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OLD CELLO
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
RE JURISPRUDENCE
I once did a research project, back in the early 80s, in law school, on what had been called the Hart Dworkin Debate.
I sided, and still side, with Hart.
Hart was influenced by British analytic philosophy (although Dworkin was too), but also had practiced law, as a barrister, i e a trial lawyer.
See H L A Hart, Ronald Dworkin
I sided, and still side, with Hart.
Hart was influenced by British analytic philosophy (although Dworkin was too), but also had practiced law, as a barrister, i e a trial lawyer.
See H L A Hart, Ronald Dworkin
RE WIKIPEDIA BRZEZINSKI BIN LADEN ACCOUNTS
This question is for the Trilaterals, Bilderbergs, and CFRs out there:
Which pathetic account do you like less:
1. The one which says that he and his fighters were trained, backed, and financed by the CIA and MI6 and others against the Soviets.
2. The one which says that he and his fighters were merely financed by them and others?
3. The one which says that Bin Laden and his fighters weren't even on their radar?
Why?
Bear in mind that each pathetic account is pathetic for different reasons, that is, pathetic in different ways, than the other two.
There are no wrong answers.
Extra credit question:
What do I mean by ' pathetic '?
Which pathetic account do you like less:
1. The one which says that he and his fighters were trained, backed, and financed by the CIA and MI6 and others against the Soviets.
2. The one which says that he and his fighters were merely financed by them and others?
3. The one which says that Bin Laden and his fighters weren't even on their radar?
Why?
Bear in mind that each pathetic account is pathetic for different reasons, that is, pathetic in different ways, than the other two.
There are no wrong answers.
Extra credit question:
What do I mean by ' pathetic '?
Saturday, October 25, 2014
RE INTELLECTUALS
I would admit, by the way, that Bobbitt's jurisprudential writing is, in its way, wonderful, Constitutional Fate, a sort of Anatomy Of Criticism of constitutional interpretation; The Shield, engrossing.
RE BRZEZINSKI AND TRILATERAL ETC
Friday, October 24, 2014
ZUCKERBERG'S CHINA
Not an advocate for either Western, or Asian, civilizationalism, is he?
Not a surprise.
Not a surprise.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
DEMANDING UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE OF OTHER STATES IN OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
We have it, and it does not seem able to assure us any abiding sense of a common welfare, which had been the main reason to have it.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
re nyt who needs football
Or baseball?
Great point.
Carroll Quigley made a similar point, way back in 1961.
The Evolution Of Civilizations
One problem, with Quigley's theory of stages of civilizations, in my judgment, was that the development of amateur team sports, in that way, and at that time, was an incidental expression of a market capitalist impulse toward expansion, at that time, rather than merely as an expression of decline or of decadence.
SEE DK CURRENT POST AND COMMENTS
One might say, following someone like Huntington, and also Carroll Quigley, farther back, but following them only in part, that the concept of poverty itself has changed over some hundreds of years, perhaps several thousand years, as have many other related concepts.
One might say that poverty is the 'losing out', not merely of the lower so called classes, traditionally everywhere and in every civilization generally, but also of what have been called middle classes, in recent centuries in the West, in the necessarily intensified rivalry among civilizations.
One might say that poverty is the 'losing out', not merely of the lower so called classes, traditionally everywhere and in every civilization generally, but also of what have been called middle classes, in recent centuries in the West, in the necessarily intensified rivalry among civilizations.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
VERY TIMELY BLAST FROM THE RECENT PAST
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-our-overly-laissez-faire-post-wwii.html
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
RE UNWINDING GLOBALIZATION
Ferguson's phrase.......
Just as globalization resulted in greater and greater conglomeration,
globalization fueled war, now under way, and lasting for many years indeed,
will presumably result in grotesque, prolonged, and bewildering divestitures, nationalizations, appropriations, and repatriations, etc., on a monumental scale.
Most Americans will not understand a word of this.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
ERIC L LEWIS NYT EDITORIAL WHO ARE WE IS ALSO IN
The Multidisciplinary Twilight Zone.
One distinction, which eludes Lewis, has to do with that between persons and citizens, a rather basic one, but nevertheless one which our founding documents unfortunately gloss over shamelessly.
Huntington wrote a book on Who Are We? In my judgment a rather helpful book for its time.
RE THE PRESIDENT AT UN REJECTING A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
Peace loving infidels are much easier, and more fun, to kill than warlike ones.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
LET'S FACE IT RICKARDS HAS BEEN SUCKED INTO
The Multidisciplinary Twilight Zone.
I have just started reading Quigley, who detested disciplinary compartmentalization, and over specialization, too.
Rickards is in way over his head in
The Disciplinary Twilight Zone.
I have just started reading Quigley, who detested disciplinary compartmentalization, and over specialization, too.
Rickards is in way over his head in
The Disciplinary Twilight Zone.
RE JPMORGAN BREACH AND RICKARDS THE KEYNES FALLACY OR THE SNOWDEN FALLACY
How would Rickards recommend handling the bank security breaches, about which he has studied so much, and for which he is presumably well qualified to speak, as acts of cyber war?
Private contractors, private security planning, limited PPP, presumably, not government central military economic financial planning or operatives (presumably a dirty series of terms, for him).
How would he recommend handling ebola: ditto head.
He referred in part 1 to what he calls the Keynes Fallacy.
Let's call Rickards' probable view, a species of what I have dubbed the Snowden Fallacy, going forward, The Rickards Fallacy.
Private contractors, private security planning, limited PPP, presumably, not government central military economic financial planning or operatives (presumably a dirty series of terms, for him).
How would he recommend handling ebola: ditto head.
He referred in part 1 to what he calls the Keynes Fallacy.
Let's call Rickards' probable view, a species of what I have dubbed the Snowden Fallacy, going forward, The Rickards Fallacy.
THE CONUNDRUM FOR ECONOMISTS WHO HAVE TO FACE OR BECOME MILITARY PLANNERS
is: how do you tell military planners not to plan, or that no central planning is best,
even though you tell economists, who have to oversee an economy at the very least, that somehow no planning is best?
Better still, if no military policy can succeed without central planning (and I take it as axiomatic that this is true), how could an economic policy do so without it?
Especially where, as Rickards himself readily admits, as a supposed insight of his, that they, economic financial and military dimensions have become ever more intertwined?
even though you tell economists, who have to oversee an economy at the very least, that somehow no planning is best?
Better still, if no military policy can succeed without central planning (and I take it as axiomatic that this is true), how could an economic policy do so without it?
Especially where, as Rickards himself readily admits, as a supposed insight of his, that they, economic financial and military dimensions have become ever more intertwined?
RE RICKARDS
He apparently came up with some of the things I have alluded to here on this blog.
Just watched his interview re The Death Of Money, part 1.
Great stuff. Kindof similar to my comments here, re the clash, and re lack of leverage, things like that.
Of course, he shares economists' delusions that the best planning is no planning.
Question: How did he reach that conclusion:
by comparing good with bad planning (but there is no such thing as good planning);
or by comparing no planning (good planning) with bad planning (but there is no such thing as no planning);
or by comparing bad planning with bad planning (but how then to arrive at a criterion of bad planning or good planning);
or by reasoning abstractly about the concept of planning (but there is no such thing as planning in the abstract)
or by comparing good, or bad, policies with planning (but aren't policies just planning by another name, just less of it; or, rather, are policy and planning then apples to oranges in some senses;
finally for now, if he has prescriptions based on his conclusions, are those merely policy options instead of planning options;
for example if other countries are trying to get off the dollar and return to gold, is his advice to just stick with policy rather than to try to do some planning for such an eventuality;
but then how to do longer term planning if the next administration changes policy?
Just watched his interview re The Death Of Money, part 1.
Great stuff. Kindof similar to my comments here, re the clash, and re lack of leverage, things like that.
Of course, he shares economists' delusions that the best planning is no planning.
Question: How did he reach that conclusion:
by comparing good with bad planning (but there is no such thing as good planning);
or by comparing no planning (good planning) with bad planning (but there is no such thing as no planning);
or by comparing bad planning with bad planning (but how then to arrive at a criterion of bad planning or good planning);
or by reasoning abstractly about the concept of planning (but there is no such thing as planning in the abstract)
or by comparing good, or bad, policies with planning (but aren't policies just planning by another name, just less of it; or, rather, are policy and planning then apples to oranges in some senses;
finally for now, if he has prescriptions based on his conclusions, are those merely policy options instead of planning options;
for example if other countries are trying to get off the dollar and return to gold, is his advice to just stick with policy rather than to try to do some planning for such an eventuality;
but then how to do longer term planning if the next administration changes policy?
RE THE PRESIDENT'S MUSLIM MAVERICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOM PPPS
"You have demonstrated that when young people have the tools to succeed -- good schools, education in math and science, an economy that nurtures creativity and entrepreneurship -- then societies will flourish. So America will partner with those that promote that vision...."
"We see it in Malaysia, where vibrant entrepreneurship is propelling a former colony into the ranks of advanced economies...."
"And we will expand our programs to support entrepreneurship and civil society, education and youth -- because, ultimately, these investments are the best antidote to violence."
In my judgment, the US has just about boomed itself out of existence.
Why boom any more?
Weren't the 9 11 attackers highly educated bourgeoisie Muslims, who had mostly studied over here and in Europe, had had the opportunities to study and learn and innovate, which he espouses?
Did not and do not they have freedom of religion, here, to listen to their mullahs?
Our universities are after all hot beds of liberal Muslim entrepreneurship and enlightenment, places such as BU.
Presumably the President wants a lot more Muslims coming over here to learn to innovate and to partner with.
Hopefully we can hook up people like Samantha Power with these liberal Boston Muslims.
In my judgment, the US has just about boomed itself out of existence.
Why boom any more?
Weren't the 9 11 attackers highly educated bourgeoisie Muslims, who had mostly studied over here and in Europe, had had the opportunities to study and learn and innovate, which he espouses?
Did not and do not they have freedom of religion, here, to listen to their mullahs?
Our universities are after all hot beds of liberal Muslim entrepreneurship and enlightenment, places such as BU.
Presumably the President wants a lot more Muslims coming over here to learn to innovate and to partner with.
Hopefully we can hook up people like Samantha Power with these liberal Boston Muslims.
DUSTY'S GOT EM OUT BY THE STAGECOACH WITH PARDONER EBO
Dusty: "Shtick em up. Gimme all yur gold."
Coach victims: "No way. We're keepin our dough."
Dusty: "Yur muny or yur lif. Dat's yur humean rites."
Coach victims: "Forget it."
Dusty: "OK Ebo, givit tu em."
JPMORGAN SECURITY BREACH
This is, also, really, like the ebola problem, a job for nimble private enterprise entrepreneurs, say Edward Snowden types.
RE JPMORGAN SECURITY BREACH
Breach notification laws differ by state........
Terms search: your state.
Terms search: your state.
Friday, October 3, 2014
GREENSPAN CFR FOREIGN POLICY ARTICLE
“No questions are raised when gold or direct claims to gold are offered in payment of an obligation; it was the only form of payment, for example, that exporters to Germany would accept as World War II was drawing to a close.”
“Today, the acceptance of fiat money — currency not backed by an asset of intrinsic value — rests on the credit guarantee of sovereign nations endowed with effective taxing power, a guarantee that in crisis conditions has not always matched the universal acceptability of gold.”
“If the dollar or any other fiat currency were universally acceptable at all times, central banks would see no need to hold any gold. The fact that they do indicates that such currencies are not a universal substitute. Of the 30 advanced countries that report to the International Monetary Fund, only four hold no gold as part of their reserve balances. Indeed, at market prices, the gold held by the central banks of developed economies was worth $762 billion as of December 31, 2013, comprising 10.3 percent of their overall reserve balances. (The IMF held an additional $117 billion.) “
“If, in the words of the British economist John Maynard Keynes, gold were a “barbarous relic,” central banks around the world would not have so much of an asset whose rate of return, including storage costs, is negative.”
EBOLA IS REALLY A JOB FOR NIMBLE ENTREPRENEURS
Don't they, Maverick Executives, get called upon to tackle the hardest jobs of civilization (singular), at the best salaries?
Or, perhaps we could appeal to something like the Council On Foreign Relations, see whether the answer from them isn't perhaps that we haven't globalized enough yet, especially in Africa?
D Brooks' and T L Friedman's opinions could be solicited.....
Or, perhaps we could appeal to something like the Council On Foreign Relations, see whether the answer from them isn't perhaps that we haven't globalized enough yet, especially in Africa?
D Brooks' and T L Friedman's opinions could be solicited.....
RE HISTORY OF HIV BELGIAN CONGO BBC ARTICLE VERSUS EBOLA NOW
Let's just say a few words about this situation.
The article sort of tries to tag Belgium, re colonialism, by implication, for HIV, back then, in the 20s.
Funny thing, during this period of lingering colonialism in the 20s through 70s, HIV didn't spread to the imperialist West.
Belgium, apparently, had the good sense, back in the 20s, to keep the colonials in the colonies.
The article sort of tries to tag Belgium, re colonialism, by implication, for HIV, back then, in the 20s.
Funny thing, during this period of lingering colonialism in the 20s through 70s, HIV didn't spread to the imperialist West.
Belgium, apparently, had the good sense, back in the 20s, to keep the colonials in the colonies.
CLASSIC QUOTE RE THE PACIFIC
'"(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.'
What is it, specifically, that he believes requires vengeance?
If you read Kennan, re the latter 19th and early 20th Century, the US was, ostensibly, China's main, if quite naive, defender, against other, imperialist, powers. The US was certainly however also heavily involved, among other Western Powers, in the China trade. Open door, etc.
Is it participation in the China trade itself to which he refers as requiring vengeance, or later affronts after Mao, or both, or some third thing?
What is it, specifically, that he believes requires vengeance?
If you read Kennan, re the latter 19th and early 20th Century, the US was, ostensibly, China's main, if quite naive, defender, against other, imperialist, powers. The US was certainly however also heavily involved, among other Western Powers, in the China trade. Open door, etc.
Is it participation in the China trade itself to which he refers as requiring vengeance, or later affronts after Mao, or both, or some third thing?
RE CONFLICTING FEDERAL REGS RE EBOLA DISPOSAL
How many more such conflicts, throwing in cross jurisdictional ones would one see, state by state, county by county, and town by town? Many thousands.
Just get local judges involved.....
Better still, just let the private entrepreneurial marketplace handle this situation.
Here, this is called 'the rule of law'.
Just get local judges involved.....
Better still, just let the private entrepreneurial marketplace handle this situation.
Here, this is called 'the rule of law'.
RE BBC US PHOTOGRAPHER WITH EBOLA
needs to be quarantined where he is, not flown home.
There are plenty of grave sites in Africa.
There are plenty of grave sites in Africa.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
RE SUB SPECIALISTS DENDROCHRONOLOGY
CF Pollens' article
http://www.stewartpollens.com/Papers.htm
The whole thing, dendro, is very very iffy.
http://www.stewartpollens.com/Papers.htm
The whole thing, dendro, is very very iffy.
AN IDEAL WORLD FOR EBOLA TO SPREAD RAPIDLY LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
The concept of self determination was not a respecter of existing borders; quite the contrary.
A liberal global international economic trade and investment order respects no national borders, as Bobbitt, even, a so called liberal, has pointed out, in some detail, in The Shield Of Achilles.
That order had already been on the cards in the mid 19th Century, or even, say, 1776, or 1789.
It seems fitting that Ebola should be carried by a bat, a symbol, after all, according to The Guardian, re Die Fledermaus, of a pinnacle of Western escapism.
A liberal global international economic trade and investment order respects no national borders, as Bobbitt, even, a so called liberal, has pointed out, in some detail, in The Shield Of Achilles.
That order had already been on the cards in the mid 19th Century, or even, say, 1776, or 1789.
It seems fitting that Ebola should be carried by a bat, a symbol, after all, according to The Guardian, re Die Fledermaus, of a pinnacle of Western escapism.
RE WHAT I HAVE CALLED THE SOFT LANDING AMID SOFT POWER
http://realecontv.com/what-youre-not-supposed-to-understand/?omhide=true
Terms search: soft power
Terms search: soft power
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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