Also, I'm headed straight to Worm Saloon, per that advice!

Really is a classic tune

Hey Farhad! Thank you for saving my Persepolis video! I knew it was a longshot, a French-language film about an Iranian girl!

Hey I come back to the Arundhati Roy video from time to time. For me, what's most important about it is that she speaks to nationalism, and to flags as idols. I don't necessarily bite when it comes to the belief that capitalism or corporations are invariably evil actors, and I'm always pretty critical and independent in my views, so I'm not completely aligned with Roy (or anyone!).

But it's seldom that that criticism is voiced so well, seldom if ever. That flags, that the way people make their own identities, can screw up their moral sense. That any localized morality fails, and that national identity is just a way of making an "other" of your neighbor, so it's easier to kill or exploit him--that's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Like: "150 dead in plane crash, including two Americans"--as if the 148 others were of lesser relevance. It's the language that screws up our perception.

Hey that's long winded. Anyway cheers, thanks for the save, and again for the AR video.

Wait. If that's an orange... Jews?!

lolwut

People just see what they want to see, I guess. This guy blames George Schulz for making a rightwinger out of Netanyahu, rather than the high-profile death of Netanyahu's bro in the counterterrorist operation Entebbe.

He suggests that the Mossad contributed with Sheik Rahman to the 1993 WTC bombing, and yet Rahman and the terrorists who attacked WTC in 1993 had also murdered Jewish nationalist Meir Kahane in NY in 1990. So the Mossad was helping out an anti-Israeli group that had killed at least one (probably plenty) of Israeli nationals? Hey, it's possible!

It's just terribly unlikely, and much of the case he is making is made by distortion and omission.

HERO

Epic win

Wow. Finally. Outstanding.

OMG he is right.

So slick.

Thanks, servus! It quite weirded me out that I was so clueless what language it was!

What language is that subtitle??

Cute kids. Cute vid.

The kicker's reaction afterwards is golden.

It's not just "powerful individuals" who favor "globalism".

NAFTA is good. A highway from Mexico to Canada sounds great to me. Super-duper highspeed gas-free bullet train would be even better! Why are Mexicans dying in the desert to get to America? Because some people insist on halting capitalistic opportunity at the southern border to the exclusion of the other, whose mere existence allegedly "threatens our sovereignty".

Wealth is created when capitalism is permitted to function, and it is destroyed when barriers are erected to impede it. The ambiguous term "globalism" seems to me a xenophobic term of attack on equal-opportunity capitalism.

Would Paul maintain price controls on milk that subsidize US farmers, in the name of US sovereignty? Because there are plenty of people south of the border interested in producing milk at lower cost, at actual honest market value and without government intervention, whose utter exclusion exemplifies the real cause of the "border problem".

We pay more to US dairy farmers for their products than the products are worth. Then we pay to police the border. If Mexico was permitted to participate in the market in the first place, we'd pay neither, and we'd actually be addressing, finally, the real "border problem": the problem of anti-capitalism, the problem of exclusion and control.

I am a long-winded f'er. But wow, Paul suggested a NAFTA train would make immigration from Mexico worse, and I see the opposite. It would mean more jobs in Mexico, more participation and thus more wealth in the world, while addressing the true immigration problem, which is economic closedness rather than physical openness.

And ice cream would be cheaper. Mmmm...