Tag: Henry Wallace
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Historical first
For the first time in history, a famous star agrees with me about an important issue!
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Spoiler vs mission rehash
Nate Silver, an orthodox D but also a fairly objective observer of strategy, thinks RFK will do less damage to Biden now that he’s running as an independent. I know nothing about political strategy, but I did reach the same conclusion earlier by a historical analogy. Mashing together two earlier items, first about RFK and…
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1816 = 2023
Looking for more material on Magic Lanterns, this 1816 pamphlet came up. Thaumaturgus, or the Wonders of the Magic Lantern. It’s not a guide to creating Magic Lantern displays. The author uses a Magic Lantern show as an extended conceit to display a harsh picture of society. The situation and the characters are PERFECTLY FAMILIAR…
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Pritzker
Greenwald’s latest piece is a deep dive into the importance of Penny Pritzker. She’s heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune in Chicago, and she was the main driving force behind Obama’s rise to state and national power. (Her brother is the current superdemonic governor of Illinois.) Now she has been appointed to head our LBO…
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Vivek kills Parkinson
In this speech Vivek states precisely and legalistically how he will DESTROY the monsters created by Parkinson. He lists precise and specific laws that FORBID the vast majority of agencies, and other precise and specific laws that AUTHORIZE a president to fire huge numbers of bureaucrats and ELIMINATE illegal agencies. FDR did the same thing…
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The rebirth of gravity
Thoughts on the ladder of evil. Hedge funds and ‘family offices’ are the purest expressions of the will of rich demons. They don’t pretend to need customers. NGOs and foundations are the swarming branch of ‘family offices’. Historically the foundations were the first to adopt evil ideas, and the first to spread those ideas into…
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Vivek just won me.
In the middle of a somewhat tangled discussion with Greenwald, Vivek said that we need to REOPEN NORMAL TRADE WITH RUSSIA. No more war, no more sanctions, just be human. I’m all yours, Vivek. You’re on the same side as Harding and FDR and Henry Wallace. = = = = = Later: Why did this…
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Raw materials
The Ankler interviews a striking writer who makes a striking analogy. Every real business relies on raw materials or basic labor, and makes money by organizing and selling the materials and labor. “You wouldn’t have content, you wouldn’t be talking about streaming, if you didn’t have writers and actors to create the raw material.” Honest…
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More Stevenson
Trying to explore Stevenson a bit more. I felt that I was probably unfair since I know very little about him. I was running with a vague impression from hearing adults talk about him when I was young. Found a debate before the Florida Dem primary in ’56. This isn’t free; it’s in a ’56…
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The yak is the point
I’m doing an electronic project this week, aiming to make the GenRad 1565 into a practical microphone. If it works, I want to record a series of audio segments from Henry Wallace’s book. The entire purpose is fun, not practical. I know nobody will listen. As in any project, there’s a certain amount of yak-shaving.…
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Uncommon
Noticed this odd advertuary in a 1965 Record World. MGM was selling a memorial record of Adlai’s speeches. The text is gloppy syrupy hagiography of an irrelevant loser. Stevenson carried the torch of Permanent War against non-interventionist Ike twice and lost twice. Truman was (barely) able to win in ’48 because he was definitely a…
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Deepstate loves the 4
I’ve been spending a lot of time in 1948 because it’s a close parallel to the current situation. A long war displaced everything in the economy and culture, and the people were hungry to resume normalcy after the war. The ’48 election shared many of the current elements. In the current mess, at first there…
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Zenith set released
I’m done with the expanded Zenith topic. Here’s the set at ShareCG as usual. ShareCG wouldn’t let me upload the set titled as ‘Zenith expanded’. I finally figured out that their algorithm is tuned to reject small variations. I changed the title to ‘Wincharger’ and it uploaded properly. = = = = = List of…
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Even more Wallace
Last month I transcribed a long passage from Henry Wallace’s 1948 speech on inflation. It’s time to add a second section. Wallace saw the development of PERMANENT CRISIS as the guarantee of permanent monopoly by the Men Of Monopoly. Again, here’s the speech itself in mp3 form. = = = = = START WALLACE first…
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Wallace’s father and radio
Henry Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps in some ways, and tried to erase his father’s footsteps in other ways. Henry Senior was a farmer who turned into a writer and researcher on agriculture, then turned into Harding’s sec of ag. Henry Junior started as a writer and researcher and businessman in ag, then turned…
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