Is $40 Billion XM-30 A Priori Obsolete?

 The Army plans to spend $40 billion to replace the Bradly with a next generation fighting vehicle yet in light of drone developments one must wonder if the entire concept of blocky, chunky armored vehicles will soon be obsolete.

Mechanized infantry combat vehicles are solid targets for a plethora of new drone designs that can fly at ground contour proximity routes and get under or attach to tanks with a lot of plastic explosives at reasonably high speed. The entire paradigm seems slow. Helicopters are another easy target for next gen mobile missile platforms. One could even put tow missiles type anti-tank weapons on drone flying platforms to hunt from camouflaged hides chunky opposition forces sacrifices.

  War is just to clever to avoid. Next generation Hatsfields and McCoys need better toys to kill one another with plainly. How can that be accomplished so both are satisfied?

Donald Trump's Trouble at the Arlington National Cemetery

Donald Trump on a Presidential campaign visited the Arlington national cemetery with family members of servicemen buried there. The media have made much ado about that. I suppose the visit made family members of the fallen with him feel a little better.

Trump Visits Arlington National Cemetery

Visiting the cemetery was somewhat inappropriate, yet Trump is the peace candidate rather than a Democrat on the side of adding hundreds of thousands to graves in Europe from Ukraine and Russia. In fact that conflict could lead to millions of Americans losing their lives in nuclear war. These are extraordinary times.

Arlington is something of a gated community that Donald Trump probably couldn't be buried in because he wasn't in the military. Since he was commander-in-chief perhaps that would be his way in. Democrats probably would protest if he took up residence there when he passes some day as he nearly did last month. In the American political wars he earned a purple heart.

Homeless people that aren't veterans don't get to be buried in a national cemetery. Getting off a Greyhound bus years ago across the street from the National Cemetery at Arlington I got locked into a bathroom stall briefly when the door wouldn't let me out. For a few seconds I thought my stay at Arlington might be longer than I intended in case the bus left when the rest break time elapsed shortly. At last the door opened and I ran to the bus. Many homeless Americans are buried at public expense and cremated. One can honor the military dead best by not adding to their numbers in the U.S.A. or foreign troops too for that matter.

Democrats Don't Perceive Dangers of Nuclear War

 I throw leftovers to birds and squirrels in order not to leave anything that a brown bear would find interesting. Yet the squirrels and birds become trusting after a while and throw the birds are wild they act as if they were pets. That is they lose a sense of risk and danger. democrats are like that these days in regard to the risk of war with Russia and China, maybe Pakistan and North Korea as well (who might decide to toss a few our way when the going gets going). I wanted to comment about this phenomena.

Maybe its because of the copious dope used and quasi-legalized by the boomer generations and the quietude of gen x'ers that grew up in the long shadow of their more numerous and confused parent's generation. They too easily accepted a neo decadent whirlpool with conflicting and paradoxical, ineffective values where morality could be said to exist. Is it possible that during the collapse of the meaning of marriage and its expropriation by homosexuals in order to reallocate health care benefits unto themselves following the H.I.V. epidemic and with the post-Darwinian loss of faith in God and rise of nihilistic and hypocritical political values that an existential resignation to being, and even a tiredness to existing developed an unconcern or uncaring about the very real prospect for nuclear war?

President Reagan's agenda- a personal one like that of Donald Trump, was peace with the Soviet Union. In some miraculous way that mission was accomplished, yet President Clinton bungled the peace and with irrational exuberance took advantage of the Russian state's weakness and expropriated all of the Ukraine from it. That doomed the world to the present conflict where Europe and N.A.T.O. are the Spanish fascists seeking to takeover all of Russia with the United States as the blaster with England being something like the national master (Master-Blaster Beyond Thunderdome).

Russia is not Vietnam, Afghanistan, Panama, Grenada, Syria, Libya or some other country the U.S.A. has invaded or sponsored a war with. Russian's will fight to retake their Ukraine lands lost to the west during the transition from Soviet Communism. Making peace with Russia with a negotiated settlement excluding the present unelected Ukrainian administration was always the rational and true policy for the U.S.A. to take, and one eschewed soundly in reference for continuous escalation of war with Russia.

There is no good end through war economically or empirically. If Russia were very pressed by conventional weapons it could use tactical battlefield nukes to offset the disadvantage. It could provide suitcase nukes for terrorists to smuggle into the U.S.A. via porous borders transparent to combat terrorist egression. If a stalemate or armistice is reached the U.S.A. has a divided economic world with reduced trading partners, prolific public debt (33 trillion) and challenged by a raising Asian economic power that could easily surpass that of the U.S.A.. European partners n the crime of Ukraine war on Russia have forgotten the problems of the Second World War after decades of prosperity and ease. They support the ancient European tradition of war on Russia in order to expand Eastward although of course they require false political consciousness (ref Sartre) from the broadcast media to feel down with it.

I won't feel particularly satisfied if the Ukraine war expands to a nuclear level. It could further escalate and cause inflation, or for Alaska temperatures to drop to -80 f year around for a half a decade from nuclear winter if Americans survive the fallout. I would think that at some point Democrat party leadership should have more concern and a sense of danger than do somewhat tame squirrels. Misery from poverty caused by war and little or no medical while being injured can be a painful experience that one should avoid a priori rather than to feel contrition about later.

For the Good of It (poem)

 

Words that twist and turn dark spin
day’s lost ways where shadows begin
sparks, ice of luminous fires sin
party elite prize porky grins

  Core math loops subside poor paths
quixotic clocks echo rich rath
clutch clear political cloth
reason more to just niche truth

  Add up patterns and designs
structure built units of good times
rhythmic reps zeitgeist consign
seek for the good that you would find.

No Complaints (a poem)

 

   Things that go bump in the surf
ignore how uncomfortable it was
memories are dimensional lumber
dorsal fins swimming your way in neck deep estuarine water
flowing tides today
a sense of sogginess pervading dreams
a sleeping bag soaking up water
drips down and saturating a field
fire ant mud mounds above the water level
of a flooded field
a place to think about lightening flashes
driving rain and tornado roof-ripping
comparisons to hurricanes
riding a bike through the eye
one with bearings not yet broken
gears immersed in mud and lake puddles
miraculous suspended sediment
rinse off sweat with alligators
sharing the stream
warm and wet  compared to the frozen
places far from crowds
without doorways for overnight
thunderclap symphonies
unlike darkest winters in deep snow

  A sense of sogginess and heat exhaustion
superimposed like a portrait of memory
walking over the trestle
beside a resting line of box cars
disposable as dreaming of tomorrow
prior to awakening today
thousands of cars driving the freeway
one sees today
patching the goat head flattened inner tube
of a bike with a rusty chain
dry  desert contemplative solitude of broke
heat providing the wilderness opportunity
sign up for a Army vacation
mortar rounds for all
a boomerang flies and the Earth quakes
an atomic war won’t happen immediately
with hot engines and metal
racing homeward
to better places with good paint, rocky lawns and global warming

  Mountains of aspiration and hope
snow beautiful and distant
bear ripped up the tent again
duck tape without vigilant drones
not yet a blanket of zero degrees
the visitor of winter darkness in nightfall
lasting longer than city lights on the waterfront
paper plates and dumpster menus lacking health labels
doors frozen shut with tax credits
targeted by public broadcasting
dressing with union retirement planning
union police and social studies sergeants
walking on water half the year
Wall Street hits parade iof pocketbooks

  Complaining of criminals, spiders and bear
spaces where impact, frostbite and starvation
are empty coke cans
and exhaust from idling autos  is the new normal
the chat trained monkey pox
employer lists of numbers to confer unemployment
continuing interstate job insecurity
more out of work than in
returning to the heat lamp and freezer
returning to the destitution
where a legendary buffalo roamed
western movies on location
with decades of social evolution
rusting spikes and running Nikes
jettisoned boom box circuit plates on shoulders
convenient stores, people in uniforms
the last bite, a good night
fueling cars under kleig lights
El Caminos driven to the past.

Faster Than Light Travel with Zero-Dimension Shortcut

 Science fiction writers like to fold space for faster than light space travel. Maybe Frank Herbert in Dune was the first to use the concept. It is attractive, clever and improbable. I shall explain why and suggest a different approach for science fiction stories.

The four dimensions of the Universe happened someplace without any dimensions- and the four dimensions coincided with expansion,. So what do you think about that? Parmenides and Heraclitus considered the spatial volume. If the number of dimensions was variable at the start then it must have had zero to start with.

Space doesn’t exist. What does exist is a unified field that unfolded in four dimensions from a compact singular condition. Space in the universe is a thin part of the energy and other forms of stuff that the Universe is made of. One can shape electric fields and gravity seems to be everywhere yet space of the Universe is also a part of the field. True nothingness is not the same as space. True nothingness that existed before the Universe and in which the Universe and its four dimensions exist probably has zero dimensions.

If the Universe might have had more or less than four dimensions (if it were designed for example) it probably would need to have appeared in a tabula rasa environment with zero dimensions. The Universe field differentiated with four basic forces today (plus unknown forces such as dark energy and dark matter perhaps) is grounded in zero dimensions. Instead of folding space or in other words folding fields with all of the problems that would follow reshaping portions of the Universe and all of the fields within portions of it, science fiction writers could simply have faster than light four dimension travelers in some way slip through to the zero-dimension/four dimension point of contact where distance does not exist; yet simultaneously does.

That paradox could be why select quantum particle and waves can convey information faster than light to entangle distant particles. At some level below the Planck length, the four dimension entangled state of mass and energy may contact the zero-dimension paradox and exchange information faster than light because there is no distance from A to B in zero dimensions. The interface of four dimensions with zero dimensions would be a quantum shortcut where everything in four dimensions has no distance apart. Exploiting the interface area would be challenging of course. To remain a four dimensional entity stepping somewhat beyond to the zero dimension ‘point’ where distance and other forces do not exist (such as gravity) might be comparable to exploiting the surface of a microscopic black hole that exists without gravity yet warps space (this is only a metaphor because space doesn’t exist- it is just field phenomena that are reshaped to a warp paradigm by gravity) so one could abridge distances down to near zero for the purpose of expediting travel time. Traveling around the Earth is faster near the poles. Consider zero dimension travel to be like the north pole (or south) that continues curvature to infinity and allows access to all locations of four dimensional spacetime without distance because of the topology.

Before the singularity existed in space-time there were no dimensions. For some reason the Universe expanded with four dimensions arising, although string theory posits smaller 'hidden' dimensions. There may be no necessity that a Universe must have four dimensions instead of ten. Some cosmologists speculate that the universe may exist on the surface or event horizon of a hyper-dimensional black hole in a Universe that actually has five or more dimensions. In order for the original empty space or void that pre-existed the Universe to allow a Universe to arise with x dimensions it need have no dimensions to start with, and the appearance of dimensions in the space-time expansion of a singularity is phenomenal. Though the Universe arises, it does so in the area or volume that has no dimensions. No dimension void is the host for all possible dimensions that might appear. If all of the dimensions that exist re-existed the Universe then they would have filled the true void unto infinity and would not allow more or less dimensions to exist. I suppose that is the basic presupposition of some who regard the singularity as expanding within a four dimensional void thereby sinking string theory.

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Capitalism and Ludwig Von Trump (Science Fiction)

 Laura said; “Yes, I want confirmation. That extrusion of new space is at the edge of the Ludwig Von Trump galaxy forty million light years from the end of the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way. Alert the crew of the finding and take us to Ludwig Von Trump and a habitable cluster of stars with planets on our way toward, yet not beyond, the galactic habitation zone.”

Laura considered what she knew about the Ludwig Von Trump galaxy. It was named for the inventor Ludwig Von Trump of the original Earth-Mars Plutonic solar system. Trump invented a way of streamlining and accelerating patents applications with the vetting and granting of patents with a broad tree diagram of free induction slots to place a patent idea in-the-market and let it flow through the system toward potential emergence as the one, true idea returning standardized royalties to inventors from producers.

Human societies, Trump believed, needed to encourage and support intellectual inventions from everyone rather than to repress them. Often the rich could afford to restrict or co-opt ideas of poor inventors trickling up creativity with massive hydraulic pumps. Von Trump’s humble, liberating thought stimulated a cascade of new ideas bringing swiftly to market a wealth of inventions that became salient components in the drive to comprehend the cosmological mechanics of Meta-universal configurations.

Laura Thought regarded Von Trump’s ideas concerning liberation of the marketplace of ideas inadequate to inform the human race about the inability of capitalism to apply good human-sense management in democracy to promote ecospheric conservation and natural resource sustainability under classical human economic assault. For Laura, primitive, predatory, unreflective capitalism was comparable to ravenous insects landing on the leaves of tasty plants and mafia taking over police unions eliminating society of dissidents to mafia control of government with unions.

She knew that capitalism was the fundamental premise of evolution with species, and even mass under the power of gravity seeking to build up as much capital for itself as possible. It is the gravity that builds up planets and galaxies, the power that builds molecules and draws forests competitively upward. Yet reason must prevail as well as pluralism Laura thought, lest capitalism produce nothing more than black holes.

Directed capitalism like directed evolution requires intelligent design of structures to arise and exist in space-time. Capitalism and the invisible hand of Adam Smith weren’t repositories of human wisdom or political responsibility such as might exist across more enlightened societies with their own market wisdom limited in scope and utility. Human societies far too commonly replied on Adam Smith’s capitalist paradigm to replace environmental responsibility with the belief that the invisible hand of capitalism would provide the best of all possible worlds so long with royal supervision.

In actual fact capitalism is an expression of human values concerning supply and demand, lacking in-itself environmental wisdom or cognizance as one should expect politicians to have. Capitalism is a natural and consistent urge to swell in scale and power amplified with technology that will destroy the natural order unless it is carefully directed with intelligent human design. it cannot be more than a reflection of natural forms. President Franklin D. Roosevelt showed wisdom in political leadership is required to moderate irrational capitalist exuberance that puts on environmental blinders in an insatiable smirch for proplits.

Ensuing human abandonment of environmental and political reason brought humanity to environmental self-destruction with no environmental captain running the ship. The environmental crash of the first global civilization of Earth left survivors on Mars and Pluto; mostly rich elites and their breeding servants. While Chin Chi Wang led the Martian survivors through a protracted period of civil war toward unification, the second great Earth planetary civilization arose from the ash heap of history like a spring seedling in a scorched Earth forest. A greater trans-planetary system civilization grew with a library of intellectual capital to build upon, sending explorers and settlers beyond local Universes to the Metaverse.

The Shibboleth’s A.I. programmed a special relativity coordinate tensor to the Von Trump galaxy star system Drizzle and planet Drizzle Three. The ship’s pilot engaged the Higgs field decoupler and three-dimensional data transfer to send the S.V. Shibboleth faster-than-light across two dimensions as data into the Troposphere of Drizzle Three.

Paradigms for Reducing Atmospheric Heating

 Arresting and correcting global warming is a huge, challenging task possible too great for a nation of suers rather than doers to get done. Democrat party politicians can’t just sneak a lawyer’s Rube Goldberg environmental bill under wraps through Congress with a one-party majority vote and actually get the job done even if they are elected and spend half a billion dollars on day care as a partial remedy. The challenge is quite large and is likely to need vast changes in the economy and human tool kit. That will require a publicly reviewed and engineered approach; one that the Democrat Party could sign on to and support before their next presidential primary season.

In 2020 one of the Democrat candidates in the primaries advocated building aa great sun screen at L-5, while another had some kind of complex, unknown plan that journalists who reviewed it said would cost more than 50 trillion dollars. Approaches to solving the global atmospheric heating crisis require input from a host of disciplines including physics, biological, sociological, economic etc. There will be consequences for the world to any approach taken. Such a once-in-a-lifetime political action needs peer reviewed vetting of the highest order. Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth could have vast unintended consequences that need be considered.

During the Eisenhower administration the nation could still get large physical infrastructure projects accomplished. In recent decades the nation has failed at such large projects with vast cost overruns and even cancellations mid-way. Bureaucracies and legal challenges have rendered the feral government unable to accomplish projects like the Interstate Highway System, the T.V.A., the Grand Coulee Dam , the Apollo Missions that had great scale and investment and complexity. There was even a plan to extend the Inside Passage from Alaska to Portland Oregon with a canal from Olympia Washington. That would have made western Washington State an island and provided a two-state solution with Washington’s blue voters on the Western Island and the Red voters on the mainland decades ahead of time. Not all projects turned out to be environmentally, and there is a lesson in that for any potential environmental bill to knock out global warming. It is not certain that any large, costly (if necessary) global warming reduction project would amount to anything more than a costly swamp for partisan spending.

Private enterprise has added some technology to capture and sequester CO2, solar voltaic panels have become more affordable and will reduce acceleration of warming gasses from the sunny parts of the world that might otherwise be emitted from electrification powered by fossil fuels. It is plain that government should provide leadership for example, in developing road surface material that reflects rather than absorbs sunshine to warm the atmosphere during the day and after dark. Asphalt manufacturers aren’t likely to invest in research to develop new materials; that is a task that government could accelerate by offering a 100 million dollar prize for a practical, pragmatic way to convert asphalt to have a high albedo character or to convert photons into electrons traveling in circuits. A remedy to asphalt caused heating would cool cities and eliminate developing nations paving millions more miles with asphalt.

If one wants to build a salt-water canal across the southern border to let sunlight evaporate fresh water that would be condensed and collected with sloped polycarbonate roofs to collection canals in order to fill the Salt Lake with fresh water the job would be nearly impossible to get done today. If one actually wanted to build a tin foil hat sunscreen at L-5 to keep out intelligent ideas from reaching the Democrat party, after the research was done to determine the affect on the world; its oceans, plankton etc and to determine if it would cause a new ice age very quickly it would be reasonable to use the thing for multi-tasking. That is, the sunscreen could be used as a dish to receive programming from distant alien civilizations in other galaxies far far away, or to collect sunlight and focus it to a collector node t heat a trapped gas to power a laser to particle beam that would in turn be the power line for space-transport modules racing at very high speed throughout the solar system (i.e. 2 months travel time Earth to Pluto at ¾ the speed of light).

Affecting global warming’s arrest and correction may be the largest challenge western civilization, or rather world civilization faces (along with mass species extinction and natural resource depletion. Arnold Toynbee said that a civilization does experience challenges that it overcomes or that alternatively end it. Recognizing and addressing empirical challenges successfully is a skill that political leadership should not fail to keep in its skill set. The Democrat party has failed to order its political agenda in such a way that a transparent and publicly reviewed plan to end the global warming and mass extinction challenges along with a political economy that works to support the plan exists.

Scenario 2- VP Harris, N.A.T.O. and M.A.D. Policy

 Mutually assured destruction was the basic deterrent for the use of nuclear weapons during the Cold War 1.0 Nuclear brinkmanship occurred several times over the years including one when the Soviet Missile Defense System had a bug with a false reading that said the U.S. had launched on them. Premier Andropov had 3 minutes to decide to retaliate with a full package of nukes on the U.S.A. and decided that it might be a false reading- and so he did not launch. President Biden and Vice President Harris have tilled the soil thoroughly in preparation for a global thermonuclear war.

Since the recent Ukrainian invasion of Russia in the Kursk region with a new front possible toward Belgorod, the arrival of F-16s in Romania- a N.A.T.O. country to attack Russian target in Ukraine and inexorable scalar increase of war the prospects for nuclear war have been enhanced. If Russia were to lose ground and territory because of N.A.T.O. participation it is likely that the Kremlin would decided to use tactical nuclear weapons to offset the disadvantaged position. What would follow from that?

Because Russia probably would prefer to attack Europe and not the United States because that would upgrade to M.A.D. policy directly with a full scale nuclear exchange, it is likely that N.A.T.O. member countries would experience atomic attack. Would that mean that a Harris administration would need to decide to retaliate and upgrade to M.A.D. implementation directly?

N.A.T.O. doctrine is for an attack on one member being an attack on all. Would a treaty obligation with N.A.T.O. obligate a President Harris to in effect destroy all human life on Earth? Alternatively could she step away from the N.A.T.O. paradigm and not retaliate upon Russia after Stockholm, Bonn, London, Madrid and Budapest were incinerated?

The Democrat Party is a wise-guy one-party system of conflict and war to force the world to acquiesce unto their social agenda for complete social structure makeover. The threat of nuclear war was an inevitable consequence of their confrontational and belligerent political way of being.

U.S. Politicians Fail to Fix Global Warming

 U.S. and Mexican politicians will fail to reduce global warming. Some like kamala Harris are afraid to suggest anything that wouldn’t gain more votes for election. Donald Trump is of a genre of business people focused on the throughput velocity of money. For those global warming concerns are an economic externality. Trump however is for world peace and prosperity while democrats prefer war in Europe and irrationally, peace in the Gaza to allow Hamas time to rebuild its military capacity.

N.A.T.O. is largely a democratic organ of the European Union with the U.S. being the blaster. Like a criminal gang members cannot demure from the wolf pack attack on Russian Ukrainian land. The European Union wants a to-state solution for implacable unilateral enemies (Hamas is the party dedicated to Israel’s destruction while Israel acknowledges the Palestinian’s right to exist in the Middle East) and categorically reject a two state solution for Ukraine. Candidate trump at least understands that the Democrat party gang insanity will likely lead to atomic war; bad for business. War though is an easy thing to sign aboard for gang members and anyone that wants out may be erased (for N.A.T.O. the equivalent would be leaving them exposed to possible attack with the same kind of perverse reasoning as affected the Union war vs the Confederates at Chickamauga when a Colonel with a peeve against a fellow officer failed to convey a message that would have moved troops and closed the gap that let Confederate forces surge through to rout Union forces.

The Democrat party should be plain and simple first in acting to reduce global warming. That is incompatible with truth and scale for party politicians wishing to hide from taking real action since they might not be elected. One simple plan would have three parts

1) remove millions of miles of asphalt streets that absorb and release solar heat.2) eliminate fossil fuel engines and other egregious sources of carbon monoxide/dioxide to the atmosphere3) ban coal burning power plants

Simple yet effective at great slowly anthropogenic climate change. Each measure would have detailed plans about how to accomplish it without great economic harm to those displaced by the change. Plainly a simple, realistic plan will complete fail to appear on party agenda the next 50 years.

Democrats will have bait and switch atmospheric heating reduction schemes and even some that have a positive effect on reducing greenhouse gases and asses (such as eliminating cattle grazing for the meat market on federal land) and designs for no-net loss of biota housing and zoning instead of providing free cash for the poor and middle class to make huge down payments on new homes that the poor and middle class will default on payments on in a couple of years when they can’t afford monthly home payments. The Harris housing scheme would probably cost 75 billion dollars at a minimum.

The 2007-2008 home mortgage derivatives banking failure and economic crash followed the Clinton administration’s drive to expand housing with loans to people with bad credit and the lower middle class. Bad money follows good; repeating the mistakes of the Clinton may well combine a perfect wave of some sort of unknown financial failure and tax cuts with a cascade of public debt default. Then N.A.T.O. might ask for a half trillion dollars as America’s share to help rebuild western Ukraine if that war is concluded without atomic conflict.

It would be better to provide cash to those that live in poor rural, non-electrified sheds to upgrade their properties with micro-wave, waterless toilets and saturate them with solar panels and free insulation, yet practical economics that reduce global heating is eschewed by the Democrat Party. One could build a dozen decent sheds for each $25,000 given for a down payment on a ‘starter home’. Many people on the planet would be happy with a good ten by twelve foot shed with an electric Incinolet toilet and solar panels to live in (those cost extra) to start and finish with.

Wouldn’t three million new homes demand 50 to 500 gallons of water apiece every day. A bath runs about 30 gallons and flush toilets a couple gallons per flush. Some people use dishwaters and water lawns besides. That new use adds up from 150 million to one and a half billion gallons of water every day. Environmentally speaking that is a disaster. Does the Colorado River have spare billion gallons of water for new western homes?

Won’t every scammer in the nation sign up for the free cash down payment and end up pocketing the cash after selling the place without making a single payment? Wouldn’t the poor without a good job that would qualify for a home loan of even the cheaper ‘starter’ $300,000 (yuppies will expect to move into a mansion after several years of hardship living in starter models) be excluded. Democrats often talk about the middle class (a class in decline) and sweep the poor under the rug. Many of the poor would be happy to just buy a decent length airstream trailer with their $25,000 if they would qualify. The prosperous and welcome often believe the poor are lazy not understanding that life doesn’t go equally easy and breezy as it might have been for them. Head bobbing sycophants sometimes find things go easy economically. Others are just well positioned and experience life without so many challenges; the ‘let them eat cake’ mentality is not uncommon. Will the homeless and unemployed have the free money those with sinecures get?

I did like the 2020 primary idea from a Democrat in the primaries about reducing global heating directly with a large sunscreen at L-5 in space. It would in effect be a vast tin foil hat constructed to keep harmful intelligent ideas from reaching the voters. The consequences to the Earth are of course entirely experimental and theoretical. It’s fun to consider the mass disasters that could result from that. Yet one must first consider some of the great number of variables for how the screen is deployed, designed and applied.

Would the screen be as large as the moon in diameter? Would it be adjustable like Venetian blinds? Would it partly block sunlight or entirely block it a few days a year like an eclipse? Would it reduce light all year or just a few months annually? Would the filter affect the entire planet or just part of the planet? The affects on global weather and ocean temperature and currents might produce drastic whipsaw events and a cascade of change that are irreversible. It is fun to consider the idea though and it would require a lot of government financed investigation and consideration by excellent scientists from a number of discipline for at least a decade before even considering build the thing.

Financing a vast sunscreen at L-5 would be challenging as would construction. Does one hire Boeing to get it done? The N.A.S.A. effort to return astronauts to the moon is going kinda slow. Would the 1000 mile tin foil sombrero get built faster?

Police Unions, Violence and Class Consciousness

 This is a theoretical deliberation on a social phenomenon; unnecessary police violence.

In Anchorage last week police entered a home following up on a call and shot to death a 16 year old girl with a knife. Like most other major urban police forces the officers were members of a union. Can the union mentality be a cause for overly lethal police violence? Instead of defunding police could it be that de-unionizing police departments would restore a equality in identity with citizenship and humanity to law enforcement?

Government unions are dangerous. They build a wall between themselves as self identity as ordinary citizens of a democracy. Ordinary policemen and government employees don’t share the same self-identity as being equal independent people. In order for the Bolshevik revolution to happen, soviet or in effect sovereign unions needed to infiltrate the military. When the Kronstadt naval rebellion occurred the cascade of union revolutions followed.

Unions can promote the sort of class consciousness found in gangs. Gangs and wolf packs can defend themselves too aggressively and effectively for their targets to survive close encounters. Wolves respect humans generally for their size and leave them alone. Wolves have a sense of easy association with humans, unlike police members of unions.

Cruising in cars sets them apart from two-leggers on the street easily as may walking heavily loaded with weapons, chemical mace, and clubs. They do not identify with the groups they police. So much as the great union pay and benefits.

Union programming sometimes transcends ordinary citizenship growing intolerant of any kind of threat to job security and risk from ‘scabs’. Hence the inclination to use excessive force to subdue dissent from civilians that appear to be any kind of threat to class security and power. Union broadcasters probably have their six. Government unions displace individual citizens as the primary people for government to serve. Instead the government exists to pay union members better salaries and retirement benefits. Union power has spread over governments like fungus. Reform becomes impossible.

Honest police forces are necessary for the stability of a healthy social environment where individuals and their rights including privacy have the primary and fundamental place in civil society. There can be higher and more power social class such as unions can present. Unions with guns can be hazardous to civil health, law and order.

The most civil violence in American cities beginning with the black lives matter movement occurred in cities with left-leaning politicians. Cities like Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington have experienced leftist, pro-union leadership and protracted periods of near urban anarchy since the Obama administration. Union workers probably don’t regard themselves as leftists, though politicians do.

Violence and police violence have raised calls to defund police from the left. Politicians of the left generally have union support. The entire situation can be self-reinforcing with class conscious union police using violence o leftist protesters to get support fro leftist politicians and media to defund police and redistribute power and prosperity to the leftist constituency.

Part of the problem with a malfunctioning American political economy is the decades of gerrymandering pay out entitlements that have made a Swiss cheese maze of unintended economic structures, advantages and disadvantages instead of plain social equality. To rectify the situation it might be a good idea to create a basic income of $12,000 for all adult U.S. citizens, and $3000 for minors while eliminating all entitlement programs from food stamps, social security, military and government retirement to unemployment, guaranteed student loans and so forth. Every citizen would have a basic income until they reached a threshold of $41,000 in annual income. That would render social entitlements as plain as Roman was Roman law. Collateral benefits would such as a drop in people going to jail costing $50,000 annually because of economic stress related crimes. Younger adults would have more access to capital for entrepreneurial ventures. All adults would be better positioned to endure ecological economic and other tech shocks to the system that are disruptive yet perhaps requisite for civilization to eliminate its economic practices that are destroying the health of the ecosphere and innovate constructive, synergetic ecological economic procedures.

It is of course quite reasonable for workers to use collective bargaining to market their product that is labor with massive organizations in the private sector. Separately negotiating other labor benefits or rights to unions exclusively instead of legislating rights for all workers in the nation together is harmful to the sovereignty of individual citizenship collectively. Government needs to be flexible and adaptable; unionized government interferes with that. If a citizen wants more than the basic income during working years and when old, they should get a job or start a business savings some of their capital perhaps combining that with a few friends’ capital. It is interesting to consider that housing is the primary expense. Transport could be made very cheap with electric go-carts for local lower speed use and freeways converted to automatic electric slots for moving vehicles automatically to selected off ramps with proper spacing and low-risk, zero pollution inter-modal progress. Food will remain costly as it is increasingly internationally supplied and delivered.

My grandfather’s house purchased in 1965 cost $5000. It was a decent place with a very good garden. The average cost of a home today in the U.S.A. is something like $400,000; that exemplifies the failure of capitalism to produce a better cheaper product over time, as is the case with automobile transport. More so than being capitalism’s failure, it may be a failure caused by the unionization of government and the quest for retirement wealth and luxury that is unsustainable as it ossifies and reinforces a limited, finite and exclusive enrollment period to in an ossified political economy. Political and economic ossification are prime causal factors within Arnold Toynbee’s historical cycles of the rise and fall of civilization. Surpassing the cycles requires intelligent leadership commonly lacking from the left’s social studies.

With a basic income of $12,000 an individual could live well enough in the U.S.A. if housing and transportation costs were recovered to a 1960s standard with of course the addition of contemporary electronic devices, solar panel roofing, foam insulation and ground Earth heating-cooling..

Ranked Choice Presidential Elections?

 Alaska presently has ranked choice voting. Could it be a model for future Presidential elections?

Here is an example ballot of ranked choice menu options (soon to appear at select restaurants for ordering food too) obtained from a likely voter.

1) Donald Trump

2) Pamela Harris

3) Gus Hall

4) Cornel West

4)) Robert Kennedy Jr.

5) Jill Stein

6) ‘Bull’ Maduro

7) Vladimir Putin

8) E.T.

9) Elvis

With those rankings the voters second choice could become the likely President if she gets more votes than the third place and seventh place candidates got in their votes combined. If the fifth place finisher is able to get exactly as many votes as Ferdinand Franco, she will get a $25,000 gift certificate from burgers-are-us if the seventh and fourth ranked candidates receive more votes than the second and first combined.

Ranked choices are useful for tie breaks, coffee breaks and electoral psychological breaks required to grease the way for second place finishers to leap up after careful computing and vote counts to first place. That way everything is plain and clear. Ranked choice voting plainly makes voter transparency transparent when is operated by the Magic Company.

The nation has many options to elect candidates now and in the future that will f things up good. One though may miss out on getting the atomic war started, and that is something to consider.

Israel Should Offer Homesteads to Palestinians in Gaza

 Israel needs to eliminate Hamas and Palestinians *an Israelis) need to get on with their lives. Should Israel just negotiate directly with Palestinians by offering mini-ranch homestead lots and condos to real citizens of Gaza that want to sign up to live in one on a first come, first served basis.

Israel and international financiers would help pay for most of the cost of rebuilding housing for the homeless in decent green, solar power structures with electric toilets. Each neighborhood could be something like a Kibbutz with independent political rule elected from their neighborhood and those people would merge into a national assembly administered by Israel for a time, as did the Privy Committee once rule Canada for the British.

it is time that Israel move on past Hamas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxByVW3H4uo&pp=ygUaaXNyYWVsIHZzIGhhbWFzIHRvZGF5IGxpdmU%3D

In First Place (a poem)

 

How they go about the race to nowhere
they left the same time
taking different routes away from the city
differentiating in the rains and desert heat
gaining and losing weight, patience and prosperity
followed by poverty with reports of shadows

Mountains with stones falling
within craters of volcanoes
surprising comets across a beautiful blue sky
laws and regulations
scriven on Newtonian apples
within a season of civilization
plugged into power sockets

The time grew to integrals and universals
differentiating relativity in forms of simultaneity
varying near observation platforms
they sought to reach
with tiring experience perspectives of colors faded
foam surged to fill entire regions
where things came apart
in season.

The Inheritance (a poem)

 

   Fully automatic check out lines
robotic arms sort the union’s groceries
tallied by A.I, with digital video receipts
delivered to A.I. empowered cars
where chauffeurs sleep
and servants will clean up the mess

   Three-D printers of copious drones
Democrat’s wars on Earth and space
set up the meek to inherit the Earth
who might wish that powerful war politicians of orbit
would be on their way to worlds of wealth beyond

   Some diamond covered planets of glory
three-d printed space ships in microgravity
aluminum fused frames in the vacuum
with power sufficient to live at the edge
bring light to the end of the tunnel
the wormhole tunnel of worms

   Three-d printers with A.I. designers
ordering the fastest, sleek undersea drones
bring more efficiency to wars
with drones for every city
churning the polity and elite positions
preparing the inheritance.

Nothingness is Faster Than Light (a poem)

 

In the sea of nothingness
distance does not exist
speed has no limit
nor reference point consist

  A Universe of space-time
coheres within nothingness like a dream
its quanta have a dual existence
one to mass, another to nothing it seems

  Touching nothingness quanta super-position
information distributes to all possible places
faster-than light, day overcomes night
the phenomena of being clear gravity spaces

  Surface tensions of a Universe expanse
contact free space infinity
quantum field reflections
drawn on time’s mass insurrections

  Four dimensions contact zero dimension’s heart
nowhere to begin
nothing to end at a start
God’s eternal art need win

  The superfluous stretch of space-time
positions wrap unto none
where everywhere and thing locate nothingness
ditto shapes and  echo  rhyme

  Gravity is a positive quality of mass
a field rolling itself up
flying apart in contact with nothingness
returning to the forever it left to sup

  A project of God with omniscience to see
all points of quanta being, and becoming
realities of data, a fate accompli
flowing fast in temporal streams.

Global Warming: The Error of Economic Expansion

 Since 1982 the United States federal government has run budget deficits. In just one year-1999 was there a balanced budget. That year Republicans in Congress had Bill Clinton by the short hairs because of fellatio in office with student intern challenges. Democrat politicians that came of age since the Reagan administration are normalized to running vast public debts as the new normal. Cutting taxes and piling up debt is believed to have no negative consequences.

The over-population of the world is an old political issue. The United States population has nearly doubled in my lifetime Economic expansion was the essential goal of classical economics in America, yet it has features of a Ponzi scheme to it environmentally speaking. Instead of concern about habitat loss or degradation and mass species extermination the political discourse about the environment has reduced to one of global warming. Fixing that by spending trillions and trillions of dollars on credit is thought to be the way to resolve ongoing existential environmental threats and that is wrong. I should stipulate that I don’t believe politicians will solve the world environmental over-use issue. Probably nature itself will be the hard limiting and correcting force.

China is a world leader and stopping its own population increase. Its historically draconian measures of forced abortion would not work in the U.S.A. China is a leader in green technology for practical reasons that its manufacturing costs are less than in the U.S.A., green tech is a solid export product and it has practical, massive local applications. Economic expansion can take the form of qualitative increase rather than quantitative increase and should if the ecosphere is to be recovered to a healthy condition eventually.

Illegal and legal immigration are ways to provide cheap labor for expansive economics. An economy over reliant on cheap new labor, housing booms, more low-skilled service jobs and public debt that is slow to move away from fossil fuel automobile infrastructure and heat absorbing asphalt streets is one that is not going to be a positive factor in reducing global warming. Simply the scalar increase of population would add more global warming with the economic methods of the present to sustain it than efficiency increases in nationally applied green tech efficiency would reduce it. With the help of classical, expansive economic policies global warming may overcome someday and the world become an anarchic, living hell.

There isn’t anything wrong about a stable national population with low immigration. Three hundred twenty million Americans with off road vehicles and chain saws and polluting substances already have a devastating effect on wildlife. There is a national homeless issue because of illegal migration, over-population and a housing shortage. Those collecting rents are probably happy with that.

Nations like Italy actually had negative population growth before African and Middle Eastern immigration. With negative population growth there isn’t a need for new housing. Especially in the U.S.A. with the aging baby boomer generation there would be a housing surplus soon without the flood of legal and illegal immigrants. No one would be without a home and rents would drop. With a change in transportation methodology to quit using fossil fuels and stop using low albedo, heat absorbing asphalt for streets the rate of global global warming increase would slow. That is a practical reality and one that neither Democrats or Republican can admit reliant as they are on the economics of expansion.

Without coercion to reduce population the United States population would would naturally drop to zero and negative turf. The Democrat Presidential candidate Pamela Harris hasn’t issued progeny herself. Women today want prosperity and power rather than kids. That is OK. Yet they also want cheap labor and wealth-even servants, and the need is probably for more people to maintain physical building infrastructure with increasing vacancies if negative population growth occurs.

Robots and A.I. have developed at a time when there may be a shortage of health care workers to take care of the aging population and that is fortunate. With proper design and manufacture the need to have humans changing bedpans and monitor meds with nursing aids will drop. Americans could survive and thrive with intelligent and adaptive green ecological economics and a decreasing population quite well. The nation should be a leader at bringing green technology and farming to poorer countries directly so they too could prosper in quality in a more sustainable way with low population growth and non-coercive population stabilization.

Americans will want to forge on with growth in scientific and technical knowledge while eliminating housing shortages and homelessness through population decrease and better use of existing resources even as it solves problems of ecospheric habitat degradation and atmospheric heating. It is often the case that conservative and restorative management of things is better than exploiting and overusing them leading to a crash. It is better to remain healthy for example, than to neglect one’s health and try to repair it after good health is lost. The ecosphere is not disposable as are many products. Neither should people be regarded as disposable as they have by various societies and economic circumstances in the past.

U.S. economics is in a sense in the wave of a vast bubble of non-sustainability environmentally. At some point it will crash unless it has the good sense to transition directly toward policies of population stability. Fisheries may crash, atmospheric heating difficulties may increase and water resources become inadequate among obvious phenomena. And each of those particular issues could be solved with right political actions synthesizing technological, demographic and economic applications

Colonel Ham's Franchise Lawyer Globes

 Colonel (ret.) Acronymous Ham disclosed his plan to conquer the courtroom legal business with Artificial Intelligence lawyer programs housed in glowing red and blue spheres a foot in diameter that could be rented and carried to courtrooms to represent the poor and downtrodden yearning for good legal representation.

Ham franchise lawyers would make speed-of-light legal motions and objections in the courtroom drawing on a vast legal database and with additional wireless access to a Ham law supercomputer supervisor. Each destitute client represented by a public defender would find more expedient assistance as Ham globes make their way into the public defender lawyer rotation

Apparently gaming computers with serial, parallel high speed processors can be repurposed with newer A.I. chips and software to become Perry Masons on steroids,and given high quality speech synthesizer voices with variable speeds,and in some cases, wonderful soundtracks that appear when they are in the midst of great, incisive, revelatory, exculpatory speeches to a jury.

The Colonel explained that globe lawyers would have a convenient carrying handle, high quality optical cameras, motion sensors and live data base dossiers on all relevant court personnel including case histories and decisions of judges

Colonel Ham said that he got his operations paradigm from Wal-mart automatic self-check out lines and it was his hope that Wal-mart was slow at stocking made-in China A.I. lawyers on its shelves. The Colonel felt that he would not be able to make a profit if A.I. lawyers were sold below his rental price of $19.95.

The Department of Environmental Health

 Realistically, the U.S. Government hasn’t got a philosophical grasp of how to bring the nation much less global ecosphere into a state of recovery. One shouldn’t expect the Dept. of Agriculture to manage national forests, wetlands, badlands, meadows, plans and tundra etc. Neither should the Depts of Energy, Health or E.P.A., nor N.O.A.A. or the C.D.C. be expected to cover national issues related to restoring verdancy to the national portion of the ecosphere and make a substantive effort to reverse anthropogenic heating of the atmosphere. A new federal department of environmental health should be legislated into being.

It isn’t that the E.P.A.- the Environmental Protection Agency has done a bad job. Their role is too narrow and limited to anti-pollution recovery and select conservation generally. That paradigm is not sufficient for developing environmental health for the nation in an era when North Slope Alaska temperature can reach 90 degrees in August (e.g. Deadhorse 89 f) with much warmer years ahead. Most politicians don’t understand the nature of the problem of habitat and species loss and the maladaptive mass effects of the tool kit used by 8 billion humans on the world environment. Envision 8 billion chimpanzees driving fossil fuel vehicles on the Earth, polluting sky and oceans with aircraft and ships, chemical wastes and sewage, flotsam, jetsam and forests cut, deserts paved with heat absorbing asphalt and exterminating inconvenient species that survived habitat loss and trophy hunting.

Philosophically speaking there are numerous approaches for tackling problems of environment habitat loss, pollution and atmospheric heating catalysis by human machines. The political economy matters; an equation concerning how to restore ecospheric health requires the political economy as an element. Plainly there are innumerable ways to change the nation’s political economy to one that supports restoration of environmental health. Perhaps a philosophy of political economy department could be made a part of a federal Department of Environmental Health.

Good political leadership can be difficult to discover and elect. Insiders may perpetuate their own interests and dominate important offices elbowing out competence. In 2024 the Democrat party had no competitive primaries and the presentation of new environmental ideas was thereby aborted. One insider-Joe Biden, selected his protege V.P. to run and party elites rubber stamped that. Candidate Kamala hasn’t significant classical or environmental economic experience A healthy, positive classical economy is required to afford upgrade to ecological economic policies. Once the classical economy and business are collapse choices are taken away, opportunities lost. That would mean the future of adaptive ecological economics would be bleak and destroyed. Demographics of all would experience downturns challenging to survive.

Government is not the only way to affect the condition of the ecosphere positively. Often of course government policy has affected the ecosphere negatively. In the present era private enterprise has sometimes been a leader in positive adaptation to ecospheric health of the political economy. An example was Tesla’s leadership in transitioning to electric cars away from internal combustion engines. Electric cars are becoming commonplace around the globe; yet of course the changes required for a well adapted to present environmental challenges political economic requires far more than the elimination of carbon monoxide emissions to the thin air humanity breathes.

The Democrat Party has no philosophy of ecospheric health restoration. They are instead spoilers exploiting environmental issues just enough to get environmental voters into their demographic based political agenda. I wanted to write something about that phenomenon.

The Democrat Party is not a party of ideas. It is instead a party of Demographics designed to appeal to a majority of voters. It is thus a party of pandering to special demographic interests to win elections bringing the main idea of Democrats to one of electing demographically approved politicians to prosperity. Joe Biden was a case in point. In 2016 he campaigned on a 3 trillion dollar environment recovery plan in order to low-ball the bid from rival Democrat primary candidates. Fixing the ecosphere for 3 trillion would have been super-efficient.

The Joe Biden environment plan was not ineffective to start with. It was eventually reduced to 1.5 trillion and much of that went to Demographic kick backs unrelated to ecospheric recovery. Kamala Harris has a little of a notion of how to bring about ecospheric recovery as did Joe Biden.

Democrats apparently have little prospect for winning both houses of the federal legislature again. When they had that in 2017 the first order of business should have been to pass a tax increase on the rich. Biden instead went in the opposite direction. There is no question that a vast 33 trillion dollar and increasing public debt can be the first stage of the breakup of the U.S.A.. Vast public debt is risky, yet Democrat plans to spend trillions-as high as 60 trillion dollars, to repair the ecosphere are especially dangerous for national security. A political economy designed to pay off public debt and restore the environment simultaneously is requisite. Is that even possible?

One of the troubles with Demographic based politics is that while focusing on special interests nearly exclusively it lets substantial public interests in macro-economic and environment fail. It leads to something like Aristotle’s political cycle for democracy degenerating in to tyranny. Some Democrat elites of course have a covert-overt approach to solving the overpopulation of the world demographic challenge made locally (nationally) worse via the vehicle of mass illegal migration to the U.S.A. The elite approach brings a method to the madness of actual voting booth party choices. Their idea is that the traditional family structure and way of living of billions of souls is mal-adaptive for the survival of humanity on earth. Sociological studies have shown that as poorer societies become prosperous and women prosper in those second and third world countries they have fewer children. Thus making those poorer nations prosperous is the theoretical solution to global over population when the maximum planetary sustainable population of humans in the present family unit structure is just 2 or 3 billion.

If world resources used in the present way of classical economics can sustain just 3 billion humans at maximum, and while the present classical economic way of living degrades the ecosphere and exhausts natural resources a change to new economic methods is requisite for human sustainability. Flooding the U.S.A. with illegal migrants in order to provide cheap domestic labor, keep wages down and concentrate wealth is believed by the elites as a way for poorer nations to increase their standard of living as illegals living and working in the U.S.A. send part of their earnings home. Remittances to poor countries purposed to cut down on population growth global seems a very inefficient way to make poor nations prosper rather than direct investment in poor countries with new ecological economic procedures. Yet as I may have mentioned, there are no comprehensive ecological economic policies or transitional methods in the Democrat or Republican parties. Democrats rely on the invisible hand of evolution guided by party elites and Republicans on the invisible kleptomaniac hand of Adam Smith’s capitalism as interpreted by a dark pool, dark matter Karl Marx.

A solid understanding of the discipline of environmental economics and classical economic are foundational for implementation of timely, innovative measure in government and the private sector to attack the challenges-related and interlocking challenges, of habit degradation, species extinction, human land use/zoning, oceanic acidification and warming and environmental heating. Plainly a lot of education is involved. Also plain is the capacity of contemporary information systems to bring that knowledge to the public. A Democrat Party focused on just getting politicians elected and rich who will kick back some support and pork for constituents hasn’t developed realistic ecospheric restoration paradigmata- while Republicans are more focused on business.

The best environmentalists might hope for is for Democrats to actually develop philosophical awareness of comprehensive approaches t restoration of ecospheric health before the 2028 Presidential election. Presently there is no Democrat philosophy of the political economy in regard to ecosphere restoration. Neither is there a snowball’s chance in hell of getting such an imaginary creatures through the political zoo of D.C. politics.

I remember during the Velvet Revolution era of a wish to receive a particular military service ribbon- a beautiful green and white one for being stationed in Antarctica. I was disappointed though, and could not even locate one in military surplus stores to wear on a Vietnam era field jacket in the forest of rural Alaska. A Department of Environmental Health would not be like a new federal Department of Imaginary Military Service and Imaginary Veteran’s affairs made to make people without military service feel good about themselves. Rather, it would provide the government’s part in developing a rational political economy to optimize resource use and to promote economic and lifestyle zeitgeist methodology for environmental health.

A philosophy of national and global environmental health has a large number of possible structures that might serve to restore the ecosphere to a salutary status. There are a lot of possible plans that might cost a lot (trillions) and be ineffective too. There is an opportunity cost for investing in plans that don’t work- like hanging a spacecraft up in space that can’t return to Earth, its better to have a plan that will work right the first time, and cheaper too.

So I believe its time to bring out a cliché and adapt it to the challenge of discovering or building the right approach to restoring the ecosphere to health; measure twice and cut once. For developing a righteous plan for restoring ecospheric health including a supporting political economy a comparable cliché would be to consider with philosophy a thousand plans for environment recovery and apply just one. Yet get it done with a purpose for the scale of the problems are increasing all the while.