RE CHINA'S NEW SILK ROAD

Guess what?

Mary Poppins will have a much harder time setting down there along that road than, say, in the SCS, or the Pacific.

CHINA MINE OWNER KILLS HIMSELF

This should become a model for American entrepreneurs.

The fewer entrepreneurs of this kind we have, the better.

TERMS SEARCH

rail to rail

CLASSIC CARTOON BLAST PAST

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

CLASSIC PAST BLAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-spanish-prisoner-eu-and-us-real-road.html

classic past blast

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-spanish-prisoner-eu-and-us-real-road.html

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RE DEBATE OVER MULTILATERALISM

The internet should never have been globalized up front.

Huge mistake.

UNFORTUNATELY THE ISSUE OF GUN CONTROL OR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

this is just the most momentarily visible example of a multitude of longstanding, and deeper, structural and constitutional disquietudes. 

They were mostly created, and or left totally unaddressed, at the time of the founding, and certainly those few fought over during the Civil War were not at all brought to a reasonable resolution or solution by it.  

The Civil War, frankly, only dealt, badly, with certain few problems, which we always had had, not by any means all or even most of them.

FOR BOUPY

Honey:

Hoppy dawg burp day!
Tweny sumting.

Guess what?
You're neither a teenager, nor yet an adult.

You're in 
(Twilight Zone theme music)
two two two two
two two two two

the Two Zero Twilight Zone

Break a leg!

The Un Menu, 
for your Barf day;
dings yu can't eat:

No ouzo
No escargot
No pepper chips
No blood sausages, eg Bastourmas
No vindaloo
No Tarzan stek tartar
No Dover soul (sic)
No human blood (very popular now, I don't know why)
No absinthe
No Pernod
No Caesar salad done right or wrong
No Boeuf Wellington
No rabbit
No Leopard Man cuisine
No keema nan
No squirrel
No retsina
No caviar
No tarrapin
No vodka
No possum
No Cheetos
No chardonnay
No sweetbreads
No Rocky Mountain Oysters
No beer

Dis gives ya sume idea wat is ok on dis day.

Audio ref: Steppenwolf, Happy Birthday

Photo ref, here I am celebrating, in costume:




Awl da bescht,
De ole Schmuck

PAST BLAST KENNAN

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-1944-1945-kennan-patton-etc-kennan-p.html

RE DK POST SLAVERY WEAPONS CENTRAL BANK RIGHTS CURRENCIES

Right to keep and bear arms.....

5TH Amendment, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

Most countries phased slavery out by compensated emancipation. It was not politically feasible, with tiny exceptions,  to get compensated emancipation in 1861 here.

It is ok, now, to bail out big banks.  

Inflation is a sort of taking. 
How about quantitative easing? A taking? How about QE as taxation without representation?

Why have a currency which is merely a promise to pay?
Pay what? A promise to pay? It used to mean something different.  

(Piketty) was worried, in

passing,  that going off the gold standard requires close governmental 

regulation...........banks can then just print money..........endlessly.......

ULTIMATELY

Civilizational class systems incorporating slavery at the bottom, would be neither more, nor less, evil, than a global universalist direct democracy were that possible even as a thot experiment.

DK CURRENT POST

"In the 21st century, widgets are guns. In the 19th century—with due respect to those involved, who were people, not things—widgets were slaves.  To be sure, the issues are not entirely comparable.  Although guns kill more than 30,000 Americans a year, according to the CDC, they are not doing the harm that slavery did. But, while we all agree now that slavery was evil, we violently disagree about guns.  The history of the two issues has many parallels, and points to the terrible difficulty of reaching a consensus...." DK

While I would agree that slavery is suboptimal as a class category, I would not go so far as to claim that we all now agree that it was evil back then. We now think of it as having been evil, which is a misconception of history really in my view. 

If you look at the history of it, some important Muslim states did not abjure it until I believe 1960, and they are even now considering bringing it back. 

For billions, life now in greater poverty and degradation than the lot of slaves in America, while unfortunate, is not an evil, either. 

Nor is it something which Americans should think themselves anointed somehow to eradicate.

Moreover, although there is a lot of misunderstanding about this, it is not a goal of market capitalism, or liberal capitalism, or of cartel capitalism, or of monopoly capitalism, to reduce poverty. The goal of these institutions is merely to increase profit and invested wealth (private property interests).

Re property rights, stamping out 'global poverty' (lack of property), in practice, means mainly transferring Americans', and other wealthy entities', private property to them in various ways. Many billionaires are now doing just that. 

Ultimately, it will fuel a further clash of civilizations already well under way.

PAST BLAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/torah-richard-elliott-friedman.html

LOCUS CLASSICUS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-nation-building-works-editorial.html

SEE RANDALL COLLINS' CURRENT POST

JAMES JOYCE’S WHORES AND STREETFIGHTS

KEEPING AND BEARING ARMS FOR EXAMPLE LAZY FARE

Why shouldnt' Blackwater or someone like that, a private contractor, be able to deploy ballistic missiles to defend its clients against private or tyrannical threats, wherever the private clients are?

If they blunder, it's a civil wrong, or a foreign crime or civil wrong, not a federal crime.

That's an NRA possible hypothesis......

Laissez faire, after all.

RE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

Under the Constitution there are no limits on this. 2nd Amendment etc.

In fact, the idea of the colonists was to put colonists on an equal footing with the Crown's standing army, which they abhorred as an unnatural abridgment of British liberties.

Why can't all wealthy, and not so wealthy, Americans protect their freedoms with ICBMs etc? Say a ICBM condo association?

The Constitution appears to condone this parity as a necessary protection against tyranny.

I will provide a citation anon. 

Should the NRA seek, on principle, to repeal this legislation, which I will cite?

TITLE 18 USC Part I Ch 1138 sec 2332g

If a rich person or company pays off a state, they are immune under this code section, it appears.

You're the smart citizen, you be the judge.

RE THE ROAD TO DALLAS TARGET PATTON

Read many passages in The Road To Dallas recently.

I can see why he leaves open Oswald as a possible CIA agent.

Having previously read Target Patton, and Bazata's revelations, this is rather easier to envisage.

Ragano's book gives a real insider's story.

RE S & H DK POST

Professor

Great post and comments.

I haven't read S & H. What little I know of that I picked up from you. So, I really have no scholarly right to criticize their theories. 

Nevertheless,

RE crises, I don't see the American Rebellion, The Civil War, or WWII as comparable to each other, really, for very many different reasons, regardless of domestic generational considerations.

Re leaders, I do not see Washington, Lincoln, or FDR as similar to each other, in any respect, except that a large military conflict happened on their watch. I do not see their emergence as the result of generational forces. What, for example, about Wilson? Or Teddy? George Wallace? Nixon?

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre....."

COLONIAL IMPROVS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Of course, Rousseauian utopianism, and its strain of individualism,  was, in part, a reaction against Enlightenment utopianism...

Just think, for a moment, about implications for colonial ideologies, and then, later, for American political history, about how well just these two, or so, utopias have played together over time. 

UTOPIAN IMPROVS COLONIAL AMERICA

There was of course a strong thread of Rousseauian utopianism, which, in part, fed into and became known as Romanticism.

CHINA $60 B FOR AFRICA DEVELOPMENT THEY ARE THEIR FRIENDS

Maybe they want to move some into China.....say 200M poor Africans for example.

Take a look at how they feel about that.....

UTOPIAN IMPROVISATIONS

How many significant utopian visions were there in the colonies?

A number of religious groups, many with an opposition background, came here to escape religious and political persecution, and or to expand their base.

Most of these I guess were Whigs, called Old Whigs. See wikipedia, whiggism.

RE CONSTITUTIONAL IMPROVISATIONS

"...That is part of the price of citizenship in a democracy, which by definition forces us to work within the whole society in which we live, and ultimately dooms any attempt to recast society according to a particular Utopian vision...." DK

He implies here that America abhors, and always has, utopian visions.

This I fear is a flawed remark in various ways.

America actually was based, in my view, on at least three or five utopian perspectives, which did not then at the founding coalesce into one non utopian one, or later.

Let us take a brief look, next time at what those Utopian views or perspectives of the founders might have been, back then.

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ON THE SUBJECT OF NIXON HUMPHREY 1968

Apparently the Teamsters gave the JFK election to him....then he betrayed them.

As DK points out, the mob then moved over to support Nixon in 1968, a very close election, Wallace, a spoiler for the Democrats. 

Question: Did the Teamsters do for Nixon in 1968 what they had done on the other side for Kennedy?  That makes a lot of sense. 

But Nixon I think would take money from anyone, then later work out what he would do, just as Kennedy had done. That may be why he delayed so long in springing Hoffa: others had payed him something not to do it.

These are America's great politicians......

JUST TO BE NONPARTISAN

Nixon was ok springing Hoffa from the Kennedy stretch for 1M under the table, according to Ragano, who should know.

LETS JUST GO AHEAD AND MAKE THIS OBVIOUS, ENORMOUS, BUT UNIVERSALLY OVERLOOKED POINT RE JFK

Why did the so called super liberal Kennedys, once in power, then, suddenly so to speak, attack labor, their ostensible main constituents, and especially attacked organized labor, in the first place?

You may say they were trying to root out corruption so that all lower to middle class workers could get a square, if not a new, or fair, deal.

That is almost certainly not the reason.

To the American middle and working class: "Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country."

What an incredible betrayer hypocrite.
Cf DK re Wilson and Du Bois

DK QUOTE

"...That is part of the price of citizenship in a democracy, which by definition forces us to work within the whole society in which we live, and ultimately dooms any attempt to recast society according to a particular Utopian vision...."

I will talk About utopianism perhaps tomorrow.

SEE BUTLERLIBERTYLAW.COM

The last word....

Great stuff.

Thurston: Who do you think they will bail out?

AMERICA'S VIEW RE WESTERN CIVILIZATION GREAT POWERS BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER WWI

Thursday, November 20, 2014

SIR MICHAEL HOWARD THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION WAS REALLY AROUND 1776

The coup de grace was 1945:

"...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...." Sir Michael Howard

I would just add (2015 repost and this edit), for emphasis, they had not joined in the First World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt, either. 

That had, after all, been why Wilson, and his staff, including especially his Secretary of State, were at first so thrilled with the Russian Revolution......

The universal empire of Western Civilization was, in Quigley's terminology, the British Empire, after 1763, not the Napoleonic, briefly, thereafter.

RE DK TWO VIEWS

"What is at stake here, it seems to me, are two views of American history.  The first--which has become more and more fashionable over the last half century--holds that American history has been hopelessly blighted by racism since colonial times, and that attempts to expunge the legacy of racism must take precedence over every other priority in our national life, and determine our attitudes towards the past.  But a second view emphasizes the contradictions in American history and sees our past and our present as one long attempt to overcome them. "

Of course, there are other views.......

RE DK SITE RE WILSON NAACP

Here is another example, from DK site, and his current post, of a classic presidential betrayer:

"In 1912 he managed to conceal this sufficiently during his campaign for President and secured the active support of the young NAACP, led by W. E. B. DuBois." 

ROBERT REICH SOCIAL SAFETY NET

doesn't work in a gig economy.

RE PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW RE HAMILTON CF DK SITE

"...what could we do to encourage this kind of creativity in teaching history to our kids. ...."

I haven't read Chernow's book, but took a look at Randall's 2004 review in the Globe....

The Schama Fallacy...

A CLASSIC

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-maverick-madison-avenue-hollywood.html

RE PAST BLASTS THEMES

Terms search: yacht

CARTOON BLAST FROM THE PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/02/re-banker-bashing-market-fixing-too-big.html

RE THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN POLITICS DK

While I think this is a wonderful post, he does make it seem that this last 40 years is somehow something qualitatively different, and something beyond, the badness of American politics which had gone before.

With this I disagree.  American politics has always been quite bad in ways more or less like this, for different and quite long standing reasons.

In addition to speculating that American politics has recently gotten even worse, one might, as well, inquire regarding ways in which, if any, it has, ever, gotten better. 

If there were times, say under certain Presidential administrations (an inherently wrong criterion, in my judgment), where that seemed to be the case, was that impression illusory, or ultimately erroneous?

For example, take what I call The Lincoln Fallacy.

Britain had already had a much better solution, for the problem of slavery, than we did. 

Read about it some time.

TORN COUNTRIES

Russia, Mexico, Turkey, etc.

Re Russia, think for example of the Crimean Tartars.
This is one reason why I said it should have been broken up.

Huntington talked about it being torn since Peter The Great. The Clash.  

It seems to me that it has been torn, both as a result of, and after the break up of, the Mongol Empire, long before Peter. "Scratch a Russian and you wound a Tartar." De Maistre

NYT DOES A STORY ON NAZI NUCLEAR BOMB THWARTED

By an obscure Norwegian out of Britain.

An easy article to do.....

What about the Soviet bomb development not thwarted?

Much harder topic for the poor devils. 

Let's just start with security problems within the Roosevelt Administration. These apparently were legion.

Take a look at The Haunted Wood, for a start.  I am sure there are many other even better source works.

RE POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY

I am going to posit some new concepts.

I will say at the outset that they cannot work under the present systems.

DK had a somewhat analogous, whimsical, notion:

"There is an obvious, though unlikely, solution to the situation in the House: the election of a new Speaker by a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats, together with an agreement to keep funding the government at current levels, forget about Obamacare and immigration, and leave Planned Parenthood on its own.  That would be the equivalent of a Parliamentary National Government, such as Britain formed in each of the two world wars.  It would definitely isolate the anti-government revolutionaries, and it would also force some Republican presidential candidates, in all probability, to support the deal.  I do not expect it, but I I thought I would put it forward to introduce a ray of hope into perhaps the most hopeless American political moment that I have ever lived through in 68 years." DK, my underlining

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

did not want a crown.

They had no truck with an aristocracy.

They most emphatically did not even want a relatively strong Prime Minister, ever.

What they really wanted, sad to say, was really a kind of wimp. I mean this not in a militancy sense, but rather a political sense.

As a result, most often in US history, that is what we have gotten.

DK CURRENT POST INTERESTING PASSAGE

"The Administration's decision not to try to break up the big banks or prosecute any of their executives allowed the Tea Party, not the Democratic Party, to mobilize all the anger abroad in the land.  Obama, who months ago told David Remnick that he did not think a President could change the direction of the country--and that that was "a good thing"--has left the field clear for others to try to do so."

Is breaking up the banks any longer even feasible, under a banking system now left in place, and so deeply entrenched, for so many decades?

What is the role of a President under the constitution?  It was a somewhat weak and somewhat unbalanced one.

It would have been unthinkable for the founders to have imagined that a President should try singlehandedly to change the direction of the country. 

Thus, I believe, about this, Obama is quite right, and adverting to the Presidential 'excesses' of Lincoln, or FDR, Nixon, for instance, Lyndon Johnson perhaps, Bush One or Bush Two, or even Jefferson re the Louisiana Purchase (not that the purchase was not a good thing to have done), as constitutional aberrations of a weak branch within a weak system.

DK current post

"They got something else too: a change to the mission of higher education. In response to the protests, colleges in the 1970s decided that their mission was not simply to study and teach about the world around them, but to create an environment free of racism, sexism and homophobia, and to promote of certain ideas of justice and progress." DK

Ethnic and or racial origin, national or civilizational origin, religious beliefs, open markets. 

What is justice outside a civilizational religious context?

What is 'progress', really? 

Is it merely economic liberalism?

Does it flatly contradict sustainability?

Does progress imply, in part, limitless population growth? Whose population?

WHAT PUTS A POLITICIAN STRUCTURALLY INTO A POSITION OF BEING CONSIDERED TO HAVE DOUBLE CROSSED A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR?

I can think of no better place, for starting this topic, than, say, Bailyn's Ideological Origins, the chapter called "Transformation".

Cf. also, Bobbitt, Shield, p. 238 "Politics And Representation".

I just yank references like this outta my ass, because perhaps I have A Taste For Chaos. 

HOW MANY MUSLIMS REFUGEES

for example, are the Chinese glad to take?

Take a guess.

How many, the Rooskies?  I am sure they are real eager....

RE EUROPE AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND NATIONAL ORIGINS

For about 7 hundred years, Europe has not needed, or should have wanted, more Muslims.

It did want, and should have wanted, less, or zero, Muslims, refugees or not.

RE TERRORIST ATTACKS WMD AND THE HOBBLED NATION STATE

The modern hobbled nation state can deal with terrorist attacks, in general, scarcely better, if any, than with WMD.

This was a point, in different words, but much the same meaning,  re WMD, actually made by Bobbitt in Shield.

The so called Market State, whatever you think that is, cannot protect anyone from anything.

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TERRORISM THE NATION STATE AND CIVILIZATIONS

France strengthening its national borders...
What a joke.

The EU wants to get away from national borders.

Globalist multiculturalists, whether liberal anarchist or conservative, hate nation states, hate civilizational distinctions, and confining nation state, and civilizational, borders and boundaries.

FORGET ABOUT MIGRATION CONTROL

with the death of the nation state.

Non nation state entities are even weaker....

The liberal international economic order has long been going for global median wealth convergence anyway. 

Say 500 to 1000 dollars, tops, per year, per capita, that is the ultimate convergence goal. It is the only eonomically possible one, really.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/09/re-yahoo-big-data-jaron-lanier-ppp.html

LARGE COMPANIES GAME H-1B

Sovereignty At Bay, 40 years later.

Forget about any nation state.

Smell the coffee, game over.

A CLASIC FROM THE DORMANT SISTER BLOG

http://deglobbalization.blogspot.com/2011/09/re-road-to-serfdom.html

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/09/re-yahoo-big-data-jaron-lanier-ppp.html

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RE ANN CUDD ANALYTICAL FEMINISM BU

Please.

RE WESTERN COLONIALISM AND THE NEW BAD GUYS

This was the best that we ever saw, in the 19th Century, this ancient history of the West.

The rest is now becoming nonsense rather quickly.

The civilizational unraveling takes many years to unfold.

Who are the quote 'bad guys'? Take a guess.  

On any particular theory, it can be almost anyone.

Too many quote different flavors of bad guys to shake a stick at, really.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/09/re-yahoo-big-data-jaron-lanier-ppp.html

BEN GEE

"When China replace the US as the #1 economy, that will be the time for the Yuan to look for equal status with the $. IMF think that day will come be 2027.

Whether that day will be 2025, 2027, or 2032, it will be much less important to China than the US.

Remember, when the Chinese GDP equal that of the US, Chinese income per capita will only be 25% of the US. Chinas plan is well beyond that. 

China hope someday, Chinese GDP per capita will be at least 50% of the US. That would make Chinese GDP 2X that of the US."

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/09/re-yahoo-big-data-jaron-lanier-ppp.html

RE TRANSGENDER INMATES

The rest of the world must laugh at us for stories like this.

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RAGANO

Ch 29, and the Epilogue.

See also DK book.

double crosser ethics 101

If a Presidential candidate can use the mob to get elected, why can't the CIA also use them to help kill Castro?

Fair is fair.

Extra credit: 

Ragano said Santo bragged about double crossing the CIA re killing Castro, and kept the money.

Extra credit question: Who was the bigger double crosser, if any, Santo re the CIA, or Kennedy re the mob?

Double extra credit question: Why?

Triple extra credit: If neither was bigger, why not?

Quadruple extra credit: Does it matter if one double cross precedes in time, and causes another double cross?

Quintuple: Does one double cross justify an answering double cross?

Sextuple: Why, or why not?

RE KENNEDYS DOUBLE CROSSERS

For those who cannot see how this might have been, there have been some recent articles about mob connections, going back to Joe.

Also, Ragano's discussion of Giancana's remarks at Capra's, p 218 is rather illuminating. Maybe Ragano made it all up. I rather doubt it.

See also the account in Real Lace.

David Kaiser has written a very detailed book. I have only started it. It is long.

RE DK PRAISE AND BLAME ELECTION CYCLES

The main point to make here, of course, is that invariably praise or blame cannot be associated validly to a particular incumbent for economic or even social trends occurring during the period of the office held, state, federal, or local. But campaign rhetoric is almost never about factual reality.

STILL A CLASSIC

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

ROBERT F KENNEDY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES EISENHOWER SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER

RFK Never actually practiced law, as a lawyer, even once, in any state, or federal, court. See NYT and New Republic.

Rather like Eisenhower, who never had any field command whatsoever, but was appointed the Supreme Allied Commander in WWII.

RE THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD

This is essential reading, I have to admit.

RE C919

http://www.geek.com/news/china-develops-a-passenger-jet-but-its-mostly-made-in-america-1638545/

How long do you think CFM will continue making these engines, only in the US and France, rather than in China, 20 years? That is the duration that has been touted.....

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RE CHINA BURNS MUCH MORE COAL THE AL GORE FALLACY

Ridiculous cap and trade policy along with offshoring industry to China etc.

What a ridiculous course to have followed.

LET ME PAINT YOU A DARKER SCENARIO

Big debate here, now, over Mexican penetration of the US. Big issue. Mexico is a non Western civilization country, believe it or not.

Let's suppose, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, and assuming the very unlikely event that the US stayed neutral in such a scenario, that Russia gets tired of its erstwhile ally, China's, gross illegal population penetration of Siberia, and they end up in a shooting war over the issue.

Say, eventually, a Syria like refugee situation emerges, but on an enormously larger scale, with say 20 million Chinese refugees displaced from northern China by Russian action there to foreclose further unchecked Chinese penetration of Siberia. China, Russia, and others, start offshoring them.

How many Chinese refugees, from this conflict, do you want places like California, New York, Europe, Australia, etc., to take?

How many Russians?

We here say 'never too many new blood individuals'.