>Speaking of Pacifica, I did a program on it this
>a.m. on taxes. They (Verna A.B. and some guy)
>included three (3) wingnuts favoring
>a national retail sales tax, including a dude named
>"Jabari" who said it would "Free D.C." from the man's
>yoke. I was so shocked at the lineup I nearly had
>an aneurysm.
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Maybe he was a 'revolutionary' as opposed to a progressive reformist and
favored the maoist or RCP notion of sparking the working class into chaotic
behavior by favoring things getting so bad, such as when the day after they
did that widespread barter and price dishonesty would break out, and the
military and social security wouldn't get enough funding.
Anyway, who reads Rolling Stone? Someone explained to me once that CNN/Fox News and many of the free newsweeklies such as SF Bay Guardian have average readers of age 55, who have money but are less susceptible to advertising than poorer teens, so they would do things like having unfolded flat papers which youth favor rather than folded newspaper format. I couldn't guess where Rolling STone would be http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?rnd=1113445290120&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872 but someone who was writing about their love of cars last week forwarded this along. My mother lived through starvation, so I wouldn't always be an optimist - this could happen...... But this guy is being awfully specific about the Long Emergency here. In the southeast, people will shoot each other, while the west will mostly be about water. He is wrong about New York. Wealthy people, at the last minute despite how unconcerned they were previously, would easily be able to buy up expensive alternative energy devices and land, and also would have money to buy scarce food and energy for big buildings which are actually much more efficient than a design that takes up more ground space. People with farms did win out during WWII, but that isn't what will make big cities worse than medium cities.
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