Tag: Henry Wallace
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Lilienthal on modularity
David Lilienthal’s magnificent book on the TVA and New Deal is a very small paperback, published in 1944 under paper rationing. I’ve scanned some important pages for my own reading convenience, as a sort of adaptation to my elderly eyes. Nobody else will read this, and nobody else is interested in learning from the ACTUAL…
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Copying the New Deal
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump did the evilest thing in 70 years, and the most widespread evil in all of human history. In his second term his admin is doing the standard American evil things like bombing foreign countries and enriching…
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More universal than gravity
Via Spokane newspaper: The Wash “state” “legislature” wants to impose an income tax on millionaires. Alien hyperdemon “Ferguson”, described as a “governor”, kicks out the proposal. The “legislators” pretend to be surprised, since the “governor” wears the same D label as the “legislators”. Three universal rules are pulling in the same direction. Manweller: It’s an…
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Why Hank?
Thinking as usual about Henry Ford. A few very old friends were allowed to call him Hank. I’ve called him Hank in the Hank vs Frank comparison. Wait. How did Henry shorten to Hank? Harry is the more obvious phonetic elision, and the many King Henrys were often called King Harry in literature and song.…
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Said it before, not quite the same
I’ve said this before in a somewhat different context. It’s doubly true now. Cybersecurity is simply a continuation of pre-computer Deepstate evil. Immediately after FDR died, Deepstate overthrew the government and took over again. It immediately started prosecuting everyone who had helped FDR save the country from Wall Street, and everyone who didn’t want to…
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No mother-in law or cliff here!
Trump’s first term set a historical record for maximum evil and genocide. Trump’s second term is mixed bad and good. Trump’s energy policy is PURELY GOOD and CRITICALLY NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL. Previous admins, both R and D, were moving ahead steadily to make war on this country. Bomb all the dams, cover all the…
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For the 1000000000000000000th time
Random thought on my endlessly repeated theme. I was writing this as a comment elsewhere, then decided to write it here instead. The bolded part seems like a new way of phrasing the WINNING combination. None of our idiot politicians can REMEMBER their own best example, the most electable president in history, the only president…
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Same principles
Lile Mo is building a book at Substack, deriving lessons for civilization by telling how each Chinese city used its own resources and skills to monopolize an area of commerce. From her latest note: The highest value land is not found; it is made. This transformation is not accidental; it is the result of the…
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Rare wisdom
Via RealClear, one economics writer actually understands the New Deal! This is unique! Nearly all modern writers on politics and economics either hate FDR because he was “commie” or hate FDR because he was “fascist”. Nobody understands why the New Deal worked, why it created such long-lasting fierce loyalty. = = = = = START…
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Good for Delaware!
Via RealClear: The major bitcoin fraudster Coinbase played the usual corporate trick of incorporating in Delaware because Delaware has rigged its laws to favor tax evaders and fraudsters. Amazingly, Delaware has finally lost its patience with the worst criminals. WSJ has an “editorial” written by Coinbase’s head criminal. His words in bold followed by interlinear…
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1918, 1957, 1989
Old tech journals often tell you things that weren’t mentioned in the media or our fake school “history” texts. I learned about our 1918 invasion and occupation of Russia from reading old Signal Corps journals at GoogleBooks. Looking up info on my latest tech history obsession, I found two later Signal Corps magazines, one from…
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Compete by tradition, not by innovation
People who should know better are pushing Innovative Disruption. Each city and country “must” compete to enrich Sam Altman and destroy civilization. NO. Competing to make Sam Altman richer will make you poorer and lose everything that makes you special. If you want to improve your OWN city or country, boost and expand your OWN…
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Canada does it FIRST.
I’ve been darkly watching China, Russia, and India zoom ahead with nuclear while the WEFtern “countries” deprive ourselves of clean power. We bomb our hydro dams and turn off our nukes. We started to plan small reactors in 1954 under the Rural Electrification Admin, created by Henry Wallace. Then we dropped all reactors and clean…
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SOE and Studie
Here’s a new thought after rereading the history of Studebaker for the 100th time. Albert Erskine took over as CEO in 1918. Under his rule Studie prospered and handed most of the prosperity to shareholders. Erskine believed in paying the stock criminals first and letting the company (facilities, workers, development) have the leftovers. Some of…
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Go with the flow
Nobody seems to be reading what I’m writing now, but for some reason this older item is getting a few reads. Might as well go with the flow and REwrite what AI bots are “reading.” The item was posted in 2022, but most of it was originally written in 2016 before the Bush/Trump “virus” torture…
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