“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Why Western Globalists Are Losing Market Share to China... Our Culture Wars Have Gone Global
...We're Force Feeding 1st World PC Values onto 2nd & 3rd World Nations, and It Has a Price.
Memorandums, memorandums, memorandums... and some... declarations. And plans. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Compare with.
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Well.
It...
Why did the ECSC fail? Primarily because of the change in France's political environment from 1958 onwards, the supranational power of the ECSC, as embodied by the High Authority, was no longer accepted. Furthermore, the effects of the cyclical and structural crises in the coal sector greatly increased the difficulties faced by the ECSC.
I do know that they're trying to back their currencies with gold. Five years ago a McDonalds burger meal went for $5. Today, it's $15. THAT is what happens when you government prints money to spend on senseless wars.
Sorry, but Democracy with "Chinese Values" no longer appeals to America. We're returning to our founder's "Federalist Papers" foreign policies that say, "Europe, go f*ck yourselves".
“Hegel supposes that the monarch’s counsel, whose members are chosen by objective criteria, can resolve an issue at least to the point where only an arbitrary will can choose among the options. The counsel rules out all the bad alternatives (which democracy doesn’t do), until the remaining options are equally meritorious. Even if the monarch decided every political issue, the issues he’d be deciding would be different than the issues as they first appear, and which a democratic vote would have resolved. The monarch makes a ‘groundless’ decision that still has grounds. Consider a concrete example: Suppose prisons are so overcrowded that there is absolutely no room for newly convicted criminals, and we need to decide what to do with them. One alternative is to kill them all. Another is to build a new prison (which is expensive). Another is to reduce the sentences of some already in prison to make room for the new. Another is to let the new criminals go free. Another is to think up some new punishment. Some of these alternatives won’t be acceptable, and the counsel will eliminate them. The remaining alternatives are grounded (i.e. in the principle that we must not kill, or that we must punish wrongdoers), but suppose it’s arbitrary which of them we choose. The monarch decides this.”
- Slavoj Zizek, "In Defense of Hegel's Notion of Monarchy"
The University Discourse has run Amok... Economic interests vs. moral ones vs. survival instincts... how can one choose amongst them?
It should be clear from this example what Hegel fears, as well as why his fear is even more actual today: the direct rule of experts who justify their decisions with (pseudo-scientific) reasons incomprehensible to the majority of ordinary citizens. Just recall how today economic decisions are legitimized by economic experts as simple neutral scientific insight, and how in this way the political bias of these decisions disappears from view, is dismissed as “ideological”… Hegel is aware that a Master who is elevated above the system of knowledge (in Lacanian terms, of the “discourse of university”) is needed, so he wants to keep the power that decides outside expert knowledge. However, he is at the same time aware that a return to the premodern master who reigns directly is unacceptable in modern times; his solution is, therefore, a monarch whose function is ultimately just to dot the i’s, to sign his name on decisions prepared and proposed by qualified experts.
Or... incarcerating someone, which would became enraged, and will make a Revolution -- to behead that silly monarch. ;-p
You just know little about monarchy.
Like for example -- history of Russian Empire. ;-)
\\his solution is, therefore, a monarch whose function is ultimately just to dot the i’s, to sign his name on decisions prepared and proposed by qualified experts.
No, you fail to appreciate the tyranny of the majority. Mrs. Grundy, et al.
Madison, "Memorial & Remonstrance"
The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, who enters into any subordinate Association, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the General Authority; much more must every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no mans right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. True it is, that no other rule exists, by which any question which may divide a Society, can be ultimately determined, but the will of the majority; but it is also true that the majority may trespass on the rights of the minority.3
3. JM’s historical studies along with his experience in the legislature had convinced him of the dangers of unfettered majority rule. He pointed this out later in his friendly disagreement with Jefferson over a federal bill of rights (JM to Jefferson, 17 Oct. 1788, Madison, Writings [Hunt ed.], V, 272). JM reaffirmed his fear of oppression by the majority during debates at the Federal Convention (6 June 1787, James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention [Athens, Ohio, 1966], p. 77). He also brought up the same point in Federalist No. 10 (Cooke, ed., The Federalist, pp. 60–61).
btw - As of 2024, the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia possesses 5,580 nuclear weapons, while the United States has 5,428; Russia and the U.S. each have about 1,600 active deployed strategic nuclear warheads. Russia's stockpile is growing in size, while the United States' is shrinking.
Although we now have programs at LANL and Savannah River to start producing 80 new nuclear cores a year, and the Jason group estimated a shelf life of about 100 years for the old ones.
btw - I think I mentioned that I once worked on a proposal to operate the Savannah River facility (contracted to produce 50 of those new cores every year).
\\Although we now have programs at LANL and Savannah River to start producing 80 new nuclear cores a year, and the Jason group estimated a shelf life of about 100 years for the old ones.
As well as new creative strategies of how to use em? ;-)
\\btw - I think I mentioned that I once worked on a proposal to operate the Savannah River facility (contracted to produce 50 of those new cores every year).
Do you still think that I am some Russia/China/India?/IRAN????? spy.
To make much use of such kind of info???
Well... I have had aquitance... with one who claimed working on some research nuclear facility...
but, what I was interested to remember, and one to share -- is how they used water circulation channels of it... creatively. :-))))
I don't worry, because everything I say is in the public domain. Does Clancy worry about what he writes in "Sum of all Fears"? Anyone with a "Janes" collection knows more than I'm stating.
\\I don't worry, because everything I say is in the public domain. Does Clancy worry about what he writes in "Sum of all Fears"? Anyone with a "Janes" collection knows more than I'm stating.
Well... was he revealing any "secret" there?
About F-117s... it counts as product placement. Well... that thing hardly payed back for all investments anyway.
Or... "highly secret" use of home video recorder? :-)))))
Well... that Teisheira dude... thought that way too.
Do your culture have some DECENT movies/book about spies/spying???
I mean. Not Bond.
But some where REAL work of spy showed.
I know at least one -- whole series -- "Americans". Laughable at moment (as everything I saw depicting soviets on their turf), but in other regards -- quote detailed and with understanding.
Red Storm Rising was a summary recap of weapons right out of "Janes". Sum of All Fears detailed how to build a nuke. Without Remorse, a tale of my beloved Baltimore.
And why read about fictional spies when you can get an actual agent to reveal their actual methods on YouTube?
Russian inevitability... BWAH! Russian demographics tell another story. They'll be fighting wars alright. But their wars will be trying to fight off the Turks and the Stans.
\\A continuity error was shown when Stanislav Biryukov was mentioned as the head of Russian domestic intelligence (SVR); in previous novels he was featured as head of Russian foreign intelligence (FSB).
Funny American commenters. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
All see upside down. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))0
USA has lead the road to the "future" since 1945. And it has lead us all to this. It's pretty obvious that some "mis-steps" were made along the way, that the vision got hijacked and/ or went astray. But I prefer the 1776 "vision"... the "Federalist Papers" vision that got us in the position to control the global future in 1945. To me, the Deferalist Papers are the "tech", not Bretton Woods.
Is E. coli needed for digestion? coli is a type of bacteria that normally lives inside our intestines, where it helps the body break down and digest food.
Metagenomics and metaproteomics - the studies of the suites of genes and proteins in a microbiome - attempt to move beyond asking “who is there?” to asking “what are you doing?”. Their focus is on function rather than identity. Given the high genomic diversity within a given species, and the high rates of gene transfer between them, this focus makes much more sense if we want to understand how microbiomes function in disease and health. E. coli is a good example of the diversity within a species - of its 5,000 genes, only 2,000 are common to all strains, and it has access to a “pangenome” of 13,000 genes.
E. coli is a common but not abundant inhabitant of human gut microbiomes. It typically comprises less than 1% of a person’s microbiota. I don’t know of any genes or proteins unique to it that have been identified as essential for health or any microbiome functions. It is unlikely that E. coli is essential for human survival in its role as a member of the microbiome. The only way to prove this would be to show that it is completely absent in healthy humans. But showing that there is not a single cell of E. coli in someone’s gut is probably impossible and certainly pointless.
If E. coli proves essential to human survival, it will be in its role as a workhorse of genetic engineering. Perhaps it will be used to produce a vaccine or antidote to a civilization-destroying pandemic. Or it will be engineered to suck up carbon from the atmosphere or oceans before we fry the planet. But absent these scenarios, it is just another bug.
Naaah... you, just don't GET what Empire is.
ReplyDeleteTHERE CAN BE *ONLY*ONE*!!! ;-P
Like in that "Highlander" movie. ;-)
We had 2 in the 60s-90s...
ReplyDeleteI guess you'll have to start relying on China to bail you out of your "wars of stupidity."
ReplyDeleteWanna remake whole world into re-education center??? %-))))))))))))))))))))
ReplyDelete\\We had 2 in the 60s-90s...
ReplyDeleteBS.
USA just created own Shadow Doubler... and want one again.
Only... its NOT possible to enter same river twice.
ReplyDeleteAnd without power of "Yes. WE can!" you have only choice -- to became shadow/minor/silent parner of Great Europe.
ReplyDeleteOr... slip into being YET ONE Latin America shithole. ;-P
\\out of your "wars of stupidity."
ReplyDeleteIt's USA's war...
that, that USA trying play "nobody home" cannot change that fact.
That's just Uvalde Syndrome.
Or... to make it aphorism.
ReplyDeleteThere is just THREE unavoidable things: death, taxes... and wars. ;-)
It's not too late to join the BRICS...
ReplyDelete%-)))))))))))))))
ReplyDeleteHave you read something about it, for at least?
\\https://brics2023.gov.za/agreements-and-mous/
ReplyDeleteMemorandums, memorandums, memorandums... and some... declarations. And plans. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Compare with.
European Coal and Steel Community
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › E...
The objective of the treaty was to create a single market in the coal and steel industries of the member states. Customs duties, subsidies, discriminatory and ...
Merger Treaty · High Authority of the European... · International Ruhr Authority · Flag
Well.
It...
Why did the ECSC fail?
Primarily because of the change in France's political environment from 1958 onwards, the supranational power of the ECSC, as embodied by the High Authority, was no longer accepted. Furthermore, the effects of the cyclical and structural crises in the coal sector greatly increased the difficulties faced by the ECSC.
Har-har-har... :-D
ReplyDelete;-)
ReplyDeleteI do know that they're trying to back their currencies with gold. Five years ago a McDonalds burger meal went for $5. Today, it's $15. THAT is what happens when you government prints money to spend on senseless wars.
ReplyDeleteMy retirement money is worth 1/3 of what it was just five years ago. It's like I invested it in Chinese "ghost" cities.
ReplyDelete\\THAT is what happens when you government prints money to spend on senseless wars.
ReplyDeleteZero-bama was doing QEs (Quantative Eneasinings?) in his terms.
WAS USA in some war... that time?
\\ It's like I invested it in Chinese "ghost" cities.
Yeah.
That's what you did.
Instead of investing in Tech of the Furture. ;-)
INtensive Economy VA EXtensive.
ReplyDeleteTHAT is how Soviet Union gone broke.
Because... gerontocraty at helm of it knew/saw only EXTENSIVE ways.
Like, ignored inception of personal computers.
Do you know some numbers???
You produced 1.000.000 of IBM PC XTs... in 1980 ONLY.
While USSR produced... whoping 100.000... through ALL 80th.
And even that... because of East Germany.
SEE????!!!
That is DIFFERENCE between if you follow EXtensive Economy... instead of INtensive.
Well... I wholeheartedly agree with dRump -- Bi-den is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteBut... he still far from full truth -- that all DEMNs are idiots, and lead USA into a war.
As well as those people that follow/listen to DEMN/liliPut's propaganda.
...and don't feel threatened by it.
ReplyDeleteWell... Oscar for mere documentary. DEMN propaganda at work.
ReplyDeleteYawn.
\\Blogger -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...
ReplyDelete\\ ...and don't feel threatened by it.
Do cattle on a cattle yard... feel itself threatened?
Think about it.
Or... don't think.
Whatever.
I don't care.
I CANNOT think instead of you... about you whereabouts and circumstances.
YOU need to start helping liliPut ASAP.
ReplyDelete1000 units of artilery. Hundreds of tanks and etc.
How much time do you think they'd be able to continue to fight like that??? ;-P
liliPut NEED Lend-Lease. ;-P
You'll be sending it to Murmansk.
ReplyDeleteAnd european Uboats will sunk it. ;-P
As in Ol'Goo'Times. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))0
Also... you could start sending help to China... against nasty japs. ;-P
ReplyDeleteSo they could reach M.A.D. levels ASAP.
And... they WILL NOT use it against USA.
They will give their triple super-sincere OATH.
\\1000 units of artilery. Hundreds of tanks and etc.
ReplyDeletePer month!
They LOOSING MORE then you have had sent to Ukraine.
PER F***G MONTH!!!
PS But... Great Military Strategist -- Pope of Rome is right -- Ukraine is on a losing side, and NEED to rise white flag....
Mind-worms -- fearsome weapon of modern times. :-D
Or... that is that dangerous COVID after-effect???
ReplyDeleteProof that it was REALLY made in China laboratories mind-cracking virus???
Sorry, but Democracy with "Chinese Values" no longer appeals to America. We're returning to our founder's "Federalist Papers" foreign policies that say, "Europe, go f*ck yourselves".
ReplyDeleteAnd what if they'll LIKE it? ;-p
ReplyDeleteEurope ALREADY is TWICE as big.
Just infested with no firm lead and too much diversity.
But... if in case of this war they'll became more united.
They not only will dwarf USA... they can attract many more people/nations.
And became NEW center of power.
Well... they never stopped being. Just being dormant.
NATO tanks now are part of RFia's rural scenery ;-p
ReplyDeleteliliPut NEEDS Lend-Lease!!!
And need it ASAP!!!
Short translation -- VERY "excited" to be there. ;-P Well, it is postmortem to boot
ReplyDeleteliliPut NEEDS Lend-Lease!!!
And need it ASAP! ;-)
No comments. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd became NEW center of power.
ReplyDeleteI wish them well.
Of course... it's good to have safe heaven... just in case.
ReplyDeleteWhere'd you like to live? Misty England? Sunny France? Ukraine? ;-)
Short translation -- "are we ready" to "show Kuzkina Mother" ;-P
ReplyDeleteDo you know/remember who/what "Kuzkina Mother" is? ;-P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuzma%27s_mother
Short translation -- VERY "excited" to be protected by Unparalleled Anti-air capabilities of RFia. ;-P
ReplyDeleteHow you are about dark humor? ;-)
ReplyDeletehttps://storage2.censor.net/video/3/120324_reda.mp4
Do not do it as link, to make for you time to think.
Well... even liliPut started babbling about INtensification of economy...
ReplyDeleteWhile you still waiting for Pearl Harbor 2.0 wake up call.
Well... it's interesting... to observe such a historical dumbness, in real time.
Yawn.
Where'd you like to live? Misty England? Sunny France? Ukraine? ;-)
ReplyDeleteAre they "country's for old men"? ;)
:P
ReplyDeleteI'm not the sheriff and I can't kill your Anton Chigurh for you. You shouldn't have taken the money. ;P
ReplyDeleteYeah,,, Uvalde Syndrome.
ReplyDeleteOr... it's always somebody else responsibility.
Disease of too much of civilization.
Meh.
You should have tied yourself to the mast and plugged your ears with wax...
ReplyDeleteHeh... what an idiot I was. Now I see it.
ReplyDeleteWell, it was natural. 'Cause, humanum idioticus est. Meh. ;-P
We all biased, in that sense that we treat other humans the way as we treat ourself -- think they know and think same way as we are.
As I said... natural.
So... when I tried to explain something here. My previous knowledge and experiences was at work.
Well... it would be hard for me to spell out it correctly, anyway. As that is mostly intuitive "revelations".
Like about military and history strategy.
That war that once started -- cannot be stopped just as is... even though that would be rational.
And when war NOT stopped... all kinds of escalations ENSURE.
So.
USA government showed itself true idiots -- when they oversaw possibility of war.
NO!
They knew ALL about it. Maybe that is first time in history when ALL plans of war was known prematurely.
But... they was UNABLE to prevent it.
AND.
Missed TOTALLY development of it.
So, that is natural -- that current strategy of USA -- to postpone, to wait and to look what will happen.
Most idiotic one. To postpone all problems on later.
But well... humanum idioticum est.
The USIC is America's "SuperEgo". When there's a weak president in charge (like Biden), there are no "checks" on it, and it lets itself run wild.
ReplyDeleteSorry you got caught in the crosshairs.
We're still trying to put it back into its' box before it breaks something else.
Now, where did I put my "principles"....
ReplyDelete“Hegel supposes that the monarch’s counsel, whose members are chosen by objective criteria, can resolve an issue at least to the point where only an arbitrary will can choose among the options. The counsel rules out all the bad alternatives (which democracy doesn’t do), until the remaining options are equally meritorious. Even if the monarch decided every political issue, the issues he’d be deciding would be different than the issues as they first appear, and which a democratic vote would have resolved. The monarch makes a ‘groundless’ decision that still has grounds. Consider a concrete example: Suppose prisons are so overcrowded that there is absolutely no room for newly convicted criminals, and we need to decide what to do with them. One alternative is to kill them all. Another is to build a new prison (which is expensive). Another is to reduce the sentences of some already in prison to make room for the new. Another is to let the new criminals go free. Another is to think up some new punishment. Some of these alternatives won’t be acceptable, and the counsel will eliminate them. The remaining alternatives are grounded (i.e. in the principle that we must not kill, or that we must punish wrongdoers), but suppose it’s arbitrary which of them we choose. The monarch decides this.”
- Slavoj Zizek, "In Defense of Hegel's Notion of Monarchy"
The University Discourse has run Amok... Economic interests vs. moral ones vs. survival instincts... how can one choose amongst them?
ReplyDeleteIt should be clear from this example what Hegel fears, as well as why his fear is even more actual today: the direct rule of experts who justify their decisions with (pseudo-scientific) reasons incomprehensible to the majority of ordinary citizens. Just recall how today economic decisions are legitimized by economic experts as simple neutral scientific insight, and how in this way the political bias of these decisions disappears from view, is dismissed as “ideological”… Hegel is aware that a Master who is elevated above the system of knowledge (in Lacanian terms, of the “discourse of university”) is needed, so he wants to keep the power that decides outside expert knowledge. However, he is at the same time aware that a return to the premodern master who reigns directly is unacceptable in modern times; his solution is, therefore, a monarch whose function is ultimately just to dot the i’s, to sign his name on decisions prepared and proposed by qualified experts.
\\Sorry you got caught in the crosshairs.
ReplyDeleteNo need to be sorry.
We are all on that boat... well, SpaceShip Earth.
\\The monarch decides this.”
Means... making fatal mistake. ;-P
Like freeing someone which would better NOT.
Or... incarcerating someone, which would became enraged, and will make a Revolution -- to behead that silly monarch. ;-p
You just know little about monarchy.
Like for example -- history of Russian Empire. ;-)
\\his solution is, therefore, a monarch whose function is ultimately just to dot the i’s, to sign his name on decisions prepared and proposed by qualified experts.
Well... British monarchy? ;-)
No, you fail to appreciate the tyranny of the majority. Mrs. Grundy, et al.
ReplyDeleteMadison, "Memorial & Remonstrance"
The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, who enters into any subordinate Association, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the General Authority; much more must every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no mans right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. True it is, that no other rule exists, by which any question which may divide a Society, can be ultimately determined, but the will of the majority; but it is also true that the majority may trespass on the rights of the minority.3
3. JM’s historical studies along with his experience in the legislature had convinced him of the dangers of unfettered majority rule. He pointed this out later in his friendly disagreement with Jefferson over a federal bill of rights (JM to Jefferson, 17 Oct. 1788, Madison, Writings [Hunt ed.], V, 272). JM reaffirmed his fear of oppression by the majority during debates at the Federal Convention (6 June 1787, James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention [Athens, Ohio, 1966], p. 77). He also brought up the same point in Federalist No. 10 (Cooke, ed., The Federalist, pp. 60–61).
:P
ReplyDeleteAha... Inertia.
ReplyDeleteMost underappreciated force of the Universe.
Do you not like that concept? SpaceShip Earth.
ReplyDeleteShort translation -- we never will have problem with PTSD soldiers... few of em return from war anyway. ;-P
ReplyDeleteSpaceShip Earth? Naaaahhh. Snow-Piercer.
ReplyDeleteMeden agan!
ReplyDeleteYou and I are looking out the windows.
ReplyDelete\\SpaceShip Earth? Naaaahhh. Snow-Piercer.
ReplyDeleteYeah... I know that flick... yawn.
But prefer this S1E4 "Oxygene" of
Métal Hurlant Chronicles
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... Métal Hurlant, known in the United States as Heavy Metal. ... series' third episode. Lubrano and Justine ... Based on: "Whisky in the Jar" by Jim Alexander & Gérald ...
About engineer... as sole survivor. ;-)
Not familiar... and not sure which episode wij or oxygene...
ReplyDeleteliliPut feels itself triumphator... now.
ReplyDeleteand babbling about "grandeous plans".
think, what that plans are???
...sure, finish off Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteWell... invicible army, as it is. :-)))
ReplyDelete\\...sure, finish off Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteAfter bombing out Washington? Sure.
Because that could became looking MUCH EASIER... then push back Ukrainian army. ;-P
ReplyDeletePerhaps. Given that your army will be out of ammo, I'd cheer for the bombers when they hit DC if I were you.
ReplyDeleteMeh.
ReplyDeleteWe talk more then year.
And you still think that I'm emotional? ;-P
Yawn.
While I prefer to talk with/about facts.
Like.
Fact 1: known to you, from your own USA media -- that reminded lately -- that RFia have something 6000 nukes.
And directed em NOT on Ukraine. Not on Europe.
North America.
Fact 2: not that known, not that apparent to you, I think -- behavior and talks, that inhabitants of RFia...
maybe in that talks, they showing desire to bomb out Ukraine??? Europe? China? Some foster tribes in Amazonia forest?
Naaah.
They WANT to BOMB OUT your territory -- North America. U.S.A.
And...
Given with how they talked a lot... how they want to "free from Nazis Ukraine"... for more then 10 years... absolutely openly.
And look what happened.
I. As human that trying to be rational and pragmatic.
Would see it as FIRM REASON to worry... after listening for more then 2 years already... how they want to bomb out... U.S.A.
PS Would Google spamfilter block it??? for too many b-words? ;-P
About that foto of "invincible army".
ReplyDeleteI wanna test my culture understanding. ;-P
Like.
Would title "private Snafu and his lieutenant Dufus" would be good? ;-)
Sounds like a copyright infringement...
ReplyDeletebtw - As of 2024, the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia possesses 5,580 nuclear weapons, while the United States has 5,428; Russia and the U.S. each have about 1,600 active deployed strategic nuclear warheads. Russia's stockpile is growing in size, while the United States' is shrinking.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we now have programs at LANL and Savannah River to start producing 80 new nuclear cores a year, and the Jason group estimated a shelf life of about 100 years for the old ones.
btw - I think I mentioned that I once worked on a proposal to operate the Savannah River facility (contracted to produce 50 of those new cores every year).
ReplyDeleteCost to Government offered... $1 per year.
ReplyDelete...as a GOCO (Government Owned, Company Operated)
ReplyDelete\\Sounds like a copyright infringement...
ReplyDelete:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
\\Although we now have programs at LANL and Savannah River to start producing 80 new nuclear cores a year, and the Jason group estimated a shelf life of about 100 years for the old ones.
As well as new creative strategies of how to use em? ;-)
\\btw - I think I mentioned that I once worked on a proposal to operate the Savannah River facility (contracted to produce 50 of those new cores every year).
Do you still think that I am some Russia/China/India?/IRAN????? spy.
To make much use of such kind of info???
Well... I have had aquitance... with one who claimed working on some research nuclear facility...
but, what I was interested to remember, and one to share -- is how they used water circulation channels of it... creatively. :-))))
I don't worry, because everything I say is in the public domain. Does Clancy worry about what he writes in "Sum of all Fears"? Anyone with a "Janes" collection knows more than I'm stating.
ReplyDeleteps - I'm a marine engineer. So was my brother. He used to install the reactors at Electric Boat.
ReplyDeleteWater/Steam/et al circulation is our stock & trade.
ReplyDelete\\I don't worry, because everything I say is in the public domain. Does Clancy worry about what he writes in "Sum of all Fears"? Anyone with a "Janes" collection knows more than I'm stating.
ReplyDeleteWell... was he revealing any "secret" there?
About F-117s... it counts as product placement. Well... that thing hardly payed back for all investments anyway.
Or... "highly secret" use of home video recorder? :-)))))
Well... that Teisheira dude... thought that way too.
Do your culture have some DECENT movies/book about spies/spying???
I mean. Not Bond.
But some where REAL work of spy showed.
I know at least one -- whole series -- "Americans". Laughable at moment (as everything I saw depicting soviets on their turf), but in other regards -- quote detailed and with understanding.
Also... I mentioned before "BUREAU". ;-)
Ah... sorry.
ReplyDeleteIn my mind "Red Storm" became more important.
While for you and other Americans... it goes belove radar -- don't like to think about bad possibilities?
Red Storm Rising was a summary recap of weapons right out of "Janes". Sum of All Fears detailed how to build a nuke. Without Remorse, a tale of my beloved Baltimore.
ReplyDeleteAnd why read about fictional spies when you can get an actual agent to reveal their actual methods on YouTube?
Bustamante was a former USAF academy cadet. Makes me wonder how many got recruited for CIA out of my academy. Like Carter Page was out of Annapolis.
ReplyDeleteBustamante reminds me of my childhood, watching training films of conducting street surveillance or picking locks... or being a side-gunner on a B-17.
ReplyDeleteYeah... boys playing soldiers... :-(((((
ReplyDeleteuntil... becoming ones.
And that's what liliPut doing with own youth.
Preparing many millions to a future war.
War which NOW will happen INEVITABLY.
Because your ol'farts oversaw it. Thought that is "not our business".
But... it WILL be your.
Same as when Hitler trained his youth to fight against "Jews in Washington".
Did you saw "Hitlerjunge Quex"?
Is it emotional?
ReplyDeleteWell... partly.
But... mostly in regard to "inevitability of History". Be it damned. :-((((((((
Russian inevitability... BWAH! Russian demographics tell another story. They'll be fighting wars alright. But their wars will be trying to fight off the Turks and the Stans.
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ReplyDelete\\But their wars will be trying to fight off the Turks and the Stans.
ReplyDeleteIn a world where North America will be nuclear plains waste dump?
Sure!
It looks like definite possibility. ;-P
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ReplyDelete\\A continuity error was shown when Stanislav Biryukov was mentioned as the head of Russian domestic intelligence (SVR); in previous novels he was featured as head of Russian foreign intelligence (FSB).
Funny American commenters. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
All see upside down. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))0
Red countries rising... the bluer you are, the more irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteYeah... Inevitability of History. Bleh. :-((((((((((((((((((((((((((
ReplyDeleteNo, an accounting of the present actual circumstances.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that is the same?
ReplyDeleteYawn.
What History made of? If not from "present actual circumstances"... only in the past time?
No. It represents the limits of the future.
ReplyDelete??????
ReplyDeleteFuture???
There is no such thing as "future". In the mind of people.
And I have proof at hands.
ReplyDeleteEVEN most profound and powerful organization -- one that could take a lead in defining Future -- USA government.
Poo-pooing that job.
With ignoring IMMINENT danger for that Future... in the face of totally M/A/D RFia.
That's it.
THERE IS NO Future... in the minds of people.
Do you know what "self-fulfilling prophecy" mean?
ReplyDeleteUSA has lead the road to the "future" since 1945. And it has lead us all to this. It's pretty obvious that some "mis-steps" were made along the way, that the vision got hijacked and/ or went astray. But I prefer the 1776 "vision"... the "Federalist Papers" vision that got us in the position to control the global future in 1945. To me, the Deferalist Papers are the "tech", not Bretton Woods.
ReplyDeleteOnly One Slime Mold to rule the Swamp! Doesn't sound like a good idea...
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ReplyDelete\\To me, the Deferalist Papers are the "tech", not Bretton Woods.
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
Box with worms opened.
And as common wisdom says -- now they can be put only into BIGGER box.
Man, only one animal to live on the planet Earth.... rest must be conquered /exterminated. No room for others in "the box" called Earth.
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ReplyDeleteAnd what you'd do without E.coli? ;-P
ReplyDeleteEat more lettuce?
ReplyDeleteSo... plants going unhindered? ;-)
ReplyDeleteIs E. coli needed for digestion?
ReplyDeletecoli is a type of bacteria that normally lives inside our intestines, where it helps the body break down and digest food.
Metagenomics and metaproteomics - the studies of the suites of genes and proteins in a microbiome - attempt to move beyond asking “who is there?” to asking “what are you doing?”. Their focus is on function rather than identity. Given the high genomic diversity within a given species, and the high rates of gene transfer between them, this focus makes much more sense if we want to understand how microbiomes function in disease and health. E. coli is a good example of the diversity within a species - of its 5,000 genes, only 2,000 are common to all strains, and it has access to a “pangenome” of 13,000 genes.
ReplyDeleteE. coli is a common but not abundant inhabitant of human gut microbiomes. It typically comprises less than 1% of a person’s microbiota. I don’t know of any genes or proteins unique to it that have been identified as essential for health or any microbiome functions. It is unlikely that E. coli is essential for human survival in its role as a member of the microbiome. The only way to prove this would be to show that it is completely absent in healthy humans. But showing that there is not a single cell of E. coli in someone’s gut is probably impossible and certainly pointless.
If E. coli proves essential to human survival, it will be in its role as a workhorse of genetic engineering. Perhaps it will be used to produce a vaccine or antidote to a civilization-destroying pandemic. Or it will be engineered to suck up carbon from the atmosphere or oceans before we fry the planet. But absent these scenarios, it is just another bug.
Yeah... ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd... what ancient greeks and romans was saying about e.coli? Remind me, ple-e-e-ese. ;-)
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