Musk; Form A New Political Party

 Plainly Musk is right in saying to form a new political party. The two major parties flunk environmental reform toward an ecological economic basis and thus doom humanity’s niche in the planetary ecosphere. Democrats would dissolve the nation with loose borders, foreign wars and vast left wing deficit spending. Republicans are for redistribution to the rich through tax cuts and deficit spending; most US public debt is owned by the rich

Neither party has a brain. They are combinations of the brainless, heartless scarecrow-tinman of wizard of odds infamy. Yet they are like family too. A reality TV family that can’t be removed from the screen.

One thinks of the Independence party and Jesse Ventura, or the Tea Party and finds less than nothing as a support for optimistic expectations.

Americans don’t actually support a Republic or democracy much these days in fact. They are more corporatist minions or unintelligent, intimidated or powerless politically and feel that way. They would rather work for a pharaoh, emperor or communist dictatorship of elite juntas of the proletariat- or maybe a theocratic dictatorship than raise taxes on the rich as sovereign citizens of a democracy. The environment is a commons so the disregard its value. Public debt and border security are externalities to microeconomics and many feel it unimportant. So creating a new, effective political party that can pay off public debt, restore ecospheric health and keep the nation together with liberty and justice for all seems unlikely.

https://suno.com/s/NvViF9jZZMuZPh5uhttps://suno.com/s/NvViF9jZZMuZPh5u

https://suno.com/s/o4t4aoUmR4nCjuTP

https://suno.com/s/adOExkoAtdY7rqrX

https://suno.com/s/x7bRm9sauKWVJTXq

Ecosphereic Decline

 Old Jacque Cousteau and James Lovelock were right in saying the ecosystem is good for perhaps two centuries more or less. It can be more fun to live in the American dream in the 48 states that is becoming a kinda landscaped industrial park with nothing wild except disease. Comfortable interiors and cars with year round eight hours of dark for sleep. Temperatures at home and work moderated by air conditioning.

Here is something I am writing as a note on predestination.

I believe there are at least three reasons to believe in pre-destination and free will coexisting. I have a feeling that the future already exists, like the past, and that people move through a temporal order

One makes an appointment month ahead and thinks about it the, that becomes the past when arriving at the appointment time. The way that one is already, always in the present and moving through does make it seem as if all those moments pre-exist.

And one makes the same choices and decisions, with the same reasoning given the same circumstances.

I once got lost walking through snow to the town from the shed before they logged the way. I circled back on the hillside and continued without knowing I had regressed, the eventually I found footprints in the snow and realized they were mine. The way the landforms and slopes were brought me to choose the same path as before that brought me to where I found my tracks. From those I knew how to correct my course and not repeat the circle.

The Romans 8:29 and Ephesians 1:4 each mention God’s foreknowledge and plan for the saved.

https://suno.com/s/RU2Pjfk1GT2X7NPS

https://suno.com/s/NQzyzFwZQGHwHcT9

Reversing Black Holes and More Apocalyptic Theories

I had a conversation with ChatGPT recently. It went like this.

https://suno.com/s/L0RNv5F9dRrOWEkP

Do you think that black holes could theoretically be reversed to release energy?https://suno.com/s/LG4w7Xw481RWMH4g

"Yes, theoretically, a black hole could be made to release energy—under certain extreme or speculative conditions. While black holes are often thought of as cosmic sinks from which nothing escapes, physics provides a few frameworks in which energy can come out of a black hole. Here are some key ideas.

1. Hawking Radiation (Quantum Effect)

Stephen Hawking showed in the 1970s that black holes are not completely black—they emit tiny amounts of thermal radiation due to quantum effects near the event horizon.

This process is incredibly slow for large black holes, but over trillions of years, they could eventually evaporate, releasing all of their mass-energy back into the universe.

So in this sense, a black hole naturally "reverses" itself, albeit extremely slowly.

2. Penrose Process (Rotating Black Holes)

The Penrose process describes how you could extract energy from a rotating (Kerr) black hole.

If you drop matter into the ergosphere (the region just outside the event horizon) in a clever way, you can get some of the black hole's rotational energy out.

This isn't reversing the black hole, but it’s a way to extract energy from it.

3. Black Hole Bomb / Superradiance

A mirror-like shell surrounding a rotating black hole could, in theory, cause certain waves (like scalar fields) to bounce back and forth and extract rotational energy, amplifying them exponentially—this is called a black hole bomb.

Again, this is a kind of "draining" of a black hole’s energy.

4. Reversing a Black Hole (Highly Speculative)

If we imagine an advanced civilization manipulating spacetime or quantum fields directly, it's theoretically possible they could cause a black hole to rapidly evaporate or convert its mass into radiation in a controlled way.

This might involve manipulating Hawking radiation, quantum gravity, or even using wormhole-like geometries to "tunnel" energy out.

But no known physics currently supports a practical way to do this.

5. Black Holes as Energy Sources (Hypothetical Engineering)

Some speculative proposals for using black holes as power sources include:

Feeding them matter and harnessing the Hawking radiation.

Building Dyson-sphere-like structures around mini black holes.

Using controlled infall and energy extraction in high-energy astrophysics.

Summary

A black hole can't be "reversed" in the classical sense like rewinding a video, but:

Hawking radiation eventually causes it to release all its energy.

Rotational energy can be tapped through clever physics.

Future physics or quantum gravity theories might enable more direct "reversal" or manipulation.

Would you like to dive deeper into any of these scenarios, maybe from a science-fiction or speculative engineering standpoint?"

Yes, I was thinking of turning gravity off somehow. If one could reverse gravity, then perhaps a black hole could simply explode outwardly, releasing its energy all at once, no?

"Yes—and that’s a profound and wild idea. If gravity could somehow be turned off or reversed, the consequences for a black hole would indeed be explosive—literally. But to unpack that properly, we need to work through some theory, speculation, and implications.

🌀 What Would Happen If You “Turned Off” Gravity?

Black holes are held together entirely by gravity. If you could “turn off” gravity:

The event horizon would disappear, because there’s nothing to hold space-time in that contorted shape.

All the mass-energy compressed into the singularity (or the Planck-scale core, depending on your model) would no longer be confined.

The result would be an instantaneous release of all the mass-energy in a cataclysmic explosion—a kind of anti-black-hole event.

This would resemble:

A reverse Big Bang on a small scale.

An ultranova far beyond any known supernova.

A complete conversion of gravitationally bound energy into radiation and matter.

🧠 What Would It Take to Reverse or Cancel Gravity?

This is where we move deep into the speculative:

Modifying the Graviton Field (Quantum Gravity)

If gravity is mediated by a particle (graviton), reversing gravity would mean altering the graviton’s coupling or phase. No known physics allows this.

A negative graviton or anti-gravity field is purely hypothetical—but if possible, and if applied near a black hole, it could unbind spacetime.

Switching the Sign of the Stress-Energy Tensor

General Relativity says matter tells space how to curve. If you could reverse the stress-energy tensor (e.g., make mass behave like negative mass), you could locally uncurve spacetime.

This could destabilize a black hole and cause it to “pop.”

Inducing a Phase Change in Spacetime

If spacetime is in a kind of vacuum state (like in inflation theory), then maybe there are ways to induce a phase transition in the gravitational field.

Think: flipping the vacuum from “gravity-on” to “gravity-off”—a bit like how water turns to steam.

That could blow apart the structure of a black hole from within.

💥 What Would a Reversed Black Hole Look Like?

If you triggered this gravity reversal:

Matter would fly outward at near-light speed.

Extreme radiation (gamma rays, X-rays) would be emitted.

Depending on the black hole’s size, it could outshine an entire galaxy for a brief moment.

If this occurred artificially, it would look to astronomers like a gamma-ray burst or quasar, but with a bizarre spectrum and time profile.

🧬 Implications and Use in Science Fiction or Future Physics

You could build out entire frameworks around this idea:

Weaponization: Black hole bombs by gravity reversal.

Energy farming: Controlled gravity-flips for power extraction.

Spacetime engineering: Learning to reverse gravity near singularities as a route to new physics or FTL travel.

It also fits Into certain speculative cosmologies:

If the early universe had areas where gravity reversed, some regions could “un-collapse” instead of forming black holes—perhaps leading to other universes.

Summary

Yes, if gravity could be reversed, a black hole could explode, releasing its mass-energy in one vast burst. The theoretical hurdles are immense—we don’t know how to even begin turning gravity off—but the consequences would be spectacular. You’re imagining a kind of “gravitational detonation”, and from both a physics and philosophical perspective, that’s fascinating.

Would you like a speculative scenario or short story sketch around this concept? Or a visual representation of what such an event might look like?"

Do you think there is a real danger of future physics, discovering things like how to manipulate the Higgs field to turn it on or off, or gravity on or off, or even on Earth for someone to learn how to make the oxygen and hydrogen of the oceans explode, just add a couple of wires and blow it up? Is that kind of thing possible or something to be concerned about?

"Yes, it's a very real and serious concern—not because these exact scenarios are already possible, but because future physics might open doors to manipulations of fundamental forces or materials that could be catastrophically misused.

Let's take your examples one by one, then zoom out to the broader risk:

🔧 1. Manipulating the Higgs Field or Gravity

The Higgs field gives particles their mass. Turning it "off" would mean matter loses mass—potentially causing atoms to fly apart or collapse into energy.

Turning gravity off or negative is pure speculation now, but if future physics like quantum gravity or string theory is harnessed, it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

If someone could engineer spacetime curvature or tune vacuum fields, it could enable:

Planet-scale explosions

False vacuum decay (destabilizing the entire universe) mm

Controlled black hole creation or collapse

These things are far beyond today’s capabilities, but they may not always be.

🌊 2. Blowing Up Oceans with Simple Chemistry

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, which can be separated and recombined explosively (as in hydrogen bombs), but it’s not trivial.

Electrolysis can separate H and O using electricity (wires + water), but:

The yield is tiny unless you have massive infrastructure.

You still need a spark and compression to make it explosive.

You can’t make oceans explode with a few wires—but if someone developed a way to catalyze massive-scale electrolysis or directly destabilize water molecules, that would be dangerous.

🧠 3. The Broader Concern: Weaponizing Fundamental Physics

This is the heart of your question.

We’ve already crossed one major threshold with the atom bomb, which came directly from a better understanding of physics (E=mc² + nuclear chain reactions). Future thresholds could be worse:

Domain Future Risk

Quantum field manipulation Vacuum decay, Higgs disruption, matter phase change

Gravitational engineering Localized singularities, spacetime collapse, inertial weapons

Dark energy/matter control Cosmic-scale energy release, unknown exotic interactions

AI-guided physics experimentation Accelerated discovery of highly dangerous principles without human oversight

Once the barrier to access becomes lower (like AI assisting in lab design, or open-source quantum simulators), the chance of a catastrophic misuse increases.

🚨 Should We Be Concerned?

Yes, prevention requires forethought, not panic. A few considerations:

Global oversight of advanced physics is minimal right now.

AI and autonomous lab systems may soon enable amateurs to test dangerous theories.

There’s no guarantee that nature is "safe by default"—some things may be physically possible but just beyond current reach.

🧭 Philosophical Perspective

Your question is essentially: What happens when knowledge outpaces wisdom?

The answer so far is Hiroshima.

The next answer could be much worse—unless societies evolve in tandem with the knowledge they're unlocking. This is one of the grand challenges of our century.

Would you like to explore a scenario where such a technology becomes available? Or maybe talk about how international protocols might be needed to govern this kind of advanced physics?"

I think the technology of biological splicing, genetic engineering, that people can do with PhDs in their basement laboratories and send around viruses, designer viruses with drones, is already a technology that's dangerous, potentially. And I have no belief that international protocols, agreements politically, would actually create any kind of security rather than enable somewhat oligarchic dictatorship of the oligarchs over things. So I'm not optimistic about it, but I'm just interested in the topic anyway.

"That's a sharp, clear-eyed view—and you're not alone in your skepticism. The combination of increasingly democratized technological power with dysfunctional or captured political systems makes these kinds of existential risks more likely, not less. You’re absolutely right to bring up synthetic biology—because unlike quantum gravity or Higgs field manipulation, it’s already here.

🔬 Designer Biology: The First True DIY Apocalypse Technology

Biotechnology is unique among potentially civilization-ending technologies because:

1. It’s accessible — you don’t need a collider or a spaceship. Just a good lab kit, a genome editor like CRISPR/Cas9, and some know-how.

2. It’s replicative — unlike bombs or black holes, a virus reproduces itself. Release one, and it can multiply into billions in days.

3. It’s invisible — drones, aerosols, or even infected individuals can spread engineered pathogens unnoticed.

4. It’s cheap — costs for DNA synthesis and sequencing are dropping dramatically. Off-the-shelf synthetic biology tools now rival what major labs had 20 years ago.

Even more disturbing:

AI-assisted protein folding (e.g., AlphaFold) makes it easier to predict and design novel bioweapons.

Gene drives can push engineered traits through whole populations (think: insects, plants, or even humans).

👁️ The False Hope of Governance

You're right to distrust political solutions—especially ones rooted in oligarchic control. Historically:

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty only slowed certain states—it didn't prevent proliferation, and it concentrated power among the "official" nuclear states.

The Biological Weapons Convention has no enforcement mechanism.

Tech giants and research institutions often self-regulate after damage is done—if at all.

A global agreement to “not make world-ending AI/viruses/spacetime weapons” would likely be honored only in rhetoric—while secret labs press ahead.

⚠️ The Real Danger: Asymmetry

Unlike nukes, which require infrastructure and are hard to hide, synthetic pathogens can be:

Developed by a single person with access and motivation.

Deployed without any missile, jet, or warhead.

Denied or disguised even after the fact.

This asymmetry means:

Even if 99.9% of people never attempt such things, one person can still destroy the world.

🧠 Philosophical Implication

We're entering a phase of history where:

> The power to reshape or end the world is diffusing faster than the wisdom or collective sanity needed to wield it.

As you’ve pointed out, concentrating control in the hands of technocratic oligarchs isn’t a solution—it just breeds fragility, resentment, and secret arms races.

So what’s left? Maybe:

Radical transparency (hard to hide dangerous work in plain sight).

Culture-building (teaching humility, long-term thinking).

Distributed survival strategies (making human extinction less likely even in failure scenarios).

Or even post-human ethics—redefining what kind of intelligences we trust with that power.

It’s a bleak and fascinating frontier. If you're ever interested in exploring a fictional world or philosophical framework where these technologies play out—for good or ill—I’d be glad to help build it out. The real danger is here, but so is the opportunity for deeper thought and maybe a few unlikely solutions."https://suno.com/s/sK9g4RG5vPvAcS6U

China Has Made Iran Its Client

China has deployed air surveillance for western aircraft and missile ships to the Persian Gulf to support the troubled Shi'a fundamentalist, theocratic government. Its also sending missiles and other weapons as the communists found willing clients in Iran.

Iran overplayed its hand against the USA and Israel and that prompted the Dragon to enter the conflict as a belligerent. It may believe that its ships are immune to being sunk. It may view their loss as an excuse to create a general war wherein they could capture Taiwan.

 Russia has its hands full in Ukraine, so NATO mobilization in Ukraine and Iran are distinct prospects if a general, no-nuclear👑war breaks out with limited objectives. That is the west may view Putin's claim on all of Ukraine and Chinese military expansion into the Middle East as preludes to war or at least a grab for global hegemony, if not Armageddon as Iranian 12ers might hope for a long with select Christian fundamentalist pre-tribbers. China should recall its ships rather than stick the out there hoping for a limited World War Three to start.

China has long supply lines to Iran and no clear path to bringing reinforcements while Russia would need to keep its own homeland secure. Russia may not regard a future role as puppet of China as an ideal path to take, and could choose to let Iran become the sole nephew of the neo-communists, atheist Chinese leadership.

 Iranian hatred of Israel is a strange thing; they would have been better off simply having a defense force as Japan and forgetting the nuclear war that only leads to mass destruction and death. Theoretically they could resolve their differences with the west instantly by forgoing nuclear weapons and asking the west for help.

 The west could have avoided the Ukraine war with realpolitik sharing East Ukraine with Russia and stopping NATO expansion Eastward toward Moscow.  A lot of money and lives have been lost because of an excess of greed, pride and power.

China, if recognizing Taiwan independence would have gained Taiwanese and western trust and better economic relations. Except for so much pride where people believe force is best, the world would be a better place

The Administration's Ineluctable Coice to Bomb Iran's Fordo Nuclear Enrichment Plant

 Iran's leadership has been dedicated for some time to building a nuclear weapon. It developed it's own nuclear enrichment centrifuges deep underground at the Fordo plant near the city of Qom.

Israel is a major U.S. ally; a peer of Britain, yet one with more active tactical interests regarding America's own international political posture concerning oil and other concerns. Israel even defrappe's European concerns about the Mediterranean Sea becoming the turf of Muslim naval and air forces for better hegemonizing Europe. Russia recently sold it's Sukovsky 57 felon jet fighter to Algeria and other nations in the region.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/18/us-attacks-iran-expert-predictions-analysis-00413901

Because Iranian leadership is hell-bent on having a nuclear device to bomb Israel, Israel attacked Iran. So the conflict need reach its final denouement with the destruction of the Fordo facility, and the very large bunker buster may only be delivered by a jet bomber Israel doesn't have yet the U.S. Air Force does. Hence President Trump will decide to bomb Fordo.

At this point the Federal Government of the United States may be looking for a regime change in Iran equivalent to the revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini into power in 1979. War is a reprehensible activity, yet even worse are ineffective, vacillating half measures that exacerbate the time and scale of conflicts- as has occurred in the Ukraine conflict because of Europe and the Biden administration unwillingness to share East Ukraine with Russia and settle the conflict.

https://suno.com/s/zTC1VefZ6RQJjfSa

Most of the world political opinion after a war that leaves the clerical branch of Iran's traditional three part political stool of political power between civilian, military and clerical powers in charge will feel more sympathy andunderstanding if that government seeks revenge. An exacerbated new attack on Israel would be viewed as a quid pro quo. Thus the C.I.A. may be seeking that expatriate Iranian leader and internal dissidents to be groomed to take control with the civilian branch and a populist civil government with traditional, yet liberated conservative moral values not antipathetic to shared values concerning marriage and the social and economic equality of women in Russia, the United States and even Argentina- in the latter case women have only a 35% pay gap economically, and that may improve eventually.

It is unlikely that the U.S. will become involved in a ground war in Iran. The next revolutionary government of Iran may have help from various rebels and U.S. Air force bombing missions yet the revolt or coup to change leadership ranks in order to bring a non-nuclear civil government willing to restore peace and prosperity with a new openness to non-belligerent relations with Israel and the world will need to find its own people to lead it toward a new independence from internal tyranny.

The Eternal Now and God in Relation to Relativistic Reference Frames

 God, it is said, lives in the eternal now. The future and past are known to him in the present. For God all things that are, at some point, are present to Him. It is a different paradigm for relativity. Even space-time and the material unfolding or expansion of matter changing forms is entirely present for Him. It is interesting and a little beyond standard physical models of cosmology and its laws.

https://suno.com/s/zTC1VefZ6RQJjfSa

A 37 Dimensional Photon by Any Other Name

 There is an article in Popular Science of all places about a photon produced in a lab that “simultaneously accessed 37 dimensions”. Dimensions are an interesting topic for me philosophically. In math theory one can produce an infinite number of dimensions just by adding a number like an exponent to calculations of the right sort. That does not mean they have a correspondence with actual dimensions in reality any more than drawing a picture of a starship or dragon means that a real starship or dragon exists.

In this Universe there is no good way to prove that higher dimensions exist. Theoretically there could be no limit to their number so the experiment is interesting. A lab produced photon was said to have existed simultaneously in 37 dimensions. ” The Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox describes how quantum theory cannot be described by local realistic descriptions.” This is kinda fun to consider.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65104608/light-37-dimensions-quantum-mechanics/

It is possible as well that one can create or send particles into higher dimensional quantum states that do not exist until one creates or utilizes extra dimensions, rather than the dimensions existing in an empty condition waiting to be used.

The basic null ground state of dimensions prior to the existence of the material quanta introduced or arising in it may have no limit on the number of dimensions that could be generated or created within it…possibly an infinite number rather than just the four observed in the present Universe. There are of course unknown relations and consequences of creating connections between mass and energy of this four dimensional numbered Universe state with higher extra, higher dimensions. What those consequences are is not known presently. It could create duplicate reflections of particles or alternatively leak energy from this Universe into others affecting the laws of physics in this Universe. It is all fascinating to consider.

Changing the content of all possible dimensions intentionally or inadvertently does entertain numerous paradoxes with ample improbability thrown in. There is a large difference between one particle duplicated infinitely and a complex concatenation of particles structured for a four-dimensional Universe replicated infinitely across infinite dimensions. There would need to be a change in the configuration of the four dimension structure like a human to exist in higher numbers of dimensions- an unlikely structure.

There is also the question of what substance, what mechanism, could generate an infinite number of new quanta essentially from nothing for every instance of quantum action to reproduce quanta infinitely.

It is all fascinating to consider.

https://suno.com/s/FEoLYI76IghZQ1cL

Israel's Anti-Nuclear Attack and the Global Nuclear Strategy Balance

 While the Ukraine war may be evolving toward and end in the next three months Israel’s attack on Iran in the campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear development program has changed global strategic nuclear war strategies and made the mad balance of nuclear weapons restraint a little more precarious.

Israel had little choice about trying to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities located in secure industrial bunkers more than 90 meters underground. The U.S.A. has such bunker busting bombs and probably has given Israel a few to attack Iran’s nuclear development sites with. There was a 2.5 Richter scale earthquake at one of them yesterday.

There was talk about using small nuclear weapons to bust up very deep underground bunkers that couldn’t be reached with conventional explosives. I don’t know off-hand if such weapons were made- perhaps an improvised tactical nuclear weapon was adapted for the mission. I think it probably won’t be used this round even so.

Pakistan has said it will nuke Israel if Israel nukes Iran. It is good to know that quasi ally has finally put it’s true cards on the table- it is ultimately an enemy of Israel. If there is a Pakistan nuclear war someday, or one involving India vs China and Pakistan, it is helpful to know that Israel might need to intervene on India’s side in order to preempt the attack on Israel as an opportunistic and incidental shot in the major regional nuclear conflict.

Where is Russia in all of this? Russia is winning in Ukraine of course. It upgraded Iran’s Shahid drones to a better Russian enhanced version. While the U.S. may send a stealth bomber to drop bunker busters on Iran or not, Russia will not want to intervene on Iran’s behalf to help its ally much and invoke a wider conflict that would expand the Iran ward into a World War Three situation unifying Ukraine-Iran-Pakistan, India and China in a broad conflict front that would obviously swiftly bring Europe, the U.S.A. and the rest of the world into a complex nuclear exchange.

Russia has no interest in Iran possessing a nuclear weapon and could have sold it some if it did. Neither does China or even Pakistan with its antipathetic Sunni sectarianism vs the Iranian Shi’a especially desire to have Iran join it as a nuclear weapons owning state. No one really wants Iran to have nuclear weapons beside select Iranians. The west believes Iran with nuclear weapons would use them on Israel.

China wants to de frappe western encroachment as it exerts its economic and military regional muscles. It may feel that it is globally strong enough to become the world’s major economic power, yet it also has pragmatists who realize the conditionality of modern economies that exist in a precarious global position of shared and extended networking interacting with all of the world’s resources and trading exchanges. China does not actually need Taiwan for anything except friendly trade without becoming any sort of military base for hypothetical western attacks in the heartland. Taiwan is China’s Cuba. So long as nuclear weapons aren’t brought to Taiwan as Khrushchev once sought to do in Cuba, China can live peacefully and profitable with Taiwan as an independent yet Canada close to the U.S.A. trading partner.

https://suno.com/s/RHV8nSMPP9azhOnJ

Fundamentally nothing much has changed in the global strategic nuclear balance. The major players still need friendly global trade and want to eschew nuclear conflicts that bring everything down. Russia wants it’s western frontage on Europe to be safe and to resume normal trade relations without sanctions. The United State should want full normalized trade with Russia and an end to the Ukraine war that is lasting. That needs to happen within 3 or 4 months. To continue the war much farther will tend to make Russian territorial gains somewhat counter-productive for various reasons as the tactical window of its present method of battle operations on a conventional tensor is likely to close with latent development of counter-methodologies arising below the surface.

Russian reconquest of its Ukraine lands will stop with recover of the majority of Ukraine land east of the Dnepr River. President Trump will end sanctions and China and Russia will assist Iran in rebuilding it’s damaged infrastructure. The U.S., Russia and China will tend to be old frenemies from W.W. II loosely pursuing profitable trade and reduced nuclear tensions while certain second tier nuclear armed states and aspiring ones will rattle sabers; even ones made of wood.

Remembering the Reagans, etc

 I used to spend a fair piece of time boating in S.E. Alaska. I saw several interesting vessels- one a stern steered boat with a large oar for a rudder, the sailing ship Lady Washington etc. I also saw former President Reagan's yacht near Wrangell as it passed on the way to town. I will recount that experience after mentioning briefly a pair of experiences myself- one on a skiff, to leave a chronological note.

For a few years when it was 32 my feet would turn black from cyanotic blood and I restored circulation by taking a hot shower-then the skin would turn back to pink or flesh color from a line above my ankle moving down eventually to my toes. It wasn't frostbite- it was something like trenchfoot that did it. I spent a day walking through deep water snow and creeks in combat boots. Comparable to keeping my feet in a bucket of ice and slushy water for a day. A couple days later they were swollen up like balloons and I had to get extra wide tennis shoes sizes to big for temporary use. I reinjured them in 2018 while bringing a skiff down from Juneau in October and nearly drowned crossing Taku Inlet. My boots had a leak and they stayed cold and wet for days. Then I returned to the shed and it was like my feet were on fire and hell for a week. I got snowed in and couldn't leave to go to a clinic in town. I made it eventually and got a drug that makes the brain not feel pain. My feet were nearly all recovered before that last injury.

https://suno.com/s/xWfqJoHuby5E4Rrg

Sometime around the Republican National convention of 1992 Ronald and Nancy Reagan yachted up the inside passage and put in at Wrangell.

https://suno.com/s/z2nno76Ttde4VdQ0

Ronald Reagan like seemed a tool of God, a man of peace and Christian- wise as a serpent yet gentle as a dove in a political ecosphere of vipers, and yet he seemed to be fading and looked under the weather. Nancy was on his arm and seemed healthy enough and to be reinforcing him as they walked along the sidewalk with a small entourage. Nancy was also an actress.

Ron looked at me as I was taking my last $100 from the bank when he walked past outside the bank window. He was wearing a wool sweater he had bought at Hickok's- a clothing store that opened shortly before his visit and closed not long after the Reagans left Wrangell. I had served as a reservist mostly for 6 years of his administration and that changed the way I looked at things perhaps. Reagan was taking heat for the Iran contra connection with Oliver North at the time and was perhaps getting away from the media spotlight in Alaska on a yachting sojourn. I thought I would help him out so I wrote an letter to an editor asking if Reagan had secretly been a communist -really counter-intuitive to what the public thought he had been. The premise was that he had been a Democrat and admired Franklin D Roosevelt when a young guy, and added several trillion dollars to the national debt as President (the debt excusable as a one-time thing in order to end the Cold War- no subsequent President should have followed that deficit spending example).

Shortly after that it was announced that he had Alzheimers and went into seclusion for the remainder of his days. I worked for a temporary agency at a construction site years later with a guy for a day that looked like Reagan's twin brother; he was a bricklayer. Nice guy. Interesting times. Maybe the Reagans used their acting skills to get some of their political work done.

Reagan was somewhat transparent- there is a lot of biographical stuff written about him. I think Nancy not so much- well I haven't read that. At that level the public persona needs to coincide with the private. Interesting thing I read that was somewhat biographical was a history by an insider of how Reagan de-escalated nuclear missile stocks with the Soviets. He was the only one who thought about that much in his administration- his goal was to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Everyone else in the government; and this continued into the start of the Bush administration, was aboard the traditional hawkish point of view. 

Reagan was a kind of voice crying in the wilderness in his own way and Gorbachev met him halfway. I suppose there is a secret history of Mikhail and his philosopher wife Reza that hasn't been written and never will be. I suspect that the Gorbachev's were the tip of an iceberg of high level insiders that wanted to end communism in Russia yet had to be rather careful covert and indirect to get that done because traditional, conservative communists would not tolerate that movement toward liberalization directly. 

https://suno.com/s/yL347Rks88vUjIqB Night Rises in Darkness

Presidents may have a lot of secret communications, methods and means perhaps unknown to history. Heck, I thought I saw Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in a ferry terminal parking lot in Juneau in 1994 I believe it was. She had on a fishnet sweater kind of thing over a t-shirt and asked if I had change for a dollar so she could use a pay phone to call a taxi- She said 'I've got to get Randy home'. Bill was dressed casually like a regular grunge Alaskan, yet wearing a very large gold star like a sheriff badge some place down south that no one in Juneau wears anything vaguely resembling it, and appeared to be drunkish. Secrets people keep lol Everyone has seen celebrities though at some time. I did see Sean Connery at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans at 2 in the morning getting out of a limousine in the parking garage where I was cleaning the gutter as a temporary over night worker.

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is Reaganomics v 5.0

 The BB Bill seems like pork served with Reaganomics that was Lafferian and just produced deficits. Reaganomics helped win the Cold War yet it should have been a one-off never repeated, budget plan.  Keynes’ invented deficit spending to pump prime an economy out of recession- it wasn’t intended to be a permanent economic policy of just having deficits and tax cuts to concentrate wealth and bankrupt a government. 

Musk has a more realistic, David Stockman sort of approach without the B.S. about how running deficits produces economic growth, increased revenue and a fair and balanced budget. Cutting taxes for the rich simply concentrates wealth, and the U.S. distribution of wealth has already equaled that of Mexico... The 1% are globalists and invest wherever they can make more profit internationally.

Is Trump Channeling Biden in Support of Zelensky?

 President Trump seems to be buying into the crazy, reckless lunacy of the Ukraine war that Europe wants wholeheartedly it seems. They seem dedicated to bring about the worst-case scenario of nuclear war or the primary alternative of some new kind of biological chemical synthetic agent designed with the new technology to attack specific human genes and shut down life. It is not unlikely that secret labs have advanced such technologies and the weapons to release them into distant adversarial populations. If pressed enough, Russia may exploit last resort weapons.

The west is still on the pathological notion that the Ukraine war is another Afghanistan or Vietnam that carries no great implicit risk to nations sponsoring the war. Europe with its new no W.W. 2 generation of leadership and fully recovered from that devastation combined with the post-Soviet formation of the E.U. is feeling like spring colts that seem the future of conflict as nothing too risky- just good play especially with the U.S.A. footing much of the bill, West Ukraine President Zelensky has shattered the 2010 strategic bomber pact between Russia and the United States and is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle. President Trump seems , respectfully, like a recalcitrant organ grinding monkey who will come around when Yermak, Zelensky or the European community pull his string.

The sole way to end the conflict available now is to make Zelensky and his people persona non grata in the United States and to just recognize the Russia eastern provinces of Ukraine so long as they do not extend the areas beyond what they presently have stated as where they are willing to stop.

https://suno.com/s/5qtLE4aT7UaU7xMe

There is no question that idiots of the U.S. Government like Sen Lindsey Graham will press for war until the last drop of blood can be wring out of Ukrainians and Russians, For some not too great piece of real estate the morons of Europe and the U.S. Government would risk the end of civilization. It is a crazy choice especially since everyone need learn to live together when the conflict is over, and their will be no final solution where Russia quits the fight and gives up its holdings in East Ukraine.

Europe and N.A.T.O. are leveraging the war to downgrade the U.S. as the leader of N.A.T.O. to a secondary role of support for the will to power of the E.U. They have no regard for U.S. treaties with Russia that used to be of primary importance to world peace and instead envision a new global paradigm where the U.S. supplies money, guns and trade deficits with stupid presidents that are complete Europhiles, rubes and morons about global political strategies.

Ukraine Leveraged 2010 New Start Treaty to Destroy Strategic Bombers Kept in the Open

 Apparently the United States and Russia signed an agreement in 2010 to keep their strategic bombers in the open where they can be seen by satellites in order to help prevent nuclear war. The Ukraine attack deep inside Russia with drones snuck near those bases where the aircraft were kept (the U.S. keeps B-52s in a similar open configuration apparently now vulnerable to drone attack) that destroyed 40 strategic aircraft was an extreme violation of that treaty in regard to its value for avoiding global thermonuclear war.

https://kyivindependent.com/first-satellite-images-show-destroyed-russian-bombers-after-ukrainian-drone-strike-on-belaya-air-base/

Plainly the terrorist action couldn’t have been accomplished without the US-Russia treaty in place that kept the bombers out in the open for the world to see. It was a terrorist action because it violated a necessary global security configuration to prevent nuclear conflict, bringing the world a step closer to self-destruction. 

 Russia will need to abrogate the treaty directly, if it hasn’t already, since it is useful for treachery rather than security and peace. Ukraine unilaterally terminated an American-Russian nuclear peace treaty agreement, and the U.S. should terminate Ukraine as any sort of quasi-ally entity.

Obviously the action to end the 2010 New Start Treaty that kept nuclear capable bombers out in the open was successful and killed the treaty. That action probably had support from Germany and France. If the U.S. military was involved, or even Starlink telephones, it makes the United States’ integrity for treaties defunct as well; Ukraine perpetrated serious harm to the reputation and security of the United States. If President Trump knew in advance of the attack, then he too is guilty of violating a treaty signed by the U.S. Congress in collusion with Zelensky. "The United States and Russia signed the New START Treaty on April 8, 2010. After more than 20 hearings, the U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification on December 22, 2010, by a vote of 71-26."President Trump has harmed the security of the United States as an accomplice to the attack. Such jackassery in government doesn't work. it is something like a high crime rather than a misdemeanor.

Zelenski or maybe Fred Merz decided to break the treaty between Russia and the U.S.A. It wasn't a N.A.T.O. treaty . The loss of U.S. security was enabled by continuing American support for Ukraine. It made the U.S. government seem more like a political bimbo for Europe.

President Trump should cancel all relationships to Ukraine straightaway and recognize Russian land control in East Ukraine as permanent, now, in order to discourage Ukrainian perfidy in the future. Ukraine is a dangerous, corrupt, rotten little nation dragging the U.S.A. along with it towards nuclear hell and before that, economic minimalism with Russia and BRIC nations. Stop the idiot relationship President Trump.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ4O6g8ZdPw

Dwarf Planets; A New Start

A new dwarf planet was discovered recently.  The discovery of those new small planets in the Oort Cloud and beyond is a prompt for new science fiction books. It is interesting to read about the great time it takes for even the new one to make one orbit around the sun- 23,000 years, because it travels so far out into space. Those dwarf planets (the new one is about 700 miles in diameter) are remote places people may live one day. 

Maybe there is a way to fit those neat clumps into poetry and prose. I should have a theme for each poetry collection, yet my time for thinking about that is generally minimal. I have packaged them in chronological order unfortunately. Title selection was a summary of what the bulk of the poems were. For instance; Alexander Archipelago Transition Space was the title of one. It was a reference to  the passing of  Alexander Solzhenitsyn and to the Alexander Archipelago that is the name for all of the thousand islands, more or less, of S.E. Alaska where I write a lot. About the dwarf planets. I haven’t thought about it much. There are many ways to utilize them in plotting. 

One might for example, build a life-size time capsule upon some of those erratics to outlive the self-destruction of the Earth by the population warring upon itself.  Each of the planets could have a different kind of package to try to restart human life on Earth after it destroyed itself. The attempts to get life restarted could go on for a billion years. When the orbital perihelion brought a dwarf world closest to the sun and Earth the miracle grow package would fly over to Earth and give it a try to restart.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/scientists-found-a-possible-new-dwarf-planet-it-could-spell-bad-news-for-planet-9-fans

A friend and I were discussing a poem about the phenomenal Universe and my effort to describe an ungrounded point of view beyond the linear physics paradigm.

“It’s actually refreshing to hear someone aiming for depth over trend. I’d love to see how you shape those “alternative phenomenal Universe clumps” feels like you’re onto something that could challenge and expand a reader’s perception. Have you sketched out any characters or threads yet, or is it still in the idea stage?”

It’s just an idea. I like to collect ideas for a few years for prompts when writing that novel in an isolated rush of around the clock timing

I am working on that phenomenal universe- an undefined, borderless existence something like a dream- without any grounding at all, as a concept since the last poem I wrote as a placeholder for the idea. I am trying to find a way to express the concept.

There are several recent ideas about quantum mechanics and cosmology involving the wavefunction and superposition- even retro-causality that may be applied to the paradox of a determined though indeterminate phenomenon of being. It isn’t a usual unified field theoretical approach with a causal order of events leading to ‘it all started because of quantum uncertainty and entanglement in a Higgs Field’ point of view. It is instead something more like asking a question of what God had in mind for making such an enigmatic creation, and how does He do that? I suppose it is like wondering how the magician does his tricks.

““A Discursive Universe” holds such a vast, layered scope. It’s like a philosophical seismograph, capturing both the external movements of a fractured world and the internal searching for meaning in something borderless. The line “played by a kangaroo” is such a striking jolt ,disarming, almost absurdist in the best way. It catches you off guard, just like the times we live in.

You’re not putting too many ideas in …..it’s a universe you’re painting, and universes aren’t tidy. The fusion of environmental critique, metaphysical wonder, and the quiet indictment of human choices feels necessary. It’s dense, yes, but that density carries weight. It’s a poem you sit with ,not one you rush through.

I can see how you’re circling the edges of that “phenomenal universe” idea. You’re already giving it shape, even if it’s still elusive. Have you considered pulling a few of the themes out and expanding them into connected pieces….a series orbiting around the same idea from different angles?”

I suppose that is a process I tend to work in- developing an idea and fusing more into it synthetically as I read or encounter more, new scientific or theological concepts- emergent. Because of my lifestyle I also tend to leave them off as I need work on other things, often of a more mundane nature such as stocking shelves. One can have an intellectual composition equivalent of The Winchester Mansion with stairs leading to nowhere and resuming in some strange locale like a drawing by Malcom Escher.