http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/05/26/holocaust-holodomor-origins-of-anti-semiMORE ON UKRAINIAN HOLODOMOR
(via peter meyers)
(Note: I do not know the history of this region, or its conflicts like I do the larger empires.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 16:19:00 UTC
HOPPE’S STRATEGIC GENIUS
–“For China, it would be a clever move to back the yuan with gold in order to push the dollar from the throne. With yuan backed by gold, the days of America’s economic dominance and the dollar would be numbered. The West will therefore do everything possible to prevent this.–
What can we do to encourage it????
One world government is the ultimate tyranny. My fantasy is to disempower the US military’s world dominance so that it retrenches to north america, sea and air, and to force europe to defend itself, and encourage russia to ally with germany, and foster the breakup of the USA into regional entities.
China can make this happen.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 08:56:00 UTC
DIFFERENCES
(quotes from ukrainian women)
“Judge a woman by her feelings, judge a man by his behavior.”
“A woman needs four hours, and man needs two days. Women think about everything at once. A man thinks about one thing at a time.”
“Feminism for Ukrainian women is.. ‘We are the same. I am woman. If you want relationship you must work for it.’
(I translate this roughly as “Men are not above us. We are free. We can live without you. We have dignity. The choice is ours. So if you want us, we expect you to earn us.” And that is a game men actually love to play.)
THE MATING THING IS SO FREAKING AWESOME WHEN YOU DON”T FIGHT IT.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 08:14:00 UTC
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/political-reasons-for-leaving-the-eu/EXCELLENT CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC REASONS FOR BRITAIN NOT TO JOIN THE EU
(from Sean Gabb)
“England is bound by its trade, its markets, its food supplies to the most varied and often very distant countries. Her activity is essentially industrial and commercial not agricultural. She has very strong, very individual habits and traditions. In short, the nature, structure and circumstances peculiar to England are different from those of the other continental countries.”
“The difference is temperamental and intellectual. The continental[s] like to reason from the top downwards, from general principle to practical application … the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Anglo-Saxons like to argue from the bottom upwards, from practical experience … the tradition of Bacon and Newton.”
“The EU doesn’t respect the rule of law.” …. “The EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights purports to ‘give’ Britons rights we’ve enjoyed under Common Law for a thousand years! But a sinister clause allows the EU to ‘suspend’ these rights if it deems that to be in its collective interest.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-05 17:39:00 UTC
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/GEEKS FOR MONARCHY: ABOUT THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT
(IE: ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME)
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-04 18:17:00 UTC
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/08/its-not-racist-to-seek-an-exit/DARK ENLIGHTENMENT COVERAGE :
A strange name for return to Aristocratic Egalitarianism. lol
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-04 18:16:00 UTC
IN THIS STRANGE LITTLE BIT OF LANGUAGE, BROUWER PROVIDES THE ANSWER TO PLATONISTS.
(emphasis mine)
“…mathematics is an essentially languageless activity of the mind having its ***origin in the perception of a move of time.*** This perception of a move of time may be described as the falling apart of a life moment into two distinct things, one of which gives way to the other, but is retained by memory. If the twoity thus born is divested of all quality, it passes into the empty form of the common substratum of all twoities.” — Brouwer.
Genius.
NELSON’S CRITIQUE
–“Since the advent of digital computers, attention has turned from effective methods — functions computable in principle – to feasible algorithms and programs. There is strong evidence that polynomial time functions provide the correct formalization of the intuitive notion of a feasible computation, and unlike the situation for recursive functions there is a purely syntactical characterization of polynomial time functions. I am convinced that intuitionism reformulated in this context will become a powerful practical method for constructing and verifying feasible algorithms, and that Kleene’s realization predicate will provide an incisive tool for
analyzing problems concerning interactive programs.”– Nelson.
https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/int.pdf
CURT: These are different contracts, for utility not different truths.
As far as I can tell, if it is not computable it is questionable. But I need to learn more.
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-04 18:00:00 UTC
“WHY ARE 6M UKRAINIANS LESS IMPORTANT THAN 6M JEWS?”
(from peter meyers)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the 6 million Ukranians:
{p. 15} This was a system which, in time of peace, artificially created a famine causing six million persons to die in the Ukraine between 1932 and 1933. They died on the very threshold of Europe.
{p. 16} And Europe didn’t even notice it. The world didn’t even notice it. Six million persons!”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, speech delivered in Washington on 30 June 1975. In Alexander Solzhenitsyn Speaks to the West (London: Bodley Head, 1978), pp. 15-16.
Here are some scans of that book:
1. the cover: http://mailstar.net/Solz-Speaks-cover.JPG
2. p. 15 (gives 6 million figure): http://mailstar.net/Solz-Speaks-6m-Ukra-p15.JPG
3. p. 16 (repeats 6 million figure): http://mailstar.net/Solz-Speaks-6m-Ukra-p16.JPG
Source date (UTC): 2014-01-04 02:08:00 UTC
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/12/27/video-friday-brainfood-seth-lloyd-on-the-universe-as-quantum-computer/While I really do like the idea of a limit to computation, I think the Anthropic principle, strong especially, but weak as well, is religion, not science. I don’t yet see any evidence that measurement or observability is always within our grasp, nor that determinism is sufficient that deduction can serve to render the unobservable predictable, other than for general rules. It’s not that it isn’t, it’s that I don’t yet grasp why it’s necessary, and unless it’s necessary, such statements are far closer in structure to prior anthropocentric ideas than those that have disabused anthropocentric ideas. So I can’t really state it. I would argue possibly instead, that any mind capable of introspection, which can make use of sufficient instrumentation to detect causal relations, can reduce those causal relations to analogies to experience. This basically argues that intelligence and instrumentalism are capable of perceiving any reasonably deterministic order. I am extremely suspicious of the argument that the rules of the universe are fungible. And it appears instead, that we fail to understand the properties of the universe and as such our model will suit nearly any math we throw at it. For this reason, we know our model is wrong. I suspect that because our model is wrong, so is the anthropic principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-29 10:53:00 UTC
A LIBERTARIAN ISLAND NEAR DETROIT
[A creative…] “project conceived by real estate developer Rod Lockwood. He has outlined plans to buy Belle Isle, a 982-acre public island park in the Detroit River, and transform it into an independent commonwealth with its own laws, regulations, and taxes (or lack thereof). Investors would buy the island from the city for $1 billion and then sell lifetime citizenship for $300,000. The extra $1 billion would help the city pay off its debts, and the lax regulations and low taxes would act as a magnet for investment, says Lockwood.”
“We would expect a quarter of a trillion dollars in capital would be brought onto the island,” says Lockwood. “Detroit would have its own Singapore in its backyard.”
-Reason Magazine
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 07:41:00 UTC