Theme: Governance

  • Q: CURT: “WHY DO FEDERATIONS BENEFIT FROM FORMING A TRADE BLOCK?” 1) Nash Equili

    Q: CURT: “WHY DO FEDERATIONS BENEFIT FROM FORMING A TRADE BLOCK?”
    1) Nash Equilibrium: Small countries have no negotiating power in trade. However, an alliance of such countries can negotiate as a block and obtain preferential treatment in negotiation. It’s beneficial to all parties because negotiating itself is costly. The same is true for defense and insurance, or anything where all parties have an interest. It’s the same for business. Would you rather sell easily and a lot to Walmart or to 10,000 independent stores? If you can lock Walmart into a contract then you can plan on an increasingly long time horizon, which reduces risk. Conversely, as in China, where you are ‘concentrated’ in a single market (USA) you are somewhat bound in external actions because of your dependence on that market.

    2) Ending internal frictions of negotiation between parties. It is very painful and expensive to have transport of goods especially, and services somewhat across multiple borders. Open markets within a federation radically discount the friction of trade, just as the distribution of property rights from the village(tribe), to the family, to the individuals in the family eliminated the opportunity for corruption, and increased the velocity of cooperation and trade.

    MEANING:
    Alliance on a) defense, b) external and internal trade, and c) internal insurance against such things as disasters, and in rare cases d) a central bank of currency issuance and exchange, distributes the cost of something that benefits from scale while federation of states allows custom production of commons that do not benefit from scale, and instead, generate FRICTION AND CONFLICT because they do NOT scale.

    -Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 17:02:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633513471491940373

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633505618249097225

  • “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT

    “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT LIMITS ON PERJURY: TESTIFIABILITY?
    (reforms) (Part 1)
    Trust in government, in our bureaucracies, in our institutions, and in our international institutions is lower than in our industries.

    We saw politicians, public intellectuals, ‘scientists’ and media saturate us with information that was produced by scientists but was in no way science proper: The Intellectual Marketplace equivalent of Court Testimony.

    We saw our government demonstrate just how much a credentialed (undemonstrated) pseudo-elite (incompetent) is desperate to escape the limits placed on service bureaucracies, to seek attention, influence, career climbing, and money – or as in the most obvious case, to escape from collusion by evading regulation to engage in illegal research.

    We saw regulators, bureaucrats, politicians and economists fantasize in creating a utopian economic condition of majority white-collar service workers fulfilling the neoliberal fantasy; to produce state-of-the-union accounts that ignored the spectrum of capital from human, to resource, to built, to formal institutional, to behavioral institutional; to produce GDP numbers that do not reflect either that capital structure, or the ratio between labor competency and productivity necessary to maintain strategic invulnerability; and worse, to leave the country strategically dependent upon the goodwill of existing and potential enemies – enemies who do not want to end the era of authoritarian agrarian empires of conquest that do not require high trust public or public trust in institutions, instead of modern high trust societies and polities, as individual sovereign states, federated for defense, and trading for the common good.

    We saw the corruption of the treasury, the central bank, the banking and financial sector, and SEC – and even the economics profession that enabled the crimes of all of them. And worse, including the CBO, these people put out numbers – especially GDP – that do not capture research and development cost

    We saw the politicization of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, and now the CIA – where politicization is just another word for corruption. Especially in the disintermediation of our people from the courts, activist courts, secret courts, and unequal prosecution, all in violation of natural, human, common law, constitutional rights, obligations, and inalienations.

    We saw the failure of our “Insurers of Last Resort” – the first purpose of the government – because of the ‘institutional capture’ of FEMA, CDC, WHO, and now IMF. On top of the failure of the UN that is just a hostile force against the developed world. These people are rent-seekers, seeking exit from the competitive economy, and instead, pursue status-seeking and career climbing along with their peers.

    We saw the ‘forcible conversion’ of our education system from one whose primary function is to produce citizens capable of self-determination by self-determined means and capacity to make democratic decisions under economically and empirically limited means and ends. The academy is for all intents and purposes repeating the Christian destruction of the roman world, from within, by the same means: a new cult promising freedom from the four laws of nature: scarcity, behavior, evolution, and logic.

    We have a limited set of defenses against a corrupt government and its special interests.
    – Boycott: is ineffective outside of commercial interests that are outside of state capture.
    – Canceling: Effective for commercial interests that don’t cave to threats of undermining.
    – The Vote: Ineffective for other than special interests, because votes always reflect those interests and never those the people demand.
    – The Court: Ineffective b/c of limitations on rule of law that grants special privileges to state actors.
    – And Uprising: Effective only for the radical left that assists the state in power accumulation.

    (Continued in Part 2)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 16:50:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633510611156967427

  • “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT

    “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT LIMITS ON PERJURY: TESTIFIABILITY?
    (reforms) (Part 1)
    Trust in government, in our bureaucracies, in our institutions, and in our international institutions is lower than in our industries.

    We saw politicians, public intellectuals, ‘scientists’ and media saturate us with information that was produced by scientists but was in no way science proper: The Intellectual Marketplace equivalent of Court Testimony.

    We saw our government demonstrate just how much a credentialed (undemonstrated) pseudo-elite (incompetent) is desperate to escape the limits placed on service bureaucracies, to seek attention, influence, career climbing, and money – or as in the most obvious case, to escape from collusion by evading regulation to engage in illegal research.

    We saw regulators, bureaucrats, politicians and economists fantasize in creating a utopian economic condition of majority white-collar service workers fulfilling the neoliberal fantasy; to produce state-of-the-union accounts that ignored the spectrum of capital from human, to resource, to built, to formal institutional, to behavioral institutional; to produce GDP numbers that do not reflect either that capital structure, or the ratio between labor competency and productivity necessary to maintain strategic invulnerability; and worse, to leave the country strategically dependent upon the goodwill of existing and potential enemies – enemies who do not want to end the era of authoritarian agrarian empires of conquest that do not require high trust public or public trust in institutions, instead of modern high trust societies and polities, as individual sovereign states, federated for defense, and trading for the common good.

    We saw the corruption of the treasury, the central bank, the banking and financial sector, and SEC – and even the economics profession that enabled the crimes of all of them. And worse, including the CBO, these people put out numbers – especially GDP – that do not capture research and development cost

    We saw the politicization of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, and now the CIA – where politicization is just another word for corruption. Especially in the disintermediation of our people from the courts, activist courts, secret courts, and unequal prosecution, all in violation of natural, human, common law, constitutional rights, obligations, and inalienations.

    We saw the failure of our “Insurers of Last Resort” – the first purpose of the government – because of the ‘institutional capture’ of FEMA, CDC, WHO, and now IMF. On top of the failure of the UN that is just a hostile force against the developed world. These people are rent-seekers, seeking exit from the competitive economy, and instead, pursue status-seeking and career climbing along with their peers.

    We saw the ‘forcible conversion’ of our education system from one whose primary function is to produce citizens capable of self-determination by self-determined means and capacity to make democratic decisions under economically and empirically limited means and ends. The academy is for all intents and purposes repeating the Christian destruction of the roman world, from within, by the same means: a new cult promising freedom from the four laws of nature: scarcity, behavior, evolution, and logic.

    We have a limited set of defenses against a corrupt government and its special interests.
    – Boycott: is ineffective outside of commercial interests that are outside of state capture.
    – Canceling: Effective for commercial interests that don’t cave to threats of undermining.
    – The Vote: Ineffective for other than special interests, because votes always reflect those interests and never those the people demand.
    – The Court: Ineffective b/c of limitations on rule of law that grants special privileges to state actors.
    – And Uprising: Effective only for the radical left that assists the state in power accumulation.

    (Continued in Part 2)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 16:50:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633510611656089606

  • Nuance: they ruled that they don’t want the responsibility for policing politici

    Nuance: they ruled that they don’t want the responsibility for policing politicians.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 07:10:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633364562417205249

    Reply addressees: @_BugarSugar

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633360618328580097

  • I know that geostrategists, DOD, and intel are aware of the fact that war with m

    I know that geostrategists, DOD, and intel are aware of the fact that war with mexico is on the long-term horizon for those and other reasons.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 06:23:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633352817044860930

    Reply addressees: @AwakenedSaxonTJ @Jnati404

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633337697530966017

  • I don’t know why I would have better insight than the top talking heads, but I j

    I don’t know why I would have better insight than the top talking heads, but I just don’t see anyone committing suicide. And I don’t see us provoking anyone’s suicide.

    I did suggest, and I still maintain, the Russia-Iran-China alliance is just so deterministic it’s hard to…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 01:32:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633279381232549888

    Reply addressees: @DanAnde23836316

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633275767244353543

  • I don’t know why I would have better insight than the top talking heads, but I j

    I don’t know why I would have better insight than the top talking heads, but I just don’t see anyone committing suicide. And I don’t see us provoking anyone’s suicide.

    I did suggest, and I still maintain, the Russia-Iran-China alliance is just so deterministic it’s hard to believe it won’t form. The only thing preventing it is China’s dependence on American markets.

    But I expect that (those) to be conventional war(s).

    The Chinese are terrified of losing American trade — until they are no longer terrified. The intersection of their decline and rapid armament, their declining dependence on American trade and their loss of power over their people or economy. Well, that’s the rub.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 01:32:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633279381127790592

  • Everyone thinks it’s low because of the chain of command in the launch of nuclea

    Everyone thinks it’s low because of the chain of command in the launch of nuclear weapons, and the simple fact that it’s not nitwits in that chain, because they’re people who are entrusted with very scary things. It’s very hard to believe anyone will launch first. And there are…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 00:23:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633262036481130498

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633255765246115840

  • Give it up liz. If trump wanted a revolt he knew how to ask for it. If we wanted

    Give it up liz.
    If trump wanted a revolt he knew how to ask for it.
    If we wanted to create a revolt we would have.
    The people who were there were no worse than and largely better than any given Antifa rally.
    Look how peaceful they are when they get inside.
    Republicans.
    The good…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-07 23:41:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633251673295470594

    Reply addressees: @Liz_Cheney

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633157808051875865

  • Ex-President of Ukraine, Poroshenko, says that world must be “De-Putinized”

    Ex-President of Ukraine, Poroshenko, says that world must be “De-Putinized”.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-07 22:56:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633240336712474626