Dusty gimme al dem apples

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/dusty-got-em-out-by-stagecoach.html

CLASSIC IDIOCY PAST BLAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/07/re-bbc-gsk-smart-offshoring.html

RE MISSION TO THE GENTILES

Reviewing E P Sanders' The Historical Figure Of Jesus, especially Ch 12, the interesting thing, to me, which Sanders points out, contrary to what one would expect by casually reading the gospels, is, that it seems the historical Jesus and his followers during his life had no mission to gentiles whatsoever. See Sanders' account for references and arguments.

RE HUNTINGTON

"One dissenting view came from Samuel Huntington, whose book, The Clash of Civilizations, predicted a series of conflicts between regions based on different political and cultural values.  He was half right--that is one feature of the world situation that is now emerging, but only one." DK

As far as his analysis went, Huntington seems, to me, to have been fully right. 

Or perhaps it might be better to say he is about to be shown to have been fully right.

It is better than being, terms search, flatly wrong.

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."

RE CHINA ACCUSES US JAPAN

When Japan attacks a ship, the US will accuse Japan, too.

They will both, Japan eventually, and China already, be dubbed human rights violators. That is carte blanche.

Cunningham

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/re-hunting-birds-of-paradise-maureen.html

RE PIKETTY ROBOTIC ECONOMISTS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/adam-smiths-invisible-hand-and-maverick.html

RE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT SO CALLED FAR RIGHT

"The party is opposed to mass immigration, free trade and the euro."

If this is all it takes to be considered ' far right ' by the BBC, then surely I must be far right.

This used to be part of what one called merely a ' good citizen '.

Everyone who repudiates the EU in the name of their own country and what may be left of its political and geographic integrity, is now labeled Far Right. 

What nonsense.

A LITTLE BACKGROUND EEU EU SIX MONTHS AGO

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25401179

"Contrary to the popular view, Mr Putin did not start with sanctions. He offered Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych major incentives: significantly lower gas prices, large-scale industrial co-operation projects, and soft credits."

ECB WARNS INVESTORS GAMBLING FOR PROFITS

They are all at The Casino of the Party of Davos

re Nevins' works Civil War

He is great for someone already familiar with prior works, and so long as you want to read thousands of pages meandering seemingly aimlessly (as our politics always has done) through forests of classic chicken guano American political wrangling.

I have started reading a work more to the point, and a whole lot shorter, and better expressed, re points Nevins later reiterates more at length, The Civil War And Reconstruction, J G Randall. 

RE EU COUNTRIES REPUDIATING EU SOVEREIGNTY AT BAY AGAIN

It was only a matter of time really.

These countries' electorates have begun to realize that their respective countries, and their EU, have been taken over, really, as well as everyone else almost, by what Faux called the Party of Davos, globalist very large corporate interests. The Party just happens to meet in Europe.

Big corporate interests, and globalist socialist interests as well, each detest mere nationalism, branded ever since before WW I, but especially after WWII, as a German type Fascist aberration. 

Capitalists and communists each planned for the mere nation state, as well as the imperialist and monarchist states, to wither away into counterposed utopian universalisms.

Capitalism, no less than communism, was often conceived (promulgated is a better word) as leading, by natural and enlightened market forces,  either Whig or Hegelian, toward universal equality and prosperity (a globalized, limitlessly expanding (limitless economic growth), and prosperous middle class). 

For example, DK cites Simon Kuznets espousing this view as late as the 1950s: "By the mid-1950s the economist Simon Kuznets was writing that capitalism had entered a new phase characterized by more equality, rather than less."

(The forces promulgating such a view of capitalism were those corporatist entities, using media vehicles, and relying on globalist institutions, already long at work, and latterly chronicled in such works as Sovereignty At Bay.) 

RE FEDERAL STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Just stop, and take a look, some time, at a highly populated urban area of the US, and just count overlapping local, city and county, and multi county districts, and also state, governments, in that several county, and or several state, area.

Lorch phrased his book ' the great entanglement ', for reasons.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/05/re-dk-post.html

RE EU

I always have thought that a politically unified Europe was a terrible idea, beyond  a mere trade, or a customs, barrier reducer.

Europeans are now afraid of globalization; 
way too late my friends.

The wolf of American liberal anarchism, and its Party of Davos sponsored globalization, are at every door.

RE 30 YEAR GAS DEAL RUSSIA CHINA YOUR STATE YOUR COMPANY

Could your company do anything like that?

See: Long term deals in Australia.

TERMS SEARCH: YOUR STATE, YOUR COMPANY, 

Australia

THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-week-in-privacy-just-between-us-nyt.html

RE MACRO ECONOMICS ANTHROPOLOGY

One might as well believe in survival of the fittest as in market rectitude.

RE THE LAISSEZ FAIRY'S NEMESIS

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-laissez-fairys-fairy.html

FAUX VACCINATIONS HUMAN RITES

They're everywhere you want to be.

Very liberal idea.