It has never been so good for Average Americans. Even prior generations of government tax payer funded basic research, not at first private, went preponderantly eventually into private corporate hands, regarding profitability, very quickly. In the end those older products themselves were eventually largely off shored, licensed away, stolen by industrial espionage, and or outsourced.
It will be good for the growing and also, nevertheless, shrinking, pool of global middle class elites now long under construction.
Many foreign governmental and quasi private interests already invest heavily in, even control at times, much university basic research in the United States
"Never, in the history of human conflict........."
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
RE BOSTON CHINA TAKING OVER UP THERE
9/11, Boston Marathon, etc. Many of the 9/11 bombers embarked in Boston.
Just unfortunate coincidences, for a city so welcoming, open, and friendly, to foreign students from everywhere, really.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3718240346515774516;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname
All the current Bostonia articles and photos, should be seen.
I recommend Shuang Hao's frank observation, re American girls, on page 37, among many others, sprinkled throughout the issue.
Just unfortunate coincidences, for a city so welcoming, open, and friendly, to foreign students from everywhere, really.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=3718240346515774516;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname
All the current Bostonia articles and photos, should be seen.
I recommend Shuang Hao's frank observation, re American girls, on page 37, among many others, sprinkled throughout the issue.
GLOBALIZATION TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN THE
The Dumb money. Economists' money.
Money, that is, also,
money without a familiar voice,
money without a memory,
money without friends,
money without a community or a region,
money without a country,
money without forebears
and without descendants.
Globalists' money.
A small number of very wealthy individuals have a lot of it,
and are its hermits.
They are either so called liberals or conservatives, but all of them are globalists ahead of being from a particular country.
Some of them, see later post above, are also so called basic science philanthropists; for whom are they primarily philanthropic?
Globalist, largely foreign, interests and constituencies, not American ones.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/08/see-david-kaisers-current-post.html
dumb money.
See also The Big Short.
Pace his Princeton baccalaureate address a while back, noblesse oblige here is a genuinely foreign ideal.
Money, that is, also,
money without a familiar voice,
money without a memory,
money without friends,
money without a community or a region,
money without a country,
money without forebears
and without descendants.
Globalists' money.
A small number of very wealthy individuals have a lot of it,
and are its hermits.
They are either so called liberals or conservatives, but all of them are globalists ahead of being from a particular country.
Some of them, see later post above, are also so called basic science philanthropists; for whom are they primarily philanthropic?
Globalist, largely foreign, interests and constituencies, not American ones.
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/08/see-david-kaisers-current-post.html
dumb money.
See also The Big Short.
Pace his Princeton baccalaureate address a while back, noblesse oblige here is a genuinely foreign ideal.
classic blast re monopoly capitalism and the way things have gone south
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/10/re-multinational-corporation-term-david.html
nyt today Justice Depatment and mortgage backed securities...,
Thurston had said:
Who do you think they will bailout, you or me?
nyt today Justice Depatment and mortgage backed securities...,
Thurston had said:
Who do you think they will bailout, you or me?
JEFFERSON DAVIS SELF DETERMINATION UKRAINE
Is Ukraine versus Crimea (and eastern Ukraine) a fitting analogy to the Civil War or not, regarding retrospective, speculative, questions of self determination?
Certainly the history of Ukraine, and of Crimea, as long a part of USSR, presents a quite different kind of scenario than the United States, re the Civil War.
Certainly the history of Ukraine, and of Crimea, as long a part of USSR, presents a quite different kind of scenario than the United States, re the Civil War.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
RE SELF DETERMINATION THE WILSONIAN CIVIL WAR CONCEPT LINCOLNIAN DETERMINATION
Self determination is a confused concept, to begin with, really.......
However, if one does a thot experiment, and refers to, and takes seriously, the concept of self determination (confused as it nevertheless is), back in time, to the run up to the Civil War, it is hard to put Lincoln on the right side of the troubled concept.
The self determination of the slaves, so to speak, would have played no part in Lincoln's calculation under that concept, except to give them a reservation, or to transport them, perhaps.
Freed slaves would have played no immediate part, in a Lincolnian, Whig, politically self determining, voting constituency.
The emancipation proclamation was a war measure, like so many others throughout history under similar circumstances.
One has only to think back to similar Spanish initiatives in the later 1500s, and especially the 1600s, re slaves in the lower colonies, offered freedom in Spanish Florida, and sometimes taking it. I would call that Spanish Determination.
I would not call that Wilsonian self determination, however; some might.
The South had much stronger self determination type arguments, such as the arguments of each side were, than the North.
Political arguments based on self determination, leaving constitutional arguments aside, based on organized political will, were stronger, in retrospect, for secession than for continued union, regardless of the issue of slavery.
That the North ended up on the right side of history shows how often the right side of history is the side of the stronger.
Thus the Emancipation is better characterized as Lincolnian Determination than Self determination.
However, if one does a thot experiment, and refers to, and takes seriously, the concept of self determination (confused as it nevertheless is), back in time, to the run up to the Civil War, it is hard to put Lincoln on the right side of the troubled concept.
The self determination of the slaves, so to speak, would have played no part in Lincoln's calculation under that concept, except to give them a reservation, or to transport them, perhaps.
Freed slaves would have played no immediate part, in a Lincolnian, Whig, politically self determining, voting constituency.
The emancipation proclamation was a war measure, like so many others throughout history under similar circumstances.
One has only to think back to similar Spanish initiatives in the later 1500s, and especially the 1600s, re slaves in the lower colonies, offered freedom in Spanish Florida, and sometimes taking it. I would call that Spanish Determination.
I would not call that Wilsonian self determination, however; some might.
The South had much stronger self determination type arguments, such as the arguments of each side were, than the North.
Political arguments based on self determination, leaving constitutional arguments aside, based on organized political will, were stronger, in retrospect, for secession than for continued union, regardless of the issue of slavery.
That the North ended up on the right side of history shows how often the right side of history is the side of the stronger.
Thus the Emancipation is better characterized as Lincolnian Determination than Self determination.
RE BOSTONIA COVER SAYS IT ALL REALLY WHAT HAS LONG BEEN WRONG WITH AMERICAN POLICIES
" CHINA: A GENERATION COMES TO LEARN, AND RETURNS TO BUILD "
A replay of Trading Places, 50 years later.
You Only Live Twice.
Never, in the history of human conflict, has so much been given away, by so few, to so many, so quickly, for so little.
A replay of Trading Places, 50 years later.
You Only Live Twice.
Never, in the history of human conflict, has so much been given away, by so few, to so many, so quickly, for so little.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
RE GRANT'S HISTORY OF ROME
His discussion of the last 200 years is very instructive.
A lot of myths dispelled.
One fact, about the course of the later empire, is the gradual elimination of the middle class, in favor either of the army, or of the very rich.
Thus, a good discussion of the economic origins of serfdom, as opposed to slavery, which of course still flourished.
A lot of myths dispelled.
One fact, about the course of the later empire, is the gradual elimination of the middle class, in favor either of the army, or of the very rich.
Thus, a good discussion of the economic origins of serfdom, as opposed to slavery, which of course still flourished.
the menu
Lunch:
Beef, chicken, smoked kipper, black olive, caper bruschetta, marble rye toast.....
fino sherry.
Beef, chicken, smoked kipper, black olive, caper bruschetta, marble rye toast.....
fino sherry.
Monday, March 10, 2014
RE RUSSIA BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY
"Mr President, the Jews have been there, on the wrong side of history, since at least 312 AD.
If you want to kill them, the Jews, off, too, along with the Rooskies, for that reason,
Hallelujah.
Many Americans would applaud you."
If you want to kill them, the Jews, off, too, along with the Rooskies, for that reason,
Hallelujah.
Many Americans would applaud you."
FROM DK'S SITE A SAD COMMENTARY NEVERTHELESS IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS
"When Franklin Roosevelt explicitly went on a crusade for the defense of democracy in 1940-1, he disposed of another enormous asset: his stature as by far the most effective and inspiring democratic leader in the world. Alone among elected leaders, he had struggled against the depression with some success and rallied a great nation behind him. When he announced the Four Freedoms in early 1941--freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear--they struck his countrymen and the world as much more than a slogan. The millions of peoples conquered and oppressed by Hitler and the countless millions still unconquered, a world leader told FDR's envoy Harry Hopkins in the last few days of July 1941, “could receive the kind of encouragement and moral strength they needed to resist Hitler from only one source, and that was the United States. . .. .The world infl uence of the President and the Government of the United States was enormous.” It was not Winston Churchill who spoke those words, but Josef Stalin, and he was right."
"...Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin will inevitably win some victories in his very traditional, utterly cynical struggle for power and influence...."
Stalin, and Putin, I say, each, 'utterly cynical'.......
I tend to side with the likes of Kennan, re Germany and Russia.....: Germany, itself, not quite so bad; Russia, itself, not nearly so good, then, or now.
Roosevelt; I doubt his 'huge stature' globally;
additionally, and most unfortunately, Roosevelt and his administration, especially Morgenthau (understandably), were huge Germany haters, and Soviet lovers, as, e.g. Beschloss' book, The Conquerors, and other writings, including even a note in passing in those of Kennan, clearly show, and also imply.
Terms search, also,
re another sad commentary,
eg: Wilson, zigged zagged
"...Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin will inevitably win some victories in his very traditional, utterly cynical struggle for power and influence...."
Stalin, and Putin, I say, each, 'utterly cynical'.......
I tend to side with the likes of Kennan, re Germany and Russia.....: Germany, itself, not quite so bad; Russia, itself, not nearly so good, then, or now.
Roosevelt; I doubt his 'huge stature' globally;
additionally, and most unfortunately, Roosevelt and his administration, especially Morgenthau (understandably), were huge Germany haters, and Soviet lovers, as, e.g. Beschloss' book, The Conquerors, and other writings, including even a note in passing in those of Kennan, clearly show, and also imply.
Terms search, also,
re another sad commentary,
eg: Wilson, zigged zagged
blast from the past someone liked it why not you too
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/09/see-dks-current-post-who-will-speak-for.html
Sunday, March 9, 2014
RE UKRAINE
See DK's current post, and Kissinger's article, which references this squib on Ukrainian heritage:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612921/Ukraine/30063/Lithuanian-and-Polish-rule
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612921/Ukraine/30063/Lithuanian-and-Polish-rule
Saturday, March 8, 2014
GREAT PAST BLAST ECONOMIC CONSTIPATION
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4750351857255035991
another past blast
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-lester-thurow-future-of-capitalism.html
some astute individual noted this old post
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/07/see-david-kaisers-current-post_28.html
re DK's current post
Each assertion requires differing treatment.
Maybe I'll never get around to that....:
“The peoples of Ukraine, the United States, Europe and Russia need peace and economic recovery, and they can only secure them upon a foundation of political liberalism....
Isn't it overly liberal international order anarchism, itself, which has tended to make peace, and domestic recovery, more urgent needs than ever for each, after all?
"Wicked dictators, we still believe, must go as soon as a few hundred thousand people demonstrate against them in the street, and democracy will naturally follow.”
Well put. Nuf said.
Maybe I'll never get around to that....:
“The peoples of Ukraine, the United States, Europe and Russia need peace and economic recovery, and they can only secure them upon a foundation of political liberalism....
Isn't it overly liberal international order anarchism, itself, which has tended to make peace, and domestic recovery, more urgent needs than ever for each, after all?
"In
the last crisis of the 1930s and 1940s--the subject of my forthcoming book, due
out exactly one month from today--the government of the United States stood
unreservedly for international law, against international anarchy...."
International law, in the old sense, and liberal global anarchic trade and investment, are inconsistent, and the US stood, rather, in the 1930s and 1940s, for the latter, against the former, wherever possible, and thereafter, until now.
International law, in the old sense, and liberal global anarchic trade and investment, are inconsistent, and the US stood, rather, in the 1930s and 1940s, for the latter, against the former, wherever possible, and thereafter, until now.
"Again
and again President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull called upon nations
to respect one another's territorial integrity, and warned that anarchy, once
unleashed, was bound to spread to the western hemisphere..."
The concept of self determination was not a respecter of existing borders; quite the contrary.
A liberal global international economic trade and investment order respects no national borders, as Bobbitt, even, a so called liberal, has pointed out, in some detail, in The Shield Of Achilles.
The concept of self determination was not a respecter of existing borders; quite the contrary.
A liberal global international economic trade and investment order respects no national borders, as Bobbitt, even, a so called liberal, has pointed out, in some detail, in The Shield Of Achilles.
"We
live in a very different world today. The United States and the western
hemisphere are not threatened with invasion, but anarchy threatens much of the
world, including Ukraine..."
Anarchy will be a precurser to incursions. Many soft power incursions, into these highly permeable liberal democratic influence peddling membranes have occurred, long ago, also.
Anarchy will be a precurser to incursions. Many soft power incursions, into these highly permeable liberal democratic influence peddling membranes have occurred, long ago, also.
"Then
in 1999 Bill Clinton led NATO into war against Yugoslavia to stop the ethnic
cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. The Russian government and the UN
Security Council did not bless that war, and thus began a chill in
Russian-American relations... "
We attacked the Orthodox world, albeit its rogue Serbian branch, in defense of the Muslim world, on the very eve of the Arab Spring..... that was a prescription for liberal globalist anarchy in the Balkans, in itself.
We are an ideological, and civilizational, loose cannon.
We attacked the Orthodox world, albeit its rogue Serbian branch, in defense of the Muslim world, on the very eve of the Arab Spring..... that was a prescription for liberal globalist anarchy in the Balkans, in itself.
We are an ideological, and civilizational, loose cannon.
"Wicked dictators, we still believe, must go as soon as a few hundred thousand people demonstrate against them in the street, and democracy will naturally follow.”
Well put. Nuf said.
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