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The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-213
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
> My excuse for posting only three pieces this week Yes and no. After a rather rainy summer around my block it finally warmed up a bit. So I got a bit lazy. But I also read a lot which may help with future pieces. – b. <
> Delaying deliveries of Abrams tanks could ensure that it enters service after the current period of intensified hostilities has ended, after which the vehicles will be less likely to suffer losses which could affect the class’ reputation – or that of the American defence sector. <
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Finance:
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Use as open (not Ukraine related) thread …
This article, dated early August, is worth reading. Evidently the US National Security Advisor understands what neo-liberalism means:
“Sullivan stated that the changing global economy had left behind lots of working Americans…”
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/us-national-security-advisor-enough-of-the-neoliberal-system/
@ bevin | Sep 11 2023 15:06 utc | 94
Caveat emptor!
Sullivan also said: “…the Biden Administration is developing a new global labor strategy that advances workers’ rights through diplomacy…”
Since when did Biden, the people in his WH Administration or anyone in the Government, the Democrat party, the DNC or the US Congress ever care about workers rights – post-FDR?
Now out of the blue, suddenly in 2023, “they” are going to advance worker’s rights globally? If anyone believes this bull pucky you have some serious problems to deal with. 🙂
The above is prima facie evidence of the degree to which Sullivan is lying throughout that speech. It is “self-evident” iow, or it should be.
Neoliberalism means: Lying! Period. Lying through your teeth every time you open your mouth. Why? “Because people will be stupid” (I’m quoting an economics history professor there)
So yes, Jake Sullivan sure knows what Neoliberalism means and he knows everything he is saying is for effect. He doesn’t believe any of it or care about anyone but himself and his kind.
This article is not worth reading, and that “defenddemocracy.press” would push it as if it’s useful or true is a disgrace (but standard gullible form.) defenddemocracy.press is probably just another neoliberal PR arm spreading the Lies far as wide and undermining any ideas or systems that may be considered a threat to their global ideological / propaganda power today.
Sorry. If anyone is going to read that material, at least first understand that all of it Lies and Sullivan is Lying all the time: Only them might you get to understand what you are up against here.
That “The Market Knows Everything – Better than everyone and anything else” is Holy Scripture to all Neoliberal Ideology. It is the God of their Religion. Make no mistakes. And they will happily manipulate the “Data” being spat out by that Market anyway they can that serves their own purposes and power. Period.
So when Sullivan is reported as saying the following – Know that he is Lying and he Knows that he is Lying:
Sullivan stated that all policies are based on a single assumption: “There was one assumption at the heart of all of this policy: that markets always allocate capital productively and efficiently.”
Emphasizing that the shocks caused by the global financial crisis and a global pandemic have revealed the limits of these prevailing assumptions, Sullivan added “in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, entire supply chains of strategic goods—along with the industries and jobs that made them—moved overseas.”
Sullivan also highlighted that the assumption that broad trade liberalization would help America export goods, not jobs and capacity, was “a promise made but not kept”.
He does not care one bit about any of that. They do not care what the “system” is doing, now or yesterday or tomorrow. Saying the prior system failed and now look, hey presto, we admit our mistakes, so here is another system “we promise will do better, and protect Worker’s Rights and the Middle Class, and ……” – is all part of the Kabuki Theater.
They lie about anything and everything. That is what Neoliberals do. Why? Again, because people will be stupid. They know that and they use it all the time. It’s almost a Motto for them.
Today they will promote Neocon ideology over Ukraine, providing clear descriptive reasons for this being the essential truths of today – then tomorrow they will jettison that. But nothing changes in reality.
They will say anything they need to at any time to retain Power. They will even publicly disagree with each other on the same team to present a false public image that real genuine policy disagreements and in-depth discussions to obtain better Policy outcomes to serve the people of the Nation are for real.
More Lies.
defenddemocracy.press are either stupid and gullible fools (see their closing comments), or they are another dime a dozen propaganda arm for the Neoliberal Elites, or worse.
And so it is, Buyer Beware. Be very Skeptical and apply Critical Thinking skills at all times a Neoliberal talking-head is speaking.
[ I recommend research articles, reports, and lectures by Jason Hickle and Philip Mirowski, Naomi Klein, Chomsky, Donald E. Pease, Wendy Brown, Glenn Greenwald, João Rodrigues, and getting a good understanding of ‘The Road from Mont Pelerin’ and the Knowledge Economy/Capitalism and of course the sociopaths led by Hayek and Co]
try as a starter
https://www.ces.uc.pt/myces/UserFiles/livros/1097_2013_The%20Political%20and%20Moral%20Economies%20of%20Neoliberalism.pdf
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Sep 12 2023 0:49 utc | 229
This article, dated early August, is worth reading. Evidently the US National Security Advisor understands what neo-liberalism means:
“Sullivan stated that the changing global economy had left behind lots of working Americans…”
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/us-national-security-advisor-enough-of-the-neoliberal-system/
@ bevin | Sep 11 2023 15:06 utc | 94
Caveat emptor!
Sullivan also said: “…the Biden Administration is developing a new global labor strategy that advances workers’ rights through diplomacy…”
Since when did Biden, the people in his WH Administration or anyone in the Government, the Democrat party, the DNC or the US Congress ever care about workers rights – post-FDR?
Now out of the blue, suddenly in 2023, “they” are going to advance worker’s rights globally? If anyone believes this bull pucky you have some serious problems to deal with. 🙂
The above is prima facie evidence of the degree to which Sullivan is lying throughout that speech. It is “self-evident” iow, or it should be.
Neoliberalism means: Lying! Period. Lying through your teeth every time you open your mouth. Why? “Because people will be stupid” (I’m quoting an economics history professor there)
So yes, Jake Sullivan sure knows what Neoliberalism means and he knows everything he is saying is for effect. He doesn’t believe any of it or care about anyone but himself and his kind.
This article is not worth reading, and that “defenddemocracy.press” would push it as if it’s useful or true is a disgrace (but standard gullible form.) defenddemocracy.press is probably just another neoliberal PR arm spreading the Lies far as wide and undermining any ideas or systems that may be considered a threat to their global ideological / propaganda power today.
Sorry. If anyone is going to read that material, at least first understand that all of it Lies and Sullivan is Lying all the time: Only them might you get to understand what you are up against here.
That “The Market Knows Everything – Better than everyone and anything else” is Holy Scripture to all Neoliberal Ideology. It is the God of their Religion. Make no mistakes. And they will happily manipulate the “Data” being spat out by that Market anyway they can that serves their own purposes and power. Period.
So when Sullivan is reported as saying the following – Know that he is Lying and he Knows that he is Lying:
Sullivan stated that all policies are based on a single assumption: “There was one assumption at the heart of all of this policy: that markets always allocate capital productively and efficiently.”
Emphasizing that the shocks caused by the global financial crisis and a global pandemic have revealed the limits of these prevailing assumptions, Sullivan added “in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, entire supply chains of strategic goods—along with the industries and jobs that made them—moved overseas.”
Sullivan also highlighted that the assumption that broad trade liberalization would help America export goods, not jobs and capacity, was “a promise made but not kept”.
He does not care one bit about any of that. They do not care what the “system” is doing, now or yesterday or tomorrow. Saying the prior system failed and now look, hey presto, we admit our mistakes, so here is another system “we promise will do better, and protect Worker’s Rights and the Middle Class, and ……” – is all part of the Kabuki Theater.
They lie about anything and everything. That is what Neoliberals do. Why? Again, because people will be stupid. They know that and they use it all the time. It’s almost a Motto for them.
Today they will promote Neocon ideology over Ukraine, providing clear descriptive reasons for this being the essential truths of today – then tomorrow they will jettison that. But nothing changes in reality.
They will say anything they need to at any time to retain Power. They will even publicly disagree with each other on the same team to present a false public image that real genuine policy disagreements and in-depth discussions to obtain better Policy outcomes to serve the people of the Nation are for real.
More Lies.
defenddemocracy.press are either stupid and gullible fools (see their closing comments), or they are another dime a dozen propaganda arm for the Neoliberal Elites, or worse.
And so it is, Buyer Beware. Be very Skeptical and apply Critical Thinking skills at all times a Neoliberal talking-head is speaking.
[ I recommend research articles, reports, and lectures by Jason Hickle and Philip Mirowski, Naomi Klein, Chomsky, Donald E. Pease, Wendy Brown, Glenn Greenwald, João Rodrigues, and getting a good understanding of ‘The Road from Mont Pelerin’ and the Knowledge Economy/Capitalism and of course the sociopaths led by Hayek and Co]
try as a starter
https://www.ces.uc.pt/myces/UserFiles/livros/1097_2013_The%20Political%20and%20Moral%20Economies%20of%20Neoliberalism.pdf
Posted by: Lavrov’s Dog | Sep 12 2023 0:49 utc | 230
A final musing for the day As the 400 year comet visits the solar system today and passing almost unnoticed till the last moment. I wondered how the World was being transformed then as it is now. A quick recap from wiki.
Astronomy, Religion, Culture in Europe
July 16 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, with the planets only 5 arc minutes apart, the closest between 1226 and 2874. This conjunction likely goes unobserved, as it occurs near the Sun and the telescope has been invented only recently.
1623 papal conclave: Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV, as the 235th pope.
October 20 – Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini informs Galileo Galilei that his brother, the newly-enthroned Pope Urban VIII, wishes to receive a visit from Galileo.
Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, issues an order, dated at Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj, that allows Jews to settle, trade freely and practice religion in Transylvania, and exempts them from wearing the usual Jewish sign.
Procopius’ long-lost Secret History is rediscovered, in the Vatican Library.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius
Imprisoned Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella’s utopian The City of the Sun is published in Latin (as Civitas Solis) in Frankfurt.
Italian poet Giambattista Marini’s epic L’Adone is published in Paris.
November 8–December 5 – Publication between these dates in London of the “First Folio” (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare (died 1616), half of which have not previously been printed.
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All the World was a stage Whilst European kingdoms played out their thirty year wars, set Protestant against Catholic whilst at the same time trying to intermarry.
England
Viscount Falkland, England’s Lord Deputy of Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave Ireland, affecting negotiations over the “Spanish match” (which resume in March). When Charles, Prince of Wales, the future King Charles I of England, travelling incognito with royal favourite George Villiers, arrives in Madrid to pursue negotiations over the “Spanish match”, the Protestant Charles’s proposed marriage with the Catholic Habsburg Infanta Maria Anna of Spain.
Negotiations, resumed in March, of the planned “Spanish match” break down.[8] On October 5, Prince Charles returns to England from Spain without a bride.
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But the English colonisation of The North America’s and the brutality and genocide begins. To produce the greatest imperial invaders of all for the twentieth century.
North America
March 5 – The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
May 22 – After negotiations for the release of English women taken from Jamestown in the British North American colony of Virginia, conducted between Captain William Tucker of the English settlers and Chief Opchanacanough of the Powhatan Confederacy (Tsenacommacah), the English arrange a banquet with the Powhatan, and the drinking of wine.[2] The wine is poisoned and many of the Powhatan Indians die, while 50 more are killed while ill. This follows the massacre of 347 English colonists of March 22, 1622, in the Powhatan uprising. Opchanacanough escapes, and the 20 women never return home.[3]
June 14 – The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses
uly 10 – The English ship Anne becomes the third vessel to bring settlers to Plymouth Colony,[5] the Puritan settlement in modern-day Massachusetts, carrying more settlers, after the Mayflower on November 21, 1620, and the Fortune on November 9, 1621
july 30 (probable date) – The second Thanksgiving is celebrated in Plymouth Colony.[6]
* August 5 – The English ship Little James arrives at Plymouth Colony, 26 days after the Anne.[7]
In British America:
* On the coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is first inhabited by men from Dorchester, Dorset, England.
* On the coast of New Hampshire, the settlement of Hilton’s Point, which will become Dover, New Hampshire, is established by men from London, England, the first European settlers in the state.
European Adventurers in the East
Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia: Captains Jan Carstenszoon of the Arnhem and Willem Joosten van Coolsteerdt of the Pera depart on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company from Ambon, Maluku (Amboyna) to explore the Australian coast.
March 9 – Amboyna massacre: Ten English merchants in the service of the British East India Company, together with nine Japanese and one Portuguese, are executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company in Ambon, Maluku (Amboyna
April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
May 8 – A Dutch East India Company party, led by explorer Jan Carstenszoon, fights a skirmish with 200 indigenous Australian Wik peoples.
The MENA
Murat IV, age 11, succeeds his deposed uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman Emperor.[9] Because Murat is a minor, his mother, Kösem Sultan, serves as regent until 1632.
October 9 – Kara Mustafa Pasha is replaced as the Ottoman Governor of Egypt on orders of Sultan Murad IV.
The Battle of Anjar is fought in modern-day Lebanon as the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din II defeats an invasion by Mustafa Pasha al-Hannaq, the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, and takes him prisoner.
The 1623 Malta plague outbreak is contained after killing around 40 people on the island of Malta.[12]
The Old Continent
January – Battle of Mbanda Kasi: Forces from the Kingdom of Kongo defeat the Portuguese.
Asia
* April 11 – King Gwanghaegun of Joseon (in Korea) is deposed in the Injo coup and succeeded by King Injo.
* April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
* May 5 – Raja Gaj Singh of Marwar, along with Mahabat Khan and Parviz Mirza, are deputized by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in India to hunt down Jahangir’s rebel son, Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram. The search fails, and Khurram will become the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after Jahangir’s death in 1627.
* uly 15 – Trịnh Tùng is deposed as ruler of the kingdom of Đại Việt in northern Vietnam after more than 50 years. His son, Trịnh Xuan, burns the palace. Trinh Tung is carried away by his servants in a sedan chair and abandoned in the road to die. Another son, Trịnh Tráng, succeeds to the throne of Đại Việt
* ——————————————
And so it went then as it goes now 400 years later, hopefully the Comet may not see the likes of us still at it again on its next return.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 12 2023 15:16 utc | 299
A final musing for the day As the 400 year comet visits the solar system today and passing almost unnoticed till the last moment. I wondered how the World was being transformed then as it is now. A quick recap from wiki.
Astronomy, Religion, Culture in Europe
July 16 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, with the planets only 5 arc minutes apart, the closest between 1226 and 2874. This conjunction likely goes unobserved, as it occurs near the Sun and the telescope has been invented only recently.
1623 papal conclave: Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV, as the 235th pope.
October 20 – Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini informs Galileo Galilei that his brother, the newly-enthroned Pope Urban VIII, wishes to receive a visit from Galileo.
Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, issues an order, dated at Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj, that allows Jews to settle, trade freely and practice religion in Transylvania, and exempts them from wearing the usual Jewish sign.
Procopius’ long-lost Secret History is rediscovered, in the Vatican Library.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius
Imprisoned Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella’s utopian The City of the Sun is published in Latin (as Civitas Solis) in Frankfurt.
Italian poet Giambattista Marini’s epic L’Adone is published in Paris.
November 8–December 5 – Publication between these dates in London of the “First Folio” (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare (died 1616), half of which have not previously been printed.
————-
All the World was a stage Whilst European kingdoms played out their thirty year wars, set Protestant against Catholic whilst at the same time trying to intermarry.
England
Viscount Falkland, England’s Lord Deputy of Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave Ireland, affecting negotiations over the “Spanish match” (which resume in March). When Charles, Prince of Wales, the future King Charles I of England, travelling incognito with royal favourite George Villiers, arrives in Madrid to pursue negotiations over the “Spanish match”, the Protestant Charles’s proposed marriage with the Catholic Habsburg Infanta Maria Anna of Spain.
Negotiations, resumed in March, of the planned “Spanish match” break down.[8] On October 5, Prince Charles returns to England from Spain without a bride.
—————
But the English colonisation of The North America’s and the brutality and genocide begins. To produce the greatest imperial invaders of all for the twentieth century.
North America
March 5 – The first American temperance law is enacted, in Virginia.
May 22 – After negotiations for the release of English women taken from Jamestown in the British North American colony of Virginia, conducted between Captain William Tucker of the English settlers and Chief Opchanacanough of the Powhatan Confederacy (Tsenacommacah), the English arrange a banquet with the Powhatan, and the drinking of wine.[2] The wine is poisoned and many of the Powhatan Indians die, while 50 more are killed while ill. This follows the massacre of 347 English colonists of March 22, 1622, in the Powhatan uprising. Opchanacanough escapes, and the 20 women never return home.[3]
June 14 – The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses
uly 10 – The English ship Anne becomes the third vessel to bring settlers to Plymouth Colony,[5] the Puritan settlement in modern-day Massachusetts, carrying more settlers, after the Mayflower on November 21, 1620, and the Fortune on November 9, 1621
july 30 (probable date) – The second Thanksgiving is celebrated in Plymouth Colony.[6]
* August 5 – The English ship Little James arrives at Plymouth Colony, 26 days after the Anne.[7]
In British America:
* On the coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is first inhabited by men from Dorchester, Dorset, England.
* On the coast of New Hampshire, the settlement of Hilton’s Point, which will become Dover, New Hampshire, is established by men from London, England, the first European settlers in the state.
European Adventurers in the East
Voyage of the Pera and Arnhem to Australia: Captains Jan Carstenszoon of the Arnhem and Willem Joosten van Coolsteerdt of the Pera depart on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company from Ambon, Maluku (Amboyna) to explore the Australian coast.
March 9 – Amboyna massacre: Ten English merchants in the service of the British East India Company, together with nine Japanese and one Portuguese, are executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company in Ambon, Maluku (Amboyna
April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
May 8 – A Dutch East India Company party, led by explorer Jan Carstenszoon, fights a skirmish with 200 indigenous Australian Wik peoples.
The MENA
Murat IV, age 11, succeeds his deposed uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman Emperor.[9] Because Murat is a minor, his mother, Kösem Sultan, serves as regent until 1632.
October 9 – Kara Mustafa Pasha is replaced as the Ottoman Governor of Egypt on orders of Sultan Murad IV.
The Battle of Anjar is fought in modern-day Lebanon as the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din II defeats an invasion by Mustafa Pasha al-Hannaq, the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, and takes him prisoner.
The 1623 Malta plague outbreak is contained after killing around 40 people on the island of Malta.[12]
The Old Continent
January – Battle of Mbanda Kasi: Forces from the Kingdom of Kongo defeat the Portuguese.
Asia
* April 11 – King Gwanghaegun of Joseon (in Korea) is deposed in the Injo coup and succeeded by King Injo.
* April 29 – A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.
* May 5 – Raja Gaj Singh of Marwar, along with Mahabat Khan and Parviz Mirza, are deputized by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in India to hunt down Jahangir’s rebel son, Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram. The search fails, and Khurram will become the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after Jahangir’s death in 1627.
* uly 15 – Trịnh Tùng is deposed as ruler of the kingdom of Đại Việt in northern Vietnam after more than 50 years. His son, Trịnh Xuan, burns the palace. Trinh Tung is carried away by his servants in a sedan chair and abandoned in the road to die. Another son, Trịnh Tráng, succeeds to the throne of Đại Việt
* ——————————————
And so it went then as it goes now 400 years later, hopefully the Comet may not see the likes of us still at it again on its next return.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 12 2023 15:16 utc | 300
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