Curt Doolittle

Theme: Sovereignty

  • Translating Chinese Policy Into Words

    “[I]f we possess a reserve currency, and maintain the military means of defending it and our trade routes, then we can capture the premium on trafficking contracts, exchanges, and their negotiations currently captured by the British/American financial and trade route system – and by doing so may cause a drastic reduction in the USA’s ability to finance it’s system, provide competition to that trade system, provide one that is not as meritocratic but more suitable to our needs, and cause a significant drop in the american standard of living such that we restore our ancestral position as first-nation in the world.”

    “Agree with what you wrote Curt, but while the meritocratic system worked for the US initially, the US just doesn’t make them like it used to. Therefore, the US is now viewed as a country no longer interested in propagating the best products/standards/ideas throughout the world, but in only maintaining its 80-year financial/military/industrial advantage. In short, the US is in danger, if it hasn’t already, of becoming just another friggin’ country. It’s a shame, but the Chinese are incentivised to overturn the existing system and to create a new one. As American living standards drop, so does its military capabilities, and I suspect that’s what China is really after.” — Sean Ring

    Shared vision.

  • The Purpose of Rule is Defensive: the Prevention of Rule

    [Y]ou get your own house of government, not because I want to rule you, or we want to rule you, but because I want and we want to prevent you from ruling us. You may rule yourselves as you see fit. You may exchange with us as we both agree. But you may not rule us against our will.

  • The Purpose of Rule is Defensive: the Prevention of Rule

    [Y]ou get your own house of government, not because I want to rule you, or we want to rule you, but because I want and we want to prevent you from ruling us. You may rule yourselves as you see fit. You may exchange with us as we both agree. But you may not rule us against our will.

  • INTERESTING SET OF DEMANDS The Restoration of the Constitutional Christian Monar

    INTERESTING SET OF DEMANDS

    The Restoration of the Constitutional Christian Monarchy with Full Veto Power.

    The Restoration of Royal Lands and Church Lands to the Monarchies.

    The Reauthorization of the Templars by the Church, and the Transfer of the Vatican Bank to Templar Management.

    The Distribution of National liquidity Directly to the People

    The Reformation of the Church, and its Charter as natural law, Regionalism, Nationalism tribalism and familialism, in each Branch. As father of each, not father of all. Of paternalism not equality.

    The Rewriting of Constitutions with Preambles of Strict Construction, Natural Law and Propertarian Ethics, including the Right of Association and Disassociation, as well as the transformation of the informational commons into common property with universal standing. The end of corporate protection and the extension of liability to all employees involved in any transaction.

    The Prohibition of any religion not compatible with natural law as a subversive political movement.

    The Elimination of all Sanctuary and Refugee Rights, policies and funding.

    The Forcible repatriation of invaders since 1965, or the use of violence to require it.

    The failure of states to adequately contain and care for their people as an act of war.

    The Closure of the departments of agriculture, education, housing and urban development, welfare, social services, and the direct redistribution of those funds on an income and asset (balance sheet) basis.

    The nationalization of Mastercard network, the direct redistribution of liquidity to consumers instead of through reduced interest rates.

    The professionalization of banking and credit by extension of the series seven and equivalent test for all signatories. The requirement for holding 20% of debt the requirement for equal losses for state and individual.

    The end of Obamacare, and the expansion and deregulation of Medicare, and the preservation of private health care as a two tiered system of expensive research and development by the affluent and commodity distribution of services for the rest.

    The Swiss-ification of all european nations into militias and a restoration of the local regimental system by the conversion of the national guard into state-regiments.

    The Distribution of Nuclear weapons to european states currently lacking them.

    The Requirement that all nations under nato protection purchase energy products in US Dollars – the currency of NATO.

    The Demand for a return of Constantinople and the Bosphorus in 25 years and the preparation for an orderly transfer.

    (more later)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-27 03:58:00 UTC

  • Creating a Moat Around Russia: Six Points Explaining Why Putin Is Acting Strategically

    [C]REATING A MOAT AROUND RUSSIA: SIX POINTS EXPLAINING WHY PUTIN IS ACTING STRATEGICALLY SIX POINTS 1) The fall of Ukraine was unexpected and Putin feared a spread to Moscow. Rather than call up the USA or Merkel and offer to lease Crimea for 99 years with an option to renew, and offer to exchange the Donbas (The Don Basin) for a large discount on gas for the same period, he ‘flinched’ because of the fear that he would lose his only warm water port. 2) He did expect some difficulties from the west but not the severity of impact on the economy. This was surprising to him – and everyone else for that matter. He is painfully aware that the west could shut off financial transactions with Russia and that would cause the rest of the economy to collapse. While he can threaten to turn off the oil to the west, this hurts him far more than the west – who merely has to buy more expensive oil on the world market – whereas Russia rapidly runs out of money to conduct trade (and internal bribes). 3) Putin wants to restore Russia to peer status in the world. He saw his civilization collapse and it framed him forever. He is not alone. To do this requires that he monopolize the oil revenues so that he can manage the economy through payments (dependents) the way germans manage with duty, brits with morality, and americans with law. Russia does not share our high trust traditions and so he must run the country as a mafia state until he can mature the institutions sufficiently that he does not need to use 50% of revenues to buy influence in order to keep the country running. This is a job that is very difficult that is hard for westerners to understand. Russia is and always has been run as a mafia state – for the same reason souther Italy was run as a mafia state: because no one in or out of the administration was trustworthy. 4) Putin (correctly I believe) wants to provide his people (and the world) with an alternative to the ‘suicidal decadence’ of the democratic secular hedonistic west. Prior to ‘flinching’ in Ukraine, he was the most respected politician in the world. He can quite easily enfranchise the western right and accomplish that goal if he lets go of Ukraine. He may not see that Ukraine is forever gone – the people have turned against Russia forever. (I live here in Ukraine). And that Ukraine will want membership in both the EU and NATO and if not, then the eastern european countries will form an alternative to NATO. 5) He has a muslim problem greater than that of Europe and America, and worse yet, he depends on Chechen muslims to do much of his ‘dirty work’. So he is empowering enemies. His reason for acting in Syria is three fold: (a) he wants to kill off as many muslims as possible so that they don’t expand to Russia. (b) most maps don’t show this well, but most of the oil in the world that is profitable to take out of the ground is in a narrow region between the saudi Peninsula and the Barents sea. Now,it’s one thing if radical muslims hold the southern half of that territory, but not if they terrorize Russia and get hold of the northern half. (c) Russia has not been able *yet* to produce a diverse economy so he needs no to fight a world war with muslims over the oil fields when he is in weakened position. 6) Russia’s most severe problem is that it cannot develop businesses because as soon as they are profitable some member of the upper echelon steps in, drives it to near bankruptcy and then buys it for a song. This has become the most serious issue to the economy other than the permanent problem with rule of law. The problem of ‘modernizing’ Russia is very difficult and he has actually made pretty significant progress during his tenure. PUTIN IS CONSISTENT We must not misinterpret Putin’s actions in Ukraine as a strategy, rather than an act of panic at the possible loss of the manufacturing base of the Russian military (in the Donbas) and the only warm water port possessed by the Russian military (crimea). Otherwise, Putin has a long term plan to create a traditional Russia by restoring the orthodox church, providing an impassable and state sponsored method of resisting islam,(400 new churches in Moscow alone), slowly reforming rule of law, and after the sanctions are lifted (they will be) using money to diversify the economy. (Russia cannot duplicate the Silicon Valley Model because of the low trust society and pervasive corruption, but it has the talent to do so. Russian psychology – skepticism, cunning, and pride – is very useful in the development of engineers.) Putin is making sure that Russia is an island insulated from Islamic brutality and Western depravity. He is building a fortress of defense against threats to his people. A better example is that he is building an Ark that will survive the coming turmoils. If you see it from this perspective, Putin is profoundly consistent, strategic and rational in the pursuit of his objectives. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Creating a Moat Around Russia: Six Points Explaining Why Putin Is Acting Strategically

    [C]REATING A MOAT AROUND RUSSIA: SIX POINTS EXPLAINING WHY PUTIN IS ACTING STRATEGICALLY SIX POINTS 1) The fall of Ukraine was unexpected and Putin feared a spread to Moscow. Rather than call up the USA or Merkel and offer to lease Crimea for 99 years with an option to renew, and offer to exchange the Donbas (The Don Basin) for a large discount on gas for the same period, he ‘flinched’ because of the fear that he would lose his only warm water port. 2) He did expect some difficulties from the west but not the severity of impact on the economy. This was surprising to him – and everyone else for that matter. He is painfully aware that the west could shut off financial transactions with Russia and that would cause the rest of the economy to collapse. While he can threaten to turn off the oil to the west, this hurts him far more than the west – who merely has to buy more expensive oil on the world market – whereas Russia rapidly runs out of money to conduct trade (and internal bribes). 3) Putin wants to restore Russia to peer status in the world. He saw his civilization collapse and it framed him forever. He is not alone. To do this requires that he monopolize the oil revenues so that he can manage the economy through payments (dependents) the way germans manage with duty, brits with morality, and americans with law. Russia does not share our high trust traditions and so he must run the country as a mafia state until he can mature the institutions sufficiently that he does not need to use 50% of revenues to buy influence in order to keep the country running. This is a job that is very difficult that is hard for westerners to understand. Russia is and always has been run as a mafia state – for the same reason souther Italy was run as a mafia state: because no one in or out of the administration was trustworthy. 4) Putin (correctly I believe) wants to provide his people (and the world) with an alternative to the ‘suicidal decadence’ of the democratic secular hedonistic west. Prior to ‘flinching’ in Ukraine, he was the most respected politician in the world. He can quite easily enfranchise the western right and accomplish that goal if he lets go of Ukraine. He may not see that Ukraine is forever gone – the people have turned against Russia forever. (I live here in Ukraine). And that Ukraine will want membership in both the EU and NATO and if not, then the eastern european countries will form an alternative to NATO. 5) He has a muslim problem greater than that of Europe and America, and worse yet, he depends on Chechen muslims to do much of his ‘dirty work’. So he is empowering enemies. His reason for acting in Syria is three fold: (a) he wants to kill off as many muslims as possible so that they don’t expand to Russia. (b) most maps don’t show this well, but most of the oil in the world that is profitable to take out of the ground is in a narrow region between the saudi Peninsula and the Barents sea. Now,it’s one thing if radical muslims hold the southern half of that territory, but not if they terrorize Russia and get hold of the northern half. (c) Russia has not been able *yet* to produce a diverse economy so he needs no to fight a world war with muslims over the oil fields when he is in weakened position. 6) Russia’s most severe problem is that it cannot develop businesses because as soon as they are profitable some member of the upper echelon steps in, drives it to near bankruptcy and then buys it for a song. This has become the most serious issue to the economy other than the permanent problem with rule of law. The problem of ‘modernizing’ Russia is very difficult and he has actually made pretty significant progress during his tenure. PUTIN IS CONSISTENT We must not misinterpret Putin’s actions in Ukraine as a strategy, rather than an act of panic at the possible loss of the manufacturing base of the Russian military (in the Donbas) and the only warm water port possessed by the Russian military (crimea). Otherwise, Putin has a long term plan to create a traditional Russia by restoring the orthodox church, providing an impassable and state sponsored method of resisting islam,(400 new churches in Moscow alone), slowly reforming rule of law, and after the sanctions are lifted (they will be) using money to diversify the economy. (Russia cannot duplicate the Silicon Valley Model because of the low trust society and pervasive corruption, but it has the talent to do so. Russian psychology – skepticism, cunning, and pride – is very useful in the development of engineers.) Putin is making sure that Russia is an island insulated from Islamic brutality and Western depravity. He is building a fortress of defense against threats to his people. A better example is that he is building an Ark that will survive the coming turmoils. If you see it from this perspective, Putin is profoundly consistent, strategic and rational in the pursuit of his objectives. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • (important piece) THE SECRETS OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS: AXIS 1) Militarism, Militia

    (important piece)

    THE SECRETS OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS:

    AXIS 1) Militarism, Militia, Heroism, Truth,

    AXIS 2) Sovereignty. Private Property, Voluntary Exchange, Contract

    AXIS 3) Jury, Common Law, Rule of law & Universal Standing, Natural Law

    AXIS 4) Debate, Reason, Philosophy, Logic, Science, Medicine

    AXIS 6) Near Breeding Eugenics, Manorial Eugenics, Criminal Eugenics

    CLASSES

    The People Who Fight (defense – order) Aristocratic

    The People Who Farm (capital – production) Libertarian.

    The People Who Gather (labor – consumption) Socialist.

    THE CATASTROPHE’S

    The Follies: Athenian/Spartan and Anglo/German civil wars.

    The Plagues: i) Justinian / Arab ii) The Black Death

    The Invasions: The demographic invasions of Greece, Of Rome, Of the Roman Empire, of Europe and Americas.

    The Great Lies: i) Jewish Christianity, ii) Jewish Pseudoscience, iii) Islamism

    The Great Losses: Arab and Turkish Conquests of The East , The Communist Revolution in Russia, Russian Conquest of Eastern Europe,

    TECHNOLOGIES (undone)

    1) Narrative, Writing, The Story, The Dramatic Play, The Novel, The Serial.

    2) Counting, Positional Numbering, Arithmetic, Accounting, Computerized Accounting,

    3) Mathematics (sets), Geometry (space), Calculus (relative change), Statistics (probability),

    4) (physics)

    5) (evolutionary biology)

    6) (economics)

    7) (truth) Syllogism, ..(correspondence).. Critical Rationalism, Testimonialism,

    …

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-19 02:42:00 UTC

  • FINANCIAL TIMES: TRUMP IS AMERICA’S PUTIN? Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fa

    FINANCIAL TIMES: TRUMP IS AMERICA’S PUTIN?

    Vladimir Putin offers Donald Trump fans a glimpse of the possible

    The Russian leader offers a glimpse of a president unstymied by Congress, writes Courtney Weaver

    Vladimir Putin…Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on fuel and energy industries in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.

    On a blustery evening, a crowd of thousands gather at a political rally, many eager to explain to me why their country needs a strong leader, is right to take a more aggressive stance on the world stage and should be respected and feared by other nations.

    It’s a scene not unlike those I have covered over the past five years as a correspondent for the FT in Russia. Only this time I have not come to see the adoring fans of Vladimir Putin. I am in Macon, Georgia, and the man we are waiting for is Donald Trump.

    One month into a new job covering the US presidential campaign, I am starting to find that the Trump phenomenon is more understandable when viewed through the lens of a Putin-Trump Venn diagram — or, rather, the Venn diagram of their supporters.

    Two weeks ago in Macon at a stadium full of diehard Trump supporters, I met Tal Wollschlaeger, a law student, who declared apropos of nothing and with no knowledge of my background that he wanted to see a US president more like . . . Mr Putin.

    “I think Putin is brilliant!” the twenty-something Mr Wollschlaeger told me as two of his friends nodded in agreement. “He’s taking care of business the way he has to. His country loves him. He’s done well for them. He does what he says and he gets the job done.”

    He continued: “We just have to reassert ourselves. We’ve got to the point where Britain and France can’t look to us for advice because we can’t make the first move any more, because really we’re too weak. We need to get our seat back at the table.”

    At first it seemed like a one-off, a random Putin fan sprouting up like a unicorn in a southern US city nicknamed the Heart of Georgia. But I don’t think Mr Wollschlaeger is an outlier.

    In Dubuque, Iowa, a crucial primary state, the Associated Press recently spoke to Duane Ernster, a local Trump supporter who also offered the Putin comparison. “Maybe we need a warrior instead of a politician,” he said. “People compare Mr Trump to Putin. There’s something to be said about the man who takes care of the Russian people.”

    In a Gallup survey last year — a period marked by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the war in Ukraine and western sanctions — Mr Putin ranked as the 10th most admired man in America, beating among others vice-president Joe Biden, the Dalai Lama and the actor George Clooney.

    To Mr Putin’s admirers in the US, he offers a tantalising view of what it might be like to have a president stymied by neither Congress nor two-term limits — and one who treats the delicate art of diplomacy more like judo than chess. To many of these people, Mr Trump represents the quixotic tsar who will rid Washington of its gridlock, reverse failed foreign policies and end years of perceived economic decline. If he is Trump the Terrible, so much the better.

    In his campaign, Mr Trump appears to be taking chapters out of Mr Putin’s handbook. There is the creation of a perceived external threat (in Mr Putin’s case, the US and its encroachment into Russia’s sphere of influence; in Mr Trump’s, it is Muslims and illegal immigrants); the salty language; and the stranglehold on national television. Both men are credited with being spontaneous, unpredictable and counter-intuitive, qualities that make it difficult for opponents to out manoeuvre them.

    The two men’s ratings appear to defy logic. Mr Putin’s remains strong despite a worsening economy on the back of western sanctions, lower oil prices and the plunging rouble. Mr Trump’s support improves the more offensive or outlandish his comments become.

    The comparisons to Mr Putin seem to suit Mr Trump just fine, perhaps because he knows they suit part of his base. In the past few months, Mr Trump has declared that he would “get along” with Mr Putin in a way that President Barack Obama has not, and he has been one of the few candidates to express his approval of Moscow’s military campaign in Syria. Mr Trump likes to joke that he and the Russian president are “stablemates” because they both appeared (separately) on the same episode of the US news programme 60 Minutes.

    As for Mr Putin’s impression of Mr Trump? He has yet to comment.

    courtney.weaver@ft.com

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:56:00 UTC

  • DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL. If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like

    DEAR VOVA, JUST BE TRUTHFUL. HELP US ALL.

    If it’s walks like a Tsar, talks like a Tsar, and acts like a Tsar, it’s a Tsar.

    Create a dynasty.

    Restore Nation and Family.

    Abandon the Corporate State.

    Restore Parliamentary Monarchy.

    Help restore monarchy to our peoples.

    The enemy is corporatism, and our restoration is in nationalism.

    (BTW: As a fellow short person. I won’t hold your height against you.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 03:47:00 UTC

  • WELL AT LEAST AMERICANS ARE BEING HONEST NOW – MUST HAVE BEEN AN ACCIDENT. —“I

    WELL AT LEAST AMERICANS ARE BEING HONEST NOW – MUST HAVE BEEN AN ACCIDENT.

    —“In the 21st century, nations cannot — and we cannot allow them to redraw borders by force. These are the ground rules. And if we fail to uphold them, we will rue the day. Russia has violated these ground rules and continues to violate them. Today Russia is occupying sovereign Ukrainian territory. Let me be crystal clear: The United States does not, will not, never will recognize Russia’s attempt to annex the Crimea. (Applause.) It’s that saying — that simple. There is no justification.

    And as Russia continues to send its thugs, its troops, its mercenaries across the border, Russian tanks and missiles still fill the Donbas. Separatist forces are organized, commanded and directed by Moscow — by Moscow. (Applause.)

    So the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine against Russian aggression. We’re providing support to help and train and assist your security forces, and we’ve relied on and rallied the rest of the world to Ukraine’s cause.”

    – From Vice President Joe Biden’s speech in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, December 8, 2015″—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 02:43:00 UTC