Sense or Sensibility in Foreign Intervention in Syria?

I am rather skeptical that a philosophical mandate exists for war. War seems to be a practical human activity such as rival colonies of ants do rather than an intelligent, philosophical practice.

Arguably U.S. intervention in the First World War led to global destabilization and a century of needless U.S. conflicts abroad. The Second World war and the Stalinist phenomenon would not have occurred except the German Imperial Government was deposed at the end of the war to enable an Armistice. Syrian intervention is another dubious issue perhaps flamed into being by the U.S. administration and the U.N. in order to accomplish a regime change.

The Obama Doctrine of regime changes in the Arab Spring... seems to be a function of British use of the U.S. military as their stooges for free military adventurism in furtherance of global imperialism for Britain economically speaking through a variety of financial means. The horror of terrorism upon civilian populations is repugnant to right reason of course, yet the perfidy of intervention by foreign powers can arise through a number of means.

The Alawi people of Syria are a tough, fighting tribe historically. The balances of power developed in the Middle East since 25,000 B.C. are sometimes a little beyond the depth of competence in the U.S. State Department and administration I think. I am fairly sure that I don't regard an indirect treacherous policy for 'diplomacy in the Middle East as forthright. If we must get rid of some government because people in Des Moines hate them, then we might attack them directly and put out of work Chicagoans to work in Damascus with an Obama stimulus package for government workers (Joking of course).

Like the Bush administration in Iraq there seems to be no post-regime change planning for Syria. Another conflict with lots of bodies splattered about en route to some glorious news coverage of the Condor Legion II blasting the fugitives into the stone age with precision weapons may be a way to help create another Sunni state in an ad hoc New Caliphate. Why?

Hamas was originally the Muslim Brotherhood too, and the new Egyptian President will probably be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, as would a post Alawite Syrian leaders. Is that kind of situation supposed to intimidate Iran into giving up any loose nukes it may have panhandled from the Pakistanis' North Koreans or Russian, Chinese or whomever? On the contrary Iran might feel more in need of nukes to defend against a Sunni Middle East including Pakistan and an Afghanistan also possibly to be dominated by a restored new age Taliban.

I wonder about the competence of the administration on Syria since they have declared the wish for a regime change without providing plans for a post Assad government--will it have McDonald's or whatever so tourists can afford it?

It would be good if the United States could develop a record of intelligent, peaceful world leadership rather than a history of just bombing someplace for convenience and humanitarianism every five years or so. Old weapons inventories may need to be used, yet the Defense Department budget is funded with borrowing as much as taxes-and that too is a direct threat to the standard of living of the poor in the U.S.A. Is it the middle class that consistently desires foreign military interventionism?

Fish Traps in S.E. Alaska-The Way to Conserve Fish Stocks?

In Alaska history the local Tlingit Indians in effect fish farmed the Alexander Archipelago with a pervasive infrastructure of fish traps into which salmon would swim. It would be possible to eliminate commercial fishing in S.E. Alaska readily with a new infrastructure of fish traps thereby eliminating bi-catch, over-fishing through false counts and so forth. The use of fuel and global warming might also be substantially reduce.

An article in the 'Alaska Journal of Anthropology' Volume 9, Number 1-2011 by Jane L. Smith surveys the history of Tlingit fish traps in S.E. of which 369 have been researched.

Because salmon just swim into fish traps the state might contract out fish traps to bidders on the fish taken with quotas each year determined by state fishery biologists. 

The fisheries in Alaska are in predictable long-term decline with puny king salmon taking salmon derby's a fraction of the size of winners from years of yore. A maximum  sustainable fishing yield requires that 3/4s of fish escape each year with the carcasses allowed to feed bear, eagles, crab and other wildlife in a self-reinforcing ecosystem.; Obviously shoreline waterfront development needs to halt in order to protect the water and shoreline habitat.

Halibut and other deeper water fisheries should also be brought into scientific management with more modern high-tech methods of taking fish at far lower rates. It is important for all species that only sports and subsistence fishing be permitted from boats.

Most Warm Spring in U.S. History; Will the Arctic Ice-pack Set a Record for Melt This Year?

U.S.A. Today reported that the spring weather for the United States ran a little more than five degrees above normal. Interesting.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2012-06-07/record-warm-spring-usa/55442584/1?csp=34news

That brings the anticipation that this may be a record year for Arctic Sea ice melt, yet it is not necessarily so. While the 48 states were warm, Alaska is cooler than usual-thats just the way the cookie crumbles.

It is possible to see3 open water near Parry Strait I think (the eastern entrance to the high Northwest Passage and also near the Canada-Alaska border region in the photo below from 'The Crysophere Today of the Icepack June 6, 2012

image credit; N.O.A.A., National Snow and Ice Data Center et al.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

Screen and Track NFL Player Careers for Brain Damage?

Autopsies on select NFL veterans have shown brain damage 50% as substantial as autopsies of Alzheimers victims. Because the NFL is as real as the progression of early Alzheimers to terminal Alzheimers and the time frame is roughly the same it might be yak good idea to medically chart a brain damage historical record of each NFL player with Magnetic Resonance imaging before they get their first head butt or body slam onto the astroturf over concrete until their last concussion in order to record the wreckage of the human brain.

Some of those NFL vets run for political office and become elected with brains perhaps a little damaged over much relying upon impulse power instead of I.Q. in political policy. Wimps would want to move away from fossil fuel vehicles and move into syntegrated high-tech low-entropy modes of transportation layered within rational national ecospheric economic reform.

Perhaps brain damaged NFL vets are smarter than the Congress these decades, and maybe Congresspersons too should be screened to determine if the 5000th three martini lunch as dampened their determination to technologically advance the nation's infrastructure within a human-healthy criterion.

Voters Affirm Gov. Walker/Overcoming the Chaos of Evolutionary Capitalism

With a convincing victory Governor Walker of Wisconsin has shown the way toward rolling back the swollen union hegemony over the establishment of democracy that inevitably leans toward latent imperialism foreign or domestic.

Imperialism in elitist social organizations from government unions to trans-national corporations works to devastate the egalitarian economic structures fabricated through the toil of democracy.

Independent economic liberty is dwarfed as inventions to are co-opted by corporate power and concentrated wealth, litigation and impractical opportunities for production. The future of the United States must be in an egalitarian nationalism without too much difference in economic reality between rich and poor.

Today the national social environment is intimidated by group-think and a false Darwinian capitalism that denies the validity of philosophical, thoughtful design for reforming capitalism in order that it serves democracy. Evolutionary capitalism relies upon accidental forces for non-existent intelligence to select economic structure and political form. Evolutionary capitalism is a pure secular materialism closer to Marxist dialectical evolution sideways and in all direction-a conflicting ocean of irrational waves creating economic chaos. The believers in that evolutionary ignorance without democratic reason policy believe that no intelligent design for democratic governance or an independent business environment subordinate to the real service of the citizens of the United States ought to exist. 

Hopefully Mitt Romney can turn the runaway economic existentialism back toward a nationalist direction where the energy of American can be collected and move toward reaching a critical mass for the generation of prosperity instead of decay and destruction.

The Atheist Fall before Monism and Monadology

I've written and read on the Internet more than a little, and commonly atheists a priori deny (categorically) any paradigm with Spirit or God in it as valid. In writing about monads and fundamental monism it is reasonable to consider spirit.

Monism with spirit at its heart tends to be arbitrarily opposed by atheists. The argument is given sometimes that spirit cannot be observed and therefor cannot exist, and one returns to that paradigm of needing to prove that something is materially observable or capable of being inferred from matter in order to potentially exist. That in despite the question being about what mass-energy-substance is in-itself.

I think that Leibniz might have named monads from the idea of monism. They were postulated to be one-dimensional or two-dimensional spiritual phenomenalities I seem to recall. With just a tiny potential for reason they could be assembled into the plurality of forms that make up the 'physical' universe. One virtually needs a theological background to contemplate philosophically how God who is pure spirit could create little 'bits' , monads, strings or whatever without quantifying His substance in some kind of structure with dimensions, yet of course Plotinus believed that God (he called God 'The One') had no need of physical dimensions or scale as might a Universe.

One can consider a quantum cosmology of course, yet regarding the nature of spirit donating form through possible monads it is difficult to say. Believers might regard God as capable of all kinds of things beyond the capacity or limits of either human minds or quantum structures that contain or channel energy (whatever it is for-itself in basic quantum denoument).

It is a paradox that the reasonable ideas of Leibniz on a philosophy of monads would be too often considered silly or heretical today by 'modern' 'enlightened' atheist 'philosopher' that have signed off simply on the materialism of Darwin and the meaninglessness of Dewey. Certainly physicists must search for proximal quantitative relationships for mass, energy and space, yet philosophers should be free to consider cosmology generally from a number of perspectives, forming of course opinions and making logical investigations where it seems worthwhile.

Leibniz actually invented mathematical logic and never published it. He tossed it in a drawer and his work was discovered long after his death. The philosophy of logic is a phenomenal construct itself, and even atheists ought not give up contemplation of paradigms of creation by the Spirit of the phenomenon of mass and energy. Perhaps logically they must yield that point as unbelievers-I haven't thought about that too much being of faith myself.

Feminized Wisconsin Unionism vs Gov. Walker

Feminized government and education unions that failed to adjust to the post cold war economy led a recall drive of tough Wisconsin Governor Walker that reaches a vote today. The analysis of contemporary political and economic events was always vital for the prospects of democracy and the present rump unionism leftover from the 70s economy that became a bubble of feminine economic expansion and upward mobility while the white male portion of the economy was in decline or stagnation-along with the workers in the private sector eventually. The Democratic Party became detached from economic reality following the end of the cold war and the Clinton era.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918204577448313090640398.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The Unionism of the early 20th century was a hard fought heads busted and mortal injury fight against concentrated wealth to improve the lives of the poor workers. By the end of the cold war when the end of communism in China, Russia and Eastern Europe created vast new pools of labor in competition with U.S. workers, and when factories began to relocate production abroad in order to increase profits exporting product to the U.S.A. from cheap production cost nations, Unionism in the private sector was in steep decline. Feminized government unionism increased its wealth and power becoming old girls clubs in education and government adversely and unrealistically influencing U.S. political development.

A Democratic Party dominated by elites and insular, prosperous unions concerned with expanding its bubble is not cognizant of the interests of the nation's poor and middle class interests. Feminized unionism has supported the dissolution of the traditional family, taught atheistic, immoral social values to youth, and continued to believe that they are agitating against white male concentrations of wealth in 1950s style economic circumstance. That economic structure fled abroad after the end of the cold war.

Feminized Wisconsin unions seek to recall Gov. Walker and halt slippage of union economic leverage downward toward the standard of living of other Americans. it isn't likely that the 70s era feminine union economic bubble through government was ever cognizant that the comparatively remote northern regional economy when fully integrated with the southern states migratory citizenship would drive down the anisotropic northern income advantages. Some would argue that northern unionism helped drive so much U.S.business south. An now it has left the nation entirely even while the unionism of San Francisco and Madison create sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. The feminized unions are not tough warriors for the rights of all American citizens at all.

The feminized union era is a rump unionism compared with those statistics of the glory days of U.S. unionism, yet because it is one of the fundamental channels through which U.S. female economic advantage is distributed it is tenaciously unresponsive to the interests of other non affirmative-action-class citizens unprotected even by special status hate crimes laws.

One should not have to argue for common sense and traditional economic values for the Democratic Party as it was once its heritage in the 20th century. The Democratic Party should fight for zero illegal immigration, full employment through creation of new ecologically restorative, low entropy new businesses, roll back the global trading of home mortgages in the U.S.A. through various means and created safety nets that are used for emergency instead of entitlement.

The Democratic Party should not be the shop steward for privileged government unions requiring private sector taxpayers to fund full insurance benefits for homosexual playthings of government workers. The Democratic Party should not fight for Orwellian corporate health insurance coverage  for all citizens-the Obama plan instead of support for traditional free public clinic health service for the poor and veterans perhaps in the same facilities.

The natural economic balance of the United States in the expanded global labor and production market is for a lower standard of living in comparison to the rest of the world's people. A Democratic Party with meaningful leadership would be aware that feminized union bubbles taking up its agenda tends to block economic response and reform to the new world order of advantage to the majority of Americans. It should return to its populist yet intelligent roots and not become the idiot party that Plato wrote stupidly collapses into tyranny.

The Democrats of Wisconsin should vote to keep Gov. Walker on the job of moving the U.S.A. in the right direction toward and egalitarian social environment in government. Unions should appear last in Government rather than hanging on when the remainder of the economy is in decline.

A non-spoiled unionism would oppose most immigration today except perhaps with a fair lottery of a 180,000 poor people annually from the rest of the world and maybe 300 geniuses beside. It would scrimp up and defend its borders and let the Bush tax cuts expire. it would pay down the U.S. debt and reform government spending so that it serves necessary purposes rather than just accumulating vast public debt that will bring it to ruin eventually. A good union would regard the U.S.A. as a nation with an economy worth defending intrinsically without a large difference between rich and poor earnings (less than a couple orders of magnitude).

Feminized unionism that is a sort of existential bubble unconcerned with the exterior national economy nullifies that prospects for pragmatism that should be first in the minds of democrats along with liberty and justice for all citizens. A Democratic Party co-opted by national and global imperialism isn't worth a damn at defending the rights of all Americans rather than just special classes. It leads a nation into decay and gives the public the need to hope for at least true Republicanism uncorrupted by oligharchy and global wealth with a crank trickle down effect from abroad that will evolve into place within a few thousand years in America.