Land Reform=Privatization

A brilliant analysis of Land Reform as privatization is made by Kevin Carson where he points out;

As Jesse Walker points out at Reason Hit & Run, much of what Evo Morales calls "land reform" is what libertarians would call "privatization"--if it wasn't done by, you know, Evo Morales. And if the beneficiaries weren't poor people.

The point I was making in reply to Mr. Stupid Angry Canajun.


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The Truth Will Set You Free

Rusty Idols hits the nail on the head over the whole crisis in the Middle East.

"The occupied territories and Lebanon are two of the few democratic states in the Moslem world - what we say we want to happen. Now the Palestinians are being punished for voting the wrong way and Lebanon, an urbane secular democracy is being pounded into gravel. Coincidently just as it's economy was starting to recover enough to make it a competitor to Israel."

Like the war in Serbia, which was an attempt to force that reclariant State Capitalist regime to privatize, the American Empire and its corporate interests do not want freedom or democracy in the Middle East. They want a 'free market', which is neither, what it is actually is the freedom for Halliburton to get contracts that would normally go to Bin Laden Inc.

Lebanon and Palestine are economic competitors with Israel, the decision to build the so called security wall, the Berlin Wall by any other name, had more to do with destroying Palestinian agrarian villages, olive and orange groves their major source of export production, as it had to do with keeping terrorists out of Israel.

All war is captalist expansion by any other name. In the case of Israel it wants to remain the dominant capitalist regime in the region.It will bomb its competitors out of business.


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Scandal Harper Style

Seven Canucks die

Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Ambra Dickie confirmed the seven deaths and said three other Canadians were injured in the attack, but declined to provide names or hometowns of the victims, citing privacy laws.

The deaths occurred as the federal government began organizing evacuation plans for Canadian citizens in Lebanon while the violence in the region continues to escalate.

Bad enough the Harpocrite government has condoned the Israeli war of aggression on the civilian population in Lebanon. Now the so called accountable transparent governmentof the Harpocrites hides behind privacy laws not to name names when Canadians are killed by their pals from the Israeli Defense Forces. The silence from the Harper government over the murder of Canadians by the Imperialist Israeli's is deafening, then they try and cover it up. And then only after these deaths do they bother to start planning to evacuate Canadians from this war zone. Duh Oh.

In a telephone interview, Akhras said he got little help from Canadian consular officials.

"We're seeing that people are not really that interested," he said. "What are they waiting for? More victims?"

Akhras said his brother told him the bodies of kids killed in the blast were shattered.

"These are Canadian citizens, they're not Lebanese," he said. "They were picked up in pieces. Piece by piece.

Another relative pleaded with Ottawa to intervene.

"They're killing innocent people. They kill children with bombs," said Hussein El-Akhras, Mahmoud's cousin.

Here is an example of that selective precise bombing by Israel which the Harpocriters applaud even as our own citizens are killed. The Conservatives single minded imitation of the US policy in regards to the Middle East is putting Canada and Canadians at risk.

Mariam Shihabiyah, 39, a divorced mother of five, clutches pillows from her apartment as she flees a bombed-out area near the destroyed Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs yesterday. After days of Israeli airstrikes, Shihabiyah returned to salvage belongings from her apartment, minutes before another series of air attacks hit the area. (Associated Press)

One of Israel's top generals said residents in Lebanon were alerted to possible air strikes and told to leave dangerous areas. "We convinced them to leave their villages and homes, and go to the north of the country," said Israel's Maj. Gen. Udi Adam.

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Reply To Stupid Angry Canajun

The SAC blog has a rant on individual property rights where upon he says;

"As much as I respect Mr. Plawiuk, I disagree that the right to individual property ownership is evil."

I never said Property was evil, perse, it is not. What I said was that private property is the origin of capitalism and its state, it is theft as Proudhon called it. He also said it was freedom, that is you have the right to what you possess, but not the right to possess more, that is to become a rentier. Proudhons whole work on Property was against the idea of the rentier class, which by the by Mr. Canajun is exactly the problem with deals made like the example you have given;

"Individual responsibility must return to our lives or we will not have lives worth living. If I sign a great deal with an oil company regarding my property, and I care about my neighbours, I tell my neighbours about the deal."

And if you don't care so what, in most cases of individual responsibility from the right the next phrase used is MYOB. You made a deal there is no need to say anything to anyone about it.

But again your land use is no longer a matter of your own use, but now is subject to being land use by a rentier, whose impact on others may include poisioning their ground water. Which by the by would mean you have a social responsibility to your neighbours to inform them of the deal you made. Once you no longer merely use your property for yourself, but now involve a third party, whose environmental impact goes beyond your property to impact on others, you no longer are a sovereign individual with their own possessions, you are now involved in a contractual arrangement which may have an impact beyond you and your property.

Mr. Canajun goes on to say;

If I sign a deal with an oil company because I am forced to, by way of required association with my neighbours, I undoubtedly end up with a loser of a deal because human nature ensures one or more of the group is corrupt or too stupid to understand the implications of the deal and this person frequently ends up in a position of power over the rest of the group who are too tired, busy or otherwise not motivated to get involved.

There is that force issue, who forced you? Ah right you are required to associate with your neighbours, for a common good. But what if your actions, a private deal with the oil company has the same impact, you are then the corrupt power hungry individual who affects their community without regard of their neighbours property rights. This is of course a straw man arguement, full of typical right wing assertions , that the common good of all is a threat to the individuals rights. Which of course is untrue. The historic case is that the large landowner is a tyrant over his neighbours, he is in effect the rentier with a monopoly, like his aristorcratic ancestors. For an excellent example of this see the movie Missouri Breaks.

The nature of private property is that it arises from the commons, from the encroachment acts of the state which limit the communal farm lands and creates private lands which can be fenced. It is this privatization of farming which creates capitalism in its modern form, and continues to plague the world today with despotism of the landlords/ladowners over the peasants. It is in effect theft of the peasants property both individual and communal that allows you Mr. Canajun to have the right to property.






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Tit for Tat

Our glorious Great Leader the Harpocrite says that Israel is only defending itself. Alrighty then explain this;

More than 100 Lebanese, mostly civilians, have been killed in the Israeli offensive, police said. In Israel, four civilians have been killed in Hezbollah rocket attacks. On Saturday, Hezbollah fired about 100 rockets at communities across northern Israel, the army said, hitting Tiberias, 22 miles from the Lebanese border, in the deepest strike yet. At least two homes were seriously damaged, and eight people were lightly wounded, medics said. Israel batters Hezbollah HQ, wipes out radar sites

As Israel claimed before the hostage taking, that Hamas rocket attacks were the reason for it to counter with its own rocket attacks which killed innocent civilians, Hamas rockets while a definite provocation had not killed anyone, now we have a massive offensive by Israel on two fronts killing and maiming civilians, while the counter attacks have been largely sturm and drang with little real impact on the Israeli population. Unlike Isreal's assaults which have had real impact on Palestinians in Gaza and now the Lebanonese. This is not self defense this is War.

The Israeli air strikes across Lebanon on Saturday hit roads, bridges, seaports, gas stations and fuel depots, taking a mounting toll of civilian casualties. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes attacked the Palestinian Ministry of Economy, keeping up a campaign of air strikes against institutions of the Hamas-led government in an effort to secure the release of a soldier abducted last month by militants.


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Canadian Exceptionalism

The Conservatives since they were the Reform Party, then the Alliance, have been staunch supporters of Israeli Imperialism in the Middle East. So what else is new. Well they now have made this internal policy a national policy in response to the current illegal war being conducted by a rogue nation whom they support unconditionally. Once again forgetting that they are a MINORITY government, and do not speak for all Canadians. If anything will lead to further terrorist targeting of Canada it is this.

With Israel exercising its military might on the ground in Gaza and in skies over Lebanon, leaders around the world — with the notable exception of our own Prime Minister — are calling on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to apply less force. Speaking for Israel's closest ally, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says: "It is extremely important that Israel exercise restraint in its acts of self-defence." Onus for restraint not just on Israel


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No Money For Carbon Credits But Lots for LNG

Here is the irony of the Harpocrites international policies, they denounce Kyoto because Canada would be spending millions on European carbon credits, while promoting Canadian investment in Russian Gas and Oil instead. Hmmmm. And this should make us all more wary of LNG development in Canada.

Canada hopes to turn itself into a key transit point for liquefied natural gas shipped to North America, in part by allowing gas companies to bypass more stringent regulatory requirements along the U.S.'s heavily populated eastern seaboard. At least eight Canadian gas projects are scheduled for construction by the end of this decade.



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Maggie Harper

Stephen Harper got a vote of confidence from Margaret Thatcher,

Oh be still my beating heart, the Harpocrite is now in the Reagan/Thatcher club of Neo-Con artists. Yep what Maggie did for England, Harper intends to do to Canada. Too bad the neo-con strategy is so out of date, some one should tell the Harpocrites their ideology is past its expiry date. It only works during a debt and deficit hysteria, not during a boom.


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Russia Is Right

'One cannot justify the continued destruction by Israel in Lebanon and in Palestinian territory, involving disproportionate use of force in which the civilian population suffers,'' Moscow said a statement Thursday. ''We firmly reaffirm support for Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity.''

While the Harpocrite quizling sounds like Polly Parrot.

Bush emphasized Israel's right to defend itself.

''Israel has the right to defend itself,'' Harper said repeatedly during his 6 1/2-hour transatlantic flight to London.

G-8 leaders at odds over latest Mideast conflict





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Sex Can Be Dangerous

T-Rex Sex that is. Like horny teen agers everywhere, T-Rex becomes a juvenile delinquent at puberty.

Tyrannosaur Life Span Similar to Large Mammals, Study Says

The researchers found that mortality rates for Albertosaurus were high in the first two years of life, possibly due to predation, and then decreased until the teenage years, according to the researchers.

After age 13, the mortality rates jumped to 23 percent, researchers found. Dinosaurs lived roughly 30 years, about the same length of time as bears. Some reptiles can live 50 to 100 years or more.

``It was a real mid-life crisis, so to speak,'' Erickson said in a telephone interview today. ``Something happened to these animals at mid-life.''

Combat during mating is a possible reason the mortality rates spiked in the dinosaur's teenage years, Erickson said.

``Love was a dangerous game for tyrannosaurs,'' he said. ``Some animals today will often have combat and that can be lethal.''

Even T. rex struggled with midlife crisis

Study charts dinosaur survival rates

The living was easy for young tyrannosaurs

For Tyrannosaurs, Teen Years Were Murder

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