Pimping the Strait of Whoremoos

The harlot of many nations seems closed again-what a revelation . Phonetics for the phenomenon are definitely weird. Ha ha ha means ‘the, the, the’ in Hebrew. A sense of humor seems an underlying theme. Divine humor-how else could one stand the pathos of politics? Charging a toll for opening Hormuz lol, took pimping to a higher level.

If China is one of the meanings of  the Red Dragon in Revelation 12 it is interesting to note that China has sent a few naval frigates to try to force open the Strait of Hormuz to let her oil tankers with Iranian oil products run through the U.S. naval blockade. It is possible that world War Three could begin with that slight action of Chinese ships fighting with U.S. in the Gulf of Oman.

I suppose the ships could be allowed to pass if they first unloaded the oil products somewhere in Oman or onto a waiting empty neutral flagged ship whence the  products could be sold to pay for the harm done to allied interests from Iran.

Pope Leo's Card on the Iran War; Enter the Dragon Phenomenon

 Pope Leo's entry into politics on the side of the anti-Trump crowd reminds me of Pope Benedict's criticism of Muslim radicals and the subsequent vacating of the papacy by Benedict. The political realm is dangerous for Christians to form opinions about publicly if they wish to be consistent with Biblical precepts. Christians are generally free to comply with the laws of a nation if not in direct conflict with the Bible or their conscience.

Pope Leo is a U.S. citizen and subject to U.S. laws. His opinions regarding U.S. foreign policy are implicitly partisan opinions and subject to counter-attack by the President of the United States. He can mail in his vote in the next U.S. Presidential election from the Vatican. It is a sort of battle of the twin towers for rhetorical dominance- comparable to the battles between groups in Italy from structures like the leaning tower of Pisa in the Medieval era (12th century). War is a continuation of politics through other means. The better remedy to wars in a world with original sin is to lure the donkey forward with the attraction of greed and away from conflict. Appeals to better human nature or 'better angels' are effective  perhaps, with Christians and less so with the majority of people.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/stick-to-matters-of-morality-jd-vance-tells-vatican-to-stay-out-of-us-politics-amid-trumppope-row/articleshow/130250208.cms

There is a mid-term election this year and using 'unnecessary wars' is a big part of the Democrat's platform for the event. I got an email from Friends of the Earth this morning making those points. I saw Adam Schiff on television swelling his political self-promotion so far as humanly possible with an attack on Trump in support of a new war powers resolution vote- quite hypocritical for Democrats incidentally; in the middle of an undecided war- perhaps to encourage Iran and certainly as a key talking point for the mid-term campaigns.

The Pope did not feel the slaughter of Iranian civilians in a national uprising against the theocracy was sufficient justification for military intervention by the U.S. Even if he dismissed the ascension to creation of multiple nuclear weapons as something that could be peacefully resolved (an unrealistic opinion), supporting non-intervention to the mass slaughter of civilian protesters that was wasn't yet over is a kind of evil itself. One might not want to refer to that kind of acceptance as a gospel paradigm. Jesus referred to Jerusalem being destroyed 37 years before the event, and a million Jews lost their lives in 70 A.D. In the time, if a military intervention was possible then (and it wasn't), that should have occurred. Jesus said he would have saved the Jews if it were possible, yet they could not believe, and so they were lost.

Matthew 23: 29-37

29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[c]”

Gemini-"The Iranian government carried out a massive crackdown on citizens in early 2026 to suppress an unprecedented nationwide uprising that directly threatened the survival of the Islamic Republic. While official figures are lower, some internal estimates from Iran's Health Ministry and leaked documents from the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) suggest the toll may have reached 30,000 to 36,500 deaths during the peak of the violence in January 2026. 

Why the Deaths Occurred (The Crackdown)

The high casualty rate resulted from a "shoot-to-kill" policy ordered by senior officials to "crush the protests by any means necessary" and spread fear."

Gemini-Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, has recently issued strong rebukes of President Donald Trump's rhetoric and the ongoing Iran war. 

• Response to Threats: On April 7, 2026, Pope Leo called President Trump's threat that an entire "civilization will die tonight" in Iran "truly unacceptable". He emphasized that such threats against an entire population are a moral issue and violate international law.
• Call for an "Off-Ramp": The Pope has urged the President to find an "off-ramp" to end the conflict and has referred to the U.S. military offensive as a "delusion of omnipotence".
• "No Fear" of the Administration: Following Trump’s subsequent attacks labeling the Pope as "weak on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy," Pope Leo stated on April 13, 2026, that he has "no fear" of the Trump administration. He maintains that his messages of peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel.
• Rejection of War: In his Palm Sunday homily, the Pope warned that God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war" and noted that Jesus cannot be used to justify any conflict.
• Call to Action: He has encouraged individuals to contact their political leaders and members of Congress to ask them to work for peace and reject war. 

The President has doubled down on his criticism, stating he will not apologize for his comments and accusing the Pope of "catering to the radical left". -end of recap

Pope Leo failed to discern that politics does not invariably fit into neat little categories that can be reasonably decided on a purely Biblical basis. On complex issues, a church leader would do well to heed Wittgenstein’s dictum: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Before throwing his hat into the political arena, he should think twice and speak once — first harmonizing the various issues through careful study and understanding, rather than rushing into declarations and suggestions.

Take the Iran war, for instance. It was a matter of preempting the final phases of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Iran had already produced and stockpiled hundreds of kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% — a level with no credible civilian justification and only a short technical step away from weapons-grade 90%. Further enriching that stockpile to 90% would require relatively little additional effort, bringing Iran perilously close to multiple nuclear devices. People rightly care about such thresholds. Would Pope Leo have anathematized military action if it had been the Islamic State, rather than Iran, racing toward that same dangerous enrichment level while developing long-range delivery systems?

Philosophically, political leaders sometimes face Hobson’s choices — forced options where they must select the lesser of two evils, because inaction itself becomes the worst outcome. Pope Leo, however, was not in a forced option position regarding the Iran conflict. His are voluntary statements that muddy the waters. More carefully worded anti-war expressions would be better.

He could have stated that wars are terrible and that he does not recommend them perhaps elucidating suggestions as to how to contain the Shi'a government's will to have nuclear weapons peacefully. For a Christian leader, that is generally the proper limit of commentary. A thoughtful Christian may acknowledge that some wars can be just and moral, even while recognizing the profound weight of original sin and the immense opportunity costs that war imposes upon the peace we all hope would prevail.

In this case, the campaign to degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons capability — a direct threat to the United States and Israel — qualifies as a just war. Separately, Hezbollah’s decades-long attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon, enabled and directed by Iran, provide their own independent justification. Israel’s operations in Lebanon to create a defensive buffer zone against these persistent threats constitute a just war in and of themselves, separable from the Iran nuclear issue.

Pope Leo appears to show greater tolerance for the left’s support of the Ukraine war and its refusal to allow any negotiated settlement that would let Russia retain the Donbass. European leaders openly pursue the westward expansion of the EU and would like to place thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of drones along the Russian borders. Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar will vote to allow the EU to give Zelensky the €90 billion euro loan to fund two additional years of war.

Pope Leo was a partisan on Ukraine's side by default when he made a:

"Condemnation of "Imperialism": Pope Leo has stated that Russia is committing "evil" in Ukraine and, even before his papacy, characterized the conflict as an imperialist war designed to conquer territory."-Gemini

The entire Ukraine was part of Russia and the the Soviet Union for most of the 20th century. Historians new that wresting it away when Russia was recovering after 50 years of communist rule would bring about a war unless politicians were wise enough to share it.

In my view, Pope Leo demonstrated little understanding of Europe’s historic efforts to subdue or shrink Russia, the Venezuelan people’s struggle for freedom from the Chávez/Maduro regime, or the legitimate right of Israel and the United States to defend themselves against nuclear blackmail from an extremist Iranian regime — and against proxy attacks from groups like Hezbollah.

The world faces immense troubles in economics, the environment, and politics — compounded by violence, bribery, misunderstanding, fanaticism, and competing belief systems ranging from atheism and Islam to Christianity and socialism. Faith in God does not automatically confer political omniscience. Powerful leaders, even popes, require a circumspect, well-informed outlook if they hope to contribute meaningfully to a realpolitik balance that offers both stabilization and genuine prospects for human freedom and progress.

Securing Borders and Elections: Why Ideas Matter More Than Party Loyalty

Friends of the Earth emailed me asking for my signature on a petition against Donald Trump. They claimed he has started unnecessary wars in Venezuela and Iran. However, there were valid reasons for those conflicts.

Iran was enriching uranium to 60% — a level with no realistic peaceful purpose — and could relatively easily reach the 90% weapons-grade level required for nuclear weapons. Many Americans consider a nuclear-armed Iran with missiles capable of striking U.S. cities unacceptable.

Venezuela had been ruled by a dictator who suppressed free enterprise, empowered gangs and bureaucrats, and drove the country into economic collapse. Removing that regime offered a chance to restore liberty and opportunity.

I appreciate Friends of the Earth’s passion for the environment, but we must choose politicians based on ideas and principles — not personalities or party loyalty.

Even though Donald Trump’s ideas are generally preferable to those of the Democrats on national security, borders, energy, and economic realism, they are still not adequate on their own to directly correct the serious ecological insults to the Earth and its atmosphere. We urgently need a genuine policy of ecological economics — yet neither major party is seriously pursuing it.

Democrats, in particular, seem afraid to take clear, practical stands on critical issues: securing borders, verifying voter eligibility, raising wages for working Americans, increasing taxes on the ultra-wealthy, and managing a fair transition to sustainable economics as the economy rapidly shifts toward robotic and AI-driven production.

Instead, the Democratic Party has largely become a vehicle for anti-Trump hatred and cults of personality. That approach offers no real solutions.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Dow has risen roughly 1,500% while median household income has grown only about 30% in real terms. This massive disconnect, along with exploding public debt and wealth concentration not seen since the Gilded Age, shows how badly we need better ideas.

I support a strong, practical environmental agenda for a sustainable planet — but it can only succeed with a secure nation, secure borders, and a sustainable citizenry first. Without secure elections and secure borders, even the best environmental goals will fail.

Elections should be decided by substantive ideas and principles, not tribal hatred or personality cults. That’s why many Americans back Trump: not because of his style, but because — imperfect as they are — his ideas currently align better with the real challenges facing the country.

Europe is in the Middle of Confusion Without Clear Goals (Besides Expansion)

The Trump administration should realize that Iran and Ukraine both stall for time, using that interval to seek political leverage and acquire additional weapons.

Europeans often appear as a confused lot, struggling with a diluted sense of national identity that leaves them uncertain about what truly serves their long-term interests as Europeans. Historically accustomed to conflicts with fellow nations, they seem to have elevated that pattern through the structures of the European Union. In effect, President Clinton handed Ukraine over to Western Europe, yet Western Europe shows little willingness to release it or share it with Russia—its rightful owner in this view.

The American left similarly seems adrift, lacking coherent leadership or a clear vision for the future. What it pursues as a rational agenda often resembles treason in practice: prioritizing foreign interests over American ones, or aligning with the political goals of European leftists at the expense of U.S. priorities. Democrats and Governor Newsom appear ready to tolerate a Mexico influenced by drug cartels rather than firmly defend U.S. borders. They frame basic measures like requiring a valid state or federal ID for voting as “voter suppression.” Ukraine and Iran, in turn, skillfully exploit these internal divisions and anti-Republican reflexes.

Europeans, one might reflect, fail to grasp that they themselves have become a primary force of division in today’s world. By contrast, America has achieved relatively good race relations in recent decades, with equal opportunity and wages largely normalized—yet partisan animosity persists. European leadership prefers to direct its hostility toward Russia rather than pursue a pragmatic sharing of Ukraine. Driving a wedge between the West and Russia risks isolating Europe and the United States from deeper BRICS economic integration, while encouraging the growth of a parallel rival market.

Recent European efforts to restrict Russian oil tankers—potentially blocking access through the North Sea, English Channel, Black Sea, and Mediterranean—illustrate this confusion. Such measures could easily backfire, leaving Europe itself more vulnerable to energy shortages by cutting off its own supply routes. Uniting Russia, China, France, and Spain in opposition to the United States and Western Europe hardly seems like a strategic masterstroke. This outcome stems largely from Western Europe’s reluctance to compromise on Ukraine, perhaps along approximate Dnepro boundaries.

It remains possible that, in a future crisis, the United States might withhold support for European defense and opt for neutrality rather than risk entanglement in a World War Three on the continent. Letting Europe burn and not rebuilding it with another Marshall Plan would confer economic advantage onto Americans rather than Europeans.

Alternatively, a more circumspective path—sharing Ukraine equitably, renormalizing relations with Russia, and fully integrating it into the Western economic sphere—could offer the surest route to lasting peace in Europe and beyond. Deep economic interdependence provides a powerful form of transparency and deterrence: it becomes far more difficult to conceal war preparations when potential adversaries are daily business partners. History shows that rhetoric against a designated foe often escalates dangerously in the absence of such ties, as seen in German propaganda leading up to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.

Bringing Russia into comprehensive economic integration with the West would likely serve as the strongest bulwark against renewed Muslim terrorism and any Chinese adventurism toward Taiwan. After all, China’s leadership appears foremost concerned with raising the living standards of its citizens. Detached somewhat from both Russia and the West, Beijing would be far less inclined to gamble its economy on a high-risk conflict over Taiwan.

Loop Quantum Politics (a poem)

 

Stark, dank basements sheltered the boxes
where potatoes grew in darkness
slowly, shooting yellow tubular roots from mottled brown skin
waiting for winter’s shadows to lessen

  For peace would take root
the conflicts echoes elided
a nightshade planted rather'n bodies
in readiness to grow outside the box

  No one was a sentry for a thrice cocked crow
awoke before the meaning of dawn
broke the predawn’s early humming of a city
distant where the light was a sphere beneath the stars

  A choreographed riot,
a Parthenon’s roof blown off with cannon shots
knockers on television camera lenses
let in to the nation’s rooms

  The personal anarchy of anyone explaining
their one proprietary gestalt
to convince themselves of things
such as nation’s borders and tax cuts bring to dreams

  A party without meaning yet noisome
roilsome convection currents bubble frothy cycles
socialism lost amid on-time deliveries and supplies
seeking transference of reason to spaghettified quantum loops.

https://suno.com/s/cFVUORx8bN2CJJ9u  The poem as a song

On the Leftist Theory the U.S.A. Is Evolving to Feudalism

 Every man's home shall be his castle- moats are optional. Dungeons and dragons will overrun the nation. Knights of knee shall find the political truth in the wilderness. Democrats may evolve into being the enemy at the Gates while microsoft AI co-pilot will find a way through the cloud leading at last, to The Magic Book of Isms.

Does One Find Good Federal Candidates by Fact-Checking?

One can verify facts demonstrating that there isn't really a necessity that a political dysjunctive fact-checked, proving the irrelevance to the public good of political party platforms, yields a positive reason to vote for any particular party. One might want instead to verify facts that some party is worse than alternative parties to find the next to worst candidates to vote for. One may choose from D or F candidates at the Federal level, yet never A candidates who would be lost in such assemblies. The problem is that public ideas of what is political common good fall short of recognizing what is required for the public good in a complex modern world, and politicians seldom provide meaningful discourse on such topics that are accurate.

https://suno.com/s/U4xoDycQ0B1UdG89 The Living Water

Strong ego has probably been a motivating element for a quite a few great scientists. Were Copernicus or Newton without much ego? Socrates asked questions to show that most people didn't really know much about things they believed they did, so in that case ego was perhaps a hindrance to learning. Alternatively single-minded determination has brought strong people through many hard, challenging times to discover the beauty of a new day.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Should Run for President on the Green Side of The Force

 The political split between President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene as ended her effectiveness as a Republican politician. She should seize the day and convert to the green side of the force and lead a high tech Green Party environmental, peace and prosperity party campaign for the Presidency in 2028. Trump has the audacity to try impossible things like being President and ending the Ukraine war; so should she.

Tax the Rich More to Rectify Democracy from Elitist Power

 Concentrated wealth concentrates political power too. For democracy to work; even a hybrid one with a representative government,  the concentration of wealth need be de-escalated.  Taxing the very rich 60% would accomplish that and roll back the power of plutonomy slightly.

  What to do with the income? Just two things. Pay off the public debt and compensate and support Americans unable to find meaningful work because of changes in the economy from products of the rich like A.I., robotics, other technology and/or social persecution.

  The entire structure of the economy may need to be overhauled soon because of economic, environmental and demographic challenges. A more egalitarian allocation of national income would make it politically possible for needed political adaptation to occur. And that requires much higher taxes on the rich.

One of the troubles of making meaningful political change to the political establishment is the existence of broadcast and paid professional media that panders to select elites on the left and right, and that perpetuates the existence of elites on the left and right running government rather than a more egalitarian selection of society. 

https://suno.com/s/YCA3bPVtCQ4htVIP Humbled Fingers

The Greatest Ever Chiseled

 Presidents recently have wanted to be ranked as the greatest or smartest in history. They would have their images imposed on Mt. Rushmore if they could after a month or year in office. They are given Nobel prizes or Popes to feel good about themselves- so why not go ahead and use some kind of laser-holography to put their images on Mt. Rushmore at night over those already existing in repose, chiseled serenely in stone by day.

  When the next greatest ever leader arrives the new face of glory may be presented to awestruck masses breathing free with some minor percent of carbon monoxide spoiling the purity of things.

President Trump and Frank Zappa

 The improvisational, creative rock star Frank Zappa said something like ‘Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex’. That was a perceptive remark at a deeper level of social analysis. Zappa’s remark might be upgraded to include the 5% of the 1% with the military industrial complex regarding who politics in the United States primarily benefits. One wonders about President Trump though; when he has seemed to dissent with simply expanding wars upon second rate nations he appears to be an exception to that paradigm. Yet when he follows it such as to support a war against Russia he seems to be right in tune with Zappa’s prognostication.

The late Charlie Kirk sought to bring more Christians into political engagement in politics with his 'Turning Point U.S.A.'. He had saved 12 million dollars while growing that organization from age 18, so he was probably sincere about faith and bring the nation to return more to the faith of the founders. It is not particularly surprising that a radical left-leaning youth in a state with a dominant non-Christian religion was the tool to take down an existential irritant. One might wonder if anything of that tragedy was at all meaningful in light of the Zappa paradigm of politics largely going where it is directed by the M.I.C. and plutonomy.

The late Charlie Kirk is a good example of the problems Christians have in engaging politcs. Can one even affect contemporary politics significantly without being rich? Jesus said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. That presents a Hobson's choice of a sort to those with Christian spirit who would like to make the nation a better place.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/09/14/charlie-kirk-christian-religious-beliefs-shaped-advocacy/86116403007/

The Ukraine conflict generated by massive paranoia, European perfidy in politics, the worth of wars to military and industrial corporations, Russian resistance to N.A.T.O. eastward expansion and loss of Ukraine to the west via President Clinton is a difficult inertial monstrosity to resist. President Trump has gone as far as he feels reasonable- even sending some American military officers to Belarus to observe the Belarussian-Russia joint military exercises that were made to offset N.A.T.O. military exercises near Belarus. 

Obviously the war is counterproductive to global well being, peace, security and economics. Some of the military-industrial establishment may even have realized that expending conflict to increase profits may be harmful to themselves too if the conflict transitions into World War Three. Maybe they won’t resist a draw-down even though traditional profit tactics goad them forward into hellfire. 

The Democrat Party is very dangerous though. They seem to lack competence at politics generally and serve to render actual functioning marketplace of ideas style Democracy improbable because of the mass confusion and incompetence they bring to the electorate. Disseminating lies, illusions and so forth are commonplace for Democrats. Apparently they really are against U.S. border security and a democracy of, by and for the people of the United States rather than anyone in the world in general. Massive civil disobedience that is perpetual has the effect of making political self-determination by the electorate ineffective. The party simply is a third column for those that attack every sort of American establishment within the United States without concern for the harm dumped upon fellow citizens as a result of their party’s political malfeasance.

Democrats throw so much smoke and bull into the political system that accomplishing meaningful environmental economic progress, or ending the Ukraine conflict; slowing massive species extinction and keeping the U.S. Government finances solvent are set not on the back burner- they thrown into deep freeze, Democrats are the smoke and mirrors mass confusion tool for concentrating wealth. They may provide election cycle rhetoric and raising taxes on the rich yet act on that only when they haven’t political power to actually do so. Fundamentally Frank Zappa was correct. There must be some coordination and some level to make the American electorate so badly informed and unconcerned about the state of the nation, the public debt and impoverished lives of millions that exist even when the unemployment rate is quite low. Upgrading and innovating where things Frank Zappa accomplished in music yet in U. S. politics that capacity seems notably absent.

Can't or a Trans-finite Leader (a poem)

 

A nation finds its leaders in little gold match boxes
That strike series of balloons cascading from the sky
Where peace is composed like enigmatic marvels of potential
And wars begin and end in graveyards of silence and memories
Inflating pasts and futures with Eurodollars and enterprises
Oceans of incandescent lighting flood the darkness
Cast as echoes of being and becoming
Unintentional pyramids of possibilities

Where Ozymandas reigns in gelatinous icebergs drifting softly
From warmer regions to cooler, interstellar voids
Fully inscribed with meaning and meaninglessness
Joined together fortuitously like matter and anti-matter
Bringing nothing from something to the fore
Grounds of perceptible objects
Minus Gödel’s set theorems with a set of all sets
Including itself transcending sets in-themselves
As the greatest set is more than a set
An infinity entailing all infinities
A trans-finite infinity greater than all numbers
Yet kings and presidents occur
Like one handed door knocks on empty space
Plans set aside with emergent challenges
Of super-artificial intelligence brighter than the sum of all human knowledge

A world environment with an atmosphere lit by sunlight
Travelling from a star 8 minutes away
Greenhouse gassed with maladaptive technology
Economic infrastructure reinforcing finite values
Trade and commodities requiring motivation to generate
Leading acquisition in narrow, proximal self interests
Tightening the noose of time winding down
While trillions will live in the interstellar void beyond the Oort Cloud
When synthetic recombinant inventions of super-intelligence
Are applied by the will of man
As necessity compels applications
Without hierarchy a basic income for mankind becomes ubiquitous
When nothing remains beside worship, exploration, learning and pleasure
Demons of war would destroy
To become Ozymandas for-themselves
Ramses the II in the flesh.

https://suno.com/s/PXUQ0c5iZZpsdPs9  Can't or a Trans-finite Leader (song)

Republicans Also Seem to Support Homicide to Concentrate Wealth

Donald Trump, Condolezza Rice and House Speaker Johnson have expressed support for fueling the war machine in Ukraine to keep homicide rolling. Reason contradicts their choice to fail to share Ukraine with Russia and select homicide as a way to get it all for the .01% of the rich.

   The Cold War ended because Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev could trust enough to meet halfway and flip the Soviet Union to free enterprise. A new nation was conceived that broke apart into former Soviet Republics and Russians were bilked out of Ukraine that is the deep cause of war at present.

https://suno.com/s/9txYEbzBg8rKCEuL

  The Ukraine war in effect is a Russian civil war with the parent country overthrowing the rebels supported by the rich of the west. Most people of Earth if asked would probably say they are against the war.

  President Reagan knew that trust and common decency were necessary in making good political relationships that transcend the necessity of conflicts the inferior sort of man and woman require to exist. There is a better way of political life that eschews homicide as the go to choice in international relations that neither Democrats or Republicans can understand. Peace with Russia keeping the East Bank of the Dnepr should be established directly and regions normalized with full ecological economic progress going ahead in East and West Ukraine.

 Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people; not if the rich, by the rich and for the rich that regard humans as inferior tools for exploitation and dehumanization.

 

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.

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.