"Billions of dollars worth of jet aircraft, tanks, artillery and much more went from the US, the Soviets and other nations to India and Pakistan, Egypt and Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia, North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, and elsewhere. Occassionally this weaponry was used in local wars."
Liberal international trade expansionism, in weapons and strategic and commercial patronage; and communist influence commercial expansionism patronage, correspondingly.
Call it the cold war boom of The Rest that served the long term interests of neither the US nor USSR.
In fact, it has killed off remaining hegemonic opportunities of each, to some extent, and will lead to their disadvantage, in any conflicts, economic and military, going forward.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
SEE DK'S CURRENT POST
'....The Constitution is not primarily at fault.'
He does, however, cite certain weaknesses, which Toobin also notes.
There are plenty of others, I call them structural problems, but they also flow from suspicion of the ancient regime itself, and from the colonial geopolitical status quo ante, that neither of them apparently feel a need to go back into or address.
Bailyn's works best show how the stage was set, so to speak, for these weaknesses to emerge in the constitution, as well as in American society and culture generally.
He does, however, cite certain weaknesses, which Toobin also notes.
There are plenty of others, I call them structural problems, but they also flow from suspicion of the ancient regime itself, and from the colonial geopolitical status quo ante, that neither of them apparently feel a need to go back into or address.
Bailyn's works best show how the stage was set, so to speak, for these weaknesses to emerge in the constitution, as well as in American society and culture generally.
RE WARSHIP ENCOUNTER AND MACMILLAN'S THEMES WWI
As I have pointed out, globalized military instability, call it war, has been under way now for several years, under the radar so to speak.
It is beginning to come out more into the open, where any idiot could see it, now.
It is beginning to come out more into the open, where any idiot could see it, now.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
READING KENNAN'S BOOK ON THE END OF BISMARCK'S EUROPEAN ORDER
See Margaret MacMillan's article, nyt, today. Great Stuff.
The obvious.
Terms search MacMillan
The obvious.
Terms search MacMillan
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
WEEKLY AUDIENCE MALAYSIA IS HUGE
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
RE US SAYS CHINA AIR DEFENSE ZONE UNACCEPTABLE
If you don't want to later have to confront em, on less favorable terms, don't even boom em in the first place.
Sage advice, for 40 years ago, 60 years for Japan.
Terms search: fattening things up.
This is where our people are; Kerry: ' Korea and Japan should get closer, for Asian security ', something like that.
Japan and Korea hate each other.
Sage advice, for 40 years ago, 60 years for Japan.
Terms search: fattening things up.
This is where our people are; Kerry: ' Korea and Japan should get closer, for Asian security ', something like that.
Japan and Korea hate each other.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
DUSTY ON FRANCIS ON TRICKLE DOWN
He's got the drop on em, out by the stagecoach:
Dusty: " Gimme all yur trickle down, an nobody gits hirt. That's yur human rites."
Meanwhile, Wong, who has sneaked up behind Dusty, is pissing on his rear boot, while he looks the other way.
Dusty: " Gimme all yur trickle down, an nobody gits hirt. That's yur human rites."
Meanwhile, Wong, who has sneaked up behind Dusty, is pissing on his rear boot, while he looks the other way.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Zuckerberg coming out as a classic liberal globalist un Americanist maverick Executive on immigration policy
The other globalist Americans are the grass roots conservative American globalists, and the Rightist Monopolist American globalists, all globalist brothers, in this peculiarly American sense, under the skin.
The Achilles heel, for a nation state, here (still the only state anywhere worth having, or in sight, other than an imperial one) was always excess diversity.
Name me an American who is not, deep down a globalist?
Even the conservatives, especially economists, even liberal ones, very deeply, are globalists.
The Achilles heel, for a nation state, here (still the only state anywhere worth having, or in sight, other than an imperial one) was always excess diversity.
Name me an American who is not, deep down a globalist?
Even the conservatives, especially economists, even liberal ones, very deeply, are globalists.
CHINA PUSHING OUT ON ALL SIDES INDIA BORDER S CHINA SEA MUSLIMS ETC
Guess who may have given them the ' go ahead '?
If not, they aren't talking about that, at least in the Western press, either.
audience today so far
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
RE JAPAN KOREA US DEFY CHINA AIR ZONE
This seems to set the tone nicely.
Wonder what Russia will do?
That will be an indication of fun to come.
Given our history of globalization over there, to say we have little leverage is rather an understatement.
It has long been our own fault, not that of the Chinese, or others.
terms search: fattening things up.
Wonder what Russia will do?
That will be an indication of fun to come.
Given our history of globalization over there, to say we have little leverage is rather an understatement.
It has long been our own fault, not that of the Chinese, or others.
terms search: fattening things up.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
occasionally someone gets on my site
They are influenced by certain known individuals.
The prior post was the result.
The prior post was the result.
TA DA
There is a time and place to say that I, truly do not know WHAT I am talking about. Let's admit it. Oh well, we can't all be smart can we? Some of us are slightly "not all there". I have some issues.
Here is a photo of the true me:
Here is a photo of the true me:
THE NEW ASIAN NORMAL NOT YUR THOMAS FRIEDMAN
This really understates the bulbous interpenetrations over there and here too. It is not a flat world at all.
Someone liked this old post, quite apt really:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html
This is much more, generally, what it really looks like:
Sunday, November 24, 2013
SEVEN BILLIONS IN SANCTIONS RELIEF SAME OLD STORY IRAN NUCLEAR AID
What do Americans think they bought with that?
For whom?
Kerry: "Israel will be safer......."
Israel: "Historic mistake."
(Who's telling the truth?)
For how long, safer, were Kerry right?
Why would anyone in their right mind think this was a good, or an exemplary, deal?
All of Asia, and elsewhere, will be, first, beating a drum, and then, waiting, with their hand out.
Why not pacify Russia, China, and N Korea, and Japan, all with big aid packages?
They all need the money.
For whom?
Kerry: "Israel will be safer......."
Israel: "Historic mistake."
(Who's telling the truth?)
For how long, safer, were Kerry right?
Why would anyone in their right mind think this was a good, or an exemplary, deal?
All of Asia, and elsewhere, will be, first, beating a drum, and then, waiting, with their hand out.
Why not pacify Russia, China, and N Korea, and Japan, all with big aid packages?
They all need the money.
RE CHRISTIANITY JUDAISM ISLAM AND BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
One of the big things that has happened recently is that archaeology and history have both caught up, so to speak, with pre Christian pre Islam Jewish history.
This is a much much bigger event than most people here think.
There are several reasons for this.
This is a much much bigger event than most people here think.
There are several reasons for this.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
READING AGAIN HOWARD'S INAUGURAL CHICHELE CHAIR LECTURE
"War And The Nation State"
SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME.....
SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME.....
RE BBC CHINA EXTENDS AIR DEFENSE PERIMETER VITAL GLOBAL INTERESTS
Doubtless they just want a little more global trade and technology transfer, to back down.
The whole South China Sea, and way beyond, certainly all of the Pacific, is vital.
Same for Japan; same for us; Korea, etc.
When you are global, like we all are, now, all interests, everywhere, become vital.
It is the farthest possible thing from Thomas Friedman's flat world paradigm. It is bulbous and interpenetrated:
The whole South China Sea, and way beyond, certainly all of the Pacific, is vital.
Same for Japan; same for us; Korea, etc.
When you are global, like we all are, now, all interests, everywhere, become vital.
It is the farthest possible thing from Thomas Friedman's flat world paradigm. It is bulbous and interpenetrated:
Friday, November 22, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
daily audience now Malaysia is wild
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MY VIEW CF SOFT POWER
Call it Civilizational Mercantilist Nationalism, rather than the now outdated, and misleading, term Imperialism.
See also Gabor Steingart, The War For Wealth.
I would call it, rather, as I have said before, a war for mere survival. Not a war anyone would want.
All use, they and we, have been using, your ideologies, open market arrangements, prejudices, and preferences, and the weak structure of our political system and the international system itself, very much against us, every moment that goes by.
Steingart refers to soft power. That says it nicely.
See also Gabor Steingart, The War For Wealth.
I would call it, rather, as I have said before, a war for mere survival. Not a war anyone would want.
All use, they and we, have been using, your ideologies, open market arrangements, prejudices, and preferences, and the weak structure of our political system and the international system itself, very much against us, every moment that goes by.
Steingart refers to soft power. That says it nicely.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Street Wrecker Love
(Revised lyrics )
She:
Get the hell away, buddy,
Get the hell away.
Get the hell away, asshole,
not like yesterday,
We broke up ten times, mister,
all like yesterday.
Get the hell away, buddy,
Make it far away.
He:
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for the road.
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we two for the road.
She:
(repeat.)
He:
(repeat.)
She:
Get the hell away, buddy,
Get the hell away.
Get the hell away, asshole,
not like yesterday,
We broke up ten times, mister,
all like yesterday.
Get the hell away, buddy,
Make it far away.
He:
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for the road.
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we two for the road.
She:
(repeat.)
He:
(repeat.)
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
FAILURE OF FDR RE EUROPE AND RUSSIA LEAD TO ECONOMIC NEED TO GLOBALIZE
This really accelerated the decline of the West.
The Marshall Plan started out as a restoration program centered on the West, and later occupation and military arrangements, including Japan, as a defense against Soviet encroachments in the West and in Asia, but almost immediately turned willy nilly into a globalizing program under the Truman Doctrine.
Kennan in Memoirs points out his frustration, and makes the distinctions he promoted regarding aid to the West versus willy nilly economic aid to Truman doctrine anti communist claimants anywhere. Point well taken.
Nevertheless, since the Russians had been allowed to place Eastern Europe off limits economically, Western European recovery perhaps implied not merely Marshall Plan aid there, and aid to Japan, but economic globalization elsewhere, not merely to oppose the spread of communism elsewhere, but to make up the economic deficit resulting from the economic loss of Eastern Europe. This is a point which, if true, Kennan, back then, in say 1947, was not alive to. Yet, so much he says about that period is very enlightening nevertheless.
The destruction of colonial empires, advocated by the US, only hastened the process of market capitalist globalization.
My own view is we should have defended those empires, not disbanded, or appropriated, them, and permanently resisted booming the underdeveloped world.
Call it Civilizational Mercantilism, rather than the now misleading term Imperialism.
The Marshall Plan started out as a restoration program centered on the West, and later occupation and military arrangements, including Japan, as a defense against Soviet encroachments in the West and in Asia, but almost immediately turned willy nilly into a globalizing program under the Truman Doctrine.
Kennan in Memoirs points out his frustration, and makes the distinctions he promoted regarding aid to the West versus willy nilly economic aid to Truman doctrine anti communist claimants anywhere. Point well taken.
Nevertheless, since the Russians had been allowed to place Eastern Europe off limits economically, Western European recovery perhaps implied not merely Marshall Plan aid there, and aid to Japan, but economic globalization elsewhere, not merely to oppose the spread of communism elsewhere, but to make up the economic deficit resulting from the economic loss of Eastern Europe. This is a point which, if true, Kennan, back then, in say 1947, was not alive to. Yet, so much he says about that period is very enlightening nevertheless.
The destruction of colonial empires, advocated by the US, only hastened the process of market capitalist globalization.
My own view is we should have defended those empires, not disbanded, or appropriated, them, and permanently resisted booming the underdeveloped world.
Call it Civilizational Mercantilism, rather than the now misleading term Imperialism.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
NOT A BIG SURPRISE REUTERS NEWS BRITISH SECURITY PERSONNEL LAMBASTING SNOWDEN
It is a lesson, isn't it, in not to use contractors, and not to cooperate too much with foreign governments, however so called friendly they may be termed to be by feckless politicians.
It really is, below the radar, another lesson in an old, outmoded, concept, nationalism.
Al Qaeda, frankly, going forward, is the least of their worries.
It really is, below the radar, another lesson in an old, outmoded, concept, nationalism.
Al Qaeda, frankly, going forward, is the least of their worries.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
WHY NOT LAISSEZ FAIRY GROW YOUR FUTURE ENEMIES
Quote from prior post here: "Especially, why grow your future enemies, even if it seems a great bargain today?"
Just read a passage in Kennan's Memoirs, re how, back in the early thirties, in the depression, German machine tool makers had felt they had to turn, in market capitalist desperation, to Soviet orders.........
Just read a passage in Kennan's Memoirs, re how, back in the early thirties, in the depression, German machine tool makers had felt they had to turn, in market capitalist desperation, to Soviet orders.........
Monday, November 4, 2013
re DK CURRENT POST RE WWII WASHINGTON ELITES
"That was an era where our elites could see and think clearly and make things happen...."
"... In any case, I cannot escape the conclusion that the qualities I observed among Roosevelt's top leadership--not to mention FDR himself--simply are not on display in Washington, D.C. today."
Reading Kennan's Memoirs, among other things, one has to wonder regarding how true these assertions are, in retrospect....p. 212: "the wreckage of FDR's policy with respect to Russia and Poland....", hardly an isolated topic for much needed criticism of administration wartime policy.
Granted, the 'make things happen' part rings truer, to me, than the 'think clearly' part, against the background of current Washington elites.
Roosevelt also played off his top leaders against each other in what some have called counterproductive ways. (Given our system, what choice was there really?)
His proximity to Morgenthau only reinforced an anti Germanism which I never knew ran so deep until reading Beschloss' book.
Morgenthau certainly could think clearly about what he wanted to happen to Germany.
"... In any case, I cannot escape the conclusion that the qualities I observed among Roosevelt's top leadership--not to mention FDR himself--simply are not on display in Washington, D.C. today."
Reading Kennan's Memoirs, among other things, one has to wonder regarding how true these assertions are, in retrospect....p. 212: "the wreckage of FDR's policy with respect to Russia and Poland....", hardly an isolated topic for much needed criticism of administration wartime policy.
Granted, the 'make things happen' part rings truer, to me, than the 'think clearly' part, against the background of current Washington elites.
Roosevelt also played off his top leaders against each other in what some have called counterproductive ways. (Given our system, what choice was there really?)
His proximity to Morgenthau only reinforced an anti Germanism which I never knew ran so deep until reading Beschloss' book.
Morgenthau certainly could think clearly about what he wanted to happen to Germany.
audience today so far
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
RETURNED AGAIN TO KENNAN'S MEMOIRS 1925 1950
No one seriously concerned, re structural problems, with our system, can avoid it.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
re REUTERS EUROPE'S SPIES WORK TOGETHER PREMATURE FINGER POINTING AT US GUARDIAN
Highly to be expected.
RE DUELING EXPERTS ACADEMICS WITHIN AND ACROSS DISCIPLINES ECONOMISTS ETC
An old post, commenting on nyt articles, touching on these topics:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-technocrats-regulatory-paradigm.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-technocrats-regulatory-paradigm.html
A CLASSIC POST RE TRADE INVESTMENT ASIA STRATEGY ETC
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-robert-reich-nyt-recover-our.html
Here is that post:
RE ROBERT REICH NYT RECOVER OUR SPENDING POWER BRAUDEL THE MEDITERRANEAN NOT THE WILD WEST
Here is that post:
RE ROBERT REICH NYT RECOVER OUR SPENDING POWER BRAUDEL THE MEDITERRANEAN NOT THE WILD WEST
Income redistribution, taken in isolation, makes some sense.
The rest of it is mostly the same globalist consumerist model nonsense we see even from ostensibly 'progressive' pundits.
They are essentially one trick ponies: blobalism is good.
Let's just try to tweak it, and somehow everything will turn out all right.
Rather, we should discourage (even attempt to prevent), not encourage, further or high speed growth in China, for the most obvious military, commercial, financial, resource, and environmental reasons; just as we should have in Japan, which pundits seem everywhere now to be analogizing to China, deja vu, for very similar reasons.
(The pundits say 'like Japan 20 years ago', but 50 years back, for Japan, would be closer, if you do the research.
Pundits will say China has almost all of certain metals. One reason is that we did not bother to mine them somewhere else.)
Even back then, 50 years ago, Japan was playing three sides in the Cold War behind our back, investing in China, its ostensible cold war enemy.
Here is a quote from The Coming Conflict With China:
'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'
For Japan, similar quotes can be found.
See also The Coming War With Japan, especially "The Grand Strategy of Japan".
As I have pointed out, as well as their own pundits, Japan was allowed to hollow out the American industrial base (ie Japan's own ostensible defense umbrella industrial base). On this topic, a passage from The coming War With Japan is apposite, see p.
China has been in process of squashing it flat. No more umbrella.
It is not 'the world is flat', but the American producer economy, that is flat.
There is no trade and investment learning curve in the US.
Matter of fact, 'high growth' per se should be discouraged, everywhere.
Especially, why grow your future enemies, even if it seems a great bargain today?
Reich, and American elites, both share the view that it is basically a hunky dory situation, and all we need to do is a little trade tweaking, and some domestic income redistribution, in order to continue to high grow these developmental regimes. They think of the world as one of open opportunity, on the model of the American West, where capitalism can create its own sources of opportunity as it goes along.
Think instead of the Mediterranean world, as described by Braudel, a world of relative scarcity surrounded by hungry societies each striving, since ancient times, Rome, Carthage, Persia, etc., for a livelihood. See also Clifford A. Wright, A Mediterranean Feast, a cookbook with some history included.
That is emphatically not how it will turn out, either for American elites, or for American middle or lower class persons.
Term search also Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, etc.
Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? Esp. Ch. 5 is useful, for Americans who cannot understand why their political system and economy do not flourished, are now flat; in spite of, and crushed by, all this great blobalization.
People like James Grant would not agree with any of this. I use his ideas, re currencies, when they happen to agree with mine.
The rest of it is mostly the same globalist consumerist model nonsense we see even from ostensibly 'progressive' pundits.
They are essentially one trick ponies: blobalism is good.
Let's just try to tweak it, and somehow everything will turn out all right.
Rather, we should discourage (even attempt to prevent), not encourage, further or high speed growth in China, for the most obvious military, commercial, financial, resource, and environmental reasons; just as we should have in Japan, which pundits seem everywhere now to be analogizing to China, deja vu, for very similar reasons.
(The pundits say 'like Japan 20 years ago', but 50 years back, for Japan, would be closer, if you do the research.
Pundits will say China has almost all of certain metals. One reason is that we did not bother to mine them somewhere else.)
Even back then, 50 years ago, Japan was playing three sides in the Cold War behind our back, investing in China, its ostensible cold war enemy.
Here is a quote from The Coming Conflict With China:
'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'
For Japan, similar quotes can be found.
See also The Coming War With Japan, especially "The Grand Strategy of Japan".
As I have pointed out, as well as their own pundits, Japan was allowed to hollow out the American industrial base (ie Japan's own ostensible defense umbrella industrial base). On this topic, a passage from The coming War With Japan is apposite, see p.
China has been in process of squashing it flat. No more umbrella.
It is not 'the world is flat', but the American producer economy, that is flat.
There is no trade and investment learning curve in the US.
Matter of fact, 'high growth' per se should be discouraged, everywhere.
Especially, why grow your future enemies, even if it seems a great bargain today?
Reich, and American elites, both share the view that it is basically a hunky dory situation, and all we need to do is a little trade tweaking, and some domestic income redistribution, in order to continue to high grow these developmental regimes. They think of the world as one of open opportunity, on the model of the American West, where capitalism can create its own sources of opportunity as it goes along.
Think instead of the Mediterranean world, as described by Braudel, a world of relative scarcity surrounded by hungry societies each striving, since ancient times, Rome, Carthage, Persia, etc., for a livelihood. See also Clifford A. Wright, A Mediterranean Feast, a cookbook with some history included.
That is emphatically not how it will turn out, either for American elites, or for American middle or lower class persons.
Term search also Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, etc.
Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? Esp. Ch. 5 is useful, for Americans who cannot understand why their political system and economy do not flourished, are now flat; in spite of, and crushed by, all this great blobalization.
People like James Grant would not agree with any of this. I use his ideas, re currencies, when they happen to agree with mine.
Friday, November 1, 2013
RE GOING ROGUE PALIN ETC
The term, turning or going rogue, goes way back, of course.
Colonial governors were regularly accused, by inflamed colonists, of turning rogue, in the colonial period.
See Bailyn, The Origins Of American Politics, pb, p. 137.
Those governors, back then, however, usually were relatively well qualified, comparatively speaking, and normally did not go rogue so to speak.
Colonial governors were regularly accused, by inflamed colonists, of turning rogue, in the colonial period.
See Bailyn, The Origins Of American Politics, pb, p. 137.
Those governors, back then, however, usually were relatively well qualified, comparatively speaking, and normally did not go rogue so to speak.
RE ORIGINS AMERICAN POLITICS BAILYN
He even uses the word compartmentalization, re the discipline of history re origins, at the end of the book.
There was no calm before the rebellion storm.
The whole Eighteenth Century here was a waste land of political disorder, anarchy, and mayhem. The colonial period was one long political storm, colony by colony.
The usual alleged trigger causes were nothings, Stamp Act, Townshend Duties, Massacre, in the larger scheme of things.
The end of the Seven Years War was really a chance to impose a modicum of order.
There was no calm before the rebellion storm.
The whole Eighteenth Century here was a waste land of political disorder, anarchy, and mayhem. The colonial period was one long political storm, colony by colony.
The usual alleged trigger causes were nothings, Stamp Act, Townshend Duties, Massacre, in the larger scheme of things.
The end of the Seven Years War was really a chance to impose a modicum of order.
WHY SHOULDNT BULGARIA PREVENT FOREIGNERS FROM ITS FARM LAND
Forget the EU.
It is a doomsday institution.
It is a doomsday institution.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
US CRITICIZES CHINA GERMANY EXPORT LEAD GROWTH GAME OVER ECONOMISTS
Call in Steingart.
Same old tired platitudes, fall out from our own globalization initiatives after WWII, 70 odd years ago now.
As I have pointed out, way too late now to turn back to a healthy nationalism, so
game over.
Same old tired platitudes, fall out from our own globalization initiatives after WWII, 70 odd years ago now.
As I have pointed out, way too late now to turn back to a healthy nationalism, so
game over.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
REPRISE MORAL PILLARS CARTOON BONOBOES
Someone liked this.
Here it is again.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/monkey-see-monkey-do-cartoon.html
Here it is again.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/monkey-see-monkey-do-cartoon.html
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
RE THE PUBLIC ROLE OF ACADEMICS
Put another way, my view, of the conflict between co Nobel laureates in economics, is that although theoretically this dispute could be resolved within the discipline of economics, it cannot actually be, as that discipline is constituted, and further, the only way to get beyond such an ostensibly intradisciplinary dispute, to see it in perspective, is from outside economics, to draw on insights from other fields.
Framed within economics, it takes on the character of an insoluble dilemma. Viewed from outside, a pseudo dilemma.
As I have pointed out, from a US perspective, economics turned out to be our own doomsday discipline.
Framed within economics, it takes on the character of an insoluble dilemma. Viewed from outside, a pseudo dilemma.
As I have pointed out, from a US perspective, economics turned out to be our own doomsday discipline.
Monday, October 28, 2013
WHEN YOU'RE A GLOBALIST COUNTRY YOU CAN SPY ON EVERYONE
Because they are all one, under the skin.
'We are the world', as the song goes.
'We are the world', as the song goes.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
re multidisciplinaryanism or interdisciplinarianism
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=7416120139011028694
I actually meant interdisciplinarianism, rather than multidisciplinarianism, as urgently needed.
The current issue of the Stetson U Magazine nicely illustrates the distinction, and some of its confusions, in that a mere liberal education, (the issue's topic, whether liberal education is dead), is not enough.
Thus, one can see why mere casual multidisciplinarianism, which I equate to what is often meant by a liberal education, is dying, from irrelevance.
Some of the contributors equate the two, which is not appropriate.
I actually meant interdisciplinarianism, rather than multidisciplinarianism, as urgently needed.
The current issue of the Stetson U Magazine nicely illustrates the distinction, and some of its confusions, in that a mere liberal education, (the issue's topic, whether liberal education is dead), is not enough.
Thus, one can see why mere casual multidisciplinarianism, which I equate to what is often meant by a liberal education, is dying, from irrelevance.
Some of the contributors equate the two, which is not appropriate.
FREE COMMENT FROM TIM KREIDER HE NEEDS JARON LANIER WHO OWNS THE WORLD
Thanks very much for your compliments on my [writing/illustration/whatever thing you do]. I’m flattered by your invitation to [do whatever it is they want you to do for nothing]. But [thing you do] is work, it takes time, it’s how I make my living, and in this economy I can’t afford to do it for free. I’m sorry to decline, but thanks again, sincerely, for your kind words about my work.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
re DK POST RE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE
Re my comment, I should add, that multidisciplinarianism unfortunately has long been practically impossible, as disciplinary compartmentalism has unfolded over the centuries.
Still, the urgency of a multidisciplinary approach has long been acute.
As the social sciences rolled out, efforts were made to connect politics and economics, thus ' political economy ', among other things. Unfortunately, this particular ' field ' was stigmatized as leftist, when little inherently lead to that interpretation except perhaps Smithianism itself.
Into the 20th century, these efforts, even, gradually fell away.
See eg Gilpin's The Political Economy of International Relations, one of the later efforts in that direction.
Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies, another worthwhile effort.
Still, the urgency of a multidisciplinary approach has long been acute.
As the social sciences rolled out, efforts were made to connect politics and economics, thus ' political economy ', among other things. Unfortunately, this particular ' field ' was stigmatized as leftist, when little inherently lead to that interpretation except perhaps Smithianism itself.
Into the 20th century, these efforts, even, gradually fell away.
See eg Gilpin's The Political Economy of International Relations, one of the later efforts in that direction.
Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies, another worthwhile effort.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
re DK ADVERSUS DUVALL
Contrary to the situation in Britain at that time, Americans today have weak conservatism and weak progressivism in the absence of the crucial ingredient, among others: nationalism.
American conservatives are globalists.
American progressives are globalists.
American liberals are globalists.
They are not nationalists, a dirty word, for us, since the Kaiser, and then Hitler.
American conservatives are globalists.
American progressives are globalists.
American liberals are globalists.
They are not nationalists, a dirty word, for us, since the Kaiser, and then Hitler.
RE DK ADVERSUS ROBERT DUVALL
Conservatives and progressives......nineteenth and twentieth century versions....
Funnily enough, if one looks back at the radical Whigs, who evolved over here into the American rebellion group, but among whom were also Tory loyalist types, the roots of our progressivisms, and conservatisms, were sort of related, and confused together, back then. They still are.
As Bailyn implies, both arose out of opposing ideologies, in the left and right opposition to the likes of Walpole.
Funnily enough, if one looks back at the radical Whigs, who evolved over here into the American rebellion group, but among whom were also Tory loyalist types, the roots of our progressivisms, and conservatisms, were sort of related, and confused together, back then. They still are.
As Bailyn implies, both arose out of opposing ideologies, in the left and right opposition to the likes of Walpole.
MONITORING MERKEL'S PHONE
All in a day's work over here.
Hope it wasn't ' low bid '.
Certainly, it was an outside, Snowdon ian, contractor.
Have to outsource work like this.
Hope it wasn't ' low bid '.
Certainly, it was an outside, Snowdon ian, contractor.
Have to outsource work like this.
the dollar
Perhaps someone who can raise prices, in dollars, wouldn't worry so much about a weaker dollar.
Who can do that?
Someone who has, or can credibly fake, production monopoly power.
Who can do that?
Someone who has, or can credibly fake, production monopoly power.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
LETS TALK THE DOLLAR
Why would anyone in their right mind want to start a run on the dollar?
After all, everyone who is anyone has a lot of them.
Let's start by asking a few other kinds of questions, sort of suss this thing out, so to speak.
Who could engineer such a thing? Why?
Let's reflect on recent remarks re de Americanizing the world.
How would you do that, would you say?
How would you de Americanize the world?
Answer, de dollarize it. For a start?
Actually, that's the endgame.
One had to start out, as the Japanese, especially, did, and de industrialize it, hollow it out.
That process has continued with Asian and Mexican, production, the Chinese eventually taking production away from Mexico, neutering to some extent NAFTA, in a dog eat dog, dog eat cat, production world.
Only in that way could one set the stage, so to speak, in Asia, for de dollarizing it.
After all, everyone who is anyone has a lot of them.
Let's start by asking a few other kinds of questions, sort of suss this thing out, so to speak.
Who could engineer such a thing? Why?
Let's reflect on recent remarks re de Americanizing the world.
How would you do that, would you say?
How would you de Americanize the world?
Answer, de dollarize it. For a start?
Actually, that's the endgame.
One had to start out, as the Japanese, especially, did, and de industrialize it, hollow it out.
That process has continued with Asian and Mexican, production, the Chinese eventually taking production away from Mexico, neutering to some extent NAFTA, in a dog eat dog, dog eat cat, production world.
Only in that way could one set the stage, so to speak, in Asia, for de dollarizing it.
Friday, October 18, 2013
RE CHINA OUTRAGED JAPAN LAWMAKERS VISIT JAPAN WAR SHRINE
Why shouldn't Japanese visit their own war shrine, in their own country?
Saturday, October 12, 2013
CHINA TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN BRITAIN PEACE THROUGH FREE TRADE AND INVESTMENT
Call it ever decreasing leverage, peace, prosperity, or security, everywhere, going forward.
The current dean at BU, a great Cobden ist, as he has to be:
"...Business defines the common language that crosses all country boundaries--it is the best route to global peace and prosperity."
The current dean at BU, a great Cobden ist, as he has to be:
"...Business defines the common language that crosses all country boundaries--it is the best route to global peace and prosperity."
Friday, October 11, 2013
PHILIPPINES SOUTH CHINA SEA PERFECT FOR BI PARTISAN PHILIPPICS DUSTY
Why stay tacit?
Why not go philippic on em?
One reason: lack of ' leverage '.
But, hey, who needs leverage to go philippics?
Has lack of leverage stopped wanton, publicity hungry, American demagogues often, in the past?
American politician: "Lemme atem!"
Dusty: "Hold yur horses, buster, an nobody, ovr here, gits hirt."
Why not go philippic on em?
One reason: lack of ' leverage '.
But, hey, who needs leverage to go philippics?
Has lack of leverage stopped wanton, publicity hungry, American demagogues often, in the past?
American politician: "Lemme atem!"
Dusty: "Hold yur horses, buster, an nobody, ovr here, gits hirt."
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RE DK'S CURRENT POST
"Because the German people believed that submarine warfare could win the war, the government had no choice but to undertake it rather than offer peace."
I will take a wild guess why, here, before I get real facts, and say that the German free press, possibly influenced by large munitions and industrial interests, had something to do with the German people's erroneous belief.
POSTSCRIPT: See Professor Rudd's much better answer.
I will take a wild guess why, here, before I get real facts, and say that the German free press, possibly influenced by large munitions and industrial interests, had something to do with the German people's erroneous belief.
POSTSCRIPT: See Professor Rudd's much better answer.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
RE FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY WWII THE FIRST CHICHELE LECTURE 1957
"Understanding what must follow from the decision of unconditional surrender, and knowing that great troubles lay ahead with Stalin over eastern Europe and the future of Germany, the Western allies should surely have ensured that their forces gained possession of the great political centres of Central Europe before the Russians---notably Berlin, Prague, Vienna. If this had been laid down as the object by Roosevelt and Churchill in January 1943, in my considered view as a soldier, we could have grabbed all three in 1944 before the Russians."
At The Casablanca Conference, where Roosevelt announced unconditional surrender, at Morgenthau's instance and under the influence at that time of Russian agents in Treasury, Stalin did not even have to attend.
As Montgomery noted, it suited his plans to the letter...
Call it: "The Roosevelt Morgenthau" decision, or even more accurately, The Roosevelt Moscow Accord, and its aftermath.
Churchill had to go along, or lose so called allies he could not then do without.
I say ' so called ' because not only was the USSR clearly planning to absorb as much of Western and eastern Europe and the Middle East as they could, with active US collusion, but they were also colluding simultaneously with Japan re a secret nonaggression pact, enabling Japan's attack on Western and on American targets in Asia, especially Pearl Harbor.
Morgenthau had arranged for Patton's dismissal, with the help of the willing muckraking tool, Drew Pearson.
At The Casablanca Conference, where Roosevelt announced unconditional surrender, at Morgenthau's instance and under the influence at that time of Russian agents in Treasury, Stalin did not even have to attend.
As Montgomery noted, it suited his plans to the letter...
Call it: "The Roosevelt Morgenthau" decision, or even more accurately, The Roosevelt Moscow Accord, and its aftermath.
Churchill had to go along, or lose so called allies he could not then do without.
I say ' so called ' because not only was the USSR clearly planning to absorb as much of Western and eastern Europe and the Middle East as they could, with active US collusion, but they were also colluding simultaneously with Japan re a secret nonaggression pact, enabling Japan's attack on Western and on American targets in Asia, especially Pearl Harbor.
Morgenthau had arranged for Patton's dismissal, with the help of the willing muckraking tool, Drew Pearson.
BRER FOX OBAMA BRER RABBIT GOP BRIAR PATCH NO GOVERNMENT
Brer Fox: "If u don gif up, brer rabbit, Il thro u in at briar pach."
Brer Rabbit: "Ples ples, brer fox, don tro me in at briar pach.
Uu kin burn me, uu kan boil me, yu cun fry me.
But ples don tro me inat briar pach!"
Brer Rabbit: "Ples ples, brer fox, don tro me in at briar pach.
Uu kin burn me, uu kan boil me, yu cun fry me.
But ples don tro me inat briar pach!"
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