President-Dictator Zelenski and Democrats Lose $100 Billion U.S. Dollars?

Ukraine President-Dictator Zelensky said that of the $183 billion dollars the Biden administration sent him for weapons only $77 billion is accounted for. Apparently know one knows presently what the Biden administration did with the money. That’s more than a third of a billion dollars for each of the elected Democrats in the House and Senate so it’s easy to understand why they kept approving funding the idiotic war that could have easily been settled by recognizing Russian land claims on the Crime, Donbass and not expanding N.A.T.O. right up to the Russian border after peace was made at the end of the Cold War version 1

100 Billion Dollar Fog of War

That’s lot of money. With the 10% Trump tariff on China in effect a 10% downward cost of living adjustment for poor people living on social security and Wal-mart the vaporized 100 billion that could instead have been a stimulus payment for poor elderly Americans has gone with so much other cash not reported on taxes to offshore Martian financial ecosystem of the rich beyond worldly accountability. It could have helped reduce poverty. It is understandable that former President Biden gave relatives and possible accomplices a priori pardons- they might need it if it turns out that the money went to them.

I watched a Netflix series named The Stranger

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-ukraine-received-us-76-184337849.html

about corruption in Korea. Maybe the corruption of Ukraine is global with the corrupt sharing U.S. deficit spending with several global leaders.

Green Green Echoes (poem)

Islands and the times for green

green echoes far from the Rhine

as if to say war ain’t divine

free free echoes far from the Rhine

In the verdant consumer’s plate

every future is financed date

nothing gained with something lost

public deficits follow a money’d boss

Bear and eagle's forever shore

places to range mammalian core

clean boat's journey to forest lore

green green echoes flow in the brine

Cohokian diamonds on the pitch of fate

games today are state of state

billions of bucks to wars dissipate

accountability in fogs of war.

https://www.udio.com/songs/bEsHnA7SdNuGA9FocXKwn5   

Should Amer-Indians Select a New Name for The Race?

 American Indians aren't from India. Calling themselves first peoples, aboriginals or whatever tends to be obscurantist. Historically most nations and peoples were named for their tribe/race or place. There were actual Brits, Germans and so forth. Even Russians and Chinese.  Sure there are Tlingits and Seminole yet St. Louis is right in the middle of things- where the national capital would have been located if they were looking a couple hundred years ahead. Maybe Indians should call themselves Cohokians or something similar. Cohokia might have been the greatest race/civilization of North America.

Certainly Meso-Americans can call themselves by race or tribe; Aztecs, Incas, Mayans etc. yet that does not apply for North America where their are countless tribes and in a sense races, with the exception being that they aren't not too different at all. So why not name themselves after their greatest civilization? That might be useful to people that don't understand the meanings and political correctnesses that attend the issue.

The Kansas City Cohokians has a nice sound to it.

Canadian Tariffs Bring Opportunity for Zinc Ore Processing to Alaska

 The Red Dog mine is America's largest zinc and germanium producer. The ore is processed in Canada travelling hundreds of miles. The new tariffs have unintentionally made an opportunity for a new source of good jobs in Wrangell, Anchorage or Fairbanks should mine owners decide to build.

Creating new quality jobs in Alaska isn't easy. Besides tourism the employment numbers don't change a lot. The opportunity to create a new heavy industry employer doesn't arise every day. The state could pursue bring ore processing to diversify the economy.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/01/31/a-major-alaska-mine-could-end-up-in-the-crossfire-of-trumps-trade-war-with-canada/

Dallas Trades Doncic to Lakers for A.D. Before Kyrie Irving Gets Old

The Mavs get a Dirk Nowitzki replacement and the Lakers get a younger superstar that needs fitness training from LeBron James who is now cleared to play another three years mentoring Doncic in fitness conditioning.

The Lakers have Christian Koloko on the bench as a 7 foot rim protect who can share the center position with Jackson Hayes and two other Lakers centers.

  The Lakers also got 6′-9″  245 lb Markief Morris to spot Hachimura a similar sized forward. Morris is 35.

  Finney-Smirh, Austin Reeves and Gabe Vincent, along with future shooter Dalton Knecht can fill the  guard position. James and Doncic on the court at the same time can be a challenge to defend against. James has the basketball IQ to optimize player opportunities. Dallas has a great guard to work with Anthony Davis and can optimize Kyrie Irving’s final best years (he is 32) before the familiar rapid aging upon reaching age 34.

'Individuals' and 'Word and Object'

Strawson and Quine’s books in the analytic philosophy tradition did not, as I recall, venture into logicism. Each were about propositions and the subject-object distinction, intentional and extensional thought, about the relationship of propositions to perceptions. They struck me as very intense psychological-analytical applications of Kant’s categories of thought; not as just categories within mind, and not the same categories, instead as very subtle descriptions of what propositional thought is and how it relates to the ’empirical’.

It's just reason and work. Subtle yet plain. . I.M.O. the works I mentioned are simply rationalism continuing the investigation of thought started by Descartes. It was a natural development and a period in the history of philosophy they moved through. Quine held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard a quarter century. What Strawson and Quine developed was a major contribution to western thought.

The Pishon River of Eden ( a video)

An informative, entertaining video from Expedition Bible.

https://youtu.be/jwCdZ4CbA-E?feature=sharedSearching for the Pishon River of Eden