Theme: Crisis

  • RT @femeninna: Ukraine has no army, no money for this war. If EU and USA will wa

    RT @femeninna: Ukraine has no army, no money for this war. If EU and USA will wait as they did during #Euromaidan, we will loose Ukraine an…


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 22:58:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/439897514444357632

  • Russian murder of 10M Ukrainians

    Russian murder of 10M Ukrainians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 22:25:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/439889222888357889

  • IS EASTERN UKRAINE TOO?

    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116810/putin-declares-war-ukraine-why-and-what-nextTARGET IS EASTERN UKRAINE TOO?


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 18:55:00 UTC

  • Back when I was in university, I did a little work with war games. It was very l

    Back when I was in university, I did a little work with war games. It was very little. But the experience was life altering.

    The absolute out-of-the-blue perfection of Putin’s invasion of Crimea is EXACTLY the kind of scenario that lands in your lap.

    I can pretty easily imagine what’s going on in the states right now.

    There is no compelling strategic interest in crimea.

    The Russians have a legitimate claim to the territory.

    We have used the same arguments in Panama and other places.

    BUT

    The west’s self image is predicated on being the police of self determination and the prohibitor of taking territory by force. The west loses, it loses it’s entire claim for moral legitimacy.

    It would have been easier for Putin to just engineer crimean annexation without troops. But you know, it’s BETTER FOR HIM to exercise muscle.

    GUTLESS MORON IN WASHINGTON

    This is why you don’t elect progressives to the presidency.

    They’re almost always confused. This president is not only confused. but lazy and stupid.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 12:56:00 UTC

  • BANKING IN UKRAINE Ok, so I pretty much can’t get cash here. We managed to get a

    BANKING IN UKRAINE

    Ok, so I pretty much can’t get cash here. We managed to get a little earlier this week. But the banks don’t have cash.. And they have gone from working with any other foreign bank for a fee, only helping their own customers. More that 20% of bank deposits have now been drawn down. And the currency has gone from 8.1 to 11.x per dollar this week.

    We cannot continue to do business here if we cannot move money in and out of the country.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-28 11:37:00 UTC

  • Which Situation Is More Likely To Lead To Progressive Outcomes: A Republican Party That Continues To Support Extreme Candidates & Positions, Or One That Is More Mainstream And Thus Successful, But Also Open To Compromise?

    In about 1980, those of us on the conservative side, understood that progressive state would ‘win’ by de-homogenizing society into factions rather than unifying society, and then buying votes by doing it. 

    We also understood that it is economically impossible to construct the democratic socialists state – meaning control over the results of production. They Keynesian proposition is, for very complex reasons, a series of very long term ponzi schemes. (Which I can argue in extraordinary detail but this post isn’t the venue for it.)

    As such we saw the progressives (socialists of various ideologies) as succeeding in the destruction of anglo-germanic (protestant, north-sea) civilization, by driving it  into bankruptcy.

    So we understood that there were two basic strategies to follow

    1 – Since socialism is unscientific, and irrational (a secular religion) we can adopt the same means of opposition to secular religion: throughout history the most effective means of resisting the state is religion. Religions allow populations to establish the terms by which they will be governed.

    2 – Since the socialist state is an unsustainable ponzi scheme, we could attempt to bankrupt the state BEFORE it can destroy our civilization. We could bankrupt the state through expansion of the military and private sector, while the left bankrupted the state through the public service and bureaucratic structure.

    3 – Since the power of the state is fiat money, and the state requires the financial system to distribute fiat money, we could ‘hire’ the financial sector to compete with the state.

    All three of these tactics worked.  Unfortunately we didn’t count on the following:

    1 –  The rate of collapse of the family.  The protestant ethic requires the adoption of the absolute nuclear family wherein people cannot reproduce until they can afford their own home.   The feminists have succeeded in destroying the family in the black and hispanic communities, and it has now spread to the white lower classes as well.  By destroying absolute nuclear marriage you destroy the protestant moral intuitions of society.  You destroy male feeling of responsibility for society, destroy female responsibility for controlling her reproduction, and you destroy the economic efficiency of two person households that delay their reproduction until they can afford to pay for it.    At present the ANF is practiced only by white protestants and Catholics who have adopted it.  Basically, family structure determines one’s wealth or poverty, and the economic efficiency of the nation. Feminists succeeded in destroying it, and this was more useful to the socialists than their own polices. 

    2 – The rate of immigration.   Immigration of peoples who do not only fail to share the absolute nuclear family as a constraint on reproduction and incentive for economic production, but who do not adopt that family constraint and incentive upon arrival.  As such communities retain not their food and rituals, but also their family structure, moral code and resulting political preferences.  Furthermore they now retain their languages.  As such there is no ‘nation’ of people with similar interests, just a corporation – an empire – over peoples with dissimilar interests.

    So, it is no longer possible to sustain the protestant ethic, the high trust society, the rule of law, the common law, private property rights,  the absolute nuclear family, and the constraint on the reproduction of the lower classes that was unique to northern european civilization – and one of its greatest sources of prosperity. 

    Conservatives understand this, even if they say it in allegorical rather than such precise terms.

    So the purpose now is to create a faction that delegitimizes the state, and drives us to either change, secession or civil war.

    If all people have the right to culture and self determination, then so do conservatives – north sea european protestants – have the right to self determination.  As such conservatives will do whatever possible to save their civilization from further conquest and further genocide. It is one thing to say that people have moved to america to take advantage of the northern european political institutions. It is another thing to state that northern european protestants should willingly accept the extermination of their way of life.

    So from the conservative position, the options now are to bankrupt the state – delegitimize america as the world’s financial backer –  and force a compromise, or otherwise force rebellion and revolution in an effort at self preservation.

    That is probably the most honest and accurate answer you will find.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-situation-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-progressive-outcomes-a-Republican-Party-that-continues-to-support-extreme-candidates-positions-or-one-that-is-more-mainstream-and-thus-successful-but-also-open-to-compromise

  • Which Situation Is More Likely To Lead To Progressive Outcomes: A Republican Party That Continues To Support Extreme Candidates & Positions, Or One That Is More Mainstream And Thus Successful, But Also Open To Compromise?

    In about 1980, those of us on the conservative side, understood that progressive state would ‘win’ by de-homogenizing society into factions rather than unifying society, and then buying votes by doing it. 

    We also understood that it is economically impossible to construct the democratic socialists state – meaning control over the results of production. They Keynesian proposition is, for very complex reasons, a series of very long term ponzi schemes. (Which I can argue in extraordinary detail but this post isn’t the venue for it.)

    As such we saw the progressives (socialists of various ideologies) as succeeding in the destruction of anglo-germanic (protestant, north-sea) civilization, by driving it  into bankruptcy.

    So we understood that there were two basic strategies to follow

    1 – Since socialism is unscientific, and irrational (a secular religion) we can adopt the same means of opposition to secular religion: throughout history the most effective means of resisting the state is religion. Religions allow populations to establish the terms by which they will be governed.

    2 – Since the socialist state is an unsustainable ponzi scheme, we could attempt to bankrupt the state BEFORE it can destroy our civilization. We could bankrupt the state through expansion of the military and private sector, while the left bankrupted the state through the public service and bureaucratic structure.

    3 – Since the power of the state is fiat money, and the state requires the financial system to distribute fiat money, we could ‘hire’ the financial sector to compete with the state.

    All three of these tactics worked.  Unfortunately we didn’t count on the following:

    1 –  The rate of collapse of the family.  The protestant ethic requires the adoption of the absolute nuclear family wherein people cannot reproduce until they can afford their own home.   The feminists have succeeded in destroying the family in the black and hispanic communities, and it has now spread to the white lower classes as well.  By destroying absolute nuclear marriage you destroy the protestant moral intuitions of society.  You destroy male feeling of responsibility for society, destroy female responsibility for controlling her reproduction, and you destroy the economic efficiency of two person households that delay their reproduction until they can afford to pay for it.    At present the ANF is practiced only by white protestants and Catholics who have adopted it.  Basically, family structure determines one’s wealth or poverty, and the economic efficiency of the nation. Feminists succeeded in destroying it, and this was more useful to the socialists than their own polices. 

    2 – The rate of immigration.   Immigration of peoples who do not only fail to share the absolute nuclear family as a constraint on reproduction and incentive for economic production, but who do not adopt that family constraint and incentive upon arrival.  As such communities retain not their food and rituals, but also their family structure, moral code and resulting political preferences.  Furthermore they now retain their languages.  As such there is no ‘nation’ of people with similar interests, just a corporation – an empire – over peoples with dissimilar interests.

    So, it is no longer possible to sustain the protestant ethic, the high trust society, the rule of law, the common law, private property rights,  the absolute nuclear family, and the constraint on the reproduction of the lower classes that was unique to northern european civilization – and one of its greatest sources of prosperity. 

    Conservatives understand this, even if they say it in allegorical rather than such precise terms.

    So the purpose now is to create a faction that delegitimizes the state, and drives us to either change, secession or civil war.

    If all people have the right to culture and self determination, then so do conservatives – north sea european protestants – have the right to self determination.  As such conservatives will do whatever possible to save their civilization from further conquest and further genocide. It is one thing to say that people have moved to america to take advantage of the northern european political institutions. It is another thing to state that northern european protestants should willingly accept the extermination of their way of life.

    So from the conservative position, the options now are to bankrupt the state – delegitimize america as the world’s financial backer –  and force a compromise, or otherwise force rebellion and revolution in an effort at self preservation.

    That is probably the most honest and accurate answer you will find.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-situation-is-more-likely-to-lead-to-progressive-outcomes-a-Republican-Party-that-continues-to-support-extreme-candidates-positions-or-one-that-is-more-mainstream-and-thus-successful-but-also-open-to-compromise

  • UKRAINE UPDATE: MORE OF THE SAME OLD SAME OLD Well, all the usual eastern europe

    UKRAINE UPDATE: MORE OF THE SAME OLD SAME OLD

    Well, all the usual eastern european nonsense seems to be taking root again as everyone jockeys for power and privilege.

    I gave them the benefit of the doubt. But as far as I can tell, everything so far is just fighting over position at the trough.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-26 15:10:00 UTC

  • OF ENDEMIC CORRUPTION IN KIEV: “PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR” I lived in a very nice sma

    http://24tv.ua/home/showSingleNews.do?turchynov_dismisses_presidential_advisors&objectId=413772&lang=enEXAMPLE OF ENDEMIC CORRUPTION IN KIEV: “PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR”

    I lived in a very nice small hotel in downtown for a long time. And in the morning I’d go down for breakfast and sit on the veranda overlooking the street.

    One of the frequent characters was a fellow who always seemed to meet foreigners and talk to them about doing business in Ukraine.

    Eventually we moved mutual recognition, then to morning smiles, and I finally introduced myself. We spoke briefly. .He gave me his card. He was an “Advisor to the President”. Which seemed strange to me because he looked far more like a carpet salesman than anyone with deep knowledge of any kind of civil affairs.

    Over time I gathered enough information by ‘accidental’ listening, to understand that he was a gatekeeper for foreign businesses in Ukraine. If you want to start a business, obtain credit, film a movie, or gain access to television and media, you could pay ‘fees’ for the his ‘service’.

    His service involved collecting bribes on behalf of the president in exchange for ‘assistance’ in accomplishing your goals.

    I haven’t seen him lately. I don’t remember his name. But I’m pretty sure that the list of ‘advisors’ is a lot longer than the official one.

    Today, the parliament dismissed an whole list of ‘advisors’.

    Story below.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 14:40:00 UTC

  • YES. BUT WHAT IF OUR CONCEPT OF ‘CHURCH’ CHANGES? –“We have seen that a univers

    YES. BUT WHAT IF OUR CONCEPT OF ‘CHURCH’ CHANGES?

    –“We have seen that a universal church is apt to come to birth during a Time of Troubles following the breakdown of a civilization and to unfold itself within the political framework of the ensuing universal state. We have seen also… that the principal beneficiaries of the institutions maintained by universal states have been universal churches; and it is therefore not surprising that the champions of a universal state, whose fortunes are on the wane, should dislike the spectacle of a universal church growing within its bosom. The church is therefore likely to be regarded… as a social cancer responsible for the decline in the state.”– A J Toynbee

    Property

    Militia

    Chivalry

    Common Law

    Banking and Finance


    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 05:56:00 UTC