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.