FRENCH AND GERMAN RIGHT?
Does anyone have a list of the french and germans on the new libertarian and new right? Someone just asked me about Soral and Dieudonne. I know Soral but not Dieudonne. I tend to dismiss the french entirely because of their method of argument (and how emotionally loaded their language is) but Soral is someone I think withstands translation into more empirical language.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-24 08:10:00 UTC
BRITAIN.
London is a bureaucracy looking for an empire to rule. And having lost the ability to obtain one at the expense of other cultures, they’re importing one at the expense of their own.
The state is the enemy of you and your genes.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-23 08:37:00 UTC
Every Man A Sheriff. Every Man a Legislator. Every Man Sovereign.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-22 10:32:39 UTC
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GOD FORBID WE PUNISH THE WICKED… https://t.co/z6Ho8U2yR9
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GOD FORBID WE PUNISH THE WICKED… https://t.co/z6Ho8U2yR9
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The Purpose of Punishing the Good is to Empower the State by Prohibiting Civic Punishment of the Wicked.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-22 10:31:52 UTC
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GOD FORBID WE PUNISH THE WICKED… https://t.co/z6Ho8U2yR9
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PUTIN MAKES LOSSES IN UKRAINE AND SYRIA SECRET.
—“The amendment was part of a broader crackdown that included declaring the deaths and wounding of soldiers during peacetime a secret; this was prompted by accusations that Russian soldiers are involved in conflict in Ukraine.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-21 10:46:00 UTC
THE LIMIT OF GOODNESS IN FREE TRADE.
The question is rarely free trade but the long term strategic and short term civic impact of loss of human capital.
And trade regulation is like violence and can be put to good or ill.
Bargaining with it is different from giving away rents. Making use of comparative advantage is different from losing strategic knowledge and capacity.
Weaponising comparative advantage in labor costs, credit, or technology is fairly easy and a common occurrence.
The most common example is selling mosquito nets in Africa and driving the local business out, then deciding it isn’t profitable enough of a market. The same is true for driving customer service and choice and quality from a market. Artificially constrained scarcity is frequently used to subsidise excellence in what would otherwise be a lowest common denominator market.
Shopping malls, tourist areas, City Centers, neighbourhood housing designs, regional building codes, inventory catalog assortments, national product distributions, advanced research and development industries and even elite universities and large industrial employers all practice the desire to maintain the quality and variety or consistency of their offerings. And it is precisely this technique which generates comparative advantage.
There are no limitless general rules in economics. The limit of the good of free trade is rent seeking but not does not include capital accumulation.
Lower short term prices at the expense of long term capital is one of the worst possible false efficiencies because it is not in fact productive.
Just as protection used to fund privatisation and political influence is one of the worst inefficiencies because it is neither productive nor increases capital nor produces discounts for consumers.
I distrust most current libertarian arguments because they all rely on limitless general rules which cannot exist in economics – a body of thought which describes equilibrial not linear processes.
So you should mistrust then just as much as any Keynesian restatement of Marxism.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute.
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-20 12:24:00 UTC
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/top-10-militaries-2015/WORLD MILITARY POWER: READ THIS AND YOU ARE INFORMED.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-19 05:46:00 UTC
THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR : TIME PERCEPTION
Don’t want war with Iran?
Well, you dont’ really get the choice, because we are at war with them and their state. We have been for decades. Just because someone does not practice the Western Way of War, (See Van Creveld) does not mean that one is not at war with others. We are at war. We just are not in an indo-european war. Any more than we are not in a sinic war. The fact that westerners conduct fast wars to settle problems quickly and move on, is a rarity. China takes centuries to conduct its wars, and islam takes many decades. One does not judge the truth or falsehood of such matters by subjective perception but of transformation of long term capital and opportunity cost.
SEE: The Culture of War by Martin Van Creveld.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 08:54:00 UTC
KISSINGER LAYS IT OUT
—“ISIS’ claim has given the millennium-old split between the Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam an apocalyptic dimension. The remaining Sunni states feel threatened by both the religious fervor of ISIS as well as by Shiite Iran, potentially the most powerful state in the region. Iran compounds its menace by presenting itself in a dual capacity. On one level, Iran acts as a legitimate Westphalian state conducting traditional diplomacy, even invoking the safeguards of the international system. At the same time, it organizes and guides nonstate actors seeking regional hegemony based on jihadist principles: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria; Hamas in Gaza; the Houthis in Yemen.
Thus the Sunni Middle East risks engulfment by four concurrent sources: Shiite-governed Iran and its legacy of Persian imperialism; ideologically and religiously radical movements striving to overthrow prevalent political structures; conflicts within each state between ethnic and religious groups arbitrarily assembled after World War I into (now collapsing) states; and domestic pressures stemming from detrimental political, social and economic domestic policies.”—
I don’t usually agree with his prescriptions but I almost always agree with his diagnoses.
On the other hand, I don’t see the value in NOT crushing BOTH Isis and IRAN, and then going home and throwing up a wall.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-path-out-of-the-middle-east-collapse-1445037513
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 08:26:00 UTC
—“I pray the gods, deliver us unto kings, and save us from the people.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-18 05:50:00 UTC