Curt Doolittle

Theme: Crisis

  • WOULDN”T BE THAT VIOLENT. IT DOESN”T HAVE TO BE. ITS FRAGILE. Interesting progno

    http://www.libertychat.com/2014/05/violent-u-s-revolution-look-like-today-compared-1776-ian-cioffi/IT WOULDN”T BE THAT VIOLENT. IT DOESN”T HAVE TO BE. ITS FRAGILE.

    Interesting prognostication. Not one that is supported by the evidence. At no time in history has communication and coordination been available to so many, nor has the systemic infrastructure upon which a society rests, been so fragile. If it were true what you say, the DC Sniper would have had no economic impact, and the rise of professional international insurgents would not have become the de facto means by which war is being conducted. Multiple books, some fairly popular have been written on this subject. Not only is it effective to use systemic facility to drive an efficient economy into shock, and a government in to visible discredit and failure, it’s cheap, and it takes fewer people, a shorter time, than at any point in history. The problem americans face is actually (a) a catalyzing event, and (b) general awareness of a possible solution or alternative to the current order.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 19:44:00 UTC

  • IN A CORRUPT SOCIETY, FEDERALIZATION = FEUDALIZATION —“We need to be honest wi

    IN A CORRUPT SOCIETY, FEDERALIZATION = FEUDALIZATION

    —“We need to be honest with each other: if someone wants to dismember the county and carry out not a federalization, dear ladies and gentlemen, but feudalization – there has been one Yanukovych and now they want 27 “Yanukovychs” in smaller regions. … That is my personal stance as a citizen: I will oppose to the last and Ukraine will never be dismembered,”—

    Yatsenyuk

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 13:46:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’v

    DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

    Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’ve blown a few gas lines already. It works. These lines are fragile. They cover vast distances. Those vast distances are very expensive to defend. They are nearly impossible to logistically defend.

    Russia cannot leverage european dependence on gas if it cannot sell gas. Europe cannot remain neutral, because it is dependent upon gas, if it cannot purchase gas.

    The army has artillery shells in storage. Every shell, easily converted into a bomb, deprives the Russian economy of tens of millions of dollars. A few shells in sequence deprive the Russian economy of tens of billions.

    You know, 50% of Russians are dependent upon that revenue. The entire corrupt pyramid depends upon that gas and oil.

    Two men, a shovel, a flashlight and a motorcycle, and a camping trip.

    Take the war to Russia.

    If you kill the body the head will die.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 10:06:00 UTC

  • “I’M FOR PUNISHMENT” —“Summers told Taleb that he was for more capital, more l

    “I’M FOR PUNISHMENT”

    —“Summers told Taleb that he was for more capital, more liquidity, living wills for banks and procedures to wind them down. “What are you for?” he challenged. “I’m for punishment,” Taleb replied. Taleb outlined a system in which everyone would know which systemically important banks would be bailed out, but would presumably see strict oversight of bonuses and operations afterward. Other institutions would be left to fail, he said.”—

    I’m for punishment too. Without punishment it’s not cooperation, it’s not a market, and it’s not capitalism.

    I have a better punishment in mind and it’s a permanent one: if the government is going to produce liquidity (inflation) then give every citizen a debit card and distribute the money directly to consumers bypassing the banks.

    That will rapidly correct the abuses of our financial sector. Because they will have to satisfy consumers to get their hands on cash.

    Not that I’m in favor of government’s printing money. But if you’re going to print it, at least do it intelligently -without creating fragility, and without creating a moral hazard.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 09:52:00 UTC

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.

  • STRATEGY? Now, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians

    STRATEGY?

    Now, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems.

    It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals.

    Welcome to fragility.

    They made it possible to get our freedom back.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 08:02:00 UTC

  • CHINESE EFFICIENCY : GETTING BUREAUCRATS TO COMMIT SUICIDE —“In little over a

    CHINESE EFFICIENCY : GETTING BUREAUCRATS TO COMMIT SUICIDE

    —“In little over a year, close to 60 Chinese officials have died of unnatural causes, with most being suicides. The strong suspicion is that this epidemic of mysterious deaths among China’s elite is likely tied to the anticorruption campaign being led by Chinese president and party general secretary Xi Jinping.”—

    Another thing the Chinese do well. Our corrupt people just hide for four years and come back for the next election cycle.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-15 16:03:00 UTC

  • DEATH (From Peter M. Van Coppenolle) —“Bernanke suggests that the Great Depres

    http://bit.ly/1untQxqFIAT DEATH

    (From Peter M. Van Coppenolle)

    —“Bernanke suggests that the Great Depression ended with the advent of World War II….Ugh… Instead try this for 100% correlation:

    1) Long Depression (1870 +) Capital Destruction by Silver Demonetisation

    2) Great Depression (1929 +) Capital Destruction by Gold Confiscation

    3) Greatest Depression (right now) Capital Destruction by Fiat Death

    Me thinks Gold and Silver Capital is Constructive. No need for an economics degree to figure that out.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-10 02:55:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIANS FIGHT THE LAST WAR, OR THE ONE BEFORE THAT MAYBE. I’M PLANNING FOR

    LIBERTARIANS FIGHT THE LAST WAR, OR THE ONE BEFORE THAT MAYBE. I’M PLANNING FOR THE NEXT ONE.

    (reposted and edited) (thanks to Juan Sebastian Ortiz for the inspiration.)

    Rather than make plans on how to manipulate democracies, I am more in line with global theorists who suggest that the nation state, which was invented in response to Napoleon’s combination of state credit and total war, will be brought down by the fragility of our modern systems (which are very fragile), the low cost of interrupting or damaging those systems, the enormous economic impact of those system disruptions, the small numbers (and value of small numbers) needed to conduct interruptions of systems, the universal availability of communications previously only available to governments, the inability of states to either control those insurrections, or to violently suppress them, and the demand of the populace for respite from system shocks, by giving into demands.

    It is this particular trend, not the polite democratic one, that I am constructing my logical arguments in support of. A moral code, a system of arguments, that gives moral authority to such actions, and the institutional model to replace the nation state with.

    I want to construct the program for the establishment and organization of private governments and the restitution of the militia and the aristocracy from whence our freedoms came. Because it is only that model under which we hold freedom of our choosing, rather than by the mere permissions of others.

    Libertarians like horsemen in an age of machines, are still fighting the war before the last war. I’m making plans for the next one.

    Sure, I’m working a little ahead of the curve, but my health is not in my favor.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-07 15:27:00 UTC