BULLYING AND THE BULLYING LIBERATION MOVEMENT

Over the last few years, bullying has become yet another front of the Culture War. Fat tolerance, pro-homosexism, gender-bending — many adults who favor these for themselves have encouraged such in teens.

When the natural blowback of bullying arises, those adults who encourage teens to get their freaks on wail that we're living through a Bullying Crisis. Invariably, they demand rules get codified to classify behavior akin to hate crimes.



The answer to bullying isn't creating a political group, gaining power and bullying others through law to force everyone else to accept grotesque, distorted caricatures of ideal human nature. That would be mere hypocrisy. That amounts to little more than privilege-seeking and yet another move toward totalitarianism.

Yet, this is exactly what the "We're in a Bullying Crisis" want. They are fighting to define anew the culture and force all others to live by their vision of a future.
The concept of bullying itself is highly rhetorical. It is tied up in ethos, ethics, culture and human nature.

Culture is the nutrient medium from which humans interact and arises from the codified law and the codes of conduct. Ethics is the art of adhering to the ethos, the prevailing paradigm over what it means to be the ideal person among a people. Ethos reflects the interplay between culture and human nature, in short, how doe enforced laws amplify or distort the ways of being human.

Human nature is the way of being alive that arises naturally from design of the body and mind. The closer a man expresses himself in relation to the inherent design of being an idealized man as well as the closer a woman does to the idealized woman, the closer that man or woman is to being self-actualized.

So why do some allegedly bully others? Bullying seems to flow from the dark side of human nature. Yet, it is pervasive and happens among people of all ages, in all times, everywhere.

In short, outsiders as individuals get bullied because such individuals do not comport to a group ethos. Those who reveal themselves to be grotesque, distorted caricatures of ideal human nature get bullied. Sometimes though, those who seem exotic, foreigners from another land who live by another way get bullied.

Bullying is a way to engage group cohesion. Leaders and those seeking status from others within a group engage in bullying. It's one way people stick together in groups.

Parents become unrealistic when they encourage their children to get their freaks on and then expect other children to become accepting. Parents who demand that other kids accept their own and confer equal standing to their own kids within a group suffer from mind disorder and live by denying reality, the reality of human nature.

Stomping one's feet against human nature is a losing war. Status in groups gets earned. Yet, parents must come to see truth. If they decide on behalf of their children to raise their kids in such ways that go against the prevailing ethos and fail to instill strategies to overcome others, then their kids shall face tough sledding.

The answer to bullying is for each child to strengthen herself and himself. Parents ought to become better parents to lead their kids to become the action heroes of their own lives. Parents are the adults in relation to their kids and have the advantage of thinking with their pre-frontal cortexes.

The answer is for parents to become better parents and to become better individuals, to strive to self-actualize so that they can better lead their children. Parents must come to see reality and human nature. They need to adjust to reality as it is.

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THE BURNING PLATFORM AND OTHER ZERO HEDGE CARNIES

Predictive doom is imminent, always, but never here. That is the carnival show trick of every doomsayer on the Internet today.

So, The Burning Platform came upon my radar today. The article I read has so much carnival show hokum that I became amused. Sadly, the comments reveal a slew of true believers to yet another doomster cult, the Cult of The Burning Platform.

Jim Quinn seems to be the name of the guy behind The Burning Platform.

All cults feature these: a leader, new recruits, initiates, true believers, jargon, rites, rituals. It's most helpful for a cult to have it's own bible.

The bible of the Cult of Burning Platform, is a work titled The Fourth Turning by co-authors William Strauss and Neil Howe. The Fourth Turning is yet another in a long line of hokum works trading on the fearful who need to believe in something. According to Amazon.com, the work by Strauss and Howe mixes demographics with stories of history in effort to lure readers into believing that prophets Strauss and Howe have unlocked the secret code to predict all future acts of mankind.

Taken from Strauss and Howe bible, the jargon keyword for true believers of the Cult of Burning Platform is saeculum. The Etruscans were the first to speak the word. To the Etruscans saeculum meant the time from a founding event to the death of all those who were alive at the founding event. So back on February 7, 2012, when Florence Green died, the World War 1 saeculum came to an end as Ms. Green was the last surviving person to have served in WWI.

Supposedly, according to Strauss and Howe, history is not linear, but cyclical. One cycle corresponds to a saeculum. Within each saeculum, there are four "turnings."

Quinn, writes:

"A period of Crisis arrives like Winter, approximately 60 years after the resolution of the prior Crisis, with a climax occurring approximately 80 years after the prior Crisis climax. The generational dynamics based upon human life cycles have lined up once again into Crisis mode."

In true carnival palmistry, Quinn presents a table of saeculum to entertain his readers. According to Quinn, the Banking Crisis of 2008 marks the start of a two-decade long ever worsening "winter"  that shall lead to a "bloody climax."



Prophets push belief in cycles and in so doing, leverage what tricksters have known for hundreds of years — humans strive to see patterns in things, naturally.

In 2008, editor in chief of Skeptic, Michael Shermer coined the word patternicity to label the concept of finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. As founder of The Skeptics Society, Shermer investigates pseudo-scientific and supernatural claims.

In 1958, German neurologist Klaus Conrad described the onset of delusional thinking in psychosis when someone experiences delusion as revelation. Conrad called this mind phenomenon apophenia. The sufferer of an apophany believes he has gained insight, but that isn't so.

It's easy to cherry-pick a starting event for a saeculum, if one finds a convenient ending echoing ending event. Does the Panic of 1893 echo the Panic of 1819? Does the Wall Street crash of 1929 echo the Panic of 1857? Does the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 echo the War of the Seventh Coalition and the Battle of Waterloo?

In all my years, there has been continual crisis, from the Vietnam War to the Afghanistan War, from the Dollar Crisis that lead to the closing of the gold window to the Banking Crisis of 2008. Every year, there seems to be big-scale natural disasters of all kinds such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, droughts and big-scale man-made accidents of all kinds such as factory explosions, nuclear melt downs, ferry capsizings, passenger air craft crashes. And every year, there is war ongoing somewhere on earth. Days could be spent cataloging all of the crises — Fall of Saigon, Iranian hostage crisis, Black Monday October 19, 1987, Chernobyl, World Trade Center 9/11, Fukushima Daiichi.

To be sure to lure in readers, Quinn points out villains — evil wealthy men, bought-off politicians, paid-off media producers, shadowy "invisible government" — and all of their machination of disinformation and entertainment. To hook his catches, Quinn presents a long list of breads and circuses as proof of machination — toxic fast food paid for with forced taxpaying funded EBT cards, The Kardashians, Duck Dynasty, Twitter, Facebook, professional sports, and Hollywood movies. And like any fiery brimstone and treacle preacher, Quinn quotes chapter and verse from the The Fourth Turning, the bible of Cult of Burning Platform.

The word history enters into English during the late 1300s from the Old French estoire meaning relation of incidents whether true or false. The Old French estoire has its origins in the Latin historia meaning narrative of past events, account, tale, story; and ultimately from the Greek historia meaning a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries, history, record, narrative.

Quinn says "History does not proceed in a straight line of forward advancement." Quinn seems to not know what the word history means.

Of course, history doesn't move ahead, take a course, proceed. History isn't about the future! History is about the past!



History is a man-made story telling about the past, a cherry-picking of documented facts from among all of the facts recorded and not recorded, told as explanation for such things already happened such as succession of power as well as the succession of ideas, embodied or not.

If anyone were to stop and then start to think about reality, all history reveals the struggle between appropriation versus acquisition. History is about the struggle for property, which is the right of ownership and not what is owned.

Said another way, all history reveals the struggle between men who engage in politics against those who engage in commerce. Politics is about war, taxation, confiscation, incarceration. Commerce is about voluntary purchases and sales of trade.

Ultimately, all history reveals the struggle between men who seek to rule by tribalism against those who seek to be free through individualism.

Hucksters of all stripes have sold countless works of prophecy. As it does for most things, the Internet has made it easier for hucksters to reach ever more who are desperate to make sense of everything happening around them. Zero Hedge seems like a carnival by publishing the works of many prophet doomsayers.

For my work on other doomsayers, check out Bizarro Theater Presents — Doomsayers!


Nostradamus and Tarot cards live on!

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REFERENDUMS ARE THE UKRAINIAN WAY! MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR REFERENDUMS FOR THOSE IN THE FAR WEST OF UKRAINE TO RETURN TO POLAND.

Hey, referendums are popular these days. Ukrainians of western Ukraine living in 
the oblasts of Volyn, Rivne, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi ought to consider their own referendums and separatist movements.

Considering how Ukrainians can't pay their nat gas bill to the Russians, maybe it is time to throw in the towel and let others better provide government for those Ukrainians living north and west of the Dnieper River.

• On March 5, 2004, the Economist asked, "Why is Ukraine’s economy in such a mess?"
• On May 1, 2014, BBC News asked, "Ukraine economy: How bad is the mess and can it be fixed?"
• On February 19, 2014, the IBTimes reported, "10 Things You Need To Know About Ukraine's Economy"

Ukrainians have made a mess of their country since becoming an independent country on December 1, 1991, by way of yes, you guessed it, referendum, which they held after the collapse of the former commie Soviet Union.

For almost the entire history of Europeans since the fall of Ancient Rome, Ukraine did not exist as a country. 

Ukraine did not emerge as a country until the Ukrainian War of Independence. That version of Ukraine lasted about as long as California lasted as part of Mexico. 

The geniuses in charge in the aftermath of World War II let Soviet Russians bully them into swiping away a good chunk of Poland, incorporating those chunks into Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania.

From 1466 to 1772, a good chunk of what constitutes the oblasts of the disintegrating Ukraine were part of Poland.

Basically, the Ukraine is a conjured up country by the former communists of the Soviet Union.

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☑CRIMEA. ☑ LUGANSK. ☑ DONETSK.

A barrage of foolery from many have labeled the people of Donetsk and Lugansk as insurgents. Insurgents?

The people of the former Ukraine living in the east aren't in rebellion. They're doing what is right, morally, for any and all the earth over. They are deciding upon by what rules they are willing to live together in peaceful society.

Right now, the only insurgents are those pretending to rule the former Ukraine, the so-called Euromaidan protesters, a junta who usurped power in a coup d'etat and who now are running a dictatorship without teeth. Right now, there isn't a legit government in the former Ukraine, a government elected by the people.

The people of Lugansk and Donetsk have held referendums to see if they would join the newly formed dictatorship in Kiev, the former capital of the former Ukraine. It appears the people of Lugansk and Donetsk have rejected doing so and have decided they shall have their own countries for now.

Of course, none of this would have happened if the geniuses of the EU and US political establishments had shown support for the legit government Ukrainians had Yanukovych as head of state. So why didn't the geniuses of the U.S. and the E.U. support Yanukovych? 

U.S. foreign policy ushered under Bush the First and carried on by Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama, has been abject failure. Americans have not been made safer from not toppling Saddam in the first Gulf War to toppling Saddam in the second, to failures in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. 

The policy of seeing enemies in Asia and trying to encircle Russia and China has been a huge mistake. 

Had the U.S. embraced Russia and the former communist bloc countries, plowing the same spending as they pissed away on the Gulf wars and Afghanistan, Eurasia would be stable all together and hundreds of millions would have been lifted from poverty in Russia, eastern Europe, in the rest of Europe and even in the USA.

Yet, that would have created competition in marketplaces for goods and services, likely pushing down prices and increasing what is on offer. Though that would have lifted the living standard for working people everywhere, that would have decreased the living standard of those who would lose in games of free-market competition.

Many want to live fantasy island, but reality shows changing borders in eastern Europe. Self-determination is beautiful. War-mongering indoctrinated ones and mouthpieces of propaganda might not embrace it, but all should must face it.

Secession by Crimeans and secession by Russian-speakers in Donetsk and Lugansk emboldens Basque secessionists, Brittney secessionists, Scottish secessionists, Flemish secessionists, South Tyrolian secessionists and so on. 

This is the biggest fear of politicians. Politicians hate losing people. Smaller population means fewer people to tax.

The world would be far safer with a 1,000 countries than 193 or so.  When there are more countries, each with its own cash system and banking, banking focuses on funding local commerce and commerce leads to peaceful trade and rising living standards.

The EU with its NATO muscle is the biggest threat to freedom-seeking people of Europe. The EU needs to break up. The Eurozone needs to break up. A failure by the EU in the former Ukraine is a victory for peace-loving people the earth over.

On a side note, Viktor Yanukovych appears to be a hero to humanity in hindsight for his immense restraint by not subjugating under jackboots, the Euromaidan protesters and those who engaged in the coup d'etat and this in spite of Yanukovych being a despicable looter of Ukrainian taxpayers. Yet, Yanukovych seems to be on par with Obama who has forced Americans to pay millions for his luxury golf outings since 2009.

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WEST TEXAS INTERMEDIATE SPOT PRICE FOB CUSHING, OK IN GWDs

In PARTY OVER OOPS OUT OF TIME. YOU SHOULD HAVE PARTIED LIKE IT WAS 1999, I introduced the concept of the Reagan-Clinton Prosperity vs the Bush(2)-Obama Hard Times.

The average true price of a barrel (42-gallons) of Texas Light Sweet Benchmark  is almost two-fold during the Bush(2)-Obama Hard Times than the Reagan-Clinton Prosperity (1.90:1).

In INFLATION REVEALED! "REAL GDP" AND FEDERAL RESERVE BANK UNITS, I introduced FRBUs. FRBUs give the best measure of inflation since Nixon closed the gold window.

Federal Reserve Bank Units (FRBUs), or if you like better, Federal Reserve Buying Units are what circulate goods and services in the U.S.A. and elsewhere on earth.

De-stabilizing the Middle East has been costly.

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PUTIN'S RUSSIANS AREN'T MEDDLING IN UKRAINE BECAUSE OF OIL

So today, through Zero Hedge, I discovered Our Finite World a blog by Gail Tverberg with the tag line "exploring how oil limits affect the economy." 

In Russia and the Ukraine – The Worrisome Connection to World Oil and Gas Problems, Ms. Tverberg posits Russians are starting to experience economic contraction cause by these factors:

• a low revenue situation — Russians "are not receiving enough oil and gas revenue to meet their needs" 
• Russians "are not able to collect enough taxes to provide the services they have promised to their citizens"
• Russians are not receiving enough oil and gas revenue to pay "the amount of reinvestment that is needed to maintain production"

According to RIA Novosti, Russian politicians approved the draft budget for 2014-2016. Here is what it looks like:

• The budget basis on the Urals oil price of US$93 per barrel in 2014 and US$95 per barrel in 2015 and 2016.
• The 2014 budget deficit will stand at US$12.4 billion, 0.5 percent of GDP with US$428.6 billion in revenues and US$440.1 billion expenditures.
• The 2015 is expected deficit will more than double and stand at US$25.8 billion, 1 percent of GDP, with US$459.3 billion in revenue and US$485.2 billion in expenditures.  
• The 2016 budget deficit is expected to drop to US$15.3 billion, 0.6 percent of GDP with US$502.4 billion in revenues and US$517.7 billion in expenditures.

The current FY deficit for Americans is 4% of GDP ($680 billion FY deficit over $17 trillion GDP estimate)! That is 4 times more than the Russians in their expected worse year!

Right now, the Russian Export Blend Crude Oil (REBCO) futures end of day settlement price sits at $106.55.  The EIA claims the Russians export 2,600,307 million barrels a day. Assuming the spot REBCO price every day for a year, Russian oil sales over 365 days would be US$277.1 billion

According to Wikipedia, revenues in 2012 for Gazprom summed to US$164 billion, for Lukoil US$139 billion, for Rosneft, US$101.

Ms. Tverberg claims Russians as  "marginal producers" being pushed out. Yet, the EIA says Russians are in the top tier of producers pumping greater than 10 million barrels a day.

If prices were to fall for REBCO, for WTI, for Brent, it's likely the 204 countries producing less than a million a day would be the ones pushed out.  

The whole of trade gets governed by one, true, infrangible law and one axiom — the Law of Prices and the Axiom of Profit. The Law of Prices holds the winning bids of purchase and sale set the price. The Axiom of Profit holds the sum of sales must at least equal the cost of production otherwise a producer goes to run. 

By the Law of Prices, the price of whatever set by winning bidders dictate the expense which can get incurred to produce the last quantity of X whereby a producer does not fall to the Axiom of Profit. 

The numbers easily stack against Ms. Tverberg and her false thesis that Russians are being forced into a takeover of Ukraine because of oil and government finances in disarray. 

Ms. Tverberg believes the world is reaching limits on oil and gas production. Many fall for such fallacy.

Kent Bower doesn't believe the world is reaching its limits on oil and gas production. Bower actually works in natural gas and oil drilling and has for decades. Bower is the geologist who calculated that Texas’s Barnett Shale held more natural gas than government bureaucrats and others estimated. 

Bowker has said “It’s not as drastic as what people think. You listen to all the naysayers saying we’re running out of oil, we’re running out of gas, there’s not going to be anything left. We’re always running out of oil, we’re always running out of gas. But obviously that’s not the case.”

World oil output has grown 6% since 2009 alone. The people at the EIA say world oil output for 2013 ran to 32.97 BILLION barrels.

A far likelier reason is push back by Russians against U.S. political establishment policy of encirclement of Russia, Iran and China. Even bungling Obama has “pivoted” to Asia.

In short, U.S. leaders have pushed to get NATO forces and weapons systems as close to the border of Russia as they can. In so doing, it cuts down the distance needed to launch attack against Russians while lengthening the distance Russians must overcome to counterattack.


Putin and his team likely understand that if the U.S. and its proxies get to the Russian border, Russians get subordinated to a U.S. dollar / Euro regime.

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HISTORY REPEATS. THE 21ST CENTURY UKRAINIAN CIVIL WAR PLAYED OUT IN THE 17TH CENTURY

Many have claimed the current Civil War in the Ukraine, which I called back on March 1, 2014, in 21st CENTURY CRIMEAN WAR. OH, AND SARAH PALIN IS WRONG STILL isn't a civil war at all, but rather a "proxy war" between "East" and "West" also said between the USA and Russia. In short, they argue that because outside backers exist, there can't be a civil war.

There is a strong history of outside backers in the civil wars of others (see list below). Straight away, the Korean War (1950 – 1953) and the Vietnam War come to mind. 

Today's Ukrainian Civil war is quite reminiscent of one fought in the 1600s.  Back between 1648 and 1657 a Cossack uprising in the Ukraine turned into a liberation war from Poles and Lithuanians. Zaporozhian Cossacks turned to Crimean Tatars for help in their fight against Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth armies and paramilitary forces, which today would be known as Polish tourists and Lithuanian tourists.

The uprising resulted in eastern Ukraine becoming incorporated into the Tsardom of Muscovy. Also known as the Tsardom of Russia, the Tsardom was the centralized Russian state from Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 until Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.

CIVIL WARS OR PROXY WARS?

American Revolutionary War (1775 to 1783)  

British nationals in America fight against British Army and Navy. British colonials get weapons and support from the French.

Portuguese Civil War (1828 to 1834) 

Parties included the Kingdom of Portugal, Portuguese rebels, the United Kingdom, France, the Church of Rome, and Spain.

New Zealand Wars (1845 to 1872)  

British troops backed New Zealand government against the Māori 

Mexican Revolution (1910 to 1920)

The German empire backed the counter revolutionary federalists while Americans and British backed the revolutionary forces.

Finnish Civil War (1918)

In this one, Soviet Russians backed Red Finnish while Germans backed the White Finnish. 

Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Korean War, Koreans of the north fought Koreans of the south. Americans, Brits and the United Nations itself backed the southern Koreans. The Chinese and the Soviet Russians backed the northern Koreans.

Laotian Civil War (1953 to 1975) 

this was an Americans vs the Chinese and Soviet Russians that also had republic Vietnamese fighting against the communist Vietnamese, as well as the Thais.

Vietnam War (1956 to 1975)

In the Vietnam War, northern Vietnamese fought against southern Vietnamese. Backing the northerners were communist Cambodians, Chinese, Soviet Russians, Cubans, Czechs and Bulgarians.  Backing the southerners were Americans, South Koreans, Australians, Thais, New Zealanders, republican Cambodians, Filipinos, Taiwanese and Spanish.

Rhodesian Bush War (1964 to 1975)

South Africans, Portuguese, Chinese, Libyans, Tanzanians, Soviet Russians, Zambians, Cubans and East Germans all supported various factions.

Nicaraguan Revolution (1970s to 1990s) 

In yet another showdown between West and East, Americans, Arabians, Hondurans, Iranians, Spanish, Israeli and Argentinians backed the losers while the Soviet Russians, Cubans, Bulgarians, Greeks, Mexicans and Swedes backed the communist winners.

Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)

And here we have yet another East vs West driven Civil War. This time, Americans Israelis and Taiwanese backed a military government against communists favored by Soviet Russians, Cubans, Nicaraguans, the Chinese and Bulgarians.

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21st CENTURY CRIMEAN WAR. OH, AND SARAH PALIN IS WRONG STILL

In what looks like a simmering, could-be civil war in Ukraine, Putin has sent more Russian troops to protect Crimeans. RT reports that thousands of pro-Russian demonstrators across eastern Ukraine and Crimea are protesting against the new government, with administration buildings being seized in several cities.

Crimeans mostly see themselves Russians and not Ukrainians precisely because they are Russians and not merely Russian speakers. Crimea is an autonomous republic. It's name is Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The people of the Crimea ought to decide their own fate. It's a solid bet the people of Crimea aren't borderland (Ukraine) people and want to rule themselves.

Contrary to the ongoing psy op waged against Americans by media workers supporting the E.U. and U.S. political establishments, Russian troops under Putin have not invaded Crimea. Russians already had an active military base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. To say the Russians have invaded Crimea would be to say Americans invade Deutschland anytime the U.S. Army sends additional troops to Germany.

As to the rest of Ukraine, the country needs to break up in an orderly manner without shots being fired, in two, at least, by oblasts. West Ukraine should consist of oblasts of the north and west. South Ukraine should consist of the oblasts of the east and south.

Of the 44.6 million now living in Ukraine, it's a fair bet that 47.75% of people living in the whole of the current Ukraine want their own country. That's 19.3 million in the oblasts of the south and east and almost 2 million living in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Totalitarian Big Government supporters in the USA, this time, Republicans, have crowed that Sarah Palin has been proven right because in 2008, Palin claimed Putin would have Russians invade Ukraine, a prediction for which many mocked her. Of course, increasing troop strength at a welcomed Russian base hardly could be construed by any straight thinker as an invasion.

However, Ms. Palin seemed spot on when she said, "After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence." What should Americans expect from the college school teacher and small-time community organizer, Obama.

Interestingly, people of the once-existing  Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920) embraced national personal autonomy whereby citizens who identified with their respective ethnic group joined their representative cultural assembly, which had financial powers such as taxation, spending and budgeting for their respective ethnicities.

Like most lands of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, many contested for the land between the Baltic Sea to the north and the Black Sea to the south, the lands that today constitute Poland, Lithuania, Lativa, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. Kievan Rus at its greatest extent in the mid-11th century stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.  After the Kievan Rus, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania arose, incorporating parts of the former Kievan Rus and grew to become the  largest state in Europe by the 1400s.

After the Grand Duchy came the dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ruled by one monarch to rule the region. At its height, Poland-Lithuania was one of the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe consisting of 11 million and spanning 390,000 square miles (1,000,000 km2) at its peak in the early 1600s.

After the commies came to power in Russia during Red October, two governments arose in Ukraine,  the Ukrainian People's Republic run from Kiev and the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets run from Kharkiv. Leaders from each pushed ordinary Ukrainians into civil war.

In WE WANT TO BE FREE. UKRAINIANS WANT WHAT IS RIGHT. FREEDOM, I explained how politicians don't care so much about territory as  they do about people. Always, it's about people. The political establishment hates losing people because they hate losing the ability to control property of others and thus the ability to scoop up taxes, which are an unearned share of profits taken by force if necessary.

The story of Ukrainians on both sides, the pro-Europe Ukrainians and the pro-Russia Ukrainians is the story of everyone, be them Catalonians, Basque, Flemish, Bretons, South Tyrolians. Millions of people living in Europe want to be free from arbitrary borders imposed upon them from treaties imposed after world wars.

The Independent from the UK reports on separatists gaining ground throughout Europe as people everywhere grow fed up with politicians, their mismanagement of finances, their excessive taxation and their excessive regulation — all signs of totalitarianism. Chief hot spots of likely separatist successes include Scotland in the UK, Basque and Catalonia in Spain, Flanders in Belgium. 

European countries need to break up. The European Union needs to break up. Most of all, the Eurozone needs to break up. 

Breaking up concentrated power is the best way for individuals to gain liberty and thus freedom. 

The more banking systems Europeans can have, each with its own cash, the more conservative these systems shall be. The more conservative the banking systems, the more banking serves short-term commercial interests and the less banking serves politics. 

All you need to do is compare how well those of German-speaking South Tyrol manage their governmental affairs within the borders of Italy versus Italian-speaking Italians and how they mismanage their financial affairs. Italians of Rome have needed their seventh bailout in seven years.

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WE WANT TO BE FREE. UKRAINIANS WANT WHAT IS RIGHT. FREEDOM.

I am the Ukrainian, the native of Kiev ... I want you to know why thousands of people all over my country are on the streets. 

There is only one reason. We want to be free from a dictatorship. We want to be free from the politicians who only work for themselves, who are ready to shoot, to beat, to injure people just for saving their money, just for saving their houses, just to save their power.

We are civilized people, but our government are barbarians. We want our courts not to be corrupted. 

We want to be free.

I know that maybe tomorrow we'll have no phone, no Internet connection and we will be alone here. And maybe policemen will murder us, one after another, when it will be dark here.

We have this freedom in our hearts. We have this freedom in our minds.

Two maps reveal that Ukraine is two countries, not one and thus should break up. However why can't a break up happen in a civil way?

It's not so much about territory. It's about people. The political establishment hates losing people because they hate losing the ability to control property of others and thus the ability to scoop up taxes, which are an unearned share of profits taken by force if necessary.

As I explained in LAW VS JUSTICE. GOVERNMENT VS SOCIETY. POLITICS VS YOU, the only legit reason for government is to protect the individual and his property from a mob and to certify claims about property when in a society of property so that men can engage in trade, which is the purchase and sale of property, rather than war among each other.

Government evolves from society. However, society does not evolve from government. Before government there is society. Before society there are only individuals.

Society isn't built. Society is individuals as strangers merely who form a society of property for mutual benefit of trade, self-interest and self-expression. The only society in which strangers can live is a society of property. Government springs forth to enlarge the circle of strangers.

However, when government, the created creature, becomes the master over those who created it, the created, that is, those of government, imposes all kinds of evil upon the creator, the people in society of property.

The story of Ukrainians is the story everyone. It's the story of Catalonians who long to be free. The Ukrainian story is the story of Basques, the story of the Flemish, the Bretons in France, the story of many in Europe. Millions of people living in Europe want to be free from arbitrary borders imposed upon them from treaties imposed after world wars. 

The story of Ukainians also is the story of Americans whose federal government has become an uncontrollable monster of epic proportion.

Arguably, everyone of the world would be safer if everyone could assert his or her right of self-determination. With no countries of scale, it would be hard for massive armies to form. It is hard to see there could be a want to marshal resources into making weapons of mass-scale murder and destruction rather than the want to make property for trade.

Contrary to what most believe, the European Union needs to break up. European countries need to break up. The United Nations needs to disband. Even the USA needs to break up.

Commerce and merchant law needs to rule the earth over. 

No people can claim the crown of enlightenment, championing democracy if in their democracies, they force thousands and tens of thousands of people to live under their rule.

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WHO WORRIES ABOUT THE FALSE CONCEPT OF CLIMATE CHANGE?

The left end of the graph reveals intense peer pressure and hyper indoctrination through public education, mostly mass media.

In spite of minor heat variances each year, climates the earth over have been steady for thousands of years. More so, there isn't one, monolithic climate, there are thousands upon thousands of climates. Thus there isn't any such thing as a global climate much less one that can "change".

Interestingly, of the countries whose peoples are most worried, the South Koreans and the Japanese have high elderly population. The elderly get scared easily. When told about anything that could threaten their taxpayers-funded welfare "pensions" and medicine, the elderly become quick to comply.

Until recently, Argentinans, Chileans, Filipinos, Ugandans, Bolivians and El Salvadorians have been subjugated by dictatorial types. The Lebanese who once could claim the Paris of the East now live in squalor. Even the Spaniards spent most of the 20th century under dictatorial rule, not having  democratic parliamentary elections until 1977. 

Not until you get to the Germans and the Canadians on that chart do you get peoples who have had democratic governments. Once you hit these peoples on the chart, the numbers show only slightly more than 50% believe the man-made global warming faux story. ?




Interestingly, it's land forms and their altitudes with respect to sea level along with proximity to big bodies of water that shape climate for any environment.

And of course, all of that is driven by the rotation of the earth as well as insolation, both of which are driven by the sun.

AGW is foolery. Manmade Global Warming is a spook story sold and told by immoral high priests of academia to garner popular support for deleterious political action that enriches some at the expense of many.

AGW alarmists claim that manmade CO2 causes heat as recording by rising surface temps.

Every month, a new record gets set for man-made CO2 output and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. SO, if CO2 were causal, that is, if CO2 causes temps to rise, and thus adds heat energy to the atmosphere, then whenever the next period of CO2 exceeds the previous period, temps must rise, ipso facto.

Yet, if in any period it is seen that CO2 has risen above a previous level and temperatures (measured heat) fall, then CO2 cannot be causal for heat. Lo and behold last spring, mankind witnessed RECORD CO2 and temps that fell to FIFTY YEAR LOWS.

Global means pervasive, everywhere found, the earth over. Yet, what happened in Europe disproves both the concept of global warming and the concept of CO2 as causal for heat.

As well, recent results from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project, managed by Denmark’s Centre for Ice and Climate, show that during the Eemian inter-glacial, the climate in North Greenland was about 8°C (14°F) warmer than today. In that last inter-glacial period, there might have been 70,000 humans alive versus the seven billion humans (7,099,881,350) alive today. Yet, evidence now says that seas were 13 to 26 feet higher then than today and temperatures were much higher as well (7.8°C / 14°F).

So now comes the thorny problem of explaining how a pre-industrial mankind, an almost non-existent mankind of much fewer in head count — billions upon billions fewer — caused much higher sea levels and much higher temperatures, that is, if man-made CO2 global warming as a theory is to be believed.
Facts trump flawed computer models every day of the week, 365 days of the year, year after year after year into decades upon decades. The story of man-made CO2 causes global warming is a profoundly wrong story, a false story conjured by people with a vested interest and targeted against the most easily manipulated in effort to gain their political support.

It would be silly for someone to claim in all other inter-glacial times, one force caused global warming, but in this one, another force has caused global warming. Nowhere in the universe do we see exceptions in physics.

In this interglacial period, global warming began 11,400 years ago. At that time, mankind lived as hunter-gatherers, in nomadic groups. Population was only seven one-hundreths of what it is today.

If CO2 is causal in heat as man-made global warming alarmists claim, then what caused global warming in all of the other interglacial periods when mankind did not exist? Certainly, there must be one force, the same force that sets off all global warming during inter-glacial periods, whether or not mankind exists.

It seems a stretch to get anyone to believe that only several million hunter-gatherers, a scant seven one-hundredths of one percent of today’s overwhelming population of SEVEN BILLION could have generated enough CO2 to kick of a several thousands of years inter-glacial period.

Whatever this force is, this force governs both the intensity and the duration of the inter-glacial period. Since this force has operated in the absence of mankind, no one of sound mind can believe mankind is the creator of this force.

Already, we have seen the coldest spring in FIFTY YEARS in the face of RECORD CO2 output. Thus, it is clear that CO2 cannot be causal for surface heat and thus elevated temperatures during global warming. In short, there isn’t any such thing as man-made global warming. There is global warming, but mankind has nothing to do with its creation, intensity or duration.

This interglacial period isn’t even as warm as the last one, and the seas are far lower. Yet, there is a record number of mankind living on earth (nearly 7.1 billion) creating record CO2 output every month.

The idea of man-made global warming, from where did it come? The idea did not originate in most anyone.

It was told to most and because most have been conditioned already to accept ideas without resistance, so too did most readily accept the false concept of man-made global warming.

Even right now, most fail to realize that they are the owners of themselves, that each one of them are living their one and only lives, owing nothing to anyone.

Others who have realized this long ago, want all the luxuries available without having to work and thus exchange for those luxuries honestly. Instead, they want others to do the work from which they can reap the rewards.

So, they focus on gaining power, by force, if necessary. Their preferred method is rhetorical trickery. It's cheaper and more effective, with fewer people needed to be given a cut of the bounty.

Once having gained power, those with power focus on creating voluntary compliance rules, unseen chains of voluntarily servitude. Oh so quickly do the easily tricked shackle themselves with these rules, readily complying because of inculcated false beliefs.

The purpose of these rules is to get others to work on behalf of these rhetorical masters now holding power, which transfers earned buying power to them. Once that transfer happens, readily they live the life of luxury without having to put themselves at-risk, exposed to the vagaries of market competition, which through technological innovation, could render obsolete their capital structures within days.

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