Curt Doolittle

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  • WILL WILL DELAY AND DISTRACT UNTIL THE WEST IS DISTRACTED –” As a Russian analy

    http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2014/07/window-on-eurasia-putin-never-backs.htmlPUTIN WILL WILL DELAY AND DISTRACT UNTIL THE WEST IS DISTRACTED

    –” As a Russian analyst notes Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” in his 15 year rule. His KGB training requires him to double down, fight his way out, turn up the pressure, never admit, never retreat. He will continue his support of his proxies in east Ukraine and hope that the West’s attention span will be short.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 15:06:00 UTC

  • WHAT WAS THE AGENDA OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL? —“facilitating radical individual

    WHAT WAS THE AGENDA OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL?

    —“facilitating radical individualism (social atomization) among gentiles while retaining a powerful sense of group cohesion among Jews—the agenda of the Frankfurt School.”—

    You know, truth would have worked a lot better. Why wasn’t the truth amenable? Was there some reason that truth was problematic? Why is it that our tribes cannot unite? Would identity be lost? Has it been lost to any tribe? No. Why cannot we form a global elite that is mutually beneficial?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-22 14:24:00 UTC

  • LIBER-TARDS, ASPIE-TARIANS, IMMORAL-TARIANS?

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ron-paul-is-putin-s-new-best-friend-20140721WTF – LIBER-TARDS, ASPIE-TARIANS, IMMORAL-TARIANS?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 14:51:00 UTC

  • “Any function which consists of an algorithm is computable. But an algorithm in

    —“Any function which consists of an algorithm is computable. But an algorithm in this sense consists of a sequence of steps a person with unlimited time and an infinite supply of pen and paper could follow.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 14:47:00 UTC

  • EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE? The author gives an accurate depiction

    http://skibinsky.com/no-russian/THE EMPIRE OF LIES? IS RUSSIA A FAILED STATE?

    The author gives an accurate depiction of how Ukraine escaped the Moscow Mafia. But is he correct in his somewhat colloquial analysis of the russian government? I think so. Economists agree. Although not in such unpleasant terms.

    Too bad. I had great hopes for russia. I love russians and russian culture. But can they do what the Ukrainian’s have done? Throw out the mafia? I don’t think so. Half the country is on the dole.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 13:59:00 UTC

  • YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES? —“…there is simply

    YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES?

    —“…there is simply no avoiding the conclusion that the human race is mad. There are scarcely any human beings who do not have some lunatic beliefs or other to which they attach great importance. People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”—David Stove

    If you cannot make your argument in operational language you do not understand it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 12:48:00 UTC

  • left yet again predicting capitalisms demise. The resurrection cult at work

    http://newleftreview.org/II/87/wolfgang-streeck-how-will-capitalism-endThe left yet again predicting capitalisms demise.

    The resurrection cult at work…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:01:00 UTC

  • ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM —“The completeness of Nozick’s compos

    ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM

    —“The completeness of Nozick’s composition is remarkable: he touches somewhere in the book, however lightly, almost every note of American decadence. Gandhi is there. The necessary deference to feminism is there. The necessary reproof to “racism” is there. Carlos Castaneda is there, referred to as though he were a thinker, which he is not… . Drugs of course are there, and in no unfavorable light: drugs may have their place, Nozick thinks, in “the treatment for philosophical parochialism.” Has he left anything out? Is there anyone in post-Vietnam America who needs to be placated, whom he has not placated? This was obviously a worry, and there is a nervous catch-all reference to “children’s rights, the treatment of animals, domination and ecological awareness.””—-

    –“Nozick looked forward to a new version of philosophy that would replace arguments with a kinder, gentler alternative—explanations—because arguments, after all, attempt “to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not.”—

    From David Stove

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:24:00 UTC

  • DIALECTICAL FALLACIES : TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH —“It’s possibl

    DIALECTICAL FALLACIES : TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH

    —“It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.— Karl Marx, in a letter to Engels, 1857

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:19:00 UTC

  • DECREASES TRUSTWOTHINESS

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/07/whod-a-thunk-it-socialism-is-demoralizing-socially-corrosive-and-promotes-individual-dishonesty-and-cheating/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29#mblSOCIALISM DECREASES TRUSTWOTHINESS

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-19 14:17:00 UTC