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Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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    12:15a
    Exit packages
    Since the end of the Cold War, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (which can apparently walk and chew gum at the same time) has been rethinking both conventional and irregular warfare. For the former, the pla turned to the American Mahan, not the Prussian Clausewitz; for the latter, the pla went back not only to Sun-Tzu, but also to Lawrence, Beaufre, Arquilla, Lind, etc. — anything that can be of use in the conceptual toolbox of “unrestricted warfare” (urw). In America, meanwhile, — and despite a guerilla war engineered by “Netwar” and “Fourth Generation Warfare” insurgents — the military educational establishment has continued to peddle Clausewitz or, to be more precise, an increasingly Jominized version of Clausewitz.
    Like the aging Marxists with a Karl of their own, the Clausewitzians today are more interested in exonerating their idol from the evil perpetrated in his name than in demonstrating what good he could bring to the current challenges facing the military. It may well be that Marx and Clausewitz were indeed mostly “misread” by most people most of the time, but if the risks of “misreading” are statistically greater than the chances of getting it right, what’s the point of making it required reading in the first place?
    12:45a
    Incredible disappearing act
    DSP kaput?

    I'd hate to write them off as a raft of people once wrote of Baron Moloch of News Ltd infamy. However things don't look too flash for their flagship Socialist Alliance that was supposed to renew the cadre...and keep out all those Latina transexuals.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/54307

    I've been quoting that 'I was an American sex worker for the CIA', piece carved out of the gangrenous corpse of the GLW for some time. Shortly I will publish a direct link, I promise you.
    Its not always easy working in necrophile terrain so I ask youse to bear with me. We have to suit-up here.
    1:12a
    The great whore
    From: International News
    GLW issue #672 - 21 June 2006:
    VENEZUELA: 'Socialism is our model'

    Is war really the continuation of Politik (policy and/or politics) by other means? Maybe — maybe not. Whether the statement is meant to be descriptive, prescriptive or predictive, its validity, ultimately, rests on the definition of both War and Politik. After 600 pages of On War, you do get a sense of Clausewitz’s definition of War — but you still know next to nothing about the “concept of the political” from which he operates. The Prussian spends the whole first chapter trying to capture the philosophical “essence” of war, but takes Politik as if it was a self-evident notion. Whose Politik are we taking about? Aristotle? Machiavelli? Hobbes? Montesquieu? Fichte? Hegel? And if the latter, what are the relations between the Hegelian political struggle for recognition and the Clausewitzian military struggle for annihilation? These questions are not as academic as they first seem.

    World whore one

    We must remember that the enemy penetrates everywhere. In Venezuela there is not one space where the enemy doesn’t penetrate. We must realise that the enemy is everywhere and we must be there as well. A comical event occurred about 20 years ago. There was an organisation for the defence of the rights of sex workers, and a lot of homosexuals and transsexuals joined. A member of the North American embassy was the head of the organisation and I began to wonder why. You must realise they do it for the intelligence. Do you think they wanted to participate in the defence of the sex workers? No, They were thinking that through the sex workers, they could obtain information. This is why I say there is no area where the enemy has not been inserted. We must have the firmness and conviction to also do the same, because we are defending our life, our country, and our rights, and the lives of our children, our future and our humanity. We are doubly obliged to do this.

    http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/672/6422

    Btw - you will notice that the ugly monkey face of the flaming red-fascist arsehole ( Che) has been faded into a nice ferny green background at the red-fascist DSP website.
    You might be tripping into the green wilderness and breathing deeply of the fresh green air - but be aware.
    At breeding/ recruiting times the Australian bracken fern releases a cloud of carcinogenic pollen from under its leaves...tap it it in spring if you don't believe me...any resemblance to 'green left' Marxism is purely shadenfruedalicious to this mycologist.

    Not this time
    1:28a
    Law by other means
    The bottom line: If we ever want to develop a workable conception of Lawfare, we will have to trade one Carl (Clausewitz) for another (Schmitt).
    Like Clausewitz, Carl Schmitt is a dangerous mind — only more so. Paradoxical as it may sound, the one-time jurist of the Third Reich is today an icon among the Western leftover left and its jihadist allies, who know that they will find in Schmitt, rather than Marx, the precision-guided weapons they need against liberalism. At his best, Schmitt remains to this day the most cogent critique of liberalism as a “political theology.” And while the leftover left may hold it against him that he provided the best philosophical basis for a distinction between authoritarianism and totalitarianism, they are forever grateful to Schmitt for having put forward a proto-theory of Lawfare.
    To put it simply (simplistically even): First, against Kelsen’s legalistic fairly tales, Schmitt argues that law is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. Second, with his “Dictatorship,” “Concept of the Political,” and “Theory of the Partisan,” Schmitt turns Clausewitz on his head to remind us that there are times when politics reaches such a degree of intensity that the only realistic definition is that “politics is the continuation of war by other means.”
    At his worst, Schmitt is not just an anti-Semitic Nazi fellow-traveler (obviously a plus from the jihadist standpoint); he is also the founding father of a Geojuriprudens based on race/faith, which served Nazism well yesterday and would need only minor adjustments to serve jihadism equally well tomorrow. Be it as it may, in times of “epochal war” — and the Long War certainly fits the description – Carl Schmitt may well be what the Greeks called a pharmakon: i.e., both a poison and its remedy.
    2:09a
    Fuck letter
    “Know thyself, know thy enemy” will continue to be more important than “know thy Clausewitz.”

    So will “know thy Trotsky” (institutional infiltration), “know thy Gramsci” (cultural hegemony), and “know thy Schmitt” (intra and international lawfare) — for this is the remarkable trinity on which the “operational code” of the Fifth Column is based today. Keep on fucking in the free world.
    2:14a
    As goes Bengal
    GP results rub it in - Statesman News Service
    KOLKATA, May 23: For the first time since the Left Front introduced the panchayati raj system in the state in 1978, it lost control of nearly 50 per cent of the gram panchayats this time, signifying that nearly half of rural Bengal has turned its face away from the Marxist-led regime.
    A clear picture emerged today as results of the 3,220 gram panchayats were declared. The LF won 1,585 GPs while the Opposition dramatically surged ahead notching up a victory in 1,498 GPs. The results in 137 GPs have been either a tie or hung. MORE ON
    GP results rub it in
    End to Red rule on the cards
    The Statesman - Kolkata,India
    8:46a
    A highly useful critique of commodity fetishism
    Digging around on the net I've found quite an advanced and coherent critique of exploitative capitalism.
    1957's The Hidden Persuaders , is about the advertising industry and written by Vance Packard. Packard ( Good name for a new retro car!) also writes about the built in tendency to fail of many products or built in obsolescence, with his 1960 book, The Waste Makers. Clearly works like this helped pave the way for the rise of Naders Raiders and the wider rise of the consumer education revolution of the late sixties.
    In a field cluttered with obfuscatory and obscurantist rubbish Packard shines out. And for a generation with a short attention span works like this deserve rediscovery.
    9:20a
    I don't buy it
    In fact I don't give a Friar Tuck
    According to legend, he took from the rich and gave to the taxed-to-death poor. If he were around today, Robin Hood would be returning the warmongers' ill-gotten loot to its rightful owners: the American people.
    Unfortunately, there's no 21st-century Robin Hood, but your contribution to Antiwar.com, a division of the Randolph Bourne Institute, is tax-deductible. In other words, you can pay a little less tribute to the Sheriff of Nottingham by giving to Antiwar.com instead.
    Robin and his band were not as outgunned and outspent as we are, and we're sure he had many more Merry Men than we have staffers. The War Party has the entire U.S. Treasury, as well as the "private" funding that flows from the military-industrial complex and foreign lobbyists. We depend on the voluntary contributions of our readers and supporters – and that means you. Hand over yr lupins in the sole hope of seeing Justin playing William Tell with Alex Cockroach - now thats something I'd pay regularly to see.
    10:01a
    Risk management
    Risk transfer
    Means causing another party to accept the risk, typically by contract or by hedging. Insurance is one type of risk transfer that uses contracts. Other times it may involve contract language that transfers a risk to another party without the payment of an insurance premium. Liability among construction or other contractors is very often transferred this way. On the other hand, taking offsetting positions in derivatives is typically how firms use hedging to financially manage risk.
    Some ways of managing risk fall into multiple categories. Risk retention pools are technically retaining the risk for the group, but spreading it over the whole group involves transfer among individual members of the group. This is different from traditional insurance, in that no premium is exchanged between members of the group up front, but instead losses are assessed to all members of the group. FROM

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_management

    Some of the fields that are englobed within Management Science include: logistics, supply chain management, production and inventory management, decision analysis, optimization, simulation, forecasting, game theory, network/transportation forecasting models, mathematical modeling, data mining, probability and statistics, resources allocation, project management, engineering as well as many others.
    10:15a
    Raising the fist
    The never-ending presidential campaign is enough to overload anyone’s senses. The themes and messages are mind-numbingly discombobulated—race, class, flag lapel pins, NAFTA, bowling photo ops, Iraq and, of course, endless promises of “real change.” It is like the head-pounding noise of bad heavy metal music, but the subliminal message isn’t a satanic code—it’s one telling us that presidential campaigns are always the most important arenas of democracy.
    But this week you may hear another sound. This one will come from ExxonMobil’s annual meeting in Dallas. The thrum may be quieter than the political din, but it is about something that can be more critical than even presidential elections—something called shareholder democracy.
    The concept is simple: By law, anyone owning at least $2,000 of company stock may file a shareholder resolution demanding a change in that company’s behavior. Investors then get to vote their shares of stock on the resolution.
    At ExxonMobil’s meeting on May 28, a group of shareholders is planning to offer resolutions asking the company to invest more in renewable and alternative energy. Though the move has garnered scant media attention, it could be far more significant than the presidential pandemonium. According to Friends of the Earth, ExxonMobil and its predecessors’ products are responsible for emitting roughly 5 percent of all human-generated carbon pollution since 1882. Forcing a company like this to even minimally change could have planetwide effects.
    But, then, with the company generating $40 billion in annual profits, ExxonMobil’s shareholders are making bank. So why would any of them vote to change the business? Because if they don’t, those profits could evaporate.
    ExxonMobil is one of the globe’s least diversified energy companies. The vast majority of its resources go toward developing air-polluting fossil fuels, and it invests almost nothing in renewable or alternative energy. That currently means big money, but if oil supplies diminish, governments regulate carbon or fossil fuel prices fluctuate, it could mean even bigger losses. And so those shareholders demanding change are appealing to fellow investors’ belief in capitalism, not altruism.
    For example, citing their desire to “safeguard long-term shareholder value,” a group of shareholders with $5 billion in ExxonMobil stock excoriated company management in 2006 for “not sufficiently preparing for tomorrow’s energy” and running “the risk of lagging significantly behind” competitors. Many of these investors are expected to back this year’s alternative energy resolution, especially considering the boost from none other than the Rockefellers—the family that originally founded what would become ExxonMobil.

    The name Rockefeller has long been associated with pollution-belching smelters and landscape-scarring mines, but also with steady profits. It is that business sense—not tree-hugger idealism—that led a group of Rockefellers this month to embrace the environmental initiative. “If the next 20 years of the energy business were going to be just about oil and gas, we wouldn’t be holding this press conference,” said one Rockefeller kin at the event announcing the family’s position.
    ExxonMobil management could win out and defeat the resolution, but it would be a Pyrrhic victory. Executives would keep generating publicity that not only makes the company look bad but reminds the public about the untapped power of shareholder democracy that big business would rather people ignore.

    After all, through pension funds and 401(k) plans, ordinary Americans collectively own a lot of stock, and consequently a big chunk of shareholder resolution votes. These votes often go unexercised, but the more attention shareholder resolutions receive, the more citizens will “become educated about various corporation policies” because they will realize “they can do something about them,” as famed shareholder activist Saul Alinsky once said. That is what truly scares Corporate America—and what could bring the most “real change” of all.
    Note: David Sirota’s upcoming book, “The Uprising,” includes a chapter on shareholder activists’ long-running battle with ExxonMobil. The book will be released on May 27.
    Sirota is a fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network, both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
    10:28a
    Walkabout dreamtime
    '...Walk Score, which "shows you a map of what's nearby and calculates a Walk Score for any property. Buying a house in a walkable neighborhood is good for your health and good for the environment."
    My house gets an 88. Bested by one point!
    Bush's Crawford "ranch" gets a "0".
    It's actually perfect for him. The nearest coffee shop is 6.32 miles away, which protects him from latte sippers. The nearest library is 7.11 miles away, which protects him from "knowledge", and the nearest bar is 14.85 miles away, which protects him from himself. - KOS
    Fatigue
    by kos
    Sat May 24, 2008 at 12:30:07 PM PDT
    It looks like many of Hillary Clinton's apologists and several political pundits claim that her assassination remarks can be explained because of fatigue.
    Perhaps. In fact, it's likely.
    But won't she be fatigued at 3 a.m. in the morning?
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    * Discuss (517 comments)
    10:44a
    Fuck you whitey
    Brown Vs bored of education @marxmail

    Ruthless Critic of All that Exists
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    How is it "self-determining"? Was a referendum taken on the issue in
    which the Chinese masses were consulted?
    ^^^^
    CB: Maybe. How do you know how the Chinese Communist Party
    communicates with the masses of Chinese People ? Might have been a
    secret vote, secret from Americans and Europeans and non-Chinese
    speakers in the first place. Did the Chinese Communist Party hold a
    referendum before the 1949 revolution ? Your question sounds like a
    question that a liberal professor would ask in 1949 to give a
    Euro-American liberal-"democratic" certification of the Chinese
    Revolution. "Uh , if the Chinese didn't hold a Euro-American type
    election, then we cannot give our blessings that it was democratic,
    sorry ". Uh fuck you white man.
    You sound like a liberal humanitarian interventionist. Was a bourgeois
    electoral referendum taken in Cuba to endorse and certify that the armed
    struggle resulted in a 'self-determined" state power ? Did Lenin
    prescribe referenda to decide whether an oppressed nation's decisions
    are truly self-determining, in his theses on national liberation and
    self-determination ?
    Who are you ? Somebody from the White Marxist Amnesty International
    checking up on the Chinese Communist government on behalf of the Chinese
    People's "political rights" ? Just exactly who the fuck are you ?

    ^^^^

    ^^^^^


    Do the Chinese workers have
    workers' councils which determine or influence policy, or elect or
    recall representatives to the government?

    ^^^^^
    CB: They have a Communist Party, which is related to the Chinese
    working class like the Bolsheviks were to the Russian working class, or
    the Cuban Communist Party is related to the Cuban working class or the
    Vietnamese Communist Party is related to the Vn People or the Korean
    Communist Party is related to the Korean People.

    ^^^^^
    It seems to me that they do not have even the minimum (highly
    insufficient) of self-determination that even bourgeois democracy
    provides.
    ^^^^^
    CB: What exactly does it matter what it seems to you ? Are you Chinese
    ? It "seems" to you. Whence the source of your seeming ? Are you in
    China ? Are you part of the white Comintern, sitting up in your
    armchair, ruthlessly criticizing from afar on the Communist parties and
    revolutions that actually exist ? Comparing the actual with your ideal
    pipe dream of what communism is supposed to be ? Carrying the white
    Communists' Burden ?
    http://www.marxmail.org/msg41993.html
    11:24a
    God Sent Hitler
    I plopped down in my Panzer tank and turned on BBC 2
    A bad gunslinger called Winston Churchill was chasin' poor Sweet Joseph Goebells
    He trapped him in the old sawmill and said with an evil laugh,
    "If you don't give me the deed to your propaganda ranch
    I'll saw you all in half!"
    And then he grabbed him (and then)
    He tied him up (and then)
    He turned on the bandsaw (and then, and then...!)
    (chorus):
    And then along came Adolph
    Tall thin Adolph
    Goose steppin' Adolph
    Slow-burnin' Adolph
    Along came long, lean, lanky Adolph
    French came on, so I got back up to get myself a snack
    You should've seen what was goin' on by the time that I got back
    Down in the old abandoned mine, Sweet Joe was havin' fits
    That Die Englander warmonger villain said, "Give me the deed to your Navy
    Or I'll blow you all to bits!"
    And then he grabbed him (and then)
    He tied her up (and then)
    He lit the fuse to the dynamite (and then, and then...!)
    (chorus repeat)
    Then I got so bogged so I turned it off and turned on another blitzkrieg show
    But there was the same old Dunkirk shoot-'em-up and the same old Belgium rodeo
    Salty Winston was tryin' to stuff Sweet Joe in a burlap sack
    He said, "If you don't give me the deed to the Danzig corridor
    I'm gonna throw you on the railroad tracks!"
    And then he grabbed him (and then)
    He tied him up (and then)
    He threw him on the railroad tracks (and then)
    A train started comin' (and then, and then...!)

    Hagee: God Sent Hitler, Jews Have Dead Souls

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErC1IJeHnyc&eurl=

    McCain accepting endorsement and Hagee sermon extracts.
    11:50a
    The order of Bakunin medal
    The RAT Institute is inaugurating a new anarchist award for any anarchist who takes out the fascist trash. I'm talking about Nazbols like Bill White and various 'National Anarchists' glomming onto our right wing and those Platformist Klingons on our left. When dealing with known fascists like this - all is permitted - any means necessary...from dropping a dime to dropping a small nuke. The medal will be mailed out on confirmation of kill(s). Good luck with yr mission. As usual the secretary of the Institute will disavow any knowledge.
    12:44p
    Welcome visitors
    Australia- THERE was one thing U.S. porn star Michelle Sinclair wanted to do while she was in Adelaide . . . and it wasn't a trip to the wineries or a stroll through the galleries.
    The 26-year-old decided she wanted to see the Power boys do their thing at AAMI Stadium yesterday against the Sydney Swans. It was the first time Michelle and hubby Aiden Kelly had seen football, Australian-style.
    "It looks really rough," said Michelle, who is also known as Belladonna. "Those guys run into each other without padding or anything."
    When she's not making movies, Michelle says she likes to hang out with her hubby and their three-year-old daughter.
    "I also like to clean," she said. "I'm really particular. I have to let that go a bit, I think. I also like to go on hikes, watch movies or go out to dinner." Her favourite movies are Lord of the Rings and The Wedding Crashers.
    Michelle, here for Sexpo, met her husband through the porn industry – he was working for a film distribution company, in the internet department. They got engaged two months after meeting and wed at the Grand Canyon.
    Michelle has been working in the adult entertainment business for 10 years and said when she retires she'd like to own a boutique or health spa. - Adult FYI
    3:12p
    USAN!
    An EU style federation aiming for a common passport and currency in Latin America. Au should apply imo.
    Also we should be looking at an Indian Ocean federation including Indonesia, India and South Africa.
    Pacific countries and other SE democracies could also be encouraged to join. In unity is strength and with totalitarian empires like China and the USSA we'll need all the strength we can muster.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations
    3:19p
    Blood and rage
    Blood and Rage, The Story of the Japanese Red Army

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Red_Army

    The JRA's stated goals are to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to start a world revolution. The JRA was most successful at leveraging hostages to win the release of comrades or extort money. The JRA numbered approximately 400, about 150 of whom were core members. There were still large protests in 1969, for which the Red Army assembled crude improvised bombs and Molotov cocktails, which were not deployed.
    The Japanese Red Army planned an intense training and planning retreat for November of that year. News of the conference was passed by word of mouth. Only 55 people came. Despite the smaller-than-planned turnout, plans were made to kidnap the Prime Minister; bombs were assembled, and dedicated members wrote out their wills.
    The police, though, had easily learned of the event and arrested everyone present. Ironically, they found that this revolutionary group was organized strictly along class lines, with students from the most elite universities at the top, and the rest accorded authority in proportion to the prestige of their academic institution. In 1970, the JRA hijacked an international flight from Japan. Five members of the group—all the senior leadership and one minor member—took the plane to North Korea. There they planned to “establish an international base, receive training and guidance from those more experienced than themselves, and finally, bring the name of the Japanese Red Army before the world.” In what would be the case in every one of their future hijackings, all of the passengers and crew were released unharmed. One American traveler complimented the hijackers for their attentiveness to the needs of passengers.

    The hijackers would spend many years in North Korea. The resulting leadership vacuum brought a virtually unknown member, Mori Tsuneo, to the helm. Mori changed the Red Army's political direction from an international focus to a domestic one. He also organized cells for Red Army support work. Some cells helped with publicity and support of arrested members; others carried out bank robberies. In 1971, close to 10 million yen—over $100,000 dollars in today’s currency—were stolen. Some of the group’ imprisoned “old timers” disapproved, finding theft of farmers' savings—a significant portion of the banks’ reserves—contrary to the group's aims. For better or worse, the Red Army would prove to be remarkable fundraisers. Hijackings and, in at least one case, a corporate kidnapping, made for lucrative ransoms in the future.
    Despite Mori's organizational success, some members of the Red Army were disappointed in its direction. Where was the action in solidarity with oppressed people around the world? What was being done against “the forces of imperialism?” Among those dissatisfied was a woman named Shigenobu Fusako. Mori stayed in Japan and soon tore the group apart with a baffling and incredibly violent internal purge. - FROM
    http://www.gjbip.org/jra_br.htm

    Better fewer butt batter eh Ema.
    4:23p
    Chaumian cash
    Untracable, anonymous, digital e-cash is a sort of holy grail for crypto-anarchists. It seems inevitable that at some stage of this great Oklahoma land-rush, California, Klondike, Australia gold-rush that is net expansion that someone will set up a 'tent' in netspace and start to take in e-cash deposits and pay them out like a bank. I understand that the founders of one of the first banks in Oklahoma did something very much like this.
    The first banks in the wild west were basically just tents and they survived on reputation capital and trust.
    5:13p
    Sarbon castration
    Researchers in Wyoming report development of a low-cost carbon filter that can remove 90 percent of carbon dioxide gas from the smokestacks of electric power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels. MORE ON
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080519092205.htm
    AND
    Possible Fix For Global Warming?
    Engineers have designed a simple, sustainable and natural carbon sequestration solution using algae.

    Situation hopeless but not serious
    6:16p
    Drawing a line in the sand
    There are a number of things society doesn't like and seeks to regulate and even prohibit outright. Grog, gambling and girls ( prostituting themselves) Here is a good chance for a new party of democratic libertarians and trad libertarians to unite and fight. We know that the prohibition game is not worth the candle in these sorts of victimless crimes and even an increasing number of senior police are calling now for an end to the latest failed , some drugs, prohibition.
    All these hopeless crusades do is create vast gulags such as those in the US and China. All those interested in minimizing the totalitarianism of their governments should be interested in fighting back. The latest ploy of the state is ' in the name of the children'. Apparently we are all supposed to be treated like children so the government can swaddle us from cradle to grave. As ex-Stasi head, Markus Wolf said, ' We did it because we loved you!'
    Yeah right.
    The state loves us like Fritz the dungeon master when saving-the-children has become the last refuge of the statist scoundrel. The age of consent needs to be dropped in line with the scientific studies showing earlier puberty and underage children should be able to be photographed with their parents consent in non-abusive settings. The occasional court case will always be necessary but no stoking of witchhunts by those in power. Also I question the large databanks collected and stored by the police. Who watches these watchers? Most of this stuff should be destroyed imho. It is not asserted that drink, drugs, gaming, prostitution and edgy artworks are the greatest inventions or pastimes of the human race. Merely that banning them by creation of a totalitarian police state presents an entirely unacceptable risk of the sort of democides we saw last century. This is a clear and present danger that demands a measured response from both left and right progressives. No more prohibitions - not this time.
    6:48p
    Ticky-tacky
    ABOUT two dozen parents of children killed in China's earthquake staged a rare protest today demanding justice over shoddy school construction they blamed for the deaths of their children.
    The parents, many of them clutching framed photos of their dead offspring, held the demonstration on a highway leading out of the quake-devastated town of Mianzhu, an AFP correspondent witnessed.
    "We are complaining about the shoddy quality of school buildings and we need justice from the government," Yang Fuyong, 38, said.
    Yang's daughter Guiyun, who was in sixth grade, was one of 129 students that he said perished in the collapse of the primary school in the nearby town of Wufu.
    More than 80,000 people were killed or left missing by the May 12 quake that struck southwestern Sichuan province, according to the government.
    The state-run Beijing News reported previously that some ,000 teachers or schoolchildren were among the dead and missing.
    A large number of schools collapsed in the quake even though some neighbouring structures remained standing, adding to suspicions that corrupt practices had left children at risk.
    6:55p
    Time bandits
    The subject of time from an anarchist perspective has been raised on the Libcom board that I was summarily barred from for cracking a joke (about Marx as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders).

    http://libcom.org/forums/theory/anarchism-time-07052008

    One of my first thoughts was a book I read once on the Bonnot Gang. The first use of relatively high-speed transport as getaway vehicles from banks. The first mass produced cars. Stolen naturally.

    'Play without restraint and live without dead time'

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