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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Sunday, September 8, 2013

MANOEUVRING FOR OPEN WW IV NOW LONG UNDER WAY

Early stages of this conflict began several years ago.

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RE LEONHARDT VS SAMUELSON DEFICIT ADDICTION IS A BI PARTISAN DISEASE

'Before I explain why, let me admit that I write this column reluctantly. As a rule, I don’t comment on or criticize other columnists. To do so would result in too much “inside baseball” and would personalize policy disputes in an unhelpful way for readers. Let them decide for themselves.' Samuelson

What does 'inside baseball' mean?

What is 'personalize policy dispute' supposed to mean, to whom?

What does 'Let them decide for themselves' ever mean?

Leonhardt and Samuelson usual duet:

No baseball here,

what policy disputes,

they always decide for themselves.

NUDE RHINE KING GOD KILLS THREE UNBELIEVERS IN ANTIOCH

'Antioch' always suggests fringe sectarian violence, and the abnormal, but this is even weirder...

Saturday, April 21, 2018

THE WHIG INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION UNMASKED J C D CLARK

'Why was England so special?' has encouraged us to adopt a teleology of economic growth, and to give immense emphasis to those respects in which England was different; this emphasis has naturally colored our limited vision of all those other respects in which England was similar to its major European rivals. The question might be better put: 'Why were continental states delayed in their economic development?' Thus expressed, our attention is directed inexorably back to the impact of revolution and war, which inhibited, disrupted, and sometimes devastated, large areas of the continental European economy in the quarter-century after 1789 (only occasionally do we sense a silent presence, just over the mental horizon of most economic historians - the Royal Navy). Clark, p 74

BILL GATES LAUDS ROGER FEDERER TIME MAGAZINE EQUAILTARIANISM SOUNDS GOOD UNTIL DO YOU FEEL LUCKY?

First of all, it is a grossly unrealistic utopian ideal dating from the beginning of the Age of the Democratic Revolution.

The biggest implication for wealthier societies and all individuals within them, is that global equalitarianism means income convergence. Guess what the global average or median income is per capita.

It's the issue few economists will touch, baby.

The kiss of death for the whole discipline, ab initio. And it's now barrelling down on all of them and us. They are scattering in all directions like leaves blown in the wind, baby!

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men

gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matthew 7:16

Rodrik has tried to broach it somewhat indirectly, ends up with merdre on his face I suspect.

Piketty won't even touch it....Capital in the 21ST Century. He just left the whole towering enormous topic out, baby! Smart guy....

Tumbling global growth.
Catapulting average, mean, or median, income convergence: take your pick. Do you feel lucky?

Stake in the heart of The Age of the Democratic Revolution....

You can quote me: Boomerbuster

OLD RUPERT CHAPMAN COMMENT RUFUS FEARS SYRIA GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES

Sunday, June 1, 2014

RUFUS FEARS THE MIDDLE EAST THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES RUPERT CHAPMAN COMMENT

"Stimulating and thought provoking as per usual! I have only one comment, which is on the Middle East, which is my own specialization. The situation today in the Middle East is precisely the same as it has been for the last 5,000 years. I have, for many years, referred to it as either 'the 5,000 year war', or as 'stable instability'. To explain what I mean, some 5,000 years ago the Stela of the Vultures is the earliest record of a war - between the Sumerians, in what is today southern Iraq, and the Elamites, in what is today southern Iran. In Iraq itself, for the last 5,000 years there has been tension, and frequently open warfare, between the south, Sumer/Babylonia, and the north, Assyria. The mountains of the northeast have always been a separate culture area, as they are with the Kurds (known there since at least the 4th century A.D.) today, at war with the powers in the plains. The second great enemy of the Assyrians, after the Elamites and the Persians, was the kingdom of Urartu in what is now eastern Turkey, later the independent kingdom of Armenia. In the heyday of Sumerian culture, between 3500 and 2000 B.C., the Sumerians had colonies along the Middle Euphrates in what is today Syria. The Syrians and the Mesopotamians traded and intermittently fought wars against each other. Syria itself has been a single culture, east of the mountains which mark the northern extension of the Great Rift Valley along the Mediterranean Coast, but never a unified country until the French created one. War between the Syrian city-states was endemic throughout all periods of antiquity when they were not under the control of some external power. The Mediterranean Coastal Region was always culturally separate from Inland Syria, and always an economic trading culture between the great powers which surrounded it. Further south, what is today Israel and the West Bank was always either at war with Transjordan, or in an uneasy peace, and likewise in relation to Syria and what is now Lebanon, and to Egypt, the nearest great power, and the dominant culture. What keeps all of these relations of conflict and limited co-operation in place is, to me, one of the most interesting unasked, and, therefore, unanswered questions of historical studies."

Friday, April 20, 2018

REPRISE THE COLONIZATIONISTS SOMEONE SAW

Saturday, April 1, 2017

LINCOLN, ALSO JEFFERSON MADISON CLAY, WAS AND REMAINED A COLONIZATIONIST

'In fact colonizationism took precedence over emancipation.' Gideon Welles on Lincoln, see Magness Page, p 108, 109.

As I have pointed out here, his whole political career resonated with this colonization theme.

Emancipation during the Civil War, without having first placed immediate colonization plans on a firm and agreed political footing, especially within his own party, was Lincoln's own special personal blunder, among other really big ones.

My suspicion is that the only way he might have gotten cooperation for such plans in our fragmented system, was to have threatened to halt the war, in its very midst, declare an armistice, treaty agreeing to secession, or something else, unless an agreed, firmly established, and multi year plan for colonization were first hammered out by Congress and agreed by him.

The other huge point to make (Clausewitz or whatever):

Why even embark on a war which, even if you quote ' win ', you cannot then achieve the outcome (colonization) which you most intended to achieve? See George Julian's remark, Magness and Page, p 109, re if he had known colonization would not work whether his preliminary notice to the rebels would have been given.

After all, Lincoln had won the war, before he was killed, yet no colonization plan, whatsoever, worthy of the name had ever been firmly put in place and agreed by Congress.

In fact, the opposite was where it stood when he died.

Further, the decision to recruit blacks as Union soldiers violated Lincoln's own principles, and made the whole project for colonization difficult to carry forward. By the end of the war, there were about 100,000 of these, who had been armed.

Lincoln expressed concern that these freed trained and armed ex slaves might then go back into the south and commence a race war there. One wonders why he didn't think of these things before that time.

Nevertheless the Civil War outcome was nothing whatever like what he had hoped for:

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,-- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifyling them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." Abraham Lincoln, 4th Debate.

DEMOCRATS SUE TRUMP RUSSIA AND WIKILEAKS LOL

What is the legal remedy: Depose Trump, impose Hillary?
Some equitable remedy?

Impeachment, of course, a different proceeding, in a different forum.

At least they refrained from using the Logan Act!

Or did they?

GAMBLE'S SENTENCE HE DESERVED THE DEATH PENALTY UNDER BRITISH LAW AS A TRAITOR TERRORIST

A teenager who tricked his way into obtaining the email and phone accounts of senior US intelligence officials has been sentenced.

Kane Gamble, 18, targeted CIA, FBI and US Department of Justice databases from his bedroom in Leicestershire.

The Old Bailey was told Gamble, who has admitted a number of charges, damaged the "effectiveness" of the wider law enforcement community.

He will serve two years at a youth detention centre.

This kid will be back...

RE KRUGMAN'S SNAKE OIL SLUMP THE TRUMP SUMP GREASE TRAP

It's hard, actually impossible, to dig yourself out of a Globalization Trap, created by the likes of Krugman, back onto economic level ground, ever again.

Trump's policies so far are a band aid over, or better still, a sump under, the yawning and miles deep Rotten Globalization Oil Trap.

Call it a Snake Oil Sump, A Trump Sump, under a Globalization Trap.

Commercial food businesses all have grease traps somewhere on site, where the used rancid oil of commerce is stored, quantitative easing, and these pits are periodically sucked out by heavy vacuum sump slump trucks.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

YOU MAY SAY I HAVE TO BE WRONG SOMEHOW BUT IF WHAT LIEO PUNDITS HAVE ALWAYS SAID WERE TRUE

then we would all be comfortably retired on the Costa Brava, or wherever, that Western prosperous persons should have retired to by now.

But that has not been the case....

So, what you were told about the inherent prosperity of the LIEO, for you, was not at all true after all.

So maybe you will admit that perhaps I have not been so wrong.

SOMEONE AT NYT SAID HE WAS NEVER EDITTED REALLY

Was it Brooks? Maybe.

Staggering to think that his editorials, so inconsistent, one with another, over a long period of time, could be just the unadulterated product of the Brooks mind working. Yet it seems to be true!

Further, in reflecting on the day to day contradictions in NYT editorial writing, how easy it is, child's play really, to turn one editorial immediately against its brother that same day, it seems that his statement may actually be too true.

It is a very sad commentary, in a way, all on its own. But then no one would expect Kristof to agree with Blow!

The beauty of my blog is that if you don't like it, you don't have to read it, whereas many reasonably feel like they have little substantial alternative to something like the NYT, like it or not.

I HAD A GOOD FRIEND WHO WENT TO AFRICA THE PROMISED LAND in about 1970

He loved Swaziland.....He came back a shadow of his former self, malaria, frequent grand mal seizures, etc. etc.

I had tried to warn him. (I had read all of Tarzan, years before. Fiction, but a few important facts.)

Here is the Swazi leadership now, over 40 years later.

They have the highest incidence of HIV in the world, unfortunately, but otherwise, they look fat and happy, for Africans.

They actually have a king, a good thing:

King Mswati III with his retinue in Swaziland

King Mswati III with his retinue in Swaziland

REVERSE WHIG INTERPRETATION COLONISTS QUEERED BY RADICAL WHIG THEOLOGY AND PRESS

And now, so are you........

"I thank God, there are no free-schools, nor (Puritan) printing; and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!" William Berkeley, Royal Governor of Virginia, to London, 1671. See P Starr, p 53.

PEOPLE LIKE PROFESSOR KAISER MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YOU ARE A DEEPLY BIFURCATED SOCIETY

That is not true at all.

You are a deeply and highly fragmented, ignorant, dazed and confused, mass of heterogeneous ethnic and civilization people, who, frankly, don't know, collectively, which end is up.

The Russians and the Chinese are both very aware of this hopeful situation for their plans, going forward.

LEONHARDT TEXAS RISING LATINO POPULATION CAUSE FOR DEMOCRATIC CELEBRATION

Rising Democracy in Texas will raise all boats....that's the Lionhard theme...

Total Bullshit. See other NYT articles today, EDSALL'S GENTRIFICATION PROBLEM AND MALCOLMSON'S SILICON PENIS

especially, re the Democratic elite.

You been queered, again, by the Lionhard NYT!

What rights do I have to say such things?
The same ones they do.

I can't even go into what the far Right Media does to you. Mere crude poetic metaphors are inadequate.
It's unprintable, and hard to physically describe, really.

I HAD DEBATED POSTING SOMETHING ON THIS

It had seemed obvious, to me, that it would be very difficult to be sucked out of a decompressed plane window, if the seat belt is fastened....

THE MENU BRUNI LEONHARDT AMERICAN CANNIBAL POLITICIAN O ROARKE

You don't know whether it's coffee, wine, cheese, vitello saltimbocca, or what!

a peppy, rangy, toothy progressive with ratios of folksiness to urbanity and irreverence to earnestness that might well have been cooked up in some political laboratory

You all will eat anything......

Terms search: mystery meat

This post is dedicated to Newt Gingrich, Paul Krugman

See eg:

Thursday, November 2, 2017

HACKING INTO GLOBALIST MYSTERY MEAT TAX CUT ECONOMICS THE MENU

...There are no deficits, in the jungle....

RE OUR GOLD LEAF PRESIDENCY THAT NORTHERN EDSALL WHITE HOUSE QUEERING YOU TOO, BABY!

Gertner article FBI scandal queering you too, on top of Collins' Southern White House jab. You got two White Houses, both White.

That was what you always had had, baby, you and your ancestors just never ever even knew it....

How woke can you be, from all of that?

You are dazed and confused.

Europe is debating a civil war over democratic values, Macron, At the Barricades.

I have had more than enough of so called democratic, multiculturalist (anarchist) values, so bring it on in Europe.

Terms search: you been queered

KRUGMAN'S WOKE PEOPLE HAVE EDSALL'S GENTRIFICATION PROBLEM AND MALCOLMSON'S SILICON PENIS QUEERING THEM AGAIN!

This post is dedicated to David Leonhardt.

David Leonhardt, in rough translation?
David Lionhard!

A perfect thorough paced tool for the NYT. See Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics, p 46.

Terms search: you been queered, thorough paced tools, tipping point, pivot

WHY ARE KRUGMAN'S PEOPLE SO MUCH MORE WOKE

Answer: They amn't more woke, at all, you idiot!

They are just more mad (disturbed), feel fully queered, yet again, and highly confused, but not, not, more (Jehovah's Witness) woke, baby!

RE NYT SCOTT MALCOLMSON SILICON VALLEY INNOVATION HAS NOT BEEN GOOD FOR YOU, BABY!

So much bullshit here...
I didn't even read it.
(Why pay for stupid shit?)
I can smell it!

But, let's move on to the next NYT article title....

RE THE MENU JORDAN PETERSON IS NOT ELIZABETH DAVID

I didn't buy this book because of him.

I actually never heard of him, until today.

I have ordered his new book.
I love fresh psychologist meat!

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

RE CYCLES OF HISTORY WWI WWII EUROPE TOAST

Most of the Great Powers that fought WWI and WWII never came back and never will come back:

Britain
France
Austria Hungary
Toast

As great powers, they have been, since WWII, now are, and likely will always be, toast, baby, going forward...

Spain, old toast.

Germany, Japan, Italy, new, al dente toast.

They are not coming back, even Germany, Japan, or Italy.

No cycles.

MANSLAUGHTER BUT NEITHER MURDER NOR CANNIBALISM IT WWW FACEBOOK ETHICS

The Contagion of Liberty:

Re prior posts, eg:

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

THE MENU ROAD KILL CANNIBALISM MORAL PHILOSOPHY HYPOTHETICAL

Thursday, September 7, 2017

THE MENU GLOBALIZATION IDEA

Friday, December 29, 2017

AUTOMATION CANNIBALISM LOGIC DEMOCRACY NOW LIBERIA

Thursday, March 9, 2017

ROOSEVELT JOHNSON FDR'S POST COLONIAL LIBERALISM

I ran across a German court case example:

"He arrived laughing and joking. Just over two hours later Armin Meiwes, the self-confessed German cannibal who killed and ate another man, left a stunned courtroom scarcely able to believe his luck.

After a unique two-month trial that has gripped both Germany and the wider world with its gory details, a judge yesterday sentenced Meiwes to a mere eight and a half years in jail after ruling that he was guilty of manslaughter and not murder.

The prosecution had demanded a 15-year-term. But Judge Volker Mütze said he accepted the cannibal's argument that the man he met through the internet and later fried in garlic - 43-year-old computer engineer Bernd Jürgen Brandes - had wanted to die.

"The famous lust for murder was not there. The killing was very unpleasant for Meiwes," the judge said. "There were no base motives." He added: "These were two psychologically sick people who found each other. A door has been opened into a world which we immediately want to shut, a grey zone where people gather on the internet to live out their fantasies."

German prosecutors yesterday said they were considering whether to appeal against the verdict. "We believe this was murder," prosecutor Andreas Köhler said.

The cannibal's lawyer, Harald Ermel, said his client was "satisfied" with the result, and was now considering numerous offers from film companies and publishers. With good behaviour, Meiwes was likely to be free in four and a half years, Mr Ermel pointed out. He would probably write his memoirs.

There was no reason why he should not eventually return home to the timbered farmhouse in Rotenburg, central Germany, where he cut up and refrigerated bits of Brandes, burying his skull in the garden, the lawyer said. "He isn't a murderer," he added. "He has to live."

Justifying his verdict, Judge Mütze yesterday described how 42-year-old Meiwes had experienced cannibal feelings as a young boy, after his father and two brothers walked out on the family home. He had also fantasised about eating Sandy, the blond boy hero of the Sixties TV series Flipper.

These feelings got stronger after the death of his "domineering" mother in 1999 and eventually led him to place an advert on the internet seeking someone to "slaughter and eat", the court heard. He got a reply, from Bernd Brandes, an outwardly successful manager with Siemens in Berlin with secret masochistic fantasies.

"The victim offered up his body because he wanted to get the kick of his life," the judge told the court in Kassel, as Meiwes sitting next to his lawyer listened avidly. It was, the judge said, "to be the final act, the high point of his life".

In an email read to the court yesterday Brandes told the cannibal: "I hope you are serious because I really want it. My nipples look forward to your stomach ..."

In March 2001 Brandes took the day off work, wiped all evidence of his masochistic fantasies from his computer and travelled to Rotenburg by train. He met Meiwes and went to the isolated farmhouse where he lived alone. Meiwes then showed Brandes the "slaughter room" he had constructed upstairs.

Later that evening Meiwes cut off Brandes' penis and both men tried - and failed - to eat it. Meiwes then ran a bath for Brandes, the judge said, who by this stage had knocked back 20 sleeping tablets and a bottle of Vick's cold cure. Meiwes waited for his victim to pass out by reading a Star Trek novel. At 3.30am Meiwes laid his unconscious victim on the slaughter table and stabbed him to death. He then hung him on a hook, cut out some of his organs, and went to bed.

The court in Kassel was told that the cannibal videoed the entire episode, and had told the dying Brandes: "I can't do anything else." The next afternoon he set about cutting off parts of Brandes, which he stored in his freezer.

By the time detectives finally knocked on the door of his farmhouse in December 2002, he had eaten "about 20kg" of his victim, the judge said.

In an interview with Stern magazine shortly before his trial, the cannibal admitted to cooking parts of Brandes with olive oil, garlic, pepper and nutmeg, and eating him with sprouts, potatoes and a bottle of South African red wine on a festively decorated table.

Brandes also told the magazine he had used one of his victim's feet as a table ornament and had tried to make flour by grating an arm bone after first baking it in the oven. He buried Brandes' bones, skin and innards in the garden while reciting the 23rd psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want ..."

The magazine also revealed that Meiwes believed that after eating Brandes, who spoke good English, his own English had improved.

Yesterday Judge Mütze admitted that the cannibal's behaviour clearly breached what he called "civilisational norms". He also accepted the testimony of expert witnesses who had earlier told the court Meiwes was mentally capable of standing trial.

But there was little evidence to support the prosecution's main contention that this was a sexual murder, carried out for the purposes of gratification, he ruled. After the killing, Meiwes had watched his homemade video "two or three times" while sitting in his armchair, the judge said, but it was not clear whether he was sexually aroused. "There was an agreement between them. This was the killing of a person without murder," he concluded.

Last night legal experts described the case and its extraordinary denouement as unprecedented. "This will make legal history," Professor Arthur Kreuzer of the Institute for Criminology at Giessen University said. "The killer sought out his victim and the victim sought out his killer."

Police revealed during the trial that there were at least 800 participants in cannibal forums on the internet and two suspected cases of other cannibal killings. Detectives said Meiwes had been questioned as part of investigations in Frankfurt and in Austria. He has not been charged with these murders.

After dismembering Brandes, Miewes returned to the internet and placed adverts asking for further volunteers for slaughter. He met five other people, including a German hotel manager working in London, but did not kill any of them after they failed to give him their consent.

Several of the witnesses gave anonymous evidence in court which appeared to back Meiwes' assertion that he was only interested in willing victims. One of them - a German cook - turned up wearing ski goggles to avoid being identified.

The cannibal's defence team had claimed that he was guily of "killing on demand" - a lesser charge with a maximum five-year sentence.

Last night Meiwes' lawyer said it was unlikely his client would eat anyone else. "He certainly won't repeat it," he said. Miewes had been in jail for a year. He was now a polite, popular prisoner who helped others and wrote their letters, he added."

Examples such as these, of human social behavior, unfortunately put what I consider acceptable reasons, in extreme cases, for some people to consider euthanasia, in an unfavorable light.

TRUMP NIKKI HALEY THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT AN AMBASSADOR IS FOR

George Kennan.

Re UN Ambassador, dittohead.

"...ambassador to Moscow. The assignment has nothing to do with Soviet - American relations. The present ambassador, it seems, is leaving. It is the election year of 1952. For purely domestic political reasons, the administration is afraid to leave the post vacant. Foreign policy -- policy toward the Soviet Union -- plays no part in the decision. It never occurs to people in the administration that the position of American ambassador to Moscow has anything to do with policy. They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an ambassador is for...." Kennan, 'FLASHBACKS'

The Cubans, apparently, know what others' Ambassadors and diplomats are for: traumatic brain injury...