(see also:
NEWS OF THE WORLD, MILITARIES, BIG BANKS Goldman BIG GOVERNMENTS Russia China ENTREPRENEURS Zuckerberg Ma etc.)
positioning, somehow, for the 'new realities',
so to speak.
Do you think anyone here is playing three, or more sides?
Terms search eg: playing three sides, fattening things up
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Sunday, July 31, 2011
RE BRING BACK POPPY THOMAS FRIEDMAN NYT SCIENCE FAUX YARN
It's hard to find anything really credible in things he writes.
He associates 'science' with 'cap-and-trade'.
That is about the last thing I would have thought of, regarding the term 'science' .
CAT has much more to do with marketizing so called environmentalism (neither real environmentalism; nor in the CAT context, real science),
removing the authority of government over a crucial area,
and overwhelmingly about booming,
and also most importantly bubblelizing,
globalization
with huge cap-and-trade driven developmental industrialization growth
elsewhere.
The main 'science' being discussed here is not actually environmental science, except incidentally, but
laissez faire free market economics, for carbon credits, etc., , once again.
Unfortunately, someone like David Brooks, an armchair 'science' pundit, who dishes out small narrow bits of 'science' insights as from a cafeteria menu, cannot help Friedman here, with his science terminology problem, or with his similarly Republican political gloss on that subject.
He associates 'science' with 'cap-and-trade'.
That is about the last thing I would have thought of, regarding the term 'science' .
CAT has much more to do with marketizing so called environmentalism (neither real environmentalism; nor in the CAT context, real science),
removing the authority of government over a crucial area,
and overwhelmingly about booming,
and also most importantly bubblelizing,
globalization
with huge cap-and-trade driven developmental industrialization growth
elsewhere.
The main 'science' being discussed here is not actually environmental science, except incidentally, but
laissez faire free market economics, for carbon credits, etc., , once again.
Unfortunately, someone like David Brooks, an armchair 'science' pundit, who dishes out small narrow bits of 'science' insights as from a cafeteria menu, cannot help Friedman here, with his science terminology problem, or with his similarly Republican political gloss on that subject.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
RE FAKE BUBBLE RECOVERIES OF FIRMS AND COUNTRIES CAN YOU SAY FAUX RECOVERIES
We see these everywhere now in profusion.
They are mostly all faux recoveries,
if you know what I mean.
They are mostly all faux recoveries,
if you know what I mean.
RE NEW YORK JUDGES AND THE BIG BIG BANKS NEED A RAISE NYT
This kind of article keeps the sluices of the overly free laissez faire press well oiled, doesn't it?
Take a glance at the 'system' depicted.
Duplication and anomaly everywhere,
but not to focus, in the media, too hard,
on something like that!
See also below, re banks and the media, pets of political judiciary.
Take a glance at the 'system' depicted.
Duplication and anomaly everywhere,
but not to focus, in the media, too hard,
on something like that!
See also below, re banks and the media, pets of political judiciary.
RE THE MADOFF TRUSTEE'S BAD DAY THURSTON AGAIN NYT TODAY
Federal judge delivers a big loss to everyone but the banks.
Big bail out not limited to the legislature.
Thurston:
Who do you think they will bail out, you or me?
Terms search Boca, Thurston
Big bail out not limited to the legislature.
Thurston:
Who do you think they will bail out, you or me?
Terms search Boca, Thurston
RE FOUNDING TEA PARTY FATHERS
What nonsense, re the history, not the politics, of such a statement:
Pilon: "It took 80 years for John Locke’s ideas about liberty to find their way into the Declaration of Independence. It took another 90 years for those ideas to bring an end to slavery. The limited-government ideas that the Tea Party has brought back to the surface are just now being felt in Congress. This is no time to abandon them."
Locke also had written the Charter for South Carolina,
wisely keeping control in the hands of the aristocracy.
How long did those Lockean ideas persevere?
What ideas is Pilon not referring to?
Take a look at Bailyn's
The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution, the early chapter.
Pilon: "It took 80 years for John Locke’s ideas about liberty to find their way into the Declaration of Independence. It took another 90 years for those ideas to bring an end to slavery. The limited-government ideas that the Tea Party has brought back to the surface are just now being felt in Congress. This is no time to abandon them."
Locke also had written the Charter for South Carolina,
wisely keeping control in the hands of the aristocracy.
How long did those Lockean ideas persevere?
What ideas is Pilon not referring to?
Take a look at Bailyn's
The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution, the early chapter.
Friday, July 29, 2011
RE TURKEY MILITARY COMMANDERS MASS RESIGNATIONS
Go figure.
Related note:
Egypt's top brass looking more hawkish than the 'liberal international economic order' types painted by the US military going into the revolution;
why?
You try to fathom it.
Related note:
Egypt's top brass looking more hawkish than the 'liberal international economic order' types painted by the US military going into the revolution;
why?
You try to fathom it.
RE SECOND TEST MATCH ENGLAND VERSUS INDIA
Should really have been a colonial contest,
in the larger scheme of things.
That's not cricket, what.
Wait and see.
Sorry, I side with Churchill on ths subject, 1947.
In very different ways, as unhelpful a nation state for the West as Israel, going forward.
in the larger scheme of things.
That's not cricket, what.
Wait and see.
Sorry, I side with Churchill on ths subject, 1947.
In very different ways, as unhelpful a nation state for the West as Israel, going forward.
RE 60 YEAR HOUSE OF CARDS OF BLIND ANTI COMMUNIST GLOBALIZATION NOW BEGINNING TO TUMBLE DOWN IN AN AVALANCHE
Tell me why I am wrong about this.......
Even Fareed, India pander extraordinaire, acknowledged this, in a background passage, cited earlier here, in The Post America....
He sees, in the book at least, of course, a relentless if slightly rocky march to higher ground for developmental regimes, among which of course he lumps his pet.
Wants to uncouple the US trampy, and in his judgment, economically perverted, relationship with China, so his pet economic slut, India, can couple ever more closely with it, going down and forward.
Who can blame him, in the Casanova Hand world of the laissez faire marketplace for economic partners? (terms search,... Casanova Hand, etc.)
I don't necessarily see that as on the long term cards.
RE MARKETS FRAGILE YES FRAGILE GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DEAD AHEAD
Most all 'investors' really, now are more or less short term, flipping, flopping on the deck, with few 'safe havens', Gilligan's Island looming on the horizon, gamblers,
and they mostly know it.
and they mostly know it.
RE THE CENTRIST COP-OUT KRUGMAN NON REFORM RANT
The problem with American politics right now is Republican intransigence. Of course, they are the worst 'symptom' right now.
But, at the deeper level, not just 'right now', several problems with this.
It is really still a cop out, by almost all Americans, including Krugman,
to acknowledge that they really need a better political system.
They don't need merely a tweak toward more tax and spend, because that has not worked to keep us in front of political competition in other places.
But, at the deeper level, not just 'right now', several problems with this.
It is really still a cop out, by almost all Americans, including Krugman,
to acknowledge that they really need a better political system.
They don't need merely a tweak toward more tax and spend, because that has not worked to keep us in front of political competition in other places.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
RE JUDSON PHILLIPS TEA PARTY PRESIDENT SURVEY DO YOU THINK PRESIDENT OBAMA IS DOIND A GOOD JOB?
I will answer that with another question, Judson:
Do you walk to school, or carry your lunch?
Do you walk to school, or carry your lunch?
RE OBAMA AND HIS DISCONTENTS NYT
He's got Obama, in this editorial, on the Freudian 'couch', not a really good context to understand what he is referring to here.
Term search, Freud.
(See also, Civilization And Its Discontents )
Unfortunately, there's no room for him, too, on the couch I recently showed, thin as he is.
Term search, Freud.
(See also, Civilization And Its Discontents )
Unfortunately, there's no room for him, too, on the couch I recently showed, thin as he is.
RE THIS IS CALLED SMALL GOVERNMENT NYT TODAY F.A.A. YOUR STATE
Not that I am not in favor of drastic reforms of the whole system,
but this demonstrates the very longstanding poverty of political insight here, and the dead end of the existing party game.
Most Americans don't really fathom what such a fiscal situation can mean, apart from inconvenience. Having once represented an airport operationally controlled by the F.A.A., I at least have a clue.
Operationally, I guess it may mean different things, in places where the FAA has run airport flight operations.
Perhaps states, or even local communities need to take back airport operations from the FAA. Big wasteful bureaucracy.
Why not move air traffic control operations to, say, China, similarly to GE's recent decision to move its X ray unit there (not India)? Set up call centers there to direct air traffic around our cities? Use, eg Google Earth, (also say Gaggle Earth, Gobble Earth), as the source of flight data?
Makes a lot of good entrepreneurial maverick mutton busting sense to me.
Terms search: your state; why Iowa, Minnesota, city, county.
but this demonstrates the very longstanding poverty of political insight here, and the dead end of the existing party game.
Most Americans don't really fathom what such a fiscal situation can mean, apart from inconvenience. Having once represented an airport operationally controlled by the F.A.A., I at least have a clue.
Operationally, I guess it may mean different things, in places where the FAA has run airport flight operations.
Perhaps states, or even local communities need to take back airport operations from the FAA. Big wasteful bureaucracy.
Why not move air traffic control operations to, say, China, similarly to GE's recent decision to move its X ray unit there (not India)? Set up call centers there to direct air traffic around our cities? Use, eg Google Earth, (also say Gaggle Earth, Gobble Earth), as the source of flight data?
Makes a lot of good entrepreneurial maverick mutton busting sense to me.
Terms search: your state; why Iowa, Minnesota, city, county.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
RE OBAMA TWISTING AND TURNING UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION
See David Kaiser's recent posts re the debt ceiling, conservative politics, and President Obama's election calculus, and the current political situation.
In my view, President Obama is likely to do what many incumbent Presidents have done in the past, in order to deflect the false impression of responsibility for bad current economic conditions, a course seemingly built into the American electoral system for the Presidency, that is, to
either take more aggressive steps to get out of existing bad military situations
(largely brought on by prior Presidents' desperate elections related decisions with which he is also, now, falsely, blamed, and strapped);
or, to (falsely) declare an impending threat from abroad, which he can then rally patriotic voters behind a new military adventure against, before the election;
or, both.
See also nyt today, re Obama and the Emancipation Proclamation, another spur of the moment decision, based perhaps more on military expediency, at that time, than on an electoral calculus.
Terms search: property rights.
In my view, President Obama is likely to do what many incumbent Presidents have done in the past, in order to deflect the false impression of responsibility for bad current economic conditions, a course seemingly built into the American electoral system for the Presidency, that is, to
either take more aggressive steps to get out of existing bad military situations
(largely brought on by prior Presidents' desperate elections related decisions with which he is also, now, falsely, blamed, and strapped);
or, to (falsely) declare an impending threat from abroad, which he can then rally patriotic voters behind a new military adventure against, before the election;
or, both.
See also nyt today, re Obama and the Emancipation Proclamation, another spur of the moment decision, based perhaps more on military expediency, at that time, than on an electoral calculus.
Terms search: property rights.
RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN CAN'T WE DO THIS RIGHT? NYT EDITORIAL WELCOME TO THE POST AMERICAN WORLD
He is still spouting the nonsense and mythology he has regularly spun out here.
If Friedman were right here, how then, based on it, did we get to Zakaria's Post American World?
I especially appreciated Zakaria's quote from Friedman, concern for his childrens' economic future, when there are all these poor groveling Indians,
basically willing to 'work for food',
see The Post American World, p. 50,
'Oh My God,...'.
Smell the coffee.
Another key point is Zakaria's acknowledgement that the US, really, created its own doom over the past 60 years,
a point I have harped on here ad nauseam,
see The Post American World, p 60-61.
Don't get me wrong, Zakaria is wrong, intentionally misleading, or dissembling, about a multitude of things, but some truths he stumbles or blunders into,
eg this one, and his remark re Churchill's comment about India, as a mere geographic term.
See also, terms search: Patton.
If Friedman were right here, how then, based on it, did we get to Zakaria's Post American World?
I especially appreciated Zakaria's quote from Friedman, concern for his childrens' economic future, when there are all these poor groveling Indians,
basically willing to 'work for food',
see The Post American World, p. 50,
'Oh My God,...'.
Smell the coffee.
Another key point is Zakaria's acknowledgement that the US, really, created its own doom over the past 60 years,
a point I have harped on here ad nauseam,
see The Post American World, p 60-61.
Don't get me wrong, Zakaria is wrong, intentionally misleading, or dissembling, about a multitude of things, but some truths he stumbles or blunders into,
eg this one, and his remark re Churchill's comment about India, as a mere geographic term.
See also, terms search: Patton.
RE CHURCHILL AND INDIA AND ZAKARIA
India merely a "geographic term, with no more political personality than Europe".
Zakaria says Churchill was mostly wrong about India, but not this part. Churchill was mostly right about India.
Zakaria compares India with the US. Good comparison, really, given Churchill's point.
Great blunder, one of many, to have pushed for independence there.
Zakaria says Churchill was mostly wrong about India, but not this part. Churchill was mostly right about India.
Zakaria compares India with the US. Good comparison, really, given Churchill's point.
Great blunder, one of many, to have pushed for independence there.
RE BONDS
BBC World News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00j0kyw
A UK audio reference:
"It's The End Of The World As We Know It"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00j0kyw
A UK audio reference:
"It's The End Of The World As We Know It"
RE LUCIAN FREUD AND THE END OF THE COUCH ANALYTIC TRADITION A BURSTING BUBBLE
" Benefits Supervisor Sleeping " represents, does it not, the end, in a vivid way, of his grandfather, Sigmund Freud's, couch or sofa psychoanalytic tradition?
A rebuttable presumption, in the law of evidence,
otherwise known sometimes as a ' bursting bubble ' presumption.
A rebuttable presumption, in the law of evidence,
otherwise known sometimes as a ' bursting bubble ' presumption.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
RE WAGNER AND ISRAEL
I enjoyed Jonathan Steinberg's lecture on Wagner, Teaching Company, European History, European Lives.
Poignant, really.
Apparently he was Milton Steinberg's son.
Poignant, really.
Apparently he was Milton Steinberg's son.
RE GE MOVES Y-RAY UNIT TO CHINA BBC WORLD NEWS ARTICLE NYT MUTTON BUSTING CF FAREED ZAKARIA WHY NOT INDIA?
Makes a lot of mutton busting , Maverick Executive, entrepreneurial, smart business sense.
Question: With Fareed Zakaria,
Anti China Pro India Globalization,
post American future,
Blowhardia
pundit,
breathing down the punditocracy neck,
(Cf nyt India interest rate 8%, and big big exporter of high value industrial goods in the news today.
How many American Mavericks do they need over there?
For how long?)
Why not India?
Question: With Fareed Zakaria,
Anti China Pro India Globalization,
post American future,
Blowhardia
pundit,
breathing down the punditocracy neck,
(Cf nyt India interest rate 8%, and big big exporter of high value industrial goods in the news today.
How many American Mavericks do they need over there?
For how long?)
Why not India?
Monday, July 25, 2011
RE MARKET STABILITY RE BUY AND HOLD NO SUCH THING ANYMORE CHINESE STUCK PIGS
There is a lot of talk now about this. Let's clear some things up, for a moment.
These, the securities and commodities markets, and their futures, and derivatives, etc.,
have all been reduced now, mostly, to short term gambling practices.
There is now no such thing as 'market stability', 'buy and hold', implying some 'longer' time horizon, say even a few years (not long at all in my judgment),
and will not be stable, certainly, for the rest of my life time, or even say 25 years from now (even then, not that 'long' really).
In the larger scheme of things, the debt ceiling debate is really a small scale, temporary, red herring.
When you're printing money, anyway, to cover 'obligations'?
What does a 'debt ceiling' mean when,
you are also printing more money anyway?
Please.
(The Chinese, apparently, are now squealing, like stuck pigs, over both issues, which in more ways than one, over these issues, they are,
as they are owed, and also hold so much, which is getting worth less, daily.)
These, the securities and commodities markets, and their futures, and derivatives, etc.,
have all been reduced now, mostly, to short term gambling practices.
There is now no such thing as 'market stability', 'buy and hold', implying some 'longer' time horizon, say even a few years (not long at all in my judgment),
and will not be stable, certainly, for the rest of my life time, or even say 25 years from now (even then, not that 'long' really).
In the larger scheme of things, the debt ceiling debate is really a small scale, temporary, red herring.
When you're printing money, anyway, to cover 'obligations'?
What does a 'debt ceiling' mean when,
you are also printing more money anyway?
Please.
(The Chinese, apparently, are now squealing, like stuck pigs, over both issues, which in more ways than one, over these issues, they are,
as they are owed, and also hold so much, which is getting worth less, daily.)
RE ENABLING CHINA ENABLERS CHONGQING NYT TODAY
Smelling the coffee...........................
Terms search: Collins, Facebook, 1984, Farm, venture capitalists, private equity, Russia, Goldman, personality, Zuckerberg, social media,
and 'back agendas', everywhere, now.
Terms search: Collins, Facebook, 1984, Farm, venture capitalists, private equity, Russia, Goldman, personality, Zuckerberg, social media,
and 'back agendas', everywhere, now.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
RE BAD FOOD? TAX IT AND SUBSIDIZE VEGETABLES NYT SELF CORRECTING MARKET SYSTEM FOR FOOD and for news
(Whom are they trying to kid now?)
The paper, generally, promotes global laissez faire market capitalism except for its pet, here, health food, which is somehow an exception, for which this author recommends powerful government intervention; 'picking' food, nutrition, health science 'winners'.
What's wrong with political, nutritional, bubblelization of individual Americans, and all global others who can be made to buy, so long as it is market driven?
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2973239501462830480&postID=4750351857255035991
The paper, generally, promotes global laissez faire market capitalism except for its pet, here, health food, which is somehow an exception, for which this author recommends powerful government intervention; 'picking' food, nutrition, health science 'winners'.
What's wrong with political, nutritional, bubblelization of individual Americans, and all global others who can be made to buy, so long as it is market driven?
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2973239501462830480&postID=4750351857255035991
Saturday, July 23, 2011
RE CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE DOMINION OF NEW ENGLAND
Another plug here for Before 1776, Allison's Teaching Company course.
I especially recommend the lecture, not just the one on pirates, but also the one on
'The New England Uprising of 1689'.
The Dominion would have been much better, in retrospect, for all concerned, except perhaps the French.
I especially recommend the lecture, not just the one on pirates, but also the one on
'The New England Uprising of 1689'.
The Dominion would have been much better, in retrospect, for all concerned, except perhaps the French.
Friday, July 22, 2011
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
RE FAKE APPLE STORES MULTIPLYING IN CHINA BBC WORLD NEWS GET READY LAISSEZ FAIRE HOUSE OF CARDS
What are laissez faire property rights, really, re China, etc., etc. ?
With MNCs and nations, nowadays, isn't it becoming more a question of
"How many divisions do they have?"
With MNCs and nations, nowadays, isn't it becoming more a question of
"How many divisions do they have?"
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
RE A NEW TERM FOR A GATHERING INTELLECTUAL DISASTER DISCIPLINISM
I am going to call one aspect, of what I want to criticize about intellectual professional and academic fields,
excessive 'disciplinism'. Unfortunately, yet another new ism.
I am not necessarily against conventional or traditional academic or professional disciplines, or even against the concept of subdisciplines.
But I have seen something of the havoc which, done wrong,
(and there are many ways, and aspects of ways, in which they can be done wrong,)
they can wreak.
excessive 'disciplinism'. Unfortunately, yet another new ism.
I am not necessarily against conventional or traditional academic or professional disciplines, or even against the concept of subdisciplines.
But I have seen something of the havoc which, done wrong,
(and there are many ways, and aspects of ways, in which they can be done wrong,)
they can wreak.
RE KRUGMAN KLEIN KEYNES SELF CORRECTING MARKETS INTELLECTUALS AND US
Krugman, on his blog, cites an article by Klein in The Washington Post, critical of Cantor's misreading of Keynes.
They, Krugman and Klein, think if Keynes were only properly understood and followed, by both economists and politicians, everything would be ok.
The problem is that Keynes shared, with other economists generally, a trust of 'the market' as the arbiter of national industrial commercial fiscal and financial policies.
Occasionally even generally virtuous and wholesome markets get constipated, that is the story even a good Keynesian will tell.
That is the problem.
Here is the phrase from Klein: "markets are usually self-correcting...."
There are many problems with this view:
1. Markets do not go in inherently good directions.
2. They do not go there in inherently good ways. In fact, quite the opposite, quite blindly blithely and wastefully, in fact, more often than not.
3. They do not make best use of resources to get there.
4. Their evolution is not 'correct' in the first place, and thus they can hardly be said to self correct themselves. Begs the question of 'correct'.
5. They, markets as a proxy term for 'economics in general', tend to improperly ('incorrectly') overbear politics in general, rather than the other way around.
It is as ridiculous to suggest that economics, or markets, are 'self correcting' as that politics is.
They, Krugman and Klein, think if Keynes were only properly understood and followed, by both economists and politicians, everything would be ok.
The problem is that Keynes shared, with other economists generally, a trust of 'the market' as the arbiter of national industrial commercial fiscal and financial policies.
Occasionally even generally virtuous and wholesome markets get constipated, that is the story even a good Keynesian will tell.
That is the problem.
Here is the phrase from Klein: "markets are usually self-correcting...."
There are many problems with this view:
1. Markets do not go in inherently good directions.
2. They do not go there in inherently good ways. In fact, quite the opposite, quite blindly blithely and wastefully, in fact, more often than not.
3. They do not make best use of resources to get there.
4. Their evolution is not 'correct' in the first place, and thus they can hardly be said to self correct themselves. Begs the question of 'correct'.
5. They, markets as a proxy term for 'economics in general', tend to improperly ('incorrectly') overbear politics in general, rather than the other way around.
It is as ridiculous to suggest that economics, or markets, are 'self correcting' as that politics is.
RE NOBODY SHOULD BE FOOLED NYT WTO CHINA PROTECTIONISM
Unfortunately, this kind of editorial position largely only fools the average American about his best interests.
The NYT needs to get off laissez faire economics and politics, but that won't happen.
It is already really too late to change the course of this disastrous policy, but one would think that some of these editorialist individuals might some day,
as we are almost totally under water on prosperity as a result of production and investment done abroad.
The NYT needs to get off laissez faire economics and politics, but that won't happen.
It is already really too late to change the course of this disastrous policy, but one would think that some of these editorialist individuals might some day,
as we are almost totally under water on prosperity as a result of production and investment done abroad.
Monday, July 18, 2011
RE RUSSIA DUMPING TREASURIES FOR GOLD WHY NOT CHINA OR JAPAN
Take a guess.
Also, maybe they can be buying bullion, quietly, on world markets.
Also, maybe they can be buying bullion, quietly, on world markets.
RE LETTING BANKERS WALK KRUGMAN NYT LETTING ECONOMISTS WALK
In my judgment,
and having once been a public defender,
the bigger situation is rather like,
and at a deeper level, still,
more like, if you know a little history,
Letting Economists Walk:
Re a related article today on economists experts ranged on both sides of poitical debates, why not finally smell the coffee on them, as a credible intellectual academic group?
Why stand for intellectual fraud, much broader in scope, than mere financial fraud?
Who could hold economists, as a discipline,
politically, not merely academically, 'accountable'?
Answer: No one.
Who could hold them academically, ie intellectually, accountable?
Answer: No one.
Re political accountability, funding conservative academic chairs at state universities, like Florida, (Koch brothers), is not 'academic' accountability, but the opposite.
Terms search: Thurston, Boca, 2006, Who do you think they will bail out your or me?
and having once been a public defender,
the bigger situation is rather like,
and at a deeper level, still,
more like, if you know a little history,
Letting Economists Walk:
Re a related article today on economists experts ranged on both sides of poitical debates, why not finally smell the coffee on them, as a credible intellectual academic group?
Why stand for intellectual fraud, much broader in scope, than mere financial fraud?
Who could hold economists, as a discipline,
politically, not merely academically, 'accountable'?
Answer: No one.
Who could hold them academically, ie intellectually, accountable?
Answer: No one.
Re political accountability, funding conservative academic chairs at state universities, like Florida, (Koch brothers), is not 'academic' accountability, but the opposite.
Terms search: Thurston, Boca, 2006, Who do you think they will bail out your or me?
RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN YESTERDAY NYT CHINA THE ADULT IN THE ROOM THE CLASH OF GENERATIONS
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-boom-bubblelization-see-this.html
I at first had written David Brooks, instead of Thomas Friedman, as the title of this note, but on topics like this, with these two,
it rather like the lyric,
"Andy Warhol, Silver Screen..................
can't tell them apart at all."
I at first had written David Brooks, instead of Thomas Friedman, as the title of this note, but on topics like this, with these two,
it rather like the lyric,
"Andy Warhol, Silver Screen..................
can't tell them apart at all."
RE INVESTORS LOSING FAITH IN TWO OF EUROPE'S LEADING ECONOMIES
Italy, Spain.
Guess what?
They are all 'fragile' now,
ready to fall like a house of cards.
Guess what?
They are all 'fragile' now,
ready to fall like a house of cards.
RE RUMPOLE A VIDEO REFERENCE RE NEWS OF THE WORLD
Sir John Mortimer's script for Scotland Yard misbehavior back then, 'Rumpole and The Learned Friends'.
The press was ostensibly doing a job to try to expose it, subject to slander laws back then.
A far cry, though, from the current situation, re the closer relations of the press, the Yard, and the Government.
The press was ostensibly doing a job to try to expose it, subject to slander laws back then.
A far cry, though, from the current situation, re the closer relations of the press, the Yard, and the Government.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
RE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST
He is onto something here.
I am going to take a few steps into the great beyond, and speculate that, were a fascist regime to come to power here, they would no doubt think of the rest of the world as their
' oyster ' (Sovereignty At Bay theme), in a 'frontier' sort of sense.
The frontier, after all, is a big thing for Americans; they once had a lot of it to spare, think 'lebensraum';
I know it seems far fetched now, but 'human rights' can at some point, be claimed to have failed almost everywhere we are not.
Think: Samantha Power
That would not be a very useful way to proceed, but Americans have not been very swift on these things.
RE NICHOLAS KRISTOF NYT OUR BROKEN ESCALATOR HE REALLY NEEDS AN EDUCATION
Kristof is still in the dark ages of insight on these issues.
What an idiot.
'Education', 'credentials'.
What do those things matter, when there are 1.5 billion or so desperate, starving, bright, literate, underemployed Indians, or Chinese, willing to 'work for food'?
(Around here, winos, panhandling, carry signs at street corners, 'will work for food'.
Some of them come clean: 'Why lie, want beer'.)
My blog is not the best source of information to educate Kristof, but it may be a rocky start.
Terms search Collins, etc.
What an idiot.
'Education', 'credentials'.
What do those things matter, when there are 1.5 billion or so desperate, starving, bright, literate, underemployed Indians, or Chinese, willing to 'work for food'?
(Around here, winos, panhandling, carry signs at street corners, 'will work for food'.
Some of them come clean: 'Why lie, want beer'.)
My blog is not the best source of information to educate Kristof, but it may be a rocky start.
Terms search Collins, etc.
RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN TODAY NYT EDITORIAL the clash of generations
He has to backpedal hard now, calling it all a debt crisis,
or a generation crisis,
or a boomer generation - caused crisis,
even calling the whole boomer generation of Western capitalists entrepreneurs and politicians 'immature' compared to the mature Chinese (please) now loaning these Western juvenile reprobate regimes money (partly their money, by the way, mostly ours, for what it still might be worth),
or a profligacy or corruption-caused financial crisis,
even a capitalist boom bust crisis (this gets him too close to his near and dear capitalist globalization theme for comfort)
anything, anything, anything,
rather than a globalization crisis resulting from the capitalist Cobdenist globalization process he promoted and trumpeted for so long, as a great good thing for all concerned.
(Re his implicit reference to the impending take over by China, and their dictation of slices of the laissez faire global pie that remains, see eg:)
Will he soon start quoting Strauss & How to explain unfolding global events in cyclical generational metaphors? Apparently so.
For my, hindsight, solution,
term search eg, Nixon, fattening things up, Patton.
or a generation crisis,
or a boomer generation - caused crisis,
even calling the whole boomer generation of Western capitalists entrepreneurs and politicians 'immature' compared to the mature Chinese (please) now loaning these Western juvenile reprobate regimes money (partly their money, by the way, mostly ours, for what it still might be worth),
or a profligacy or corruption-caused financial crisis,
even a capitalist boom bust crisis (this gets him too close to his near and dear capitalist globalization theme for comfort)
anything, anything, anything,
rather than a globalization crisis resulting from the capitalist Cobdenist globalization process he promoted and trumpeted for so long, as a great good thing for all concerned.
(Re his implicit reference to the impending take over by China, and their dictation of slices of the laissez faire global pie that remains, see eg:)
Will he soon start quoting Strauss & How to explain unfolding global events in cyclical generational metaphors? Apparently so.
For my, hindsight, solution,
term search eg, Nixon, fattening things up, Patton.
RE LAW SCHOOL LAISSEZ FAIRE ECONOMICS: KA-CHING! NYT STORY THE CREDENTIAL BUBBLE
See other posts here re laissez faire credential inflation, terms search, three billion new capitalists, entrepreneurs, credential society.
Law is only the tip of an academic and credentialist iceberg, now rapidly and rather suddenly melting away (excess capacity; 'structural'), under the hot, fetid breath of globalist employment pressures;
see Randall Collins now slightly dated book The Credential Society; back then he wasn't worried analytically so much about foreign work force pressures on American employment or education, and mostly contrasted other systems' different educational structures.
Law is only the tip of an academic and credentialist iceberg, now rapidly and rather suddenly melting away (excess capacity; 'structural'), under the hot, fetid breath of globalist employment pressures;
see Randall Collins now slightly dated book The Credential Society; back then he wasn't worried analytically so much about foreign work force pressures on American employment or education, and mostly contrasted other systems' different educational structures.
RE JAPAN KOREAN AIR BOYCOTT BBC WORLD NEWS STORY TODAY
Just one of those little things.
Maybe they can offer them coupons for discounts somewhere, to get around this little wicket?
Maybe they can offer them coupons for discounts somewhere, to get around this little wicket?
RE NYT EGYPT MILITARY MOVES TO CEMENT A MUSCULAR ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
Not a surprise to me, yet Americans have been told a very different story about the revolt there ('the US military trained them, the younger cadres, instilling liberal laissez faire views of the relation between the military and civilian authorities'), and how it should be viewed here.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
RE WHY SO MANY LAWYERS SCHOOLS CREDENTIALS WHY SO MANY FILL IN THE BLANK
See this prior post re fragmentary origins of these stratifications,
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
And see also Collins' book The Credential Society, re the history of education here, and why we have so much confusion on this very very complex subject.
It, 'education', is also, unfortunately, usually taken in isolation from many other related issues associated with educational concerns.
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
And see also Collins' book The Credential Society, re the history of education here, and why we have so much confusion on this very very complex subject.
It, 'education', is also, unfortunately, usually taken in isolation from many other related issues associated with educational concerns.
RE THE JOURNAL BECOMES FOX -IFIED NYT WALL STREET JOURNAL WSJ FOX NEWS
That's your free, lazy fair, press for you, over across the pond as well as here; the dumbing down to and pandering to the consumer's worst and weakest impulses...
Terms search Casanova hand, how interesting is a state, media, print, etc.
At least on this site I am not kidding anyone about having my preferences, nor is this a free press situation.
Terms search Casanova hand, how interesting is a state, media, print, etc.
At least on this site I am not kidding anyone about having my preferences, nor is this a free press situation.
Friday, July 15, 2011
RE THE CREDENTIAL SOCIETY
Just one of the problems we have is that, having over credentiallized, as well as having over compartmentalized, things, we, as laymen have not only too many experts or professionals to choose from, but also such a hard time distinguishing the really good from the not so good from the bad.
Re CIVILIZATIONAL COMPETITION WHAT USED TO BE CALLED THE WEST AND THE REST
No one here, or there, wants to put it this way, now.
Not politically correct......
It is partly, still, here, the great American underdog spirit: help all refugee foreigners in distress. The last great melting pot frontier...........
We used to take many refugees from elsewhere, and such things.
At least that was the ancient history.......
David McCullough refers to France, now, NYT today, re their justifiable ire re our overly free press and overly dissolute moral and legal compass re their darling Strauss-Kahn. I sympathize, truly.
And of course there is a lot of history here, behind the scenes, really, for most Americans, who understandably cannot fathom such distant historical details. Great Power disputes, 1500s 1600s, leading to the American republic in the first place.....
What of this?
And what of England, and America, and where we now find ourselves?
I would say that there were perhaps several chances, only a few, in the last 500 years, to preserve 'Western hegemony',
not to preserve Britain versus France, or Britain or France or The Netherlands, versus Spain or Austria,
in a world hurtling forward no one knew where.
The last clear chance, at least for Britain, then barely standing, the last weak hegemon, and the last clear chance for the West assuming a Western coalition, was at the end of World War II.
Even assuming no Patton alternative, some approach other than laissez faire expansion of non communist regimes might have saved the situation,
yet even there, the chance to preclude nuclear competition would also have been forfeited, a huge nagging cost and drag on the hegemons still standing.
That was the huge missed opportunity of 1945. (Maybe someone more strategically perspicuous than I will correct me on this little detail.)
Now that the pattern of present and future world dominance, centering perhaps on The Rest, and based on that blind Western laissez faire free market expansion, is shifting and emerging, some things, in hindsight, seem rather obvious, setting aside, for a moment diplomatic politeness.
What are some of those things?
I will let you take some guesses, for now.
Not politically correct......
It is partly, still, here, the great American underdog spirit: help all refugee foreigners in distress. The last great melting pot frontier...........
We used to take many refugees from elsewhere, and such things.
At least that was the ancient history.......
David McCullough refers to France, now, NYT today, re their justifiable ire re our overly free press and overly dissolute moral and legal compass re their darling Strauss-Kahn. I sympathize, truly.
And of course there is a lot of history here, behind the scenes, really, for most Americans, who understandably cannot fathom such distant historical details. Great Power disputes, 1500s 1600s, leading to the American republic in the first place.....
What of this?
And what of England, and America, and where we now find ourselves?
I would say that there were perhaps several chances, only a few, in the last 500 years, to preserve 'Western hegemony',
not to preserve Britain versus France, or Britain or France or The Netherlands, versus Spain or Austria,
in a world hurtling forward no one knew where.
The last clear chance, at least for Britain, then barely standing, the last weak hegemon, and the last clear chance for the West assuming a Western coalition, was at the end of World War II.
Even assuming no Patton alternative, some approach other than laissez faire expansion of non communist regimes might have saved the situation,
yet even there, the chance to preclude nuclear competition would also have been forfeited, a huge nagging cost and drag on the hegemons still standing.
That was the huge missed opportunity of 1945. (Maybe someone more strategically perspicuous than I will correct me on this little detail.)
Now that the pattern of present and future world dominance, centering perhaps on The Rest, and based on that blind Western laissez faire free market expansion, is shifting and emerging, some things, in hindsight, seem rather obvious, setting aside, for a moment diplomatic politeness.
What are some of those things?
I will let you take some guesses, for now.
RE TASSELED LOAFERS EGAN RYAN NYT HD CARTOON BARRY BLITT EAT YOUR HEART OUT
The caption above,
Tasseled Loafers Off Duty Drinking French Not Washington Wine
The one below
HD TV
Terms search: Daumier, entrepreneurs, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, cartoons
Barry Blitt, you had your chance, but I can only wait so long, then go it alone, sans graphic skill, except to very very crudely cut and paste!
Tasseled Loafers Off Duty Drinking French Not Washington Wine
The one below
HD TV
Terms search: Daumier, entrepreneurs, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, cartoons
Barry Blitt, you had your chance, but I can only wait so long, then go it alone, sans graphic skill, except to very very crudely cut and paste!
RE KRUGMAN'S ECONOMICS PROBLEM AND OURS GETTING TO CRAZY EGAN TASSLED RYAN NYT
He criticizes so called supply side voodoo economics.
Voodoo economics is also, largely, globalist economics.
Krugman's problem here, as usual, is that his non voodoo economics is also globalist free trade economics, really.
The Republicans, and the Democrats, including their presidents, as far back as the eye can see, have been free trade globalists, relying more or less on globalists economists, regardless of their party affiliation.
This explains why, when Egan points out today that Ryan sips expensive wine with both a hedge fund manager and a free trade economist, one really cannot tell (one can infer a party connection by context) which political type of economist was meant.
But the point here, sadly enough, and Krugman is not going to tell you about it, is that it doesn't really matter, as both voodoo and non voodoo economists are free traders,
and that is the main underlying cause of our troubles, a structural political failure, abetted by economics, below the level of a 'budget', or 'monetary' policy, or 'taxing' policy, or 'spending' policy.
Voodoo economics is also, largely, globalist economics.
Krugman's problem here, as usual, is that his non voodoo economics is also globalist free trade economics, really.
The Republicans, and the Democrats, including their presidents, as far back as the eye can see, have been free trade globalists, relying more or less on globalists economists, regardless of their party affiliation.
This explains why, when Egan points out today that Ryan sips expensive wine with both a hedge fund manager and a free trade economist, one really cannot tell (one can infer a party connection by context) which political type of economist was meant.
But the point here, sadly enough, and Krugman is not going to tell you about it, is that it doesn't really matter, as both voodoo and non voodoo economists are free traders,
and that is the main underlying cause of our troubles, a structural political failure, abetted by economics, below the level of a 'budget', or 'monetary' policy, or 'taxing' policy, or 'spending' policy.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
RE GUN MAYHEM ALONG THE BORDER
Unfortunately, Americans, and others curious about what happens over here, may well soon be asking:
"Which borders?"
Terms search: your state.
"Which borders?"
Terms search: your state.
RE RANDALL COLLINS' JULY 2011 TOPIC
Great stuff:
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2011/07/inflation-of-bullying-from-fagging-to.html
He tries to clear up, somewhat, a lot of conceptual confusion in some cyber social phenomena,
and loose terminology connected therewith.
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2011/07/inflation-of-bullying-from-fagging-to.html
He tries to clear up, somewhat, a lot of conceptual confusion in some cyber social phenomena,
and loose terminology connected therewith.
RE NYT ARTICLE MILITARIES DEVELOPING THEIR OWN FACEBOOKS
Terms search my prior comments re Facebook,
and various implications, including that alluded to in a quote here from Randall Collins' site.
The military technology is of course quite different from digital images on social network sites,
but the privacy implications may be overlooked once one commits one's face to the 'public forum of the world'.
My face appears above; I know it seems strangely to resemble a corner of an old cello. I cannot explain the technology.
and various implications, including that alluded to in a quote here from Randall Collins' site.
The military technology is of course quite different from digital images on social network sites,
but the privacy implications may be overlooked once one commits one's face to the 'public forum of the world'.
My face appears above; I know it seems strangely to resemble a corner of an old cello. I cannot explain the technology.
RE NORTH DAKOTA
It turns out to have been a mere territory all this time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14142111
How will they vote?
Terms search your state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14142111
How will they vote?
Terms search your state.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
RE NEWS CORP DROPS BID UNDER THE HOT FETID BREATH OF CLOSE SCRUTINY
BBC WORLD NEWS TODAY
Terms search: fetid breath, etc.
Terms search: fetid breath, etc.
RE nyt STANLEY FISH VOCATIONALISM, ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE
Riley vs Fish is a dispute needing some better social science moorings, like say The Credential Society, to throw light on weaknesses of their positions.
Term search many terms. See Wikipedia, credentialism.
Term search many terms. See Wikipedia, credentialism.
RE ON EXPERTS AND GLOBAL WARMING THE STONE NYT PHILOSOPHY FOIBLES
This is a terrible article. He totally misinterprets, even in a sentence or two, Plato's age, and Plato's own views, regarding the nature of experts, and of the place of science, for the layman.
The issue of the sophists, and of the discussion of nature versus convention, huge issues back then, show how his analysis begs the question of the role and use of experts.
Terms search: experts, compartmentalization, bonobos, Thurston, pyramid, Brooks, credential society, etc.
A better place to start on this issue might be something like Science Wars, The Teaching Company, by Professor Goldman.
The issue of the sophists, and of the discussion of nature versus convention, huge issues back then, show how his analysis begs the question of the role and use of experts.
Terms search: experts, compartmentalization, bonobos, Thurston, pyramid, Brooks, credential society, etc.
A better place to start on this issue might be something like Science Wars, The Teaching Company, by Professor Goldman.
RE THE START-UP OF YOU NYT FRIEDMAN START ME UP
The global shut down of you.....
That is what his dream world ENTREPRENEURIAL, laissez faire, economics will get you, unfortunately.
Terms search eg: Collins, the credential society, Thurston, entrepreneurship, education, rail to rail, venture capitalists, etc.
An audio reference:
The Rolling Stones, Start Me Up
(Not my favorite song.)
That is what his dream world ENTREPRENEURIAL, laissez faire, economics will get you, unfortunately.
Terms search eg: Collins, the credential society, Thurston, entrepreneurship, education, rail to rail, venture capitalists, etc.
An audio reference:
The Rolling Stones, Start Me Up
(Not my favorite song.)
RE CALIFORNIA COUNTIES TALK OF CUTTING TIES TO STATE NYT TODAY
Then, question, do they really want to be another state, 'South California', a political thing they ostensibly already abhor?
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
RE NPR DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIST LAISSEZ FAIRE FOR ALL HUMANS WITH A TWIST RYSSDAL POWER
Take Kai Ryssdal, globalist China pander extraordinaire:
This week on NPR is all about China, from the Ryssdal perspective.
Take NPR: laissez faire selling sensationalism, but of another sort:
Not, if it bleeds it leads, but rather:
'If it weeps it leads.' NPR, preying on the ignorance, fears, insecurities, and sympathies of average Americans, and on the deep pockets of globalist hunger and poverty donors, who also are globalist trade panders, like the Gates Foundation, or even Democratic 'human rights hawks', like, say, Samantha Power.
This week on NPR is all about China, from the Ryssdal perspective.
Take NPR: laissez faire selling sensationalism, but of another sort:
Not, if it bleeds it leads, but rather:
'If it weeps it leads.' NPR, preying on the ignorance, fears, insecurities, and sympathies of average Americans, and on the deep pockets of globalist hunger and poverty donors, who also are globalist trade panders, like the Gates Foundation, or even Democratic 'human rights hawks', like, say, Samantha Power.
RE AT&T SPRINT T MOBILE FACEFACE CLOSER SCRUTINY FROM STATES OVER LAISSEZ FAIRE MONOPOLIES
These big big utilities, the big property interests in the equation, facing the hot, fetid, breath of closer merger scrutiny, by a few of these behemoth state governments.
Most states have very, very long ago and far away, been bought off by big utility (used to be only telephone telegraph) and power company interests; this dispute must be another in the long genre of window dressing......
Trying to make you believe that monopolies are good for you.
Can you say "laissez faire monopoly".
They need to be really really big to compete in the global marketplace.
Then, miracle, they get too big to fail, competition is passe for them,. they are structurally necessary to the world economy, beyond competition...
Terms search many terms, also, your state.
Most states have very, very long ago and far away, been bought off by big utility (used to be only telephone telegraph) and power company interests; this dispute must be another in the long genre of window dressing......
Trying to make you believe that monopolies are good for you.
Can you say "laissez faire monopoly".
They need to be really really big to compete in the global marketplace.
Then, miracle, they get too big to fail, competition is passe for them,. they are structurally necessary to the world economy, beyond competition...
Terms search many terms, also, your state.
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