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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements...Cradock and Joy, 1810 |
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Almighty Amen art thou Baptism behold beseech thee Bishop bless blood children of men Christ our Lord Church cometh death deliver didst dost doth dwell earth enemies Epistle eternal everlasting evermore evil eyes faith Father fear flesh foes glorious glory God the Father God's goeth Gospel grace hath hear heart heaven heavenly Holy Communion Holy Ghost Holy Spirit honour humble HYMN Israel King kingdom live Lord's Prayer mighty Minister MORNING PRAYER mouth ness peace praise the Lord pray Presiding Bishop Priest Psalm rejoice right hand righteous saints saith unto salvation Saviour say unto sing sinners sins Sion song soul Spirit strength thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thy commandments thy holy thy mercy thy name thy right thy servant thy word tism tongue trust ungodly unto the Lord unto thee voice wicked wilt world without end wrath
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Page 121 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 140 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in ; behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of Hosts.
Page 99 - Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 45 - From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering ; for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 118 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Page 75 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 130 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth ; and having on the breast-plate of righteousness ; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace ; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God...
Page 84 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 138 - And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Page 114 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.


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Alpha Star Aviation Services of Saudi Arabia has become the first Airbus ACJ320 customer for an in-service retrofit of Sharklets, upswept fins attached to the wingtips that save about 4 per cent in fuel consumption while also enhancing performance and appearance. It is also the first Middle East customer for the in-service retrofit of Sharklets on an Airbus corporate jet.
Alpha Star plans to fit Sharklets to an Airbus ACJ320 that is already in operation, during 2016. The in-service retrofit comprises local structural reinforcement of the outer wing, a software upgrade to several flight-control computers, and replacement of the existing wingtips by Sharklets.
It is also the first Saudi Arabian corporate jet customer for FlySmart, Airbus' performance calculation software for ipad. Flysmart can improve payload by a tonne on challenging missions, via more precise take-off performance calculation, and delivers more consistent results in degraded conditions, such as when landing on contaminated runways.
"We pride ourselves on having a modern and efficient fleet, and adding Sharklets to our Airbus ACJ320 and adopting FlySmart will help us to keep it that way, as well as improving our day to day operations," says Alpha Star Chief Executive Officer Salem Al Muzaini. "Adding Sharklets to our Airbus corporate jet also helps us to preserve the value of our investment in the longer term, and they pay for themselves relatively quickly through the savings that they deliver," he adds.
Airbus delivered its first corporate jet with production-line fitted Sharklets in October 2013, and they are already in widespread airline service.
"Sharklets are the latest and most visible signs of something that we have been doing ever since Airbus was born, which is to innovate using the latest technology whenever it brings worthwhile benefits," comments Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers, John Leahy. "It's this approach, building on innovative new designs, that ensures that Airbus continues to deliver the most modern aircraft family to its customers," he adds.
Derived from the world's most modern aircraft family, Airbus corporate jets feature, as standard, many innovations that other business jets lack or only offer as options, such as the simplicity and savings of fly-by-wire controls, extensive use of weight-saving carbonfibre, and time and cost-saving centralised maintenance.
This heritage means that Airbus corporate jets benefit from excellent reliability, because airliners are designed to perform many flights a day in rigorous conditions. Airbus corporate jet operators are also backed by a worldwide support network that serves more than 500 customers and operators, as well as services tailored to their needs.
Airbus' ACJ320 Family, comprising the ACJ318, ACJ319, ACJ320 and ACJ321, is unique in delivering the widest and tallest cabins of any business jet, while fitting into similar ramp space.
It is complemented by widebodies such as the ACJ330, ACJ340, ACJ350 and ACJ380, which deliver even more comfort, capacity and capability, including "nonstop to the world" range.
More than 170 Airbus corporate jets have been sold to date, and they are flying on every continent, highlighting their versatility.
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Jack Christensen has everything he ever wanted. He's a rising star in US Diplomacy, the youngest man to have been appointed as an Ambassador of the United States. A career diplomat who's just been sent to a politically interesting Embassy in Europe, he has the perfect wife, speaks five languages and has all the right credentials, yet there's something missing and he doesn't quite know what.
Then Lucas Carlton walks into an Embassy reception and introduces himself and his American fiancée. From the first handshake, the young Englishman makes an impression on Jack that leaves him confused and uncharacteristically insecure. Lucas' position as the British liaison to the American Embassy means they are forced to work together closely and they have a hard time denying the attraction between them, despite their current relationships.
When their women decide to go on a weekend trip together, Jack and Lucas start a passionate relationship, which continues long after their partners return. Diplomatic circles are notoriously conservative though, and they each know that the right woman by their side makes a very significant contribution to their success. Will they be able to make the right choices in their professional and personal lives? Or will they need to sacrifice one for the other?
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"Everything is not said." feat. Rosalie Ham, Author of The Dressmaker
This month I'm honoured (and a fair bit excited) to hand my blog over to a novelist and screenwriter that all Australians will know. And pretty much the rest of the world too, I'll warrant. She describes herself as an "accidental novelist". In novel-writing class, she got an assignment to write "a 500-word synopsis of your book". 'I had an… Read more »


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MOST OF US learn a little about the pH scale in our science classes as teenagers, but what does that have to do with oral health? A lot, actually, which is why we're going to take this opportunity to give our patients a quick refresher on the basics of pH.
What Is pH and What Does It Mean?
The pH scale measures how acidic or basic something is, from 1 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral. Anything lower is increasingly acidic and anything higher is increasingly basic. For example, stomach acid has a pH of between 1.5 and 2.5, orange juice ranges from 3.3 to 4.2, plain water is neutral at 7, soap tends to be between 9 and 10, and bleach is strongly basic at 12.5. So what about the human mouth?
The pH of Our Mouths
Different parts of us have different ideal pH levels. Healthy skin should be mildly acidic (around 5.5) while blood should be slightly basic (7.4). For healthy teeth and gums, our mouths should be as close to neutral as possible. Unhealthy mouths tend to be more acidic, which is very harmful to tooth enamel. Even though enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, it's very vulnerable to acid erosion. It will begin to erode at a pH of just 5.5!
How Mouths Become Acidic
Our teeth can be exposed to acid in many ways. When we eat or drink something sour or tart, that is actually the taste of the acid. Soda is also highly acidic (the bubbles come from carbonic acid). Acid exposure can also come indirectly when we consume sugars and starches. Harmful oral bacteria gobble up the leftovers stuck between our teeth after a meal, a snack, or a sip of soda, and they produce acid as waste. Vomiting or acid reflux are other ways acid can reach the teeth.
Saliva: Our Natural Defense Mechanism
So how do we fight back against all those acid attacks? First, we have the built-in defense of saliva. Saliva washes away food particles and neutralizes our oral pH. This essential job is why dry mouth can be so dangerous for oral health. Without saliva, our teeth are more vulnerable.
We should do as much as we can to help our saliva do its job. It's a bad idea to sip on sugary/acidic drinks or eat a lot of snacks, because every time we eat, our saliva has to start neutralizing our oral pH all over again, and the acid has more time to erode our enamel. If you're going to indulge in occasional treats, keep them to mealtimes.
Cut Down on Acidic Foods
Another way we can help our saliva protect our teeth is by cutting down on the acidic foods and drinks and trading them for more alkaline ones. That means eating more fruits and veggies and fewer breads, dairy products, and meats. We should especially minimize the amount of soda we drink and sugary treats we eat.
We're All Part of the Fight Against Enamel Erosion!
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These two drawings (Every Road on the Isle of Skye and A Walk Around Portree) represent the Isle of Skye and the Portree area as I experienced them on a series of solo expeditions during May, June and October of 2012. Each of these drawings is a memory map in the borrowed form of a road map, plotting out the subjective shape of a travelled-through and remembered landscape. The method is heuristic-touristic – I undertake the journey in order to be able to recall it, and although this results in more or less accurate, navigable maps, the objective along the way is always the mapping out of the lived experience and the impression left, rather than of the terrain itself.
For the Portree drawing I walked every road, path and pavement, making note of every incident, interaction and point of interest or association along the way, until I had built up a detailed psychogeographical image of the area in my own memory. After some time the work was then drawn, by eye, from existing maps, from memory and from notebooks and sketches. The Skye drawing was begun by scaling this method up to road-trip size – it documents everything which could be found on the island's public roads, as seen from the driver's seat of a mid-size touring car. The drawings each required approximately two weeks of intensive travel time.
This project was commissioned by ATLAS Arts in collaboration with the Portree Community Trust, with special thanks to Emma Nicolson and Ross Cowie.
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by Thomas Ice
– When the question is posed: "Is Jesus a socialist?" The clear answer is "Of course not!" The claim that Jesus was a socialist was recently posed by Gregory Paul in The Washington Post who tries to argue for a biblically mandated socialism from the early chapters of Acts.[1] Paul's claims are nothing new and have likely arisen out of the overall debate our nation is involved in concerning socialism vs. free markets. President Obama and his crowd want socialism, while the rest of the nation wants to move away from government control of the economy.
What is Socialism?
We must first start this examination with an accurate definition of socialism. The Oxford English Dictionary defines socialism as: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.[2] Since it is a political and economic theory it always means that in reality the government owns or regulates the economy. When the government regulates but does not own the means of production, it is called fascism, as in Nazi Germany. When the government owns and controls the means of production it is called communism, as in the former Soviet Union. Both version fit within the broader idea of socialism.
Where does the Bible teach such a political and economic theory? According to Gregory Paul it is expounded in the early chapters of Acts. Paul, not the Apostle, says that Acts 2 and 4 depict socialism. "Now folks, that's outright socialism of the type described millennia later by Marx—who likely got the general idea from the gospels."[3] Paul also contends: "the Bible contains the first description of socialism in history." Not content to have butchered God's Word in Acts 2 and 4, Paul moves on the Acts 5 and says, "Chapter 5 details how when a church member fails to turn over all his property to the church "he fell down and died," when his wife later did the same "she fell down" and died."[4] Paul furthers his nonsense with the following:
Dear readers, does this not sound like a form of terror-enforced-communism imposed by a God who thinks that Christians who fail to join the collective are worthy of death? Not only is socialism a Christian invention, so is its extreme communistic variant. The claim by many Christians that Christ hates socialism is untrue, while no explicit description of capitalism is found in the Bible—not surprising because it had not yet evolved.[5]
Private Property in Acts
There is not one shred of socialism in the book of Acts and here's why. First, if socialism is in Acts there could have been no private property since government ownership of all property is at the heart of socialism. Where in Acts was the government involved, except in attempting to suppress the preaching of the gospel? These were not government officials who are dealing with the early church they are the apostles. Since the God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New Testament, there must be continuity between the two on any matter. Wayne Grudem observes: The Bible regularly assumes and reinforces a system in which property belongs to individuals, not to the government or to society as a whole.[6] Grudem further notes that individual property rights are assumed in the eight and tenth commandments and throughout the case law given them through Moses. How can one steal or covet a neighbor's possessions if there is not personal property? In the books of Acts, how can one sell personal property and give the money to the apostles if there were no personal property? If there were no personal property, then the government would have owned everything and they would not have had property to sell. If the apostles were somehow the heads of a communal gathering, then they would have had control over everyone else's property and not the individuals who sold their property.
Second, Paul argues for socialism based upon the statement in Acts 2:44–45, which says, "And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions, and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need." How does this in any way, shape, or form support socialism? The context is clear, because of the common faith these converts had in Christ (see verses 41–43) they were united in their goal to spread their new faith to others. However, we know from the previous context (2:5–11) that many of the new converts were visiting Jerusalem from many other countries; therefore, in order to support the physical needs of the out-of-towners while they were being instructed in their new faith, the entire group pitched in to help pay for their needs. The statement that the believers "had all things in common" meant that many gave their private property to the cause of supporting the new congregation. This statement demonstrates the fruit of the Spirit at work in their lives so that they willingly gave of their material wealth just as many believers do today from their private property.
Third, Paul says the reason Ananias and Sapphira were killed by the Holy Spirit in Acts 5 was because they refused to hand over all of their property to the authorities because the community was to own all. Such a view, in light of the context, is preposterous! Paul ignores verse 4 in which Peter says to the couple, "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control?" Such statements by Peter do not support Paul's notion that Ananias and Sapphira were killed for not being good socialists. Instead, they fall within the viewpoint of the rest or the Bible that the couple's land was their private property, as well as the money received from the sale of their land. The problem with what Ananias and Sapphira were doing was lying about the amount they were giving to the early church. Ananias and Sapphira made it look like they had offered their entire proceeds from the sale of their land when in reality they had kept part back for themselves. Such deceit was not a fruit of the Holy Spirit and the Lord demonstrated early on that indeed the Spirit of God was in their midst because only Ananias and Sapphira would have known that they lied to the apostles.
What Would Jesus Do?
The claim that Jesus is a socialist is a claim that is not true. This and similar claims have been commonly made by liberals for at least the last one hundred and fifty years. Liberals do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God and therefore attempt to take the narrative sections of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts) and manipulate the meaning of these texts in order to support their preconceived ideas. They apparently think that such an approach will appeal to those within the Church who would not otherwise be open to their views. Therefore when Jesus makes statements about the poor and against the rich, they fail to see from the contexts what He intended. Instead, they bring in their socialist notion of class warfare as if the poor and the rich are not equally sinners and in need of Christ's gracious provision.
In our day, we also see that many within evangelicalism are increasingly adopting liberal views (i.e., unbiblical views) about all kinds of things, especially in the political and social areas. Liberals often pull words and phrases from the contexts of passages (liberals are not the only ones that do this) and repackage them within the framework of their own ideas. (This was demonstrated above by Gregory Paul's article.) Often they attempt to pit Jesus against other sections of the Bible by painting a picture of Jesus that the Bible does not support. They then ask questions of this factious Jesus, like "What would Jesus drive?" They are certain it would not be a SUV. The same is done when they attempt to make Jesus into the leader of socialism. They love to take words from the Bible like "justice." They repackage it with their standards of justice, instead of God's standard of justice about which they could care less. Well, Jesus would do what the Bible said he would do and will do in the future. There seems to me zero concern about what Jesus will do at His second coming.
Therefore there are too many so-called "evangelicals" who are advocates of socialism like Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Brian McLaren, Ron Sider, and Tony Campolo, to name just a few. These ideas are being gradually sown into so-called "evangelical" colleges and universities as "social justice" issues. Regardless of what these ideas may be or where they come from, one thing is clear, the Word of God is not their source. In fact the source of such ideas are clearly satanic. According to Bible prophecy the world is being prepared for a time in which socialism will indeed come to dominate the world under the rule of antichrist. Thus, it is not Jesus Christ who is a socialist instead it will be the antichrist who will pose as an angel of light in order to use socialism as a vehicle to temporarily bring in a time when the government will attempt to own all possessions, including the hearts of men. No Jesus is not, has never been, nor will ever be a socialist. The Bible tells us that Jesus will use all eternity pouring out His unlimited blessings and wealth upon believers. Maranatha!
Adapted from Pre-Trib Research Center.
[1] Gregory Paul, From Jesus Socialism to Capitalistic Christianity, The Washington Post (August 12, 2011).
[2] Soanes, C., & Stevenson, A. (2004). Concise Oxford English dictionary (11th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, s. v. socialism.
[3] Paul, From Jesus Socialism.
[4] Paul, From Jesus Socialism.
[5] Paul, From Jesus Socialism.
[6] (emphasis original) Wayne Grudem, Politics According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), p. 262.


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The United Nations is weighing a motion to send an international force into Haiti. In the country, it's a topic of debate without any easy answers. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports from Port-au-Prince.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in non-English language).
EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: The protest starts just outside the French embassy in downtown Port-au-Prince. "Down with the prime minister," they chant. "Down with the occupation." One of the protest organizers, Nicholson Pierre, says there is no life in Haiti at the moment. There's no electricity, no clean drinking water.
NICHOLSON PIERRE: (Through interpreter) So today, the population is left on its own, and the bandits are the law. Today, the country is going to the slaughterhouse.
PERALTA: The crowd behind him hoists the Chinese flag. Others carry Russian flags. When the U.N. was last here, he says, all they brought was kidnappings, rape and cholera.
PIERRE: (Through interpreter) If ever the United Nations will send foreign forces on this land, we're going to fight even more.
PERALTA: Haiti has been spiraling for years now, but the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last year precipitated an even deeper crisis. The country is now ruled by an acting prime minister. And nearly six weeks ago, a confederation of gangs blocked the country's main seaport and the massive fuel depots that keep Haiti going. The military and police, which are barely breathing, could do nothing but watch.
GEORGES MICHEL: Myself, I see this intervention as inevitable because you have gangs like in Somalia. And we don't have the manpower. We don't have the guns to destroy this injection.
PERALTA: That is historian Georges Michel. This is all painful, he says, because Haiti, the first Black-led republic in modern history, cherishes its sovereignty. The other U.S. incursions in 1915, in 1994 and 2004 were seen as humiliating by Haitians. But at this point, he thinks there might not be another choice.
MICHEL: I would say something in French. (Speaking French).
PERALTA: "At this point," he says, "Haitians are not far from another humiliation."
PIERRE ESPERANCE: (Through interpreter) So now we have gangs everywhere. So they keep us right here. We're going to die. We cannot breathe.
PERALTA: Pierre Esperance is one of the most prominent human rights advocates in Haiti. He says for years now, the government of Haiti has used the gangs to squash dissent. The international community, especially the U.S., not only ignored the problem, he says, but they kept supporting the governments that were arming the gangs. The civil society, he says, offered them political solutions before Haiti descended into anarchy.
ESPERANCE: (Through interpreter) They don't want that. They want us to remain in that situation. And they contribute also to that situation.
PERALTA: Through our interview, Esperance offers plenty of reasons why an international intervention is a bad idea. It goes against the popular will. It is a military solution to a political problem. But when I ask him directly if he thinks an intervention is necessary, he demurs.
ESPERANCE: (Through interpreter) The current police force cannot solve the insecurity issue now. Police force need reinforcement.
PERALTA: In the end, it's a choice between an intervention or the gangs.
PERALTA: The protest works its way to the UN offices, passing huge piles of trash that haven't been picked up in weeks. Out of frustration, demonstrators throw glass bottles to the streets. Junior Albert Augusma survived a kidnapping. He knows things are bad, but he doesn't want foreign troops here.
JUNIOR ALBERT AUGUSMA: Please let us live. That's all we ask for. We are human beings. We want to be respected. And we want to be able to decide by ourselves.
PERALTA: Maybe, he says, they don't have a Haitian solution right now, but this country needs the space to try to find it. Eyder Peralta, NPR News, Port-au-Prince. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Kall Kwik story
Back in the 1970s, normal timescales for jobs were expressed in terms of weeks rather than days, or even hours as it is now.
Print production was dominated by big players making it difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to engage with them.
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'Seinfeld' Reunion: Watch Jerry and George Return for 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee'!
It's real! The Super Bowl has already brought us some incredible promo spots from the likes of 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' and 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2,' but nothing quite so glorious as the long-awaited 'Seinfeld' reunion between Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander. Jerry himself may have told a white lie, as the full reunion spot has emerged as an episode of 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee'!
Speculation for the reunion began after Seinfeld and Alexander were observed filming outside of New York landmark Tom's Restaurant, the exterior of which had famously been used as the setting for 'Seinfeld's own Monk's coffee shop. Series creator Larry David had also been on hand, though not to be on camera. Seinfeld himself went on the record to dispel that the secret project would belong to 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,' though that seems to have been a half-truth.
The full short in fact unfolds as an episode of 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,' though between Seinfeld as his titular character, and Jason Alexander as George Costanza. Of course, no 'Seinfeld' reunion could be complete without at least one major cameo: Hello, Newman!
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Pictured above, the country of China, 1839-1949, personified as this typical 19th century opium addict: emaciated, weak and mentally incoherent. No wonder Western capitalism was able to sodomize the Chinese people, their economy and government for 110 years, by addicting one-fourth of the population to opium (and later morphine), about 100 million hapless citizens at the time. The Chinese call it their "century of humiliation" for a reason.
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The link between Chinese opium money, monarchies, and rich Western families (Astor, Forbes, Kerry, Delano, Roosevelt, etc.) is already well-known, though it's not publicised enough in the Mainstream Media [editor's additionally recommended article (http://www.entelekheia.fr/2017/02/24/opium-wars-with-china-1839-1860/)].
One of many images of the time, depicting the Boxer rebellion. Most of the time the Westerners saw the uprising as a form of insolence.
What is even less publicised is how in 2018 the drug trade creates a country – Colombia, Mexico, even Afghanistan, certainly the United States, etc. – which becomes so socially, culturally, financially and politically dysfunctional that the current neoliberal ideal of being anti-government starts to appear…rather sensible.
And thus, neoliberalism wins converts among the 99% who should be promoting socialism, with its insistence on significant government control to promote their needs over those of the 1%.
The era 1839-1949 is called the "Century of Humiliation" by the Chinese, but Western histories call it the "Treaty Century", the treaty primarily being the forcing in of Indian opium. Therefore, a far more accurate term would be the "Drug Treaty Century"…but that wouldn't be effective Western capitalist propaganda, would it?
What's interesting about China's opium wars is how very, very modern they are – China's forced drugging was not a millennium ago, but during the birth and installation of our modern political era.
Therefore, aside from birthing modern fortunes, drugs also birthed modern ideologies.
In a sense this article is a bit of a digression in this 8-part series, but it is in many ways the most practical: We can quite clearly chart how in 19th century China drug money fostered a nouveaux riche which in three generations (a generation being roughly 33 years) became the key driving force behind the armed obstruction of China's socialist and democratic reforms after World War I.
This article goes into much greater detail sociological detail, but here's a brief description:
We can all agree that China during that century – whatever you may term it – was exactly like a country today in Françafrique, or one of the banana republics of the US: it was an unpopular regime controlling a divided country; foreigners controlled the key areas (the capital, the ports & railroads, the mines and other sources of natural resources); petty tyrants were recruited in order to control the local population in "flyover country"; the governing ideology was Western ideals mixed heartily with the practice of realpolitik and pitched at an absolute cultural war with the local historical ethical system.
If this sounds undesirable…then you are in agreement with the constantly-rebelling Chinese of this era.
HOLLYWOOD TO THE RESCUE The 1963 blockbuster 55 Days at Peking, focusing on the Chinese nationalist Boxer rebellion, largely glorifies the European powers and Japan, hiding the main reason for the uprising, the British desire to keep the opium trade going in China.
But if we dispense with the racist, chauvinistic notion that the Chinese somehow deserved all that because they were "incapable" of "modernising" due to "backwards" or "unscientific" ideas (feel free to insert your own preferred nonsense here), then we are freed up to realize: Drugs were the grease which powered this society-undoing machine.
It's interesting to recall that drug money was not a factor in the 1917 Russian Revolution – so when they toppled their imperial monarchy, socialism was immediately installed. China was not so lucky. This article examines the political consequences of this historical difference, and it concludes that the "Drug Treaty Century" created a new "druglord bourgeoise" which created obstacles that required a much longer march to socialism than in Russia.
But, more interestingly (I think) is how this article also shows how 19th century China proves that the drug trade can create a social situation so dysfunctional that all governments appear inherently ineffective, producing a situation where everyone in the 1% and the 99% is led to believe that the ideals of big-government democratic socialism are just a recipe for guaranteed social incompetence.
This drug-fuelled incompetence occurred in China a century ago, and it produced the ideological forerunner of neoliberalism; this drug-fuelled incompetence occurs in many nations today, and it produces modern neoliberalism.
But there's a reason they call it "dope", dope.
The drug trade: A simple Western recipe for nation-destroying
Drugs are not good, and we all know this. The ability of Westerners to get nearly 100 million Chinese people – 1 out of every 4 – on opium in the 19th century was…not good. (I take that estimate from the incomparably valuable new tome on Chinese history, China is Communist, Dammit! by Jeff J. Brown.)
Understatements aside, is there any product which is more superbly capitalist than drugs? There is no regulation, competition is cutthroat without limitation, and the profit margins are in the hundreds of percent – it's better than arms dealing.
But it is no overstatement to say that it is profoundly shocking to list the macro-level, societally-destabilising consequences drugs had in 19th century China, and which occurred in just a single generation:
Drug money increased the resources and thus the success of foreign warlords (foreign imperialists). Of course, they were the first ones to profit, as they were the "first movers" in the Chinese drug business. Drug funding allowed the English and French warlords in East Asia to occupy Beijing in 1860. They installed the totally ineffective Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled for almost 60 years (1861-1908), and they "forced open" (invaded and occupied ports and railroad towns) China to "modernity".
Because drugs are so much more profitable than anything else, the drug trade also created the resources to pay for establishing overly-powerful regional Chinese leaders (warlords), who reduced the power of the central government.
These warlords, to protect the power they took from the central authority, created their own armies and the professionalized military class, elevating it as never before in Chinese history.
Opium is still trade, even if it is opium, and it necessarily requires mid-level merchants: this meant the rise of a bourgeois gentry as never before in China. Merchants and soldiers composed the bottom two rungs on their classical Confucian hierarchy (and soldiers are not even officially granted the status of the bottom rung). This is the opposite of Western society, and we see how Westerners upended Chinese culture upon their very first contact.
Drugs exacerbated the pernicious rural-urban divide: Increased money for "traders" meant the ability to buy more land and become even richer, which meant the ability to move to the cities and run your affairs from far away via a local bully, which dissolved the ancient, much-needed bond between landlord and tenant. This may have been the deepest socio-economic effect.
Drugs provide cheap spirituality, and dangerous religious cults sprouted up. Christianity was introduced, but for every one Chinese person converted forty more became addicted to opium (not just consumers). Hardly a moral proselytisation to an Abrahamic faith….
Concurrent with all of this, and also amazingly clear, is how drugs fueled not just poor governance, but ultimately the anti-government sentiment which is now a hallmark of today's neoliberal form of capitalism. If the government "sucks", to use the parlance of our times…then getting rid of it as much as possible is smart, right? China's government certainly started to really suck:
By the 1860s the drug trade allowed for a new tax on this "trade" – but this new source of income for the central government meant they no longer were pressured to rely on receiving taxes in return for providing good governance or adequate public services, thus deteriorating the quality of governance in China. The foreign-provoked drug trade essentially rewarded the central power with money for not governing (ignoring laws against drugs, ignoring the decreasing health, stability and quality of life of their citizens, etc.).
Chinese in an opium den. Many were considerably more sordid than this one.
The rise of drug money created the resources for traders and the gentry to bribe officials at all levels, further reducing the central government's ability to govern properly. And that's even among those public servants who actually tried: For example, when the central government tried in 1884 to fix the tax system it was quickly abandoned. The only reason for such poor policy is corrupt, inept government – corruption techniques clearly permitted the interests of the new local druglord bourgeois to win out.
The trade was also so lucrative it provided local "warlords" with resources to provide their own government services, making them appear superior to the central government. Thus "big government" begins to be fairly disparaged as being staffed by lazy, incompetent and / or immoral people – echoing today's complaints – even though these new local "leaders" made their money off drugs, instead of real work.
This repeated weakening of the imperial prestige due to this bad governance encouraged some support for local warlords, who are the ultimate capitalist supporters. This further eroded the national / central authority and thus their ability to govern well.
All these combined social catastrophes culminated in multiple rebellions and civil war: the "Taiping Rebellion" (1851-1864) was a multinational affair, which the English and French took advantage of to prop up their puppet, and which gutted Chinese society as significantly as the American Civil War and over roughly the same time period. These rebellions also caused government to respond by militarising of the countryside for the first time since the Qin era (221-206 BC). The war effort also caused the rise of new taxes on peasants, which never endear one to the government.
That's quite a few kicks in the teeth to the idea of good governance, no?
To recap: The West's (drug) "Treaty Century" was – in the span of just one generation – able to 1) totally discredit the central government, 2) discredit all government, 3) discredit the longstanding cultural and religious authorities, 4) foster the rise of self-interested, unpatriotic, extremely violent local governments, 5) create new classes of super-landed rich, who turned into an out-of-touch, absentee, uncaring urban elite, 6) foster corruption at all levels, 7) create spiritual chaos, 8) create political-cultural chaos and elitism, because who can have faith in the democratic ideal of the self-governing abilities of one's neighbours when 1 out of every 4 of them is on drugs? 9) Actually create situations of open rebellion against the government, 10) Create situations of the societally-draining need for armed resistance to invading powers.
And things only got worse in the two coming generations!
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The link between drugs and capitalism, and thus anti-democracy, is thus clearly illuminated in modern Chinese history: Imperialism, drugs and bad governance clearly have a synergistic effect, like the sky-high cancer rates of people who worked with asbestos and also smoked.
Indeed, the history of socialist-inspired countries which have true wars on drugs – China, Iran, Cuba – illuminate this link, and also explain why their zero tolerance efforts are so strong and their punishments so harsh.
I imagine that the Dutch would not have been so content to be drug-happy if a foreign power had been the one controlling its influence in the Netherlands….
Again, this clear cause-and-effect between Western-backed drug schemes and the end of non-Western society as we know it is obviously not limited to just China, but has been replicated in countless societies in 2018:
One may not support the ideals of the Taliban, for example, but what chance did they have to improve Afghan society when the US invaded and made opium production higher than ever? Indeed, many Afghans undoubtedly say the Taliban are much better than living in a state of US imperialism. Opium has, once again, been used to totally create a dysfunctional, divided society which doesn't know what is up or down, just as it did in China pre-1949.
By Generation 2, the taint of drug money is gone & cultural revolution is underway
The various effects of drug money – quite logically – totally reduced support for any government by making them appear incompetent…which they were.
By the 1890s China was so weakened that the Japanese invaded, and China lost the Sino-Japanese War. Payments required to fund this failed war caused the monarchy to become heavily indebted to the West.
In 1900 the Boxer Rebellion – against foreigners and arrogant Christian missionaries, but unlike the Taiping Rebellion now with the imperial dynasty (rallying cry: "Support the Qing, destroy the foreign!") – saw China become effectively split: the rich south allied with the foreigners against the rebellious north; opium made the southern "capital" Shanghai the new vice capital of the world and also the home of China's new "trade" bourgeoisie (we know of mainly which product). Effectively an entire continent was split and not just a country (China as continent is explained in the first part of this series). It was balkanisation under Western auspices and to the detriment of the local 99%, as usual.
Clearly, by just the 2nd generation of the "Drug Treaty Century" China had totally fallen apart politically, morally and culturally.
The drive to remodel China's political culture began in this 2nd generation. We must strive to put ourselves in the shoes of the Chinese back in that era:
Just as the ideals of socialism are being heavily discussed in Europe and Russia, there is one generation in adulthood and another one growing up with the idea of government as a completely-negative force. Monarchy is on the way out, but socialist ideals are being heavily discredited from the get-go, with resources being stored up to fight against it:
"Socialism and this new guy Karl Marx?! Government by and for these drug-addled bozos?! No thanks – I'll get and keep mine by any means necessary. "
This 2nd generation sees China changing from a "China with Chinese characteristics" to a "China with West European (bourgeois) characteristics" – it's a cultural revolution.
The new Chinese druglord bourgeois were – being bourgeois – ultimately a class loyal only to themselves, their power and their money. They had unprecedented means to reshape classic Chinese culture in the Western bourgeois mold, and they did.
This nouveaux riche class will sound quite modern:
They worked with foreigners for personal gain at the expense of the nation's 99%.
They claimed to be "philanthropists" who supported charities with unpaid taxes that should have gone the central authority. However, these charities did not capably replace the reduced central government services, of course.
They denigrated the state bureaucracy as incapable.
They claimed to be "activists" who promoted modernity, but were mere individualists promoting their own interests.
They remade society's most important instructional force – education.
In 1901 major school reforms started, adopting the Japanese system which – unlike Vietnam and Korea – was not strongly influenced by China's civil service test. (Japan is, in my mind, a Western country: "Western" is a culture, and Japan went over whole hog, as evidenced by their decades of imperialism – this did permit them to avoid getting the fast-drip China Drug Torture treatment….)
The government examination system was unwanted by the new drug-money elite because it was meritocratic: its existence directly challenged the new concept of the "private school" (a foreign concept imported to China) which the 1% use today to maintain their dominance.
The privatisation of schools – the loss of state control – serves to transfer control of schooling to the 1%, and schools henceforth exist to indoctrinate a new technocratic class – one which is loyal to their privileged class and not their own People or their own State. And what is the biggest anti-union drive in Anglophone countries today? The drive to privatise schools: if capitalists can get that instituted, one of the biggest remaining unions will be no more, and a huge percentage of the government will also disappear.
So we should not be surprised to see how John King Fairbank, Harvard's first China scholar and the author of the leading English-language university textbook on the country, China: A New History, celebrates the end of the Chinese civil service tests:
"Alas, it was soon found that students would continue to aim mainly at the old examinations as a more prestigious and much cheaper route of advancements, bypassing the difficult modern curriculum and greater cost of the modern schools. There was nothing for it but to abolish the classical examinations entirely in 1905. This great turning point stopped production of the degree-holding elite, the gentry class. The old order was losing its intellectual foundation and therefore its philosophical cohesion….The neo-Confucian synthesis was no longer valid, yet nothing to replace it was as yet in sight."
The gentry class – who had previously earned their status via merit (the meritocratic examination system – was "stopped", while this new gentry class earned their status via the drug trade. The "neo-Confucian synthesis was no longer valid" only to foreign invaders and drug barons.
But Fairbank, being unsympathetic and unknowledgeable of Chinese culture (and certainly unwilling to allow it to stand strongly and in opposition to Western dominance), celebrates the death of thousands of years of native culture because he wants to replace it with neoliberal capitalism. Revolutions in learning are fine, but not when they are not focused for the benefit of foreign capitalists and the local bourgeoisie, whether China's drug lords or modern Brussels' technocrats. Indeed, then these changes are not "revolutions in learning", but reactionary, stultifying and impoverishing changes. Ultimately, these schools were remembered for producing the "warlord generation" of 1916-27: indeed, China became most Westernised in this period.
What's hugely important to realize is that the 99% of the second generation of the "Drug Treaty Century" certainly did not agree that nascent neoliberalism had brought local benefits. The people hated this switch to "local governance", and thus they had major rebellions, of which I only mentioned the two biggest as is common. Fairbank admits this, but doesn't really care (as a capitalist and neoliberal):
"'Local self-government,' despite its happy resonance in the minds of Western advocates of democracy, had its own rather different meaning for the Chinese common people. The term in reality usually designated a managerial agency of the local elites, which they used to secure their villagers' taxes to support modern improvements. Road building, setting up modern schools, and paying for police were improvements desired by the modernizing elite, but paying higher taxes to secure them increased the villagers' burden faster than it benefited them. There were many peasant protests against 'reform'."
By 1908 the drug profit-fueled gentry had too much money, too much land and too much power: the Empress declared a constitutional system, with 0.4% of the population (all men) allowed to vote in a bourgeois system. This 0.4% were not just drug dealers, but European-apers in every way – they were the bourgeois, selfish merchants and militarists (whether in open or secret) which Western society is based on.
The monarchy – gutted by foreign debt from the Boxer Rebellion Against Foreigners And Arrogant Christians, unable to restore power usurped by the provinces, out-spent by the new bourgeois class, unable to create a unified army – abdicated in 1912 and was replaced by the Chinese Republic.
Bourgeois constitutionalism in the context of a monarchy is – history, and also today's newspaper, repeatedly proves – a pact between the monarchy / aristocracy and the bourgeois traders against the 99%. However, even Fairbank admits the 99% wanted no part of this change, because the Chinese imperial system – where a Heavenly Mandate rested upon demonstrably good governance and not mere bloodlines like in Europe – was arguably superior to Western Europe's "modern" democracy despite being a monarchy, because China ostensibly switched from a pact between the monarchy and the 99% for a pact between the 1% themselves.
For nations without popular, socialist-inspired revolutions…a monarchy-1% pact, or a pact to self-deify the 1% and boot out the monarchy, is where history effectively ends and their present is found.
But for Western academics like Fairbank, the clear tragedy which was the first two generations of the (Drug) "Treaty Century" could never be lain at the feet of obvious collusion between a new Chinese free trade-loving, drug lord upper-class and Western warlords. Instead it was the natural result of the inherent stupidities of Chinese culture and, that old standby, the "passive" character of the average Chinese person (which I noted that Fairbank also employed as a politically-scientific explanation to explain both the Great Leap's famine and the Cultural Revolution):
"These inadequacies of the old regime in administration and finance were deeply rooted in Chinese custom, political values, and social structure. It became apparent that the Qing government had been superficial, passive, and indeed parasitic for too long. It could not become modern."
Fairbank – like all Americans – may be against monarchical rule, but he is definitely not against aristocratic-technocratic-1% rule….
Clearly, by the birth of the third generation China's drug-fueled failures had destroyed seemingly everything, and of course the bourgeois are all-too happy to pick up (and keep) the pieces.
Early Chinese drug barons were truly just 'modern conservatives'
Just as Westerners inaccurately call it the "Treaty Century", it is also inaccurate to call this 3rd generation the "Warlord Era", as is common: these warlords were not tribal savages, as the name implies, but instead the supporters of West European (bourgeois) democracy and modern conservatism.
And yet despite the crystal-clear similarities, I have never read of an early 20th century Western small town or big city politician demoted to a "warlord", much less even Hitler or Mussolini?
Chiang in full regalia: As head of the Kuomintang, he always put ruling class interests above China's masses, thereby endearing himself to the Western powers.
"Warlord Era" is thus a racist term which allows Western people to fancifully indulge in allusions to Genghis Khan which only they find witty; crucially, it also reveals a racist mindset when viewing China which helps them to deny that China could ever be "modern" like the West. But this was indeed the case: these anti-socialist "warlords" were the local fascist Brownshirt-type of leaders which were everywhere in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s – the fascist supporters of Chiang Kai-Shek were known as the Blue Shirts, after all.
China's fascists, like their European peers, were capitalists but they had the virtue of at least being nationalistic capitalists; neoliberal capitalists, however, have no nation whatsoever. This is why neoliberalists – who are currently dominant, probably because they are so unsentimental and ruthless – deride any modern nationalistic capitalist movement as "fascist", "populism", "Trumpism", etc. In 1930's China, nobody was crazily saying "I'm proud to have no country" yet, but the times do change quicker than we all think….
I take this quote here from Fairbank to describe the ideology of this group of neo-bourgeois, which he applied to the first generation but which obviously holds true to the third generation:
"From the perspective of modern times they were conservatives. Their eventual alienation from the effete Manchu ruling house would be based on the cultural nationalism of Chinese patriots determined to preserve not only their country but also their own social leadership and domination."
If one insists that Fairbank would not have used that quote to describe the 3rd generation, that's fine with me: I agree that modern Western conservatism is equal to what passed for modern in 1860s China. I certainly agree modern conservatives are that backward! But, clearly, the quote holds true into the 1940s.
"Warlord Era", and the like, allows Westerners to picture the Chinese as an unchangeable Yellow Horde, when they were really just plain-old modern conservatives. This is a common tactic of not just Fairbank but all pre-Politically Correct Western academia: repeatedly dehumanising non-Whites and making it appear unthinkable that modern Westerners can feel kinship with modern non-Whites.
But China's druglord bourgeois were indeed all in favor of the harsh repression of modern conservatism's targets: of socialist, labor and feminist movements. Make no mistake: These social trends had obviously reached China too, and no more so than in Shanghai, where Chiang massacred the communists and made the Kuomintang dedicated modern fascists.
"In Shanghai, Chinese merchants soon stood opposed to the new and leftist labor movement. In this stance they had foreign support. In reflecting many years later on his raising funds at Shanghai for crushing the labor movement, Chen Guangfu stated the aim had been to topple militarism, the warlords, and support a modern government."
Fairbank quotes and elevates Chen Guangfu, one of Shanghai's most powerful US-allied entrepreneurs and high financiers. He was clearly part of the new druglord bourgeoisie which opposed the many anti-capitalist aspects of 20th century fascism – Chen was truly a modern, small-government, no-nation neoliberal, and thus Fairbank is trying to exonerate his funding of the massive massacres of human beings for being leftist. This is modern conservatism, of course.
However, repressing "the new and leftist labor movement" – which certainly included feminist, racial-equality and other socialist-inspired popular movements – can never be considered "modern". 1849 China was not "modern". Indeed, this is only a "modern government" to West European (bourgeois) neoliberals like Fairbank, who is clearly the same ideologically as Chinese warlords (and from 1849 or 1948 – your choice).
The monarchy-free drug lord gentry would have been quite happy if the Chinese Republic still existed today instead of the People's Republic of China, of course.
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Macron the 'liberal warlord', tool of drug barons (and spouse of one, too?)
Somewhat thankfully, President Yuan dissolved parliament in 1913, setting off civil war.
Or to use another racist Western term employed by the likes of Fairbank: "civil warlordism". LOL, certainly the United States battle between Lincoln and the Confederacy's aristocrats was a far more totally barbaric "civil warlordism" – one side was defending slavery, after all. "Civil warlordism" is only reserved for China not only because of the ruthless effectiveness of the ancient Mongols, but because Mao and other Chinese socialist leaders were nothing but lying warlords to the likes of Fairbank, even though they fought to end China's human bondage.
But China's less than decade-long experience with bourgeois constitutionalism, before rejecting this West European invention, thus parallels the Russian experience:
The difference being that Russia was fortunate enough to have a drastically revolutionary concept to implement – socialism – whereas China was not as much at the crest of the wave of progress, and that China was further from the geographic centre of this movement in an era of limited communication abilities. And, again, 25% percent of Russia was also not using drugs.
But make no mistake – Yuan, in collaboration with the druglord gentry, ended the Chinese Republic specifically in order to forestall socialist-inspired changes:
"Having initiated the 1911 Revolution that ended the imperial check on their power, the provincial elite (which did not exist in the imperial era, and which only rose to power recently during the Drug Treaty Era) resumed their stance for stability and so 'gave a pivotal support in 1913,' says Esherick (Joseph Esherick, one of Fairbank's own proteges), for Yuan's assumption of dictatorial powers. Their instinct was to save China from the chaos that they feared further change would create. In this way conservatism thwarted any social revolution.
That is exactly what modern conservatives do in 2018 – use dictatorial powers to thwart social progress.
French President Emmanuel Macron, celebrating his use of dictatorial decrees, to dismantle France's socialist contract.
We clearly see the antecedents of today's "liberal strongman" like French President Emmanuel Macron, who is using rule by executive decree – i.e., the dictatorial power of one person – to deconstruct socialist policies and programs which existed before he came into office?
Therefore, "liberal warlord" should be the term used by those historians who come from the opposite side of the political spectrum as Fairbank to describe modern France.
(It's too bad I came up with this phrase on the final edit of this article – it would have made this article's title more interesting than 'liberal strongman', LOL! Too late to change it now though….)
Macron is indeed equivalent to a Chinese / Taiwan warlord: Not only is he waging imperialist wars (in Africa and the Middle East), but he is waging war against his own people (normalized the police state of emergency) and is repeatedly and profoundly undermining the prestige, services and reach of France's central government.
Scientists, and many women, might even say he is also a true drug baron: he married into a chocolate empire!
But the straight line is clear: Anglophone golden-boy and neoliberal darling Macron is the clear ideological inheritor of these drug baron bourgeois. 1849, to a Chinese (and an Iranian) was not that long ago – this line is straight and clear and now proven.
(I won't countenance that Macron is actually pro-government because he pushes for more EU government, for multiple reasons: The "more government" does not at all equal an increase in true democracy; I think he knows they have no chance of even getting approved; these are the exact same ideas the French 1% has been pushing for since after World War II, as I have proven; and this pro-government stance is not more defining than his obvious disregard for democracy, the opinion of the 99% and the socialist safety net.)
Both Macron and China's druglord gentry want a bourgeois ruling class, which lives apart from a continually-impoverished 99%, and which has no problem denying modern democratic changes and suppressing popular rebellions: "Modern conservatives" and "liberal warlordism" indeed….
Show me a country awash in drugs, and I'll show you a capitalist-imperialist nation
Unlike a typical drug crash, we can still finish on a high note!
It is impressive how short this bourgeois, Western republic stood: the Chinese people quickly saw that socialism was needed but – unfortunately – that required a long civil war provoked by modern conservatives and liberal warlords.
Fairbank, a modern conservative himself, must have known he was on the wrong side: He even relates how Mao knew the problems caused by West European, bourgeois, "modern", "multi-party" democracy, all of which are similar today. Fairbank cites Mao in 1926:
"Peasants are oppressed, he said, by (1) heavy rents, half or more of the crop, (2) high interest rates, between 36% and 84% a year, (3) heavy local taxes, (4) exploitation of farm labor, and (5) the land owners cooperation with the warlords and corrupt officials to exploit the peasantry in every way possible. Behind this whole system laid the cooperation of the imperialists, who sought to maintain order for profitable trade in China."
(Ya can't say Mao didn't see things clearly….)
We see how applicable this is to modern times (indeed, our elderly were living in this recent era!):
Just replace high taxation with "continuously low wages / purchasing power" and the effect is the same; interest-induced debt slavery remains unchanged; in a Europe which is seeing the rich Germans, French and Dutch cannibalise the weaker Greece, Ireland, Portugal and others, we see that Western warlords have merely ended their White Power solidarity and have started imperialising their own race.
The EU, as I have proven and was already-well known, is a series of structures which are defined by being corrupt, anti-democratic, anti-socialist and unrepentantly neoliberal.
And in drug trade nations, they are pushing in this negative direction as well. Compare the differences between Columbia and Venezuela: One nation is the leader of Latin neoliberalism and the biggest tool of Washington in the region, the other is the leader of Latin socialism – despite being neighbours and being in regular contact, their peoples and cultures couldn't be more different. Indeed, I have yet to meet a Columbian who isn't anti-Chavismo – this can only be explained by the fact that A) I have only met Columbians from the 1%, and that is certainly not the case, or B) Many of Columbia's 99% have been duped into believing that big government and socialism are bad, via drug-induced powers.
So, above all, I hope this article showed that pre-socialist China illustrates how drug money created a situation where the idea that all government is corrupt becomes embedded at truly all levels of society, and that this has elevated the neoliberal model of anti-governance to higher prominence and success.
Just as Chinese opium created riches in places far from China, so it impoverished political thought in both faraway lands and faraway times as well.
Indeed, I am certain that if an outside imperialist force were to be applied to the paradigm of Western societies (which are militarily impregnable), we would certainly see how neoliberalism would immediate descend into chaotic "civil warlordism" – because that is what happened in modern China.
And it was only socialism which was able to defeat that corrupt, elitist, capitalist system.
The reason for this may be because the visions of earthly paradise in capitalist and socialist societies are very, very different:
The capitalist view is clearly quite drug-addled: their goal is to retire rich at 40, live in sensual pleasure, free from societal constraints, and to have the ability to rule their tiny empires like petty dictators.
Modern socialism's vision is superbly expressed in China's President Xi's lovely, enchanting phrase a "moderately prosperous society". I love that modest ambition for materialism! And it so obviously implies ethical self-restraint in order to promote equality.
What is far more important than preserving the right for an individual to completely satiate their materialist ambitions is to have the universal stability required to do the good works necessary to always preserve an ethical, harmonious society.
If you disagree with that: what are you…on drugs?
This is the 6th article in an 8-part series which compares old versus new Western scholarship on China.
Here is the list of articles slated to be published, and I hope you will find them useful in your leftist struggle!
Old vs. new scholarship on the continent of China – an 8-part series
Daring to go beyond Western propaganda on the Great Leap Forward's famine
When Chinese Trash saved the world: Western lies about the Cultural Revolution
Mao's legacy defended, and famous swim decoded, for clueless academics
The Cultural Revolution's solving of the urban-rural divide
Once China got off drugs: The ideological path from opium to 'liberal strongman' Macron
Prefer the 1% or the Party? Or: Why China wins
China's only danger: A 'Generation X' who thinks they aren't communist
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A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter's life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
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Directors: Edward Watts
Countries: Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America
Release: 2019-10-09