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Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
RE CHINA GREECE DEALS CIVILIZATIONS AT PLAY
A win win for globalization.
China building an airport on Crete, a special gem of market capitalist civilizational diplomacy.
China building an airport on Crete, a special gem of market capitalist civilizational diplomacy.
WITH THE INTERNET
Almost anyone can urge almost anyone to do almost anything in the name of almost anything, including, especially, things done, so to speak, in the name of the people.
Certain politicians, and law firms, are aligning themselves with ' for the people ' slogans here, including gubernatorial candidates.
" It's about the people ".
Certain politicians, and law firms, are aligning themselves with ' for the people ' slogans here, including gubernatorial candidates.
" It's about the people ".
FOR ED BOYLE
Some material in The Clash of Civilizations answers, to some extent, some questions your recent post raised.
Friday, June 20, 2014
MODERN TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS HAVE TO BE MORE OR LESS
Anti Lincoln.
I am also rather anti Lincoln, but for very different reasons.
(Cf, after I wrote this, I saw DK's current post, The Tea Party and Race......)
When Bolsheviki took power, 1917, during WWI, the first thing, almost, they did was to urge lower rank Russian soldiers to arrest their generals.
A military move similar to The Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
I am also rather anti Lincoln, but for very different reasons.
(Cf, after I wrote this, I saw DK's current post, The Tea Party and Race......)
When Bolsheviki took power, 1917, during WWI, the first thing, almost, they did was to urge lower rank Russian soldiers to arrest their generals.
A military move similar to The Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
RE HUNTINGTON
His "Civilizational War and Order", at the end, has some very interesting observations, which, while perhaps exaggerated, are a wonder for having been postulated 17 or 18 years ago.
See especially, for example, the postulated rapprochement between China and Japan, under extra civilizational military threat.
The China Vietnam intra civilizational conflict he postulated, in the South China Sea, is a classic in light of what has been unfolding, now that they plan to send in a second rig.
See especially, for example, the postulated rapprochement between China and Japan, under extra civilizational military threat.
The China Vietnam intra civilizational conflict he postulated, in the South China Sea, is a classic in light of what has been unfolding, now that they plan to send in a second rig.
RE CIVILIZATIONS DK HUNTINGTON
He has a useful chapter "The West, Civilizations, and Civilization."
Ironically, his voice, it seems to me, has turned out to be the voice of 'reason', call it a 'higher' reason, within what he, also apparently, refers to in passing as the 'real' clash, the one within the West, between those like himself and the so called multiculturalists.
I would just add, it has generally been a somewhat concealed clash, an embarrassing one, among the elites such as CFR, Trilaterals, etc; not the common man.
Ironically, his voice, it seems to me, has turned out to be the voice of 'reason', call it a 'higher' reason, within what he, also apparently, refers to in passing as the 'real' clash, the one within the West, between those like himself and the so called multiculturalists.
I would just add, it has generally been a somewhat concealed clash, an embarrassing one, among the elites such as CFR, Trilaterals, etc; not the common man.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
re UKRAINE BLAST HITS MAJOR PIPELINE SENDING GAS TO EUROPE DUSTY
I would call it a clash among, and within, civilizations.
Some Europeans might call it an act of war. I would.
Dusty Cameron: "nuf said."
Merkel Hollande Putin: "Foul."
Li Abe: "Hurrah."
Li: "Our gas deal, with BP (Putin), just got more valuable. That's just good Maverick entrepreneurial investing."
Some Europeans might call it an act of war. I would.
Dusty Cameron: "nuf said."
Merkel Hollande Putin: "Foul."
Li Abe: "Hurrah."
Li: "Our gas deal, with BP (Putin), just got more valuable. That's just good Maverick entrepreneurial investing."
DUSTYS GOT EM OUT BY TH COACH
Dusty: "Stick em up. Gimme all yur free trade n gas. "
BP: " I like gold. It's Putin's gas anyway, so wha do I care?"
Dusty: " Fresh out o gol. How Bout Greenbacks, an I'll thro in Power? Dats yur human rites."
Li: " I'll take her for some of it, but in Yuan not greenbacks fur th rest."
Dusty: " No dice."
Cameron: "Hey, I'll take some greenbacks or Yuan. I'll tak anythin, rely. I'll even tak rubles."
Li : " No dice."
BP: " I like gold. It's Putin's gas anyway, so wha do I care?"
Dusty: " Fresh out o gol. How Bout Greenbacks, an I'll thro in Power? Dats yur human rites."
Li: " I'll take her for some of it, but in Yuan not greenbacks fur th rest."
Dusty: " No dice."
Cameron: "Hey, I'll take some greenbacks or Yuan. I'll tak anythin, rely. I'll even tak rubles."
Li : " No dice."
RE 20 YEAR GAS DEAL BP CHINA WHAT ABOUT THE CLASH OF AND WITHIN CIVILIZATIONS
Market forces at work? Certainly not ' Anglo American ' ones.
Russia just cut Ukraine's (intra civilizational) gas supply completely. "Failure to pay. Killing our people."
20 years is a long, long, long time, in the free market.
What currency will they exchange; later; or when it hits the fan; or when...?
Big politics discussed in the same article.
Leverage play? By whom? For whom?
The bigger news, it turns our, is in Reuters' article on the same subject, that of also making Britain the clearinghouse for international currency trading in the Yuan, away from Hong Kong.
Sounds like China will be allowed to buy gas with Yuan in this deal.
Smells more like back to a gold reserve status trend, now that the dollar is tied to nothing much except a consumer umbilical cord around the world's neck.
Maybe the real story is that the deal is denominated, or could some day be denominated, in currency contractually backed by gold?
The bogey of human rights.
Russia just cut Ukraine's (intra civilizational) gas supply completely. "Failure to pay. Killing our people."
20 years is a long, long, long time, in the free market.
What currency will they exchange; later; or when it hits the fan; or when...?
Big politics discussed in the same article.
Leverage play? By whom? For whom?
The bigger news, it turns our, is in Reuters' article on the same subject, that of also making Britain the clearinghouse for international currency trading in the Yuan, away from Hong Kong.
Sounds like China will be allowed to buy gas with Yuan in this deal.
Smells more like back to a gold reserve status trend, now that the dollar is tied to nothing much except a consumer umbilical cord around the world's neck.
Maybe the real story is that the deal is denominated, or could some day be denominated, in currency contractually backed by gold?
The bogey of human rights.
Monday, June 16, 2014
MARKET ACTIVITY
Why can't Russia halt sales of its gas on the open, free trade, natural gas market? It's a small world, after all. Let Ukraine buy elsewhere, say in Europe.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Dusty's got em out by the stage coach
Dusty, his six shooter trained: "Gimme al yur flats. I'm buffaloish on flats."
T. Friedman (sees him coming): "Pleny o flats round here. I got pleny o flats. I'll trade ya flats fur bubbles, even steven."
Dusty: "Deal. I'm full o bubbles."
T. Friedman (sees him coming): "Pleny o flats round here. I got pleny o flats. I'll trade ya flats fur bubbles, even steven."
Dusty: "Deal. I'm full o bubbles."
RANDALL COLLINS RECENT POST TANK MAN TELEPHOTO TECHNOLOGY SOCIOLOGY
http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/
Terms search Lorch
Terms search Lorch
SURPRISE
Nato now says, surprise, Russia now considers it an opponent.
This has been the case since the war, NATO, 1945 etc.
This has been the case since the war, NATO, 1945 etc.
RE DK LAST POST CIVILIZATION AND THE TEA PARTY
"...Civilization, to recapitulate, requires genuine belief in and devotion to higher political and artistic purpose". DK
I agree, at least re the West's traditional concept of its own civilization.
I would just point out that the American Rebellion from Britain was, at least in my view, against even these principles.
While it seemed for these principles, but mainly only in terminology, it was actually against them, nevertheless, in spirit, and in effect.
How was this the case?
It seems to me that this point comes out rather clearly from Bailyn's Ideological Origins.
American Radical Whiggism, a sort of Counter Radical Whiggism existing in England too, attacked radical Whiggism itself, but with Whiggist critical tools, and was where much of the inspiration for the Rebellion came from, and was not much impressed by higher political or artistic British civilizational purposes, even the early Radical Whiggish ones of Shaftsbury, Locke, and others, from which it sprang.
To see the kind of Radical Whig distinctions at play, perhaps contrast Locke's Charter (apparently the only one he himself ever wrote) for South Carolina, with charters for Massachusetts 1629, or for other New England colonies.
Here, Bailyn shows the American and British Radical ' Counter ' Whigs of the 18th century, to have been ranged against the Radical Whigs of the 17th :
"Ignoring the complacence and general high level of satisfaction of the time, they called for vigilance against the government of Walpole equal to what their predecessors had shown against the Stuarts. They insisted, at a time when government was felt to be less oppressive than it had been for two hundred years, that it was necessarily-- by its very nature-- hostile to human liberty and happiness..." Bailyn, pb. p. 47. (my underlining)
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