Didn’t Occur to me that if the Russians take Crimea, the Chinese will then take Taiwan. Just like it didn’t occur to me that the Russian elite look at china as a model government.
What are we supposed to learn? The social democratic model doesn’t work no matter what way we look at it? Right? I mean. That’s the lesson isn’t it?
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 14:41:00 UTC
Glad you’re trying to get out.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 12:51:00 UTC
I said, almost ten years ago, that if the dollar collapsed that we could no longer afford our military and that the standard of living of the average american would decline by 40-50% – and stay there.
End the empire.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 11:59:00 UTC
FWIW: We human beings operate by status signals more so than any other thing that we covet.
Loss aversion is a strong instinct. loss aversion by ‘theft, cheating and free riding’ is stronger still. But of all the things we covet most, and and are most adverse to loss, status is the greatest – often more so than our kin.
It is the redistribution of earned status that produces agitation on one end, and a reaction to the relative lack of status at the other end.
Progressives use the best of all worlds: the don’t bear many children, they earn high incomes, and they obtain their status using other people’s money.
Whereas a middle class business owner, or upper middle class professional, cannot devote his earnings to increasing the number of his children, increasing his comfort in retirement, nor transferring his accumulated wealth to his family.
Meanwhile, others gain status merely by appropriating and redistributing the product of his efforts.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 11:36:00 UTC
US STATE DEPARTMENT CONTACT (EMBASSY)
“…. if you have an opportunity to leave Ukraine you should do it. …”
I’m not ‘permitted’ to say what else I know from other channels (which are silver bullets that I don’t use). But the net is, that they have no idea whats going to happen after tomorrow.
“….. could be a war, or it could be much better than it is right now…”
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 11:06:00 UTC
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/china-li-keqiang-wans-investors-bankruptciesI WAS WAY OFF ON THIS ONE.
Was dead sure it would start in 2010.
I still don’t understand that economy.
I understand the demographics (if they’re close to accurate) but not that economy.
Demographics should have broken it four years ago.
Be interesting to understand how and why they held out this long.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 07:20:00 UTC
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/MOVING THE NEEDLE
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:31:00 UTC
http://therightstuff.biz/2014/03/09/death-of-honor/”Honor and discipline are not compatible with our post-modern culture. This is fact. One values selflessness, the other values selfishness. Post-modernism is the antithesis of honor.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:24:00 UTC
Good Marketing requires that we:
1) stay on message;
2) stay in brand, and;
3) stay visible.
Good Ideology is mostly good marketing. And good marketing is expensive.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:22:00 UTC
http://therightstuff.biz/2014/03/09/death-of-honor/
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 05:16:00 UTC