Thomas-Jefferson

Some good information about China here, but what kind of recalcitrant madman could report all that and then conclude:

"For the working class and rural masses, the crucial issue is the development of a genuine socialist perspective which is aimed not at pressuring the Beijing regime for concessions, but abolishing it and establishing a workers†and peasants government as part of the struggle for socialism internationally. That is the program of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement."

This is what I have been trying to explain to Unionists who dream of manufacturing jobs: those jobs are NOT renewable, and are now being done by the Chinese, and later will be done by robots. Instead of trying to ruin the economy soviet union style, how about learning about supply and demand... because there are job vacancies available... and infinite entrepreneurial opportunities!!!

How is this not entrapment?

I eat like this anyhow, but it is fun to hear how great that is. She should learn more about extreme foods like kimchi, seabuckthorn and asofoetida... or awesome monk drinks like Charteuse or Trappist beers! Thanks to sagemark for this, btw!!!

Calcio Fiorentino: like football or soccer, except not boring!

...and you thought you had a rough winter!

This is why Ron Paul can critique the Federal Reserve and American empire, and why liberals have essentially no answer to his ideas, arguing instead over Paul having character defects. Ron Paulâ€s stance should be seen as a challenge to better create a coherent structural critique of the American political order. Itâ€s quite obvious that there isnâ€t one coming from the left, otherwise the figure challenging the war on drugs and American empire wouldnâ€t be in the Republican primary as the libertarian candidate. To get there, liberals must grapple with big finance and war, two topics that are difficult to handle in any but a glib manner that separates us from our actual traditional and problematic affinity for both. War financing has a specific tradition in American culture, but there is no guarantee war financing must continue the way it has. And thereâ€s no reason to assume that centralized power will act in a more just manner these days, that we will see continuity with the historical experience of the New Deal and Civil Rights Era. The liberal alliance with the mechanics of mass mobilizing warfare, which should be pretty obvious when seen in this light, is deep-rooted.

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