Education in the United States has failed to keep up with the challenges flowing over K-12 instructional method.K-12 competency decline parallels that of U.S. economic leadership. It should be easier to advance progress in public K-12 education than in federal economic leadership.
Students waste too much time on computer gaming. For-extra credit educational games of high video quality should be contracted to encouraged students to play educational games instead of grand theft auto. Like standardized textbooks educational video games should be exciting for teenagers to play.
For mathematical instruction perhaps students shooting the right answer might get points on multiple choice opponents possibilities while those failing to nail the right relationship of for example the hypotenuse of the Pythagorean Theorem might be shot and lose points.
Standardized mathematical and history video games would let students combine useful learning and recreational opportunities together. School examination of a student-player’s skill level on a school computer would determine if the student learned that Vladimir Computin was not the inventor of transistor, or if the periodic table’s elements include pepper and salt.
Federal budgeters in Congress complain about nickel and diming the trillion dollar deficit conveniently forgetting that last December both parties and the president choose to extend tax cuts thus preventing a balanced budget in two years if they had been allowed to expire, and quicker with some spending cuts. If the federal budget could have been balanced by a responsible congress this year, the fracturing of national ecological and economic accountability into the worst case scenarios of the Diner’s Dilemma that allow just ‘nickel and diming’ of the federal budget and 14 trillion dollar public debt provides a spirit-of-the-age normal replacement. Kicking the issue down the road is the best way for globalism to function when it’s only the U.S. public holding the bag.
Globalists seek to balance the budget by cutting social sector spending-areas where corporations and contractors do not directly get federal payments. If entitlements were to be fairly cut, it would not be the poor that would be cut but the prosperous through means testing and of course that would be opposed by the prosperous majorities of congress. Cutting social sector spending isn’t the best way to balance the federal budget now. Cutting Department of Revenue spending on interest payments on the public debt-about ¾ trillion annually would be possible with tax increases. Eliminating interest payments on public debt is the preferred method of balancing the federal budget. Modest spending cuts, and large rhetoric cuts, should be enacted to bring the U.S. economy toward a healthier direction.
Public education could obviously be improved by providing vouchers to private schools for excellent students so they are not held back. Teachers should have more time to instruct average and slower students. A public education system in the post-modern nation-state runs a risk of mass public mediocrity through conformity to a fundamental norm killing educational diversity in the process. The richness of a public education system should be found in its independent diversity of content and styles instead of in training for submission to autocracy or alternatively collective yippee conformity.
American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
3/15/11
About 'The Age of Fracture" by Daniel Rogers
A new book by a professor of history at Princeton goes over a thesis that change in the United States since the 1970’s has developed toward fracturing of the national sense of community and mutual obligations with a market based identity of individualism becoming the new national intellectual paradigm. I have just started reading this book published in 2011 so need write with reserve on the thesis. It does seem consistent with the idea of dumping 14 trillion dollars of public debt upon the taxpayers though. Obviously the congress would be reduced to squabbling about nickels and dimes after the president too rejected tax rate increases last December.
I should say that I am a little reticent about ascribing too much importance to intellectual histories of the era as being leading rather than responsive things. Political leaders of the 20th century were preponderantly reactionaries instead of creative leaders. Well, in centuries past being a good leader meant getting the golden horde motivate to conquer the rich land abroad, and today a more intellectual challenge in the U.S.A. to materially comprehend nationalism, equality, prosperity and ecology and economic environment is categorically flunked. U.S. Presidents since the Roosevelts-with the exceptions of Nixon and Eisenhower, have been blind donkeys wandering in the desert regarding environmental boundaries and their integral relationship to nationhood and citizenship.
Politicians and intellectuals in the U.S.A. may write or speak in advocacy of reformed economic national structure as well as in a post hoc descriptive amorphous intellectual fog. If the U.S. economic structure has morphed into a fractured Market Economy replacing structured democratic and national management, it may be reasonable to regard a modest anarchic abandonment of executive competence as the new norm for the office of presdident of the United States. That leads me to wonder if Ronald Regan's intentional 'narration role' of the U.S.A. during his tenure in which the nation became a field of dreams in which all individual fullfillment was possible even as we watched the epic unfold can be duplicated by today's Republican candidates that are challenged to start with the disadvantage of perhaps 18 trillion dollars of public debt by 2013.
Perhaps Donald Trump has the potential for the role of off screen narrator and on screen host of the American dream on a nationalist instead of a globalist scale. Careful economic gardening planting green infrastructure and economic balance at home would promote good relations and a return to competent national political structure domestically.
I should say that I am a little reticent about ascribing too much importance to intellectual histories of the era as being leading rather than responsive things. Political leaders of the 20th century were preponderantly reactionaries instead of creative leaders. Well, in centuries past being a good leader meant getting the golden horde motivate to conquer the rich land abroad, and today a more intellectual challenge in the U.S.A. to materially comprehend nationalism, equality, prosperity and ecology and economic environment is categorically flunked. U.S. Presidents since the Roosevelts-with the exceptions of Nixon and Eisenhower, have been blind donkeys wandering in the desert regarding environmental boundaries and their integral relationship to nationhood and citizenship.
Politicians and intellectuals in the U.S.A. may write or speak in advocacy of reformed economic national structure as well as in a post hoc descriptive amorphous intellectual fog. If the U.S. economic structure has morphed into a fractured Market Economy replacing structured democratic and national management, it may be reasonable to regard a modest anarchic abandonment of executive competence as the new norm for the office of presdident of the United States. That leads me to wonder if Ronald Regan's intentional 'narration role' of the U.S.A. during his tenure in which the nation became a field of dreams in which all individual fullfillment was possible even as we watched the epic unfold can be duplicated by today's Republican candidates that are challenged to start with the disadvantage of perhaps 18 trillion dollars of public debt by 2013.
Perhaps Donald Trump has the potential for the role of off screen narrator and on screen host of the American dream on a nationalist instead of a globalist scale. Careful economic gardening planting green infrastructure and economic balance at home would promote good relations and a return to competent national political structure domestically.
Decline of Newspaper Industry; Why Not Move into Radio With Radio-Newspaper Stations?
The state of newspapers went into decline with free, instant radio broadcasts with news along with television. For the time being however radio remains the most accessible for of mass media to the poor and for travelers while newspapers have faded out as a new generation finds the paper format as uninteresting as the prior generation found it intriguing. Newspapers could move into radio broadcasting of their content themselves as summaries to bring the public to buy a paper locally to read the full story.
Radio broadcasts have radically declined in quality in news and music. Their use for education is virtually nil. Newspaper radio stations could read their high value articles, read Internet blog articles, high value columnists and educational content. Newspaper broadcasts might combine information within-detail information available in paper, as well as provide information on discount coupons available in a particular issue.
One day Internet radio may reach the public through radio wavelengths, until then Newspaper radio stations could be a way to revitalize local news interest and also provide intelligent thought for local people to listen too rather than just national mass media blather.
Newspaper broadcast stations should not make the mistake of resembling ‘talk’ radio with off the cuff ad libbing on sundry political topics so blunt as to be of the quality of dirt as like as not. If even notable syndicated columnists are brought aboard only their written works should be read by themselves or speech synthesizers without rave bias.
Human beings can read word information far faster than they usually can listen to it. Unstructured political ad libbing on talk radio in comparison to careful structured essays resemble a fellow straight out of the gym in a sweat suit compared to a guy wearing a suit. The very casual approach tends to lose out on the presentation of quality information. Quality information was the basic advantage newspapers like the Anchorage Daily News had over radio.
Radio broadcasts have radically declined in quality in news and music. Their use for education is virtually nil. Newspaper radio stations could read their high value articles, read Internet blog articles, high value columnists and educational content. Newspaper broadcasts might combine information within-detail information available in paper, as well as provide information on discount coupons available in a particular issue.
One day Internet radio may reach the public through radio wavelengths, until then Newspaper radio stations could be a way to revitalize local news interest and also provide intelligent thought for local people to listen too rather than just national mass media blather.
Newspaper broadcast stations should not make the mistake of resembling ‘talk’ radio with off the cuff ad libbing on sundry political topics so blunt as to be of the quality of dirt as like as not. If even notable syndicated columnists are brought aboard only their written works should be read by themselves or speech synthesizers without rave bias.
Human beings can read word information far faster than they usually can listen to it. Unstructured political ad libbing on talk radio in comparison to careful structured essays resemble a fellow straight out of the gym in a sweat suit compared to a guy wearing a suit. The very casual approach tends to lose out on the presentation of quality information. Quality information was the basic advantage newspapers like the Anchorage Daily News had over radio.
U.S.A. Should Halt Atomic Power Plant Construction
Nuclear power plants are implicitly weapons of mass destruction accelerators. Future terrorist attacks, conventional war targeting and natural disasters will increase their likelihood of vaporizing and weaponizing nuclear power plants in proportion to the proliferation of construction of atomic power plants around the globe. The recent Japanese equinox earthquake proved that planned safety measures for atomic power plants inevitably do not measure up to their survival challenges.
General human social disasters and mass die offs of population have been known to occur in human history. The bubonic plagues that wiped out two thirds of the population of Europe could recur in a new form for the entire world with the advances in genetic engineering and quick global transportation able that would facilitate the planetary instantaneous communication f communicable, fatal disease. With any of a number of forms of mass social disaster or intentional attack the world would be unable to cope with preventing melt down o thousands of nuclear reactors in atomic power plants without live human operators. The evolution of future life on Earth would be altered deleteriously for thousands of years.
The United States government has been remiss in allowing global market forces to set the nation’s power agenda moving it toward the reckless. Safe, alternate means of energy production and transmission exist that should receive government development reinforcement. Solar, wind, geothermal and fuel cell power and super-conducting power storage and transmission technologies should receive U.S. Government prioritization as energy technologies of vastly superior value to that of atomic or fossil fuel power. Yet with even the White House allowing the First Lady to be a huckster in Sam’s Club e-trade commercials the prospects for White House leadership to turn the nation toward clean, high tech new energy production not presently listed as Corporate Wall Street Oil or atomic corporations seems dim.
Four Fukushima prefecture atomic reactors are experiencing dangerous issues if not reactor meltdown in the days after the magnitude 9.0 equinox earthquake. U.S. Government planners should heed the lesson that atomic reactors are big, fat dangerous plumbs in advanced nations for enemies of today or the future to target with accurate cruise missiles and geo-positioning electronics. Simultaneous destruction of nuclear reactors in an advanced nation could devastate an economy for decades in addition to spewing radiation for a very long time.
Military technology proliferates even faster than atomic power plant technology. For a market based government political opinion valuing today’s profits blind to placing the equivalent of vast explosives caches around the countryside is very, very stupid indeed.
General human social disasters and mass die offs of population have been known to occur in human history. The bubonic plagues that wiped out two thirds of the population of Europe could recur in a new form for the entire world with the advances in genetic engineering and quick global transportation able that would facilitate the planetary instantaneous communication f communicable, fatal disease. With any of a number of forms of mass social disaster or intentional attack the world would be unable to cope with preventing melt down o thousands of nuclear reactors in atomic power plants without live human operators. The evolution of future life on Earth would be altered deleteriously for thousands of years.
The United States government has been remiss in allowing global market forces to set the nation’s power agenda moving it toward the reckless. Safe, alternate means of energy production and transmission exist that should receive government development reinforcement. Solar, wind, geothermal and fuel cell power and super-conducting power storage and transmission technologies should receive U.S. Government prioritization as energy technologies of vastly superior value to that of atomic or fossil fuel power. Yet with even the White House allowing the First Lady to be a huckster in Sam’s Club e-trade commercials the prospects for White House leadership to turn the nation toward clean, high tech new energy production not presently listed as Corporate Wall Street Oil or atomic corporations seems dim.
Four Fukushima prefecture atomic reactors are experiencing dangerous issues if not reactor meltdown in the days after the magnitude 9.0 equinox earthquake. U.S. Government planners should heed the lesson that atomic reactors are big, fat dangerous plumbs in advanced nations for enemies of today or the future to target with accurate cruise missiles and geo-positioning electronics. Simultaneous destruction of nuclear reactors in an advanced nation could devastate an economy for decades in addition to spewing radiation for a very long time.
Military technology proliferates even faster than atomic power plant technology. For a market based government political opinion valuing today’s profits blind to placing the equivalent of vast explosives caches around the countryside is very, very stupid indeed.
3/12/11
Tokyo Electric's Endangered Fukushima Prefecture Nuclear Reactors
When an earthquake can bring nuclear power plants to the brink of melt-down it is time to rethink the wisdom of building nuclear power plants. Authorities have evacuated people from the vicinity of the plants already, and the future of cooling down the leaking and overheating reactors isn't presently known.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.nuclear/?hpt=T1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219
That brings to mind the Iranian nuclear power plant designed by the people that built the Chernyobyl plant. The IRGC needs to build it so it has an excuse to produce plutonium for it that it doesn't need, in order to skim the surplus for nuclear weapons manufacture.
Just a few years ago the revolutionary bureaucracy of Iran investigated the theological opinion about the Japanese: Do they have souls or not since they are not 'people of the book'? The Khomeinist mullahs decided the Japanese do not have souls. Such sophisticated complexities may boggle the mind of westerners, yet we are sure that there must be some sort of hyper-efficient way of quickly cooling down nuclear reactors-maybe pouring liquid hydrogen in the reactor rooms or some other super fluid. If Japanese nuclear plants melt down it may be an ill wind for quality fishing in Alaska that could carry atomic waste into the atmosphere and the Aleutians. Even Chernobyl dusted much of the northern hemisphere with a little unhealthy for fish radiation.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.nuclear/?hpt=T1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219
That brings to mind the Iranian nuclear power plant designed by the people that built the Chernyobyl plant. The IRGC needs to build it so it has an excuse to produce plutonium for it that it doesn't need, in order to skim the surplus for nuclear weapons manufacture.
Just a few years ago the revolutionary bureaucracy of Iran investigated the theological opinion about the Japanese: Do they have souls or not since they are not 'people of the book'? The Khomeinist mullahs decided the Japanese do not have souls. Such sophisticated complexities may boggle the mind of westerners, yet we are sure that there must be some sort of hyper-efficient way of quickly cooling down nuclear reactors-maybe pouring liquid hydrogen in the reactor rooms or some other super fluid. If Japanese nuclear plants melt down it may be an ill wind for quality fishing in Alaska that could carry atomic waste into the atmosphere and the Aleutians. Even Chernobyl dusted much of the northern hemisphere with a little unhealthy for fish radiation.
Jesus Christ on the Triune Nature of God
In these passages Jesus Christ plainly says that he is God. God is three persons in one. God is One. The spirit of truth-the Holy Spirit, is the comforter Jesus mentions.
John 10:7"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30"I and my Father are one."
John 14:
" 8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
John 10:7"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30"I and my Father are one."
John 14:
" 8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
Effort to Discover the Most Energy Efficient Possible U.S. National Transportation Infrastructure
It would be interesting if the federal government supported a creative scientific investigation of the most efficient possible personal transportation system for the continental U.S.A. and perhaps Alaska. The criteria for the investigation could take several forms.
One might pursue the question of simple transporting an individual human from one to as many possible locations in the nation in the most efficient way regarding energy use and speed. The most efficient possible design should differ from the present fossil fuel based transportation infrastructure by several thousand percent.
I am not suggesting a specific method of transportation here. Parameters might include individual freedom to choose destinations, speed and time of travel, least real energy use per pound and so forth. It is perhaps simpler to consider pounds of weight per electron volt, flow of mass along a super-fluid and even cost per individual versus social, public and environmental cost within ecological economic parameters.
It is possible to consider encapsulating individuals within a shell such as an automobile body or not. The goal is to discover the most efficient possible national transportation infrastructure from the point of view of minimal energy use.
One might pursue the question of simple transporting an individual human from one to as many possible locations in the nation in the most efficient way regarding energy use and speed. The most efficient possible design should differ from the present fossil fuel based transportation infrastructure by several thousand percent.
I am not suggesting a specific method of transportation here. Parameters might include individual freedom to choose destinations, speed and time of travel, least real energy use per pound and so forth. It is perhaps simpler to consider pounds of weight per electron volt, flow of mass along a super-fluid and even cost per individual versus social, public and environmental cost within ecological economic parameters.
It is possible to consider encapsulating individuals within a shell such as an automobile body or not. The goal is to discover the most efficient possible national transportation infrastructure from the point of view of minimal energy use.
Mussolini's Moment; Obama, Corporatism and the Oily Recolonization of Libya
Britain and France have sought to bring the U.S.A. to support a no-fly zone over Libya. In some ways this circumstance bears similarities to the 1935 Abyssinian crisis that led eventual to Ethiopian loss of control of the region to an invading Italian fascist army and air force of the Benito Mussolini. Mussolini incidentally was the inventor of the political philosophy of corporatism-very much a close relation to fascism.
The Arab League has also voted to support a no-fly zone. States like Iraq, Bahrain and Qatar are in the Arab League, as are Somalia and Egypt. There are twenty-two member states and they perhaps are not all impartial in their preference that Moamar Kaddafi be removed from power. Khadafy obviously has baggage as a leftist radical support of terrorist causes with loud anti-colonialist idea. China and Russia as former or present neo-communist powers oppose intervention by the west.
This brings me to the curious circumstance of Michelle Obama and her advertising campaign in support of Sam's Club. Sam's Club comprises about 11% of Wal-mart profits annually and is part of the largest commercial retail business on Earth. A conflict of interest strikes me as self-evident when the First Lady promotes the largest business on Earth directly. Wal-mart does have rivals, and it is also one of the leading globalist importers of goods made by cheap second and third world labor to the United States. The advertisements stink of corporatism-the political philosophy where government and corporations act together to rule. Good food quality in Wal-mart ought to be a corporate goal, yet the First Lady should not appear to be embedded with that corporation so far as to partner in advertising. Some Americans believe Wal-Mart is actually detrimental to democracy and free enterprise because of the size.
Corporatism in U.S. economics and government was not created by the Obamas of course. Presidents Clinton and Bush I & II were leaders in degrading U.S. national interests in favor of profit for global corporations. President Bush II of course pursued oil in the Middle East as well as anti-terrorist retribution. President Obama seems like a Bush III administration in many ways. He has even forced a Nixon-Romney health insurance plan upon the nation.
So is U.S. interest in Libya not inevitably shaped to resemble a Mussolini moment of escalating interaction with the Abbysian-Libyan power? Ought Ethiopians return to rule? Can French Special Forces or clandestine legionnaires deliver anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft missiles and oil contracts to rebels without U.S. help? Does the U.S. Government need to be a partnering Uncle Sambo providing military service on borrowed money for corporate profits in vulnerable Middle Eastern nations?
President G.W. Bush and Bill Clinton provided the role modal for America as Uncle Sambo ineptly blundering with foreign military interventions and support for offshoring jobs with burger flipping job growth at home. That's a deficit spending required policy running amuck like a crazed camel in the desert after every oasis of oil that might arise. Better, more intelligent, less Harvard labeling and sophisticating subterfuge federal economic management needs to replace invasion as usual. Thwaping sources of fossil fuels abroad like a Hillbilly market thwaping a box of cereal on a high shelf with a nail through a long stick in order to bring the product within reach of consumers is the Obama-Corporate axis of oil neo-legal procedure.
In Iran the Khomeinists have let their oil production capacity dwindle to just 20% of the Shah era production. When the Khomeinists leave Iran there is a 150 billion dollar investment required to restore the worlds 3rd largest oil and gas fields to full production. Yet oil is bad for the world atmosphere, global warming and is fundamentally a corrupt, anachronistic economic mode. Intelligence is required in government to move beyond fossil fuel economics.
War as a moral way to improve the status of women in the Muslim world is a disingenuous effort by a corporate militarism. Egypt is likely to have a return to semi-military rule or a fundamentalist government as would Libya in the absence of a perennial revolution of military forces. Historically women's rights in middle eastern countries improved most with conservative constitutional monarchy or military strong-men un fortunately. The left supported the revolution against the Shah and succeeded in bringing far worse conditions to Iranian women and men too. The shah had 5000 in jail, the Khomeinists 150,000. The executions by the revolutionary forces continue to the present far exceeding the capital punishments of the constitutional monarch.
There is probably no easy solution for the Libyan crisis. A Kaddafi victory over the rebels would perhaps be followed by a bloody purge. An intervention by the United States or N.A.T.O. would be a reinforcement of the concept of neo-colonialist hegemony of Europe and the U.S.A. over African affairs. Neither is there good logic for an Arab League inability to reinforce the rebels themselves militarily if they choose. It has also been pointed out that a no-fly zone in itself would provide insufficient military protection for rebels. What the rebels seem to need is a borrowed military, and that returns us to the question; should the United States act as the new colonial power in a modern Abyssinia?
The Saudis are rich and have economic budget surplus-they have plenty of weapons to defeat Khaddafi’s forces should they choose. Even Iraq might supply soldiers to reinforce the rebels. Why does the administration believe that the U.S.A. needs to get involved in killing people in any possible revolutionary circumstance in the world. At some point the aloof Harvard clan should realize that the foreign wars to not create domestic full employment in the U.S.A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia_Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare-Laval_Plan British-French Secret protocol of 1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League#Member_states
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12723554 Arab League support for no-fly zone over Libya
The Arab League has also voted to support a no-fly zone. States like Iraq, Bahrain and Qatar are in the Arab League, as are Somalia and Egypt. There are twenty-two member states and they perhaps are not all impartial in their preference that Moamar Kaddafi be removed from power. Khadafy obviously has baggage as a leftist radical support of terrorist causes with loud anti-colonialist idea. China and Russia as former or present neo-communist powers oppose intervention by the west.
This brings me to the curious circumstance of Michelle Obama and her advertising campaign in support of Sam's Club. Sam's Club comprises about 11% of Wal-mart profits annually and is part of the largest commercial retail business on Earth. A conflict of interest strikes me as self-evident when the First Lady promotes the largest business on Earth directly. Wal-mart does have rivals, and it is also one of the leading globalist importers of goods made by cheap second and third world labor to the United States. The advertisements stink of corporatism-the political philosophy where government and corporations act together to rule. Good food quality in Wal-mart ought to be a corporate goal, yet the First Lady should not appear to be embedded with that corporation so far as to partner in advertising. Some Americans believe Wal-Mart is actually detrimental to democracy and free enterprise because of the size.
Corporatism in U.S. economics and government was not created by the Obamas of course. Presidents Clinton and Bush I & II were leaders in degrading U.S. national interests in favor of profit for global corporations. President Bush II of course pursued oil in the Middle East as well as anti-terrorist retribution. President Obama seems like a Bush III administration in many ways. He has even forced a Nixon-Romney health insurance plan upon the nation.
So is U.S. interest in Libya not inevitably shaped to resemble a Mussolini moment of escalating interaction with the Abbysian-Libyan power? Ought Ethiopians return to rule? Can French Special Forces or clandestine legionnaires deliver anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft missiles and oil contracts to rebels without U.S. help? Does the U.S. Government need to be a partnering Uncle Sambo providing military service on borrowed money for corporate profits in vulnerable Middle Eastern nations?
President G.W. Bush and Bill Clinton provided the role modal for America as Uncle Sambo ineptly blundering with foreign military interventions and support for offshoring jobs with burger flipping job growth at home. That's a deficit spending required policy running amuck like a crazed camel in the desert after every oasis of oil that might arise. Better, more intelligent, less Harvard labeling and sophisticating subterfuge federal economic management needs to replace invasion as usual. Thwaping sources of fossil fuels abroad like a Hillbilly market thwaping a box of cereal on a high shelf with a nail through a long stick in order to bring the product within reach of consumers is the Obama-Corporate axis of oil neo-legal procedure.
In Iran the Khomeinists have let their oil production capacity dwindle to just 20% of the Shah era production. When the Khomeinists leave Iran there is a 150 billion dollar investment required to restore the worlds 3rd largest oil and gas fields to full production. Yet oil is bad for the world atmosphere, global warming and is fundamentally a corrupt, anachronistic economic mode. Intelligence is required in government to move beyond fossil fuel economics.
War as a moral way to improve the status of women in the Muslim world is a disingenuous effort by a corporate militarism. Egypt is likely to have a return to semi-military rule or a fundamentalist government as would Libya in the absence of a perennial revolution of military forces. Historically women's rights in middle eastern countries improved most with conservative constitutional monarchy or military strong-men un fortunately. The left supported the revolution against the Shah and succeeded in bringing far worse conditions to Iranian women and men too. The shah had 5000 in jail, the Khomeinists 150,000. The executions by the revolutionary forces continue to the present far exceeding the capital punishments of the constitutional monarch.
There is probably no easy solution for the Libyan crisis. A Kaddafi victory over the rebels would perhaps be followed by a bloody purge. An intervention by the United States or N.A.T.O. would be a reinforcement of the concept of neo-colonialist hegemony of Europe and the U.S.A. over African affairs. Neither is there good logic for an Arab League inability to reinforce the rebels themselves militarily if they choose. It has also been pointed out that a no-fly zone in itself would provide insufficient military protection for rebels. What the rebels seem to need is a borrowed military, and that returns us to the question; should the United States act as the new colonial power in a modern Abyssinia?
The Saudis are rich and have economic budget surplus-they have plenty of weapons to defeat Khaddafi’s forces should they choose. Even Iraq might supply soldiers to reinforce the rebels. Why does the administration believe that the U.S.A. needs to get involved in killing people in any possible revolutionary circumstance in the world. At some point the aloof Harvard clan should realize that the foreign wars to not create domestic full employment in the U.S.A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia_Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare-Laval_Plan British-French Secret protocol of 1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League#Member_states
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12723554 Arab League support for no-fly zone over Libya
3/11/11
Crescent City California tsunami Damage etc.
This time, unlike the giant wave of 1964, there was no loss of life in Crescent City California from the tsunami. A jetty constructed after the disaster of 64 stopped the waves from Japan from hitting the City full force. Thirty five boats in the harbor were trashed and city docks damaged. Sea lions that bask on the docks they regarded as their donated sleeping and recreational spaces would need to look elsewhere for lodging.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_17592310?nclick_check=1
Scientists had predicted an increased possibility of earthquake because of the approach of spring equinox and a full moon. When gravity changes its relation to crust of the earth as the Earth moves slip strike faults of plates may occur-earthquake.
George Norrie's second guest on Coast to Coast Am Thursday evening said to watch the Pacific Rim as he anticipated and earthquake. Other scientists had mentioned a potential New Madrid earthquake in Arkansas because of pumping of wastewater below the surface in drilling operations. The Alaska legislature is considering fundiong construction of a vast hydroelectric dam on Alaska's Susitna River that too will alter the relationship of Pacific Rim weights and gravity adding random factors to Earthquake potential perhaps beyond the obvious faults with the location.
Speculations were duly given to the prescence of hundreds of thousands of dead sardines at Marina Del Rey or some other places in the Los Angeles area as an indicator of a potential earthquake. Maybe someone noticed the sea lions behaving strangely. Perhaps the Japanese should create sanctuary and resting places for sea lions and dolphins along their coastlines in order to serve as sentinels for earthquakes (if animal behavior is actually a predictor of Earthquakes).
The Earth's interior is partly molten and the core may have radioactivity releasing heat. The surface is cool as it encounters the coolness of space and the atmosphere comparatively far away from the hot core. The cool crust is not just one large piece but is instead made of several fragments that adjoin moving over or below, or sliding against other 'plates' of crust. The Pacific Rim is at the margins of an Oceanic basin that is closing and has volcanoes and Earthquake activity, while the Atlantic Ocean is increasing in size and has mid ocean seafloor spreading with magma extruding at the bottom of the ocean from fissures in it.
In the future earthquake predictions may increase in accuracy. I tend to anticipate Earthquakes toward winter solstice, yet spring equinox seems to be a ripe time too occasionally.
Today one may launch a 2U or 3U micro satellite into orbit for 10,000 dollars. Some researchers are searching for changes in the earth's magnetic field as a way to predict Earthquakes with low cost experiments. These little satellites may only way 2 or 3 pounds and be packed full of micro circuits or even telescopes pointing at space or Earth too I guess.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_17592310?nclick_check=1
Scientists had predicted an increased possibility of earthquake because of the approach of spring equinox and a full moon. When gravity changes its relation to crust of the earth as the Earth moves slip strike faults of plates may occur-earthquake.
George Norrie's second guest on Coast to Coast Am Thursday evening said to watch the Pacific Rim as he anticipated and earthquake. Other scientists had mentioned a potential New Madrid earthquake in Arkansas because of pumping of wastewater below the surface in drilling operations. The Alaska legislature is considering fundiong construction of a vast hydroelectric dam on Alaska's Susitna River that too will alter the relationship of Pacific Rim weights and gravity adding random factors to Earthquake potential perhaps beyond the obvious faults with the location.
Speculations were duly given to the prescence of hundreds of thousands of dead sardines at Marina Del Rey or some other places in the Los Angeles area as an indicator of a potential earthquake. Maybe someone noticed the sea lions behaving strangely. Perhaps the Japanese should create sanctuary and resting places for sea lions and dolphins along their coastlines in order to serve as sentinels for earthquakes (if animal behavior is actually a predictor of Earthquakes).
The Earth's interior is partly molten and the core may have radioactivity releasing heat. The surface is cool as it encounters the coolness of space and the atmosphere comparatively far away from the hot core. The cool crust is not just one large piece but is instead made of several fragments that adjoin moving over or below, or sliding against other 'plates' of crust. The Pacific Rim is at the margins of an Oceanic basin that is closing and has volcanoes and Earthquake activity, while the Atlantic Ocean is increasing in size and has mid ocean seafloor spreading with magma extruding at the bottom of the ocean from fissures in it.
In the future earthquake predictions may increase in accuracy. I tend to anticipate Earthquakes toward winter solstice, yet spring equinox seems to be a ripe time too occasionally.
Today one may launch a 2U or 3U micro satellite into orbit for 10,000 dollars. Some researchers are searching for changes in the earth's magnetic field as a way to predict Earthquakes with low cost experiments. These little satellites may only way 2 or 3 pounds and be packed full of micro circuits or even telescopes pointing at space or Earth too I guess.
Gitmo, Goose Creek and The Obama Terror Facility
President Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Base Incarceration Center for Terrorist Suspects upon taking office. He did not live up to his promise, and may appreciate suggestions about how to close the water boarding center for the Caribbean. Go North to Alaska! Some Alaskans have suggested selling an almost complete new prison in a remote and secure location to the U.S. Government.
Alaska is nearing completion of a splendid, new 1500 person prison at Goose Creek in scenic Matanuska-Susitna Borough (like a county) where security officials can dig in for the winter. The prison is something of a pink elephant since it will cost about 70 million dollars to operate the facility annually and the state of Alaska has motivation for selling it to the Federal government for cost plus a modest profit for Alaskans. For a very reasonable price the U.S.A. could open a safe new Obama Terror Facility useful for long-term housing present and future illegal combatants and terrorists
Goose Creek would be a secure facility. Prisoners suspected of illegal war activities could be brought to Anchorage for trial. The Federal Government could create a special Court of Terrorists in Anchorage to try suspected terror suspects. The Federal Government has created special courts before for serious social issues such as bankruptcy.
Military tribunals are inappropriate for America today obviously. They would have been useful in trying rogues of war when civil courts aren’t available yet in the modern social and legal context the military tribunal is obviously an inferior court for determination of legal justice. Military tribunals of illegal combatants are a judge and shoot on the fly sorting of affair when patchwork justice needs to supplement, rare, endangered and incompetent civil courts. No such condition exists today, unless one counts bad judicial appointments as comprising an incompetent judiciary.
Thus Goose Creek Federal Terror Processing facility could accelerate the process of getting quality justice for foreign terror suspects. A screening court might decide if a suspect qualifies for processing in the Terror Court venue rather like a Grand Jury determination of sufficiency of evidence to indict an individual. The Congress could set new legal criteria for those reaching the Terror Court venue while the U.S. military could return to its business of killing or being killed instead of making fancy legal decisions and obscuring political control of the Judicial and Executive powers.
Alaska is nearing completion of a splendid, new 1500 person prison at Goose Creek in scenic Matanuska-Susitna Borough (like a county) where security officials can dig in for the winter. The prison is something of a pink elephant since it will cost about 70 million dollars to operate the facility annually and the state of Alaska has motivation for selling it to the Federal government for cost plus a modest profit for Alaskans. For a very reasonable price the U.S.A. could open a safe new Obama Terror Facility useful for long-term housing present and future illegal combatants and terrorists
Goose Creek would be a secure facility. Prisoners suspected of illegal war activities could be brought to Anchorage for trial. The Federal Government could create a special Court of Terrorists in Anchorage to try suspected terror suspects. The Federal Government has created special courts before for serious social issues such as bankruptcy.
Military tribunals are inappropriate for America today obviously. They would have been useful in trying rogues of war when civil courts aren’t available yet in the modern social and legal context the military tribunal is obviously an inferior court for determination of legal justice. Military tribunals of illegal combatants are a judge and shoot on the fly sorting of affair when patchwork justice needs to supplement, rare, endangered and incompetent civil courts. No such condition exists today, unless one counts bad judicial appointments as comprising an incompetent judiciary.
Thus Goose Creek Federal Terror Processing facility could accelerate the process of getting quality justice for foreign terror suspects. A screening court might decide if a suspect qualifies for processing in the Terror Court venue rather like a Grand Jury determination of sufficiency of evidence to indict an individual. The Congress could set new legal criteria for those reaching the Terror Court venue while the U.S. military could return to its business of killing or being killed instead of making fancy legal decisions and obscuring political control of the Judicial and Executive powers.
Iran, Libya and the Clapper of Freedom
The late Ayatollah Khomeini (aka The Supreme Guide) had the opinion that America was a syphilitic, sunset culture fomenting its own destruction. His Khomeinist revolution brought a radical political sect of Shiism to power in Iran. They are not people without skill in international treachery.
Current events in political affairs bring us to consider the North Shore of Africa as our American concern. We might wonder why with the gas stations of the U.A.E. and Bahrain etc fueling tankers for all points Moammar Kaddafi’s deserts should be on the front burner of CNN. Even Senator John ‘Fighter Ace’ McCain has ideas about implementing a No-fly zone over Tripoli denying thus air superiority to the Libyan Air Force. The rebels of Libya need a quick air force at no cost and might have tweeted the world asking for one. The U.S.A. just might have one to spare in order to provide realistic fighter training to its pilots.
So what would the U.S.A. get in its providing of free air superiority to the rebel army? Well, we could get out of our 7 year old peaceful relationship with the Libyan Government. Also, no matter who wins, the United States could be denounced later as ‘The Great Satan’ that was either overthrown by local fighters or was a sponsor of the former regime.
If the United States provides for the destruction of the Libyan Government enabling a free society to develop a democracy in Libya, then we can be assured that a wealth of international terrorists will arrive to take advantage of the freedom to plot terrorist missions against America and Europe. That will stimulate creation of a strict secret police t repress the terrorist cells, and formation of a new authoritarian state.
Perhaps the prospects for a democratic utopia following destruction of Kaddafi’s Government are not so bad though. Yet even in Egypt changes will develop that will substantially alter the present regional balances of power or not.
The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was an early entrant I the effort to war upon Israel through support of the Palestinians. With much liberty in Egypt for the people that relationship is likely to return, and Palestinians may find much more support from Egypt and Iran too in the effort to wage a protracted low level guerrilla campaign against Israel from all of its borders.
Basically the United States has no idea of what sort of a society would develop in Libya in a post-Kaddafi era. We know that fellow travelers of Khomeinist, Salafist, Al Qaeda fundamentalist movements following in the PLO and Hamas tradition move about quite readily to take advantage of community organizing opportunities (the community of terrorist planners) that arise in the middle east, central Asia and nearly anywhere on Earth that government permits such formations to develop. Though Khomeinists are Shi’ia, they are major financiers of Sunni Hamas terrorism against Israel. It is unlikely that Iran has no part in the North African evolutions of recent weeks.
The U.S.A. should not act as a decisive military belligerent in national or regional conflicts in which we have no idea what sort of government will emerge. To act so would reduce the United States to the position of being an agent of anarchism.
We know that Iran has been taken by Khomeinist neo-Nazis down a road of perpetual radicalization since 1979. An essential plank of the regime is destruction f the United States. The Khomeinist methodology is something like that of the Trotskyite branch of the Marxist revolution in Russia in seeking a global, universal takeover of political power.
In the United States we tend to regard Iran as a radical Islamic power, and that is inaccurate to the extent of being misleading. Khomeinism is more of a political than a religious philosophy using its eccentric Shiite version of Islam as a kind of Vahhalistic motivating faith like Nazi’s of yore.
Shiite, twelver Islam is a fascinating sect to study. Iran is a fascinating country to read of. Khomeinists have mostly repressed the national sense of Persianhood and history. Khomeini even repressed Persian language in favor of Arabic interpretations for moral authority. President Amahdinejab has had conversations with the several centuries dead ‘hidden imam’, and the cult of Shiite twelvers (twelve imams) has expanded the medieval practice of selling indulgences for help with one’s relationship with Allah.
The Cult of Khomeinism that has foisted repression of national Persian consciousness upon Iranians is an historical development that had a chance to probabilistically occur in that politically heavily trafficked region of the world too rich to elaborate upon in this essay. Americans should be aware that Khomeinists provide financial support to anti-American movements all over the world. That the United States did not effect a coup d’état that brought the Shah to power, actually it was quite the opposite. The Shah was a constitutional monarch that had twice legally fired Prime Minister Mossadeq, who had himself fired the parliament. The Shah actually fled Iran briefly as Mossadeq seemed to be taking over illegally, before popular support for the Shah drove Mossadeq to retire from consideration of making a coup occur in his favor.
In reading ‘The Persian Night’ about the Khomeinist revolutionary era by Amir Teheri there are hundreds of useful historical facts presented worth using as elements for construction a regional political theory. One of the most interesting is about the lack of political philosophers, or Islamic philosophers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Teheri was the editor of the largest newspaper in Teheran before the 79 revolution and seems knowledgeable of the major players in Iran then and now. As an American with an avocation in reading philosophy I was surprised to learn that besides the obvious Islamic influences of specialized Shiist sects that would influence the Khomeinists two European philosophers that I am familiar with comprises the most substantial philosophical context. Those philosophers are martin Heidegger and Karl Popper.
Amahdinejab is a Heideggerian (the school in power since 2005) and his guru-mentor is one Mezbah-Yazdi. Teheri writes that Khomeinists have muddled up the philosophy of both Popper and Heidegger to suit their own requirements and incompetence. That’s reasonable enough for mongrelizing philosophy is an ordinary practice as is eliminates the need to spend much time reading philosophy.
Heidegger is sometimes portrayed as pro-Nazi. Popper was the basic anti-Nazi pro-rationalism philosopher. The Khomeinists seem to have entirely failed to understand Popper, yet it is easier to misunderstand Heidegger.
Heidegger was made Education Minister of Nazi Germany yet quit the post before the Second World War started and retired to live in a hut in the forest. Before the Nazi atrocities and such it might have been more difficult for a citizen to turn down a high paying government job with good national socialist union benefits. Conversely it is easy to understand why the Nazis like Heidegger’s philosophy although nearly impossible to understand why the Khomeinists do.
Heidegger in Being and Time (‘Sein und Zeit’) wrote much about language meaning and discovery of the original ‘root word’ meaning of words as a way to get to a more primordial philosophical world-view. It was believed that language controlled world view for a time in 20th century Europe. Lenin was of the same opinion.
Nazi’s were a kind of hype-aboriginal white tribe asserting their primordial aboriginal rights-of-war in the midst of fields of invading species (people from other places). I suppose one might even make an argument for exclusive democratic self-determination fit into such a local context, and hence might a corruption of Popper’s ideas in support of democracy and rationalism ensue.
Philosophically we tend to regard Quinian linguistic ontological relativity as a meta-context for language meanings. That is, we do not find a Platonic universal meaning in words for themselves as might Heidegger. Rectification of etymological word values with contemporary language can be a rewarding practice yet it cannot be philosophically transformed into supplying a Platonic right-of-invasion or right-of-war. The relationship between words and objects or between words and material structures is an intellectual and associative one rather than a material or necessary relationship. Words and empirical reality are different things. An etymological regression into history may help uncover history though it cannot provide a philosophical truth for-itself.
Christians, Zoroastrians or Muslims would need to rely upon their faith and personalized instruction r revelation from God such as exists to supplement scientific knowledge of the world rather than locating a language-meaning of-the-universe that has magically true clues about reality-for-itself. Of course I do not believe that Khomeinists are as naïve as to believe in magical incantations inspired by Martin Heidegger, yet their interest in philosophy is interesting enough.
The United States might have a foreign policy with a rational political philosophy or not. Very likely it is an ad hoc economic-free market classical western neo-liberalism with expansion into a universal phase of synergy with planetary nations. It is an approach without an ability to explain subtleties of Khomeinist or Islamic thought to the masses. Neither has it evolved a post-cold war non-dualistic political philosophy able to work toward a rational nationalism on a rectified economic basis f low entropy economics able to serve as a good example for the rest of the world. Though Iran is not the only nation today without a long range rational political philosophy of comparative advantage to other nations, neither is the United States terribly well suited to act as an informed agent in Middle Eastern political turbulence.
Modern philosophical creations of world views take into account not only the collected works of western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-modern linguistic philosophers, but also of science and history. The challenging historical times of Persia and Europe, Africa and etc fit into deeper awareness retrospectively of the journeys of the human race out of Africa and the dispersion across the globe from 100,000 years before present. On that course language groupings and technology have clustered, formed, progressed and travelled to new regions. Conflicts between social groupings have occurred along with the development of class consciousness and specialized occupational behaviors after the foundations of civilizations.
Humanity has sought perennially to rectify the social relationships created by class stratification and exploitation that inevitably occur with the necessary social occupational specializations of civilizations. Those conflicts include property use and commonly the right of survival issues.
Philosophers are aware of comparative religions, the ecosphere and the scale of the observable universe and of what it is composed of relatively speaking. Philosophers reach beyond adoption of a simple world view to learn what is possible for an individual. Implicit recognition of the simplicity of human cognition and limit of human knowledge is the simple world view within which as much data might be compiled and considered as is practical. This effort to liberate oneself from ignorance simultaneously seeks to liberate social political consciousness from ideologies failing Kant’s moral imperative applied to the level of human peaceful coexistence at a national and individual level. Subjective religious beliefs and the freedom to express oneself are intrinsic liberties of a free society. Such a society is no syphilitic and decadent as Khomeini said. A society liberated from terminally corrupting political philosophies leading to repression of individual self-determination and destruction of the global ecosphere has a better chance of health.
Current events in political affairs bring us to consider the North Shore of Africa as our American concern. We might wonder why with the gas stations of the U.A.E. and Bahrain etc fueling tankers for all points Moammar Kaddafi’s deserts should be on the front burner of CNN. Even Senator John ‘Fighter Ace’ McCain has ideas about implementing a No-fly zone over Tripoli denying thus air superiority to the Libyan Air Force. The rebels of Libya need a quick air force at no cost and might have tweeted the world asking for one. The U.S.A. just might have one to spare in order to provide realistic fighter training to its pilots.
So what would the U.S.A. get in its providing of free air superiority to the rebel army? Well, we could get out of our 7 year old peaceful relationship with the Libyan Government. Also, no matter who wins, the United States could be denounced later as ‘The Great Satan’ that was either overthrown by local fighters or was a sponsor of the former regime.
If the United States provides for the destruction of the Libyan Government enabling a free society to develop a democracy in Libya, then we can be assured that a wealth of international terrorists will arrive to take advantage of the freedom to plot terrorist missions against America and Europe. That will stimulate creation of a strict secret police t repress the terrorist cells, and formation of a new authoritarian state.
Perhaps the prospects for a democratic utopia following destruction of Kaddafi’s Government are not so bad though. Yet even in Egypt changes will develop that will substantially alter the present regional balances of power or not.
The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was an early entrant I the effort to war upon Israel through support of the Palestinians. With much liberty in Egypt for the people that relationship is likely to return, and Palestinians may find much more support from Egypt and Iran too in the effort to wage a protracted low level guerrilla campaign against Israel from all of its borders.
Basically the United States has no idea of what sort of a society would develop in Libya in a post-Kaddafi era. We know that fellow travelers of Khomeinist, Salafist, Al Qaeda fundamentalist movements following in the PLO and Hamas tradition move about quite readily to take advantage of community organizing opportunities (the community of terrorist planners) that arise in the middle east, central Asia and nearly anywhere on Earth that government permits such formations to develop. Though Khomeinists are Shi’ia, they are major financiers of Sunni Hamas terrorism against Israel. It is unlikely that Iran has no part in the North African evolutions of recent weeks.
The U.S.A. should not act as a decisive military belligerent in national or regional conflicts in which we have no idea what sort of government will emerge. To act so would reduce the United States to the position of being an agent of anarchism.
We know that Iran has been taken by Khomeinist neo-Nazis down a road of perpetual radicalization since 1979. An essential plank of the regime is destruction f the United States. The Khomeinist methodology is something like that of the Trotskyite branch of the Marxist revolution in Russia in seeking a global, universal takeover of political power.
In the United States we tend to regard Iran as a radical Islamic power, and that is inaccurate to the extent of being misleading. Khomeinism is more of a political than a religious philosophy using its eccentric Shiite version of Islam as a kind of Vahhalistic motivating faith like Nazi’s of yore.
Shiite, twelver Islam is a fascinating sect to study. Iran is a fascinating country to read of. Khomeinists have mostly repressed the national sense of Persianhood and history. Khomeini even repressed Persian language in favor of Arabic interpretations for moral authority. President Amahdinejab has had conversations with the several centuries dead ‘hidden imam’, and the cult of Shiite twelvers (twelve imams) has expanded the medieval practice of selling indulgences for help with one’s relationship with Allah.
The Cult of Khomeinism that has foisted repression of national Persian consciousness upon Iranians is an historical development that had a chance to probabilistically occur in that politically heavily trafficked region of the world too rich to elaborate upon in this essay. Americans should be aware that Khomeinists provide financial support to anti-American movements all over the world. That the United States did not effect a coup d’état that brought the Shah to power, actually it was quite the opposite. The Shah was a constitutional monarch that had twice legally fired Prime Minister Mossadeq, who had himself fired the parliament. The Shah actually fled Iran briefly as Mossadeq seemed to be taking over illegally, before popular support for the Shah drove Mossadeq to retire from consideration of making a coup occur in his favor.
In reading ‘The Persian Night’ about the Khomeinist revolutionary era by Amir Teheri there are hundreds of useful historical facts presented worth using as elements for construction a regional political theory. One of the most interesting is about the lack of political philosophers, or Islamic philosophers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Teheri was the editor of the largest newspaper in Teheran before the 79 revolution and seems knowledgeable of the major players in Iran then and now. As an American with an avocation in reading philosophy I was surprised to learn that besides the obvious Islamic influences of specialized Shiist sects that would influence the Khomeinists two European philosophers that I am familiar with comprises the most substantial philosophical context. Those philosophers are martin Heidegger and Karl Popper.
Amahdinejab is a Heideggerian (the school in power since 2005) and his guru-mentor is one Mezbah-Yazdi. Teheri writes that Khomeinists have muddled up the philosophy of both Popper and Heidegger to suit their own requirements and incompetence. That’s reasonable enough for mongrelizing philosophy is an ordinary practice as is eliminates the need to spend much time reading philosophy.
Heidegger is sometimes portrayed as pro-Nazi. Popper was the basic anti-Nazi pro-rationalism philosopher. The Khomeinists seem to have entirely failed to understand Popper, yet it is easier to misunderstand Heidegger.
Heidegger was made Education Minister of Nazi Germany yet quit the post before the Second World War started and retired to live in a hut in the forest. Before the Nazi atrocities and such it might have been more difficult for a citizen to turn down a high paying government job with good national socialist union benefits. Conversely it is easy to understand why the Nazis like Heidegger’s philosophy although nearly impossible to understand why the Khomeinists do.
Heidegger in Being and Time (‘Sein und Zeit’) wrote much about language meaning and discovery of the original ‘root word’ meaning of words as a way to get to a more primordial philosophical world-view. It was believed that language controlled world view for a time in 20th century Europe. Lenin was of the same opinion.
Nazi’s were a kind of hype-aboriginal white tribe asserting their primordial aboriginal rights-of-war in the midst of fields of invading species (people from other places). I suppose one might even make an argument for exclusive democratic self-determination fit into such a local context, and hence might a corruption of Popper’s ideas in support of democracy and rationalism ensue.
Philosophically we tend to regard Quinian linguistic ontological relativity as a meta-context for language meanings. That is, we do not find a Platonic universal meaning in words for themselves as might Heidegger. Rectification of etymological word values with contemporary language can be a rewarding practice yet it cannot be philosophically transformed into supplying a Platonic right-of-invasion or right-of-war. The relationship between words and objects or between words and material structures is an intellectual and associative one rather than a material or necessary relationship. Words and empirical reality are different things. An etymological regression into history may help uncover history though it cannot provide a philosophical truth for-itself.
Christians, Zoroastrians or Muslims would need to rely upon their faith and personalized instruction r revelation from God such as exists to supplement scientific knowledge of the world rather than locating a language-meaning of-the-universe that has magically true clues about reality-for-itself. Of course I do not believe that Khomeinists are as naïve as to believe in magical incantations inspired by Martin Heidegger, yet their interest in philosophy is interesting enough.
The United States might have a foreign policy with a rational political philosophy or not. Very likely it is an ad hoc economic-free market classical western neo-liberalism with expansion into a universal phase of synergy with planetary nations. It is an approach without an ability to explain subtleties of Khomeinist or Islamic thought to the masses. Neither has it evolved a post-cold war non-dualistic political philosophy able to work toward a rational nationalism on a rectified economic basis f low entropy economics able to serve as a good example for the rest of the world. Though Iran is not the only nation today without a long range rational political philosophy of comparative advantage to other nations, neither is the United States terribly well suited to act as an informed agent in Middle Eastern political turbulence.
Modern philosophical creations of world views take into account not only the collected works of western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-modern linguistic philosophers, but also of science and history. The challenging historical times of Persia and Europe, Africa and etc fit into deeper awareness retrospectively of the journeys of the human race out of Africa and the dispersion across the globe from 100,000 years before present. On that course language groupings and technology have clustered, formed, progressed and travelled to new regions. Conflicts between social groupings have occurred along with the development of class consciousness and specialized occupational behaviors after the foundations of civilizations.
Humanity has sought perennially to rectify the social relationships created by class stratification and exploitation that inevitably occur with the necessary social occupational specializations of civilizations. Those conflicts include property use and commonly the right of survival issues.
Philosophers are aware of comparative religions, the ecosphere and the scale of the observable universe and of what it is composed of relatively speaking. Philosophers reach beyond adoption of a simple world view to learn what is possible for an individual. Implicit recognition of the simplicity of human cognition and limit of human knowledge is the simple world view within which as much data might be compiled and considered as is practical. This effort to liberate oneself from ignorance simultaneously seeks to liberate social political consciousness from ideologies failing Kant’s moral imperative applied to the level of human peaceful coexistence at a national and individual level. Subjective religious beliefs and the freedom to express oneself are intrinsic liberties of a free society. Such a society is no syphilitic and decadent as Khomeini said. A society liberated from terminally corrupting political philosophies leading to repression of individual self-determination and destruction of the global ecosphere has a better chance of health.
Gaming the Economy-Narrow Self Interests and U.S. Current Accounts Deficit
Recent data released inform us that 35% of U.S. wages are federal entitlement payouts including social security, Medicaid, Medicare and unemployment compensation. Perhaps 10% of U.S. jobs rely on getting that money indirectly through its spending.
Another 30% of Americans work in financial related services and a substantial number are government employees-so the number of Americans in productive material businesses is pretty small. Gaming the system though, and transferring material production offshore to global corporations that pay U.S. taxes, allows or even requires a U.S. economy with a vast distribution of tax dollars to keep the nation afloat.
One could fairly argue that if social security were treated like an insurance program and only the needy received benefits the cost of the program would drop. True, the cost to working people would be small if all paid into social security but only a minority used it. When everyone that pays into social security also draws benefits the cost rises substantially.
Cutting the cost of government is not more important to the U.S. economy than directing where the U.S. economy receives its income from. If only 10% of the U.S. economy is direct material production in-country, we might wonder if even much of that is not done by trans-national corporations. How secure can the U.S. economy be when it is essentially reliant upon foreign production?
Cheap illegal immigrant labor is another way of increasing the standard of living of Americans receiving government entitlements, government workers and those in the financial service sector not producing anything materially. If the present national economic is fundamentally incomprehensive of the empirical economic facts of life, neither is the prospects for redirecting its malfunctioning course good.
The left and the right equally support reliance upon foreign production for the bulk of U.S. economic function. The contemporary political rhetoric is lazily over-reliant on continuity of cold war era paradigms extrapolated into the post-cold war era. Western liberalism before the left-right split and the rise of Marxism had been a perennial economic battle of the masses against concentrated wealth and power. Power and wealth may be controlled and concentrated in a number of ways that repress individual social equality. Concentration of wealth and power remains the true threat to American nationalism still. Paradoxically however liberalism of the left and right have been transmogrified into supporters of concentrating power and wealth.
The right supports corporatism of a global nature and investment in China, India, the Middle East and etc, while the left support reliance upon tax dollars from global corporations paying U.S. taxes. State socialism is as authoritarianist as is autocracy.
Left and right may attack points of the other’s political self-interests while neither works to actually halt the center of effort being relocated outside the U.S.A. A prosperous, easier, uncreative national zeitgeist happy enough with bread, circuses, SUVs and federal borrowing needs more than budget cuts to change. The prospect of tax cuts sent both houses of Congress and the Executive scurrying for cover last December with a vote to renew the Bush II era tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits for two more years.
The U.S.A. today has 413 billionaires, China and Russia more than 100 billionaires each and the world total is more than 1200 this year. The concentration of wealth in the convergence of corporatism and socialism globally is a fact that drafts the world society through a maelstrom of non-renewable exploitation of natural resources while the masses increase in numbers and class consciousness. Eventually the logical development barring a change in economic rationale or significant space colonization is for a restive world proletariat in a stagnant world economy and dangerously declared global ecosphere ruled by concentrated wealth a variety of wise guys. That is a dangerous social circumstance.
The United States of America without a rectification of economic activity based on limiting the size of corporations and number of corporations any citizen may invest in will experience a continuing global corporatist-socialist outsourcing of political and economic self-determination such that national sovereignty is reduced. In the year 2050 the anticipated world population will be 9.5 billion people while the geographic area of the Earth is not anticipated to increase. With foreign control of the national economy the comparative degradation of the national standard of living is logically to follow. Global democratic pressures accelerated with live Internet will bring the new wave of revolutions not to North Africa, but to the U.S.A. as global fellow travelers redistribute wealth and power to a planetary proletariat.
The prospects for planetary economic and environmental security would be increased with American leadership into nationalist environmental economic change with low entropy use of natural resources. An American failure to lead into a disciplined economic direction will encourage a global, neo-socialist consumption of natural resources and decay f the environment with marketing strategies and gaming of advantage for collectivist and even racist self interests overcoming empirical reason politically.
A sustainable American economy seems far away from the ongoing development to globalism. If China and OPEC one day embargo America while the currency collapses, the national economy is likely to collapse like a spent, overly inflated soufflé without prospect for recovery. The present government and Wall Street orientation toward globalism is a product of a post-cold war illogic on many fronts including the badly thought out war against select Salifist and Khomeinist Muslims that tends to be an existential defense against Muhammadan world conquest. Simultaneous decline of U.S. national economic leadership in failure to restore nationalism and ecological recovery with new technology and full employment encourages the globes masses to look elsewhere for leadership.
The Wall Street, banking, mortgage and other finance scandals requiring federal borrowing of foreign money for bail out in 2008-2009 were developed as early as the Clinton administration to set the U.S.A. firmly upon a post cold war gaming of the national economy. That did not occur in a vacuum, there was global competition to scam profits globally through levered self-advantage. The poor and homeless in the united States might at least sympathize with the poor abroad who are the workers at the bottom level of the pyramid of classical economic gaming of economics in the new age of electronic globalism. When global subsistence agriculture is effaced and the world’s peons are peopling the Internet relying upon global corporate farming for food the dangers of economic collapse and planetary famine become even more stark than today. Continuing a gaming of the economy as a national value may bring consequences not even imaginable today to the U.S.A. of the future.
-note on the meaning of ‘concentrated wealth’ in the context of this essay.
Democracy and egalitarian opportunity for free enterprise have over-concentrated wealth and power as its enemy. That is, individuals may build up their own wealth and yet neither be oppressive nor controlling of the wealth and social opportunity of others, and that is good for society. One of the points of free enterprise and individual liberty is to secure and produce the articles personally valued useful. Overly concentrated power is an empirical phenomenon in which owning control of natural and social resources develops in minorities or majorities such that individual liberty for self determination and securing of fundamental resources is precluded for non-members of the ruling class of concentrated wealth. There are various shades of concentrated wealth and power of course. Democracy must determine for itself when concentrated wealth and alienation of political self-determination has reached such a limit that measures such as increased taxation, redistribution of resources or revolt are needed to end the power concentrating wealth.
Individual motivation and determination are fundamental facts of the creative energy that drives human economy. When that energy and individual effort are exploited and repressed, and when oppressive concentrated power and wealth bring dangerous degrees of decay to the ecospheric vitality, democratic rectification of the economic methods may occur to renormalize the economy toward a functioning state founded with individual self-determination within legal and equal effective ecospheric parameters.
Another 30% of Americans work in financial related services and a substantial number are government employees-so the number of Americans in productive material businesses is pretty small. Gaming the system though, and transferring material production offshore to global corporations that pay U.S. taxes, allows or even requires a U.S. economy with a vast distribution of tax dollars to keep the nation afloat.
One could fairly argue that if social security were treated like an insurance program and only the needy received benefits the cost of the program would drop. True, the cost to working people would be small if all paid into social security but only a minority used it. When everyone that pays into social security also draws benefits the cost rises substantially.
Cutting the cost of government is not more important to the U.S. economy than directing where the U.S. economy receives its income from. If only 10% of the U.S. economy is direct material production in-country, we might wonder if even much of that is not done by trans-national corporations. How secure can the U.S. economy be when it is essentially reliant upon foreign production?
Cheap illegal immigrant labor is another way of increasing the standard of living of Americans receiving government entitlements, government workers and those in the financial service sector not producing anything materially. If the present national economic is fundamentally incomprehensive of the empirical economic facts of life, neither is the prospects for redirecting its malfunctioning course good.
The left and the right equally support reliance upon foreign production for the bulk of U.S. economic function. The contemporary political rhetoric is lazily over-reliant on continuity of cold war era paradigms extrapolated into the post-cold war era. Western liberalism before the left-right split and the rise of Marxism had been a perennial economic battle of the masses against concentrated wealth and power. Power and wealth may be controlled and concentrated in a number of ways that repress individual social equality. Concentration of wealth and power remains the true threat to American nationalism still. Paradoxically however liberalism of the left and right have been transmogrified into supporters of concentrating power and wealth.
The right supports corporatism of a global nature and investment in China, India, the Middle East and etc, while the left support reliance upon tax dollars from global corporations paying U.S. taxes. State socialism is as authoritarianist as is autocracy.
Left and right may attack points of the other’s political self-interests while neither works to actually halt the center of effort being relocated outside the U.S.A. A prosperous, easier, uncreative national zeitgeist happy enough with bread, circuses, SUVs and federal borrowing needs more than budget cuts to change. The prospect of tax cuts sent both houses of Congress and the Executive scurrying for cover last December with a vote to renew the Bush II era tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits for two more years.
The U.S.A. today has 413 billionaires, China and Russia more than 100 billionaires each and the world total is more than 1200 this year. The concentration of wealth in the convergence of corporatism and socialism globally is a fact that drafts the world society through a maelstrom of non-renewable exploitation of natural resources while the masses increase in numbers and class consciousness. Eventually the logical development barring a change in economic rationale or significant space colonization is for a restive world proletariat in a stagnant world economy and dangerously declared global ecosphere ruled by concentrated wealth a variety of wise guys. That is a dangerous social circumstance.
The United States of America without a rectification of economic activity based on limiting the size of corporations and number of corporations any citizen may invest in will experience a continuing global corporatist-socialist outsourcing of political and economic self-determination such that national sovereignty is reduced. In the year 2050 the anticipated world population will be 9.5 billion people while the geographic area of the Earth is not anticipated to increase. With foreign control of the national economy the comparative degradation of the national standard of living is logically to follow. Global democratic pressures accelerated with live Internet will bring the new wave of revolutions not to North Africa, but to the U.S.A. as global fellow travelers redistribute wealth and power to a planetary proletariat.
The prospects for planetary economic and environmental security would be increased with American leadership into nationalist environmental economic change with low entropy use of natural resources. An American failure to lead into a disciplined economic direction will encourage a global, neo-socialist consumption of natural resources and decay f the environment with marketing strategies and gaming of advantage for collectivist and even racist self interests overcoming empirical reason politically.
A sustainable American economy seems far away from the ongoing development to globalism. If China and OPEC one day embargo America while the currency collapses, the national economy is likely to collapse like a spent, overly inflated soufflé without prospect for recovery. The present government and Wall Street orientation toward globalism is a product of a post-cold war illogic on many fronts including the badly thought out war against select Salifist and Khomeinist Muslims that tends to be an existential defense against Muhammadan world conquest. Simultaneous decline of U.S. national economic leadership in failure to restore nationalism and ecological recovery with new technology and full employment encourages the globes masses to look elsewhere for leadership.
The Wall Street, banking, mortgage and other finance scandals requiring federal borrowing of foreign money for bail out in 2008-2009 were developed as early as the Clinton administration to set the U.S.A. firmly upon a post cold war gaming of the national economy. That did not occur in a vacuum, there was global competition to scam profits globally through levered self-advantage. The poor and homeless in the united States might at least sympathize with the poor abroad who are the workers at the bottom level of the pyramid of classical economic gaming of economics in the new age of electronic globalism. When global subsistence agriculture is effaced and the world’s peons are peopling the Internet relying upon global corporate farming for food the dangers of economic collapse and planetary famine become even more stark than today. Continuing a gaming of the economy as a national value may bring consequences not even imaginable today to the U.S.A. of the future.
-note on the meaning of ‘concentrated wealth’ in the context of this essay.
Democracy and egalitarian opportunity for free enterprise have over-concentrated wealth and power as its enemy. That is, individuals may build up their own wealth and yet neither be oppressive nor controlling of the wealth and social opportunity of others, and that is good for society. One of the points of free enterprise and individual liberty is to secure and produce the articles personally valued useful. Overly concentrated power is an empirical phenomenon in which owning control of natural and social resources develops in minorities or majorities such that individual liberty for self determination and securing of fundamental resources is precluded for non-members of the ruling class of concentrated wealth. There are various shades of concentrated wealth and power of course. Democracy must determine for itself when concentrated wealth and alienation of political self-determination has reached such a limit that measures such as increased taxation, redistribution of resources or revolt are needed to end the power concentrating wealth.
Individual motivation and determination are fundamental facts of the creative energy that drives human economy. When that energy and individual effort are exploited and repressed, and when oppressive concentrated power and wealth bring dangerous degrees of decay to the ecospheric vitality, democratic rectification of the economic methods may occur to renormalize the economy toward a functioning state founded with individual self-determination within legal and equal effective ecospheric parameters.
Twitter, Facebook, Libya, Illegal Combatants and Acts of War
With the rush to foment revolutions via Facebook and Twitter in North African nations the ramifications of the globalization of sedition, civil wars joined by anonymous posters and several other questions have not been sufficiently addressed for public clarification.
Revolutionaries may conspire to revolt against a government without even forming a guerrilla army then appeal to the International community to borrow sufficient military services to bring off their revolt by wire desire. Secretary Gates probably rightly said that it would be an act of war to force a NO Fly zone over Libya that the rebels have asked for. It would also bring the United States into a troublesome legal and moral situation regarding its own right to try illegal combatants especially when they are snared from foreign nations not at war with the U.S.A. such as Afghanistan of 2001-2011.
France has recognized the Libyan Revolutionary Government diplomatically, and may thus provide weapons and foreign legion military assistance if asked with a more or less legal or logical basis. Or alternatively, must one recognize the recognition of a revolutionary government as an international crime?
One wonders what sort of crimes and protocols might be addressed by International Convention to classify the Internet, global structuring of terrorist, seditious and civil war revolutionary activity. Would it include those offering just moral support, or must they provide some sort of material assistance to actual casualty causing events?
Would foes of the United States or NATO receive different legal justice than those seeking support from the United States or European Countries in overthrowing any given nation?
There are many existential questions regarding the right-to-revolt and the right-to-war that have developed from Twitheads and Faces potential awaiting booking by Danos of jurisprudence. Giant Internet waves of populism or sponsored populism from Chicago to Cairo and Tripoli or even Teheran may enact militancy that crosses the boundaries of politics throwing perplexing legal questions into the fan of nationalism. The moral right may be a smirking confidence some elitists hold, yet it seems that like NPR as a perceived perpetrator of biased propaganda manipulating public opinion, the ability to shape and compel opinion may become a mob rule way of life instead of plain and simple equal justice for all.
Revolutionaries may conspire to revolt against a government without even forming a guerrilla army then appeal to the International community to borrow sufficient military services to bring off their revolt by wire desire. Secretary Gates probably rightly said that it would be an act of war to force a NO Fly zone over Libya that the rebels have asked for. It would also bring the United States into a troublesome legal and moral situation regarding its own right to try illegal combatants especially when they are snared from foreign nations not at war with the U.S.A. such as Afghanistan of 2001-2011.
France has recognized the Libyan Revolutionary Government diplomatically, and may thus provide weapons and foreign legion military assistance if asked with a more or less legal or logical basis. Or alternatively, must one recognize the recognition of a revolutionary government as an international crime?
One wonders what sort of crimes and protocols might be addressed by International Convention to classify the Internet, global structuring of terrorist, seditious and civil war revolutionary activity. Would it include those offering just moral support, or must they provide some sort of material assistance to actual casualty causing events?
Would foes of the United States or NATO receive different legal justice than those seeking support from the United States or European Countries in overthrowing any given nation?
There are many existential questions regarding the right-to-revolt and the right-to-war that have developed from Twitheads and Faces potential awaiting booking by Danos of jurisprudence. Giant Internet waves of populism or sponsored populism from Chicago to Cairo and Tripoli or even Teheran may enact militancy that crosses the boundaries of politics throwing perplexing legal questions into the fan of nationalism. The moral right may be a smirking confidence some elitists hold, yet it seems that like NPR as a perceived perpetrator of biased propaganda manipulating public opinion, the ability to shape and compel opinion may become a mob rule way of life instead of plain and simple equal justice for all.
3/8/11
PNAS Publishes "Climate forcing due to optimization of maximal leaf conductance in subtropical vegetation under rising CO2"
This interesting article published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences details alterations of plant structure in a world atmosphere comprised of increased levels of CO2. The article abstract relates that "plants reduce the diffusive stomatal conductance of their leaves (gs) dynamically by closing stomata and structurally by growing leaves with altered stomatal densities and pore sizes."
It may be obvious to biological scientists that human global warming caused by greenhouse gassing and CO2 emissions would accelerate select evolutionary challenges and responses to more volatile bioforms such as plants, yet for most of the scientifically uniformed the assumption is that CO2 adaptations would be mostly limited to a vanished Arctic ice cap, polar bear that aren't good enough swimmers being too lazy to swim better than whales and increased gasoline prices because politicians aren't rational enough to increase offshore drilling all along the Arctic ocean shore and out to 400 miles with subsurface robotic drilling.
It may be obvious to biological scientists that human global warming caused by greenhouse gassing and CO2 emissions would accelerate select evolutionary challenges and responses to more volatile bioforms such as plants, yet for most of the scientifically uniformed the assumption is that CO2 adaptations would be mostly limited to a vanished Arctic ice cap, polar bear that aren't good enough swimmers being too lazy to swim better than whales and increased gasoline prices because politicians aren't rational enough to increase offshore drilling all along the Arctic ocean shore and out to 400 miles with subsurface robotic drilling.
NPR Foundation President Schiller Denounces Tea Party As Racist
NPR Foundation's senior executive President Ron Schiller was recorded on a video denouncing the Tea Party as made up of seriously racist people. The implicit bias of NPR is not news to most Americans who realize that their objectivity and professionallism went the way of the buffalo long ago.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/03/tea-party-secret-video-npr-funding-/1
The frontiers of freedom may be in decline nationally along with federal fiscal integrity. Over population and under utilization of god-given resources of intelligence bring the U.S.A. to a lemmingway globalism fueled by media controlled by leftists, rightest and immoderate evil empires everywhere.
We learn that Moammar Khadaffi secretly supported revolutionaries against the Shah of Iran, the Israel provided American anti-tank weapons to Iran to defend against Iraqi tanks, and that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowsky believes increased oil drilling to deplete Alaska's paltry remaining oil reserves within ten years is a rational policy to bring down gasoline prices and increase global warming.
Plainly NPR's federal funding should be eviscerated because they are awash in big bucks-even the PLO or Hamas wanted to give them five bills (million dollar ones). NPR didn't even cover the moose being tasered and beaten by a gang of alleged police persons-they don't deserve tax dollars.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/03/tea-party-secret-video-npr-funding-/1
The frontiers of freedom may be in decline nationally along with federal fiscal integrity. Over population and under utilization of god-given resources of intelligence bring the U.S.A. to a lemmingway globalism fueled by media controlled by leftists, rightest and immoderate evil empires everywhere.
We learn that Moammar Khadaffi secretly supported revolutionaries against the Shah of Iran, the Israel provided American anti-tank weapons to Iran to defend against Iraqi tanks, and that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowsky believes increased oil drilling to deplete Alaska's paltry remaining oil reserves within ten years is a rational policy to bring down gasoline prices and increase global warming.
Plainly NPR's federal funding should be eviscerated because they are awash in big bucks-even the PLO or Hamas wanted to give them five bills (million dollar ones). NPR didn't even cover the moose being tasered and beaten by a gang of alleged police persons-they don't deserve tax dollars.
Politician Arrested Brandishing Balanced Budget Plan ©2011GaryCGibson (fiction)
A U.S. Congressman brandishing a balanced budget plan was surrounded by capitol security forces early this morning at the reflecting pond. Raving about tax increases and spending cuts, construction of an I-10 electric highway development and a Mexican border control canal the Congressman presented a danger to business as usual.
Negotiators talked the congressman down and brought him to surrender after Officers of the Deficit Disorder Komiteh standing just across the district border lured the representative into a security net with succulent chunks of promising pork.
Writhing in the net the Congressman yelled that he had video of a Moose down on Pennsylvania Avenue being tased and beaten by Capitol Police. Then he yelled that Albert Pujols is worth 150 million for four years and the President of the U.S.A. just 2.
Negotiators talked the congressman down and brought him to surrender after Officers of the Deficit Disorder Komiteh standing just across the district border lured the representative into a security net with succulent chunks of promising pork.
Writhing in the net the Congressman yelled that he had video of a Moose down on Pennsylvania Avenue being tased and beaten by Capitol Police. Then he yelled that Albert Pujols is worth 150 million for four years and the President of the U.S.A. just 2.
3/6/11
On Values-A Reply on the Subjective Nature
I thought I would reply to your comment, and clarify my ideas about the topic a little. There is much ambiguity in language-while in philosophy one tries to reduce that and develop meaning and expression concurrently.
Of course that is rather ambitious, for language is designed with analogy and association of terms of approximation of meaning quite as much as with application of labels directly to objects.
Anyway, I felt that values and value theories are designed by intelligent beings who assign whatever values they have when it is useful. Human beings as part of the Universe too, cohere within whatever primordial value the Universe has for itself. If they represent portions or forms of it as of more value than other aspects of it, so it is.
It is not certain that values are accurately assigned either. Monty Hall's TV show 'Let's Make a Deal' had contestants giving a value more to one curtain rather than another two to choose from fundamentally for no reason. One may be wrong in valuing select political candidate during an election over others, and one may be wrong in valuing fossil fuels very highly-enough to buy stock in Exxon, if in the near future an inventor discovers how to make some sort of environmentally benign room temperature liquid hydrogen fuel or some such concoction to replace petroleum fuel.
If there is any intrinsic value to anything I am not sure that humanity can best rely upon their own judgment for determining what the absolute good is. Of course I mean that as a Christian believer, in that none would perhaps be cognizant of God or of the need for salvation without an element of donated grace from God.
If there is any intrinsic worth to nature I guess it might be in the functional context in that it supports life, and in the more basic context in that God made it, therefore it is good.
Of course many unbelievers would not agree with that point, yet I shall allow them do develop their own points regarding the fundamental worthlessness of everything that exists unless it has some immediate utilitarian function, or even hedonistic application.
One might find a primordial good in virtually everything-yes, even in Arizona or in Petersburg Alaska when one cannot find a job. Sunsets and sunrises, birds flying through raindrops glistening with sunshine streaking through clouds in powerful rays; these are valuable things for-themselves even though the car dealer devalues them as causing mud to be splattered on 2011 vehicles waiting for sale. Values are not simultaneously appreciated by all people with equal weight, and thus the supply and demand functions of Smith's capitalism bring changes as volatile as human nature to a market, while the long-term construction of the concentration of wealth continues as long as the construction of the state and market equally build, refine and direct investment to the basic parameter; the national interest.
Of course that is rather ambitious, for language is designed with analogy and association of terms of approximation of meaning quite as much as with application of labels directly to objects.
Anyway, I felt that values and value theories are designed by intelligent beings who assign whatever values they have when it is useful. Human beings as part of the Universe too, cohere within whatever primordial value the Universe has for itself. If they represent portions or forms of it as of more value than other aspects of it, so it is.
It is not certain that values are accurately assigned either. Monty Hall's TV show 'Let's Make a Deal' had contestants giving a value more to one curtain rather than another two to choose from fundamentally for no reason. One may be wrong in valuing select political candidate during an election over others, and one may be wrong in valuing fossil fuels very highly-enough to buy stock in Exxon, if in the near future an inventor discovers how to make some sort of environmentally benign room temperature liquid hydrogen fuel or some such concoction to replace petroleum fuel.
If there is any intrinsic value to anything I am not sure that humanity can best rely upon their own judgment for determining what the absolute good is. Of course I mean that as a Christian believer, in that none would perhaps be cognizant of God or of the need for salvation without an element of donated grace from God.
If there is any intrinsic worth to nature I guess it might be in the functional context in that it supports life, and in the more basic context in that God made it, therefore it is good.
Of course many unbelievers would not agree with that point, yet I shall allow them do develop their own points regarding the fundamental worthlessness of everything that exists unless it has some immediate utilitarian function, or even hedonistic application.
One might find a primordial good in virtually everything-yes, even in Arizona or in Petersburg Alaska when one cannot find a job. Sunsets and sunrises, birds flying through raindrops glistening with sunshine streaking through clouds in powerful rays; these are valuable things for-themselves even though the car dealer devalues them as causing mud to be splattered on 2011 vehicles waiting for sale. Values are not simultaneously appreciated by all people with equal weight, and thus the supply and demand functions of Smith's capitalism bring changes as volatile as human nature to a market, while the long-term construction of the concentration of wealth continues as long as the construction of the state and market equally build, refine and direct investment to the basic parameter; the national interest.
On The Universal Spiritual Apartheid of Islam
This brief essay is not a book review. I have drawn several ideas from reading a book published in 2010 and brought them into a comparative political analysis. Primarily I find the rhetoric from the U.S. Government generally deficient in detail on numerous issues, and the broadcast media usually runs toward the existential rather than the analytical even if with an imperial twist. Thus I found some little humor in comparing elements of Iranian and U.S. politics.
There I was just browsing the shelves when an interesting book named ‘The Persian Night’ Iran Under the Khomenist Revolution appeared virtually asking to be read. The cover had a photo of a properly bearded President Aminedinijab (his father changed the family name to that from something like Saberin because it denotes Islamic faith) speaking above a black space denoting the eclipse of Persian heritage. So thus it was I began reading 1001 interesting facts about Muhammadannism aka Islam I did not know.
Congressman King of New York has started an investigation of Muslim radicalization in the U.S.A. He could spare himself the trouble though; real Muslims share many of the same goals of the New World Order.
1) Muslims are globalists. They don’t recognize boundaries for Allah or Islam. The ayatollah Khomeini descried Iranian nationalism. Nationalism thought he is an invention of the west to be gotten rid of. Global corporatists have the same opinion about financial and trade boundaries.
2) Common folk are animals (aka consumers). Muslim mullahs do not believe in democracy and have an obligation to take care of the stupid. Democracy, believed Khomeini, does not work. Like retarded children, widows and orphans that every Mullah must be a guardian for, the people or demos cannot run its own affairs and require an enlightened theological despot favored by God to keep them from drowning in the pig sty of social confusion. Many corporate leaders and Republicans have the same opinion minus the divine relationship of the world leaders (well, those that worship money may count themselves as gods if heading large corporations or governments)
3) Islam has real social classes. The table of ranks places Muslim men first followed by Muslim women. Next follow the men belonging to the two other Abraham religions-Christians and Jews followed by Christian and Jewish women. All of these people are regarded by The Islamic world as having souls. Next is the class of all the other people of the world who are regarded as not having souls and simply animals. England for example with just 5% Christian is 95% made up of animals or vermin as it were. As Islamic world proselytization proceeds much of the globalist New World Order of converted atheist debauchees will be ready meet for conversion to Islam and become part of the Umma.
4) Abraham in Arabic means’ Father of the womb’. Fulfillment of Islamic utopianism would have the people living under beneficent divine rulers in a womb like state of nurture in the will of Allah. Democratic Party socialists seek the same, albeit secular goal, in which all may suck their own thumb without fear of abortion. Islamic interpretation of the implication of Abraham may be off the mark.
5) Islamic law saves money on legal justice. It provides same day service for punishment with nobody serving time. Offenders convicted of crimes just receive lashes, caining or amputation of a body part on the spot, or alternatively they may pay a fine to the victim. The Roman historian Tacitus noted a similar legal code in 3rd century Germania. The Congress may be interested in consulting with Islamic scholars on how to save on the cost of building more persons with Sharia law.
6) Real Muslims don’t pay interest on loans. Usury is verboten in the Koran as it were. When the U.S. National debt becomes 30 trillion dollars the Congressional Office of Management and Budget may become Muslim to order a direct a halt to paying interest on the debt.
7) 7) Muslims do not have health insurance or life insurance. Republicans in Congress also are against public funding of insurance for the common folk. Muslims believe Allah alone must provide in the future-not insurers. Republicans in Congress share tat belief for the nation’s poor, yet insure themselves. Some Americans believe a Godly people would create a public health system for the poor and for Veterans that would rely on Godly taxpayers to keep the doors open.
The fine book ‘The Persian Night’ has a myriad of interesting ideas that support comparisons between two geo-political systems of the world today.
http://www.amazon.com/Persian-Night-under-Khomeinist-Revolution/dp/1594032408
http://books.google.com/books?id=pUfyhqVM22MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+persian+night+by+amir+taheri&source=bl&ots=wal_zFJqsR&sig=0-p1HMRhsfbdbMw0yliy7dJNews&hl=en&ei=awl0TaiaLInWtQOu-M3MCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
There I was just browsing the shelves when an interesting book named ‘The Persian Night’ Iran Under the Khomenist Revolution appeared virtually asking to be read. The cover had a photo of a properly bearded President Aminedinijab (his father changed the family name to that from something like Saberin because it denotes Islamic faith) speaking above a black space denoting the eclipse of Persian heritage. So thus it was I began reading 1001 interesting facts about Muhammadannism aka Islam I did not know.
Congressman King of New York has started an investigation of Muslim radicalization in the U.S.A. He could spare himself the trouble though; real Muslims share many of the same goals of the New World Order.
1) Muslims are globalists. They don’t recognize boundaries for Allah or Islam. The ayatollah Khomeini descried Iranian nationalism. Nationalism thought he is an invention of the west to be gotten rid of. Global corporatists have the same opinion about financial and trade boundaries.
2) Common folk are animals (aka consumers). Muslim mullahs do not believe in democracy and have an obligation to take care of the stupid. Democracy, believed Khomeini, does not work. Like retarded children, widows and orphans that every Mullah must be a guardian for, the people or demos cannot run its own affairs and require an enlightened theological despot favored by God to keep them from drowning in the pig sty of social confusion. Many corporate leaders and Republicans have the same opinion minus the divine relationship of the world leaders (well, those that worship money may count themselves as gods if heading large corporations or governments)
3) Islam has real social classes. The table of ranks places Muslim men first followed by Muslim women. Next follow the men belonging to the two other Abraham religions-Christians and Jews followed by Christian and Jewish women. All of these people are regarded by The Islamic world as having souls. Next is the class of all the other people of the world who are regarded as not having souls and simply animals. England for example with just 5% Christian is 95% made up of animals or vermin as it were. As Islamic world proselytization proceeds much of the globalist New World Order of converted atheist debauchees will be ready meet for conversion to Islam and become part of the Umma.
4) Abraham in Arabic means’ Father of the womb’. Fulfillment of Islamic utopianism would have the people living under beneficent divine rulers in a womb like state of nurture in the will of Allah. Democratic Party socialists seek the same, albeit secular goal, in which all may suck their own thumb without fear of abortion. Islamic interpretation of the implication of Abraham may be off the mark.
5) Islamic law saves money on legal justice. It provides same day service for punishment with nobody serving time. Offenders convicted of crimes just receive lashes, caining or amputation of a body part on the spot, or alternatively they may pay a fine to the victim. The Roman historian Tacitus noted a similar legal code in 3rd century Germania. The Congress may be interested in consulting with Islamic scholars on how to save on the cost of building more persons with Sharia law.
6) Real Muslims don’t pay interest on loans. Usury is verboten in the Koran as it were. When the U.S. National debt becomes 30 trillion dollars the Congressional Office of Management and Budget may become Muslim to order a direct a halt to paying interest on the debt.
7) 7) Muslims do not have health insurance or life insurance. Republicans in Congress also are against public funding of insurance for the common folk. Muslims believe Allah alone must provide in the future-not insurers. Republicans in Congress share tat belief for the nation’s poor, yet insure themselves. Some Americans believe a Godly people would create a public health system for the poor and for Veterans that would rely on Godly taxpayers to keep the doors open.
The fine book ‘The Persian Night’ has a myriad of interesting ideas that support comparisons between two geo-political systems of the world today.
http://www.amazon.com/Persian-Night-under-Khomeinist-Revolution/dp/1594032408
http://books.google.com/books?id=pUfyhqVM22MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+persian+night+by+amir+taheri&source=bl&ots=wal_zFJqsR&sig=0-p1HMRhsfbdbMw0yliy7dJNews&hl=en&ei=awl0TaiaLInWtQOu-M3MCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
3/4/11
Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations: Bruno Bettelheim. J. of Abnormal and Social Psychology, XXXVIII, 1943, pp. 417–452.
Mass behavior today in the United States and elsewhere is conditioned by factors such as the broadcast media as well as traditional institutional agents of socialization. Mass panics and political thought control are norms. Even in Anchorage Alaska Elton John songs are played nowadays profusely as socialization tools of homosexual political militancy- sometimes on two stations simultaneously. Political incursions into public thought conditioning are perennial in the modern world. It is useful to learn of experiences by former inmates of concentration camps in order to discover how powerful controllers affect subjective perceptions.
The Nazi S.A. was one agency of adverse socialization applying negative reinforcement. Even in the Balkans and Greece tens of thousands of children were starved to by the Nazi power. Cycles of war, revolt, and revenge with common human atrocities were elements of Balkan history. Often the Great Political Powers enabled local insurrections against rivals controlled by other Great Powers. In North Africa today, the United States must be cautious about giving false hope to the rebels that might forestall on military organization of resistance believing that the U.S. warplanes may come to send Dictator Khadafy back to the Stone Age.
Quote from 'an abstract by Martin Grotjahn of Bettleheim's article.
"The author, who has spent one year in two German concentration camps for political prisoners—Dachau and Buchenwald—reports his psychological observations. He stresses the fact that his observations are to a certain extent based on self-observation and thus subjective in character. They were actually started as a diversion to enable the author to bear his experience.
The aims of the concentration camp as an institution are to break the prisoners as individuals, to spread terror among the rest of the population, and to provide the Gestapo with a training ground and an experimental laboratory. In most cases, the shock of unlawful imprisonment is followed by the even more stunning shocks of transportation to the camp and the first experiences there. Nonpolitical, middle class prisoners experience comparatively more suffering than either politically oriented prisoners or members of the upper classes. The typical initial reactions are feelings of detachment: 'this can't be true … things like this just don't happen'.
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The Nazi S.A. was one agency of adverse socialization applying negative reinforcement. Even in the Balkans and Greece tens of thousands of children were starved to by the Nazi power. Cycles of war, revolt, and revenge with common human atrocities were elements of Balkan history. Often the Great Political Powers enabled local insurrections against rivals controlled by other Great Powers. In North Africa today, the United States must be cautious about giving false hope to the rebels that might forestall on military organization of resistance believing that the U.S. warplanes may come to send Dictator Khadafy back to the Stone Age.
Quote from 'an abstract by Martin Grotjahn of Bettleheim's article.
"The author, who has spent one year in two German concentration camps for political prisoners—Dachau and Buchenwald—reports his psychological observations. He stresses the fact that his observations are to a certain extent based on self-observation and thus subjective in character. They were actually started as a diversion to enable the author to bear his experience.
The aims of the concentration camp as an institution are to break the prisoners as individuals, to spread terror among the rest of the population, and to provide the Gestapo with a training ground and an experimental laboratory. In most cases, the shock of unlawful imprisonment is followed by the even more stunning shocks of transportation to the camp and the first experiences there. Nonpolitical, middle class prisoners experience comparatively more suffering than either politically oriented prisoners or members of the upper classes. The typical initial reactions are feelings of detachment: 'this can't be true … things like this just don't happen'.
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Libya; Development of the P.L.A.
We must wonder at the formation of a populist revolution before a guerilla army could be put together in Libya. This seems an era of non-violent revolution with support from the U.S. administration and the U.N., with the caveat that if the dictator doesn't give up the U.S. may accomplish the coup de grace with a flock of cruise missiles at the dictator ion order to spare civilian lives.
A humanitarian intervention of relief may be the sort of thing that the Nobel Peace Prize komiteh awarded President Obama the prize for on credit. Yet there are a myriad of potential ground war trails the potential civil war could take. Some lucky Libyan revolutionaries may have the chance to shoot stingers at jet aircraft or even just .50 cal machine guns (in most civilian milieus a criminal offense)-that can be better than goose hunting I would guess.
Tripoli and various military bases for attack on rebel cities would be on the exterior lines and far away. As rebels become more organized and discover more weapons caches formerly owned by the Dictator they may become a well-organized militia able to swat incoming jets from the sky perhaps lining them up as they fly low over the desert.
Cell phones and advance hidden scouts may call the Sam launcher guy in the minaret to alert incoming hostiles. Long desert supply lines may make the Dictator vulnerable to forces without fuel or whatever. More military officers may defect to the rebel cause in order to have job security in The New Libyan Order. These are trying times for Americans to watch from abroad as they love liberty and equal rights so much-nearly as much as football and good paying jobs.
Probably the Obama administration should continue to do nothing to interfere with the natural social readjustment of power in Libya-well maybe send some pork ribs via parachute or containers of Gatorade to rebel held cities. Crackers and peanut butter is better than nothing, and helps keep the fighting spirit together.
Maybe Sect of State Clinton could deliver some loads of Gideon's Bible's to besieged Libyan rebel held cities to lift the spirits of the lost. I suppose rebels will seek for some way to destroy Tripoli’s electric power supply, and the United States has no obligation to help repair that while the Dictator is still not on trial for the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am flight so many years ago as was revealed recently.
A humanitarian intervention of relief may be the sort of thing that the Nobel Peace Prize komiteh awarded President Obama the prize for on credit. Yet there are a myriad of potential ground war trails the potential civil war could take. Some lucky Libyan revolutionaries may have the chance to shoot stingers at jet aircraft or even just .50 cal machine guns (in most civilian milieus a criminal offense)-that can be better than goose hunting I would guess.
Tripoli and various military bases for attack on rebel cities would be on the exterior lines and far away. As rebels become more organized and discover more weapons caches formerly owned by the Dictator they may become a well-organized militia able to swat incoming jets from the sky perhaps lining them up as they fly low over the desert.
Cell phones and advance hidden scouts may call the Sam launcher guy in the minaret to alert incoming hostiles. Long desert supply lines may make the Dictator vulnerable to forces without fuel or whatever. More military officers may defect to the rebel cause in order to have job security in The New Libyan Order. These are trying times for Americans to watch from abroad as they love liberty and equal rights so much-nearly as much as football and good paying jobs.
Probably the Obama administration should continue to do nothing to interfere with the natural social readjustment of power in Libya-well maybe send some pork ribs via parachute or containers of Gatorade to rebel held cities. Crackers and peanut butter is better than nothing, and helps keep the fighting spirit together.
Maybe Sect of State Clinton could deliver some loads of Gideon's Bible's to besieged Libyan rebel held cities to lift the spirits of the lost. I suppose rebels will seek for some way to destroy Tripoli’s electric power supply, and the United States has no obligation to help repair that while the Dictator is still not on trial for the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am flight so many years ago as was revealed recently.
Iran/U.S.A. Disparate Simultaneous World Views in Geopolitical Space-Time
Reading through another book after completing ‘The Balkan Wars’ I expect to discover more evidence of human political folly, well, one can always go to the other planet I suppose where things are more regularly Utopian in nature.
A Utopian development of the planet Mars may develop in the future, yet some historians believe that another Serbian-Kosovo conflict may occur first following the depopulation of Kosovo of Serbs pervasively since the N.A.T.O. intervention. The topic of the Islamic Revolution of The Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini unto the present day of Iranian President Ahmadinejab continues illustrating the talking past each other feature of political relationships. Each side is attempting to exert its political goals, and of course the assertion of universal goals allows a transcending of domestic political issues nicely consolidating things for politicians.
Is the United States of America in its new era of moral and ecological depravity truly the Great Satan or is that just an Iranian polemical label used to declare a moral jihad? Did Iran actually declare war upon the United States with the Embassy hostage taking in 1979 and continue it through a series of low level; terrorist skirmishes including a number of proxy agents?
Philosophically one may view political weltanschauungs of a pluralistic context as more common in the tech communication era. America as an ambassador of atheism and decay may be a natural progression from its dependence upon a mature national industrial and technological infrastructure. The United States is also a puppet of Great Britain’s need to have a world without financial borders able to replace its lost colonial empire. A decadent United States with so many Toynbean end-of cycle signs is simpler to manipulate away from rational ecospheric and moral conservativism.
Without the monochromatic political world views of the non-technological communications era that allowed the Balkan nations to have sufficient opportunity for political privacy that real violent revolutionary militias could form to oppose empires such as the Ottoman, Hapsburg, French or Russian now and then, the Iranian-American dialectical political evolutions tends to follow a more bellicose and assertive shouting match format with little progress toward a better ecospheric economic evolution of values. Several alternatives ways of looking at the world exist in each nation of course, some more sober than others.
The United States like a weak alcoholic has become incapable of getting off dependence on the bottle of fossil fuels. Since President Carter’s day the U.S.A. has sought in vain to move on to fuels besides gasoline imported from Saudi Arabia. President Amahdinejab realized that Muhammad was successful at defeating civilizations from a position in the center of world commerce. Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia is again at the center of world civilization and commerce of oil, while the United States is a morally corrupted advocate of atheism and homosexual marriages fighting to get a spot at the spigot of middle eastern oil to fuel its century old internal combustion engine dependent lifestyle. Plainly wars such as those of ‘revolutionary’ North Africa play into the plans of Islamic extremists. President Amadinejab may have already sent a letter to President Obama asking him to convert to Islam, as The Ayatollah Khomeini did to President Gorbachev, and as Mohammad did to the Byzantine Emperor.
Over a century ago there were no machines able to provide power for mass personal transportation through the American wilderness-then came the internal combustion engine. That first industrial technology remains America’s contemporary techno-transport power. The nation’s seduction to automotive hedonism has sated their appetite for transportation advance. The reliance on internal combustion engines and fossil fuels has made America seem like a nation of swine waiting to be slopped with cheap fossil fuels. Accordingly the U.S.A. has failed to advance to stage 2 or even stage 3 transportation modalities that use no fossil fuel and that do not harm the ecosphere of the nation.
In 1988 the U.S. Navy sank most of the effective Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf, yet earlier President Reagan had withdrawn American Marines from Lebanon after 247 were killed by a Shiite suicide bomber. The mission of the United States in Beirut evidently was to protect Palestinians--President Regan might have realized that the mission was morally wrong for American and withdrew. Political purposes count as much as the means of accomplishing them.
Some view U.S. Democracy with a bifurcation between old style morality and Godliness and new style immorality and atheism. Democracy may be regarded as a fig leaf for atheist imperial hegemony at home and abroad. Ecocide may be a consequence of old style classical economics of The New World Order while alternatively, The Islamic Republic may seek to lead a recrudescent Islamic Global Empire for itself. Protracted U.S. military deployments to Islamic nations will increase the Islamisation of American service personnel and bring more of the creed of Mecca to the United States legally and illegally over-the border.
I tend to believe that the better U.S. policy would be to assert an ecospheric economics with zero illegal immigration and restore a moral, fully employed America. An ecosphere friendly, low entropy high quality economic policy could serve as a good example to developing nations. Admiral Mullins, Secdef Gates and President Obama seem to have a goal of making atheist homosexuality the military mission of the U.S.A. though. It is an effort to rejoin Pangaea that King Canute would have marveled upon.
A Utopian development of the planet Mars may develop in the future, yet some historians believe that another Serbian-Kosovo conflict may occur first following the depopulation of Kosovo of Serbs pervasively since the N.A.T.O. intervention. The topic of the Islamic Revolution of The Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini unto the present day of Iranian President Ahmadinejab continues illustrating the talking past each other feature of political relationships. Each side is attempting to exert its political goals, and of course the assertion of universal goals allows a transcending of domestic political issues nicely consolidating things for politicians.
Is the United States of America in its new era of moral and ecological depravity truly the Great Satan or is that just an Iranian polemical label used to declare a moral jihad? Did Iran actually declare war upon the United States with the Embassy hostage taking in 1979 and continue it through a series of low level; terrorist skirmishes including a number of proxy agents?
Philosophically one may view political weltanschauungs of a pluralistic context as more common in the tech communication era. America as an ambassador of atheism and decay may be a natural progression from its dependence upon a mature national industrial and technological infrastructure. The United States is also a puppet of Great Britain’s need to have a world without financial borders able to replace its lost colonial empire. A decadent United States with so many Toynbean end-of cycle signs is simpler to manipulate away from rational ecospheric and moral conservativism.
Without the monochromatic political world views of the non-technological communications era that allowed the Balkan nations to have sufficient opportunity for political privacy that real violent revolutionary militias could form to oppose empires such as the Ottoman, Hapsburg, French or Russian now and then, the Iranian-American dialectical political evolutions tends to follow a more bellicose and assertive shouting match format with little progress toward a better ecospheric economic evolution of values. Several alternatives ways of looking at the world exist in each nation of course, some more sober than others.
The United States like a weak alcoholic has become incapable of getting off dependence on the bottle of fossil fuels. Since President Carter’s day the U.S.A. has sought in vain to move on to fuels besides gasoline imported from Saudi Arabia. President Amahdinejab realized that Muhammad was successful at defeating civilizations from a position in the center of world commerce. Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia is again at the center of world civilization and commerce of oil, while the United States is a morally corrupted advocate of atheism and homosexual marriages fighting to get a spot at the spigot of middle eastern oil to fuel its century old internal combustion engine dependent lifestyle. Plainly wars such as those of ‘revolutionary’ North Africa play into the plans of Islamic extremists. President Amadinejab may have already sent a letter to President Obama asking him to convert to Islam, as The Ayatollah Khomeini did to President Gorbachev, and as Mohammad did to the Byzantine Emperor.
Over a century ago there were no machines able to provide power for mass personal transportation through the American wilderness-then came the internal combustion engine. That first industrial technology remains America’s contemporary techno-transport power. The nation’s seduction to automotive hedonism has sated their appetite for transportation advance. The reliance on internal combustion engines and fossil fuels has made America seem like a nation of swine waiting to be slopped with cheap fossil fuels. Accordingly the U.S.A. has failed to advance to stage 2 or even stage 3 transportation modalities that use no fossil fuel and that do not harm the ecosphere of the nation.
In 1988 the U.S. Navy sank most of the effective Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf, yet earlier President Reagan had withdrawn American Marines from Lebanon after 247 were killed by a Shiite suicide bomber. The mission of the United States in Beirut evidently was to protect Palestinians--President Regan might have realized that the mission was morally wrong for American and withdrew. Political purposes count as much as the means of accomplishing them.
Some view U.S. Democracy with a bifurcation between old style morality and Godliness and new style immorality and atheism. Democracy may be regarded as a fig leaf for atheist imperial hegemony at home and abroad. Ecocide may be a consequence of old style classical economics of The New World Order while alternatively, The Islamic Republic may seek to lead a recrudescent Islamic Global Empire for itself. Protracted U.S. military deployments to Islamic nations will increase the Islamisation of American service personnel and bring more of the creed of Mecca to the United States legally and illegally over-the border.
I tend to believe that the better U.S. policy would be to assert an ecospheric economics with zero illegal immigration and restore a moral, fully employed America. An ecosphere friendly, low entropy high quality economic policy could serve as a good example to developing nations. Admiral Mullins, Secdef Gates and President Obama seem to have a goal of making atheist homosexuality the military mission of the U.S.A. though. It is an effort to rejoin Pangaea that King Canute would have marveled upon.
Apocalpse Scheduled for Hubble Space Telescope
With the Hubble Space Telescope, human sight has boldly gone where no human vision has gone before. The views of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field series brought visions of galaxies created when the universe was less than a billion years old. N.A.S.A. plans to order the space telescope to activate a small steering rocket in a few years, enter the Earth’s upper atmosphere and burn up in a bright ball of friction flame because U.S. bureaucrats have run out of ideas of anything more useful to do with the brilliant relic of an era of excellence besides ordering it to self-destruct.
The disposable American political ethos has tragically and profligately scheduled the apocalypse for the Hubble Space Telescope. Even though it will be comparatively less modern than the newer James Webb infrared super-giant space telescope scheduled to go up soon the Hubble still would be valuable for a variety of presently unknown future applications.
What can be done with the Hubble; auction it on E-Bay so a private space firm can buy it and move it to some orbital location and perhaps repair it one day? Move it to a stationary orbit Mars? Some use for space materials other than burning them up in the Earth’s atmosphere should become a normal policy- maybe the Hubble could be used to make ice cream or serve as a dog house at a future moon base. Enable the Hubble to make a soft landing on the moon or just send it until on a slow journey around Jupiter until future space farers reclaim it for use-nothing can be as wasteful as just burning it to ashes.
The disposable American political ethos has tragically and profligately scheduled the apocalypse for the Hubble Space Telescope. Even though it will be comparatively less modern than the newer James Webb infrared super-giant space telescope scheduled to go up soon the Hubble still would be valuable for a variety of presently unknown future applications.
What can be done with the Hubble; auction it on E-Bay so a private space firm can buy it and move it to some orbital location and perhaps repair it one day? Move it to a stationary orbit Mars? Some use for space materials other than burning them up in the Earth’s atmosphere should become a normal policy- maybe the Hubble could be used to make ice cream or serve as a dog house at a future moon base. Enable the Hubble to make a soft landing on the moon or just send it until on a slow journey around Jupiter until future space farers reclaim it for use-nothing can be as wasteful as just burning it to ashes.
Recurrent Cycle of Evolutionary Capitalism
A recurring cycle of capital concentration in historical evolution is the fundamental post hunter-gathering economic practice of mankind. For reasons of brevity I shall refrain from citing countless historical examples of the point from ancient Rome, to monarchy, feudalism and so forth. From an egalitarian apportionment of natural wealth competition drives the concentration of wealth and power that upon reaching stagnation at the highest feasible form of concentration is broken up with violent revolution to resume the cycle from a new egalitarian foundation.
With the simultaneous progress of human knowledge and technology subsequent cycles of capital concentration resume at a higher level of foundational wealth than previous beginnings. Through history several economic and social analysts have viewed selective stages of the recurrent capital cycles of evolution and have advanced theories about how a ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth might be made. Karl Marx was such an historical figure, who did not recognize, like so many others, that the evolutionary advance of capital concentration cannot be arrested at any particular point and continue to function as a progressive economy. Like the evolution of mass and energy in space time through thermodynamic stages of entropy, economics in capital evolution cannot be stopped.
What can be done to moderate evolutionary capitalism to serve the basic interest of a society is to try to limit the concentration of wealth in order to promote the egalitarian and competitive benefits of complete social participation with meaningful opportunities for ingenuity, invention and private capital concentration. A democratic society cognizant of failures of individuals pervasively to accumulate capital for-themselves should limit the size of corporate employment and attempt to perpetuate a revitalization of individual capital resources for all citizens.
The United States is just one example of a nation in a stage of capital concentration concentrating wealth for trans-national corporations. Concurrently U.S. Government policy fails to create a Mexican border barrier equivalent to a natural barrier effective enough that it cannot be illegal crossed.As the world population and transportation efficiency increases toward 9 billion souls dozens of millions of illegal global migrants enter the U.S.A. to create surplus labor and keep wages down for the working class while wealth is concentrated for corporate rulers of the nation. U.S. cycles of simultaneous concentration of wealth and national political decay provide a glimpse of the future conditions that may precipitate a violent revolutionary transition to stage one of the egalitarian distribution of wealth that evolves toward an eventual concentration of wealth.
The United States began with a violent revolutionary redistribution of wealth and power in destroying British rule over the nation. Natural resources were abundant permitting an egalitarian basis for general capital non-concentration lasting nearly 175 years before the concentration of wealth reached a networking stage that has continued its pace of acceleration. As the population density of the U.S.A. increases the quantity of non-renewable an renewable natural resources per individual decreases. Accelerating global immigration over an ineffectively defended southern border increases the pace of political social inequality with a large internal and external proletariat demanding cultural change.
Instead of being an island of ecospheric rationality and restoration with an exemplary static population size and a continuum of low entropy, full employment economic methodology dampening the cycle of evolutionary capitalism from its terminal, singularity phase the United States has thrown reason to the winds and gone along with the historical drafting force of the cycle of evolutionary capitalism. Karl Mark argued for arrested development at the lowest level of concentrated wealth possible that has the implicit effect of preventing competition and progress, while pure capitalists tend to argue in favor of the cycle of wealth concentration either without comprehending or caring that it inevitably leads to violent social destruction without the interpolation of intelligent design of economic reform.
With the simultaneous progress of human knowledge and technology subsequent cycles of capital concentration resume at a higher level of foundational wealth than previous beginnings. Through history several economic and social analysts have viewed selective stages of the recurrent capital cycles of evolution and have advanced theories about how a ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth might be made. Karl Marx was such an historical figure, who did not recognize, like so many others, that the evolutionary advance of capital concentration cannot be arrested at any particular point and continue to function as a progressive economy. Like the evolution of mass and energy in space time through thermodynamic stages of entropy, economics in capital evolution cannot be stopped.
What can be done to moderate evolutionary capitalism to serve the basic interest of a society is to try to limit the concentration of wealth in order to promote the egalitarian and competitive benefits of complete social participation with meaningful opportunities for ingenuity, invention and private capital concentration. A democratic society cognizant of failures of individuals pervasively to accumulate capital for-themselves should limit the size of corporate employment and attempt to perpetuate a revitalization of individual capital resources for all citizens.
The United States is just one example of a nation in a stage of capital concentration concentrating wealth for trans-national corporations. Concurrently U.S. Government policy fails to create a Mexican border barrier equivalent to a natural barrier effective enough that it cannot be illegal crossed.As the world population and transportation efficiency increases toward 9 billion souls dozens of millions of illegal global migrants enter the U.S.A. to create surplus labor and keep wages down for the working class while wealth is concentrated for corporate rulers of the nation. U.S. cycles of simultaneous concentration of wealth and national political decay provide a glimpse of the future conditions that may precipitate a violent revolutionary transition to stage one of the egalitarian distribution of wealth that evolves toward an eventual concentration of wealth.
The United States began with a violent revolutionary redistribution of wealth and power in destroying British rule over the nation. Natural resources were abundant permitting an egalitarian basis for general capital non-concentration lasting nearly 175 years before the concentration of wealth reached a networking stage that has continued its pace of acceleration. As the population density of the U.S.A. increases the quantity of non-renewable an renewable natural resources per individual decreases. Accelerating global immigration over an ineffectively defended southern border increases the pace of political social inequality with a large internal and external proletariat demanding cultural change.
Instead of being an island of ecospheric rationality and restoration with an exemplary static population size and a continuum of low entropy, full employment economic methodology dampening the cycle of evolutionary capitalism from its terminal, singularity phase the United States has thrown reason to the winds and gone along with the historical drafting force of the cycle of evolutionary capitalism. Karl Mark argued for arrested development at the lowest level of concentrated wealth possible that has the implicit effect of preventing competition and progress, while pure capitalists tend to argue in favor of the cycle of wealth concentration either without comprehending or caring that it inevitably leads to violent social destruction without the interpolation of intelligent design of economic reform.
Hippocampus issues nerve cell growth (brain cells)
New nerve cells in the brain were discovered to grow not only in lab rats, but in human beings too. Sciencenews.org reported on January 29, 2011 pages 23-25 on the phenomenon.
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392754
New nerve cells in the brain grow in the Hippocampus area. That stimulates some notions of humanities in Florida stimulating ecological reasoning growth in political circles perhaps as legislation limits boaters from speeding along the Indian River with counter-rotating props. Actually though, some particular food groups help brain cell regrowth besides making new connections between existing brain cells. At least its food for thought.
Fish, omega 3 fatty acids, vegetables, herbs and fruit—these are good brain foods evidently.
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392754
New nerve cells in the brain grow in the Hippocampus area. That stimulates some notions of humanities in Florida stimulating ecological reasoning growth in political circles perhaps as legislation limits boaters from speeding along the Indian River with counter-rotating props. Actually though, some particular food groups help brain cell regrowth besides making new connections between existing brain cells. At least its food for thought.
Fish, omega 3 fatty acids, vegetables, herbs and fruit—these are good brain foods evidently.
Happy American Legal Services © 2011 Gibson-fiction
In order to cut the federal budget, the U.S. Supreme Court was replaced recently by an intelligent super computer named HAL. Simultaneously the state of Alaska built a super-size prison near Goose Creek with beds for 1500 prisoners-some legislators were grousing about the size and expense. Enlightened minds realized that the spaces could be filled more quickly with more efficient justice-and thuse entered the era of super-computer, super-swift justice.
favorable points for HAL...
Hal was created with every legal case every brought before a court on Earth in it's memory, HAL cost less to operate annually than the entire federal judiciary.
Computational legal decisions personify the very latest in keen legal reasoning. Like the computer ubermench of Double Jeopardy able to consider every popular question and answer faster than human rivals, HAL too had a special reasoning program able to produce the quickest and most true judgents possible. HAL's motto engraved on its faceplates said it all;'No mercy, no frills legal decisions on the spot'.
No longer were tiresome court room delays made because of a lack of computational wisdom and electrical accuity. HAL not only cut to the chase, it anticipated the verdicts reading re-trial briefs required with anticipatory text. It's omnipresent television cameras knew of all national actions. No time- lost in appeals
favorable points for HAL...
Hal was created with every legal case every brought before a court on Earth in it's memory, HAL cost less to operate annually than the entire federal judiciary.
Computational legal decisions personify the very latest in keen legal reasoning. Like the computer ubermench of Double Jeopardy able to consider every popular question and answer faster than human rivals, HAL too had a special reasoning program able to produce the quickest and most true judgents possible. HAL's motto engraved on its faceplates said it all;'No mercy, no frills legal decisions on the spot'.
No longer were tiresome court room delays made because of a lack of computational wisdom and electrical accuity. HAL not only cut to the chase, it anticipated the verdicts reading re-trial briefs required with anticipatory text. It's omnipresent television cameras knew of all national actions. No time- lost in appeals
3/3/11
Super-Clusters of Galaxies-Largest Structures in Universe
It is said that the largest structures of the Universe are super-clusters of galaxies. There seem to be about fifty of them in the observable area of the Universe which is about twenty-six billion light years across as viewed from the Earth. I ought to point out that the actually area of the Universe may be greater than the area of it that can be seen.
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1785/dark-matter-scaffolding-galactic-supercluster-mapped
-photo credit Hubble Space Telescope Institute
The reason for that discrepancy is that light has a finite speed of travel, and that space-time itself is expanding away from the Earth in most directions. The earliest light that has been seen-the cosmic microwave background of the universe that long ago was very hot and now has cooled down to 3 degrees above absolute zero, was sent out when the Universe was about 300,000 years old according to physical evolutionary models run in reverse. Presently we live in approximately the year 13 billion, seven hundred million years after the inflation of the Universe from time equals zero (T=0) that is regarded as the proximal beginning.
Light has had thus just 13.7 billion years to travel, and that is also thought to be the size of the universe as a radius in light years from Earth.
Looking in space-telescopes like the Hubble S.T. astronomers can view formations of stellar material and nebulas of dust clouds lit up by waves of particles from burning and exploding stars in all their phases of life. There are more than half a dozen basic shapes of galaxies, and also galaxies themselves are drawn together through gravity to form clusters of galaxies and even super-clusters of galaxies.
If there are larger structures in the universe than galaxies that exist, no one knows of any today. Of course one might count space as a larger structure if nothingness is real, or maybe just dimensions as larger, or possibly even the mysterious missing matter and energy of the universe that are believed to exist and act as a sort of hidden gravity affecting galaxies and also as an anti-gravity phenomena pushing all of space-time outward. Actually there may be several larger structures than super-clusters of galaxies, yet as it is now, known are know to the human community on Earth.
Super-clusters of galaxies are fantastic things though. They are vast clumps of tens of millions of galaxies maybe, surrounding vast empty areas of space-time. Today researchers write that the clumps of super-clusters of galaxies around vast empty regions of space-time is a consequence of the initial distribution of mass and energy in the earliest moments of the life history of this Universe that is believed to have inflated like a space-time balloon faster than light for a fraction of a second then slowing down to expand at a sub-luminal pace.
The galactic super cluster our Milky Way Galaxy is located in is a pretty good one named “The Virgo Cluster’. A vast super cluster nearly 730 million light years in size is nearest our Virgo Cluster. It is called ‘The Wall’ or alternately ‘The Great Attractor’ and gives us something slid to ponder being nearly a tenth of the age of the universe itself in comparative expansion of light years in size.
Galactic super-clusters are sad to be connected by thin filament at least. We might one day be able to go on a faster than light journey around the Universe to visit these fifty galactic super-clusters without needing to cross through the deserts of empty space-segregating the essential portions. Without that spacing the superclusters might quickly collapse into a giant black hole prematurely bring an end to al life in the Universe.
Might we travel faster than light by travelling outside of the slid state physical realm f the Universe in which we live, perhaps via extra dimensional did shortcuts? Will we one day have the chance to advise any fellow creatures living in the Universe on important topic like how to live peacefully in dense populations, how to assure that all creatures are given equal opportunity for life’s essential needs, and how to conserve and sustain finite natural resources? Probably not, yet the super-clusters are still worth generations of study for their brilliant status as the largest structures of the visible Universe in which nearly every existing star is set.
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1785/dark-matter-scaffolding-galactic-supercluster-mapped
-photo credit Hubble Space Telescope Institute
The reason for that discrepancy is that light has a finite speed of travel, and that space-time itself is expanding away from the Earth in most directions. The earliest light that has been seen-the cosmic microwave background of the universe that long ago was very hot and now has cooled down to 3 degrees above absolute zero, was sent out when the Universe was about 300,000 years old according to physical evolutionary models run in reverse. Presently we live in approximately the year 13 billion, seven hundred million years after the inflation of the Universe from time equals zero (T=0) that is regarded as the proximal beginning.
Light has had thus just 13.7 billion years to travel, and that is also thought to be the size of the universe as a radius in light years from Earth.
Looking in space-telescopes like the Hubble S.T. astronomers can view formations of stellar material and nebulas of dust clouds lit up by waves of particles from burning and exploding stars in all their phases of life. There are more than half a dozen basic shapes of galaxies, and also galaxies themselves are drawn together through gravity to form clusters of galaxies and even super-clusters of galaxies.
If there are larger structures in the universe than galaxies that exist, no one knows of any today. Of course one might count space as a larger structure if nothingness is real, or maybe just dimensions as larger, or possibly even the mysterious missing matter and energy of the universe that are believed to exist and act as a sort of hidden gravity affecting galaxies and also as an anti-gravity phenomena pushing all of space-time outward. Actually there may be several larger structures than super-clusters of galaxies, yet as it is now, known are know to the human community on Earth.
Super-clusters of galaxies are fantastic things though. They are vast clumps of tens of millions of galaxies maybe, surrounding vast empty areas of space-time. Today researchers write that the clumps of super-clusters of galaxies around vast empty regions of space-time is a consequence of the initial distribution of mass and energy in the earliest moments of the life history of this Universe that is believed to have inflated like a space-time balloon faster than light for a fraction of a second then slowing down to expand at a sub-luminal pace.
The galactic super cluster our Milky Way Galaxy is located in is a pretty good one named “The Virgo Cluster’. A vast super cluster nearly 730 million light years in size is nearest our Virgo Cluster. It is called ‘The Wall’ or alternately ‘The Great Attractor’ and gives us something slid to ponder being nearly a tenth of the age of the universe itself in comparative expansion of light years in size.
Galactic super-clusters are sad to be connected by thin filament at least. We might one day be able to go on a faster than light journey around the Universe to visit these fifty galactic super-clusters without needing to cross through the deserts of empty space-segregating the essential portions. Without that spacing the superclusters might quickly collapse into a giant black hole prematurely bring an end to al life in the Universe.
Might we travel faster than light by travelling outside of the slid state physical realm f the Universe in which we live, perhaps via extra dimensional did shortcuts? Will we one day have the chance to advise any fellow creatures living in the Universe on important topic like how to live peacefully in dense populations, how to assure that all creatures are given equal opportunity for life’s essential needs, and how to conserve and sustain finite natural resources? Probably not, yet the super-clusters are still worth generations of study for their brilliant status as the largest structures of the visible Universe in which nearly every existing star is set.
2/27/11
President Obama; Frontman for Corporate Imperialist Upgrades in North Africa?
With all the news about Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Libya an American voter might overlook the troubles the Congress has in formatting a rational budget this year. With a two week temporary spending bill maybe the Government won't shut down. With tax cuts spending cuts won't be capable of creating a balanced budget. Of course the media has thoughtfully placed national attention upon the end of neo-military regimes in North Africa. For those of us out of work in North America, the prospects of meaningful change for our fortunes via Egypt are somewhat abstract.
Perhaps the President as of African descent and a history as a community organizer needed to do his part to create political change in North Africa. The old guard of the North Africa were fading out of use for corporate imperialist public relations purposes. Out with the old and in with the new.
Someday, if the new neo-military government presence yields to a perfect democracy or at least a fundamentalist Islamic tier of states, our great, great, great American decedents may have the possibility of finding a job in Libya or Egypt. That is a thrilling prospect for me tenting this winter in Alaska. All the more reason to listen to the Washington politicos and pundits considering how to help African change with no fly zones, serious sanctions, creating alternative, temporary governments or maybe sending in the 101st Air Cav from an aircraft carrier.
Reading of the history of the Balkan wars recently I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the ingressions of imperial powers through the Balkans and modern global expansions of organized power through innumerable small nations. Imperial power may be of many forms and led by groups of people rather than bloodlines-human collective leadership is creative in finding ways to expand economic borders, exploit the locals and subvert their political right of self-determination.
The transition of the United States into being a servo-unit of global corporate imperialism isn't quite complete, yet the ecospheric demands upon Americans are present vital interests to our political attention as well as the reconstruction of a nationalist political ethic of full employment, secure borders and non-wasteful economic practices.
Sure people are oppressed in large portions of the globe including the United States. Individual rights to own private property and to have personal material security and freedom from want of fundamental survival requirements are undermined by imperial powers historically. With our national economic leadership incapable and unwilling to separate the preponderance of U.S. economic activity from global corporate imperial control the diversion of the public attention to 'the crowning of the king and king of Hollywood' at the Oscar's, to the new regimes across north Africa, or to the latest foreign threats to global economic powers or just to Boston Massachusetts becomes the perennial focus of media activity.
There are virtually no advocates for American economic nationalism and full employment these days in media broadcasts, and none advocating for synergetic economic use of the ecosphere with concurrent conservation and recovery of what remains of it. The changes in North Africa that may go on for decades might be of more meaning to global imperialists of the business world than to Americans out of work now.
Perhaps the President as of African descent and a history as a community organizer needed to do his part to create political change in North Africa. The old guard of the North Africa were fading out of use for corporate imperialist public relations purposes. Out with the old and in with the new.
Someday, if the new neo-military government presence yields to a perfect democracy or at least a fundamentalist Islamic tier of states, our great, great, great American decedents may have the possibility of finding a job in Libya or Egypt. That is a thrilling prospect for me tenting this winter in Alaska. All the more reason to listen to the Washington politicos and pundits considering how to help African change with no fly zones, serious sanctions, creating alternative, temporary governments or maybe sending in the 101st Air Cav from an aircraft carrier.
Reading of the history of the Balkan wars recently I couldn't help but notice the similarities between the ingressions of imperial powers through the Balkans and modern global expansions of organized power through innumerable small nations. Imperial power may be of many forms and led by groups of people rather than bloodlines-human collective leadership is creative in finding ways to expand economic borders, exploit the locals and subvert their political right of self-determination.
The transition of the United States into being a servo-unit of global corporate imperialism isn't quite complete, yet the ecospheric demands upon Americans are present vital interests to our political attention as well as the reconstruction of a nationalist political ethic of full employment, secure borders and non-wasteful economic practices.
Sure people are oppressed in large portions of the globe including the United States. Individual rights to own private property and to have personal material security and freedom from want of fundamental survival requirements are undermined by imperial powers historically. With our national economic leadership incapable and unwilling to separate the preponderance of U.S. economic activity from global corporate imperial control the diversion of the public attention to 'the crowning of the king and king of Hollywood' at the Oscar's, to the new regimes across north Africa, or to the latest foreign threats to global economic powers or just to Boston Massachusetts becomes the perennial focus of media activity.
There are virtually no advocates for American economic nationalism and full employment these days in media broadcasts, and none advocating for synergetic economic use of the ecosphere with concurrent conservation and recovery of what remains of it. The changes in North Africa that may go on for decades might be of more meaning to global imperialists of the business world than to Americans out of work now.
How Darwinian Moral Nihilism Evolved the Death of Liberalism
From the beginning the Word of God designed life to be and become in the Universe. The boundary conditions of the Universe of Universes from its initial state were made to enable life to actualize in a variety of states. On the Earth, with powerful space telescopes, the view of space-time and light that has travelled across it spans nearly twenty-six billion light year-thirteen billion light years in opposite directions starting from our world has been grasped.
Human life has evolved thought enabling rational construction of political and social ideas. With creation of intelligent social philosophy the innate spiritual awareness of the difference between good and evil inspires mankind to form governing institutions that fundamentally reflect concepts of individual liberty. Human thought may exist at a cutting edge of evolution from a certain perspective. Unlike unreasoning life forms that are themselves entirely subject to natural forces of evolution, human beings with free thinking creative, willful thought can determine their own responses for good or bad to natural evolutionary challenges.
Evolution does not guarantee success to all living things forever. Human beings with human thought can quickly advance or equally swiftly deteriorate their prospects for evolutionary success. If post-liberal Darwinian moral nihilism becomes the norm, humanity’s selection of meaninglessness over reason may be the harbinger of evolutionary failure.
Liberalism developed in opposition to authoritarianism, monarchy, totalitarianism and the concentration of political power within elite minority rule. Darwinianism leaking into political thought neutralized the meaning of political rationalism while undermining liberalism, if not usurping the name. Liberalism was redefined to mean recognition of the meaninglessness of meaning spelling out in the process the delegitimization of all rationally constructed social philosophies including classical liberalism.
The remarkable insights of the natural philosopher Charles Darwin into the mechanical evolution of material in the Universe including living processes provided ad educated leap in social comprehension of how much of the Universe functions. For many political liberals Darwinism became a purely secular replacement to Christian and other religious thought on matters from ethics to cosmological genesis. It was believed by Social Darwinists that the Universe was not big enough for God and Darwinian evolution to be true at the same time.
Of course expansion of Darwinism beyond science wholesale into ethics, philosophy, cosmology and theology was rash and generative of numerous errors in reasoning. Yet this is not an essay upon the myriad ways that Biblical creation parameters might be reconciled with temporal evolution theory; six days in parameters of general relativity and the twins paradox, theistic evolution, alternative extra dimensions, retroactive creation units and are worthy of elaboration beyond the scope of this political essay.
Charles Darwin’s analytical, scientific thought too broadly applied led to a social Darwinism engendering a pervasive belief in an amoral universe amongst liberals.
Liberalism beginning as a revolution against concentrated power was itself annihilated by a Darwinianism that negated the meaning of anything.
In the United States politics tends to take a massified approach over vast expanses of land. A form of hybrid cultural imperialism was assumed too as a mass market for consumerism naturally enough. Popular thought impelled by social Darwinism masquerading as liberalism attacks all traditional moral norms and holds nations and nationalism to be quaint obstructions to the uniform mass culture of commercial imperialists running roughshod upon the fragile world ecosphere.
In reading a history of the Balkan wars it is remarkable to discover the simultaneous problems for political and social peace created by the competition of several imperial governments over time for control of rebellious mountain peoples. Ethnic divisions are increased by religious divisions compelled by imperial power alliances and preferences. In the Balkans, nationalism was repressed even through the modern communist era. Ironically, even the United States of America as an imperialist power with N.A.T.O. bombed Serbia as it fought it latest war for national identification.
Modern imperialism may form in ad hoc or surruptiously designed and/or mislabeled trans-national corporate structures even bringing together former communist elites into the fold of global rulers of men and women within one world neo-imperial order of corporatism One must wonder if the recent Egyptian pseudo-populist revolt against the oppressive Mubarak regime was in part a C.I.A. production enabled by American influence over the Egyptian military through a two billion dollar annual U.S. contribution. As the old American friendly government lost its usefulness and fell from fashion a newer, youthful transition to a military government and an unknown future more popular government was deemed useful. Such actions while perhaps moral would be expressions of corporate imperialism shaping the world inevitably toward its own ends.
The Austrian-Hapsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire were two prior imperial powers of the Balkans. American assumptions about nationalism and its relationship to peace were in part formed along with particular European ideas drawn from wars largely between France and the Germanic Hapsburg Empire. As a nation the United States had little trouble increasing its borders over history. The nation has little record of conservation of its culture in the modern world, and instead prefers to expand through immigration and global corporatism as a populist, commercial imperial power. Like a class III star it burns resources at a quick pace and might devour from neighboring stars material to keep fusion fires of economics burning, or perhaps it moves abroad its productive centers making the nation itself something of a slum. Corporate leaders have little national allegiance though it might be impolitic to say so too publicly.
In the past few centuries wars have been fought for ideological, ethnic and imperial reasons far more than for nationalism. If peoples were able to live within national boundaries and responsibly use their own resources with liberal political society of individuality based democracy instead of Darwinian political accountability the prospects for human survival would be much increased.
The ongoing maladroit effect of political Darwinism undermining reason and intelligent design of social boundaries and traditions because of a false belief that nihilistic thought is the truest evolution of liberalism would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Mass market political idea producers believe that liberal thought is the best advocate for the meaninglessness of morality and for the reduction to phenomenalism of any thoughtful political construction of human intelligence.
Popular social political Darwinism logically negates the reality or value of any thought. Perhaps one might associate that with a perfection of Zen philosophy, yet Zen is at least logically consistent and an atemporal belief while Darwinian political secularism and corrupted liberalism are worldly with a self-negating, contradictory political irrationality of nihilism at their core.
Within a temporal universe with apparent evolutionary processes, there are physical values in cosmology not at all well understood. The whole being of the Universe has indefinable boundaries from large to small. Dimensions and time are only being researched. Language development is researched neurological and philosophically investigated. Languages are codes sharing data socially. Amongst researchers languages share data as coded references about the structure of the phenomenal universe. The effort to interpret reality is done with data structures associated through language codes.
Mathematics is a kind of language code that describes the shapes, transitions and quantitative relations logically possible for hypothetical constructions. Meaning in coded structures is valid just so far as it rationally, accurately describes objects of reference in their apparent states of being. The process of interpreting data and inventing concepts are rational, meaningful activities. They are not found within a wrongly transferred Darwinian political philosophy of liberal meaninglessness derived from material evolution theories of life, geology, being or time.
One may require only one language code (as English for example) to unify a nation or people so far as possible within a common possibility of comprehension of meaning criterion. It is also possible to believe that the ability to say the same thing with several codes better, although the language of math universally understood works well enough. When languages, cultures, polities and rational political structures are held to be implicitly meaningless the consequences can be as critical as it could be in any field of human construction such as aeronautical engineering. Liberalism was designed to safeguard individual freedom within a political system rather than to promote anarchy and the opinion that everything is intrinsically meaningless.
Darwinism is not a viable political philosophy for a rational society. It ought to be rightly limited to use as a scientific method for regarding materials formations. If it’s applied too broadly in fields of human behavior including thought, reason is neutralized and intelligent social design eclipsed. It may seem a narrow and sharp line drawn in the sand that points an arrow toward good and intelligent directions instead of random and meaningless chance or whim. If society is to progress toward a rational and optimal social alliance with God’s provisioning of nature, meaning rather than meaninglessness must be accentuated positively.
Nature itself follows highly structured physical courses of orderly change. Human life can be sustained within just a narrow temperature range of perhaps fifteen degrees Fahrenheit of body temperature flux while the Universe ranges over tens of millions of degrees. Comprehending the ordered structures of the Universe; developing human reason to comprehend and construct advanced conceptual possibilities of invention and enterprise within reasonable boundaries in respect to nature and human liberty are works of reason rather than phenomena of meaninglessness and nihilism.
Human life has evolved thought enabling rational construction of political and social ideas. With creation of intelligent social philosophy the innate spiritual awareness of the difference between good and evil inspires mankind to form governing institutions that fundamentally reflect concepts of individual liberty. Human thought may exist at a cutting edge of evolution from a certain perspective. Unlike unreasoning life forms that are themselves entirely subject to natural forces of evolution, human beings with free thinking creative, willful thought can determine their own responses for good or bad to natural evolutionary challenges.
Evolution does not guarantee success to all living things forever. Human beings with human thought can quickly advance or equally swiftly deteriorate their prospects for evolutionary success. If post-liberal Darwinian moral nihilism becomes the norm, humanity’s selection of meaninglessness over reason may be the harbinger of evolutionary failure.
Liberalism developed in opposition to authoritarianism, monarchy, totalitarianism and the concentration of political power within elite minority rule. Darwinianism leaking into political thought neutralized the meaning of political rationalism while undermining liberalism, if not usurping the name. Liberalism was redefined to mean recognition of the meaninglessness of meaning spelling out in the process the delegitimization of all rationally constructed social philosophies including classical liberalism.
The remarkable insights of the natural philosopher Charles Darwin into the mechanical evolution of material in the Universe including living processes provided ad educated leap in social comprehension of how much of the Universe functions. For many political liberals Darwinism became a purely secular replacement to Christian and other religious thought on matters from ethics to cosmological genesis. It was believed by Social Darwinists that the Universe was not big enough for God and Darwinian evolution to be true at the same time.
Of course expansion of Darwinism beyond science wholesale into ethics, philosophy, cosmology and theology was rash and generative of numerous errors in reasoning. Yet this is not an essay upon the myriad ways that Biblical creation parameters might be reconciled with temporal evolution theory; six days in parameters of general relativity and the twins paradox, theistic evolution, alternative extra dimensions, retroactive creation units and are worthy of elaboration beyond the scope of this political essay.
Charles Darwin’s analytical, scientific thought too broadly applied led to a social Darwinism engendering a pervasive belief in an amoral universe amongst liberals.
Liberalism beginning as a revolution against concentrated power was itself annihilated by a Darwinianism that negated the meaning of anything.
In the United States politics tends to take a massified approach over vast expanses of land. A form of hybrid cultural imperialism was assumed too as a mass market for consumerism naturally enough. Popular thought impelled by social Darwinism masquerading as liberalism attacks all traditional moral norms and holds nations and nationalism to be quaint obstructions to the uniform mass culture of commercial imperialists running roughshod upon the fragile world ecosphere.
In reading a history of the Balkan wars it is remarkable to discover the simultaneous problems for political and social peace created by the competition of several imperial governments over time for control of rebellious mountain peoples. Ethnic divisions are increased by religious divisions compelled by imperial power alliances and preferences. In the Balkans, nationalism was repressed even through the modern communist era. Ironically, even the United States of America as an imperialist power with N.A.T.O. bombed Serbia as it fought it latest war for national identification.
Modern imperialism may form in ad hoc or surruptiously designed and/or mislabeled trans-national corporate structures even bringing together former communist elites into the fold of global rulers of men and women within one world neo-imperial order of corporatism One must wonder if the recent Egyptian pseudo-populist revolt against the oppressive Mubarak regime was in part a C.I.A. production enabled by American influence over the Egyptian military through a two billion dollar annual U.S. contribution. As the old American friendly government lost its usefulness and fell from fashion a newer, youthful transition to a military government and an unknown future more popular government was deemed useful. Such actions while perhaps moral would be expressions of corporate imperialism shaping the world inevitably toward its own ends.
The Austrian-Hapsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire were two prior imperial powers of the Balkans. American assumptions about nationalism and its relationship to peace were in part formed along with particular European ideas drawn from wars largely between France and the Germanic Hapsburg Empire. As a nation the United States had little trouble increasing its borders over history. The nation has little record of conservation of its culture in the modern world, and instead prefers to expand through immigration and global corporatism as a populist, commercial imperial power. Like a class III star it burns resources at a quick pace and might devour from neighboring stars material to keep fusion fires of economics burning, or perhaps it moves abroad its productive centers making the nation itself something of a slum. Corporate leaders have little national allegiance though it might be impolitic to say so too publicly.
In the past few centuries wars have been fought for ideological, ethnic and imperial reasons far more than for nationalism. If peoples were able to live within national boundaries and responsibly use their own resources with liberal political society of individuality based democracy instead of Darwinian political accountability the prospects for human survival would be much increased.
The ongoing maladroit effect of political Darwinism undermining reason and intelligent design of social boundaries and traditions because of a false belief that nihilistic thought is the truest evolution of liberalism would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Mass market political idea producers believe that liberal thought is the best advocate for the meaninglessness of morality and for the reduction to phenomenalism of any thoughtful political construction of human intelligence.
Popular social political Darwinism logically negates the reality or value of any thought. Perhaps one might associate that with a perfection of Zen philosophy, yet Zen is at least logically consistent and an atemporal belief while Darwinian political secularism and corrupted liberalism are worldly with a self-negating, contradictory political irrationality of nihilism at their core.
Within a temporal universe with apparent evolutionary processes, there are physical values in cosmology not at all well understood. The whole being of the Universe has indefinable boundaries from large to small. Dimensions and time are only being researched. Language development is researched neurological and philosophically investigated. Languages are codes sharing data socially. Amongst researchers languages share data as coded references about the structure of the phenomenal universe. The effort to interpret reality is done with data structures associated through language codes.
Mathematics is a kind of language code that describes the shapes, transitions and quantitative relations logically possible for hypothetical constructions. Meaning in coded structures is valid just so far as it rationally, accurately describes objects of reference in their apparent states of being. The process of interpreting data and inventing concepts are rational, meaningful activities. They are not found within a wrongly transferred Darwinian political philosophy of liberal meaninglessness derived from material evolution theories of life, geology, being or time.
One may require only one language code (as English for example) to unify a nation or people so far as possible within a common possibility of comprehension of meaning criterion. It is also possible to believe that the ability to say the same thing with several codes better, although the language of math universally understood works well enough. When languages, cultures, polities and rational political structures are held to be implicitly meaningless the consequences can be as critical as it could be in any field of human construction such as aeronautical engineering. Liberalism was designed to safeguard individual freedom within a political system rather than to promote anarchy and the opinion that everything is intrinsically meaningless.
Darwinism is not a viable political philosophy for a rational society. It ought to be rightly limited to use as a scientific method for regarding materials formations. If it’s applied too broadly in fields of human behavior including thought, reason is neutralized and intelligent social design eclipsed. It may seem a narrow and sharp line drawn in the sand that points an arrow toward good and intelligent directions instead of random and meaningless chance or whim. If society is to progress toward a rational and optimal social alliance with God’s provisioning of nature, meaning rather than meaninglessness must be accentuated positively.
Nature itself follows highly structured physical courses of orderly change. Human life can be sustained within just a narrow temperature range of perhaps fifteen degrees Fahrenheit of body temperature flux while the Universe ranges over tens of millions of degrees. Comprehending the ordered structures of the Universe; developing human reason to comprehend and construct advanced conceptual possibilities of invention and enterprise within reasonable boundaries in respect to nature and human liberty are works of reason rather than phenomena of meaninglessness and nihilism.
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