In post #44, I discuss 4 elements for the future. My goal was not go off the deep end, rather to bridge the present and possibilities for the future. Along those lines, a CalTech friend made me aware of a gold nanowire that was coated in a manganese dioxide shell and encasing the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel that can provide a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. The technical implications for element one (energy) of the geo-political thread could be enormous over the next two generations. The article below goes into more detail.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...211136.htm
This probably deserves its own thread.
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Along the lines of post #32 and people have asked me about reading list recommendations and a few current authors that have influenced me or whom I find relevant. Political economy authors would include Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrick Hayek, Joseph Shumpeter (more economic), Frederick Bastiat, Jean Baptiste Say, David Ricardo.
Present day I would consider David Stockman and his Contra Corner with articles like:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/on...t-landing/
to be noteworthy, in the late 1990´s I was reading people like Adam Hamilton: http://www.zealllc.com/2001/monster.htm
In general I have recommended that the best course of study is to delve into those topics which personally motivate you. With motivation at your base, you will read and study far more than if I (or someone else) gives you a list, you will naturally branch out. The issue might then become branching out so far that you become dispersed and do not build a base.
If you can find an old copy of Carroll Quigley´s Tragedy and Hope http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf consider reading it.
Consider the study Psychopathy and Ponerology as this will broaden your perspective. You will be fortunate to find books available particularly those more (Soviet psychological) research oriented pre-1975 (especially pre-1959) or English books pre-1960 such as The Mask of Sanity from 1941 as well as a second American addition in 1950 that was greatly expanded. You can find the 1941 copy here (it is almost 500 pages):
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/sanity_1.pdf
I posit that books/research on psychopathy after 1960 have been co-opted, so when reading them (particularly the farther you move from this time), keep your eyes sharp as there is both mis-information as well as dis-information in the mix (this will become clearer should you examine English works pre-1960 or Soviet works pre-1975). Cleckley warned the defense department at the onset of WWII in regard to recruiting men with psychopathy (based on his studies from WWI veterans) and understood the implications of psychopathy in law-enforcement.
Consider starting your research on Ponerology with Political Ponerology here: http://www.serendipity.li/bush/ponerology_preview.pdf
Then when you read things like the Grand Chess Board, http://www.takeoverworld.info/Grand_Chessboard.pdf or
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
Your perspective will be much broader. Another greyman whom many have never heard is Zalmay Khalilzad. Geo-political activities during the late 1970´s and early 1980´s in Afghanistan were then applied in Bosnia the 1990´s, and then again in first part of the 20th century in Iraq and have evolved to today in the current gambit (westward from Iraq and into Turkey) that people view as an immigration issue (with many countries). Consider this as a partial bridge.
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...211136.htm
This probably deserves its own thread.
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Along the lines of post #32 and people have asked me about reading list recommendations and a few current authors that have influenced me or whom I find relevant. Political economy authors would include Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrick Hayek, Joseph Shumpeter (more economic), Frederick Bastiat, Jean Baptiste Say, David Ricardo.
Present day I would consider David Stockman and his Contra Corner with articles like:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/on...t-landing/
to be noteworthy, in the late 1990´s I was reading people like Adam Hamilton: http://www.zealllc.com/2001/monster.htm
In general I have recommended that the best course of study is to delve into those topics which personally motivate you. With motivation at your base, you will read and study far more than if I (or someone else) gives you a list, you will naturally branch out. The issue might then become branching out so far that you become dispersed and do not build a base.
If you can find an old copy of Carroll Quigley´s Tragedy and Hope http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf consider reading it.
Consider the study Psychopathy and Ponerology as this will broaden your perspective. You will be fortunate to find books available particularly those more (Soviet psychological) research oriented pre-1975 (especially pre-1959) or English books pre-1960 such as The Mask of Sanity from 1941 as well as a second American addition in 1950 that was greatly expanded. You can find the 1941 copy here (it is almost 500 pages):
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/sanity_1.pdf
I posit that books/research on psychopathy after 1960 have been co-opted, so when reading them (particularly the farther you move from this time), keep your eyes sharp as there is both mis-information as well as dis-information in the mix (this will become clearer should you examine English works pre-1960 or Soviet works pre-1975). Cleckley warned the defense department at the onset of WWII in regard to recruiting men with psychopathy (based on his studies from WWI veterans) and understood the implications of psychopathy in law-enforcement.
Consider starting your research on Ponerology with Political Ponerology here: http://www.serendipity.li/bush/ponerology_preview.pdf
Then when you read things like the Grand Chess Board, http://www.takeoverworld.info/Grand_Chessboard.pdf or
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
Your perspective will be much broader. Another greyman whom many have never heard is Zalmay Khalilzad. Geo-political activities during the late 1970´s and early 1980´s in Afghanistan were then applied in Bosnia the 1990´s, and then again in first part of the 20th century in Iraq and have evolved to today in the current gambit (westward from Iraq and into Turkey) that people view as an immigration issue (with many countries). Consider this as a partial bridge.
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm