Saturday, November 28, 2009

The Other Shoe

Now that the Global Warming Hoax of the left has been exposed, will the Global War on Terror hoax of the right be exposed as well?


Global Warming and IPR

The "scientists" who falsified the data to support the global warming hoax may face criminal prosecution since it is a felony to use falsified data in support of gaining grants, especially from taxpayers. One quote particularly interested me, how one of the conspirators expected to hide his ttracks, and that is to invoke "Intellectual Property Rights." To wit:

"We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind. Tom Wigley has sent me a worried email when he heard about it – thought people could ask him for his model code. He has retired officially from UEA so he can hide behind that. IPR should be relevant here, but I can see me getting into an argument with someone at UEA who’ll say we must adhere to it !"


Friday, November 27, 2009

Dr. North's Manifesto

I could not agree more:

"Years ago, my friend Robert Thoburn, the entrepreneur who developed Fairfax Christian School, was standing in line at the Post Office at Christmas time. The line was very long. He turned somebody next to him and said it would sure be better if the system were run by the government. He got an incredulous look; then that person smiled. Thirty years ago, that seemed like a fruitless observation. Yet, as it has turned out, we could lose the Post Office tomorrow and barely feel it. We don't use first-class mail to communicate any longer. We use the Internet. We use Federal Express and UPS and other delivery systems to deliver anything really important that we have to send. The Post Office in effect has gone senile.

We don't sense that it's gone. Yet the reality is this: we have replaced something with things that are better. Therefore, at some point, we will see the Post Office either go out of business or become simply a forgotten memory. Yet the Post Office is part of the Constitutional system. The Post Office has always been a way for the government to control the flow of information. As Robert Nisbet said in an autobiographical essay, in the year he was born, 1913, the only contact that the average American had with the Federal government was the Post Office. How much contact do you have with the Postal Service today? It delivers mostly junk mail to you. We ought to think of the U.S. Postal Service not as snail mail but as junk mail. It is the junk mail service for the junk mail industry. Even this is subsidized. It gets cheaper rates.

We have seen the demise of the Post Office operationally over the last ten years, yet we have paid almost no attention to this. There has not been a revolution in our thinking about the Post Office. There has simply been a kind of forgetfulness. We haven't paid much attention to the fact that we don't need it anymore. This has not taken any kind of an organized political movement.

The Post Office is sacrosanct. It is untouchable. But now it is simply ignored. This is the best way to have a revolution. Create a free-market alternative to a particular government institution, and then refuse to use the boondoggle anymore. At some point, we can simply vote to de-fund it. We can privatize it. Nobody will care, because hardly anybody is using the system any longer.

Here is my slogan for political reform: Replacement, not capture; then de-funding."


Dr. North's Prognosis

"Anyone who thinks we have not entered a new era is naïve. The central economic phenomenon today is price competition. Whenever any technological development undercuts the existing cost basis of any established sector of the economy, it poses a threat to that sector. Peter Drucker's rule is this: when a new technology sells for 10% of the old technology, the old technology is doomed. Think "handmade Swiss watches." There is nothing that the defenders of that technology can do to stop the destruction of their industry."


Correct as usual Dr. North. Since innovation and competing on design is not central, what is left is price competition. Narrrowing profits and grinding down the price more of what we do not need is no way to gain material progress. if we had a freer market in USA, innovators would be producing newer and better alternatives and we'd have gainful employment of people effecting these changes.


Thursday, November 26, 2009

Hoaxes

Global war on terror, swine flu, AIDS, global warming, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gardisil, Tuskegee 'experiments... of dear, we'll be at this all day...


Globaloney

Now that it is revealed what we already knew, and that is Global warming is bunk, will we next learn the Global War on Terror is nonsense too?

Here is a post form my llistserv a few years ago...

Folks,

Globalism is s term the entire political spectrum recognizes, and one’s view of
globalism is a
litmus test for what category one falls in. The right sees globalism as a
threat to Pax
Americana. The left sees it as a threat to peace and justice. And I see it as
a natural, if
messy, outgrowth to the end of the evil tyranny so prevalent last century.

In the context of globalism, we have the Global War on Terror, which for the
Right there is
even a military medal. Soldiers can be awarded a medal for participating in the
global war on
terror.

http://tinyurl.com/2jq324

For Global Warming the Left has no such medal, but there are prizes, such as
Richard
Branson’s $25 million he has earrmarked, and certainly there is an entire
industry of research
grants for those who can say “global warming” just as there is on the Right for
anyone who can say "Global War on Terror."

What I have noticed from both sides of the political spectrum is not only may
you not be
silent on the issue, you must vocally agree with their views.

Try this: the next time the topic of global warming or the global war on terror
comes up, and
your views are solicited by way of conversation, try saying “I really don’t have
an opinion.”

That will not do. Try saying, both sides are bunk. That will not do either.
Strangely, it is even
worse. Here is where it gets tricky. You may disagree with either side, but only
if you agree
with the opposite side. For example, if you believe global warming is bunk, you
must believe
that global war on terror is job #1 in USA. And vice versa.

If you will not serve as a follower of one side, you must serve as an enemy to
the side you will
not follow. It’s ok to not believe in global warming, as long as you believe we
must fight
global war on terror, because then you can serve as the enemy. And vice versa.

What is utterly unacceptable is to believe both sides are delusional. You may
not say “both
sides are wrong.”

I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I am trying to work out a way to deal
with this. Is there
a means to weigh the both sides, so I might join one, and get some relief?

After making a long list of pros and cons of both sides, I find they are equally
tendentious
and equally destructive to mankind. Perfect symmetry, except for one tiny
difference.

Please compare and contrast the very titles each side subscribes to in the topic
of Globalism:
global war on terror vs. global warming. Compare how each side uses the exact
same
characters for the first ten postions... global war (on terror) vs global war
(ming). In each we have "Global War...".

Whereas with the right, they go on another ten positions (on terror), matching
their lust for
bigger everything, whereas the left goes on only four more positions (ming),
matching
President Clinton’s gift of smaller government during his reign.

So it seems to me, that if I am to seek relative peace by taking sides, and I
believe both sides
tedious, then the left is less tedious by six places. Not only does it take
less time to say
global warming, ratehr than global war on terror, it takes less paper and ink to
write it, and there is some advantage there, to
be sure. And it takes less time to listen to "global warming" vs listening to
'global war on terror."

All of my life I have been willing to sell out to one side or the other, but
sadly no one has ever
made me an offer to join their intrigue. So I’ll consider this, but I am not
sure the left will
ever accept my offer to join.

John


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Last Emperor

When the Ming Dynasty was falling, the last defenders of the Ming were literally at the gates of the Great Wall of China, and invited in the Manchus to put down the unrest in China. This they did. The Ming who ruined Chin awere recruited by the foreign Manchus to run China. so these very Ming officials took leading roles in the Ching Dynasty, under Manchu hegemony.

The lawyers, cops, judges, merchants politicians etc before the nazi's in Germany, were by and large the same ones during and after the nazis. Same with the Soviet Union today, and it will be if and when some foreign power intervenes in USA to restore order.

Since all power in USA is concentrated in Washington DC, the USA will be easy to conquer. Switzerland was decentralized, so hitler could not take over that German speakng country. Hitler could take over all the others, since he needed to merely take the capital, and all the rest of the country fell in place.

A decentralized nation is safe.

A centralized nation is asking for several hundred years of native faces stealing for foreigners, and keeping a cut of the action. Domestically the people will resist by nonperforming.

Radiating out from the last Emperor was a network of people who benefitted from his person being the organizing principle, and the farther away form the center, the less it took to corrupt people, so the system was effective nationwide.

The difference between render unto Caesar and render unto God is rendering unto God is optional Failing to render unto Caesar can and will bring punishment up to including forfeiting your life. Religious participation is optional. State participation is not.


Aisin Gioro Pu Yi

China's last emperor, or at least the Manchu who last ruled China as an Emperor, quickly sketches in his autobiography his inside knowledge of the Japanese dope trade in their imperial lands:

"Furumi also had a lot to say about the Japanese opium policy. This was initiated in early 1933, when the Japanese army was short of funds, before its invasion of Jehol. AS it did not then control the production of opium in the Northeast it imported over two million ounces of foreign opium ands scattered leaflets by air all over Jehol encouraging the cultivation of the opium poppy. Around 1936 the Japanese army greatly extended the area under opium cultivation in "Manchukuo", did all they could to expand production, and later gave themselves a legal monopoly of the sale of opium. The Japanese founded "Societies for the Prevention of Opium Smoking" everywhere, set up opium dens with "hostesses", and made great efforts to spread addiction among young people. In 1942 the Japanese "Asia Revival Council" held a "Conference on the Opium Needs and Production of China" which passed a resolution stating that Manchukuo and the Mongolian border regions are to meet the opium requirements of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"; after this the area under opium in the Northeast was increased to 3000 hectares. According to Furumi's calculations, "Manchukuo" produced some over 300 million ounces of opium before its collapse. The profit from it made up one-sixth of the revenue of the puppet government; in 1944 it reached a total of 300 million dollars, over 100 times higher than it had been at the beginning of the "Manchukuo", thus providing Japan with one of her most important sources of finance for her aggressive war. There were about 300,000 addicts in Jehol alone, and in the Northeast as a whole on person in twenty was an opium smoker."

Page 384, FROM EMPEROR TO CITIZEN, The Autobiographynof Aisin Gioro Pu Yi.

If you take one of the elite out of the system, they will then speak frankly. The last emperor of China speks frankly. USA imperialsim was informed by Japanese imperialism at least as to the drug trade. We captured the opium fields of Afghanistan (or are trying to) we spread the use of dope among the young in the USA by means of the DARE programs, we have all sorts of "Just Say No" programs at the same time, and of course on point of NAFTA (the North American Co-Prosperity Sphere) is to assure a steady flow of dope into the USA. And of course medicine in USA is highly monopolized, with Japanese style violence directed to anyone running the blockade.

But the money, as we know, helps finance USA imperialism.

The solution is to deregulate medicine in USA.


Gary North and China Strategy

Dr. North is one of my favorite commentators on economics, and today he has another article over at lewrockwell.com, which I hope you peruse daily.

One point North and many others make is the foolishness of the Chinese to make things for USA and take IOU's in return. It is foolishness to think the Chinese, with some 2500 years of continuous cultural development, would fall collectively for something very stupid. Such an error would be more likely among a people with say, hmm, a 200 year history.

The Chinese in fact were under foreign control for some 500 of the last 1000 years, and I count most of the Maoist era as foreign control, since the guiding philosophy was not Chinese, but an import from central europe. When Deng Xiaoping reinstituted Chinese culture circa 1979, the Chinese began to re-assume it's proper place in the world. China still has a a ways to go.

When the Chinese saw the fruits of their labors went into the pockets of Foreignors, they quit working. The first time was under the mongols, the Yuan Dynasty circa 1300, and then again under foreign domination, circa 1650, when the manchu's took over, under the Ching. How come the Chinese, so inventive in the first milennia AD, were almost backwards in the second. Why invent and create if the fruits of your labors simply went to enrich foreignors?

Just as for 250 years under the Ching people worldwide believed chinese were only fit for labor, the world found out different after the communists took over. After some terrible mistakes, the Communists have embraced freedom and autonomy and thus their economy is greatly expanding.

If Africa can throw off foreign domination as China has, it too will assume its place in the world.

But back to Dr. North and China. USA owes China 2 trillion dollars. We all know USA will never pay a penny of that back. Dr, North believes the Chinese were foolish to get caught in such a ruse.

What all of the analysts miss is over the last 25 years, while running up that balance, China was accepting technology transfer of machinery, equipment and know how, to become a prime resource for the rest of the world. The Chinese are perhaps 80% the way towards being number one in every category of industry and science. In many categories they are number one. And this only cost them two trillion dollars. To get to 100% may cost another 2 trillion, but even at four trillion, what a bargain! USA is slipping behind in all categories, with a deficit of twelve trillion on the books, 80 trillion off the books. China has no off the books deficit because the communists told the pensioners, "you are on your own now, although you are free to work." So China grows, as the president extends the Patriot Act and expands the war in Afghanistan.

In USA politicians and their minions in "private/public partnerships (fascism)" rip off taxpayers with such scams a biofuels, and are a net deficit to our economy. In China, when someone builds a another bridge, it is needed. In USA the bridge goes to nowhere.

USA could easily compete with China and leapfrog over them if we were to take the path of freedom. But Obama is continuing the path of George Bush with torture, expanding the war in Afghanistan, extending the Patriot Act, bailouts, and all of the other policies that hamstring American ingenuity.

We need the kind of free trade autonomous regions in USA that China and India have instituted.


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Alwin Asks About Trade Data

Alwin asks:

ImportGenius.com told me that they are considerably different from the free US Customs data because they are reporting at the company-level, allowing you to see the actual buyers and sellers of each shipment, not just aggregated
statistics for the entire industry. What's your views?

***

My views are if you want names they are free by consulting the Directory of US Importers (or exporters) available at any library, put out by the journal of commerce.

Import genius charges for the information. The next question is, what would you do with the information of names of who is buying and selling what...? In what useful way might you use the information? Think it through... why would you want the information? If you reflect upon this, you'll likely see you have no use for such information.


Free Market Medicine

The super-cure mentioned in this article cannot be patented because it occurs naturally. The FDA outlaws many effective drugs becuase they are cheap and plentiful and would compete with profitable but less effective drugs put out by SocialistBigPharma.

Note the mention at the end of the article of a wome dying of MRSA, With socialized hospitals, killer diseases rage but cannot be controlled without decentralization of medical care. Since that is bad for big pharma, the diseases are tolerated.

If you have a passion for medicine, perhaps a business that imports these natural cures would be good for you.