The discovery of a novel mosquito on Guantanamo Bay reveals how globalisation is threatening to unleash the next pandemic.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Saturday, January 30, 2021
BBC NYT FUCKHEAD BLM MANJOO THEY SOPHIE ANARCHO GENDER TWERP STREET REBELLION PROTEST STOKELY
Sophie was transgender and, after being given the Innovator gong at the Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards in 2018, used the platform to promote trans rights.
"To be truly deserving of this award involved not only changing the sound of today's music, but also ripping apart a deeply entrenched and deeply flawed patriarchal society," said the producer while collecting the award.
"Creating a more diverse, inspiring and meaningful future for us and the generations whose lives our decisions affect and help shape."
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
THE MENU
Monday, November 29, 2010
RE A STALE FOOD FIGHT EDITORIAL NYT MICHAEL POLLAN the menu
Re food safety, and a lot of other things:
Why an Iowa?
For that matter:
Why an Oklahoma?
After all:
Why a fragmented confederacy?
See also, Bing terms search, 'weak governments', etc.
Most Americans don't discover how ill governed they are,
and long have been.
When examples such as this (regardless really of where, or if, you stand, on this food issue) are pointed out, even if it registers, they quickly forget it again.
INDIA FARMER PROTESTS GREAT STUFF I HOPE THEY STARVE IN ENORMOUS NUMBERS
Remember El Cid?
I think these protests may be Islam driven:
HOARE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED
Ill feeling between Hoare and Churchill, who opposed Indian self-government, reached its peak in April 1934. The British government proposed for the Indian government to retain the power to impose tariffs on British textiles. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce, representing the Lancashire cotton trade, initially opposed that since it wanted Lancashire goods to be exported freely to India. Churchill accused Hoare of having, with the aid of the Earl of Derby, breached parliamentary privilege by improperly influencing the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to drop its opposition.
In the United States, impeachment means something different, under the constitution.
6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
7: Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND ABSENCE OF LINCOLN ON SOUTHERN STATE BALLOTS GOT LINCOLN ELECTED
Lincoln won the second-lowest share of the popular vote among all winning presidential candidates in U.S. history.[nb 5]
The 1860 United States presidential election, Wikipedia
The 1860 United States presidential election, Wikipedia
One can say that it was discrepancies between white populations, brought on by white migration largely into northern states, over a long period of time, that further set off the sectional rivalry already set up around the distinction between northern industry and agriculture and southern plantation slavery.
Clearly these northern whites were racist, and taken together constituted the majority of electoral votes as well as the majority of popular votes.
FOR ARCHAIC HUMANS ENDOGAMY WAS THE RULE ADMIXTURE THE RARE EXCEPTION
This is clearly shown in reich's own work, but he downplays this re[pellent conclusion.
It is quite clear in Wade, especially in Before The Dawn, Ch 10 Languages.
JUST MORE BLM LIKE GOOD DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL PROTESTS NEEDING SOLIDARITY HERE FOR THOSE HINDUS OF COLOR
Tractor rally: Indian farmers breach Delhi's Red Fort in huge protest
Monday, January 25, 2021
TRUMP BIDEN DUELING WEDGIES UNPACKED HEAD TO HEAD
The liberal NYT Jews went wild when Trump asserted, in effect, that "If you ain't for Israel, you ain't a Jew", in so many words, thus giving Liberal Jews a Trump wedgie between liberal and orthodox Jews.
The NYT actually called it a wedge at the time. They went totally apeshit.
It closely parallels Biden's similar wedgie remark, about American mulatto negroes, "If blacks aren't voting for me they ain't black!" driving a Democratic wedgie between right and left mulatto American negroes.
The subtext, of course, is that non liberal negro stooges, for Trump, are not good liberal Jewish negro stooges!
In the intramurals of Liberal versus conservative Jewish control of both parties, Trump's wedgie was a Jew on Jew intramural foul.
Biden's later one was similarly a Jew on Jew foul, in the Jewish intramural game.
Sunday, January 24, 2021
STRACHEY ELIZABETH AND ESSEX BEMOANED THE REMOTENESS OF THE ELIZABETHANS P 8
He wrote, even as the Oxfordian School was beginning, with Looney, opening the possibility of the imaginative comprehension of the Elizabethan world, and even of the interior world of Shakespeare himself, which Strachey longed for.
MICHAEL PORTER
Thursday, April 28, 2011
RE PAIN AT THE PUMP? NYT EDITORIAL WE NEED MORE globalism A JAPANESE PLANT STRUGGLES TO PRODUCE A CRITICAL AUTO PART
These gurus, Porter etc, want us to be better able 'to compete globally', with smart energy.
Porter gave us that classic of global market capitalism The Competitive Advantage of Nations, with a bunch of illuminating diamonds........
With some of Porter's schema, could a smart government policy pick winners? (If not, then what is the point anyway?)
Nothing rational, based on his insights (but, re promoting domestic industrial and commercial export/import substitition; rather than globalistic initiatives), nothing rational, has ever been tried here, can be tried here now, if ever.
I will give the example of why such a rational policy is desperately needed in this ever so fragile global economy, also from the NYT today:
' A Japanese Plant Struggles To Produce A Critical Auto Part '
Apparently this one globalist bottleneck is holding up world auto production in many countries at once.
Great entrepreneurial planning and thinking going on here.
Terms search many terms here.
Here is a reference to Porter in Thurston's rant:
Porter gave us that classic of global market capitalism The Competitive Advantage of Nations, with a bunch of illuminating diamonds........
With some of Porter's schema, could a smart government policy pick winners? (If not, then what is the point anyway?)
Nothing rational, based on his insights (but, re promoting domestic industrial and commercial export/import substitition; rather than globalistic initiatives), nothing rational, has ever been tried here, can be tried here now, if ever.
I will give the example of why such a rational policy is desperately needed in this ever so fragile global economy, also from the NYT today:
' A Japanese Plant Struggles To Produce A Critical Auto Part '
Apparently this one globalist bottleneck is holding up world auto production in many countries at once.
Great entrepreneurial planning and thinking going on here.
Terms search many terms here.
Here is a reference to Porter in Thurston's rant:
THE MENU
Monday, March 12, 2018
THE KREMLIN MENU COMING UP
Rooskies love me today.
I may have to do a Spiridon Putin Menu, just for them!
Lenin's culinary tastes were much humbler than his political ones, Stalin preferred brandy to vodka, Khrushchev liked a good steak, and for breakfast Gorbachev was served five kinds of porridge.
Lenin's culinary tastes were much humbler than his political ones, Stalin preferred brandy to vodka, Khrushchev liked a good steak, and for breakfast Gorbachev was served five kinds of porridge.
Vladimir Lenin was politically savvy, but a complete amateur in the kitchen. In her memoirs, his wife and comrade-in-arms Nadezhda Krupskaya almost never described family meals as "lunch" or "dinner," but usually used the Russian pitaniye that is more commonly associated with hospital food and diets, or even kormezhka, which is usually used when speaking about pets.
"Lenin not only didn't notice what heate, but even when he was asked directly whether he liked something, he just couldn't give an intelligible answer," writes Russian culinary historian Vilyam Pokhlebkin in his article "What Did Lenin Eat?"
Lenin's contemporaries noted that his only culinary passion was a mug of good beer. The great Bolshevik was born and raised on the Volga where they still brew Zhigulyovskoe beer, which is famous throughout Russia, and he spent many years in exile in Germany, as well as spells in Britain and Switzerland, so he knew a good beer.
A dictator's table
Joseph Stalin didn't stick to Lenin's maxims when it came to food. In Georgia, where he was born and where his tastes were formed, they have very rich culinary traditions. Famous Georgian wines, sweets made from dried fruit, pickled cheese, spicy andsavoury soups, chicken, beef and lamb dishes – all these diverse delicacies made the Georgian dining table a holiday feast. Stalin didn't forget about these meals during the years he worked as an underground revolutionary in foreign lands.
Later, when he was exiled to Siberia, he sampled Russian cuisine too, especially fish-based dishes. The Siberian waterways produce highly sought-after varieties of fish in abundance, so even those in exile could afford soup made from the prized Russiannelma (freshwater whitefish).
Many years later, members of the Communist elite permitted to eat with Stalin recalled how they initially turned up their noses atstroganina (a kind of Siberian carpaccio) made from nelma , but then tried it. Needless to say, during the years of Stalin's rule, nelma was delivered fresh to the Kremlin on a special flight.
Top secret
Stalin had two requirements. First, the waiters didn't wait on theguests, but brought the first and second courses, appetisers , and desserts to the table, then left. Affairs of state were discussed at the table and eavesdroppers were not welcome in the dining room. Each of the high ranking guests even had to step up and serve himself the first course – either shchi (soup made from fresh cabbage or sauerkraut) or kharcho (Caucasian spicy stew made from lamb, rice and tomatoes).
Stalin’s second idiosyncrasy was that there had to be more than ten varieties of vodka and brandy on hand, including the famous Kizlyar that Stalin personally sent Churchill. The ruler of the USSR himself drank moderately, and always preferred Tsinandali and Teliani, white and red wines from the Kakheti region of Georgia that were made by a different method than European wines. Among fruits, Stalin loved bananas best of all – the most exotic fruit available in the Soviet Union in those days.
Not by corn alone
Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced the cult of Stalin, didn't care much for fruit, even exotic kinds. He wasn't even that crazy about eating corn, which hedemanded be planted on a quarter of all arable land in the USSR after a trip to the United States during which he admired the achievements of American agriculture. Corn was grown primarily to feed livestock in the hope that the country would soon see the end of its meat shortages. Meat, it turns out, was Krushchev's weakness.
"We made a lot of different dishes from meat," recalls Khrushchev's personal chef Anna Dyshkant. "Meat with mushrooms, meat with prunes sweet and sour. He was very fond of tenderloin. We made it for him in a special way. We poured oil in the pan, then soaked up some with a cloth so that the pan was half-dry. We tenderised the meat and fried it. It turned out like a very tasty steak."
Nikita loved pirogues just as much (similar toraviolis , but with a vegetarian filling). He preferred them with sauerkraut and onions, cottage cheese and sour cream, or potatoes and cherries. But Khrushchev's favorite treat was a hunter's kulesh – a very filling Cossack dish of millet and pork fat that is a cross between a nourishing soup and stew. The hospitable host liked to brag about this dish in front of guests, according to Dyshkant's memoirs. Cakes for the Khrushchevs were ordered in the Kremlin, which had a special bakery for that purpose.
Luxury stagnation
In the culinary history of Russia's elite, the Brezhnev era is known for the lobster soup that was revived by the Kremlinchef . This was an old Russian dish that was often served before the revolution in upper class Russian homes, but then was completely forgotten.
The soup is somewhat similar to the famous Mediterraneanroux, but has its own particulars. It is fairly easy to cook, you just need to crack 20 live, large crayfish.
They are gently boiled in a light fish broth, the tender meat is removed from the necks and claws, and the shells are fried. The fried shell is finely ground and sautéed in a small amount of melted butter. Then this sauce and the meat are added to the broth and brought to a boil. Black pepper, bayleaves and dill are added to taste, and you have the favorite dish of the person who ushered in the era of stagnation in the Soviet Union.
Hunter
One of Brezhnev's passions was hunting. "Every Thursday after Politburo meetings he invited comrades to go hunting. Sometimes the meetings lasted only forty minutes," recalled KGB Major General Mikhail Dokuchaev in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Each hunter was given a small case that held 250ml of brandy and sandwiches."
A successful hunting trip was celebrated with a magnificent feast, at which wild game (mainly wild boar) was the main attraction. Brezhnev's favorite vodka was Zubrovka, which is Belarusian bitters made from plants grown in Belovezh Reserve.
Perestroika of tastes
Years later it was there, in Belovezh forest, where the fateful agreements were signed that established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and brought an end to the Soviet empire in 1991. This would eventually change the geopolitical structure of the whole world.
But the signature of the author of perestroika and the only president in the history of Soviet Union —Mikhail Gorbachev — was not on that agreement. It was signed without his knowledge. It is noteworthy that Gorbachev, one of the most unpopular statesmen in modern Russia, ate perhaps more sensibly as president than all his predecessors. He ate a variety of foods, always in small portions.
"He had a tendency to gain weight, so he often restrained himself," said Kremlin chef Anatoly Galkin in an interview with Segodnya.ua. “He would ask me to make him a salad. He didn't want anythinghot, and told me to eat the pastry myself. He loved white seedless grapes, and candied fruits, dates, nuts."
The Soviet president especially loved porridge, and a royal assortment was offered to him. "Buckwheat, pearl barley, whole grain barley ... He especially liked pearl barley from real grain," continued Galkin. "It had to be cooked for eight hours, but it was worth it. We made him buckwheat in different ways, as a gruel or fluffy, with mushrooms, bacon ... Sometimes he asked for rice or millet porridge."
The Gorbachevs ate high-calorie or rich meals only on festive occasions. Then chefs prepared lamb, wild game, sturgeon andbester (a hybrid of two species of sturgeon) baked in champagne. But even during these feasts the Gorbachevs didn't want to see the table crammed with delicacies.
Today Gorbachev, who is undergoing treatment in Germany, has a much more modest diet on the recommendations of a doctor.
"Lenin not only didn't notice what he
Lenin's contemporaries noted that his only culinary passion was a mug of good beer. The great Bolshevik was born and raised on the Volga where they still brew Zhigulyovskoe beer, which is famous throughout Russia, and he spent many years in exile in Germany, as well as spells in Britain and Switzerland, so he knew a good beer.
A dictator's table
Joseph Stalin didn't stick to Lenin's maxims when it came to food. In Georgia, where he was born and where his tastes were formed, they have very rich culinary traditions. Famous Georgian wines, sweets made from dried fruit, pickled cheese, spicy and
Later, when he was exiled to Siberia, he sampled Russian cuisine too, especially fish-based dishes. The Siberian waterways produce highly sought-after varieties of fish in abundance, so even those in exile could afford soup made from the prized Russian
Many years later, members of the Communist elite permitted to eat with Stalin recalled how they initially turned up their noses at
Top secret
Stalin had two requirements. First, the waiters didn't wait on the
Stalin’s second idiosyncrasy was that there had to be more than ten varieties of vodka and brandy on hand, including the famous Kizlyar that Stalin personally sent Churchill. The ruler of the USSR himself drank moderately, and always preferred Tsinandali and Teliani, white and red wines from the Kakheti region of Georgia that were made by a different method than European wines. Among fruits, Stalin loved bananas best of all – the most exotic fruit available in the Soviet Union in those days.
Not by corn alone
Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced the cult of Stalin, didn't care much for fruit, even exotic kinds. He wasn't even that crazy about eating corn, which he
Nikita Khrushchev was far not a vegeterian
TASS
TASS
Nikita loved pirogues just as much (similar to
Luxury stagnation
In the culinary history of Russia's elite, the Brezhnev era is known for the lobster soup that was revived by the Kremlin
The soup is somewhat similar to the famous Mediterranean
They are gently boiled in a light fish broth, the tender meat is removed from the necks and claws, and the shells are fried. The fried shell is finely ground and sautéed in a small amount of melted butter. Then this sauce and the meat are added to the broth and brought to a boil. Black pepper, bay
Hunter
One of Brezhnev's passions was hunting. "Every Thursday after Politburo meetings he invited comrades to go hunting. Sometimes the meetings lasted only forty minutes," recalled KGB Major General Mikhail Dokuchaev in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Each hunter was given a small case that held 250ml of brandy and sandwiches."
A hunter Brezhnev
TASS
TASS
Perestroika of tastes
Years later it was there, in Belovezh forest, where the fateful agreements were signed that established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and brought an end to the Soviet empire in 1991. This would eventually change the geopolitical structure of the whole world.
But the signature of the author of perestroika and the only president in the history of Soviet Union —Mikhail Gorbachev — was not on that agreement. It was signed without his knowledge. It is noteworthy that Gorbachev, one of the most unpopular statesmen in modern Russia, ate perhaps more sensibly as president than all his predecessors. He ate a variety of foods, always in small portions.
"He had a tendency to gain weight, so he often restrained himself," said Kremlin chef Anatoly Galkin in an interview with Segodnya.ua. “He would ask me to make him a salad. He didn't want anything
Luxury of Perestroika: Mikhail Gorbachov (second from right) drinking tea
TASS
TASS
The Gorbachevs ate high-calorie or rich meals only on festive occasions. Then chefs prepared lamb, wild game, sturgeon and
Today Gorbachev, who is undergoing treatment in Germany, has a much more modest diet on the recommendations of a doctor.
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PIQUANTY
Saturday, May 9, 2015
RE MY POSTS RE INFLATION DEFLATION BOTH RED HERRINGS SEE PIKETTY CONVERGENCE
Convergence, a topic he avoids like the plague. Not destabilizing to Piketty.
Here he let this slip out: p 649, fn 22: 'furthermore inflation depends...especially international wage and price competition, which is currently damping down inflationary tendencies while driving asset prices higher.'
re Convergence: 'Never in the history of human conflict has so much been given away to so many by so few for so little so quickly.' This blog.
For him, convergence is a mechanical, and frankly, natural economic process resulting from largely mechanical globalization; whereas divergence, although mechanical, is exacerbated by political aberrations and needs economic and political treatment.
Convergence, apparently, needs no treatment, and is, moreover, not mechanically susceptible to it.
What was either mechanical or natural about the recovery of Europe and Japan? What mechanical about the Marshall Plan? Why then wasn't the Morgenthau Plan as mechanical or natural as the Marshall Plan? The French wanted the Morgenthau Plan after all.....
What was mechanical about the IMF, World Bank, Bretton woods, etc.?
What has been mechanical about the rise of China?
In fairness to Piketty, he does at many places point out that there is nothing natural or spontaneous about certain economic phenomena re how shocks have been handled, etc., and that politics and other social sciences play a greater role than encompassed by mere economics. I was glad to see that he advocates a return to political economy.
Steingart said it best, in certain passages in The War For Wealth: nothing.
re Convergence: 'Never in the history of human conflict has so much been given away to so many by so few for so little so quickly.' This blog.
For him, convergence is a mechanical, and frankly, natural economic process resulting from largely mechanical globalization; whereas divergence, although mechanical, is exacerbated by political aberrations and needs economic and political treatment.
Convergence, apparently, needs no treatment, and is, moreover, not mechanically susceptible to it.
What was either mechanical or natural about the recovery of Europe and Japan? What mechanical about the Marshall Plan? Why then wasn't the Morgenthau Plan as mechanical or natural as the Marshall Plan? The French wanted the Morgenthau Plan after all.....
What was mechanical about the IMF, World Bank, Bretton woods, etc.?
What has been mechanical about the rise of China?
In fairness to Piketty, he does at many places point out that there is nothing natural or spontaneous about certain economic phenomena re how shocks have been handled, etc., and that politics and other social sciences play a greater role than encompassed by mere economics. I was glad to see that he advocates a return to political economy.
Steingart said it best, in certain passages in The War For Wealth: nothing.
FERGUSON THE AGE OF MIRACLES
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
FERGUSON'S EXPLANATION 2006 GUARDIAN FOR WHAT I HAD DESCRIBED REALLY IS CONVERGENCE
"Anti-monetarists point out that the relationship between monetary growth and inflation has simply broken down. Inflation is low nearly everywhere. The latest figure for the annual growth in American core consumer prices is just 2.3 per cent, down from 3.8 per cent in May. Yet the annual growth rate of M3, which diehard monetarists have continued to track unofficially, is just under 10 per cent. Last year, according to the IMF, M2 increased by nearly 13 per cent in the UK. In some emerging markets the figure was higher. Russia's money supply grew 25 per cent.
Yet simply because consumer price inflation has remained low, money has not become irrelevant. On the contrary: it is the key to understanding the world economy today. For there is nothing in Friedman's work that states that monetary expansion is always and everywhere a consumer price phenomenon.
In our time, unlike in the 1970s, oil price pressures have been countered by the entry of low-cost Asian labour into the global workforce. Not only are the things Asians make cheap and getting cheaper, competition from Asia also means that Western labour has lost the bargaining power it had 30 years ago. Stuff is cheap. Wages are pretty flat.
As a result, monetary expansion in our time does not translate into significantly higher prices in shopping malls. We don't expect it to. Rather, it translates into significantly higher prices for capital assets, particularly real estate and equities. The people who find it easiest to borrow money these days are hedge funds and private equity firms. Through leveraged buy outs, the latter can easily acquire companies and, by improving their cashflow, boost their valuations. These guys then buy houses in Chelsea with the millions they make." NF 2006, apparently...
Even a blind squirrel, Ferguson, can occasionally find a nut!
Even a blind squirrel, Ferguson, can occasionally find a nut!
MBA PROGRAM
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
Saturday, January 23, 2021
MARGARET COURT GREAT STUFF SPEAKING TRUTH TO BULLSHIT
Margaret Court's Order of Australia award sparks anger
BBC NYT THE 1619 PROJECT LIBERAL JEW WHITE STOKELYS MULATTO NOT AFRICA CARMICHAELS GET IT IN THE ASS FROM AFRICA BABY! MADE MY DAY!
Letter from Africa: The continent no longer needs lectures from the US
President Donald Trump, through his America First policy, redefined the US' image abroad. But that image has also been altered through his actions and words - not least his reported dismissal of African countries in highly derogatory terms.
Donald Trump's 'racist slur' provokes outrage
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said Mr Trump called African countries "shitholes" and used "racist" language.
Africa is mostly a total shit hole.
Thomas Sowell, who has studied it in great detail can quote chapter and verse on why this has been, and also why it has nothing really to do with White Western Civilization. Race and Cculture, Conquests and Culture, Migrations and Cultures,
Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance.
Friday, January 22, 2021
THE WAR FOR WEALTH GABOR STEINGART WENT WAR FOR SURVIVAL TIPPING POINT, BABY!
"That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your pivots!"
FUCK CHINA IT CAN ROT THERE
Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container'
HELEN WHITE NEEDS TO FIND ANOTHER JOB.
I SUGGEST FARMING IN BRITAIN. GREAT STUFF.
KAMALA IS A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT MORE HINDU THAN JAMAICAN MULATTO
TRUST ME
Hindus hate negroes.
Think Mahatma Gandhi, MLK's mentor.
BBC Speaking to BBC Tamil service's Vishnu Priya from New Delhi, Gopalan Balachandran said Kamala’s mother was the greatest influence on her life.
SHE IS PROBABLY WORSE FOR AMERICAN MULATTOES THAN CLARENCE THOMAS, A FULL BLOOD NEGRO.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
REASONS TO AVOID GORE VIDAL FORGET ENLIGHTENMENT REASONS GO WITH STRAIGHT BESTIAL SMELL TEST
That's what Marilyn Monroe did.
Makes olfactory sense to me.
THE CHINA PRICE
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
THE CHINA PRICE CLASSIC POST
Thursday, November 1, 2012
RE BBC CHINA BUYS STAKE IN HEATHROW AIRPORT
This is just a tiny example, of what one now often sees, with relatively unbridled so called market capitalism.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?
Australia has been selling big contracts to them for a long time now.
What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?
Will it just be a little matter of money?
Term search: Mary Poppins, Popper, playing three sides, etc.
LOSING WITH LOSERS
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
CLASSIC LOSING THEIR ARS POST
Saturday, July 9, 2011
RE BBC EDITORIAL J P MORGAN BID RIGGING ON STATE AND LOCAL CONTRACTS and investors losing their ARS on munis
It seems more or less a Hobbesian war of all against all, fraud everywhere. J P paying for sneak previews of rival bids for state and local bond contracts, California, Texas, New Jersey..........
Raymond James recently settled 300m for causing its investors to lose their ARS (auction rate securities, mostly munis, etc., etc., etc.). Bigger banks had settled earlier on ARS losing investors.
Raymond James recently settled 300m for causing its investors to lose their ARS (auction rate securities, mostly munis, etc., etc., etc.). Bigger banks had settled earlier on ARS losing investors.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
LIEO WHITE WEST CIVILIZATION LA LA LAND A LIVING WAGE PER CAPITA IN AFRICA IS 300 DOLLARS A YEAR
Unilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.
The consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs "and helped them break the cycle of poverty".
It said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.
It is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.
Oxfam called the move a "step in the right direction".
Unilever, whose products include Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build "a more equitable and inclusive society".
"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide," it said.
"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030."
The wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
THE DUMB MONEY IDEOLOGY AGAIN
Sunday, May 21, 2017
THE DUMB MONEY IDEOLOGY
Watched Lewis, again, last night, with laGarde.
What brought him back to following Wall Street he said was the sub prime debacle, and the extent, as I reiterated recently here, that the big banks themselves had been what he calls the dumb money, and had lost their ass too, rather than taking someone else's ass for a profit, which they are accustomed to do (they do not, of course, really want to be bailed out, they want to make money.)
Western liberalism has been and continues to be the dumb money ideology, and this sad fact is only now really being brought home to the average person in the West.
There are so many reasons for this late awakening, analogously to the late awakening of big bank executives to the realities of the sub prime debacle.
For example, in 89 (1989), the West actually still thought they had 'won'.
Tragically, it symbolized a huge sign of a loss for the West in general, against the Rest, and not just for the West's Europhile Soviet elite.
Lewis is himself ironically, of course, one of the liberals who fail to see what is coming. He discusses the big problem, with LaGarde, inequality, rather in the fashion that Piketty addresses it, as the really big roadblock to further good globalization.
What he fails to see, apparently, and what Piketty certainly has seen but refuses to mention or discuss, is not inequality at all, which is not really a new thing as such (the so called problem of the top 1%), which will neither shake your windows nor rattle your walls.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room of economic globalization, oh the times they are a changin, is income and wealth convergence, converging average or median income of a world population, amid gathering environmental degradation and vanishing natural resources.
For relatively wealthy Westerners, it is rather like having a freight train bearing down on you in the dark with its lights off.
Lewis is himself ironically, of course, one of the liberals who fail to see what is coming. He discusses the big problem, with LaGarde, inequality, rather in the fashion that Piketty addresses it, as the really big roadblock to further good globalization.
What he fails to see, apparently, and what Piketty certainly has seen but refuses to mention or discuss, is not inequality at all, which is not really a new thing as such (the so called problem of the top 1%), which will neither shake your windows nor rattle your walls.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room of economic globalization, oh the times they are a changin, is income and wealth convergence, converging average or median income of a world population, amid gathering environmental degradation and vanishing natural resources.
For relatively wealthy Westerners, it is rather like having a freight train bearing down on you in the dark with its lights off.
BOMB THEIR ASSES ANY FAUX PRETEXT WORKS FOR ME BABY!
SEND IN FUCKING SAMANTHA POWER TO GREASE THEM DOWN!
US: China 'committed genocide against Uighurs'
RADICAL PAP
Saturday, March 12, 2016
DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ABETTED BY FREE COLONIAL PRESS
No better place to look than the first 8 pages of Bailyn, Ideological Origins.
The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.
None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.
This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.
The colonists were fed radical pap originating in the English Civil War (of course it went farther back, to, say, Jesus' followers (not Jesus), Athens (false idol), and also to Roman republicans, etc), transmuted by later pamphleteers.
None of those ideas had any traction whatsoever in British politics, especially after 1688, about the time Trenchard and Gordon began to fulminate on liberty over there.
This was not the Enlightenment, it was the Unenlightenment.
CHINA'S ILLUSTRIOUS PAST HISTORY REALLY A VASSAL STATE OF MONGOLS
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
THE MONGOLS HOOKER'S SQUIB
The Mongols
The Mongols were an obscure people who lived in the outer reaches of the Gobi Desert in what is now Outer Mongolia. They were a pastoral and tribal people that did not really seem to be of any consequence to neighboring peoples. The Mongols were in fact a group of disunified tribes that would gather regularly during annual migrations; although they elected chiefs over the tribes at these meetings, they never unified into a single people. Their religion focused on a sky-god that ruled over nature deities, similar to the Japanese native religion Shinto, and the gods communicated to them through shamans. All that would change however, under the leadership of a powerful and vigorous leader named Timuchin or Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan
Timuchin was the son of a poor noble in his tribe. Born sometime in the 1160's, he gradually unified the disparate Mongol tribes and, in 1206, was elected Genghis Khan, or "Universal Ruler" (also spelled Chingghis or Jenghiz Khan). He began to vigorously organize the Mongols into a military force through conscription and taxes on the tribes. With his small army (no more than one hundred and twenty thousand men), he managed to conquer far larger armies in densely populated areas.
Genghis Khan was perhaps one of the greatest military innovators in human history, and his army consisted of perhaps the best-trained horsemen in all of human history. They fought on horseback with incredible efficiency; they could hit targets with a superhuman precision while running at a full gallop. Their speed and efficiency struck terror in their opponents who frequently broke ranks. In addition, Genghis Khan organized his troops into decimal units (one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand), and would send hand signals through the fighting to these decimal units. The result in battle was simply mind-boggling. Genghis Khan could literally move troops around in the heat of battle as easily as he would move chess pieces. Moreover, his armies were incredibly mobile and could cover immense distances with numbing speed. Finally, Genghis Khan was ruthless towards people who resisted the advances of his army. If a town or city fought back, he laid siege to the town and, at its conclusion, would exterminate its inhabitants. When news of these tactics spread, Mongol armies easily and successfully took over towns that would surrender as soon as the Mongols showed their faces. The Mongols literally decimated populations in Western Asia and China as they advanced. As a result of all these tactics, the Mongol armies spread across the landscape like wildfire. They marched inexorably south into Chin territory and west into Asia and even Europe. When Genghis Khan died, Mongol armies were poised to conquer Hungary, which they would have accomplished had not their leader died.
The Mongolian Empire was perhaps the largest empire in human history in terms of geographical expanse. It extended west to east from Poland to Siberia, and north to south from Moscow to the Arabian peninsula and Siberia to Vietnam. For all that, Genghis Khan was primarily interested in conquering China because of its great wealth. While Mongol armies spread quickly west, Genghis Khan preceded cautiously in expanding southward, conquering first the northern Tibetan kingdom and later the Chin empire. When he died in 1227, he had just finished conquering the northern city of Beijing. By 1241, the Mongols had conquered all of northern China.
Kublai Khan
The Mongolian Empire, so vast in its reach, was separated into four khanates, each ruled by a separate khan and overruled by a Great Khan. The Kipchak Khanate, or Golden Horde, ruled Russia; the Ilkhanate ruled Persia and the Middle East, the Chagatai Khanate ruled over western Asia, and the Great Khanate controlled Mongolia and China.
In 1260, Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, became Great Khan. Four years later he relocated his capital from Mongolia to Beijing in northern China, and in 1271 he adopted a Chinese dynastic name, the Yuan. Kublai Khan had decided to become the emperor of China and start a new dynasty; within a few short years, the Mongols had conquered all of southern China.
Initially, the Mongols pretty much ruled over China as bandits, sucking out as much wealth as they could. But Kublai Khan slowly adopted Chinese political structures and political theories. In particular, Kublai Khan built a strong central government in order to cement his authority as a foreign ruler over China. During the T'ang dynasty, the Emperor had slowly become an absolute ruler; Kublai Khan finished that process and made the Emperorship absolutely autocratic.
Kublai Khan established his capital at Beijing and built a magnificent palace complex for himself, the Forbidden City. An architectural triumph, the Forbidden City contained elements of Arabic, Mongolian, western Asian, and Chinese architectural styles; it also contained a vast area of Mongolian nomadic tents and a playing field for Mongolian horsemanship. The Forbidden City of Kublai Khan, then, was in many ways a protected sanctuary of Mongolian culture. This aloofness from the Chinese exemplified by the Forbidden City was carried over into almost every other aspect of Mongolian rule. Although they adopted some aspects of Chinese culture, the Mongols pretty much refused to learn the Chinese language. The government, however, was run by Chinese officials selected under the civil service examination. Communication between the upper and lower reaches of government, then, was possible only through translators.
Yuan Philosophy
The single most striking aspect of the Yuan is not only the survival of Chinese culture under a vastly foreign rule, but its singular vitality and growth. To be sure, the Yuan had steadily adopted Chinese ways of thinking. Before the conquest of China, Yeh-lü Ch'u-ts'ai (1189-1243), an advisor to the Mongol Khan Ögödei, reformed the financial administration along the lines of its Chinese form. In 1271, Kublai Khan adopted a Chinese dynastic name, and in 1315, under the Emperor Ayurbarwada (Jen-tsung, 1311-1320), the civil service examination was reinstituted. All of these indicate a steady Chinese influence upon Mongolian rule. At the same time, the Mongols chose not to impose their own pastoral lifestyle, social structure, or religion on the Chinese.
The traditional philosophies and religions of China continued unabated under Mongol rule. Buddhism in particular found a welcome home among the Mongols who had in part adopted it. Taoism remained vital throughout China, and Confucianism continued. However, the foreign rule of the Mongols allowed for a certain amount of revolution and renewal in Chinese thought. Because the Mongols held Confucianism in contempt in the early years of their rule, the new philosophy of Neo-Confucians, founded in the last century of Sung rule, took hold in China and eventually eclipsed the older forms of Confucianism. The new examination system of 1315 was based entirely on Neo-Confucianism, thus enshrining it as the state philosophy for many centuries.
Curiously, the Mongols, though Buddhist, did not really support or patronize Buddhism, which was largely left to its own devices. They favored Tibetan Buddhism but really did not financially support the monasteries. When the Mongol rulers decided that too many Buddhists were escaping military service, they instituted a literacy test on Buddhist scriptures. Anyone who couldn't demonstrate literacy in the scriptures lost their military exemption. This put the Mongol rulers in direct conflict with the major Buddhist masters; the central school of Buddhism was Ch'an, or "Meditation" Buddhism. It stressed the primacy of the master over scripture and the silent transmission of religious truth. For that reason, Ch'an Buddhism had no written doctrine. Under pressure from the Mongols, the Ch'an Buddhists began to record their doctrine in a series formulations called kung-an or, in Japanese, the koan.
Nonetheless, the Mongol rulers were very preoccupied with religions. Kublai Khan in particular invited all sorts of faiths to debate at his court. He allowed Nestorian Christians and Roman Catholics to set up missions, as well as Tibetan lamas, Muslims, and Hindus. The Yuan period, in fact, is one of vital cultural transmission between China and the rest of the world. Europe formally met China during the reign of Kublai Khan with the arriuval of Marco Polo, an Italian adventurer, who served as an official in Kublai's court from 1275-1291. For all this vital interaction with foreign cultures, very little seems to have rubbed off on Chinese culture. The cultural interaction was not really a cultural exchange, for the situation was perhaps too unstable. The Yuan and the Chinese had no cultural direction, no syncretic goal that they were aiming at, so the cultural interaction never really got beyond the formal practice of simple disagreement and argument.
The Fall of the Yuan
The Yuan was the shortest lived of the major dynasties. From the time that Kublai occupied Beijing in 1264 to the fall of the dynasty in 1368, a mere hundred years had passed. Kublai was a highly successful emperor as was his son, but the later Yuan emperors could not stop the slide into powerlessness. For one thing, the Beijing Khans lost legitimacy among the Mongols still in Mongolia who thought they had become too Chinese. The fourteenth century is punctuated by Mongolian rebellions against the Yuan. On the other hand, the Chinese never accepted the Yuan as a legitimate dynasty but regarded them rather as bandits, or at best an occupying army. The failure to learn Chinese and integrate themselves into Chinese culture greatly undermined the Mongol rulers. As with all Chinese dynasties, nature conspired in the downfall; the Yellow River changed course and flooded irrigation canals and so brought on massive famine in the 1340's. The decline of the Yuan coincided with similar declines in all the other Khanates throughout Asia.
Finally, a peasant, Chu Yuan-chang, led a rebel army against the Yuan. He had lost most of his family in the famine, and had spent part of his life as a monk and then as a bandit leader. He took Beijing in 1368 and the Yuan emperor fled to Shangtu. When he drove the Yuan from Shangtu back to Mongolia, he declared himself the founder of a new dynasty: the Ming (1369-1644).
RICHARD HOOKER 1996 (Hooker wrote the Mash series)
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