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End the Draft26/11/2019 http://www.riverasun.com/its-time-end-the-draft-once-and-for-all/
This is my comment to an article by Rivera Sun, a writer, a non-violence advocate, and a peace activist: The draft is nothing. The MIC actually gains more legitimacy with a "volunteer" army extravagantly paid by you the tax paying citizen, and legitimized by you, the democratic voter. Try instead to end the system that puts you in crushing debt to generate unlimited funds to pay without accountability for the uncountable unspeakable atrocities committed by your children, who will then be returned home in body bags, or still breathing but physically and spiritually broken to be promptly discarded by your society. If you attempt to take away the means of the warmongers to wage war, you will experience a rage and fury that you cannot imagine while singing Kumbaya. There will be blood. In my own story of awakening from my stupor, I find myself constantly repeating a terrible truth, "dying is easy; revolution is hard." But everyone needs to believe in something; I believe I'll have a beer.
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Well worth watching.
My comment: I have read a couple of Niall Ferguson's books, namely "Empire" and "The Ascent of Money." They're actually not bad. It's unbelievable that he has turned into a shill for the laughable American narrative of "Blame China." He looked and sounded like a rabid dog barking and yelping before being put down. He lost the debate on every count. When he could not debate on substance, he started expectorating vituperative nonsense about how America brings freedom to the world while China has Tibet. He must have thought that he was debating in front of the stupendously stupefied American public, but the debate was being held in South Korea, and the subject was the US-China trade war. The audience was not impressed. The ex-Professor of History should really brush up on his history. I had thought that he would do quite a bit better than this. His performance was an utterly disgusting disgrace. I can understand Trump, but Harvard professor and Hoover Fellow Niall Ferguson? I guess there really is no hope. Then Justin Lin makes that bet with Niall about the future world order in 20 years. Poor whimpering Niall loses even that, meekly negotiating from Lin's proposed $2 million USD to $200,000 RMB. For people who do not know the background of Justin Lin, he was a model military officer of the ROC in Taiwan when he defected to China in 1979. He later got his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, the breeding ground of Nobel laureates in Economics. He was also the SVP of WB from 2008-2012. I tend to believe in Justin Lin's prediction of the future.
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Chinese version of "No Quid Pro Quo."7/11/2019 What does it mean when Trump says “No Quid Pro Quo”?
All the talking heads waste their time arguing that it’s a lie, and that there was a “Quid Pro Quo.” Trump doubles down and repeats over and over that there was “No Quid Pro Quo.” It becomes a shouting match between morons. My father taught me never to argue with a moron, because others would not be able to tell who is the moron. These geniuses do not know that in China, “No Quid Pro Quo” is an admission of guilt. I learned this Chinese idiom when I was growing up in Hong Kong. Smith and Schwarz are neighbors. Schwarz one day comes into an inheritance of 300 ounces of silver. He doesn’t trust banks, so he buries the silver in his garden. Schwarz can’t sleep because he worries that his neighbor Smith might steal his silver. Therefore he puts a sign in his garden saying “there is no 300 ounces of silver buried here.” Smith passes by Schwarz’s garden every day. He can’t help but notice the sign. He laughs, “What an idiot. I’ll get rich on his stupidity.” Next morning, Schwarz goes to his garden and finds a big hole where the silver should have been. Beside the hole is a sign that says, “your neighbor Smith didn’t steal the silver.” 本地无银三百两 - there is no 300 ounces of silver 隔壁张三没有偷 - your neighbor Zhang San did not steal it No Quid Pro Quo - I sold America down the river, dupes. |