Become an Animal

BRAD DE LONG:  RITHOLTZ: HERE'S WHY MOST INVESTORS AREGUARANTEED TO LOSE/ (WIN)*

As an investor you have know who your  bed mates are as:

1)      Mr Market: he is dark moody asshole or can be incredible charming, the Byronic type, he is the forever lover/hate partner.

2)      The Institutional investors:  the sons of bitches in the world working their charted ass off  graphics burn their candlestick mouth all day long at their PC. World 90% market controlled by stick ass son of bitches.

3)      You: perhaps the most difficult one to conquer of all: You. You are your own worst enemy.

So how you beat them?  Well become beast, find our way. Beasts know when they flee or when they fight as:  

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To do well in the capital markets requires developing skills that very often are the opposite of what our survival instincts are telling us. Our emotions compound the problem, often compelling us to make changes at the worst possible times.... [O]ur evolutionary “flight or fight” response developed for a reason – it helped keep us alive out on the savannah. But the adrenaline necessary to fight a Cro-Magnon or flee from a sabre-toothed tiger does not help us in the capital markets. Indeed, study after study suggests our own wetware works against us; the emotions that helped keep us alive on the plains now hinder our investment performance. The problem, as it turns out, lies primarily in those large mammalian brains of ours. Our wiring evolved for a specific set of survival challenges, most of which no longer exist...

So question is how we become all beasts? That is questions!? Or answer??!!

Well Yes I will say now as:

We are all animals so we all know how to beat three enemies! 

That is very simple solution!?  See the monster so you have to wear your own Astrology sign on your head!

 Yes I am a Leo!!!!!!!!!!!!! so you beat one enemy now! two to go....

* I made it.    

We are Winning the Struggle!

The farmers and teachers et al winning!  

Inside Syria(CNN) -- Syrian security forces resumed their fierce shelling ofopposition targets in HomsThursday but appeared to be losing their tight grip in the northern region.

Government troops were stretched thin in their effort to control all fronts in the volatile country, while violence raged in the grass-roots anti-government uprising. The revolt has now entered its 12th month and the U.N. General Assembly prepared to take up a symbolic resolution condemning President Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown.....

Ok you snail nice world, condemning  al-Assad quickly and effectively,  it take 12 months now how long it take you condemning useless doomed tyranny al-Assad.  Wind blow people’s direction.

The Uptick Rules

From Project Synidates:Nouriel Roubini The Uptick’s Downside: 

Since late last year, a series of positive developments has boosted investor confidence and led to a sharp rally in risky assets, starting with global equities and commodities. Macroeconomic data from the United States improved; blue-chip companies in advanced economies remained highly profitable; China and emerging markets slowed only moderately; and the risk of a disorderly default and/or exit by some members of the eurozone declined.

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But at least four downside risks are likely to materialize this year, undermining global growth and eventually negatively affecting investor confidence and market valuations of risky assets.First, the eurozone is in deep recession, especially in the periphery, but now also in the core economies, …

 Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia. In China, the economic slowdown underway is unmistakable. Export growth is down sharply, turning negative vis-à-vis the eurozone’s periphery. Import growth, a sign of future exports, has also fallen. …

 Third, while US data have been surprisingly encouraging, America’s growth momentum appears to be peaking. Fiscal tightening will escalate in 2012 and 2013, contributing to a slowdown, as will the expiration of tax benefits that boosted capital spending in 2011. Moreover, given continuing malaise in credit and housing markets, private consumption will remain subdued; ….

 Finally, geopolitical risks in the Middle East are rising, owing to the possibility of an Israeli military response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. While the risk of armed conflict remains low, the current war of words is escalating, as is the covert war in which Israel and the US are engaged with Iran; …

 In addition, he says, middle east is dangerously heated, the Arab spring on the frying pan could go any or every direction.

I think probably the Arab spring and the eurozone periphery will be play major role for economy recovery. So far even though euro melt down, other side of continents growthe have been stable and relative. So world leaders must act together, pushing the fiscal austerity,  restoring  competitiveness the eurozone periphery and  channeling encouraging  positively the boiling  Arab Spring energy is key to the recovery.

Every Day Is Valentine Day For Lovers!

Syria is his Valentines 

A man in Amouda holds a banner saying Sorry Valentine, Homs is my lover [Reuters]

True  love is forever!  Every days Valentines Syrian fighters

From Syria  with Love - CNN

Q&A: Nir Rosen on Syria's protest movement

Nir Rosen: In much of the country, entire communities are involved in the uprising. It is difficult to generalise about their socio-economic backgrounds. The revolution is strongest in rural areas, the smaller cities and the working class,shaabi, areas of Homs, Damascus and Aleppo. But there are also many wealthy and educated activists in the revolution. 

 In many opposition strongholds people are socially conservative. In part this is a function of economic class since working class areas have been most active in the uprising. Residents in such areas generally have more grievances motivating them to rise up and they are more likely to take part in the armed struggle. 

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How to set Syria free; from the Economist  

Getting rid of Bashar Assad requires a united opposition, the creation of a safe haven and Western resolve ...

Stand up as one 

To make that promise credible, Syria’s fractious opposition must unite. A contact group of outside powers and the opposition could channel money into Syria, as well as help with communications and logistics. With a single voice and a credible leader, the opposition could seek to reassure the merchants, Kurds and Christians who back Mr Assad that they will be safer and more prosperous without him. The Russians would also begin to shift ground. Mr Putin enjoys standing up to the interfering West, not least for domestic political reasons (see article), but sticking with a doomed leader could cost Russia its naval-supply base in Tartus and its arms exports. The more senior officials and army officers defect from the regime, the more likely Mr Putin is to change sides too.

 To help persuade them, Turkey, with the blessing of NATO and the Arab League, should create and defend a safe haven in north-western Syria. The FSA can train fighters there, and a credible opposition can take shape. Turkey seems willing to do this, providing it gets Western support. The haven would be similar to that created for the Kurds in northern Iraq; Mr Assad would suffer only if he attacked it.

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The Economist says most sensible way for your love struggle 

Chinasending envoy to Syriaas it steps up diplomatic effort : From the Reuter

(Reuters) - China said on Thursday it would send a senior diplomat to Syria as it steps up efforts to mediate in the Syrian crisis after being scolded by the West and many in the Arab world for vetoing a U.N. resolution calling for Syria's president to step down.

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China's ruling Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, said in a commentary foreign meddling in Syria risked stirring up a hornets' nest of instability in the Middle East, which could shock markets and derail a weak global economy.

 "The political ecology in the Middle East is extremely frail, a tangled mess of thousands of years of ethnic and religious conflict," the People's Daily said on Thursday.

World powers must realise this and handle bloodshed in Syria and Middle East tension with a sense of realism, it said, noting that the spread of conflict would be a "catastrophe" in a crucial phase of global economic recovery.

"The Middle East is the world's most important fuel depot. If gripped by chaos, oil prices would skyrocket, shocking the stock market, financial systems and economies," the paper said.

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Finally China come to senses, well yes certainly China can not afford the world economy slow down again, let alone unable to grow double digit continually, that can be dangerous their own uprising.   


So Syrian it is crucial next few week, it is crucial for the fighters!Must united all side of fighters. 

How to Kill Two Rabbit One Arrow?

Very simple but very difficult tame the beast : Nice things always share, that is including  your lovely things from Krugman Blog so I steal and sharing with you! 

As always awesome cool visuals display a tasty feast for you, simple nice! I wish this world mad for all visual so that you don’t have to read all the things but just a scan! I know you would say “you must read… all of them… well I am not a Google slave to read all the stuff on Google”… that is right Google is my wiz slave…!@

Gather Update: It is bit still dark but this may can helpclear up I think

Another thinking update: I have been thinking of this Phillips Curve, relations with North Korea, it is essentially  capitalist market driven economic application? I read somewhere N Korea used have a small scale of open markets around, but the government banned them because prices of  goods went up sky rocket, that is part of inflation but then there is no relations of employment issues.   It is strange diagnoses? All the state owned enterprises, state owned jobs or no jobs, there is no job market, but jobs for all or no jobs for all. whether you have job or not all the same!?  

Syrian People are Winning the War

UN rights chief condemns Syria violence

More army defectors join Syria opposition

What world should do? You must act, act fast, why few countries veto for barrage to the movement. There is always the way able to move.  Encourage solders defection… 

To the World

Dear World

 Dear World you must see the suffering of Syrian civilian, killer Assad regime, do not  blinded your conscience, if you do  that is insulting your  very own  dignity! Open your own heart and mind to see the true!   Do not blinded by tyranny regime their futile  propaganda!    

Hooray the greatest PAPA in the world!

Priceless, very funny funny O yes for him not funny but very serious matters! The very fortunate young lady who has a greatest Papa in world, I think she should looking at other side of world, less fortunate  teens in her age! Need bit of thinking! I think she is better off without her laptop for few years. She will learn lots a good things without the laptop.

Suggestive Solving Problems Update: But then, she need a laptop for her study( about few weeks after), I think need conversation with together go to  walk or  holiday together need a good conversation.   Open and honest.  She may goes completely off the track, she is 16 years old young lady, very sensitive age, also considering she has a step-mum that may be?! So all the consideration Papa and young lady go to a holiday together for few days, nice  cool conversation I think! That is best solution! Have an agreement, she has to live with.  Yes she disrespectable her papa, that is not so good, I don’t have children so I don’t know but…!   I think she has a great Papa in the world; he cares and loves his daughter deeply.  I think she is very smart has lots of potential! Need bit a good guardian that is all! She is very much of  her father's daughter for sure!! Hahahaha  ...

Bit More Update:  I believed this conflict outcome would be very good one! I like her very much indeed! Ub...upppp....!

Another watching up date: It is a great script by the way I have been watching 4 times… 

Cool Papa and young lady update: 'There's NO way I'm going to send my childthe message that it's OK to gain from something like this': Dad who shotdaughter's laptop in video after she complained about him on Facebook speaks out

Why this story is so viral? You know sometimes we come across authentic, not a bullshit but authentic, something that is so genuine, no pretence  but genuine that  touches our hearts. We are living on world full of fakeness , untruefullness , propaganda and phonies so we see something that so chivalrously hilariously seriously funny but gravely true, that still stir us  in deep inside our hearts. I think is  positive sign for viral viewing, that mean lots of people still hold something deep inside their heart.  His undisputable belief that is good for his daughter! Well be my guest! Ha ha ha ha…! She calls her Papa “dude” …ha ha ha ….he found her Facebook posting  by the family dog by accidently!...ha ha ha...

Where is The World?

We are the World! Friend of the Syrian people, we must united send a clear message to the tyranny Assad that he has no place for this earth; he committed grave atrocity to his nation, the people!

Syria unrest: Maps and videos of Homs fighting

 Dear world friend of the great Syrian people,  feel in your heart their suffering what is like to be that situation. Any country who support  tyranny Assad  regime is betting wrong horse in here! Any tyranny  régimes whose interest his own family business not the nation and people, they are gone forever ever! So Russia not too late you should ditch Assad!  Killing regime Assad must go, the UN assembly on Monday must clear message to the world, there is no places to  dictators tyrannic regimes!  

And CNN Talking video

Turkey Double Game

Here from Al Jazeera blog : Turkeyarrests five over Syrian defector's forced return

Turkey is a big player in the region but this is peoples’ movement, Assad is finished.  Why  you wonder  support a deadregime? People stay there forever regime will be gone within short time. 

The UN Chief Promises

Surely there is solution yes so many broken promises. NO more broken promises, must action, so many civilian is dying. I think Arab, Europe and American, or world of  friend of Syria, must action it is take too long civilian suffering immense. The world you can not desert Syrian in such way, I think Security Council should meeting again, Assed regime killing regime that is killing its own people, completely lost its own legitimacy.     

UN Must Have A Solution

I think Arab alliance should go to the Syria. For whatever happens the Assad regime won’t be survival for long.  Assad inherited his position from his father that alone he can not be in that position. His father said hey my son you are my son so you have Syria and you will give it to your son too, a loony lolly,  so the great Syrian people says hey you thief you have no position in that positions, we never chose you but your dead dad choose you.   We are not dummies but we are the united Syrian the Great Syrian people, we are the soil the  owner we are the nation  of the Syrian so that is end of Assad family company as they don’t owns one inches soil to stand for their legitimacy.

Al-Assad Is Finished

End Of Another Dictatorship!   Here is a nice clip

Al-Assad is sharpening the sectarian dividein Syria– Amb. Dennis Ross 

Behind the violence in Syria lies a central irony: the longer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad holds onto power, the likelier he is to put his Alawi minority in jeopardy. Watch part II of the Freeland File, with Reuters Digital Editor Chrystia Freeland in conversation with former Ambassador Dennis Ross

Hooray we are winning!!!  

P.S. Dennis Ross says “ …any regime based coercion  or employee coercion doesn’t  not succeeded   and sooner or later the regime won’t be survival… Hey N Korea do you hear that…!? Yes that is common theme all the history all the places whether that is a nation and an organization, tyrannies'  faith are all the same. Their tragic endings, completely disappears no one want to associated with or anything to do with them.  Recently days or years we have seen so many of them. Gaddafi is one of also example….that is not only tragedy of the nations who have a such stupid futile regime or stupid leaders. Not only tragedy  of the nation but tragedy  of whole humanity. That is why olden days a nation who groomed of their kingship, there were incredible effort make sure he or she was the One. Even though things could always went wrong. This not only happen nations but also organizations that is immenseness cost for the society as a whole. 

Everything OK

What a dreadful rubbish music, so if it is not your mucus music  you can turn off too. you can say rubbish too! Gosh!! Just watch my friend and tom and jerry!

Whoever posting this to YouTube, thank you very much for your clips but when you are posting, could you please leave the original   sound or music alone?! Thank you very much for your kind consideration. 

Churchill’s Finest Hour…

AGHAAAAAAA...

Just monometer moment Please, this fromBrad De Long  

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 Not Winston    Churchill’s Finest Hour…     

  • In response to an urgent request by  the Secretary   of State for India, Leo   Amery,    and Viceroy of India Archibald Wavell, to release food stocks for India, Winston Churchill the Prime Minister scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”…

 It must correct history, after Churchill few glass of whisky, he must had a vulture-amnesia of the difference between; voluntary starvation= deny right for food (will power) and forced to starvation=deprivation of food(no will).

So Churchill comments was wrong for the sake of argument! comments OK?!

OK N Korea

You have to read this OK, so this is credible sources of information  how to change and what happens when change start as: ANDREI SHLEIFER: SEVEN LESSONS LEARNED FROM WATCHING THE TRANSITION FROM COMMUNISM TO CAPITALISM - from Brad De Long  : 

Seven things I learned about the transition from communism: First, in all countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, economic activity shrunk at the beginning of transition, in some very sharply.  In many countries, economic decline started earlier, but still continued. In Russia, the steepness and the length of the decline (almost a decade) was a big surprise. Countries with the biggest trade shocks (such as Poland and Czechoslovakia) experienced the mildest declines. To be sure, the true declines were considerably milder than what was officially recorded… but this does not take away from the basic fact that declines occurred and were surprising. These declines contradicted at least the simple economic theory that a move to free prices should immediately improve resource allocation. The main lesson of this experience is for reformers not to count on an immediate return to growth. Economic transformation takes time.

Second, the decline was not permanent. Following these declines, recovery and rapid growth occurred nearly everywhere. Over 20 years, living standards in most transition countries have increased substantially for most people…. [C]apitalism worked and living standards improved enormously…. [But] for a time things looked glum. So lesson learned: have faith – capitalism really does work.

Third, the declines in output nowhere led to populist revolts – as many economists had feared…. Instead of populism, politics in many countries came to be dominated by new economic elites, the so-called oligarchs, who combined wealth with substantial political influence. From the perspective of 1992, this came as a huge surprise…. [T]the lesson is clear: a reformer should fear… capture of politics by the new elites.

Fourth, economists and reformers overstated both their ability to sequence reforms, and the importance of particular tactical choices…. Politics and competence frequently intervened and dictated to a large extent most of the tactical choices. Still, most countries, despite different choices, ended up with largely similar outcomes (notable and sad exceptions are Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan)… privatisation and macroeconomic stabilisation as well as legal and institutional reform…. Lesson learned: do not over-plan the move to markets, but, more importantly, do not delay in the hope of having a tidier reform later.

Fifth, economists have greatly exaggerated the benefits of incentives by themselves, without changes in people…. Winners in the communist system turned out not to be so good in a market economy. Transition to markets is accomplished by new people, not by old people with better incentives….

Sixth, it is important not to overestimate the long-run consequences of macroeconomic crises…. Debt restructurings do not necessarily make permanent scars. This experience bears a profound lesson for reformers, who are always intimidated by the international financial community: do not panic about crises; they blow over fast.

Seventh, it is much easier to forecast economic than political evolution. Although nearly all transition countries have eventually converged to some form of capitalism, there has been a broader range of political experiences, from full democracies, to primitive dictatorships, to just about everything in between… middle-income countries eventually slouch toward democracy, but not nearly in as direct or consistent a way as they move toward capitalism.

'Friends Of Democratic Syria'

Clinton calls for 'friends of democratic Syria' to unite against Basharal-Assa -  from the Guardian 

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 Clinton was harshly critical of Saturday's veto by Russia and China that blocked UN action against the continuing violence in Syria. "What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty," she said. 

 "Faced with a neutered security council, we have to redouble our efforts outside of the United Nations with those allies and partners who support the Syrian people's right to have a better future," Clinton told reporters after meeting top Bulgarian officials.…

 Here is a clip from AFP

The Great Syrian People

This is from Reuter: Russia, China in double veto of UN Syria resolution:

Reuters

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 It was the second time that permanent members Russia and China have exercised a double veto on the Syria issue. In October, they killed a European-drafted resolution condemning Syria and threatening it with possible sanctions

What a great Syrians, their continues struggle for their right and their dignity. They earned the world respect. The rights and freedom belong to them forever ever regardless a double veto. They are their nation, embodiment essence of soul of Syria. We can see the Assad regime crumbling down its knees to the great people of Syria, for begging for mercy for soon! We have seen that Libya… as we have seen many other places that are evidences.    The great courageous people refuse to be violating their dignity, they refused to be citizen of zombies.    The great people minds wake with their long dreamless sleep, dreaming of their great spring, freedom! Even their land garment with its frost, their warm blood blooms eternity magical power to the sphere, epitomes of souls shudder into their soil to the world,   they refuse to be tails of useless headless futile regime but they want to be the nations of the jewel, the tiara.  That is their rightful place for sure! You, the soldiers of the great nation of Syria, your duty is protecting your great nation, your great courageous people not a mad dog  loser Assad!  The great people love sacrifices never be wasted but the torch of freedom shall be forever burns in their love land!

Here  A Clips

The Dashboard of Nation

Shlomo Ben-Ami ArticleFrom Project Syndicate

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The West faces serious challenges – as it always has. But the values of human freedom and dignity that drive Western civilization remain the dream of the vast majority of humanity.

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Human freedom and dignity is the dashboard of nation without them the car is second rated car never will be at the races, they can only end up untraceable trash backstreet junkyards. No nations prosper without human dignity. A great example of the N Korea.  Why some countries they will never ever be the head of dragon, but only a tail of…! Economy prosperity is not what is put into your plates but what is going into your soul too.

A Great Winter Conquests

Here is all positive stuff about US jobs, which is good us for sure!! Horrya! De Long says

This from Mankiw’s Blog

Also Krugman says so too 

 It  is all but good news stroke strike, all the good things,  power of goodness power of mind, power of nature take care of  all the frights, so somehow fleeting waning.    It seems things all kick off again , been thinking of cycle nature… inclined to purposeful     

Frosty Frost Shameless Love

Love taboo winter flowers, are they blind folded by season?  A given faith, against season only blooms at spring to summer, finest garment frosty scarf in their faces standing at their station that is splendors of couturier fortitude. You know they are the finest chivalrous souls of debts depth . Summer blooms their own beauty, shallow, no debts depth they never worked hard to blooms flowers but winter is different. Super strength, inside outside, tony leaves, thorny knuckles, torn branches,  shivering lips,  they create scandalous love where is seasoned  taboos, victims of bully wind, when the frost weathered away their mouths also cracks its particulars wounds.  You know scandalized wind, taboo goofy frost  love affair and forever their love land.


BTW : The picture were all from Google
  

Last Song?

When you are completely stuffed, bottom pit you can be at peace, sitting at your nuttier utter, you can also feel utter mutter.  Thinking of a funeral, few years back, this songs was, it was very cold winter of June, beautiful frost sunny day, knuckled knots naked her winter garden there were white winter roses, they were different than summer roses, she was a grand lady, the roses were like button of her coat,  a lady with piercing deep hazel green eyes always serenely looking for my clumsiness,  been thinking of life, roses life as our life, the beautiful white winter rose from frost, blooms like eternity soul, that was giving life of that was hers only. 

Million Steps Begin With The Very First Step

North Korea opens door to talks with South Korea - From PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP)

Here is how N Korea and S Korea speak;

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 But Ri Son Gwon, a colonel working for the Policy Department of the North's powerful National Defense Commission, also challenged South Korea to "state to the world whether it honestly intends to enter into dialogue with us."

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 But South Korea's Unification Ministry released a statement Thursday saying it regrets the North's "unreasonable claims as part of its propaganda at an important juncture for peace" and "does not feel the need to respond to these questions put forth by North Korea one by one."…

 Here is two brothers word slanging match, word game of panm. But this is better than nothing are you not agree? All but sad, but one thing why solders? probably that Army is in the power that they try to say?   Hey North you can not afford to be bullshit bogus in here, South is your brother!  

If the North K army uses that energy and discipline to constructive instead destructive they can change things around surly, they are the very finest spirit of celadon?  You know you are the force of nation, the nation mean the people not the regime. Your job is protecting nation not the regime, regimes changes but the nation never changes.  Then you know where you stand.  

Hello Grandpa

Songs Of Total Totality Of Totalitarian :  From NYT CHOE SANG-HUN

Left, Reinhard Krause/Reuters; Korean Central News Agency, via Korea News Service

Hello Grandpa I am your grandson, son of your son, a grandpa of son of son, I humbly swear I will follow your sum of footstep as a grandson of grand grandpa, a grandpa of son of son I therefore the grandest son of a son, sums of hollowed 25 millions sums of staved souls! 

Wake up! N Korea, you are deadly creativity in your own grave yard ritual and golden plague for your marble tombstone.  And your energy toward for a wrong-Vegas? 25 million people is first,  give them incentive to make them let them work hard!  “Incentive” powerful tool for motivation. You have been polishing ever crumpling squawky bullshit system, playing toothless accordance for your deadly plague song for a grave yard ritual.  In your broken wonderland, an obviation of pavilion, with  broken souls of 25 million people lifeless consignment.   

HERE is another cool problems solving  story from Sachs Project Syndicate

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 By 2050, there will most likely be more than nine billion people. If these people are richer than people today (and therefore using more energy per person), total emissions worldwide could double or even triple. This is the great dilemma: we need to emit less CO2, but we are on a global path to emit much more. We should care about that scenario, because remaining on a path of rising global emissions is almost certain to cause havoc and suffering for billions of people as they are hit by a torrent of droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and more. We have already experienced the onset of this misery in recent years, with a spate of devastating famines, floods, and other climate-related disasters.

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 The benefits of information and communications technologies can be found in every area of human activity: better farming using GPS and micro-dosing of fertilizers; precision manufacturing; buildings that know how to economize on energy use; and, of course, the transformative, distance-erasing power of the Internet. Mobile broadband is already connecting even the most distant villages in rural Africa and India, thereby cutting down significantly on the need for travel.

You know N Korea you cannot  keep 25 millions people on zombie bondage forever. Technology become cheap and accessible make your life much easier, may you are afraid of loss of control but what the hell you live only one life! Hey you?  That is right you! Who has power you can only live very little life least you can do few good things before you die!  You should bit of think about how world move toward certain direction certainly not total totalitarians for sure!

Lovely Afternoon

 Good afternoon, competition with ABC FM, this now on  another baritone…

Love Love all but Alive

February is all about a great starter for the lovers O please love me forever ever ...

Cool Heat

Right for Food

A Heart Warming Article by Olivier deSchutter  from Project Syndicate:

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 Finally, we need to defend the human right to food. People are hungry not because too little food is being produced, but because their rights are violated with impunity. … 

Hunger is a political question, not just a technical problem. We need markets, of course, but we also need a vision for the future that goes beyond short-term fixes. The global food system will always need firefighters. But what we need more urgently are architects to design a more fire-resistant system.

 You know North Korea hunger is preventive, they have fertile soil, but they failed because of system. Of course every country same, hunger is men made.  They just don’t care people, people mean to end these systems. Well watch out you muffled greedy thieves, condenses your little feeble soul shudder in your flippant sniff whiff!  The great people, they endured so much, when they rise from a mouth of lake they eat whole land with stripe of porous volcano. They will rise and reclaim their dignity, skeptics and noises of Excalibur, their land then shining steeliness power, thrash through rotten souls who violated human dignity.   

iAgony iProfit

This from NYT Krugman Article 

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And Chinese manufacturing isn’t the only conspicuous example of these advantages in the modern world. Germany remains a highly successful exporter even with workers who cost, on average, $44 an hour — much more than the average cost of American workers. And this success has a lot to do with the support its small and medium-sized companies — the famed Mittelstand — provide to each other via shared suppliers and the maintenance of a skilled work force. 

 The point is that successful companies — or, at any rate, companies that make a large contribution to a nation’s economy — don’t exist in isolation. Prosperity depends on the synergy between companies, on the cluster, not the individual entrepreneur.…

 I think no one think about the inevitable Apple(any company) flying off to the much more fertile land to seek  profit you can not blame the companies but blame  all the hotshot economists/policymakers didn’t have their clean crystal bowl to see few decades ahead of their virgin soil narrative. They feel deep sorrow for themselves and self ramification. Then they try to reclaim their abandon mighty soil, well that can be not easy job. One of comments was re; Apple”… the company loads with government money and power…”

AHA AHAHAH.....!!!!

Beautiful Story of iPad

See trough your beautiful iPad  and read agony of  iPad,  its tears agonies of caged Chinese youth - From The NYT 

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“You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards,” said a current Apple executive.  

“And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China.”

See this too through your beautiful iPhone

No More Empty Trumpet N Korea

N Korea should leaned lesson from the Apple

I saw a N Korean website is promoting “ …NK is the cheapest labor cost in Asia…” that is true,  but in reality that who is going to invest on the  “ the cheapest labor…” alone invest on  NK.  While you are appears a grandiose bullshit artist with a song sheet is a nuclear brinkmanship. You can not attract foreign businesses by committing 만고죄악 brinkmanship.  Attracting foreign investment requires whole environmental clock work, TQM.  Safe smoth enough to foreign companies invests on their business in long terms. Chinese is a great example how to attract Apples investment.  I am not saying Chinese is right among other things. There is human right issues, but some of people argue that “sweatshop better than starving…” may be may be not true…” but any way I am not discussing sweatshop  in here.  But comparative advantage, why North K you need to open up.  It is simply number of work, that is how business is all about “cost cutting increasing selling = bottom-line profit, see the below Krugman chart. Beautifully illustrates simple numbers that is business all about. 

NK you want attract foreign investment?  Then you should turn this(the below picuture) into 

THIS

AND THIS

So your song sheet from now on “ I wanna love you….NOT I wanna blow you up all….!

Up date: also NK is promoting about “…no corruption…” that is true(? i think there is another way corruption) but there are different between under total totalitarian people no incentive for corruptions and S Korean “money envelop”, no incentive for corruptions.  Then you should ask yourself who you like to business? 

How Much Does Market Organization Matter?

This is  DeLong blog; a This chart very interesting illustration, I am looking at South and North Korea comparison. 

It had exactly same economic (well there was no such things as called economy these days in Korea) prior division. After 60 odd years you can tell difference the two Koreas. Amazing things. Also other countries,  what went so wrong? 

This below is nicely finished off why N Korea stuffed-  from DeLong his  lecture note 

…And, of course, societies in which personal freedom was limited and millions lived or died by the whims of paranoid dictators were even less attractive in total than their relative economic performance alone would indicate. Market economies, with protections of private property and thus alternative centers of power to the government, have proved to be necessary even if not sufficient preconditions for personal liberty and for safety from arbitrary execution.

Well, hey North K there is no one making things up! You know there is only one way out, open up! Bit by bit. You know you are not only stuffed but deadly sick.  A huge operations!  

Comparative Advantage

This is Apple via Krguman blog  NYT.  Apple blunt and heart breaking comments  to the American people that why Chinese get their jobs, why American can not have their jobs. It is heartbreaking for lots of Americans but that is true I can perfectly understand Apple;

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 “We sell iPhones in over a hundred countries,” a current Apple executive said. “We don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.” 

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 “The entire supply chain is in China now,” said another former high-ranking Apple executive. “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours.”

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This is from Krugman-  INCREASING RETURNS IN A COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE WORLD

…their pattern of specialization is fully determined by comparative advantage: Harry does rockets, Louise does brains. Yet the gains from trade are to a large extent the result not of the differences between the two individuals, but of the inherent advantages of specialization: because Harry can launch Louise while Louise fixes his brain, each of the two only needs to master one skill.

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Does this have any relevance to current policy disputes? Well, many people – myself
included – have argued that imports of labor-intensive goods from developing countries exert a
depressing influence on the real wages of less-skilled workers in advanced countries. This may
still be true, but the role of local external economies may offer a partial offset: if Chinese buttons are cheap not just because of low wages but also because of the advantages of the Qiaotoucluster, U.S. imports of buttons have an ambiguous effect on low-skill wages rather than a definite Stolper-Samuelson effect.

 Interesting point and I can understand. Successfully managing a company, management only two things in our mind.   Cost cutting + increase selling = maximizing profit.   Economists do the policy managers do profit.  I think comparative advantage and localization supreme ruler.  What is perfect solution for the American then? If anyone have the solution for the Apple brings back to the jobs to the Americans that WOULD be of course a huge discovery! Triple Nobel price!!!

$6 trillion N Korea Natural Resources

This article from SF Gate Re: N Korea  

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With mineral reserves valued at more than $6 trillion, according to South Korean state-owned mining company Korea Resources, the North has become a magnet for Chinese enterprises. Of the 138 Chinese companies registered as doing business in North Korea in 2010, 41 percent extract coal, iron, zinc, nickel, gold and other minerals, according to the U.S. Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

We learnt through our text book, all the natural resources at the N Korea not South. Geeee I didn’t know  this much O man $6 trillion, that is why Chinese such eyeballing right in their door step. They went to far way Africa for accessing natural resources, they go everywhere do everything for accessing natural and food for 1,5  billion people. We have to mindful about Chinese comments, who knows they try to fend off other countries who like to invest on N Korea by over loud problematic situation.

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Those who invest will face countless hassles. North Korea's roads are narrow and potholed. The country's railroads and ports are a shambles, and its power grid struggles to keep the lights on.
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N Korea ask the countries -who are willing investing, - provide loan for the improving infrastructures and charge road toll from other countries i.e. open for S Korean companies railroad transportations to the across Europe. That would provides greater  logistic efficiency to S Korean trade. Probably S Korea provide loan?  To improve public infrastructures is essential and great investment for any modern society. Labour is cheap or would be free…, remember North old days, you should doing business with your own kind too.  

The Grandiose Greatest Bizarre Spectacle

I think N Korea should open its door to outside incrementally; Open to the world bit by bit by niche what you have – this must goes with hand to hand with safety.

1) Tourisms, for uniqueness, you are the most hermit totalitarianism in the world.  It is definitely niche, no other countries have it, telling story and showing the world, the most grandiose greatest bizarre spectacle. Hey think about, nowadays people tired of ordinariness, people don’t spend their buck for what they can see their own backyard. People are bored by ordinaries.    You have the most unique bizarre system which the worlds want to see. They want  to see ordinary peoples sufferings and hardship.   Your propaganda machine able to turn them into the uniqueness bizarreness and sodomise the world consciences grandiose most weird, - yes more weird the better- scale.  Says,  “hey you masochistic world  you have buck we have the most weird masochistic show in the earth, come to see us!” kind of attitude, you get it?  Some of articles say, some Korean genuinely believe eat less and endure their hardship is helping their country.    Weirdly packaging up and promote to the world tourism market.

2) Opens old hermit culture almost never open thousands years outside the world. Let the world see the glimpse of ordinary Korean people’s life (must authentic and buck for, let the ordinary people making money too not only you). Open old towns where mass old Korean style houses; open up courtside how ordinary people lives are. Everything old traditional is much better, old historical cultural sites developed (join venture development S Korea, ask them I bet they are more than happy to do it).  Goes with traditional cuisine. This is much better than for begging it is capitalist concept, what you have exchange for buck, not asking free hand out, you get it? Ok cool.  

3) Revival old style rituals and entertainments, i.e. ancestries worships, weddings, family, ordinary people life rituals authentic way…,  also show your own current system spectacles…, this is much better earning than your cheap franchises restaurants around traps.

4) Open up atrocities sites; 1990s mass starvation, labor camp, grave yards, orphanages … people pay authentic for their buck…you see anyway they had or have been suffering so why not making money from current situation. i.e.  orphanages, if people pay entry fee that can go to the orphanages, not your pocket.  

  

5) Open bazaars market for traditional hand craft people able to sell their hand craft. This encourage people making things their spare time. Do not filter who to sell but let everyone whoever have things to sell. Yes market is called market economic this is start.

It will not much disturb your system but what you have now it is bit open up for the buck, that would be much reward.

The people, whoever you are in power, at glance you are old enough and been  lived good life, probably traveled outside of Korea too so you would see how differences are.  Your current situations predictable. Without open you can not feed 25 million, how long are you going to begging and threatening  brinkmanship, no other countries blink on their eyeballs.  Is a chance, take this chance you rid, you have too.  

Think about it, inevitably what is going to happen. What is power for? It can not be sustainable, yes you are stuck. The only way out is you have to open to the world.