Os Cangaceiros

Yes, I tried to read Gesell online, but I suck at reading long things on a computer screen. Hans Feldt did a pamphlet about him which Red Lion Press carry.

Greetings. Nice to see another market socialist!

back from fishing?

Welcome back! I thought you were gonna be gone for 6 months?

That Gun thread was hilarious

Cobra!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the add. That was cool.

My avatar is of Britches, a baby macaque monkey rescued from a breeding colony at the University of California, Riverside. He was one of 24 other monkeys to have his eyes sewn shut and to have a high-pitched noisemaking device attached to his head emitting sounds every few seconds. He was taken and given a proper home (along with almost 500 other animals) during a raid on the facility in 1985. I chose the picture because I think it's a very powerful and moving political photograph, and I've switched my avatar to the picture a number of times, usually when I'm involved in any rather heated argument over veganism or enviornmentalism.

From Dr. Bettina Flavioli's report on the animal shortly after the raid:

"Attached to infant's head by means of bandage and tape is an apparatus of some sort with what appears to be some sort of electrical cord extending from it. It has been cut. Bilaterally are short lengths of tubing emerging from the bandage. Tape is in direct contact with the face and neck. Bandage lifted rostrally from right eye due to excessive moisture and right eye partially visible. Beneath the bandages are two cotton pads, one for each eye ... Both pads are filthy and soaked with moisture. Bilaterally upper eyelids are sutured to lower eyelids. The sutures are grossly oversized for the purpose intended. Many of these sutures have torn through lid tissue resulting in multiple lacerations of the lids. There is an open space between upper and lower lids of both eyes of about one quarter inch, and sutures are contacting corneal tissue resulting in excessive tearing ...
Infant demonstrates photophobia. Penis of infant is edematous and inflamed. There are smegma accumulations. Generalized muscle development poor. Skin dry. Body odor foul."

There are a number of videos about the story. It's pretty horrifying to watch.

So, that's my story. Who is the man in your avatar?