RE ROOSEVELT TRUMAN

Been reading Beschloss' Conquerors. Seems rather well selected, but what an enormously editted narrative it had to be; in that sense, it seems less a work of history than of historical journalism, with highly selective and important quotes interspersed.

What a sad commentary is painted, not just the Morgenthau White saga (also reading The Haunted Wood),
but the whole administrative set up, and approach.

Term search maverick

Back in the 70s it was generally thought that the key to good management was keeping your domestic American work force happy and self actualized.......................

I read what seemed like a hundred HBS articles on the subject.

All that changed rather rapidly in the 80s.

I guess these seasoned Harvard academicians were just a little behind the times.

LAISSEZ FAIRE MAVERICK GONE GREEN CARBON CREDITS THE PRICE OF A BIG BUFORD

So called Western environmentalism, carbon market, and greenhouse abatements, mainly helped to artificially boom Asia, especially China, enrich liberal carpetbag traders, and help further hollow out Western industries generally:

BBC article:

"That means more tough times for financial institutions. Particularly troubled is the business of investing in greenhouse gas abatement projects like wind farms or hydroelectric dams in developing countries like China. JPMorgan Chase paid more than $200 million for one of the largest investors in these projects, EcoSecurities, in 2009.

 

Financiers say these projects used to be gold mines, generating credits that industrial companies could use to offset their emissions elsewhere. But so many credits have been produced by these projects — on top of the existing oversupply of credits in Europe — that they are trading at about a third of a euro."

' carbon credit printing ', similar to fiat currency printing.......

Term search, say: Maverick Executive

this was one of the classics

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-cartoon-mise-en-scene-uncle-sam-dog.html

someone likes this perhaps you too

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-nyt-editorial-bailing-out-new-jersey.html

RE THE GERMAN NEW DEAL VERSUS OURS

See Communities Of Discourse pb. p. 402, the paragraph beginning "Although the state was not particularly responsive to socialist demands, it had a long history of intervening in the economy on behalf of workers....these measures...all were opposed by the liberal parties on the grounds that laissez faire was a more appropriate policy toward economic affairs.....Thus the socialist movement was able to unify its objectives around state-sponsored programs rather than having to carve out a distinct agenda amidst competing programs offered by liberal parties, trade unions, and voluntary associations."

Our New Deal was a liberal, bourgeoisie, laissez faire, New Deal.

the menu for Gigi

Gigi knows how to eat........

Sear, in a shallow skillet, several rather thin pork chops, in butter,
then saute onions therein. Deglaze with a little fino sherry or white wine.
Add a dollop of fig jam per chop, and some olive oil, to the deglace; also a pinch of mustard,
and a splash of balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste.
Roast in the same shallow skillet for 20 minutes @375.
Serve with potato carrot garlic mash, made with milk and butter.
Serve also with field greens with arrugula and sweet onion,
and dinner rolls.

Red Burgundy wine, Chianti, or fino sherry.

RE BOWDOIN AND THE NAS

Already a must read................locus classicus.

infested with Russians today

Entry	Pageviews
Russia	6
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Term search cartoon

some older ones were rather fun;
older post titles (use terms search w Bing):

NEW CASANOVA HAND VERTICAL INTEGRATION BUT WORLD IS FLAT CARTOON

Re Making Ignorance Chic: Cinderella Three Penny Opera Crucible Marilyn Palin Beauty and the Beast Mise En Scene

Re Kennan

Not widely known I am guessing, but Japan and the USSR had a nonagression pact, in effect, an alliance,

while the USSR was allied with us during WWII,

so that Japan could have a free unencumbered hand to attack us, and others, in the Pacific.

Get ready for a lot more of the same, from all sides.

YOU CANNOT CURRENCY YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY

Printing money is not an ' industry '.

KOREA NOW AND AN UNSTABLE ASIA AN OSTENSIBLE BIG SURPRISE

Not a big surprise.  I have been saying low grade global war under way now several years, under the radar. Certainly many events have been acts of war already; eg cyber attack on Iranian nuclear program, etc., etc.

See DK's current post.

SPEAKING OF ACADEMIC UTOPIAN DREAM LAND BLAST FROM THE PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/10/re-48th-is-not-good-place.html

RE US ZIGGED WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE ZAGGED THROUGHOUT 20TH CENTURY RE SOCIALISM

I checked out The Haunted Wood, and Cloak and Gown.

Romantic radicals......

The place, here,  has however been filled with
' romantic ' utopians, at both extremes, ever since the founding, really.

audience this week US Germany Russia neck and neck why ask why

Russia	26
Germany	25
United States	21
Hungary	8
Mexico	4
Italy	3
United Kingdom	1
Venezuela	1

term search

Daumier

audience so far this week very Russia heavy

Russia	26
United States	8
Hungary	6
Italy	3
Germany	1
Venezuela	1

RE ENLIGHTENMENT AND EDUCATION

See David Kaiser's current post.......
I have been reading Wuthnow's Communities Of Discourse,
instigated by a reference in Collins. Great stuff.
See Collins' relatively early work, The Credential Society. There are some useful references in both to other works in the history of  ' higher education '.

surprise Black Sea manouevres

the problem for the few so called Keynesians left

Faber Marc,

money not flowing into what they are trying to help, so too speak...

faux economies to some extent, now.

term search re the tooth fairy

laissez fairy

this is also popular somehow rather more recherche

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

someone likes this a reprise of the laissez fairy etc

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-big-short-john-gutfreund-salomon-ceo.html

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS BBC NEWS

Buddhists versus Muslims. A perennial rivalry heating up.

They just need a little more freer trade,

and of course a little less government regulation of any kind,

to flourish together,

over there,

 in the subcontinent.

re Collins

here is a blast from the past on his blog. I have read only excerpts:

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=4

SEE David Kaiser's current topic

Re meritocracy.

term search

Many even now think this has been a meritocracy here. They need to think instead of blindly believing this nonsense.

term search: meritocracy

mercantilism

What ruralized, embattled fragmented areas will eventually resort to, again.

Largely because they did not resort to it ab initio laissez faire.

RE THOMAS L FRIEDMAN TODAY NYT

Great point,  Western hobbyism. The dispatch of a vassal.......

The solution for the modern state of Israel needs to be,
again, what it always was, in the biblical age,

re vassal ization by a Muslim state, at best.

A GREAT BLAST FROM THE RECENT PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-keep-meaning-to-talk-about-so-called.html

CARTOON BLAST FROM THE PAST

these maverick rodeo ones were a cute genre back then:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/huan-trading-places-mise-en-scene-hog.html

UK WADING INTO SYRIAN WAR

Sending vehicles to the opposition, the slender wedge.

re nyt as fears recede

What a Pollyanna dream world these investor folks are in.
 'Sophisticated market participants '.

BBC RE CRISIS OF GLOBAL TRADE INVESTMENT LIBERAL HOUSE OF CARDS

Christopher Hughes re China Japan:

"We are seeing the coincidence of two regimes in China and Japan which are facing crises of legitimacy and a temptation to turn to issues of nationalism to compensate."

I WOULD HAVE PUT IT RATHER DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT COMES TO THE SAME THING, in a way.

One could meaningfully say this re almost all liberal market globalized Western democracies too.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/02/re-japan-china-and-us.html

re austerity italian style Krugman nyt

He criticizes Italian austerity,

but as I have said so often, Keynesianism stimulation doesn't on the other hand work so well for the globalized gobblelized:

'Stimulus' gets sucked out of the 'erstwhile' domestic economy (no such thing, that much, anymore) like an egg

by developmental weasels, and MNCS, plying that trade.

re Japan China and us

Curious Americans might well wonder how it came about,
that we can confirm a military alliance with the former
against the latter, while at the same time having much of our debt held by, and much of our manufacturing done in, the latter? It is a long and sad story. See this blog for details.

George Kennan, Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, Van Wolferen, Thurow, Kindleberger, Friedman and LaBard, Gabor Steingart, Raymond Vernon; these are some authors to consult.

RE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

She, Pauline Maier,  fleshes out some of this history rather well. 
Few Americans care about the actual history.


http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-pauline-maiers-article-nyt.html
 http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-right-to-bear-arms.html

for some great flashes from the past

term search say a term like: Casanova

RE NO BUY AND HOLD ANY LONGER

All 'investments' are now short term.

Gambling.

The underlying fact is all assets now really are short term. 

There are no long term assets anymore.

the menu

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-krugmans-eating-irish.html

hacking eventually may result in partial take down of globalization

But probably not, by itself.

Other factors will come to the fore, in concert.

RE NYT HACK WAR CHINA ARMY UNIT

This, to me, was the most comical, and ridiculous,
part of the article, so far:

"The United States government is planning to begin a more aggressive defense against Chinese hacking groups, starting on Tuesday."

Yesterday, 'Tuesday', a little too late, my friends.

About 5 decades too late at least.

As I have said here so often,

smell the coffee, game over.

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3732211802249797760

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3732211802249797760

SOMEONE SAW THIS NOT AT ALL BAD REALLY

MISE EN SCENE BUS STOP MAVERICK EXECUTIVE MARILYN FREE TRADE HUMAN RIGHTS HOLD UP AND UGLY PHILOSOPHERS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/mise-en-scene-maverick-executive-free.html

SEE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST

RE MY COMMENTS HERE IN OLDER POSTS RE COMPARTMENTALIZATION DIFFERENTIATION ETC

See Tilly re another aspect of these issues: dedifferentiation.

See his Index, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons

RE RECENT NOTICE OF CYBER THEFT SYMPTOM OF THE LARGEST MOST DISASTEROUS RECKLESS SHIFT IN GEOPOLITICAL POWER IN HISTORY

It went almost unnoticed over here for decades.

We have been more or less giving this stuff, and on the ground know how, away for 6 + decades now, for that good short term profitability.
What's all the to do, now,
with a little large scale cyber theft, to boot?
Just good ole large scale private capitalism working itself toward wholesome equilibrium?

Not. Just a belated footnote to:
Term search, my paraphrase of Churchill's remark re the RAF:

' never in the history of human conflict has so much been given away, to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly. ' 

It is easy to poo poo economic nationalism, or, say, a more modern form of mercantilism or something, nation statism, what you will, until one realizes that the alternative, in the long run, is Schumpeterian like destruction of your nation state and almost all others in the wake of some outcome or another of globalization and developmental nationalism, now coming into view.

As many people have pointed out, Wallerstein more recently and broadly, certain once great imperial centers are now semi pheripheral areas, notably Madrid Spain, Rome Italy, Athens Greece, Cairo Egypt, Istanbul Turkey, etc., etc.;

once great capitalist trading cities, Amsterdam, Genoa, Venice, Cadiz, Lisbon, Cairo, Constantinople, Baghdad, not peripheries but also not commercial empires either anymore.

historyunfolding

RE CHRISTOPHER HUGHES CHINA JAPAN

Why are all these super powerful regimes so de legitimized?

Why is ours, and Europe's, also so weak and delegitimized?

Why are they turning to nationalism?

Because liberal and conservative and communist globalism have all failed.

AMERICAN MARKET CAPITALISTS CANNOT FREEZE REPUGNANT to them GEOGRAPHICAL NATION STATE BORDERS FOREVER ANYWAY

Why not 'go with the flow',

to paraphrase a laissez faire idiom, anyway?

term search

poker

RUSSIA IN THE MIX ON THE NORTH END BBC WORLD NEWS

RE TRADE WAR WITH THE ISLANDS GLOBALIST NYT TALKS ABOUT A TORRENT IN A TEACUP

WTO: another bi partisan blunder,

close on the heels of NAFTA.

Too much global trade,

too much internet.

We are primarily responsible for the excessive proliferation of both.

ITS ALL GOOD RUSSIAN FIGHTER JETS BREACH JAPAN AIR SPACE BBC NEWS

They all need a little exercise over there.....

This no doubt helps China make its case with Japan.

Russia needs to exercise its muscles somewhere.  Asia has not been its strong point.

Maybe they need to relive the Russo Japanese War, 1905.

RE STANDARD & POOR'S SUIT

What a pathetic showing.

As everyone knows, these were relatively poorly paid, quant grunts, on Wall Street, at the beck and call of the houses.

I actually interviewed for an analyst job, back in 79 or 80. 

It was considered a slippery stepping stone, at best.

Only the average American,

in the relative total darkness of global market capitalism now,

will think this is a form of retribution for anything.

Michael Lewis' books flesh this fact out rather well.

Both Liar's Poker and Moneyball.

Cynical in the extreme, given S & P's serfdom position on Wall Street.

THE RISE OF CHINA IS THE WAGES OF SIN NOT ONLY FOR US BUT ALSO FOR JAPAN

Term search: playing three sides, leverage, etc.

See, eg:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-market-power-and-trickle-down.html

IN THE UNWINDING AFTERMATH OF GLOBBISM

Every man for himself.

GOOGLE ADVERSUS CHINA BBC NEWS SEE ALSO JAPAN ETC

Further re The Economist December 12 post:

We gave them, and all others, the internet.

We gave them, and many others, trade advantage.

These are things we have now done.

Smell the coffee.

Game over.

Term search: leverage, Mary Poppins retired......

CHINA ATTACKS NYT LAZY FAIR BBC

A private, merchantile, matter shall we say:

"When you see the same group steal data on Chinese dissidents and Tibetan activists, then attack an aerospace company, it starts to push you in the right direction,"

I say: bring a civil suit, what?

re taup fardy old lyric nonsense

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-grammies-and-top-40-so-what-money.html

re a free laissez faire press

Re the recent Murdoch scandals, here was an old post of mine:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-mr-paterson-editorial-same-old-media.html

HISTORY IS NOT ACTUALLY MADE MAINLY BY TITANIC INDIVIDUALS

Although I love watching Rufus, a Randian world of a few supernatural beings at the top making history,

extreme case, one human being,

determining all things by their prowess,

a meritocracy of the elite,

not something I believe in at all.

DAVID BROOKS nyt

Believes we have had a meritocracy here,

against which he poses so called a progressivism of Obamaism.

We never had a meritocracy here.

Obama is not even a real progressive,

either.

RUFUS FEARS ON CHURCHILL NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ETC

The Economist, 'don't want to risk a trade war..."

See my prior post:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/01/post-globalist-capitalism-on-horizon.html

Watched, last night, again,  Rufus on Churchill, and British politics, Halifax, in the 30s...............

didn't want to risk a trade war......

term search playing three sides, Mary Poppins, etc.

EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE

US backs Japan......

(Parenthetically, WW IV, now already several years into it, in my view.)

EAST CHINA SEA CHINA JAPAN JETS

All highly predictable.

The Economist December 12 was especially illuminating re the Fortune 100

They have been systematically bilked of all value, especially by the Chinese, p 62.

When will their stock prices reflect this pathetic strategic reality?

When the flow of knock offs becomes even more of a torrent, perhaps.

POST GLOBALIST CAPITALISM ON THE HORIZON

See especially The Economist , December 12, 2012, 'Hype And Fear', p 62 63.

The Economist has to downplay things they nevertheless cover, like cyber private espionage. Here The Chinese lead the pack. 

P 63 is especially instructive. The J-20, etc., etc.

"...but it could be hard and would risk a trade war...."

Don't want to risk a trade war, when one can appease oneself into oblivion.

Please.

another blast from the past re Michael Lewis

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/re-noblesse-oblige-michael-lewis-npr.html

SOMEONE LIKES THIS RECENTLY WHY SHOULDN'T YOU TOO

Re boards of directors, experts, academicians, Rumpole, Rum, Maverick Executive, team play, etc.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-academic-industrial-simpletonex.html

the menu Polish or Ukrainian holiday soup

This is dedicated to the BFF

Three or four large organic potatoes, finely sliced or diced, covered, almost, with water, in the bottom of a good pot.

Add a half cup of Ba Tam pt garlic dill pickle juice to the water, one crushed clove garlic, and a half or whole large cooking onion, finely diced.

Cook covered. Add, near the end, say 10 minutes, three tablespoons health food rendered smoked bacon fat, 
and one cup, at least, drained organic sauerkraut.

Add ground pepper and Tabasco to taste; 

no additional salt, as some of these ingredients are loaded with it already.

Chilled Riesling, or East European beer, or chilled Vodka.

G LOBOTOMIZATION GLOBALIZATION NOW FAR ADVANCED

G lobotomal global market capitalism may be unwinding faster than enthusiasts have predicted.

Market capitalism, not held in check, eventually gives itself a lobotomy: it globotomizes itself by globalizing.

That has been what we have been seeing for several decades now.

AMERICANS MAY SOON FIND OUT

PERHAPS, AN OLD STORY BY NOW.

That Apple has found out,

that their ideas are being gutted. say lobotomized, and knocked off by copycat Asian nations where their products have been made for so long.

None of that will have been a surprise for me.

RE GUNS AND THE CONSTITUTION

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-pauline-maiers-article-nyt.html

the holiday menu for Gigi

High quality panetone slices, egg and milk dipped, 
pan butter fried French toast,

whipped butter,

maple syrup, or raspberry conserve if needed,

fat link pork breakfast sausages

italian roast coffee

Background music: Dino Robbins

A USEFUL DISCUSSION ON GUNS AND MASS KILLINGS IN CONTEXT

I just started to read this.

Randall Collins' September 1, 2012 post.

re BBC the typical economist line re Japan

'Ask any economist of any stripe what Japan needs and they will give you a very similar list.

Continue reading the main story

“Start Quote

To add insult to injury, Japan has been hit hard by the global financial crisis”

Regulation needs to be loosened, foreign investment welcomed and women empowered to stay at work while raising families.'

Question: if this has not worked. in the long run, for almost all already developed economies, or for the successful developing ones, 

as we are now seeing,

why would anyone think it should work for Japan now, after a long successful developmental protectionist state period, 1950 to 1980 or so, but then 

torpedoed by the US opening to China after the Nixon Shock?

BRILLIANT DISCUSSION OF POLITICS

Randall Collins:
"MATERIAL INTERESTS ARE AMBIGUOUS MOTIVES; INTERACTION RITUAL FOCUS IS BETTER PREDICTOR OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR"

someone likes this old note on economics

Why shouldn't we reprise it now?

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/06/cobdenist-manchester-school-corn-law.html

PAUL FINKELMAN not so good

Yet his description of the real Jefferson is pretty much accurate.

The point, however, is that these , Jefferson's,
were the mainstream white views at the time, everywhere in the world. They were mostly Lincoln's views too! Most abolitionists' as well. Not some creepy hypocritical aberration. 

They considered them not fully human, a very very common, if quite erroneous, view. 

But it's an issue he does not want to look at that way.

The ' aberration ' here is Finkelman's. 

Grandstanding punditry rather than sober analysis.

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.

RE RUMPOLE AND THE NOVEMBER OF OUR DAYS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/rumpoles-quote-from-hood-re-korea.html

see DK's current post Barackus Cunctator?

And my comment.

re JUST A SCHOLARLY REFERENCE FOR ALL YOU ZEALOTS OUT THERE CHRISTIANS JEWS AND MUSLIMS

Read  The Bible Unearthed. 

It deals with Old Testament, or Torah, period, and later Old Testament, .............. ancient history, the so called ' promised land ' period too, with current archaeological research findings.

Very illuminating.

Paraphrasing a classic line in 'The Graduate', ('plastics')

I've got just one word for you: CAMELS

(The Old Testament is filled with references to ' camel caravans  '.....................)

A must read for anyone who wants to know something,
rather than just believing something.

For the reading challenged, there is a miniseries:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC7EAEC99E1CE728

RE A FAREWELL TO FANGS NYT

That was really mean of the Times, right now, 
to publish fan remark 
'not able to act out of a box'!
Lawyers and law students might be expected to dis like that...........

What a meanie publication the nyt can be.

(I know what it's like dealing with a little meanie like that!)

another flash from the past here

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

someone in Ukraine likes this

Why shouldn't you?

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/re-politically-fragmented-market.html

RE BBC ARTICLE RE EAST CHINA SEA ISLANDS CHINA JAPAN

They, BBC,  mentioned in passing that Japan and China established diplomatic relations only in 1972. 

(Maybe they, relations,  had existed in the past at some point.  Certainly, playing three sides, non diplomatically, in the Cold War, had long been surreptitiously going on behind the scenes.)

Coincidental that that was around the time of the Nixon Shock? The dumb money in the room.

Term search: poker, poke her, Wittgenstein, gin.

WELCOME TO WW IV OR V

Most people would say III, but I count IV, or even V.

(I say the Seven Years War, or  ' French and Indian War ', was the first real WW I. 

But for those who follow Bobbitt and others, and call the entire 20th Century, WW I, WW II, and then Cold War, as one Long War, then they are at 'WW III' (what I call IV), but only if they Count the Seven Years War as ' WW I ', as I do. 

Otherwise, they are only at II....now. 

Whatever..... )

By my assessment, it, IV, has actually been going on for a couple of years now, 

but Americans, and most others, do not know this.

Asia, not just Middle East, or Eastern Europe, is a dry tinder box.

Even Gibraltar! BBC News Spain versus UK.

Looking, bigger picture, for just a moment, one could even speculate that the actual WW I was not The Seven Years War after all, 

but the struggles against the Mongols (first with China, really more a civilizational civil war, like our 2 World Wars and Cold War), with both the Orthodox, and Muslim worlds, and the ultimate conquest of Russia (Eastern Europe) (and parts of Central Asia, and India) by the Golden Horde. 

BBC EU UNION NEEDS TO BE MORE LIKE THE US

Lots of luck with that.

"We need a real European state with all the building blocks that the United States put in place two hundred years ago. We need a true European government, a true European democracy, and a real European budget."

Our system is more a ' disunited states ' with a pseudo central government overlay, which does not, and has never, worked very well for its average citizens.

It shows how benighted Europeans are, that they should hold this so called system up for emulation.

SEE DAVID KAISER'S CURRENT POST

See also thatliberalguy re David Brooks

RE TAUP FARDY

A certain girl in Berlin, 

also at times a little meanie, 

seeing this topic, 

might get a good guffaw!

re Top Forty song

Someone, it seems, perhaps through 'the BFF' intermediary, 

has partially pirated my little dittie caricaturing and mocking the top forty. 

Perhaps it's just one of those little coincidences, (but I had heard about it before it happened).

Although, here, it's certainly "not about the money money money" for such a sweet innocent little lyrical grab, 

a sort of trick or treat hold up, so to speak, 

some little varmint might at least have said " thank you ", 
after being such little meanies in the first place.

This is the cleaned up version of it, from many months ago:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/02/re-grammies-and-top-40-so-what-money.html

I will admit that it was not all that bad, as a lyric.

RE COCA COLA TARGETED BY CHINA BBC ON BEING CHINAFIED

This is really a private matter between these two market capitalist entities.

Nothing really political here, just the normal process of more or less free international markets among private players and occasional dirty tricks by governments acting as private players. Just call it ' team play '.

No need for benighted investors, or God forbid, citizens, to have a care.

Is China a so called ' market state ', or is that something else, yet again? 

Any sovereignty or constitutional or military issues here?

Not to worry.

Call in Professor Counselor Bobbitt. He can perhaps help us with being on the verge of a new constitutional order, 

since we are sort of, figuratively, on the verge of China, in many ways, already; just not quite Chinafied enough quite yet.

Perhaps China might be made our fifty-first state (?), as we seem to like large numbers of them, historically, anyway, 

to help us maintain separations of powers at all levels.

Would that many new voters (billion) sway an election?

Many big political and economic decisions, and actions, are taken routinely by American politicians, based on influence of, and from, foreign governments and NGOs, as well as American private entities and individuals. (Think eg NAFTA AND WTO, Nixon Shock, trade and commerce history chronicled in Trading Places, etc. for example.)

No one here voted for them (foreign political leaders, big foreign lobbyist interests), but sovereignty was given up in this way, 

just as surely as it was in the ways discussed in Sovereignty At Bay regarding multinationals and their foreign direct investment history.

CHINA FILES A WTO COMPLAINT AGAINST EUROPE RE SUBSIDIES

So unfair to defend or subsidize one's industries or peoples. Shame on those Europeans.

Remember that it was Clinton who drove that one (WTO) through, on the tail of  NAFTA,

A REPUBLICAN INITIATIVE, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY ON BOARD.

MY WIFE SAYS THINGS LIKE 'HE ONLY DID IT TO TRY TO GET RE ELECTED',

AS IF THAT WERE SOMEHOW A VALID AND COMPLETE EXCUSE.

TERMS SEARCH

soft power, Steingart, etc.


See eg: http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/11/re-bbc-china-buys-stake-in-heathrow.html

SOMEONE LIKES THIS WHY SHOULDN'T YOU

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html

RE BBC OKINAWA

I say just clear the Americans from Okinawa and rely from here on out on:

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RE BBC CHINA BUYS STAKE IN HEATHROW AIRPORT

This is just a tiny example, of what one now often sees, with relatively unbridled so called market capitalism.

Can you say ' leverage decline ' re UK versus China, or China versus other global power players?

Australia has been selling big contracts to them  for a long time now. 

What if the deals, some time, somehow, for some unforeseen reason, need to be unwound?

Will it just be a little matter of money? 

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