UKRAINE UPDATE: MORE OF THE SAME OLD SAME OLD
Well, all the usual eastern european nonsense seems to be taking root again as everyone jockeys for power and privilege.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt. But as far as I can tell, everything so far is just fighting over position at the trough.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-26 15:10:00 UTC
TABLE OF DEMOCIDE:
“the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-26 10:01:00 UTC
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
The state collects:
(a) all our search requests
(b) all our communications
(c) all our financial transactions
(d) all our medical information
(e) all our weapon information
(f) all our travel information
(g) all our tax information
(h) all our title information (real property)
(i) all our marriage and divorce information.
(j) all our birth and death information
+ and insurance companies collect:
(k) all our risk information (our forecasts)
+ and private companies collect our:
(l) genetic information
IT MEANS WE ARE CATTLE.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-26 07:28:00 UTC
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/silicon_valley_dreams_of_secession/
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-26 03:11:00 UTC
http://gunssavelives.net/blog/ukrainian-citizens-want-their-own-constitutional-amendment-to-own-guns/THE SOURCE OF LIBERTY IS AN ARMED POPULACE
Ukraine starts the revolution now.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 14:42:00 UTC
http://24tv.ua/home/showSingleNews.do?turchynov_dismisses_presidential_advisors&objectId=413772&lang=enEXAMPLE OF ENDEMIC CORRUPTION IN KIEV: “PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR”
I lived in a very nice small hotel in downtown for a long time. And in the morning I’d go down for breakfast and sit on the veranda overlooking the street.
One of the frequent characters was a fellow who always seemed to meet foreigners and talk to them about doing business in Ukraine.
Eventually we moved mutual recognition, then to morning smiles, and I finally introduced myself. We spoke briefly. .He gave me his card. He was an “Advisor to the President”. Which seemed strange to me because he looked far more like a carpet salesman than anyone with deep knowledge of any kind of civil affairs.
Over time I gathered enough information by ‘accidental’ listening, to understand that he was a gatekeeper for foreign businesses in Ukraine. If you want to start a business, obtain credit, film a movie, or gain access to television and media, you could pay ‘fees’ for the his ‘service’.
His service involved collecting bribes on behalf of the president in exchange for ‘assistance’ in accomplishing your goals.
I haven’t seen him lately. I don’t remember his name. But I’m pretty sure that the list of ‘advisors’ is a lot longer than the official one.
Today, the parliament dismissed an whole list of ‘advisors’.
Story below.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 14:40:00 UTC
AN ARISTOCRATIC LIBERTARIAN CALL TO ARMS
Rothbard is using the urban ghetto as a model (Jewish religious) and Locke the genetically homogenous island as a model (English and Anglo-Empirical). A third model consists of tribes constantly competing for land and thus constantly at war over resources -the spears you mention: (German and Continental) model.
A fourth model is told to us by science: a consanguineous inbred band without distinction by the roles that we must evolve along with our means of production, and the rules necessary to facilitate that production.
None of these models addresses mans nature. All of them together, do tell us something:
The natural state of man is to adapt his family (reproductive organization), his rules of cooperation (property rights, norms, rituals and myths) to the continuous changes in the structure of production made possible by his technical advancements.
There exists no natural state of man, only natural properties of man. Arguments in favor of a state of man are bound to fail because they are based upon false assumptions.
The problem for any cooperative group remains constant: creating incentives both in favor of production and against free riding and parasitism. Since expansion of production in a division of knowledge and labor increases the opportunity for free riding and parasitism because of increasing anonymity of the participants the structure of production.
Rothbard, like Cantor, Freud and Marx, is but the author another pseudoscience and our failure to grasp it as such a measure of our seducability by cheap introspective empty verbalisms rather than expensive scientific investigations.
And I am going to drag libertarian philosophy out of the empty verbalism of ghetto pseudoscience and into the ratio scientific era – kicking and screaming if necessary. But then, given the enormous investments pseudoscientists have made in their pseudoscience I suspect that they will cling to their empty verbal pseudoscience as desperately as fortune tellers, astrologers, psychologists, marxists, and mathematical platonists.
–Leave no pseudoscientist standing. Liberty is too precious to trust to empty verbalism–
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 08:22:00 UTC
ALL SOCIETIES REQUIRE A DOMINANT MINORITY
Who is ours?
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 06:12:00 UTC
CONSERVATIVES SUCCEED WHERE LIBERTARIANS ALWAYS FAIL.
–“for the foreseeable future, the Deep State must restrain its appetite for taxpayer dollars. Limited deals may soften sequestration, but agency requests will not likely be fully funded anytime soon. Even Wall Street’s rentier operations have been affected: After helping finance the tea party to advance its own plutocratic ambitions, America’s Big Money is now regretting the Frankenstein’s monster it has created. Like children playing with dynamite, the tea party and its compulsion to drive the nation into credit default has alarmed the grown-ups commanding the heights of capital; the latter are now telling the politicians they thought they had hired to knock it off.”–
Well. Bill Moyers might not realize that some of us, people like me, started working the strategy of driving the state into credit default in 1980. It just took a while.
That said, conservatives understand power. That all human organization requires power – decision makers. Deciders. Whether monopoly or distributed.
For liberty to persist, those who desire it must use DISTRIBUTED POWER. We must CONSTANTLY pay the price of liberty. We cannot obtain it at a discount.
Power is expensive. Liberty is difficult to price because it is so expensive.
You can’t get liberty at a discount by claiming ‘it’s a right’.
That kind of nonsense is for children.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 00:28:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RmDqqZZceX0THE STATE IN ACTION – MURDER WHOLESALE
In case the media (or the Russian government) suggest that the government troops were defending themselves, watch them murder men from a distance who are pinned down on the ground. Watch real men fighting for their liberty, not for a share of someone else’s money.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 00:10:00 UTC