Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Why the Soviet computer failed Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:49:55 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 103 Message-ID: <87a681f6xo.fsf@localhost> References: <87pmhq1c5c.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87tu6dbuj6.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87czd1atsu.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87mtc49dld.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <875yira77u.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <1601520482.682456076.631219.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87h72a8klr.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <390696122.682535608.096054.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d868cd225095d91f65fe40b3f9d5a3ba"; logging-data="1263544"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19PnPz/68dFxK2YaQUowh0hQQciXhgOI7Y=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:II79IM0sOUsrYlazj9o5YJ1/gos= sha1:Y1MqaD/LbhgqxdxZvNrzyOxmPvg= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:221819 Peter Flass writes: > I always wondered, although it should have been obvious in retrospect, > why Putin always reflexively opposed the US, even in situations where > we could have worked together and had a win-win. Apparently he still > fancies Russia a major power, and wants to pull us down to build > himself up. In the process he’s now turning his country into China’s > lapdog. ... there is the theory that Harvard was responsible for the rise of Putin ... apparently the people that Harvard sent over to teach capitalism ... were looting the country (and Russia needed somebody, like Putin to stand up to the looters from the US/Harvard) John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no confidence and resigned shortly thereafter. ... snip ... How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine) https://web.archive.org/web/20130211131020/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers, who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the U.S.-Russian relationship." ... snip ... trivia: I had gotten asked to help figure out how to do 5,000 banks across Russia (@$1M, $5B total) as part of making it a Democratic country, however before it got very far, the US capitalism looting (kleptocracy) put end to efforts. consistant with "Economic Hit Man" (and author claiming to have been recruited in Cambridge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man https://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B017MZ8EBM/ https://bkconnection.com/books/title/the-new-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man this book sort of interleaves Smedley Butler's biography with what US continues to do around the world; Gangsters of Capitalism (predating economic hit man to current day) https://jonathanmkatz.com/gangsters https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/21/maj-gen-smedley-butler-marine-hero-who-saw-himself-racketeer-capitalism/ https://www.c-span.org/video/?517102-1/gangsters-capitalism https://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Capitalism-Smedley-Breaking-Americas-ebook/dp/B092T8KT1N/ Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantanamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantanamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget. ... snip ... Smedley Butler online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_profiteering Mahan plays prominent role https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thayer_Mahan As does Sullivan & Cromwell especially John Foster Dulles (while at Sullivan & Cromwell) playing major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and militry during the 20s up through the early 40s. https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/ -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970