Mr Premier.
Ms Gross.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for inviting me.
I don't have any questions. This never happened before.
I don't have a prepared statement.
I saw that you are remaining in office.
Yes. It is what our voters want.
That sounds good.
Thank you.
Thank you.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
TERRY GROSS INTERVIEW VLADIMIR PUTIN
Thank you for being here, Vlad.
Thank you for having me, Terry.
Some American sources claim that you influenced American elections.
Terry, Americans voted as they saw fit. Everyone everywhere tries to influence voters, but a vote is a vote. That is what democracy is all about.
It has been a pleasure speaking with you.
Thank you, Terry.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN MR GLOBALIZATION NOW CRITICIZES THE WORLD HE CREATED
When the Cat's Away.
It is quintessentially the weak globalist flat world, where non liberal strong men somehow nevertheless mysteriously rise, a weak flat world which he and many others fostered for so many decades now.
Don't preach to me Mr Globalist, or quote Mandelbaum to me, you idiot.
WHAT DOES A SECURITY CLEARANCE MEAN DARPA BUMS MICKEY MOUSE
When your whole security system has been heavily infiltrated, on your own www system which you created not them, by your own enemies?
Just try to even begin to imagine how ridiculous this IT globalist situation has become......
You have no financial or technological security here, or anywhere, whatsoever.
That has become screamingly clear.
You have queered your own political and national security system, permanently, and irrevocably.
It doesn't matter whether Trump or Mickey Mouse is in the White House.
Putin and Xi both know this very well.
Just try to even begin to imagine how ridiculous this IT globalist situation has become......
You have no financial or technological security here, or anywhere, whatsoever.
That has become screamingly clear.
You have queered your own political and national security system, permanently, and irrevocably.
It doesn't matter whether Trump or Mickey Mouse is in the White House.
Putin and Xi both know this very well.
GENERAL BUTT NAKED TERRY GROSS INTERVIEW AGAIN
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
NPR TERRY GROSS INTERVIEWS GENERAL BUTT NAKED FRESH AIR
Terry: "General, you have had quite a career."
General B N: "Yes, Terry, it has been rather colorful. I live in a beautiful country. You must come there some day."
Terry: "Thank you. I will."
General: "So, Terry, what would you like to know?"
Terry: "I have heard that you are now an evangelical Christian. Is that true?"
General: "Yes."
Terry: "What are your political views, generally?"
General: "I believe in liberal democracy. I even believe in LGBT rights, if properly supervised."
Terry: "It has been a pleasure to talk with you, General."
General: "Thank you, Terry."
THINK TANK FALLACIES THEN AND NOW
Saturday, February 10, 2018
1990 AMERICAN THINK TANK PUNDITS WERE CROWING ABOUT THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN
What an everloving bunch of stupid idiots!
Fukuyama, essay 1989, book 1992.
Call it The Fukuyama Fallacy.
But no, the fallacy kept on going for 25 more years!
Call it, now, The Pillsbury Fallacy.
He actually tells you all about it, as a fallacy, himself: The Hundred-Year Marathon
Fukuyama, essay 1989, book 1992.
Call it The Fukuyama Fallacy.
But no, the fallacy kept on going for 25 more years!
Call it, now, The Pillsbury Fallacy.
He actually tells you all about it, as a fallacy, himself: The Hundred-Year Marathon
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
ED GILLIAM ART ARTICLE
Drawn to Clay: The Pottery of Ed Gilliam
In 1994, I attended the first show of Steve and Amy Slotin's Folk Fest in Atlanta, Ga., in pursuit of good "Old Master" self-taught works of art. I had already collected this type of art for approximately 15 years and was hoping to find something really special at this show. As was my custom, I was determined to walk through all the booths before deciding on anything to purchase. About two-thirds of the way through I walked into the booth of a local shop, American Sampler, owned by Carrie Gilliam and her mother, Sandy.
I was quickly scanning the interesting and well-stocked inventory and was about to move on when I noticed a small group of pottery almost hidden in the corner. I have never thought of myself as a pottery collector, but I had purchased a few unique pieces on occasion. I took a few steps closer, and then it came into focus – a pottery charger that would change my collecting life forever. I was riveted, dumbstruck at the masterful handling of the sgraffito (Italian, "to scratch") decoration that turned a plain, slightly oversize plate into a work of art. It was, in fact, a leaping warthog with a full moon behind it executed with the detail and finesse of a Durer etching. The only other decoration was a single line of text, "Welcome, but close the gate."
This annotation reminded me of the early (and therefore more restrained), Howard Finster work that has always fascinated me. To this day, “Welcome, but close the gate,” often runs through my head like a bit of Haiku. A mystery to be pondered and hopefully solved. On one level it speaks a great truth: You are welcome here, but just as we as hosts have a responsibility to you, you also have some responsibilities as a guest. Welcome, but close the gate.
As I was standing in the booth, I noticed that everything around the charger had gone into a soft focus, like a romantic film scene with a beautiful 1940's movie star. As a collector I can say that this has happened a few times over the years when I have been confronted with life-changing art work. It was a sign, a gift from above. I seized the plate and held it like it was my first born. I could not leave the booth without it.
I asked about the artist and was told that he was the dealer's father, Ed Gilliam, and that he had just started making pottery. Now, 20 years later, (and more than 100 chargers in my collection) I am determined that the rest of the world should have the chance to see a portion of Gilliam's body of work. And to that end I have been lending his work for various one-man shows.
The latest installation, on view October 23, 2014 to January 18, 2015, was in the Gallery at Paradise Garden, Howard Finster's epic environment in Summerville, Ga. I think that this is appropriate since Finster always encouraged other artists to create, inviting them to display their work in the Rolling Chair Ramp Gallery in Paradise Garden for all the world to see.
Ed Gilliam is a complex individual with the manners of a highly refined southern gentleman, who gives himself free rein to express himself in his artwork. He was born in Richmond, Va. on September 12, 1930 (a date he often inscribes onto the back of his plates) to an old-line Richmond family. He then moved to New York as a young man, living there from 1956 to 1973. Perhaps this helps explain his dichotomy of quiet demeanor and riotous imagery.
As a child, Gilliam was encouraged to paint and draw. He did his first watercolors at the age of six and took drawing classes from a local artist in his teenage years. Not having any money to pay her, he cut her grass in exchange for his lessons.
But as is often the case, growing up, making a living, getting married and having children left little time for art. He made one painting the entire time he was in New York – a beautiful and moody abstract using a silver metallic paint as the base color.
In 1973, he moved with his family to just outside Atlanta, Ga., where he has lived ever since, having careers as a CPA and as an attorney. Gilliam has also been a principal in a few businesses, including owning nine shoe stores named C. Edgar Ladies Shoes, before retiring and then starting his current career as an artist.
Like Finster, Gilliam was 60 years old when he started making art again, this time with clay. He taught a figure-drawing class at The Roswell Visual Arts Center in exchange for a basic clay class and studio space in Clay West, a branch of that arts organization, and in the humble manipulation of mud he found his muse.
Gilliam does not consider himself a potter but he does use the clay plate form simply as his "canvas" – a friendly surface on which to draw. The fired clay is something more sturdy and tactile than paper but not as formal as canvas. He is free to indulge his whimsical side with this form and will often use the round shape to great advantage in his compositions.
When I look at one of his chargers I feel like I am seeing a snapshot of a story, if I could just figure it out. It’s a sort of cross between Hans Christian Andersen, Howard Finster and Stephen King. Human and non-human figures usually share space (and occasionally body parts) with animals, insects, birds and fish. Often his male figures are thinly veiled self-portraits.
His later work seems to suggest an acute awareness of his own mortality. But with his art he ultimately seems to want to assure us that in the end things will be all right.
Like Finster, he is inclined to use the written word on his art work to instruct us with moral lessons, poetry or simply thought-provoking ideas. In Gilliam’s case those words and phrases are sometimes written in Latin or Sanskrit but with a handy English translation written on the back of the work. His series “Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit,” which loosely translates to “Called or not called, God is always present,” is a way of reassuring us (as well as himself) that no matter what, God is always there for us.
While these writings often reference the drawing, he also refuses to limit this added text to exclusively relating to the images on the plate, reasoning that beautiful words can stand alone. And occasionally images stand alone with nothing written on the front of the piece. He often relies on a slightly subdued shock value to make the viewer wonder about what makes this reclusive artist "tick."
When one looks at Ed Gilliam’s art one sees the work of a master storyteller and sometimes trickster, traits often admired in Howard Finster as well. For a limited time, visitors could see the stories and lessons of this unique artist and Georgia treasure, Ed Gilliam, in Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden setting.
ROBERT REICH'S VIDEO ON A HYPOTHETICAL TRUMP PUTIN DEAL
I am not a special friend of Reich, Mr Work of Nations, bullshit symbolic analyst nonsense, but this makes interesting speculative illustrative sense in several ways.
Certainly Putin was going to try to weaken either Trump or Clinton, whichever was elected. That to me is a given.
It does seem clear that Trump would have been more likely to intimate a deal of the kind Reich describes than would have Clinton.
On the other hand, just to try to put Reich's nonsense into perspective too, NATO was a bad idea from the beginning, we should never have gotten into a position to guarantee Europe against Russia in the first place. My account of what was needed is on this blog.
Clinton's liberal Democratic globalist agenda is as little likely to have reversed America's relative economic slide, vis a vis not just Russia but Asia, as Trump's has been or will be.
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/1870030289676225/
HUNTINGTON BACK THEN THOUGHT ISLAM HAD BLOODY CIVILIZATIONAL BORDERS
You haven't seen anything yet.....
Cf Michael Pillsbury, The Hundred-Year Marathon
Think about Russia's border with Western Europe. Pretty goddamned bloody border, over the centuries.
Asia's border with Russia Europe and the Middle East: epic historic blood bath with the Mongols.
Cf Michael Pillsbury, The Hundred-Year Marathon
Think about Russia's border with Western Europe. Pretty goddamned bloody border, over the centuries.
Asia's border with Russia Europe and the Middle East: epic historic blood bath with the Mongols.
AFTER OFFSHORING THEY CAN CATCH HERRINGS ON THE WAY TO ARCADIA
Thursday, August 19, 2010
INFLATION AND DEFLATION BOTH ECONOMIST RED HERRINGS
I should point out,
that, when you are gradually, inch by monthly inch, slowly, annually, becoming a third world economy, trading down, down, to cheaper and cheaper produced goods, to the bottom;
reducing prices, down, down, to cheaper and cheaper priced goods,
to the bottom, you tend,
almost by inertia,
to steer a path, because you have to,
between little blips of inflation, or deflation,
sort of looking for a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, perpetual 'soft landing',
at the 'greatest good for the greatest numbers' airfield (let's not call it an airport).
That is what the US 'economy' if one can speak about such a thing, has been doing.
That is why we haven't had much 'overt' inflation, because we have been buying, and producing offshore more cheaply, goods made offshore.
That also is why we haven't had deflation, because their offshore costs were less, for a little while, and printing fiat money to buy them, so long as the money is accepted, wards off symptoms of deflation.
Keeping prices, and wages, gradually 'trickling down' (a different idiom: UNPROSPERITY TRICKLING DOWN) more or less together,
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Krugman has put his finger on it, domestic jobs, that is the 'sticky wicket' in the whole sordid process, inasmuch as more and more work, of whatever kind, goes offshore, there remain fewer jobs, of any kind, to fund purchase of those cheaper offshore goods.
The other aspect of the situation, re currencies, aside from inflation/deflation, is that these producing countries have begun to realize that US currency is really backed by nothing anymore, no productivity, no specie, nothing.
One takes it, as a medium of exchange, largely hoping to prop up temporarily (self interest) the stultifera navis, and/or to get something of real value from third parties (the old eurodollar situation now globalized).
The Bretton Woods system, flawed from the outset, gold standard even abandoned by US in '71-72(?), a prescription for market sloth, and manipulations of all kinds.
It is not that complicated, really.
that, when you are gradually, inch by monthly inch, slowly, annually, becoming a third world economy, trading down, down, to cheaper and cheaper produced goods, to the bottom;
reducing prices, down, down, to cheaper and cheaper priced goods,
to the bottom, you tend,
almost by inertia,
to steer a path, because you have to,
between little blips of inflation, or deflation,
sort of looking for a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, perpetual 'soft landing',
at the 'greatest good for the greatest numbers' airfield (let's not call it an airport).
That is what the US 'economy' if one can speak about such a thing, has been doing.
That is why we haven't had much 'overt' inflation, because we have been buying, and producing offshore more cheaply, goods made offshore.
That also is why we haven't had deflation, because their offshore costs were less, for a little while, and printing fiat money to buy them, so long as the money is accepted, wards off symptoms of deflation.
Keeping prices, and wages, gradually 'trickling down' (a different idiom: UNPROSPERITY TRICKLING DOWN) more or less together,
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Krugman has put his finger on it, domestic jobs, that is the 'sticky wicket' in the whole sordid process, inasmuch as more and more work, of whatever kind, goes offshore, there remain fewer jobs, of any kind, to fund purchase of those cheaper offshore goods.
The other aspect of the situation, re currencies, aside from inflation/deflation, is that these producing countries have begun to realize that US currency is really backed by nothing anymore, no productivity, no specie, nothing.
One takes it, as a medium of exchange, largely hoping to prop up temporarily (self interest) the stultifera navis, and/or to get something of real value from third parties (the old eurodollar situation now globalized).
The Bretton Woods system, flawed from the outset, gold standard even abandoned by US in '71-72(?), a prescription for market sloth, and manipulations of all kinds.
It is not that complicated, really.
CLASSIC PRIMITIVIST MYTHOLOGY ECONOMICS KRUGMAN POST
Friday, August 20, 2010
RE APPEASING THE BOND GODS EDITORIAL: KRUGMAN TURNS OUT TO HAVE CARTOON WRITING POTENTIAL: LETS TALK ENDGAME
I had no idea there was this kind of latent talent lurking beneath the surface.
EVEN THOUGH MY LAST POST DISCUSSED INFLATION/DEFLATION TALK AS RED HERRINGS, AND PREVIOUS POSTS WENT INTO MISES EN SCENE FOR A ILIADIAN MYTHOLOGICAL MORTON'S FORK ODYSSEUAN SITUATION, FOR BERNANKE,
This turn of Krugman's, toward cruder, tribal, paradigms,
reminiscent of discussions one might have had back in London at King's, with Professor Winch, who wrote so insightfully regarding foibles of the then social sciences, and especially sociology and anthropology,
is a welcome breath of fresh air.
Never mind the truth of what he says, of which there no doubt is some, here in America; just let the images take over.
One can refer to old Tarzan films to capture a glimpse of some of those 'rites'.
If you read some accounts of, say, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande you get a flavor for how witches were handled by the Azande.
Winch wrote an important article, as philosophers' articles go, called "Understanding a Primitive Society", in which he discussed the concept of rationality 'comparatively', so to speak.
Perhaps Krugman will get to an explanation of the tribal 'rationality' of economic human sacrifice, in post industrial societies, and other less fortunate ones.
This was not that far beyond the pale for 'political-economists' of the 19th Century, at the time when these 'disciplines' were considered, quite properly, institutionally closer together.
RE END GAME: One of the lurking problems, for the old, Collingwoodian absolute presupposition 'greatest good for the greatest numbers' is that, with increasing labor saving techniques, ever increasing productivity technology, resource scarcity, smart weapons replacing soldiers, national and civilizational rivalries, etc., the 'greatest numbers' seems likely to be a rapidly shrinking number, globally.
The question then is, where will the sacrificial ax of 'economic tribal rationality' fall hardest, on excess superfluous populations, 'harmful much more than helpful' for future regimes, ('excess labor capacity') seemingly everywhere?
One difficulty, which always seems to lurk in the background, for anyone trying to articulate some more general 'insight' within a nevertheless particular specialized field,
while also, implicitly, inferentially, analogically, anecdotally even, being called upon, somehow, to grapple with some larger framework, perhaps merely illustrative, for understanding the course of 'politics', 'current events', or 'current history', but technically only why things are happening in the way they are in this field, while coming from usually only that one field, often strictly academic,
is the woeful inadequacy of that background to comprehend other entire dimensions lost on members of only one specialized field.
Leaving the endgame discussion:
Mise en scene, a propos Krugman's editorial, why not the Bond Gods as Cyclops?
One could depict the one harrassing Odysseus, who exacts a crewman every time he comes back to the cave, as a great cartoon.
Cyclops were not very smart, eg "'No man' is hurting me," Odysseus' 'name', told to other cyclops re why he was in pain.
Cyclops were also, like the current Bond Gods, as a group, real meanies!
EVEN THOUGH MY LAST POST DISCUSSED INFLATION/DEFLATION TALK AS RED HERRINGS, AND PREVIOUS POSTS WENT INTO MISES EN SCENE FOR A ILIADIAN MYTHOLOGICAL MORTON'S FORK ODYSSEUAN SITUATION, FOR BERNANKE,
This turn of Krugman's, toward cruder, tribal, paradigms,
reminiscent of discussions one might have had back in London at King's, with Professor Winch, who wrote so insightfully regarding foibles of the then social sciences, and especially sociology and anthropology,
is a welcome breath of fresh air.
Never mind the truth of what he says, of which there no doubt is some, here in America; just let the images take over.
One can refer to old Tarzan films to capture a glimpse of some of those 'rites'.
If you read some accounts of, say, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande you get a flavor for how witches were handled by the Azande.
Winch wrote an important article, as philosophers' articles go, called "Understanding a Primitive Society", in which he discussed the concept of rationality 'comparatively', so to speak.
Perhaps Krugman will get to an explanation of the tribal 'rationality' of economic human sacrifice, in post industrial societies, and other less fortunate ones.
This was not that far beyond the pale for 'political-economists' of the 19th Century, at the time when these 'disciplines' were considered, quite properly, institutionally closer together.
RE END GAME: One of the lurking problems, for the old, Collingwoodian absolute presupposition 'greatest good for the greatest numbers' is that, with increasing labor saving techniques, ever increasing productivity technology, resource scarcity, smart weapons replacing soldiers, national and civilizational rivalries, etc., the 'greatest numbers' seems likely to be a rapidly shrinking number, globally.
The question then is, where will the sacrificial ax of 'economic tribal rationality' fall hardest, on excess superfluous populations, 'harmful much more than helpful' for future regimes, ('excess labor capacity') seemingly everywhere?
One difficulty, which always seems to lurk in the background, for anyone trying to articulate some more general 'insight' within a nevertheless particular specialized field,
while also, implicitly, inferentially, analogically, anecdotally even, being called upon, somehow, to grapple with some larger framework, perhaps merely illustrative, for understanding the course of 'politics', 'current events', or 'current history', but technically only why things are happening in the way they are in this field, while coming from usually only that one field, often strictly academic,
is the woeful inadequacy of that background to comprehend other entire dimensions lost on members of only one specialized field.
Leaving the endgame discussion:
Mise en scene, a propos Krugman's editorial, why not the Bond Gods as Cyclops?
One could depict the one harrassing Odysseus, who exacts a crewman every time he comes back to the cave, as a great cartoon.
Cyclops were not very smart, eg "'No man' is hurting me," Odysseus' 'name', told to other cyclops re why he was in pain.
Cyclops were also, like the current Bond Gods, as a group, real meanies!
EBAY OLD VIOLIN PRIVATE LISTINGS EXPLANATION
Ebay, in the beginning, was a place where a buyer of something might learn something about the product, and more importantly about the market for it, by viewing it.
Those days have been gone a long time.
Private listings are normally used either to protect one or more seller shills, or to shield the big shops', and even small shops', bids from disclosure to non shop bidders or other shop bidders, not to protect the average retail customer bidder from any or all of them, including a pool of shops.
I know this sounds like a crazy and irrational web of intrigue, but how else to describe it.
https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/122986315849?item=122986315849&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/122986315849?item=122986315849&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
| private listing - bidders' identities protected | $309.00 | 25 Feb 2018 at 7:10:52AM PST |
| private listing - bidders' identities protected | $304.00 | 25 Feb 2018 at 11:17:08AM PST |
I NOW RECOMMEND LONG TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR ECONOMISTS IN AFRICA INDIA AND MALAYSIA
Why not go beyond mere offshoring, in this wired age?
The Brazilian jungle would also be good.
Rodrik would be an ideal candidate for an honor like this. He has so much sympathy for locals, locals everywhere.
Sympathy, after all, was the key Enlightenment feeling.
Theme song for the fellowship ceremony: Nature Boy
Theme text: Emile
Theme song for the fellowship ceremony: Nature Boy
Theme text: Emile
See also, eg:
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, February 26, 2018
IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION ROUSSEAU
For Rousseau, the apostle of primitivist humanity, and a milestone on the road to liberty, equality, fraternite, and to the French Revolution, the members of say the British Academy, Sir Isaac Newton and company, or the members of the French Academy, were on the very same level of equal humanity as were tribes of pygmy cannibals. In some ways, the pygmy cannibals were considered further advanced and more pure, in that they had not been corrupted by Western Cvilization.
The issues of such things as the abolition of slavery in the European colonies and elsewhere were merely small side shows in this enormous ideological travesty.
Cannibals sometimes embrace charismatic Christianity, but they remain noble savage Rousseau esque philosophes, all our equals, under the skin!
Terms search: General Butt Naked, General B N, Terry Gross
Here was a classic:
The issues of such things as the abolition of slavery in the European colonies and elsewhere were merely small side shows in this enormous ideological travesty.
Cannibals sometimes embrace charismatic Christianity, but they remain noble savage Rousseau esque philosophes, all our equals, under the skin!
Terms search: General Butt Naked, General B N, Terry Gross
Here was a classic:
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Sunday, February 25, 2018
LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION ENLIGHTENMENT STATE OF NATURE SOLUTION
If Muslims can't live, up close and personal, with either Christians or Jews or Confucians or Hindus or Orthodox; and Christians can't live with Jews or Muslims or Confucians or Hindus or Orthodox; and Confucians can't live with Christians or Muslims or Jews or Orthodox, and Shintos can't live with any of the others either, and who, frankly, can really blame any of them anyway, they were born this way in a state of nature, then...
Liberal radical globalization's answer is to discriminate against any illiberal regime in any civilization by force, and to try to impose globalist liberal regimes everywhere that stand opposed to all traditional civilizations on principle.
How successful do you think that project has been; how successful in the future? Take a guess.
Liberal radical globalization's answer is to discriminate against any illiberal regime in any civilization by force, and to try to impose globalist liberal regimes everywhere that stand opposed to all traditional civilizations on principle.
How successful do you think that project has been; how successful in the future? Take a guess.
RADICAL GLOBALIZATION GLOBALIZER CLASSIC POST SOMEONE SAW
Sunday, April 9, 2017
WHO IS STANDING UP FOR COPTS RADICAL GLOBALIZATION
Most of them, Egyptians, are Orthodox, so Putin can step up....?
The rest, small minorities mostly elsewhere, are sort of Catholic, so the US can step in...?
Question: Why step in on that? Well then, why step in anywhere?
Well then: The true globalizer has no distinct religious preference except no religion, frankly; so presumably has no axe to grind except to grind down antagonistic religious beliefs everywhere.
Wherever radical religious violence on both sides, or on many sides at once, is occurring, say in Egypt, Syria, Western China, parts of Russia, India and Pakistan, we should go in and kill both sides; so the anti religion globalization subtext must read.
Call it Radical Globalization: Rousseau, cum Robespierre, cum Jefferson, run amok.
Globalization Terror, not Terror and Consent
If it is race rather than religion, the Radical Globalizer has something to contribute.
If it is whites killing blacks, or blacks killing whites, or yellow killing both, or tan killing any other, or any colors killing any other, the Radical Globalizer has a solution: he kills both sides.
His favorite, and only, racial color: light brown, or dark tan, depending on the light.
Those colors who don't fight, he leaves alone, for now.
Call it Radical Globalization: Rousseau, cum Robespierre, cum Jefferson, run amok.
Globalization Terror, not Terror and Consent
If it is race rather than religion, the Radical Globalizer has something to contribute.
If it is whites killing blacks, or blacks killing whites, or yellow killing both, or tan killing any other, or any colors killing any other, the Radical Globalizer has a solution: he kills both sides.
His favorite, and only, racial color: light brown, or dark tan, depending on the light.
Those colors who don't fight, he leaves alone, for now.
CLASSIC BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE SOMEONE SAW
Sunday, April 2, 2017
MY ONLY BUT CONSIDERABLE ACTING EXPERIENCE WAS LIMITED TO THE COURTROOM AND CHAMBERS
I was a government trial lawyer for most of my career.
Terms search: public defender, Rumpole, team play, rum, etc.
We had a guy in our office, Richard Kiley, rather like Rumpole, older, a little plump, cigarette smoking, New York New Jersey area accent, irreverent, very smart, very funny, very dry, always getting into trouble with the judge, it seemed.
I called him Kiley Baby, a term of endearment. After Doug Roberts ascended to Division Chief, tantamount to taking silk in the British system, and was limited to capital cases, (and later ascended to the Bench), I became the undisputed chief of felony jury trial Not Guilty Land, for almost 5 years...
It was widely admitted within the office, and also in that of the State Attorney, that there was perhaps not a hopeless case which I might not, somehow, miraculously, win. After all, there were examples....
The State Attorney Division Chief, running our court, acknowledged that I fashioned defenses at times out of whole cloth (a high compliment, from the head of the other side), a terrifying prospect to confront for a prosecutor...
Later, while doing jury trials for the government on the civil side, I was the only person in my office who predicted that OJ would be found Not Guilty.
All the others in my office were, justifiably, appalled at my outrageous view and opinion...I had especially watched Johnny Cochran... What an incredible orator, for that venue. (The State's investigation had, of course, also, been bungled. But still.)
I called him Kiley Baby, a term of endearment. After Doug Roberts ascended to Division Chief, tantamount to taking silk in the British system, and was limited to capital cases, (and later ascended to the Bench), I became the undisputed chief of felony jury trial Not Guilty Land, for almost 5 years...
It was widely admitted within the office, and also in that of the State Attorney, that there was perhaps not a hopeless case which I might not, somehow, miraculously, win. After all, there were examples....
The State Attorney Division Chief, running our court, acknowledged that I fashioned defenses at times out of whole cloth (a high compliment, from the head of the other side), a terrifying prospect to confront for a prosecutor...
Later, while doing jury trials for the government on the civil side, I was the only person in my office who predicted that OJ would be found Not Guilty.
All the others in my office were, justifiably, appalled at my outrageous view and opinion...I had especially watched Johnny Cochran... What an incredible orator, for that venue. (The State's investigation had, of course, also, been bungled. But still.)
Rumpole never retired, as he liked to claim others had, and he well might, to the Costa Brava... I, by contrast, already lived in a semi tropical resort town, with all the modern amenities, and so have mostly stayed here, all these years....although the lure of a culturally highly cosmopolitan setting, which I have known intermittently, has been almost constant.
RE ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL SIMPLETONEX OLD DARLINGS
Saturday, February 24, 2018
JUDICIAL LA LA LAND JUSTICE BLACK DREW PEARSON FALLACY VICTIM
Why protect muckraking if you don't have to?
Contrary to what Professor Kaiser or Justice Black have asserted, their mission is not to protect the people at all whatsoever.
Contrary to what Professor Kaiser or Justice Black have asserted, their mission is not to protect the people at all whatsoever.
Experience has shown that tort remedies against them are inadequate and easily defeated.
The relentless hounding of celebrities has long been a locus classicus of free press free speech abuse, a right to privacy for them a chimera, merely on the hollow pretext that these people are public figures.
My own view is that the press should be reined in hard.
Let's face it: under the present circumstances of the degenerate self serving and corrupt media, what do you have now to lose?
Princess Diana, after all, was killed in a wanton skirmish with a degenerate attack dog free press wolf pack of legally unrestrained papparazi.
The limousine should have been equipped with rifles, and these people picked off, on their cycles, as they neared the vehicle.
You can quote me.
Perhaps Professor Kaiser, with his eulogy to Justice Black, whose views give license to all of this excessive and unrestrained nonsense, will weigh in. Drew Pearson, one of his heroes, after all.
terms search: Drew Pearson, Drew Pearson Fallacy, Lorch, Kitty Genovese, Bobbitt
See eg:
Princess Diana, after all, was killed in a wanton skirmish with a degenerate attack dog free press wolf pack of legally unrestrained papparazi.
The limousine should have been equipped with rifles, and these people picked off, on their cycles, as they neared the vehicle.
You can quote me.
Perhaps Professor Kaiser, with his eulogy to Justice Black, whose views give license to all of this excessive and unrestrained nonsense, will weigh in. Drew Pearson, one of his heroes, after all.
terms search: Drew Pearson, Drew Pearson Fallacy, Lorch, Kitty Genovese, Bobbitt
See eg:
Saturday, November 11, 2017
RE SHIELD OF ACHILLES TERROR AND CONSENT AMERICAN JUSTICE NYT NEWS THE VERDICT OF HISTORY
Question: Was Kitty Genovese's neighborhood a state of terror?
Why?
Why not?
Does the concept of a state of terror make any sense?
Why?
Why not?
See the NYT article 2016, re how they had grossly exaggerated the event.
What kinds of things does that do to Bobbitt's account in Shield? Seems to me it pretty much totally queers it!
If you take a look at the Wikipedia article, queers it even more.
If you take a look at the Wikipedia article, queers it even more.
Is the NYT revelation a sudden change in the verdict of history, on the callousness of the citizens of Queens, a verdict of guilt on American urban society in general?
"Clearly, both the Times and its readers--as well as dozens of other newspapers around the country--took their obligation to stay informed about world, national and local affairs much more seriously in 1937 than they do today." DK recent post
Clearly and certainly not as truthfully, seriously, or informatively, at least by 1964, either, shall we say....
Maybe Bobbitt can address all this complicated confusion.....
Interestingly enough, re law enforcement and justice in America and in New York, is the case of Alvin Williams, who had been charged with another murder which Moseley, Genovese's killer, had actually done instead.
Moseley was actually called as a witness in Williams first trial, testified to things only the killer of that other girl could have known, and the jury was hung.
Moseley was actually called as a witness in Williams first trial, testified to things only the killer of that other girl could have known, and the jury was hung.
Did the state drop the case against Williams, and properly charge Moseley instead, based on his testimony at Williams' trial?
No!
The state re tried Williams instead, and he was convicted at his re trial of a murder which Moseley had committed, and which the state was on obvious notice that he had committed rather than Williams. The article does not say what ever happened to Williams.
You would have thought that that was a news worthy subject for the NYT back then, too!
That was actually the bigger story than Genovese, frankly, then or now, and the NYT more or less passes over it in 2016 as an aside!
Maybe Williams was electrocuted for Moseley's other murder!
This seems to be a fitting 'verdict of history' on Bobbitt's Kitty Genovese Chapter!
That was actually the bigger story than Genovese, frankly, then or now, and the NYT more or less passes over it in 2016 as an aside!
Maybe Williams was electrocuted for Moseley's other murder!
This seems to be a fitting 'verdict of history' on Bobbitt's Kitty Genovese Chapter!
YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF UNDER THE CROWN THAN UNDER CHINA AND OR RUSSIA HEGEMONY
Think about how long this blunder has taken to unfold.
THEY LOVE THE FATAL ECONOMIST TAR BABY POST WHY NOT GIVE EM ANOTHER! BOOMERBUTT
Terms search: flatly wrong
A common misconception is that various economists, any of them really, are only wrong, if ever wrong, only sometimes, and about only one thing, here or there.
This is an important misconception:
Economists are always, and have always, normally, been wrong about everything in one way or in multiple ways at the same time.
Here is only a small non exhaustive list of subjects all economists are normally, at best, wrong about:
Laissez faire, wrong, tariffs, wrong, mercantilism, wrong, government spending, wrong, government not spending, wrong, capitalism, wrong, free trade, wrong, equilibrium, wrong, marginal utility, wrong, supply demand, wrong, monetary policy, wrong, gold or bi metallic standard on it or off it, wrong, comparative advantage, wrong, fiat currency, wrong, central banking policy, wrong, government debt, wrong, private debt, wrong, MFN, wrong, foreign aid, wrong, the Fed, wrong, USAID, wrong, spending stimulus, wrong, taxes, wrong, investment policy, wrong, mathematical and or geometrical models of any kind or description, wrong, micro economics, wrong, macro economics, wrong, international economics, wrong, competitiveness, wrong, wars, wrong, managed trade, wrong, preferences, wrong, subsidies, wrong, sanctions, wrong, lifting sanctions, wrong, peace, wrong, picking winners, wrong, offshoring, wrong, globalization, wrong, inflation, wrong, deflation, wrong, stagnation, wrong, convergence, wrong, industrialization, wrong, deindustrialization, wrong, elasticities of all kinds, wrong, protectionism of any kind, wrong, regionalism, wrong, LIEO, wrong, WTO, wrong, WB, wrong, IMF, wrong, EU, wrong, NAFTA, wrong, EXIMBANK, wrong, Bretton Woods, wrong, WWI reparations, wrong, GATT, wrong, Smoot Hawley, wrong, economic crises of any kind, wrong, definition of an economy of any kind, wrong, service economy, wrong, skills analysis eg symbolic analysts driven economies, wrong, Great Depression, wrong, competitive advantage, wrong, economic nationalism, wrong, comparative advantage, wrong, interest rates, wrong, multilateralism, wrong, isolationism, wrong, divorce of economics from politics, wrong, greatest good for the greatest numbers, wrong, redistribution, wrong.
The Japanese totally kicked your fucking industrial and technological butt, long before the other Asians, finally, including the Chinese, even got started on finishing you off, after you pivoted your big dumb Boomerbutt in various other economic directions in Asia,
and your economists all have more or less said, all along, since the 50s, nothing out of the ordinary, business as usual, shift to service economy, nothing to worry about, offshoring is fine, smooth sailing toward full plentiful globalization ahead, nice pivot move...
Terms search: pivot
The Japanese totally kicked your fucking industrial and technological butt, long before the other Asians, finally, including the Chinese, even got started on finishing you off, after you pivoted your big dumb Boomerbutt in various other economic directions in Asia,
and your economists all have more or less said, all along, since the 50s, nothing out of the ordinary, business as usual, shift to service economy, nothing to worry about, offshoring is fine, smooth sailing toward full plentiful globalization ahead, nice pivot move...
Terms search: pivot
Friday, February 23, 2018
WE COULDN'T EVEN MOBILIZE A TWO CAR FUNERAL HERE WITHOUT PARTS FROM CHINA
You can't even take a shit without some Chinese company having made it possible!
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
"According to Hanson, Western values such as political freedom, capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry, rationalism, and open debate form an especially lethal combination when applied to warfare. Non-western societies can win occasional victories when warring against a society with these western values, writes Hanson, but the "Western way of war" will likely prevail in the long run."
Nonsense..............
In the long run, there is no long run.
Even in the short run, we are already toast, as I have said for many years.
Just one little example: Stalin did not accomplish what he accomplished with Hanson's happy, liberal, free, rational, capitalist, individualistic, scientific, democratic, open debating, Western values, Russians.
The only kinds of questions you got left to ask are, say,
whether you'll be alive, and
how are you going to be ruled 20 years from now?
It will not be by an American, of either so called party, but rather by a party puppet of China and or Russia.
Trump has already been shown to be a milestone on the way to an already gathering Russian puppetdom.
China would doubtless try to wrest control of the puppet from Russia at some point for herself, or strike a strictly temporary alliance with Russia to share the spoils, temporarily.
In the long run, there is no long run.
Even in the short run, we are already toast, as I have said for many years.
Just one little example: Stalin did not accomplish what he accomplished with Hanson's happy, liberal, free, rational, capitalist, individualistic, scientific, democratic, open debating, Western values, Russians.
The only kinds of questions you got left to ask are, say,
whether you'll be alive, and
how are you going to be ruled 20 years from now?
It will not be by an American, of either so called party, but rather by a party puppet of China and or Russia.
Trump has already been shown to be a milestone on the way to an already gathering Russian puppetdom.
China would doubtless try to wrest control of the puppet from Russia at some point for herself, or strike a strictly temporary alliance with Russia to share the spoils, temporarily.
SEE RANDALL COLLINS' NOVEMBER 2017 POST
Friday, November 24, 2017
HEFNER’S PLAYBOY: SPINOFF OF ESQUIRE’S NICHE
Compare Collins' discussions, here and elsewhere, of fame, innovation, and creativity, with, say, Randy Fertel's discussion of improvisation in literature music and other things.
WHEN THE CHINESE TAKE OVER THEY CAN LEAVE THE WEAK AMERICAN SYSTEM IN PLACE
It is a perfect vehicle for an already fragmented and weak vassal state administration.
Bobbitt has probably worked some scenarios out along such lines. He thinks of everything.
Here's an old post that touches on the reform dilemma. So just bypass it, that is China's solution, terms search: Meiji
Bobbitt has probably worked some scenarios out along such lines. He thinks of everything.
Here's an old post that touches on the reform dilemma. So just bypass it, that is China's solution, terms search: Meiji
TECHECTOMY CAN BE PERFORMED BY MOST SURGEONS
He simply lops off the hand that holds your hand held device.
This is necessary, for some serious cases, where there has been a fatal auto accident, or a child has died.
This post is dedicated to Gahan Wilson.
Think of it as a variation on Sharia.....
Most Westerners would prefer a walletectomy!
This post is dedicated to Gahan Wilson.
Think of it as a variation on Sharia.....
Most Westerners would prefer a walletectomy!
CLASSIC 2012 POST SOMEONE SAW
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
RE NOCERO RACE AND NCAA
NO MORE A COINCIDENCE, IS IT, THAN RECENT PROSECUTIONS OF INVESTMENT ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR ON WALL STREET?
One wonders why the nyt did not pick up, or did it, on such similar recent coincidences in its own back yard, so to speak?
Perhaps they had been warned off such a story, or not sell enough newspapers, or raise the bugbear of an attacks among ethnic white rivalries on and off Wall Street?
Yet it's almost always ok to raise the spectre of black white racism here. Indian (not black) entrepreneurs are open season with impunity it seems. No questions asked.
One wonders why the nyt did not pick up, or did it, on such similar recent coincidences in its own back yard, so to speak?
Perhaps they had been warned off such a story, or not sell enough newspapers, or raise the bugbear of an attacks among ethnic white rivalries on and off Wall Street?
Yet it's almost always ok to raise the spectre of black white racism here. Indian (not black) entrepreneurs are open season with impunity it seems. No questions asked.
THE ECONOMIST 2009
Offshoring
Economists argue that offshoring is a win-win phenomenon.
I rest my case. Offshoring economists is a great new idea. You saw it first here.
KRUGMAN'S ENLIGHTENMENT DEMOCRACY STATE OF NATURE MAINSTREAM AMERICA NOT THE RIGHT FRINGE
Re Krugman's Nasty, Brutish and Trump
Let's just quote Hobbes' whole state of nature phrase: solitary poor nasty brutish and short.
The Enlightenment state of nature, Krugman's, that of Locke, Diderot, and Rousseau, and of course Adam Smith, etc, was really a state of benign Godless anarchy, where isolated individuals, basically good but stupid by nature dwelt mostly in peace, plenty, and accidental harmony, pursuing their natural appetites. See eg: Catholics and Unbelievers in 18th Century France, Index Locke, Diderot, Rousseau. See especially p 133:
"Paradoxically, the men who trusted so highly in the powers of intelligence regarded the mind as essentially vacant and inert; the idea of the passive mind was indispensable to their system. it was the guarantee that the truths of nature might be perceived without distortion. It was the basis for the distinction, then so important and so clear, between enlightenment and prejudice. It was the metaphysical groundwork for the belief that men were equal, and that they possessed the quality of perfectibility, that is, susceptibility to progress. Minimizing the effects of will, denying original predisposition, refusing to see any inevitability in human nature, the doctrine was flatly contrary to the Christian idea of sin; and by representing man as a passive child of circumstances, easily abused by his environment, it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom." Palmer, p 133, 134
For the Enlightenment thinkers, government was part of the problem, not the solution, and so it was with the colonists.
So when Krugman says something like this, claiming to criticize only the American right, he shows himself to be truly a Whig pundit idiot:
"It is, on the part of much of today’s right, a war on the very concept of community, of a society that uses the institution we call government to offer certain basic protections to all its members."
The founding fathers did not trust government, and refused to rely heavily on it, especially the federal one, even for protection.
They were mostly yoeman jacobin anarchists like Jefferson, or religious protestant radicals.
What Krugman attributes accusingly to Trump is actually, as Palmer shows in great detail, Krugman's own time honored Enlightenment Ideal itself: "... it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom." RRP
Krugman's Enlightenment is the same as Trump's, the same as Rousseau's.
Krugman just doesn't realize it yet, nor do you:
"How, in speaking of men whom he calls null, brutish, stupid, imbecile, can he exalt with enthusiasm their antique simplicity, their original goodness, their primitive innocence?"
What Krugman attributes accusingly to Trump is actually, as Palmer shows in great detail, Krugman's own time honored Enlightenment Ideal itself: "... it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom." RRP
Krugman's Enlightenment is the same as Trump's, the same as Rousseau's.
Krugman just doesn't realize it yet, nor do you:
"How, in speaking of men whom he calls null, brutish, stupid, imbecile, can he exalt with enthusiasm their antique simplicity, their original goodness, their primitive innocence?"
"Has anyone ever said of an orang-outang that it was naturally good and happy wise and simple? or spoken of its antique simplicity, primitive innocence, and original goodness?"
"No, Jean-Jacques, I shall not treat you as a bad man for having dared to maintain that man is born good. Everyone knows that man comes from his creator good, happy, wise, and perfect; no one disputes this truth. What you are blamed for is your making man come from his creator in a state of stupidity, and yet maintain that in this state men are good, happy, wise, and simple. What you are blamed for is making their goodness depend on their imbecility, their happiness on their stupidity. What you are blamed for is your having been guilty in all your writings of an enormous abuse of language, and having offered us, as the true road to happiness, the ignorance, imbecility, and stupidity that you have not blushed to attribute to our first parents."
Le Gros, Examen des ouvrages de J.-J. Rousseau et de Court de Gobelin (Geneve, 1786), pp 62 -66.
FOIBLES OF DUMB AND DUMBER AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION LIBERTY
The founding fathers wanted all rebel colonists to be heavily armed, so as to be able to carry out permanent rebellion against the British, or defense and offense against anyone else, especially the French or the Spanish, and Indians, if need be.
Oh yes, of course, one of the biggest, perhaps the biggest reason the colonists needed to all be armed was to keep under control their large negro slave populations. These were universally considered a serious threat, both North and South.
No one ever would have dreamed of extending the right to bear arms to negroes, slave or free, in 1776, or later, in fact until Lincoln not only freed the negroes, but armed 100,000 of them to fight the South. Those were two of his many unprecedented and unconstitutional acts.
After the war he was apparently terrified about what these people might do. Don't you think he should have thought of that before?
Oh yes, of course, one of the biggest, perhaps the biggest reason the colonists needed to all be armed was to keep under control their large negro slave populations. These were universally considered a serious threat, both North and South.
No one ever would have dreamed of extending the right to bear arms to negroes, slave or free, in 1776, or later, in fact until Lincoln not only freed the negroes, but armed 100,000 of them to fight the South. Those were two of his many unprecedented and unconstitutional acts.
After the war he was apparently terrified about what these people might do. Don't you think he should have thought of that before?
Just try changing that part of the constitution.
FATAL ECONOMIST TAR BABY MOVE
Rodrik blunders into talking about convergence...
Economist Tar Baby move!
He calls it redistribution, but he is talking about redistribution on a global scale, not redistritution, as it is normally discussed, in obsolete domestic economies, take from the rich and give to the poor.
No.
This redistribution is take from all rich countries' citizens (including even the super rich) and give to poor countries' citizens (and their new super rich), on an enormous, unprecedented scale.
It is called global income convergence.
He suggests a New Deal FDR type tiny band aid for this enormous, deep, and lasting economic gash in advanced Western countries' economies.
Piketty was frankly smarter than Rodrik: he wouldn't touch the economists' tar baby subject of income convergence at all!
Terms search: offshoring economists:
Economist Tar Baby move!
He calls it redistribution, but he is talking about redistribution on a global scale, not redistritution, as it is normally discussed, in obsolete domestic economies, take from the rich and give to the poor.
No.
This redistribution is take from all rich countries' citizens (including even the super rich) and give to poor countries' citizens (and their new super rich), on an enormous, unprecedented scale.
It is called global income convergence.
He suggests a New Deal FDR type tiny band aid for this enormous, deep, and lasting economic gash in advanced Western countries' economies.
Piketty was frankly smarter than Rodrik: he wouldn't touch the economists' tar baby subject of income convergence at all!
Terms search: offshoring economists:
Friday, August 27, 2010
RE: THIS IS NOT A RECOVERY MISE EN SCENE OFFSHORING ECONOMISTS CASTAWAYS: MS' TRIDENT
Sunday, July 31, 2016
RE NYT MANKIW TRADE WITH CHINA MAKES AMERICANS BETTER OFF
Sunday, October 22, 2017
RE SOME MISLEADING GEOMETRY ON CORPORATE TAXES
Thursday, November 2, 2017
HACKING INTO GLOBALIST MYSTERY MEAT TAX CUT ECONOMICS THE MENU
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Thursday, February 22, 2018
IF KYLIE JENNER COULD TWEET ONCE AND 1.3BN OF SNAP IS GONE
Perhaps I could fart hard, and the rest would disappear in a puff of smoke!
IF TWEETS HAD SOUND, I WOULD CERTAINLY TRY IT!
If only a large diarrhea could wipe out Facebook!
IF TWEETS HAD SOUND, I WOULD CERTAINLY TRY IT!
If only a large diarrhea could wipe out Facebook!
DANI RODRIK SIMON SAYS FDR FAUX POPULIST ACTUAL LIBERAL GLOBALIST
'By his day’s standards, and perhaps also today’s, Roosevelt was an economic populist'.
What nonsense. Roosevelt was an economic leftist bourgeoisie.
His New Deal was a bourgeoisie New Deal, not at all a populist New Deal. He was a leftist liberal economic globalist, what Rodrik thinks a populist means.
FDR didn't give Southern, long freed, negroes the economic time of day.
He gave Northern white liberal and leftist factory workers what little he could throw together. The country really did not turn around until WWII, not at all by the faux populist New Deal. The big big thing that put a lot of populist poor people to work was the war!
Rodrik talks populism, identified with the gold standard, and how we went off it in 1933. It is all smoke and mirrors.
We stayed on the gold standard more or less until I think 1971.
The critical and important things that happened in this long long slide from 1914 he doesn't touch.
He picked his bad populist bogey to set against his good populist hero.
He is basically trying, in the last ditch, to make an economist still look smart and good, whereas now any economist, baby, is nothing more than a cleverly disguised TAR BABY.
The whole discipline has now finally been revealed as a huge tar baby responsible for the ideological underpinnings for the relentless decline of the West.
Rodrik talks populism, identified with the gold standard, and how we went off it in 1933. It is all smoke and mirrors.
We stayed on the gold standard more or less until I think 1971.
The critical and important things that happened in this long long slide from 1914 he doesn't touch.
He picked his bad populist bogey to set against his good populist hero.
He is basically trying, in the last ditch, to make an economist still look smart and good, whereas now any economist, baby, is nothing more than a cleverly disguised TAR BABY.
The whole discipline has now finally been revealed as a huge tar baby responsible for the ideological underpinnings for the relentless decline of the West.
DANI RODRIK POPULISM LATE STAGE GLOBALIZATION
Just one passage:
Looks more and more like late stage economic cancer than good economic policy.
He discusses its redistributive effects.....looks he says more like taking money from some groups and giving it to others, no real booming, no bullshit lifting of all, or even most, nation states' boats, anymore, in terminal globalization.
Let's just call a spade a spade: late stage globalization rips off the mask of the redistributive effects of income convergence for the bottom 99.9%, the 800 pound gorilla in the room of globalization, a mask Piketty wouldn't touch for obvious reasons, because he wanted only to blame the top 1% for being globalist fat cats, while leaving the bottom 99.9% to fend for themselves by tax reform or New Deal welfare programs.
Where would you get the enormous money to pay for a New New Deal? He doesn't talk much about that. He really wants some sort of global business leader consortium to help all oppressed populares everywhere.
Where would you get the enormous money to pay for a New New Deal? He doesn't talk much about that. He really wants some sort of global business leader consortium to help all oppressed populares everywhere.
RODRIK THE NEW NEW MR GLOBALIZATION ON GOOD AND BAD POPULISM
A nimble and glib economic and historical sophist.
He's giving you the new new 'judgment of history'. Oh, he's not a historian. Looks like he was accidentally hit by one or two economics history books while in class. Economic history is not history.
We may have to go through his article almost but not quite line by line.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
DANI RODRIK WHAT DOES A TRUE POPULISM LOOK LIKE CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBALIST
'backlash should not have been a surprise, least of all to economists.'
Hello! He really should have said something like: "This has hardly been a surprise to NYT economists, especially people like Paul Krugman, who doubtless have known for decades where this globalization juggernaut has been heading!" Something like that...
Gold standard, a red herring among red herrings, he gives much lip service to this faux, liberal economists', bogey....
Pretty soon, because of the new conservatism, any economist who touches it will now look like been blackened by the gold standard tar baby!
There will be people here who will declare a gold standard as a white racist plot!
Pretty soon, because of the new conservatism, any economist who touches it will now look like been blackened by the gold standard tar baby!
There will be people here who will declare a gold standard as a white racist plot!
Fractional reserve banking was always the real danger, in any money economy.
Now, quantitative easing (fiat printing) has been thrown in, on top of that...
Quantitative easing, and fractional (under capitalized) reserve banking, are each, by itself, frankly worse than a gold standard.
What does true populism look like?
Not Rodrik's populism of FDR... That was, frankly, American faux populism, a populism for the rising middle class, not for the common people.
True populism looks like the populism of the Gracchi, or of Marius, of Caesar, Jesus, Mussolini, or Hitler. That is true populism.
What does true populism look like?
Not Rodrik's populism of FDR... That was, frankly, American faux populism, a populism for the rising middle class, not for the common people.
True populism looks like the populism of the Gracchi, or of Marius, of Caesar, Jesus, Mussolini, or Hitler. That is true populism.
DANI RODRIK WHAT DOES TRUE POPULISM LOOK LIKE?
I have to rise to this dreadful bait...
He is kindofa known idiot, for me....
Stay tuned.
He is kindofa known idiot, for me....
Stay tuned.
DUMB AND DUMBER AMERICANS THOUGHT USSR WENT UP IN SMOKE 1989
Russia merely down sized, to then, again, gather strength...
I ALREADY BOUGHT MY CHAIRMAN MAO JACKET
So I can look the part, when I have to kowtow, after they take over....
It's this beautiful blue color, very Democratic!
THE ENDARKENMENT ROUSSEAU'S ADAM SMITH'S AYN RAND'S PAUL RYAN'S DUMB AND DUMBER TARZAN
"How, in speaking of men whom he calls null, brutish, stupid, imbecile, can he exalt with enthusiasm their antique simplicity, their original goodness, their primitive innocence?"
"Has anyone ever said of an orang-outang that it was naturally good and happy wise and simple? or spoken of its antique simplicity, primitive innocence, and original goodness?"
"No, Jean-Jacques, I shall not treat you as a bad man for having dared to maintain that man is born good. Everyone knows that man comes from his creator good, happy, wise, and perfect; no one disputes this truth. What you are blamed for is your making man come from his creator in a state of stupidity, and yet maintain that in this state men are good, happy, wise, and simple. What you are blamed for is making their goodness depend on their imbecility, their happiness on their stupidity. What you are blamed for is your having been guilty in all your writings of an enormous abuse of language, and having offered us, as the true road to happiness, the ignorance, imbecility, and stupidity that you have not blushed to attribute to our first parents."
Le Gros, Examen des ouvrages de J.-J. Rousseau et de Court de Gobelin (Geneve, 1786), pp 62 -66.
The judgment of history went with Rousseau, baby...not Le Gros.
Now Rousseau's orang-outangs, known now as liberal Americans, are tearing down any monuments that remind them, foggily, as through a glass darkly, of their dim stupid imbecilic and troubled past, while reading learned journals, in places like Boston, a byword for confusion, regarding whether chimps should have human rights.
The judgment of history went with Rousseau, baby...not Le Gros.
Now Rousseau's orang-outangs, known now as liberal Americans, are tearing down any monuments that remind them, foggily, as through a glass darkly, of their dim stupid imbecilic and troubled past, while reading learned journals, in places like Boston, a byword for confusion, regarding whether chimps should have human rights.
CLASSIC OVERVIEW POSTS RE MR GLOBALIZATION ET IN ARCADIA EGO
RE: This post re Mr Globalizer:
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Sunday, April 30, 2017
MISHRA FROM EXCEPTIONALISM TO NIHILISM THE LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION TRAP
Our roots were always there, really.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution really set the ball rolling.
If you believe in the liberal unification of everything, you believe in nothing.
Don't kid yourself.
COMBINE ENLIGHTENED GLOBALISM WITH ENLIGHTENMENT SKEPTICISM (HUME)
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGION ETHNICITY GENDER CIVILIZATION
LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
RE MARKETS CIVILIZATIONS RACES MINDS PERCEPTIONS EXPERTS PICKING WINNERS
GLOBALIST POLICIES HAVE BASICALLY SLOWLY BLOWN YOUR COUNTRY UP
RE BROOKS' EXODUS THEME IMMIGRATION REFUGEES TRANSHUMANCE SLAVERY JEWS GUEST WORKERS ISRAEL
THE GLOBALIZATION TRAP
The Age of the Democratic Revolution really set the ball rolling.
If you believe in the liberal unification of everything, you believe in nothing.
Don't kid yourself.
COMBINE ENLIGHTENED GLOBALISM WITH ENLIGHTENMENT SKEPTICISM (HUME)
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGION ETHNICITY GENDER CIVILIZATION
LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
RE MARKETS CIVILIZATIONS RACES MINDS PERCEPTIONS EXPERTS PICKING WINNERS
GLOBALIST POLICIES HAVE BASICALLY SLOWLY BLOWN YOUR COUNTRY UP
RE BROOKS' EXODUS THEME IMMIGRATION REFUGEES TRANSHUMANCE SLAVERY JEWS GUEST WORKERS ISRAEL
THE GLOBALIZATION TRAP
Sunday, April 9, 2017
THE RADICAL GLOBALIZER WANTS RACIAL CONVERGENCE AS MUCH AS ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS CONVERGENCE
He, already, sees these things, as essentially connected.
He is rather like the immediate abolitionists of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, which wrought so much havoc wherever they were in the West and the US.
That's a dirty little secret. Keep it just between us. It has been driven by liberal, religious, and utopian, ideologies, and mainly by big globalist business interests, as well as so called conservative Western religious interests, especially in the 20th century.
Low level Western adherents, liberal or conservative, don't really appreciate the full horrific implications of their ad hoc globalist views, zealots seldom do, but I can spell them out for you:
Every person in the world should have no religion, consider every other person in the world his brother, be dark tan in color, make about $400 a year, and be happy with this utopian state of affairs.
Every person in the world should have no religion, consider every other person in the world his brother, be dark tan in color, make about $400 a year, and be happy with this utopian state of affairs.
Saturday, April 8, 2017
RE THE OTHER AVALON ET IN ARCADIA EGO ALLEGORY OF UTOPIAN GLOBALIZATION
SEE prior post: THE OTHER AVALON
Let's analogize the systems failure on the car, between its cooling system 'systems', to globalized industry.
You have a an IT part made in X, other moving parts made in Y and another IT part made in Z, and the car assembled in Omega.
What happens when you have a little political instability here and there?
What about just logistical dilemmas cropping up?
How about a major war?
What if the water pump now has to come from Asia, as they usually do now originally, say either Japan or China nowadays, and China is asserting hegemony over the whole Pacific and gets into a little sticky wicket with its neighbors, especially Japan?
Guess what? The water pump itself is made of parts that come from say 3 countries, assembled in a 4th. What happens if trade goes south? Plan B?
There is no Plan B for globalized industrial outsourcing.
If you can't use WMD yourself for prudential reasons, or prevent others from doing so due to allowing proliferation, and you can't keep the sources of your conventional military equipment within your borders, then you are not a super power. The term super power was a misnomer, and then became obsolete, almost at the time that it was coined...
Guess what? The water pump itself is made of parts that come from say 3 countries, assembled in a 4th. What happens if trade goes south? Plan B?
There is no Plan B for globalized industrial outsourcing.
If you can't use WMD yourself for prudential reasons, or prevent others from doing so due to allowing proliferation, and you can't keep the sources of your conventional military equipment within your borders, then you are not a super power. The term super power was a misnomer, and then became obsolete, almost at the time that it was coined...
No water pumps are made in Syria, or much of anything else in the whole rest of the Middle East for that matter, so it's ok to bomb them back to the stone age without interfering with housewives here getting to the beauty parlor in their Avalon.
Asia, little different story...
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