Curt Doolittle updated his status.
A LICENSE FOR PROPAGANDA, SOPHISTRY, AND DECEIT
Free truthful speech is one thing, free speech – meaning speech that needn’t be warrantied to be truthful – is just a license for propaganda, sophistry, and deceit. Which is precisely what we see.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 16:12:15 UTC
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EASTERN WISDOM (I)
by Daniel Gurpide
The habit of contrasting the crude materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East needs to be revised. The great Asiatic civilizations developed in a pre-logical era; the mind groped for truth through intuition, symbol, magic and mysticism. It was irrational. It refused to see the external world as an autonomous reality capable of being shaped and adapted through an understanding of its laws.
The West, thanks to the Greek genius, succeeded in rising to the level of rational thought, founded on respect for a principle of no concern to the Oriental mind, the principle of contradiction. By associating the Hellenic Logos with the Roman Law, Europe realized a synthesis which, despite many tribulations, is still the most miraculous accomplishment of the human adventure.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 15:40:46 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Assange is a journalist and protective of individuals identities, but assists us in ending the deep state.
Snowden is a whistleblower protecting of our liberties and assists us in ending the deep state.
Manning is a traitor for the sole reason that he did not resign before going public.
Snowden and Assange are Heroes, and Manning needs to be in a prison cell.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 14:54:57 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
As far as I know, Putin is the richest man in the world at present at ~200B. Although it’s rumored that Qadaffi had about the same (I don’t buy it). That’s about the same as Ford. But less than Carnegie and Rockefeller. Gates had, and Bezos still has, a long way to go.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 14:47:59 UTC
REVOLUTION: “But when to revolution mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit those instruments of ill.”
(Apologies to Pope)
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 13:32:00 UTC
THE FIVE MARTIAL ARTS
We have five martial arts.
1 – Guns.
2 – Endurance (Sprinting, Hiking).
3 – Weight Lifting.
4 – Waiting and sleeping quietly while, hungry, tired, uncomfortable, and cold.
5 – Field treatment of wounds.
Everything else is just for disciplining (educating) fellow males.
(I admit I’m kinda fond of knife and axe, or dagger and rapier, but guns are guns are guns.)
But yes, boxing, and ju jitsu(Wrestling) are legit.
It’s just that only guns equalize.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 13:30:00 UTC
ARABIC TRANSLATION OF PROPERTARIAN CORE CONCEPTS BY Eli Harman
The Propertarian Philosophy: Core Concepts
by Eli Harman
Translated by Ahmed Reda
Revised by Heydar Rashed
Including an Introduction: “Property in toto”
by Allen Freeman
Translated by Heydar Rashed
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 13:14:00 UTC
ARABIC TRANSLATION OF PROPERTARIAN CORE CONCEPTS BY @[11833594:2048:Eli Harman]
The Propertarian Philosophy: Core Concepts
by @[11833594:2048:Eli Harman]
Translated by @[100001249838669:2048:Ahmed Reda]
Revised by @[100008788366413:2048:Heydar Rashed]
Including an Introduction: “Property in toto”
by Allen Freeman
Translated by @[100008788366413:2048:Heydar Rashed]
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 13:14:00 UTC
Quotes of the day from an Arabic speaking friend:
–“I wasn’t really terrified of ISIS’s speeches until I read them in English.”—
I could do a podcast on what that means. English is… clear. Because it is a legalistic and scientific language. So the poetic translates very differently.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 12:52:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
UM. ELIMINATING TAX HAVENS IS BAD POLICY.
Is eliminating corporate tax havens such a good idea?
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato says maybe not:
—“We show that eliminating firmsâ access to tax havens has unintended consequences for economic growth. We analyze a policy change that limited profit shifting for US multinationals, and show that the reform raised the effective cost of investing in the US. Exposed firms respond by reducing global investment and shifting investment abroad â which lowered their domestic investment by 38% â and by reducing domestic employment by 1.0 million jobs. We then show that the costs of eliminating tax havens are persistent and geographically concentrated, as more exposed local labor markets experience declines in employment and income growth for over 15 years. We discuss implications of these results for other efforts to limit profit shifting, including new taxes on intangible income in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.”—
via Tyler Cowen
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 12:45:59 UTC