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Friday, August 29, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
RE WILD BILL DONOVAN
Wilcox, Target Patton, speculated he might have been a double agent, for the British.
Why not, given his affinities for the Soviets, rather for the Soviets; or, say, a triple agent, for both?
A double agent, only, for the Soviets, seems in some ways more likely, but I haven't studied much about it.
Certainly OSS and Treasury were both heavily infiltrated. The Haunted Wood
Why not, given his affinities for the Soviets, rather for the Soviets; or, say, a triple agent, for both?
A double agent, only, for the Soviets, seems in some ways more likely, but I haven't studied much about it.
Certainly OSS and Treasury were both heavily infiltrated. The Haunted Wood
Saturday, August 23, 2014
RE DK 'S CURRENT POST AND MY COMMENT
Sunday, September 29, 2013
SEE DK'S CURRENT POST COMMENT
Re Europe and the US, the erroneous place for the original comment,
why not, nevertheless, quote a few words roughly pertinent to the discussion there:
Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?":
"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
"...The United States and the Soviet Union are both inheritors of the universalist ideas of the Enlightenment against which European, and especially German nationalism was very largely a reaction." DK
Here, I think he misses the mark, in that nationalist, no less that multi-ethnic universalist, states, grew out of principally enlightenment ideas. Recent remarks by the President about American exceptionalism highlight, it seems to me, the kindred Enlightenment origins of nationalist, and multi-ethnic universalist, states, under the skin.
"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
"...The United States and the Soviet Union are both inheritors of the universalist ideas of the Enlightenment against which European, and especially German nationalism was very largely a reaction." DK
Here, I think he misses the mark, in that nationalist, no less that multi-ethnic universalist, states, grew out of principally enlightenment ideas. Recent remarks by the President about American exceptionalism highlight, it seems to me, the kindred Enlightenment origins of nationalist, and multi-ethnic universalist, states, under the skin.
Friday, August 22, 2014
re Piketty
He does have insights sprinkled around.
He does, after all, have a healthy disregard for the limitations of disciplines, including economics.
he had to fight his way to these insights, no doubt.
See eg Introduction, "The Theoretical and Conceptual Framework"
He does, after all, have a healthy disregard for the limitations of disciplines, including economics.
he had to fight his way to these insights, no doubt.
See eg Introduction, "The Theoretical and Conceptual Framework"
RE COMMODITIES ARTICLE
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-22/how-china-imported-record-70-billion-physical-gold-without-sending-price-gold-soarin
SPEAKING OF WHICH SOMEONE LIKES THIS RIGHT NOW
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-bbc-jaron-lanier-symbolic-analyst.html
re HAVING GOOFED UP AND GLOBALIZED EVEN IT INCLUDING ITS SURVEILLANCE ASPECTS
This article in the BBC summarizes some issues raised in the above post rather nicely:
"NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs', alleges developer"
Just call it PPP.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
RE JACKSON HOLE BANKERS ECONOMISTS
Echoing David Brooks' remark, some time ago:
"More globalization, please."
If all markets are fragile, they must need only some more globalization to return to stable market equilibrium.
"More globalization, please."
If all markets are fragile, they must need only some more globalization to return to stable market equilibrium.
HAVING BUILT A GLOBAL INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
Why then be surprised when all people, everywhere, regardless of their civilization, their national or ethnic politics, their wealth, or their poverty, or their class, are then ripped off, spied on, fatally attacked, conquered, enslaved, or merely permanently distracted disoriented and unsettled, through its use?
It has been a ridiculous notion from the beginning.
It has been a ridiculous notion from the beginning.
Saturday, August 16, 2014
NOW GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE REALLY ALSO MEANS DIPLOMACY IN THE SUNSHINE
Diplomacy in the glare.
Glare in the sunshine, or simply,
Glare.
It is a little like what most local officials do at video meetings; and what national officials have scripted for them at telecast hearings, it is to read a previously known script to a person who also has a previously known script, in bright light.
Local state and national officials really try not to do much either in or out of the sunshine.
One difference is that the scripts in local and national contexts often are exchanged by agreement, the diplomatic ones, also, but now are often not, merely surveiled.
Glare in the sunshine, or simply,
Glare.
It is a little like what most local officials do at video meetings; and what national officials have scripted for them at telecast hearings, it is to read a previously known script to a person who also has a previously known script, in bright light.
Local state and national officials really try not to do much either in or out of the sunshine.
One difference is that the scripts in local and national contexts often are exchanged by agreement, the diplomatic ones, also, but now are often not, merely surveiled.
HAVING GOOFED UP AND GLOBALIZED EVEN IT INCLUDING ITS SURVEILLANCE ASPECTS
Re eg revelations re German surveillance on US officials, etc., etc.
All foreign policy, and foreign diplomacy too, are now, in a sense, rendered obsolete.
Call it the ultimate laissez faire freedom of the press, but only for the big players, usually private ones, and of course the PPPs.
All foreign policy, and foreign diplomacy too, are now, in a sense, rendered obsolete.
Call it the ultimate laissez faire freedom of the press, but only for the big players, usually private ones, and of course the PPPs.
RE TEXAS
It is obvious that party conflict is interfering with the sovereignty of a mostly sovereign state.
In order to nip this interference with his proper duties in the bud, I recommend that the Governor push the secession button.
Isn't Texas the only state, after all, legally retaining that right?
Maybe that would ruin his presidential aspirations.
Why not become the permanent president, upon secession, of Texas, instead?
In order to nip this interference with his proper duties in the bud, I recommend that the Governor push the secession button.
Isn't Texas the only state, after all, legally retaining that right?
Maybe that would ruin his presidential aspirations.
Why not become the permanent president, upon secession, of Texas, instead?
Thursday, August 14, 2014
USEFUL BACKGROUND HERE FROM missilecrisis
"In this discussion there is a giant missing "detail": that the Turkish Missile Crisis of 1962 was caused by the decision of the USA government to install nuclear armed first-strike "decapitation" missiles in several sites in Turkey near to to the USSR border, missiles with a very short flight time to Moscow.
The only option according to nuclear doctrine other than total surrender left to the USSR government was to find a way to do the same, and they chose to start slowly to install an equivalent capability in Cuba, hoping that the USA would then negotiate. It was admirable restraint by the USSR despite a fatally aggressive act of war by the USA.
That these missiles were there along with operational warheads and ready to launch has been described in an uncontested personal memory of the USA officer in charge:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2012/10/05/author-recounts-world-on-the-brink-of-war-in-my-turkish-missile-crisis/
The masterful propaganda coup of the USA to blame solely the USSR for replying in kind to what they had just done themselves as an act of war seems to still persist.
There is an event darker "detail"...
Some versions report that President Kennedy was entirely surprised when his USSR counterpart told him that they just had to put some missiles in Cuba because the USA had installed many first-strike "decapitation" missiles in Turkey, and had refused to negotiate.
These histories report that Kennedy double checked this and discovered that this was entirely true, and a large budget had been spent to build the launch sites and nuclear armed first-strike missiles had been moved to the borders of the USSR not just without the President's orders, but without the President being informed.
Some other histories say that President Kennedy had just discovered the launch sites in Turkey and had ordered their dismantling.
If the launch sites has been built and the nuclear warheads had been moved without the President knowing it was obviously treason of the worst sort, treason that had to involve some people at the highest levels of the military and civilian authority, because the amount of money involved and the moving of nuclear weapons, and concealing this from the President, required no less.
Apparently President Kennedy and his brother the Attorney General were determined to purge the traitors, but entirely coincidentally they were both assassinated in murky circumstances.
The only option according to nuclear doctrine other than total surrender left to the USSR government was to find a way to do the same, and they chose to start slowly to install an equivalent capability in Cuba, hoping that the USA would then negotiate. It was admirable restraint by the USSR despite a fatally aggressive act of war by the USA.
That these missiles were there along with operational warheads and ready to launch has been described in an uncontested personal memory of the USA officer in charge:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2012/10/05/author-recounts-world-on-the-brink-of-war-in-my-turkish-missile-crisis/
The masterful propaganda coup of the USA to blame solely the USSR for replying in kind to what they had just done themselves as an act of war seems to still persist.
There is an event darker "detail"...
Some versions report that President Kennedy was entirely surprised when his USSR counterpart told him that they just had to put some missiles in Cuba because the USA had installed many first-strike "decapitation" missiles in Turkey, and had refused to negotiate.
These histories report that Kennedy double checked this and discovered that this was entirely true, and a large budget had been spent to build the launch sites and nuclear armed first-strike missiles had been moved to the borders of the USSR not just without the President's orders, but without the President being informed.
Some other histories say that President Kennedy had just discovered the launch sites in Turkey and had ordered their dismantling.
If the launch sites has been built and the nuclear warheads had been moved without the President knowing it was obviously treason of the worst sort, treason that had to involve some people at the highest levels of the military and civilian authority, because the amount of money involved and the moving of nuclear weapons, and concealing this from the President, required no less.
Apparently President Kennedy and his brother the Attorney General were determined to purge the traitors, but entirely coincidentally they were both assassinated in murky circumstances.
AN OLD CLASSIC GIL FAVOR
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/cartoon-maverick-executive-rawhide.html
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
great old Arendt reference THE SECRET SOCIETY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-close-up-look-at-new-gilded-age.html
Monday, August 11, 2014
RE FATTENING THINGS UP
The 'solution' it seems, to fattening the one, since 72,
has been to fatten all others.
has been to fatten all others.
US SECURITY TALKS WITH AUSTRALIA
Another break away anglophone state.
Late in the day to huddle around Anglo civilization.
Canada, another, been selling its resources big to China, like Australia.
Smart shopping.
Churchill had tried to drum up enthusiasm for the idea, even then late in the day.
Late in the day to huddle around Anglo civilization.
Canada, another, been selling its resources big to China, like Australia.
Smart shopping.
Churchill had tried to drum up enthusiasm for the idea, even then late in the day.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
NOTHING ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF IT
has been either rational, or reasonable, really.
It has been what it has been.
Elements of it have pretended to be 'market driven', products, manufacturing sites, or services. so to speak.
But the market was driven by the producers, rather than the consumers, of IT, everywhere.
Americans are the last society which would want or need terribly hobbled hand held devices, had not marketing told them this is somehow a smart and a good way to live.
Poorer bourgeoisie, in, say, Piketty's, and economists', ideal global middle class, could, of course, afford nothing better or more usable. The proles of course jumped at anything small and cheap.
Terms search: middle class
It has been what it has been.
Elements of it have pretended to be 'market driven', products, manufacturing sites, or services. so to speak.
But the market was driven by the producers, rather than the consumers, of IT, everywhere.
Americans are the last society which would want or need terribly hobbled hand held devices, had not marketing told them this is somehow a smart and a good way to live.
Poorer bourgeoisie, in, say, Piketty's, and economists', ideal global middle class, could, of course, afford nothing better or more usable. The proles of course jumped at anything small and cheap.
Terms search: middle class
Saturday, August 9, 2014
FAIR ENOUGH NO BUYING PERSONAL DATA BBC
'Both admitted buying background information - but said they did not realise it
was illegal to do so.'
Friday, August 8, 2014
WHY DID OUR MISSION FAIL RE CLAUSEWITZ
Why did our mission fail, after all we had economists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had sociologists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had agronomists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had geographers looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all, we had anthropologists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had philosophers looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had engineers of all kinds looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we even had brilliant journalists take a look at it, and tell us what was important?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had the best IT team looking at it?
Why did our our mission fail, after all we had multiple disciplines, each looking hard at it?
Why did our mission fail, we had the key politicians on board looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had _______________ looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had sociologists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had agronomists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had geographers looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all, we had anthropologists looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had philosophers looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had engineers of all kinds looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we even had brilliant journalists take a look at it, and tell us what was important?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had the best IT team looking at it?
Why did our our mission fail, after all we had multiple disciplines, each looking hard at it?
Why did our mission fail, we had the key politicians on board looking at it?
Why did our mission fail, after all we had _______________ looking at it?
THE CHAUVINISM OF DISCIPLINES
Re disciplines
THE PIKETTY FALLACY IN ECONOMICS IS MATCHED BY WHAT ONE MIGHT CALL
THE PIKETTY FALLACY IN ECONOMICS IS MATCHED BY WHAT ONE MIGHT CALL
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
THE PIKETTY FALLACY IN ECONOMICS IS MATCHED BY WHAT ONE MIGHT CALL
THE COLLINS FALLACY IN SOCIOLOGY,
or simply
THE SOCIOLOGISTS' FALLACY
Call it the chauvinism of the disciplines.
or simply
THE SOCIOLOGISTS' FALLACY
Call it the chauvinism of the disciplines.
THE PIKETTY FALLACY
'They (Australia) have been selling most of their big natural resources to China etc.
Piketty, of course, sees no special problems with that: it is just another way of reducing global inequality, his only real criterion.'
Call, it generally,
The Economists' Fallacy.
Piketty, of course, sees no special problems with that: it is just another way of reducing global inequality, his only real criterion.'
Call, it generally,
The Economists' Fallacy.
RE ABC WAR PEACE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS WHY NOT BAD DIVORCE PIKETTY
Very nice idea, war and peace philosophy talk.
Must be ever wary of the Drew Pearson Fallacy in such a show.
They have it down there too I am very sure.
They have been selling most of their big natural resources to China etc.
Piketty, of course, sees no special problems with that: it is just another way of reducing global inequality, his only real criterion.
How about that, for a Clausewitzian theme, going forward.
Nice little bit of salable entertainment for Aussie radio nevertheless.
Terms search: bad divorce.
Must be ever wary of the Drew Pearson Fallacy in such a show.
They have it down there too I am very sure.
They have been selling most of their big natural resources to China etc.
Piketty, of course, sees no special problems with that: it is just another way of reducing global inequality, his only real criterion.
How about that, for a Clausewitzian theme, going forward.
Nice little bit of salable entertainment for Aussie radio nevertheless.
Terms search: bad divorce.
RE HUNTINGTON COLLINS ECONOMICS AND CIVILIZATIONS
With all due respect, I am a Huntingtonian rather than a Collins onian, re the relevance of ethnic, racial, and civilizational characteristics.
Huntington, a political scientist, Collins a sociologist.
We are not all one, under the skin.
Looked at, against the background of economists' perspective, greatest good for greatest numbers is an incoherent criterion, and economics an incoherent discipline, not just for that reason alone.
Huntington, a political scientist, Collins a sociologist.
We are not all one, under the skin.
Looked at, against the background of economists' perspective, greatest good for greatest numbers is an incoherent criterion, and economics an incoherent discipline, not just for that reason alone.
RE DUSTY'S IT PARDNER
re GOBAPFLBOKTW
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/dusty-airport-chat.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-bbc-snowden-transhumance-gobapflboktw.html
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
RE STULTIFERA NAVIS
Economists have turned out to be the sort of one- discipline, doomsday, philosophes of the 20 th Century West.
They deserve to be cashiered, as the philosophes of the French Enlightenment were, by the French revolutionaries.
Many other flora and fauna, allowed to spring up everywhere, similarly, need pruning, not to isolate just the economists.
They deserve to be cashiered, as the philosophes of the French Enlightenment were, by the French revolutionaries.
Many other flora and fauna, allowed to spring up everywhere, similarly, need pruning, not to isolate just the economists.
TOOTH FAIRY
There are those who would like to give a few exogenous shocks to the laissez fairy.
Fairy nuf.
Fairy nuf.
RE PIKETTY AND KUZNETS FAIRY LAND
I am actually enjoying reading him, because,
more than anything else useful he may have to contribute,
he is above all a great tattler on prior economic theorists and their views.
Terms search: eg tooth fairy, laissez fairy, Kuznets
more than anything else useful he may have to contribute,
he is above all a great tattler on prior economic theorists and their views.
Terms search: eg tooth fairy, laissez fairy, Kuznets
RE THE DECLINE OF POWER DK POST
One might also couch the situation as a decline of legitimacy.
It is political legitimacy, but also has a cultural, and civilizational, aspect, in a longer perspective, not just the slide since WWI, or the slide since WWII, or even the slide farther back, since and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Those who have followed this site will see why, and how, I think this has happened.
Heilbron's work gives a rather detailed account as to how it came about, but only from around 1774 onward.
He only alludes to the big 'exogenous' factors (e g Seven Years War, etc.) in passing, focuses on the Revolution, and the philosophes preceding it.
It is political legitimacy, but also has a cultural, and civilizational, aspect, in a longer perspective, not just the slide since WWI, or the slide since WWII, or even the slide farther back, since and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Those who have followed this site will see why, and how, I think this has happened.
Heilbron's work gives a rather detailed account as to how it came about, but only from around 1774 onward.
He only alludes to the big 'exogenous' factors (e g Seven Years War, etc.) in passing, focuses on the Revolution, and the philosophes preceding it.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
RE PHILOSOPHES AND NATURAL LAW
I am neither a fascist, nor a philosophe.
Re Piketty, and the notion of inequality, it is a little ironic that the Enlightenment philosophes had been the ones rendered declasse by the Revolution, a radical solution which they themselves had been the main ones promoting in the mid 18th Century.
Not really so ironic, when one considers their overwhelmingly aristocratic patronage.
Rousseau was the only one they later kept, apparently.
He had taken the position, more or less, that all traditional authority was contrary to nature.
Re Piketty, and the notion of inequality, it is a little ironic that the Enlightenment philosophes had been the ones rendered declasse by the Revolution, a radical solution which they themselves had been the main ones promoting in the mid 18th Century.
Not really so ironic, when one considers their overwhelmingly aristocratic patronage.
Rousseau was the only one they later kept, apparently.
He had taken the position, more or less, that all traditional authority was contrary to nature.
snapshot and the post they like for some reason
RE KERRY POPPINS INDIA
Why not, much better, have left the British Empire in place there, and actually have helped them, there, going forward, when you come to think of it?
Saturday, August 2, 2014
IF ONE REALLY WANTED TO COUNTERPOISE INDIA TO EAST ASIA CHINA OR JAPAN OR RUSSIAN ASIA
Re Kerry Poppins:
One should never have broken off with the British Empire, in the first place.
Terms search: bad divorce.
One should never have broken off with the British Empire, in the first place.
Terms search: bad divorce.
Friday, August 1, 2014
AN OLD POST RE INVERSIONERS ISSUE NOT REALLY A SOLUTION
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/in-this-country-individual-states.html
Legally, corporations are, technically, each, regarding their corporate charter, creatures of their individual state of incorporation, in the US. Elsewhere, they may be creatures of some larger national entity or entities.
US trusts, a little different regulatory scenario, but state law still applies theoretically.
It has long been merely a formality, for a variety of reasons.
Federal taxes, and other regulations, of various kinds quickly co opted to a great extent states's regulatory roles re these entities,
Thus President Obama can talk to corporations about citizenship, etc. The Presidency is just about the last official entity which should lecture corporations about citizenship.
See, terms search, Trading American Interests, and the role of the Presidency.
However, states do regulate corporations, especially the small ones, and occasionally revoke corporate charters, and impose personal civil, and or criminal, liability on corporate principals, under certain circumstances such as fraud, illegality, crime, etc.
Terms search: your state, 99 cent stores
Legally, corporations are, technically, each, regarding their corporate charter, creatures of their individual state of incorporation, in the US. Elsewhere, they may be creatures of some larger national entity or entities.
US trusts, a little different regulatory scenario, but state law still applies theoretically.
It has long been merely a formality, for a variety of reasons.
Federal taxes, and other regulations, of various kinds quickly co opted to a great extent states's regulatory roles re these entities,
Thus President Obama can talk to corporations about citizenship, etc. The Presidency is just about the last official entity which should lecture corporations about citizenship.
See, terms search, Trading American Interests, and the role of the Presidency.
However, states do regulate corporations, especially the small ones, and occasionally revoke corporate charters, and impose personal civil, and or criminal, liability on corporate principals, under certain circumstances such as fraud, illegality, crime, etc.
Terms search: your state, 99 cent stores
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