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No time to write this morning, but here is the video of yesterday’s meeting I moderated on the treatment of religious minorities in Iraqi Kurdistan: |
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The Art of Economic Warfare (Part 4): Overcoming the European Fantasy of Free Trade |
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The dogmatic popular version of “free trade” is a pretty terrible deal for most Americans. Yet our elites continue to push what amounts to an unwanted and unneeded policy—which they are pleased to call “free trade” but which amounts to a privileging of the elites—upon the public. Most of our elites in the business and ... |
But let’s look at the “economic miracle” of the EU just a bit closer, shall we? |
Even when the European Union experiment seemed unquestionably successful, the truth is that unemployment throughout the continent was grotesquely high. During the period of 2000–05, the most recent economic boom time, the overall unemployment rate in the EU was around 10 percent, according to Eurostat. |
Most economists argue that an unemployment rate higher than 5 percent is bad. If that is the case then Europe’s general unemployment rate was high even during what was supposed to be a boom time in the global economy. The reasons for these high unemployment numbers were related to the European Union’s commitment to ope... |
Also, since when is the European Union a model for free trade? It’s a customs union, which is quite dissimilar from a simple free trade agreement, as former British Conservative MP, Daniel Hannan argued recently. The EU is a conglomeration of states and businesses seeking to unify the European continent in a supranatio... |
Indeed, the EU is one of the biggest protectionist entities out there—all while it is hailed by the global elite as a model of free trade. Yet, when Trump advocated on behalf of policies offering protections for American workers and industry, he was lambasted as a parochial nationalist who would launch a trade war. |
There is little doubt that Europe is the model for the American Left. Is it really a surprise that the same business tycoons and popular Democratic politicians championing this view of the world are all based in cosmopolitan coastal cities? These are cities that have far more in common with post-national cities, like B... |
The cities in question are also places where unemployment (save among the highly educated, insular, ruling class) is high and there exists a culture of a very few haves and a great many more have-nots. Such a system should not be replicated for the entirety of the United States. |
The United States has suffered mightily under the brutal yoke of global “free trade.” Over the past eight years, America’s unemployment numbers have started looking like Europe’s unemployment numbers. This ceaseless assault from those packaging cronyism as “free trade” has marginalized a majority of Americans. It has a... |
Donald Trump’s election has signified that the common man is fighting back. It is a kind of non-violent form of American Revolution. Trump sees the disruptive effects that unnecessarily are being visited upon Americans before they can adapt to the new paradigm and a changing economy. Therefore, President-elect Trump’s... |
Finally, an American president is placing the economic interests of Americans, not just international hedge fund-types, at the forefront of our policy aims. This is the essence of good public policy. We should not allow our economy to become distorted and permanently harmed by the greed and the mistaken beliefs of a ha... |
Let’s “Make America Great Again” by preventing it from looking like Europe. |
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Brandon J. Weichert |
Brandon J. Weichert is a contributing editor to American Greatness. A former Republican congressional staffer and national security expert, he also runs "The Weichert Report" (, an online journal of geopolitics. He holds master's degree in statecraft and national security from the Institute of World Politics in Washing... |
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My guess is, when an ” economist ” gets his job shipped overseas, he might not be as much in favor as he was before. In the mean time he gets to pay less for his neat new toys. |
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And when his neat new toy Made In China stops working not long after he’s bought it, he’s even less in favor. |
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Pavlov and Watson are associated with: |
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B. schemata. |
C. self-actualization. |
D. classical conditioning |
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All Quiet on the Windows 7 Front |
This pair of articles from ZDNet sum up the situation. |
A non-news website is an interesting idea, like a Journal of Negative Results. At the very least it fosters a realistic view of the world because nothing new is happening most of the time in the real world. |
Journals that publish only stories about things that are happening give the biased impression that things are happening most of the time. A more balanced view of the world could be given by padding each page of news with 9 pages of non-news. The ZDNet team seem to be exploring this idea. Good luck to them. |
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When I was working as a manager in a 1000+ person company, I was faced with the opposite problem. There were weekly "status" meetings on a variety of critical projects which were made up of 90% repeating the status that had not changed from the previous week and 10% new information. After 2 or 3 meetings on any projec... |
I "solved" this by tracking the project status on versioned web pages (wikis with links to the sources of the data that measured most of the status). When we had this we started discussing what had changed since last week and who was affected by it. Then the meeting times dropped by a factor of 10. |
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Sunday, October 08, 2006 |
Math to Wow Your Friends - Part 3 |
There is an island containing two types of people: |
knights who always tell the truth and knaves who always lie. |
You visit the island and are approached by two natives who speak to you as follows: |
A says: B s a knight. |
B says: A and I are of opposite type. |
What are A and B? |
answer coming Tuesday... |
Frank. said... |
There are four possible scenarios. I’ll use T & L for truth tellers and liars. So if both A & B are Ts then A’s statement would be true, but B’s would be false. Trying both A & B as Ls then A statement would be true because it is a lie and the same would hold for B so they both are knaves. QED |
jen said... |
Fun, fun, fun. |
KK said... |
And Frank is correct! |
Thursday, November 1, 2012 |
Glitch Of A Witch Part Seven. This Thing Could Go Past Eleven! |
That jelly bean guard Pat scared away had come back with enough jelly bean guards to fill a large food tray. They stood on the stairs ready to attack but Drazin was not about to let them cause him flack. |
“Drazin has had enough of this candy shit. Drazin is going to use one pain in the ass to get rid of the other.” |
My, the language that came from him. But Drazin did not feel things were grim. Unlike Pat who struck a pose, who he thought he was now, God only knows. Miss Priss and I just hid from view while old one eye kept whining that she was literally blue. Drazin picked up the broom Brian used and with the end he one eye abused... |
“Ouch! You bald headed….” |
The rest would really be rated R and we don’t need to go that far. Drazin just smiled as old one eye’s scream killed the jelly bean guard team. Her whining actually came in handy. Who knew it could shatter jelly bean candy? |
“Damn, maybe I’ll let you live a little longer, demon.” |
“Demons, gods, attacking candy, I want Anneeeee!” |
“Anyone have any duct tape?” |
Even Miss Priss was sick of her whining. WorqueenDan smiled as he/she came down the stairs thinking old one eye was done dining. His/her arms and gut came through the door, both that and his/her huge boobies sunk to the floor. He/she waved his/her magic liquorice stick when he/she saw us alive, not knowing how we were ... |
“Cyclops, you have disappointed my royal self. I will now stuff you, fluff you and sit you on a shelf.” |
“Hmm Drazin thinks he has a thing for the one eyed whiner.” |
“Let’s just hope he doesn’t fluff in the buff. That would be scary and rather tough.” |
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