Curt Doolittle

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-22 07:40:00 UTC

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    Updated Mar 22, 2018, 12:59 AM

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  • by Seonaidh MacGobhain In 14 Years (2000-2014) Alberta sent $200 Billion to the

    by Seonaidh MacGobhain

    In 14 Years (2000-2014) Alberta sent $200 Billion to the Federal Government.

    In 57 years (1957 to 2014) Alberta only got$92 million

    back. And the rest of Canada has the nerve to badmouth Alberta. Now what’s wrong with that picture?

    (NOTE – THAT IS BILLION VS MILLION ABOVE!!!!!!)

    • As part of a four month investigation, the Financial Post has identified as many as 35 Canadian projects, worth $129 Billion, that have been stalled or cancelled because of opposition due to environmental, aboriginal and or community groups. If these projects went ahead they would create hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs while being built and tens of thousands of full time operational jobs when the projects were commissioned.

    • A recently released third quarter (2016) National Accounts Report shows that all sectors of the Canadian economy are now net borrowers.

    Net borrowing for Corporations reached an annual rate of $19.7 Billion.

    Households totaled $30.5 Billion ; and

    The total of all governments 2016 annual deficits total $37.6 Billion.

    • Total accumulated debt by theFederal Government currently stands at $634.4 Billion.

    Total Federal and all Provincial Debt stands at $1,294.7 Trillion (Note that Municipal debt is not included in the $1.294 Trillion debt).

    • Included in the above totals, accumulated debt in Ontario stands at $313.9 Billion. Quebec is $180.1 Billion. Ontario has the highest per capita debt of all provinces at $22,449.00. We used to believe that Quebec did not have their finances under control. Their per capita debt is less than Ontario’s.

    • Manitoba’s total provincial debt is $22.6 Billion. This does not include the $17 Billion debt owed by Manitoba Hydro which is backed by the Manitoba Government. If Manitoba Hydro’s debt was included in the provincial debt, Manitoban’s would have the highest per capita debt.

    • Net Federal debt is expected to increase $107 Billion in the next 4 years. Total Federal Government interest costs since 1990 equal $950 Billion.

    The Federal debt increases at a rate of: $ 87 Million per day or $ 60,460.00per minute or $ 1,008.00per second.

    • Business Investment in Canada has fallen for an eighth straight quarter. Even with the favourable Canadian exchange rate, exports are below their level of a year earlier. The manufacturing sector , particularly in Ontario is struggling with energy cost differentials, rising non-tariff barriers, uncertainty about the status of trade agreements and complex approval processes. Policy makers are just starting to realize that government stimulus spending is not working and more of the same won’t help.

    • Voters in our last federal election, who embraced the tax the rich message by the current federal government, should know that of the $126 Billion in federal tax collected, $26.2 Billion was collected from 1.4% of the high income earners.Even if the tax for this group doubles it will not pay for next year’s federal deficit forecast at $27.8 Billion.

    • Top marginal tax rates for Canadian provinces is as follows:

    Nova Scotia- 54%,

    Ontario- 53.5%,

    QuebecandNew Brunswick- 53.3 %,

    P.E.I.- 51.37%,

    Manitoba- 50.4%,

    Newfoundland- 49.8%,

    British Columbia- 47.7% ,

    Alberta and Saskatchewan- 48% (note that in 2014 Alberta’s was 39%).

    Of course these rates do not include GST, PST, Carbon Taxes or Property Taxes.

    • The Equalization Programstarted in Canada in1957. The following are theLifetime Paymentsto each province:

    Quebec = $198 Billion(50.5%),

    Manitoba = $46 Billion(11.7%),

    Nova Scotia = $44 Billion(11.1%),

    New Brunswick = $43 Billion(10.9%),

    Newfoundland & Labrador = $25 Billion(6.4%),

    Ontario = $17 Billion(4.2%),

    P.E.I. = $ 9 Billion(2.4%),

    Saskatchewan = $8 Billion(2.1%),

    British Columbia = $3 Billion(0.6%),

    Alberta = $ 92 *Million*(0.0%).* This is not a typing error!*

    • Canadian Oil Sands Producers export 3.4 million barrels of oil per day to the USA. The USA is their only customer and the USA discounts this oil by $15.40 (US$) per barrel based on the differential between the West Texas Intermediate benchmark price and Western Canada Select price. The total annual discount is $18.6 Billion (US$) lost to the Canadian economy with the benefit going to the USA. This discount may go as high as $20.00 per barrel but would disappear if either the Energy East Pipeline or Northern Gateway pipeline were built and Canadian oil was transported to tidewater. No wonder Donald Trump wants to approve the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office. And Ontario and Quebec import their oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia and of course pay full price.

    • Between the years 2000 to 2014Alberta’s individual and corporate taxpayers sent $200 Billion to the Federal Government on a“net basis“.Net basis meaning:what money left that province, less what the Fed`s reinvested in that province.For several years the annual contribution was as much as $20 Billion.No other province, including Ontario with 3 times the population, even comes close to matching this province`s contribution. Remarkably few Canadians seem to be aware of this, even in the vaguest sense!

    • Our Federal Government is in the process of conducting an Inquiry Into Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women. Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall recently noted that there have been 29 studies and reports on aboriginal issues since 1996, which have produced hundreds of recommendations. The 1996 Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples alone cost $50 Million and presented 444 recommendations, almost all of which were ignored by the Chretien Liberal Government. Maybe we should have an National Inquiry to look into why all these earlier inquiries and studies failed.

    • Some RCMP facts : 6,420 missing persons in Canada – 1,455 are women – 164 are aboriginal. Between 1980 and 2012 there were 20,313 murders in Canada – 6,551 were women and of those 1,017 were aboriginal women. 88% of the aboriginal women murders have been solved – 89% of non-aboriginal women have been solved. 83% of aboriginal women were killed by a husband, family member or acquaintance and 71% of those murderers already had a record, 53% of those had been convicted of a violent crime before and 62% had a history of violence with the specific murder victim herself.

    • 90% of all Canadian Public Sector workers have employer provided pension plans compared to 24% in the private sector. Moreover 94% of these public sector pensions are “defined benefit” meaning retirees get a set amount after they leave their jobs (typically 70 to 75% of their working salary) whether or not there is enough money in the pension fund. Any shortfall is made up by the taxpayers for years and years after these civil servants retire. Many of them collect pensions longer than they worked.

    • It used to be that public servants made less money than their private sector counterparts. Not anymore. According to a recently released study by the Fraser Institute public servants now earn on average 11% moresalary than their counterparts in the private sector. Compared to the private sector, civil servants enjoy longer vacations, take more non vacation days off ( 13 days vs 8) , retire on average 2.3 years earlier, enjoy superior pension benefits and more job security. According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business when all compensationis taken into account and divided by the hours worked , federal government workers made 40% morethan their private sector counterparts , provincial government workers made 35% more and municipal government workers made nearly 30% more. There are 3.7 million public sector workers in Canada. The only way to get this under control is to privatize more services.

    • Global Oil Consumption over the past few years is as follows:

    2011= 88.6 Million Barrels Per Day(MBD),

    2012= 89.8 MBD,

    2013= 90.7 MBD,

    2014= 92.6 MBD,

    2015= 94 MBD,

    2016= 95.4 MBD and

    2017= expected to be 97 Million Barrels Per Day.

    As much as the Environmental Activists pontificate that the world is transitioning off fossil fuels this upward trend in oil consumption will continue for years to come. Despite the many governments (in Europe, Canada and the USA) spending hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy initiatives over the past 10 years, sufficient technology does not exist and is still not even close to providing the energy to meet the industrialized world’s needs.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 23:11:00 UTC

  • YES THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE – THATS SETTLED. BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABO

    YES THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE – THATS SETTLED. BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

    by Jaques Janson, IQ186 – existential depression

    Science has shown that the assertion is indeed correct. There simply is no debunking evidence that I could find and although the conclusions remain unpopular for obvious reasons, I can find no fault in the logic or science.

    I quote:-

    A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic.

    The lead article in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association, examined 10 categories of research evidence from around the world to contrast “a hereditarian model (50% genetic-50% cultural) and a culture-only model (0% genetic-100% cultural).”

    The paper, “Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability,” by J. Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario and Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley, appeared with a positive commentary by Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, three critical ones (by Robert Sternberg of Yale University, Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan, and Lisa Suzuki & Joshua Aronson of New York University), and the authors’ reply.

    “Neither the existence nor the size of race differences in IQ are a matter of dispute, only their cause,” write the authors. The Black-White difference has been found consistently from the time of the massive World War I Army testing of 90 years ago to a massive study of over 6 million corporate, military, and higher-education test-takers in 2001.

    “Race differences show up by 3 years of age, even after matching on maternal education and other variables,” said Rushton. “Therefore they cannot be due to poor education since this has not yet begun to exert an effect. That’s why Jensen and I looked at the genetic hypothesis in detail. We examined 10 categories of evidence.”

    The Worldwide Pattern of IQ Scores. East Asians average higher on IQ tests than Whites, both in the U. S. and in Asia, even though IQ tests were developed for use in the Euro-American culture. Around the world, the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; and for Blacks about 85 in the U.S. and 70 in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Race Differences are Most Pronounced on Tests that Best Measure the General Intelligence Factor (g). Black-White differences, for example, are larger on the Backward Digit Span test than on the less g loaded Forward Digit Span test.

    The Gene-Environment Architecture of IQ is the Same in all Races, and Race Differences are Most Pronounced on More Heritable Abilities. Studies of Black, White, and East Asian twins, for example, show the heritability of IQ is 50% or higher in all races.

    Brain Size Differences. Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    Trans-Racial Adoption Studies. Race differences in IQ remain following adoption by White middle class parents. East Asians grow to average higher IQs than Whites while Blacks score lower. The Minnesota Trans-Racial Adoption Study followed children to age 17 and found race differences were even greater than at age 7: White children, 106; Mixed-Race children, 99; and Black children, 89.

    Racial Admixture Studies. Black children with lighter skin, for example, average higher IQ scores. In South Africa, the IQ of the mixed-race “Colored” population averages 85, intermediate to the African 70 and White 100.

    IQ Scores of Blacks and Whites Regress toward the Averages of Their Race. Parents pass on only some exceptional genes to offspring so parents with very high IQs tend to have more average children. Black and White children with parents of IQ 115 move to different averages–Blacks toward 85 and Whites to 100.

    Race Differences in Other “Life-History” Traits. East Asians and Blacks consistently fall at two ends of a continuum with Whites intermediate on 60 measures of maturation, personality, reproduction, and social organization. For example, Black children sit, crawl, walk, and put on their clothes earlier than Whites or East Asians.

    Race Differences and the Out-of-Africa theory of Human Origins. East Asian-White-Black differences fit the theory that modern humans arose in Africa about 100,000 years ago and expanded northward. During prolonged winters there was evolutionary selection for higher IQ created by problems of raising children, gathering and storing food, gaining shelter, and making clothes.

    Do Culture-Only Theories Explain the Data? Culture-only theories do not explain the highly consistent pattern of race differences in IQ, especially the East Asian data. No interventions such as ending segregation, introducing school busing, or “Head Start” programs have reduced the gaps as culture-only theory would predict.

    Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 23:04:00 UTC

  • Do you agree with the assertion that some races have higher IQ than other races

    Do you agree with the assertion that some races have higher IQ than other races naturally?

    I want to add what I believe the science currently tells us about differences in group intelligence.

    1-Differences in demographic distribution.

    Rather than state that the races possess terribly meaningful differences, the data suggests pretty strongly that certain groups have expanded their middle and upper classes under agrarianism, and some have expanded their lower and subclasses under pastoralism.

    2- Success at Neoteny/Pedomorphism

    In other words, ‘self domestication’ of certain groups was more effective largely because of geography. This is why intensity and rate sexual development is the inverse of intelligence in all groups. And this is measurable by testosterone in each race and subrace. Africans a lot, steppe/desert people a bit less, caucasians quite a bit less, and east asians a lot less. Why? Early maturity is absolutely necessary in Africa if for no other reason than the disease gradient. Late maturity or reduced depth of maturity (see body odor differences between races and ages), is beneficial in the rigours of above 45th agrarianism, and the genetic underclass cannot survive the seasonal cycles.

    3-Balance of Dimorphism.

    Male and female brains differ in structure and chemistry. Verbal and spatial specializations (biases really) follow these differences. Some groups demonstrate both bias to the female reproductive strategy and verbal superiority, some balance, and some demonstrate the bias to male reproductive strategy and spatial superiority.

    As far as I know all substantive differences in Homo Sapiens Sapiens are explicable by minor variations in endocrine expression both in utero and in early development.

    And that our racial differences are largely due to (a) the generation we left africa or remained there, and (b) the degree of neoteny and balance we achieved during self-domestication, and (c) the number and diversity of competitors we faced in our geography.

    And so far the data agrees.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 23:01:00 UTC

  • correct answer for the many well intentioned f—-ls)** Trump always and everywher

    https://www.quora.com/Will-the-meeting-between-Putin-and-Trump-actually-accomplish-anything/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=0abbd1cd&srid=u4Qv**(The correct answer for the many well intentioned f—-ls)**

    Trump always and everywhere **negotiates**. Great negotiators are not afraid of opponents, they are thrilled by the competition. Trump is a ruthless negotiator who has made an industry out of baiting opponents, entrapping them, and then controlling them. He creates opportunity for greedy people to act greedy, traps them and the exploits them for their greediness. This is why the bankruptcies are merely a tactic he uses to entrap greedy people, and corrupt bureaucrats. Where the ignorant person sees failure, the sophisticated person sees strategy.

    Trump is a competitor in the Nietzschean mold. He sees a meeting with Putin as an opportunity to learn how to win just as he sees a meeting with Kim as an opportunity to learn how to win. The worst that happens is that nothing happens. The best that happens is that he finds (as did Regan) an opportunity. He does not care about ‘face’ or your approval. He only cares about opportunities to win.

    Putin is terribly rational and very simple: russians never want to repeat the 1990’s and they respect strength. He saved them from chaos and has given them self respect back. All his stunts that cause us to react are just image building. We are just a tool for him to show his people he is strong. Just as we are just a tool for Kim to demand cash when he is bankrupt. Putin is actually very weak because he is under the control of his dependence upon the export of petroleum. The difference is that Kim can starve his people and retain power, and Putin can’t. Stalin would have starved them. Putin isn’t that strong.

    Trump’s point of view, and it is not false, is that Americans are weak negotiators trying to win friends and make their jobs easy at the expense of the middle american work force. His opinion (and he’s right) is that china is rising to replace us by stealing our technology and undermining our markets. It does not take skill to negotiate an agreement that is favorable to your opponents.

    How do I know this. I do exactly the same thing. Why? Because Kings, Generals, and Entrepreneurs, unlike corporate heads, bureaucrats, and politicians have a constituency of one. Themselves. Some people go public to make a windfall. some of us stay private so that we remain our masters. Trump stays private to remain his own master. The only place a man can still be king is in commerce.

    Very few people in contemporary life actually participate in the market economy at personal financial risk. Kings, Generals, Investors, and Entrepreneurs of every scale, do it every day.

    Trump acts like a king, general, and entrepreneur because he has always been an entrepreneur, and he was trained in a military school.

    He’s not looking for your approval. He’s just always testing himself to see if he can out compete. Because that is the only test that the Nietzschean man cares about: the test of the markets.Updated Mar 21, 2018, 10:13 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 22:13:00 UTC

  • answers. Here is the correct one.** **Belief and Faith**, because of our theolog

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-an-ideology-and-a-belief/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=0e8d0fca&srid=u4Qv**Terrible answers. Here is the correct one.**

    **Belief and Faith**, because of our theological heritage have been conflated quite intentionally. So we have to deconflate (disambiguate) them before we can answer the question.

    A **belief** or **reported preference** refers to that which you report (state) that you understand to be True, and honestly think you will or do, act as if is True. (whether or not you actually act as such is something different.)

    A **demonstrated preference ** refers to what we do regardless of what we believe, say we believe. This is why social sciences and psychology were pseudosciences and economics was necessary to stop them from spreading pseudoscience: people demonstrate preferences when they vote or purchase things, and they report, and say they believe very differently from how they vote or purchase. Hence we use only indirectly produced information to test people’s demonstrated preferences, and nearly all surveys are to large part meaningless on anything that someone would virtue signal (Google “Virtue Signaling”).

    An article of **Faith** requires we preserve belief (act as if true) something that is contrary to the evidence in order to preserve the value of acting in accordance with Wisdom Literature in order to achieve desirable ends, even when we don’t understand the relationship between cause and effect. In economic terms faith allows us to buy cheap options on achieving a personal or collective good, and renders one’s plans and actions invulnerable to rational and scientific persuasion. That is their value. It turns out that faith in others is the optimum strategy for producing high trust cooperation. That was just a theory until we proved it in the past century.

    An **ideology** functions, like literature, to inspire individuals to action under democracy. Ideologies need not be rational or consistent, and are less vulnerable to criticism if they are not. Ideology is the result of our change to (limited) democracy.

    A **philosophy** provides methods of decidability in order to achieve a desired state of affairs. The domain of philosophy is individual preferences, and interpersonal good.

    A **logic** provides a grammar (rules of continuous disambiguation) for the testing

    (criticism) of sets of constant relations for internal consistency between two or more states (falsification by competition).

    All disciplinary languages (grammars) from math to logic, to programming, to contract language, to common language, to fiction (and even ficitonalisms – meaning pseudoscience, and theology) consist of variations in the rules of grammar (rules of continuous disambiguation), including variations in permissible vocabulary (paradigms).

    A **science** provides a formal process and makes use of instrumentation for the use of measurements for the elimination of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit, by the falsification (passage of testing) of *categorical consistency, internal consistency, external correspondence, existential possibility, scope completeness, limits, and parsimony.* If the science is a social science it must also include *tests of rational choice given available knowledge and incentives (rationality),* and if a matter of law*, tests of voluntary reciprocity (morality)*

    As far as I know this is the ‘state of the art’ set of definitions.

    Curt Doolittle,

    The Propertarian Institute,

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    READING

    Andrew Heywood : Political Ideologies : An Introduction. (http://www.amazon.com/Political-Ideologies-Introduction-Andrew-Heywood/dp/0230367259)

    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology

    Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political StrugglesUpdated Mar 21, 2018, 9:55 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 21:55:00 UTC

  • GENETIC COMPOSITION OF EGYPTIANS (HINT: You want to have either Phoenician, Pers

    GENETIC COMPOSITION OF EGYPTIANS

    (HINT: You want to have either Phoenician, Persian, or North Caucasian Genetics. The people who got there first did so for a reason.)

    There are two major admixture events that affected north africa.

    In historical order, Egyptians consist of about 45% late east africans, 45% South caucasians, and 10% Phoenicians.

    The last major migration out of africa was about 25000 years ago. Africa is best thought of as three or four separate “continents” due to its size and geography. The mediterranean, the desert, the ‘green band’ from west africa to ethiopia/Yemen, the inhospitable south, and the south/southeast coast.

    The civilization that developed on the trade route between ethiopia and yemen gave birth to that major migration. That migration “E”, spread north and then west into north africa.

    There was an admixture event between west eurasians (Caucasians “J1″) and these peoples. Current admixture (E+J1) is about even between the two. (An interesting nit is that it’s possible north africans domesticated cattle separately. )

    I am not sure of the admixture relationship between the Phoenicians and Berbers, although I am certain there are people in the world who know that. It’s not an area that I have studied. As I understand it the Phoenicians (east mediterraneans) contributed about ten percent to the current distribution.

    So between Red Sea origins, north African expansion, conquest by or integration with, south caucasians (people with black hair), and conquest by/integration with the Phoenicians (as well as some mixture because of the usual mediterranean trade), I think we understand most of the genetic history of North Africans.

    The Arab conquest of North Africa that destroyed North African, Egyptian, and Levantine civilizations left less genetic impression on these peoples than one would think.

    In my understanding, there has been negligible crossover between subsaharan africans and north africans because the desert and distance has been prohibitive.

    The Roman defeat of Carthage (west phoenicians) was a catastrophe for mankind just as the battle between Sparta and Athens, and between Germany(ie: sparta) and england(ie:athens) were catastrophes. We never seem to learn from history that the farmer-army and merchant-navy require each other to compete successfully.

    The Arab conquest was far worse however (as it was everywhere in the world), because islam is the last civilization to adjust to the end of the Abrahamic Dark Age and the Restoration of Science (the enlightenment) and the most resistant to it – and even if we are lucky, it will take another one to two hundred years of progress to bring north africa out of its current condition.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 21:29:00 UTC

  • Mar 21, 2018, 9:26 PM

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-genetically-and-ethnically-speaking-Egyptians-They-are-usually-grouped-separately-are-so-distinct-and-separate-from-Berbers-and-other-groups-surrounding-Egypt/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=4c709fd1&srid=u4QvUpdated Mar 21, 2018, 9:26 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 21:26:00 UTC

  • “CURT: How come you won’t visit South America, India or China out of principle?

    –“CURT: How come you won’t visit South America, India or China out of principle? Or too ghetto for your tastes ?”—

    I have been to many countries and when I see poverty I feel that I must fix it, and it weighs on my emotions too heavily. I just can’t bear it emotionally. That’s really the answer.

    Otherwise, I have a rather broken immune system and unclean places are just too hard on my constitution.

    I like Ukraine because while it’s often poor I see the future there, and the people have grace, honor, and courage. I love them with every corner of my soul. And I feel that anything I do, no matter how small, is helping.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-21 20:31:00 UTC