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BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Thursday, August 31, 2017
ROOSKIE NUMBERS ARE SOARING
FORTUNE MAGAZINE COVER Who Why NEW CHINESE BILLIONAIRE
Who has made a fortune renting basketballs, iphones, dildos, tools, coffee grinders, shoes, flatscreens, hand held massagers, laptops, handguns, knives, books, DVDs, computer programs, jewelry, watches, toys, carry cases, silverware, toupees, wigs, small animals, etc.
He is rumored to have made even more in enforcement actions, forced labor, and banking connected with his rental businesses.
He is rumored to have made even more in enforcement actions, forced labor, and banking connected with his rental businesses.
ROOSKIES ARE BACK! SOUTH KOREA HUGE
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UNMASKING RACIST ABOLITIONIST ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
See Douglas' account, in his Opening Speech, The First Joint Debate at Ottowa, August 21, 1858.
The account below follows Douglas' account, with what scholarship is cited therein. Lincoln of course denied Douglas' assertion and demanded proof. Being called an abolitionist was a sort of political insult. Abolitionists were considered radical whackos, they wanted to free all slaves unconditionally and immediately by violent means, and not necessarily arrange for transportation elsewhere; and no admitted abolitionists had been elected at that time, it seems I read this somewhere.
I am guessing that there are no extant copies of Matheney's speech discussing the Lincoln Trumbull Conspiracy.
However, a great deal of rather obvious, and quite public, circumstantial evidence supports Matheney's and Douglas' account:
Matheney was an old friend, a politician, and in a position to know from personal knowledge and political contacts. He had disagreed with Lincoln about taking down the Whig party.
Lincoln goes back into politics as a result of Kansas Nebraska in 1854.
Lincoln adopted the platform created at the Springfield Convention, although he denied this in the debates, arguing that he had not even been there. That is irrelevant. He had been a big promoter of it and adopted it. I quote it again below.
Lincoln always denied being an abolitionist, but that denial was false from before the very beginning of his going back into politics in 1854.
Lincoln thought that Dred Scott was a terrible decision, but it merely reaffirmed what both parties up to that time had made the law of the land. Lincoln and other radical abolitionists didn't like the law of the land and found a way politically to overturn it.
Lincoln thought that Dred Scott was a terrible decision, but it merely reaffirmed what both parties up to that time had made the law of the land. Lincoln and other radical abolitionists didn't like the law of the land and found a way politically to overturn it.
"Matheny did not join Mr. Lincoln’s move from the Whigs to the new Republican Party in 1856. Lincoln scholar Michael Burkhimer wrote: “Like Stuart, he too differed with Lincoln in politics in the 1850s. He supported the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party in the 1856 election. However, he did come to support Lincoln after the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court in 1857.” David Zarefsky wrote that Matheny “had supported Fillmore in 1856, not yet having become a Republican, and Lincoln opposed his nomination for Congress that year. Whatever bitterness had been between them, however, was past history by 1858, and Lincoln supported Matheny for Congress from the Springfield district.”
Instead, Matheny was the Whig candidate for Congress in 1856. He alleged a deal between Lincoln and Trumbull to split the Senate seats – with Trumbull getting the one in 1854 and Mr. Lincoln slated to get Douglas’s seat in 1858. Matheny was briefly a Republican before switching to the Democratic Party. In March 1858, Mr. Lincoln wrote Richard Yates and made a proposal to use Matheny for Republican advantage:
If you approve of the following, continue to have it appear in some one of the anti-administration papers down your way – better there than here.
‘Mr. Editor:
Why not all anti-administration men in the District vote for James H. Matheny, of Springfield, for Congress: He was opposed to the repeal of the Missouri compromise: was for Fillmore in 1856, but never was a Know-Nothing. He is now opposed to the Lecompton constitution, and the Dred Scott decision. Who can be more suitable, when a union of Fremont and Fillmore men, is indispensable?
[Signed]A republican’
We have thought this over here. The leading Fillmore men have wished to act with us, and they want a name upon which they can bring up their rank and file. It will help us in Sangamon, where we shall be hard run, about members of the Legislature. Think it over, and if you can approve it, give it a start as above.
I have not forgotten my course towards ‘Jim’ for a nomination 1856, which you also well know. The difficulty then was on a point which has since been measurably superseded by the Dred Scott decision, and he is with us on that.
[William] Butler says you rather have an eye to getting our old friend Bill Green on the track. Nothing would please me better, whenever he got on to ground that would suit you, except it would give us no access to the Fillmore votes. Dont you see? We must have some one who will reach the Fillmore men, both for the direct and the incidental effect.
I wish you would see Nult-Green, and present this view to him. Point out to him the necessities of the case, and also how the question, as to ‘Jim,’ is varied since 1856.17
When Matheny retired as clerk of the Sangamon County Circuit Court in December 1856, Mr. Lincoln gave a brief speech to the Springfield Bar to honor his friend: “This is the first intimation I have had any such meeting as this was intended. It takes me considerably by surprise, particularly as it might be expected that I am to say something. Much could be said of the man named in the resolutions, and of his public services. Indeed, much could be said, which, if said of other men, would be sheer flattery, whilst in respect to him it falls far short of the whole truth. That I have long esteemed Mr. Matheny as a man and a friend, is known to you all. But that I should mete out to you the full measure of his worth, I shall not now attempt to do. Besides, much of this has already been beautifully and graphically done by my friend Mr. Herndon. Mr. Chairman, allow me in conclusion to say that I fully concur in all that has been said and done on this occasion.”
In the 1858 Jonesboro debate, Senator Stephen Douglas referred to Matheny as “Mr. Lincoln’s especial confidential friend for the last twenty years.” Lincoln himself questioned Matheny’s veracity in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Mr. Lincoln responded: “I can only ask him to show sort of evidence of the truth of his story. He brings forward here and reads from what he contends is a speech by James H. Matheny charging such a bargain between Trumbull and myself. My own opinion in that Matheny did do some such immoral thing as to tell a story that he knew nothing about. I believe he did. I contradicted it instantly and it has been contradicted by Judge Trumbull, while nobody has produced any proof, because there is none. Now whether the speech which the Judge brings forward here is really the one Matheny made I do not know, and I hope the Judge will pardon me for doubting the genuineness of this document, since his production of those Springfield Resolutions at Ottawa. [Laughter and cheers.] I do not wish to dwell at any great length upon this matter. I can say nothing when a long story like this is told except it is not true, and demand that he who insists upon it shall produce some proof. That is all any man can do, and I leave it that way for I know of no other way of dealing with it.” "
I quoted the Springfield Republican platform, also in a prior post.
Here it is again:
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations:
I quoted the Springfield Republican platform, also in a prior post.
Here it is again:
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations:
1. That the history of the nation during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution, "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of the States, and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union of the States this nation owes its unprecedented increase in population, its surprising development of material resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at home and its honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for disunion, come from whatever source they may. And we congratulate the country that no Republican member of Congress has uttered or countenanced the threats of disunion so often made by Democratic members, without rebuke and with applause from their political associates; and we denounce those threats of disunion, in case of a popular overthrow of their ascendency as denying the vital principles of a free government, and as an avowal of contemplated treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Administration has far exceeded our worst apprehensions, in its measureless subserviency to the exactions of a sectional interest, as especially evinced in its desperate exertions to force the infamous Lecompton Constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas; in construing the personal relations between master and servant to involve an unqualified property in persons; in its attempted enforcement everywhere, on land and sea, through the intervention of Congress and of the Federal Courts of the extreme pretensions of a purely local interest; and in its general and unvarying abuse of the power intrusted to it by a confiding people.
6. That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans; while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal metropolis, show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded.
7. That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom: That, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no persons should be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law," it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
9. That we brand the recent reopening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity and a burning shame to our country and age; and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal Governors, of the acts of the legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted Democratic principle of Non-Intervention and Popular Sovereignty, embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and a demonstration of the deception and fraud involved therein.
11. That Kansas should, of right, be immediately admitted as a state under the Constitution recently formed and adopted by her people, and accepted by the House of Representatives.
12. That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imports as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country; and we commend that policy of national exchanges, which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.
13. That we protest against any sale or alienation to others of the public lands held by actual settlers, and against any view of the free-homestead policy which regards the settlers as paupers or suppliants for public bounty; and we demand the passage by Congress of the complete and satisfactory homestead measure which has already passed the House.
14. That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our naturalization laws or any state legislation by which the rights of citizens hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.
15. That appropriations by Congress for river and harbor improvements of a national character, required for the accommodation and security of an existing commerce, are authorized by the Constitution, and justified by the obligation of Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens.
16. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country; that the federal government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction; and that, as preliminary thereto, a daily overland mail should be promptly established.
17. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the co-operation of all citizens, however differing on other questions, who substantially agree with us in their affirmance and support.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
I WRITE INCENDIARY AND TESTY THINGS AND NO ONE EVER SURFACES TO CHEW ME OUT
One would think that maybe a philosopher, of one stripe or another, or a student thereof, might one day rise to the bait; but no!
A journalist, there are so many I have pilloried, take umbrage at my continued barrage; but no!
Social scientists I have dumped on, but no!
Why doesn't Piketty, for instance, rise to the bait and take me down for my effrontery? But no!
Why doesn't Piketty, for instance, rise to the bait and take me down for my effrontery? But no!
Historians, I have not spared the rod; but no!
Foreign hostile nationals whom I continue to lampoon belittle and scold; but no!
I have shamelessly outed Jefferson, and even Lincoln, as running dogs of white racism, needing to be expunged from the national record, and have even had the temerity to provide chapter and verse for the proposition; but no!
I have candidly admitted that I would rather have had my progenitors ruled by George III, mad or not, than the alternative; but no! Not a word of censure!
I say arguably crazy things, like that the Russian Empire should have been partitioned by us, the West, in 1918; or that we, the West, should never even have developed, or allowed to develop, the Asian countries, at all, but rather kept them as agrarian colonies, as long as humanly possible, things like that; but no!
No Rooskies, Chinese or Japanese have ever uttered a sound!
I wonder that absolutely no one, ever, calls me on the carpet, in Voltaire's very words: a scribbler, scoundrel, toad, lizard, snake, spider, viper's tongue, crooked mind, heart of filth, doer of evil, rascal, impudent person, cowardly knave, spy, and hound!
There are many other good terms: blackguard, bounder, rogue, apostate, degenerate, heretic, traitor, varmint, devil, satan, bastard, wimp, pup, fool, chump, chimp, tramp, bum, lunatic, the list goes on and on of what I might be called.
Never a word!
I have shamelessly outed Jefferson, and even Lincoln, as running dogs of white racism, needing to be expunged from the national record, and have even had the temerity to provide chapter and verse for the proposition; but no!
I have candidly admitted that I would rather have had my progenitors ruled by George III, mad or not, than the alternative; but no! Not a word of censure!
I say arguably crazy things, like that the Russian Empire should have been partitioned by us, the West, in 1918; or that we, the West, should never even have developed, or allowed to develop, the Asian countries, at all, but rather kept them as agrarian colonies, as long as humanly possible, things like that; but no!
No Rooskies, Chinese or Japanese have ever uttered a sound!
I wonder that absolutely no one, ever, calls me on the carpet, in Voltaire's very words: a scribbler, scoundrel, toad, lizard, snake, spider, viper's tongue, crooked mind, heart of filth, doer of evil, rascal, impudent person, cowardly knave, spy, and hound!
There are many other good terms: blackguard, bounder, rogue, apostate, degenerate, heretic, traitor, varmint, devil, satan, bastard, wimp, pup, fool, chump, chimp, tramp, bum, lunatic, the list goes on and on of what I might be called.
Never a word!
SOMEONE SAW THIS GREAT JANUARY 2017 POST
Thursday, January 12, 2017
POST-TRUTH WORLDS A C GRAYLING BBC
Grayling wrote a short book on Wittgenstein which I read about 35 years ago now.
We have been in such a developing, or emerging, or perhaps better, long evolving, post-truth world for a very long time.
In some ways, it has been since the beginning, 450 BC; in others, only some hundreds of years.
What is called relativism is an old concept.
Most people have always been illiterate. Literacy itself is a relatively late phenomenon.
Hume set a certain skeptical floor.
Kant, patched together a halfway house.
Phenomenology, then, as it developed, was in a sense a marker for what we call the modern world.
Every age has thought of itself as the modern age.
Now it is called post modern; it is the same thing again later.
Quantum, another marker.
One point I would make, about Grayling's thesis, here, is that democracy itself, the ideology of democracy, is a great threat to truth, and not the other way around, not merely what is called a post-truth world. The post-truth world is quintessentially the world of democracy.
THE MENU LEFTOVER RATATOUILLE PIZZA CALZONE
So what do you do with this?
Use it as a topping for a pizza, assuming it didn't brown too much in the ratatouille. I would throw seasoned sausage of some type on this. You could also do just say provolone. I like grated Parmesan Reggiano and pepperoni.
Guess what? If it did get too brown, it could be incorporated into a tomato sauce for pasta.
Here's another great idea: Why not roll leftover ratatouille, and some other stuff, like say sausage and cheese into some nice calzone dough and bake that sucker!
Here's another great idea: Why not roll leftover ratatouille, and some other stuff, like say sausage and cheese into some nice calzone dough and bake that sucker!
Don't hold back on the garlic: crush it on. Don't slice it after crushing the skin off.
ROOSKIES ON TOP AT THIS MOMENT
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APPLE MICROSOFT GOOGLE FACEBOOK AMAZON FEDEX UPS ETC
can't do that much to help poor bastards in a flood.
THE MENU PHOTOSHOOT SWAZILAND CANNIBAL DIALOGUE RE OBST
We lost another crewman last night.
Oh.
Shall we go on?
What have we got to lose?
There only three of us left.
The studio won't like this.
They are in China.
Oh.
Shall we go on?
What have we got to lose?
There only three of us left.
The studio won't like this.
They are in China.
GREAT 2013 HOLLYWOOD CHINA TOPIC OBST MAYBE THEY ARE MOVING TO AFRICA NOW?
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
re Western cultural decline Bruce Wilder on DK's site see especially Obst's remarks also centralization of structure
"I do hope you caught Fareed Zakaria's interview with Hollywood Producer, Lynda Obst, author of Sleepless in Hollywood", a book explaining the new economics of Hollywood, and why it drives almost ridiculously formulaic sequalitis, 3D everything, and an emphasis on visually spectacular effects, crashes and chases.
She omitted one of the causes I would have emphasized, which is the centralization of industrial structure, but, otherwise, she hits some of the highlights.
Culturally, she emphasizes that Hollywood is producing its high-budget and most salient product for the China market. The Chinese only admit 34(?) American films a year for general theatrical release, and 3D gets priority, so all the American blockbusters are 3D, and all are blockbusters in China, even if they fail miserably to satisfy the American market.
Anyway, much fodder for analytic contemplation."
She omitted one of the causes I would have emphasized, which is the centralization of industrial structure, but, otherwise, she hits some of the highlights.
Culturally, she emphasizes that Hollywood is producing its high-budget and most salient product for the China market. The Chinese only admit 34(?) American films a year for general theatrical release, and 3D gets priority, so all the American blockbusters are 3D, and all are blockbusters in China, even if they fail miserably to satisfy the American market.
Anyway, much fodder for analytic contemplation."
CLASSIC 2013 POST GLOBALIZATION BUSTER
Sunday, December 29, 2013
See DK's current post another significant aspect of the errors of policy from mid century
"Billions of dollars worth of jet aircraft, tanks, artillery and much more went from the US, the Soviets and other nations to India and Pakistan, Egypt and Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia, North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, and elsewhere. Occassionally this weaponry was used in local wars."
Liberal international trade expansionism, in weapons and strategic and commercial patronage; and communist influence commercial expansionism patronage, correspondingly.
Call it the cold war boom of The Rest that served the long term interests of neither the US nor USSR.
In fact, it has killed off remaining hegemonic opportunities of each, to some extent, and will lead to their disadvantage, in any conflicts, economic and military, going forward.
Liberal international trade expansionism, in weapons and strategic and commercial patronage; and communist influence commercial expansionism patronage, correspondingly.
Call it the cold war boom of The Rest that served the long term interests of neither the US nor USSR.
In fact, it has killed off remaining hegemonic opportunities of each, to some extent, and will lead to their disadvantage, in any conflicts, economic and military, going forward.
RE BBC WANG HUI EN BASKETBALL ECONOMY
This is what you have to look forward to here, baby.
After all, a basketball, and other sports balls, are merely hand held and hand manipulated devices.
i phones and other hand held devices, although they have other important uses, say for a rather disheartening example blowing up things remotely, are, at bottom, and in the mass global market, leisure devices for poverinos.
Say your terrorist bomb has its own smart phone attached? All you have to do is call its number, say from across the world, and push send. Not a big deal. Any low tech idiot can do it.
Question: why be a suicide bomber, when you can retire, as Rumpole used to say, to the Costa Brava?
That is what our www global tech economy has created. A Frankenstein monster.
I wouldn't call that progress.
I wouldn't call that progress.
Terms search: convergence.
BORN THIS WAY NATION STATE MARKET STATE CIVILIZATION TIPPING POINT SO WHAT
This was one of my best compilations. Maybe too much...No one seems to read it.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
BORN THIS WAY NATION STATE MARKET STATE CIVILIZATION TIPPING POINT SO WHAT
Why can't we put pressure on China?
They make our stuff.
So what?
Very long story.
See:
See:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
Randall Collins:
"TIPPING POINT REVOLUTIONS AND STATE BREAKDOWN REVOLUTIONS: WHY REVOLUTIONS SUCCEED OR FAIL
Saturday, October 22, 2016
I AM JUST GOING TO TRY TO PUT SOMETHING INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU
A lot of people think of Clinton as a ' safe ' choice, safer, at least than Trump.
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
I am not suggesting that Trump's decisions in office would solve the international situation, not at all, but staying with a post Milner Group liberal international economic order policy, which she represents in spades, will no longer work, and not just for economic reasons, but rather for cultural and spiritual ones.
Friday, August 13, 2010
THE FED RED HERRING Scylla Charybdis CARTOON
Krugman seems to make some important points.
Nevertheless, speaking of eg Japan, here's a mise en scene for a Bernanke cartoon:
Bernanke is Odysseus, navigating his stultifera navis , a small sail boat, between two rocky cliffs, but they aren't merely cliffs on either side, they are enormous high mountain ranges marked China, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Indonesia.
Scylla/Inflation sits at the nearest precipice to the little craft on one side, reaching down with tentacles dangerously close to Odysseus, the craft tipping dangerously and almost smaller than Bernanke himself, at center, bottom.
Just to the other side of the craft from Scylla, a large whirlpool CHARYBDIS, marked also DEFLATION, mountains rising up on that side of the illustration to the edges of the paper, the craft almost being sucked down into it the whirlpool.
Huge trees growing on the mountains, all mountains each labelled also, as well as countries' names mentioned, "MERELY EXCESS CAPACITY".
The caption above:
STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
THE CAPTION BELOW:
STRATEGIC PARTNERS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
One might also point out, as Japan scholars (not me!) have long mentioned, it is a fundamental mistake to try to compare Japan and the US, even on so, apparently, 'fundamental' (not) a level, as that of 'economics' (pseudo discipline). SAY APPLES AND ORANGES, pace Posen.
Nevertheless, speaking of eg Japan, here's a mise en scene for a Bernanke cartoon:
Bernanke is Odysseus, navigating his stultifera navis , a small sail boat, between two rocky cliffs, but they aren't merely cliffs on either side, they are enormous high mountain ranges marked China, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Indonesia.
Scylla/Inflation sits at the nearest precipice to the little craft on one side, reaching down with tentacles dangerously close to Odysseus, the craft tipping dangerously and almost smaller than Bernanke himself, at center, bottom.
Just to the other side of the craft from Scylla, a large whirlpool CHARYBDIS, marked also DEFLATION, mountains rising up on that side of the illustration to the edges of the paper, the craft almost being sucked down into it the whirlpool.
Huge trees growing on the mountains, all mountains each labelled also, as well as countries' names mentioned, "MERELY EXCESS CAPACITY".
The caption above:
STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
THE CAPTION BELOW:
STRATEGIC PARTNERS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
One might also point out, as Japan scholars (not me!) have long mentioned, it is a fundamental mistake to try to compare Japan and the US, even on so, apparently, 'fundamental' (not) a level, as that of 'economics' (pseudo discipline). SAY APPLES AND ORANGES, pace Posen.
Terms search: leverage, Mary Poppins, Poppins
AUDIENCE TODAY ROOSKIES MUST LIKE MY RECIPES
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
THE RENAISSANCE REFORMATION NON SEQUITUR
I can't resist quoting Butterfield again:
"The Reformation which is so often regarded as a result and continuation of the Renaissance - a parallel movement of man's expanding mind - might also be looked upon as a reassertion of religious authority in the world, a revolt against secularisation, the laxness and the sins of the time." pb, p78
BORN THIS WAY NATION STATE MARKET STATE CIVILIZATION TIPPING POINT SO WHAT
Why can't we put pressure on China?
They make our stuff.
So what?
Very long story.
See:
See:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
Randall Collins:
"TIPPING POINT REVOLUTIONS AND STATE BREAKDOWN REVOLUTIONS: WHY REVOLUTIONS SUCCEED OR FAIL
Saturday, October 22, 2016
I AM JUST GOING TO TRY TO PUT SOMETHING INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU
A lot of people think of Clinton as a ' safe ' choice, safer, at least than Trump.
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
Unfortunately, we, and the West, no longer have a safe versus unsafe Presidential choice.
Because Clinton merely represents more of the drifting decline that we put in place early in the 20th Century, and have kept to ever since, her candidacy is itself assuredly very unsafe, going forward, because decline of this kind has already reached what one might call a tipping point. And I am not here talking mainly about domestic politics.
Re tipping point, see prior post: HOMAGE TO RANDALL COLLINS
I am not suggesting that Trump's decisions in office would solve the international situation, not at all, but staying with a post Milner Group liberal international economic order policy, which she represents in spades, will no longer work, and not just for economic reasons, but rather for cultural and spiritual ones.
Friday, August 13, 2010
THE FED RED HERRING Scylla Charybdis CARTOON
Krugman seems to make some important points.
Nevertheless, speaking of eg Japan, here's a mise en scene for a Bernanke cartoon:
Bernanke is Odysseus, navigating his stultifera navis , a small sail boat, between two rocky cliffs, but they aren't merely cliffs on either side, they are enormous high mountain ranges marked China, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Indonesia.
Scylla/Inflation sits at the nearest precipice to the little craft on one side, reaching down with tentacles dangerously close to Odysseus, the craft tipping dangerously and almost smaller than Bernanke himself, at center, bottom.
Just to the other side of the craft from Scylla, a large whirlpool CHARYBDIS, marked also DEFLATION, mountains rising up on that side of the illustration to the edges of the paper, the craft almost being sucked down into it the whirlpool.
Huge trees growing on the mountains, all mountains each labelled also, as well as countries' names mentioned, "MERELY EXCESS CAPACITY".
The caption above:
STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
THE CAPTION BELOW:
STRATEGIC PARTNERS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
One might also point out, as Japan scholars (not me!) have long mentioned, it is a fundamental mistake to try to compare Japan and the US, even on so, apparently, 'fundamental' (not) a level, as that of 'economics' (pseudo discipline). SAY APPLES AND ORANGES, pace Posen.
Nevertheless, speaking of eg Japan, here's a mise en scene for a Bernanke cartoon:
Bernanke is Odysseus, navigating his stultifera navis , a small sail boat, between two rocky cliffs, but they aren't merely cliffs on either side, they are enormous high mountain ranges marked China, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Indonesia.
Scylla/Inflation sits at the nearest precipice to the little craft on one side, reaching down with tentacles dangerously close to Odysseus, the craft tipping dangerously and almost smaller than Bernanke himself, at center, bottom.
Just to the other side of the craft from Scylla, a large whirlpool CHARYBDIS, marked also DEFLATION, mountains rising up on that side of the illustration to the edges of the paper, the craft almost being sucked down into it the whirlpool.
Huge trees growing on the mountains, all mountains each labelled also, as well as countries' names mentioned, "MERELY EXCESS CAPACITY".
The caption above:
STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
THE CAPTION BELOW:
STRATEGIC PARTNERS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
One might also point out, as Japan scholars (not me!) have long mentioned, it is a fundamental mistake to try to compare Japan and the US, even on so, apparently, 'fundamental' (not) a level, as that of 'economics' (pseudo discipline). SAY APPLES AND ORANGES, pace Posen.
Terms search: leverage, Mary Poppins, Poppins
SOMEONE SAW THIS KNOWN SINCE 1945 KINDLEBERGER ETC YOU CAN SAY IT WENT BACK TO WILSON REALLY
Saturday, May 14, 2016
RE DK CURRENT POST
"...Above all, they have shut their eyes to the basic fact of capitalism, as elucidated two years ago by Thomas Piketty: that the natural processes of capitalism make capital grow faster than the economy as a whole. That is the biggest single reason why inequality has been increasing in the United States, and it will continue to increase, as Bernie Sanders alone among the major candidates understands, unless the government intervenes drastically in the economy, most notably by increasing marginal tax rates...." DK
The terrible thing, and the even bigger reason, about our capitalism, known for 6 or 7 decades now by a few, is that it eliminates the nation state itself, and the integrity of a so called nation state economy, altogether.
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re BBC CHINA NORTH KOREA JAPAN I SEE CHINA USES THE TERM TIPPING POINT TOO!
Warms my heart...
Why, do you suppose, that China, of all states, would, also, say such a thing, now is a ' tipping point '?
After all, my choice to use the term is harmless enough and coincidental enough; I have no close or high connections to any state.
Why, do you think, would China choose, now, to do so too?
Why, do you suppose, that China, of all states, would, also, say such a thing, now is a ' tipping point '?
After all, my choice to use the term is harmless enough and coincidental enough; I have no close or high connections to any state.
Why, do you think, would China choose, now, to do so too?
THE NEW NEW THING
Soft power, velvet glove, golden phallus.
Terms search: Steingart, The War for Wealth
Re Randy's current reference, it seems, now, at least to me, to be obvious that we would have been much better off, big picture, to have stayed under George III, mad or not.
https://www.facebook.com/rfertel/posts/10155602588019402
RE KOCH BROS DK POST REPUBLICAN BLACK MONEY THE GLOBALIZATION TABLE
"Charles and David Koch are the most striking example of extraordinarily wealthy Americans who have had an outsized impact on the politics of the last forty years—and whose impact is reaching a new peak right now." DK
This is a top 1% conservative witch hunt which misses the point of what has been happening, at the same time, and for a lot longer than a mere 40 years, with the other half, so to speak, of that top 1%:
One can think, without any effort, of even more, many more, globalist, Democratic, extraordinarily wealthy Americans, who have had an even more outsized impact on the politics of the last 40 years and before, many of them very well known investors, heads of well known corporations, philanthropic organizations, etc. The list goes on and on, of those Democrats willing to sell the domestic economy out to the original, globalist, post WWI and also post WWII, ideal of the American republic, enshrined in The Declaration of Independence.
It is an ideal which the conservative Republican right, has, finally, been able, since even before the 60s, futilely at first, to use, and finally, to turn on them, futilely.
Two have, thus, long been able to play, and lose, the good globalization game.
Why? Because the globalization game is rigged against high labor cost multiculturalist states.
Terms search: trading American interests, Trading Places, Kennedy Round, NAFTA, Kindleberger, Wilson, White, Morgenthau, open door, self determination, Marshall, Sovereignty at Bay, Kennan, Vernon, etc etc
Why? Because the globalization game is rigged against high labor cost multiculturalist states.
Terms search: trading American interests, Trading Places, Kennedy Round, NAFTA, Kindleberger, Wilson, White, Morgenthau, open door, self determination, Marshall, Sovereignty at Bay, Kennan, Vernon, etc etc
2016 POPULAR POST THE PAX MONGOLICA
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
RE DK POST PAX MONGOLICA POWER AND PLENTY
"Taking an even broader view, the era of the two world wars in Europe has been described as the second Thirty Years War, lasting from 1914 through 1945. A similarly broad view of the conflict in the Middle East would go back at least to the fall of the Shah in 1979, as Andrew Bacevich's new book does--and 30 years from 1979 would have brought us to 2009. I think it would very optimistic to suggest that the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia will be at peace by 2029." DK
I say this tongue in cheek, but they could be in so called peace by 2029, but it would be something like what some globalist trade economic historians honestly, and fondly, call a ' Pax Mongolica '. See Power And Plenty
Terms search this blog: Pax Mongolica, Mongolia
Terms search this blog: Pax Mongolica, Mongolia
Monday, August 28, 2017
NATIONALISM VERSUS GLOBALISM 2017 POST
Monday, February 27, 2017
RE NATIONALISM VERSUS GLOBALISM
I have seen this confrontation coming for ages. It is, of course, a confrontation that neither party has wanted. It had to come from outside the political establishment.
The basis for this anti globalism has been building year by year, and decade by decade, behind the scenes and under the superficial punditocratic radar designed for that purpose, except for the outbursts here and there.
Knowledgeable insiders, within various administrations, Democratic or Republican, have of course known the score since the beginning, say with Kindleberger, etc., at and after 1945.
Buchanan took a stab at it. Perot as well, against globalization.
ANOTHER CLASSIC 2016 TOPIC UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ITS COMING SOON HERE
Sunday, May 29, 2016
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER FDR
"The use of the term was revived during World War II at the Casablanca conference in January 1943 when American President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) sprang it on the other Allies and the press as the objective of the war against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.[5] And, when President Roosevelt suddenly announced this surrender condition at Casablanca, he did so referencing U.S. Grant and the fact that the famous general's initials, since the Civil War, had also come to stand for "Unconditional Surrender"." Wikipedia
See Wikipedia for more on it.
See Wikipedia for more on it.
IF YOU THOUGHT WWII WAS A VICTORY FOR AMERICA
then all you had to do was to watch, day by day, month by month, and year by year, the Cold War roll out, baby.
The folks at the top here had already made these arrangements, before the end of the war.
They weren't going to fight Russia back to its border. Even though they knew they were developing the bomb too.
They had no stomach for it, and no political system here capable of such an undertaking.
Too bad. End of The West, right there.
The folks at the top here had already made these arrangements, before the end of the war.
They weren't going to fight Russia back to its border. Even though they knew they were developing the bomb too.
They had no stomach for it, and no political system here capable of such an undertaking.
Too bad. End of The West, right there.
SOMEONE LIKES THIS GREAT 2016 POST WHY NOT REPRINT IT
Sunday, May 8, 2016
RE DK current post
"...Yes, despite the great horrors of the world wars, they served a purpose. In the end, the United States, the USSR and the British Empire mobilized resources sufficient to completely defeat their enemies--the goal laid down by Franklin Roosevelt, as I showed inNo End Save Victory, in the first week of July 1941. That enabled them to establish peace in Europe...." DK
Unfortunately, a gross misinterpretation of the history and the outcomes of both wars here.
RE complete defeat, unconditional surrender itself was part of the problem, after all, as Kennan observed.
RE complete defeat, unconditional surrender itself was part of the problem, after all, as Kennan observed.
The end of WWII was neither a victory, nor a peace, worth having for the West.
Russia was a so called ally in Europe, and an enemy in Asia.
Field Marshall Montgomery said we won the war but lost the peace.
We did not even win the war, leaving Russia in absolute control of Eastern Europe. That was a military defeat, turn it any way you want.
WWII was a final defeat for the British Empire itself, for a variety of reasons, one big one of which was that the US insisted on dismantling it, a truly sad commentary for a so called ally, as Michael Howard pointed out.
Why candy coat it?
Russia was a so called ally in Europe, and an enemy in Asia.
Field Marshall Montgomery said we won the war but lost the peace.
We did not even win the war, leaving Russia in absolute control of Eastern Europe. That was a military defeat, turn it any way you want.
WWII was a final defeat for the British Empire itself, for a variety of reasons, one big one of which was that the US insisted on dismantling it, a truly sad commentary for a so called ally, as Michael Howard pointed out.
Why candy coat it?
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