One where representatives are chosen and removed by everybody sitting around a level table, with open access to information and ideas. First you have to construct the table - admittedly, a chicken-or-egg proposition. Requires mutual cooperation, and not just an agreement that people should follow orders, to construct such a table.
@Geezer: the idea of a democratic republic can be a direction in which to move, whatever Madison, or anybody else, has to say. It's not a bad one, but it does involve controlling massive gaps in economic power and ownership, and the Democrats & Republicans in the US have no desire to tackle this in any meaningful way, either domestically or internationally. Nations are boxes, the walls ultimately constructed and maintained by those who serve those who run them.
Meanwhile, hell, maybe the Democrats - hell, maybe even the Republicans - can, occasionally and accidentally, provide chinks into which wedges can be driven - but you have to bring your own hammer.
I doubt if either Hamburg or "looting activists" have much to do with it - the government directly controlling the flow of information and opinion is is nothing new in China. But I admit the question remains: why now (supposing this event projected for next February will indeed occur)? I don't have an answer, but I think it's more to do with attractions of Europe and other areas, and ideas that may come from them, than with 'looting activists', or any sudden epiphany in Hamburg.
Anyway, I'm willing to wait around for February and see what happens - I'm using my VPN now.
I bet that wasn't it.
Perhaps the American republicrats, together with American Libertarians, together form one of the poles, from a globalist perspective? The conventional American political spectrum, within itself, is pretty narrow - it's an American box, outside of which few American voters seem to be able to take anything seriously - shades of American exceptionalism spread far beyond the perceived limits of that pseudo-religious doctrine. This is particularly dangerous thanks to American economic, political, military and media/cultural power.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Investors run on Kunming metal exchange for billions
发布者@Alex: The buyer is betting on the future market price, no? On a small or limited scale this might not be so important, but futures trading is massive, isn't it? Don't tails sometimes wag dogs?
Report: Rubber plantations threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
发布者@Walter: Interesting, didn't know that. If they were cleared out, who would probably replace them?
Investors run on Kunming metal exchange for billions
发布者@bluppfisk: Thanks, that's about what I thought. Seems to involve a lot of gambling that intimately affects the lives of those who aren't interested in, or who are economically prevented from, playing such games. I think it pisses people off, especially when they are forced to lose.
Investors run on Kunming metal exchange for billions
发布者@dazzer: You're right, this isn't the place to explain, mea culpa. Worth thinking about though.
Investors run on Kunming metal exchange for billions
发布者Oh - maybe it's good for society - please explain.