Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1552886845 Timestamp) JUDGING A RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, OR IDEOLOGY —There are good people everywhere. But it’s not the good people we worry about. it’s the bad people. And we must if we are honest not measure a philosophy ideology or religion by it’s good but by its bad. Why? because there are good people who will fit into anything anywhere. The question is, how do these philosophies, ideologies, or religions, prohibit their bad people? By these measures, islam and judaism are the most evil religions of all. The reason is that they justify those very desires that all other religions evolved to suppress: lying.— (worth repeating)

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    (FB 1552837069 Timestamp) MENTAL ILLNESS ON THE EXTREME RIGHT —“What do you think about the false flag rumors?”— ^ I think mental illness is as common on the right as it is on the left. The simplest possible solution is always the answer. There is no conspiracy between mcveigh, brevik, and tarrant, other than one of common genetic interest. And nothing other than personal discipline required to carry out their actions. The psychological reason for these forms of mental illness is to self sedate such that one feels comfortable and justified doing nothing. Paranoia is the result of mental defect combined with lack of agency.

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    (FB 1553015709 Timestamp) —“Calculating for reciprocity is superior to intuiting an ideal.”—Brandon Hayes That is one of those sentences you have to contemplate to fully appreciate. Well done.

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    (FB 1552957763 Timestamp) —“Regarding civil war scenario, the Left will not be able to boil this frog slowly enough to avoid civil war – they are not capable of it, because they act purely on instinct, which will trigger the Right. At the latest, when it becomes obvious to most of the grassroots right that the Left will win all the elections going forward.”—John Mark

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    (FB 1553015342 Timestamp) —“Propertarianism. It’s not removing subjectivity but revealing it.”—Moritz Bierling

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    (FB 1552926521 Timestamp) RETRACTION RETRACTION RETRACTION I confused Molyneux with Kinsella. Apologies all. Middle of the night mistake. Very sorry. Dammit. Very sorry all.

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    (FB 1553015139 Timestamp) ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF NEW EUROPEAN ZONE —“Curt, Can you please write a post on the economic feasibility of banning imports outside of a New European zone? I want to see what the king of the hill process does to the proposal on page 67 of NZM”— Oliver New European Zone? I assume that means Australia, NZ, USA, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, (But South America?, India?). (Short version: easy for everyone except aussie/nz who pay the distance cost. But its easy to do, yes.) I’m not going to go into world balances of trade between the parties. It would take me all day to write this post. And I’m going to state the obvious that other countries would retaliate. But if you look at the list at the end of this post you will rapidly see that the USA and canada can easily survive it. The outliers are NZ and Aussies who are for all intents and purposes, client states of asia. Cutting out africa (minerals), the middle east(oil), and asia(manufacturing capacity) is entirely possible. and the result would largely be transfer of japanese and chinese manufacturing capacity to Germany and the USA, and the strategic transfer of the Japanese relationship to Asia, and an axis of japan and south korea that might perhaps ally with india. It is hard to choose whether to exclude or include india and south america, both of which are european admixtures. Russia is also integrated with (northern) Kazakhstan and imports 1/10th of its oil. Russia India and China have large trade relationships. The west would have to subsidize russian military production by buying their equipment as a replacement for the asian and middle eastern markets. China wold be able to build her military technology by finding ready markets middle eastern, african, and asian realms. Russia would roughly exchange its role as an asian trade power for the role of the middle east and asia in supplying oil and resources. And so it is russia that is the ‘power position’ in any such negotiation, and putting her in this position of power would tempt russian nature, but restore her to world power status which she desires. However russia cannot compete as a world power with her population and economy; asia as an interest in reclaiming russian territory and resources. Her interest given her nature might be swiss neutrality. We would have to buy russian involvement which would require american military exit from europe and a general comfort on the part of eastern europeans that is hard to imagine. THE ALTERNATIVE 1 Limit trade to raw materials and food, and autarky on goods produced by transformation of them. This is the optimum balance of providing world trade in territorial differences but ameliorating differences in degrees of development of human capital by eliminating wage arbitrage (differences in cost of living and purchasing power). THE ALTERNATIVE 2 The Anglosphere Alternative (restoration of the british empire). is somewhat easier to pull off since we are already autarkic with only Australian and NZ the outliers. Australia: ***China 32.2%, ***Japan 15.9%, ***South Korea 7.1%, US 5.4%, ***India 4.2% (2015) New Zealand: ***China: US$9.6 billion (24.9% of New Zealand’s total exports) Australia: $5.7 billion (14.8%) United States: $3.7 billion (9.6%) ***Japan: $2.4 billion (6.3%) ***South Korea: $1.2 billion (3.1%) United Kingdom: $1 billion (2.7%) ***Singapore: $832.5 million (2.2%) ***Taiwan: $831.8 million (2.2%) ***Hong Kong: $761.5 million (2%) ***Malaysia: $702.5 million (1.8%) ***Indonesia: $675.8 million (1.8%) ***Thailand: $638.2 million (1.7%) Netherlands: $586 million (1.5%) Germany: $579 million (1.5%) ***United Arab Emirates: $533.8 million (1.4%) Canada: United States: US$337.8 billion (75.1% of total Canadian exports) ***China: $21.3 billion (4.7%) United Kingdom: $12.6 billion (2.8%) ***Japan: $10 billion (2.2%) Mexico: $6.3 billion (1.4%) South Korea: $4.5 billion (1%) Germany: $3.7 billion (0.8%) Netherlands: $3.7 billion (0.8%) ***India: $3.2 billion (0.7%) ***Hong Kong: $3 billion (0.7%) Belgium: $2.8 billion (0.6%) France: $2.6 billion (0.6%) Italy: $2.3 billion (0.5%) Norway: $1.9 billion (0.4%) ***Brazil: $1.7 billion (0.4%) America: Canada: US$298.7 billion (18% of total US exports) ***Mexico: $265 billion (15.9%) ***China: $120.3 billion (7.2%) ***Japan: $75 billion (4.5%) United Kingdom: $66.2 billion (4%) Germany: $57.7 billion (3.5%) ***South Korea: $56.3 billion (3.4%) Netherlands: $49.4 billion (3%) ***Brazil: $39.5 billion (2.4%) Hong Kong: $37.5 billion (2.3%) France: $37.4 billion (2.2%) ***Singapore: $33.1 billion (2%) ***India: $33.1 billion (2%) Belgium: $31.4 billion (1.9%) ***Taiwan: $30.2 billion (1.8%) UK: United States: US$64.4 billion (13.3% of total UK exports) Germany: $47 billion (9.7%) Netherlands: $33.3 billion (6.9%) France: $31.8 billion (6.6%) Ireland: $28.3 billion (5.9%) ***China: $27.5 billion (5.7%) Switzerland: $25.4 billion (5.2%) Belgium: $19.1 billion (4%) Italy: $14.1 billion (2.9%) Spain: $13.9 billion (2.9%) ***Hong Kong: $10.3 billion (2.1%) ***United Arab Emirates: $10 billion (2.1%) ***Turkey: $9.5 billion (2%) ***Japan: $8.3 billion (1.7%) ***South Korea: $7.8 billion (1.6%) Ireland: United States: US$46 billion (27.9% of total Irish exports) Belgium: $21.7 billion (13.2%) United Kingdom: $18.7 billion (11.4%) Germany: $12.2 billion (7.4%) Netherlands: $9 billion (5.4%) Switzerland: $7.7 billion (4.6%) France: $6.2 billion (3.8%) China: $5.4 billion (3.3%) Japan: $4.6 billion (2.8%) Italy: $4.3 billion (2.6%) Spain: $3 billion (1.8%) ***Mexico: $1.7 billion (1%) Canada: $1.6 billion (1%) Poland: $1.4 billion (0.8%) Sweden: $1.1 billion (0.7%) LATIN BLOCK France: (FRANCE IS, LIKE THE USA, AUTARKIC) Germany: US$83.3 billion (14.7% of total French exports) United States: $45.3 billion (8%) Spain: $44.3 billion (7.8%) Italy: $42.8 billion (7.5%) Belgium: $40.4 billion (7.1%) United Kingdom: $38.6 billion (6.8%) ***China: $24.5 billion (4.3%) Netherlands: $20.9 billion (3.7%) Switzerland: $18.9 billion (3.3%) Poland: $11.7 billion (2.1%) ***Singapore: $9.7 billion (1.7%) ***Japan: $7.8 billion (1.4%) ***Hong Kong: $7.3 billion (1.3%) ***Turkey: $7.1 billion (1.2%) ***India: $6.5 billion (1.1%) Spain France: US$48.5 billion (15.1% of total Spanish exports) Germany: $36.1 billion (11.3%) Italy: $25.1 billion (7.8%) Portugal: $22.6 billion (7.1%) United Kingdom: $22 billion (6.9%) United States: $14.1 billion (4.4%) Netherlands: $10.8 billion (3.4%) Belgium: $9.6 billion (3%) Morocco: $9 billion (2.8%) ***China: $7.1 billion (2.2%) Poland: $6.5 billion (2%) Turkey: $6.5 billion (2%) Mexico: $5.2 billion (1.6%) Switzerland: $4.7 billion (1.5%) Romania: $3.2 billion (1%) Portugal Spain: US$17.4 billion (25.3% of total Portuguese exports) France: $8.7 billion (12.7%) Germany: $7.9 billion (11.5%) United Kingdom: $4.3 billion (6.3%) United States: $3.4 billion (5%) Italy: $2.9 billion (4.3%) Netherlands: $2.6 billion (3.8%) Angola: $1.8 billion (2.6%) Belgium: $1.6 billion (2.3%) Brazil: $957.5 million (1.4%) Poland: $897.2 million (1.3%) ***Morocco: $819.4 million (1.2%) China: $777.6 million (1.1%) Sweden: $686.8 million (1%) Switzerland: $681.6 million (1%) ITALY: Germany: US$62.9 billion (12.4% of total Italian exports) France: $51.9 billion (10.3%) United States: $45.8 billion (9%) Spain: $26.1 billion (5.2%) United Kingdom: $26 billion (5.1%) Switzerland: $23.4 billion (4.6%) ***China: $15.3 billion (3%) Belgium: $15.2 billion (3%) Poland: $14.2 billion (2.8%) Netherlands: $11.8 billion (2.3%) ***Turkey: $11.4 billion (2.3%) Austria: $10.7 billion (2.1%) Russia: $9 billion (1.8%) Romania: $8.2 billion (1.6%) ***Japan: $7.4 billion (1.5%) GERMAN BLOCK Netherlands Germany: US$146.8 billion (22.5% of total Dutch exports) Belgium: $68.3 billion (10.5%) United Kingdom: $56.6 billion (8.7%) France: $55.3 billion (8.5%) Italy: $25.7 billion (3.9%) United States: $22.7 billion (3.5%) Spain: $19.9 billion (3.1%) Poland: $15.6 billion (2.4%) Sweden: $14.7 billion (2.2%) ***China: $13.5 billion (2.1%) Czech Republic: $11.2 billion (1.7%) Austria: $8.6 billion (1.3%) Switzerland: $7.9 billion (1.2%) Denmark: $7.8 billion (1.2%) ***Turkey: $7.2 billion (1.1%) Belglum Germany: US$70.7 billion (16.5% of total Belgian exports) France: $63.8 billion (14.9%) Netherlands: $51.4 billion (12%) United Kingdom: $36 billion (8.4%) Italy: $20.9 billion (4.9%) United States: $20.6 billion (4.8%) Spain: $11.8 billion (2.8%) Poland: $9.2 billion (2.1%) ***India: $8.9 billion (2.1%) ***China: $8.9 billion (2.1%) Sweden: $7.5 billion (1.7%) Switzerland: $7 billion (1.6%) Luxembourg: $6.4 billion (1.5%) ***Turkey: $5.8 billion (1.4%) Russia: $4.4 billion (1%) Over three-quarters (77.1%) of Belgian exports in 2017 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. Germany: United States: US$134 billion (8.6% of total German exports) France: $124.4 billion (8%) ***China: $109.9 billion (7.1%) Netherlands: $99.8 billion (6.4%) United Kingdom: $96.8 billion (6.2%) Italy: $82.6 billion (5.3%) Austria: $75.2 billion (4.8%) Poland: $74.7 billion (4.8%) Switzerland: $64.3 billion (4.1%) Spain: $52.4 billion (3.4%) Belgium: $52.3 billion (3.4%) Czech Republic: $51.8 billion (3.3%) Sweden: $31.1 billion (2%) Hungary: $31 billion (2%) Russia: $30.6 billion (2%) Austria Germany: US$48.7 billion (29.0% of total Austrian exports) United States: $10.3 billion (6.1%) Italy: $10.2 billion (6.1%) Switzerland: $8.5 billion (5.1%) Slovakia: $8.1 billion (4.8%) France: $7.9 billion (4.7%) Czech Republic: $5.9 billion (3.5%) Hungary: $5.5 billion (3.3%) Poland: $5.2 billion (3.1%) ***China: $4.4 billion (2.6%) United Kingdom: $4.4 billion (2.6%) Slovenia: $3.2 billion (1.9%) Netherlands: $2.9 billion (1.7%) Romania: $2.7 billion (1.6%) Spain: $2.7 billion (1.6%) Over three-quarters (77.6%) of Austrian exports in 2017 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. Denmark: Germany: US$15.6 billion (14.5% of total Danish exports) Sweden: $11.3 billion (10.5%) United Kingdom: $6.7 billion (6.2%) Norway: $6.3 billion (5.9%) United States: $4.7 billion (4.4%) Netherlands: $4.6 billion (4.3%) France: $3.3 billion (3.1%) ***China: $3.2 billion (2.9%) Poland: $3 billion (2.8%) Italy: $2.4 billion (2.2%) Finland: $2 billion (1.9%) Spain: $1.9 billion (1.8%) Belgium: $1.7 billion (1.6%) ***Japan: $1.5 billion (1.4%) Australia: $959.3 million (0.9%) Sweden Germany: US$16.4 billion (10.7% of total Swedish exports) Norway: $15.5 billion (10.1%) Finland: $10.5 billion (6.9%) Denmark: $10.4 billion (6.8%) United States: $10.1 billion (6.6%) United Kingdom: $9.3 billion (6.1%) Netherlands: $8.3 billion (5.4%) ***China: $6.8 billion (4.4%) Belgium: $6.5 billion (4.3%) France: $6.3 billion (4.1%) Poland: $4.6 billion (3%) Italy: $4 billion (2.6%) Spain: $2.9 billion (1.9%) ***Japan: $2.2 billion (1.5%) Russia: $2.1 billion (1.4%) Norway: United Kingdom: US$26.5 billion (21.6% of Norway’s total exports) Germany: $19.7 billion (16%) Netherlands: $13.1 billion (10.7%) Sweden: $8.2 billion (6.7%) France: $8.2 billion (6.7%) Belgium: $6.4 billion (5.2%) Denmark: $5.8 billion (4.7%) United States: $5.7 billion (4.7%) Poland: $2.8 billion (2.3%) ***China: $2.6 billion (2.1%) Spain: $2.2 billion (1.8%) Finland: $2 billion (1.6%) Italy: $1.6 billion (1.3%) ***Japan: $1.4 billion (1.2%) ***South Korea: $1.4 billion (1.1%) Finland: Germany: US$9.3 billion (13.7% of total Finnish exports) Sweden: $6.3 billion (9.3%) Netherlands: $4.4 billion (6.5%) United States: $4.4 billion (6.4%) Russia: $3.7 billion (5.5%) ***China: $3.7 billion (5.4%) United Kingdom: $2.8 billion (4.2%) Belgium: $2.1 billion (3.1%) France: $2 billion (3%) Estonia: $1.9 billion (2.8%) Norway: $1.6 billion (2.4%) Poland: $1.6 billion (2.4%) Italy: $1.5 billion (2.2%) ***Japan: $1.1 billion (1.7%) Spain: $1.1 billion (1.6%) Lithuania Russia: US$4.7 billion (14% of total Lithuanian exports) Latvia: $3.2 billion (9.7%) Poland: $2.7 billion (8.2%) Germany: $2.5 billion (7.4%) United States: $1.7 billion (5.2%) Estonia: $1.7 billion (5%) Sweden: $1.6 billion (4.9%) Belarus: $1.3 billion (3.8%) United Kingdom: $1.3 billion (3.8%) Netherlands: $1.1 billion (3.3%) Ukraine: $1 billion (3.1%) Norway: $933.8 million (2.8%) France: $837 million (2.5%) Denmark: $833.9 million (2.5%) Italy: $727.3 million (2.2%) INTERMARIUM BLOCK Poland: Germany: US$63.3 billion (27.4% of total Polish exports) Czech Republic: $14.8 billion (6.4%) United Kingdom: $14.7 billion (6.4%) France: $12.9 billion (5.6%) Italy: $11.3 billion (4.9%) Netherlands: $10.1 billion (4.4%) Russia: $7 billion (3%) Sweden: $6.4 billion (2.8%) Spain: $6.2 billion (2.7%) United States: $6.2 billion (2.7%) Hungary: $6.1 billion (2.6%) Slovakia: $5.8 billion (2.5%) Belgium: $5.1 billion (2.2%) Ukraine: $4.8 billion (2.1%) Austria: $4.4 billion (1.9%) Ukraine Russia: US$3.9 billion (9.1% of total Ukrainian exports) Poland: $2.7 billion (6.3%) ***Turkey: $2.5 billion (5.8%) Italy: $2.5 billion (5.7%) ***India: $2.2 billion (5.1%) ***China: $2.1 billion (4.9%) ***Egypt: $1.8 billion (4.2%) Germany: $1.8 billion (4%) Netherlands: $1.7 billion (3.9%) Hungary: $1.3 billion (3.1%) Spain: $1.3 billion (2.9%) Belarus: $1.1 billion (2.6%) Romania: $844.2 million (1.94%) United States: $834 million (1.92%) Czech Republic: $715.4 million (1.6%) Almost two-thirds (63.1%) of Ukrainian exports in 2017 were delivered to the above 15 trading partners. Slovakia Germany: US$17.5 billion (20.7% of total Slovak exports) Czech Republic: $9.8 billion (11.6%) Poland: $6.5 billion (7.7%) France: $5.3 billion (6.3%) Italy: $5.1 billion (6.1%) United Kingdom: $5.1 billion (6%) Hungary: $5.1 billion (6%) Austria: $5.1 billion (6%) Spain: $2.5 billion (2.9%) United States: $2.3 billion (2.7%) Netherlands: $2.2 billion (2.6%) Romania: $2.1 billion (2.5%) Russia: $1.8 billion (2.1%) China: $1.4 billion (1.6%) Switzerland: $1.3 billion (1.6%) Romania Germany: US$16.2 billion (22.9% of total Romanian exports) Italy: $7.9 billion (11.1%) France: $4.8 billion (6.7%) Hungary: $3.3 billion (4.7%) United Kingdom: $2.9 billion (4.1%) Bulgaria: $2.34 billion (3.3%) Turkey: $2.33 billion (3.3%) Poland: $2.2 billion (3.1%) Spain: $2.1 billion (3%) Czech Republic: $2 billion (2.9%) Netherlands: $1.8 billion (2.6%) Austria: $1.6 billion (2.3%) Belgium: $1.4 billion (2%) Russia: $1.25 billion (1.8%) Slovakia: $1.21 billion (1.7%) Czech Republic: Germany: US$65.2 billion (32.2% of total Czechian exports) Slovakia: $15.2 billion (7.5%) Poland: $12.2 billion (6%) France: $10.2 billion (5.1%) United Kingdom: $9.5 billion (4.7%) Austria: $9 billion (4.4%) Italy: $7.8 billion (3.9%) Netherlands: $7.5 billion (3.7%) Spain: $6 billion (3%) Hungary: $6 billion (3%) Belgium: $4.3 billion (2.1%) Russia: $4.1 billion (2%) United States: $4.1 billion (2%) Sweden: $3.5 billion (1.7%) Romania: $3 billion (1.5%) Over four-fifths (82.9%) of Czechian exports in 2018 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BLOCK Russia: ***China: US$56 billion (12.5% of total Russian exports) Netherlands: $43.5 billion (9.7%) Germany: $34.1 billion (7.6%) Belarus: $21.8 billion (4.9%) ***Turkey: $21.3 billion (4.8%) ***South Korea: $17.8 billion (4%) Poland: $16.5 billion (3.7%) Italy: $16.4 billion (3.7%) Kazakhstan: $12.9 billion (2.9%) United States: $12.5 billion (2.8%) ***Japan: $12.5 billion (2.8%) Finland: $11.4 billion (2.5%) United Kingdom: $9.8 billion (2.2%) Ukraine: $9.5 billion (2.1%) Belgium: $9.2 billion (2%) Belarus Russia: US$12.9 billion (38.5% of total Belarusian exports) Ukraine: $4.1 billion (12.1%) United Kingdom: $3.1 billion (9.2%) Germany: $1.4 billion (4.3%) Netherlands: $1.4 billion (4.3%) Poland: $1.3 billion (4%) Lithuania: $1.2 billion (3.4%) Kazakhstan: $780.1 million (2.3%) Brazil: $585.1 million (1.7%) Latvia: $471.9 million (1.4%) China: $467.9 million (1.4%) India: $299 million (0.9%) United States: $274.3 million (0.8%) Indonesia: $227.4 million (0.7%) Azerbaijan: $223.8 million (0.7%) Approaching nine-tenths (85.8%) of Belarusian exports in 2018 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. Georgia: Russia: US$400.8 million (15.8% of Georgia’s total exports) Bulgaria: $250 million (9.8%) Turkey: $226.3 million (8.9%) China: $181.3 million (7.1%) Azerbaijan: $165.8 million (6.5%) United States: $157.8 million (6.2%) Ukraine: $119.1 million (4.7%) Armenia: $105.6 million (4.2%) Spain: $65.8 million (2.6%) Switzerland: $62.5 million (2.5%) Iran: $60.6 million (2.4%) Uzbekistan: $58.7 million (2.3%) Romania: $56.1 million (2.2%) Germany: $47 million (1.9%) France: $43.3 million (1.7%) Almost four-fifths (78.8%) of Georgian exports during 2018 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. OLD EUROPE Greece Italy: US$4.1 billion (10.3% of total Greek exports) Germany: $2.5 billion (6.4%) Turkey: $2.4 billion (6.1%) Cyprus: $2.2 billion (5.7%) Bulgaria: $1.8 billion (4.5%) Lebanon: $1.8 billion (4.5%) United States: $1.6 billion (4.1%) United Kingdom: $1.4 billion (3.6%) Egypt: $1.4 billion (3.5%) Spain: $1.3 billion (3.3%) France: $1.2 billion (3%) Romania: $1.1 billion (2.9%) China: $1.1 billion (2.7%) Macedonia: $939.7 million (2.4%) Saudi Arabia: $850.4 million (2.2%) Almost two-thirds (65.1%) of Greek exports in 2018 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. Bulgaria Germany: US$3.6 billion (13.6% of total Bulgarian exports) Italy: $2.4 billion (9.2%) Romania: $2.3 billion (8.8%) Turkey: $2.1 billion (8%) Greece: $1.8 billion (7%) France: $1.2 billion (4.5%) Spain: $733.1 million (2.8%) Belgium: $715.1 million (2.7%) Netherlands: $706.3 million (2.7%) United Kingdom: $656.3 million (2.5%) Poland: $648.2 million (2.5%) Austria: $507.5 million (1.9%) Serbia: $494.9 million (1.9%) China: $481.2 million (1.8%) Czech Republic: $445.3 million (1.7%) Almost three-quarters (71.8%) of Bulgarian exports in 2017 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners. (apologies to the rest)

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    (FB 1552922407 Timestamp) —“The White Right is going to coalesce around something, and that something is an updated/improved constitution + law. Nothing else is viable. Nothing else can be sold to the broad bulk of the right-leaning masses. (And there are huge benefits for everyone else too, e.g. bankers btfo, which will make pushback very hard for any opposition movement.) We have it ready to go. No one else has anything close. It’s pretty much that simple. Hugs brother.”— John Mark

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    (FB 1553009664 Timestamp) INSIGHT by Brandon Hayes —“Curt, I am in full agreement with your statement: (quote) “..there are no premises we can claim are true only meaningful, for the purpose of commercial, financial economic, legal, and military discourse.” Then on the basis of positivist epistemology, which you acknowledge has no access to ontological truth, you proceed to contradict yourself by making a whole set of ontological truth claims such as “the universe IS hostile” and “humans are unimportant.” These are your subjective philosophical value judgements. They are not inescapable deductions implied in the premises of science. Thus your reply is a performative simply confirming and illustrating the validity of everything I wrote.”—Prem Prayojan I appreciate your insights in these matters; however, I think you have taken Ps position and pushed it a step further than needed (than possible; than we do). –“The universe IS hostile” and “humans are unimportant.”– Saying these things are true isn’t to posit them as ultimate truth claims [these are half truths] and all truth (half or not) must be coped with. [Curt correct me if I’m off base] –CURTD– You’re correct in principle, in that 1) Truth Proper (Ideal Truth), is unattainable for other than the reductio and therefore irrelevant. 2) that the best we can do is achieve truthfulness (testimonial truth), and that no matter where we are in a spectrum of achieving sufficient completeness that we might SATISFY the DEMAND for INFALLIBILITY (what we mean when we say something ‘is true’), we must cope with the supply of infallibility (truth) that we have before us. Given TAUTOLOGICAL TRUTH: That testimony you give when you promising the equality of two statements using different terms: A circular definition, a statement of equality or a statement of identity. ANALYTIC TRUTH: The testimony you give promising the internal consistency of one or more statements used in the construction of a proof in an axiomatic(declarative) system. (a Logical Truth). IDEAL TRUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possessed of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. (Ideal Truth = Perfect Parsimony.) TRUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error, imaginary content, wishful thinking, bias, and deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possessed of the knowledge, performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. HONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, having the same experiences, would provide the same testimony. INTUITION: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors).

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    (FB 1552922192 Timestamp) People feel no sense of control. Most of this is due to the fact that they don’t, the rest to the media, the rest to the destruction of the family, the rest to mobility.