Peregrinating
2022

March

1 March 2022
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2 March 2022
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The makers of the scientific revolution were individuals who in this transformation of the race played the part of the mutating genes. Such genes are ipso facto unbalanced and unstable. The personalities of these “mutants” already foreshadowed the discrepancy in the next development of man: the intellectual giants of the scientific revolution were moral dwarfs. — The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler

What’s happening to Russia right now isn’t new: it’s been standard operating procedure for the Elites since the 1990s. Putin is now the same demon they made of Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, Mubarak, Qaddafi: the new Hitler, the new threat to world peace and our way of life (as if that was worth saving), and all of it really served one purpose. That purpose is distraction.

It’s distraction from the fact that we have a failed democracy, a controlled economy, a failed legal system, a failed school system,—in short, America is a failed society with nothing other than our military power holding us together. I think that on a subconscious level, many Conservatives fetishize our Military and Foreign Policy because they see it as the last remaining symbol of American strength. This is an illusion. A nation that can only survive by its ability to beat its opposition into submission is not a strong society. — It’s Time for Some Soul-searching on the Right, The Night Wind

3 March 2022
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There was no Jan 6 references on a night of his biggest audience, most of who jizz all over themselves with just the mention of the congressional investigation. And the later part of extremely disjointed speech were weird ideas of cutting the cost of everything by spending more money we already spent while crippling productivity with new regulations, and borrow our way out of inflation. It’s where I stopped listening and gave the dog a bath. — It Sounded Like Puddin’ Head’s Speech Was Written by Pollsters. Politically Terrified Pollsters, Diogenes Sarcastica^™

4 March 2022
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The Board of FIFe (The International Feline Federation) feels it cannot just witness these atrocities [in Ukraine] and do nothing, so it decided that as of 01.03.2022 [1 March 2022 in the American language]:
● No cat bred in Russia may be imported and registered in any FIFe pedigree book outside Russia, regardless of, which organization issued its pedigree.
● No cat belonging to exhibitors living in Russia may be entered at any FIFe show outside Russia, regardless of, which organization these exhibitors hold their membership in.
These restrictions are valid until 31.05.2022 and will be reviewed as and when necessary. — Statement regarding the situation in Ukraine on FIFe webpage

So, back to Anthony Fauci. Where has he gone? He was conspicuously absent from Joe Biden’s recent and entirely mask-free State of the Union Address. Fauci is arguably the most public face of Washington’s response to the pandemic, and yet as the COVID restrictions quickly fall away, he is seemingly nowhere to be found. It may be that for the majority of the American public, the worm has turned on Fauci. — Where Is That Masked Man Fauci?, Thomas Gallatin

5 March 2022
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The unspoken context of dependency on distant sources is that wasting resources is considered America’s birthright. Since we gave up making essentials as a waste of time, now we’re consumers, and so it’s our “right” to waste as much as we want: we waste 40% of our food, energy, water, healthcare spending, etc.—and we get real huffy and defensive when this reality is pointed out: it’s our “right” to waste as much as want and not have to pay any price for that squandering.

The assumption is the rest of the world exists to provide us stuff to waste. We now have a Landfill Economy: we buy low-quality goods designed to fail on credit, use the pretty-looking piece of junk until the cheapest component fails and then we dump it in the landfill and buy another—on credit, of course. — If You Want to Build Back Better, Reshore Our Entire Supply Chain, Charles Hugh Smith

6 March 2022
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Skin color, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability—these are the divisions that the American Left likes to talk about, to the exclusion of all other social divisions, and especially to the exclusion of social class. Are the divisions listed above important when it comes to discriminatory treatment in America today? Of course they are—but social class is also important. It’s by way of the erasure of social class as a major factor in American injustice that we wind up in the absurd situation in which a woman of color who makes a quarter million dollars a year plus benefits as a New York stockbroker can claim to be oppressed by a white guy in Indiana who’s working three part-time jobs at minimum wage with no benefits in a desperate effort to keep his kids fed, when the political candidates that she supports and the economic policies from which she profits are directly responsible for his plight. — The King in Orange by John Michael Greer

Now, when push came to shove in the United Nations General Assembly meeting a week ago on the motion to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and to call for an end to hostilities, which at this moment would signify a Russian defeat, we note that the two countries, China and India, cast the very same vote: abstention. China did not exercise a veto in favor of its ‘friend.’ It abstained.

Of course, in such a vote, abstentions carry great meaning. They are given in the face of massive U.S. diplomatic efforts to bribe or blackmail a host of UN member states and ensure they vote as America dictates. In the end, the United States got what it wanted: an overwhelming number of member states supported the resolution. However, given the abstentions of India and China, as well as the abstentions or vetoes of other populous states including Iran, South Africa and Vietnam, one can say that states accounting for more than 4 billion people, or more than half of humanity, did not support the propagandistic resolution authored in Washington. This constitutes a moral victory for the Kremlin in a vote which, after all, carries no legal consequences. — India’s moment to shine , by Gilbert Doctorow at Postcards From The End

7 March 2022
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MOSCOW, March 6 - RIA Novosti. Moscow received documents from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories confirming that components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine, in close proximity to Russian territory. This was stated to journalists by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. “In the course of a special military operation, the facts of an emergency cleansing by the Kiev regime of traces of a military biological program being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense, were uncovered” — Well, Well, Well…, Andrei Martyanov

It so happens that you can determine a huge amount about the economic and social prospects of people in America today by asking one remarkably simple question: Where do they get most of their income? Broadly speaking—there are exceptions, to which I’ll get in a moment—it’s from one of four sources: returns on investment, a monthly salary with benefits, an hourly wage without benefits, or a government welfare check. People who get most of their income from one of those four things have a great many interests and experiences in common, so much so that it’s meaningful to speak of the American people as divided into an investment class, a salary class, a wage class, and a welfare class. — The King in Orange by John Michael Greer

8 March 2022
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The one significant difference between the Soviet trajectory and its American echo is that Soviet citizens had no choice but to accept the leaders the Communist Party of the USSR foisted off on them, from Brezhnev to Andropov to Chernenko to Gorbachev, until the system collapsed of its own weight. American citizens, by contrast, had a choice. Elections in the United States have been riddled with fraud throughout our nation’s history, but since both parties engage in ballot rigging to a roughly equal degree, fraud mostly swings close elections. It’s still possible for a sufficiently popular candidate to overwhelm the graveyard vote, the crooked voting machines, and the other crass realities of American elections by sheer force of numbers, and elbow his way into the White House—and that was what happened in 2016. — The King in Orange by John Michael Greer

As the world witnesses what is happening to Ukraine, Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are now: stay and fight or leave the country? A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would leave the country. Republicans say 68 - 25 percent and independents say 57 - 36 percent they would stay and fight, while Democrats say 52 - 40 percent they would leave the country. — Vast Majority Of Americans Say Ban Russian Oil, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly 8 In 10 Support U.S. Military Response If Putin Attacks A NATO Country

…[D]uring the Cold War, the Soviet Union banned just about everything from the West, which was a symptom of its underlying totalitarianism. But it was the Soviet government that enforced the banning.

Today, the situations have been reversed. And private companies and individuals are taking it upon themselves to act in this way without being forced to by our governments. Which makes us many degrees worse than the Soviet Union. And this makes sense when you examine the bigger picture. The West virtue signals because it has no virtue. The West turned its collective back on God and now it acts as if it exists in a Godless world. Which means that we are the baddies. — Are We The Baddies?, Adam Piggott

9 March 2022
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Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever. — Sarvesh Jain

Every society has a set of acceptable narratives that frame public discourse about any controversial subject. The main function of these narratives is to confine discourse on those subjects to approved channels, and those approved channels inevitably exclude crucial details and head off necessary questions. That isn’t accidental; quite the contrary, it’s their job, the core of what the narratives in question are meant to do. It is part of the magic by which the status quo maintains the illusion of its own inevitability and heads off challenges before they can even be thought clearly.

In today’s United States, this is at least as true as elsewhere, and the saturation of our society by corporate advertising and public relations is among the major factors that make and keep it true. As a result, the facts concerning nearly every significant crisis we face can thus be divided up neatly into two entirely separate categories. The facts that most Americans are willing to talk about belong to one of these categories. The facts that matter belong to the other. — The King in Orange by John Michael Greer

I hereby order: Section 1. (a) The following are prohibited: (i) the importation into the United States of the following products of Russian Federation origin: crude oil; petroleum; petroleum fuels, oils, and products of their distillation; liquefied natural gas; coal; and coal products;

10 March 2022
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Notes

Seriously? This is the era of the internet. If you have doubts about the accuracy of any of the assertions I’ve made in this book, go to your favorite search engine and look it up for yourself. Then go to a search engine you don’t like to use, and do the same thing there—and notice the difference between what the two engines fetch you. That way you can arrive at an informed opinion for yourself, which is worth a great deal more than believing what someone says just because you read it in a book.
You’re welcome.

War, and the threat of war is America’s solution to everything. To the man with the hammer, every problem is a nail. America does indeed have a formidable war machine. However, as with all machines it requires fuel to run it, that fuel is the U.S. dollar. Since the Bretton Woods accord at the end of WWII, America has had the privilege of possessing the world’s reserve currency. This enabled America to dictate to all countries outside the Soviet bloc how the global financial system would work. The so-called “free world” was anything but free, it was handcuffed by a system that effectively exercised control over their domestic economies.

In 1973 Richard Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, much to the chagrin of the rest of the world. Despite protests no country was in a position to do much about it. Under its proxies, the IMF and World Bank, it enslaved much of the developing world and prevented it from post-colonial development. The resentment towards America and the weaponisation of its dollar resource should not be underestimated. — America’s Resource Curse, Eamon McKinney

11 March 2022
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…[O]ur herd of drooling, virus-ridden zombie voters. The X zombies hate the Y agencies, the Y zombies hate the X agencies.
But none of them hates Washington as a whole. So they can never unite to destroy it, and the whole machine is stable. See how beautiful this is? By separating voters into two competing but cooperating parties, neither of which can destroy the other, the two-party system creates a government which will survive indefinitely, no matter how much happier its citizens might be without it. — An Open Letter To Open Minded Progressives is a book of blog postings by Curtis Yarvin, blogging under the name Mencius Moldbug

12 March 2022
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Here’s a fact that may have escaped your attention. There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency. That is, there has never been any successful movement employing the tactics of guerrilla or “urban guerrilla” (or “terrorist”) war, in which the guerrilla forces were to the political right of the government forces.
Insurgency, including what we now call “terrorism,” is thus a kind of theater. Guerrilla theater, you might say. It exists as an adjunct to democratic politics, and could not exist without it. (I exclude partisan campaigns of the Peninsular War type, in which the guerrillas are an adjunct to a war proper.)
The goal of an insurgency is simply to demonstrate that the violence will continue until the political demands of its supporters are met. The military arm produces the violence. The political arm explains, generally while deploring the violence, that the violence can be stopped by meeting the demands — and only by meeting the demands. — An Open Letter To Open Minded Progressives is a book of blog postings by Curtis Yarvin, blogging under the name Mencius Moldbug

13 March 2022
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Slavery is an extreme, but the general pattern is that the patron owes the client protection and subsistence, while the client owes the patron loyalty and service. The patron is liable to the public for the actions of the client ‐ if they offend, he must make amends. In return, he has the right, indeed the obligation, to regulate and discipline his clients. He is a private provider of government. Thus Aristotle: slavery is government on the micro-scale. Heed the Greek dude.
So comparing the social paternalism of Washington to the classical relationship between master and slave is not at all farfetched, or even particularly pejorative. And if it is pejorative, it is because the 20th century imitation often seems to resemble less a functional paternal bond than a dysfunctional one: less parent-child than parent-teenager. With many of Washington’s clients, foreign and domestic, there is plenty of subsistence and even protection, but precious little loyalty, service, discipline or responsibility. — An Open Letter To Open Minded Progressives is a book of blog postings by Curtis Yarvin, blogging under the name Mencius Moldbug

14 March 2022
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The great power center of 2008 is the Cathedral. The Cathedral has two parts: the accredited universities and the established press. The universities formulate public policy. The press guides public opinion. In other words, the universities make decisions, for which the press manufactures consent. It’s as simple as a punch in the mouth.
The Cathedral operates as the brain of a broader power structure, the Polygon or Apparat — the permanent civil service. The Apparat is the civil service proper (all nonmilitary officials whose positions are immune to partisan politics, also known as “democracy”), plus all those formally outside government whose goal is to influence or implement public policy — ie, NGOs . (There’s a reason NGOs have to remind themselves that they’re “non-governmental.”)
(If we did not have an existing category for the press and universities, we could easily think of them as NGOs — in particular, the system wherein journalists are nominally supervised by for-profit media corporations is purely historical. If the Times and its pseudo-competitors ever fail, as they may well, the responsibility of funding and organizing journalism will fall to the great foundations , who will certainly be happy to pick up the relatively small expense.) — An Open Letter To Open Minded Progressives is a book of blog postings by Curtis Yarvin, blogging under the name Mencius Moldbug

15 March 2022
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The member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and China will develop a project for an independent international monetary and financial system. This was agreed upon by the participants in the economic dialogue "A New Stage of Monetary, Financial and Economic Cooperation between the EAEU and the PRC. Global Transformations: Challenges and Solutions", which was held on March 11 via videoconference. It is envisaged that the system will be based on a new international currency, which will be calculated as an index of the national currencies of the participating countries and commodity prices.

16 March 2022
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…[S]tarting in the summer into the fall, with the mandates and the boosters, there were 61,000 excess Millennial deaths.

“Basically, Millennials experienced a Vietnam War in the second half of 2021. 58,000 people died in the Vietnam War, US troops (over the course of 10 years), so this generation just experienced a Vietnam War (in 6 months).

“I think this is the smoking gun: that the vaccines are causing excess mortality in all age groups and it’s no coincidence that Rochelle Walensky refuses to answer Senator Ron Johnson’s letters. They’re hiding. Fauci’s gone. She’s gone. They’re hiding.

“So, I’m going to put a word out there. It’s an old word but it should be re-introduced into the conversation. It’s called democide: Death by government. So the government, through the mandates has killed people.” — Edward Dowd on Future Recession, Shocking Findings in the CDC Covid Data and Democide, Alexandra Bruce

…[T]he Biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. No American had been killed. The United States had not been invaded or attacked and yet, with no meaningful public debate or congressional authorization, the Biden administration destroyed that country’s currency, then removed it from the international banking system that impoverished its population.

Then the administration began seizing the property of people affiliated with that country without a trial or due process of any kind, without even bothering to explain exactly what crime they had committed.…
Virtually no one has paused to ask him or herself where this might be going. How long until our leaders do something similar to their domestic enemies here in the United States? How long before they accuse you of collusion or disloyalty or some other hard-to-define crime, declare you an enemy of the state and then confiscate your bank account? Something very much like that just happened in Canada. We don’t imagine it could happen here. — Tucker Carlson quoted in The destruction of the rule of law and the economy, Peter Grant

17 March 2022
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18 March 2022
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In response to my Okie compatriots in the State Legislature and others across the country, I would remind you it wasn’t Vladimir Putin who has been conducting a scorched-earth culture war upon our beliefs, history, and identity, and degraded our social fabric to the point we now have to fight against the normalization of transsexualism. It wasn’t the Russians who outsourced our productive capacity while sending us upon one misbegotten war after another and flooding the country with drugs. It wasn’t ‘Ivan’ who caused the biggest wealth transfer in human history with the Covid scandal, fomented riots across the country, or “fortified” the election. Most of the ills I’ve seen metastasize over the course of my life, with increasing speed over recent years, were not the result of some foreign plot, but were born right here. Rattle your sabers against foreigners on the other side of the planet if it makes you feel better, but don’t confuse that with bravery. It just makes you a mark. If you truly wish to show your quality, summon the courage to attack the very real patronage networks who guide our course. Bring your powers to bear against those who shape the opinions and policies by which we live and die. — Kayfabe In Kiev, Samuel Finlay

19 March 2022
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20 March 2022
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Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. ˜ Hermann Goering

For many people an issue does not exist until it appears in the news media. How we view issues, indeed, what we even define as an issue or event, what we see and hear, and what we do not see and hear are greatly determined by those who control the communications world. Be it labor unions, peace protesters, the Soviet Union, uprisings in Latin America, elections, crime, poverty, or defense spending, few of us know of things except as they are depicted in the news.

Even when we don’t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda, defining what it is we must believe or disbelieve, accept or reject. The media exert a subtle, persistent influence in defining the scope of respectable political discourse, channeling public attention in directions that are essentially supportive of the existing politico-economic system. ˜ Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti @ People Overestimate The US War Machine And Underestimate The US Propaganda Machine, Caitlin Johnstone

21 March 2022
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In my previous article, I predicted that America’s sanctions against Russia would backfire. But, is MBS’s stand now related to the sanctions against Russia? The simple answer is yes.

America does not expect MBS to only condemn Russia and mirror the sanctions, but it also expects him to pump more oil into the global market in order to meet the shortfall created by the sanctions.

MBS is not playing ball the way America wants him to play. He is refusing to condemn Russia, thus far refusing to lift oil production. But most seriously, he is discussing with China doing oil transactions in the Yuan (Renminbi) instead of the USD.

Whilst the talks are not about doing all oil transactions in Yuan, it is however the beginning of a new trend that may see the eventual end of the Petrodollar. This is the first serious nail in its coffin. ～ Is The Petrodollar Swaying?, Ghassan Kadi for the Saker Blog

22 March 2022
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23 March 2022
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We have to beware right now of falling into this trap yet again. We had ‘Red Waves’ take over Congress in 1994 and 2010. What we got in return was NAFTA, GATT, the Assault-Weapons Ban, the Telecommunications Reform Act, the Omnibus Crime Bill, the Patriot Act, approving domestic espionage, the repeal of the anti-Propaganda Act; left-wing whackos appointed to the Supreme Court—court decisions which have legalized bribery in campaigns, extended the power of corporations to seize private property, institutionalized State power over healthcare, mandated homo ‘equality’, and upheld election theft—all punctuated by pointless military interventions on every continent. Just look at the likes of Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, Greg Abbott, Jeb Bush, Glenn Youngkin, Larry Elder, and Bruce Jenner: that is what they tell you is going to save us. Don’t believe for one moment that the President-in-Exile is coming back, because it isn’t going to happen. ～ Faith Psychosis And Alienation, The Night Wind

24 March 2022
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Russia plans to create an independent international monetary and financial system with China through the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). “The EAEU and China will develop a project for an independent international monetary and financial system. This was agreed upon by the participants in the economic dialogue ‘A New Stage of Monetary, Financial and Economic Cooperation between the EAEU and China. Global Transformations: Challenges and Solutions’, which was held via video conference on March 11,Rdquo;said the report.

The session was organized by the EEC and the Renmin University of China. According to Sergey Glazyev, representative of Russia, Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of EEC, “China was the first in the world to move to the stage of national economic recovery.”

“Given the common challenges and risks associated with the global economic slowdown and restrictive measures against the EAEU states and China, our countries should intensify practical cooperation both at the level of regular expert dialogues and in the area of joint measures and projects,” Glazyev said.

This gang is well-nigh immune to punishment. Its worst extortions, even when they are baldly for private profit, carry no certain penalties under our laws. Since the first days of the Republic less than a dozen of its members have been impeached, and only a few obscure understrappers have ever been put into prison. The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. Government, today, has grown too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world; there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters; they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less. On some bright tomorrow, a geological epoch or two hence, they will come to the end of their endurance, and then such newspapers as survive will have a first-page story well worth its black headlines. ～ More of the Same (1925) by H. L. Mencken

25 March 2022
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I have evidence from other sources to corroborate this. “The only end game now,” a senior administration official was heard to say at a private event earlier this month, “is the end of Putin regime. Until then, all the time Putin stays, [Russia] will be a pariah state that will never be welcomed back into the community of nations. China has made a huge error in thinking Putin will get away with it. Seeing Russia get cut off will not look like a good vector and they’ll have to re-evaluate the Sino-Russia axis. All this is to say that democracy and the West may well look back on this as a pivotal strengthening moment.”

I gather that senior British figures are talking in similar terms. There is a belief that “the U.K.’s No. 1 option is for the conflict to be extended and thereby bleed Putin.” Again and again, I hear such language. It helps explain, among other things, the lack of any diplomatic effort by the U.S. to secure a cease-fire. It also explains the readiness of President Joe Biden to call Putin a war criminal. ～ Putin Misunderstands History. So, Unfortunately, Does the U.S., Niall Ferguson

I am afraid that we came to Court in the same dispositions as all parties have done; that the principal spring of our actions was to have the government of the state in our hands; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those who had helped to raise us and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us. ～ Lord Bolingbroke

26 March 2022
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Critics of capitalism now concede that living standards increased until 1970 or so; it’s during the past two decades, they say, when wages have stagnated and living standards have begun to slip.… We don’t work to earn dollars, we work in order to buy more goods and services. According to Cox and Aim [W Michael Cox of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Richard Aim of the Dallas Morning News], between 1970 and 1990 we saw these changes in our living standards: The average size of a new home increased from 1,500 to 2,080 square feet. The percentage of households with color television rose from 33.9 percent to 96.1 percent. The number of households with cable TV rose from 4 million to 5 5 million, and the number with VCRs rose from 0 to 67 million. Virtually no one had a microwave oven in 1970; 79 percent of us did in 1990. ～ Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz

But this is where the unbridgeable gap between East and West lies. The fault for this gap lies wholly with NATO and the West who have steadily advanced until they reached the Russian border at the Donbass. To discuss this in any other terms is pathetic and just an excuse to exercise one’s inherent racism and bloodlust against Russians. That is what everyone putting a Ukrainian flag on their Twitter feed is doing whether they realize it or not.

You are not supporting the right to self-determination by a people acting freely here. Ukraine is a puppet state crucial to an aggressive war of conquest by the very people who brought you two years of privation and humiliation over COVID and now want to farm you as tax cattle while living in an unescapable Orwellian Panopticon. ～ NATO and Russia — Whistling Past Each Other's Graveyards, Tom Luongo

27 March 2022
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…[T]he United States can no more police and plan the whole world than it can plan a national economy. Without a superpower threat to rally against, the politico-military establishment wants us to deploy our military resources on behalf of democracy and self-determination around the world and against such vague or decentralized threats as terrorism, drugs, and environmental destruction. The military is designed to fight wars in defense of American liberty and sovereignty; it is not well equipped to be policeman and social worker to the world. ～ Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz

28 March 2022
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29 March 2022
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Control over the collective decision-making apparatus becomes the instrument for securing the winnings of a zero-sum component of the game of politics. And, for the community in total, all resources invested in gaining this control are wasted. It is clear that the incentives to invest resources in “politics” become dimensionally larger in the unconstrained than in the constrained model.

Corollary to this is the motivation for persons who control collective decision-making to use this means of generating directly enjoyable and divisible private and partitionable goods rather than producing genuine public goods which benefit all persons in the community. In a constitutionally unconstrained collectivity, it seems likely that net wealth and income transfers would bulk much larger in governmental action than they would in constrained constitutional regimes. The use of tax revenues collected from those who are the “outs” to finance Swiss bank accounts for the “ins” is the familiar real-world example. ～ The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan

This also explains why the Zelensky regime in Kiev is procrastinating and avoiding political settlement of the conflict. Settlement is not in Washington's interest. It wants the proxy war to continue because the real aim is to use Ukraine as a cat's paw to destabilize Russia. Zelensky and Kiev can't make the peace because that's not what their handlers in Washington are after. Washington wants and needs permanent tensions and conflict (short of all-out war) with Russia.

After Biden's charade-busting admission, however, it will be difficult politically to maintain US-European “unity” over such a flagrant imperial agenda. ～ Charade Buster…Biden Goes Off Script With Regime-Change Admission on Russia, Finian Cunningham

30 March 2022
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In order to be effective, enforcement must include the imposition of physical constraints on those who violate or attempt to violate the rights structure, on those who break the law. It is this characteristic that creates problems. There is no obvious and effective means through which the enforcing institution or agent can itself be constrained in its own behavior. Hence, as Hobbes so perceptively noted more than three centuries ago, individuals who contract for the services of enforcing institutions necessarily surrender their own independence. ～ The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan

31 March 2022
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“We, together with you, and with our sympathisers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order,” [Russian Foreign Minister] Lavrov said to the Chinese government on Wednesday.

And that right there ladies and gentlemen is the real reason we've been hearing so much hysterical shrieking about Russia these last five or six years. It's never been about Russian hackers. Nor about a Kremlin pee pee tape. Nor about Trump Tower. Nor about GRU bounties in Afghanistan. Nor about Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Papadopoulos or any other Russiagate Surname of the Week. It's not even actually about Ukraine. Those have all been narrative-shaping constructs manipulated by the US intelligence cartel to manufacture support for a final showdown against Russia and China to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world.…

One thing that does seem clear is that the only way the empire has any chance of stopping the rise of China is by maneuvers that will be both highly disruptive and existentially dangerous for the entire world. If you think things are crazy now, just you wait until the imperial crosshairs move to Beijing. ～ The US Empire's Ultimate Target Is Not Russia But China, Caitlin Johnstone

To say that any act of government is legitimate because that act is sanctioned by a majority or a plurality of the community's members, or by a majority or plurality of their elected representatives in a legislature, or by their elected, appointed, or anointed designates in executive or judicial roles, is to elevate collective or governmental institutions and process to a position superior to content. ～ The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan