(Amherst Common Language Guide translation.)
Sunday, June 7, 2020
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO HIRE ANY COLOR OR ORIENTATION FROM ANYWHEREGeorge Floyd: Why are companies speaking up this time?
Black lives, per se, do not matter to them at all.
Lives of colorblind color matter. That's why.
They are stronger than governments now.
That Matters To Them. They Matter To Them.
MNCs are not about Black Lives Matter at all.
They are about the opposite.
They are about:
Black Lives Here Don't Really Matter At All.
Black Lives Here Don't Really Matter At All.
You can quote me:
Boomerbuster
Sunday, December 12, 2010
RE HIVE-MINDS AND KLEPTOCRATS KRUGMAN MNC BLOBALIZATION BLOG TOPIC SELLING BIG CORPORATE NEWSPAPERS
Commenting on another blog post, he poo poos the notion of the big corporation as bad actor,
Professor
fails to impugn the political system, and the bi-partisan understanding, that allowed these very powerful entities to overgrow,
and blames individual bad actors at the tops of the ones most visibly acting bad.
This is not a very helpful image, and wildly distorts what has been going on to drive globalism blobalism in such an unhelpful direction and extent.
Not that corporations themselves initiated the process of accruing too much reach and power, blobalizing everywhere, or are intrinsically bad,
but now that they're there, not very helpful to blame only certain allegedly bad imperial corporate controlling individuals (even if themselves bloblike) manipulating otherwise benevolent MNCS.
The Republicans permanently abandoned the domestic economy, as even someone like Buchanan pointed out in The Great Betrayal, when MNCs, and foreign interests, not imperial American individuals, became so influential in the 70s that there was no going back.
Buchanan's Chapter "Companies Without A Country", contains some passages, which could be multiplied many times in the literature, showing that it is not individual imperial 'bad actors', but the MNC phenomenon itself, which has been allowed to swell and take over politics.
One can find similar history in Prestowitz, Chalmers Johnson, Alfred Eckes, Jr., Gilpin, Gill, Reich, Greider, Batra, and others.
Of course, if you work for a MNC that has a subsidiary corporation that sells newspapers, it's hard to impugn the entity that pays your salary.............
Or, if you are a politician, like say Buchanan, not very popular to attack the corporate powers that be, imperial or not.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
RE HIVE-MINDS AND KLEPTOCRATS KRUGMAN MNC BLOBALIZATION BLOG TOPIC SELLING BIG CORPORATE NEWSPAPERS
Commenting on another blog post, he (Krugman) poo poos the notion of the big corporation as bad actor,
fails to impugn the political system, and the bi-partisan understanding, that allowed these very powerful entities to overgrow,
and blames individual bad actors at the tops of the ones most visibly acting bad.
This is not a very helpful image, and wildly distorts what has been going on to drive globalism blobalism in such an unhelpful direction and extent.
Not that corporations themselves initiated the process of accruing too much reach and power, blobalizing everywhere, or are intrinsically bad,
but now that they're there, not very helpful to blame only certain allegedly bad imperial corporate controlling individuals (even if themselves bloblike) manipulating otherwise benevolent MNCS.
The Republicans permanently abandoned the domestic economy, as even someone like Buchanan pointed out in The Great Betrayal, when MNCs, and foreign interests, not imperial American individuals, became so influential in the 70s that there was no going back.
Buchanan's Chapter "Companies Without A Country", contains some passages, which could be multiplied many times in the literature, showing that it is not individual imperial 'bad actors', but the MNC phenomenon itself, which has been allowed to swell and take over politics.
One can find similar history in Prestowitz, Chalmers Johnson, Alfred Eckes, Jr., Gilpin, Gill, Reich, Greider, Batra, and others.
Of course, if you work for a MNC that has a subsidiary corporation that sells newspapers, it's hard to impugn the entity that pays your salary.............
Or, if you are a politician, like say Buchanan, not very popular to attack the corporate powers that be, imperial or not.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
RE DK'S CURRENT POST THE GLOBAL ARISTOCRACY FALLACY
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
NYT LEONHARDT LIP SERVICE OBJECTION TO CORPORATE CONSOLIDATIONS ATT ETC
You will almost certainly miss the deep ideological hypocrisy in this kind of posture, one that the NYT has taken really from the beginning, pretending that it is the defender of worker and lower and middle income Americans' welfare.
That has emphatically not been true ever really.
Why?
Because at the same time that they are bemoaning these big bad corporate takeover moves, supposedly championing weak disadvantaged Americans, what else have they been doing just as assiduously with the other hand?
They have been the main advocate for globalization, consolidations on enormous scales of MNCs.
The main point for this discussion is that so called ' national ' corporate consolidations are not really national at all anymore, have not been for a very long time, but rather are just another aspect of globalization relating to MNCs, and have been rationalized all along by the NYT and other organs of this propaganda.
The other twin main point here, re workers and middle class incomes here, is that this globalization process which has encouraged corporate consolidation has been driven by the same forces that have been driving wages down in the rich countries and up in the poor ones, leading to global income convergence, which the NYT nevertheless claims to favor.
It favors global income convergence, yet detests falling American middle and lower incomes.
It opposes national corporate consolidation, while favoring globalist corporate consolidation.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
RE NYT ARTICLE 7/27 STRIP CLUBS IN TAMPA ARE READY TO CASH IN
This is typical of Florida culture, as well as national culture.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
Joe Redner, from whom we took one of his clubs for a project, adjacent to the Hyatt along the Courtney Campbell, is a classic example of a local government official candidate.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
RE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION TERM DAVID E LILIENTHAL MNC
Re 1980 and not before:
I have been scanning the old book Monopoly Capital, 1966, chuckling to myself re current pundits saying the current fix of globalist capitalism began in, say, 1980.
I am not a socialist, but Sweezy and Baran did tell the truth on some things, back then.
See the sections on The Giant Corporation, Militarism and Imperialism re Lilienthal etc., On The Quality of ... Life, great stuff.
They, the MNCs, were intensely booming the noncommunist world by 1966 already very very heavily, see quotes and data in chapter Militarism and Imperialism.
This really set the stage for what was to come in say the 1980s, and after, with the internet and the www, which took off all the market capitalists' attackers' gloves, while still couched in soft power (Steingart) lingo.
I have been scanning the old book Monopoly Capital, 1966, chuckling to myself re current pundits saying the current fix of globalist capitalism began in, say, 1980.
I am not a socialist, but Sweezy and Baran did tell the truth on some things, back then.
See the sections on The Giant Corporation, Militarism and Imperialism re Lilienthal etc., On The Quality of ... Life, great stuff.
They, the MNCs, were intensely booming the noncommunist world by 1966 already very very heavily, see quotes and data in chapter Militarism and Imperialism.
This really set the stage for what was to come in say the 1980s, and after, with the internet and the www, which took off all the market capitalists' attackers' gloves, while still couched in soft power (Steingart) lingo.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
THOMAS L FRIEDMAN MR GLOBALIZATION HITS OUT
TLF doesn't respect national boundaries except Israel's expanding one.
He has spent his career railing against national boundaries.
He notes climate change, etc, don't respect boundaries.
He means national boundaries, trust me.
Neither do MNCs.
Neither do Coronaviruses.
Saturday, February 1, 2020
RE DK CURRENT POST KEYNES AND US
Friday, August 3, 2012
RE THE GLOBAL CLASS WAR BOOK Faux faux science economics
He gives a fairly accurate and useful account so far.
One or two places I would quibble with him about, eg p 87,
"Globalization per se is not a product of political ideology. The gradual expansion of world markets is a natural consequence of evolving technology, communications, and business organization in search of efficiencies of scale."
He gives examples, both before and after p 87, of ways in which it has been largely a question of greater and greater globalization as in fact the product of political ideology set up by institutions, notably those first developed, as he acknowledges, by Keynes, p. 88, one of his heroes, nonetheless, for Keynes' continuing reaffirmation of nationalism.
(I share an affirmation of nationalism, but Keynes per se , so to speak, is not my paradigm for it.).
Further, pace Faux, globalization is as little a natural process as are the notions, in management, of a product life cycle, or of so-called mature industries, eg manufacturing, or mature products, moving off shore, to make room for 'service economies', and symbolic analyst entrepreneurs (Faux' passage on how this played out is wonderful p.72-74), in 'post industrial societies'.
As he says, re Robert Reich's symbolic analysts paradigm, MNCs overcame this would-be geekocracy by turning these 'knowledge workers' once again into 'plug-and-play' pieces....p. 74.
As I have remarked elsewhere here, the economics field, (as Randall Collins also might perhaps remark, a pseudo discipline specialization,) had been a doomsday machine for the West.
Ironically, Faux' work contains numerous good examples of faux science in economics, in spite of his stubborn reverence for Keynes.
One might all along very well have been a trade, commercial, and military, nationalist,
without the pseudo discipline of economics, which always was ill suited to underpinning it.
One or two places I would quibble with him about, eg p 87,
"Globalization per se is not a product of political ideology. The gradual expansion of world markets is a natural consequence of evolving technology, communications, and business organization in search of efficiencies of scale."
He gives examples, both before and after p 87, of ways in which it has been largely a question of greater and greater globalization as in fact the product of political ideology set up by institutions, notably those first developed, as he acknowledges, by Keynes, p. 88, one of his heroes, nonetheless, for Keynes' continuing reaffirmation of nationalism.
(I share an affirmation of nationalism, but Keynes per se , so to speak, is not my paradigm for it.).
Further, pace Faux, globalization is as little a natural process as are the notions, in management, of a product life cycle, or of so-called mature industries, eg manufacturing, or mature products, moving off shore, to make room for 'service economies', and symbolic analyst entrepreneurs (Faux' passage on how this played out is wonderful p.72-74), in 'post industrial societies'.
As he says, re Robert Reich's symbolic analysts paradigm, MNCs overcame this would-be geekocracy by turning these 'knowledge workers' once again into 'plug-and-play' pieces....p. 74.
As I have remarked elsewhere here, the economics field, (as Randall Collins also might perhaps remark, a pseudo discipline specialization,) had been a doomsday machine for the West.
Ironically, Faux' work contains numerous good examples of faux science in economics, in spite of his stubborn reverence for Keynes.
One might all along very well have been a trade, commercial, and military, nationalist,
without the pseudo discipline of economics, which always was ill suited to underpinning it.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
RE EARLIER POST MENTIONING KINDLEBERGER AND VERNON HERE IS SNIPET FROM KOBRIN THE PARDONER'S TALE CHAUCER
Here is Kobrin:
'The dramatic expansion of the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) after 1960 produced a
‘first wave’ of literature in the popular and academic press. The opening lines of Raymond
Vernon’s best known book capture its tenor well: ‘Suddenly, it seems, the sovereign states are
feeling naked. Concepts such as sovereignty and national economic strength appear curiously
drained of meaning’ (Vernon 1971, p 3).
3'
'In a seminal series of lectures two years before the publication of Sovereignty at Bay,
Charles Kindleberger (1969, p 207) argued that the ‘nation-state is just about through as an
economic unit.’ '
They had hoped, back then, for a 'united states of the world', (ANALOGOUS TO STEINGART'S UNITED STATES OF THE WEST, which however now excludes of course the pesky non West)
based on expanding trade investment and political unification,
and thereby the taming of the murderous nation state concept itself, that would make war obsolete.
The nation state was the devil that needed to be exorcized.
(Problem: the US itself is a nation state needing to be exorcised by virtuous Cobdenist multinational enterprise.)
Rather like the Pardoner's Tale, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, really.
'The dramatic expansion of the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) after 1960 produced a
‘first wave’ of literature in the popular and academic press. The opening lines of Raymond
Vernon’s best known book capture its tenor well: ‘Suddenly, it seems, the sovereign states are
feeling naked. Concepts such as sovereignty and national economic strength appear curiously
drained of meaning’ (Vernon 1971, p 3).
3'
'In a seminal series of lectures two years before the publication of Sovereignty at Bay,
Charles Kindleberger (1969, p 207) argued that the ‘nation-state is just about through as an
economic unit.’ '
They had hoped, back then, for a 'united states of the world', (ANALOGOUS TO STEINGART'S UNITED STATES OF THE WEST, which however now excludes of course the pesky non West)
based on expanding trade investment and political unification,
and thereby the taming of the murderous nation state concept itself, that would make war obsolete.
The nation state was the devil that needed to be exorcized.
(Problem: the US itself is a nation state needing to be exorcised by virtuous Cobdenist multinational enterprise.)
Rather like the Pardoner's Tale, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, really.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
RE DK'S RECENT POST AND JON'S COMMENT
DK: "...We have a terrible worldwide problem with the collapse of legitimate authority, partly thanks to those kinds of organizations. But our own government has promoted it as well---...."
They are talking here, mostly, about so called rogue NGOs,
not the deeper, underlying, causes, the Liberal International Economic Order itself, with its MNCS, EU, WTO, NAFTA, WB, IMF, BRETTON WOODS, Sovereignty At Bay , Trading American Interests, etc., earlier on, starting mainly right after WWII, but also with important antecedents following WWI, 'making the world safe for democracy' etc., Wilsonian self determination....,
the LIEO which we, more than anyone else, more than anything, has facilitated a gathering crisis of authority everywhere. (We had always had our own percolating crisis of authority here, by the way; which forced so called liberalism on everyone, as a moral imperative, at times.)
They are talking here, mostly, about so called rogue NGOs,
not the deeper, underlying, causes, the Liberal International Economic Order itself, with its MNCS, EU, WTO, NAFTA, WB, IMF, BRETTON WOODS, Sovereignty At Bay , Trading American Interests, etc., earlier on, starting mainly right after WWII, but also with important antecedents following WWI, 'making the world safe for democracy' etc., Wilsonian self determination....,
the LIEO which we, more than anyone else, more than anything, has facilitated a gathering crisis of authority everywhere. (We had always had our own percolating crisis of authority here, by the way; which forced so called liberalism on everyone, as a moral imperative, at times.)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
APPLE DROPS HK POLICE TRACKING APP
Hello.
What side is Apple on....
Why not just do an iPhone app that does infrared target on the HK police jersey, so the HK patriot protesters can see it and fire on it in the dark! I mentioned such apps some time ago here. Now is the time to act!
Companies like this, globalist techie nurd companies of color, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, ETC, are now, inevitably, starting to be turned into militarized, weaponized, quasi mercenaries.
They are inherently unreliable, traitorous, vicious, amoral, vagabond, self centered, dissembling, hostile, entities to deal with, for any nation state whatsoever for any purpose whatsoever.
MNCS have and know no allegiance to anyone or to any entity except themselves.
Their allegiance to themselves is divisive and conflicted.
What side is Apple on....
Why not just do an iPhone app that does infrared target on the HK police jersey, so the HK patriot protesters can see it and fire on it in the dark! I mentioned such apps some time ago here. Now is the time to act!
Companies like this, globalist techie nurd companies of color, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, ETC, are now, inevitably, starting to be turned into militarized, weaponized, quasi mercenaries.
They are inherently unreliable, traitorous, vicious, amoral, vagabond, self centered, dissembling, hostile, entities to deal with, for any nation state whatsoever for any purpose whatsoever.
MNCS have and know no allegiance to anyone or to any entity except themselves.
Their allegiance to themselves is divisive and conflicted.
Monday, June 17, 2019
MARCH 16 DK POST THERE MY COMMENT THERE MY SUBSEQUENT POSTS HERE
Saturday, March 16, 2019
The Meaning of "Economic Mobility"
Professor
Great post. Great topic.
These are some questions that initially spring to mind:
Why promote an already overbloated higher education system, or rather enormous fragmented and irrational systems of higher education, in the first place?
Why promote diversity in a system of education increasingly already under the sway of MNCs, run increasingly by the anti civilizational Party of Davos, with their anti patriotic anti civilizational globalist market driven agendas?
Why promote extreme global diversity in them, at any admissions level?
Why promote diversity in the top 1%, if the result of that initiative only results in an increasingly diverse globalist monetary elite following in the train of the Party of Davos, a group already roundly criticized for caring for nothing, nothing, but themselves?
In fact, why promote social or economic advancement of a top 1%, or even a top 10%, to any extent whatsoever, in the first place?
I am to some extent playing a devil's advocate here, but some issues running around in these questions are quite real and pressing.
All the best
Thursday, August 30, 2018
HARVARD RACIAL GLOBAL COLOR STRIKING BACK
Asians don't like it when Harvard or anybody picks only some, baby. Why in hell should even 22% of Harvard be Asian Americans now? Sounds like an outrageous percentage. Why? No demographic reason whatsoever.
Asians want them all, the good ones, to pick all Asians. Getting into a good American school is an Asian rivalry thing. You are just the doormat for it.
Take a look at American better music conservatories: most of them are now mostly Asians, not Asian Americans, who gives a shit about that, although the Harvard case ostensibly deals with only that. It's not Asian Americans, just different Asian nationals.
The Asians are jamming your own liberalism up your tight dumb liberal faux meritocratic ass, just like Gandhi did to the British, MLK did to America. Nothing new about it, really, just gone global.
In these bastions, they don't compete so much with the spoiled gilded dumb and dumber whites, nor the very few, and pitiful, but talented and poor, negroes.
Whom do these Asians most compete against, almost to the proverbial death?
Neither spoiled American whites, nor pathetic American negroes.
They compete against each other!
Maybe Professor Kaiser can chime in here, since Harvard has now been called on the racist the carpet, and set me straight, explain to you and me how enlightened these Asians now are, thanks to us!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/24/opinion/yang-harvard-lawsuit/index.html
Terms search: Randall Collins, enlightenment
Sunday, June 16, 2019
GLAUCON X GREAT RANT RE DK POST AYN RAND TARZAN
I read almost all of Rand, but went another way...BOOMERBUSTER. She was, just from reading her books, a talented orator. Not, however, a very good philosopher.
I also read almost all of Tarzan......they are related; although Tarzan's oratorical skills are highly limited, almost to the level of a chimp.
I also read almost all of Tarzan......they are related; although Tarzan's oratorical skills are highly limited, almost to the level of a chimp.
The LIEO which further enabled large MNCs, long predates the New Deal, and goes back to Wilson at least.
Large international trading and banking companies had, of course, dominated international trade and finance for centuries, before that.......
Liberal initiatives from Britain, CFR, etc. long predate FDR.
Glaucon references 1971, the year of the Nixon Shock.
Monopoly Capital, Wikipedia, great old tract, coming partially true, for Glaucon X.
Monopoly Capital, Wikipedia, great old tract, coming partially true, for Glaucon X.
Gloucon X said...
I’m reading, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal, by Kim Phillips-Fein. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U6YKS4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
It documents the efforts of a US business class that never accepted the ideals of the New Deal and immediately plotted to tear them down. This effort began as early as 1934 under the DuPonts and extended throughout the era, and included the inspiration provided by the Lewis Powell(1909) memo in 1971. Following the memo's directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. All this was done by wealthy businessmen of pre-boomer generations long before most boomers were old enough to vote. The impact of these efforts on our daily economic lives has been a hundred times more profound than those of either SDS or Mario Savio.
Ayn Rand(1905), Goldwater(1907), and Reagan(1911) are all part of this long tradition of business led advocacy of anti-government ideas. The Bush quote you gave is just a parroting of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 rugged individualism speech. Not a single idea of Bush or Norquist was not already being promoted by other free-market ideologues of previous generations. It is complete nonsense to attribute these ideas solely to the boomer generation. By attributing these ideas to a single generation you are doing enormous harm. Firstly, because it’s not true, and secondly, and far more importantly, you’re giving people the false hope that these ideas will die with the boomers. This leads to passivity, which is exactly what the promoters of these evil ideas want.
The list of powerful people who were influenced by Ayn Rand far outweighs any list of people influenced by Mario Savio or SDS. Oh sure, I’ll admit that a few college kids at elite institutions are a bit noisier than before because of their legacy, but what is that compared to an economy where the real lives of working people have been crushed by an all-powerful business elite. In summary, you focus on ants and ignore elephants.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_Ayn_Rand).
It documents the efforts of a US business class that never accepted the ideals of the New Deal and immediately plotted to tear them down. This effort began as early as 1934 under the DuPonts and extended throughout the era, and included the inspiration provided by the Lewis Powell(1909) memo in 1971. Following the memo's directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. All this was done by wealthy businessmen of pre-boomer generations long before most boomers were old enough to vote. The impact of these efforts on our daily economic lives has been a hundred times more profound than those of either SDS or Mario Savio.
Ayn Rand(1905), Goldwater(1907), and Reagan(1911) are all part of this long tradition of business led advocacy of anti-government ideas. The Bush quote you gave is just a parroting of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 rugged individualism speech. Not a single idea of Bush or Norquist was not already being promoted by other free-market ideologues of previous generations. It is complete nonsense to attribute these ideas solely to the boomer generation. By attributing these ideas to a single generation you are doing enormous harm. Firstly, because it’s not true, and secondly, and far more importantly, you’re giving people the false hope that these ideas will die with the boomers. This leads to passivity, which is exactly what the promoters of these evil ideas want.
The list of powerful people who were influenced by Ayn Rand far outweighs any list of people influenced by Mario Savio or SDS. Oh sure, I’ll admit that a few college kids at elite institutions are a bit noisier than before because of their legacy, but what is that compared to an economy where the real lives of working people have been crushed by an all-powerful business elite. In summary, you focus on ants and ignore elephants.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_Ayn_Rand).
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