markr [he/him, any]

Well the link is pretty horrid, but there appears to be a whole lot of Alan Dershowitz this and Alan Dershowitz that in the released documents.

he's a center-left social democrat.

but as it is already, peripheral countries have almost zero ability to set monetary policies. Basically only the US, the EU, Japan and China can do that. The rest of the world is effectively managed by the central banks of the bigs, and even then it is really the US Fed that is in control. He's just ceding what little control the argentine central bank had.

The actual tragedy of the commons was the enclosures and evictions that dispossessed free people and destroyed the commons as their economic base.

I just keep repeating ‘this was the 5th hospital struck so far’, and pretty much stop there. The source was (perhaps inadvertently) the NYT showing a graphic map of Gaza with approx locations of Israeli attacks, and a list of targets struck by type. Four hospitals on that list, before this one. I need verifiable physical evidence evaluated by credible independent parties for any claim of responsibility to be taken seriously.

Nonononono. China’s economy is collapsing. My news feed tells me this everyday.

Um, that’s how banks work. You give them your money. They invest your money. They credit your account with some of the profits from those investments. They don’t just put your money in a vault. Well they can, some banks do offer vault services. But you pay them to stash your valuables in a lock box in their vault.

Thousands of missiles were launched from Gaza last week with zero reports of any of them turning around and striking Gaza.

We are the only nation allowed to sabotage pipelines. This is a well known fact. Also we can spy on everyone everywhere.

Actually it was very smooth.

I rode the maglev to the shanghai airport, it was awesome. The newer version in Beijing is significantly faster. But yeah super expensive to build.

Crime is down, despite the determined and successful efforts to convince us otherwise. Also some states have stepped back from the stunningly huge mandatory sentencing policies imposed during the 80s and 90s.

The US is a failed experiment in neoliberal governance. We are a state in the process of collapsing. All of our institutions are corrupt and dysfunctional. Our infrastructure is falling apart due to underinvestment.

frequently. Although most of the well known conspiracy trials pre-dated rico. For example: the Chicago 7. Throughout the turmoil of the 60's and early 70s people were getting charged with almost invariably bogus conspiracy offenses, (and also getting assassinated as in Fred Hampton.) More recently more than 100 people were charged with conspiracy offenses over the Standing Rock protests.

Yes. The end of the Maoist era was pretty horrible for a lot of people.

or the server version. But it is difficult and/or expensive for ordinary users to use any of the unbloated versions.

Just anecdotally, I worked for a short period of time in China, and was simply stunned by the level of public investment that was occurring. There is so much we could do if we had the political power to do anything. Also, my colleagues were pretty open about their collective sigh of relief that the nightmare their parents went through was long over, their anxiety that it could return, and their enthusiasm for the current path. Of course this was a rather nonrandom sample of tech workers, so there is that. My opinion is that I have no idea if China will end up being AES, but at least it represents an intention to do so, and an alternative to the dominant system.

‘Activist Russel Brand’ - they misspelled opportunistic shithead.

Agree that this is a fact. Now ask how it is relevant.

It’s in the name of the operation. We’re doing this just ‘cause we can. Also Noriega’s usefulness had expired.