I would not call him a great leader.
He was a great demagogue, who used television very effectively, just as Professor Kaiser's father had feared....
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Friday, September 30, 2016
RE INFLATION DEFLATION BOTH RED HERRINGS
Why not, now, pretend to change the subject, and talk about another couple of perhaps somehow related matters?
Corporate profits, or just profits, on the one hand, a biggie, and interest rates, another biggie, on the other.
What do you suppose has been going on, with each of them, lately?
I will give you a day or so to guess.
Corporate profits, or just profits, on the one hand, a biggie, and interest rates, another biggie, on the other.
What do you suppose has been going on, with each of them, lately?
I will give you a day or so to guess.
RE BP FUKUSHIMA CHERNOBYL SAUDI VETO 9/11 BARBARISM POWER RUSSIA SYRIA DEUTSCHE BANK KATRINA WWII TORT
See: RE BP'S EXPOSURE DOWN HERE AND WHY
and other more recent posts...various topics above
Terms search also: BP, rule of law, Simon Says
and other more recent posts...various topics above
Terms search also: BP, rule of law, Simon Says
WHY NOT A TRULY GLOBAL LAWYER RELIEF ACT? FUKUSHIMA
They could add this to the TPP, so that all governments and individuals throughout Asia, the whole Pacific Rim, and the rest of the world, could sue Japan over Fukushima for lost business damages, or even shortened life expectancy!
How about that!
While we're at it, why not legislatively revoke, nunc pro tunc , statutes of limitations and sovereign immunity re Chernobyl?
Why not let the good times roll for all lawyers everywhere?
As W said, these principles are right for all people everywhere!
How about that!
While we're at it, why not legislatively revoke, nunc pro tunc , statutes of limitations and sovereign immunity re Chernobyl?
Why not let the good times roll for all lawyers everywhere?
As W said, these principles are right for all people everywhere!
ANOTHER CLASSIC
MISE EN SCENE BUS STOP MAVERICK EXECUTIVE MARILYN FREE TRADE HUMAN RIGHTS HOLD UP AND UGLY PHILOSOPHERS
one of my better efforts someone saw
From a bygone age, 5 years ago:
RE ROBERT MACAIRE SMACK DOWN ADAM SMITH DAVID HUME WESTERN SUMOS CARTOON MISE EN SCENE THINK DAUMIER HOGARTH
RE NYT OPINION RE ICBMs DESIGN BUILD
It's always good to get your best intelligence briefing from the NYT.
In the market state, now emerging, why not go ahead and outsource our intelligence apparatus itself to, say, the NYT?
Economies of scale.
Rather like design build, what.
In the market state, now emerging, why not go ahead and outsource our intelligence apparatus itself to, say, the NYT?
Economies of scale.
Rather like design build, what.
RE NYT 9/11 CASES HEADING FOR MANHATTAN COURTHOUSE
I can't think of a more appropriate place for them...
Perhaps to a courthouse, say, built at ground zero?
Perhaps to a courthouse, say, built at ground zero?
PUTIN KNOWS ITS A POPPINS
Re NYT US intelligence officials wonder whether a grander scheme is at work.
Call it ' Putin's Poppins '
Call it ' Putin's Poppins '
Thursday, September 29, 2016
QUESTION IF ALL OF THESE INCONSISTENCIES ALREADY EXIST THEN
Why not allow American citizens to individually sue China, or individual Chinese corporations or individuals, and anyone else, for pollution damages in tort?
Sovereign immunity?
Let them then assert it as a bar, or a defense, case by case.
Sovereign immunity?
Let them then assert it as a bar, or a defense, case by case.
WHAT BACK ROOM DEALS WENT INTO THE BP GULF SETTLEMENT
Why was that ok but Saudi 9/11 liability not?
The BP deal was so ridiculous and one sided that one must suppose all kinds of hidden government pressure.
If not, then they have the worst very, very highly paid team of lawyers ever known.
It has to be one or the other.
The BP deal was so ridiculous and one sided that one must suppose all kinds of hidden government pressure.
If not, then they have the worst very, very highly paid team of lawyers ever known.
It has to be one or the other.
WHY ALLOW JUSTICE TO SUE DEUTSCHE BANK OVER MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES
and not let all global citizens, but especially US ones, sue Saudi Arabia for some alleged involvement in 9/11?
Why? Of course, there are quite fine points of law, and of course the fact situations are somewhat dissimilar, but let's brush them aside, for a moment.
Why? Of course, there are quite fine points of law, and of course the fact situations are somewhat dissimilar, but let's brush them aside, for a moment.
RE VETO OVERRIDE SAUDI SUITS BILL
TRUMP AND FATNESS CARTOON
He is not against certain ample people with special powers.
His transition organizer, after all, a person with decided special gifts, is not so so small.
Trump probably thinks of him, however, as small, in the sense that he probably refers to him, affectionately, in the diminutive, say Chrissie?
Let's just say that Trump has his own view of reality, into which I invite the reader to enter:
Here is his transition manager, touching down in a forest glade, on the South Lawn, making ready Trump's arrival shortly.
Let's simply call him Zephyr:
Trump, however, would probably refer to him as Zeffirelli:
His transition organizer, after all, a person with decided special gifts, is not so so small.
Trump probably thinks of him, however, as small, in the sense that he probably refers to him, affectionately, in the diminutive, say Chrissie?
Let's just say that Trump has his own view of reality, into which I invite the reader to enter:
Here is his transition manager, touching down in a forest glade, on the South Lawn, making ready Trump's arrival shortly.
Let's simply call him Zephyr:
Trump, however, would probably refer to him as Zeffirelli:
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
RE VETO OVERRIDE SAUDI SUITS BILL
There is no depth of stupidity to which the US government, especially the Congress, cannot sink. The veto override vote was overwhelming...
The very magnitude of the vote shows that there is plenty of stupidity room there for even more enormous legislation blunders than this.
Just try, for a moment, to imagine some of the kinds of things this law might just open the door to, not only against the government, but against private citizens.
It is rather also like what we used to call a 'lawyer relief act', very poorly disguised.
Why not allow WWII claimants to sue other governments, especially regarding damages for mass barbaric civilian slaughter, as Ambassador Power has put it, such as Dresden, and other German cities, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, certainly filled with innocent children and adults, Vietnam, many thousands of body counts of civilians there; London descendants of those bombed by the Germans need legal retribution; Soviet action certainly caused millions of civilian deaths and casualties, and they need hard suing as well, no doubt; Jewish descendants of civilian Holocaust victims should be able to sue not only the German and Italian governments, and European governments who turned them over to the Germans, but also Allied governments who failed to come to their rescue in a timely manner, etc.
The very magnitude of the vote shows that there is plenty of stupidity room there for even more enormous legislation blunders than this.
Just try, for a moment, to imagine some of the kinds of things this law might just open the door to, not only against the government, but against private citizens.
It is rather also like what we used to call a 'lawyer relief act', very poorly disguised.
Why not allow WWII claimants to sue other governments, especially regarding damages for mass barbaric civilian slaughter, as Ambassador Power has put it, such as Dresden, and other German cities, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, certainly filled with innocent children and adults, Vietnam, many thousands of body counts of civilians there; London descendants of those bombed by the Germans need legal retribution; Soviet action certainly caused millions of civilian deaths and casualties, and they need hard suing as well, no doubt; Jewish descendants of civilian Holocaust victims should be able to sue not only the German and Italian governments, and European governments who turned them over to the Germans, but also Allied governments who failed to come to their rescue in a timely manner, etc.
SAMANTHA POWER PAUL KRUGMAN CARTOON DIALOGUE SYRIA IS TOO BIG TO FAIL
Power: "Mr Krugman, how would you handle the situation in Syria? For me it represents a Human Rights Trap."
Krugman: "First off, they are in a grotesque liquidity and capital flight trap. I would try to get all global market participants, both states, private companies, and NGOs, to dump, by heavy governmental subsidies (based on taxes) and incentives, as many goods and financial services of all types, with as few restraints on movements of goods and capital, both in and out of there, as the global market will bear."
Power: "Sounds like you just want to bail Syria out of war. What if those there on the ground try to stop that?"
Krugman: "I recommend that the free market forces of private enterprise be turned loose against those opposing the free movement of heavily subsidized goods and capital through that area."
Power: "Can those subsidized free market forces use any methods they deem appropriate to free up that area for enhanced global trade?"
Krugman: "Yes."
Power: "Do human rights play any part in your calculations regarding appropriateness of methods to free up that global market area?"
Krugman: "Yes. Market participants, public and private, can decide for themselves, based on cost benefit calculations, the extent to which human rights issues, government interference costs and tax costs, figure into the overall global cost benefit, profit loss, taxation cost benefit, calculation processes."
Krugman: "First off, they are in a grotesque liquidity and capital flight trap. I would try to get all global market participants, both states, private companies, and NGOs, to dump, by heavy governmental subsidies (based on taxes) and incentives, as many goods and financial services of all types, with as few restraints on movements of goods and capital, both in and out of there, as the global market will bear."
Power: "Sounds like you just want to bail Syria out of war. What if those there on the ground try to stop that?"
Krugman: "I recommend that the free market forces of private enterprise be turned loose against those opposing the free movement of heavily subsidized goods and capital through that area."
Power: "Can those subsidized free market forces use any methods they deem appropriate to free up that area for enhanced global trade?"
Krugman: "Yes."
Power: "Do human rights play any part in your calculations regarding appropriateness of methods to free up that global market area?"
Krugman: "Yes. Market participants, public and private, can decide for themselves, based on cost benefit calculations, the extent to which human rights issues, government interference costs and tax costs, figure into the overall global cost benefit, profit loss, taxation cost benefit, calculation processes."
BBC RE BEEF LYNCHING INDIA BOMBING INNOCENT CIVILIAN CHILDREN IN ALEPPO
Let's broaden the inquiry....
Question:
In a conservative Jewish State (let's call it a civilization, all to itself for the sake of argument), why not Kosher violation lynchings, too?
You will say, human rights, etc., of course.
Fighting barbarism, Power's recent argument in the UN, against Russia, most especially, singled out (among many other surrounding lifelong bombers as well) for not bombing civilians, especially Aleppo children, etc., etc.
Human rights is, after all, turn finally and face it, in spite of what the West says and believes to the bottom of its flawed heart, a strictly Western Civilization concept.
Rather like the enlightenment itself....
One might as well argue that it is Protestants who are more enlightened, and therefore less likely to bomb innocent civilians that conservative Catholics or Orthodox Serbs.
Its warrant does not run in either event.
Reminds me a little of my days as an undergrad philosophy student...Jefferson house and all that.
There was one example, among others, trotted out, of behavior that, it was ernestly argued by the professor, no truly civilized people would engage in: baby stomping.
Then I read, during the war in the Balkans, that the Orthodox Serbs argued, that killing Muslim infants saved them the trouble of having to kill them later, when they grew up and had thus become really dangerous.
Question:
In a conservative Jewish State (let's call it a civilization, all to itself for the sake of argument), why not Kosher violation lynchings, too?
You will say, human rights, etc., of course.
Fighting barbarism, Power's recent argument in the UN, against Russia, most especially, singled out (among many other surrounding lifelong bombers as well) for not bombing civilians, especially Aleppo children, etc., etc.
Human rights is, after all, turn finally and face it, in spite of what the West says and believes to the bottom of its flawed heart, a strictly Western Civilization concept.
Rather like the enlightenment itself....
One might as well argue that it is Protestants who are more enlightened, and therefore less likely to bomb innocent civilians that conservative Catholics or Orthodox Serbs.
Its warrant does not run in either event.
Reminds me a little of my days as an undergrad philosophy student...Jefferson house and all that.
There was one example, among others, trotted out, of behavior that, it was ernestly argued by the professor, no truly civilized people would engage in: baby stomping.
Then I read, during the war in the Balkans, that the Orthodox Serbs argued, that killing Muslim infants saved them the trouble of having to kill them later, when they grew up and had thus become really dangerous.
RE JONATHAN MAHLER THEORY CARTOON TRUMP CLINTON
This post is for BB.
His like this:
His like this:
Why not show her grinning very broadly at the camera directly in front of them both, standing right next to him side by side, an arm, and a hand with dagger, raised behind his adjoining shoulder, him frowning and pouting, talking and gesticulating, at the camera.
Her image could look something like this:
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
RE DEMOCRATIC LIBERALISM ENLIGHTENMENT PROTESTANTISM
One gets the impression from most modern histories and social science studies done over here that it was Protestantism rather than Catholicism which was the more liberal, modern, moderate, and enlightened branch of Western Christianity.
Most American Protestants take this as virtually an article of faith in their history.
In fact, the opposite was the case. This was especially apparent at the time of the French Revolution and the Directory. See Palmer Struggle, arond p 224 and sources cited. Lloyd had reached a similar conclusion in The Old European Order. There are plenty of other sources for this rather obvious fact, Wuthnow, for example....
The Revolution itself, after all, started out as a collaboration between elements of the Third Estate and the lower Catholic clergy.
The Revolution itself, after all, started out as a collaboration between elements of the Third Estate and the lower Catholic clergy.
TRUMP CARTOON MACHADO OR CLINTON
She and Trump need to be cartoonized boxing.
She holds him, purple, high over her head, with one hand, by the throat, his feet dangling off the ground, the other, a fist drawn way way back.
She needn't say anything. She should look very angry. Blitt likes non verbal.
One could also do this cartoon with Senator Clinton taking Machado's role, after the first debate! Senator Clinton would of course be grinning very broadly.
HERE WAS THE PERENNIAL GLOBALIST KRUGMAN BACK IN 97
"But matters are not that simple, and the moral lines are not that clear. In fact, let me make a counter-accusation: The lofty moral tone of the opponents of globalization is possible only because they have chosen not to think their position through. While fat-cat capitalists might benefit from globalization, the biggest beneficiaries are, yes, Third World workers." PK
That was not true then, and it is not true now.
Matters were that simple, and the moral lines were that clear.
Matters were that simple, and the moral lines were that clear.
The biggest beneficiaries moreover were, and remain, the top .1% of the top 1%.
That, by itself, is tragic enough for the West.
But, here is an equally important point, going forward:
Even if what he said were true, I would be even more disappointed about it, for the common man of the West, leaving aside totally the point about the top .1% of the top 1%.
1987: In 1987 he quipped that, "If there were an Economist's Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations 'I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage' and 'I advocate Free Trade'."
That, by itself, is tragic enough for the West.
But, here is an equally important point, going forward:
Even if what he said were true, I would be even more disappointed about it, for the common man of the West, leaving aside totally the point about the top .1% of the top 1%.
1987: In 1987 he quipped that, "If there were an Economist's Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations 'I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage' and 'I advocate Free Trade'."
BBC MALI ISLAMIST SHRINE WRECKER
is rather like Protestant iconoclasm....
Protestantism: an ideological disaster for the West.
Protestantism: an ideological disaster for the West.
Monday, September 26, 2016
STATE FEDERAL EMINENT DOMAIN WAR STORY
This is a rather comical story.
I worked on many cases where we took property, for a federally funded project, usually for a state road. Shared costs.
This case was for improvements to a federal road into and through downtown Lakeland, for which the state was doing the project.
This case was for improvements to a federal road into and through downtown Lakeland, for which the state was doing the project.
With the luck of the draw, among the lawyers, I drew a downtown US Post Office site, slated by the state project design to be taken and used for the project.
In the pre suit stage of the case, it became clear that this site was the most highly long fought over environmentally petroleum contaminated football, EPA, DEP, Polk County, City of Lakeland (the County seat), I knew about. Decades before, it had been a gas station site.....
It was the subject of both local, state, and federal, ongoing, environmental regulatory proceedings...clean up, monitoring, use preventative, cost responsibility disputes, liability, etc., etc., etc.
It seemed to my public transportation client that these proceedings would go on indefinitely and, if allowed to, would either lengthily delay, or even prevent, the taking of the site for the road project. Usually such a site is designed around, if possible, but that was not for me to reflect upon at that point.
They asked me to take the parcel in a summary proceeding on short notice, as usual. That is what I did. The United States, the parcel owner, neither appeared, nor filed any paper.
About a month or so later, I got a very polite letter from an Assistant US Attorney in Tampa, requesting me to kindly dismiss my suit in Lakeland, which had been improvidently filed, in that the United States is immune from suits of this kind by the states without its consent, which had not been given in this case....this of course was true.
The letter did not seek or ask me to provide the United States any other relief in the case than dismissal of the petition.
At that point, my client having already taken the property, the United States was asking in effect only to have its compensation portion of the case dismissed.
Whether they knew what they were doing as well, given the environmental background, or not, I did not inquire into, but eagerly complied with this very reasonable request.
I heard that my clients were still scratching their heads, years later, in the central office in Tallahassee, regarding this matter.
Just imagine this parcel being taken nowadays, with the new design build buzz word condemnor mentality, and the corresponding ravening hunger such a case would generate on the rabid property rights owner side of the bar.
Just imagine this parcel being taken nowadays, with the new design build buzz word condemnor mentality, and the corresponding ravening hunger such a case would generate on the rabid property rights owner side of the bar.
RE THE NATION STATE THE CIVIL WAR BARBARISM TERROR POWER BOBBITT etc
See these two prior posts:
RE NATION STATES TERRORISM CIVIL WAR BOBBITT
RE SHERMAN BOBBITT MOYAR RANDALL KENNAN CIVIL WAR DK
RE NATION STATES TERRORISM CIVIL WAR BOBBITT
RE SHERMAN BOBBITT MOYAR RANDALL KENNAN CIVIL WAR DK
TRUMP CLINTON DEBATE CARTOON
This post is dedicated to Barry Blitt.
My own personal preference, for Trump's performance tonight, is that one of his more successful moves might be, rather than to just respond verbally (which he likes to do too much), would be to just make faces, and gestures (more than he normally does), at her, as well. He might even skip words at some point.
Even simply laughing at her, arms folded, might be very effective at certain moments!
Even simply laughing at her, arms folded, might be very effective at certain moments!
Sunday, September 25, 2016
RE AMBASSADOR POWER ACCUSES RUSSIA OF BARBARISM IN SYRIA BY BOMBING CIVILIANS
This is not really a good direction for diplomacy, politics, or litigation, to go in.
Not that bombing civilians is not in some sense barbaric.
But then the West, and the US, have often in the past 100 years engaged in barbarism. Think for example about the many instances of Allied barbarisms on civilians in WWII, both in Europe and in the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan on civilian cities, or the barbarisms of Vietnam and elsewhere in the colonial world.
Maybe Ambassador Power is saying that we really shouldn't have conducted war that way, and that an apology for those things is now in order.
Maybe that is an implication of her remarks regarding Russia now about barbarism, that past acts of barbarism should now be expiated somehow by its perpetrators?
How far does one go with this line of reasoning?
Maybe monetary compensation should be offered for all past acts of barbarism against all civilians everywhere, no statute of limitations.
Not that bombing civilians is not in some sense barbaric.
But then the West, and the US, have often in the past 100 years engaged in barbarism. Think for example about the many instances of Allied barbarisms on civilians in WWII, both in Europe and in the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan on civilian cities, or the barbarisms of Vietnam and elsewhere in the colonial world.
Maybe Ambassador Power is saying that we really shouldn't have conducted war that way, and that an apology for those things is now in order.
Maybe that is an implication of her remarks regarding Russia now about barbarism, that past acts of barbarism should now be expiated somehow by its perpetrators?
How far does one go with this line of reasoning?
Maybe monetary compensation should be offered for all past acts of barbarism against all civilians everywhere, no statute of limitations.
THE ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS A ONE ISSUE ONLY PARTY
You might say it was a party literally created for demagogery.
Randall, 1937, p 134.
Of course they had other agendas, but this was their plank to get into office in the first place.
Randall, 1937, p 134.
Of course they had other agendas, but this was their plank to get into office in the first place.
RE LINCOLN
I have discussed him in several posts. To see more of what I have said
Terms search: Lincoln
Terms search: Lincoln
Saturday, September 24, 2016
SHIELDS BROOKS THE CONVENTIONS NPR
Shields, "this is my 20 something convention...." wouldn't you just want to shoot yourself rather than go through that much of that?
THE MENU
Roasted my first rabbit the other day. Provencal style. Delicious, highly recommended.
I may have had it when I was a kid. Don't remember.
Certainly my father would have blasted one, had he seen it, while hunting birds, or deer. I just don't recall.
Anyway, I thought it might be good as a leftover base for a cacciatore. Voila, it was perfect, with a roast pork bolognese sauce I had in the fridge.
I may have had it when I was a kid. Don't remember.
Certainly my father would have blasted one, had he seen it, while hunting birds, or deer. I just don't recall.
Anyway, I thought it might be good as a leftover base for a cacciatore. Voila, it was perfect, with a roast pork bolognese sauce I had in the fridge.
RUMPOLE JOKE SOME OF MY CLIENTS BACK IN THE DAY
insisted I set their case for a non jury trial...
My buddies in the office and I had an inside joke:
A bench trial is a slow guilty plea.
My buddies in the office and I had an inside joke:
A bench trial is a slow guilty plea.
JUST FOR FUN LET'S JUST COMPARE LINCOLN WITH TRUMP BOTH DEMAGOGUES
Both, it seems, pariahs within their own party (the Republican in each).
You will say, Lincoln was not a demagogue. Many experts agree with you. I say, with respect to the issue of slavery, he certainly was, if only because that is the drum he incessantly beat on. Only a demagogue (Hitler had picked antisemitism, after all) would do that.....and that was his main appeal, frankly, with a white, Northern, Republican, rabble.
You might as well try to convince me that Antony, in Julius Caesar, eloquent and dignified as well, was not a demagogue, because of how he civilly couched his rhetoric against Caesar's assassins; "and Brutus is an honorable man...."
Lincoln, was at the height of his powers and popularity, one would think, had he lived, a victorious wartime Commander in Chief.
Yet he would, apparently, have been totally unable to carry through his plan for a prompt amicable reconciliation of the North and the South after the Civil War.
Trump, detested and abhorred by his own modern Republican party, as Lincoln had been by his Republican Party, looks likely to become President even in spite of that.
What is a Republican controlled Congress likely to do with his administration? Join with Democrats against him, if necessary, seems one likely answer.
Question: would Lincoln have done the same to his own Republicans, join with Democrats in Congress, had he lived, and had there been any there by then?
I doubt it, and trying it wouldn't have done him any good, with the post Civil War Congress he then faced, and with Southern representatives barred by them.
You will say, Lincoln was not a demagogue. Many experts agree with you. I say, with respect to the issue of slavery, he certainly was, if only because that is the drum he incessantly beat on. Only a demagogue (Hitler had picked antisemitism, after all) would do that.....and that was his main appeal, frankly, with a white, Northern, Republican, rabble.
You might as well try to convince me that Antony, in Julius Caesar, eloquent and dignified as well, was not a demagogue, because of how he civilly couched his rhetoric against Caesar's assassins; "and Brutus is an honorable man...."
Lincoln, was at the height of his powers and popularity, one would think, had he lived, a victorious wartime Commander in Chief.
Yet he would, apparently, have been totally unable to carry through his plan for a prompt amicable reconciliation of the North and the South after the Civil War.
Trump, detested and abhorred by his own modern Republican party, as Lincoln had been by his Republican Party, looks likely to become President even in spite of that.
What is a Republican controlled Congress likely to do with his administration? Join with Democrats against him, if necessary, seems one likely answer.
Question: would Lincoln have done the same to his own Republicans, join with Democrats in Congress, had he lived, and had there been any there by then?
I doubt it, and trying it wouldn't have done him any good, with the post Civil War Congress he then faced, and with Southern representatives barred by them.
THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESIDENCY MORTON'S FORK
The Republcan Congress and the Republican Party, at the time of Lincoln's assassination, and after, for decades, screwed all Americans, not just Southerners, but Southerners especially.
They would have done the same under Lincoln, even had he lived. That is why he was not the right man for the Presidency, in 1860, or later, or ever......Why?
After all, it would have been his own Republican Party, and his Republican dominated Congress, which would have, had he lived, screwed him too!
If you want proof of that, take a look at Johnson's administration. They actually did screw Lincoln's faithful Republican protege, President Johnson!
Bottom line, if you fight a Civil War, but cannot control the peace it was fought for, even within your own winning side, why then did you embark on the war in the first place?
Great question.
You can turn and twist in the logical wind, trying to refute this argument, but a politician who cannot agree on fundamental issues, even with his own party, in his own party-controlled Congress, should never have been elected in the first place.
If you take issue with that argument, then you are admitting, on the other hand, that we have a structurally flawed political system.
So, now, if you neither admit I am correct about Lincoln, and also, as well, deny that we have a structurally flawed political system, you are then in a sort of Morton's Fork situation.
How do you get out of that?
You don't.
They would have done the same under Lincoln, even had he lived. That is why he was not the right man for the Presidency, in 1860, or later, or ever......Why?
After all, it would have been his own Republican Party, and his Republican dominated Congress, which would have, had he lived, screwed him too!
If you want proof of that, take a look at Johnson's administration. They actually did screw Lincoln's faithful Republican protege, President Johnson!
Bottom line, if you fight a Civil War, but cannot control the peace it was fought for, even within your own winning side, why then did you embark on the war in the first place?
Great question.
You can turn and twist in the logical wind, trying to refute this argument, but a politician who cannot agree on fundamental issues, even with his own party, in his own party-controlled Congress, should never have been elected in the first place.
If you take issue with that argument, then you are admitting, on the other hand, that we have a structurally flawed political system.
So, now, if you neither admit I am correct about Lincoln, and also, as well, deny that we have a structurally flawed political system, you are then in a sort of Morton's Fork situation.
How do you get out of that?
You don't.
RE A TRUMP PRESIDENCY? THE WALL
That's a campaign promise I actually liked.
Professor Kaiser: "His wall would soak up all the infrastructure money that we desperately need for other purposes."
Trump has claimed he would make the Mexicans pay for it.
That is the part I like so much.
Professor Kaiser: "His wall would soak up all the infrastructure money that we desperately need for other purposes."
Trump has claimed he would make the Mexicans pay for it.
That is the part I like so much.
WHAT IF THE CHINESE SAID
Hey! Our poverty over here is a violation of our human rights!
We are all entitled to the pursuit of happiness; we cannot get that, in poverty, here!
We are refugees, if we leave here, according to your principles!
Here we come!
And they emigrate, say only 100,000,000, to Eastern Europe, and, say, even into West Russia (they have already lurched into East Russia by the millions), on foot, across Central Asia?
What if the Chinese government does not try to stop them, say, China argues "fear of 'human rights violation'" for stopping them.
We are all entitled to the pursuit of happiness; we cannot get that, in poverty, here!
We are refugees, if we leave here, according to your principles!
Here we come!
And they emigrate, say only 100,000,000, to Eastern Europe, and, say, even into West Russia (they have already lurched into East Russia by the millions), on foot, across Central Asia?
What if the Chinese government does not try to stop them, say, China argues "fear of 'human rights violation'" for stopping them.
Friday, September 23, 2016
RE DK POST PRESIDENT TRUMP?
Professor Kaiser mentions Lincoln's overwhelming electoral majority...
Here are the 4 presidential candidates vying for the office, the numbers for the popular votes, percentage of popular votes, and resulting number of electors for each candidate:
Lincoln, Republican: popular vote: 1,865,908, 39.8 % ; electoral vote: 180
Breckenridge, Southern Democrat: popular vote: 848,019, 18.1% ; electoral vote: 72
Bell, Constitutional Union/Whig: popular vote: 590,901, 12.6%; electoral vote: 39
Douglas, Northern Democrat: popular vote: 1, 380,202, 29.5%; electoral vote: 12
Here are the 4 presidential candidates vying for the office, the numbers for the popular votes, percentage of popular votes, and resulting number of electors for each candidate:
Lincoln, Republican: popular vote: 1,865,908, 39.8 % ; electoral vote: 180
Breckenridge, Southern Democrat: popular vote: 848,019, 18.1% ; electoral vote: 72
Bell, Constitutional Union/Whig: popular vote: 590,901, 12.6%; electoral vote: 39
Douglas, Northern Democrat: popular vote: 1, 380,202, 29.5%; electoral vote: 12
Here is why Professor Kaiser's statement is true, although Lincoln's percentage of the popular vote itself was less than 40%:
The Republican victory resulted from the concentration of votes in the free states (the North), which together controlled a majority of the presidential electors. Population increases in the free states had far exceeded those seen in the slave states for many years before the election of 1860, hence their dominance in the Electoral College.
Even his 3 opponents' electoral votes combined could not have defeated his sectional populational advantage.
Professor Kaiser mentioned that the right candidate won both in 1860 and in 1932.
Actually, I believe the right candidate in 1860 was Douglas, and the Civil War, and its aftermath, more or less proved that.
You may say, try to rationalize how thing went for the rest of history here, well, had Lincoln not been assasinated, things would have turned out very differently from then on.
Actually, that is emphatically not the case, either, as fervently as many well meaning Americans, white and black, would like to believe it. Why do I say that? How can that be true?
Well, if you look back at the history, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, President Johnson closely followed and tried for several years to carry out Lincoln's intentions for reconciliation.
Those intentions were soundly defeated by a Congress run by radical Republicans.
It would have been this same Congress which would certainly have overridden Lincoln's plans as well, had he lived.
Professor Kaiser mentioned that the right candidate won both in 1860 and in 1932.
Actually, I believe the right candidate in 1860 was Douglas, and the Civil War, and its aftermath, more or less proved that.
You may say, try to rationalize how thing went for the rest of history here, well, had Lincoln not been assasinated, things would have turned out very differently from then on.
Actually, that is emphatically not the case, either, as fervently as many well meaning Americans, white and black, would like to believe it. Why do I say that? How can that be true?
Well, if you look back at the history, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, President Johnson closely followed and tried for several years to carry out Lincoln's intentions for reconciliation.
Those intentions were soundly defeated by a Congress run by radical Republicans.
It would have been this same Congress which would certainly have overridden Lincoln's plans as well, had he lived.
ROTATION IN OFFICE
More or less generally guarantees turnstile bozo amateurism in office, followed routinely by kickbacks based on connections from the private sector into which the bozo politician is then forced, by the rotation process itself, afterwards.
POLITICS AND THE WORLD MARKETS IMPERATIVE
When, or if, Putin shuts down gas to Europe, he will deny publicly that it has anything to do with politics.
It is merely a business decision made imperative by world market conditions.
And of course, under those conditions, on what ground on which do they then have to complain, playing as they must by those same world market imperative rules?
They are free, of course, to seek elsewhere, on world markets, for their gas supply, so it is hard, in that world, to simply characterize it as an act of aggression, or, heaven forbid, a military manoeuvre.
RE TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATOR
Terms search: Christie
Christie, for me, is at times rather a comic figure, but of course it is no laughing matter.
Christie, for me, is at times rather a comic figure, but of course it is no laughing matter.
RE NEW YORKER ARTICLE DK POST
'...in China, Trump’s “America First” policy has been understood as the lament of a permissive, exhausted America.'
That seems perfectly accurate to me.
A late lament. That is only one reason I have called it 'game over' for the West.
That seems perfectly accurate to me.
A late lament. That is only one reason I have called it 'game over' for the West.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION WAS IN 1917 IN WOODROW WILSON'S EYES
as American as apple pie.
Wilson 1917:
"Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the imtimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude towards life. The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their naive majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a league of honor."
SEE DK'S CURRENT POST
To continue that discussion, re the Baltic states, Crimea, the Ukraine, and other things, if one wanted to pull pieces away from Russia, as well as, now, to properly prevent it from taking back its former areas, because frankly it has always been geographically too large, and even if one wanted to have done some partition of Russia into smaller, more politically manageable, and reasonably sized states, the time to have tried to do that is long past.
That time was in 1918 and after, in the aftermath of WWI, when the Bolsheviki took over the Russian Empire starting in 1917.
At that time, Bolshevik Russia became a real, large, and present danger to the West, a danger that was never seriously addressed.
BBC RE GHANA AND THE RACIST GANDHI THE OPRAY FACTOR
Only to be expected....
Trying to tear down the Rhodes statue, too....
Etc.
is it only so called racism, or is there not also a civilizational element?
After all, there must be very few Hindus in Africa.
On the other hand, there are some quite dark Indians in India, and also next door, in Pakistan, I believe.
Do you think Gandhi's so called racist remarks were directed at them, by implication, or not?
Either way you answer that, why?
Opray Winfrey is a rather light skinned black person, looks rather like many Indians.....
She apparently had DNA testing, to show that she is almost all of African descent, rather than intermixed racially with whites, or indians, as had been thought. So there are some apparently lighter colored black Africans...
One of her ancestors is a Presley.... Her family tree, as well as Elvis', is quite fragmentary.......
There has been speculation that she is distantly related to Elvis.
I have multiple generations of Presleys, related to the Person family line, in my family tree too, and like to make off color jokes that I am related to both Elvis and Oprah!
Who can prove I am wrong?
Think about it.
Trying to tear down the Rhodes statue, too....
Etc.
is it only so called racism, or is there not also a civilizational element?
After all, there must be very few Hindus in Africa.
On the other hand, there are some quite dark Indians in India, and also next door, in Pakistan, I believe.
Do you think Gandhi's so called racist remarks were directed at them, by implication, or not?
Either way you answer that, why?
Opray Winfrey is a rather light skinned black person, looks rather like many Indians.....
She apparently had DNA testing, to show that she is almost all of African descent, rather than intermixed racially with whites, or indians, as had been thought. So there are some apparently lighter colored black Africans...
One of her ancestors is a Presley.... Her family tree, as well as Elvis', is quite fragmentary.......
There has been speculation that she is distantly related to Elvis.
I have multiple generations of Presleys, related to the Person family line, in my family tree too, and like to make off color jokes that I am related to both Elvis and Oprah!
Who can prove I am wrong?
Think about it.
THE DUTCH FALLACY
Certainly the colonists had it too.
One could also call it The Polish Fallacy...
The only things that were responsible for the American Rebellion succeeding were very favorable geography, and alliances with imperialist Great Power enemies of Britain.
The American so called Revolution became part of another, in an interminable series, Great Power war, which Britain lost.
The Powers were not fighting for Democracy.
The Powers were not fighting for Democracy.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
RE CIVILIZATIONS
This is what the liberal West has long chosen to ignore:
It is not merely that all civilizations cannot reason with each other, or with the West, mere questions of language translation aside.
It is, rather, that they do not, fundamentally, inhabit the same, or even similar, intellectual, religious, or cultural worlds.
It is not merely that all civilizations cannot reason with each other, or with the West, mere questions of language translation aside.
It is, rather, that they do not, fundamentally, inhabit the same, or even similar, intellectual, religious, or cultural worlds.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
I MENTIONED THE FAUCET RECENTLY
Of course there are so many levers, not just at the local level, like control of roads, a big theme now in the media and in court, re NY and NJ.
ISLAM AND FRENCH REVOLUTION
"It is said that the French Revolution was the first European event to make a positive impression upon Islam, precisely because it did not come to the Moslems as a Christian movement, of a kind which their religion would require them to oppose." Palmer
I suspect that there may also have been other reasons for Islam to have welcomed it.....
I suspect that there may also have been other reasons for Islam to have welcomed it.....
WHEN MUSLIMS GET THE VOTE IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
They usually vote for radical Islamic leaders.
That is democratic Islam...
Western Civilization would have been better off keeping the Sultan...
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919, quoted Bliss, a Paris military
attache, re 'surfacing' nations:
'vicious from the moment of their birth'.
The same goes for re emergent civilizations.
This post dedicated to Samantha Power.
That is democratic Islam...
Western Civilization would have been better off keeping the Sultan...
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919, quoted Bliss, a Paris military
attache, re 'surfacing' nations:
'vicious from the moment of their birth'.
The same goes for re emergent civilizations.
This post dedicated to Samantha Power.
BBC RE AUSTRALIA OUTRAGE OVER BRITISH COLONIAL COMPANY CO
Once again, they, in Western Civilization, don't really know any difference between racism and civilizationalism.
It is rather as if, in the West, there never was such a thing as Western Civilization at all.
With China now taking over large portions of Australia, they, the Australians themselves, have a rude awakening coming.
It is rather as if, in the West, there never was such a thing as Western Civilization at all.
With China now taking over large portions of Australia, they, the Australians themselves, have a rude awakening coming.
Monday, September 19, 2016
RE L S LOWRY DIE FLEDERMAUS HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME MANCHESTER
Two Beecham production operas toured regionally in the British Isles, 1910 1911, Tales of Hoffman and Die Fledermaus. Presumably they played in Manchester.
The first Hunchback of Notre Dame film was released in 1911.
See the new image at the bottom of the page. The bat.
The first Hunchback of Notre Dame film was released in 1911.
See the new image at the bottom of the page. The bat.
LONDON TIMES MAY PLANS TO BLOCK ECONOMIC MIGRANTS POSING AS REFUGEES
Great idea, about a hundred years too late...
But, question, about this great idea:
What really is the difference, big picture, between economic migrants and refugees?
What kinds of questions might matter? Race, civilization, numbers, religion, ethnicity.
Do these things matter?
You can kid your liberal self all you want about there being a big big difference.
But, question, about this great idea:
What really is the difference, big picture, between economic migrants and refugees?
What kinds of questions might matter? Race, civilization, numbers, religion, ethnicity.
Do these things matter?
You can kid your liberal self all you want about there being a big big difference.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
CHINA BANKS CREDIT TO GDP 30
No bid deal, right?
This, from viableopposition:
This, from viableopposition:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016
The Credit-to-GDP Gap and What it Means for the World's Economy
Hidden away on page 33 of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Quarterly Review from September 2015 we find this interesting table:
While I realize that the concept is rather abstract, for the purposes of this posting, we will be focussing on the little-discussed metric, the credit-to-GDP gap.
Before we delve into the concept of the credit-to-GDP gap, let's get some background information first. As we found out during the Great Recession, losses in the banking sector can be massive when an economic downturn is preceded by a period of excessive lending/credit (i.e. a credit bubble). These losses can destabilize the banking sector and this instability can further spread throughout the economy which then feeds back to the banking sector. One way of protecting the banking sector from this circular crisis is to have the banks build up additional capital defences. According to the Basel III regulatory framework, banks must build up a countercyclical buffer to ensure that the banking sector capital requirements take account of the macrofinancial environment in which they operate. Here are the three key elements of the countercyclical buffer regime:
"(a) National authorities will monitor credit growth and other indicators that may signal a build up of system-wide risk and make assessments of whether credit growth is excessive and is leading to the build up of system-wide risk. Based on this assessment they will put in place a countercyclical buffer requirement when circumstances warrant. This requirement will be released when system-wide risk crystallises or dissipates.
(b) Internationally active banks will look at the geographic location of their private sector credit exposures and calculate their bank specific countercyclical capital buffer requirement as a weighted average of the requirements that are being applied in jurisdictions to which they have credit exposures.
(c) The countercyclical buffer requirement to which a bank is subject will extend the size of the capital conservation buffer. Banks will be subject to restrictions on distributions if they do not meet the requirement."
By implementing the countercyclical buffer, the banking sector hopes to have a buffer of capital that will protect it against future potential losses.
Now, let's go back to the subject of this posting. The credit-to-GDP gap is defined as the difference between the credit-to-GDP ratio and its long-term trend. The more familiar term, the credit-to-GDP ratio, is the ratio of a country's national debt to its gross domestic product. The credit-to-GDP gap is a measure that provides advanced signals of banking system stress and can be used to as part of a set of central bank policy tools to mitigate banking system risk. Under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (aka Basel III), as I noted above, the countercyclical capital buffer system of the banking system should be raised when a nation's credit-to-GDP ratio (where credit is defined as credit given to the household and private non-financial corporate sector or HH and PNFC credit) exceeds its long-term trend bytwo percentage points. Research has shown that the credit-to-GDP gap worked well in providing an advance signal of past United Kingdom banking crises and other research has shown that indicators of excessive credit growth during credit booms provide advance warnings of financial crises as we can see on this chart:
It is quite clear that the credit-to-GDP gap rose significantly (i.e. the credit-to-GDP ratio rose at a much faster rate than it did over the long-term) just before the recession in the early 1970s, early 1990s and the Great Depression.
Now that we have that understanding (hopefully), let's go back to the table in the BIS Quarterly Review, focussing on the first column which shows the credit-to-GDP gap (i.e. the difference in the credit-to-GDP ratio from its long-term trend):
Where the cell is highlighted in red, the credit-to-GDP gap is greater that 10 and where it is beige, it ranges between 2 and 10. As you can see, the credit-to-GDP gaps for Asia (which includes Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand), Brazil, China and Turkey are all well above 10. The authors of the report note that:
"...in the past, two-thirds of all readings above this threshold (of 10) were followed by serious banking strains in the subsequent three years."
It is also important to note that Canada, France, Japan, Mexico and Switzerland all have credit-to-GDP gaps that are above 5, well above the 2 percent mark that applied in the case of the United Kingdom as I noted above. While the credit-to-GDP gap does not yet show that the banking systems in these five economies are under "strain", the high growth level of credit in these economies suggests that there could be problems with the banking sector down the road.
As we can see from this posting, it looks like China, with its extremely high credit-to GDP gap of 25.4, may find its banking sector under pressure as the massive expansion in its household and corporate sector credit comes back to haunt it. At the very least, China's high credit-to-GDP gap shows us that we should expect further financial unrest in China. And, as we know, what's bad for China is bad for the global economy.
RE PUTIN XI MIGRATION PLAN FAUCET PRESSURE
Re EU gas and Putin:
Counties sometimes get into little chicken shit feuds with one or more cities, within their borders.
The County often controls some, or all, of a city's utilities.....
Have you ever heard of a city's water pressure suddenly dropping down, somewhat?
The matter then gets resolved.
Re the new EU army, question: How many divisions would it take to get your gas turned back on?
After all, the Chinese are also desperate for his gas.
Counties sometimes get into little chicken shit feuds with one or more cities, within their borders.
The County often controls some, or all, of a city's utilities.....
Have you ever heard of a city's water pressure suddenly dropping down, somewhat?
The matter then gets resolved.
Re the new EU army, question: How many divisions would it take to get your gas turned back on?
After all, the Chinese are also desperate for his gas.
THE AMERICAN FALLACY RE BREXIT EU VETO FISEGRAD POLISH FALLACY
Anything that any state wants to do, that is not in the Constitution (as so decided), and violates it (how would you ever know, in doubtful cases?), must be put before all of the people, and not just the Federal Government (the Constitution a limitation on the Federal government).
Cannot the Supreme Court decide constitutionally doubtful cases? Not under the American Fallacy, where the Constitution itself is a limitation on reserved power of the people. (Think of it rather like Godel's incompleteness theorem, regarding either the Constitution, or Principia Mathematica.)
That, after all, is what the people, and 'reserved to the states or to the people' had meant, to them, at the Philadelphia Convention. Sola scriptura.
A state's people, aren't the people, under the Constitution.
Cannot the Supreme Court decide constitutionally doubtful cases? Not under the American Fallacy, where the Constitution itself is a limitation on reserved power of the people. (Think of it rather like Godel's incompleteness theorem, regarding either the Constitution, or Principia Mathematica.)
That, after all, is what the people, and 'reserved to the states or to the people' had meant, to them, at the Philadelphia Convention. Sola scriptura.
A state's people, aren't the people, under the Constitution.
RE BBC VETOING BREXIT THE AMERICAN FALLACY CIVIL WAR ETC POLAND FALLACY
You can also call it The American Fallacy
Guess what? Britain thought it had a right to secede from EU.
The Southern states each had a similar right.
Visegrad effectively can say no it seems. Maybe it can say no to any proposed deal whatsoever! A sort of Polish Fallacy, call it The American Fallacy.
They want all workers, especially in Eastern Europe to work anywhere they want.
Guess what? Britain thought it had a right to secede from EU.
The Southern states each had a similar right.
Visegrad effectively can say no it seems. Maybe it can say no to any proposed deal whatsoever! A sort of Polish Fallacy, call it The American Fallacy.
They want all workers, especially in Eastern Europe to work anywhere they want.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
UPDATE TO POST BELOW THE WEST VERSUS THE REST UNFOLDING
BACKLASH AGAINST THE WEST FROM DISMANTLING COLONIALISM AND CIVILIZATIONALISM
They also, among Western nations, have been the most blind to civilizational and economic overtones and initiatives in the international system they promulgated since WWI."
So, why did I put it this way, in my comment on DK's current post?
What, about colonialism, was worth having, or preserving?
My answer is: almost all of it.
Why?
First off, let's just point out what we got, and what we forget, about American colonialism: we got most all of America by imperializing and colonizing against both the native people, the French whom we fought here for centuries, the Spanish, and then Mexico.
We then bought another large chunk, the Louisiana Purchase, (admittedly not colonialism, but imperialistic nonetheless) from the French, desperate in the Napoleonic Wars.
Update:
What else can one allude to, briefly, to explain so supposedly aberrant a view?
Let's just mention the Russo Japanese War of 1904, 1905.
Even someone so establishment as Blanning, Editor, The Short Oxford History Of Europe, The Nineteenth Century, Introduction, acknowledges that this was certainly a warning sign that the balance of power between Europe (the West) and the rest of the world was changing.
Most people back then, of course, did not even think of that relationship as one involving what Blanning now calls a balance of power at all.
But the leaders of the Great Powers knew that something somehow momentous had happened.
Not that Russia was a truly Western Power, then or now, but everyone, even then, acknowledged it as a Great Power.
So, what was this momentous thing that had happened?
A non Western Power had developed industrially and socially so quickly, since only the mid 19th century, that it was able to overcome a Great Power in a modern military conflict.
Blanning characterized it as the first few pebbles falling, in what with WWI would become a landslide in 1914.
As he says, it signaled a changing of the balance of power, already then under way in 1905, between the West and the rest, for which 1914 was indeed then a civilizational landslide in that balance.
Update:
What else can one allude to, briefly, to explain so supposedly aberrant a view?
Let's just mention the Russo Japanese War of 1904, 1905.
Even someone so establishment as Blanning, Editor, The Short Oxford History Of Europe, The Nineteenth Century, Introduction, acknowledges that this was certainly a warning sign that the balance of power between Europe (the West) and the rest of the world was changing.
Most people back then, of course, did not even think of that relationship as one involving what Blanning now calls a balance of power at all.
But the leaders of the Great Powers knew that something somehow momentous had happened.
Not that Russia was a truly Western Power, then or now, but everyone, even then, acknowledged it as a Great Power.
So, what was this momentous thing that had happened?
A non Western Power had developed industrially and socially so quickly, since only the mid 19th century, that it was able to overcome a Great Power in a modern military conflict.
Blanning characterized it as the first few pebbles falling, in what with WWI would become a landslide in 1914.
As he says, it signaled a changing of the balance of power, already then under way in 1905, between the West and the rest, for which 1914 was indeed then a civilizational landslide in that balance.
BBC GERMAN PROTEST AT TRANSATLANTIC DEALS
The Germans lost...........
America is only a globalist, nothing else.
They knew where they were headed after WWII.
Kindleberger, for example, understood very well the implications of what he was doing.
America is only a globalist, nothing else.
They knew where they were headed after WWII.
Kindleberger, for example, understood very well the implications of what he was doing.
RE LAST POST MONGOL INVASION OF EUROPE
See: Mongol invasion of Europe, Wikipedia
Meanwhile, the American religious right is highly focused on the coming Armageddon around Jerusalem, a cultural and economic wasteland except for oil, in the graveyard of civilizations, the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the American religious right is highly focused on the coming Armageddon around Jerusalem, a cultural and economic wasteland except for oil, in the graveyard of civilizations, the Middle East.
WHAT PREVENTS PUTIN FROM CUTTING A DEAL WITH XI
that Russia takes no more illegal Chinese immigrants into Asian Russia (rather than just killing them at the border), in exchange for agreeing to transship, across Russia, as internees, say, 500K at a time, to the very long borders of Eastern European EU nations, then to be turned loose there, in dribs and drabs?
Rather like the Czars sending their Jews into Eastern Europe.
The globalist liberal US wouldn't object. They think all people should be welcomed eventually everywhere, in almost any numbers.
If say Fisegrad, especially, were to balk at this marvelous influx of well deserving humanity, how do you think Putin would deal with Fisegrad's, and the EU's reasonable objection?
How much good do you think their new army, when it is made, would do them, for something like that?
Do you think he would take no for an answer? Of course he wold negotiate....but then, what would he actually do?
He would just cut off their gas!
If say Fisegrad, especially, were to balk at this marvelous influx of well deserving humanity, how do you think Putin would deal with Fisegrad's, and the EU's reasonable objection?
How much good do you think their new army, when it is made, would do them, for something like that?
Do you think he would take no for an answer? Of course he wold negotiate....but then, what would he actually do?
He would just cut off their gas!
NATO VERSUS NEW EU ARMY
Way too little way too late, with the Rooskies breathing down their necks, for decades now, and they had relied, perhaps been forced to rely, on the Poppins security umbrella all that time.
BACKLASH AGAINST THE WEST FROM DISMANTLING COLONIALISM AND CIVILIZATIONALISM
"They also, among Western nations, have been the most blind to civilizational and economic overtones and initiatives in the international system they promulgated since WWI."
So, why did I put it this way, in my comment on DK's current post?
What, about colonialism, was worth having, or preserving?
My answer is: almost all of it.
Why?
First off, let's just point out what we got, and what we forget, about American colonialism: we got most all of America by imperializing against both the native people, the French whom we fought here for centuries, from the Spanish, and then from Mexico.
We then bought another large chunk, the Louisiana Purchase, (admittedly not colonialism, but imperialistic nonetheless) from the French.
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