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Sunday, July 21, 2013
daily audience so far
RE BRUCE LEE FORTY YEARS LATER BBC HONG KONG SHANGHAI
Term search: China, Bruce Lee, Japan, The Chinese Connection, Kennan
Eg:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/06/old-post-kennan-quote-re-china.html
Eg:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/06/old-post-kennan-quote-re-china.html
Saturday, July 20, 2013
re KOCH BROTHERS BOTH TRIB & LA TIMES MURDOCH MY KINGDOM FOR A FOOL
Term search: Lorch, Drew Pearson Fallacy, Snowden fallacy, how interesting is a state, etc.
" My kingdom for a fool. "
" My kingdom for a fool. "
RE OECD TO CRACK DOWN ON MNCS TAX AVOIDANCE GLOBAL SMUGGLER NATION CORPORATE MULTINATIONALISM
A band aid on corporate multinationalism.
The penalty should be something like offshoring to Nauru.
That would solve things, but few governments are strong, by themselves, to attack corporate multinationalism.
They have all been weakened by multigovernmentism and corporate multinationalism, institutions and commercial regimens that were intentionally set up, cobdenistically, in the early 20th Century, to promote peace and universal prosperity.
The penalty should be something like offshoring to Nauru.
That would solve things, but few governments are strong, by themselves, to attack corporate multinationalism.
They have all been weakened by multigovernmentism and corporate multinationalism, institutions and commercial regimens that were intentionally set up, cobdenistically, in the early 20th Century, to promote peace and universal prosperity.
RE BBC cartoon BURLESQUECARNEY BLITHE SPIRITS PIRATES FURST SNOWDEN LADY SWAP LEAR MUTTERING ENRON HSIEH SU-WEI
BURLESQUEONLY LEONE:
Dusty (resembles King Lear) withudroponem. Creeped up behind him and G., around the stagecoach, an Italian bandito, "Ugly", a bounty hunter, hasthdropon Dusty and G:
TH GOOD TH BAD AN TH UGLY
Dusty, to Marilyn, Fu, Putin, Steingart, Lanier:
THE CAPTION ABOVE
Dusty: "Gimme all yur Snowdens...empty yur pockets."
Ugly: "Not so fast, pardner: Gimme all yur Lady's furst."
Dusty: "I aint got no Hillaries, fresh out. Wish a did."
Ugly: "Stop mutrin. I know ya gotem. Hand em oar an nobdy gits hart."
THE ONE BELOW
Dusty: "Can we deal?"
Ugly: "Gold, not Snowdens. Hillaries, I don't take em. I meen "Lady". I only take Mr. Lady, ladies, gold, an foolswifapriceonerheds.
"By th way, u got Samantha Power?"
Dusty: "Great! Gold. I got plenny u dat.
"I can't giv ya Power. Howbout Blithe Master? Cheap!"
Ugly: "Yur still muttrin! Soun lik Kristian Start!
But its a deal: gimme gold, but I don't tak paper gold, that's for suckers; and gimme Blithe. Putin, or sumbudy'll swap Blithe for Snowden. Ill make em tak er. He's got plenny o gold. She'll be an offr he cant refuse!
Dusty: " I muttr cos Im a litl retarded, but thisyere revolvr dusnt mutr."
Ugly: whispers to Dusty: "Nevr min. Im retarded tu. Putin wun't tak Power les she went Ukrainian on im.
He's also dumpn Chechens, caseudidn no.
Plenny u pepludlik to git Blithe, fur givn em Blithe Power."
Dusty: "Wats Samantha Power wurth?
Ugly: "Not Sam Power, u idiot, Blithe Power, lectricity; but lik havn paper lectricity, or papr gold: air, woosh!"
Fu to Dusty: "Mebe I can get Snowden back from Putin, if u guarantee me Hsieh Su-wei."
Dusty: "Sue who? I cant master dis."
Fu: "Shuld be easy. Shes a flirt anyway, an likes to Taiwan on!"
(Way too convoluted, even for Blitt........)
Dusty (resembles King Lear) withudroponem. Creeped up behind him and G., around the stagecoach, an Italian bandito, "Ugly", a bounty hunter, hasthdropon Dusty and G:
TH GOOD TH BAD AN TH UGLY
Dusty, to Marilyn, Fu, Putin, Steingart, Lanier:
THE CAPTION ABOVE
Dusty: "Gimme all yur Snowdens...empty yur pockets."
Ugly: "Not so fast, pardner: Gimme all yur Lady's furst."
Dusty: "I aint got no Hillaries, fresh out. Wish a did."
Ugly: "Stop mutrin. I know ya gotem. Hand em oar an nobdy gits hart."
THE ONE BELOW
Dusty: "Can we deal?"
Ugly: "Gold, not Snowdens. Hillaries, I don't take em. I meen "Lady". I only take Mr. Lady, ladies, gold, an foolswifapriceonerheds.
"By th way, u got Samantha Power?"
Dusty: "Great! Gold. I got plenny u dat.
"I can't giv ya Power. Howbout Blithe Master? Cheap!"
Ugly: "Yur still muttrin! Soun lik Kristian Start!
But its a deal: gimme gold, but I don't tak paper gold, that's for suckers; and gimme Blithe. Putin, or sumbudy'll swap Blithe for Snowden. Ill make em tak er. He's got plenny o gold. She'll be an offr he cant refuse!
Dusty: " I muttr cos Im a litl retarded, but thisyere revolvr dusnt mutr."
Ugly: whispers to Dusty: "Nevr min. Im retarded tu. Putin wun't tak Power les she went Ukrainian on im.
He's also dumpn Chechens, caseudidn no.
Plenny u pepludlik to git Blithe, fur givn em Blithe Power."
Dusty: "Wats Samantha Power wurth?
Ugly: "Not Sam Power, u idiot, Blithe Power, lectricity; but lik havn paper lectricity, or papr gold: air, woosh!"
Fu to Dusty: "Mebe I can get Snowden back from Putin, if u guarantee me Hsieh Su-wei."
Dusty: "Sue who? I cant master dis."
Fu: "Shuld be easy. Shes a flirt anyway, an likes to Taiwan on!"
(Way too convoluted, even for Blitt........)
Friday, July 19, 2013
BLITHE MASTERS HAVE BLITHE MASTERS WHO HAVE BLITHE MASTERS
Who are our blithe masters' (politicians) blithe masters' (party of Davos) blithe masters?
At this point it is only now becoming clearer to them, painfully, that they are Chinese, and they are not, after all, blithe.
Term search: blithely
At this point it is only now becoming clearer to them, painfully, that they are Chinese, and they are not, after all, blithe.
Term search: blithely
RE BBC wonders why few BLITHE CEOS willing to SHARE POWER THEY LOVE TO SECURITIZE IT INSTEAD
Mavericks at play.......
A real team play paradigm........
Take a glance at The Maverick Executive, the chapter called
"How He Likes His Management Team"
Cartoon: with the above image
The caption above:
Blithe Masters of the Universe at Play
The one below:
Feds to Blithe Executive: "You're It."
Jamie: "No way."
Or: "Blithe Spirits"
Re games: Liar's poker is easier than fed tag.
SCHUMPETER DESCRIBED CAPITALISM as a process of CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
From a civilizational, or national, standpoint, particularly advanced ones, we can, I believe, simplify that still further:
For an advanced civilization, or an advanced nation state, unfettered (more or less) laissez faire capitalism is a process of
Destructive Destruction.
There have been pundits that say such things as 'China is now only returning to its historical weight.' (cyclicality argument brought up to date re creation/destruction thesis, the Chinese the Jews of Asia finally getting back on track, etc., etc.)
One flaw in this argument, among others, is that China had no
' historical weight '.
At perhaps its most powerful, relatively speaking, it had been a vassal state of the Mongols, the Khans, who also conquered Russia around the same time.
One might as well argue that Mongolia is returning to its historical weight.
Similar arguments, no doubt are made re the modern state of Israel. Utter nonsense.
For an advanced civilization, or an advanced nation state, unfettered (more or less) laissez faire capitalism is a process of
Destructive Destruction.
There have been pundits that say such things as 'China is now only returning to its historical weight.' (cyclicality argument brought up to date re creation/destruction thesis, the Chinese the Jews of Asia finally getting back on track, etc., etc.)
One flaw in this argument, among others, is that China had no
' historical weight '.
At perhaps its most powerful, relatively speaking, it had been a vassal state of the Mongols, the Khans, who also conquered Russia around the same time.
One might as well argue that Mongolia is returning to its historical weight.
Similar arguments, no doubt are made re the modern state of Israel. Utter nonsense.
RE ARENDT EICHMANN ETC CONSTANTINE'S SWORD THE WEST AND GERMANY
Way too much attention has focused on Hitlerite Germany, as in some way beyond the pale of evil, and somehow qualitatively apart from the long tradition of intermittently violent anti Semitism that not only informed, but really largely defined, Christianity, and Christian Europe, for 2,000 years.
It had never ever been mainly a German thing, anti Semitism.
One has only to look, briefly, at the Dreyfus Affair, in the 1890s, a few short decades before, in Catholic France, an enormously long, politically troubling, affair for all concerned, to notice this fact.
Going farther back, as Carroll did, maybe not the greatest account, but there aren't so many, other events, over a long period, are chronicled for the layman.
Few Americans could read an 1,100 page book, out of their narrow specialty, for pleasure. I sympathize with them.
Many of these countries killed, expelled, or forced conversion on their entire Jewish populations.
It was not by any means a new or unusual thing, by the time of the 30s in Germany. Spain and England had each done the same. Others as well.
The Crusades, a thousand years ago, were begun with gatherings of Crusaders across Europe, often first killing sometimes whole Jewish enclaves in European communities, as a prelude to going East to fight the Muslim Infidel.
It had never ever been mainly a German thing, anti Semitism.
One has only to look, briefly, at the Dreyfus Affair, in the 1890s, a few short decades before, in Catholic France, an enormously long, politically troubling, affair for all concerned, to notice this fact.
Going farther back, as Carroll did, maybe not the greatest account, but there aren't so many, other events, over a long period, are chronicled for the layman.
Few Americans could read an 1,100 page book, out of their narrow specialty, for pleasure. I sympathize with them.
Many of these countries killed, expelled, or forced conversion on their entire Jewish populations.
It was not by any means a new or unusual thing, by the time of the 30s in Germany. Spain and England had each done the same. Others as well.
The Crusades, a thousand years ago, were begun with gatherings of Crusaders across Europe, often first killing sometimes whole Jewish enclaves in European communities, as a prelude to going East to fight the Muslim Infidel.
RE BBC SOUTH ASIA DISUNITY RE FLOODS
Why should it be called ' disunity ' that hampers south Asian flood information?
I guess they are claiming a unified south Asian state would be better able to deal with things politically.
Good point. Makes one think of the disunited United States.
Why not better explanations, simple backwardness, retardation, different languages, lack of being modern states?
Disunity does not keep big countries, like the USSR and the US, France, etc., from illicitly spying on each other extensively and globally? It does not prevent them from cooperating on their airspace, weather information, etc.
The ' unity ' of the EU did not change that much there re weather info, or flight safety, I am guessing.
After all, as Putin said re Snowden, and re US pressure to unify the global community it has sought to cobble together, "We are an independent country." They are not particularly unified either.
Why should disunity, rather than some other better explanations, prevent weather information sharing?
I guess they are claiming a unified south Asian state would be better able to deal with things politically.
Good point. Makes one think of the disunited United States.
Why not better explanations, simple backwardness, retardation, different languages, lack of being modern states?
Disunity does not keep big countries, like the USSR and the US, France, etc., from illicitly spying on each other extensively and globally? It does not prevent them from cooperating on their airspace, weather information, etc.
The ' unity ' of the EU did not change that much there re weather info, or flight safety, I am guessing.
After all, as Putin said re Snowden, and re US pressure to unify the global community it has sought to cobble together, "We are an independent country." They are not particularly unified either.
Why should disunity, rather than some other better explanations, prevent weather information sharing?
bbc Australia blocks boat people
Great thing.
Time to nip all this Asian, and Latin American, transhumance. We had too much immigration here, even in the 18th Century, much less the 19th.
A lot went back, to Britain, after the Commonwealth. Too bad more didn't.
Those of our ancestors who got in were just lucky, rather than entitled to nationality automatically.
Time to nip all this Asian, and Latin American, transhumance. We had too much immigration here, even in the 18th Century, much less the 19th.
A lot went back, to Britain, after the Commonwealth. Too bad more didn't.
Those of our ancestors who got in were just lucky, rather than entitled to nationality automatically.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
RE BBC ROBERT PESTON THINKS ITS OBVIOUS BUT ITS A NEGATIVE SUM GAME PAYING THE CHINA PRICE
"What China needs to do (to state the blinkin' obvious) is to boost consumption -
which is also at record lows as a share of GDP compared with both advanced
economies and emerging ones."
Why would an economic attacker state, threatening to take over the top spot, so Peston and others say, and on the march, boost domestic consumption, when it can continue to feed on foreign high currency consumption?
Why?
No reason. Perhaps the Chinese have seen that not only is it not a Zero Sum Game, but going forward global competition is a negative sum game.
If you can punish foreign economies even more than yours suffers, by making them consume ever lower and lower down the food chain rather than producing, and also producing less and less, while keeping yours from consuming but still able to produce to do it, then you can take over foreign economies at some point.
Why would an economic attacker state, threatening to take over the top spot, so Peston and others say, and on the march, boost domestic consumption, when it can continue to feed on foreign high currency consumption?
Why?
No reason. Perhaps the Chinese have seen that not only is it not a Zero Sum Game, but going forward global competition is a negative sum game.
If you can punish foreign economies even more than yours suffers, by making them consume ever lower and lower down the food chain rather than producing, and also producing less and less, while keeping yours from consuming but still able to produce to do it, then you can take over foreign economies at some point.
Globalization Kennan Patton etc
Going back to the post below, let's start with a really troubling prior inquiry:
Did the Cold War really have to be fought, at the time, at all?
If so, why? If not, why not?
Was WWII, after all, even a defensive war, really, as Kennan certainly later claimed?
What are some of the things we know, more or less, and in fact Kennan, of all people, also knew?
One of the things we know, looking back, is that Stalin had carried out a horrific purge, of most of the top management of the Soviet regime, in the late 30s, several years before the war even began.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-kennan-called-ww-ii-defensive-war.html
Did the Cold War really have to be fought, at the time, at all?
If so, why? If not, why not?
Was WWII, after all, even a defensive war, really, as Kennan certainly later claimed?
What are some of the things we know, more or less, and in fact Kennan, of all people, also knew?
One of the things we know, looking back, is that Stalin had carried out a horrific purge, of most of the top management of the Soviet regime, in the late 30s, several years before the war even began.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-kennan-called-ww-ii-defensive-war.html
JUST A SHORT NOTE RE GLOBALIZATION AND PLAN B
Those here among the majority in both parties long have assumed that globalization was, somehow, as American as apple pie.
Certainly, they reasoned (not really reasoned), if anybody can believe, or at least deeply pretend to believe, in this super national supranational ideal, we could. That, unfortunately, for many different specific reasons, is emphatically not true.
(Parenthetically, we don't, and never have, deeply believed in a more fully United States, a more fully unified integral state. It has always, structurally, been, and been intended to be, a loose confederation, with a meta government overlain.)
The deep problem for them, in both parties, going forward, is that there is, and more importantly, cannot be, politically, a good Plan B, assuming globalization fails at this stage of human history.
Another problem, now, is that weaknesses in this globalist system are coming out all over, all at once.
Certainly, they reasoned (not really reasoned), if anybody can believe, or at least deeply pretend to believe, in this super national supranational ideal, we could. That, unfortunately, for many different specific reasons, is emphatically not true.
(Parenthetically, we don't, and never have, deeply believed in a more fully United States, a more fully unified integral state. It has always, structurally, been, and been intended to be, a loose confederation, with a meta government overlain.)
The deep problem for them, in both parties, going forward, is that there is, and more importantly, cannot be, politically, a good Plan B, assuming globalization fails at this stage of human history.
Another problem, now, is that weaknesses in this globalist system are coming out all over, all at once.
GERMANY FAVORS AUSTERITY FOR GREECE AND WHY NOT
They aren't Greeks.
They are all, however, gradually moving toward The China Price.
Call it, as Steingart did, soft power.
They are all, however, gradually moving toward The China Price.
Call it, as Steingart did, soft power.
RE CONSUMERS TO BENEFIT FROM eu PLAN TO CUT CARD FEES
Who's fighting this battle, do you suppose?
Retailers, with siren servers,
against big banks, also with siren servers.
Call it, once again, similarly to the battle between Google and its competitors, a battle of siren servers.
How much does either want to cut consumer fees?
It is not about consumer rights or power.
Once again, calling in Jaron won't help.
Retailers, with siren servers,
against big banks, also with siren servers.
Call it, once again, similarly to the battle between Google and its competitors, a battle of siren servers.
How much does either want to cut consumer fees?
It is not about consumer rights or power.
Once again, calling in Jaron won't help.
RE POCKET HISTORY COMMAGER NEVINS pb
Reviewing the passage re The War Of 1812.
Very sad commentary indeed.
Very sad commentary indeed.
RE BBC EUROPE GOOGLE'S ANTI TRUST FIGHT NEEDS APPEASEMENT
This appeasement language suggest the quasi governmental, and military, directions, in which large private companies will turn.
Its competitors are not mom or pops, over there, nor business 'junior partners', such as Jaron Lanier, in Who Owns The future, would suggest siren servers like Google should partner with in a better tech world.
It is these: Microsoft, Expedia, Nokia, Oracle and Foundem.
None of these competitors will be appeasing, or seriously profit partnering with, you, or me, any time soon.
Its competitors are not mom or pops, over there, nor business 'junior partners', such as Jaron Lanier, in Who Owns The future, would suggest siren servers like Google should partner with in a better tech world.
It is these: Microsoft, Expedia, Nokia, Oracle and Foundem.
None of these competitors will be appeasing, or seriously profit partnering with, you, or me, any time soon.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
re bbc muttering rhubarb rhubarb
Dusty: "Gimme..alyur..."
Cursin Stirrup, disguised, blonde etc., as Marilyn, muttering: "Spekup mistr yr muttrin."
Dusty: "Nevruminlitladi, I had al th mothrng I cod tak, groin up. Iwusudoptd."
M: "DasnawutImnt, unut! Yr mutrin!"
Dusty: "Disrevovrdontmuter litladi. Anywayurmutrintu!"
M: "Dats difrt. I haftamutr! Iputcotnbalsimymowf aftrIusemtormuvmakop. Dirctrs mamiduit!"
Dusty: "Isshard, na mutrin, ow west."
Cursin Stirrup, disguised, blonde etc., as Marilyn, muttering: "Spekup mistr yr muttrin."
Dusty: "Nevruminlitladi, I had al th mothrng I cod tak, groin up. Iwusudoptd."
M: "DasnawutImnt, unut! Yr mutrin!"
Dusty: "Disrevovrdontmuter litladi. Anywayurmutrintu!"
M: "Dats difrt. I haftamutr! Iputcotnbalsimymowf aftrIusemtormuvmakop. Dirctrs mamiduit!"
Dusty: "Isshard, na mutrin, ow west."
re nyt universities face a rising barrage
THE WORM TURNS ON FREE TRADE EDUCATION:
Dusty, now with Fu Manchu, next to the coach. There are a bunch of academics, and administrators, say forty of them. Picture them as similar to the ones quizzing the newspaper editor in the Lorch piece posted here. Dusty's got the drop on them:
"Gimme all yur free ed n valubuls.
"They're goin tu a gud cos.
"That's yur free trad."
G: "Yup."
Term search: credentials.
Dusty, now with Fu Manchu, next to the coach. There are a bunch of academics, and administrators, say forty of them. Picture them as similar to the ones quizzing the newspaper editor in the Lorch piece posted here. Dusty's got the drop on them:
"Gimme all yur free ed n valubuls.
"They're goin tu a gud cos.
"That's yur free trad."
G: "Yup."
Term search: credentials.
NYT RE UNIVERSITIES FACE A RISING BARRAGE
Once again, this was all highly predictable, even though some of our enormous number of profligate universities have gone so far as to put part or all of their entire curricula on line for free, I think MIT has done that.
See other posts here re credentials, IP, etc.
"Never, in the history of human conflict......"
See other posts here re credentials, IP, etc.
"Never, in the history of human conflict......"
RE BBC SNOWDEN TRANSHUMANCE GOBAPFLBOKTW
Dusty, next to the stagecoach, revolver trained, same day:
Putin, hands partially up: "We are an independent country and we have an independent foreign policy."
Dusty:"Nevr u min bou dat.
"Jus gimme Edard Snoden, nobody gets hurt.
"Dat's yur humeans' rites.
"Human rites, dis dent or dat dent,
"at all sounds like Gobapflboktw, heer,
"blubring.
"We banditos, heer in the desert, wer global.
"At wrks furus.
"Rit, pard?
G. : "Yup."
Putin, hands partially up: "We are an independent country and we have an independent foreign policy."
Dusty:"Nevr u min bou dat.
"Jus gimme Edard Snoden, nobody gets hurt.
"Dat's yur humeans' rites.
"Human rites, dis dent or dat dent,
"at all sounds like Gobapflboktw, heer,
"blubring.
"We banditos, heer in the desert, wer global.
"At wrks furus.
"Rit, pard?
G. : "Yup."
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
re Arendt
See DK's current topic.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-prior-post-re-arendt-borne-out-by.html
I also recommend the Secret Agent TV series, the "Judgement Day" episode. John Drake a la Hannah Arendt ...somewhat.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-prior-post-re-arendt-borne-out-by.html
I also recommend the Secret Agent TV series, the "Judgement Day" episode. John Drake a la Hannah Arendt ...somewhat.
bbc HUGE NUMBERS OF CHECHENS OFFSHORING TO GERMANY FROM RUSSIA
Maybe this is why Chancellor Merkel advised Germans to also self offshore, to make more room for these.
No, not really.
No, not really.
RE SCIENCE FAITH PHYSICS WHY NOT ARCHAEOLOGY BIBLICAL HISTORY
The debates here over scientific fact versus articles of faith has heated up even more lately it seems. The liberal arts and the 'exact' sciences, used to try to reconcile these more, decades ago.
But with the march of anti intellectualism in religious matters, on the one hand, and the march of science on the other, these efforts have waned.
Nevertheless many Americans who have technical, even exact scientific, college credentials nevertheless discard the scientific or empirical methodologies underlying them when it comes to matters of faith or morals.
Lisa Randall, a physicist, in Knocking On Heaven's Door comes out strongly implying, if not stating flatly that scientific facts and articles of faith cannot be reconciled, and that the effort to do so has been superseded by scientific knowledge.
While I appreciate her efforts to explain this position to non physicists and others, it seems worthwhile to point out in passing that there are also other sources of factual investigation than the history or current state of physics, to which one can look, for insight on ancient faiths and ancient facts called into question and doubt today.
She does, in fairness, give some every day non physics examples, and weaves history of science, church politics, and philosophy together nicely so far.
Although creationism stirred much debate, Near Eastern History and archaeology has made many strides, in recent decades, ever more closely bearing on the origins of various middle eastern faiths.
The work of scholars regarding Old Testament and middle eastern history and archaeology has been very revealing, but few here, especially Christians, even know about it, yet it bears profoundly on matters of concern to all, Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.
If you want to get at the roots of many problems still present in the West, including nationalism, anti Semitism, multiculturalism, and other things, it is a good idea to keep up with current research, I call it scientific, in some of these areas, going back 2,500 or more years, going forward.
term search: Richard Elliott Friedman
Someone happened on my old post, after this post, and so I thought to add that older reference:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/torah-richard-elliott-friedman.html
But with the march of anti intellectualism in religious matters, on the one hand, and the march of science on the other, these efforts have waned.
Nevertheless many Americans who have technical, even exact scientific, college credentials nevertheless discard the scientific or empirical methodologies underlying them when it comes to matters of faith or morals.
Lisa Randall, a physicist, in Knocking On Heaven's Door comes out strongly implying, if not stating flatly that scientific facts and articles of faith cannot be reconciled, and that the effort to do so has been superseded by scientific knowledge.
While I appreciate her efforts to explain this position to non physicists and others, it seems worthwhile to point out in passing that there are also other sources of factual investigation than the history or current state of physics, to which one can look, for insight on ancient faiths and ancient facts called into question and doubt today.
She does, in fairness, give some every day non physics examples, and weaves history of science, church politics, and philosophy together nicely so far.
Although creationism stirred much debate, Near Eastern History and archaeology has made many strides, in recent decades, ever more closely bearing on the origins of various middle eastern faiths.
The work of scholars regarding Old Testament and middle eastern history and archaeology has been very revealing, but few here, especially Christians, even know about it, yet it bears profoundly on matters of concern to all, Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.
If you want to get at the roots of many problems still present in the West, including nationalism, anti Semitism, multiculturalism, and other things, it is a good idea to keep up with current research, I call it scientific, in some of these areas, going back 2,500 or more years, going forward.
term search: Richard Elliott Friedman
Someone happened on my old post, after this post, and so I thought to add that older reference:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/torah-richard-elliott-friedman.html
re BBC News THE HEART OF THE MUTTER
Some screenplays and scripts are so iffy, they cry out for muttering.
Cursin Eastwood...........puff balls and brandy
Cursin Eastwood...........puff balls and brandy
RE BCC EXERCISES THIS MAKES A LOT OF SENSE GOING FORWARD
KhramchikhinThe land part ... China, the sea part ....Japan.
Such exercises in the West, premature.....
RE DELIVERING PIZZAS TO EACH OTHER IN THE GLOBAL CREDENTIAL SOCIETY OF DAVOS
The country that can flood the market, including importantly others' so called national markets, so to speak, with cheap
pizzas can win.
Think of a college diploma as a literal and figurative pizza.
Our credential society, outlined in the book of the same name by Randall Collins, had already, at the time of its writing, tended to have become somewhat globalized.
And, most importantly, it was also highly
credential inflated , even by then.
Furthermore, it was not, by any means, a meritocratic system, as Collins also pointed out quite well, and gave sources.
While it has been perceived here generally as a victimless and costless flourishing of transnational academia, this educational globalization has exacerbated enormous potential problems of loyalty and security for civilizations, countries, agencies and companies, who are awash in foreign nationals performing often outsourced, offshored, sensitive, often IP heavy, tasks.
Why hack a company (or a government agency) when you can have your VP national (or agency Director) on staff;
even better, also have a manufacturing plant in your province.
The global company itself notoriously lacks any sense whatsoever of a national loyalty, see eg Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
The globalized university, notably BU, and others in Boston especially, Harvard, MIT, have developed globalistically in tandem.
Put in other terms and in another context, since the US and others in the liberal international educational and economic order, behaves, administratively, corporately, and educationally, in an un nationalist, globalist, manner, why should not apparent un nationalists, such as Snowden, take this somehow as a warrant for their un nationalist actions? I take it that Snowden is rather an un nationalist? Perhaps I am wrong about that.
pizzas can win.
Think of a college diploma as a literal and figurative pizza.
Our credential society, outlined in the book of the same name by Randall Collins, had already, at the time of its writing, tended to have become somewhat globalized.
And, most importantly, it was also highly
credential inflated , even by then.
Furthermore, it was not, by any means, a meritocratic system, as Collins also pointed out quite well, and gave sources.
While it has been perceived here generally as a victimless and costless flourishing of transnational academia, this educational globalization has exacerbated enormous potential problems of loyalty and security for civilizations, countries, agencies and companies, who are awash in foreign nationals performing often outsourced, offshored, sensitive, often IP heavy, tasks.
Why hack a company (or a government agency) when you can have your VP national (or agency Director) on staff;
even better, also have a manufacturing plant in your province.
The global company itself notoriously lacks any sense whatsoever of a national loyalty, see eg Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
The globalized university, notably BU, and others in Boston especially, Harvard, MIT, have developed globalistically in tandem.
Put in other terms and in another context, since the US and others in the liberal international educational and economic order, behaves, administratively, corporately, and educationally, in an un nationalist, globalist, manner, why should not apparent un nationalists, such as Snowden, take this somehow as a warrant for their un nationalist actions? I take it that Snowden is rather an un nationalist? Perhaps I am wrong about that.
BOSTONIA remembers a Chinese national killed in the Boston bombing
A fellow student, invoking what many citizens, of all countries, still no doubt aspire to:
"... a not necessarily rich life, but a peaceful life, with a stable job, a happy family, and a lovely dog."
"... a not necessarily rich life, but a peaceful life, with a stable job, a happy family, and a lovely dog."
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RE CHINA'S ARMY OF GRADUATES NEED OFFSHORING LIKE GERMANY'S AND OURS WHERE TO?
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/12/re-chinas-army-of-graduates-struggle.html
However, not having an inflated and expensive degree, or even a diploma, or bare literacy, has not kept millions of Mexicans from offshoring, migrating, themselves over here.
However, not having an inflated and expensive degree, or even a diploma, or bare literacy, has not kept millions of Mexicans from offshoring, migrating, themselves over here.
Monday, July 15, 2013
RE THE DREW PEARSON FALLACY THE FOUNTAINHEAD
The newspaper editor in The Fountainhead, bad a philosopher as he was, is a nicely if somewhat perversely drawn portrait, of those times.
Revised from Lorch, State and Local Government:The Great Entanglement
American Political Science Convention:
'Professors versus the Laissez-Faire Free Press'
Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
The invisible, the Casanova, hand of the media at play...............
Revised from Lorch, State and Local Government:The Great Entanglement
American Political Science Convention:
'Professors versus the Laissez-Faire Free Press'
Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
The invisible, the Casanova, hand of the media at play...............
AN OLD POST W LORCH'S QUOTATIONS CALL IT ALSO NOW THE SNOWDEN FALLACY
Re the Drew Pearson fallacy:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/sherrod-cartoon-mise-en-scene.html
Term search: Patton.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/sherrod-cartoon-mise-en-scene.html
Term search: Patton.
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DUSTY AIRPORT CHAT TO GET TWEEDY PIE
Dusty, looking much like the cat in the Walt Disney Tweedy Cartoons, revolver trained on the usual suspects, in front of the stagecoach, with the addition of President Putin, looking nonchalant, holding a birdcage to his left, away from Dusty, containing one yellow canary labeled ' Snowden '.
Dusty: "Gimme all yur Edward Snowden an nobody gets hurt, and Gogapflbktwit and I will stop holding up stagecoaches like this.
An that's yur human rites."
Dusty: "Gimme all yur Edward Snowden an nobody gets hurt, and Gogapflbktwit and I will stop holding up stagecoaches like this.
An that's yur human rites."
RE SNOWDEN IP THEFT OFFSHORING PPP TRADING AMERICAN INTERESTS ETC
This was a prescient post from a while back:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-commission-on-ip-theft-new-variation.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-commission-on-ip-theft-new-variation.html
Sunday, July 14, 2013
NOT THAT THERE ARE NOT PLENTY OF OTHER SPECIALISTS OF ALL STRIPES NEEDING OFFSHORING
I just don't know where to begin, with a good cartoon, re offshoring these container loads of worthies to needier climes, trying to achieve equilibrium of expertise globally in the process.
Ms Merkel recently advised Germans to share the wealth by self offshoring by all Germans whose services may be dearer elsewhere, or at least called for there...she is doubtless onto a similar idea.
Ms Merkel recently advised Germans to share the wealth by self offshoring by all Germans whose services may be dearer elsewhere, or at least called for there...she is doubtless onto a similar idea.
RE PRIOR POST RE ARENDT BORNE OUT BY EVENTS SNOWDENGATE snowdenface
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/01/re-facebook.html
Re BBC Snowden:
It has been a long time coming. Say 30 years.
If everyone were willing to more or less give up their privacy anyway, for internet working identity,
they may have reasoned,
what does privacy really mean, anyway?
The West and the East converge, from different directions, so to speak,
the one from totalitarian authority,
the other monopoly laissez faire convergence.
Either way, ultimately, they end up at the same point, so to speak.
Large (unfortunately global) private telecom and internet companies have been developing government-like powers, and information, for a long time now.
Why not harvest them, they may have reasoned, now, while the harvesting is still relatively good,
and the access is, ostensibly, not yet for sale,
so to speak, to the highest bidder?
The dark secret, the endgame, so to speak, of monopoly laissez faire, is a managed economy and society,
where the newer, M & A, entities (financial and otherwise) are, now, ' too big to fail '.
The government siren servers, so to speak, felt, right or wrong, they needed to step in now, in the West.
A pivotal moment shall we say.
Our society needed greater ' management ' in the sense of industrial policy for a long time, but private monopolies were not the direction to have gone in unfortunately, for either sector.
Re BBC Snowden:
It has been a long time coming. Say 30 years.
If everyone were willing to more or less give up their privacy anyway, for internet working identity,
they may have reasoned,
what does privacy really mean, anyway?
The West and the East converge, from different directions, so to speak,
the one from totalitarian authority,
the other monopoly laissez faire convergence.
Either way, ultimately, they end up at the same point, so to speak.
Large (unfortunately global) private telecom and internet companies have been developing government-like powers, and information, for a long time now.
Why not harvest them, they may have reasoned, now, while the harvesting is still relatively good,
and the access is, ostensibly, not yet for sale,
so to speak, to the highest bidder?
The dark secret, the endgame, so to speak, of monopoly laissez faire, is a managed economy and society,
where the newer, M & A, entities (financial and otherwise) are, now, ' too big to fail '.
The government siren servers, so to speak, felt, right or wrong, they needed to step in now, in the West.
A pivotal moment shall we say.
Our society needed greater ' management ' in the sense of industrial policy for a long time, but private monopolies were not the direction to have gone in unfortunately, for either sector.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
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re Bozon contra Bobbitt or eg think tank cramp Fukuyama The End of History and The Last Man
Think cramps...think tramps....think chumps... think chimps....think cant...all a bunch of intellectual dinks really.......dink one sick.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/09/re-japan-retreats-editorial-and-prior.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/09/re-japan-retreats-editorial-and-prior.html
RE SNOWDEN
The Rooskies would love to screw Snowden, (although he is fun politically while he lasts), in that he represents the argument for weak governments everywhere which they, and I, instinctively abhor.
Friday, July 12, 2013
re BBC MALALA SAYS FANATICS FEAR EDUCATION
Sounds like a nice sentiment, and even has a ring of truth to the uninitiated in the ways of western culture and education,
but.............. my view is that, generally, going forward, fanatics of any kind, Western or not, have a lot less than most liberals believe to fear from education, such as it is, either in the West or in the East.
Many fanatics in the West traditionally not only do not fear, but skillfully use and manipulate education systems themselves, and use certain social science disciplinary themes, and those culled from popular and technical education, for their radical initiatives. Many fanatics rewrite various disciplines' stories and themes, notably history.
There are plenty of good examples. Hitler's use of Madison Avenue marketing and propaganda, and Hollywood's motion picture, techniques are only one nice glaring example of a fanatical movement boldly using educational institutions and insights, and cultural and commercial capital, for its fanatical and democratic agenda.
but.............. my view is that, generally, going forward, fanatics of any kind, Western or not, have a lot less than most liberals believe to fear from education, such as it is, either in the West or in the East.
Many fanatics in the West traditionally not only do not fear, but skillfully use and manipulate education systems themselves, and use certain social science disciplinary themes, and those culled from popular and technical education, for their radical initiatives. Many fanatics rewrite various disciplines' stories and themes, notably history.
There are plenty of good examples. Hitler's use of Madison Avenue marketing and propaganda, and Hollywood's motion picture, techniques are only one nice glaring example of a fanatical movement boldly using educational institutions and insights, and cultural and commercial capital, for its fanatical and democratic agenda.
TRADING AMERICAN INTERESTS DEJA VU FREE RIDER NONSENSE
On the eve of bilateral US China trade investment agreement, let's take a walk down memory lane for a moment.
Let's look back at trade with Japan in the 50s and beyond.
Let's look at "Trading American Interests", Foreign Affairs, 1992, and especially this passage, my favorite among many:
"The 1955 agreement contained other controversial aspects. for example Washington cut duties on products of primary interest to third countries in exchange for their extending export opportunities to Japan. Negotiated at a time when other nations actively discriminated against Japanese goods, official Washington viewed these tariff cuts as essential to helping Japan establish a viable pattern of expanding trade. Such benefits went to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden. U.S. officials therefore purchased market share in Europe and Canada for Japanese exports at the expense of American producers and workers."
Re recent articles re China, as a so called ' free rider ' by EU officials in May in a BBC News article: these same foolish things were raised lamely re Japan 30 and 40 years ago, as Eckes pointed out back in 1992, doubtless to similar effect.
These issues are part of the structural political problems this country has always faced on issues of this kind.
Not only do they not get solved, to the advantage of American citizens over other people.
They never even get properly get framed, or addressed, politically, at all.
Let's look back at trade with Japan in the 50s and beyond.
Let's look at "Trading American Interests", Foreign Affairs, 1992, and especially this passage, my favorite among many:
"The 1955 agreement contained other controversial aspects. for example Washington cut duties on products of primary interest to third countries in exchange for their extending export opportunities to Japan. Negotiated at a time when other nations actively discriminated against Japanese goods, official Washington viewed these tariff cuts as essential to helping Japan establish a viable pattern of expanding trade. Such benefits went to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden. U.S. officials therefore purchased market share in Europe and Canada for Japanese exports at the expense of American producers and workers."
Re recent articles re China, as a so called ' free rider ' by EU officials in May in a BBC News article: these same foolish things were raised lamely re Japan 30 and 40 years ago, as Eckes pointed out back in 1992, doubtless to similar effect.
These issues are part of the structural political problems this country has always faced on issues of this kind.
Not only do they not get solved, to the advantage of American citizens over other people.
They never even get properly get framed, or addressed, politically, at all.
BBC THE US NEEDS A BILATERAL INVESTMENT DEAL WITH CHINA
to level the playing field for American workers.
That is what Treasury Secretary Lew says.
It's a Presidential initiative.
Democrats are on board.
Just a day after the nyt article about legislation taking away investment protections for American small investors.
That is what Treasury Secretary Lew says.
It's a Presidential initiative.
Democrats are on board.
Just a day after the nyt article about legislation taking away investment protections for American small investors.
I WOULD HAVE GONE INTO MANAGEMENT
and become a maverick executive too, but one first had to take up golf.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-classic-maverick-executive-bbc-news.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-classic-maverick-executive-bbc-news.html
re deglobalization of IT bbc
The Kremlin is DE globalizing its communications, a move one could easily have predicted, over the Snowden affair, by buying typewriters.
I think that is great. The US spook community will not have the presence of mind to adopt so elementary a tactic. They are more heavily invested in the WWW and in globalization.
I think that is great. The US spook community will not have the presence of mind to adopt so elementary a tactic. They are more heavily invested in the WWW and in globalization.
RE HBR DINOSAUR ARTICLES
I had mentioned on DK's site certain HBR dinosaurs.
One could already smell the coffee in the 70s, with a text book like Vernon and Wells' The Manager In The World Economy.
Vernon had already written Sovereignty At Bay, a book that equivocated about its title a lot, but told a lot more about the handwriting on the wall.
This is only a brief sample of what was there, often from the 50s and 60s, but still being rehashed in 1980:
"One more time: How do you motivate employees?" Herzberg
"New management job: the integrator" Lawrence, Lorsch
"Mirage of Profit Decentralization" Dearden
"Profit in decentralized Profit Responsibility" Dearden
"An uneasy look at performance appraisal" McGregor
"Chairman Mac in perspective" Bennis
"Measuring Organizational Performance" Likert
One could already smell the coffee in the 70s, with a text book like Vernon and Wells' The Manager In The World Economy.
Vernon had already written Sovereignty At Bay, a book that equivocated about its title a lot, but told a lot more about the handwriting on the wall.
This is only a brief sample of what was there, often from the 50s and 60s, but still being rehashed in 1980:
"One more time: How do you motivate employees?" Herzberg
"New management job: the integrator" Lawrence, Lorsch
"Mirage of Profit Decentralization" Dearden
"Profit in decentralized Profit Responsibility" Dearden
"An uneasy look at performance appraisal" McGregor
"Chairman Mac in perspective" Bennis
"Measuring Organizational Performance" Likert
Thursday, July 11, 2013
ANY SAUDI PRINCESS
Should be able to enslave a Kenyan, especially in California.
California is wild.
Call it ' sovereign immunity '.
California is wild.
Call it ' sovereign immunity '.
re Snowden Microsoft China siren servers PPPs trade deals etc
In response, the company said in a statement: "Microsoft does not provide any
government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any
Microsoft product."
China is a real devil isn't it.
Microsoft, a sort of angel.
The US eavesdrops because it has to, of course, now, with globalization of information.
China is a real devil isn't it.
Microsoft, a sort of angel.
The US eavesdrops because it has to, of course, now, with globalization of information.
NATURAL BYPRODUCTS OF MARKET STATE DEVELOPMENTS
are nation state, and intra civilizational, civil wars.
These civil wars, in turn develop naturally, and predictably only now, into general wars, among and across nation states and civilizations, it seems.
These civil wars, in turn develop naturally, and predictably only now, into general wars, among and across nation states and civilizations, it seems.
HERE I AM MAKING A SUMMATION TO THE JURY AS RUMPOLE AFTER BEING ON A DIET
This is my concept of a selfie.
RE THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND HAROLD BLOOM
Maybe a precursor to the recent one, about the Western mind?
American culture produced, no doubt among others of a very different stamp, this Bloom protégé: Camille Paglia.
American culture produced, no doubt among others of a very different stamp, this Bloom protégé: Camille Paglia.
THE MAVERICK ENTREPRENEUR in Africa and elsewhere
Dusty, to the MAVERICK ' opposition ': "Gimme all yur leverage, an nobody gets hurt."
They won't want to move troops in, until later, if ever.
But they will have to protect their investment somehow, a sentiment very easy to understand, and to sympathize with.
They won't want to move troops in, until later, if ever.
But they will have to protect their investment somehow, a sentiment very easy to understand, and to sympathize with.
RE BBC NIGERIA DUSTY HAS THE DROP ON THEM NEXT TO THE STAGECOACH
Dusty looks a little bit Asian here, Fu Manchu moustache, etc.
with revolver trained, backed up again by Goofapflebock, also armed to the teeth, a few individuals pulled out of the stagecoach again, say Gabor Steingart, Marilyn, Jaron Lanier, cacti and tumbleweeds in the background.
Also now at gunpoint, a black man dressed in formal black attire, in a bedraggled black Rumpole esque Homburg hat, with the words Goodluck Jonathan white block capitals across his black coat.
(Dusty's deep voice) to them: "Stick em up." (Only Marilyn fails to comply.)
"Gimme all yur Africa, an nobody gets hurt. That's yur human rites."
with revolver trained, backed up again by Goofapflebock, also armed to the teeth, a few individuals pulled out of the stagecoach again, say Gabor Steingart, Marilyn, Jaron Lanier, cacti and tumbleweeds in the background.
Also now at gunpoint, a black man dressed in formal black attire, in a bedraggled black Rumpole esque Homburg hat, with the words Goodluck Jonathan white block capitals across his black coat.
(Dusty's deep voice) to them: "Stick em up." (Only Marilyn fails to comply.)
"Gimme all yur Africa, an nobody gets hurt. That's yur human rites."
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
re losses re Harvard Sq Grendel's Den and DK's current post and KJ's comment
It seems like I heard that this venerable establishment had gone under.
Maybe I am wrong.
An old friend worked there for some years............
Maybe I am wrong.
An old friend worked there for some years............
AT SOME POINT SO CALLED TRADE UNDER MONOPOLY MARKET CAPITALISM CEASES REALLY TO BE TRADE AT ALL AND BECOMES
Appeasement, or say sanctions, blockade, or third and fourth alternatives.
Since 1970, the list of entities requiring appeasement in Asia has lengthened well beyond Japan, etc.
Terms search: eg Steingart, Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, etc.
Re ' Gibbon ', leverage, etc. , cf. Ch. 1, Trading Places, 'The End Of The American Century', the prefatory quote:
" 'It is much harder to nullify the results of an economic conquest than those of a military conquest.'
Korekiyo Takahashi, 1936"
Since 1970, the list of entities requiring appeasement in Asia has lengthened well beyond Japan, etc.
Terms search: eg Steingart, Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, etc.
Re ' Gibbon ', leverage, etc. , cf. Ch. 1, Trading Places, 'The End Of The American Century', the prefatory quote:
" 'It is much harder to nullify the results of an economic conquest than those of a military conquest.'
Korekiyo Takahashi, 1936"
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
RE BBC CHINESE FIRM TO BUY LLOYDS BUILDING
Makes a lot of good business sense.
Also huge London dock projects.......................................
Guess what that means?
Remember Mary Poppins?
Loss of what she called leverage.
Also huge London dock projects.......................................
Guess what that means?
Remember Mary Poppins?
Loss of what she called leverage.
RE JARON LANIER HE CAN'T BE TALKING ABOUT THE 10 TO 100 DOLLAR per day GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURS OUT THERE
Re Who Owns The Future?, Biafrans and Indonesians, various Africans, Indians, Chinese, cannot be those nimble entrepreneurs, talking back to siren servers, he is addressing, surely?
RE STEINGART ETC AND NOT FIGHTING A WAR TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
What do you think about that?
That is the ultimate stealth weapon, really, isn't it?
Mere free trade.
A market state is a state waiting to be overridden, no?
"Never, in the history of human conflict........"
That non war has been going on for decades now, under the so called radar.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/see-david-kaisers-current-post-and-my.html
That is the ultimate stealth weapon, really, isn't it?
Mere free trade.
A market state is a state waiting to be overridden, no?
"Never, in the history of human conflict........"
That non war has been going on for decades now, under the so called radar.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/see-david-kaisers-current-post-and-my.html
WEEKLY AUDIENCE A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT PICTURE CHINA RECENTLY IN THE ASCENDANT
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RE BBC PAKISTAN BIN LADEN CREDIBILITY PROBLEM
Of course this has not prevented the IMF from announcing a 5+B loan to Pakistan, just the other day.
Monday, July 8, 2013
RE BBC cf RELATED THEMES MARKET STATE CONDOTTIERI foibles
Condottieri employees:
Shane Todd
Edward Snowden
Sunday, July 7, 2013
RE BOSTON AND ALL OF THAT
A comment from DK's site:
"Professor
Thanks for the update. I have not spent time there since 1980 really.
It once seemed a wonderful place culturally and intellectually, but it already had a lot of the, how to put it, liberal, yet so called intellectual, internationalist, seriousness with blitheness, short comings, that were to bear the fruits you now chronicle in the next period.
The bipartisan market forces that quietly ran that world continued to accrue power, regardless of political party, cultural or community values, or artistic criteria.
They did not worry too much about academic principles, or business scruples, really.
That was window dressing for the plebs.
I should know. I still have a load of the Harvard business school articles from that time in the BU MBA program. Leadership.........
They read like dinosaurs in commercial relations now.
all the best,"
"Professor
Thanks for the update. I have not spent time there since 1980 really.
It once seemed a wonderful place culturally and intellectually, but it already had a lot of the, how to put it, liberal, yet so called intellectual, internationalist, seriousness with blitheness, short comings, that were to bear the fruits you now chronicle in the next period.
The bipartisan market forces that quietly ran that world continued to accrue power, regardless of political party, cultural or community values, or artistic criteria.
They did not worry too much about academic principles, or business scruples, really.
That was window dressing for the plebs.
I should know. I still have a load of the Harvard business school articles from that time in the BU MBA program. Leadership.........
They read like dinosaurs in commercial relations now.
all the best,"
RE BBC THE NEW GLOBAL MIDDLE CLASS LINDA YUEH GURU FAUX MIDDLE CLASS
"According to organisations like the United Nations and the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it's someone who earns or spends
$10 to $100 per day."
Let's call it, just for the sake of argument, that it's mostly, for many many millions of people, much closer to $10 a day.
That is the global so called middle class they are describing. They don't want to get into too many of those details.
This is what they mean by ' middle class '.
Try: faux middle class.
How does that make you feel? Good?
Call it pseudo middle.
A market state middle class is not some place you would want to live,
or guess what, even visit.
Let's call it, just for the sake of argument, that it's mostly, for many many millions of people, much closer to $10 a day.
That is the global so called middle class they are describing. They don't want to get into too many of those details.
This is what they mean by ' middle class '.
Try: faux middle class.
How does that make you feel? Good?
Call it pseudo middle.
A market state middle class is not some place you would want to live,
or guess what, even visit.
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RE BBC 5.3B IMF LOAN TO PAKISTAN
Another globalist deal that will come back to bite the creators of the IMF, us, the average Americans among us.
WB IMF, OECD, dollar diplomacy, etc.
How grateful, either way, do you think the Pakis are likely to be, down the line, toward their western bankers?
WB IMF, OECD, dollar diplomacy, etc.
How grateful, either way, do you think the Pakis are likely to be, down the line, toward their western bankers?
Saturday, July 6, 2013
RE JEFFERSON VERSUS HAMILTON LOOKING AT STEELE COMMAGER
Weak government, I mean really weak government, was already outdated in Jefferson's time. That is the sad part. (It was also not necessarily a so called enlightenment ideal. It had other sources.)
A so called market state regime, nowadays, will only set a stage for stronger NON MARKET states, whatever they are, to follow.
The alternative, of course, under a Jeffersonian system, to resumption of stronger states, is a quasi perpetual weak, Hobbesian, state of nature of all against all.
A so called market state regime, nowadays, will only set a stage for stronger NON MARKET states, whatever they are, to follow.
The alternative, of course, under a Jeffersonian system, to resumption of stronger states, is a quasi perpetual weak, Hobbesian, state of nature of all against all.
Friday, July 5, 2013
RE DIAGNOSIS INSUFFICIENT OUTRAGE NYT
So, what is the prescription, more politics as usual, under the present structural political system presumably.
What does ' outrage ' do?
We have often had a lot of that, here, generation in, generation out. Especially the decades leading up to the Civil War.
Little structural change whatsoever, before, or long after, the Civil War.
A token structural blip, during F. Roosevelt's Administration.
Not all that much, really, structurally.
What does ' outrage ' do?
We have often had a lot of that, here, generation in, generation out. Especially the decades leading up to the Civil War.
Little structural change whatsoever, before, or long after, the Civil War.
A token structural blip, during F. Roosevelt's Administration.
Not all that much, really, structurally.
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