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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.
Here is the link for the whole write up.

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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.

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Engineering the wildfire to equal the most chilling engineering of Meitei-Naga sectarian clash?

They are trying to engineer a Meitei-Naga sectarian clash.

We should stop these madmen from proceeding further towards their sinister goal--see their sadism in action when they advertised their sinister intent by engineering a wildfire on the highest mountain top,which is characterized by the clashing claims of Meitei and Naga.

[ My post "Yet another set,this time,inside their mountain-top 'homes'?",dated 21st Dec 2020 deals with the keyword ,"mountain"--they are petrified to launch the retaliatory covert counter-attack against the attack on their "mountain-top" bases because that would invite yet another attack on their bases--so,in a freakish step,they are trying to sink themselves together with the attackers of their bases,by destroying the whole "battleground",namely,the Meitei polity--if they succeed in engineering a Meitei-Naga sectarian clash,they would certainly be in a striking distance of destroying the Meitei polity itself--they have now transformed themselves into mad men. ]

Anybody,any member of CSOs,reading this post of mine,should do their bits to stop these madmen to proceed with their sinister plan.

[ For the last ten days,I have been following these developments with the utmost pain in my heart--they even murdered an innocent NDRF personnel,who hails from "Heingang" Assembly Constituency to emphasize that they are going to destroy the Meitei polity itself as a revenge for the attacks on their bases on "mountain tops". ]

I still want to go out and so something to stop these mad men.I want to contact social activists,members and leaders of CSOs and appraise them of the impending danger.

But,after analyzing my current condition,I find myself in a tortuous situation.

For starters,I cannot go out of home for any extended period of time.After locking up my house,I always try to finish up all my errands within an hour or so.Otherwise,I face the imminent danger of my house getting broken into--the fifth break in in my house was reported in my post,"Meitrabak and Kangleipak",dated 25th June 2020.

For the last ten days,I have been debating with my soul--what is the best I can do to stop these mad men,by taking into account my present condition?--those ten days are real tortuous.

Now,I have decided that the best I can do is to present in my blog the possible timeline of these madmen's course of action.If we can make a guess of the possible timeline,we should be in a better position to thwart these madmen.

1) They engineered the wildfire during the night of the 29th Dec 2020.But I think that the number "29" is not important because,as the place situates on the border,the news of the engineered wildfire would reach Imphal on the 30th Dec 2020.

"30" is our number.

[ To emphasize the reason why why we take "30" as our number,we must remember that '30' is the day of the month of December on which the leader who returned home on a '28' day,made his first public appearance--he did so in "Konung Mamang" which was also discussed in my post,'Yet another set,this time,inside their mountain-top 'homes',dated,21st Dec 2020.]

Now,we can take the number "30" as "10" and "3".

So,they are trying to make their first step in engineering the Meitei-Naga sectarian clash on the 10th March,2021?

2) We can also take the numbers "3" and "10" as to mean any day in between them.

The rebel group,who had inflicted the heavy blows to the mountain-top bases of the three rebel groups,have their armed wing established on the 8th February(or is it the 9th?) some thirty years ago.I cannot remember the exact date and the year.

Now,we have confronted ourselves with the most plausible date.

So,they are planning to make the first step in engineering the most chilling Meitei-Naga clash on the day of February which commemorates the foundation day of the armed wing of the above-mentioned rebel group.

[ In this moment of crisis we must not fail to analyze how rebel eco-system manage to produce such mad men--has the DNA of the rebel eco-system mutated for the worst during the last few decades?--from their deeds we come to know that they are squatting just on the borderline of what medical professional calls the 'psychopath'--we,the common people,call them the 'psychos'. ].

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