Sunday, September 1, 2024

2011, the President of the Council for National Interest Foundation sounded the alarm on the influence of AIPAC over U.S Politicians and the money America was sending to Israel

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PER BYLUND: What causes poverty? Nothing. It is the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is what causes prosperity?

Per Bylund, Prof at Oklahoma State, author of How to Think About the Economy.  

You are Twitter famous for one of the best economic tweets in history, "What causes poverty? Nothing. It is the original state, the default and starting point.  The real question is what causes prosperity?"  The biggest problem in any discussion nowadays and also in science, is that we are asking the wrong questions, and it's mostly more important to ask the right questions and to have a good answer I like to twist things over a little bit and uncover an actual issue that we're talking about we tend to assume so much, and we tend to assume that in today's society that there's plenty of wealth.  So the problem becomes just how to spread it around?  The wealth comes from somewhere.  It is the case that if you don't do anything, you're not going to have produced anything.  If you don't do anything at all, you're just going to die.  But if you just rely on nature and don't do anything with nature, you're also going to die pretty soon; you're definitely not going to be wealthy.  So we have to ask, where does this prosperity that we are living in and benefiting from, enjoying everyday, where does it come from?  That's the real question, "How come someone is poor?" because that's a lack of prosperity, a lack of wealth.  Real question is, "Why are some countries, or nations rich and wealthy universally, and some countries they haven't caught up, and how can they catch up?  These are the main questions really in economics. 

Mainstream economics tends to be more focused on the distribution of wealth it almost takes wealth as a given and it focuses a lot on who is getting that wealth income inequality which kind of suggests a more political project really than than an economics project like which voting constituencies are we trying to appeal to but in Austrian the focus is much more on production and do you you're familiar course with the Robinson cruso tight do you know when you give your courses sort of introducing students to Austrian Theory or economic theory, like how things are producing how we get prosperity in the first place?

Robinson Crusoe is a good example although most days most students don't know what Robinson Cruso is.  So you have to talk about Tom Hanks in Castaway, and then they get it which is sort of funny.  It wasn't the case 10 years ago they don't really know what it is.  But starting from the default point where you have nothing and talking about how can you accumulate wealth and by what means do you do that, I mean, that's super important cuz for the individual person, like Robinson Crusoe, alone, and also for society like where does it come from and how come we experience growth but not GDP growth but actual growth in terms of increased well-being?  And where does it come from? How can we get more of it, how can we share it, or what is it actually mean?

So what are the top policies in your mind that would increase well like if we look at today's America for example what kinds of policy changes do you think would have the biggest impact?

One is to lower the barriers to entry.  I think a lot of economists go wrong when they think about how competition is important, and they count the number of businesses doing the same thing.  Well if they're all doing the same thing, they're not going to contribute a whole lot maybe making a specific production process more effective.  But economic growth and actually producing wealth is about disrupting and creating new value not not stopping entrepreneurial ship but creating new businesses and new types of production and we have a huge problem there

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Saturday, August 31, 2024

British invented communism and other subversive movements, then blamed them on the Jews


55:20  If you look at the period we call "The Age of Revolution," when all of a sudden people started rising up and overthrowing governments, late 18th century through the early 20th century, the Russian Revolution.  This was the age of Revolution, and this was exactly the age when the British Empire rose and basically took over the world and became the master of the entire planet.  Its only real rival was, by the time of WWI, the real rival of Great Britain, was not Germany, it was Russia, and I explain in geopolitical terms why this was in my book.  

56:00  Germany was a rival, yes, but they understood that Russia was potentially a much greater rival, and there is no question that British elites went into WWI with a very definite plan to defeat both Germany, their enemy, and Russia, who was supposedly their ally, and they accomplished both.  And the reason they dared to do this, obviously, it was a very risky thing to do, to take out your ally, Russia, in the midst of trying to defeat Germany, but they did it because they already knew that the Americans were going to  enter the war because this had already been arranged in advance with Colonel House and Sir William Wiseman and all the British intelligence people who were controlling Woodrow Wilson.  They said, "Oh, it's already been set up and arranged," so the British already knew that the instant that they took out Russia the Americans were going to come in and replace Russia with fresh troops and finish off what was left of Germany.  That's exactly what happened.  It was admittedly a very risky move; could have gone badly for the British, but they're a risk-taking people; that's why they got where they got.  They took this risk and they won.  It absolutely happened exactly as they planned it.  And the key was their control of the United States, and their absolute ability to know with 100% certainty that they could get Woodrow Wilson to declare war on Germany.  It was an intricate and fascinating set of maneuvers, but it really happened.  It was so well documented.  But the way that covered it was the British to have Winston Churchill get up in 1920 at a point when the whole world was totally disillusioned by war, by geopolitics.  So many people had died, and the catastrophe in Russia, in particular, was still going on, so many millions slaughtered.  What was it all about?  And so Churchill got up there and said "It was the Jews.  The Jews did it.  It was all their fault.  And we need to defeat these bad Jews in Russia," he said, "and we need to encourage these good Jews who are going to set up 
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9/11 WITNESS: "and I looked out the window because the windows exploded, and the street below caved in. The whole street caved in. You can see below the street, and at that point there were fireballs coming up"

Anybody ever heard any 9/11 witness mention that the streets have caved in from explosions in the basement of the Twin Towers?  Me neither.

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Strengthen your obliques to do more pull-ups and chin-ups

Chin-ups and Pull-ups.  If you're looking to increase the number of pull-ups or pull-ups in your routine, try exercising the obliques and your lats.  

from Livestrong,
Your latissimus dorsi is the most powerful pulling muscle in your back, and during a pull-up, it's the primary mover or the muscle that provides most of the power to bring your body up to the bar. One of the movements it performs is shoulder adduction, or bringing your arms down toward the sides of your body. But because the pull-up bar is fixed in place and your body is not, it's your body that moves up to the bar.

The latissimus dorsi, commonly referred to as the lats,


Strengthen your obliques like this,

and this,

So that you can do more of these,

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