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Ockham’s Razor

The simplest explanation for a phenomenon, ceteris paribus, is to be preferred. Here is my candidate for understanding current American policy regarding Iran: Barack Obama wants Iran to acquire a a nuclear weapon, indeed several or even many nuclear weapons. Why? To teach Israel a lesson and put the fear of God into Israelis. The President [...]

Economic Depression and the Asian Century

Discussion under Howard’s post regarding our Truly Great Leader’s truly mediocre poll numbers and truly impressive decline has trundled off into matters economic, partly as a result of RCAR’s link to a recent article reprising a theme that ought to be familiar to most here: That seemingly improved growth and sales numbers and an historic [...]

¶ Posted 21 November 2009 † CK MacLeod § China § Macroeconomic Analysis & Forecasting ‡ Comments (23) ° Tagged: China, Depression, Japan

GAMECHANGER WATCH: “It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America”

The savings rate has crashed from 15pc in 1990 to near 2pc today, half America’s rate. Japan’s $1.5 trillion state pension fund (the world’s biggest) has become a net seller of government bonds this year, as it must to meet pay-out obligations. The demographic crunch has hit. The workforce [has] been contracting since 2005. Japan [...]

¶ Posted 02 November 2009 † CK MacLeod § Financial Crisis ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: Bubble, Financial Crisis, Japan

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Zolt The Jew: I finished "The Israel Test" on the plane coming home from the beach, Colin et all my dear frems. I will try to email Colin a brief review tomorrow. It is a very important book, of just over 250 big print pages. I could write more on it right now but right now the blonde below is distracting my attention. There is something about blondes with that look and the puckered lips which drives Jewish men crazy, crazy, crazy, even after a full day of Shabbas prayer, oy vey!
CK MacLeod: The Blonde Below...
CK MacLeod: Stop distracting me... I'm conjoining universes...
narciso: Just to get it straight, you're talking about Lady Gaga,
fustidious: clean up on the recbrow aisle needed!
CK MacLeod: feh
fuster the never satisfried: I see that you've grown more fond of the menu on top thing. I liked it from the git, but wonder if you might to able to work on the eye-appeal of it.
Howard Portnoy: Wow, it's my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander's rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security, Sapo, Larsson's journalist background does allow him to expound on the 'national security state' hidden in Social Democracy

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  - narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander’s rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security,...
  - Howard Portnoy: Wow, it’s my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
- Roman Polanski: The Other War (Culture, That Is) (35)
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  - Zoltan Newberry: It would be better if these hard working and badly misunderstood teachers were put to work, I say! They could raise money for education as targets in pie throwing daily fund...
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  - narciso: You missed who that line was directed at Sully, it wasn’t Obama
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Said in a Thread
- when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…
  March 6, 2010 | 12:17 pm
  … (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
  
  “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
  
  Margo @ Yet another global warming apocalypse.
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Collected Poetry of Sully
- Telomeres
  February 17, 2010 | 6:23 am
  Telomeres of defined length,
  Were by his God in mankind bent,
  To make it sure that aged ones,
  Would pass to make room for their sons,
  Before they learn to mount the hill,
  They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
  
  New daughters too then see their day,
  As the used up old fair pass away,
  And the brighter young can in their turn,
  Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
  
  One day mankind may beat the odds,
  And take on the powers of the gods.
  Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
  And include within his toy’s equippage,
  A strictly limited telomere,
  To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
  
  For once a former God is whipped,
  Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
  The former toy learns something odd,
  About possession of the mind of God,
  Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
  Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
  
  Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
  For their script entire a God knows for sure,
  To divert a toy must have free will,
  And at least a chance to climb the hill,
  There to displace its God, a bitter pill
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