REPEAT AFTER ME
“I am liberty. I am the insurer of last resort.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 10:09:00 UTC
Author: Curt Doolittle
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REPEAT AFTER ME “I am liberty. I am the insurer of last resort.”
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Alexander I am fairly certain that it is possible if not necessary to construct
Alexander
I am fairly certain that it is possible if not necessary to construct a finished constitutional basis for rule of law.
It may be impossible to imagine the means of production of commons that we call government within that rule of law.
Because the basis of the rule of law appears to be a universal logical necessity.
Yet the basis of government production of commons under rule of law is a mere technology that must adapt to innovations in knowledge.
Just as the common law must constantly innovate in order to prohibit newly found means of imposing costs upon others against their will.
So from this perspective the hierarch of law is:
1) Rule of law and Logic of contract (fixed)
2) Resolutions of disputes. ( juridically expandable)
3) Construction of commons. (Constitutionally modifiable)
Which is a bottom up construction of a constitutional order.
Curt Doolittle.
The Propertarian Institute.
Kiev, Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 06:16:00 UTC
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but surely we convert from religious to military-political to economic, to polit
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U58Y4EA/ref=pe_2240100_159469240_em_1p_1_imSlowly but surely we convert from religious to military-political to economic, to political economy as the vehicle for understanding history.
About time.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 05:27:00 UTC
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Winters here I wear a Lagerfeld wool baseball cap, Lagerfeld scarf, and usually
Winters here I wear a Lagerfeld wool baseball cap, Lagerfeld scarf, and usually my Cardin wool car coat. ( pea coat style).
But I have a parka for when it’s cold and I want a big fuzzy Russian hat. And I can’t find where people buy them.
I thin I would look perfectly ridiculous. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 04:49:00 UTC
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Three lattes with caramel. Two chocolate muffins. Two banana nut muffins Six dol
Three lattes with caramel.
Two chocolate muffins.
Two banana nut muffins
Six dollars.
How can I live anywhere else after this.
Full course Dinner and drinks for two at the best restaurant in town?
Eighteen dollars.
Damn.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 04:32:00 UTC
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AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.” Demography –
AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.”
Demography – > Institutions -> Economy -> “Will”
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 04:16:00 UTC
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FINANCIAL TIMES: TRUMP IS AMERICA’S PUTIN? Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fa
FINANCIAL TIMES: TRUMP IS AMERICA’S PUTIN?
Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fans a glimpse of the possible
The Russian leader offers a glimpse of a president unstymied by Congress, writes Courtney Weaver
Vladimir Putin…Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on fuel and energy industries in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.
On a blustery evening, a crowd of thousands gather at a political rally, many eager to explain to me why their country needs a strong leader, is right to take a more aggressive stance on the world stage and should be respected and feared by other nations.
It’s a scene not unlike those I have covered over the past five years as a correspondent for the FT in Russia. Only this time I have not come to see the adoring fans of Vladimir Putin. I am in Macon, Georgia, and the man we are waiting for is Donald Trump.
One month into a new job covering the US presidential campaign, I am starting to find that the Trump phenomenon is more understandable when viewed through the lens of a Putin-Trump Venn diagram — or, rather, the Venn diagram of their supporters.
Two weeks ago in Macon at a stadium full of diehard Trump supporters, I met Tal Wollschlaeger, a law student, who declared apropos of nothing and with no knowledge of my background that he wanted to see a US president more like . . . Mr Putin.
“I think Putin is brilliant!” the twenty-something Mr Wollschlaeger told me as two of his friends nodded in agreement. “He’s taking care of business the way he has to. His country loves him. He’s done well for them. He does what he says and he gets the job done.”
He continued: “We just have to reassert ourselves. We’ve got to the point where Britain and France can’t look to us for advice because we can’t make the first move any more, because really we’re too weak. We need to get our seat back at the table.”
At first it seemed like a one-off, a random Putin fan sprouting up like a unicorn in a southern US city nicknamed the Heart of Georgia. But I don’t think Mr Wollschlaeger is an outlier.
In Dubuque, Iowa, a crucial primary state, the Associated Press recently spoke to Duane Ernster, a local Trump supporter who also offered the Putin comparison. “Maybe we need a warrior instead of a politician,” he said. “People compare Mr Trump to Putin. There’s something to be said about the man who takes care of the Russian people.”
In a Gallup survey last year — a period marked by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the war in Ukraine and western sanctions — Mr Putin ranked as the 10th most admired man in America, beating among others vice-president Joe Biden, the Dalai Lama and the actor George Clooney.
To Mr Putin’s admirers in the US, he offers a tantalising view of what it might be like to have a president stymied by neither Congress nor two-term limits — and one who treats the delicate art of diplomacy more like judo than chess. To many of these people, Mr Trump represents the quixotic tsar who will rid Washington of its gridlock, reverse failed foreign policies and end years of perceived economic decline. If he is Trump the Terrible, so much the better.
In his campaign, Mr Trump appears to be taking chapters out of Mr Putin’s handbook. There is the creation of a perceived external threat (in Mr Putin’s case, the US and its encroachment into Russia’s sphere of influence; in Mr Trump’s, it is Muslims and illegal immigrants); the salty language; and the stranglehold on national television. Both men are credited with being spontaneous, unpredictable and counter-intuitive, qualities that make it difficult for opponents to out manoeuvre them.
The two men’s ratings appear to defy logic. Mr Putin’s remains strong despite a worsening economy on the back of western sanctions, lower oil prices and the plunging rouble. Mr Trump’s support improves the more offensive or outlandish his comments become.
The comparisons to Mr Putin seem to suit Mr Trump just fine, perhaps because he knows they suit part of his base. In the past few months, Mr Trump has declared that he would “get along” with Mr Putin in a way that President Barack Obama has not, and he has been one of the few candidates to express his approval of Moscow’s military campaign in Syria. Mr Trump likes to joke that he and the Russian president are “stablemates” because they both appeared (separately) on the same episode of the US news programme 60 Minutes.
As for Mr Putin’s impression of Mr Trump? He has yet to comment.
courtney.weaver@ft.com
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:56:00 UTC
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DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL. If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like
DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL.
If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like a Tsar, and acts like a Tsar, it’s a Tsar.
Create a dynasty.
Restore Nation and Family.
Abandon the Corporate State.
Restore Parliamentary Monarchy.
Help restore monarchy to our peoples.
The enemy is corporatism, and our restoration is in nationalism.
(BTW: As a fellow short person. I won’t hold your height against you.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:47:00 UTC
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THE OVERBURDEND BOOMER MARRIAGE When you are not geographically rooted, not root
THE OVERBURDEND BOOMER MARRIAGE
When you are not geographically rooted, not rooted in family, and not rooted in friends and relations, then your spouse, must carry the full burden to providing all relationship needs.
When you have one child you attempt to achieve perfection with him or her, and can believe the fallacies of the blank slate, versus when you have three to six children and you achieve with your portfolio of offspring the best that you can while realizing that each is born with his or her immutable temperament.
Change Companies and Careers Not Geography
Build Relationships rather than Accumulate Things.
Build portfolios rather than over investments.
Build family rather than square footage
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:41:00 UTC
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WAR: IN THE LONG RUN, ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID —“The Soviet Union would have def
WAR: IN THE LONG RUN, ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID
—“The Soviet Union would have defeated Hitler eventually anyway”—
As far as I know, and it’s hard to argue against, Stalin himself stated that they would have lost the war without the allies for the simple reasons:
First, that Germany succeeded in taking or destroying most of Russia’s industry.
Secondly, while Americans supplied only 12K tanks, she supplied the vast majority of jeeps, trucks, communication gear, that gave Russia her communications and mobility.
Third the allies provided more than half of Russian explosives. Plus copper and aluminum.
Once germany had france she had people, industry, and resources, greater than russia and britain combined.
Another case of: “It’s the economy, stupid”.
That the west overplays her importance in defeating germany is one thing. That Russia could have done it alone is extremely unlikely. That americans could have taken moscow and collapsed the soviet union is a relative certainty. That the Anglo constraint of German expansion into eastern europe was the cause of the fall of the west, and the destruction of western civlization is unquestionable. The germans were saving the west in both wars, and the anglos were by consequence the fall of the west – and remain so today.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:29:00 UTC