American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
9/25/07
Racism & Retardation
The United States today is increasingly flanked by sundry global economic forces without the benefit of political leadership present to conserve the national economic advantages through liberal intention to develop start-up invented industries and fair labor practices able to meet the economic war of attrition outsourcing American liberty to global control. In the historical stream of valid and just responses to foreign aggression and domestic repression the right way to meet the challenges of globalism keeping within a framework of constitution justice and equal rights for all requires the attitude of the impeccable spiritual warrior seeking after liberty and justice for all citizens. Globalists and short-sighted disaffected minorities are all too ready to join the globalist imperial camp offering everything to everyone as all consumers are treated equal. Every expression of racism and effort to subvert true equal rights and pursuit of happiness in the United States for all citizens equally results inevitably in a political over-correction by global forces to further erode the status of not only the indignant racial group but of national interests and security.
Pragmatically the United States itself cannot afford much more than the 2.4 children per family reproduction rate within the real environmental limitation given the mal-adapted elements of an economic structure largely designed before global environmental awareness developed. Even if indignant whites or radically invasive illegal alien Mexicans had their way and flooded flooded the U.S.A. with just their own genomic specialization affinity group the 2.4 children per family rate would need to be adhered unto in order to avoid over-stressing the environment. Global economic justice can only develop through particular national political justice developing one nation at a time. Imperial global corporatism hasn't any rational capacity to govern and instead simply markets consumer disposable Utopian remedies without any sort of rational plan for global governing. Global governing isn't the same as global marketing, yet global propagandizing hasn't any need for a rational pursuit of truth, the good or political competence it need only support global marketing.
In effect there are two major political forces in the world today in support of authoritarianism-one is socialism and the other is corporatism. Each system represses individualism and democracy quite well and would develop those repressive traits most fully if allowed to attain global domination for themselves individually or conjoined synthetically together in Corporatist-Socialist management-labor oneness. It is quite possible to plot the mass engineering of humanity sociopathically and forever nihilate individual freedom and security. Humanity is in pursuit of economic adequacy and social justice more so than the annihilation of race specialization or race separation. Through individual empowerment politically within secure borders and a general world of economic adequacy consistent with environmentally robust health human development may continue in the long range, there are no realistic monopolistic global political control system that would allow for human political freedom in existence today. A sober justice and pursuit of national security with zero illegal immigration and limited legal immigration is the essential starting condition for addressing present global limits to economic growth within this finite environment.
Propaganda broadcast corporatism has reasoning as deficient as this syllogism...all birds are mammals, all bears are mammals therefore all birds are bears. Broadcast logic deficits are what control the political issues of the day as corporatism is served up the planet fairly readily. It isn't the only wickedness in the world...humanity is born in original sin and will need to fight individually to protect human liberty and opportunities for justice. Adam Smith never intended capitalism to replace government, it is just a good economic method. When corporatism displaces real democracy and annihilates national democracy and represses free enterprise racism is just another enculturation tool to accelerate the consumption of security and end of national health.
9/24/07
H.I.P.I's & Aux Reinfocements for Iraq Security
Home independent power initiatives should be job # 1 for the Democratic led congress; instead they act as servo-unit socialist dupes for global corporatism. While one or two efforts to end the military peace support mission in Iraq might have been worthwhile, the obsessive, losing bills in disregard of every other meaningful measure that might be advanced seems a less than rational application of political power. Let me explain why…
While not a fully qualified GOPPIE I neither qualify as a card carrying Democratic Party Member, this by inference will let you know that I am a politically independent minded individual in the United States. With oil at 83 dollars a barrel and on the way to 100 dollars very likely, and with the value of the U.S. dollar sinking below that of the Canadian dollar-signifying the loss of comparative national economic advantage of the United States since 1992 when globalization set fire to the wooden foundation structures of the United States, the Congress is disregarding the Presidents 26% approval rating and vulnerable inability to veto rational, constructive alternative energy legislation for the time being. The Congress is serving up shot after shot for the goal with a majority height that even a midget center could block, and Hillary Clinton is proposing a medical insurance plan for illegal aliens and disregarding my country doctor national medical insurance plan.
The Country Doctor plan would screen means tested poor, uninsured American citizens and send them to a physician for medical treatment when needed free. Every doctor in the United States could opt to treat one of every five patients gratis in exchange for federal malpractice insurance coverage. If every doctor were required to treat one of every five patients for free the medical system would be much improved with quality doctors available and a bit of public service for the physicians too. The government would delete malpracticing doctors from the program and thus medical competence in the United States would be better governed, and the government would simple provide a screening and referral service for patients and physicians. All social insurance programs require that the cost does not inhibit social and economic justice, that the program is affordable to the majority of the people and cannot be provided individually. Free lunches cannot be provided to a majority that don’t need it without transferring the cost to someone somewhere with deep pockets; and that is the also the core of the problem with American energy infrastructure in transportation.
Americans are importing fuel and cars and loans from foreign nations to move themselves about and to keep financing the federal government and economy while exporting overseas, importing cheap labor illegal aliens for construction work and affordable housing and continuously tracking down the historian Arnold Toynbee’s fin de sicle of civilization goal line. The Congress ignores all the warnings-even that of the brilliant Allan Greenspan and surges forward jettisoning intelligence as if all they needed was to look at the son of the storm trooper body builder of California for a guaranteed prosperity…that won’t work, it may be needless to say.
H.I.P.I.’s are a vital part of an alternative energy plan for the United States. The Congress should set about creating a bill that would encourage Americans to provide their own electrical power in part and that would lead to the ability for Americans to produce their own fuel at home for electric cars and SUV’s (yek). The Congress should stimulate a low-cost generic home fuel cell and home hydrogen electrolysis technology to produce hydrogen safely at home, and also create an array of home solar painting, solar roof shingle, solar building panel and solar panels for themselves that could be purchased with no taxes and with federal tax breaks. The Congress should include in its HIPI bill wind, solar and fuel cell technologies, small business supports for installers of integrated power systems at home, coordination with power company purchases of unused home produced electric power and so forth. Get with it congress and move on to things that work.
Auxiliary Troop/Guards for Iraq Security Tasks
It seems ironic that the U.S. federal government seeks to reinforce civil rights for ordinary Iraqis while enacting blatant age discrimination upon American citizens seeking to provide moderate cost security service for Iraq. The Blackwater expulsion order from the nation of Iraq by Prime Minister Maliki underscores the need for the U.S. Congress to create an auxiliary military cadre of former soldiers willing to volunteer for short six month contracts of military service where needed in order to provide security services without bankrupting the U.S. Treasury. I cringe every time I hear these political spendthrifts mention spending 'treasure' in Iraq as if the money borrowed from China were a native wealth. It is a discrimination against healthy over 50 to age 65 Americans with military service to prevent them from earning a living on short term federal contracts providing the security service such as Blackwater provided at high cost. Volunteers between age 50 and 65 should be available in a few thousands.
Airline pilots retire at age 65 nowadays, and many other occupations have had statutory limitations repealed-why should soldiers able to fire those glock .357 mags with both hands and toss a few grenades be regarded as geriatric cases that at best should work for mercenary firms such as Blackwater?
These former soldiers with contemporary fitness requisites would function under a separate military command structure although available for use in special circumstances. With the limited numbers they would not have more than three ranks and would serve under the command of regular Army field grade officers, perhaps as auxilliary security wo 1's.
Volunteer former soldiers in a 50 to 65 bracket could have a ten day language and culture/basic training course and a five day weapons proficiency retraining and be sent in to fulfill many security jobs as if they were going to Alaska to work on a seasonal fishing or seafood processing job. Personally I paint houses much of the year and would like learning more about Iraq culture and history in person for perhaps an average American wage or a little more as a temporary federal military employee. Perhaps in Washington D.C. politicians live detached from financial reality so far as to keep time with Senator Craig's toe-tapping, mortgage crisis/fuel crisis disregard diplomacy and full spend ahead, here is an opportunity to do one thing right.
9/21/07
Scathocracy and H.I.P.I.'s
While one or two efforts to end the military peace support mission in Iraq might have been worthwhile, the obsessive, losing bills in disregard of every other meaningful measure that might be advanced seems a less than rational application of political power. Let me explain why…While not a fully qualified GOPPIE I neither qualify as a card carrying Democratic Party Member, this by inference will let you know that I am a politically independent minded individual in the United States.
With oil at 83 dollars a barrel and on the way to 100 dollars very likely, and with the value of the U.S. dollar sinking below that of the Canadian dollar-signifying the loss of comparative national economic advantage of the United States since 1992 when globalization set fire to the wooden foundation structures of the United States, the Congress is disregarding the Presidents 26% approval rating and vulnerable inability to veto rational, constructive alternative energy legislation for the time being. The Congress is serving up shot after shot for the goal with a majority height that even a midget center could block, and Hillary Clinton is proposing a medical insurance plan for illegal aliens and disregarding my country doctor national medical insurance plan.
The Country Doctor plan would screen means tested poor, uninsured American citizens and send them to a physician for medical treatment when needed free. Every doctor in the United States could opt to treat one of every five patients gratis in exchange for federal malpractice insurance coverage. If every doctor were required to treat one of every five patients for free the medical system would be much improved with quality doctors available and a bit of public service for the physicians too. The government would delete malpracticing doctors from the program and thus medical competence in the United States would be better governed, and the government would simple provide a screening and referral service for patients and physicians.
All social insurance programs require that the cost does not inhibit social and economic justice, that the program is affordable to the majority of the people and cannot be provided individually. Free lunches cannot be provided to a majority that don’t need it without transferring the cost to someone somewhere with deep pockets; and that is the also the core of the problem with American energy infrastructure in transportation.Americans are importing fuel and cars and loans from foreign nations to move themselves about and to keep financing the federal government and economy while exporting overseas, importing cheap labor illegal aliens for construction work and affordable housing and continuously tracking down the historian Arnold Toynbee’s fin de sicle of civilization goal line.
The Congress ignores all the warnings-even that of the brilliant Allan Greenspan and surges forward jettisoning intelligence as if all they needed was to look at the son of the storm trooper body builder of California for a guaranteed prosperity…that won’t work, it may be needless to say.H.I.P.I.’s are a vital part of an alternative energy plan for the United States. The Congress should set about creating a bill that would encourage Americans to provide their own electrical power in part and that would lead to the ability for Americans to produce their own fuel at home for electric cars and SUV’s (yek).
The Congress should stimulate a low-cost generic home fuel cell and home hydrogen electrolysis technology to produce hydrogen safely at home, and also create an array of home solar painting, solar roof shingle, solar building panel and solar panels for themselves that could be purchased with no taxes and with federal tax breaks. The Congress should include in its HIPI bill wind, solar and fuel cell technologies, small business supports for installers of integrated power systems at home, coordination with power company purchases of unused home produced electric power and so forth. Get with it congress and move on to things that work.
9/12/07
Some Senate Pilots Plan to Crash Land U.S. Iraq Policy
Senator Levin may seek to create a sudden U.S. withdrawal to permit a bloody Muslim fratricide to develop for some reason, or Senator Levin may simply be so callous politically as to regard the Iraqi Muslims as lives not worth protecting if there is some cost to Americans, and yet Senator Levin and others of his persuasion could believe that because Iraqi sociology is infused with elements of sectarianism political remediation efforts by the United States are not feasible; the United States can control its Iraq policy transition through strength instead of crash landing it through fear and flight. Stabilization of sectarian regions of Iraq within a federal structure as Senator Biden mentioned is still viable policy course alterity, while the more fossil fuel based policies of President Bush also have a chance of bringing about a coalescence of Iraqi domestic political actors and groups into a stablished, working social order at an a priori higher cost.
Senator Levin’s anarchic policy preferences may benefit in theory certain financial considerations of various special interests, yet without creation of a national domestic non-fossil fuel alternative energy policy to bring the people of the United States directly to complete energy independence from globalization the bills generated in the Senate to crash land Iraq policy and walk away to hoard money in the U.S.A. with a current accounts deficit hasn’t much prospect of working.
As I ride a bike mornings along vast lines of foreign made cars parked along city streets, and watch the foreign made cars moving along with foreign produced fossil fuels polluting the environment and destroying polar bear habitat through global warming I wonder how long the United States can last with such head up there a Senate policies that fail to recognize the extreme danger of reliance upon the internal combustion engine-fossil fuel anachronistic axis of debt. A century ago the motor-oil-auto-highway thing was American an upwardly mobile for the nation; now it has been taken over by the world and serves to destroy the nation’s future. Electric cars and home produced recharging power would be the right way for people accustomed to living within their means, but hey-what’s that…just borrow money from China and India, Japan and Saudi Arabia Senator Levin.
It isn’t especially in the interests of the United States to promote a conclusion of the Sunni-Shia schism that commenced with the murder of Ali, Muhammad’s uncle, it is a neutral point that would produced policy ramifications based upon the nature of the unified Muslim religion, neither is it in the interest of the United States to promote Muslim sectarian conflict because of the implicit retarding consequences of war upon social development.
The United States should not overrate the historical political significance of Muhammad’s heretical syncretism. Muhammad’s warriors plundered and rampaged through a North Africa long abandoned by the Romans and Carthaginians and gone over pretty well by the Vandals and other Gothic tribes on their peregrinations. The Muhammadist warriors followed the lead of the vandals in a reverse course and were stopped by Charles Martel in France efficiently considering that the Carolingian Empire had yet to solidify. Fairly rudimentary European forces with the song of Roland and other inspirational examples rolled up the post Umayyad Mohammedan powers inexorably. It would be wrong to say the Muhammadist surge had no salutary consequences…they removed the last elements of paganism from the primitive, underdeveloped and pestilential regions of the equatorial and near-equatorial regions of the Earth, and built a dome on a Temple Mount previously occupied by a horrible Temple of Jupiter as a sort of place holder until the significant events of prophecy would be fulfilled.
U.S. policy in support of a federal Iraq reinforcing sectarian enclaves would provide time for the people of Iraq to develop a unified government that each sect could trust while policing themselves and their own areas in the meantime. A federal Iraq could serve as a buffer between the Shi’a of Iraq and the Sunni of the oil states of the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia while purging their midst of the terrorist forces of Al Qaeda. A federated Iraq with a dedication to open democratic government might be a more trustworthy neighbor for Israel and provide a working partner for the United States in moving toward a regional development with environmental and social goals worthy of human beings today. The United States must detach its Middle Eastern policy from the conflict of interest of reliance on fossil fuels for national transportation…that reliance is a vast policy gaff that is definitely a lubricant for downward national mobility. A stupid people of a stupid nation will run up unpayable debts for various reasons and eclipse the light of its own future, America’s economic, political and educational declines with national and current account debts are coefficients of adversity presenting challenges easy to overcome but evidently easier to ignore for politicians owing their souls to the Satan of corporatist globalization.
9/11/07
Multiverse theory and Genesis
It is a better bet that God is far more competent at creation and high tech than anything imagined by human researchers and thinkers, and that this present world and Universe as well as the great mystery of the beyond the veil of mortality, and space and time are infinitely well accounted for than not. It is more probable that the fine structure of the Universe and multiverse potentials exist as emanations from an omniscient intellect than that they are chaotic, random assemblies of a second rate nature patched together accidentally. Even the hairs of one's head are numbered, as are the superstrings and universes potential and actual.
Unfortunately a numerological approach to cosmological interpretations of theology and cosmology compels some to find the highest philosophical and eschatological meanings in ossified universal structures in order to determine truth consistency than applied with the erroneous syllogistic reasoning in a post hoc ergo propter hoc manner; the potential number of Universes is applied to try to impeach the fact that God created this one, to prove that he did not create this one universe either. Mal-logic aside, the emanations criterion that the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus describes definitely would encompass multi-verse theory, which isn't at all an astounding thing based upon the implications of the Enneads of Plotinus.
The technical structure of God is non contingent and cannot be inferred from anything in the Creation; it should be sufficient to accept the grace of God in that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to the world to be a light in the darkness and reconciliation unto eternal life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/Projects/moderncosmo/Sean's%20mutliverse.html
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000
http://www.templemount.org/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_structure_constant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
http://sharktacos.com/God/relational.html
9/10/07
ABout the Two Oil Heirs in a War of Destructive Terrorism
The present war of terror prosecuted by two wealthy heirs of vast fortunes-the Bush and Bin Ladin families has show more than a modicum of insensitivity to the aspirations of ordinary people. In a recent video the Os Bin Ladin descried capitalism in a sour grapes complaint after the Saudi Government forced the sale of his portion of the family oil and engineering wealth and confiscated/froze the proceeds. The window of opportunity for course correction in international political and economic applied philosophy away from the present imperial slide toward a chaos of capitalism, communism Hindu and Islamic internationalism corrupting local democratic and economic political self-determination may not be open forever. Political ministrations to conserve national cultural opportunities may wither in nations such as the United States of America as confident wealthy political leaders fail to comprehend the consequences of the loss of American traditional cultural values and independence in favor of ingress of pervading internationalism that lines the pockets of those invested in global corporatism.
Local independent business people, tradesmen and the like may work and create new capital value and spend there profits it corporate global outlets that are whisked away to the global shareholders. The redistribution of local wealth to corporate shareholders and the influx of millions of illegal aliens to displace construction trade wage and contractor value are phenomena of globalization’s creeping amoral conquest of the United States.
The loss of national economic and cultural self-determination is in progress with an amoral global stew of Islamo-communist-paganism under an imperial ruling class moving in to replace it. Capitalism during the cold war wasn’t given an opportunity for a detached, analytical review and reformation for application to a post cold-war world. The failure to comprehend the true role that capitalism should play within a democratic society has given license to modern predatory globalists to exploit capitalism as an economic philosophy for mass social repression and world conquest unifying quite well with Chinese communist repression of individual liberty. Neither corporatists nor communists need care about individual free enterprise and free expression; instead they care solely about reinforcing power for the elite organizational leadership they comprise, and mass material formulae for the worker-employees with kickbacks to shareholders/party members. It isn’t too late yet to subdue the wild meglomaniacal excesses of globalism and restore a political philosophy of self determination to American national interests. Globalists like to use extreme dialectical antinomies as straw men to knock down in order to defend their self-fated right to force everyone into a global corporatist political entity of planetary inertial stagnation; there are alternative methods of free trading national democratic social developments aplenty without extreme global oppression by either corporate imperial or communist subjugation. The philosopher Aristotle believed that people would develop their interests most carefully if they owned them for-themselves. Both communism and corporatism take away individual ownership through various networked means and reduce humanity to droll servo-units of the global hive.
Some may argue in support of the global corporatist state that it is a better way to reach out to the downtrodden second and third world people living in poverty than communism. That may be true and a valid premise for corporatist support if communism were the only alternative method of economic development in the second and third world, yet it is not. Democracy with a healthy petite capitalism and limited entry trans-national capitalism would better support local, national economic growth. Free trading small worlds networks able to synergize product development, production and sales without formal legal business unification may avoid the semi-monopolistic capitalization facts of interowned royal global corporatism.
When cold-blooded global corporatism invades to displace local political control at best allowing local politicians to be yes men and smoke blowers for a transnational upper class even local religious beliefs eventually are co-opted or dialectically radicalized by the amorality of globalist takeover creating a local radicalization in response that may foster support for national socialist political dictatorships in the emergent second and third world amidst polities mindful to avoid both communism and false non-Christian theocratic religious domination.
Global corporatist supporting politicians such as President George W. Bush may compel nations to disregard externalities such as environmental harm and global warming because of the traditional unaccountability of business for environmental damage without litigation. Even the NGTO CEO Osama Bin Ladin had the good sense to exploit the corporatist irresponsibility for global warming in a recent video. Al Qa’eda as a non-manufacturing terrorist organization of course contributes little to global warming except when creating mass environmental disasters such as the 9-11 World Trade Center pollutants more than compensating for their lack of smokestack industry ownership. Al Qa’eda has benefited in the past from contributions from Saudi oil wealthy individuals and hasn’t yet renounced fossil fuel as a major factor causing global warming. Non-governmental terrorist organizations (NGTO’s) such as Al Qa’eda are not the only present danger to individual and national economic and political security. Ad hoc global corporations co-opting national political self determination en passant with trans-national corporate existence able to afford purchase of national political leadership loyalty and purchase national and global broadcast media propaganda monopolies assault individual political opposition increasingly without legal accountability through a variety of wicked and ruthless means. Foreign governments may present as significant of a threat to individuals in the United States as Al Qa’eda, or more so; the BBC and NPR are as apt to subvert American individuals as the corporate broadcasters; the Department of Homeland security is effectively a Department of Corporate globalist security to conquer the American Democracy and annihilate American tradition and culture. The U.S. Government will not democratize the broadcast media to Internet podcast use by all citizens and take away a primary socializing tool of corporatist and state propaganda terror technology.
Mexican truckers enabled by pre-9-11 NAFTA provisions to drive throughout the United States will present an increasing and pervasive security threat to every niche of the United States. Bin Ladin must already be grooming truckers from Mexico on delta force quality force delivery package mission training. Foreign packaged trucks and containers with g.p.s.’ will be able to deposit materials anywhere in the U.S.A. for later use. If the Soviet KGB had been given such a fine method of equipment ingress the cold war might have been resolved the other way. It is likely that AL Qa’eda and other ad hoc terrorist organizations dedicated to the destruction of the U.S. democracy, the end of the reality of a working constitution of the United States and free enterprise sole proprietorships will utilize the NAFTA trucking sovereignty surrender avenue of approach to coordinate and deliver terrorist tools even unto Hannibal Missouri. Pioneer Americans recognized the Carthaginian’s comprehension that the way to destroy the Roman Empire was to go for the city of Rome itself, and he made that effort nearly successfully until stopped at Cannae.
Any global corporation will be free to set up shop and deliver to any place in the U.S.A. directly whatever contraband and articles of war it can get past the ineffective customs inspectors.
Cleverly packaged shipments of weapons of mass destruction such as nerve gas or tons of weaponized anthrax might be gotten through in just one truck container and delivered without middleman to anyplace deemed convenient by the personnel in favor of a reconstituted Sunni imperial preference for a Caliphate set Al Qa’eda for mass civilian casualties for tactical political-economic purposes. The NAFTA trans-border trucking provisions should be abrogated immediately, while the rest of the treaty may continue, if Mexico halts its mass waves of over-the-boundary line flood of illegal alien construction workers.
Usama Bin Ladin’s recent video highlighted the similarities Al Qa’eda George Bush and the British Government have in both oil, imperialism and preference for Sunni Royal power of some form in the Middle East. Usama’s misunderstanding of the problem with capitalism is not compensated for by his recognition of the danger of global warming, even unto the decimation of polar bear habitat. Usama’s feeling for the hard edges of capitalism has a Maoist spin, and one in error of course-the problem isn’t capitalism but is corporatist corruption of capitalism and democracy.
The crisis in capitalism today is in its wild, unmanaged power to subvert democracy and individual economic competition. Globalization of capitalism and the existence of large international investment funds work to create a monolithic and oppressive global ruling class without any ethical values respecting the foundation principles of western civilization in individualism, individual self-determination and political equality of citizens.
Globalists and their national globalist broadcast sycophants have an unreformed basic urge toward absolute greed for-itself and self-association with corrupt absolute power. Capital is given an absolute value by the globalists that is assumed to have some sort of magical merit for political organization and justice that might in some way be the most optimal course of economic development possible. That false belief and the sociological facts supporting the mass cattle-lie stampede in support of goal capital investments creates a juggernaut of power crushing individual free enterprise and democracy, self-determination and physical security beneath its unshod hooves in many instances. Adam Smith believed hat capital managed by individuals should be given license to guide itself with a criterion of national democratic government-not without. Real national interests cannot be placed as secondary to global capital without the erasure of political and real security of individuals within their own nations. Capitalism needs and era of reformation into a less volatile and life corrupting, over-the-border tool of destabilization if economic competition is to continue to exist, if individual invention is to be rewarded, if individual work and national security are to continue as meaningful, practical ways of life.
Osama Bin Ladin’s desire to repress all of the people of the globe within a Muhammedist oil imperialism is a rival to the innate imperial drive of global capitalist annihilating national security, individual liberty within nations, protection from corrupt global capitalized powers seeking to put a price on everything and have an ability to enslave the world through the raw power of the biggest piles of capital. Capitalism needs to be controlled by nations in order to allow democracy and citizenship to continue to meaningfully exist, the alternative likely development scenario are large global corporatist communes controlling all broadcast media, buying all national governments and repressions of individual expression and invention.
Like many oppressive dictators Osama seems to believe in the infallibility of wealth and power. Usama Bin Ladin’s desire that all the world kow tows to a Muhammadist pope uniting church and state seems more of a malevolent evil delusion than the most dark depths of the Catholic Spanish inquisition’s goals for world power-the papacy at that time implicitly recognized a pluralist political nationalism even before the recalcitrant Frederick the Elector had his falling out with the Vatican. Osama, perhaps like some oil-indebted corporatists seeks a global power through means that incongruously and curiously collaterally have an economic resonance with the economic goals of global oil corporations.
Terrorism on the United States through promiscuous Mexican truckers insinuating themselves into every nook and cranny of the U.S.A. directly from foreign trucking companies located in Mexico presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States that the President and Congress should not overlook as usual because of the confidence of comfortable wealth and the obscurity of urgency to adapt quickly. Two of the top tier Republican candidates are terminally soft on illegal alien entry control and probably on the anachronistic trucking provision of NAFTA as well.
I support construction of mag-lev cargo tubes across the United States to move cargo to transcontinental terminals as 3000 miles per hour, yet that will never come about if foreign global corporations in effect take over American highways, and U.S. taxpayers must borrow money from China and India to fix that high infrastructure decade after decade as innovation stagnates, and American highways are dominated by global corporations, global fossil fuels, global vehicles and global political power with the people of the United states becoming a basic sort of curiosity and lint on the slipstream of the new globally controlled America. What congressional let that trucking forfeiture of sovereignty provision into the bill that far exceeds the concept of free trade without cross order tariffs? The people rely on their political representatives to actually read the details, and not to put in seditious corporatist measures such as the Mexican trucking subversion.
9/4/07
End of Summer Politics-The Work of Political Analysis
More importantly will the next President fail to comprehend the existential social characteristics of Middle Eastern politics in relation to the interests of the United States? The mirage of Muslim congress with any supposed collateral interests of the United States in the region is a changing sandstorm of power and resources juxtaposed with antipathetic sectarian interests as variable and volatile as would be any political interests predicated to stability within a corporatist macro-economic paradigm. The corporatists will seek to acquire the most resources for-themselves at the least cost and produce the most profit for-themselves. Regional political relationships 'established temporarily will be subverted as soon as outsourcing and comparative cost advantages indicate it useful to do so. Tying U.S. national security to middle-eastern oil may be lubricated with the excuse that it will keep terrorists from following the President or military forces 'home', yet perhaps the President might return to Dubai and consider the issue more fully until Christmas or such time as the drop of camel dung from some Penthouse stable provides the sudden illumination needed for enlightenment.
Iran and Iraq are interesting states for political study especially when considered from the paradigm of how the people of those nations relate to the United States, and of course the ancillary question is what power groups in each nation concerned would seek to pursue the good of the majority instead of the good of the narrow political ruling class. Iran has become a traditional political adversary and bete noir for the Washington D.C. insiders, who refuse to recognize the role that American support for the Shah and his terrorist secret police had in alienating elements of popular Iranian political opinion regarding the United States. Polyanishly American politicians have the idea overmuch that Americans can do no wrong and that Americans have some sort of inalienable moral supremacy rather allowing political policies of an infallible characteristic formerly associated with papal decision making. That popular delusion has at least one significant consequence of providing support for a blundering, blind drunken globalist submission to global corporatism as a sort of American super-economic state that will provide a better way of life for everyone everywhere as they destroy the world environment for corporatist profits. Blind U.S. submission to a hypothetical world-state of American led corporatism-socialism will continue to undermine national security for the United States as it is a raving, toady vassal state of corporatism. Maybe Hillary Clinton-former Wal-Mart board member of the no-union-shops Wal-Mart Corporation can persuade declining unionists that she is labor's best Democratic Party friend as it moves along with all Americans into parity with Chinese, Indian and Mexican workers.
Political Pollyannaism in Presidential candidates’ juggernucks sycophantically with global corporate draining of American economic health. American entry into a more globalist status will mean that the traditional self-destruction of nations historically will become a U.S. trait too, and that the fratricidal wars amongst nations and peoples demonstrated the last five millennium will now wave over the United States as it lets down its guard and becomes more concerned about cheap profits on foreign labor than on discovering new ways to educate and innovate national technical and environmental progress. As the U.S.A. loses detachment, intelligence, independence and strength its ability to dampen global chaos will disappear.
Instead of giving up on U.S. culture and identity and chasing after foreign investments like a camel wandering after a water supply all over the desert a second founding generation of Americans developing their own real estate and opportunities should be built. It is necessary to conceive a national policy that develops individual American inventiveness, independence and prosperity even as global corporations have an awesome, unpatriotic and subversive economic advantage. Can Americans develop a national identity like that of the British or Swiss-composite peoples but a people still and not completely revolving door internment camps for poor people mooned by corporatist overseers and media?
Iran's people probably could get along with many Americans, but the fossil fuel politics and corruption of power elites very likely will mean that belligerency as the preferred mode of international relations will prevail. American politicians seem to prefer middle-eastern royals with oil reserves and find no contradiction in a democratic nation preferring royalty abroad over populist revolutionaries. Such hypocrisy perhaps becomes noticed in time and people learn to distrust an empty rhetoric about democracy bloviated by global corporatist stuffed shirts.
Perhaps Israel is an American friend, yet everyone else in the Middle East may just be a temporary friend or foe of an existential and phenomenal kind.
Withdraw American forces from Iraq in January 2009 and perhaps no civil war or chaos would occur beyond the usual chaos and striving for resource power...maybe the Shia in Iraq and Iran will not fight each other, maybe Saudi Arabia and Iran won't either...maybe all the middle eastern governments will decide that terrorism isn't in their interests, and neither are wars...who can say? The next President needs to be one with experience suing global corporations to limit their predatory traits-a democracy must govern corporations instead of the opposite. The next President should share an intelligent preference for American domestic interests that simultaneously provides an example or model about how to do things right for hypothetical other second world and first world nations that need that sort of thing and believe that it could be found in the U.S.A.
6/11/07
Ideas & Options for U.S.-Iraq Policy
It isn't simple for a Christian of the United States to comment about administration policy regarding Iraq from either a prophetic, eschatological nor a secular, political point of view. On the one hand God has pre-determined human history yet people have free will to choose to conform their fate to the pre-destined. Much as bees can fly anyplace they 'choose' but invariably move to the nectar and flowers of destiny, human original sin and disregard for the truth and will of God leads to conflict, strife and confusion. Muslim's are lost without the saving grace of Jesus Christ while the House of Jacob awaits God's final reconciliation of a remnant unto Himself.
American Christians may wonder of the present role of Iraq in Bible prophecy, and if the administration is able to use Feith based policy to shape events in Iraq consistent to the Biblical guidelines if such exist if the administration interpretation of the road map to the second coming of Christ is correct, select a Mahdi for Prime Minister or separate conflict of interests between corporatism, contract and politics as readily as oil and water from a contaminated pipeline? Can administration confusion or perfidy regarding Bible prophecy, Calvin's five points and the time-line of teleology be transcended without national grief pursuant blundering into serving as a prophetic bad actor in Mesopotamia, or exploitation of misinterpreted prophecy for purely financial gain and greed by select corporatist neo-cons with a belief that globalism and corporatism are good for themselves? American Iraqi policy can be considered from many points of view of course, and following I will consider some of the most 'material' and readiness to change aspects, following a couple more verses from Isaiah about Mesopotamia and the nations...
13-9 "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; an he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it."
13-11 "And I shall punish the world for their evil; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtyness of the terrible."
13-15"Every one that is found shall be thrust through, and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword."
These prophetic 'sound bites' of Isaiah are fascinating with a triplex space-time continuum reference possible in relation to Isaiah's time, a future time and times and a half regarding Jesus Christ and the future history of the Jewish people. Southern Mesopotamia may even become a wilderness area and refuge for endangered species it seems.
Perhaps the best application right now for the prophetic criterion of Isaiah is simply for the willing to be saved spiritually by the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ and for the administration to apply Christian kindness principles pragmatically to its macro-political Iraq policy so far as possible reducing it's accentuated policy prioritization of future corporate oil profits.
Another couple of verses from Isaiah...
17-11 "In that day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make the seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow."
17-12 " Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17-13 "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."
If critics of the U.S. Administration's approach to rebuilding a peaceful Iraqi infrastructure following the April 2003 Iraq war offered other than existential retreat options without recognition of possible empirical political consequences it might be easier to discover a viable political way to satisfy U.S. and Iraqi interests together. Iraq has many trans-national, regional interests that need to be addressed simultaneously with internal stabilization issues not unlike the way a human cell has simultaneously evolving internal and externally oriented components. Al Qae'da might be thought of as an HIV virus entering Iraq's cell border membrane to place explosive wrong R.N.A.. instructions in the government reconstruction D.N.A. 'ladder' perhaps in the interest of external oil consuming organisms.
The land by the rivers isn't readily amenable to formation of an insular monocultural nation unaffected by extra-territorial political interests. Many Iraqis live in Iran, or have lived in Iran for instance, while many Kurds and Sunni have lived elsewhere as well for a variety of reasons, and pipelines from Iraq as well as commercial highways travel in all directions.
Moderation isn't by any means necessarily a vice or virtue in relation to any given political circumstance but is one of several policy directions. It is not always possible to arrive at the end of a political journey immediately without going through intermediate stages, neither is it either possible always to know in advance the course to the destination, but course corrections may be needed as the journey's political landscape unfolds; adaptability is important in foreign relations even while keeping mission discipline. Iraqis may need to complete phases of their walk through Mesopotamian reorganization alone when the regions of Iraq can develop enough security to go forward without stumbling immediately into civil war. The U.S.A. may need to be satisfied that they have given the people of Iraq a reasonable opportunity to choose their own fate for-themselves so far as God allows.
A military force reduction and relocation policy of moderation could develop with American military forces in Iraq reduced to 70,000 soldiers and relocated along the boundaries of Shi'a Sunni and Kurdish regions, Baghdad and the Iraqi borders. A sectarian Iraq may already be forming and abandonment of Iraq's existing reconstruction to the forces of terrorism by immediate complete abandonment would perhaps create not only a civil war, but sectarian wars regionally as well as Iranian-Gulf States-Saudi wars and a terrorist insurgence in Saudi Arabia.
Sectarianist regionalization of Iraq may or may not lead to democratic liberalization. The people of Iraq eventually must choose for themselves what relationship to or degree of Muslim clerical influence in government they will have. The international should community support their choices and trust that an actual liberation created by civilized values will draw the people of Iraq away from reliance on hopefully outmoded tools of civil repression. Global corporatism that attacks democracy surreptitiously is an increasing danger to the west as well as a possibly disingenuous advocate for democratic reform in Iraq today.
Plainly the history of U.S. reconstruction policy in Iraq entails an element of ineffective trial by error. Military deployments have sometimes been used in substitute for political intelligence and policy design by the U.S. administration without accomplishing general objectives. Military logic requires, like any valid syllogism, for validity that the premises if valid must equal the conclusion. U.S. military logic in the 2003 war was sound enough to accomplish the victory, what was absent was any sort of logical and valid premise corresponding to empirical political reality for reconstructing Iraq politically.
The long-term deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq in substitution for more intelligent and nuanced U.S. Iraqi political interactions and planning presents a military logic posture unsuitably designed for production of a political victory. Complex terrorist, sectarian, economic, global oil and alternate energy issues, disparate regional political systems and ethnic issues do not present themselves directly or obviously to a plain military logic solution wherein military force suitably applied will produce a 'victory' accomplishing the conclusion postulated. The United States has no interest in the totalization of power such as an occupying Empire presents in which universal military logic is a valid tool, and in which human rights of 'subjects' are of no concern; that criterion is hopefully a dead historical oddity left with buried empires.
The U.S. military is given the objective of replacing an Iraqi Army and intelligence service from the former regime of Saddam Hussein to maintain social order until a new Iraqi, unified government and it's Army and police forces is made to govern the people that are also aggrieved in part by the continuing U.S. military presence. With the low financial cost of terrorism and number of new volunteer terrorists available the standard military logic calculation for winning is at the least unclear, if not improbable. An intifada of volunteer terrorism with remote financial sponsors could go on for decades in theory that the U.S. military as a national police might be unable to contain. Unlike many of the standard anti-insurgence books of the past designed to counter a native insurgence supported by a percent of the people locally the Iraqi crisis has several streams of terrorist running into the region with different targets, different goals, different financing and a variety of munitions sources. Standard counter-insurgence operations of a military nature will have reduced effectiveness in such an environment; political adaptations to isolate and control terrorism-- Iraqi firewalls with sectarian Iraqi fire-guard personnel may be a reasonable adaptation to U.S. support policy for the central government of Iraq.
Opposition to the U.S. occupation force arises from a number of points, and the opportunity for enemies of the United States to harm America financially with great cost efficiency in Iraq is another factor promoting global insurgence localized in Iraq. Americans are borrowing and spending about 20 billion dollars per month in Iraq while terrorists perhaps spend a million or two.
The costs to the United States of the prosecution of peace in Iraq are tremendous reaching towards a half trillion dollars and up. The opportunity costs to diverted infrastructure development in the United States are also substantial, and one wonders if the corporatist-socialist pig-vermin elite in D.C. are aware of the costs since they have a globalist point of view economically. The corporatist-socialist axis of deficit spending and civil repression advocates flooding the nation with cheap Mexican migrants in order to enrich the corporatist's profits while social services for the immigrants are added onto the public debt. Taxpayers such as myself working in free enterprise disadvantaged house repainting and writing may earn just 6100 dollars a year and receive a 950 dollar tax bill with federal demands for immediate payment of 531 dollars plus interest, and that recovering in a year from a separated shoulder and journey's through Alaskan forests in deep snow to avoid starvation. The federal government supports a corporatist no net tax payment ,no bid contract redistribution of wealth to globalists with corporate broadcast media disarming U.S. mass political and civil intelligence through propaganda. The D.C. demons with their socialist alter-ego will simply gut the independence of the United States and leave a wreck for future generations if given a chance. The globalist matrix is the essential transcending reality over U.S. nationalism. It does not require victory of peace in Iraq either as it is an ongoing profitable enterprise for the right corporate connections, and indignant locals that are Muslims or whatever are simply untrained consumer-proles that can be corrected through superior and eventual military force. Such idiot lack of reasoning in government permits extremist Islamist reactionaries greater opportunity to foment terror against such a hapless foe. The United States as a nation picks up the tab for global corporate perfidy overmuch. While in the cold war era corporations were the counter-example to socialist-Leninist Marxism of the Soviet Union's dull economic monolith in the post cold war era corporatism has run amok without regard for the democracy and American national self-interest that supported it largely.
Of 450,000 tons of military weapons and explosives in Iraq following the 2003 war more than 200,000 tons remain hidden awaiting use by resistance and criminal gangs it has been written (see Allawi's 'The Occupation of Iraq'). Terrorists arriving from Saudi Arabia or elsewhere may bring 50,000 dollars (see Allawi's book) or more with them to purchase influence with the money supplied by oil wealthy Saudi radical Islamists. American dependence on fossil fuels fights against their own strategic regional interests in supporting a Shi'a majority for democracy in Iraq that seem to prefer an Islamist government after bi-lateral terrorist arm-twisting, that is opposed by a Sunni minority used to supplying a totalitarian government over the Shi'a, and an external Saudi proletariat of oil wealth committed to the destruction of the emergent Shi'a dominated Iraqi central government. The United States in the mean time has bungled its rebuilding policy for Iraq in a variety of ways.
If the Shi'a and Shi'a militias patrol their own areas and form their own security nets at least peace in that region should develop, and Sunnis patrolling Sunni areas might be able to defeat the terrorists themselves, and the Kurds similarly while all three groups participate in a unified government in Baghdad.
American military forces could relocate to new border security regional areas with better security for themselves, and help prevent sectarian terrorists from travelling to opposite sectarian areas to perpetrate suicide bombings.
Even the Iraqi police force has tended to be divided along sectarian lines, while revenge killing of former Bathists has occurred by Shi'a militias affiliated with the police. If one combined the Bloods, Crips and Mexican Mafia or Lunatics into one police force in Los Angeles maybe a certain degree of inter-police force killings would develop as the rival gangs vied for control, and as they purged rival turf while perpetrating revenge killings. If Cholos or the tattoo cult from beyond financed heavily by Venezuelan oil money or Columbian drug cartels breezed in to blow themselves up and splatter innocent gang dominated civilians all over the streets of Los Angeles to complicate political stabilization perhaps it would take some time for the new police force to develop a unified character...but in time the Top Dog would emerge after sufficient bloodbaths to consolidate 'the boys' under his aegis quite probably. The Iraq security situation may deserve an equally optimistic formulation for stability soon.
U.S. interests do exist in both a peaceful Iraq and a reduced military presence in Iraq rather than either troop increases or sudden withdrawals something like removing primary building supports rather than a removal of scaffolding.
U.S. congressional votarees of complete, sudden withdrawal should formulate leadership not upon poll numbers by an uniformed electorate but instead educate the electorate about the circumstances of deployment, conditions of occupation, consequences of remaining or departing and options available to creatively and meaningfully accomplish American policy objectives in a moral and democratic paradigm.
American Iraqi policy hasn't been much subtle and nuanced but instead trended toward the pursuit of a transference of idealized visions that would not actualize perhaps even in the increasingly corporatist dominated U.S.A. Speeches and goals with timetables that work more for abstracted from Iraqi pragmatism administration planners trained in think tanks are countered by Democrat Party absinthe-forgetfulness planks seeking a sort of existential departure from Iraq without American consequences at the pump-their other preferred point of contact for reality beside reality t.v. American Idol etc; one can just drunk drive off a bridge and swim away from the mess anytime to sober up and get on with things properly.
Policy development in the administration does not progress much over time. The G.W. Bush inherited a fine military that it spent in Iraq and Afghanistan and hasn't had anything else that worked in the last 6 years of its own innovation. Iraq peace reconstruction efforts have been notably unimaginative and misguided, insensitive and retarded while corruption was allowed to flourish in Iraq and in the contracts let to favorite corporations. It is still possible to conclude the American Iraqi involvement in a satisfactory way to all beside the terrorists of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni countries perhaps, by following a phased redeployment and reduction of U.S. occupation forces in support of increasing regional security of Iraq's major sectarian regions.
Simultaneously with sectarian autonomy and self-governance, control of transsectarian terrorism with border security should be structured. Relocation and concentration of U.S. military forces in better defensible areas of sectarian refereeing security control and oil field pipeline protection could structure better, temporal implementation of Iraqi security measures.
Select infrastructure and energy production decentralization through independent energy producing home solar panels, construction of security and recreational canals in Baghdad and other sharply conflicting sectarian areas, manufacture of electric toilets with the Incinolet company as contractor consultants for the governments of Iraq and other individual enabling technologies of decentralization and environmentalism should be advanced.
Financial and political empowerment of the people of Iraq by transfer to private, individual citizens equal ownership shares of the oil fields of Iraq presently owned publicly by the government should develop. The U.S. Congress should pass a resolution urging that action and also create a U.S. Home power production bill and a no taxes on pure electric car sales bill.
With all the citizens of Iraq as personal equal stock owners of Iraq's oil any terrorists destroying oil infrastructure would be opposed by the overwhelming majority of the people in all likelihood. The Iraqi oil stock should not be available for sale to anyone for ten years after date of issuance.
The United States would perhaps save trillions of dollars if the people of Iraq owned their own oil and a stable, peaceful, non-belligerent society existed because of the stabilization of the cost of oil, reduced need for U.S. military costs in the future and so forth. A new, bigger middle east conflict that shuts down most middle east oil production would raise the price of oil above 200 dollars a barrel with global shortages besides.Americans would need to borrow money from Russia to finance the government deficit spending instead of from China, India and Japan as at present.
Another alternative goal for some anti-democracy planners is to coerce the majority Shi'a of Iraq in some way into another Sunni dominated tyranny and continue an otherwise royal dominated Gulf and Saudi Arabian oil production array with Wahabists and Salafists radicalizing Muslims 'from the right'.
Most terrorism against U.S. targets internationally have been from the Sunni sect, while Shi'a terrorism tends to be more local. It was Iranian revolution against an imperial government that broke the former block of royals supplying oil to America after the nationalization of Arab oil field contrived by Qaddafi. Corporatists seem to like royal governments quite a lot as the 'consumers' have little to do besides purchase as the government deems it proper. The oil producing aspects of the U.S. military-industrial complex have never forgiven the Shi'a for deposing royal oil suppliers, and the U.S. federal tendency to advance crude oil as the primary and decisive American value in middle east foreign political relations has matured as a frequently contradicting policy in regard to actual American interests of national security.
American economic interests have also suffered as the preference to rely upon oil and Sunni royalty into the 3rd millennium have overshadowed transition to alternate, non-trade deficit, environmentally benign fuel infrastructures. A retarded American national economy flanked by corporatist interests in a number of ways fails to trust and develop democracy, continuing national independence and environmentalism for itself and lapses into the short-term profit agenda of corporations without concern for national sustainability or civil rights even seeking to flood in millions of cheap laborers to transform the U.S.A. into a sort of synthetic Hapsburg's peonized empire under unified globalist-corporatist socialist rule balancing out the mass billions of poorer continental peons of China India and Latin America. Quick corporate profits are the transforming, paramount criterion of emergent American politics, with C.E.O.'s of top corporations averaging 8 million dollars a year in compensation for globalizing, outsourcing and subverting the United State's interests politically.
A brighter and more sensitive administration than that of President Bush might have applied a plethora of alternative and independent home power solutions to Iraq's issues of criminal gangs, black markets, broken energy infrastructures, vulnerable centralization of transmission lines and so forth. The people of Iraq were waiting for real improvements immediately in the sweltering heat, for their broken sewers spewing filth in Sadr City to dry up and the affluent excretions to become contained with perhaps work for the 70% unemployed; the administration foisted top-down dysfunctional government centralization through corrupt foreign contractors and corrupt administrators through a trim line of terrorists creating a mockery of a trickle down structure from an internally fractured 'government' of Iraq without an Army, police or intelligence corps. Death squad militias formed for civil defense in Sadr City in the absence presiding legal authority.
Though Iraq now has a very challenged sovereign government it isn't too late to redeploy and reduce American military forces in Iraq coordinated with intelligent, immediate quality of life bettering engineering projects. If the administration does not support the actual conditions for popular rule in Iraq with peace...even if they do not like the Shi'a because of hate of non-royal oil sales in Iran and concern that Mr. Sadr of Sadr City might wear a starched turban into political office becoming more powerful than a Rosie O'Donnel with death squads.
As a long range scenario a tripartite Iraq with a weak central government in Baghdad may be less harmful than a variety of other middle east conflict scenarios or a perennial 20 billion a month budget for U.S. soldiers to wander in Sunni or Shi'a houses in search of terrorists that maybe won't go away until no one will loan the U.S.A. any more billions to keep them in Iraq. A weakened U.S.A. financially that also redistributes its wealth to the middle east at the pump might be a Wahabist's economic dream come true.
Ali Allawi's book of December 2006 'The Occupation of Iraq; Winning the War; Losing the Peace' provided a substantial brief for individuals interested in the history of Iraq since circa 2000-2006, and should be read by members of congress interested in formulating informed opinions about U.S. Iraq policy.
6/4/07
Corporatist/American Iraq Tactical Errors
In taking the dialectically opposite side of communism the U.S.A. committed itself to a global war of capitalism versus communist economics and in so doing capitalist business methods became enshrined as an absolute good replacing democracy. Democracy for a time was subordinated to capitalist leadership in a global war for survival to become the leader of the New World Order. The world's politics were perceived as essentially a contest between the political powers of two European conceived social philosophies of Marx and Smith. Other demographic and environmental issues of greater absolute importance perhaps were subordinated and aligned with the dominant higher level issues. Environmental conservation for instance might be considered to be a socialist activity, and birth control a capitalist or communist policy variously as local needs for dissimulation deemed appropriate politically. The issues of the Muslim world combined with several other social and environmental challenges also were set aside as of secondary value. With the end of the cold war the occultation of the secondary issues ended, while the success of global capitalism surged ahead as the content of a New World Order; one in effect without a willing political base and advocated from the top by an elite ad hoc network of greed driven businessmen without any real feeling for governing. Without digressing here to describe how corporatism grew through the capitalist economic network to displace democracy in the United States and worked toward minimizing all free enterprise activities unsubordinated to rent paying to corporations I can directly move toward the corporatist Bush II administration policy failures in restructuring civil Iraq following the war of 2003.
Primarily the Bush II planning was of a corporatist New World Order nature with Iraq as a phenomenal oil source. The middle east since the 1950's has been for the United States a place where foreign policy moved to support any oil supplying non-belligerent government regardless of its relationship with the citizens of that nation. With that being the long-term amoral, unprincipled policy in effect of the U.S. Government foreign terrorist organizations and dissidents came to recognize the intrinsic perfidious nature of U.S. foreign policy in the region learning distrust of the U.S.A. Israel to a certain extent shared an unwise over association with globalism rather than simply expressing an identity as just a plain nation fighting for survival democratically against a sea of adverse peoples with a history of hate burning behind their eyes.
The corporatist political philosophy is essentially of contempt for government and for democratic government. Corporatists associate government with socialism necessarily as pure profits without social concern for 'externalities' is vital for the bottom line of many business budgets. Corporatists are completely incompetent and comprehending political philosophy and the right role of government and if given the opportunity to afford to buy elections with the assistance of their corporate owned broadcast media propagandizing will redistribute public money to favorite corporations as fast as possible. KBR, Halliburton, Bechtel and other corporations received a lot of taxpayer money yet Iraqi's saw little of it.
Fundamentally the Bush II administration entirely trashed the rebuilding effort in Iraq after the end of war in 2003 because of corporatist basic philosohic diversions away from a more sensitive rational democratic approach of construction and contracting priorities. The corporatist agneda of Iraq spending became something lik the telemarketing company hired to solicit funds for a charity that keeps 90% for itself and sends 10% of contributions on to the charity to help the poor folk reluctantly. Corporatists fundamentally believe that they are the personification of moral and political rightness on Earth and that nothing else need be said or thought about it. Dissent or diversion of resources away from corporate profits would be socialist or communist under some camoflage perhaps it has been decided.
In Alaska a recent radio ad by the Kennsington Mining Corporation attacks a small local conservation group for winning a lawsuit to prevent the mining company from dumping vast tonnage of mine waste products in a pristine alpine lake that probably discharges into a fiord eventually. The Kennsington then blames the environmentalist for not allowing an environmental health destroying road to be built along Lynn Canal to Haines from Juneau. The Kennsington would prefer that a road to destroy America's last best wilderness be constructed perhaps to reduce the costs of it's mining operation about halfway up the proposed route. For corporatists no other issues exist except pure profit...not destroying the last habitats for wildlife such as whales, grizzly bear, wild salmon and so forth...nothing at all except the prospect of gold. In Iraq black gold is at the bottom of the stack of reason for conflict...Suadi oil, Iraqi Oil, Dubain and U.A.E. oil-not only for the corporatists but for the royal rulers and their supportive clerics of the Sunni or Shi'a as well. Each much maneuver to control the land and the oil beneath even if war and death, anathema and repression is the cost. One hopes that U.S. female will at least comply with local proscriptions against baring the naked face to savage male desert tribes and instead wear fake beards, raspberry beret's and cheap sunglasses to conceal their most prosperous beauty until return to more decadent regions of the world.
Though the Bush administration might talk democracy for political propaganda purposes it has little regard for it. Ali Allawi's 2006 book 'The Occupation of Iraq; Winning the War, Losing the Peace' contains background on the completely ineffective Bush II allocation of resources in post-war Iraq.
One may wonder if 'the war' in Iraq is really 'lost' today and if it can yet be salvaged unto peace. Some claim that as many as 650,000 Iraqis have perished since 2003 because of sectarian and other terrorist violence. If the United States suddenly withdrew it's military forces would the number of deaths be reduced, or would it increase?
Congressman Murtha says publicly that Americans want to bring all the troops home now, but is he right and what would the consequences be of that? U.S. politicians seldom ask what the consequences of their actions would be any more. President Bush II failed to consider the consequences of winning the Iraq war of 2003 enough to consider what might happen though federal intelligent reports existed that forecast the chaos it was later revealed. What would the consequences of congressman Murtha's fight to flight plan be if implemented, or does it matter to the socialist opposition of the corporatists equally as little as the consequences of winning the 2003 war?
Ali Allawi's book moves the public understanding considerably beyond the paradigm of Fouad Ajami's pre-1991 Gulf War book 'The Republic of Fear; inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq' in a useful timeliness.
It is possible to have a better understanding of the position of the Shi'a of Iraq and why they seek their own militias in case the government falls; of why the Saudi Arabians seek the destruction of any Shi'a Government in Iraq; of the possibility that in Iraq the populace is presently sorting itself out through bloody violence into a three part confederalist nation with the Sunni on the west bank of the Tigris in Baghdad, the Shi'a and Sadrists in Sadr City in East Baghdad and the Kurds and President Talibani formerly of the P.U.K. up north in Kurdistan. Not only are ethnic survivals at issue in Iraq for the people of the area, fundamental long term historical balances are again shifting because of the American intervention in 2003, and the Bush II administration blinded by its corporatist worldview whereby the 'locals' don't matter much but are indignant consumers or non-conformists to globalist corporatism hasn't expressed a competence to willingness to comprehend a paradigm toward political stabilization of Iraq other than dump more military forces into Iraq, quite them all down and then the oil contracts can be signed for global oil companies. Presently Iraq produces only a fraction of it's oil potential because of the civil conflict.
The United States relying upon oil for auto fuel instead of home-produced electricity for electric cars also relies on Sunni Arabs of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf for oil, and the corporatists profit handsomely from the dependence f the U.S. on oil working fundamentally against U.S. democratic interests. To corporatists all independence and democratic dissent is leftist and socialist. Socialists on the left and corporatists on the right preclude the political concept of a democracy pursuing its rational self-interests in public policy with a simultaneously somewhat laissez faire attitude toward capitalism. Americana cannot be liberated from corporatism sufficient to liberate themselves from oil consumption beyond lubricant and plastic production as a consequence.
Reliance on Sunni middle-eastern oil and abstract devaluing of Muslim's as recalcitrant consumers and global corporate employees creates a general western incompetence at political intervention and interaction with the actual political factors and peoples of Iraq and the middle east. Yes in time some of these people given political freedom and prosperity might on their own choose to take up more western values or even realize that Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal salvation with God, but force will not do it. Corporatist flush with a cold war victory over a transitional Russian people not really unwilling entirely to join the west believe that the world is now their oyster with a bit of hubris cutting off themselves from their own origins in western democracy and liberation during the era of the reformation, enlightenment and industrial revolution. In the middle east and Mesopotamia these western concerns are not necessarily shared while survival day to day has a more pragmatic drawing of attention. The political facts of Iraq do matter to all of these people and finding a suitable combination or alignment of the pieces politically in Iraq that is satisfactory to all the people that also includes a structure that will not be inimical to U.S. security would be a challenging enough activity if Americans could even be sure that the administration had anything other than a corporatist goal of homogenizing the people of Iraq under a friendly central government that will sell oil to corporatist interests keeping the U.S.A. addicted to gross crude oil consumption and borrowed funds to pay for the federal debt. The people of the United States have even begun to pay the interest on the hundreds of billions squandered in Iraq during the incompetent nation rebuilding fiasco (read A. Allawi's book 'The Occupation of Iraq').
One may wonder if Iran would have sought to build nuclear weapons faster if Saddam Hussein had remained in power or if Israel would have destroyed the Iranian nuclear plants producing material to wipe out Israel presently as the President of Iran Aminidinijab seems to express- ('Israel will be destroyed soon'). One wonders if the rhetoric from Iran is stimulated by the Bush II incompetence in rebuilding Iraq and is fueled by the Bush II talks recently with a wheel on the 'axis of evil' to such an effect that Iran believes the Bush II administration cannot stand aside and green light the destruction of all Iranian nuclear plants and Presidential palaces as the repercussions in Iraq would be too much.
It must seem to those that have not read recent historical material on Iraq or privileged enough to learn what the Bush II Iraq policy presently is beside 'fighting a war on terror' that is somewhat overly broad and generic that U.S. policy is mysteriously shrouded in corporatist goals of oil and that under 200 dollars a barrel...Americans just wouldn't pay more than that and the Russian government would be rolling in money if a middle east general war breaks out while the world corporatist economy will go into a depression including China with the possibilities for mass military movements. One of the disadvantages of globalist corporate unprincipled profit policy is that a certain vulnerable house of cards structuring is created.
American tactics in Iraq during the reconstruction would always have been better with a non-corporatist approach such as building security and fishing canals in Baghdad, privatizing oil field ownership equally amidst all Iraqi citizens in one corporation and Iraq elections to the board of that corporation would be very meaningful. Because the people own the oil privately corporatism is narrowly avoided. Corporatists don't wish to avoid ownership of the oil by the government as in Alaska with sales to global corporations (if Alaska sub-surface rights are given to property owners on former state land the land reverts to federal control). Corporatism and socialism are dialectically evolving forces as two-sides of one leaf growing to global dictatorship over a proletariat. Because the fundamental corporatist governing mechanism is non-existent to irrational force the results in American foreign policy such as in Iraq are messy...so how to get these Iraq's to live together peacefully may be enough of a challenge for the people of the United States to afford, Americans will be left with the corporate oppressor class themselves every minute of every day for decades.
The Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia have declared the Shi'a anathema in effect. Shi'a have never before ruled a middle east Arabian nation and the Sunni royalty don't want to have one start now. Saudi supplies more than 50% of foreign terrorists to Iraq and perhaps a lot of dollars. If the people of Iraq are given the oil equally as citizens then no one will be cheated, and Sunnis of Anbar province and the west bank of Baghdad can go there own way as a confederal autonomous province as may the Shi'a of the east bank and south and the Kurds of the North. Perhaps the Sunni of the west will want to join with Jordan to form a greater Hashemite constitutional democracy and alleviate some of the financial problems besetting the Palestinian fugitives living in poverty there.
If Israel would swiftly wipe out the Iranian nuclear plants the region could have some breathing space from that new building issues, the general hate mongering would help unify Iraqis for a while in condemnation against the Zionist entity', Persians and Sunni in Iraq could join hands and build a ice little oil pumping confederal empire and U.S. forces could draw down their forces over three years to any of the three Iraqi districts that want them as well as the United States and Kuwait while simultaneously a President Edwards is supporting a Manhattan project Marshall plan for home-power electrical generation and electric cars for the United States.
6/2/07
Say No to Loss Of Mexican Border Sovereignty
Mexico was late to join the war against Hitler, and like Argentina flirted with the Nazi's, and the Zimmerman affair brought to light the Nazi effort to sign a secret treaty with Mexico. Americans fought hard against the Nazis during the second world war for democracy and it is reprehensible to expect Americans to yield their nation to Mexico simply because their may be majority of white people in the United States a war to eliminate fascism isn't a war upon all white people everywhere. World war two was not a war to give the United States to Latin Americans.
Whiteness or blackness are not crimes-fascism is. Mexican and internationale cohort illegal entry into the U.S.A. lawbreaking is closer to the fascist invasion of Poland than to lawful immigration through a port of entry.
The amnesty bill is a globalist-corporatist economic, security and national sovereignty war on the southern U.S. southern border.
President Bush would like an Mexican reaming illegal alien amnesty bill pr victory for his retirement to Waco in 2009 in order to input further cheap profit or potential Mexivan financial kickbacks. It is untrue that the Presidential Library for Mr. G.W. Bush will have only one volumn; "Misunderestimations of the Democrat Party in Politics" by C. Spot Run
Like Colonel Khaddafi's 'amnesty' for oil the administration may plan for some Republican administration of the future to give Os Bin Ladin 'amnesty' too in return for oil in some Sunni enclave beyond the tarmac. That sort of thing doesn't work if Marine General Conway' Faluja Brigade 'amnesty' of terrorists converted into a Marine auxiliary that returned to terrorism is any example.
The infiltration corridor for cheap labor amnesty for illegal aliens before total border control is established bill that will perhaps not be established is the frontier for an anti-democracy invasion.
Illegal aliens numbering from 12 to 20 million will not choose to permanently remain in the United States if the border is closed off from the south to illegal entry fortunately. Instead attrition will reduce their numbers as they return home to stay. Within five years the number remaining should drop by half, and if illegals turn themselves in within a year of the border becoming secure were eligible to apply to return legally after they leave the U.S.A. instead of being arrested and deported to become ineligible to return legally the number remaining illegally in the U.S.A. would probably drop to 1/4th the original number of illegals.
The historical disingenuity of the George W. Bush administration on the empirical state of affairs of domestic and international relations appears again in the President's support for the Mexican Border Surrender Act of 2007. The President decries opposition as 'fear mongering'-- that from a President that has had two terms of reliance on 9-11 fear mongering to be taken seriously as a politician. The most recent Muslim terrorists arrested in the plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix had some cadre that entered the U.S.A. illegally.
The southern border is an essential potential avenue of terrorist infiltration and exfiltration in addition to illegal drug portage'.The President acts as if it is instead Mary Poppin's directed preferred underground railroad route for campasinos to escape the confederate slavery of crazy Nazi Aryans oppressing apartheid separated Mexicans from their rightful place as employees of Home Depot or Wal-Mart that just want to do the dirty work Americans won't do.
A U.S.A. grafted onto by a permanent Mexican right-of-return to the U.S.A.(even if they've never been here before) by cowering congressmen fearful of China or more Mexican May Day protests in the streets of D.C. and Los Angeles yet relying on their cheap labor to give constituents a prosperous, comfortable 'rickshah boost' with cheap products at Wal-Mart is a nation in which democracy has become defunct and replaced by corporatist, globalist oligarchic collectives will. That turn away from democracy and road ahead may seem allright as the U.S.A.'s inherited comparative advantage is being cashed out and invested abroad, but the pimp's income falters when opulent attractions of his line of sweet products becomes old and second rate and meth-amphetamine broken down economically speaking...the consequences of fossil fuel addiction, federal debt and non-investment in secure borders and high-quality ecological technology manufacturing in the U.S.A. in preference for reliance on cheap foreign labor.
History demonstrates that nations relying on exploiting cheap labor retard their social and economic growth. The confederacy of course needed to launch a war upon the north before the north pulled away too far in manufacturing and technical prowess while the southerners relied on slaves.
The imperial Russian government's historical reliance on white slaves (serfs) was the actual source of Russia's comparative economic backwardnesslater while western Europe advanced more quickly through tthe industrial revolution. Imperial China before the nationalist revolution was another slacker society ruled by an elite royal mafia forcing the masses to live like slaves. Reliance on cheap labor in the United States in the agricultural sector displaces mechanical harvesting innovations.
In commercial kitchens cheap labor to empty trash cans replaces innovations in portable low cost lifts to lift and dump individual garbage cans into larger powered intermodal carriers to lift into dumpsters...even commercial kitchen garbage cans fail to have built in weighing and l.e.d. read-out displays so the poor laborer knows if the trash can has 100 or 200 pounds of water, coffee grounds, meat waste and other heavier materials. Too many Americans want easy, good paying non-inventive employment positions with the heavy lifting exported.
The end result of the denial of democracy and failure to comprehend corporatism and socialism is the loss of liberty politically and comparative national economic advantage. In a corrupted global economy without liberty in which the best Mafia rule the worst potential of humanity is expressed with the more distopian empirical political actualizations having the best chances of actualizing.
Corporatism was only invented by Mussolini in the 1930's and isn't generally understood by Americans nor others internationally. Corporatism and neo-corporatism have permutated and evolved beyond the initial theoretical inception as real political structures usually do. Neither Marx nor Smith had a conception of the potential synthetic business form that would displace capitalism and democracy in the move towards a combined capitalist and state socialist authoritarian society. After the end of the former Soviet Union in 1990 and 'the end of history' as some wags then had it the New World Order of synthetic socialism-capitalism could begin to grow, yet some still seek to conserve a nationalist emocratic America with liberty and justice for all Americans in a thriving ecology ledaing the world in space technology and green manufacturing creations.
President Bush and Senator Kennedy, two former heavy alcohol drinkers without combat experience are prominent advocates for border control defeat in order to let cheap labor continue to flood out the American poor and middle class for the convenience of globalist corporatists. A trained p.o.w. is another leader in the effort to yield the United States to effective Mexican conquest with instant phenomenal amnesty for up to 20 million Mexicans and free rights of immigration for their relatives perhaps numbering as many as 150 million.
Mexico isn't a third world country, and with some help could be made livable with more tacos and nachos, Dos Cuervos and tortilla for everyone. Even electric waterless toilets, solar power panel proliferation, dvd players able to input a thumb drive contents and play that so every cheap battery operated DVD player in Mexico costing 30 bucks can hold a modest library's books (a 1000 or so), electric small car manufacturing with home power solar panels to charge batteries, concrete monolithic dome construction can replace many square building technologies--monolithicdomes.com has instructed a village in India on methods of constructing the fine long lasting structures for low cost...Mexico can be made livable if the corporatists inspired by the socialist fascist example of Mussolini can be restrained from conquering the sovereignty of the United States.
A border control zone a mile wide should be ecologically designed along the Mexican border to make passage of illegal entrants highly improbable; this could include deep ditches with berms and drive atop patrol roads, fences and water barriers with saltwater siphoned from the Gulfs and utilized for recreation and travel of small boats. Some evaporation and condensation canals may be attached to create fresh water supplies for new Mexico and Arizona as well as Northern Mexico if laws are passed to replace green laws in desert cities with natural desert landscaping while federal research incentives to conform present asphalt highways into heat reflecting and solar photon-electron generating surfaces could be developed.
President Bush at the end of his administration seems to desire to obfuscate his opposition to the Kyoto protocol with further global warming control goals that would take place in effect after he leaves office to accompany his balance the budget economics after he leaves office goals. Mr. Bush is also leaving a withdraw the military forces from Iraq after he leaves office with the improve the fuel economy of SUV and the national car fleet after he leaves office plan. The illegal immigration instant amnesty bill has a totally secure the border after he leaves office plan as well unlikely to be accomplished by anyone either. Additional after Mr. Bush leaves office administration goals for the next administration to work on are balancing the federal budget, capturing Osama Bin Ladin, stopping the Iranians from building nuclear weapons. replacing fossil fuel use in American automobiles with alternative energy power such as electricity produced at home by consumers (I improved the quality of that goal for him).
The amnesty bill requires a lot of dissimulation to putch through and the corporatists/globalists have deep pockets to intimidate and propagandize the public. While Miss America was jeered recently in Mexico City the leadership for the subvert American democracy permanently bill was plotting how to wrap up the border for the President of Mexico. The congressional and administration losers leading the way to defeat of democracy fear socialism in Mexico, and fear the loss of income from a change away from national dependence on fossil fuels. In Alaska oil companies corrupt local politics and seek to get the state to pay a half a billion dollars to finance a natural gas pipeline through Canada. U.S. Senator Ted Stevens is being investigated by the F.B.I. for large home improvements channelled through VECO-an oil services company whose CEO pleaded guilty to federal charges of participating in bribing efforts of Alaskan politicians on pipeline taxation issues. Oil corporatism is far reaching and global; in Iraq the reconstruction probably would have gone much better without several conflict of interest issues by Bush administration officials and oil company interests. One should not underestimate the perfidy of the Bush administration on unintelligent execution of narrow minded global corporatist goals. Democracy has intelligent individuals working for the public good, while corporatism is capable of good governing immersed in profit motives stampeding themselves like a herd of cattle trampling every rational, empirical thing towards the water holes and green grass of money.
Corporatists in error believe that production and profit can replace rational democratic government, and that somewhere within capitalism there is an invisible political philosopher that will guide them to produce the best Dr. Fixall in a bottle to remedy every political, environmental and misc. issue that may arise. Adam Smith never intended capitalism to replace democracy or any other form of government but instead to compete to produce the best products at the lowest costs economically for the masses. Corporatists work fundamentally against capitalism by cooption and destruction of democracy and the freedoms required for both democratic political and social philosophical analysis as well as rival free enterprise. Without boundaries and without civil rights and meaningful equally enforced laws corporatism descends into the totalitarian state familiar to Stalinists.
That empirical blindness isn't enough to conserve a democracy or serve national public interests and leaves socialism as the ineffective and oppressive remedy for much of the international poor. If corporatists kill democracy and democratic development socialism racism sexism and Spencerian forms are the usual beneficiaries politically before the dark night of dictatorship falls.
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