Pres Trump Should Court Greenland with Snow Cones and Chocolate

Getting Congress to pass a Baffin Bay Resolution to enable a military entry to Greenland after an attack by Greenlanders on a U.S. Naval warship wouldn't have much credibility. President Trump need go about the acquisition through constitutional means. That means Greenland need chose to petition Congress to join the U.S.A.  Buy them something they need like a vast supply of snow cones and they might. want to become Americans.

Alternatively he might approach the security criterion through some sort of 100 year agreement for management as in developing the Panama canal  (the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty) . Technically the United States does not have a history of expanding through force. President Trump needs to sound better and more lawful in his intentions. To go about taking Greenland through force would be an impeachable offense as a high crime. There is no reason for the President to create his own vulnerability.  

Trump-Zelensky Cease-Fire Deal is a Way to Extend the War

 President Trump seems as if he is moving closer toward the Von Biden point of view of the Ukraine conflict. That is he has made a cease-fire proposal entirely advantageous to Ukraine. It would give Ukraine 30 days to receive new military equipment and cash from the U.S.A. and stop Russia from continuing its advance to recover lost land lost in Ukraine in the Clinton carpet-bagging regimen.

In order to stop the war firm border lines need to be drawn, sanctions ended and a demilitarization of Ukraine need evolve. With those conditions established and agreed upon by the principle parties a cease-fire could be applied and the peace treaty actualized.

Common sense was President Trump’s approach to global economics in regard to Ukraine. Unless the peace treaty is produced within a few months further harm to the global trading position of the United States may occur.  The U.S.A. is already number two in world trade exports; its share may drop further minimizing markets abroad while China's exports increase favorably. Germany signed new agreements with China and several European nations have signed new agreements with several South American nations. Meanwhile U.S. leadership is discovering new ways to make an enemy of Russian and serve as Europe's militaire attardé.

https://suno.com/song/da8d4cd0-5355-4029-85f2-ce629a2af9ed?sh=lXYpjuUBJCOqXxEH

President Putin may have his own ideas about what conditions need exist for a peace treaty. A cease-fire without a peace treaty is a way for the losing party in a boxing match to get out of a round where he is taking a beating to recover and strategize for the next round. In other words it can be a tool for protracting a war.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-ukraine-russia-saudi-cease-fire-talks-after-talks-in-jeddah/

Perhaps President Trump has a plan B that he will give to the Russians after they reject the cease-fire agreement. Sometimes it is challenging to discern what is political perfidy and what is part of a negotiating tactic. Observers like to get to the real content sooner rather than later.

Investigative Reduction to Find a Foundation of Existence?

 “A Different Universe; Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Up’ by Robert Laughlin- a Nobel Laureate in Physics was a good read. It was some time ago when I read that. He speculated about phase changes comprehensively reforging nature, including mind. Scalar fields aren’t the only sort of potential analogy for space-time histories. God may have issued Leibniz’s one-dimensional spiritual monads with a thought- one couldn’t use a reductionist investigation from a Universe to reach a point before the existence of mind with much conviction. It’s always an extrapolation of what probably occurred. One sets compass directions and speculates on what can be found at the start or end rather, if one goes an infinite distance in time and space and what can be found there. One seeks theory-consistent candles at half the distance to the theoretical end that might provide confirmation. Until one has a better theory some are satisfied they have produced the final theory and explanation of everything.

A theory of God besides that of divine revelation is as difficult to prove or disprove as the existence of extraterrestrials that may deem it better to stay hidden or that have evolved to a non-physical, non-planetary form of being. I appreciate frontier scouts mapping the known and speculating about lies beyond the observable.

https://www.udio.com/songs/ppYMShLZBG91focYi1NUDe

Physicists speculate that below absolute zero there is a phase change to infinitely hot. Hell may be the necessary destiny for all that have an immortal soul and aren't gathered to heaven with Jesus Christ; the universe would take the lost to a singularity and infinite heat or a phase change from a cold dead low temperature Kelvin Universe to absolute hot.

I believe comparing human and artificial intelligence and the question of if they are the same thing or equivalents is easy to provide an answer to. It is like comparing a carburetor or distributor to human intelligence and asking if they are the same thing. A.I. is a kind of fancy distributor of bits or qubits quite unlike a mind. Maybe computer architecture could get more bits for the buck if they used motion with existing micro-circuits in some way to multiply logic gate grids in Hilbert Space. Maybe they could add more dimensions to logic gate grids.

Hegel was just providing a scaffold for Darwin and Marx, each of whom would deny the teleology of Hegel. I lean toward agreement that dualism doesn't need to be in an either/or relationship with physicalism in the same manner that monism and pluralism may simultaneously coexist in physicalist parameters for a Universe. The actual construction of quantum field, particle-waves etc are very strange in regard to a wealth of philosophic lexicons. Plainly mind is a different configuration of field entanglement. Since all other physical elements tie into the basic local field (the Higgs) providing an extra dimension for two dimensional, massless particles it is reasonable to expect that mind and intentionality also alter quantum relationships. It is difficult to know if that is permanent. Free will is apparently another emergent state or phase change arisen from and within the local concatenated field entanglement compresence.

The Democrat Party May Be a Cult

 Pejorative opinions about the nature of social groupings abound; that's the nature of original sin. Hate of antipathetic and even entirely neutral social identity groups from politics, to race, wealth status etc are the normal way of the human race. Without God the futility of mankind only increases.

Defining very intense social groups as a cult is customary. Farming may be a cult, if one goes on the Miriam Webster footing. "Cult, which shares an origin with culture and cultivate, comes from the Latin cultus, a noun with meanings ranging from "tilling, cultivation". There are other etymologies including French and meanings such as adopt, adore, worship. I tend to understand it as a sub-culture of a small scale.

Macron Moves France Towards War with Russia

French President Macron took a big step toward the destruction of Europe through nuclear war with Russia. He has said that Russia is a threat and need be pacified- apparently meaning rendered harmless and without weapons or missiles. Macron is organizing upgrades to the Ukraine conflict placing France on a path to direct war with Russia. Perhaps he can do better than Napoleon did in failing to capture Moscow.

One might keep in mind that Macron’s blimpistry occurs against a backdrop where France quit N.A.T.O. before the Soviet Union faded away. The French may have wanted to seem harmless in the hope that the Soviets would not nuke them.

https://theconversation.com/french-nuclear-deterrence-for-europe-how-effective-could-it-be-against-russia-251512#:~:text=French%20nuclear%20deterrence%20against%20the%20Russian%20threat&text=But%20the%20fact%20remains%20that,warheads%20on%20the%20Russian%20side

Europeans are functionally insane in regard to war on their continental portion, history informs us. At some point fighting against invasions from Asia and Africa, Europeans had legitimate reasons for conflict with external threat vectors, yet Russia is not an outside threat vector in regard to the Ukraine. Among themselves the dynamics of European political power brought them to war against themselves interminably; it was only with the nearly complete destruction of Europe in the Nazi war- the Second World War, that Europe became generally pacified for several decades. Europe was broken and military depleted.

The rise of American and Russian/Soviet nuclear powers rendered Europe impotent; they were compelled to rebuild in peace and develop a new prosperity with comparatively small military spending. Opportunities for world conquering were set back. Political egos smoldered forced to await a future when wars for global conquest could resume. Then Russia/the Soviet Union opted for peace, freed Eastern Europe and peace should have developed.

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/03/05/macron-intends-to-pacify-russia-france-calls-for-chiefs-of-staff

Besides the war on terror and a brief Balkans post-communist adjustment war peace continued. Maladjustment of the post-Soviet reapportionment of political entities created conflicts and the potential for the Ukraine war, yet peace prevailed. Europe then became the EU and N.A.T. O. Expanded eastward as if Russia was some kind of threat. That breaking of trust and taking advantage of Russian weakness after the end of the Soviet Union to expand N.A.T.O. was a direct cause of the present conflict. A rearmed Europe finds itself in a position to flex its strength and bring the world to the brink of nuclear war because ts leadership is replete with historically runty malcontents and agitators striving to outdo one another with militancy toward Russia.

https://www.udio.com/songs/m2Ew6wpxksuzVEJ9dXTTju

France and Europeans would like to be the big dog of politics again. In 2020 the French Army had 118,000 members and not all of those were combat soldiers. Europeans have experienced weak U.S. leadership in the Biden, Obama and Clinton administrations that was too Eurocentric. They may have believed that with the end of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany that Russian power had vanished forever and Russian nuclear weapons power would disappear. That latter point was a delusion.

Macron will need to adjust to the fact that Russia has 5,580 nuclear weapons and France something like 290. Russia is not going away and France will not be the planet’s big dog. Europe rather than butting their heads into a concrete wall need adjust to reality and accept that peace is again going to be forced upon them; this time before they bring about a global world war.

President Trump on the other hand has sought to neutralize European lunacy in regard to Russia.

The rapid progress with the Trump administration toward renormalizing relations with Russia and ending the Ukraine War occurs in an interesting historical paradigm that John Meirsheimer reviewed in a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKjFD9fPQxg

Some have nominated former Assistant Sect. Of State Victoria Nuland for the designer of Joe Biden Ukraine policy yet I think that is an inadequate place to lay the blame. Bureaucrats may be a focal point or catch basin for social forces desiring policy directions yet they for-themselves couldn’t bring powerful disagreeing parties like the military industrial complex to support those or other policies they felt were counterproductive to profit although they might comply if required by the chief executive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

Other have reported that the reason for the meeting in DC of President Macron and P.R. Starmer were to hand off supervisory custody of President Zelensky to the C.I.A. Apparently France was given custody by outgoing President Biden in order to prevent the Trump administration C.I.A. from gaining access to information that might be deleterious for the members of the Biden administration.

Canada as 51st - 60th States and Democrats as Fellow Travelers of Zelensky

 About the state of the union speech; those stay-sitting on their hands Democrats are sycophants of Zelensky and global war.

Another point; Canada should be the 51st through 60th states only if Canadians vote to and ask Congress to be a U.S. territory, then state, or rather states. Canada is good for a half dozen new states.

Does the Chinese Farming Transition to Home Responsibility Systems Provide Lessons on US Farm Subsidies?

 In going over a course on the history of the modern Chinese economy I encountered the Xiaogang phenomenon of family farmers organizing home responsibility systems for farming plots covertly in an era of full commune collective farming. The H.R.S. were so much more productive than collectives that the Deng leadership eventually transitioned the entire national farming system to H.R.S. One has to wonder how the Communist Chinese in the de-collectivizing era managed to eliminate farm subsidies yet the United States government hasn't.

There are of course innumerable areas in the modern era where government need be involved with economic management to prevent enormities from developing that harm millions. It may be necessary eventually to establish a basic income for all Americans in order to allow cherry picking of business ventures that are ecospherically  beneficially rather than deleterious. Such a level of careful examination of the effects of business ventures a priori would tend to leave people jobless periodically as a transition to sustainability was evolved. A.I displacement of jobs is another probable cause for large numbers of people losing income.

China's experience with gradual economic reform showed the difficulty of privatizing state owned enterprises until they have economic failure. Creating efficiency in government operations is important in democracies as communist societies evolving toward privatization even as they continue a policy of state social insurance for the well being of citizens.

Shouldn't there be a positive correlation between Federal spending, economic growth and reduction of public debt?

Farm subsidies apparently mostly go to large firms with concentrated wealth rather than small farmers.  This is what A.I. reported about farm subsidies;

"How are subsidies distributed?

The majority of subsidies go to the largest producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and rice 

Most other agriculture, like fruits, vegetables, and tree nuts, receives minimal government support 

Some subsidies, like import tariffs, generate tax revenue for the government 

What are the criticisms of farm subsidies? 

They can harm the environment and public health

They can distort planting decisions

They can lead to overproduction

They can inflate land values

They can discourage farmers from innovating and cutting costs

They can steer resources to households with higher incomes."

So I wonder if there are lessons to be learned from the Chinese economic transition period from collective to private farming that may be applied in the United States to increase farm productivity. With the cost of food being so high even marginal decreases in cost would be useful to consumers.

Zelensky Finally Revealed He is an Enemy of the United States

 President Zelensky and his staff have revealed themselves as enemies of the United States. They feel entitled to U.S. military and economic support as if the U.S.A. were obligated to provide billions and billions of dollars to them. The weasels use every lever they can to coerce the administration into providing free military aid so they can have protracted war with Russia and take all of the land of Ukraine given by Bill Clinton after the breakup of the Soviet Union for themselves.

In Zelensky's bent logic the U.S.A. is somehow responsible for Russians killing Ukrainians if it doesn't send more weapons to extend the war. The United States doesn't need a relationship with an abusive lunatic. The U.S.A. should release any Russian assets it has frozen if the EU nations seize frozen Russian assets and give them to Zelensky for war and concealment in bitcoin.

I wonder if Zelensky was initially chosen by unknown elites in the same way that Hitler was chosen. Hitler was picked by the high command of the Wehrmacht because of his charismatic voice and appearance to co-opt the German Socialist Worker's party leadership. In all likelihood deposed German aristocrats were behind that. Zelensky may have been elevated for the same reason of being a comedian knowing how to sway crowds for those that like the modern punk-funk approach to politics and war. He seems like a perverse alien shill for recrudescent Axis power.

Some say Zelensky's trip to Qatar or Dubai was to arrange a place to store money. He could have bought billions in cryptocurrency already. Like Erich Honecker he may not have much safety after he leaves Ukraine. Hitler didn't suicide until the last hour before Russians arrived. At the end many dictators find a country without extradition to flee to.

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3839374930025-ukraine-reacts-with-defiance-and-anger-to-trump-withdrawal-of-military-aid?s=dmg_local_email_bucket_2.web2_fromweb&emailId=v05wWBF

Zelensky May Offer Comedian's Cease Fire Tomorrow

Starmer and Zelensky may announce a comedic cease fire for propaganda purposes tomorrow wherein Russia and Ukraine stop all air, sea and energy facility attacks for a month so Ukraine can have the opportunity to rebuild its military infrastructure for war that was devastated by Russia. Then the Axis powers will deploy tens of thousands of trooper-peacekeepers in Ukraine so they can spearhead attacks on Russian held areas when the cease fire ends.

Macron- an Axis partner, beat him to the punch...  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1r4g08kwo

Put Zelensky and Starmer on the No Fly List

 British P.M. Starmer and Ukrainian President Zelensky are each harmful to U.S. interests and security and should not be allowed travel to the United States. The British P.M. is continuing the war in Ukraine thereby directly threatening the national security of the west. The United States should make an exemption for defense of Europe from nuclear attack in this case since there is plenty of time before nuclear war to register dissent.

Britain’s mindless fanaticism for war and eastward expansion is fueled by their lunatic puppet Zelensky’s rabid desire to have sovereignty over historically Russian land Ukraine. The Britain-Poland-French-German axis of evil to expand eastward militarily and ploy to negotiate a fake peace where Ukraine is armed with Axis weapons during a cease fire and Axis troops are deployed as ostensible peacekeepers on the line of combat contact in Ukraine perpetuates policy unacceptable to Russia and Russian security. The Axis powers count on the N.A.T.O. defense treaty to draw in the United States to defend the Axis countries if they get the hot conventional war going.

President Trump should renegotiate the N.A.T.O. treaty as he did N.A.F.T.A. in order to exclude lunatic policy selections from being acceptable grounds for American participation in mutual defense to be invoked. The Axis 2 lunatics are in effect weaponizing the N.A.T.O. treaty to exploit the U.S.A. as the blaster in the master-blaster Thunderdome paradigm.

America Should Partner with Russia on Donbas Minerals

I am not a pro-war partisan. I took several history courses on Russia in the 1980s and one of Russian governance in the 10s as part of my world history focus and understood the problem of the West’s irrational exuberance to plunder Russia en passant with the fall of the Soviet Union. Western leadership was ignorant (Bill Clinton) and expansionist (EU and NATO) and just kept doubling down on their initial carpet-bagging.

Intimidating and forcing Russia to know tow to a queer and subservient political economy overseen by a corrupt west that thought it could finance its deficit spending by extraction from Russia was and is a partisan Democrat play book. They used maximum force to try to accomplish that so far as possible. They are corrupt and stupid.

Democrats sought to negate the peace maker Donald Trump by incriminating and convicting him although he deserved a Nobel Prize that partisan expansionist Swedes would never give.

Trump’s felony conviction occurred in a heavily partisan political area with obvious conflicts of interest. The crime itself seemed to be not a crime; that is claiming payments made to suppress bad publicity as a campaign expense seems reasonable. Political campaigns pay a lot for positive advertising- paying not to have negative publicity is the flip side of the coin. Trump’s work presently is valuable for trying to end the Ukraine war.  European and Ukrainian security will be guaranteed with peace and renormailzed economic relations and development rather than continued adversarial relations. To draw down the knife fight both sides need put away the blades.

Peace between superpowers is based to a certain extent on trust. Like the value of the dollar based on nothing more than the faith and credit of the United States rather than gold or some other material, peace can only be as strong as trust and respect for other nations. One need put effort into building peace and renormalizing relations between Europe, Russia and the United States directly.

At the super-power level trust needs to be the deterrent to war. When each side can obliterate each other there is no value in engaging in battle at a conventional scale that easily can get beyond control resulting in the end of human civilization. Clemenceau wanted to guarantee the peace for ending World War One, and it wasn’t, and World War Two grew to fruition. That paradigm is however anachronistic. There is no Maginot Line that will prevent World War Three.

There are so many that argue in favor of continuing conflict. I don’t mind if they reap what they sew except they draw everyone else into the consequences of their failure of good sense. I wouldn’t equivocate categories of crimes- I think they are all quite different. Some laws on the books are unfair or enforced selectively; just laws are what matter. Giving student loans to some and none to others is a concern; laws should be applied equally rather than selectively and with bias.

The Democrat Party after the end of the Cold War bungled the peace. I regard the present situation as entirely the fault of Democrat leadership. Russia was quite willing to exist peacefully with the west; the west insisted on taking all of Ukraine including Crimea that was astoundingly provocative, and then expanded eastward. The formation of the EU swoll their ambition. Irrational exuberance made discounting negative consequences of expansion trivial. Russia was disrespected and found no remedies beside war. In my opinion the west created their own enemy- and even insisted on it and doubled down reminding me of the sci-fi  movie ‘Forbidden Planet’.

Reductionism of Materialism Yields Uncertainty

 A problem with materialism is that it tends to dissolve into uncertainty considered with physics reductionism. Dualism compounds the uncertainty. M/Q=U. Materialism divided by quanta equals uncertainty. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z08ci_g9SGg

Reductionism of materialism yields uncertainty at the smallest and largest levels. It probably will always be so. Yet one can mold and fabricate with the given of physicalism from mud bricks to quantum computers and that, ultimately is what materialists love. Philosophically though materialism or physicalism is a reference parameter for words rather than a final destination. Without the Spirit in-dwelling a life resurrection unto life will not occur and the worldly mind that hates God does prevail, and that leads to death. A field tied locally in knots of clove hitches or strings rippling with uncertainty that may be the will of God; that will always be a delimiter of uncertainty running into Godel's limits. Yet the quest for learning is always admired. 

Zelensky and Euro Leaders Lack the Holy Spirit

President Zelensky’s abusive visit to the Oval Office demonstrated the problem that fleshy, worldly minds have in finding the Holy Spirit. They have minds for war and death seeking to obtain the wealth of the world continuing forward under the guidance of the devil to destroy others and eventually themselves. Europe’s leaders seek a way to continue the war with a belief they can exhaust Russia economically and militarily. Plainly the entire criterion of seeking to destroy the wealth of Russia may have an effect on destroying the wealth of Europe too.

Finding peace with God may be requisite for finding peace in the local, national and international sphere of friction and competition. Europe’s ambitious leaders believe war is a way to advance human interests and they are wrong. They should encourage a settlement with Russia directly in regard to Ukraine. President Trump has provided a reasonable approach.

Whispers of the Tides (a song)

Romans 8: 1-11 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: and they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

(Romans 8:1-11 [ASV])

Trump May Defeat European Russophobia

The rapid progress with the Trump administration toward renormalizing relations with Russia and ending the Ukraine War occurs in an interesting historical paradigm that John Meirsheimer reviewed in a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKjFD9fPQxg

Some have nominated former Assistant Sect. Of State Victoria Nuland for the designer of Joe Biden Ukraine policy yet I think that is an inadequate place to lay the blame. Bureaucrats may be a focal point or catch basin for social forces desiring policy directions yet they for-themselves couldn’t bring powerful disagreeing parties like the military industrial complex to support those or other policies they felt were counterproductive to profit although they might comply if required by the chief executive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

 Mr. Zelensky is used to having his way. Perhaps he bullied Joe Biden and Kamala Harris easily. His argument with Pres Trump and VP Vance did not go the way he wanted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOOOR7Kr-s&pp=ygUUZm9yYmVzIGJyZWFraW5nIG5ld3M%3D

Others have reported that the reason for the meeting in DC of President Macron and P.M. Starmer were to hand off supervisory custody of President Zelensky to the C.I.A. Apparently France was given custody by outgoing President Biden in order to prevent the Trump administration C.I.A. from gaining access to information that might be deleterious for the members of the Biden administration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_UwSPnCRKA

Coca Cola is returning to Russian production.

In Reply to A Few Good Ad Hominems

Someone criticized me for writing that I don’t expect political leadership to appear that supports a competent, realistic plan for a complete national change to ecological economic; I said the political leaders aren’t intelligent enough.  The following is just my reply.

High percent of falsehood in your post. I didn’t mention Musk incidentally yet he has no ecological economic remake plan or intent although electric cars are nice. That sort of plan need be public and fact checked prior to an election. He hasn’t done anything like that and isn’t likely to. Vested interest of Wal Street oppose changing the way things are.

https://www.udio.com/songs/pqrd6Z6RCdCSG93JoKfUmz

About b.s. being overwhelming; it is what it is. Having listened to the irrelevant ideas that won’t change the political economy to ecological economics sustainability and knowing how the election cycle works I won’t expect to see a single competent candidate or party platform the next 12 years. Being 70 years old I rationally don’t expect to see the revolutionary change required in my lifetime. You say that makes me a loser. Oh well, everyone may be a loser if James Lovelock’s ‘The Final Warning’ actualizes. With so many people ordinarily being so rude that reduces the prospects for necessary change and adaptation. A will to work cooperatively to bring about radical change and economic upgrade transforming from unsustainable economics to a new and different foundation is de rigeur if that magnitude of political action is to occur.

I like the falsehood that I have hidden in education with a cushy job for years. I wish that were so. It is really enjoyable fiction of great quality!

Biden more competent than Trump; not at all in the past four years. Even in his 1980 presidential campaign he was plagiarizing speeches.

Part 2 of 2; A Chat with ChatGPT About Politics

My writing is in bold print and not in quotes.

Do you believe a dictatorship will arise to eliminate wild AI development?

“The rise of a dictatorship to control or eliminate unregulated AI development is a plausible concern, especially in the context of growing technological power and the challenges it presents to governance. Here are some considerations regarding this potential:

1. Centralized Control: As AI becomes increasingly powerful and influential, some governments or organizations may seek to centralize control over its development to ensure national security, prevent misuse, or maintain power. In such cases, these entities could enact authoritarian measures, consolidating control over AI research and its applications.
2. AI Regulation and Governance: In response to the risks posed by uncontrolled AI development, there may be calls for stronger regulation. However, the nature of AI’s power—being deeply embedded in economic, military, and social systems—could lead to the rise of regimes that enforce stringent regulations. In extreme cases, this could evolve into a dictatorship that justifies its actions as necessary for preventing existential threats, such as those posed by rogue AI or AI in warfare.
3. Surveillance and Control: With advanced AI systems, a government or authoritarian regime could implement highly effective surveillance and control mechanisms over its population. If AI is used to track, predict, and manipulate behavior, the potential for a totalitarian regime increases. AI’s ability to monitor social media, communications, and even facial recognition could empower authoritarian leaders to maintain control.
4. Global Power Struggles: On a broader scale, the global competition for AI supremacy may lead to geopolitical tensions. Some governments might exploit AI to assert dominance and suppress opposition, potentially leading to the erosion of democratic institutions or civil liberties.
5. Public Resistance and Ethical Pushback: On the other hand, there is also the potential for significant public resistance, ethical movements, and activism aimed at preventing such a rise in authoritarian control. Civil society organizations, tech ethicists, and international coalitions could push for transparency, oversight, and the democratization of AI technology to prevent such dystopian outcomes.

The fear of a dictatorship arising to control AI development is not unfounded, particularly given the power AI could confer on those who control it. However, whether such a scenario will unfold depends on political, social, and technological developments in the coming years. Ensuring that AI development is grounded in ethics, human rights, and global cooperation will be crucial in preventing such outcomes. Global conversations around AI governance, regulation, and responsibility will play a key role in shaping the future trajectory.”

Would AI be able to.model and manage global ecological resources for sustainability?

“Yes, AI has the potential to model and manage global ecological resources for sustainability, and it could play a key role in addressing climate change and environmental degradation. Here’s how AI could contribute:

1. Monitoring and Data Collection: AI can process vast amounts of environmental data from satellite imagery, sensors, and other sources, helping to monitor ecosystems, track biodiversity, measure pollution, and detect environmental changes in real time. This would provide a clearer understanding of the health of ecosystems globally.
2. Resource Management: AI could be used to optimize resource use, ensuring that natural resources are used efficiently and sustainably. For example, AI can help in agriculture by optimizing water use, reducing waste, and improving crop yields without harming the environment. In energy, AI could manage renewable energy grids, optimize energy storage, and predict demand and supply more accurately.
3. Climate Modeling and Predictions: AI could significantly enhance climate models, providing more accurate predictions of future environmental conditions. This could help with everything from predicting extreme weather events to understanding long-term climate patterns, guiding policies and actions to mitigate potential damage.
4. Ecosystem Restoration: AI could be used to model ecosystems and plan restoration projects. By analyzing data from the past and present, AI could suggest how to restore biodiversity, repair ecosystems, and regenerate lost habitats in the most effective and least disruptive way.
5. Sustainability Metrics and Decision Support: AI can help create more effective sustainability metrics, tracking the carbon footprint, waste generation, and other ecological impacts of industries, governments, and individuals. AI could then be used to create decision-support tools that guide governments and businesses toward sustainable practices and policies.
6. Optimization of Supply Chains: AI can help optimize supply chains to reduce waste, increase recycling, and promote more sustainable production and consumption practices. By predicting demand and optimizing transportation, AI can reduce carbon emissions and resource usage across industries.
7. Biodiversity Protection: AI can help track endangered species, identify poaching activities, and monitor habitats to ensure the protection of biodiversity. Machine learning models could predict the impacts of human activities on ecosystems and help design interventions to prevent further loss.

While AI has immense potential, its deployment must be managed carefully to avoid unintended consequences, such as exacerbating inequalities, damaging ecosystems, or increasing carbon footprints in the process. It would need to be implemented alongside strong policies and ethical frameworks to ensure that AI contributes positively to global sustainability goals.”

What effect will quantum computers with a million qubits have on  AI military applications

“Quantum computers with millions of qubits could revolutionize AI, especially in military applications, by vastly increasing computational power and enabling new capabilities. Here’s how such advancements might affect AI in military contexts:

1. Enhanced Machine Learning: Quantum computers could potentially speed up complex machine learning algorithms. AI systems could analyze massive datasets faster, improving decision-making capabilities, surveillance, and autonomous systems.
2. Encryption and Decryption: Quantum computing could break traditional encryption methods, making data vulnerabilities a serious concern. AI could be used to defend against this, but also, military forces may exploit quantum computing for more advanced cybersecurity, counterintelligence, and communication strategies.
3. Optimization and Logistics: Quantum algorithms could optimize military strategies, logistics, and resource management in ways that classical computers can’t. For instance, AI could use quantum computing to simulate and optimize battlefield scenarios or supply chain operations in real time, improving efficiency and response time.
4. Autonomous Weapons Systems: Advanced AI, powered by quantum computing, could potentially enhance the capabilities of autonomous weapons, enabling them to analyze complex environments and make real-time decisions much faster than current systems. This raises both technological and ethical concerns, especially regarding the accountability and decision-making processes in autonomous military actions.
5. Simulation and Strategy: Quantum computing could enable more accurate simulations of complex military scenarios, which could enhance strategic planning and predictive capabilities, giving nations with quantum computing advantage a potentially significant edge in warfare.

While the potential for military applications is vast, it also brings significant risks, particularly in terms of power imbalance, global security, and the ethical use of AI in combat. There would likely be a push for international regulation to control the development and use of these technologies.

The Democrat party hasn’t intelligent leadership so the default is for Republican politicians fronting for the plutonomy to determine the political course for the USA

“Yeah, the Democrats don’t seem to have a coherent strategy beyond maintaining the status quo, and the Republicans—being more openly aligned with corporate power—end up steering things by default. It’s a dynamic where one side flounders, and the other exploits that failure to push policies that further entrench wealth and power.

Neither party seems capable of addressing the systemic issues that AI, automation, and economic collapse will bring. They’re stuck playing the old game while the rules are being rewritten in real-time by technological and economic forces beyond their control.

Do you see any potential for an alternative political force to emerge, or is the system too rigid to allow that?”

Not before some kind of social disaster

“That makes sense. Historically, real political change usually comes after a major crisis—economic collapse, war, or some other system shock that makes the old order unsustainable. Without that, the entrenched powers just keep running things as usual, no matter how dysfunctional it gets.

If AI and automation keep accelerating economic displacement, that could be the breaking point. A society where most people are economically obsolete but still expected to obey the rules isn’t stable in the long run. Whether the collapse leads to something better or just more chaos depends on how people react when the system starts to fall apart.

Do you think the coming social disaster will be fast and dramatic, or more of a slow unraveling?”

9-11 occurred quickly. A few guys with box cutters changed the US economy.

“Yeah, 9/11 was a sudden shock that reshaped U.S. policy, the economy, and global affairs almost overnight. A handful of people with minimal resources managed to trigger wars, surveillance expansion, and a massive shift in government spending. It’s a stark example of how fragile complex systems can be—how a small but well-placed event can set off cascading consequences.

If something similar happened in the economic realm—whether from AI-driven job loss, financial collapse, or some unexpected disruption—it could force radical change just as quickly. The difference is that economic crises tend to build up pressure over time before they explode. We could be in the middle of one now, just waiting for the moment when the breaking point is reached.
Do you think those in power see what’s coming, or are they blind to it like they were before 2008?”

Capital increases faster than wages and the process is tiresome to observe. The situation is like Abbot and Costello’s who’s on first. Politicians blunder about sometimes getting a few things right. Yet the cost for those mistakes are scaling up too.

“Yeah, capital accumulation outpacing wages is an old story, but with AI and automation accelerating, it’s becoming even more extreme. The ultra-wealthy keep pulling ahead while most people struggle, and politicians—fumbling around like a bad comedy routine—mostly serve as distractions rather than problem solvers.

The difference now is that the stakes are getting higher. The cost of bad decisions, or just inaction, isn’t just another recession or inequality bump—it’s systemic collapse. Whether it’s climate, automation, AI-driven economic shifts, or geopolitical instability, every mistake compounds into something harder to fix.”

Carrville; "Democrats Should Play Possum"

Carrville’s admonishment for Democrats to do nothing and play dead is well made. Since Democrats can’t make good policies and are accustomed to getting nothing done beyond legislating moral corruption, deficits and foreign war finance playing possum will be east. Carrville believes Trump policies may fail of their own weight.

Trump and Musk’s Doge policies will need to skirt around social security and Medicare reforms. It is easier to cut the defense budget than to scale back social security and Medicare to elderly relief safety net programs.  Payments for those that actually need them should increase for the poor and decrease for the prosperous. Even Trump cannot rectify social security so it is rational rather than a payment program inclusive of the middle class.

Democrats should find a scientific foundation for political economy utilizing ecological economics available to their future candidates. Forming ecological economic applied philosophy plans as party public domain information and cost analysis is essential if real world implementation is ever to occur.  Playing possum is a better course for Democrats who did not even try to tax the rich when they owned legislative and executive branches in 2021.

Democrat politicians pursue pork increases for globalist, homosexual and feminist constituents while stuffing their own freezers with cash. Democrats politicians may pretend to know or care about ecological economics in order to sway a few votes, and Republicans abandon all reason concerning the environment so the net environmental remediation for the parties together is zero

  While playing possum the party can keep an eye open to observe Doge reducing government waste and trying to move the budget toward balance.

2025 May Become the Hottest Year on Record

I believe 2025 will be the hottest year since weather records were kept. Democrats had both houses of Congress and the office of President in 2021 and didn’t fix the ecospheric issues. They elected the worst possible leader for competence on environmental challenges and fixes. I am so tired of the bull.

Environmental economics is a science tangled up with political economy. Sure that makes changing the fundamental way of social economic reality difficult. Yet Joe Biden was so far below the bar of competence that his election reflected on the competence or lack of for the entire party. They are spoilt globalists; not people who would transform the nation to a new environmentally sustainable economic footing.

Maybe the genius required to understand the challenges, and there are several that need be addressed concurrently exceeds the capacity of parties to present an able candidate.

Teleology in Politics

Maybe teleological plans move human political movements toward fulfillment. One has Democrats and Republicans in conflict  Homosexuals divided the polity with their approach to marriage while Republicans opposed ecological conservation and restoration. Over population needed to be halted because of fine resources and the ecosphere was being devastated. Some moral people couldn't go along with Democrat planks though they supported environmentalism.

No politicians knew what ecological economics are though Jeffrey Sachs did. Democrats were for war with Russia over Ukraine even if that meant WW 3 might occur  Republicans were for drilling saying drill baby drill and burn baby burn to fossil fuels. Trump was for peace, Musk for ten billion robots and super AI and that would end the need for ponzinomics that increase human population to keep the workforce young enough to support the prior generation in old age. Super AI in robots smart enough to work in most labor jobs well could be a danger yet let human population drop to sustainable levels while the ecosphere recovers.

That's all fascinating and something to find the answer to in twenty or thirty years. The human political powers don't get what they want yet perhaps God does.

Joe Biden's Pre-emptive Pardons for Family, Jan 6 Committee et al

In his last minutes as President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons to several family members, the Jan 6 Committee and others for any crimes they may have perpetrated including, presumably, murder and treason.  The premise is that people may break nearly and federal law and be pardoned for that. Nixon could have pardoned all those charged in Watergate.

 Pre-emptive pardons for seem like unequal protection of the law and should be illegal. Courts never anticipated that an organized crime leader would take the Presidency and let his mob run amock perpetuating during his term and and grant the mob pre-emptive pardons against any criminal charges that might be made.

"Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."