To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (69440 ) 12/12/2010 8:08:22 PM From: TobagoJack 4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 218616 education - the usa is eating its seed corn in terms of the young. on slippery slope, let us watch the wastrels and see what they try to do to assange ostensibly to put him on trial for espionage ;0) for publishing an internet rag if so, watergate / pentagon paper leakers could have been tried on same ground obama, i fear to but must believe, is even worse than bush i am not surprised, because as i always believed, it is the system, not the man, or any men. when elections 'happen to' career/dynastic political class beholden to patrons, bad and very bad things happen. democracy was introduced to sustain an upper class wishing to avoid revolution, forced to share power with a rising middle class. as the middle class gets 'poored', bad and worse things start to happen. rule-of-law was introduced to secure the assets of the upper class, by giving the middle class a sense of sharing and having a stake. it was started as a mechanism to avoid and forestall awful revolution. like some scheme that 'prevents' and forestalls forest fires. but forest fires are natural, and fire is nature's way to cleanse and rejuvenate, and fires cannot be put off forever. as the middle class retreats, fire spark awaits. very few other systems are better, none are best, but the one in the empire homeland has most spin, i.e. what you see, infer, guess, is not even close to what it actually is and is most planet straddling, and so can do the greatest harm understand the city government of new york, home of wall street, is now doing human experiments nydailynews.com people such as angie almodovar, pregnant single mother of two children, per nyt. the appearance of all happenings is just going more and more to the wrong and very wrong, and either shades 1984 or shadows 1938 or crash 1929 should be straight ahead. the trajectory is just simply wrong. such and similar failings in china would and do cause riots, a good and just happening; then the officialdom fear and cower, and something happens so that the riots do not engulf and spread, and it usually is not anything remotely to do with nyt/stratfor-spun crackdowns. the trajectory is just encouraging. we who sit on freedom hong kong island are very in tune with what is happening where our base currency is tagged (usa) and where our economic future rides (china), and we must not only believe in our own assessment, but act on it.