Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • BROKEN WINDOW THEORY, UPSIDE DOWN** –“If it can happen in Kiev, in other words,

    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116655/kiev-ukraine-protests-are-vladimir-putins-worst-nightmare**THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY, UPSIDE DOWN**

    –“If it can happen in Kiev, in other words, it can happen in Moscow.

    […] Putin sees dissent as a slippery slope. He knows the cold has never stopped a single Russian revolutionary. One day people are camping out in a snowy fountain in Moscow, the next they’ve set up camp and put up barricades in the center of town, bringing traffic to a halt, sowing chaos, and toppling the government. It is the authoritarian take on the broken windows theory, turned upside-down.”–

    My purpose in promoting the problem here in Ukraine is to advocate AGAINT endemic corruption. A free and independent Ukraine that is free of corruption, or one that is divided, is not material to me. That is a political question. The moral question is simple: the people are exploited.

    I DON”T think the collapse of the soviet union was a good thing. I do think that the collapse of world communism was a good thing. I wold love to see the collapse of world social democratic democracy next. And participate in that if I can.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-20 16:32:00 UTC

  • The American diplomat was not honest ENOUGH. The EU is a privileged, toothless,

    The American diplomat was not honest ENOUGH.

    The EU is a privileged, toothless, gutless, cowardly, institution without moral courage or integrity, and whose only legitimacy is its ability to unleash the american military through demonstrated moral indignation.

    “Sanctions”. Bullshit. Freeze all Ukrainian assets.

    GET US, THE U.S., OUT OF EUROPE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-20 15:54:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE : A LESSON FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES The square in Maydan has held ne

    UKRAINE : A LESSON FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES

    The square in Maydan has held nearly a million people, but is being manned by as few as 20,000.

    Their successes and sacrifices have encouraged people in other areas of the country to revolt.

    It is very easy to render a country ungovernable, and a government illegitimate, with a very small number of people willing to use violence and to risk life and limb for freedom.

    A small, armed, distributed population, willing to use weapons against police and military, to disrupt bureaucratic organizations from functioning under their the thin veil of legitimacy, can rapidly bring an economy to a halt.

    The status quo in any society is not an immutable force of gravity. It’s a fragile set of habits, easily disrupted. And with that disruption the veil of ignorance is lifted from the public: governments are disposable. Freedom is not.

    UKRAINE IS A TUTORIAL.

    WATCH CAREFULLY.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-20 13:13:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE: ** WE WAITED TOO LONG ** It’s spun out of control now. They’re j

    UKRAINE UPDATE: ** WE WAITED TOO LONG **

    It’s spun out of control now. They’re just using AK47’s on the protesters. Parliament has left. They are shutting down the city.

    Security has closed our offices. They devs will come to the apartment to work.

    The violence is spreading around the country.

    Lviv voted to secede last night. Crimea stated their threat to secede today.

    We need to get out of here.

    (The airport unfortunately, is on the other side of the city.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-20 06:57:00 UTC

  • THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is th

    THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS

    One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is that the people in charge of the different political factions, and in fact, everyone in politics here, “Isn’t very good” or “isn’t very smart”. And you really do get that impression.

    I don’t know where the smart people are, or if they left, but you know, I always have this impression that the IQ distribution here is narrower (not sure where to get the data to prove that). I know that IQ is a bit lower (around 96) but again, I’ll bet that if I got my hands on the data, it’s a distribution issue. IQ rapidly degenerates south and east of Ukraine. Anything that the Turks touched was seriously impacted.

    But all that nonsense aside, you don’t seem to find smart people in government. And it’s not an anti-intellectual culture. Just the opposite. But the politicians really just remind you of gangsters and thugs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:56:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY” (lots of booming and banging

    UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY”

    (lots of booming and banging going on)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:49:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED They have shut down the subways now

    UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED

    They have shut down the subways now.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 09:29:00 UTC

  • IN UKRAINE – WHERE AMERICA IS HEADED (watch)

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=108_1392492062LIFE IN UKRAINE – WHERE AMERICA IS HEADED

    (watch)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-16 15:32:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS Russians playing the gr

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/russias-save-ukraine-memorandum-prevent.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS

    Russians playing the great game, and doing it in public – the western way.

    Very interesting.

    Russian is a pragmatic language and Russians have pragmatic culture. It’s not really idealistic at all. Maybe the opposite. But as a low trust society it’s been difficult for them to move political discourse into the public sphere.

    Westerners of course work by a different ethic: get conflicts out in public so that we can resolve them. And over the past decade you consistently see the Russians moving toward the western model.

    The article below lists in honest terms both why Russia cannot tolerate a european Ukraine, and, how to solve it as a collective crisis that positions Russia as the rational actor against, what the rest of the world (rightly) sees as irrational western immoral political behavior.

    Now, what I would like to see from the western side, is focusing on using Russia to collapse corruption in Ukraine, and to use Ukraine as a model by which to test how to restructure Russia.

    Because these people stilly act like Boyars and Oligarchs: oppressive parasites..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 17:08:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/ukraine-frees-all-protesters-detained.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: REMAINING PROTESTERS RELEASED

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-15 16:43:00 UTC