--for the time being, I've had to drop out from attending OLLI classes. Too much going-on.
--Will be comparing/contrasting Christianity with other major religions.
--Have had some insights into the psychology of raising children that I intend to develop shortly, if I write about it at all!
--Relaxed living here in El Paso!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
XXIII. Conceivable Elements in a Trump 'Deal'
I think that just from the proposed sketch of a Carrier Air Conditioning 'Deal,' we're provided with the basic features of what such a deal entails.
1. The company announcement that it is taking its operations to another country and abandoning its manufacturing operations in the US.
2. The Trump administration effort to initiate a deal to keep the particular company's manufacturing facility productive in the US.
3. The result: the company retains a significant number of jobs in the US, while moving other positions to a new country, viz., Mexico. Be it noted:
a. The state of Indiana will provide tax breaks to the company.
b. The Trump administration has gained an opportunity, not only by way of publicizing the deal, but by gaining entry to any other cooperate entity in the group to further enhance the ''deal.'
In this case, Trump himself contacted the parent company, United Technologies, which has military contracts and could have expanded the number and/or the value of any additional contracts for mutual financial benefit--the US government and the parent entity, United Technologies. Trump himself admitted he did not know the CEO of United Technologies until he called him regarding the Carrier Deal.
So, what we have here is a deal that could have lucrative offshoots for those parties involved.
1. The company announcement that it is taking its operations to another country and abandoning its manufacturing operations in the US.
2. The Trump administration effort to initiate a deal to keep the particular company's manufacturing facility productive in the US.
3. The result: the company retains a significant number of jobs in the US, while moving other positions to a new country, viz., Mexico. Be it noted:
a. The state of Indiana will provide tax breaks to the company.
b. The Trump administration has gained an opportunity, not only by way of publicizing the deal, but by gaining entry to any other cooperate entity in the group to further enhance the ''deal.'
In this case, Trump himself contacted the parent company, United Technologies, which has military contracts and could have expanded the number and/or the value of any additional contracts for mutual financial benefit--the US government and the parent entity, United Technologies. Trump himself admitted he did not know the CEO of United Technologies until he called him regarding the Carrier Deal.
So, what we have here is a deal that could have lucrative offshoots for those parties involved.
Operations Centers #3 and #4, learning from the First and Second!
It's been only half a year, really, and it's on to #s 3 and 4.
#3 deals with the need to make the GAO have some teeth to its administrative recommendations. There has to be bite to their pronouncements in order to render their dicta to take on the force of those issued by some regulative agency.
#4: My working with the Chinese these past years has netted much fruit, I believe. By establishing an Ops Center in Seattle, #4, China and other friendly area nations will enjoin a cooperative effort in maintaining commercial Asian water lanes. I anticipate changes similar, moreover, to the profound changes that have occurred in Central America, this past year.
Anyway, I asked for and received support for these still-in-the-planning stages, Ops #s 3 and 4.
#3 deals with the need to make the GAO have some teeth to its administrative recommendations. There has to be bite to their pronouncements in order to render their dicta to take on the force of those issued by some regulative agency.
#4: My working with the Chinese these past years has netted much fruit, I believe. By establishing an Ops Center in Seattle, #4, China and other friendly area nations will enjoin a cooperative effort in maintaining commercial Asian water lanes. I anticipate changes similar, moreover, to the profound changes that have occurred in Central America, this past year.
Anyway, I asked for and received support for these still-in-the-planning stages, Ops #s 3 and 4.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
China will carry on with TPP Aims if US drops out
I think it's safe to say--since I think I know China--that China will be only too glad to have the States drop out from the TPP trading group, so as to enable it to dominate an Asian trading block. Indeed, I think it is looking for just such an opportunity. Be it known that trading blocks serve to maintain standards in trade and commerce across national boundaries.
On the other hand, the US will have much to lose, should it follow Trump's lead and not join TPP.
On the other hand, the US will have much to lose, should it follow Trump's lead and not join TPP.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Monday, September 19, 2016
--I've been living through a sequence of medical tests, since I've reached 79! They've been going the past 2 weeks but are winding down some. So far, I've survived.
--The Ops Central #2, based here in El Paso is now up and running great! It's jurisdiction is to Panama. Cooperation with the major parties involved--coordination swell!
--I'll be working on matters in the Palestine, particularly of interest to Hamas. Have research to do in the next coming days!
--No Olli classes right now; perhaps, before the Fall Semester ends.
--On to Ops Central #3. I no longer do the travelling involved in managing the Central Ops Project, but I'm still there; concerned. The project has taken off, so I'll need to delegate--when we get past Ops Central #3.
--The Ops Central #2, based here in El Paso is now up and running great! It's jurisdiction is to Panama. Cooperation with the major parties involved--coordination swell!
--I'll be working on matters in the Palestine, particularly of interest to Hamas. Have research to do in the next coming days!
--No Olli classes right now; perhaps, before the Fall Semester ends.
--On to Ops Central #3. I no longer do the travelling involved in managing the Central Ops Project, but I'm still there; concerned. The project has taken off, so I'll need to delegate--when we get past Ops Central #3.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
XXII. Why Working Wages in US are flat
Here's an "old" Whack-O Theory I've dug up. Still the case, a Whack-O Theory isn't true; pure fairy-land extravaganza! So, on with the story.
I was in graduate school in New York City--with very little money. For "entertainment," I'd attend the United Nations' meeting on 42nd Street off the River. I'd watch the river traffic out the beautiful glass wall, when things got boring at the meetings.
Anyway, a theory floating the hallways of the UN building at the time--many decades ago--was the hostility building against the "have" nations among the "have-nots" members. The rumor being that if the "haves" did not make concessions to those backward nations making up the Third World, there'd be war waging soon. The "have-nots" were insisting on recognition and respect. But to recognize their potential, the "haves" were adamant that standards of business transactions be in place throughout the world, e.g., adherence to GAAP in accounting practice. This argument I believe was behind initiating trade agreements that has bloomed across the world in recent years. (Incidentally, C-SPAN is currently airing an excellent series on trade deals, including the illustrious and successful WTO.)
But, if trade agreements became the way in which countries were to principally engage in commerce and trade, where would the equalization or parity exist in wages, since the "have-not" countries were low-end on the totem-pole of the wage scale. When I went to Mexico, to examine how NAFTA would be implemented, I could only surmise an answer to that question--"Mexican labor unions would have to take up a fight to realize higher wages for their workers! Such has not happened to any notable degree.
What has happened is an obvious stagnation in wages of workers in the "have" nations, while workers of the "have-nots" hardly pull greater than poverty-level earnings. Who has benefited are companies that have moved their production facilities out of the US and installed abroad automated means of production and distribution. That is to say--to a greater degree than could have been imagined--with the advent and implementation of automated systems, what with their artificial intelligence utilization and systems integration, the worker has been marginalized, and his productivity-quotient radically gone spiraling. This same phenomenon is about to hit agriculture, too, making current farming techniques obsolete and out-of-date.
So, today, companies willing to keep technologically advanced and are in position to re-locate virtually anywhere in the world, can keep up-grading their operations even as they change addresses!
Workers of the world, recognize your plight! There's worldwide human competition for available jobs, and there's computer-driven machinery capable of doing what only humans were capable of performing till such machinery has become available at lower cost than a worker's wages.
I was in graduate school in New York City--with very little money. For "entertainment," I'd attend the United Nations' meeting on 42nd Street off the River. I'd watch the river traffic out the beautiful glass wall, when things got boring at the meetings.
Anyway, a theory floating the hallways of the UN building at the time--many decades ago--was the hostility building against the "have" nations among the "have-nots" members. The rumor being that if the "haves" did not make concessions to those backward nations making up the Third World, there'd be war waging soon. The "have-nots" were insisting on recognition and respect. But to recognize their potential, the "haves" were adamant that standards of business transactions be in place throughout the world, e.g., adherence to GAAP in accounting practice. This argument I believe was behind initiating trade agreements that has bloomed across the world in recent years. (Incidentally, C-SPAN is currently airing an excellent series on trade deals, including the illustrious and successful WTO.)
But, if trade agreements became the way in which countries were to principally engage in commerce and trade, where would the equalization or parity exist in wages, since the "have-not" countries were low-end on the totem-pole of the wage scale. When I went to Mexico, to examine how NAFTA would be implemented, I could only surmise an answer to that question--"Mexican labor unions would have to take up a fight to realize higher wages for their workers! Such has not happened to any notable degree.
What has happened is an obvious stagnation in wages of workers in the "have" nations, while workers of the "have-nots" hardly pull greater than poverty-level earnings. Who has benefited are companies that have moved their production facilities out of the US and installed abroad automated means of production and distribution. That is to say--to a greater degree than could have been imagined--with the advent and implementation of automated systems, what with their artificial intelligence utilization and systems integration, the worker has been marginalized, and his productivity-quotient radically gone spiraling. This same phenomenon is about to hit agriculture, too, making current farming techniques obsolete and out-of-date.
So, today, companies willing to keep technologically advanced and are in position to re-locate virtually anywhere in the world, can keep up-grading their operations even as they change addresses!
Workers of the world, recognize your plight! There's worldwide human competition for available jobs, and there's computer-driven machinery capable of doing what only humans were capable of performing till such machinery has become available at lower cost than a worker's wages.
Monday, August 8, 2016
XXI. Washington, DC--no longer the hub of the Federal Government
Please--this is Whack-O Theory land! Tongue-in-cheek: okay?
Many persons who have prominent and powerful positions in the federal government do not prefer to live in Washington--either they don't want the conspicuousness or they want to raise their kids in a more normal environment. Add to the reluctance of persons in power to move to Washington is the concern of government itself that no one place harbor the central core of governmental officialdom. These two factors led the government to parcel out its seeds of power throughout the country. And, its altered the contour of government such that the various think-tanks and lobby groups, using the old model of the power-brokers of government centralized in just one locality, viz., Washington, DC and vicinity, are virtually talking to themselves, rather than the federal power-brokers of the world!
Oh yes, there's the Secretaries of the various federal Departments that act as liaisons to the public and Congress, but the actual decision-making and policy-formation activities may be thousands of miles away; and Washington offices function simply as a front for their operations.
I say this, not to discourage various ngo organizations to continue meeting with the Washington offices of the federal agencies and departments located there--in Washington, DC--but merely to point out that their effect on developing federal policy and legislation through that office of communication will have minimal effect, in my opinion.
Let's conjecture in Whack-O style. Omaha, Nebraska may have a very large military installation and might be construed as a nexus of military operations at the Joint Chief of Staffs level. The FBI LA Field office could even be considered no longer simply a field office but the centre of FBI world activities--along possibly with its Field Office in Las Vegas. The number of conjectures just where the various federal groups perform their operations is virtually endless, making it far more difficult for any outside group to penetrate or disrupt.
That Hilary Clinton had her own computer server simply serves as a foretelling of how the federal government is seeking to keep its lines of communication free and open from foreign intelligence.
So, really, there's no need for the prices of housing in Washington, DC to go through the roof any longer. There's some but little in Washington, DC to merit the increased numbers of organizations seeking to locate there.
Many persons who have prominent and powerful positions in the federal government do not prefer to live in Washington--either they don't want the conspicuousness or they want to raise their kids in a more normal environment. Add to the reluctance of persons in power to move to Washington is the concern of government itself that no one place harbor the central core of governmental officialdom. These two factors led the government to parcel out its seeds of power throughout the country. And, its altered the contour of government such that the various think-tanks and lobby groups, using the old model of the power-brokers of government centralized in just one locality, viz., Washington, DC and vicinity, are virtually talking to themselves, rather than the federal power-brokers of the world!
Oh yes, there's the Secretaries of the various federal Departments that act as liaisons to the public and Congress, but the actual decision-making and policy-formation activities may be thousands of miles away; and Washington offices function simply as a front for their operations.
I say this, not to discourage various ngo organizations to continue meeting with the Washington offices of the federal agencies and departments located there--in Washington, DC--but merely to point out that their effect on developing federal policy and legislation through that office of communication will have minimal effect, in my opinion.
Let's conjecture in Whack-O style. Omaha, Nebraska may have a very large military installation and might be construed as a nexus of military operations at the Joint Chief of Staffs level. The FBI LA Field office could even be considered no longer simply a field office but the centre of FBI world activities--along possibly with its Field Office in Las Vegas. The number of conjectures just where the various federal groups perform their operations is virtually endless, making it far more difficult for any outside group to penetrate or disrupt.
That Hilary Clinton had her own computer server simply serves as a foretelling of how the federal government is seeking to keep its lines of communication free and open from foreign intelligence.
So, really, there's no need for the prices of housing in Washington, DC to go through the roof any longer. There's some but little in Washington, DC to merit the increased numbers of organizations seeking to locate there.
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