Message to the unemployed American worker whose job has fled: time to get a new job, or to get more training to get new skills and get a new job. Here, the government will help you out with that. (WIA)

Message to the newly employed Latin American: congratulations. Your raise will become effective when you are.

The Latin American has more purchasing power, and the American has lower prices at the Megalo Mart. Everybody wins.

A lot of Americans have suspicions about Latin America…and their obstinate choices for socialism, statism, against freedom and trade. The WASPy type Americans blame something defective about Spanish and/or Catholic culture, ignoring the intense Masonic and Marxist influences in LA.

Still, they are free to choose to shoot themselves in the foot. I’m sure some slaves really wanted to stay on the plantation.

Not a single Italian newspaper printing the accusations (by the member of the European “Parliament” – a man whose constituent was just murdered) that the Prime Minister of Italy (and former President of the European Commission) was an agent of influence for the K.G.B.-F.S.B.

As the accusation was made in the European “Parliament” there could be no question of libel action for any newspaper that simply reported what was said. So (if it is true that no newspaper is reporting the story and no television station broadcasting it), then there is some other factor at work.

My guess would be that it is the “chilling factor” of Prodi (and the other leftists – including several communists) being in power.

A report of their K.G.B. links might lead to a “tax audit” or other such action.

It will be the same in Ecuador. I should guess that when the President Elect becomes President (and starts getting his own people in key positions, writing a new constititution and so on) any newspaper or radio station that says things he really does not like will find themselves with tax or regulation problems.

Remember, to the left, freedom is a “positive” thing (the “well being of the people”) it is not some “negative” govenment noninterventionism.

As for Britain – if there has been reporting of the Prodi story, I have not seen it.

For example the “Financial Times” reported that evil pro C.I.A. Italian intelligence agency chiefs had made charges against Mr Prodi (and that this was good reason to purge these evil proAmerican people) – but it was careful NOT to say what these charges were.

This is no surprise given how many K.G.B. contacts have worked for the Financial Times over the years.

Of course the President Elect of Ecuador learned his antiAmericanism in Belgium and American universities (odd how a man who was supposedly so poor could afford to study in two foreign countries), but the Italian establishment (that controls most of the universities and the courts) is much the same.

Part of the long march through the institutions suggested by A. Gramsci.

Another Chomski technique if you mention specifics, he dismisses that as aberrations and his general assertion is still true. If you should make a general assertion, he mentions a few specific aberration that, in his mind, annul your generalization. For Chomski, heads he wins, tails you lose.

Lastly, I love a conspiracy……..story. Listening to Chomski is like sitting next to a warm fire. You can just feel yourself shutting down in an all-embracing suspension of critical thinking.

Not that I have read/listened to ol’Nome, I was always a S.I. Hayakawa man myself.

I was thoroughly impressed by how well the Quechua had organized not only the markets, but the local hotels, transportation and other amenities necessary to draw in the dollar-laden tourists a few hours into the Andes from Quito. It is one of the finest craft markets I’ve ever visited in Latin America, or anywhere else. In creating and selling a rich assortment of hand crafts, they have developed not only an effective supply chain, but more importantly a (partially at least) self-funding means of cultural preservation. (I should add: the enterprise is not exclusive to the Quechua).

I very much hope the outcome of this election doesn’t damage the prospects of this excellent market. As I understand it, the Quechua as a group wield a certain amount of political clout, yet I don’t know where their position is in all of this.

PS Perhaps emptymirror you can one day travel to Ecuador and explain to the clever Quechua how misguided they are, and perhaps convince them of their victimhood. You know, the sweatshops and all.

Have any of you read American Hegemony or ANY Chomsky?

Emptymirror:

I recommend that you read Russil Wvong’s review of Chomsky, and particularly the section on misrepresentation. (Admission: Russil is a personal friend.)

Russil is, apparently, one of the few people to bother following up on the references and quotes in some of Chomsky’s books, and what he discovers is pretty shocking for anyone who — as I did — read Chomsky believing that he was a credible academic.

Don’t get me wrong, Chomsky’s work on linguistics is, by all accounts, unparalleled. But he should have stayed in that field.

Just because you come on here, flashing your undergraduate doctrinaire-left boilerplate (thankyou, Johnathan), doesn’t guarantee you a discussion over your juvenile contentions – which have been convincingly disproven over the years by liberal philosophers and the effects of the policies they’ve devised.

Personally, I don’t debate you here for the exact same reason why I wouldn’t debate a small child when it feels it’s entitled to some insignificant privilege at my expense.

Empty something, all right, but it wasn’t just a mirror.

A bold prediction—no matter what happens to Ecuador, or Bolivia, or Venezuela, or Cuba, anything bad will be the fault of the evil American imperialists, just as all bad things everywhere have always been their fault, except for all that stuff the jews did, of course.

As the father of two very teenage teenagers at the moment, if I had any sighs left in me, I would sigh.

Actually, I feel very sympathetic to emptybrainpan. Knowing everything is such a burden. It must be so exhausting to have everything all figured out, and then nobody will listen.

Life is so unfair.

I went to a government schools in Kettering (one of which has since been shut down).

These local schools did not even teach me to read. An old women (Williams by name) in a local village taught me to read.

I recently passed by the house that the lady used to live in and said to the person I was walking with “that was were I was taught to read as a boy”.

“So you are local” was the reply.

This will not be understood by people who have no knowledge of British humour.

Have any of you read American Hegemony or ANY Chomsky? Do you not believe he even has HALF of anything important to say? [insert Hugo Chavez quip here].

Yes, I have read enough to know the man is an intellectual charlatan of the first order. If you believe anything he writes, then you are beyond hope. He peddles the sort of blame-America-first nonsense that would shame a 6th former.

I thought you said you were leaving. Please do so and stop wasting our bandwidth.

“Some deep idiocy is afoot. Marvel in it. “

Like the flickering and glowing reflections of flames cast upwards on the undersides of low, Chicago clouds by a solitary self immolation. Strangely attractive but passing never the less, and signifying nothing..