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Category Archives: International Power
The Corruption Point
Dear Friends, It seems to me, once corruption in government has got to a certain point, we could call it the CP, or Corruption Point, that government is unsalvageable. Why? Because any whistleblower who exposes the corruption will be attacked … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy, Societal Myth
Tagged administrative state, bureaucracy, civic decay, corruption, elite capture, governance failure, historical cycles, incentives, institutional decay, moral hazard, political collapse, political theory, power structures, republic, Rome, soviet union, state legitimacy, systemic corruption, uniparty, whistleblowers
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Limericks
Dear Friends, The world is a dangerous place of course,One in which we often have to use force,Come what may,The wise do say,Only a complete fool invites in a Trojan Horse. The media is there to confuse,Or tired and pushing … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy
Tagged courts, cupid, debt, government, Law, media, narrative, news, propaganda, putrid, spending, stupid, stupidity, trojan horse
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Deep State Patsies
Dear Friends, It seems to me, we are almost a year into Trump’s presidency and not one bad actor in the deep state has been punished. Doesn’t that seem odd to you? Had it been the other way around “justice” … Continue reading
Posted in Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, philosophy
Tagged administrative state, bondi, bureaucracy, conspiracy, corruption, deep state, Democratic politics, epstein, flynn, government accountability, justice, Kash Patel, Machiavelli, Matt Gaetz, Obama, political commentary, Republican politics, roger stone, scandal, trump
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Grassroots Versus Astro Turf
Dear Friends, It seems to me we live in an AstroTurfed world. Nothing we see is organic. Everything we are allowed to see is fabricated to form and protect a narrative to enable the extraction to continue. When social media … Continue reading
Posted in economy, Group Politics, International Power, media, philosophy
Tagged argentina, AstroTurf politics, authoritarianism, censorship, deep state, Edward Bernays, election interference, Elite Control, EU politics, extractive economy, free speech, globalism, grassroots movements, javier milei, Liberty, media manipulation, narrative control, Payola press, political corruption, propaganda, social media, Tea Party movement
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Leadership Judged
Dear Friends, It seems to me, the quality of the world’s leadership can be judged in three ways, prosperity, peace, and freedom. By all three metrics our world leaders are abject failures. Liberty has become a dirty word to the … Continue reading
Posted in business, economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy, Societal Myth
Tagged administrative state, Canada, censorship, central planning, civilizational collapse, corruption, economic decline, elite failure, eu, europe, Federal Register, freedom, government, leadership, Liberty, peace, political critique, prosperity, social policy, United States, war, Xun Zi
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Government Accountability
Dear Friends, It seems to me, if an accountant messes up your taxes, a plumber ruins your plumbing, or an electrician shorts out your wiring, they are accountable to repair it… a government should be just as accountable for its … Continue reading
Posted in economy, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy
Tagged abuse of power, accountability vs immunity, authoritarian incentives, bureaucratic failure, civil liberties, corruption vs virtue, economic freedom, economic incentives, electoral politics, ethics in government, governance reform, government accountability, government failure, incentives, institutional corruption, justice system, moral hazard, policy consequences, political corruption, political economy, political ethics, political incentives, power, public choice theory, public policy, regulatory failure, rent control, rule of law, state power
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Absurdity, Universals, and Despotism
Dear Friends, It seems to me, despots use modifiers to pervert universals to mean their opposites. They see morality as contingent on political ideal, justice contingent on a political favor, and a crime contingent on the criminal. The result is … Continue reading
Posted in business, economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy, Societal Myth
Tagged absurdity, authoritarianism, common sense, cultural criticism, despotism, free speech, gulag, ideology, language and power, mass conformity, moral relativism, orwellian, political language, political philosophy, Political Psychology, propaganda, social commentary, Solzhenitsyn, totalitarianism, tyranny
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Elitists Are Terrible People
Dear Friends, It seems to me, elitists are terrible people. By terrible people, I mean they look down on the rest of us, have no morals, and thus place no limits on their actions. Who am I calling elitists? That … Continue reading
Posted in business, economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, Law, media, Mercy, philosophy, polictics of class envy, Societal Myth
Tagged abuse, censorship, central planning, communism, control, elite, elitists, evil, lies, manipulation, marxism, Nazi, revolution, terrible people, tools of power, under color of law, wrongspeak
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Hubris Leads To Destruction
Dear Friends, It seems the acme of hubris to me, for someone to think they should take over that which they could never have created. We see this in armed robbery, hostile takeovers, and nationalizations. When someone who was unable … Continue reading
Posted in business, economy, Group Politics, International Power, Judicial Sysytem, philosophy, polictics of class envy, Societal Myth
Tagged corporate governance, Dunning-Kruger, economic growth, economics, Empire, finance, historical examples, history, hubris, human behavior, leadership, lottery winners, morality, philosophy, political power, postmodernism, societal commentary, Thrasymachus, usurpation, wealth management
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Limericks
Dear Friends, The elite just want you to know,Their zealots go with the flow,They’re not violent,Just rascally bent,With a penchant for arson and blow. I knew of a central planner Stan,He was a brilliant rock of a man,Smart as a … Continue reading →