Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Hoover Institution" channel.

  1. Catherine wasn't "Great" to Putin, not because she was a woman, but because she was not Russian born. Condi messed up on a number of historical facts, sad. "The Ukraine" was once a region in the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth which was not an "Empire". While right-bank Ukraine belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until late 1793, left-bank Ukraine had been incorporated into Tsardom of Russia in 1667 (under the Treaty of Andrusovo).
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  2. "Understanding is outside of Computation" - Sir Roger Penrose, in recent interview with JBP.
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  3. 1920 The 3rd Arab/Palestine Congress told Winston Churchill they would "kill all the Jews". It's all here from a primary source issued in 1921. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress PDF, online, easy to read.
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  4. Sergei Kan seems to have forgotten the history of the Ukraine and the Polish/Lithuanian Confederation. BTW, George Santayana was incorrect, we don't repeat history because of a loss of conscious memory, we repeat history because of the evolutionary information contained in the memory system of our DNA.
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  5. China went from 20% literacy in 1950 to 78% literacy in the early 1990s. The "Great Leap Forward" did happen, just not in 5 years, nor in the way Mao expected. This literacy allowed China to "leap" past India and other 3rd world countries as a platform for 1st world manufacturing. We, and they, are now in a double-bind.
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  6. Catherine wasn't "Great" to Putin, not because she was a woman, but because she was not Russian born. Condi messed up on a number of historical facts, sad. "The Ukraine" was once a region in the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth which was not an "Empire". While right-bank Ukraine belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until late 1793, left-bank Ukraine had been incorporated into Tsardom of Russia in 1667 (under the Treaty of Andrusovo).
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  7. During World War II, in what were the only two invasions of the United States during the war, small parts of the Aleutian islands were occupied by Japanese forces, when Attu and Kiska were invaded. Rice is incorrect on history of US being attacked.
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  8. Or challenge either fact or opinion, which needed to be challenged.
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  9. The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S. state
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  10. Mission Statement: Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.
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  11. "Chomsky Bots" = oh, no!!!
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  12. $50K every time Iron Dome fired.
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  13. Have you ever been in a Union? I quit a job with Verizon because the commissars of the Union made my working life miserable after I opted out. There's a difference between organizing for a specific redress and change, and becoming a top down, overbearing bureaucracy that oppresses the worker. The Teacher's Union in my State of California forces employees to align with a DEI statement, which now has the force of a religion, as defined by SCOTUS.
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  14. Perhaps the Palestinians should give back the land they stole from Turkey in WW1. Didn't they fight alongside Christians against their Muslim brothers?
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  15. People of Springfield on on video with their concerns, I checked. I also checked Hattian dietary culture which does include cats, but not so much dogs. Springfield, Oh welcomed refugees in and then found they did not have the resources to support this population. Easy to fact check. NYC having similar issue with resources, why is that not a fair subject for debate?
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  16. Hegel is known for his dialectical method, which involves the development of ideas through a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Hegelian philosophy emphasizes the importance of history, the unfolding of human consciousness, and the notion that reality is a dynamic process rather than a static state.
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  17. My counter-factual: Oliver Cromwell in America, 1641.
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  18. Small numbers at Courthouse, small numbers in street, lots of airtime on corp media?
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  19. Why are there no challenges to her statements on this thread? I don't get it, this is a political discussion and most comments are from those with a "quiet crush" on her, how sexist. The Japanese fired on California in 1942. The territory of Ukraine was once part of the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth which was NOT an imperial power. She made a number of false statements in this "talk"
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  20. Dr. Hanson, did the "Sea Peoples" who came from the West in around 1200 BCE to the East perhaps move back West when conditions improved, like to say originate Carthage?
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  21. 75 F-35s, Hundreds of F-16s and modified, longer range F-15s, even a submarine.
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  22. Media full-court press against Elon Musk. Propaganda sirens screaming out against him.
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  23. We have failed with deterrents at our own borders, and our Drug Stores, for that matter
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  24. Another "Club of Rome" rabbit hole for those who don't have brains which model the behavior of the majority. He was born an elitist. Not his fault.
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  25. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934. Kennedy was tasked with cleaning up the securities industry following the stock market crash of 1929.
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  26. Zelenskyy something more than an "actor", he wrote and produced his own material and was on the board of Inter and a Producer for that TV channel. He was educated as a lawyer, but never practiced, however, his history shows a smart guy. But it should be said he's something of an "oligarch" himself, with offshore accounts and property in the UK. I'm not making any moral judgements, just in search of a clear lens. At this point Putin could turn Russia into another North Korea, or the sanctions would work as they did against Japan in the 1930s, a comparison I've yet to hear mentioned.
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  27. HR, the middle said your name in the same sentence as Kelly and Mattis, say something about that.
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  28.  @atulvaibhav5376  Matthew Perry's appearance in 1854 led to the Meiji restoration and the militarization of Japan, hardly a democracy.
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  29. Private corporations like Lockheed-Martin, who employ 116,000 Americans, receives the money which taxpayers give in aid to other countries, and then circles back here.
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  30. "Malinformation" would be a better topic, and closer to home for Stanford alum
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  31. "Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Kissinger Without that narrow context, the quote is wildly misunderstood.
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  32. Bored in a few minutes, bye bye.
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  33. ahistorical comment.
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  34. From John Yoo's Claremont Amicus Brief: “This principle,” Chief Justice Chase affirmed, “forbids a construction of the amendment, not clearly required by its terms, which will bring it into conflict or disaccord with the other provisions of the constitution.” Id. Trump did not receive "Due Process" in Colorado, which was stated in the dissent by Colorado Chief Justice Boatright. The Colorado decision created discord with the Constitution and did not harmonize with the intent of Section 3.
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  35. mimicked Seinfeld is not Seinfeld, and never can be. No matter the size of a large data model, it is still a computation, and as Sir Roger Penrose says, "Computation is not Understanding".
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  36. John, what do you think of Private Activity Bonds (PAB) Private activity bonds are municipal bonds that are used to attract private investment for projects that have some public benefit; however, there are strict rules as to which projects qualify.
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  37. "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State,... [fascism] It is opposed to classical liberalism ... Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual" - Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism 1932
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  38. Boomer Axiom from the Movie "Easy Rider" - "We Blew It" - Captain America
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  39. HR, both Hillary and Kamala are quoting you. PLEASE get out there and create some balance to that narrow rhetoric.
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  40. Nebraska for the Nisei (University of Nebraska @ Lincoln) In the Japanese Internment Camps, there were hundreds of Nisei students whose education was interrupted. By the end of the war, UNL had the third largest number of Nisei students in the country. A willfully forgotten piece of history.
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  41. You make the case that Sinwar assassinated Haniyeh, not Israel.
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  42. "repressive tolerance" - Herbert Marcuse The practice of discriminating tolerance in an inverse direction, as a means of shifting the balance of power.
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  43. Obama: "I come Chicago, so, I want to be honest, its not as if its just Republicans who monkey around with elections..." (Sept 2008)
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  44. Kissinger was not surprised.
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  45. Then why were more total votes cast than ever before? Both the Dems and GOP broke records in vote count. The vote was not suppressed, not even in Georgia, as some claimed. Nonsense. We're talking about massive amounts of individual votes. Perhaps Ben should do a show on number theory to explain.
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  46. 22:30 I looked at those surveys and he is being disingenuous. Question: How much do you trust the Hamas-Led Government 15% A Great Deal 18% Quite A Lot 25% Not a Lot I'd say the majority supported Hamas in Gaza on Oct 6th, at least somewhat, 58%, while only 44% said not at all. "Our most recent interviews were carried out between September 28 and October 8, surveying 790 respondents in the West Bank and 399 in Gaza. (Interviews in Gaza were completed on October 6.) The survey’s findings reveal that Gazans had very little confidence in their Hamas-led government. Asked to identify the amount of trust they had in the Hamas authorities, a plurality of respondents (44 percent) said they had no trust at all; “not a lot of trust” was the second most common response, at 23 percent. Only 29 percent of Gazans expressed either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of trust in their government. Furthermore, 72 percent said there was a large (34 percent) or medium (38 percent) amount of corruption in government institutions, and a minority thought the government was taking meaningful steps to address the problem." - Arab Barometer.
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  47. Income disparity, whether the Gilded Age or today, is perception based on frame of reference, like the Universe appears flat, but is it? Cosmological crisis: We don't know if the universe is round or flat. Bjorn Lomborg does a better job in creating a framework showing all boats rising in both the Gilded Age and today. For those like Moyo, the glass being half-empty serves her a priori agenda, not very scientific.
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  48. 5:04 Spain and Portugal gave right of return to Sephardic Jews from expulsion of 1492. This allowed Brexit Brits with proven Sephardic ancestry to obtain an EU passport.
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  49. "Exploit human biases, emotions, and preferences". Walt Disney did that with Bambi and Thumper in 1942. Easy to hack the human brain, perhaps we can use AI as a tool for defense against these hacks.
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  50. Stephen Kotkin is the Richard Feynman of Political Historians.
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