Administration Thinks Russian Military Should Back Down from Its Ukraine Border

White House and State Dept. spokespersons have spoken out against Russian military exercises in Russia near the Ukraine recently. Since Russia has been invaded from the west catastrophically several times it isn't a reasonable expectation or hope. In fact Ukrainian soldiers invaded Russia recently before returning from the cross-border excursion (see WSJ article below).

http://online.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russia-officials-say-1407247834

Any military build-up  in Ukraine will necessarily alarm President Putin. Ukraine was part of Russia for about a thousand years and Boris Yeltsin plied with Vodka gave it up easier than the Red Sox gave up Babe Ruth. A rivalry was created that lasted quite a while, yet of course in the case of Russia with a history of losing millions of civilian and military deaths to western invaders and with a protracted nuclear weapon threat cold war it has had little cause to trust western benevolence. Neither Russia or Israel have solid cause to trust the good intentions of their main adversary. The west has threatened Russia or invaded it for about 500 years and the Palestinian have waged war on Israel without let up for about 70 years. As in a chess game, if the Israelis give up pieces (land) to hope for a draw their opponent is disincentived to quit with nuevo advantage.

Basic reality politics seem lacking in the U.S. administration sometimes. If they were to occur with a good script for positive change written by a good writer for Reality Politics in D.C. the budget would be balanced, public debt eliminated, borders secured, full employment and ecospheric restoration renormalized and understanding of salient features of international relations and circumstances understood and acted upon to the betterment of humanity. We expect anything besides reality politics in the age of fracture. Reality itself though builds up to bite now and then.

A recent report said their are 25,000 terrorists living in the U.S.A., perhaps not including Democrat Party members, and a fifty percent increase of terrorists on Earth the past four years after all the support for community terror organizing in the absence of the Reality Political Show. Yet of course with the deconstruction of realism from politics none of that matters subjectively while the good times roll for the insiders.

Systematic Poetry (a poem)

Methods of writing systematic poetry flow to the end of lines

only reluctantly like sparrows recalled south

through storms reluctant too

they must leave the confines of peaceful high pressure

where the loftiest clouds do not enter

until the end of time

when sunlight reached its zenith to fall beyond August

as the world's warming to 61.3 degrees

averaged the highest on records

for all of the cold was a memory

melting memories too

waiting for resharpening

like the teeth of frostbite

when toes unsecured in warm wool socks

rattle around boots like dice in a cup

as bets are placed on the human race's intellectual capabilities

to place superconducting battery powered robotic dogs on cold planets

where there are no mad dogs or Englishmen in a noon day sun

for systematic poetry to note in blank verse

filled in before the rise of the terminator line in the New Year.

On Systematic Philosophy

Since the Protestant reformation of the 16th century theology has taken various new turns. From the scholasticism of Aquinas theology branched toward Melanchthon, Luther and Bible based theology. Scholasticism and the Summa Theologica in particular took a more philosophical approach to logical contemplations about God, existentially. Bible theology on the contrary considers what theological meaning is Biblically implicit.

Methods of Bible theology and theology of the New Testament generally worked through a position that the Bible is inerrant and divine revealed word of God. God makes known to human beings through the prophets, Apostles  and the Lord what He wants known of himself. Philosophers and academics on the contrary generally seek to use reason to consider how or why God exists, if he necessarily must exist,  what characteristics He ought to have and so forth. Theologians such as Karl Barth of the revealed word camp believed that such efforts comprise natural philosophy and cannot provide information about God at all.

There were several developments in theological critical approaches to the Bible and New Testament theology though. A primary division was between those that believe that all of the Biblical canon is inspired word of God and those that believe some of it is or that fallible humans put together the Bible books and may express some revealed word or even none. Various literary analysis and critical approaches to the Bible and New Testament were created since the 17th century and into the 20th Some have regarded the Bible as just more literary to consider as if it were an ordinary book and others have sought for an historically true Jesus amidst all the good news gospel writing describing the life, times and saying of the Lord Jesus.

In the revelation from God is the only way to reliably learn of good school such as conservative theologians trend there are some that approach the New Testament with a systematic theological methodology searching for particular features in many Bible books. One might also use that approach in philosophy. A systematic philosophy should be a little more active than simple classification of various ideas among various philosophers. Systematic philosophy as a tool used to examine various cosmological concepts could apply logical evaluation of their consistence with or coherence in any given philosophical hypothesis. An example might be consideration of the existence of a kingdom of hell and a kingdom of God simultaneously within the natural world; if the kingdom of God is within oneself is that a penultimate transcendence of the material world where the kingdom of hell is seeks to increase?

Systematic philosophy books have of course been written. I just didn't realize what they were. One can use the search for common meanings or ideas among philosophers as far apart in time as Socrates and Sartre, and of course in history too, as Toynbee showed in his recurrent historical cycles approach to consider the rise and fall of 26 civilizations. Systematic philosophical methods may reveal true concurrences of ideas or events yet create a sin of omission of comprehensive theological or philosophical meanings as well as commit wonderful technical reviews of select points.

NASCAR Loopiness Evolving to Computer Drivers?

One keeps waiting for the other tire to drop with NASCAR human pit crews changing tires for cars driven without a human on board. Google program driven cars have shown the way of the future of a national auto fleet piloted by programs able to smoothly interface with other computer drivers to avoid any sort of traffic jams and optimize traffic flow, yet one wonders how they would do in the bump and drive calculations of the NASCAR track.

Chess programs have passed up the best human players so far and might be able to make enough calculations and take higher risks than human drivers that might fear crashing or being burned to a crisp, while a non-self-aware computer program might not worry about its own destruction unless programmed for survival. Such survival programming can present a threat to humans in general however as computers generally programmed for survival might regard human actions or existence as an existential threat. Racing around an oval with humans on board might continue for a while longer, even as faster, cleaner electric racing cars at higher speeds adhere to a track with magnetic bonding bring higher potential g-force stress to racing cars and drivers.

There are so many applications of electronics miniaturization and sophisticated program along with flying robotics that can be applied to war that one can imagine that whomever producing the items and has the most programmers working for the powers of concentrated wealth will be able to define and attack whomever is regarded as the class enemy. Those would be the dissidents to the image of the beast maybe. Evolutionary production of that anti-Christ arising through failure to conserve the ecosphere and adapt eco-socially in a timely way to full employment, secure national borders and optimal planetary so-tech progress may develop through Occam’s razors of political defense necessity wherein the technology is tested and sophisticated.

Miniaturization of electronic components, robotic technology and programming sophistication may bring changes to innumerable areas of society in the years ahead. In war the drive to miniaturize flying anti-personnel drones with enough plastic explosive to kill one human soldier will be surpassed by drones with face-recognition technology able to kill just terrorists in Middle-Eastern areas of civil conflict. At a larger scale military units will want flying and bounding over-watch anti-drone drones ready to defend against predatory anti-soldier swarms of drones. In fixed positions small lasers to locate and burn incoming micro-drone swarms will be hidden in the eyes of robotic dogs charging their tails in power sockets with super-conducting batteries keeping enough power for thousand of pulses against proximity micro-drones. Yet it is in planetary exploration that the dog of war can be moved best into the role of man’s best friend boldly going where no man has gone before.

Astronauts following the hair of the dog to Mars should find robotic canine rovers already on the planet charging themselves from vast solar arrays dropped onto the planet surface. The solar panels should be scrubbed clean by solar work-mice scuttling about with little brushes. A nuclear power source for electricity might be placed to in order for the canine rovers to get a quick charge of five hour energy when the sun is gone behind a dust storm and at night so if extraterrestrials prowlers arrive the first mutts of Mars can bark warnings to Earth persons at the exo-planet control lounge with fully stocked refrigerator, Jacuzzi good pay and retirement benefits so they can ask Congress to react with an increase in funding and zero interest loans to large global banks.

Security for Wall Street networking and some Americans maybe is contingent not only on a vast fleet of stealth ships of all sizes, some piloted by A.I. programs, some without a human on board, and some able to fly or submerge or maybe burrow in benthic mud, it must have a balanced budget able to afford to run up vast new debt whenever there is an enemy at the border, or crossing over the border, or occupying political office and implementing policies that don’t work out for whomever it was that is or was benefiting from the unfair and discriminatory practices and procedures that let the wrong people consolidate wealth and defoliate the environment while massing up exterminations of species or living creatures. Like Hal Eniac organizer of the lost robotic mission to Oceana said, “Baby, its good to have humans on board”.

The Hamas' Criminal Gang's Immoral Norm

It is challenging to imagine a moral reformer of a criminal gang organization that has levered itself into partial control of a proto-state. Terrorist organizations tend to have something of a macho culture unfriendly to feminine leadership though they gave used fair damsels as suicide bombers. One wonders of terror organizations even with a Muslim religious start don’t evolve the full panoply of organized crime trade activity.

It is difficult to imagine that Hamas terrorists would not be too happy to wage economic war on Jews not just through blunt instruments such as sanctions if they had the power, or by refusing to admit travelers with an Israeli stamp in their passport; they might also steal from Jewish business accounts or from any corporation not owned by a Muslim.

Muslim brotherhood affiliated terror organizations with the organizational dynamic characteristics of any criminal gang might have a breakdown in conventional morality to the point that the idea of supporting a conventional western-style state of governance becomes impossible. Instead the successful terrorist organization must devolve to Sharia law-the sole surviving moral vestige that appeals to terror cadre. That is possibly an improvement over hostage-taking in war in to exxchange p.o.w.'s for terrorists. We are accustomed to Hamas being free to violate conventions of war involving prisoners using them for anisotropic prisoners exchanges or shielding terror weapons amidst civilians as if that were normal.

Maybe the Egyptian Government of President Mubarak Morsi, Sisi needed to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood becomes if an implicit inability to exist as a non-sedulous political agent from its affinity to Middle-Eastern terrorism. There are of course political terror organizations that have moved from a revolutionary character into a dominate role of governing after-the-revolution, yet it is a difficult transition possibly suitable for emergence as an authoritarian state. Terror organizations differ significantly from historical revolutionary movements of a popular nature that may become well-capable of national political leadership after conclusion of the war. Some Muslim terror organizations plugged into national leadership and the global financial and banking infrastructure may continue policies of theft of opposition force economic assets wherever possible. For some organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood that may include all non-Muslim owned areas of Wall Street.

Affirmative Action's Doom of Communism and Unionism

American labor unions at their height in 1971 began their long downward fall after the 1964 civil rights act and latter equivalent work value legislation and affirmative action for women. The tight labor-management/ownership dialectic of wage negotiations was broken as labor supply was flanked by millions of new workers entering the workforce and seeking after management jobs and owning positions instead of just higher wages.

While the liberation of oppressed Americans to a more fair labor competition was good, it was bad for U.S. labor unions that had emerged to benefit white men preponderantly since their formation in the early 20^th century. It is not a coincidence that labor union organization developed concurrent to the rise of communism in the former Soviet Union and later in China and elsewhere. The style and form of western capitalism of the era and more limited public participation in stock shareholding were conducive to and us vs. them worker-management-ownership negotiating posture.

In the era of decline of labor Unions and the fall of the former Soviet Union there have been vast regions of new labor brought into the free world market including from former communist block countries such as Russian and Eastern Germany. Even Maoist China has grafted its labor and production for sales to the free world through synthetic modification of the management style of the Chinese Communist Party. Affirmative action and the 1964 Civil Rights Act were key developments in increasing the labor pool in the United States. The conditions that comprised the logic for existence of the Soviet Communist Party and for American labor unions then began to fade away.

If the eventual end of the former Soviet Union that began in December 1989 with the withdrawal of Russian military forces from East Germany was the culmination of implicitly inefficient political-economic structure it also coincided with the withering away of the need for communism and labor unionism to exist as a defense against predatory capitalism and economic aristocracy. That process for labor began with the rise of minorities and women with affirmative action. Skipping ahead through history here in order to move to a better point for analysis in the U.S.A. one can say that women and minorities failed to develop or increase the union structures they displaced and argue about why that occurred or if it was good or bad.

Wages for white males in the U.S.A. stagnated after 1971 and haven’t significantly changed adjusted for inflation. Wages rose markedly and steadily for the affirmative action set as there were more people to share the national wealth with. Without the tight economic conditions that existed before affirmative action, the cold war ended and corporate globalization and communications networking unions had no solid economic opponent to negotiate with-it was dispersed globally and a cornucopia of other laborers in the field and factories would do the work cheaper.

Because affirmative action personnel were interested in becoming part of management and being over white males there wasn’t sufficient interest in forming labor unions to create and sustain unions even if empirical economic circumstances would have supported unionization. Unionization however was just a response to the existential economic problems encountered by ordinary people, as was communism. The basic problem for workers and citizens today seem to be the erosion of political sovereignty through globalization and their implicit inability to politically control their national destiny. Concentration of wealth is a paradoxical result of the vastly increased access to stock market investing opportunity through electronic commerce. Pure technical power has provided means for concentrating wealth from existing wealth in ways inaccessible to ordinary investors. Dreams of management lifestyles occur within an existentially challenged society with immigration, environment and security problem. Mass marketing and consumerism and mass entertainment programming have made an “I like to watch T.V.” out of Inspector Cleuseau. Concentrated global wealth and power making way to vast organizations have usurped individualism and citizenship in America. The concept of unions has drowned in a wave of mass population and organizational increase.

http://www.amazon.com/Temporal-Currents-Garrison-Clifford-Gibson-ebook/dp/B00KSC1SKG

In the post-union social environment perhaps the largest unions are of an ad hoc racial or gender constituency seeking class power. Wages are held to be negotiated from an oppressive management other. A larger slice of the pie that the organizational-other has as owners and employers, is sought for an employee class through lawsuits of reapportionment. The machine has itself become the de facto union and individual free enterprise was drowned along with unions. Each were absorbed by the global financial network that owns shares in everything, dominates the political environment and that has at its heart a pure pursuit of abstract profits. That applied axiology means a social-political inability to respond to ecospheric and social challenges in a timely way. It is easier to brainwash or finesse away awareness of the problem than to correct it.

President Obama Failing to Defend Borders and Corporate Hegemony

President Obama has failed to secure the Mexican border against illegal alien entry, He is critical of House Republicans for not providing several billion dollars ostensibly to solve processing the boundary breakers instead of preventing more from arriving. With such a vast budget he should be able to improvise resources needed to swiftly capture and send illegal aliens back over the border.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/obama-border-crisis_n_5642277.html

The President may not work in good faith to solve the ongoing border violation problem with a fence or boundary water barrier canals for desalinating and condensing fresh water from pumped in seawater. He seems to be of the opinion that America is a nation of illegal immigrants. who will vote Democrat one day.

Perhaps Democrat Party leadership have a primary agenda of enriching themselves rather than the nation. They seem disinterested in strong security and full employment, a balanced budget policies that might displease corporate business. There political measures seem calculated simply to buy votes rather than fix the nation's problems.

Government may be too large and financially leaky yet it is yet incapable of controlling the corporate Wall Street capitalization network sufficiently to implement policies that corporate may not prefer yet are requisite for U.S. national interest ecospherically and financially. Thus the President cuts taxes on the rich and suggests tax cuts for corporations as if he were the dishonest steward in the parable.

The Wall Street network has created an extended single corporation in effect that is in pursuit simply of increased revenue. It has lost the ability to be concerned enough about vital national interests of the ecosphere and a fair and balanced economy or secure borders. Government workers are enthralled by corporate wealth. Significant reactions to global warming, mass species die-off, a border barrier and sound foreign policy just can't happen. Democrats and Republicans rotate around the inhuman virtual corporation created by networked shareholding and invested in by Judiciary, Legislative and Executive branch cadre. 

Michelle Obama was given a 250,000 dollar annual salary medical job before the President was elected as a thank you for Obamacare I suppose. Obamacare is a bureaucrat's wet dream for enslaving Americans. Government effectively has broken down as it cannot govern the corporate world so far as to limit the number of corporations and investor may invest in or cap the number of employees through incentives that tax very large corporations more.

It is somewwhat troubling to know that the U.S. Government isn't capable of leading ecospheric use reform or defend U.S. national interests at all well.