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Blood & Treasure http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/ occasionally bombarding the headquarters in an irregular manner en-US 2014-11-26T00:40:36+00:00 in the time of the Kippers http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/in-the-time-of-the-kippers.html I'll be blogging properly again soon, maybe, but in the meanwhile enjoy this: In the run-up to the London Olympics, which cost the taxpayer $40 billion he doesn't have and, in the curious metric of government accounting, was accordingly dubbed...
I'll be blogging properly again soon, maybe, but in the meanwhile enjoy this:

In the run-up to the London Olympics, which cost the taxpayer $40 billion he doesn't have and, in the curious metric of government accounting, was accordingly dubbed a "success," Mr. Shrimpton, who has peculiar friends in highish places, got wind of a plot to sail a redundant German submarine carrying a second-hand nuclear weapon up one of the rivers in the southeast of England and then to detonate it during the opening ceremony.

 jamie k 2014-11-26T00:40:36+00:00 the protest market http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/the-protest-market.html Here's Western virtual politics: The protesters were very on-message for Fusion's event, a gathering of young activists from around the world under the "Rise Up" brand the cable channel — a joint-venture between Disney-owned ABC and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision —...
Here's Western virtual politics:

The protesters were very on-message for Fusion's event, a gathering of young activists from around the world under the "Rise Up" brand the cable channel — a joint-venture between Disney-owned ABC and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision — has been attaching to its coverage of protest movements around the world. They raised signs saying "Millennials think you're a war hawk" — a nod to Fusion's self-declared target demographic — while one yelled "we're here to rise up."

Samantha Power, welcome to the world you made. And who will Russell's Brand be sponsored by?
 jamie k 2014-11-20T00:55:23+00:00 so, so wrong http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/so-so-wrong.html I take it you've all heard the latest example of China's vibrant popular culture, which is the most inane novelty record you ever heard by someone deep into methamphetamines. Anyway, give it a listen. You'll stop crying eventually. It's by...
I take it you've all heard the latest example of China's vibrant popular culture, which is the most inane novelty record you ever heard by someone deep into methamphetamines. Anyway, give it a listen. You'll stop crying eventually.

It's by established Mandopop star Wang Rong, who seems have become 'Wang Rong Rollin' in Western accounts. My guess here is that she decided to give herself the English name Rollin Wang and that the whole name got transliterated in the Chinese style, with surname first and given name last. So Rollin Wang Rong became Wang Rong Rollin. Some background on her here.

Of course the first thing that occurs to you is that this ditty hardly conforms to Comrade Xi's instructions to cultural and art workers. She does something to human souls in that song, but I don't think it qualifies as engineering.

But last year she did a patriotic novelty anthem about the eternal justice of China's claim to the Daioyu/Senkaku islands, so I think she's covered. Feel your heart swell as you listen to it over here. Maybe China and Japan could sort this whole East China Sea thing with a Kawaii-off.

 jamie k 2014-11-17T21:13:25+00:00 big fat fly http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/big-fat-fly.html Section chief is the lowest position of authority in the Chinese official system; the lance-corporals of Chinese communism. Which adds mystery to the current corruption scandal wowing China: Even with seemingly intense competition, though, one lowly official appears to be...
Section chief is the lowest position of authority in the Chinese official system; the lance-corporals of Chinese communism. Which adds mystery to the current corruption scandal wowing China:

Even with seemingly intense competition, though, one lowly official appears to be in a class of his own. If state news reports are to be believed, investigators found 120 million renminbi, or $19.6 million, in cash in his home. As well as 37 kilograms, or 81.6 pounds, of gold. And ownership documents for 68 homes.

 Thus did Ma Chaoqun furnish his modest abode in Hebei province, apparently with the illicit takings available to a very junior manager in the Urban Management bureau of the city of Qinhuangdao. There is much speculation about how he managed to make that sort of money, with some of it focusing on Ma's role in supplying water to the top leaders resort compound at Beidaihe.

It seems to me that the obvious answer here is that Ma is in fact a professional criminal who operated under cover of a no-show job with the local authority, in the manner of Henry Hill of Wiseguy fame. So the official  corruption nexis here maybe concerns how he managed to wangle that.
 jamie k 2014-11-13T14:47:17+00:00 on the Hong Kong selectorate http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/on-the-hong-kong-selectorate.html Beijing probably hoped that post 1997 would produce a local version of Lee Kwan-yew, a pro-business authoritarian capable of forging a genuinely strong corporate identity for the city. In the current protest environment it could use a Nixon manqué, working...

Beijing probably hoped that post 1997 would produce a local version of Lee Kwan-yew, a pro-business authoritarian capable of forging a genuinely strong corporate identity for the city. In the current protest environment it could use a Nixon manqué, working to forge a populist conservative backlash against the demonstrators. What it has in CY Leung and friends is a sort of Cantonese Yanukovych-lite, too greedy and stupid to keep the show on the road.

Me over at New Left Project; just in case your appetite for Umbrella movement related chin stroking is not yet sated.
 jamie k 2014-11-10T16:09:47+00:00 Taizong's hell http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/taizongs-hell.html I was going to do some work this afternoon, but instead I find myself fixated on this wonderful collection of annotated Chinese hell scrolls instead. I will no doubt be boiled in my own vomit for this malfeasance. But what...
I was going to do some work this afternoon, but instead I find myself fixated on this wonderful collection of annotated Chinese hell scrolls instead. I will no doubt be boiled in my own vomit for this malfeasance. But what can a chap do?

via Brendan O'Kane on twitter.
 jamie k 2014-11-05T14:25:13+00:00 Perlstein in Hong Kong http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/11/perlstein-in-hong-kong.html Roland Soong of ESWN is back after a long hiatus, with a long, immersive stats & sociology rich post on the overall impact of the Occupy movement in Hong Kong. Here we see that the outreach element isn't going so...
Roland Soong of ESWN is back after a long hiatus, with a long, immersive stats & sociology rich post on the overall impact of the Occupy movement in Hong Kong. Here we see that the outreach element isn't going so well:

Why did the Occupy movement work in Central, Admiralty, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui and Mongkok but not in the outlying local communities?  Central, Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui are commerce/business districts without many local residents.  When a large number of demonstrators are mobilized by organized effort or spontaneously from all over Hong Kong to converge there, there is little or no local resistance.  The issue is whether the demonstrators can be motivated to stay for a long period of time.  When the numbers dwindle close to naught, the location can be cleared by the police.  Mongkok is a mixed district with many businesses and private residences.  The Occupy movement worked there by gathering sufficient numbers of demonstrators (if not during the day, then at night) to ward off the unorganized local resistance.  In like manner, they can also "occupy" Repulse Bay, Victoria Peak, Stanley and other sparsely inhabited locations.  But the outlying communities (such as Yuen Long, Shum Shui Po, Chai Wan and Lam Tin) are densely populated low- and middle-income areas.  Sending less than half a dozen activists to set up a table to pass out leaflets for school boycott is like sending the Christians out to feed the lions.

So how does the Occupy Central movement spread its message in the outlying local communities?  Well, they can start by not talking about highfalutin ideas such as civil disobedience, court injunctions, chief executive nomination committee or Basic Law amendments.  That housewife on the Lam Tin pedestrian overpass is most concerned about business turning bad, her work hours being cut back and hence reducing her income which is needed to buy food to feed the family.  How do they allay the fears, concerns and practical hardship of this woman?  If they can't deal with that in an effective manner, they will be routed each time within minutes that they go out there.

As mentioned in previous posts, lots of potential here for Nixonian backlash politics, which, interestingly enough, the Hong Kong government has so far failed to mobilise. This says something about the current impasse. The Occupiers share the Hong Kong pan-democrats historic failure to explain what it is they wish to be democratic about, ie to tell working class Hong Kong why a meaningful vote might give it more economic security. The tycoonocracy, meanwhile, seems reluctant to use the political technology it has in the form of the DAB to forge a populist consensus around the status quo, perhaps because that would give working class Hong Kong a bit too much power for its taste.
 jamie k 2014-11-04T22:42:23+00:00 brains of a chicken http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/brains-of-a-chicken.html Attilio Bolzano's White Shotgun tells the story of the Sicilian Mafia in its own words, words taken from bugged conversations, trancripts of pentiti confessions, recordings from the proceedings of maxi-tirals, media interviews and suchlike. It spans the period from the...
Attilio Bolzano's White Shotgun tells the story of the Sicilian Mafia in its own words, words taken from bugged conversations, trancripts of pentiti confessions, recordings from the proceedings of maxi-tirals, media interviews and suchlike. It spans the period from the Mafia civil war of the early eighties to Toto Riina's bizarre attempt to make war on the Italian state in the mid 90's, a move which revealed that the Italian state could move decisively against the Cosa Nostra when it felt its core interests under threat.

Since many of the words used by Mafiosi are lies and evasions, it's often difficult to get a clear picture of what is actually going on at any given point in time. But if Mafiaspeak is unclear, it is often evocative. Asked why a colleague never rose through the family ranks, for instance, one underboss commented that the man concerned "shoots like a God, but has the brains of a chicken", a wonderfully disturbing image.

Anyway, what I want to share with you here is a list of the items found in the hideaway of the last big Mafia boss, Bernardo "The tractor" Provenzano, by the Carabinieri unit that arrested him, to wit:

Three paper holy pictures showing Madonna of Sorrows Sanctuary Corleone; one paper holy picture showing Madonna of Grace of Corleone; one painting in a brown wooden frame captioned Weeping Madonna of Syracuse; one small painting, unframed, with the caption Madonna Queen of Hearts; two holy pictures showing Madonna of the Rosary of Tagliava; seventy three holy pictures showing Christ with the caption 'Jesus, I trust in You'.

Additionally

One CD player; the soundtrack of the Godfather Part Two; the album Songs of the Smurfs.

 jamie k 2014-10-29T21:32:49+00:00 putting the vice into vice chancellor http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/putting-the-vice-into-vice-chancellor.html Once more, China pursues modern thinking - in this case the idea that a campus is simply a captive market whose inmates can be pumped and dumped - to it's logical end point: A university campus hotel that operates a...
Once more, China pursues modern thinking  - in this case the idea that a campus is simply a captive market whose inmates can be pumped and dumped - to it's logical end point:

A university campus hotel that operates a barely disguised brothel and offers discounts to students for sexual services is allegedly owned by the head of the institution, according to a Chinese newspaper report.

Brothels do tend to crop up in danwei in various sectors where staff are tasked with putting their institution on a profitable footing, so its certainly a possibility that the boss didn't actually know about it, though it's also a strong possibility that he not only knew, but partook himself. At any rate, if he didn't know, I bet he wouldn't have been surprised to find out.
 jamie k 2014-10-28T21:29:43+00:00 those pesky kids http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/those-pesky-kids.html OK, I have an op-ed uo at the National about events in Hong Kong, the fact that the city is historically more poltically livekly than usually given credit for and successful non-violent protest as a force multiplier. Over here.
OK, I have an op-ed uo at the National about events in Hong Kong, the fact that the city is historically more poltically livekly than usually given credit for and successful non-violent protest as a force multiplier. Over here.
 jamie k 2014-10-25T16:55:48+01:00 where all roads lead http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/where-all-roads-lead.html From Anand Gopal's new book on Afghanistan: Dr. Hafizullah, Zurmat's first governor, had ended up in Guantanamo because he'd crossed Police Chief Mujahed. Mujahed wound up in Guantanamo because he crossed the Americans. Security chief Naim found himself in Guantanamo...
From Anand Gopal's new book on Afghanistan:

Dr. Hafizullah, Zurmat's first governor, had ended up in Guantanamo because he'd crossed Police Chief Mujahed. Mujahed wound up in Guantanamo because he crossed the Americans. Security chief Naim found himself in Guantanamo because of an old rivalry with Mullah Qassim. Qassim eluded capture, but an unfortunate soul with the same name ended up in Guantanamo in his place. And a subsequent feud left Samoud Khan, another pro-American commander, in Bagram prison, while the boy his men had sexually abused was shipped to Guantanamo….
Abdullah Khan found himself in Guantanamo charged with being Khairullah Khairkhwa, the former Taliban minister of the interior, which might have been more plausible—if Khairkhwa had not also been in Guantanamo at the time….

Inter alia, this is how we know that the US is not running the protest show in Hong Kong, as some like to assert. We know it because it hasn't gone horribly wrong. Things haven't escalated or got out of hand. No-one's dead. There are no US diplomats going round handing cookies to the demonstrators and no dubious think tanks pitching instant experts to the networks. Whatever local emnities are on show don't extend further than the type you get in extended families. Nothing is on the verge of either imploding or exploding. Things may just possibly end in a sensible compromise more or less acceptable to all sides. None of the signature characteristics of American intervention are present.
 jamie k 2014-10-23T21:22:08+01:00 rootless duckweeds http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/rootless-duckweeds.html If you want some wider context as to why people are still on the streets in Hong Kong, check out Xi Jinping's lengthy and extremely detailed guidance to authors and miscellaneous arts workers. It's worth reading in full, partly because...
If you want some wider context as to why people are still on the streets in Hong Kong, check out Xi Jinping's lengthy and extremely detailed guidance to authors and miscellaneous arts workers. It's worth reading in full, partly because some of his gripes about the crappy state of commercial culture are the kind of thing you hear everywhere, except that they're now crammed weirdly into a neo-Maoist schema and partly because as you plough through it you realise that this isn't the usual flap and doodle. He means this stuff, and means to do something about it. Oh, and this:

Xi Jinping pointed out that every age has a spirit of the age. Literature and art are the engineering project of casting souls, literature and art workers are engineers of the souls.

Now where have we seen that before?

In fairness I always thought that comment actually had some truth to it. A lot of writers and artists do consider themselves to be engineers of human souls. It's just that they also consider themselves to be self-employed.
 jamie k 2014-10-17T22:18:35+01:00 famine? teach the controversy! http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/famine-teach-the-controversy.html Here's a fascinating long piece on how, among other things, China is promoting revisionist views of the Great Leap forward famine as part of its general reassertion of the Party's beneficient role in modern Chinese history. The thing is that...
Here's a fascinating long piece on how, among other things, China is promoting revisionist views of the Great Leap forward famine as part of its general reassertion of the Party's beneficient role in modern Chinese history. The thing is that this is not your daddy's propaganda struggle, where the centre lays down the line and the rest parrots it.

Instead, as the author notes, we have something that resembles the climate change denial ramp. An eccentric amateur demographer is taken up by a fringe group. His work focuses on the least robust elements of the available dataset while ignoring the rest and is grounded in unfalsifiable assertions (in this case about urban/rural population movements). It is nevertheless laundered through official scholarship and spread by official journals as 'an important contribution to the debate' while the 'debate' itself is an artificially generated controversy. Can we really say what happened all those years ago? Who knows?  Scholars differ. Et cetera.

In the CPC lexicon this is familiar as a 'two line struggle' except that here the point is not to have an outcome but to purposely generate ambiguity. For Beijing, that amounts to an incredibly light touch but I guess it just goes to show how a forward looking dictatorship can pick up tricks of the modern authoritarian trade from all over.

On which point, now that the demonstrations in Hong Kong seem to have come to a pause, I think the thing to look out for is a serious attempt by the tycoonocracy to generate Nixon style backlash politics in Hong Kong, for which there is considerable potential. The people to watch here may be the DAB.
 jamie k 2014-10-08T18:20:12+01:00 making a spectacle http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/10/making-a-spectacle.html Hey, James has turned up in the Spectator, noting that Hong Kong is keeping the old Chinese spirit of righteous rebellion alive.
Hey, James has turned up in the Spectator, noting that Hong Kong is keeping the old Chinese spirit of righteous rebellion alive.
 jamie k 2014-10-02T16:39:45+01:00 always thinking of the little people http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/always-thinking-of-the-little-people.html This could be the Mail reporting on a London Tube strike. But no; it's China Daily reporting on Hong Kong protests: The daily lives of many people in Hong Kong have been disrupted by the blockades staged by protestors in...
This could be the Mail reporting on a London Tube strike. But no; it's China Daily reporting on Hong Kong protests:

The daily lives of many people in Hong Kong have been disrupted by the blockades staged by protestors in various districts — with more than 42 bus routes and some tram services suspended — as thousands of activists continue to occupy major roads in the central business area of the city.

...

Commuters faced traffic disruptions and had to spend more time getting to work, and needy patients had extra difficulties getting to hospitals for medical appointments.

Tong Siu-fung, 60, has had problems with her feet and her doctor suggested she not walk too fast.

"But I had to walk fast. I don't want to miss the appointment, because otherwise I will have to wait for another five months," said Tong.

"I understand that protesters have a point and they want to express their opinions. But you know who is suffering because they're blocking the road? The poor and the sick.

In fairness, the Mail would never have reported anyone saying that the protesters 'had a point'. Elsewhere, Ta Kung Pao:

covered the story of an elderly woman who supposedly could not see a sickly relative in her last moments because of traffic disruptions caused by the movement.

Beijing is obviously in the conservative position in regard to Hong Kong. But the sheer reflexive Toryness of its mouthpieces never ceases to amuse.

More generally, I called the deveopment of the protest wrong in my last post. What happened was that the cops stood down, and a further wave of protestors came to join their comrades on what are not so much barricades but complex impediments ultimately generated from a sense of real but civically expressed anger. The government district is basically now surrounded by protest clusters, and there are now two in Kowloon which neatly intersect with major shopping destinations and important road junctions ( this protest, incidentally, needs a far more comprehensive logistical analysis than I'm capable of providing).

As for Beijing, there's been lots of breathless stuff about what it will do, or must do, or could do, or is capable of doing - but what it's actually doing four days in appears to be 'nothing'. That may change after National day.
 jamie k 2014-09-30T21:22:45+01:00 concentration, dispersal & resistance in Hong Kong http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/concentration-dispersal-resistance-in-hong-kong.html The protesters are led by a group called Occupy Central... Always good to have Vox around to get something neatly wrong. Here's my crack at it, as much to clear my own head as anything else: Friday & Saturday's attempt...

The protesters are led by a group called Occupy Central...

Always good to have Vox around to get something neatly wrong. Here's my crack at it, as much to clear my own head as anything else:  Friday & Saturday's attempt to storm Hong Kong's government centre was not originally under the leadership of OccupyHK, but organised autonomously by high school and university students as the climax of a rolling series of events designed to publicise and promote the class boycott that students launched in protest against the political settlement imposed for the 2017 full-suffrage Hong Kong chief executive elections. The organisers are clearly aligned with Occupy HK's wider ideals, but their main leadership came from the Scholarism group, which was originally organised among students to protest, successfully, against attempts to impose 'patriotic education' on the curriculum a couple of years back.

Occupy HK offered the students tepid support at best; they have, in fact, been backing down somewhat since the 2017 settlement was imposed. They decided to have a symbolic occupation of the business district on October 1, for instance, precisely because it is a national holiday, so no business is being done on that day.

And yet as the standoff intensified on Saturday, Occupy suddenly woke up, turned up at the protest site, and at Midnight on Saturday, declared that Hong Kong was now officially Occupied. This may help explain the extremely messy nature of today's events. A good many of the students at the site didn't much like the appropriation of their moment and drifted away – others of course were simply unprepared for an open-ended peaceful seizure of important bits of real estate - enabling the police to establish a stronger cordon around government offices and place blocking detachments to prevent protesters concentrating. What seems to have happened today is that protestors – still mainly students, so far as I can tell – got as far as they could towards Central and then decided to simply occupy wherever they happened to be, also targeting dispersed 'sensitive' facilities, like the local PLA barracks.

There are now occupations in Central, SheungWan, Admiralty, WanChai & CausewayBay on Hong Kong Island and in MongKok in Kowloon. Cops are Kettling protestors. Protesters are surrounding cops. What the cops seem to be trying to do is use tear gas and baton rounds to widen their cordons and slowly push and barge demonstrators into one place, though I've no idea where that may be, also counting on people to leave as the night progresses.

The demonstrators demands include the resignation of the Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung and the renegotiation of the whole 2017 process. This, needless to say, is a bit of a tall order. What it seems to come down to at this point is brute numbers. If protesters can field enough to overwhelm the Hong Kong cops, then we're at the crisis point – and I really don't want to think where that may lead. If not, then the cops can slowly grind down the protesters, assuming they have the patience for that. If the demonstrators can come up with an alternative series of protest actions at this point that don't involve direct confrontation with the cops, then they can de-escalate while keeping the movement as a whole going.

Anyway, we'll see tomorrow.
 jamie k 2014-09-28T19:35:02+01:00 a 21st Century offering http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/a-21st-century-offering.html So last week, Market-Leninism reached its moment of synthesis: After the excitement of Friday's initial public offering, shares in Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, slipped back a bit on Monday. At the closing bell on Wall Street, the stock was...
So last week, Market-Leninism reached its moment of synthesis:

 After the excitement of Friday's initial public offering, shares in Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, slipped back a bit on Monday. At the closing bell on Wall Street, the stock was trading just below ninety dollars, down more than four per cent from its closing price on Friday. But that still left Alibaba's market capitalization above two hundred and twenty billion dollars, which means the market reckons that the company is more valuable than Facebook or Amazon.

 The business case for investment is that Alibaba and its various subsidiaries are the means by which millions of people in China buy and sell things to and from each other. The business case against involves things like opaque ownership structures, but these sound like quibbles compared to palpable levels of essentially political unease.

 The Chinese internet is arguably not only the most rigorously policed online environment in the world, but the most rigorously policed space full stop. An important element of the critique of Chinese internet management is that it crushes innovation, the free flow of ideas and hence the ability of local companies to develop and compete on the world stage and so on. Round these parts we've always considered this to be nonsense, but there it is, and moreover the internet-freedom-business-prosperity ideological quadrilateral is an essential component of the United States' general offer to the world.

Anyway, China's apparently stifling environment has now produced what investors in the NYSE have determined is the world's most valuable company. And in Jack Ma, it's also produced an entrepreneur in the classic mould, whose every babble and belch on mission and personal development and leadership and customer value and the rest of it is treated with Pavlovian flattery.

So China's comprehensive unfreedom has not only produced the most valuable company in the world's most happening sector, it has produced a 'business leader' of the sort usually considered an American archetype, and, more generally, as a characteristic product of freedom.

 Mr Ma does, naturally, have those famous Chinese characteristics. His personal philosophy might be as repellent as any business prophet, but gems like this:

 You are poor because you do not have the desire to become successful

You are poor because you lack foresight

You are poor because you cannot overcome your cowardice

You are poor because you lack the courage and determination.

aside from being a fairly standard part of the 'succeed and grow rich' school of homiletics, are also reminiscent of the kind of slogans that cadres used to paint on village walls during the early reform period. He is also on record as stating that the Tiananmen massacre was just the sort of decision that you'd expect a wise, tough-minded chief executive to take. I suspect this is a position fairly widely held in the wider Chinese business community; as we hear more from them, so we will hear more of it.

 Anyway, to recap: The repressive architecture of China has now developed the world's most valuable company. It consists of a vast pyramid of atomised small groups and individuals entirely bent on accumulation, without the distraction of competing ideas. A process of complete depoliticisation gets a ringing endorsement from investors via the New York Stock exchange. There's no clearer statement of where China wants to be in the world, and no more depressing evidence of its success.

 And just think of the appeal across both the political and business wings of the wider overclass. No distraction from competing political and economic ideas. No need to fund and generate thought that justifies existing hierarchies, or make electronic money transfers to ostensibly competing political parties. Just authority presiding serene and unchallenged over a striving pyramid of self-reliance. I may be exaggerating a bit, but I think China, through the agency of a billionaire Mark E Smith lookalike, may have just put its offer for the shape of the 21st century on the table.
 jamie k 2014-09-23T21:07:31+01:00 what they talk about when they talk about Scotland in China http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/what-they-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-scotland-in-china.html There's not been much chat about the Scottish referendum in the Sinosphere. On the other hand, since it's a non-controversial issue over there what chat there has been has gone unharmonized. Roundup over here. Excerpt: "Back when they were obstructing...
There's not been much chat about the Scottish referendum in the Sinosphere. On the other hand, since it's a non-controversial issue over there what chat there has been has gone unharmonized. Roundup over here. Excerpt:

"Back when they were obstructing Hong Kong's return, I bet they didn't think it would come to this," one user laughed, apparently referring to late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's negotiations with the Chinese over British divestiture of the colony. Another wrote that the U.K. "has followed behind America's ass advocating democracy, ultimately trying in vain to split other nations." Now, the user concluded, "It's coming back in your face."

Point out to a Chinese citizen that China was never technically colonized and you're likely to get the reply along the lines of 'we weren't the slave of one country, but the slave of all of them', which is why unity as a theme tends to resonate beyond official propaganda. In this context a country apparently in the process of officially dismantling itself while under no external duress at all is just baffling. Mind you, it's a bit puzzling to me here in Manchester.

More generally, I wonder what the overall political risk factor is in regard to a country which suddenly seems to be on the brink of falling apart for no apparent reason.  Even with the best will in the world you'd be a bit nervous about its basic functioning, in the same way you'd be nervous about driving through a neighborhood where gigantic sinkholes suddenly appear in the middle of the road.

Taiwan, of course, is entirely behind the Yes campaign. Or at least their animators are.
 jamie k 2014-09-18T15:49:40+01:00 orange and red http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/orange-and-red.html Watching the Orange Order parading round Edinburgh on TV today I wondered how you would explain this gorgeous sight to a Chinese citizen. "They're a loyalist, conservative, patriotic organisation." "Like the Communist Party!" "Well they're very pro-business" "Like the Communist...
Watching the Orange Order parading round Edinburgh on TV  today I wondered how you would explain this gorgeous sight to a Chinese citizen.

"They're a loyalist, conservative, patriotic organisation."

"Like the Communist Party!"

"Well they're very pro-business"

"Like the Communist Party!"

"They're the sort of group local businessmen join to get on the inside"

"Like the Communist Party!"

"In certain places, you can't get into government without joining them."

"Like the Communist Party!"

"They think they're defending the nation"

"Like the Communist Party!"

They're a bit like a secret society."

"Like the Communist Party!"

"They think colours have profound symbolic meaning."

"Like the Communist Party!"

"They proclaim this austere faith which doesn't seem to fit in with the modern world"

"Like the Communist Party!"

"But actually, they're quite corrupt and hypocritical"

"Like the Communist Party!"

"And they turn nasty if you oppose them"

"Like the Communist Party! What have they got on their heads?"

"Bowler hats. An obsolete form of clothing meant to represent loyalty to the established order."

"Like the  Zhongshan suit!"
 jamie k 2014-09-13T17:48:50+01:00 a believer in the obvious http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2014/09/a-believer-in-the-obvious.html Here's a great interview with political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky about Putin's political formation, done in 2011 but not published until now. Compared to the Dr Evil stuff floating around about him, which relies heavily on Dictator Gothic, it puts him...
Here's a great interview with political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky about Putin's political formation, done in 2011 but not published until now. Compared to the Dr Evil stuff floating around about him, which relies heavily on Dictator Gothic, it puts him in a kind of mainstream authoritarian tradition. Money is good. Power is good. So take them.

Putin is a Soviet person who did not draw lessons from the collapse of Russia. That is to say, he did learn lessons, but very pragmatic ones. He understood the coming of capitalism in a Soviet way. We were all taught that capitalism is a kingdom of demagogues, behind whom stands big money, and behind that, a military machine which aspires to control the whole world. It's a very clear, simple picture which I think Putin had in his head—not as an official ideology, but as a form of common sense. His thinking was that in the Soviet Union, we were idiots; we had tried to build a fair society when we should have been making money. If we had made more money than the western capitalists, we could have just bought them up, or we could have created a weapon which they didn't have. That's all there is to it. It was a game and we lost, because we didn't do several simple things: we didn't create our own class of capitalists, we didn't give the capitalist predators on our side a chance to develop and devour the capitalist predators on theirs.

I like the idea of Putinism as Sovietized "common sense". Maybe you can see a similar brand of unthinking at work in China's Hong Kong policies.
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Liquid Diet: Behind the Brew with Pretty ThingsтАЩ Dann and Martha Paquette
With their spring seasonal Fluffy White Rabbits newly released, hereтАЩs a behind-the-scenes look at BostonтАЩs darling indie brewers.
Dann (left) and Martha Paquette of Pretty Things. (All photos by Jeff Soyk for Boston┬аmagazine)
The hand-drawn labels on every bottle of Pretty Things depict a rogue cast of characters and a black sense of humor. Pink infants are swaddled in the branches of trees, a decapitated nun holds her smiling head, and a despondent Balaton cherry plays a flute high in the air. These are just one facet, typically outsourced, that the husband and wife duo of Dann and Martha Paquette have undertaken themselves on a shoestring budgetтАУand theyтАЩre not only striking, theyтАЩre surprisingly effective at alluding to whatтАЩs actually in the bottle. The term тАЬcraft beerтАЭ has become a large umbrella for everything produced outside of the three biggest corporate conglomerates, but Cambridge-based Pretty Things is truly an intimate endeavor, almost entirely overseen by a team of two, with a success story that contradicts every business convention. In advance of the release of their limited-edition spring seasonal, Fluffy White Rabbits, I spent the day observing the PaquettesтАЩ unique brewing process and learning of their idiosyncratic path to becoming the new face of the modern Massachusetts beer scene.
DannтАЩs dogged work ethic can actually be traced back to his first career as a production assistant on the television shows Preview and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Besides dodging the mercurial presence of Robin Leach, his main, weekly responsibility was to rush across New York in a black town car, take two sets of elevators to the top floor of the Empire State Building, race into a room with blown-out windows, and deliver a VHS tape to a chain-smoking technician so he could broadcast the newest episodes from its rooftop satellites. It was grueling work and a distant reality from his ambition of working on PBSтАЩs Frontline.
But that all changed one evening as he exited his office in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. Before he jumped into the black town car, he was doused by something from an upstairs window. The driver turned around, a disgusted look on his face, and asked what he was soaked in. The smell of ammonia tipped them off. Someone had dumped a loaded bedpan out the window and he was forced to finish his day shrouded in the aroma of stale urine.
Belgian and German-style beers had been a growing passion of DannтАЩs, and despite not having any experience, not even on a small-batch home brewing kit, he decided right then to test fate and put his future in the precarious hands of the emerging microbrewery scene.
Dann Paquette of Pretty Things with Harry Smith of Buzzards Bay Brewing. Dann starts brewing as early as 5 a.m. so that Buzzards Bay can┬аresume making their own products later in the afternoon.┬а
Fast-forward 22 years of brewing later, and DannтАЩs age and the stress of some bad business deals are beginning to show in his salt-and-pepper hair, coiffed like Morrissey circa Vauxhall and I. HeтАЩs had stints at John HarvardтАЩs, North East Brewing Co., and even several abroad in England. The main target in DannтАЩs jokes is usually himself, and he laughs when he tells me that most of his previous employers have since gone out of business. But there is one relic from his past that makes him taciturn and visibly upsetтАФConcord-based Rapscallion Brewery.
тАЬI normally never talk about Rapscallion,тАЭ says Dann. тАЬI dwell on it too much. Just last night I┬аwas laying awake and I┬аwas wondering when IтАЩd stop thinking about Rapscallion.тАЭ
In 2000, Dann was hired as head brewer at Concord Brewing Co., but he found his creative release in a new line of beersтАФcalled RapscallionтАФthat would focus on the emerging trend of strong ales inspired by the Belgian Trappist tradition. The devil, the label designs, the original recipes; Dann says they were all his ideas. Rapscallion was the original Pretty Things, and for a year and a half he didn't take a paycheck. He went as far as to live in the brewery to help it get off the ground. So when the majority owners sold the business, he was not only unemployed, he was homeless.
тАЬRapscallion was awful,тАЭ says Dann. тАЬInstead of renting someone elseтАЩs brewery,┬аI┬аsettled in there. The people who owned it just screwed everything up. They took down the brand. They took it out of my hands and they sold it and I┬аnever got any money for it.тАЭ
тАЬThat was his baby,тАЭ says his wife, Martha Holley-Paquette, who is also his business partner at Pretty Things. тАЬIt was his idea, but he didnтАЩt have any money. He had business partners whom he had to walk away from. I┬аthink he needed that to get on to Pretty Things, though. You have to have a solid failure before you can succeed.тАЭ
That now familiar┬аimage of┬аa white tree embossed on a red crest was hanging in┬аMartha's home when the couple first started dating. It was a vintage pattern┬аembroidered by Martha's grandmother┬аas a child┬аin 1910. Dann loved it and swore he would use it for his next┬аbrewery logo.
For Dann, the one silver lining in this epoch was meeting Martha, who was then a postdoctoral student at Harvard. On their second date, he picked her up at her house and saw a picture hanging in┬аthe hall of a white tree encompassed by a red crest. He was enamored with it, especially when┬аMartha explained that her grandmother embroidered it in Yorkshire around 1910. Dann boldly claimed, тАЬThat will be our logo for our new brewery.тАЭ
They immediately fell for each other, and Martha, more than willing to abandon her research on venereal diseases, took Dann back to her home in England. There he found work at Daleside Brewery in Harrogate, Yorkshire. тАЬThereтАЩs nothing else that I┬аcan do,тАЭ says Dann. тАЬIf I┬аweren't brewing IтАЩd probably be doing odd jobs like data entry or something. IтАЩve spent my whole life doing this.тАЭ
At Pretty Things, Dann and Martha handle everything from brewing, to marketing,┬аto distributor management. Even the labels are designed by the couple.
They returned to Boston in 2008 and spent what little money they had left to brew a 50-gallon batch of beer. It was an American Saison, later named Jack DтАЩOr, inspired by Saison Dupont and Taras Boulba from Brasserie de la Senne. The lingering question was how to get something off the ground while retaining creative control. It had to be a profitable operation with room for growth and not just some garage project, or what Dann refers to as a тАЬtin-pan brewery.тАЭ Beneath his cynical veneer, DannтАЩs a bit of a sentimentalist who has always dreamed of buying one of the old 19th-century brew houses that line Washington Ave. and Roxbury. ThereтАЩs even one heтАЩs kept his eye on for years: the old Frank Jones Brewery in South Boston.
But without the capital to invest in a piece of architectural history, let alone the necessary stainless steel tanks and equipment, the Paquettes turned to an old friend, Bill Russell, owner of Buzzards Bay Brewing.
Buzzards Bay Brewing is located in the rural community of Westport, Mass. It's also the home┬аof "gypsy" brewers Dann and Martha Paquette of Pretty Things.
Buzzards Bay is nestled in the small farming community of Westport, where it was once a thriving commercial brewery. At its height, they were pumping out three times as much beer as Pretty Things is today. But Bill became exhausted by the crippling production demands and sold the brand to spend more time at his sparkling wine facility. Even now, after heтАЩs bought back the name, he tends to spend more time among the rows of Chardonnay and Riesling grapes just a mile up the road. Martha and Dann were welcomed in to offset some of the costs of Buzzards BayтАЩs sporadic brewing schedule, Pretty Things took root, and the itinerant, or тАЬgypsy brewer,тАЭ movement began.
┬аMartha Paquette milling American pale malt and some different┬аWeyerman malts for the mash of their spring seasonal, Fluffy White Rabbits Hoppy Triple.
Besides Jack DтАЩOr, Pretty Things is now responsible for a number of eclectic brews that have become as ubiquitous as any from the staid old Boston guard. ThereтАЩs Baby Tree, a stout Quadruple with plenty of dark-fruit character derived from the addition of dried California plums, a bock-like brown lager named Lovely Saint Winefride, and their just-released spring seasonal, Fluffy White Rabbits, a citrusy Tripel brewed with three types of hops. Perhaps the greatest testament to DannтАЩs skills as a brewer though, is obvious in his Once Upon A Time series. Along with Dutch beer historian Ron Pattinson, he recreates historical recipes like the 1855 East India Porter, which dates back to a brew sheet snagged from LondonтАЩs Barclay Perkins Brewery. Dann has brewed seven different ales from the Victorian period and they've all been met with predictable fanfare from bars and beer nerds. They suggest a confidence and a freedom of experimentation that only comes with some established success, something that has proved elusive in DannтАЩs transient career.
Pretty Things is currently responsible for 80-90 percent of the brewing coming out of Buzzards Bay, and theyтАЩre still growing. But the Paquettes know there will be a day, maybe even within the next couple years, when their friend Bill Russell decides he wants to reinvest himself in the beer business. And thatтАЩs when things become dicey. Or as Martha so succinctly puts it, тАЬWeтАЩll be screwed.тАЭ
тАЬThe novelty of it is cool, but the reality is that thereтАЩs no longevity to it,тАЭ says Dann. тАЬWe kind of just blow with the wind. If we were still here in five years, IтАЩd be shocked. As soon as this brewery decides they want to make their own beer again, it could make three or four times what weтАЩre able to pay as renters."
Inside┬аthe┬аjoint┬аbrewing space┬аof Pretty Things and Buzzards Bay Brewing. The future of their arrangement is uncertain. "If we were still here in five years, IтАЩd be shocked," Dann says.
Investors constantly approach Dann about raising the capital for a permanent home for Pretty Things, but the memory of what happened at Concord Brewing will always be a needling admonition. He predicts that it would take three million dollars just to replicate their current model, which isn't profitable without necessary investments in labor and a bottling line. As estimates climb, the future of Pretty Things becomes hazier.
тАЬWhat we do generates enough money to do what we do and pay ourselves, but we donтАЩt have this cache of savings that we can dip into. We could potentially be 2% owners. IтАЩm used to being given 2% ownership when I┬аcome onto a brewery, just to get some equity in the business. So I┬аknow exactly what that means. ItтАЩs a joke. So we canтАЩt do it. ItтАЩs a win-the-lottery situation for us,тАЭ he says.
Dann also acknowledges he can be quite the curmudgeon. He likes the loner aspect of his profession and he canтАЩt imagine handing over the reigns of Head Brewer. He clearly enjoys the process and he has definitive opinions about how his beer should taste. Most brewers donтАЩt mess with their flagship product, but heтАЩs changed the recipe for Jack DтАЩOr a number of times. ThereтАЩs a dryness that has eluded him and it nagged him to the point where last month, he completely overhauled the beer. тАЬTo be fair,тАЭ Dann tells me, тАЬThe first thing that would happen if we built a brewery is that I┬аwould have to be a supervisor and I┬аwouldn't be doing what I┬аlove. ThatтАЩs the key.тАЭ
Dann is an admitted perfectionist who has even overhauled his flagship beer, Jack D'Or. One of the reasons he hasn't accepted any outside investment is because he doesn't want to relinquish control of the brewing process.
The name Pretty Things comes from one of DannтАЩs favorite bands, a тАЩ60s-era Brit group very much in the vein of The Kinks or The Zombies. Unfortunately, they were doomed to obscurity when their manager insisted they tour Australia instead of the U.S. at the height of the British Invasion. Pretty Things essentially became a cult phenomenon enjoyed mostly in their native land, and only for a short window of time. ItтАЩs hard not to see that as a strange harbinger for DannтАЩs gypsy brewery.
When asked about its fate, he says, тАЬItтАЩs alright! This has been really good. If nothing else itтАЩs been an amazing four years. Maybe weтАЩll do it eight years or ten years. EveryoneтАЩs saying, тАШYouтАЩre going to be big some day.тАЩ No, weтАЩre not going to be big. WeтАЩre as big as weтАЩre going to get. Enjoy it now.тАЭ
Source URL: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/blog/2013/03/18/liquid-diet-pretty-things-dann-martha-paquette/


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The timing couldn't be any better.
Its sister establishment on the Upper West Side will also shutter.
The long-standing craze for egg whites has taken an abrupt step in the opposite direction.
This piece of meat goes straight from the tandoori oven into the stratosphere.
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December 5 is its last day.
It's made with a bunch of stuff from his home state of Michigan, like cherries and Vernors ginger ale. How sweet.
Hell yes, gratin dauphinois.
Say good-bye to the salmon cannelloni, probably, on January 1.
The paper admits it may have missed the mark this time.
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With Meyer Sound Constellation, San Francisco Exploratorium Looks to Educate Science of Sound
Billed by the New York Times as âthe most important science museum to have opened since the mid-20th century,â San Franciscoâs Exploratorium has recently opened its new multidisciplinary theatre, the Kanbar Forum. To fully support its programming diversity and inspire original works of multimedia art, the Exploratorium has become the first museum facility to install a Constellation® acoustic system, supplemented with a palette of other audio tools from Meyer Sound.
Installed in more than 50 venues worldwide, Constellation is a technology that allows venues to alter a roomâs acoustics from an intimate recital hall to a vast cathedral with the push of a button. One of Kanbar Forumâs first programs to take advantage of Constellation is a live performance series named Resonance.
âWeâre very excited about exploring the Constellation systemâs potential for both artists and scientists,â says Nicole Minor, the Exploratoriumâs manager of moving images. âWeâve only scratched the surface of what we can do with it. I expect weâll be able to develop an entirely new breadth of work focused on both the art and the science of sound.â
Constellation has impressed both staff and visitors at the Exploratorium. âAs part of his Full-Spectrum Science series, our Staff Scientist Ron Hipschman has been demonstrating Constellation in his talks,â says Minor. âSwitching through the presets, he elicits âoohsâ and âaahsâ with just his voice and handclaps when the audience experiences the startling, yet natural acoustical effects.â
Constellation is built on Meyer Soundâs patented VRAS⢠acoustical algorithm. The configuration in Kanbar Forum features 12 distributed microphones and more than 90 loudspeakers, including Stella-4C installation loudspeakers, MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers, UP-4XP 48 V loudspeakers, and MM-10XP 48V subwoofers.
The Kanbar Forumâs expansive audio toolbox also includes SpaceMap® multichannel panning, a technology that allows sound designers to fly sounds through space. SpaceMap is used in Fathom, a sound installation by Shane Myrbeck and Emily Shisko as part of the series Soundscapes.
A sound reinforcement loudspeaker system in the venue features UPQ-2P and MM-4XP loudspeakers, UPJ-1P and UPJunior⢠VariO⢠loudspeakers, and 600-HP subwoofers with a Galileo® loudspeaker management system.
The Exploratoriumâs Executive Associate Director Ron Semper and renowned multimedia pioneer Kristina Woolsey conceived the audio systems in the Kanbar Forum. System design specifics were developed by Phil Bailey of systems integrator BBI Engineering, in consultation with theatrical design firm The Shalleck Collaborative.
"It took a great deal of effort by a lot of dedicated people to create a room that looks so deceptively simple, yet has the potential for such a variety of uses,â says Adam Shalleck, principal and president of The Shalleck Collaborative. âAll parties worked together to ensure that the Kanbarâs technical and aesthetic elements fit in with the Exploratoriumâs vision."
While the Kanbar Forum stands out as a technology showcase, more than 120 additional Meyer Sound loudspeakers are installed in 11 other locations around the Exploratorium, including the Webcast Studio, the Bay Observatory Gallery, the Outdoor Exploratorium plaza, The Retail Store, conference rooms, and classrooms. These spaces feature 12 different loudspeaker models, ranging from the discreet MM-4XP loudspeaker to the 700-HP subwoofer.
Established by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium was originally located in San Franciscoâs Palace of Fine Arts. The museum moved to expanded and technologically enhanced facilities at Piers 15 and 17 on the San Francisco waterfront in 2013. The new Exploratorium was designed by EHDD.
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Can someone edit this ridiculous article?[edit]
There emerged a daughter?????????????????????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 21:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Done
From the article: "The Republic differed from fascism in that it did not promote aggressive war but only defensive war."
Unfortunately, this is not true. One of the very premises of the republic is Glaucon's insistence on a luxurious state, which is achieved through robbery from neighbouring states. The above sentence should be deleted from the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 19:07, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
He had was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, and had his children baptized, what does that make him? On a side note, the Christian apologists trying to revise history and say he was atheist, how does it make the church look that he had to PRETEND to be Catholic to do what he did? He was obviously Catholic. The source that says he's an atheist simply says D.M. Smith, 1982. It doesn't even give the name of the book. Those should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 00:28, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Mussolini was effective LEADER of the PSI[edit]
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I was slightly shocked to discover that Mussolini's Leadership of the PSI (1912-1914) is not included in this biography. He was not just a member of the PSI, he was the leading member of the Party Directorate after being elected at the Congress of Reggio Emilia in 1912.
"Mussolini's efforts, as Party Leader and editor of Avanti!, brought considerable success for Italian Socialism." page 136. Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism By Anthony James Gregor, University of California Press, 1 Jan 1979
At the age of 29 Musssolini was an out and out Marxist and Revolutionary Socialist.
"In 1912, aged twenty-nine, and still young-looking, thin, stern, with large, dark, luminous eyes, he took over the Italian Socialist Party at the Congress of Reggio Emilia, by insisting that socialism must be Marxist, thoroughgoing, internationalist, uncompromising. Lenin, reporting the congress for Pravda (15 July 1912), rejoiced: 'The party of the Italian socialist proletariat has taken the right path.'" Paul Johnson. 1983. Modern Times. Harper Collins. p.57 http://archive.org/stream/ModernTimes_305/42024947-19032115-Johnson-Paul-Modern-Times-the-World-From-the-Twenties-to-the-Nineties-Revised-Edition-Harper-Collins-1991_djvu.txt
"On July 7, 1912, the Italian Socialist Party opened its thirteenth national congress in Reggio Emilia. Participating as an almost unknown delegate from the Forlì province, Mussolini emerged from the congress with a personal success and an appointment to the national leadership of the party."
Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta. Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997 1997. http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/religion.occult.new_age/occult.conspiracy.and.related/Falasca-Zamponi,%20Simonetta%20-%20Fascist%20Spectacle.pdf
How can you just say he was a mere member of the Italian Soialist Party? He was on the National Directorate and de facto leader!
You might be interested that Mussolini set up the Lugano Conference in 1914 that led to the re-invigoration of the Socialist International http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oUnkIgf2aH0C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=lugano+conference+mussolini&source=bl&ots=R6spb5oKW3&sig=XB_Mks4uZAp_ae_NZUO865AtXtc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0cMEVKHtNc-58gW88YHgBQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lugano%20conference%20mussolini&f=false
Mussolini changed his view as Italy entered the war but the child of Lugano was the Zimmerwald Conference and the rise in popularity of Lenin. Mussolini was pivotal to both Internationalist and National Socialism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 19:20, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
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Originally a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), Mussolini was expelled from the PSI due to his opposition to the party's stance on neutrality in World War I.
In 1912 Mussolini was the leading member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI)[1]. Prior to 1914 he was a keen supporter of the Socialist International, starting the series of meetings in Switzerland[2] that organised the communist revolutions and insurrections that swept through Europe from 1917. Mussolini was expelled from the PSI due to his opposition to the party's stance on neutrality in World War I.
Dead links in reference 16[edit]
The reference number 16 has dead links. The ".php" extension should be part of the 3 links and not in the text. Please correct. Pmau (talk) 08:36, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- ^ Anthony James Gregor (1979). Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520037991.
- ^ Masao Nishikawa (2010). Socialists and International Actions for Peace 1914-1923. Frank & Timme GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86596-066-5.
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Baked Sardines in Pepperonata
"If you don't like sardines," says Gjelina chef Travis Lett, "you're going to today." Make sure to ask your fishmonger to remove the center bones for these baked sardines but leave the head and tail intact and serve over pepperonata.
Published: December 2013 Servings: 8
- 4 red bell peppers
- ¼ cup olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- ½ medium red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ¼ cup dry white wine
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tablespoons drained capers
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- 8 whole fresh sardines, scaled, gutted, deboned
- Chopped fresh dill and grilled crusty bread (for serving)
Nutritional Information
Calories (kcal) 120 Fat (g) 9 Saturated Fat (g) 1 Cholesterol (mg) 15 Carbohydrates (g) 6 Dietary Fiber (g) 1 Total Sugars (g) 4 Protein (g) 4 Sodium (mg) 230
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Preheat broiler. Broil peppers on a broiler-proof rimmed baking sheet, turning occasionally, until blistered all over, 8–10 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let sit 15 minutes. Peel, seed, and slice into ¼"-wide strips.
Reduce oven temperature to 450°. Heat ¼ cup oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 8–10 minutes. Increase heat to medium-high, add tomato paste and sugar and cook, stirring, until tomato paste is beginning to darken, about 1 minute. Add wine and vinegar and cook, stirring often, until slightly reduced, about 2 minutes. Mix in roasted peppers, parsley, capers, and oregano. Cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Transfer pepperonata to a shallow 3-qt. baking dish.
Season sardines inside and out with salt and pepper; lay on top of pepperonata. Drizzle with oil and bake until sardines are firm and beginning to brown, 15–20 minutes. Top with dill, drizzle with more oil, and serve with bread.
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