Great idea, but too late to start thinking about this,
now that prosperity possibilities
under another paradigm
have slipped away with globalization.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
RE NYT ARTICLE 7/27 STRIP CLUBS IN TAMPA ARE READY TO CASH IN
This is typical of Florida culture, as well as national culture.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
IN THIS COUNTRY INDIVIDUAL STATES CHARTER CORPORATIONS
Were it to become of use, say to extort concessions from MNCs, individual states in which they are incorporated would be the likeliest place to look for political leverage.
This leverage might be discovered and exploited somewhere at some time by "cash strapped states".
If I were a cash strapped state, I would extort the heck out of those MNCS incorporated in my state, or else, by state legislation, terminate the corporate charter.
A first step might be to legally prevent corporations from transferring their corporate charter to another state. Prevent corporate forum shopping. Delaware was always a big corporate charter draw.
I believe that large corporations need generally to be unwound, especially the largest ones with global reach.
They no longer serve the general welfare here, to say the least.
Another scenario: cash strapped states go out of business as political entities, devolve back into "free cities" and ungoverned frontier areas; and corporations cease to be legal persons at that point.
This leverage might be discovered and exploited somewhere at some time by "cash strapped states".
If I were a cash strapped state, I would extort the heck out of those MNCS incorporated in my state, or else, by state legislation, terminate the corporate charter.
A first step might be to legally prevent corporations from transferring their corporate charter to another state. Prevent corporate forum shopping. Delaware was always a big corporate charter draw.
I believe that large corporations need generally to be unwound, especially the largest ones with global reach.
They no longer serve the general welfare here, to say the least.
Another scenario: cash strapped states go out of business as political entities, devolve back into "free cities" and ungoverned frontier areas; and corporations cease to be legal persons at that point.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
RE SOVEREIGNTY AT BAY SEE ALSO PRIVATE GOVERNANCE
http://aei.pitt.edu/2851/1/102.pdf
Sounds great doesn't it,
given how things have gone,
with private very large firms,
especially banks.
Kind of like letting the foxes into the hen houses everywhere.
Sounds great doesn't it,
given how things have gone,
with private very large firms,
especially banks.
Kind of like letting the foxes into the hen houses everywhere.
See David Kaiser's current post
DK:
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
"....High educational ideals created both its achievements and its audience. It is moribund now in the United States because no cultural values compete with market values,..."
Reading Randall Collins' works, see The Credential Society, Collins attempts to relate 'cultural capital' to an economic base, in a rough sense, to an economic market concept (but it has almost never been a real laissez faire marketplace out there) to account for cultural and political change over time.
It seems to me that Collins' discussion is helpful for conceptualizing the role of culture, religion, education, media, and ethnic traditions, in a general sense, for economic and political dimensions.
They are not identical, of course, culture and economic/political base, but distinctions and interactions are hard to conceptualize without circularity, ambiguity, superfluity, reductionism, etc.
This discussion relates to my comments here about compartmentalization, specialization, and the remoteness, irrelevance, wastefulness, complexities, shapelessness, and obstructions of academic and educational fields, in relation to powerful movements of current history politics and commerce, which either ignore, bypass, pirate from, dissemble among, or hide behind them.
Collins' history squib of education in America is especially useful.
His references, on everything, are insightful.
Term search compartmentalization, specialization, fragmented, fragmentation, etc.
NOT THAT I AM A BIG DEFENDER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
But it was hardly a surprise, unfortunately, to find that the manager and backers of Madonna,
and her sacrilegious decadence, are Jewish American, and Israeli, interests and charities.
Perhaps Gaga's reductionist sacrilegious and decadent follow- up career is similarly backed?
Perhaps themes here can be seen as related to themes broached today re cultural and market values, and my reference to Randall Collins' works.
and her sacrilegious decadence, are Jewish American, and Israeli, interests and charities.
Perhaps Gaga's reductionist sacrilegious and decadent follow- up career is similarly backed?
Perhaps themes here can be seen as related to themes broached today re cultural and market values, and my reference to Randall Collins' works.
Friday, July 27, 2012
RE MADONNA WHY COMPLAIN RE CONCERT
She has always been a low talent, slutty, bought off, greedy pig.
Nothing has changed, all these years.
I avoided her stuff. Her movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, low quality stuff.
Arquette was a bright spot there.
Nothing has changed, all these years.
I avoided her stuff. Her movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, low quality stuff.
Arquette was a bright spot there.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
RE NYT WEILL FORMER CITI CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR SPLITTING UP BIG BANKS
I have some even more thoroughgoing reforms in mind,
for very large corporations especially.
for very large corporations especially.
RE ANAHEIM AND THE GLOBALIZATION BLOBALIZATION OF INSTABILITY TAUPE FARDY THIS PLACE IS GONNA BLOW
I see no reason why Anaheim should not be the center of widening instability here,
an instability widening everywhere else, for that matter.
It makes a lot of sense, in the context of many other things.
Meredith Whitney being interviewed a while back,
when asked "...most likely-to-default state and local governments?",
she thinks for only a moment,
says "California".
As my daughter likes to put it,
in another, juvenile marketing- driven, context,
that got us into this,
This Place Is Gonna Blow.
Terms search: Meredith Whitney, your state, Thurston, ETC.
an instability widening everywhere else, for that matter.
It makes a lot of sense, in the context of many other things.
Meredith Whitney being interviewed a while back,
when asked "...most likely-to-default state and local governments?",
she thinks for only a moment,
says "California".
As my daughter likes to put it,
in another, juvenile marketing- driven, context,
that got us into this,
This Place Is Gonna Blow.
Terms search: Meredith Whitney, your state, Thurston, ETC.
RE KRUGMAN SMOOT HAWLEY HAWLEY SMOOT FLIMFLAM MAN ETC
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-flimflam-man-and-say-ryan-cartoon.html
A good place to get some perspective on some of these issues, related to economics and trade rather than to Ryan or Hung, would be Opening America's Market, Chapter 4, by Eckes.
A good place to get some perspective on some of these issues, related to economics and trade rather than to Ryan or Hung, would be Opening America's Market, Chapter 4, by Eckes.
RE WORTZEL
I suspect that his collaborator, on several works, Heidi Vernon Wortzel, or Heidi Vernon, may have been related to Raymond Vernon, whose work Sovereignty At Bay I have referred to here several times.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
MY MOST DYNAMIC PROFESSOR AT BU SPEAKING OF MARKETING ONE'S WAY TOWARD MARKET STATES
Undoubtedly, Lawrence H Wortzel.
It seems he was on the ground floor of manufacturing, and marketing, from China, for Western companies; and a specialist in pharmaceutical companies,
but the marketing course he taught to the MBA students was not specifically geared to China, or to pharmaceuticals.
It seems he was on the ground floor of manufacturing, and marketing, from China, for Western companies; and a specialist in pharmaceutical companies,
but the marketing course he taught to the MBA students was not specifically geared to China, or to pharmaceuticals.
CF THOMAS FRIEDMAN'S ESSAY JULY 22 THE LAUNCHING PAD
This takes the cake. Everyone everywhere... America the launching pad....
This has already been the place from which
'never was so much given to so many by so few so quickly...'
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-previous-patents-article-post-r-d-at.html
Friedman needs a ' Tyson collaboration ' on his space program concept of launching pad entrepreneurial rhetoric.
This has already been the place from which
'never was so much given to so many by so few so quickly...'
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-previous-patents-article-post-r-d-at.html
Friedman needs a ' Tyson collaboration ' on his space program concept of launching pad entrepreneurial rhetoric.
RE NORTHEAST INDIA ANOTHER HOTBED OF CONFLICT UNFOLDING
Maybe they just need freer Judeo Christian markets, and more open neoliberal borders, and free and open democratic elections, and more good human rites, especially freedom of expression and freedom of press, up there?
RE OLYMPIAN VALUES AND GREEK COMMENTS
The Olympics was originally a contest among Greek states, only.
Even then, the only real historical Olympic 'value' among them, relevant to this discussion, was not really a value, but rather a military agreement, that of temporary peace, a truce,
and even that, only during the duration of the games.
That makes a lot of sense to me today too,
among Greeks and non Greeks.
Even then, the only real historical Olympic 'value' among them, relevant to this discussion, was not really a value, but rather a military agreement, that of temporary peace, a truce,
and even that, only during the duration of the games.
That makes a lot of sense to me today too,
among Greeks and non Greeks.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
CHINA IS MOVING TROOPS IN ALREADY GLOBALIST APPEASEMENT ISM NO END IN SIGHT
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-is-likely-soon-to-be-as-fun-place.html
See previous post Stephanie Flanders...........
How would one fight a 10 front war, if one were so inclined?
On the other hand, ( Mortons Fork ):
Hasn't globalist 'capitalism' itself already long been morphing, for several decades now, into globalist appeasement ism ?
See previous post Stephanie Flanders...........
How would one fight a 10 front war, if one were so inclined?
On the other hand, ( Mortons Fork ):
Hasn't globalist 'capitalism' itself already long been morphing, for several decades now, into globalist appeasement ism ?
RE BBC STEPHANIE FLANDERS TODAY
Happened fast, didn't it,
in a globalist environment?
How do you think Chinese elites, and their cronies,
(China's cronies will probably not ultimately be Western elites, but rather, say, Russian and or Japanese elites, who can be more easily trusted....yet not trusted very much indeed)
will treat Western elites and those elites' political stooges, who have given China this world dominance chance, in a breathtakingly, breathtakingly, short amount of historical time?
Take a guess.
Discussions in, say, The Global Class War, very mild, polite, discussions, about NAFTA, NAFTA ELITES, etc.,
do not really capture what is likely to occur at all.
in a globalist environment?
How do you think Chinese elites, and their cronies,
(China's cronies will probably not ultimately be Western elites, but rather, say, Russian and or Japanese elites, who can be more easily trusted....yet not trusted very much indeed)
will treat Western elites and those elites' political stooges, who have given China this world dominance chance, in a breathtakingly, breathtakingly, short amount of historical time?
Take a guess.
Discussions in, say, The Global Class War, very mild, polite, discussions, about NAFTA, NAFTA ELITES, etc.,
do not really capture what is likely to occur at all.
Monday, July 23, 2012
re blob globalization and MNC spread across nation state boundaries THE WORLD IS FLAT NOT
Think about MNCs as vast globular appendages, once part of distinct nation states, but long since seeping into all other nation states.
It is really more complex than my images for globalization blobbalization. Think of MNCs as originally parts of these circles, but they spread into all other national geographic boundaries:
Vernon discussed it, the 'spread' of MNCs, at the outset of Sovereignty At Bay, p 5.
"....They sprawl across national boundaries...."
The very size and number of such entities was only made possible by weak and fragmented neoliberal Western nation states.
Although a relatively few natural resource firms had been very large, notably oil companies,
the real heyday came only after WW II, with the loosening of controls.
The world is our oyster; when in Rome do as the Romans.
It is really more complex than my images for globalization blobbalization. Think of MNCs as originally parts of these circles, but they spread into all other national geographic boundaries:
Vernon discussed it, the 'spread' of MNCs, at the outset of Sovereignty At Bay, p 5.
"....They sprawl across national boundaries...."
The very size and number of such entities was only made possible by weak and fragmented neoliberal Western nation states.
Although a relatively few natural resource firms had been very large, notably oil companies,
the real heyday came only after WW II, with the loosening of controls.
The world is our oyster; when in Rome do as the Romans.
RE POLITICALLY FRAGMENTED MARKET CAPITALISM
'The world is our oyster', 'when in Rome do as the Romans' (Vernon, Sovereignty). These were the watch words of US executives in the 60s. Don't take my word for it. Vernon, Sovereignty At Bay, knew it well. See his passage, on the US' relative political fragmentation, leading to political weakness, as against its own and others' erstwhile national, but by then (1971) multi national, corporations, p 207, 208.
re the news room and the collapse of civilization HOW INTERESTING IS A STATE?
See DK's current post.
The news media was always more interested in the marketing issue than anything else.
This has been what decentralized and politically fragmented market capitalism has been all about.
Term search eg:
Lorch, your state, State and Local Government, etc.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
The news media was always more interested in the marketing issue than anything else.
This has been what decentralized and politically fragmented market capitalism has been all about.
Term search eg:
Lorch, your state, State and Local Government, etc.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
AUDIENCE TODAY SIX LOUSY RUSSIANS ONLY
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
RE SECTARIAN VIOLENCE SPREADING IN IRAQ
Shape of things to come most everywhere.
It will make the empire system, that Churchill among others, wanted to preserve, look good.
It will make the empire system, that Churchill among others, wanted to preserve, look good.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
CF RANDALL COLLINS THE CREDENTIAL SOCIETY
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-professions-experts-specialists-in.html
ESPECIALLY STARTING AT PAGES 72
See also his later discussions, re the history of education and occupations, in various passages in The Sociology of Philosophies
ESPECIALLY STARTING AT PAGES 72
See also his later discussions, re the history of education and occupations, in various passages in The Sociology of Philosophies
RE RUSSIAN SINGER QUITS BAYREUTH WAGNER OPERA OVER TATTOOS
Swastika tattoos,
on a Russian opera singer.
Oh well.
Of course, tattoos are not a very smart thing, going forward.
on a Russian opera singer.
Oh well.
Of course, tattoos are not a very smart thing, going forward.
RE NOBLESSE OBLIGE MICHAEL LEWIS NPR
What a wonderful explanation,
after the Princeton address,
the interview on NPR.
Of course, he remains an idealist here......
American so-called elites are not that kind, the kind of former elites,
to whom the term noblesse oblige could sometimes meaningfully have applied,
whose passing had been bemoaned in, say, The Proud Tower.
Tuchman's description there, of when and why the early American 'elites' (such as they were!) chose, in the early 19th Century, to refuse to go into politics, is instructive for Lewis' theme of noblesse oblige, and for its prospects for success in the 21st Century.
after the Princeton address,
the interview on NPR.
Of course, he remains an idealist here......
American so-called elites are not that kind, the kind of former elites,
to whom the term noblesse oblige could sometimes meaningfully have applied,
whose passing had been bemoaned in, say, The Proud Tower.
Tuchman's description there, of when and why the early American 'elites' (such as they were!) chose, in the early 19th Century, to refuse to go into politics, is instructive for Lewis' theme of noblesse oblige, and for its prospects for success in the 21st Century.
FOR MORE BLASTS FROM THE PAST
Term search eg: Maverick Executive, Macaire, enter preener,
or even say, rail to rail
or even say, rail to rail
FATTENING OR FLATTENING THOMAS FRIEDMAN NOT
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/eu-glob-alization-also-is-not-flat.html
TO FOLLOW UP ON GAGA NO PLASTIC SURGERY in another possible world
No doubt,
IN SOME OTHER POSSIBLE WORLD,
Gaga would be an astrophysicist,
(possible worlds are amazing this way,)
and other, mostly alien, beings
(male or female, to be 'fair')
would be wondering whether to do a Tyson Collaboration with her!
IN SOME OTHER POSSIBLE WORLD,
Gaga would be an astrophysicist,
(possible worlds are amazing this way,)
and other, mostly alien, beings
(male or female, to be 'fair')
would be wondering whether to do a Tyson Collaboration with her!
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