AMAZING RESEMBLANCE TO ROBERT MACAIRE THE FRENCH MAVERICK BBC APRIL 23

re BBC what Japanese history lessons leave out historynotunfolding

Par for the course, in most regimes overe there.

We have had some similar blinders.

Most countries do.

why not reprise this one

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/04/re-chalabi-kennan-gaddis-kissinger.html

re off shoring

This was a good one:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-this-is-not-recovery.html

RE COMMAGER'S ABRIDGEMENT OF MARLBOROUGH

Have a sense that the abridgement is a mistake to read.......

I had a change of heart, as the unabridged volumes are too bulky to hold for long!

re CHINA INDIA MEETING OVER BORDERS IN THE MOUNTAINS

China's borders are what they say they are, no doubt.

THE GLOBALIST LIBERAL MAVERICK AS BENEFACTOR

Think Gates Foundation.

Also think, Lauren Bush Lauren. Says it all.

These kinds of initiatives, paraphrasing W,  are 'right for all people everywhere'.

RE TREASURY WWII

I thought it was particularly special, how Treasury, Morgenthau etc,  got for the Soviets a duplicate set of mark occupation plates for their use, at the end of the war.  Special quantitative easing, over there.

This is from Beschloss' The Conquerors , see p 152, 153 and fn.2. 

RE SMOKING TAX TO AID DUPED INVESTORS BBC

Apparently, there are plenty of private, and political, entrepreneurs there in India.

Randall Collins blog

He has pointed out certain features of mass killers. They usually have a backstage arsenal, similar perhaps to that in Boston recently;

although  a mass killer and a so called terrorist probably differ significantly, analytically.

It is a long article, for the attention challenged modern psyche:

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2012/09/clues-to-mass-rampage-killers-deep.html

MORGENTHAU OR PATTON

Fairly cut and dried, really.

for my numerous Russian guests

Why shouldn't we have bestowed the bounties of federalism onto the USSR, after WWI?

It would not have been that hard to do.

Dividing it into at least three separate monarchies seems, in retrospect, to have made much more sense than to allow it to lumber forward as a Stalinist land mass behemoth regime, as it did.

I will go into Patton's wise suggestions for Russia after WWII  on another day.

Australian government is investing in Chinese bonds

Not a good sign, going forward.......

Very predictable, though, given all the Chinese buying of Australian natural resources..........

what choice did they have?

As Mary Poppins complained, leverage a problem.

JAPAN WARNS OVER ISLAND LANDINGS

Now you're talking.

You only live twice.

this was fun back then

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-lester-thurow-future-of-capitalism.html

this was a catchy cartoon mise en scene

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/mise-en-scene-maverick-executive-free.html

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RE BBC NEWS DEPORTING ONE RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC

Why not make a package deal?

That might ensure the gradual withering away of a Muslim ' presence ' in the UK.

Their numbers there are, after all, huge.

A CLASSIC MAVERICK EXECUTIVE BBC NEWS

The device was based on a golf ball detector!

an old post from the other blog re green two party politics

http://deglobbalization.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-two-party-system-and-post-wwii.html

the menu French toast Romano for Gigi

I think of Italian dishes as ' for Gigi ':

This is ' French Toast Romano ',

rather like eggplant parmesan........

sprinkle grated pecorino Romano onto bacon fat fried french toast.

Muir Glen garlic roasted garlic sauce to cover.

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

re Michael Lewis

Would be fun if he were to delve into the underlying causes of the wild whacky swing down in gold recently.

He could train his analytic eye onto the currency angle, which, to my knowledge, he has not looked at much, in print at least.

RE ROOSEVELT TRUMAN

Been reading Beschloss' Conquerors. Seems rather well selected, but what an enormously editted narrative it had to be; in that sense, it seems less a work of history than of historical journalism, with highly selective and important quotes interspersed.

What a sad commentary is painted, not just the Morgenthau White saga (also reading The Haunted Wood),
but the whole administrative set up, and approach.

Term search maverick

Back in the 70s it was generally thought that the key to good management was keeping your domestic American work force happy and self actualized.......................

I read what seemed like a hundred HBS articles on the subject.

All that changed rather rapidly in the 80s.

I guess these seasoned Harvard academicians were just a little behind the times.

LAISSEZ FAIRE MAVERICK GONE GREEN CARBON CREDITS THE PRICE OF A BIG BUFORD

So called Western environmentalism, carbon market, and greenhouse abatements, mainly helped to artificially boom Asia, especially China, enrich liberal carpetbag traders, and help further hollow out Western industries generally:

BBC article:

"That means more tough times for financial institutions. Particularly troubled is the business of investing in greenhouse gas abatement projects like wind farms or hydroelectric dams in developing countries like China. JPMorgan Chase paid more than $200 million for one of the largest investors in these projects, EcoSecurities, in 2009.

 

Financiers say these projects used to be gold mines, generating credits that industrial companies could use to offset their emissions elsewhere. But so many credits have been produced by these projects — on top of the existing oversupply of credits in Europe — that they are trading at about a third of a euro."

' carbon credit printing ', similar to fiat currency printing.......

Term search, say: Maverick Executive

this was one of the classics

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-cartoon-mise-en-scene-uncle-sam-dog.html

someone likes this perhaps you too

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html

RE THE GERMAN NEW DEAL VERSUS OURS

See Communities Of Discourse pb. p. 402, the paragraph beginning "Although the state was not particularly responsive to socialist demands, it had a long history of intervening in the economy on behalf of workers....these measures...all were opposed by the liberal parties on the grounds that laissez faire was a more appropriate policy toward economic affairs.....Thus the socialist movement was able to unify its objectives around state-sponsored programs rather than having to carve out a distinct agenda amidst competing programs offered by liberal parties, trade unions, and voluntary associations."

Our New Deal was a liberal, bourgeoisie, laissez faire, New Deal.

the menu for Gigi

Gigi knows how to eat........

Sear, in a shallow skillet, several rather thin pork chops, in butter,
then saute onions therein. Deglaze with a little fino sherry or white wine.
Add a dollop of fig jam per chop, and some olive oil, to the deglace; also a pinch of mustard,
and a splash of balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste.
Roast in the same shallow skillet for 20 minutes @375.
Serve with potato carrot garlic mash, made with milk and butter.
Serve also with field greens with arrugula and sweet onion,
and dinner rolls.

Red Burgundy wine, Chianti, or fino sherry.

RE BOWDOIN AND THE NAS

Already a must read................locus classicus.

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Term search cartoon

some older ones were rather fun;
older post titles (use terms search w Bing):

NEW CASANOVA HAND VERTICAL INTEGRATION BUT WORLD IS FLAT CARTOON

Re Making Ignorance Chic: Cinderella Three Penny Opera Crucible Marilyn Palin Beauty and the Beast Mise En Scene

Re Kennan

Not widely known I am guessing, but Japan and the USSR had a nonagression pact, in effect, an alliance,

while the USSR was allied with us during WWII,

so that Japan could have a free unencumbered hand to attack us, and others, in the Pacific.

Get ready for a lot more of the same, from all sides.

YOU CANNOT CURRENCY YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY

Printing money is not an ' industry '.

KOREA NOW AND AN UNSTABLE ASIA AN OSTENSIBLE BIG SURPRISE

Not a big surprise.  I have been saying low grade global war under way now several years, under the radar. Certainly many events have been acts of war already; eg cyber attack on Iranian nuclear program, etc., etc.

See DK's current post.

SPEAKING OF ACADEMIC UTOPIAN DREAM LAND BLAST FROM THE PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-48th-is-not-good-place.html

RE US ZIGGED WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE ZAGGED THROUGHOUT 20TH CENTURY RE SOCIALISM

I checked out The Haunted Wood, and Cloak and Gown.

Romantic radicals......

The place, here,  has however been filled with
' romantic ' utopians, at both extremes, ever since the founding, really.

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