Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • FUTURE : RUSSIAN POWER AGAINST UKRAINE? (note: I am pro-russian and pro-ukrainia

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-a-new-ukraine-is-the-kremlins-worst-nightmare-9146751.htmlTHE FUTURE : RUSSIAN POWER AGAINST UKRAINE?

    (note: I am pro-russian and pro-ukrainian both. My interest in this geopolitical rough and tumble is simple: I want a strong east that suppresses visible corruption so that people can economically prosper. )

    “Russia has talked a lot about its “soft power” in recent years. It isn’t particularly soft. The new Ukraine will pay more for gas, which will be regularly cut off for “technical reasons”. Russia’s crazy “food safety” agency will declare that everything that comes out of Ukraine is radioactive. Ukrainian migrant workers will be sent home now they have finished helping to rebuild Sochi.

    Worst of all, Russia will work hard to try to re-corrupt the political system. The Kremlin used to boast that it could exploit Ukraine’s old-style “democracy” – meaning that, just like Yanukovych, they could launch their own puppet parties and buy agents of influence in the honest ones. The Ukrainian Front, a bizarre alliance of hooligans and bikers with a vaguely pan-Slavist ideology that appeared in the eastern city of Kharkiv two weeks ago, was backed by the Russians. Skinheads and sportsmen with the money to spend on propaganda are not a natural combination. Similar groups may pop up in Crimea and elsewhere, where the last elements of the old regime may try and regroup.

    But Russia’s ultimate problem is the same as Yanukovych faced. The Kremlin simply can’t understand that protesters would be motivated by ideology rather than by money or foreign support. The Russians were good at manipulating the old system, but dealing with real revolutionaries is a different matter. Ukraine is starting a very bumpy ride.”

    THEY ARE NOT MOTIVATED BY IDEOLOGY BUT ECONOMIC SUFFERING AND FREEDOM FROM SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 23:15:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 18:59:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE. THE MILITIA : EVERY ABLE BODIED MAN Ukraine made a militia out of ad ho

    UKRAINE. THE MILITIA : EVERY ABLE BODIED MAN

    Ukraine made a militia out of ad hoc barricades, old tires, molotovs, custom made armor, surplus helmets and construction gear.

    Large groups of Ukrainians are patrolling the streets for troublemakers. The police are just ‘gone’. Invisible. They are wearing soviet era helmets, makeshift armor, and carrying baseball bats and lengths of pipe.

    No bravado. Just doing it.

    If every able bodied (and sane) man (and woman) is armed, and trained, then your government cannot oppress you. If your government does not want every able bodied (and sane) man (and woman) armed and trained, then you have to wonder why they would fear such a thing. If you aren’t willing to commit yourself to being armed and trained (if sane) then you cannot possibly claim that you have earned your property rights. ‘Cause you haven’t. You’re a parasite on the commitment, risk and effort of others.

    Pacifist libertarianism is just an excuse for free riding: parasitism.

    If you don’t have a militia, you don’t have freedom.

    You merely have permission.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 16:08:00 UTC

  • We are in Maidan. In front if the stage. Yulia is speaking. The crowd listens. T

    We are in Maidan.

    In front if the stage.

    Yulia is speaking.

    The crowd listens.

    Then cheers.

    Her voice cracks.

    It is beautiful.

    Tears.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 14:47:00 UTC

  • Hello Mr. Dolittle, what is your opinion on this commentary? accurate, or not? T

    Hello Mr. Dolittle, what is your opinion on this commentary? accurate, or not?

    The more (differing views) i hear about the Ukrainian chaos, the more confused I become.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 13:21:00 UTC

  • Meanwhile, in your home city of Seattle, Lenin’s statue, while not toppled, had

    Meanwhile, in your home city of Seattle, Lenin’s statue, while not toppled, had its hands painted red, to symbolize the bloodshed

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 13:06:00 UTC

  • LEARN FROM UKRAINE. UKRAINE IS A TUTORIAL. Overthrow a corrupt state

    LEARN FROM UKRAINE. UKRAINE IS A TUTORIAL.

    Overthrow a corrupt state.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 08:39:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE – UNITED, AND IN A CELEBRATORY MOOD!!!!

    UKRAINE – UNITED, AND IN A CELEBRATORY MOOD!!!!

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 08:16:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT RESIGNS. USA SHOULD BE NEXT. This is how it is done America.

    UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT RESIGNS. USA SHOULD BE NEXT.

    This is how it is done America. Not with press. Not with speeches. Not with threats. Not with begging and pleading. But with a dedicated few, willing to die to prove the illegitimacy of the government.

    Why does the right care? BECAUSE THEY DO THE FIGHTING.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 08:15:00 UTC

  • WESTERN (ANGLO) POLICY IN FOUR RULES 1) Secular Christianity (“Human Rights Wors

    WESTERN (ANGLO) POLICY IN FOUR RULES

    1) Secular Christianity (“Human Rights Worship”)

    Individuals have property rights including to the self, that states may not violate. (This is ‘rule of law’ or ‘natural law’ that constrains the state – any state and all states.) Property rights, (human rights), science and Reason therefore determine the validity of any discourse, and no other values ever, take precedence over them.

    2) Commercial Prosperity (“mutually beneficial voluntary exchange”)

    Principle: Adam Smith. The wealthier we are the more choices we have, the better lives that we have. (This actually appears to have limits.)

    3) Good Commercial World Citizenship (“”)

    You have the obligation to conduct your competition through trade, and that is the only competition that you may conduct – because it is mutually beneficial. If you conduct any other kind of competition then we will also engage in that competition to protect the pattern of trade.

    4) Self Determination – You may choose your own government. However, you and your government will be held responsible for 1,2 and 3 above. You will be allowed to select any self determination that does not violate 1,2 and 3.

    UNFORTUNATELY THE WEST ONLY TALKS ABOUT SELF DETERMINATION. WHICH CONFUSES THE “DEVELOPING” WORLD.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-22 06:41:00 UTC