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Thread #116910 Message #2518132
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
17-Dec-08 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: USA Corruption - How Much More?
Subject: RE: BS: USA Corruption - How Much More?
GUEST Refugee from Sanity, I have no idea what that post is all about, (if it's as relevant as your posts about guitar nuts then I extend my sympathy ...)
However, I wanted to address Amos ' post above.
Don't be under any misapprehension that Communism has collapsed in China, despite the boom in their economy in the last 30 years.
China is still in the iron grip of the Communist Party, unlike the former Soviet Union, where lawlessness runs rampant to an extent you wouldn't believe.
Tienanmin Square could happen again, make no mistake.
And for Bobert, who believes that the US is on the verge of a spiritual awakening, if it was ever going to happen it would have happened in 1968-69, but what was the outcome ?
Jackson Browne says it more eloquently than anyone, in one of the greatest songs ever written.