HAASS BOOK A WORLD IN DISARRAY

Just thumbed through a few pages of this...

 

A study in obfuscation for heads of state.

 

Why is it in disarray?

 

Whig liberalism, nevertheless, believes, must believe, and has long believed since say 1760, that we are forever moving, however fitfully, to ever higher universal democratic ground.

 

Where, in God's name, could Haass' higher ground, he calls it World Order 2.0,  ever come from, at this point?

 

It is really the very end of the endgame of this ideology.

Call it scientific humanism. Cobbled together from what was left after the Reformation, along with material from the Scientific Revolution. Nothing else left really, to work with. 

I read a few pages of Walter Lippmann, another CFR type, New York Jew, socialist, Santayana, etc., drafted Wilson's Fourteen Points (certainly not Wilson), world famous NYT journalist,  A Preface To Morals, call it the sunny side of The Enlightenment. Far cry in some ways from his journalistic colleague, Drew Pearson. They don't want to glance over their shoulder at The Enlightenment's Dark Side.

What can you do? He knows he is dealing with the pieces left over from the Reformation, cobbled together with the Enlightenment's sunny side, so called reason.

But the Enlightenment Dark Side has always still been there. Phenomenology, relativism, doubt, passion, existentialism, chaos, chance, nature, unbelief, amorality.

There is nothing inherently scientific about democracy.

There is nothing inherently humanistic about science.

There is nothing inherently humanistic about democracy.

There is nothing inherently scientific about humanism.

There is nothing inherently democratic about either science or humanism.

GENGHIS KHAN EMPIRE

RE GORDON-REED MADISON HEMINGS THE PLIGHT OF THE FREED NEGRO

I believe every word of what Madison Hemings said in his Memoir.

 

Lincoln had violated his campaign promise to not only end slavery, but also to get rid of the negroes. They not only competed with white labor, but could not mix with whites, and were not equal to them in any sense.

 

He never even intended to try to keep that promise to his Northern Republican, white, electorate.

 

So you see these sad accounts, 50 or 75 years later, cited in Gordon-Reed's book on Jefferson and Hemings, the discussion of historians' biases, this way and that, re the sad plight of all the multitude of the freed negroes now long in the North...

 

Get over it. They had been supposed to have been transported back to Africa, or to wherever else.

 

The Northern white Republican supporters of Lincoln didn't really care where, just not there!

RE NYT LEONHARDT SUNSTEIN IMPEACH TRUMP CABAL

Rather comical, and pathetic, really.

If you impeach Trump, you then have an even more unsavory individual, rammed up your ass, as President, Mike Pence!

 

It wouldn't surprise me, actually, Trump is not as dumb as people think, that he actually chose Pence, thinking ahead, believe it or not, a thing he is accused of not doing, as a sort of impeachment poison pill!

 

Rather like Catholic Croat war criminal EU kangeroo court stuff.

Knock yourself out, NYT Editorial Board!

HOW MANY MUSLIMS HAS THE HAGUE PROSECUTED AS WAR CRIMINALS RE YUGOSLAVIA?

Good question.

They in the hague certainly like to target their own cultural brethren.

Why not some Americans? They bombed hell out of anyone over there at will.

Think about it.

MEMOIR OF MADISON HEMINGS

I see no reason, after reading it, to question the veracity of his account.

RE EU WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL HAGUE WHAT AN INCREDIBLE FARCE

The EU attacks both the Serbs and the Croats.

The Serbs are Orthodox, the Croats are Catholic.

The Muslims are sprinkled here and there and are their mutual adversaries.

Maybe you can now have a renewed Reformation War of Religion in the center of Europe.

The previous one lasted hundreds of years, and never died out in Ireland.

Kennan, 1979, The Decline of Bismarck's European Order: 

 

 "The Austro-Hungarian Empire still looks better, as  a

 

solution to the tangled problems of that part of the

 

world, than anything that has succeeded it."

SOUTH KOREA SUDDENLY HIT HARD

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RE KRUGMAN RUSSIA OWNS TRUMP NOT A NEW THING

Stalin owned FDR. FDR hated Germany, way before WWII. See eg, Beschloss, The Conquerors

Stalin knew it, going in.

Plenty of liberals here will try to candy coat all of it...

The Liberal WWII Pivot: Turn your butt toward Stalin to confront both Hitler and Western Europe, and then give Stalin Eastern Europe (a big chunk of your own butt).  Smart shopping!

You can also call  it: The FDR Pivot 

Terms search: pivot

You can quote me.
Boomerbuster

BBC MCCARTNEY MACARTHUR INCREDIBLY WASTEFUL FASHION

Blind Capitalism in general, not just fashion....

It has all long been a much bigger story, long swept under the rug by the LIEO.

STATE OF NATURE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4T9CQA0UM

JOHN THORNTON TIPPED HIS HAND WHEN HE FOLLOWED PETHERICK

Monday, November 10, 2014 

RE THE DARIO D' ATTILI FALLACY OF VIOLIN EXPERTISE BUBBLE

He was compelled, by an expertise market imperative, to opine, almost immediately, what a particular item for scrutiny is.

His attributions, generally, aren't worth the scrap of paper they were written on.

His certificates 'flooded the market', bubbled, so to speak, the market, not that there wasn't, already, a surfeit of fraud.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

HORACE PETHERICK VIOLIN REPAIR MANUAL AND GUARNERI

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26878/26878-h/26878-h.htm

This is a choice discussion, even someone named Roger Hargrave got involved, maybe the real one:

https://maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/330360-violin-restoration-ethics-cannibalizing-old-instruments/&page=3

They tend not to criticize Petherick's Guarneri book too much, most of them. They try to defend him, as a product of the knowledge of his time. Etc. 

I think he was asked and paid to write this book, by the editors of The Strad, who sponsored it, who had used him as a trusted expert witness in the past, and who also had interests in the trade, to intentionally mislead not only retail customers, but also, probably, other merchants everywhere as well.

It seems to me that they succeeded in that, with Petherick's book, even down to the present moment.

WASHINGTON POST VERITAS RAY MOORE STING KENNEDY FALLACY

The Post published a story of an alleged sting, even though they thus violated an off the record agreement they had made.

You honor off the record agreements, period, assholes.

So it's an agreement among assholes, so what?

That is just another example of why people rightly believe that the press is more crooked than the politicians.

Let me ask you a question:

Why would they honor your off the record, even if you were telling the truth?

Why?

What if you were the Mafia, and you gave em an off the record story?

Say they then violated your agreement, for whatever reason.

What would you do?

Bingo!

An agreement between assholes is still an agreement.

Call it the rule of law.

If assholes can ignore confidentiality agreements between themselves, why should they be protected from government demands for disclosure?

Why should the government be required to honor off the record agreements, under the constitution, when either party can ignore them at will?

James O'Keefe, apparently a modern day muckraking Drew Pearson.

Great to see the muckraking media, both Left and Right, turn on eachother!

Great stuff. MAKES MY DAY.

See: Drew Pearson Fallacy

RE RADIO FILLED WITH JESUS WHY NOT REPOST SOME STUFF

Monday, June 2, 2014

RE MISSION TO THE GENTILES

Reviewing E P Sanders' The Historical Figure Of Jesus, especially Ch 12, the interesting thing, to me, which Sanders points out, contrary to what one would expect by casually reading the gospels, is, that it seems the historical Jesus and his followers during his life had no mission to gentiles whatsoever. See Sanders' account for references and arguments.

 

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

RE JESUS HISTORICAL FIGURE

I want to start some notes regarding connections between modern Jewish biblical scholarship and modern Christian biblical scholarship.

It seems to me that one can learn some things about the historical Jesus, which at least might turn out to be highly likely, by using modern Jewish biblical scholarship.

Unfortunately, I know nothing almost about Palestine history regarding those 400 years, 400 BCE and 4 CE, and very little about either Christian or Jewish biblical scholarship.

Further, it is almost too complicated for me to explain.  

So what I suggest is that anyone interested in this subject first read R E Friedman, Who Wrote The Bible?, and only then read, and read it into, E P Sanders' account, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, and then draw what implications occur to you from first having read Friedman.

Someone out there may see what I mean here. 

Certainly Sanders had been unwilling or unable to use the kind of material in Friedman's account to shed any light whatsoever on the historical Jesus. That fact, itself, may come as something of a shock.

 

Saturday, March 26, 2016

OK I CANNOT KEEP A SECRET

See E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, "Jesus' Last Week".  

Corpse impurity. It took a week to expunge....before Passover, and then Unleavened Bread.

Certainly Jesus and some or all of his disciples had it. Corpse impurity was everywhere.

 

Sunday, February 14, 2016

MILNER GROUP IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS PERHAPS

One might call the utopianism of the Milner Group a late blooming manifestation of the radicalism of the real Whigs, which had infested the American colonies, as well as here and there in Britain and elsewhere, back in the early 18th century.  See Bailyn's chapter "The Contagion Of Liberty", Ideological Origins.

It was a universalist radicalism born partly of fragmentation, a schismatic fragmentation, following in the train of the political and religious disasters of the Reformation and its aftermath, really. 

"We hold these truths to be self evident..." Many radical schismatics, besides the colonists, were also universalists, Luther for example.

Jesus, oddly enough, although a radical Jewish schismatic, was not himself a universalist: he had no mission to the gentiles whatsoever. See: The New Testament Bible, and E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, Index, 'gentiles'.

Someone who knows more can correct me I am sure.

 

, January 3, 2016

RE E P SANDERS THE HISTORICAL FIGURE

He seems to me to get the answer to the question, re reform or alternative society, wrong. 

He leaves the question, of alternative sects, untouched.

 

Friday, January 1, 2016

RE GREAT IMPROVISERS A TASTE FOR CHAOS

I have been reading Randy's book. 

It has started me thinking along these lines myself.

Accordingly, although I am certainly not the first person to suggest this, I just want to say it here now.

Among great improvisers, even with the limited knowledge we have of details of his life and ministry, one can put Jesus' Ministry more or less at or near the top of a list of talented improvisers.  

There are a lot of reasons for saying this. I don't want to go into a long list of them here. 

Jesus was sort of a Luther of late Temple Judaism. He was dealt with by Caiaphas more or less in the way Luther would have been dealt, had the Vatican been able to lay hands on him without opposition.

One can read, for example, E P Sanders' book, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, to get some details on why I suggest this. 

 

Saturday, July 26, 2014

ANOTHER KEY POINT RE WHO LOST HIS BUFFER THE CLASH WITHIN JUDAISM

The West, and its empires, lost, on their Western frontier, more than just their buffer, from us, the great despoiler of the western tradition.

Rather like Paul, within the Jewish tradition; the clash within, so to speak: Jesus had had no mission to the gentiles after all.  

(Don't take my word for it: E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus.)  Paul, after Jesus, later, created one, clashed with the Jerusalem temple, and Jesus' brother even, over it. 

W, W Wilson, (Paul): 

"These principles are right for all people everywhere."

 

Monday, July 14, 2014

RE THE TEA PARTY TAXATION INDIANS TAX COLLECTORS RELIGION JESUS

Re Tea Party and Race, and comments, DK site:
He had a nice squibb here:

"...The story of which this is a part goes back to the 1930s and the New Deal.  No region was hit harder by the Depression than the South, and Roosevelt probably saved thousands from starvation.    His relief and agricultural programs, as well as the construction of infrastructure including the Tennessee Valley Authority, benefited millions.  White Southern politicians tried to keep the benefits out of the hands of blacks, but they cold not entirely do so.  Until 1937, FDR's economic help trumped his wife's open sympathy for the civil rights movement. But the 1936 elections threatened the South with a terrifying prospect.  For the first time in about a century, as a I learned writing my last book, the Democratic Party won majorities in Congress that did not depend on southerners.  The Negro vote (as it was then called) already played an important role in northern states, and the southerners feared that FDR's activism might draw on these majorities to overturn their social order.  In 1937 they immediately joined the decimated Republicans to block FDR's court packing plan, and that signaled the end of Roosevelt's legislative juggernaut.  A coalition of southern Democrats and conservative Republicans was strong enough to block effective civil rights legislation for a quarter of a century....." DK


Re such nonsense as 'no taxation without representation' arguments justifying the Boston Tea Party and Rebellion, etc., etc., the fact is that the colonists were among the most lightly taxed people, relatively speaking, in human history. 

Furthermore, the practical difficulties of collecting either taxes or duties from the colonists was well documented, even back then. The British mostly ignored the problem, although the rhetoric was bitter. 

Professor Allison, Teaching Company, "Before 1776", has some enjoyable lectures on these topics. See especially his illustration on the Crown agent's difficulties collecting duty on a sugar shipment.

WHY NOT ALSO THROW IN RELIGION, TO RACE AND REPRESENTATION ISSUES?

For comparison, take a look at Roman taxes on, say,  Judea.

Interestingly, Jesus was a friend of any number of tax gatherers for Rome. It is all over the gospels. 

See for example, the accounts in E P Sanders, The Historical Figure Of Jesus.

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SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY STARTING TO GROW TAILS

You all just don't know it yet.

It starts out as a stigma...

Then, with chimps starting to have human rights,

it starts to look like a badge of honor....

I wish Blitt would take up a few of my ideas. This would be rather fun.

RE CHINA'S APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

The Chinese would have made very short work of Gandhi, baby!

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THOMAS FRIEDMAN FLAT WORLD FAT BUDDHA

THOMAS FRIEDMAN FLAT WORLD LONG NOSE

DOWNSTAIRS AN INTERVIEW WNYC SOUNDS LIKE SMUGGLER NATION AUTHOR

Few Americans know this real story. They think their ancestors were all free eager colonists coming over here to create a brave new world.

Read Smuggler Nation, just to wake up. Then go to Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, and Empires of the Atlantic World, but you need your thinking cap on.

Then go right into Colonists in Bondage for the piece du resistance.

 

At one time at least seventy percent of those convicted at The Old Bailey were sent to America (all were white).... Back cover.

 

Where do you think the rest might have gone? How about Australia?

Only after that, read the mountain of mostly bull about how bad only negro slavery was here in North America.

 

Guess what? Another actual history bomb then drops:

 

Only about one tenth of all negro slaves were ever even sent to North America. Nine tenths were sent to the West Indies and South America. 

Believe me, when you read the fuller accounts, North America was a virtual garden spot for the relatively few Negro slaves sent here, as well as for the white indentured servants, political prisoners (Irish, jacobites, quakers, etc), and convicts sent both places too, compared to either the Caribbean or South America!

Very few white prisoners turned into Captain Blood! Most of them died a lot faster than the negro slaves sent to the Indies and South America. They couldn't take the tropics. That is why, over time, negroes commanded twice the price of white labor in the Indies and South America. 

 

The negroes sent here were actually able to live in conditions that allowed them to procreate! Jefferson has a nice account of how his slaves are incorporated into his capitalist nail manufacturing business, and how he made money on the sale of his slaves' children, realizing he estimated 5% a year on them, all told. "Unmasking Thomas Jefferson", Smithsonian Magazine.

 

That was not the case either in the West Indies or South America, where they were worked to death without procreation privileges, because it was more profitable to import more than to pay for their maintenance.

Don't take my word for it, see J H Elliott, Bailyn, Smith, and a myriad of other highly respected sources. Before 1776, Teaching Company video lecture course, also very good.

Smell the coffee.