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Can you tell me what country does not launch their rockets in this manner, other than in test flights?

Speaking of Karl Marx, he made the exact same prediction as this paper does, only he did it a century and a half ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... )

Before looking at IME, let's review other topics. Printer machine identification codes were secretly inserted into printers some time between the 1980s and 2004. Our communications are being monitored in a host of ways. One last refuge was our CPU, but now that is under foreign control as well.

Then there's older US government operations like Minaret, Shamrock, Cointelpro etc. to surveil US domestic political activities, from black civil rights, to Vietnam doves, to a very extensive surveillance of feminist groups. Cointelpro also involved US intelligence disrupting political movements, writing poison pen letters (a database admin and 60s peacenik I knew had one sent to his boss, a lawsuit later revealed the FBI sent it).

Nowadays this is PRISM, Xkeyscore etc. interacting with the telco monopolies and FAANG, to spy on Angela Merkel's phone calls (along with BND turned by the CIA), disrupt Airbus contracts in favor of US aerospace etc.

> It's not destabilizing in any way

At the beginning of this year, the CFR's Foreign Policy magazine said it might be destabilizing. Russia invaded the Ukraine a few months later.

So you say the US putting these military systems around eastern Europe was not a destabilizing move, but I think the past months has shown otherwise.

Yes. it is destabilizing. Trump pulled out of the Open Skies treaty in 2021, Obama opened the Aegis mentioned in the article in Romania in 2016. It's the restart of a nuclear arms race, which will mean a lot of money for military contractors. Apparently it hasn't gone far enough for this person, who wants more of the money I make working be taxed and sent to military contractors so they can heat up a nuclear arms race that had quieted down by the 1990s.

> Taiwan's sovereign airspace

Well, only 13 countries recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country - such as the 10,000 people of the 21 square kilometer island Naura.

Also, Taiwan occupies Kinmen Island in the bay of Xiamen's harbor on the PRC mainland. The island is in the Xiamen harbor and is 10 km from the city of Xiamen. So any PRC planes flying around Xiamen are "violating Taiwan's sovereign airspace" (which almost no one recognizes as "sovereign" - one of the main parties on Taiwan acknowledges Taiwan and the mainland are all one country).

Steel workers were unionized, and there are less US steel workers now. Textile workers in the Carolinas were not unionized, and there are a lot less Carolina textile workers now.

The difference is Larry Page's grandfather was at a union job in Michigan in the 1930s and sent his son to college, and then his grandson started Google. Textile workers in the Carolinas got less education, and then the factories closed up.

The heirs who own the majority of Apple stock - the idle class which generation to generation does not work, but which expropriates surplus labor time from workers - they already know they are in an adversarial relationship with the workers. The new thing is the workers who do all the work and create all the wealth have woken up to the fact that they are dealing with an "adversary" as you correctly call it.

The heirs who own the majority of Apple stock - the idle class which generation to generation does not work, but which expropriates surplus labor time from workers - they already know they are in an adversarial relationship with the workers. The new thing is the workers who do all the work and create all the wealth have woken up to the fact that they are dealing with an "adversary" as you call it.

> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer

A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual.

The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear.

> who bombed buildings in Moscow to get elected

Actually Yeltsin abolished the elected parliament in Russia in 1993, and then had the army bomb the parliament. This was done openly and celebrated by President Clinton, the US Congress and the US press. The US put all its weight behind removing power from democratic elections and a parliament as it wanted to consolidate power under the Russian army and president (now Putin).

> a self-fulfilling profecy (sic)

I think Powell jacking up the fed funds rate is going to have a much larger effect than some random HN post.

> workers should own the means of production

Or even believing a worker performing work and creating wealth should not have his surplus labor time expropriated by some idle class heir.

The hunter-gatherer bands roaming the Amazon are communist, and free of such exploitation (if they avoid mining companies trying to kill them) - I suppose these hunter gatherers are equivalents to the Nazis.

> lack of autonomy

> I don't have any autonomy. I'm treated as a resource to be "used"

> quitting or finding another job is NOT an option

This is what Karl Marx called alienation of labor. Workers like yourself feel the way you do. Whereas opposed to this is your employers, and perhaps others of or aligned to their class (perhaps some even here) who have class interests opposed to ypurs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienatio...

> It's ridiculously difficult to obtain a properly-balanced, nutritious diet when you've chosen to reject major components such as flesh meat

The Brahmin in India seem to have managed it for thousands of years, as have other groups.

There may be some Brahmin in India that do not have a properly-balanced, nutritious diet, but you find that in meat-eating cultures as well. The CDC says about three in four US adults are overweight.

> Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi - one man - and it was a prominent story for years

If your country dismembers a Washington Post reporter inside a consulate in Turkey, and Turkey releases audio of the murder, you're probably going to wind up with some press coverage of this in the United States, at least in the Washington Post.

The idea that the US media is biased toward Iran is kind of bonkers. The US media may be biased about the importance of US issues in US/Iran relations. Iran is less threatening to the US than it may be for other countries.

> the central bank projected its benchmark rate hitting 4.4% by the end of the year

> "There will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions," Powell said

> The Fed forecasts the unemployment rate to rise to 4.4% next year, from 3.7% today

The fed changed its rate, forecast a change in unemployment due to that and said there was a "softening of labor market conditions". I guess that counts as "zero direct evidence" in your book for fed intentions. What does Powell need to do for you, walk up to factory gates and do a Donald Trump "you're fired"? I guess when Volcker jacked the rate up in the 1980s and unemployment shot up as well, there was no cause and effect there either.

Some commenter here have a positive or negative view of the rate hike, but either way, it is quite clear to most people, including CBS News, what the fed is intending.

> Econ 101 time: value is subjective. Human beings merely use value as a description - it does not exist inside of any object or inside of any equation

Econ 201 time: value is concrete, the definition of value is subjective. I can say that the value of two exchanged objects are concrete - that they have the same embedded value.

Social security was a higher percentage of gdp in the early 1980s than it is now. Even if it goes back up it is to a level it was at before. People can come to different estimates about what future gdp growth rates will be and have different estimated.

All health care costs in the US are going up. The US government has to pay HMO corporation profits, Americans have to pay higher drug prices unlike other countries. The government can continue paying current Medicare rates, or it can hand more money to health companies if it wants to. As the government is still handing extra money to health companies apparently no one thinks it is a problem as of yet.

Also ignoring that social security payments as a percentage of GDP is not hitting some limit it has not over the past eight decades. The US was able to pay out social security in 1942 with a much smaller economy, there is no reason it should be unable to in the future. Some groups have been complaining about social security for eighty years - probably because it is the one benefit the average worker gets back from the federal government.

> conversations that are deep about touchy issues are nowhere to be found on the internet anymore. Perhaps they have moved to late-night dinners with VCs or yacht rides with rich people?

What are the touchy conversations on yacht rides with rich people - how to avoid the mistakes Jeffrey Epstein made with his private jet private island child sex trafficking operation?

Many Cherokee lived freely not all that long ago. Now some are wage slaves for Uber. Some west Africans lived freely, then were slaves in the USA, and their descendants now out of Jim Crow are wage slaves for gig companies. For others groups this process happened earlier.

There are those who work, and then there is an idle class aristocracy of heirs who do not work, but who expropriate surplus labor time from those of us who do work.

It is not the job of the working class to make convincing arguments to the parasites who live off their labor, it is the historical mission of the working class to eliminate the parasitic class which does not work, and which lives off worker's expropriated surplus labor time surplus.

Jean-Louis Gassée got his start as a bartender for PCF cadre at a casino in Deauville.

> Chomsky passionately defending the Khmer Rouge

The US began arming the Khmer Rouge in 1979 into the 1980s because the US wanted the Khmer Rouge to take over Cambodia again (well they didn't take over in 1975, the prince who the CIA ousted took over again technically).

> World has lost a person of great decency and stability in a time of increasing nationalism

Yaa it was real decent of her to pin medals on the parachute regiment who shot down unarmed men in Derry protesting about the internment of political prisoners in concentration camps without trial. But they were "increasing nationalism" (against the nationalism of the foreign English occupiers) so it's ok.

>... check on abuse of government power. The Queen's consent in forming government is routine but it can be withheld...

> Australia had an example of this where the Governor General (the Queen's representative in the Australian government) sacked the government and formed a caretaker governmen tin the 1970s.

Australia was ruled by a Liberal/Country coalition from the 1940s to the end of 1972. Finally the workers of Australia elect a Labor PM, and he was thwarted for three years and then removed at the behest of a hereditary monarch thousands of miles away. That sounds like abuse, but not of the type you mean.

Kissinger was saying more or less what Chomsky was saying at the beginning of the year. The hysterical hyperbole you mention is from the author of this thread.

This is something which people like Kissinger and others were writing in Foreign Policy, the New York Times etc. prior to February of this year.

Chomsky also is saying the same thing he has been saying about the Ukraine since 2013 and before that.

In the 1970s the nuclear power industry was bragging in US magazine ads about how Iran was becoming a nuclear power

https://imgur.io/gallery/IzEWU8o

The UK (and US) overthrew Mossadegh and Iran's parliament in the 1950s and installed a dictator (who the US had to beg to come to Iran at one point, the diplomatic record is now open). They got the right wing mullahs as support (Mossadegh gave women the right to vote) and the CIA worked with the SAVAK secret police to wipe out the secular left. Finally towards the end of 1970s Iran threw itself off the boot of imperialism, but as the CIA had wiped out the secular left, the patriotic moves came from the mullahs the US had backed (and bazaari merchants too).

So Iran throws off the boot of imperialism, and suddenly the US can decide it won't let Iran develop nuclear power any more (but no such rule for the orthodox Jews making the aliyah to west Bank settlements, they can have not just nuclear power, but weapons).