether we are going to implement or China is going to beat us to our own plan.” Council on Creativeness, regarding the Innovate America report, comment to Friedman by Deborah Wince-Smith.Introduction p. X, Thomas Friedman, “Of course the world is not flat. But it isn’t round anymore either. I have been using the simple notion of flatness to describe how more people can plug, play, compete, connect, and collaborate with more equal power than ever before – which is what is happening in the world. … the essential impact of all the technological changes coming together in the world today. … My use of the word flat doesn’t mean equal (as in ‘equal incomes’) and never did. It means equalizing.”The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas FriedmanForward to the Anchor Edition, Thomas Friedman, “… my Golden Arches Theory – that no two countries that both have McDonald’s have ever fought a war again each other since they each got their McDonald’s.”p. 7 “When I say that globalization has replaced the Cold War as the defining international system, what exactly do I mean?”p. 8 “The cold war system was symbolized by a single word, the wall … “You can’t handle the truth,” Says Nickleson. “Son we live in a world that has walls…”p. 8 “This Globalization system is also characterized by a single word: the Web. … we have gone from a system built around divisions and walls to a system built around integration and webs.”p. 19 “What is information arbitrage? Arbitrage is a market terms. Technically speaking, it refers to the simultaneous buying and selling of the same securities, commodities or foreign exchange in different markets to predict from unequal prices and unequal information. The successful arbitrageur is a trader that knows…”Chapter 3, p. 29. The Lexus and the Olive TreePhoto: Jerusalem, December 29, 1998: Simon Biton places his cellular phone up to the Western Wall so a relative in France can say a prayer at the holy site. (Photo: Menahem Kahana, Agence France-Presse) [caused my spontaneous tears]p. 47 “advertising jingle “Let us put a bank in your home” … office … newspaper … bookstore … brokerage firm … factory … investment firm … school in our homes.”The World Is Flat?: A Critical Analysis of New York Times Bestseller by Thomas Friedman by Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa RamdooFreakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. DubnerChapter 5 “Why do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?” p. 89 “So how did the gang work? An awful lot like most American businesses, actually, though perhaps none more so than McDonald’s. In fact, if you were to hold a McDonald’s organizational chart and a Black Disciples org chart side by side, you could hardly tell the difference.”p. 46 “There is a tale, “The ring of Gygnes,” … could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed?”p. 58 “Attendance at Klan meetings began to fall … of all the ideas Kennedy thought up to fight bigotry, this campaign was clearly the cleverest. … He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public: he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery.”Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. StiglitzMy favorite – the entire book was used to write this paper.Web ResourcesPlease view attached Appendix <a href="http://www.crito.uci.edu/pubs/2004/ChinaGECIII.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow">http://www.crito.uci.edu/pubs/2004/ChinaGECIII.pdf</a> regarding the reasons one study concludes that hold China back in ecommerce.[1] Waiting until the time is right, one is good at something, or has collected all the facts, without making any attempts isn’t effective. I had to begin someplace even if it is incomplete so I started with the World Wide Web. “If something is worth doing well, at all, it is also worth doing poorly.” I am not sure where that quote came from but I read it in an article where someone presented their reasoning.[2] You never know where something will come from in free rights actions or what it will mean later. For example the person at the center of the Alaskan “Bong hits For Jesus” case, Frederick Morse, now teaches English to Chinese students in China. As an adult it appears he has his head on straight in his wish to help others communicate, more so that those he fought in court.From the CNN news article, published June 26, 2007, “In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "This case began with a silly nonsensical banner, (and) ends with the court inventing out of whole cloth a special First Amendment rule permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs, so long as someone could perceive that speech to contain a latent pro-drug message." He was backed by Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/25/free.speech/index.html/" >http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/25/free.speech/index.html/</a> downloaded March 13, 2008[3] Pentagon attack last June stole an "amazing amount" of data” Joel Hruska Published: March 06, 2008 - 07:13PM CT <a href="Pentagon attack last June stole an "amazing amount" of data" >Pentagon attack last June stole an "amazing amount" of data...</a> from “blueton tips us to a brief story about recent revelations from the Pentagon which indicate that the attack on their computer network in June 2007 was more serious than they originally claimed. A DoD official recently remarked that the hackers were able to obtain an "amazing amount" of data.We previously discussed rumors that the Chinese People's Liberation Army was behind the attack. “CNN has an article about Chinese hackers who claim to have successfully stolen information from the Pentagon.” Quoting Ars Technica: "The intrusion was first detected during an IT restructuring that was underway at the time. By the time it was detected, malicious code had been in the system for at least two months, and was propagating via a known Windows exploit. The bug spread itself by e-mailing malicious payloads from one system on the network to another." Via email from Jeremy Hansen on <a href="Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters" >Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters</a>[4] “Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware" Matthew Sparkes, News [Security], Tuesday 4th March 2008 3:17PM, Tuesday 4th March 2008 <a href="Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware">Chinese backdoors "hidden in router firmware"...</a> The UK's communication networks could be at risk from Chinese backdoors hidden in firmware, according to a security company.SecureTest believes spyware could be easily built into Asian-manufactured devices such as switches and routers, providing a simple backdoor for companies or governments in the Far East to listen in on communications."Organisations should change their security policies and procedures immediately," says Ken Munro, managing director of SecureTest. "This is a very real loophole that needs closing. The government needs to act fast.""Would they buy a missile from China, then deploy it untested into a Western missile silo and expect it to function when directed at the Far East? That's essentially what they're doing by installing network infrastructure produced in the Far East, such as switches and routers, untested into government and corporate networks."Late last year MI5 sent a letter to 300 UK companies warning of the threat from Chinese hackers attempting to steal sensitive data. Reports at the time suggested that both Rolls Royce and Royal Dutch Shell had been subjected to "sustained spying assaults".The issue has been debated by government for some time. In 2001, the then foreign secretary Robin Cook, warned that international computer espionage could pose a bigger threat to the UK than terrorism.[5] Chip Piracy Might End With Public Key Cryptography. A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Mark Joseph Edwards, Security News, InstantDoc #98491, Windows IT Pro “A group of researchers from two universities have proposed a way to prevent chip piracy. The technique uses public key cryptography to lock down circuitry.In a whitepaper published this month, Jarrod A. Roy and Igor L. Markov (of the University of Michigan) and Farinaz Koushanfar (of Rice University) outline the problem and details of how their proposed technology will help solve it.Chip designers sometimes outsource manufacturing and that opens the door to piracy, should someone copy the design plans. The copied plans are then used to created 'clone' chips for a wide range of devices, including computers, MP3 players, and more."Pirated chips are sometimes being sold for pennies, but they are exactly the same as normal chips," said Igor Markov, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. "They were designed in the United States and usually manufactured overseas, where intellectual property law is more lax. Someone copies the blueprints or manufactures the chips without authorization."The groups propose the use of public key cryptography, which would be embedded into circuitry designs. Each chip would produce its own random identification number, which would be generated during an activation phase. Chips would not function until activated, and activation would take place in a manner somewhat similar to that seen with many applications in use today. Via email from Jeremy Hansen.Original source - EPIC: Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits Jarrod A. Roy, Farinaz Koushanfar‡ and Igor L. Markov, The University of Michigan, Department of EECS, 2260 Hayward Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121, Rice University, ECE and CS Departments, 6100 South Main, Houston, TX 77005 <a href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~imarkov/pubs/conf/date08-epic.pdf" >http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~imarkov/pubs/conf/date08-epic.pdf</a> March 06, 2008[6] Chapter 5 “Why do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?” p. 89 “So how did the gang work? An awful lot like most American businesses, actually, though perhaps none more so than McDonald’s. In fact, if you were to hold a McDonald’s organizational chart and a Black Disciples org chart side by side, you could hardly tell the difference.”[7] Mike Haynes, Theses on the Balkan War, “Capitalism is inherently a competitively expansionist and therefore conflict ridden system” Issue 83 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Summer 1999 Copyright © International Socialism, <a href="http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj83/haynes.htm/" >http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj83/haynes.htm/</a> accessed March 3, 2008.[8] Readings p.7 “When I say that globalization has replaced the Cold War as the defining international system, what exactly do I mean?” p. 8 “The cold war system was symbolized by a single word, the wall … “You can’t handle the truth,” Says Nicholson. “Son we live in a world that has walls…”p. 8 “This Globalization system is also characterized by a single word: the Web. … we have gone from a system built around divisions and walls to a system built around integration and webs.”“What is information arbitrage? Arbitrage is a market term. Technically speaking, it refers to the simultaneous buying and selling of the same securities, commodities or foreign exchange in different markets to predict from unequal prices and unequal information. The successful arbitrageur is a trader that knows…”[9] Shared by miles on Feb 13, 2006 3:39 pm that I located through a <a href="Gmail" >Gmail...</a>[10] “As it gears up to host the 2008 Olympic Games Beijing has been awarded an unwelcome new accolade: the air pollution capital of the world.Satellite data has revealed that the city is one of the worst environmental victims of China's spectacular economic growth, which has brought with it air pollution levels that are blamed for more than 400,000 premature deaths a year” <a href="Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world" >Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world</a>[11] “What we call ‘war’ is not all bad,” according to Virginia Johnson a former governmental planning consultant, who reminded me, “Without conflict there is no life. You don’t want 'perfect peace' there is no movement. The human standard is actually what we broadly call 'war'; because without conflict, change, motion, growth we would learn nothing, we would have nothing, we would be dead.” Personal conversation, March 14, 2008, Seattle, Washington[12] Readings Larry Page, Google Co-Founder quoted by Thomas Friedman, p. 179, entire paragraph. “The more global Google’s user base becomes, the more powerful a flattener it becomes…”[13] Ranganathan, faceted classification, Five Laws of Library Science, <a href="S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia" >S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ranganathan_for_ias" >http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ranganathan_for_ias</a> Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. (PMEST)Personality—what the object is primarily “about.” This is considered the “main facet.”Matter—the material of the objectEnergy—the processes or activities that take place in relation to the objectSpace—where the object happens or existsTime—when the object occurs[14] <a href="http://www.crito.uci.edu/pubs/2004/ChinaGECIII.pdf" >http://www.crito.uci.edu/pubs/2004/ChinaGECIII.pdf</a>[15] I learned about supply chain management mainly from the supply chain wizard Marc Lamonica, Regional Chief Financial Officer at Sutter Connect, <a href="Sutter Shared Services" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Sutter Shared Services</a>, and our mutual friend Web entrepreneur and ecommerce product engineer Adam Kalsey, and Sacramento State University teacher Stuart Williams, of http://Blitzkeigsoftware.net, <a href="http://blitzkriegsoftware.net/StuartWilliams/default.asp" http://blitzkriegsoftware.net/StuartWilliams/default.asp</a>[16] Introduction to Computer software classes in the 1970s consisted of FORTRAN cash register receipt programming, which is by implication is what ecommerce actually does.[17] Freakonomics is a must read book of comedy and connections.[18] Golden Arches, definition on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <a href="Golden Arches - Wikipedia" >Golden Arches - Wikipedia</a>, accessed March 13, 2008[19] Readings “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Friedman, p. 421[20] Readings p. 19 “What is information arbitrage? Arbitrage is a market term. Technically speaking, it refers to the simultaneous buying and selling of the same securities, commodities or foreign exchange in different markets to predict from unequal prices and unequal information. The successful arbitrageur is a trader that knows…”[21] “Conservation groups say acid rain falls on a third of China's territory and 70% of rivers and lakes are so full of toxins they can no longer be used for drinking water.” Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world, Jonathan Watts in Beijing The Guardian, Monday October 31 2005, <a href="Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world" >Satellite data reveals Beijing as air pollution capital of world</a>[22] “…After watching Jobs unveil the iPhone, Alan Kay, a personal computer pioneer who has worked with him, put it this way who has worked with him, put it this way: "Steve understands desire." ... Fortune CNN Magazine March 5, 2008, <a href="The trouble with Steve" ">http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortu...</a>accessed March 5, 2008[23] Mac Margolis, “How Brazil Reversed the Curse, Latin America used to suffer the deepest gap between rich and poor. Now it is the only region narrowing the divide. Upwardly Mobile: Middle-class Brazilians” <a href="How Brazil Reversed the Curse" >How Brazil Reversed the Curse</a> NEWSWEEK Nov 12, 2007 Issue[24] Mike Haynes, Theses on the Balkan War, “Capitalism is inherently a competitively expansionist and therefore conflict ridden system” Issue 83 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Summer 1999 Copyright © International Socialism, <a href="http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj83/haynes.htm/" ">http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj83/haynes.htm/</a> accessed March 3, 2008. “The optimism that the end of the Cold War might lead to a new world order has been shown to be false. The hope that it would release a peace dividend that would enable a new generosity in international relations has been belied by experience, as some of us sadly predicted it would.3 Though the arms burden has declined, there has been no outpouring of aid to Eastern Europe, no new 'Marshall Plan'. The result has been that the burden of change has fallen on the broad masses of the population, wrecking lives across the old Soviet bloc in general and in one of its poorest components in south eastern Europe in particular. According to the World Bank, the number of people living in poverty (defined as having less than $4 a day) in the former Soviet bloc has risen from 14 million in 1990 to 147 million in 1998.4 Worse still, the advanced countries have continued to reduce further the miserly sums they devote to aid to the even poorer areas of the world. The OECD countries are rhetorically committed to an aid target of 0.7 percent of their output. In 1990 they gave 0.35 percent, and by 1997 the figure had fallen to 0.22 percent, with the United States under this heading giving 0.09 percent of its output, a figure in startling contrast to the expenditure devoted to destruction.”5[25] Readings p. 46 “There is a tale, “The ring of Gygnes,” … could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed?”[26] Readings p. 58 “Attendance at Klan meetings began to fall … of all the ideas Kennedy thought up to fight bigotry, this campaign was clearly the cleverest. … He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public: he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery.”Some of the research in this paper on piracy was provided by Jeremy Hansen of Seattle, Washington, USA. Mr. Hansen's email regarding economics served to inform me on this topic. Teacher: Glenn Von Tersch.

First of all, let’s get one thing straight:Communism has not ‘killed more people than Nazism’.Taken from an anarchist himself:Fun fact: The USSR census didn't record a population drop either during the famine of the 30s. The 1926 Soviet census recorded 147 million people, while the 1937 census recorded at least 162 million. The 162 million figure was reportedly a figure Stalin tried to suppress, as he had expected an increase to 170 million, though there is some historical quibbling over whether the 162 million figure was a lowball estimate.The population of the USSR increased more than 10% during roughly the same historical period as the Great Depression, which was comparable, or, rather a little better than the rate of growth in the USA.First, that 100 million number?60 million people died in World War 2...well, Low numbers are 50 million, high are 80, but average is 60. That was 3% of the population of the world at the time. And thats not including nazi genocide or deathcamps.100 million would be over 5% of the world's population.To be honest, I have more numbers about the USSR than China.Most numbers that mark the amount of people killed in the USSR, including Courtois' Black Book , which is where the 100 million come from, count nazi deaths during the war as the total of "people killed by communism". The numbers are significantly lower Not to excuse Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin, but they should be hated for what they did, not for propaganda.The second link there saysIn all, 682,691 people were killed during the Great Terror, to which might be added a few hundred thousand more Soviet citizens shot in smaller actions. The total figure of civilians deliberately killed under Stalinism, around six million, is of course horribly high. But it is far lower than the estimates of twenty million or more made before we had access to Soviet sources.While the first links breakdown says:Deaths in prisons and camps and colonies of the gulag: 1,000,000Deaths in deportations, internal exile and the labor army: 300,000Executions by civil authorities: 65,000Executions by military tribunals: 135,000Total deaths due to Soviet state repression: ~1,500,000 - 2,500,000.These are the deaths that are presumably inexcusable and are the atrocities they should be blamed for.Losses due to war and occupation (overwhelmingly attributable to the Nazi invaders and their allies) were as follows:Red Army and NKDV losses due to combat, accidents and disease: 7,250,000Soviet partisan deaths: 150,000Opolchenie militia deaths: 100,000Soviet citizens killed fighting in non-Soviet formations: 250,000Deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity: 3,100,000Deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in Finnish captivity: 20,000Deaths of Soviet forced laborers in German-run Europe and the children born to them: 200,000Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union murdered in the Holocaust: 2,550,000Civilian deaths in the Siege of Leningrad: 900,000Non-Jewish Civilians killed in German anti-partisan reprisals in the countryside: 650,000Non-combatants killed in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Galicia and Volhynia: 50,000Civilians killed in reprisals of the Soviet partisans: 60,000Civilian deaths in the German strategic bombing of Soviet cities: 50,000Civilians killed in all other German killing policies and repression: 200,000-400,000Civilian deaths due to battle munitions in, and in the aftermath of, battles: 200,000-400,000Civilian deaths due to general privation due to invasion and occupation: 7,700,000-8,100,000Total deaths due to occupation and war: 23,800,000But I’ve seen other figures number out USSR losses within postwar borders at 26.6 million. Including 8.5 million due to war related famine and disease.This number is invariably added to the "death by communism" number.Many of the supposed ‘deaths by communism’ were caused by the Holodomor.If you bothered doing two seconds of research on the subject, you'd realise that the notion that the Holodomor was man-made by Stalin is a 30s fiction. The USA picked it up from the Hearst newspapers—anti-communist publications and perpetuated that fabrication precisely to build up the myth that it was caused by Communism.It was a terrible famine caused by two bad weather years, some bad planning and any human foul play was on the side of the kulaks who slaughtered livestock and encouraged their sympathizers to do so as well. You can do your own research on the sources rather than parroting Western propaganda.Read about it from Doug Tottle in his book Fraud, Famine and Fascism. The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard (Toronto: Progress Books, 1987). Tottle was affiliated with the Canadian Communist Party, and some of his statements are apologetic. But he did his homework on the fraudulent nature of this myth.After WW2 the “man-made famine in Ukraine” myth became the credo of the pro-Nazi Ukrainian Nationalist groups, many of whose leaders were settled in the US by the CIA, and were funded to carry on their anti-Soviet propaganda. Until the early 1960s these fascist Ukrainian nationalist groups had terrorist cells within the USSR as well.Today this myth is an integral part of the nationalist ideology of the state of Ukraine. The reactionary capitalists and Neo-Nazis have used it to build up a history that legitimizes Ukrainian nationalism. And this myth of the “man-made genocide” is an integral part of the project of historical formation for Ukraine. Since Ukrainian nationalism has been fascist from the beginning, the only way it can be “legitimized” is by ferocious anti-communism.So like I said, read. There are some very good books, written by Cold War anti-communists who were nevertheless good historians, that demonstrate how fascist Ukrainian Nationalism has always been:John A. Armstrong. Ukrainian Nationalism. NY: Columbia University Press, 1963.Alexander Motyl. The turn to the right : the ideological origins and development of Ukrainian nationalism, 1919-1929. NY: Columbia U.P. 1980.The excellent research by Prof. Mark Tauger, of the University of West Virginia, and others, has thoroughly exploded this Nazi-born myth of the “Man-Made Famine.” His research is now available online at his own website,http://www.as.wvu.edu/history/Faculty/Tauger/In addition I recommend the following article by two professional demographers:Barbara Anderson and Brian Silver, “Demographic Analysis and Population Catastrophes in the USSR.” Slavic Review 44, 3 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 517-536. Available through JSTOR.Robert Conquest, the most famous anti-Soviet phony “scholar” during the past half-century, was paid $80K by Ukrainian Nationalist groups to write Harvest of Despair, the main English language book that spreads this notion. He drew heavily upon Nazi propaganda as his so-called “evidence.”There are a couple of good reviews of his book, and of this issue. They are:Jeff Coplon, “In Search of a Soviet Holocaust,” Village Voice Jan. 12, 1988. At In Search of a Soviet Holocaust and his "Rewriting History: How Ukrainian Nationalists Imposed Their Doctored History on our High-School Students". Capital Region magazine (Albany, NY), March 1988. At http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/coplonrewriting88.pdf“The Hoax of the Man-Made Ukraine Famine of 1932-33.” Six-part series originally published in Challenge-Desafio, the newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party, beginning on February 25, 1987. At http://www.plp.org/cd_sup/ukfam1.html and following.In addition, I recommend Arch Getty’s review of Conquest from the London Review of Books, January 22, 1987, pp. 7-8. And Doug Tottle’s book, which I referenced at the top of this post, also analyses both Conquest’s work and the fraudulent Ukrainian nationalist film “Harvest of Despair.” It is well worth reading.TL;DR The holodomor was not a man-made genocide, it was a famine mainly caused by bad weather, so stop bullshitting people and spreading Nazi lies. Read a fucking book.Going back to the aforementioned anarchist"But what about Venez-" Shut up. Badmouse made an entire video about Venezuela.“What ‘communist’, ‘socialist’ and ‘anarchist’ powers exist without resulting in authoritarianism ?”Well first, we need to point out that a communist society has never existed.Communism, as envisioned by Marx requires an abolition of private property, no use of currency (money), the State withers away, borders are abolished… You get the point: Neither of these things fully happened under the USSR, China or anyone that is accused of going on a killing spree because of ‘muh, communism’.Second of all, capitalism would in any way shape or form outdo either of these ideologies. Capitalism is responsible for upwards of 238,396,000 deaths. 238 million. And those are just the ones that are an indirect result of it. The ones that are a direct result of it are 27,000,000 deaths each year from lack of food/water, preventable disease (and a lack of medicine), homelessness and malaria. Even if you did follow the logic of the Black Book of Communism, by that point capitalism would’ve directly killed more people than communism did in the timespan of 4 years. Is that not proof of a general lack of morals and absolute evil ?UNICEF, RESULTS, and Bread for the World estimate that 15 million people die each year from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are children under the age of five. (source).This is modern day. So in 10 years, capitalism kills more children under the age of 5 than socialism did people in 150 years.We have enough food to feed 10 billion people. Even assuming 20% of it is lost, we could still feed the entire population of the world. But we don't, because the logistics of it is expensive and inefficient. Because developing poor countries is too expensive, and sending them food "disrupts the local markets".If these people didn't need to operate under capitalism to survive, sending them food wouldn't be an issue. If we prioritized things properly, we could develop self-sustainable agriculture projects everywhere in the world.But we don't. Because of capitalism.In the US alone, 20,000 to 40,000 deaths every year because of lack of health insurance. On average, that's 300,000 over the last decade.All major developed countries on Earth offer universal healthcare. The US doesn't, and blames it on costs and making sure the "markets" are open for insurance companies, so that citizens "have options". All these claims are demonstrably false, and universal healthcare is known to be cheaper and more efficient.We could be preventing all those deaths. But we don't, because of capitalism.If you're going to blame leaders for famines that happen while instituting rigid economic ideologies under their watch, then Queen Victoria indisputably killed more people than Stalin.The following events are but a small number of famines caused by the forcing traditional societies into capitalism and forcing them to pay rent, work for wage, and export their grains and livestock whether they earned enough to feed themselves and their families or not under Victorian rule in the British Empire:The Great Famine of 1876-1878, 5.5 million murdered by Queen Victoria.The Indian Famine of 1899-1900, 4.5 million people murdered by Queen Victoria.The Orissa Famine of 1866, over 2 million people killed by Queen Victoria, who forced starving farmers to export over 200 million pounds of rice to Great Britain.The Upper Doab Famine of 1860-1861, 2 million people murdered by Queen Victoria.Indian Famine of 1896-1897, over 1 million murdered by Queen Victoria.The Great Irish Famine (aka Potato Famine), over 1 million murdered by Queen Victoria.Millions of civilians were murdered putting down the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Boxer Rebellion in China were murdered by Queen Victoria simply for not 'bending the knee.'Untold more millions of Chinese died due to drug addiction and during the fight to stop Britain from flooding the Chinese market with opium during the Opium Wars.., millions more added to Queen Victoria's murderous death count.Hundreds of thousands more died in Africa between the Urabi Revolt in Egypt and the Anglo-Zulu War where brave British Soldiers with cannons murdered native tribesmen with bows and arrows, and in the First Boer War and the Second Boer War, which were high in civilian casualties and force-conscripted natives dying on the front-lines, and random village massacres. More blood and slaughter ordered by head of Her Majesty's Royal Armed Forces, Queen Victoria.10 million died in the Great Bengal famine of 1770, also because of profit-seeking British involvement.8 to 10 million died in The Persian Famine of 1917-1918The Bangladesh famine of 1974 killed around 1.5 million as a result of "market command over food". You should check out Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis. It's about how 19th century laissez faire capitalim, imposed by imperialism, undermined local methods of food security in India and China, leading to the deaths of many tens of millions in what are today totally forgotten famines.Pretty much the entire history of EthiopiaSudanHow about the current fuckin' famine in Yemen?The 05-06 Food Crisis, while not legally a famine, fucked over almost 30 million people as a direct result of capitalismEven excluding the wars, a rough UNDERestimate using the above figures adjusting for global population size every 25 years, puts capitalism death toll at 400-700 million people in the last century alone.That makes capitalism AT LEAST 8 TIMES more efficient at killing people than socialist and "communist" regimes.From this alone we can already see that, even excluding the wars, capitalism has easily killed more than three times the amount that is attributed to socialism in a fifth of the time, due to the same sort of "inefficiency and incompetence" as it is attributed to socialism. If you UNDERestimate, capitalism has killed over 1.3 BILLION people in the last 100 years, making it 19x more efficient at killing people because of inefficiency and incompetence.The American Slave Trade murdered a bit more that 10 million. Possibly 4 million in the US from Slave Owners alone.Oh, were the Gulags brought up?Most people imprisoned from gulags were releasedHow about actively killing people in the name of capitalism?The Herero and Namaqua GenocideSrebrenica massacreU.S. backed Suharto Regime of 1965-1966The Rwandan genocideThe Assyrian GenocideThe Armenian GenocideThe Bodo League massacreIndonesian occupation of East TimorSecond Italo-Ethiopian WarThe Second Congo WarThe Amakasu IncidentThe White Terror, in both Spain, and TaiwanThammasat University massacre - WikipediaJeju uprisingRed Drum killings, and the ISOC in general, really.US Labour Disputes:Everett massacreBattle of Blair MountainHomestead strikeLudlow MassacreList of worker deaths in United States labor disputesAlso, there was Manifest Destiny. I think that should count as genocide.Though there has never been a commission, so accurate numbers are difficult.Also pretty much all of south america's recent history, including:The Dirty WarThe Salvadoran Civil WarOperation ColomboOperation CondorOperation MenuThe 1964 Brazilian coup1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the following Civil WarAnd lets not forget your ancap's favourite psychopath, Pinochet, in The 1973 Chilean CoupHeres some more mass killings under Capitalist Regimes: RevLeftThen there are such famous capitalist tyrants such as:Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay: Strongly free market, 90,000 people "disappeared" in a country that had only 2.3 million at the time, mass graves were found near the Chaco RiverAntonio Salazar of Portugal: Totalitarian, people who criticized him simply "dissappeared", highly xenophobic, strongly pro-colonialismMobutu Sese Seko of Zaire: Totalitarian, robbed the entire country of Zaire's wealth, directly responsible for the 2nd Congo War by proxy of the USARafael Trujillo of Dominican Republic: capitalist; tens of thousands of people dissappeared during his regime)François "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti: killed tens of thousands of people in his small island country, cult of personality, preferred to be worshipped as a god, strongly anti-communist, strongly pro-marketNgo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam: Catholic dictator, harassed/tortured/executed Buddhists and Buddhist clergy, Buddhists were arrested for practicing their religion in public, suspected communists were tortured and executed, hundreds of thousands were tortured and executed in capitalist purges.Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines: thousands murdered, thousands more "dissappeared", close to 120,000 tortured and imprisoned, billions of dollars stolen from the Filipino economyAnastazio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua: autocratic ruler, he introduced the term "death squads" into the common vernacular; in 1975, tens of thousands were executed, tens of thousands more "disappeared", hundreds of thousands were tortured and jailed in capitalist purges, elections suspended, mass malnutrition and disease, corruption, etc. etc.I rest my case. The enemy is not Nazism, which is a monster created under capitalism. If we switch to socialism - if we do it right, no-one in their right minds will even think of Nazism as a coherent alternative. We shouldn’t hate them for what they have done out of desperation. The Treaty of Versailles was the perfect amount of leniency and punishment. Not too harsh, in order to completely render them vulnerable, but not too lenient either, to allow them to flourish and not even have to scapegoat others (in this case the Jews), thus Nazism was born. Nazism is a direct result of what happens when you make people desperate.The swastika was used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions. We shouldn’t allow the dirty past paint it as a symbol of evil. “Old woes are to be overcome, And we overcome them united.”.Neither symbol should be banned. They are all here to remind us of our past. Without our past to learn from, there is no future.