Its usually said that a lack of strategic natural resources - ferroalloys, petroleum, even coal was the downfall of Japan and Germany.
Don't buy it.
They began to run short of these materials in 1945, months away from losing a six year long war of attrition.
Running short of these materials moments before their defeat was more of a sign rather than a cause of their collapse.
The empire held and controlled by Germany between 1940 and 1944 was more or less the area held by today's EU --- just as the empire that Japan held in those years was the same as what we call the South East Asia Economic Tigers.
These two areas then and now, along with America and the former USSR, were the powerhouses of the globe - in terms of people, industry,science.
Yet these two empires failed to either adequately feed their subjects or turn them into willing citizens, prepared to work hard and die hard for those empires.
Lack of food and lack of civic support worked together in an entangled way --- if the subject people had felt warmly towards Japanese and Germans ,they would have produced the food to fill their bellies and quiet their dislike.
Lack of Calories is just another way to say lack of Citizenship and vice versa.
The modernist rulers of these empires failed to treat Nature (or people they considered lessors/close to Nature) with the respect they deserved and then paid the price when their potential strong empires collapsed from within --from lack of supporters.
The Soviets also failed to feed their people and while they inspired the naive, the rest they had to drive into battle with guns at their heads.
Things weren't so dramatic in the American and British empires but even there relatively few people were willing to volunteering for infantry, eager to drive the Japanese and Nazis from their conquests.
People did not flock to the colors in a sort of moral crusade.
Instead, they saw its as a grimly necessary 'job' and plodded into battle led by generals equally cautious and uninspiring.
True, food was more or less adequate in these empires.
But the ruling people (and the subject peoples) of empires based on a mild form of racism were hardly going to go all out to defeat other empires that were also based on racism, now were they ?
In the end, it took six long , costly, years for a half dozen world-sized empires to defeat two relatively small empires --- hardly an inspiring record...
Monday, March 12, 2012
NAS tipped to run American AUSCHWITZ after Nazi conquest ???
Organized Science, if it knows nothing else (a claim easy to defend), sure knows how to sing for its supper.
That is why Scientism is our one and only God.
Organized Science knows just when to switch sides and to start sucking up to the newest powerful entities in town and it knows just who is powerless enough to safely kick in the teeth.
It also picks its opponents it chooses to publicly battle very carefully so that none of the resulting mud sticks to its priestly skirts.
The NAS choose not to criticize Raymond Loewy's ROCKETPORT vision at the New York's World Fair of 1939-1940----- and silence is assent.
The Rocketport was the most scientifically loony idea at a Fair replete with scientifically loony ideas.
The so called 'Rocket' , a small ocean liner in size, was actually a cannon projectile fired in New York and designed to land in Paris ------- somehow without the resulting enormous G-Forces mushing everybody inside the projectile into protoplasm.
(Humans might survive 200 Gs all over their body, if its only for a fraction of a second as in a car crash, but this voyage would impose at least 20,000 Gs for a fatally long time, even if we ignore the peak force of about 200,000 Gs at blast-off......)
Loewy got away with his loony tune idea because he claimed it came to him from studying scientific journals (rather than saying he saw it in a vision after praying to the Virgin Mary).
Whether the idea came from the Journal SCIENCE or MATTHEW 12 in the Bible, the idea was equally crazy.
But rest assured that the NAS would only have rushed forward to condemn it as scientifically invalid if the idea had come from their bete noires in the camp of the dreaded 'Religion'.
The All-American idea of applied negative Eugenics (can you say Auschwitz, boys and girls ?) was a much more damaging loony idea the NAS choose not to publicly attack - until it was far far too late and after eugenics had been already discredited by the march of events in Eastern Europe.
That is what I mean by Science's Bad Faith --- its unwillingness to attack anything as unscientific, no matter how loony or deadly, if doing so risks lowering the awesome respect ordinary people still have for those 'wonder-working wizards' of science.
In the end, it all comes down to "JOBS,JOBS,JOBS" as that famous scientist Brian Mulroney once observed ---- he also said "there is no whore like an old whore".
True, so true.....
That is why Scientism is our one and only God.
Organized Science knows just when to switch sides and to start sucking up to the newest powerful entities in town and it knows just who is powerless enough to safely kick in the teeth.
It also picks its opponents it chooses to publicly battle very carefully so that none of the resulting mud sticks to its priestly skirts.
The NAS choose not to criticize Raymond Loewy's ROCKETPORT vision at the New York's World Fair of 1939-1940----- and silence is assent.
The Rocketport was the most scientifically loony idea at a Fair replete with scientifically loony ideas.
The so called 'Rocket' , a small ocean liner in size, was actually a cannon projectile fired in New York and designed to land in Paris ------- somehow without the resulting enormous G-Forces mushing everybody inside the projectile into protoplasm.
(Humans might survive 200 Gs all over their body, if its only for a fraction of a second as in a car crash, but this voyage would impose at least 20,000 Gs for a fatally long time, even if we ignore the peak force of about 200,000 Gs at blast-off......)
Loewy got away with his loony tune idea because he claimed it came to him from studying scientific journals (rather than saying he saw it in a vision after praying to the Virgin Mary).
Whether the idea came from the Journal SCIENCE or MATTHEW 12 in the Bible, the idea was equally crazy.
But rest assured that the NAS would only have rushed forward to condemn it as scientifically invalid if the idea had come from their bete noires in the camp of the dreaded 'Religion'.
The All-American idea of applied negative Eugenics (can you say Auschwitz, boys and girls ?) was a much more damaging loony idea the NAS choose not to publicly attack - until it was far far too late and after eugenics had been already discredited by the march of events in Eastern Europe.
That is what I mean by Science's Bad Faith --- its unwillingness to attack anything as unscientific, no matter how loony or deadly, if doing so risks lowering the awesome respect ordinary people still have for those 'wonder-working wizards' of science.
In the end, it all comes down to "JOBS,JOBS,JOBS" as that famous scientist Brian Mulroney once observed ---- he also said "there is no whore like an old whore".
True, so true.....
Ironies abound: Dawson immediately BEFORE Penicillin was studying L-Form bacteria - that rare exception to penicillin's lethal charms ....
One of the very first people to study L-forms was Dr MARTIN HENRY DAWSON in 1939-1940.
Immediately afterwards, on October 16th 1940, he did something truly different.
He injected a young man (dying of 'incurable' subacute bacterial endocarditis) with the juice of some mold he brewed up.
The young man lived - becoming the first ever person to get a needleful of natural, systemic, penicillin.
What makes this so unusual is that L-forms are that rare form of bacteria that are IMMUNE to penicillin's effects.
Talk about an abrupt switch from MATTER to ANTI-MATTER !
Dawson paddled about in 'the quiet backwaters' of medical science in his detractors' eyes.
Most doctors thought then and still do think that L-Form bacteria are defective ,useless, lab curios.
Bacteria define themselves by their strong semi-rigid outer cell walls - the secret of their success as Life's most plentiful and longest living life form.
L-forms lack that wall and by rights shouldn't be alive or reproduce.
But they do - and their success implies that all bacteria have retained extremely old genes (perhaps the oldest genes on Earth) that lie dormant until (or when) they are attacked by antibiotics that destroy cell walls.
Because penicillin-type wall-dissolvers weren't invented by Man (only in his dreams) but rather by other bacteria about the same time that the very first bacteria emerged.
The ability to survive without either bacteria walls (or bacteria's binary fission genes) means that L-forms probably look like the very first life-forms that ever existed - perhaps from before even DNA was perfected.
Still think they're useless ???????????
In his day job Dawson helped society's chronically 'defective' people live better lives : in his spare time, he studied bacteria's chronically 'defective' life forms.
What he learned from the 'defective' bacteria's amazing will to live, he later applied towards not letting any of his human 'defectives' be written off to die, by the cruel ramp doctors of American War Medicine....
Home GROWN natural penicillin: one of WWII's few AGRICULTURAL successes ....
In the beginning, WWII talked big - promising to put a Gas Chamber and Crematorium on the Moon and a Chicken in Every Pot, but as usual it was all just talk.
In the end it couldn't even do the simplest of things, like taking the garbage out and getting all the kids fed and on to school on time.
Amidst the HIGH TECH disaster that was WWII, there was one LOW TECH (agricultural) success, a quiet triumph of courage, hope and chivalry:
Martin Henry Dawson's PEN "G" project was New York's LOW TECH counterpart to the much better known HIGH TECH Manhattan Project.
Only this time it was humans working with Nature, not against it ; an effort to save lives, not take them.
Dawson grew mold, not food.
Millions of the kids who owed their lives to his natural systemic penicillin would not have really needed it if they had adequate food.
Nevertheless he did his best, he did his bit - and above all he did it Nature's way, not Modernity's way.
When it came to making penicillin, his Natural approach batted One and Modernity's synthetic approach ended up batting Zero....
In the end it couldn't even do the simplest of things, like taking the garbage out and getting all the kids fed and on to school on time.
Amidst the HIGH TECH disaster that was WWII, there was one LOW TECH (agricultural) success, a quiet triumph of courage, hope and chivalry:
Martin Henry Dawson's PEN "G" project was New York's LOW TECH counterpart to the much better known HIGH TECH Manhattan Project.
Only this time it was humans working with Nature, not against it ; an effort to save lives, not take them.
Dawson grew mold, not food.
Millions of the kids who owed their lives to his natural systemic penicillin would not have really needed it if they had adequate food.
Nevertheless he did his best, he did his bit - and above all he did it Nature's way, not Modernity's way.
When it came to making penicillin, his Natural approach batted One and Modernity's synthetic approach ended up batting Zero....
No shots exchanged, no fisticuffs,never even met : The WWII clash of Szilard and Dawson.
((This was originally posted to my discontinued blog, "THE CONTINUING STORY OF THE LITTLE BOY AND THE BABY GIRL", on July 15th 2011. The blog's subtitle, equally long-winded, was : . because WWII, PHYSICALLY, may be over, but mentally and intellectually the clash continues ----- with the fate of humanity on this planet hanging in the balance.))
WWII is usually thought of as the clash of arms and the clash of pre-existing (unalterable) values : Allied GOOD versus Axis EVIL.
But it really was the clash and exchange of mutable ideas during the course of 1939-1945 - everyone's ideas , even Hitler's, were altered over the course of those six years of war.
I am most interested in the deepest, the most fundamental of those opposing ideas, not merely the surface 'political' differences --- and I find them most clearly expressed in the words and actions of two immigrant academics on the campus of wartime Columbia University in Manhattan.
They knew of each other's existence, if only through newspaper stories and gossip, but they never seemed to have met, let alone engaged in polemics together.
If pushed, they might well have thought of each other as like- minded ; fellow travelers more than intellectual opponents.
But the wartime projects they set in motion, I believe, spelled out what WWII was all about clearer than anything else that so consumes the war's historians.
Their clash of worldviews was never seen as resolved and so WWII continues today; carrying on ,disguised, in bloody regional wars and in the clash of opposing value systems in nations nominally at peace.
But in the realm of Science, their clash was resolved - one side clearly lost the scientific battle but nevertheless went on to win the propaganda war and continues to do so.
The fate of humanity hangs on us admitting that WWII was, above all else, a clash of scientific theories and that based on the evidence, one side was clearly proven wrong.
Despite this, this is the type of science, the losing side, the incorrect side, is still taught in public schools and undergraduate classes and is still - literally - killing this planet....
WWII is usually thought of as the clash of arms and the clash of pre-existing (unalterable) values : Allied GOOD versus Axis EVIL.
But it really was the clash and exchange of mutable ideas during the course of 1939-1945 - everyone's ideas , even Hitler's, were altered over the course of those six years of war.
I am most interested in the deepest, the most fundamental of those opposing ideas, not merely the surface 'political' differences --- and I find them most clearly expressed in the words and actions of two immigrant academics on the campus of wartime Columbia University in Manhattan.
They knew of each other's existence, if only through newspaper stories and gossip, but they never seemed to have met, let alone engaged in polemics together.
If pushed, they might well have thought of each other as like- minded ; fellow travelers more than intellectual opponents.
But the wartime projects they set in motion, I believe, spelled out what WWII was all about clearer than anything else that so consumes the war's historians.
Their clash of worldviews was never seen as resolved and so WWII continues today; carrying on ,disguised, in bloody regional wars and in the clash of opposing value systems in nations nominally at peace.
But in the realm of Science, their clash was resolved - one side clearly lost the scientific battle but nevertheless went on to win the propaganda war and continues to do so.
The fate of humanity hangs on us admitting that WWII was, above all else, a clash of scientific theories and that based on the evidence, one side was clearly proven wrong.
Despite this, this is the type of science, the losing side, the incorrect side, is still taught in public schools and undergraduate classes and is still - literally - killing this planet....
PEN ,"G" Floor, Oct 16 1940
The very first natural systemic penicillin ever made came out of a small lab in the Physicians & Surgeons Medical School (P & S) Building of Columbia University in Upper Harlem, New York.
In just five weeks, start to finish, it was ready to be injected by team leader Dr Martin Henry Dawson into a young man named Charlie Aronson on October 16 1940.
It was the first ever day of America's peacetime Selective Service (a system still with us 75 years later).
A day for America to separate (and celebrate) its 1A men and to dismiss and ignore its 4F men - like Charlie.
For Dawson, it was 25 years to the day when the news of the execution of nurse Edith Cavell first reached North America - 25 years to the day when he, along with tens of thousands of others world wide, resolved to join up to fight the wicked Huns who killed Cavell.
In Dawson's case, he first joined up as a medical orderly - so today marked his 25th year in the world of medicine.
Despite Charlie being diagnosed with a then invariably fatal disease called SBE , the semi-purified penicillin didn't seem to hurt Charlie at all.
Instead - and unexpectedly - he survived and became the presumably ever-grateful PATIENT ONE of the Antibiotics Revolution.
The penicillin for the very first life-saving use of the 75 year old gold standard of antibiotics (injectable penicillin) was labelled PEN "G".
This was not because "G" stands for G-old Standard, or because the original penicillin was a G-olden Yellow in color or because "G" denotes Benzyl (injectable) Penicillin or because some drug company thought PEN "G" would make a catchy brand name for the horsey set.
All these things are true - completely true --- but they are all pretty latecomers to this particular party.
That very first life-saving penicillin was called PEN "G" for one very simple reason: the labs of Dr Dawson and his co-workers on his tiny team ( Karl Meyer ,Gladys Hobby and Eleanor Chaffee) were on Floor"G" of that building.
Their doubting colleagues at P&S Columbia regarded this 'pen.. (what ever) stuff' as something pretty crackpotty ; something being brewed up by that free spirit Dawson and his motley crew back in the remote North West corner of Floor "G" .
Being the first ever in the world - hell in the entire universe - to use systemic natural penicillin to save lives gives Dawson's team bragging rights to call their homebrew penicillin whatever they wanted to:
Their brew was penicillin from "G" Floor of P & S : and hence familiarly know as PEN "G" , for short...
PEN ,"G" Floor, Oct 16th 1940
The very first natural systemic penicillin ever made came out of a small lab in the Physicians & Surgeons Medical School (P & S) Building of Columbia University in Upper Harlem, New York.
In just five weeks, start to finish, it was ready to be injected by team leader Dr Martin Henry Dawson into a young man named Charlie Aronson on October 16 1940.
It was the first ever day of America's peacetime Selective Service (a system still with us 75 years later).
A day for America to separate (and celebrate) its 1A men and to dismiss and ignore its 4F men - like Charlie.
For Dawson, it was 25 years to the day when the news of the execution of nurse Edith Cavell first reached North America - 25 years to the day when he, along with tens of thousands of others world wide, resolved to join up to fight the wicked Huns who killed Cavell.
In Dawson's case, he first joined up as a medical orderly - so today marked his 25th year in the world of medicine.
Despite Charlie being diagnosed with a then invariably fatal disease called SBE , the semi-purified penicillin didn't seem to hurt Charlie at all.
Instead - and unexpectedly - he survived and became the presumably ever-grateful PATIENT ONE of the Antibiotics Revolution.
The penicillin for the very first life-saving use of the 75 year old gold standard of antibiotics (injectable penicillin) was labelled PEN "G".
This was not because "G" stands for G-old Standard, or because the original penicillin was a G-olden Yellow in color or because "G" denotes Benzyl (injectable) Penicillin or because some drug company thought PEN "G" would make a catchy brand name for the horsey set.
All these things are true - completely true --- but they are all pretty latecomers to this particular party.
That very first life-saving penicillin was called PEN "G" for one very simple reason: the labs of Dr Dawson and his co-workers on his tiny team ( Karl Meyer ,Gladys Hobby and Eleanor Chaffee) were on Floor"G" of that building.
Their doubting colleagues at P&S Columbia regarded this 'pen.. (what ever) stuff' as something pretty crackpotty ; something being brewed up by that free spirit Dawson and his motley crew back in the remote North West corner of Floor "G" .
Being the first ever in the world - hell in the entire universe - to use systemic natural penicillin to save lives gives Dawson's team bragging rights to call their homebrew penicillin whatever they wanted to:
Their brew was penicillin from "G" Floor of P & S : and hence familiarly know as PEN "G" , for short...
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