a Thanksgiving Weekend blast from the past

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-other-incalculable-blunder-bigger.html

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a classic post re beautiful ugly philosophers

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/andy-martin-socrates-cartoon.html

Professor Kaiser remembering Kennedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Pi9Nn76LE

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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.

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occasionally someone gets on my site

They are influenced by certain known individuals.


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:

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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:

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.

someone liked this

You should too:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-some-economist-and-maverick.html

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.

another classic re maverick executives directors and experts

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-academic-industrial-simpletonex.html

classic robot cartoon concept

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/adam-smiths-invisible-hand-and-maverick.html

READING AGAIN HOWARD'S INAUGURAL CHICHELE CHAIR LECTURE

"War And The Nation State"

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME.....

classic old post re Asia

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/huan-trading-places-mise-en-scene-hog.html

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:

someone liked this blast from the past

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/sartrean-bonobo-cartoons-concepts.html

classic Dusty

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

old cello incised writing partly effaced

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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.

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someone liked this sister blog post

I have edited it slightly now:

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8015054972873508411#editor/target=post;postID=697821288711993568

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.)

great blast from the past

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

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.

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.

STREET WRECKER LOVE TAUP FARDY

Be there or be square.

RUMPOLE QUOTING THOMAS HOOD NO VEMBER

Term search: vember

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.........

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.

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SOMEONE LIKED THIS OLD POST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-bobbitt-steingart-war-of-world-views.html

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I don't believe this, really.

RETURNED AGAIN TO KENNAN'S MEMOIRS 1925 1950

No one seriously concerned, re structural problems, with our system, can avoid it.

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

ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/10/re-multinational-corporation-term-david.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

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.

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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.

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.

WHY SHOULDNT BULGARIA PREVENT FOREIGNERS FROM ITS FARM LAND

Forget the EU.

It is a doomsday institution.