As an economics professor I would describe the production of goods and services.

Now I realize that description is one shortage.

I remember going into a number of People’s Peace Loving Democratic Republics.

One of the tours there was often a place that looked like a condemned warehouse.

But it wasn’t a warehouse.

Honestly, if a store had a warehouse in that shape they wouldn’t let the public see it.

I forgot to mention that on the way in, I had gone through the familiar line of barbed wire, land mines and armed men that stand at the border of every people loving democratic republic.

No, it wasn’t a warehouse, it was a STORE.

It had some watches.

“Did the watches WORK, Uncle Bob, did the watches tell TIME?” No children, the watches did not work.

And the tobacco poured out when you took a cigarette out of the pack.

The machines in the store didn’t work and you couldn’t get coal miner into those clothes.

That’s why they had troops on the border to keep people inside where the people couldn’t buy anywhere else.

One group behind the iron curtain produced goods.

The iron curtain itself produced shortages. That is what armed men do.

The Armed Men produced shortages

In the Red countries the goods were ugly and shoddy and useless.

They showed Mommy Professor’s Dream Economy in ACTION.

Not all of those who dedicate their lives go to shoddy production, shoddy out put is the high point of Soviet Mommy Professor planning.

You still need large numbers of troops in uniforms who are willing to kill.

It is the duty of this latter group to provide a consumer who will praise the goods.

These are not difficult requirements.

And the Quota, in EACH category, MUST be met!

A huge lead article on the MSN web page discussed the evidence of the discovery of a giant battle in Germany that simply discredits all history before that.

It was such a big story that it replaced two celebrity farts!

It also is beginning to prove a main theme of the old WOL at the start of this century that denounced what I called “Garbage Dump History”.

History today says everything began in the Middle East.

That is because the earliest stuff we can find is there.

If you wrote history that way, a thousand years from now everything we have would be traced back to the garbage dump.

And that is what the Place Where History Began happens to be where it is desert and anything that was there thousands of years ago is easy to find.

Also, it just happens that all the researchers; back then were in the Holy Land. So they found all the Beginnings of History right next to where they already were, in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

That’s a little too much coincidence for me, but no FUNDED historian discussed it.

So, from some pottery discoveries, they found that impossible battle.

It was a giant struggle between tens of thousands of soldiers on each side, and they were largely from hundreds of miles away.

Garbage Dump History says this battle was impossible. Our books say that the level of organization above the level of grunts and scratches were entirely to the south of that battlefield

This was long before the Siege of Troy.

So I was right.

All of our history, from the Middle East (Ex Oriente Lux) to placing all of American history in New England is totally screwed up.