an eyewitness account of the food crisis going on in Haiti, the riots and violence surrounding it, and some of the contributing factors involved.

Quoted: Prospery Raymond, Christian Aid's country representative in Haiti, reports on the island's food riots.

this is a better intro to Pasoda's UFO-Nuclear War-Trotskyist Marxism.

I just decided that i should write my dissertation on this guy.

it also just occurred to me that the wealthy ubermenchian character in the novel The Watchmen kinda resembles this ideologically...on some levels...minus the Marxism.

some crazy/ridiculous quotes:

“Atomic war is inevitable. It will destroy half of humanity: it is going to destroy immense human riches. It is very possible. The atomic war is going to provoke a true inferno on Earth. But it will not impede Communism.”

“Nuclear war [equals] revolutionary war. It will damage humanity but it will not – it cannot – destroy the level of consciousness reached by it… Humanity will pass quickly through a nuclear war into a new human society – Socialism.”

"China “should launch the war now… they call upon the masses of the world to take power now”, he declared in the European Marxist Review of 1968. He saw Soviet preparation for war as being “accompanied for support for the revolution. Thus, every button they press is part of the progress of history.”

“WE SALUTE THE LAUNCHING OF THE CHINESE MISSILE WITH AN ATOMIC WARHEAD, AS A GREAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE OF THE WORKERS’ STATE AND A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WORLD MASSES.”

Just as Trotsky rejected “socialism in one country”, so Posada rejected socialism on one planet.

"humans will disappear to be replaced by something else; that humans will ultimately reproduce asexually like amœbæ"

etc etc

read this, it's amazing.

whoa.

Quoted: An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.

(see prev dot)

hmm, seems some labels aren't playing along....

as an aside, and while this is not surprising, it seems to be a sad but true fact that the discipline of Marketing is emerging more and more rapidly as the dominant capital-generating force in modern capitalism. i note this simply as I am impressed at the significance of the turn this q-trax represents...it signals the possibility that the multi-billion dollar recording industry could completely bend over and take it in the ass, and simultaneously walk away with almost exactly the same profit margins, simply by (and here's the shift i'm pointing to) BECOMING (or rather begin integrated into / reterritorialised onto) the advertising industry, which would assume all the capital-generating machines once assigned to the purchasing of music.

impressive.

Quoted: Three major record labels deny signing deals allowing their music to feature on a free file-sharing website.