Tag: skill-estate
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Reprint on tenure
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and GENOCIDAL in the current fake “emergency”. Retired officials and professors and doctors have been speaking truth openly on all the fake “emergencies” from “9/11”…
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Trade can be mutual
I’ve been trying to track the Russian/US alliance before we went permanently crazy in 1946. It’s frustrating! Clearly there were commercial connections after the Revolution, but official documents and most online info either miss or downplay the commercial side, emphasizing our undying hatred for Russia whether it’s called “communist” or “authoritarian”. We hate Russia because…
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Rule works only one way
One of my frequent hammerpoints: Inventions wait for materials and methods. The latest clip from the Soviet auto podcaster illustrates what Edmund Berkeley was describing in 1957. Soviet engineers were properly trained with experience and teamwork, and therefore had passion and creativity. They were given the resources to act on their creativity, and were rewarded…
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From an extremely different era 23
Still thinking about sanctions and blockades, zooming out to a broader timeline. Wilson played the blockade game ferociously. After he was gone we turned against it, remaining firmly impartial and non-interventionist until we were ACTUALLY ATTACKED BY AN ACTUAL FOREIGN NATION on 12/7/41. Harding didn’t quite start the rebellion but he did lead it. Coolidge,…
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It was all about SKILL.
Lately I’ve been watching this Youtube channel. The author grew up in the Soviet Union and knows how it REALLY worked, not our perpetual propaganda. He brings out the SKILL-oriented nature of Soviet economic policy in the automotive area. I’ve seen this focus on SKILL before in electronics and education. In this clip on the…
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Canada should learn from Canada
This new video tells about Canada’s profitable importing of Ladas in the ’80s. At that time USA was, as always, invading and blockading Russia for no reason except our own monstrous drive to destroy everything good and decent. Canada took advantage of the situation, selling huge amounts of wheat and petroleum to Russia, and importing…
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Regrowth
From RealClear, an article with hopeful signs. The article misses the former strength of smaller cities. It mocks the NYC bigotry but basically agrees with NYC that the universe ends at the Hudson River. The term “flyover country” was not just a snobbish put-down but a reality as a handful of core cities – New…
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Another answer
Previous item repeated Carver’s answer to Machiavelli. Now repeat Henry Ford’s answer. = = = = = START FORD ANSWER: This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression.…
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Trump is a normal US president.
Canadians are working together to develop a newly designed nation. They’re doing it both officially and personally. It’s a fine thing to watch. MANY countries have been forced to develop their own best skills when we blockaded them. We pulled the same nasty trick on Cuba in 1960, Persia in 1980, and Russia in 2000.…
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Big things don’t hit the news.
Reading some railroad-related items on Quora. Three years ago, a Canadian insider mentioned that Canadian Pacific was about ready to buy Kansas City Southern, forming the first complete north-south railroad across all of the continent. Sure enough, the merger was completed in 2023 and fully running this year. This is BIG news for both countries…
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Might be a good idea
Seems like a good idea at the moment: Last month I wrote about an eye-opening History Today article on the 1700 Industrial Revolution. The author showed with numbers that England didn’t become MORE industrial during those centuries. What expanded was the financial sector. England offshored its food and concentrated more on banking. The FORM of…
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Dream helped to answer a question
A 1980s coal pollution project popped up in a dream recently. Thinking about this project led to an answer. At that time Penn State was eagerly hosting hundreds of Chinese grad students. Universities favor foreign students because they pay full price while most domestic students have discounts. They could afford full price because the Chinese…
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Work done.
Finished the current edition of courseware this morning, pending some checks and testing. I’ve been adding more value and beauty when possible, partly inspired by medieval history reading. The previous edition of this book was sort of rushed and hasty, with too many shortcuts. In a nap after finishing, the dream-scripter rewarded me with a…
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Hollywood starting to get it?
Rushfield at The Ankler interviews Jon Glickman, head of Miramax, who claims to be optimistic about the future of entertainment. My first thought was: Related to Dan? Yes, Jon is Dan’s son. I met Dan a few times when I was politically active in Kansas in the 80s. I didn’t know that Dan moved out…
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Why they hate it
For months I’ve been gaining knowledge and inspiration from Sherri Olson’s second book. Recently I bought her first book on the same subject. It’s less interesting for my purposes. The first book is highly quantitative with detailed lists and analyses of peasants who served as jurors or committed crimes or practiced trades. In science jargon…
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