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Friday, July 22, 2011
RE WEEKLY TRAFFIC ON THIS BLOG
Thursday, July 21, 2011
RE FAKE APPLE STORES MULTIPLYING IN CHINA BBC WORLD NEWS GET READY LAISSEZ FAIRE HOUSE OF CARDS
What are laissez faire property rights, really, re China, etc., etc. ?
With MNCs and nations, nowadays, isn't it becoming more a question of
"How many divisions do they have?"
With MNCs and nations, nowadays, isn't it becoming more a question of
"How many divisions do they have?"
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
RE A NEW TERM FOR A GATHERING INTELLECTUAL DISASTER DISCIPLINISM
I am going to call one aspect, of what I want to criticize about intellectual professional and academic fields,
excessive 'disciplinism'. Unfortunately, yet another new ism.
I am not necessarily against conventional or traditional academic or professional disciplines, or even against the concept of subdisciplines.
But I have seen something of the havoc which, done wrong,
(and there are many ways, and aspects of ways, in which they can be done wrong,)
they can wreak.
excessive 'disciplinism'. Unfortunately, yet another new ism.
I am not necessarily against conventional or traditional academic or professional disciplines, or even against the concept of subdisciplines.
But I have seen something of the havoc which, done wrong,
(and there are many ways, and aspects of ways, in which they can be done wrong,)
they can wreak.
RE KRUGMAN KLEIN KEYNES SELF CORRECTING MARKETS INTELLECTUALS AND US
Krugman, on his blog, cites an article by Klein in The Washington Post, critical of Cantor's misreading of Keynes.
They, Krugman and Klein, think if Keynes were only properly understood and followed, by both economists and politicians, everything would be ok.
The problem is that Keynes shared, with other economists generally, a trust of 'the market' as the arbiter of national industrial commercial fiscal and financial policies.
Occasionally even generally virtuous and wholesome markets get constipated, that is the story even a good Keynesian will tell.
That is the problem.
Here is the phrase from Klein: "markets are usually self-correcting...."
There are many problems with this view:
1. Markets do not go in inherently good directions.
2. They do not go there in inherently good ways. In fact, quite the opposite, quite blindly blithely and wastefully, in fact, more often than not.
3. They do not make best use of resources to get there.
4. Their evolution is not 'correct' in the first place, and thus they can hardly be said to self correct themselves. Begs the question of 'correct'.
5. They, markets as a proxy term for 'economics in general', tend to improperly ('incorrectly') overbear politics in general, rather than the other way around.
It is as ridiculous to suggest that economics, or markets, are 'self correcting' as that politics is.
They, Krugman and Klein, think if Keynes were only properly understood and followed, by both economists and politicians, everything would be ok.
The problem is that Keynes shared, with other economists generally, a trust of 'the market' as the arbiter of national industrial commercial fiscal and financial policies.
Occasionally even generally virtuous and wholesome markets get constipated, that is the story even a good Keynesian will tell.
That is the problem.
Here is the phrase from Klein: "markets are usually self-correcting...."
There are many problems with this view:
1. Markets do not go in inherently good directions.
2. They do not go there in inherently good ways. In fact, quite the opposite, quite blindly blithely and wastefully, in fact, more often than not.
3. They do not make best use of resources to get there.
4. Their evolution is not 'correct' in the first place, and thus they can hardly be said to self correct themselves. Begs the question of 'correct'.
5. They, markets as a proxy term for 'economics in general', tend to improperly ('incorrectly') overbear politics in general, rather than the other way around.
It is as ridiculous to suggest that economics, or markets, are 'self correcting' as that politics is.
RE NOBODY SHOULD BE FOOLED NYT WTO CHINA PROTECTIONISM
Unfortunately, this kind of editorial position largely only fools the average American about his best interests.
The NYT needs to get off laissez faire economics and politics, but that won't happen.
It is already really too late to change the course of this disastrous policy, but one would think that some of these editorialist individuals might some day,
as we are almost totally under water on prosperity as a result of production and investment done abroad.
The NYT needs to get off laissez faire economics and politics, but that won't happen.
It is already really too late to change the course of this disastrous policy, but one would think that some of these editorialist individuals might some day,
as we are almost totally under water on prosperity as a result of production and investment done abroad.
Monday, July 18, 2011
RE RUSSIA DUMPING TREASURIES FOR GOLD WHY NOT CHINA OR JAPAN
Take a guess.
Also, maybe they can be buying bullion, quietly, on world markets.
Also, maybe they can be buying bullion, quietly, on world markets.
RE LETTING BANKERS WALK KRUGMAN NYT LETTING ECONOMISTS WALK
In my judgment,
and having once been a public defender,
the bigger situation is rather like,
and at a deeper level, still,
more like, if you know a little history,
Letting Economists Walk:
Re a related article today on economists experts ranged on both sides of poitical debates, why not finally smell the coffee on them, as a credible intellectual academic group?
Why stand for intellectual fraud, much broader in scope, than mere financial fraud?
Who could hold economists, as a discipline,
politically, not merely academically, 'accountable'?
Answer: No one.
Who could hold them academically, ie intellectually, accountable?
Answer: No one.
Re political accountability, funding conservative academic chairs at state universities, like Florida, (Koch brothers), is not 'academic' accountability, but the opposite.
Terms search: Thurston, Boca, 2006, Who do you think they will bail out your or me?
and having once been a public defender,
the bigger situation is rather like,
and at a deeper level, still,
more like, if you know a little history,
Letting Economists Walk:
Re a related article today on economists experts ranged on both sides of poitical debates, why not finally smell the coffee on them, as a credible intellectual academic group?
Why stand for intellectual fraud, much broader in scope, than mere financial fraud?
Who could hold economists, as a discipline,
politically, not merely academically, 'accountable'?
Answer: No one.
Who could hold them academically, ie intellectually, accountable?
Answer: No one.
Re political accountability, funding conservative academic chairs at state universities, like Florida, (Koch brothers), is not 'academic' accountability, but the opposite.
Terms search: Thurston, Boca, 2006, Who do you think they will bail out your or me?
RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN YESTERDAY NYT CHINA THE ADULT IN THE ROOM THE CLASH OF GENERATIONS
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-boom-bubblelization-see-this.html
I at first had written David Brooks, instead of Thomas Friedman, as the title of this note, but on topics like this, with these two,
it rather like the lyric,
"Andy Warhol, Silver Screen..................
can't tell them apart at all."
I at first had written David Brooks, instead of Thomas Friedman, as the title of this note, but on topics like this, with these two,
it rather like the lyric,
"Andy Warhol, Silver Screen..................
can't tell them apart at all."
RE INVESTORS LOSING FAITH IN TWO OF EUROPE'S LEADING ECONOMIES
Italy, Spain.
Guess what?
They are all 'fragile' now,
ready to fall like a house of cards.
Guess what?
They are all 'fragile' now,
ready to fall like a house of cards.
RE RUMPOLE A VIDEO REFERENCE RE NEWS OF THE WORLD
Sir John Mortimer's script for Scotland Yard misbehavior back then, 'Rumpole and The Learned Friends'.
The press was ostensibly doing a job to try to expose it, subject to slander laws back then.
A far cry, though, from the current situation, re the closer relations of the press, the Yard, and the Government.
The press was ostensibly doing a job to try to expose it, subject to slander laws back then.
A far cry, though, from the current situation, re the closer relations of the press, the Yard, and the Government.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
RE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST
He is onto something here.
I am going to take a few steps into the great beyond, and speculate that, were a fascist regime to come to power here, they would no doubt think of the rest of the world as their
' oyster ' (Sovereignty At Bay theme), in a 'frontier' sort of sense.
The frontier, after all, is a big thing for Americans; they once had a lot of it to spare, think 'lebensraum';
I know it seems far fetched now, but 'human rights' can at some point, be claimed to have failed almost everywhere we are not.
Think: Samantha Power
That would not be a very useful way to proceed, but Americans have not been very swift on these things.
RE NICHOLAS KRISTOF NYT OUR BROKEN ESCALATOR HE REALLY NEEDS AN EDUCATION
Kristof is still in the dark ages of insight on these issues.
What an idiot.
'Education', 'credentials'.
What do those things matter, when there are 1.5 billion or so desperate, starving, bright, literate, underemployed Indians, or Chinese, willing to 'work for food'?
(Around here, winos, panhandling, carry signs at street corners, 'will work for food'.
Some of them come clean: 'Why lie, want beer'.)
My blog is not the best source of information to educate Kristof, but it may be a rocky start.
Terms search Collins, etc.
What an idiot.
'Education', 'credentials'.
What do those things matter, when there are 1.5 billion or so desperate, starving, bright, literate, underemployed Indians, or Chinese, willing to 'work for food'?
(Around here, winos, panhandling, carry signs at street corners, 'will work for food'.
Some of them come clean: 'Why lie, want beer'.)
My blog is not the best source of information to educate Kristof, but it may be a rocky start.
Terms search Collins, etc.
RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN TODAY NYT EDITORIAL the clash of generations
He has to backpedal hard now, calling it all a debt crisis,
or a generation crisis,
or a boomer generation - caused crisis,
even calling the whole boomer generation of Western capitalists entrepreneurs and politicians 'immature' compared to the mature Chinese (please) now loaning these Western juvenile reprobate regimes money (partly their money, by the way, mostly ours, for what it still might be worth),
or a profligacy or corruption-caused financial crisis,
even a capitalist boom bust crisis (this gets him too close to his near and dear capitalist globalization theme for comfort)
anything, anything, anything,
rather than a globalization crisis resulting from the capitalist Cobdenist globalization process he promoted and trumpeted for so long, as a great good thing for all concerned.
(Re his implicit reference to the impending take over by China, and their dictation of slices of the laissez faire global pie that remains, see eg:)
Will he soon start quoting Strauss & How to explain unfolding global events in cyclical generational metaphors? Apparently so.
For my, hindsight, solution,
term search eg, Nixon, fattening things up, Patton.
or a generation crisis,
or a boomer generation - caused crisis,
even calling the whole boomer generation of Western capitalists entrepreneurs and politicians 'immature' compared to the mature Chinese (please) now loaning these Western juvenile reprobate regimes money (partly their money, by the way, mostly ours, for what it still might be worth),
or a profligacy or corruption-caused financial crisis,
even a capitalist boom bust crisis (this gets him too close to his near and dear capitalist globalization theme for comfort)
anything, anything, anything,
rather than a globalization crisis resulting from the capitalist Cobdenist globalization process he promoted and trumpeted for so long, as a great good thing for all concerned.
(Re his implicit reference to the impending take over by China, and their dictation of slices of the laissez faire global pie that remains, see eg:)
Will he soon start quoting Strauss & How to explain unfolding global events in cyclical generational metaphors? Apparently so.
For my, hindsight, solution,
term search eg, Nixon, fattening things up, Patton.
RE LAW SCHOOL LAISSEZ FAIRE ECONOMICS: KA-CHING! NYT STORY THE CREDENTIAL BUBBLE
See other posts here re laissez faire credential inflation, terms search, three billion new capitalists, entrepreneurs, credential society.
Law is only the tip of an academic and credentialist iceberg, now rapidly and rather suddenly melting away (excess capacity; 'structural'), under the hot, fetid breath of globalist employment pressures;
see Randall Collins now slightly dated book The Credential Society; back then he wasn't worried analytically so much about foreign work force pressures on American employment or education, and mostly contrasted other systems' different educational structures.
Law is only the tip of an academic and credentialist iceberg, now rapidly and rather suddenly melting away (excess capacity; 'structural'), under the hot, fetid breath of globalist employment pressures;
see Randall Collins now slightly dated book The Credential Society; back then he wasn't worried analytically so much about foreign work force pressures on American employment or education, and mostly contrasted other systems' different educational structures.
RE JAPAN KOREAN AIR BOYCOTT BBC WORLD NEWS STORY TODAY
Just one of those little things.
Maybe they can offer them coupons for discounts somewhere, to get around this little wicket?
Maybe they can offer them coupons for discounts somewhere, to get around this little wicket?
RE NYT EGYPT MILITARY MOVES TO CEMENT A MUSCULAR ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
Not a surprise to me, yet Americans have been told a very different story about the revolt there ('the US military trained them, the younger cadres, instilling liberal laissez faire views of the relation between the military and civilian authorities'), and how it should be viewed here.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
RE WHY SO MANY LAWYERS SCHOOLS CREDENTIALS WHY SO MANY FILL IN THE BLANK
See this prior post re fragmentary origins of these stratifications,
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
And see also Collins' book The Credential Society, re the history of education here, and why we have so much confusion on this very very complex subject.
It, 'education', is also, unfortunately, usually taken in isolation from many other related issues associated with educational concerns.
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html
And see also Collins' book The Credential Society, re the history of education here, and why we have so much confusion on this very very complex subject.
It, 'education', is also, unfortunately, usually taken in isolation from many other related issues associated with educational concerns.
RE THE JOURNAL BECOMES FOX -IFIED NYT WALL STREET JOURNAL WSJ FOX NEWS
That's your free, lazy fair, press for you, over across the pond as well as here; the dumbing down to and pandering to the consumer's worst and weakest impulses...
Terms search Casanova hand, how interesting is a state, media, print, etc.
At least on this site I am not kidding anyone about having my preferences, nor is this a free press situation.
Terms search Casanova hand, how interesting is a state, media, print, etc.
At least on this site I am not kidding anyone about having my preferences, nor is this a free press situation.
Friday, July 15, 2011
RE THE CREDENTIAL SOCIETY
Just one of the problems we have is that, having over credentiallized, as well as having over compartmentalized, things, we, as laymen have not only too many experts or professionals to choose from, but also such a hard time distinguishing the really good from the not so good from the bad.
Re CIVILIZATIONAL COMPETITION WHAT USED TO BE CALLED THE WEST AND THE REST
No one here, or there, wants to put it this way, now.
Not politically correct......
It is partly, still, here, the great American underdog spirit: help all refugee foreigners in distress. The last great melting pot frontier...........
We used to take many refugees from elsewhere, and such things.
At least that was the ancient history.......
David McCullough refers to France, now, NYT today, re their justifiable ire re our overly free press and overly dissolute moral and legal compass re their darling Strauss-Kahn. I sympathize, truly.
And of course there is a lot of history here, behind the scenes, really, for most Americans, who understandably cannot fathom such distant historical details. Great Power disputes, 1500s 1600s, leading to the American republic in the first place.....
What of this?
And what of England, and America, and where we now find ourselves?
I would say that there were perhaps several chances, only a few, in the last 500 years, to preserve 'Western hegemony',
not to preserve Britain versus France, or Britain or France or The Netherlands, versus Spain or Austria,
in a world hurtling forward no one knew where.
The last clear chance, at least for Britain, then barely standing, the last weak hegemon, and the last clear chance for the West assuming a Western coalition, was at the end of World War II.
Even assuming no Patton alternative, some approach other than laissez faire expansion of non communist regimes might have saved the situation,
yet even there, the chance to preclude nuclear competition would also have been forfeited, a huge nagging cost and drag on the hegemons still standing.
That was the huge missed opportunity of 1945. (Maybe someone more strategically perspicuous than I will correct me on this little detail.)
Now that the pattern of present and future world dominance, centering perhaps on The Rest, and based on that blind Western laissez faire free market expansion, is shifting and emerging, some things, in hindsight, seem rather obvious, setting aside, for a moment diplomatic politeness.
What are some of those things?
I will let you take some guesses, for now.
Not politically correct......
It is partly, still, here, the great American underdog spirit: help all refugee foreigners in distress. The last great melting pot frontier...........
We used to take many refugees from elsewhere, and such things.
At least that was the ancient history.......
David McCullough refers to France, now, NYT today, re their justifiable ire re our overly free press and overly dissolute moral and legal compass re their darling Strauss-Kahn. I sympathize, truly.
And of course there is a lot of history here, behind the scenes, really, for most Americans, who understandably cannot fathom such distant historical details. Great Power disputes, 1500s 1600s, leading to the American republic in the first place.....
What of this?
And what of England, and America, and where we now find ourselves?
I would say that there were perhaps several chances, only a few, in the last 500 years, to preserve 'Western hegemony',
not to preserve Britain versus France, or Britain or France or The Netherlands, versus Spain or Austria,
in a world hurtling forward no one knew where.
The last clear chance, at least for Britain, then barely standing, the last weak hegemon, and the last clear chance for the West assuming a Western coalition, was at the end of World War II.
Even assuming no Patton alternative, some approach other than laissez faire expansion of non communist regimes might have saved the situation,
yet even there, the chance to preclude nuclear competition would also have been forfeited, a huge nagging cost and drag on the hegemons still standing.
That was the huge missed opportunity of 1945. (Maybe someone more strategically perspicuous than I will correct me on this little detail.)
Now that the pattern of present and future world dominance, centering perhaps on The Rest, and based on that blind Western laissez faire free market expansion, is shifting and emerging, some things, in hindsight, seem rather obvious, setting aside, for a moment diplomatic politeness.
What are some of those things?
I will let you take some guesses, for now.
RE TASSELED LOAFERS EGAN RYAN NYT HD CARTOON BARRY BLITT EAT YOUR HEART OUT
The caption above,
Tasseled Loafers Off Duty Drinking French Not Washington Wine
The one below
HD TV
Terms search: Daumier, entrepreneurs, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, cartoons
Barry Blitt, you had your chance, but I can only wait so long, then go it alone, sans graphic skill, except to very very crudely cut and paste!
Tasseled Loafers Off Duty Drinking French Not Washington Wine
The one below
HD TV
Terms search: Daumier, entrepreneurs, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, cartoons
Barry Blitt, you had your chance, but I can only wait so long, then go it alone, sans graphic skill, except to very very crudely cut and paste!
RE KRUGMAN'S ECONOMICS PROBLEM AND OURS GETTING TO CRAZY EGAN TASSLED RYAN NYT
He criticizes so called supply side voodoo economics.
Voodoo economics is also, largely, globalist economics.
Krugman's problem here, as usual, is that his non voodoo economics is also globalist free trade economics, really.
The Republicans, and the Democrats, including their presidents, as far back as the eye can see, have been free trade globalists, relying more or less on globalists economists, regardless of their party affiliation.
This explains why, when Egan points out today that Ryan sips expensive wine with both a hedge fund manager and a free trade economist, one really cannot tell (one can infer a party connection by context) which political type of economist was meant.
But the point here, sadly enough, and Krugman is not going to tell you about it, is that it doesn't really matter, as both voodoo and non voodoo economists are free traders,
and that is the main underlying cause of our troubles, a structural political failure, abetted by economics, below the level of a 'budget', or 'monetary' policy, or 'taxing' policy, or 'spending' policy.
Voodoo economics is also, largely, globalist economics.
Krugman's problem here, as usual, is that his non voodoo economics is also globalist free trade economics, really.
The Republicans, and the Democrats, including their presidents, as far back as the eye can see, have been free trade globalists, relying more or less on globalists economists, regardless of their party affiliation.
This explains why, when Egan points out today that Ryan sips expensive wine with both a hedge fund manager and a free trade economist, one really cannot tell (one can infer a party connection by context) which political type of economist was meant.
But the point here, sadly enough, and Krugman is not going to tell you about it, is that it doesn't really matter, as both voodoo and non voodoo economists are free traders,
and that is the main underlying cause of our troubles, a structural political failure, abetted by economics, below the level of a 'budget', or 'monetary' policy, or 'taxing' policy, or 'spending' policy.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
RE GUN MAYHEM ALONG THE BORDER
Unfortunately, Americans, and others curious about what happens over here, may well soon be asking:
"Which borders?"
Terms search: your state.
"Which borders?"
Terms search: your state.
RE RANDALL COLLINS' JULY 2011 TOPIC
Great stuff:
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2011/07/inflation-of-bullying-from-fagging-to.html
He tries to clear up, somewhat, a lot of conceptual confusion in some cyber social phenomena,
and loose terminology connected therewith.
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2011/07/inflation-of-bullying-from-fagging-to.html
He tries to clear up, somewhat, a lot of conceptual confusion in some cyber social phenomena,
and loose terminology connected therewith.
RE NYT ARTICLE MILITARIES DEVELOPING THEIR OWN FACEBOOKS
Terms search my prior comments re Facebook,
and various implications, including that alluded to in a quote here from Randall Collins' site.
The military technology is of course quite different from digital images on social network sites,
but the privacy implications may be overlooked once one commits one's face to the 'public forum of the world'.
My face appears above; I know it seems strangely to resemble a corner of an old cello. I cannot explain the technology.
and various implications, including that alluded to in a quote here from Randall Collins' site.
The military technology is of course quite different from digital images on social network sites,
but the privacy implications may be overlooked once one commits one's face to the 'public forum of the world'.
My face appears above; I know it seems strangely to resemble a corner of an old cello. I cannot explain the technology.
RE NORTH DAKOTA
It turns out to have been a mere territory all this time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14142111
How will they vote?
Terms search your state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14142111
How will they vote?
Terms search your state.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
RE NEWS CORP DROPS BID UNDER THE HOT FETID BREATH OF CLOSE SCRUTINY
BBC WORLD NEWS TODAY
Terms search: fetid breath, etc.
Terms search: fetid breath, etc.
RE nyt STANLEY FISH VOCATIONALISM, ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE
Riley vs Fish is a dispute needing some better social science moorings, like say The Credential Society, to throw light on weaknesses of their positions.
Term search many terms. See Wikipedia, credentialism.
Term search many terms. See Wikipedia, credentialism.
RE ON EXPERTS AND GLOBAL WARMING THE STONE NYT PHILOSOPHY FOIBLES
This is a terrible article. He totally misinterprets, even in a sentence or two, Plato's age, and Plato's own views, regarding the nature of experts, and of the place of science, for the layman.
The issue of the sophists, and of the discussion of nature versus convention, huge issues back then, show how his analysis begs the question of the role and use of experts.
Terms search: experts, compartmentalization, bonobos, Thurston, pyramid, Brooks, credential society, etc.
A better place to start on this issue might be something like Science Wars, The Teaching Company, by Professor Goldman.
The issue of the sophists, and of the discussion of nature versus convention, huge issues back then, show how his analysis begs the question of the role and use of experts.
Terms search: experts, compartmentalization, bonobos, Thurston, pyramid, Brooks, credential society, etc.
A better place to start on this issue might be something like Science Wars, The Teaching Company, by Professor Goldman.
RE THE START-UP OF YOU NYT FRIEDMAN START ME UP
The global shut down of you.....
That is what his dream world ENTREPRENEURIAL, laissez faire, economics will get you, unfortunately.
Terms search eg: Collins, the credential society, Thurston, entrepreneurship, education, rail to rail, venture capitalists, etc.
An audio reference:
The Rolling Stones, Start Me Up
(Not my favorite song.)
That is what his dream world ENTREPRENEURIAL, laissez faire, economics will get you, unfortunately.
Terms search eg: Collins, the credential society, Thurston, entrepreneurship, education, rail to rail, venture capitalists, etc.
An audio reference:
The Rolling Stones, Start Me Up
(Not my favorite song.)
RE CALIFORNIA COUNTIES TALK OF CUTTING TIES TO STATE NYT TODAY
Then, question, do they really want to be another state, 'South California', a political thing they ostensibly already abhor?
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
RE NPR DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIST LAISSEZ FAIRE FOR ALL HUMANS WITH A TWIST RYSSDAL POWER
Take Kai Ryssdal, globalist China pander extraordinaire:
This week on NPR is all about China, from the Ryssdal perspective.
Take NPR: laissez faire selling sensationalism, but of another sort:
Not, if it bleeds it leads, but rather:
'If it weeps it leads.' NPR, preying on the ignorance, fears, insecurities, and sympathies of average Americans, and on the deep pockets of globalist hunger and poverty donors, who also are globalist trade panders, like the Gates Foundation, or even Democratic 'human rights hawks', like, say, Samantha Power.
This week on NPR is all about China, from the Ryssdal perspective.
Take NPR: laissez faire selling sensationalism, but of another sort:
Not, if it bleeds it leads, but rather:
'If it weeps it leads.' NPR, preying on the ignorance, fears, insecurities, and sympathies of average Americans, and on the deep pockets of globalist hunger and poverty donors, who also are globalist trade panders, like the Gates Foundation, or even Democratic 'human rights hawks', like, say, Samantha Power.
RE AT&T SPRINT T MOBILE FACEFACE CLOSER SCRUTINY FROM STATES OVER LAISSEZ FAIRE MONOPOLIES
These big big utilities, the big property interests in the equation, facing the hot, fetid, breath of closer merger scrutiny, by a few of these behemoth state governments.
Most states have very, very long ago and far away, been bought off by big utility (used to be only telephone telegraph) and power company interests; this dispute must be another in the long genre of window dressing......
Trying to make you believe that monopolies are good for you.
Can you say "laissez faire monopoly".
They need to be really really big to compete in the global marketplace.
Then, miracle, they get too big to fail, competition is passe for them,. they are structurally necessary to the world economy, beyond competition...
Terms search many terms, also, your state.
Most states have very, very long ago and far away, been bought off by big utility (used to be only telephone telegraph) and power company interests; this dispute must be another in the long genre of window dressing......
Trying to make you believe that monopolies are good for you.
Can you say "laissez faire monopoly".
They need to be really really big to compete in the global marketplace.
Then, miracle, they get too big to fail, competition is passe for them,. they are structurally necessary to the world economy, beyond competition...
Terms search many terms, also, your state.
Monday, July 11, 2011
RE GOOGLEPLUS BOOK ZUCKERFACE 1984FARM
GOOGLEBARN, MCGOOGLE, MCFACE, MCGAGAFACE,
MACDUFF, and damn be he that first cries, 'Hold, Enough',
MCBETHFACE ZUCKERBOOK
TINKDANK,
TINKDANKDO,
MACDUFF, and damn be he that first cries, 'Hold, Enough',
MCBETHFACE ZUCKERBOOK
TINKDANK,
TINKDANKDO,
RE CAPTAIN KIDD MY FAVORITE MOMENT OF COLONIAL AMERICA MAVERICK EXECUTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
It was, not surprisingly, long before the Declaration of Independence.
One of the heroes of this great period of mercantilist entrepreneurship was Captain Kidd.
The British, themselves inveterate sea dogs, were trying,
in a scarce moment of piratical quietude themselves,
to mollify the Sultan, or Pasha, of India (at that time a Muslim), (who had been sending treasure to or from Mecca),
in view of the 'legitimate' trading opportunities in India for the British (no one else, of course).
At least this, Kidd's, was 'frank' piracy.
He had been commissioned, by the British, to bring other pirates, pirates from New England, in fact, to 'justice'...............
Terms search my uncle, GAC, etc.
One of the heroes of this great period of mercantilist entrepreneurship was Captain Kidd.
The British, themselves inveterate sea dogs, were trying,
in a scarce moment of piratical quietude themselves,
to mollify the Sultan, or Pasha, of India (at that time a Muslim), (who had been sending treasure to or from Mecca),
in view of the 'legitimate' trading opportunities in India for the British (no one else, of course).
At least this, Kidd's, was 'frank' piracy.
He had been commissioned, by the British, to bring other pirates, pirates from New England, in fact, to 'justice'...............
Terms search my uncle, GAC, etc.
RE BBC WORLD NEWS STORY WHY DO AMERICANS DIE YOUNGER THAN BRITONS CANADIANS ETC
Pseudo Answer: because they are dumber; Britons are dumb, make no mistake, but Americans are definitely dumber,
and dumbness kills.
Some British social science researcher, no doubt,
with properly massaged data,
can reach this conclusion.
and dumbness kills.
Some British social science researcher, no doubt,
with properly massaged data,
can reach this conclusion.
RE THE REGENCY MAY NOT BE TELEVISED II comment 7 THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL DEMOCRAT
re Comment 7 to David Kaiser's current post:
President Obama is rather a 'phenomenological Democrat'...
President Obama is rather a 'phenomenological Democrat'...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
RE SUSAN CONSTANTINE TV LEGAL PUNDIT BODY LANGUAGE EXPERT
It looks like she has a BS from U. of Phoenix, based on her website.
But, it is not crystal clear there....says degree field... doesn't say what 'field' it is, but rather a Bachelor of Science degree as a 'field' (in what?). Did she get a degree? I cannot tell.
Check out this body language, Daumier's Zephyr, setting down, in a forest glade, while Flore looks on from concealment:
Terms search: my uncle.
But, it is not crystal clear there....says degree field... doesn't say what 'field' it is, but rather a Bachelor of Science degree as a 'field' (in what?). Did she get a degree? I cannot tell.
Check out this body language, Daumier's Zephyr, setting down, in a forest glade, while Flore looks on from concealment:
Terms search: my uncle.
Terms search re big global developmental donors against poverty hunger
For some prior posts here on why this is as bad an idea as has been free trade,
term search: Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919,
or simply, vicious birth.
term search: Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919,
or simply, vicious birth.
RE NYT OPINIONATOR THE STONE LET BE: AN ANSWER TO HAMLET'S QUESTION
Just an 'aside', (not that this is not an interesting and thought provoking article):
Curiously, or ironically enough, it, 'let be', had also been Adam Smith's answer,
with untold bad consequences for whatever nation took it as good advice.
Terms search: laissez faire
Curiously, or ironically enough, it, 'let be', had also been Adam Smith's answer,
with untold bad consequences for whatever nation took it as good advice.
Terms search: laissez faire
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Maverick team play conundrum
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2011/04/attacking-team-in-eminent-domain.html
RE NYT EDITORIAL MURDOCH'S FATAL FLAW
...is not that he never grew up, STILL 22 AT HEART, ETC., and only wants to win.
Rather, those are the maverick executive, yet also maverick team play, principles, on which our society is based, not mere puerile mutterings in an interview.
Terms Search, eg: Attacking the team, etc., Thurston, Casanova,
Rather, those are the maverick executive, yet also maverick team play, principles, on which our society is based, not mere puerile mutterings in an interview.
Terms Search, eg: Attacking the team, etc., Thurston, Casanova,
RE BBC EDITORIAL J P MORGAN BID RIGGING ON STATE AND LOCAL CONTRACTS and investors losing their ARS on munis
It seems more or less a Hobbesian war of all against all, fraud everywhere. J P paying for sneak previews of rival bids for state and local bond contracts, California, Texas, New Jersey..........
Raymond James recently settled 300m for causing its investors to lose their ARS (auction rate securities, mostly munis, etc., etc., etc.). Bigger banks had settled earlier on ARS losing investors.
Raymond James recently settled 300m for causing its investors to lose their ARS (auction rate securities, mostly munis, etc., etc., etc.). Bigger banks had settled earlier on ARS losing investors.
RE FROM THE GUTTER, INTO THE SEWER MURDOCH NYT EDITORIAL GRAYLING
Americans are used to being shown a side of a free press favoring the sensational marketing needs of the big media.
Seldom has it been so clearly shown not only that a free press is not an edifying concept,
but that excessive free press unfettered and unmoored license itself leads to overreaching and to crime.
I had long ago read A C Grayling's book on Wittgenstein.
Terms search, eg: The Casanova hand, Thurston, etc.
Seldom has it been so clearly shown not only that a free press is not an edifying concept,
but that excessive free press unfettered and unmoored license itself leads to overreaching and to crime.
I had long ago read A C Grayling's book on Wittgenstein.
Terms search, eg: The Casanova hand, Thurston, etc.
Friday, July 8, 2011
RE BUFFETT DONATES a lot now eg 1.7+ BILLION TO GATES FOUNDATION
Let's take a look at the Gates Foundation to see what they have been about...........................see where all this good ole money is going to go.......
Global development...
'all lives everywhere have equal value'
Sounds real good until you start to look at real politics and commerce;
then it starts to look more like short sighted developmentalism, albeit with "the conscience of a liberal", like Krugman's motto, somewhat.
When they get developed, pulled out of poverty, what do you suppose they need (being added to the 3 billion new capitalists)? Ever more of those ever more scarce resources we all want a lot of.
What do you suppose they want to do? Espouse 'all lives everywhere have equal value'?
Not likely.
What will they be more likely to do?
They will first and foremost support standing up for their own country, or their own civilization, against others if necessary, including most notoriously, ours.
Why? You may ask?
Because theirs, ultimately, not ours, will be the only one to support them, in their struggle for a decent life.
Terms search: vicious birth, Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919.
Global development...
'all lives everywhere have equal value'
Sounds real good until you start to look at real politics and commerce;
then it starts to look more like short sighted developmentalism, albeit with "the conscience of a liberal", like Krugman's motto, somewhat.
When they get developed, pulled out of poverty, what do you suppose they need (being added to the 3 billion new capitalists)? Ever more of those ever more scarce resources we all want a lot of.
What do you suppose they want to do? Espouse 'all lives everywhere have equal value'?
Not likely.
What will they be more likely to do?
They will first and foremost support standing up for their own country, or their own civilization, against others if necessary, including most notoriously, ours.
Why? You may ask?
Because theirs, ultimately, not ours, will be the only one to support them, in their struggle for a decent life.
Terms search: vicious birth, Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919.
RE SAVING THE US ECONOMY SQUASHED FLAT TRICKLE OUT ECONOMICS
This has long been a myth, unfortunately.
No minor combination of tax hikes, or exonomist's jumping through hoops are going to save this now long beached whale.
They should have thought about 'saving' a domestic economy 40 years ago, or so, when it was still feasible.
As I have pointed out here, the 'domestic' economy has long been hollowed out, and now more or less squashed flat.
No WPA type blind spending program will revive it now that globalization has taken over here.
Some liberal pundits have roared for tariffs, way too late,
when the production horse that would have made higher tariffs feasible (but not without an industrial policy),
was allowed to roam off into the wild wild west twilight of European and Asian boom land.
Trickle down now only means one thing: trickle out:
what little is left will now trickle somewhere else.
Term search: hollowed, hollowing out, squashed flat, cartoon.
No minor combination of tax hikes, or exonomist's jumping through hoops are going to save this now long beached whale.
They should have thought about 'saving' a domestic economy 40 years ago, or so, when it was still feasible.
As I have pointed out here, the 'domestic' economy has long been hollowed out, and now more or less squashed flat.
No WPA type blind spending program will revive it now that globalization has taken over here.
Some liberal pundits have roared for tariffs, way too late,
when the production horse that would have made higher tariffs feasible (but not without an industrial policy),
was allowed to roam off into the wild wild west twilight of European and Asian boom land.
Trickle down now only means one thing: trickle out:
what little is left will now trickle somewhere else.
Term search: hollowed, hollowing out, squashed flat, cartoon.
RE THE UNEXAMINED SOCIETY NYT BROOKS DREAMY SOCIAL SCIENCE HOLISM
He thinks we are in a golden age of behavioral research.
He thinks he can pick social science winners himself,
but calls his conservative (anti picking winners) government when it cuts his pet.
Terms search compartmentalization, specialization, social sciences, Winch, Collins, bonobos, etc.
When even more conservative forces unfortunately take over shortly,
this behavioral science golden age he adores will be turned on a dime to other ends than are dreamed of in his philosophy.
Terms search facebook, Zuckerbook, 1984, Face Farm, Russians buying facebook stock, etc.
About the last place one would find credible holism is in American behavioral science research itself.
He thinks he can pick social science winners himself,
but calls his conservative (anti picking winners) government when it cuts his pet.
Terms search compartmentalization, specialization, social sciences, Winch, Collins, bonobos, etc.
When even more conservative forces unfortunately take over shortly,
this behavioral science golden age he adores will be turned on a dime to other ends than are dreamed of in his philosophy.
Terms search facebook, Zuckerbook, 1984, Face Farm, Russians buying facebook stock, etc.
About the last place one would find credible holism is in American behavioral science research itself.
RE NYT BRITISH TORIES SQUIRM AS THEY FEEL THE HEAT IN MURDOCH'S EMBRACE THE HOT FETID BREATH OF CLOSE SCRUTINY
Perhaps the proposed Murdoch deal, now under scrutiny, will face the hot, fetid breath of closer scrutiny, by the British judiciary, not a notoriously liberal group.
RE THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF LAISSEZ FAIRE FREE SPEECH THE MEDIA AND CONSERVATIVE LABOUR MOVEMENTS RUPERT THURSTON ROBERT MACAIRE MURDOCH HOWELL
News of The World.........BBC World News
Smelling the coffee over there in the UK as well as here now.
At least they have something worthwhile, their own corruption, to cover, both Labour and Tory.
for a change.
Mr Glenn Mulcaire, analogous to 'Robert Macaire', a useful agent provocateur, apparently, for News of The World.
Terms search hacking, 1984, Facebook, Zuckerbook, Russians buying facebook, Goldman, Entrepreneurs, Thurston, Macaire, etc.
Hacking the Royals, not such a great idea, though very laissez faire profitable no doubt.
Smelling the coffee over there in the UK as well as here now.
At least they have something worthwhile, their own corruption, to cover, both Labour and Tory.
for a change.
Mr Glenn Mulcaire, analogous to 'Robert Macaire', a useful agent provocateur, apparently, for News of The World.
Terms search hacking, 1984, Facebook, Zuckerbook, Russians buying facebook, Goldman, Entrepreneurs, Thurston, Macaire, etc.
Hacking the Royals, not such a great idea, though very laissez faire profitable no doubt.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
re the credential society book
Collins pops hard the technocracy, credentialist, meritocratic, symbolic analyst, and education chase,
bubbles,
as mostly a lot of bureaucratic gas,
so prevalent and deeply infesting our commercial, academic, commercial, political, and educational discourses.
bubbles,
as mostly a lot of bureaucratic gas,
so prevalent and deeply infesting our commercial, academic, commercial, political, and educational discourses.
RE BEFORE 1776 TEACHING COMPANY COURSE
Very highly recommended.
Amazing over view of this very complex period, in very easy-to-follow account.
Really puts the great power struggle, and mercantilism as related to colonialization, at the center of the pre-rebellion period and colonial development.
Great lectures on slavery, mercantilism, gold search, some key personalities, colonial agriculture and crops, etc.
Professor Allison, Suffolk University, Boston.
Amazing over view of this very complex period, in very easy-to-follow account.
Really puts the great power struggle, and mercantilism as related to colonialization, at the center of the pre-rebellion period and colonial development.
Great lectures on slavery, mercantilism, gold search, some key personalities, colonial agriculture and crops, etc.
Professor Allison, Suffolk University, Boston.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
RE RUSSIAN BUYING NEW JERSEY TEAM WHY NOT ALSO STATE AND THEN SOME
http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2011/05/re-russian-billionaire-just-bought-new.html
Re Minnesota, Wyoming, and some other troubled real estate, why not let him, or his friends or fellow cow pokes buy these things?
Doesn't that seem (LAISSEZ) fair?
TERMS SEARCH Why Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, New Jersey
Re Minnesota, Wyoming, and some other troubled real estate, why not let him, or his friends or fellow cow pokes buy these things?
Doesn't that seem (LAISSEZ) fair?
TERMS SEARCH Why Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, New Jersey
RE THE CREDENTIAL SOCIETY BOOK AND SOME RELATED THEMES HERE
I have pressed themes and problems here, caused I believe by excessive specialization, and compartmentalization, and a resulting anti intellectualism, and ineffectiveness, and ALSO market led corruption;
and come to find that some social scientists had been harping on some of the same topics, in the context of a wider analysis of society, education and the history of education, social stratification, and political and economic power,
back in the late 70s,
with such works as The Credential Society, Randall Collins.
Insights on every page. I had wondered why things were the way they were back then, in some ways, re higher education, how much of it there was, and how many went on into it; seldom reflected on lower levels at school as educational segregation was just ending. The market, once again, a strong player in educational corporations, even public ones.
and come to find that some social scientists had been harping on some of the same topics, in the context of a wider analysis of society, education and the history of education, social stratification, and political and economic power,
back in the late 70s,
with such works as The Credential Society, Randall Collins.
Insights on every page. I had wondered why things were the way they were back then, in some ways, re higher education, how much of it there was, and how many went on into it; seldom reflected on lower levels at school as educational segregation was just ending. The market, once again, a strong player in educational corporations, even public ones.
RE BBC OBAMA'S ELECTION FUELED HATE GROUPS FAILURE OF THE MEDIA RE ASSIMILATION'S FAILURE TERRORISM'S RISE NYT DUELING CHEAP SHOT SENSATIONALISMS
Of course Obama's election would have fueled some hate groups here.
That is a given, not 'news'. The BBC publishes a 'story' now. Why?
The private media want sensational stories, rather than anything constructive, there or here.
That has too long been the case in the liberal countries everywhere
including the UK.
It has contributed to the bozo ization of the population everywhere.
Similarly nyt article on multiculturalism's failure in UK, stoking the fire.
Nyt and BBC duking it out to the bottom, so to speak.
IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER.
That is a given, not 'news'. The BBC publishes a 'story' now. Why?
The private media want sensational stories, rather than anything constructive, there or here.
That has too long been the case in the liberal countries everywhere
including the UK.
It has contributed to the bozo ization of the population everywhere.
Similarly nyt article on multiculturalism's failure in UK, stoking the fire.
Nyt and BBC duking it out to the bottom, so to speak.
IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
RE THE MOTHER OF ALL NO-BRAINERS BROOKS NYT EDITORIAL
His criticisms of his own erstwhile party are shocking, and all no doubt true, a thing one can seldom say of Brooks' essays.
Yet, he leaves out a crucial detail:
(though less filled, perhaps, with an idiot fringe, than the Republicans), nor are the Democrats fit to govern.
Yet, he leaves out a crucial detail:
(though less filled, perhaps, with an idiot fringe, than the Republicans), nor are the Democrats fit to govern.
Monday, July 4, 2011
RE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE WAR FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
This is the story that is now being told.
What is wrong with this picture?
There are a lot of things wrong with it.
This so-called war has already been lost, for about 30 years now.
A good account of why and how it has been lost is Trading Places.
This book shows, in some detail, how it was that many innovative ideas and products, originally created or developed here, ended up in offshore regimes' developmental export lead growth plans, and resulted in foreign industrial empires now threatening the US.
It also sketches some of the clues to the political underpinnings of this sad commentary, and even made some suggestions for reforms, way back in '88, even then way too late.
What is wrong with this picture?
There are a lot of things wrong with it.
This so-called war has already been lost, for about 30 years now.
A good account of why and how it has been lost is Trading Places.
This book shows, in some detail, how it was that many innovative ideas and products, originally created or developed here, ended up in offshore regimes' developmental export lead growth plans, and resulted in foreign industrial empires now threatening the US.
It also sketches some of the clues to the political underpinnings of this sad commentary, and even made some suggestions for reforms, way back in '88, even then way too late.
RE KRUGMAN NYT IT GETS EVEN WORSE
Terms search: your state, why Iowa, Minnesota, California, New Jersey, etc.
RE THE POWER OF A SIMPLE MAJORITY NYT EDITORIAL
Re filibuster, why have a system like that?
See terms search: drift
See terms search: drift
RE STRAUSS KAHN AND THE RAW MEDIA DRIVEN LAISSEZ FAIRE SYSTEM FROM ANOTHER ANGLE THAN KRUGMAN'S
I tend to go with the French.
Our media is, after all, a mere creature of our economic ideology, and hardly something for cultural 'edification' of any sort.
I especially like the carnival metaphor here. Also, a lynching, a murder by media. The 'media-judicial machine'. So right.
Terms search why Iowa, the media, cartoon, mise en scene, bonobos, Maverick, etc.
Our media is, after all, a mere creature of our economic ideology, and hardly something for cultural 'edification' of any sort.
I especially like the carnival metaphor here. Also, a lynching, a murder by media. The 'media-judicial machine'. So right.
Terms search why Iowa, the media, cartoon, mise en scene, bonobos, Maverick, etc.
RE KRUGMAN CORPORATE CASH CON NYT JULY 3
IF HE IS RIGHT ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS, AND I THINK HE IS,
WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY FOR THE DISCIPLINE OF ECONOMICS,
AND ITS SAGE ADVICE, LAISSEZ FAIRE,
IN THE CURRENT GLOBALIZED FORM ECONOMICS HAS TAKEN IT?
WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY FOR THE DISCIPLINE OF ECONOMICS,
AND ITS SAGE ADVICE, LAISSEZ FAIRE,
IN THE CURRENT GLOBALIZED FORM ECONOMICS HAS TAKEN IT?
Sunday, July 3, 2011
RE MY COMMENTS HERE ON THINGS LIKE FACEBOOK FACE FARM ANIMAL BOOK 1984BOOK AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF SOME REGIMES RUSSIA ETC
Here is a comment from Randall Collins' blog on this topic:
'The multiple connections of the electronic media would not prevent such a development; and indeed a determined authoritarian government would find the Internet a convenient way of spying on people. Especially as the tendency of technology and capitalist consolidation in the media industries is to bring all the media together into one device, it would be possible for government super-computers to track considerable details about people’s lives, expressed beliefs, and their social connections. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (published in 1948), the television set is not something you watch but something that watches you, at the behest of the secret police. The new media make this increasingly easier for a government to do. Whether a government will do this or not, does not depend on the media themselves. It is a matter for the larger politics of the society. In that respect, too, the findings of sociology, both for micro-sociology and macro-sociology, remain relevant for the electronic network age of the future.'
Call it: 1984 book ANIMAL BOOK, STALIN BERG, STALIN MC BERGER, FACE FARM, ZUCKER FARM, 1984 BERG, ETC., ZUCKER BARN, MC BERGBURGER, MC ZUCKER BURG, MC DONALD BERG, MC DONALD BOOK, ETC., ETC., ETC.
'The multiple connections of the electronic media would not prevent such a development; and indeed a determined authoritarian government would find the Internet a convenient way of spying on people. Especially as the tendency of technology and capitalist consolidation in the media industries is to bring all the media together into one device, it would be possible for government super-computers to track considerable details about people’s lives, expressed beliefs, and their social connections. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (published in 1948), the television set is not something you watch but something that watches you, at the behest of the secret police. The new media make this increasingly easier for a government to do. Whether a government will do this or not, does not depend on the media themselves. It is a matter for the larger politics of the society. In that respect, too, the findings of sociology, both for micro-sociology and macro-sociology, remain relevant for the electronic network age of the future.'
Call it: 1984 book ANIMAL BOOK, STALIN BERG, STALIN MC BERGER, FACE FARM, ZUCKER FARM, 1984 BERG, ETC., ZUCKER BARN, MC BERGBURGER, MC ZUCKER BURG, MC DONALD BERG, MC DONALD BOOK, ETC., ETC., ETC.
RE MY COMMENTS IN A PRIOR POST AND A SOCIOLOGIST RANDALL COLLINS
I don't recommend them, but there is a first time for almost everything/
Re my comment here, in a prior post,
'This is another example of how federalism has failed us all, not just Californians or nonCalifornians, corporations or individuals, investors or parents, rich or poor, black or white, young or old.'
see some of the writings and analyses of Randall Collins:
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/
I have his early book on credentialism, wonderful so far.
Re my comment here, in a prior post,
'This is another example of how federalism has failed us all, not just Californians or nonCalifornians, corporations or individuals, investors or parents, rich or poor, black or white, young or old.'
see some of the writings and analyses of Randall Collins:
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/
I have his early book on credentialism, wonderful so far.
RE WYOMING AND CORRUPTION THE WYOMING PURCHASE AND WHY NOT ALSO IOWA OR GREECE
Why not suggest the same types of solutions for Wyoming incorporations corruption as we have for Minnesota fiscal irresponsibility?
And why not also offer to sell Iowa, just for the hell, and the profitability, of it?
TERMS SEARCH: WHY IOWA
If someone remonstrates that my 'Jeffersonianism' is not quite orthodox, I say, (not that I am one, really)
'damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead......'
And after all, the Louisiana Purchase itself was on his 'watch'.
Question:
Can Greece be sold
either to the
Russians (Orthodox),
or to the Turks (Muslim)
or to the Chinese (Confusian)?
And why not also offer to sell Iowa, just for the hell, and the profitability, of it?
TERMS SEARCH: WHY IOWA
If someone remonstrates that my 'Jeffersonianism' is not quite orthodox, I say, (not that I am one, really)
'damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead......'
And after all, the Louisiana Purchase itself was on his 'watch'.
Question:
Can Greece be sold
either to the
Russians (Orthodox),
or to the Turks (Muslim)
or to the Chinese (Confusian)?
RE MINNESOTA THE MINNESOTA PURCHASE
Why not suggest the wise feds step in and declare it once again a territory,
say impose martial law up there;
discuss rolling it into adjacent states.
Why not ask: Why not?
Thus for example, why limit it to adjacency?
or, why limit it to existing states;
why not say China, or Japan as a successor;
sort of a partial reverse loan federal repayment?
Call it 'The Minnesota Purchase'.
say impose martial law up there;
discuss rolling it into adjacent states.
Why not ask: Why not?
Thus for example, why limit it to adjacency?
or, why limit it to existing states;
why not say China, or Japan as a successor;
sort of a partial reverse loan federal repayment?
Call it 'The Minnesota Purchase'.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
RE THE BUDGET
My view is that we should go to a more or less war footing, and a command economy, in order to introduce the kind of fiscal responsibility, and frugality, necessary to pay off the Chinese and others in a timely manner.
This seems like a responsible and quite conservative approach to take to such a bad situation.
Also, no more quantitative easing, which just blatantly dilutes the purchasing power of the debt payments to all the big big property creditor interests out there.
This seems like a responsible and quite conservative approach to take to such a bad situation.
Also, no more quantitative easing, which just blatantly dilutes the purchasing power of the debt payments to all the big big property creditor interests out there.
RE MINNESOTA
Perhaps adjacent states sense an opportunity to engulf portions of this wonderful, fiscally beached, behemoth.
RE MAVERICKS HUNKERED DOWN
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/us/secrecy-haven-wyoming.html
Terms search eg: your state, Thurston, Iowa, compartmentalization, specialization, GAC, etc.
Speaking of money laundering, corporate privacy (the only kind that matters much really when it hits the fan), and fraud, in the aftermath of WW II, including the Cold War itself as a 'fraud', see David Kaiser's current post on Le Carre, etc., and now, my comment there.
Terms search eg: your state, Thurston, Iowa, compartmentalization, specialization, GAC, etc.
Speaking of money laundering, corporate privacy (the only kind that matters much really when it hits the fan), and fraud, in the aftermath of WW II, including the Cold War itself as a 'fraud', see David Kaiser's current post on Le Carre, etc., and now, my comment there.
Friday, July 1, 2011
RE VENERABILITY BLOGGER
Smart lady, in a rather narrow way.
She bashes some of the wrong things in the wrong ways. Nothing new, or particularly unpredictable, about that.
Capital Punishment-Markets Through the Looking Glass
http://marketslookingglass.wordpress.com
She bashes some of the wrong things in the wrong ways. Nothing new, or particularly unpredictable, about that.
Capital Punishment-Markets Through the Looking Glass
http://marketslookingglass.wordpress.com
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