MC—Every citizen’s individual rights here are protected. Every citizen here is required to behave in a civilized manner in public, which I fully thankfully agree with because it preserved and protects every single person’s freedom and rights in the society. That’s a really good place to live if you ask me. You have NO SUCH PROTECTION of your individual rights in the United States.

There is a straightforward law here in China that every country should have and should enforce.

Feel free down in comments to talk about why you might disagree.

The US has this law too but no longer enforces it…it’s called disturbing the peace…and that includes that no person is allowed to publicly mock, slander, abuse, block traffic, threaten, harass, accuse any other person in public, creating a nuisance disturbing and violating EVERYONE ELSE’S freedom and rights.

This law protects and includes any citizen, your grandmother, your jerk neighbor, your crazy ex, any business man or politician you claim is a jerk, corrupt or owes you.

It doesn’t matter who you are in China…you are not allowed to disturb the peace in public and disturb the life of any other person in public. In other words, everyone’s rights are protected from being violated. That’s a fabulous proper law that protects everyone and every country should have it.

BL—Different theorists of nations disagree over the relationship between nations and nationalism. Most argue that nation-states came first and nationalism develops out of that later. Dugin sides with Ernst Gellner who insists that nationalism is not a consequence of the existence of a nation, but that a nation itself can emerge from the political propaganda of nationalism. For Gellner and Dugin, nationalism invents the nation but still smuggles in ethnos and Narod forms of attachment as a foundation while at the same time nationalists try to suppress ethnos and Narod forms of attachments.

BN/GER—Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire, with the IPO of his company SpaceX. He is a symbol of how the United States has become an oligarchy, where elections are bought by rich elites and large corporations, and extreme wealth is concentrated in a few hands. Ben Norton explains.

JM—Although I am not aware of any definitive intelligence on force disposition, my sense is that the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked on the USS Tripoli would be assigned to assault Chabahar; the 82nd Airborne would launch from Kuwait, and various special forces units will join with Kurdish allies to launch from Kurdistan.

An attempted seizure of Kharg Island is the stupidest of the three potential objectives, and probably the least likely.

EZ—America’s Richest Ruin: The Fall of Los Angeles | ENDEVR Documentary” is a superb documentary about the reality of Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city after NYC, and it’s shown as being a place where there is enormous spatio-income segregation, and the super-rich are optimistic and the very poor are desperate, and rarely do the two get any real opportunity to intermix.