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Indeed, what is at work in the recent return of realism is the revenge of geography in the most old-fashioned sense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, before the arrival of political science as an academic specialty, geography was an honored, if not always formalized, discipline in which politics, culture, and economics were often conceived of in reference to the relief map. Thus, in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, mountains and the men who grow out of them were the first order of reality; ideas, however uplifting, were only the second.
And yet, to embrace geography is not to accept it as an implacable force against which humankind is powerless. Rather, it serves to qualify human freedom and choice with a modest acceptance of fate. This is all the more important today, because rather than eliminating the relevance of geography, globalization is reinforcing it. Mass communications and economic integration are weakening many states, exposing a Hobbesian world of small, fractious regions. Within them, local, ethnic, and religious sources of identity are reasserting themselves, and because they are anchored to specific terrains, they are best explained by reference to geography. Like the faults that determine earthquakes, the political future will be defined by conflict and instability with a similar geographic logic. The upheaval spawned by the ongoing economic crisis is increasing the relevance of geography even further, by weakening social orders and other creations of humankind, leaving the natural frontiers of the globe as the only restraint.
So we, too, need to return to the map, and particularly to what I call the “shatter zones” of Eurasia. We need to reclaim those thinkers who knew the landscape best. And we need to update their theories for the revenge of geography in our time.
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My view is that relations between countries in the coming decades are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries rather than other factors. Quite obviously, power will continue to play a central role in global politics, as it always does. But usually there is something else behind conflicts. In the 18th century in Europe, the issues to a large extent involved questions of monarchy versus the emerging republican movements, first in America and then in France. In the 19th century, it involved states identifying themselves through nationalism. In the 20th century, ideology came to the fore, largely, but not exclusively, as a result of the Russian Revolution. We had fascism, communism and liberal democracy competing with each other. Well, that’s pretty much over. Liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice. So the question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades? My argument remains that cultural identities, antagonisms and affiliations will not only play a role, but play a major role in relations between states. The full interview is here.

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Every citizen in the City of Richardson will be able to access 756 Kbps of internet connectivity for free, from anywhere in the city. They will be able to access the internet from their homes, schools, restaurants and parks using standard wi-fi connections which are now installed on almost every notebook computer. That is almost as fast as many so-called high speed broadband connections that one pays dearly for today, and several times faster than the various hotspots at your local coffee shops. And I should note that the tax-payers of the City of Richardson are not paying one penny for this, and in fact are going to see additional revenues as a benefit. ... At the beginning of this letter, I suggested that this would be one of the fastest worldwide rollouts of a technology ever seen. It was just 20 years ago that the first cellular systems were being built. The rollout for mesh wireless systems is going to make that look slow. There are several reasons I make this assertion. But they all center on the facts that installing mesh systems will be cheaper and easier than any previous system and the economics in both the developed and especially the developing world will be so radically compelling. Throw in the fact the any astute politician will want to be at the front of this parade (They will all want to say, "I was the man who helped bring free internet to everyone!") and the groundwork is laid for rapid deployment. In Richardson and elsewhere, MeshLinx is offering the basic infrastructure for free. This avoids all the time consuming, political budget battles in the cities. When a service is offered for free, much of the mandated competitive process is eliminated. Next is the low cost of installation of the system. As noted above, Richardson is a city of roughly 100,000 people living in 27.4 square miles. It will "only" cost about $2,000,000 today to lay the wireless blanket I mentioned above. It will cost a great deal less in the future, as MeshLinx is building the pods at a pace of 100 a month today. The maximum output of the US pilot assembly line is 500 a month. When the demand exceeds this (and it will in a very short time) discussions have been held to move volume production to China. Of course, the world will need tens of millions of pods. The cost for a pod will be a fraction of today's cost, with that installation number for a city like Richardson soon being half (or less) the cost of today. What does that $1 or 2 million get you? The infrastructure to be an internet connection, telephone, security, entertainment provider and a whole lot more company. As noted, it will get cheaper as the number of pods being made each month rises, thus lowering their costs dramatically. This technology does have scale. The cost of physically putting up a pod is not a large part of the equation, as you simply need to run a power line, attach a few bolts to a mount on the side of a building or light pole and then off to the next point. Think about the 40,000 homes and businesses in Richardson. If and (hopefully) over time when 10% decide to pay $50 a month for 10-20 Mbps high speed internet access you could see a revenue of $2.5 million a year just from internet access. Now add in all the other income possibilities (phone, entertainment, security and don't forget advertising revenue on the free service!). Think about your town or country. What would service like this be worth? If you are a small city that does not have high speed connections available, how many businesses that could bring jobs do not come your way because they need reliable communications for their work and their employees? If you are in a developing country, where internet access is difficult and expensive, it will open whole new vistas. Couple that with the various programs which want to give cheap laptops to kids in poor countries, and you could see significant social progress in a generation. Here is the link.

Thursday, June 04, 2020

Does one of our elegant prophesies hint at the epic clash of food grain supply chains?

This blogger's wish is to take this little cue from his last post.

In my last post,I had said that,in one of my eureka moments,I have found out the Manipuri word for war,LAAL' is graphically 'overstretched'.

This eureka moment propels me to unwittingly come face to face with the basic(in my opinion)structure of Manipuri language.These face to face moments are revelations to me--sheer,pure and revolutionary.

I've already started planning to publish a monograph on the subject.I need to share this quickly.

Making further deductions with these basic structures of our language,I manage to decode the words 'Takhel thaang' in one of those prophesies--"Nom nom sagaitong,Chanaba leite takhel thaang".

Before coming to my point,I understand that it is reasonable for everybody to read the phrase "Chanaba leite" as to mean a coming of a disastrous famine.

But the present geo-political situation we are facing right at the moment is,in my opinion,pointing to other more subtle meaning--it is not famine per se;but it may mean more widespread and scaled-up operations of health attacks to the leading class of Manipur.The leading class of Manipur is going to find it difficult to procure safe foods and drinking water--literally, a manufactured famine for the leading class of Manipur.As already discussed in my last post,the vanguards of Ganga basin civilization,in collusion with the gangs of the religio-linguistic constituent of Manipur, are planning to scale up the operation of attacking the leaders of Manipuri society(not necessarily only those residing within the rebel eco-system) by covertly supplying heavy-metal fortified food grains and drnking water.

The phrase 'not necessarily only those residing within the rebel eco-system' is very significant because I suspect that the theatre maestro,Heisnam Kanhailal and epochal lyricist,B Jayentakumar Sharma,were murdered by supplying toxic foods.They are going to attack not only those leaders residing within the rebel eco-system but other social,cultural and intellectual leaders,like Heisnam Kanhailal and B.Jayentakumar Sharma.(We have to add to this list the murders of school going girl from Thangmeiband,Babysana and the mother of the emerging fashion designer,Mr Robert Naorem.We know the said victims may not count as belonging to the leading class of Manipur but that does not matter because their murders were carried out as the proof of concept--how sophisticated the gangs of the relgio-linguistic constituents are and how lethal can they be,if they so
desire)

Next,the pertinent question comes up--how do we determine the profiles of those leaders who are likely to be targets of the attacks by the evil coalition of the Ganga basin civilization and the gangs of religio-linguistic constituents of Manipur?

In trying to answer this question,I was immediately propelled to those fervent time in the circa 2001.As a part of that magnificent uprising by the people of Manipur to protect the territorial integrity of their homeland,forwad-looking intellectuals,led by Maharajkumari Binodini and Aribam Syam Sharma,returned their Padma shris.

Their basic argument in returning their Padma shris is the line of thought that posits that Manipur is not just another constituent State within the Union of India(by virtue of which the leaders sitting in New Delhi may take the liberty of altering the boundary of Manipur at their whim) but a distinct civilization altogether.

So,in my opinion,anyone who,dare to think of Manipur as representing a distinct civilization,is facing the present and clear danger of being the target of the evil coalition of the vanguards of Ganga basin civilization and the gangs of relgio-linguistic constituent of Manipur--their main weapon is going to be heavy-metal fortified food grains and drinking water.

This only implies that the attack would be a widespread one.It would be daunting task to devise a defensive move to the coming attack.I'm saying this because of the two reasons listed below.

1)From my last post,it is clear that the vanguard of the Ganga basin civilization declared publicly that they are colluding with the gangs of the religio-linguistic constituent of Manpur to scale up the operation of poisoning the foodgrains and drinking water meant for the leading class of Manipur.The date of declaration was the 22nd May 2020.We have to note here that the date '22'is associated with 'Manipur Levy',formed in Cachar ,to drive out the occupying Burmese armies from the soil of Manipur.

Just two days later,Reliance Jio's Jiomart webpage went live--the just launched webpage only enables people to buy foodgrains and grocery--coincidence indeed!.The date was the 24th May 2020.Again the date '24' is associated with the oldest rebel group of Manipur.We are not saying that Jio is directly involved in the devilish declaration of the vanguard of the Ganga basin civilization but we must see Jio in the context of how China's Huawei is being forced to play the role of the mirror image of China's rise,which needs to be thwarted by using any means,like they are doing to Huawei,including arbritrary ones,and,which are,bereft of any accepted international norms.Just like this,Jio is made to play mirror image of India's intent of dominating the world,which is fitting as Jio platform is innovative and it aspires to transforms itself to an Alibaba or a Huawei.So,Jio was made to focussed on foodgrains on the 24th May 2020--how fitting it was!

The earth-shattering deduction we can make from the above observation is that the full force of the whole might of the Ganga basin civilization would be behind the coming scaled-up operation of poisoning the foodgrains and drinking water meant for the leading class of Manipur.

2)I have the first hand knowledge of their weapon.Presently,I have the stock of rice ,moong dal and sagolhawai which are fortified with heavy-metals.They look the the same as those benign ones selling at all grocery shops here and there.In case anybody wishes to check them out for themselves,they are welcomed to visit my place.(The shopkeeper who sold me those stuff is elderly and looking particularly pious.That he was persuaded to sell poisoned foodgrains to his customers bears testimony to how connected and resourceful are the gangs of the religio-linguistic constituent of Manipur).

In this light,the only defensive move available to us is to utilize another supply chain for food grains.

Is this pointing to the China's BRI project,currently making steady progress,originating from their Yunnan province towards Burma?(Here,we must not fail to note the currently happening big push to make Hainan the free trading port.Even the president of China,Mr Xi Jinping himself,is taking personal interest in the venture.Hainan island is located in South China Sea.It is very near to Vietnam,meaning just a stone's throw away from Burma.That makes the proposed Hainan free trading port a very welcome development project in our own neighbourhood.Hainan,though,now,populated by the majority Han Chinese, is is,like,Yunnan,considered as a province of ethnic minorities of China.When China started out by making free trade zone in Guangdong,it made tremendous progress in making stellar trade and commerce with the West.I,for one,earnestly hope China is again successful this time around in Hainan free trading port in making the same kind of stellar trade and commerce with the South East Asian countries).

Now,let's come to the prophesy itself.

!)"Chanaba leite" means 'a widespread health attack,using the weapon of heavy-metal fortified food grains is coming'.

2)"Takhel Thaang".

Working with my just discovered basic structure of Manipuri language,the word "Takhel" means supply chain and "Thaang",'multiple metrics'.'Multiple metrics' is just another way meaning 'competition' or 'clash'.

I understand that everybody would be skeptical of those interpretation.Howsoever eager may I be to spell out the logic behind these interpretation,I'm helpless in this English language blog;besides,I need to spell out the just-discovered basic structure of Manipuri language first before attempting to tell people the word by word interpretation of one of those elegant prophesies of ours.(NOTE:This blogger have just put his disruptive interpretation in the public domain by deploying his just discovered and equally disruptive basic structure of the Manipuri language.By doing this,I have my own obligation to publish my monograph quickly.Unless I do that,I would understand if people start admonish me by saying--Enough,'lights off' to the little fancyful eureka moments of yours.I reiterate that I am planning to publish the proposed monograph as soon as possible).

So,our prophesy comes out like this--

"A widespread health attack,using the weapon of heavy-metal fortified food grain,is coming---as the devilish attack raises its head,an epic clash of two food grain supply chains would also reveal itself".

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