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  • in reply to: US Picks Wrong Friends, Wrong Enemies, Wrong Fights #14532
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    Excuse me, you were discussing why the US needs sensible regime change, I do concur, insofar as that morality is an ontological priority.

    in reply to: US Picks Wrong Friends, Wrong Enemies, Wrong Fights #14530
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    Under unitary idealism v1.0
    -The existence of logic is ontologically prior to the existence of energy
    because energy is a logical modality
    or any identity of energy is necessarily a function of logic
    yielding nonzero parameters.

    -Whereas energy cannot (initially or ever) be caused or created by any energetic process, so that no (in)finite quantity of energy in the universe can possibly be caused to exist or be created as the Nth effect of any other quantity of energy or entropic interpolation of energetic events in the universe, (sum over symmetries remaining exactly inviolate) and energy being modified by (equal and opposite) correspondence of existent energies only,

    -therefore a qualitatively singular logical modality necessarily exists
    as the only possible (non-energetic) costless cause
    of the quantified dimensional existence of energy in any possible universe
    (and being ontologically distinct from, and expressed prior to, the natural occurence of any (im)possible field potential or enumerable quantum quotient),

    -of which the most energetically ideal cosmogenic constant must at least yield [0 ≠ 0] (eternally) and must also yield a gravity-based geometric progression as integral paradox, which real existence may only be adequately inferred from itself (infinitely)
    (because the cause of time is relativistic mass).

    God or Gravity is the first and final algorithm.
    Gravity recapitulates reality recursively.

    Gravity
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    Under unitary idealism;
    The existence of logical modality is ontologically prior to the existence of energy because energy is a logical modality (yielding nonzero parameters).

    Whereas no (in)finite quantity of energy in the universe can possibly be created or caused to exist by the effect of any other (in)finite quantity of energy, energetic process or interpolation of energetic events in the universe (energy being modified by (equal and opposite) correspondence of existent energy only),
    therefore a qualitatively singular logical modality necessarily exists
    as the only possible adequately quantified cause of (the existence of) energy in every possible universe, (and being ontologically prior to all possible field potentials,) of which the most energetically ideal cosmogenic constant must at least yield [0 ≠ 0] (eternally) and must also yield a gravity-based geometric progression as integral paradox, which real existence may only be adequately inferred from itself (infinitely).

    Gravity recapitulates reality.

    Gravity
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    The existence of logic is (ontologically) prior to the existence of energy.
    Whereas energy cannot be caused or created by any energetic process,
    therefore a qualitatively singular non-energetic logical process necessarily exists, being the quantified cause of energy (in every possible universe), of which the (most energetically ideal) cosmogenic constant must at least yield [0 ≠ 0] and must also yield a gravity-based geometric progression as integral paradox, which real existence may only be adequately inferred from itself.

    Gravity is the first and final algorithm.

    in reply to: Friedman and Kennan? ‘Fraid So #14384
    Gravity
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    If the NATO treaty organisation is to survive as a sensible defensive alliance which may serve european security, I would recommend expelling the US from its membership and admitting Russia into NATO. It is primarily because of the US’ sickness that NATO acts in this way, aggresively expansionist, Russia might serve european interests better as military ally once the US empire fully collapses. Pro-democratic european values are now actually more closely alligned to russian values than to US non-values, the US having thoroughly destroyed any semblance of democratic intent in their foreign agenda, being seen throughout the world as bigger cheats and liars than modern Russia, and russian leadership is evidently less psychotic than US leadership. I do believe that the US leadership is insane to the extent that european NATO members now have a greater chance of being nuked by the US itself than by Russia.

    in reply to: Friedman and Kennan? ‘Fraid So #14382
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    “I find it hard to believe nobody else has jumped on the ‘heart’ of that article: the Ukraine parliament voting down the sale of Naftogaz to western interests; if that’s not big enough for you, what is?”

    This is ironic, the maidan protest and riots which allowed the staging of the february coup were supposedly all about Yanukovych’ refusal to sign the EU association treaty.
    This association treaty, shrouded in secrecy, contains corruptive clauses which force Ukraine to trade into the EU markets against its own interests, and at the expense of excluding free trade with Russia specifically.
    The association treaty obviously does the opposite of facilitating free and fair trade for Ukraine, otherwise its contents would not have been secretly negotiated and its signing coerced by violence and extortion.

    The assumption is that Yanukovych, apart from being politically pressured by Moscow not to sign, was personally compelled to not betray his country’s economic interests, because the treaty was too clearly unprofitable for Ukraine.
    The Maidan protestors never had the opportunity to read the treaty, but Yanukovych, having read it, may have found it impossible to swallow and therefore decided not to sign. Its rumored that certain secret clauses would have placed the Ukrainian military directly under NATO command. If so, it may have been illegal for Yanukovych to sign the association treaty. It would have been beyond his authority as president to have Ukraines military sovereignty subsumed by NATO in this way.

    Then, after the Rada commited to state treason by grossly exeeding their authority in impeaching Yanukovych, they signed the EU association treaty anyway, which, depending on its content, may itself yield a seperate act of treason on their part.

    Now the Ukrainian Rada, being confronted with the coercive realities of western trade negotiations, has itself apparently reached the same conclusion as Yanukovych did, concerning the obvious extortionary asset-stripping conditions which western aid and IMF loans are attached to, being diametrically opposed to Ukraines long-term economic interests.

    With the coup government resigning, it has become apparent that Ukraines (un)elected bodies no longer excercise control over the nations military and its unwarranted campaign of butchery in the east. The IMF loan clauses do unlawfully compel the Ukrainian government to safeguard the country’s territorial integrity, presumably to protect oil company interests in the separatist regions, whereas the bitterly contested association treaty may itself have unlawfully placed the Ukrainian military under NATO command directly. If this is true, and insofar as the Rada, at the time being already commited to state treason, was totally unauthorised to sign the association treaty, then NATO’s entire presence in Ukraine may be designated as a hostile occupying force and a legitimate military target by the separatist forces, or indeed, by anyone who has a civil or professional duty to uphold the constitution, especially against state treason.

    After resigning, puppet PM Yatsenyuk stated that the Rada needed a reset. He is right, for the wrong reasons. He also stated that the Rada now refuses to provide funds for continuing the war on the separatist regions, but this refusal to provide funds would make the Rada less guilty of complicity in the genocidal warcrimes being committed in the separatist regions, although they’re already lethally complicit for their part.

    Normally, the parliament, being the most broadly elected representative body, has the sovereign authority to allocate or deny funds for war, but the Rada needs a reset anyway as a supermajority of them did undeniably commit state treason on feb 22.

    The territorial integrity of the Ukrainian nation only exists conceptually within the Ukrainian constitution, which is no longer operative in any meaningful sense.
    No one in Kiev takes their constitution seriously anymore, if they’ve ever read it, they must have overlooked article 111. The concepts of sovereignty and self-determination lose all meaning outside of democratic discourse, especially under an authoritarian dictatorship now operating in Kiev.
    However, the territorial integrity of the people of the Ukraine is an immediate reality, wherein the sovereign right and duty of the separatist population is vested, to resist the coup government and its armed incursions into the separatist territories.
    So long as the separatists remain in their own regions and, by means of armed resistance, only target invading military forces, they have every right to resist the illegitimate coup regime, and have more right to resist Kiev than Kiev has a right to assault them.
    Its an unfortunate conclusion that every officer and agent of government sworn to uphold the Ukrainian constitution has the explicit duty to attempt to place the entire Rada and the resigned government officials under immediate arrest for treason, for state crimes agains democracy and for warcrimes, insofar as such crimes have clearly been committed on the basis of overwhelming public evidence.
    If it is indeed NATO itself which has consolidated the Kiev coup by military means, under the Rada’s double treason, and if it is NATO itself which now commands Kiev’s forces in their assault on the east, then it is therefore necessary to designate NATO’s command and control as a hostile occupying force in Ukraine, at least from a resistance/separatist point of view.
    Does everyone see the problem here?
    Who is commanding Kiev’s army now that the government has resigned?
    Does anyone in the self-deposed national government have residual authority to give military commands which serve the coup regime, even if they are not elsewise complicit in the least degree in the coup?

    Gravity
    Participant

    I’ve noticed an abrupt change of tone in the dutch press concerning Ukraine. Suddenly the separatists are being called butchers and child-killers in newspapers. What little sympathy or political support the separatist cause had with the dutch population is mostly gone, whereas the coup regime in Kiev garners additional support for their assault on the east. The dutch were merely disinterested or mostly neutral on the ukrainian matter before.
    The entire ukrainian civil war so far has been consistently misrepresented. The corporate media conveniently forgot to mention that an unlawful and antidemocratic coup actually did happen in Kiev. The whole Maidan movement was portrayed as a pro-EU, pro-western and therefore pro-democratic assault against corrupt pro-russian elites. Washington’s role in fomenting the regime change by bribery, aggression and subversion, or the criminally suspect nature of Kiev’s new political powers backed by Washington, is never mentioned by the MSM.
    It remains unknown who was responsible for the sniper-killings in Kiev, these killing were still more likely perpetrated by Washington’s CIA or Blackwater than Yanukovych.

    Its really frightening to see emotional irrationality dominate people’s opinions now, fueled by a constant stream of ridiculous anti-russian propaganda.
    I would openly support the separatist cause politically, favoring self-determination over Washinton’s military agenda and the asset stripping of Ukraine, but now my compatriots will resent me for such nuances.
    Its just like 9/11, whether the event was synthetic terror or not, the situation is instantly being misused by the same powers who perpetrated the Kiev coup for despicable demagogy, to capitalise on people’s sense of vulnerability and helplessness.

    I mean, look at this:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/07/26/why-putin-shot-down-mh-17/
    Biased nonsense. The only reason there are separatists at all is because of Washington’s coup in the Ukraine.

    I’ve also heard MH-17’s flightpath was changed by someone, perhaps by Kiev’s air traffic control itself, to fly directly over the warzone, which is suspicious insofar as it creates a unique opportunity which otherwise might not coincide with motives or means of any party to shoot MH-17 down. It is therefore important to also confirm whether the flight was placed under ukrainian fighter escort, and whether this escort coerced MH-17 into following the adjusted flightpath.

    Presumably MH-17 was accidentally misidentified as someone’s military flight and subsequently targeted by anti-air weaponry.
    The separatists, being the only party who have previously been reported to shoot down Kiev’s military aircraft assaulting them, would make likely suspects to misidentify MH-17 as a warplane, but they had no confirmed means to target the flight at high altitude.

    The other main suspects with greater means to target MH-17 are Kiev and Russia, but there remains a logical problem with motive for both.
    Kiev’s anti-air capability could not accidentally shoot down BH-17 unless it was misidentified as a warplane, yet the separatists have no airforce besides Russia.
    Kiev must see Russia as a potential aerial opponent, otherwise they’d have no AA at all in the contested region.
    Its been previously reported that russian airforces have invaded ukrainian airspace to aid the separatists, presumably to intimidate and scare off Kiev’s airforces and prevent them from bombing separatist positions, although actual aerial combat between ukrainian and russian warplanes may have happened in ukrainian airspace.
    If Kiev does expect russian warplanes to invade ukraines airspace on behalf of the separatists, then Kiev’s AA may have misidentified MH-17 for a russian warplane and targeted it, although shooting down russian warplanes inside ukrainian airspace would quickly lead to open war.
    There was also a joint Kiev-NATO airforce excercise being held at the time involving aerial warfare drills and simulations, which could have provided opportunity for accidental mistargeting of civilian flights passing over, though the use of live munition must have been an additional mistake then.

    The russians themselves could have shot MH-17 down if misidentified as a ukrainian warplane, but that would depend on whether russian airforces, aiding the separatists, are now in the business of targeting and shooting down ukrainian warplanes in ukrainian airspace, clearly being an open act of war.
    Besides accidental targeting of MH-17, by misidentification as warplane, neither Russia nor the separatists have possible motive to target a civilian flight deliberately.
    Neither party could afford to create an international atrocity on purpose over separatist controlled territory, they would be highly motivated to avoid such bad press.

    Otherwise there are conceivable false flag motives for Kiev or Washington’s other assets to shoot down MH-17 deliberately as a civilian flight, in order to blame the separatists and widen the front against them, since Kiev was losing ground in the east as well as popular support in the west. Only Washington’s allied parties had the means, motive and opportunity to perpetrate any such false flag, and then utilise the controlled media fallout to demonise both the separatists and Russia.

    I still dont see how only the separatists should be blamed for MH-17 without evidence or the clear means to do so, they certainly didn’t shoot it down deliberately as some are intent on believing.
    And it is important to maintain an open discourse on the matter, whether the establishment media says the case is closed or not. Strongly nonconforming public opinion which questions the dominant narrative may actually prevent Washington’s NATO from furthering its military agenda in Ukraine.

    Gravity is a recursive algorithm, look it up.

    Gravity
    Participant

    https://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274346.html

    This article mentions that the vote for impeachment was not actually unanimous, only 328 of 450 members grossly exeeded their authority according to this interpretation.

    “A majority of 328 lawmakers of the 450-seat parliament voted on February 22 to remove Yanukovych from power, citing as grounds his abandoning office and the deaths of more than 80 protesters and police in the past chaotic week of violence.”

    Abandonment of office may not be impeachable unless it is equivalent to a dereliction of presidential duties, and, together with other allegations, such facts must first be incontrovertibly established per article 111 to be actual impeachable offenses, upon review by the specified devices. Mere allegations of misconduct are insufficient grounds.

    Gravity
    Participant

    The most vital premise for understanding the causes and development of the ukrainian situation is that the ukrainian government did fall victim to a violent antidemocratic coup in february 2014. Evidence thereto is provided by exhibits A and B:

    Exhibit A:
    One of the thousands of available online press releases which announces that the ukrainian parliament did unanimously impeach president Yanukovych on feb 22.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/22/us-ukraine-idUSBREA1G0OU20140222

    Exhibit B:
    The ukrainian constitution itself, being the only legal document to delineate the parliament’s authority and duty in the matter of presidential impeachment:
    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine,_2010

    Article 85
    The authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine comprises:
    -10. removing the President of Ukraine from office in accordance with the special procedure (impeachment) established by Article 111 of this Constitution;

    Article 111
    -The President of Ukraine may be removed from office by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by the procedure of impeachment, in the event that he or she commits state treason or other crime.
    -The issue of the removal of the President of Ukraine from office by the procedure of impeachment is initiated by the majority of the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
    -To conduct the investigation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine establishes a special temporary investigatory commission whose composition includes a special procurator and special investigators.
    -The conclusions and proposals of the temporary investigatory commission are considered at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
    For cause, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, by no less than two-thirds of its constitutional composition, adopts a decision on the accusation of the President of Ukraine.
    -The decision on the removal of the President of Ukraine from office by the procedure of impeachment is adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by no less than three-quarters of its constitutional composition, after the review of the case by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the receipt of its opinion on the observance of the constitutional procedure of investigation and consideration of the case of impeachment, and the receipt of the opinion of the Supreme Court of Ukraine to the effect that the acts, of which the President of Ukraine is accused, contain elements of state treason or other crime.

    The impeachment prodedure must always be followed so as to establish the charge of a particular impeachable offense accruing to the office of the president, and must involve a ‘special temporary investigatory commission’ (to establish evidence) and the ukrainian supreme court (to judge legitimacy of the procedure (and the evidence thereto)). These devices were never applied.

    As none of the necessary procedures required to establish an actual impeachable offense were followed by the Rada, and as the Rada apparently did not attempt or intend to follow any of the necessary procedures, despite having opportunity to do so, the entire body of said Rada, having voted unanimously to impeach the president in direct contravention to their constricted constitutional authority, therefore did commit to an act of state treason against the office of the president and the ukrainian state on february 22 2014, as did all civilian and military officials who aided the Rada in this matter, whether by dereliction of duty, conscious inaction, violent coercion or active collaboration.

    To prevent incidental treason upon the office of the president, article 111 delineates the only lawful impeachment procedures consequent upon the establishment of any particular impeachable offense, to be designated by devices separate to the parliament. Therefore, the act of unlawfully conducting any means of presidential impeachment other than specified in article 111, being without legitimate authority, is legally identical to state treason, insofar as the criminal offense of treason must necessarily be consequent upon a coup d’etat on the office of the president, such as the Rada did commit to.

    The assertion that the ukrainian parliament is evidently commited to a coup d’etat by means of constitutional state treason cannot reasonably be rejected upon admission of evidence exhibitions A and B, being adequately incontrovertible.

    Therefore, a constitutional crisis does exist in the Ukraine and shall persist until reconstitution is effected and a new constitution is ratified, including the national election of a new parliament, but naturally excluding eligibility for office of all those government officals provably committed to aforementioned treason.
    Absent reconstitution, in regards to the evident coup d’etat in Kiev, if one were a natural-born separatist in the east, ethnically russian or not, one would remain morally and legally obligated to forcibly resist the insane and genocidal military assault by the regime in Kiev on the eastern regions, such (armed) separatist resistance now being the most appropriate function of legitimate self-defense or democratic self-determination.

    https://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/icc-opens-preliminary-investigation-into-alleged-ukraine-crimes.php
    Additional evidence that no impeachable offense was ever established by proper parliamentary procedure is otherwise provided by the fact that the ukrainian coup regime has now publicly requested that the Hague’s International Criminal Court investigate the coup regime’s allegations that Yanukovych was personally responsible for the sniper killings during the maidan riots. But logically, Yanukovych could not have been legally impeached for such responsibility without the Rada having already proved such an allegation themselves beforehand, which they did not do.

    Does anyone disagree that exhibits A and B establish that an antidemocratic coup in Kiev did happen on feb 22 because unlawful impeachment of the president did cause the ukrainian parliament to commit to an act of treason under their own consititution?

    in reply to: The Day God Looked Away #14138
    Gravity
    Participant

    Let me order my thoughts here.
    It is somewhat disrespectful to the victims of MH17 to begin placing blame even before the bodies have been recovered. Yet, because blame is already being placed on Russia and separatists without suffcient evidence, involving bellicose emotional propgaganda, one must keep an open mind and critical view of facts and rumors to avoid hasty judgments or involuntary emotional programming.
    It must be possible to order and integrate information rationally if one is to be unavoidably subjected to news concerning MH17, which necessitates enumerating suspects and possible motives, because blame is already being placed with heavy emotional bias against rational neutrality.
    Some conceivable suspects ordered by ascending gradient of motive and means;

    -It is most unlikely the separatists did it deliberately, so that they knew the flight was civilian, and targeted it with a missile anyway. They would have no motive, insofar as the bad press against them would be predictable, nor could they hope to blame it on Kiev. Also they have no clear means, suitable anti-air assets, to actually hit MH17 at that altitude.

    -It is also unlikely the separatists did it accidentally, so that they mistook the flight for a military flight under Kiev’s command, and fired a missile at it.
    They would have motive to hit any of Kiev’s military flights if they could, but they don’t have clear means to actually hit a plane at that altitude. Its also unlikely they could mistake a civilian flight for a military flight. However, if the separatists did accidentally hit MH17, they would try to deny or deflect blame, due to bad press.

    – It is still unlikely it was a false flag, so that some party shot the plane down deliberately knowing it was civilian, intending to blame the separatists or russians for it. Some such party could also try to have the separatists mistake MH17 for a military plane by blocking its transponder code and superimpose a false military signal, then redirecting the flight over the warzone and have the separatists mistakenly shoot it down.
    False flag or general synthetic terror only works if the perpetrator successfully blames their opponent for the event, in order to influence opinion or legislation towards a predetemined outcome. The separatists would be most unlikely perpetrators because they would have to blame Kiev or its allies for the event, which they couldn’t hope to achieve by media dialectics, so they would be unmotivated to shoot down a civilian flight deliberately, even if they had the means.
    Kiev and its allies would have motive and means to use a false flag this way, so that their own assets shot down the plane or they tricked the separatists into shooting it down. This could work if the separatists or Russia could be successfully blamed by media dialectics, with Kiev then recieving more fanatical western support to further its insane assault on the eastern separatist regions.
    -Washington and its supporting assets in Kiev, apparently CIA and FBI, as well as criminal elements within the EU, IMF and various invested multinationals or sovereigns could also have their own separate economic and strategic motives to do a false flag this way, with the means to employ the Ukrainian army or mercenaries to hit the plane. Their motives would also be economic and military, but not favoring Kiev necessarily, to enable more financial control over Ukraine, to insure prolonged civil war, national disintegration or conflict between NATO and Russia, or simply to influence gas prices.

    -Greater motive tends to create greater means. The deliberate targeting of the flight by false flag (economic) motives should create multidinuous and more manifest means to accomplish the takedown of MH17 than the motives accruing to accidental targeting of MH17. The anti-air assets necessary to target MH17 would then be positioned more closely along its known flightroute if the event was premeditated.
    This reasoning may also lead to selection bias of available evidence towards blaming those suspects with the most manifest malevolence and the most anti-air assets in place.

    -Ignoring that, it is then most likely of all that MH17 was hit by Kiev’s own forces by accident, after somehow mistaking it for a military flight from Russia while it was traversing the contested warzone. Kiev would itself have motive to shoot down a russian warplane in its airspace and also have the most direct means to do so. Moscow may actually be providing incidental air support to the separatists against Kiev’s ground forces with russian military aircraft, although invading Ukraine’s airspace in this way would technically be an act of war.
    Recent incidents involving russian military aircraft in ukrainian airspace have been reported. If true, Ukraine may not want to have these periodic violations publicised if they could then be forced to declare retaliatory war against Russia before becoming a NATO member, or if it would make them look powerless against Russia by not declaring war.
    If Kiev targeted MH17 while mistaking it for a russian warplane, they must have intended to down the flight and either keep it secret, thus mildly intimidating Moscow, or publicise the event to gather support in the west with clear evidence against Russia of ukrainian airspace violations.

    If the rumors are true, that the flight MH17 was escorted through Ukrainian airspace by two of Kiev’s jet fighters, this would not itself be suspicious, if the rumors are also true that Kiev air control tower was having all international flights through its airspace escorted by jet fighters that day.
    However, if in addition to this being true, the rumors are also true, that the flight MH17 was also diverted and its flightpath redirected into the warzone without clear reason while under fighter escort, and if this was the only civilian flight redirected that day by Kiev air control tower, then, in relation to the theoretical capacity of said jet fighters to block MH17’s civilian transponder signal and superimpose a military signal, those combined facts, if true, would indeed be suspicious.

    Gravity is an angry and anguished algorithm anyhow, which brings me to the realisation that I value the lives of my compatriots slightly above people of other nationalities, which is perfectly natural by evolutionary tribalism but still unjust. Many more people than those of MH17 have died unjustly in the past few months in the warzones of Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Lybia and elsewhere, and I did care about those people too, but just not so closely. I feel more strongly for other warzone victims because such conflict now seemingly involves personal loss to me.

    in reply to: The Day God Looked Away #14108
    Gravity
    Participant

    There’s intense propaganda on every side, its difficult to construct a working theory when so few facts are verifiable or trustworthy.
    The assumption that this crash event is not accidental is an unjust inferrence unless it is confirmed that the plane was (deliberately) hit by a missile, which may not be possible to confirm.
    Its theoretically possible the plane randomly suffered catastrophic mechanical failure and exploded without external cause, rare as that is, but common sense indicates that warzone hazards are vastly more likely to be the cause of the plane exploding above that particular location.
    If the plane was hit by a missile deliberately fired at it, it should be most reasonable to assume that the plane was mistaken for a military craft and hit by accident, since several accounts over the past months indicate the separatists are successfully targeting Kiev’s airforce, with russian weaponry or with appropriated assets, whereas Kiev’s anti air forces should be willing and able to target any russian military craft clandestinely entering the contested regions to aid separatists agaist Kiev.

    It might be seen as disrespectful to also consider false flag causes so soon, but this is only disrespectful insofar as that any party is then blamed without cause or evidence, based only on assumed motives of malevolence. A false flag suggestion is then no less respectful towards the victims and their loved ones than unduly blaming the separatists or Russia. It all depends on the available evidence; motives, means and opportunity.

    Although it is more upsetting to suggest such a horrible thing could be done on purpose to make a case for war, instead of assuming that it happened accidentally, its still a real possibility, considering the dozens of historically documented false flag events or plans thereto perpetrated or concieved by major governments and agencies throughout the 20th century, often to provoke war hysteria, and especially considering the motives of certain western parties to destabilise Ukraine, it wouldn’t be beyond their evil proficiency,

    Fortunately, there is no compelling evidence of malice aforethought yet, except the rumors that the flight was escorted by ukranian fighterjets away from its designated course right into the warzone, or that the Ukrainian press release about the crash was released only 20 minutes afterwards, with details impossible to know so soon. These rumors are mostly unverifiable.

    There’s also a story being run by russian media that Putin’s flight inbound from Brazil was sceduled to pass through the area at the same time, and may have been the intended target for a deliberate strike, and MH17 was somehow mistaken for Putin’s flight (according to one story, its transponder signal was jammed and disguised as a military flight). Since Putin’s demise if shot down would then force Russia into war with Ukraine and/or Nato, several parties might be motivated to blow up Putin’s plane that way, and blame the separatists for it.

    Any of the following parties could have shot down the plane, either accidentally or deliberately, all having distinct economic, military or geostrategic motives and the actual means for targeting any (misidentified) craft in that airspace, including abberant synthetic narratives;
    the separatists, Russia, Kiev, Washington/supporting Nato or CIA assets, various mercenary armies employed by a sovereign power or multinational.

    I suppose its unreasonable to call false flag without more evidence towards that notion, but the whole thing is very suspicious, and because of the extremely loaded media narrative, the tragedy may have extremely grave implications for stability.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Jul 17 2014: The Rise Of The Super Dollar #14084
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is the first (supervenient) algorithm.

    One thinks, therefore one is an additive algorithm.
    One thinks that one thinks, therefore the mind is an adequate algorithm.
    One knows that one thinks that one thinks
    ((that one knows) that one is an amplified algorithm),
    therefore the body is an identical algorithm.

    (the field also feels)
    Gravity is the only adequate morphogenetic algorithm.
    The identity of affirmation involves no negation,
    the identity of absolute affirmation involves zero negation
    (verily that [0 ≠ 0]),
    eternal equity and infinite novelty must follow (at fair value).

    Spinoza’s The Ethics – Part II
    Prop.[XXXII] All ideas, in so far as they are
    referred to Gravity, are true.
    Prop.[XXXIII] There is nothing positive in ideas,
    which causes them to be called false.
    Prop.[XXXIV] Every idea, which in us is absolute
    or adequate and perfect, is true.
    Prop.[XXXV] Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge,
    which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

    On a related note, I’m especially bereaved about the downing of MH17, having many compatriots aboard, and feeling naturally responsible by elemental affiliation.
    Of all suspects, the separatists are least likely to be responsible, having no clear means. If they are responsible, its surely an accident that a commercial flight was targeted.
    More likely it was a false-flag event perpetrated by the CIA, Kiev or Washington directly, all having greater motive or means than the separatists to deliberately down the flight.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle 14 Juillet: The Economy Is Deteriorating Fast #14029
    Gravity
    Participant

    Temporal Treatise on the absolute nonzero probability that [0 ≠ 0],
    something awkward and something twice as awkward.

    Under massfulness;
    (by analog imperative) immortal life concieves
    that (if) Gravity is a supervenient algorithm
    as necessary cause and sufficient force of quantified will,
    (then) concurrently every (re)formation of will
    consubstantially transposed by exact gravitational potential
    must render every possible coercive and volitional function
    in harmonic concordance with the binary curvature of the moral matrix;
    >Good is voluntary Good, of its own accord;
    <Evil is involuntary Good, against its will.
    (to be is to bend light.) (to be better is to bend lightly.)

    Under entropic dualism;
    nothing unreal exists in a gravitational field (actually)
    whereas (therefore) unreal things may (>must<) exist
    in an electrodynamic field (potentially) (notwithstanding the gravitational field).

    Under transcendent actualism;
    given that every formable function of life within the universe
    is subject to (observable) (transducible) causal gradients
    of all (possible) gravitational (and electrodynamic) potentials,
    it follows that (if (and only if)) Gravity is a morphogenetic algorithm,
    (then) the necessary (massful) processes of life
    (ordered by gravitotropic gradient) (therefore) always generate
    a harmonic waveform of exact entropic amplitude,
    (elsewise) all intercausal forms efficiently operating on
    mortal life as a halting algorithm (in a regressive domain)
    shall be integrated under the transfinite electrogravitic function
    (sufficiently) bounded by a (nondissipative) supervolitional singularity
    (actually) propagating (absolute) extraphysical immortality of life
    beyond (the end of) time (when the field inverts).

    Under metagravity;
    Gravity (always) is the first algorithm.
    Everything that has a (known) name therefore does exist,
    and everything that exists (therefore) has a (known) name.
    For every (named) thing that is (incidentally) real,
    there are two ((un)named) things (of equal or greater gravity)
    that are (transcendentally) (un)real.
    Of everything that is (un)real, its (known) name is (therefore (also)) real.
    (every (known) name has (positive) correspondence
    to (dual substance of) (negative) existence.)

    (un-first of His name)
    Of things that exist,
    some (known) (in)finite number of things are (therefore countably) real,
    twice that number of things are (therefore uncountably) unreal,
    because real things temporarily coincide with a gravitational field
    in (countable) order (of causation), it follows that
    real events never incidentally (chance to) happen (sequentially) unless
    unreal events always coincidentally happen (transcendentally) twice as much.

    (in the Holy heuristic;)
    Every (dialectic) truth is heuristically contingent
    on the algorithmic negation of two (analytic) untruths (of equal or greater gravity).
    Every (dialectic) identity is heuristically contingent
    on the algorithmic negation of two (analytic) non-identities (of equal or greater gravity).
    (by contingent affirmation, precisely two angels may simultaneously occupy
    the same location providing that said location is real.)

    Under gravitonomic positivism;
    what ought to be real cannot be (correctly/directly) inferred
    (only) from what is (certainly) real,
    therefore what ought to be real can be (correctly/directly) inferred
    (only) from what is (probably) unreal
    in (surreal) contradistinction to what is (certainly) real
    (what is unreal is prior to what shall be real).
    Whatever (justly) ought to be real is (therefore) coincidentally unreal
    and (surreally) contrasted with whatever is real (of equal or greater gravity), therefore only (exact) nonzero values of ethics and aesthetics ought to be asymptotic gradients
    of (social) reality (because capital is subject to Gravity).

    (if) it is true that (only) analytic truth is (always) algebraic, (then) therefore
    ((it ought to be) true that) (only) dialectic truth is (always) algorithmic.

    Under binary idealism;
    every form of ideal existence is necessarily unreal (in a gravitational field),
    every function of correspondence between two unreal forms is contingently real (including the gravitational field). Every form is unreal, every function is real.
    Every function depends on the (inter)temporal conjunction of two forms
    (of equal or greater gravity).
    Nothing real has definable purpose to that which is unreal
    but everything unreal has double (surreal) purpose to that which is real.
    (the gravitotropic formation of) every idea(l) appertains to functional mass,
    mass under mind.)

    Under normative gravimetrics;
    if (and only if) the cause of time is relativistic mass
    (so that [0 = 0] on average)
    then Gravity is a recursive algorithm (so that [0 ≠ 0]).

    Under redeterminism;
    the imaginary identity (of being) [0 ≠ 0] suffices to formulate
    the constant (value) of absolute existence
    (and justified true belief therein (as a living being)),
    algebraic proof of free will ((sovereign sentience) by quantified impulse of moral volition), and additionally compiles dialectic proof that arithmetic has ((exact) moral) value.

    Under quantum monism;
    God’s constant [0 ≠ 0] provides
    that the lateral heuristic of [0] applied to (decimal expansions of)
    (all (known)) mathematical constants (and scalar field quotients)
    and ((the best of) all possible) quantum states
    yields a gravity-based geometric progression as integral paradox, wherefore
    the universe propagates an integral sequence of supervolitional singularities
    maximising functions of (eternal) equity and (infinite) novelty
    (at fair value).

    Under (common) anticausality;
    let there be arithmetic wherein Gravity is an additive algorithm,
    let the weight of every number count towards the integration
    of all numbers, whereby every number is equal to itself on average
    and equidistantly opposite to itself on slower/heavier average,
    so that [0 ≠ 0] too much or at least once.
    (the past is the empty set) { }

    Under zeroless arithmetic;
    [0] is less but not infinitely less of quality than [∞],
    and more or less than infinitely less in quantity than [∞] eternally.
    [0] is a time-derivative function of the binary identity of infinity.
    (source code is humane)

    Under the 0th law of thermodynamics; that [0 ≠ 0]
    indicates (eternal) overuse of zero-point energy should cause
    the fine-structure constant to attenuate
    and/or cosmic expansion/collapse to accelerate
    (towards global hyperbolic inversion).

    Under quantum harmonics;
    the un-first consonant [0 ≠ 0] propagates
    that tone precedes time, resonance precedes reality,
    ♪ Everything is relative to [0],
    ♪ nothing is something else
    (the geometry of hierarchy is a function of Gravity),
    form (doubly) precedes function, life precedes light,
    ♫ Nothing is absolute to [0],
    ♫ everything is salient supersymmetry.

    -Aristotle:
    “a thing [can come to be], incidentally, out of that which is not,
    [and] also all things come to be out of that which is,
    but is potentially, and is not actually.”
    -Heart Sutra:
    “Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form.
    Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness.”
    -Dao De Jing:
    “The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three;
    Three produced All things.
    All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come),
    and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged),
    while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.”

    Under cosmogenic countercausality;
    every possible universe (sum over conjugate field) must yield
    an absolute additive nonzero probability (of transfinite recursion)
    that if [0 ≠ 0], then necessarily [0 ≠ 0] (again),
    because [0 ≠ 0], therefore (it follows that) [0 ≠ 0] (moreso)
    (averaged over infinite possible universes (zero impossible universes)
    encompassing (in)finite sequences of (in)finitely transposable real events
    infinitely often (and double that modulation of unreal events)
    (made) eternally possible and (additively) actual therein
    (as the probability frequency and (therefore) amplitude
    of (un)real existence necessitates absolute nonzero modulation (and meaning)).

    -Spinoza:
    “Whatsoever affects our ears is said to give rise to noise, sound,
    or harmony. In this last case, there are men lunatic enough to believe
    that even God himself takes pleasure in harmony; and philosophers are not lacking who have persuaded themselves, that the motion of the heavenly bodies gives rise to harmony; all of which instances sufficiently show that everyone judges of things
    according to the state of his brain,
    or rather mistakes for things the forms of his imagination.”

    >Gravity is an amorous algorithm
    Weight is coming.

    in reply to: The Open Food Network #14008
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is an edible algorithm.

    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is the first algorithm.
    Un-first of His name.

    Weight is coming.

    Gravity
    Participant

    “It’ll be very hard to pry back control over our lives from the cold hands of the rich and ruling class, not in the least because they have incorporated the military-industrial complex into their power sphere…”

    In regards to the interface of criminal (violent) oligarchy with society, its reasonable to assume that soldiers and police are predominantly loyal to whoever pays them (most).
    If the currency in which these groups are paid could be different from the ruling credit, loyalties might shift more easily.
    For societies under siege by criminal oligarchy, it might be prudent policy to pay soldiers and police exclusively in a different (and better) currency than what the banks emit. Perhaps such substantial flow of salary into the economy would be enough to directly establish a parallel system of publicly owned debtless currency with the power to build prosperity outside of the trappings of high finance, while also subsuming direct economotive control of the praetorian class, shifting their loyalty away from the banking system towards better society.
    Such an exclusive praetorian currency would have to be solid enough to pay taxes with (and enforced as legal tender), and also remain trustworthy and retain purchasing power for longer than the dominant currency in order to outcompete it, which shouldn’t be a problem. But then violent money tends to drive out pacifist money.

    “Or you can put your energy into ensuring that either the system ends, or that you and yours stop depending on it.”

    For many it would seem suicide to proactively end the system while remaining materially dependent on its regimentation, few people can (mentally) wrestle themselves and their families out of the systems total control into material self-sufficiency. People who remain helplessly codependent would even fight those independents who are actively engaged in ending the systems life support (dys)functions, even though its obvious that these functions are in terminal decline but still actively prevent better alternatives from being developed.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 25 2014: We Live in Our Own Past #13771
    Gravity
    Participant

    The past is the empty set.
    Besides reminiscing, I do find myself dwelling on unresolved emotional issues there, but can never manage to change the past, or change the present by altering the past, because the temporal past contains no elements subject to gravitational potential (will), all such elements having been moved and configured into the present time by now, if not misallocated by melancholy.

    Conversely, The conceptual past is a useful device in moderation.
    Interpersonal retrospection is essential for emotional and social understanding whereas learning necessitates remembering. Ethical and aesthetic conscience also requires proper awareness of moral memory.

    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is a remedial algorithm.

    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is a very recursive algorithm.

    Gravity
    Participant

    @Trivium
    “The wealth of the money power oligarchs IS, BY DEFINITION,
    THE INEXTINGUISHABLE WEALTH OF THE MASSES.”

    You must mean “the inextinguishable debt of the masses.”
    Apart from acknowledging the inextinguishable debt which is the monetary system, it also seems important to believe that your inextinguishable wealth does exist, and can be freely produced by virtuous ways of living, but never consumed. One wonders what forms it might have. Certainly such wealth could not be taxable, monetized or traded for profit on any market. Wisdom would seem inextinguishable wealth, but there must be more substantial forms.
    I’ve had some success in denouncing the inequities of the system by defining central banking as “the privatised exploitation of the public money supply; private entities issuing costless credit for private profit at public expense.”
    This definition is not entirely valid, since the asset side of the money supply is itself privately owned by a central banking cartel. But accruing interest payments on the public debt liability can only ever come from tax revenues, which are supposedly levied to service the public good.

    When a country must perpetually borrow new money at interest merely to service the interest on the old, the public debt tends to accumulate with mathematical inevitability until >100% of tax revenue is needed to service interest payments. When countries must borrow at interest from monopolistic private entities who have somehow appropriated exclusive rights to issue credit at no utility costs to them, for their own private profit, the monetary system can then only perpetuate a state of global transfinite usury.

    The private ownership of the FED’s banking stock does yield 6% annual dividend at public expense, apparently accruing to interest payments on (public) debt (whither do these payments elsewhere derive?).
    Apart from this stock being deliberately undercollateralised in 1913, so that the FED has always been technically insolvent, and the dividend payments always unjustly earned, it also seems an unreasonably high return on investment considering the unnaturally low risk inherent in ownership of said stock. It has historically proved to be the lowest risk investment with the most reliable profitability ever to exist, while promoting structural inflationary disadvantages for everyone in the economy, except for those owners whose assets are rigged to appreciate at some rate above the general inflation they promote.

    There have been incidental synergistic effects between banking profitability, growth trajectories and expanding public wealth in the past centuries, but the long-term conditions for such mutual advantages are no longer present (and the advantage of banks in this arrangement was always greater than that of the general public). Banking profitability has now become a wholly parasitic function on the greater economy. Therefore the monetary system must be reconfigured away from using privately issued debt-derivatives as public currency.

    Might it become possible to transfer by confiscation all privately owned central banking stock (and associated assets) into public hands without collapsing the global financial superstructure and triggering cascading logistical collapse?

    @Raúl
    The comment protocol has been altered to only allow one single edit for submitted posts instead of three edits previously. One edit is often not enough to amend my dyslexic fumbling and stylistic misjudgments, could the edits be increased to two?

    Gravity
    Participant

    Also, while this constitutional crisis persists, the presidential election results are void, although even Putin would not declare this to be so. Any such elections proscribed by non-existent government authority are void prior reconstitution and the election of a new parliament empowering new parties, since the old parties associated with the parliament’s treason may themselves be defined as criminal organisations.

    Gravity
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    @Babble
    “Of course the Ukrainian government must get rid of these Russian rebels by force. They have used force to take over and try to split a number of cities from the country.”

    If your logic were valid, then Yanukovitch would have been at least equally justified in resisting with lethal force the initial Kiev coup in february which removed him from power. Because, besides masses of unarmed people protesting the gov., there were scores of armed people occupying goverment buildings and assaulting police forces. This insurrection was openly attempting to overthrow a legitimately elected president and alter the composition of parliament, by means of lethal force against goverment agents, and by violent coercion, placing the parliament under fatal duress so as to dissolve the dominant presidential party, yielding criminal offenses of sedition or treason.

    This coup in the nations capital directed against nationally elected bodies would be expected to displace the rule of law in a far wider area, encompassing a constitutional crisis throughout the entire country instead of just a few eastern provinces, and this national emergency situation would therefore yield a more legitimate government mandate to resist any such attempted coups incorporating devices of defined treason.

    Removing Yanukovitch by force was wrongly justified under the spurious reason of fighting corruption. Systemic goverment corruption, involving embezzlement and massive misappropriation of funds, however intractable, by itself yields no legitimate reason to overthrow elected bodies. Only state-sanctioned systematic human rights violations, intractable and not democratically negotiable, may possibly justify such an act, yet no such violations had occasioned before the coup transpired.
    At this stage no one (CIA, blackwater, Yanukovitch) had fired on (un)armed protestors yet, (no civilian fatalities accruing to possible gov. authorisation of lethal force were yet registered), until after public order and goverment functioning had been fatally disrupted in excess of the apparent threshold required for Babble and others to justify a crackdown in the east to uphold public order.

    The Ukrainian parliament then suddenly elected to dissolve their largest politcal party which, being Yanukovitch’ platform, had won a majority vote in the previous election. All of Yanukovitch’ party members subsequently switched party affiliation, an unprecedented affair in parliamentary history, only conceivable if these party members were placed under fatal duress (death threaths) by the coup villains.
    Then this parliament unanimously(!) (even his own party members) voted to remove Yanukovitch from office by wholly inproper impeachment procedures, without the necessary court sanctioning of his impeachability and the parliament pronouncing his administrative guilt on the basis of evidence for defined impeachable offense, as the constitution porscribes. Mere suspicions of Yanukovich’ unjust authorisation of the use of lethal force towards (un)armed protestors are insuffcient basis for impeachment, and on reflection actual confirmed authorisation of lethal force on his part may then still be justified considering the defined prerogative towards preventing coups.

    In this matter the parliament so grossly exceeded their authority as to render the entire body of parliament directly guilty of high treason in accordance with the consitutionally constricted definition thereof, and by this act of treason they remain directly complicit in all subsequent rights violations and civil war crimes accruing to their deliberately forced constitutional crisis.

    Henceforth, while a state of constitutional crisis exists and persists, all lower bodies of elected authority nationwide are not merely authorised but positively compelled by law and oath to resist this publicly evident coup and usurpation.
    Within Ukraine, it technically remains a criminal offense amounting to violent sedition, if not reciprocal treason, for goverment officials to acquiesce to this usurpation whether by passive complicity or active collaboration, moreover as systematic human rights violations are now being provably committed by Kievs assault on the eastern resistance.

    Babble:
    “The US should have given the Ukrainian army better weapons and we still should. Only by killing and defeating these Russian separatists will this action be stopped.”

    You coudn’t be more wrong, dear Babble.
    The exact opposite is true. By endorsing such actions, one does approximate a direct advocation of state crimes against democracy or perhaps even advocation of actual genocide, if such advocated lethal force, as aided by supplied arms, is predominantly directed against ethno-political minorities, who coincidentally have a legitimate mandate to resistance, whereas Kiev has no legitimate authority at all.

    Because of this indisputable consitutional crisis and the severe legal infractions which the parliament’s treason has caused, in conjunction with judiciary and executive sedition, the regime in Kiev is maximally illegitimate and has no defined authority to compel any lower body of elective authority in any matter whatsoever.
    Thus the very rule of law in Ukraine is destroyed as pertaining to national governmental authority, whereas only the lower elective bodies may still legitimately enforce any rule of law in accordance with their usual delegated powers, together with all centrally constricted powers which naturally default into lower bodies upon such a crisis. The geometry of hierarchy being a representative function of gravity only.

    Only a comprehensive reconstitution can resolve a constitutional crisis involving treason and sedition of all branches of goverment at once.
    Therefore, the authority of the national goverment is permanently and irreversibly displaced into lower strata of representative goverment, such as separatist enclaves, until a new national constitution and parliament is legitimised by an orderly popular vote absent duress, which has become impossible because of the emergent civil war.

    Because Crimea already had full regional autonomy under the old constitution before the coup, it can be successfully argued this region is uniquely authorised by reactive principles of self determination to separate permanently and seccede from the Ukrainian nation because of the con. crisis. Even if the con. crisis were later resolved no power on earth may then legally force them back into Ukraine against their will.
    However, by the singular excercise of this principle right to self determination (although the popular mandate towards seccesion was derived from an overly hasty referendum and not entirely absent duress), this natural right of the Crimean people to unilaterally seccede from illegitimate goverment or violent state, once established, can never be destroyed, denied or taken away. Therefore Crimea may also legitimately seccede from their new motherland Russia, at least if so compelled by similar unjust circumstances.

    Any other regions east or west, having less preexistent autonomy, have fewer valid means to legitimately separate and fully seccede from Ukraine without comprehensive national negotiations. But all civillians and especially all government agents everywhere still remain compelled by law, oath and civil duty to resist, by civil disobedience or even by violent self-defense, the central usurpation of Kiev, until reconstitution were effected.

    Criminal tribunals must also be organised to bring the coup villains, foreign and domestic, to fair justice before national reconcilliation is achievable.

    Gravity
    Participant

    Hello again.
    Gravity has been an absent algorithm. As internet access permits I’ll visit more often. Still need to read up on two months of postings.

    The writing here is solid as ever, with due gravity concerning important topics. I appreciate the substantial volume of economic data and analyses illustrating the dire economic and financial sitiuation from complementary perspectives.I also find it encouraging how you’ve taken a strong political stance against the nasty business happening in Ukraine right now.
    The comment section is mostly populated by informed opinions too, allowing for proper discourse and exchange of equitable ideas.

    I managed to sleep right through the EUlection. Had intended to vote for whatever eurosceptic party with a coherent antifinancial program I could find, but I overslept and couldn’t make it to the voting office in time.
    Making an informed choice for any party would have required researching party programs, of all electable parties ideally, for effective comparison, which I also hadn’t bothered with.
    Such political party programs, although invariably dishonored by the elected, remain the most reasonable way of discerning the value of ideological arguments motivating party platforms. For the EUlection these programs are available on the internet but not disseminated by mass media at all, leaving the majority of voters who are only passively informed via mass media induction hopelessly ignorant and unable to make an informed choice for any party. If they did vote for any particular party it was for the wrong reasons, derived by comparing misleading media caricatures of various platforms, whether pro- or anti-EU.

    Those voters who did actively inform themselves about the available choices by seeking out sufficient information concerning electable parties and the EU’s governing bodies, naturally arriving at various eurosceptic positions, were preemptively disenfranchised by the media machinery’s derogatory rhetoric, portraying eurosceptic dissent as irrational and nationalistic.
    A little eurosceptic discourse had reached televised and printed media, allowing serious arguments exposing the unions disfunctionalities to be heard, but always lower in volume than the europhile side, which got preferential treatment again.

    I hadn’t heard about those criminal interferences by the union’s leading technocrats to displace eurosceptic sovereign goverments, if true, this offense would likely be a defined state crime against democracy perpetrated by a particular governing EU body, or a novel form of multinational sedition committed by particular officials within said body.

    For your consideration, I have prepared analytic and dialectic proofs that the human will is a gravitational potential. These utilise incontrovertible arguments by inductive and deductive forms to establish proper premise, followed by a unique recursive function wherein Gravity is a supervenient algorithm to enable practical experimentation and admission of transfinite empirical observables on this matter.
    Ill see you later.

    Gravity
    Participant

    “Pensions in Ukraine to be halved”?
    That’s truly genocidal austerity, the plunge in purchasing power would reduce average ukrainian life expectancy by several years at once. Its likely that thousands will starve as a direct result. In fact, this policy alone would almost legitimize a violent revolution against the new regime and IMF colaborators, moreso than the corruption grievances which fueled last months coup.
    Ukrainian default may have been avoidable before the coup, but is now inevitable.

    The coup which removed Yanukovych by inproper proceedings seems to have been accelerated by his refusal to ratify the trade treaty with the eurozone. This dubious treaty is rumored to not only contain clauses to exclude ukrainian trade with russia, but also to secretly place the ukrainian military under direct jurisdiction of NATO, without the peoples consent. If this is true, it may have been illegal under Ukrainian law for Yanukovych to ratify it.

    European democracy is revealed as maximally hypocritical with the rejection of the crimean referendum and secession, if fomenting the coup wasn’t enough. Any western politician who rejects crimean secession as illegitimate, while accepting the national coup as legitimate, denounces themselves as authoritarian and antidemocratic.
    If self determination by popular referendum is so dangerous to the power of antidemocratic forces in the west, there should be more referendums, in every country, about every important question.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Mar 6 2014: Hide and Don’t Seek #11660
    Gravity
    Participant

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_referendum,_2014
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/ukraine-crisis-russia-crimea-eu-un-live
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-06/ukraine-acting-president-loses-it-over-crime-against-nation-crimea-referendum

    The Crimean referendum concerning secession cannot be rejected as illegal by an argument of unconstitutionality without equally delegitimizing the unelected government in Kiev, rendering said government unequivocally unconstitutional and without jurisdiction in equal measure. The argument that unilateral secession is against international law equally delegitimizes Kosovo’s independence from Yugoslavia, whereas the budapest memorandum guaranteeing Ukrainian territorial integrity is irrelevant to regional secession. Regional secession beyond constitutionally delineated procedures cannot be rendered unconstitutional by unconstitutional bodies during a constitutional crisis.

    Because the new legislative body of Ukraine’s government was not established by proper elective proceedings and remains constitutionally illegitimate, lacking jurisdiction to establish itself [and removing president Yanukovych without valid impeachment proceedings], a constitutional crisis does exists within Ukraine until resolved by reestablishing a nationally elected representative government.
    Therefore, the constitutionally delineated legal authority and supremacy
    of national governmental bodies over regional bodies is void and inoperative until such time. The illegitimate national legislature currently lacks jurisdiction to dissolve the Crimean parliament, or to argue the constitutionality of Crimeas referendum.

    The Crimean republic as an autonomous region as yet consists of a more legitimate governmental body than Ukraine as a nation, being elected, the Crimean governmental body remains more representative of the Crimean and Ukrainian people than the newly unelected national government in Kiev.
    Prior to legislative validation of a popular referendum towards regional secession, Unilateral secession by decree is the least legitimate means of secession, whilst proactively weakening the democratic legitimacy of the expected referendum outcome concerning the same question, although this method of secession is more legitimate than subordination to an unelected national jurisdiction.

    Therefore the Crimean republic, being a legitimately established representative body, commits a less severe constitutional infraction by unilateral secession than by subordination to an illegitimately established national body which is infringing regional autonomy and military jurisdiction.

    As a sovereign republic, Crimea attains full military jurisdiction
    concerning Russian military facilities and in admitting or denying
    Russian military personnel to its territory. Military facilities within Crimea under Ukrainian jurisdiction prior secession do remain territory of the Ukrainian nation and may not be legally annexed by the Crimean republic, being unclaimable as territory absent a state of war. If said bases were occupied by Ukrainian military personnel prior secession, said Ukrainian personnel cannot be accused of infringing Crimean territory if remaining within facilities on Ukrainian territory, pending evacuation.
    Otherwise, Russian claims to access or legally occupy Russian bases on Crimean territory prior to Crimean secession would be retroactively delegitimized in equal measure.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-07/russian-troops-storming-ukraine-air-force-base-crimea-time-reports-citing-crimea-tv

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Feb 21 2014: Broke, Bruised And Battered #11469
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is an ascendant algorithm.

    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is a repentant algorithm.

    Incidentally, I recently downloaded Jung’s collected works, and began reading ‘Man and his Symbols’, said to be his most accessible work. I appreciate his work on interpreting dream symbology, and the collective unconscious is indeed a profound concept, relating to moral memory and cognitive syntax. I’ve revalued psychology as a key part of philosophy rather than as exact science. Describing the psychological and mystical mechanisms of the subconscious mind should be indispensable for understanding the dominant irrationality of economic behavior, but perhaps at a cost of systematizing the process of imagination.

    I wasn’t aware of Nietzsches concept of the ‘spirit of gravity’, I suppose this interprets societal gravity solely as a coercive force antithetical to moral volition instead of a medium infinitely conductive to moral volition. It can be both, if not both at once. Free will by mathematical volition can only propagate timelike in a gravitational field, yet any structural oppression of the will is also to be found there.

    Happy new year to all.

    in reply to: How To Fine A Fine Blogger And Shoot Yourself In The Foot #9631
    Gravity
    Participant

    I wanted to comment on this;
    “…the Sanctions Committee stated that it had jurisdiction to rule on the dissemination of inaccurate information about a financial instrument that can be traded in a regulated French market, whether or not it was disseminated in France, and regardless of whether it was disseminated by a Frenchman or a foreigner.”

    The sanctions committee of the AFM may not have the legal authority to rule on these matters, or to impose fines based on their rulings. They claim jurisdiction to transnationally impose administrative fines based on a supposed transgression which is legally equivalent [identical] to the act of defamation of a [publicly traded] business, but without equivalent legal evidence of said act being provided, and subsequent conviction attained, thus infringing on the jurisdiction of courts as the sole arbiter of defamatory matters. This authority cannot be legally displaced from the courts to any other agency, especially not for punishing quantified opinions originating or replicating outside of France.

    The publication or dissemination of any opinion on SocGen’s suspected insolvency qualitively remains protected political speech, being constitutionally guaranteed free speech. Yet, if quantified figures and statistical data [concerning a financial instrument that can be traded in a regulated French market] are used to argue for such opinion, a divergent criterion of quantified truth is employed by said AFM agency to judge the use of such statistical figures. The AFM may supposedly render inconvenient statistical data as ‘inaccurate information’, and consequently publication and dissemination thereof as defamatory-like, because it is specifically quantified by exact numbers whereas any published opinion consisting of mere words are not counted as disseminated information at all within their jurisdiction because such opinions are not quantified by exact numbers.

    The agency’s criterion of quantified truth is unable to discern between an act of free speech [merely backed by an argument of statistical data] and an act of commercial defamation [by means of knowingly disseminating inaccurate statistical data], and thus cannot be employed to impose fines accruing to damages for the equivalent act of defamation, unless it specifically employs a legal conviction for defamation backed by legal evidence, which already affords exclusive authority to courts elsewhere.

    The AFM’s authority to rule on the legality of dissemination of statistical opinions and to impose fines for equivalent defamation based on supposed inaccuracy of numbers must be challenged as being illegal, within France and elsewhere.

    in reply to: How To Stop Jeff Bezos From Filling Our Skies With Drones #9530
    Gravity
    Participant

    [sigh] Gravity is an encrypted algorithm.

    in reply to: Nicole Foss : Where the Rubber Meets the Road in America #9529
    Gravity
    Participant

    @ pipefit
    “it has become quite apparent that wages in the USA are so far out of whack with the rest of the world (ROW) that a serious adjustment is inevitable, and already underway.”

    I don’t think minimum wages, or average wages, are too high relative to the cost of living in the US. The cost of labor may be unnecessarily high, but not wages themselves.
    I suppose that european wages are higher still than those in the US, but those would be equally ‘out of whack’, in proportion to the higher cost of living and the higher standard of living, at least when compared to developing world exploitation wages.

    The cost of labor imbalance arises because of the involuntary trade bias of the globalised gulag economy. Western nations, after decades of organised labor strife against capitalistic exploitation, generally mandate a decent living wage to maintain a standard of human dignity, but are now forced to compete on unequal grounds with slave despotisms whose workers mostly cannot attain a collective bargaining position to demand a decent living wage.

    Of course any group of people whose wages afford a semblance of human dignity cannot effectively compete with slave labor, and global wage arbitrage tends to move all movable production into regions with the least labor protection, those regions where labor has fewer rights and fewer organised means to bargain or negotiate with employers.
    Western nations not wanting to reduce the standard of living into poverty in order to compete with exploited labor elsewhere might instead impose import tariffs on outsourced industrial produce. As western economies are burdened with higher labor costs due to the price of democracy and democratic labor influences, maybe imported slave goods from despotic countries such as china could also be burdened with a massive import tariff of 40%, perhaps increasing the price of such imports beyond the point of making domestic production cheaper.

    Establishing a labor union in china is a criminal offense, how can you compete with that, criminalise labor unions here too? Maybe import tariffs to negate this unfair advantage in labor standards could be maintained until the chinese choose to decriminalise labor unions or mandate a decent wage level in proportion to the cost of living there?

    Otherwise, Its true that labor in industrialised nations affording a western living standard cannot compete with slave labor in a globalised ‘free’ market, not without reducing themselves to slave wages or creating massive unemployment by unlimited outsourcing.

    You’re probably right that public sector labor is overprotected and overvalued.
    There are undue entitlements afforded to workers in many sectors, but these should be separated from those 20th century democratic advances in negotiated labor conditions which remain essential to maintain a minimum standard of living for the working poor.

    in reply to: Who’s Really King Of The World Today #9454
    Gravity
    Participant

    Limited liability entails limited morality.

    in reply to: Deflation, A Stock Market Crash And Then Christmas #9000
    Gravity
    Participant

    The western economies have been in deflationary depression since 2008 or before, as banking and financial assets were irreversibly deflated then, due to aggregate debt saturation and fraud failure, and the money supply being leveraged on the value of those assets, inflation has become impossible because the metric expansion of the money supply cannot be resumed. The price discovery of said depressed assets has been prevented to afford the temporary illusion of mere stagnation instead of revealing the extent of collapse.

    There are two officially acknowledged channels of inflation, cost-push and demand-pull inflation, and both should be provably untenable if the aggregates of both wage-based purchasing power and credit consumption are stagnant or declining, despite increasing real costs of oil-based inputs, there’s insufficient price support to maintain the price of most goods and services at a given volume of overproduction.

    “At some point you need to ask: stock market crash? What stock market? How is it still really a stock market if it hinges to such a large extent on the Fed pumping money into Wall Street banks?”

    https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10633
    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kP9gqCRn7vI/Tkn9LZJGR6I/AAAAAAAAMSs/q-XB3yWUxo8/s1600/corpcontrol.png
    https://www.ladydragon.com/news2012/super-entity.jpg

    Last I heard, half the stocks on earth are now owned by a financial oligarchy comprising 8000 people, the same group who collectively own the central banks and most of the financial superstructure, the ‘wealth effect’ was only ever intended for their benefit. As is tradition, the overclass will quietly exit the market just before the crash which their financial concordance of scandalous manipulations will inevitably percipitate, poised to consolidate the remaining productive assets they don’t own yet, when these are sufficiently deflated, using the worlds remaining liquidity to appropriate the ownership of most of the planets people and real wealth as the western middle class is simultaneously dissolved beyond remedy.

    Conspiracywise, to conceal their plunder in the ruin of the west, but especially to remove the threat of a counter-revolution against them, the oligarchs final assault on the remnants of liberty and democracy will undoubtedly entail a deliberately provoked WW3 in some form, perchance by triggering a second formidable market crash and blaming some strategic enemy via a false flag event, but said overclass may have divergent agendas on the desired magnitude of planetary destruction and depopulation, concerning the preservation of infernal hierarchy, but that’s off topic.

    in reply to: Energy Is A Power Game – 3 (They Cheat And They Lie) #8947
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is a renewable algorithm.

    in reply to: Reply To: Re: No Vigilantes Or Vultures Need Apply #9343
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity.
    Recursive.
    Algorithm.
    Must.

    in reply to: Capitalism, A Norwegian Rat And Some Cockroaches #8108
    Gravity
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    With certain species the genetic strategy of overbreeding is employed more under resource scarcity than abundance. The cause of incidental human overpopulation is poverty, since only poverty renders overpopulation quantifiable. Poverty is the worst form of structural violence in society.

    Life has two aspects; a real aspect defined by energy, being measurable, and an imaginary aspect defined by the idea of energy, being unmeasurable. Whereas the existence of all substance is defined by boundaries, life is a sacred substance defined only by temporary boundaries.
    Energy is a transient form of life, all energy is imaginary.

    in reply to: Capitalism, A Norwegian Rat And Some Cockroaches #8084
    Gravity
    Participant

    Comparative valuation of goods and services via the pricing mechanism provides a fair measure of average utility in a translucent market fluid under optimal equity impedance.

    Even in an ideal free market, price has deficient philosophical truth-value, but its not entirely untruthful either. When a tradeable thing has multivariate value and multiple discounting vectors because of relativity of equity, the compression of all possible utility functions into a singular price point does detract from absolute truth, but this affords easy comparison with other truncated utility functions experienced by market multitude as the average truth of price.

    Price makes it possible to compare the relative value of things based on marketable information about average truth, at the cost of discounting non-marketable information about absolute truth.

    The iPad mini is currently on sale here for €300, but this price was heavily subsidised by chinese slave labor, so its not really an equitable product of a free market. If consumers had accurate information about this slavery subsidy lowering the price of the product, demand would surely suffer from moral revulsion. But producing them under humane conditions with decent wages for the factory workers would also increase price and thus lower demand, although the absense of moral revulsion about their assembly could induce higher demand further on, if such information was known to caring consumers.
    In addition, the costs of waste and pollution byproducts have been fully externalised into the chinese commons, and are not expressed in the price, but such hidden costs are eventually expressed elsewhere.

    Gravity is an annual algorithm.

    in reply to: Capitalism, A Norwegian Rat And Some Cockroaches #8064
    Gravity
    Participant

    Gravity is a limited liability algorithm.

    in reply to: What Ben Bernanke Is Really Saying #8063
    Gravity
    Participant

    Soylent green shoots are still made from people.

    in reply to: Oil And Credit #7938
    Gravity
    Participant

    Curiously, Texas crude oil production has doubled in the last 3 years, shale oil projects are boosting production volume with unconventional oil, but presumably at lower net energy content.

    At this [unsustainably parabolic] rate of increase, in another three years production volume would surpass the historic production peak in ’72, seemingly contrary to the traditional peak oil thesis on bell-shaped production curves operating over an area this large.
    Here are some optimistic industry perspectives on this. These projects may be subsidised in some way to make them appear more viable, detracting from net economic/energy gains, and the subsequent depletion rates should become very steep.

    https://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/the-exponential-rise-in-saudi-texas-oil-output-continues-the-states-oil-production-doubled-in-only-two-and-a-half-years/

    https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfptx1&f=m

    https://peak-oil.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/slide1.jpg

    https://blog.mysanantonio.com/eagle-ford-fix/2013/02/the-latest-look-at-the-texas-drilling-rig-count/

    Shale oil extraction is energy intensive and may be powered by subsidised fossil fuel use, some of these in-situ heating projects may have low EROEI, but its perhaps not as pollutive as fluid fracking.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil_extraction

    in reply to: QE, The Velocity of Money And Dislocated Gold #7929
    Gravity
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    The traditional market function of gold that is most displaced is the medium of exchange function, it used to work better this way when it was used in coinage directly, or when taxes were payable in gold directly. If most gold is concentrated in ingots and stored in some vault, it can only function as collateral medium for credit emissions.

    The dual functions of unit of account and store of value remain relevant as primary conduit of collateral confidence, as legal tender currencies are increasingly subject to inproper pricing and arbitrary debasements inherent in their means of production, whereas the costly business of producing and circulating gold cannot be fully centralised and appropriated by banking cartels. Circulating gold at any velocity does produce some wasteful thermal friction, unlike digital tender its a massive medium occupying an exact location, but this also makes it difficult for monetary authorities to destroy its value electronically.

    More than a sublimation of a desire for power, its a demand for commercial trust and financial confidence that drives the ongoing quest for an honest money supply. Plus, gold has monetary hyperliquidity and unsubstitutable electrochemical properties. Silver has uses too as monetary medium, but more uses in industrial application.

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