Curt Doolittle

Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • FEEDING THE DEEP STATE ITS FAVORITE FOOD —“In light of the new security situat

    FEEDING THE DEEP STATE ITS FAVORITE FOOD

    —“In light of the new security situation created by Russia’s illegal and illegitimate aggression against Ukraine, we have taken immediate measures to enhance collective security in the air, at sea and on the ground. … The Ukraine crisis has compelled the alliance to refocus on its core mission of defending its members after years in which its main effort has been far away in Afghanistan.”—

    So stupid. Russia could have led the western world. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

    The white people who failed.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 17:45:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS – CHARGE RUSSIA FOR CRIMEA IN GAS Russia stole territory.

    DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS – CHARGE RUSSIA FOR CRIMEA IN GAS

    Russia stole territory. Lets just estimate the value of Crimea and the oil and gas fields. Say, at $4T Euros. So we will just take $4T euros as gas as payment for the seized territory at 22% interest, which is the going rate for high risk capital. This means Ukraine will not have to pay for gas for many years.

    If they don’t like it then we must collect our debt from Russia forcibly.

    I think that’s a pretty good deal. Don’t you?

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 15:46:00 UTC

  • IN A CORRUPT SOCIETY, FEDERALIZATION = FEUDALIZATION —“We need to be honest wi

    IN A CORRUPT SOCIETY, FEDERALIZATION = FEUDALIZATION

    —“We need to be honest with each other: if someone wants to dismember the county and carry out not a federalization, dear ladies and gentlemen, but feudalization – there has been one Yanukovych and now they want 27 “Yanukovychs” in smaller regions. … That is my personal stance as a citizen: I will oppose to the last and Ukraine will never be dismembered,”—

    Yatsenyuk

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 13:46:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’v

    DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

    Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’ve blown a few gas lines already. It works. These lines are fragile. They cover vast distances. Those vast distances are very expensive to defend. They are nearly impossible to logistically defend.

    Russia cannot leverage european dependence on gas if it cannot sell gas. Europe cannot remain neutral, because it is dependent upon gas, if it cannot purchase gas.

    The army has artillery shells in storage. Every shell, easily converted into a bomb, deprives the Russian economy of tens of millions of dollars. A few shells in sequence deprive the Russian economy of tens of billions.

    You know, 50% of Russians are dependent upon that revenue. The entire corrupt pyramid depends upon that gas and oil.

    Two men, a shovel, a flashlight and a motorcycle, and a camping trip.

    Take the war to Russia.

    If you kill the body the head will die.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 10:06:00 UTC

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.

  • STRATEGY? Now, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians

    STRATEGY?

    Now, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems.

    It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals.

    Welcome to fragility.

    They made it possible to get our freedom back.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 08:02:00 UTC

  • THE LIFESTYLE CONSTRAINTS OF THE CATHEDRAL I hope I never have to live a social

    THE LIFESTYLE CONSTRAINTS OF THE CATHEDRAL

    I hope I never have to live a social pretense like most professors do, where they must protect their legitimacy with public conformity. I’d rather live like picasso, and chase pretty girls, art, and experiences to my last dying breath.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-16 07:02:00 UTC

  • ITS NOT ENOUGH TO SAY ‘WE’RE ALL THICK LIBERTARIANS’ It’s not enough to say that

    ITS NOT ENOUGH TO SAY ‘WE’RE ALL THICK LIBERTARIANS’

    It’s not enough to say that in the end we’re all ‘thick’ libertarians. That’s not honest. The ‘thin’ libertarians are wrong, and harmful to the cause of liberty. They’ve had 30+ years to test their theory, and it’s a demonstrated failure. It is a failure because it’s an unethical and immoral basis for cooperation in a polity.

    So it’s not enough to say ‘we’re all thick. The purpose of thick libertarianism is to acknowledge the failure of thin “rothbardian” libertarianism. Not to expand it. Not to critique it. But to openly state that it is an unethical and immoral failure in both theory and practice.

    Now, the criticism that ‘thick’ libertarians haven’t any answers is true. But having a WRONG answer (rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism) and having no answer yet are two different things.

    Thin ‘rothbardian’ libertarianism is false. Thick Left-libertarianism is not yet articulated as more than an intuitive and non-rational supposition. Thick right- libertarianism is at least part of an answer. thick Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism is the entire answer. But AEL is not for free riders. It says we must acquire liberty through direct action by insuring the property rights of all other property owners.

    A lot of libertarians are trying to find a way to justify their claims for liberty at zero cost to themselves. That wont work. It hasn’t worked. Aristocratic Egalitarianism states that we must obtain our insurance against violations of our property by entering into an insurance contract with others, to employ organized violence against any and all transgressors and usurpers.

    No magical, supernatural or fantasy origins for rights are necessary.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-16 06:49:00 UTC

  • CHINESE EFFICIENCY : GETTING BUREAUCRATS TO COMMIT SUICIDE —“In little over a

    CHINESE EFFICIENCY : GETTING BUREAUCRATS TO COMMIT SUICIDE

    —“In little over a year, close to 60 Chinese officials have died of unnatural causes, with most being suicides. The strong suspicion is that this epidemic of mysterious deaths among China’s elite is likely tied to the anticorruption campaign being led by Chinese president and party general secretary Xi Jinping.”—

    Another thing the Chinese do well. Our corrupt people just hide for four years and come back for the next election cycle.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-15 16:03:00 UTC