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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.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

The 'Takhel Thaang' and the 'Sakai'.

This post should be read together with my last post.

In my post,'Does one of our elegant prophesies hints at the epic clash of food supply chains?',dated 4th June 2020,I had already the last part of the prophesy--'Nom nom sagai tong,chanaba leite takhel thaang'.

At that time I decided that the part--'Nom nom sagai tong'--was not relevant at that point of time.

But,as discussed in my last post.there is urgent need to decode the first part.

(1) 'Nom' is the thing which exhibits the characteristics of a wave.This was discussed in my post entitled,'Nongmaijing chinggoirol: : Nongpok Leihouching',dated 28th January 2021.

(2) 'Sakai' is Sa+Kai.

--Here we have to take 'sa' as to mean 'beastly'.

--'Kai' is the thing or condition which exhibits the state of being already 'balanced', 'completed' or 'accomplished'.

--If we hang up the pictures of 'Sa' and 'Kai' on a board and try to make sense of meaning deflected from them,it should mean a given condition which is evaluated to be easily manipulated and put under control,that too,together with an evil intent.In another word,the evil intent makes the actors wrongly evaluated the situation as being amenable to easy manipulation and being totally controllable.

(3) 'Tong' is the micro-'ta' to which the life is bestowed.This means 'being in the state of very active but in tiny scale'.

Now,it's time to hang all the items described in (1),(2) and (3) on a big wall and try to guess the meaning collectively deflected from them.

For my part,it runs like this--'A tiny misstep(like, the inconsequential and equally tiny, wave),enabled by evil intent,thus escaping proper moral auditing leads to another and then to another.In no time they gather a momentum of their own.Without the actor knowing it,it suddenly reaches the flash point'.

This is my deduction.

Now,let's put the two parts of the prophesy together.To do so,I am reproducing the relevant parts of the 4th June 2020 post I had mentioned earlier.

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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'.

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"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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The above is still true for Manipur-specific case.It has just occurred to me that the prophesy is likely to play out in two planes simultaneously.The Manipur-specific plane(which may even be taken to signify a small circle) plane and the global level plane(a larger circle embracing the Manipur-specific one).These two circles are likely to feed one another,making the cumulative impact more widespread and disruptive.

Here.there is still a need to do some decoding on the term 'Takhel'.

--'Takhel' is 'T(a)+khe+l(a)'.

--The key part is 'Khe'.

--Here,in our context,we should take 'Kh(a)' as to signify the energy that enables 'mechanical excellence'.(A detailed discussion on it is available in my next to last post).

--Now,we need to bring the 'Kha' from the + x-axis towards the -x-axis.(The process of doing so were discussed in the cases of 'Che','Le' in my several last posts).

--By the same process,we now get 'Khe'.So,'Khe' becomes a tangible thing energized by 'mechanical excellence'In our context here,it is the tangible things moved by mechanical force.

--'L(a)' here should be 'length'.

--'T(a)' oscillates the above two,namely,'Khel' and 'L(a)'.

--Reading all the above points together,we get the image of a supply chain.

The likely impact of the above Manipur-specific case can be gauged by carefully reading my past posts,namely,'The new front',dated 16th March 2021 and "The third front:will it make the tussle between the 'Geo=political player' and the 'Provincial entities' publicly visible",dated 18th March 2021.From there we can easily deduct that the race to assassinate leaders would intensify many fold in the coming days.Their weapon is the mixing of chemicals to the foods and drinks.This mixing of chemicals to the foods and drinks would become so widespread that the whole Manipuri society would be tested.

On the global plane, one innocuous misstep(like the EVERGREEN episode--my last post)would lead to another innocuous but more prolonged episode,then yet to another one.Before anybody can put his finger on it,we may be suddenly presented with a full blown naval blockade of China.

That only means full-blown global-scale war.

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