Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • PLEASE IGNORE THE TINFOIL HATS IN FRONT OF THE UNION JACK I live in downtown Kie

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-uprising-we-can-break-protesters-legs-no-one-will-punish-us-the-law-is-on-our-side-9147903.html?loadcomments=true#7f9da0e79d38436da5ea885464fd05b0NONSENSE – PLEASE IGNORE THE TINFOIL HATS IN FRONT OF THE UNION JACK

    I live in downtown Kiev. In the old city (Podol) There is no chaos here. I’ve been up in Maidan at the stage and it’s basically a cross between a keg party and a church ceremony now.

    We couldn’t get western attention here for months, and then all of a sudden we lose a lot of people in one day, the media finds bread and circus for the peasantry, and the average western clown is an expert on events here.

    Russians (and Ukrainians – prior to 1900 known as the Rusyas ), have a bravado bit of nonsense on the scale of Southern Italians. And western news media, always looking to make viewers feel morally and intellectually superior, take advantage of it.

    When realistically, compare Kiev to Venezuela, and look at the body language of the protesters alone. These are gentle people tired of corruption. They just want freedom from an oppressive state.

    Unless Russia walks into Donetsk with tanks, all will be boring and fine here.

    They’ve asked for Volunteers to clean up the main square starting on March 1st and I’m sure we’ll all chip in and take care of it. And it will be a CIVIC PEOPLE who CARE ABOUT THEIR CULTURE, and who don’t expect the government to do anything to help, that will make it happen.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 12:45:00 UTC

  • INFANTILIZED AND OBSOLESCENT “My biggest criticism of the American public educat

    INFANTILIZED AND OBSOLESCENT

    “My biggest criticism of the American public education system is it’s a 13-year preparation for industrial jobs that disappeared 20 years ago. An American 18 year old is neither educated nor trained. Most go on to another four years of a university where the primary focus is extending adolescence.” — Eric Field

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 10:03:00 UTC

  • JOBS ARE LIKE THIS You will never find a ‘good corporate job’ like your parents

    http://www.returnofkings.com/28771/youll-never-find-a-good-corporate-job-like-your-parents-didALL JOBS ARE LIKE THIS

    You will never find a ‘good corporate job’ like your parents did.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 10:03:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE : PUNISHMENT IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT – it’s housekeeping. It’s all well an

    UKRAINE : PUNISHMENT IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT – it’s housekeeping.

    It’s all well and good to punish the old guard that preyed upon the people. On the other hand, retribution is not a strategy for fixing Ukraine. Nothing will be different. In fact, obsession with the past is merely a foolish or lazy person’s way of failing to deal with the future.

    A new president and new parliament will do no good without reforming those aspects of life that directly affect the ability of Ukrainian people to prosper.

    1. Reform the judiciary. Add the Jury system. Look at the court data. Hire Ukrainian expatriates from German and English legal systems to audit the judiciary and to determine likely areas of corruption. Although most english and german speaking legal firms in Kiev have written extensively on how to cure Ukrainian judges’ notorious disrespect for the rule of law. This only requires honest effort. There is no secret here. Corruption in the judiciary is an open secret that everyone knows – and most people in western countries understand how to fix.

    2. Reform the Police on the Georgian or Russian model – pay the good one’s eliminate the others. Be merciless about reforming them. Any person can bring suit against an officer. Use citizen juries to try the police officers. If a policeman is fired by the jury, then he is permanently ineligible for service in any capacity in the government. This is sufficient incentive to protect the people from police corruption.

    3. “Universal Legal Standing Against Corruption” Treat corruption (even your own) as a crime against your people,and punish all of it, from the most political cheat, to the simplest credit thief, as a threat to the future of Ukraine and its people.

    4. Obtain the “universal right to bear arms” – it is the only source of freedom. Americans call this right “shall issue”. Meaning that the government must issue unless there is a reason not to. Do not settle for requiring a reason. Freedom from evil people in government is the only reason you need to bear arms. Ukraine is one of the only countries that understands the power of armed citizenry in securing its freedom from oppression. An armed society is not only a polite society but it is also a free society.

    5. Commit to a 10 year television and education campaign on ‘truth, trust and elimination of corruption in all walks of life.’ This is, believe it or not, one of the most important things that you can do in a low trust society like Ukraine. (If I spoke the language I’d drive initiative for it myself.) Ukrainians in my opinion are the best and most good people in the world. But trust is a technology. It can be taught like any other technology. And Ukrainians’ need to understand how to use that technology, rather than rely on centuries of experience without trust.

    GOOD ADVICE

    1. Try to get younger people into office who do not have adult experience under the Soviet model. It is very hard to change our intuitions about what we learn in our youth.

    2. Start teaching ‘rule of law’, ‘the common law’, commercial ethics, checkbook management, basic accounting, and basic economics to all students in all schools at an early age.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 06:30:00 UTC

  • Its not uncommon in politically incorrect circles to argue that China’s IQ advan

    Its not uncommon in politically incorrect circles to argue that China’s IQ advantage, and the evidence of Asian ‘pliability’ demonstrated from the moment of birth onward, is the result of the systematic and intentional extermination of troublemakers for thousands of years. We know that in northern Europe the use of manorialism allowed the middle class gene pool to almost entirely replace the proletarian gene pool, and that the plague exacerbated it a bit. So that almost all northern europeans by the early 1600’s were decedents of the middle class. And we’re pretty sure that Northern European, Ashkenazi and Chinese IQ’s were at relative parity in 1850. But that we’re getting ‘dumber’ genetically even if ratio-scientific eduction and the Flynn effect of universal exposure to universal rules has somewhat compensated for it. The net being that aside from their side track into Marxism, they’ve done a lot of good for themselves. But some truths are painful.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 05:46:00 UTC

  • CRIMEA I get that Crimea has the best of both worlds if it stays part of Ukraine

    CRIMEA

    I get that Crimea has the best of both worlds if it stays part of Ukraine, but has Russia’s backing. In effect it gets to play the Black Sea version of Hong Kong. If brought back into Russia directly it would have less autonomy that it does as a ‘leased territory’.

    (FWIW: stopping the Russians from taking over the Ottomans (the crimean war) was yet another stupid thing we did. Added to the list of many stupid things we did. Sigh…)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 04:08:00 UTC

  • DOMINATION, CHARITY, OR CHEAP STATUS SIGNALS? There is a great difference betwee

    DOMINATION, CHARITY, OR CHEAP STATUS SIGNALS?

    There is a great difference between these levels of interest: domination, management, insurance, and charity.

    The world is a pretty charitable place really.

    If a people ASK for charity we should be as charitable as their behavior warrants. But the Japanese for example, pretty much refused our assistance (wrongly). And our assistance in most places (Haiti included) has been more damaging than good. Our attempts to help Africa have almost all been damaging to Africa – and the scholarly review of our failures is not even a matter of dispute any longer.

    Involving ourselves both at the state level and via multitudes of NGO’s that the EVIDENCE shows CLEARLY cause more harm than good; or involving ourselves as the world’s police force – which the evidence suggests causes more harm than good (we have been wrong more than right); or acting as the evangelists of the religion of Universal Secular Christianity that we call “Social Democracy” which the evidence again CLEARLY demonstrates that we cause more harm than good – is just an elaborate way of using our wealth to generate status signals for ourselves at other people’s expense.

    We are not smarter than the rest of the world. We are wealthier. We are wealthier because we have had longer to convert our society to ratio-scientific thought. And we are wealthier because we have the common law (in anglo countries), we used our technological leadership to conquer the two most remote continents (Australia and north america); and because we have influenced Continental law by two major wars of conquest in which we dictated terms. And because we inherited the british empire’s control of the seas built up over 500 years, when it committed suicide in the wars. And because we forced the world onto the petro-dollar standard in order to finance our global war on communism.

    Those are the reasons we are wealthier. And while we have done a lot of good by converting the rest of the world unwillingly to CONSUMER CAPITALISM – which is our greatest contribution – we have also done a lot of harm with our wealth – motivated by good intentions, in practice, out of ignorance.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-24 04:05:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY, GODS AND PRAYER : A CURE FOR THE GOD THAT FAILED (meaningful) Arist

    ARISTOCRACY, GODS AND PRAYER : A CURE FOR THE GOD THAT FAILED

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    Aristocracy prays, if it does, to its ancestors. And you pray to your ancestors only if they are worth praying to. Moreover, you pray to some other god only because your ancestors are not worth praying to.

    All gods exist – at least as much as ideas exist. The question is the relative merit of each. The merit of any god, any religion, is the status of the people who worship it. If a people prosper and endure then they chose the right gods. If they suffer in ignorance and poverty, then they chose the wrong gods.

    Clearly the corporate State, the “God That Failed” was a bad god to pray to. Our old gods must mourn. And the other gods must laugh at them. Because all evidence indicates, that the State is the god of Genocide.

    In that sense, the god of the State, the god of Genocide, is not a failure. The god of Genocide succeeds so more every day. The “God That Failed” is then, a mistake. It is not the god that failed: it is we who failed in choosing our god.

    No man will pray to ancestors that are not his. No man will pray to ancestors that are not worthy. And men who pray to unworthy gods will pay for it. And men who pray to genocidal gods, will pay with their genes – forever. A never-ending price.

    There are many gods. That is just an irrefutable scientific fact. The question is who we choose as our gods. One always chooses a god. Even if one chooses not to. Choosing not to, is a choice too. And at least empirically speaking, it appears to be a very bad one. Because it is a lie. Without choosing other gods, we of necessity choose the state. And the state is a genocidal god.

    Curt Doolittle

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-23 15:03:00 UTC

  • THERE ARE BUT THREE WAYS TO CONTROL A PEOPLE: 1) MORAL ARGUMENT i – Tools: Relig

    THERE ARE BUT THREE WAYS TO CONTROL A PEOPLE:

    1) MORAL ARGUMENT

    i – Tools: Religion. Shaming. Rallying. Deception. Obscurantism.

    ii – Threat:Inclusion and Exclusion from the benefit of group membership.

    iii – Our defense: Reason, Science, Propertarianism (the logic of cooperation)

    2) VIOLENCE

    i – Tools: War. Law. Police.

    ii – Threat: death, deprivation, takings.

    iii – Our defense: The Militia. Rule of law. Common Law. Constitution. Property Rights.

    3) REMUNERATION

    i – Tools : Fiat money. Fiat Credit. Taxation. (extraction)

    ii – Threat : deprivation. poverty.

    iii – Our Defense: Precious metals. private money. digital currency.

    A PEOPLE MUST POSSESS THESE DEFENSES TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE PREDATORY STATE.

    a) Reason. Science. Propertarianism.

    b) The Militia. Rule of Law. Common Law. Constitution. Property Rights.

    c) Natural Money. Private money. Digital Money.

    IT IS AFTER THE PEOPLE POSSESS THESE THINGS, AND ONLY AFTER, THAT IT IS SAFE TO USE THE STATE FOR MUTUAL INSURANCE AND CARE-TAKING.

    The government is a very dangerous thing. Like all dangerous things, it may have benefits. But only if the dangers are handled with the extreme caution that they deserve. Like all harmful things, the state will harm those who attempt to gain its benefits without paying the high cost of its careful handling.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-23 13:42:00 UTC

  • moral victory of the hard men of the Ukrainian opposition in Kiev in trampling o

    http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-it-takes.html?spref=fb–“The moral victory of the hard men of the Ukrainian opposition in Kiev in trampling on the most recent European-negotiated compromise solution and successfully driving the elected President out of the capital comes not just from dying bravely, but from winning. “–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-23 12:55:00 UTC