Up to page 70... It is eerie to review the great famine, probably the worst in history, and note how point by point, the situation is so much like the USA today.
The author's father starved to death due to government policy, but the author at the time could not make the connection between the two events. Extremely few did. Who in USA can see our warfare/welfare regime, with its "get big or get out" imperative is why we have constant wars and a prison industry, declining standard of living, etc.
Utter nonsense news. From politics to economics to foreign affairs, both the left and right are reporting the most whimsical stories.
Completely out of touch "top people." Our senator last August came back to the state and hurrumphed over congresses lack of action on a Farm Bill. She thought it would be good politics. She got reamed by every burned citizen and high tailed it back to the safety of DC.
A false economy. We are working for the bankers.
Extreme violence on the victims. BLM snipers targeting unarmed citizens? (Wait, what?) Like the FBI did to Mrs Weaver, and like the FBI did to the women and kids at WACO, and like the Seattle Police do if you are "of color?"
Prosecution of deniers. No peasant knew what right-deviationist meant, let alone cared. But countless died for denying the existence thereof. We have, what is the word?, climate change deniers who must be destroyed.
Of course it is not as bad in USA yet, but all of the elements are there, latent.
One point I will disagree. Amartya Sen is quoted as saying there are no famines in democracies, and Yang is saying democracy is the basis of good governance. Both agree totalitarianism is the culprit. But as the USDA orders up ever greater firepower in a democracy, we are learning democracies tend toward totalitarianism.
The powers that be know democracy has failed, and they are arming up. The solution is freedom, but we'll need truth commissions to back us out of this dead-end.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
The author's father starved to death due to government policy, but the author at the time could not make the connection between the two events. Extremely few did. Who in USA can see our warfare/welfare regime, with its "get big or get out" imperative is why we have constant wars and a prison industry, declining standard of living, etc.
Utter nonsense news. From politics to economics to foreign affairs, both the left and right are reporting the most whimsical stories.
Completely out of touch "top people." Our senator last August came back to the state and hurrumphed over congresses lack of action on a Farm Bill. She thought it would be good politics. She got reamed by every burned citizen and high tailed it back to the safety of DC.
A false economy. We are working for the bankers.
Extreme violence on the victims. BLM snipers targeting unarmed citizens? (Wait, what?) Like the FBI did to Mrs Weaver, and like the FBI did to the women and kids at WACO, and like the Seattle Police do if you are "of color?"
Prosecution of deniers. No peasant knew what right-deviationist meant, let alone cared. But countless died for denying the existence thereof. We have, what is the word?, climate change deniers who must be destroyed.
Of course it is not as bad in USA yet, but all of the elements are there, latent.
One point I will disagree. Amartya Sen is quoted as saying there are no famines in democracies, and Yang is saying democracy is the basis of good governance. Both agree totalitarianism is the culprit. But as the USDA orders up ever greater firepower in a democracy, we are learning democracies tend toward totalitarianism.
The powers that be know democracy has failed, and they are arming up. The solution is freedom, but we'll need truth commissions to back us out of this dead-end.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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