Genotypes and phenotypes contrast genetic versus environmental and behavioral elements of the construction of an individual and species. Bird species differentiation from environmental separation as well as from competition with other birds may change their song patterns.
I have been reading the Ptarmigan’s Dilemma by John and Mary Therberge this October in Alaska and made it through an interesting section on ornithological facts. I should mention that the major premise of the book is on the subject of the organization of life and of ecosystems too. As a soul with an avocation in philosophy perhaps I have a different perspective on life and its development from non-living materials and of the cosmological relationships of all things. Yet I like the Therberg’s book for several reasons especially with its attention to detail of the natural world.
When I learned today on the broadcast news of the order of a federal judge in California that the U.S. military should immediately end its practice of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in order to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military, I was reading about the number of notes per second some select songbird species can sing—as many as forty. Human beings comparatively have the capability of singing four notes per second.
The competition amongst birds to sing in order to communicate territorial claims and find a mate in more populous areas compels certain features and variation patterns of song coding that will enable them to recognize their own species. Perhaps modern humans in urban environments are better than bird brained creatures, yet we see the same intensity in language development in rave speech today that might be compared with birdsong. At any rate, the genotypes and phenotypes of birds tend to be exclusively devoted to evolutionary self—interest, as perhaps was the federal judge’s decision to force a heterosexual military social environment to openly allow potential predator and minimally anti-communication reinforcing homosexuals openly in their midst.
The evolution of social environments and of governments is a complex affair comparable in several ways to the evolution of ecosystems. Human ecosystem development often comprises simple exploitation of its resources. Americans in particular tend to live in a veritable technological existential automobile commune of variegated structure that reinforces fossil fuel consumption and patterns of social behavior that reinforce those particular social values with a mythos of free enterprise capitalism overlying the continental phenomena of highway expansion and larger vehicles. Environments over-stressed by a given species and generally the human species often collapse.
It is the collapse of environmental systems that is of interest. In reading The Ptarmigan’s Dilemma I was again reminded of the complex interaction of various species in supporting the entire structure. Birds may bury seeds or transport them for sprouting; bovine hooves may create indentations in the sod for seeds to sprout and so on. The natural relationships in any given ecosystem are complex as are those of human social institutions such as government.
In the United States the people have a tradition of government with the consent of the governed. Perhaps today with so many urban Americans, so few farmers and people living directly off the environment as primary producers in a renewable way ( I believe the Therberges called it living off the interest of nature rather than on the principle) the concept of the consent of the governed might be changed such that it morphs into a metrosexual-existential paradigm of bread, circuses (pro sports) and good corporate or government jobs rather than of individuals and families well able to earn a living without being within a tightly supervised social establishment.
In Alaska long ago a miner named Frank Miller and his brother arrived to look for gold. Frank’s brother brought the first cow into the Yukon over the Chilkoot trail from Dyea near Skagway. ‘Cow’ Miller sold milk to Yukon miners by the glass for an exorbitant, enterprising cost, and eventually the Miller family established a roadhouse and prospected along the eponymous Miller Creek on the Steese Highway. The Therberge’s described their friendship with Frank Miller who lived to the age of 94 as well as the ecosystem changes to the Miller Creek area after Frank Miller’s death by.
If Joe Miller becomes the next U.S. Senator, we hope that he will continue the Alaska pioneering tradition of that family name not only on his farm that still has a mortgage on it, but in the entire state as well regarding the ecosystem as a vital and sensitive living thing requiring care and careful though to manage in a healthy way.
Ecosystem succession has a couple of basic theories that I won’t describe here, yet I think that principles of ecosystem succession may apply as well at the human social level of government as well. If the people are governed without their consent such as when onerous practices and polices are forced upon them they can effectively revolt in a variety of ways. Ghandi’s principles of non-violence might be applied through federal deficit spending in order to create such a large public debt that the people of the individual state general agree that a succession to fifty independent nations without public debt might be a better idea.
That is a reason why the federal government’s efforts to force a homosexualized social environment upon the nation in a variety of ways may not be an effective way to create a better society. Maybe creating a better society isn’t the obligation or duty of the U.S. Government yet we may prefer to believe that it is.
Fundamentally laws made by a government can be compared to driving an automobile and rules of the road. Each individual’ freedom to move is regarded as the ultimate good. Gridlock defeats all social interests collectively and may require extreme action temporarily suspending individual rights (such as detours). In theory I do not care if a driver wants to park his car sideways on a busy freeway—he can take his car wherever he likes except on my private property (if I had any). Yet in practice laws regulating auto driving are required in order to allow the traffic to flow freely.
Today it is difficult to advance the Unit6ed States beyond the automobile-highway paradigm of life. Expanding the number of roads and destroying the health of ecosystems are facts of life. Species are being exterminated and the federal government consistently tries to force a homosexual paradigm upon the laws of the United States. A butch government is not a liked government, and dissent may include dissolving the government of the United States through a non-violent succession one day, and perhaps it would be best to avoid that, and perhaps not.
In order to conserve and restore an intelligent ecosystem health relationship of most Americans to the environment returning the sovereignty of the individual states to themselves may be a better way to allow ecosystem conservatives to live in and restore the health of at least a portion of the United States of America.
Well, who can say what the future will allow to develop? Intelligent governance makes the people satisfied rather than unhappy. It brings a balanced budget and a healthy environment. Economic growth occurs when full employment happens through sharing of existing resources and efficiency increases in use of ecological resources and technological knowledge. Economic growth that occurs through the increase of consumption and despoliation of the environment may bring a concentration of wealth and reallocation of natural resource conversion and manufacture production to improve the standard of living of the rich instead of a reduction of the number of unemployed.
A good government educates and reinforces the valid principle of eliminating poverty and unemployment nationally without increasing gross natural resource consumption. Millions of jobs could be created in transitioning toward a renewable, full employment ecosystem revitalization economy with Herman Dailey’s ecological economics criteria. A sustainable national economy with 300 to 500 million people in the United States that is in environmental recovery is not so difficult to achieve simultaneously with full employment and health care for the poor and improving quality of life for all citizens, yet it requires and effort and intention by politicians to accomplish—it will not simply ‘evolve’.
10/12/10
10/9/10
Latin King Goonies Fail Federal Workplace Hate Free Crime Environment-G.W.H. Bush-Gates-Rumsfeld Contractor Era
Finally the federal judicial effort to provide special protection to special elements of society have paid off. The vicious gang beating by gangsters of a gang recruit applicant and his acquiantances has brought charges that hate was an additional element of the Latin King Goonies Gang decision to victimize homosexuals.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101009/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_hate_crime_4
Normally, gang beatings, robbings, stabbings, extortions and murders of straight people and straight gang rivals occur without the bias of hate. Usually gangsters are kinder and gentle-like Don Corlione perhaps. Gang workplace rules for criminal activities have now come under federal scrutiny and are likely to improve.
If only Elliot Ness would have had such powerful federal weapons to fight hate perhaps the Lavender Hill mob of Chicago could have expanded its rum running turf and prevented the St. Valentines Day massacre from occurring-perhaps, maybe.
The Federal hate crimes laws to prosecute gang members in Juarez Mexico and Tijuana reaching over the border into the United State may not slow down killing much, yet at least Americans can rest assured that it won’t be done hatefully.
The hate of gangs may actually increase in era of high unemployment as the broadcast media seem to have easy money, morals and corrupt power. Yet what are gangs that the federal government is mindful of them?
Brown and Root was a large Defense contractor in the Vietnam era that built most of the largest U.S. bases in Vietnam. Former Defence Secretary Rumsfeld visited Cam Ran bay in 1965 as a congressman Of course he served along with George H.W. Bush in the Nixon administration-one as the youngest defense Sect. ever and the other as Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The G.H.W. Bush effect on U.S. politics and defense contracting through the era of the Father, the Son and the Rumsfeld-Gates axis has continued for a few decades with some member of that group virtually continuously in service of the U.S. Government. While not exactly a gang it does present an evident appearancee of a conflict of interest with defense contractors, foreigh military engagements and U.S. foreign policy. The drift of thte United States toward making hate crimes a kind of marlin waiting capture by federal authorities also increased in this era, with present Defense Secretary and former Clinton C.I.A. Chief Bill Gates advocating for an open homosexual presence in the U.S. Military.
Since Defense Secretary Gates was so well informed about the Pakistani-Kashmiri-Afghanistan terrorist networks, it is a wonder that since taking office as Defense Secretary the United States has not developed a better policy to conclude the Kashmir-Pakistan-India line of control problems and ran the border legally halfway between K-2 and the nearest glacier to the east. With such a development Pakistan might agree that the presence of any terrorist training bases in Pakistan should put Pakistan non the watch list of nations supporting terrorism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101009/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_hate_crime_4
Normally, gang beatings, robbings, stabbings, extortions and murders of straight people and straight gang rivals occur without the bias of hate. Usually gangsters are kinder and gentle-like Don Corlione perhaps. Gang workplace rules for criminal activities have now come under federal scrutiny and are likely to improve.
If only Elliot Ness would have had such powerful federal weapons to fight hate perhaps the Lavender Hill mob of Chicago could have expanded its rum running turf and prevented the St. Valentines Day massacre from occurring-perhaps, maybe.
The Federal hate crimes laws to prosecute gang members in Juarez Mexico and Tijuana reaching over the border into the United State may not slow down killing much, yet at least Americans can rest assured that it won’t be done hatefully.
The hate of gangs may actually increase in era of high unemployment as the broadcast media seem to have easy money, morals and corrupt power. Yet what are gangs that the federal government is mindful of them?
Brown and Root was a large Defense contractor in the Vietnam era that built most of the largest U.S. bases in Vietnam. Former Defence Secretary Rumsfeld visited Cam Ran bay in 1965 as a congressman Of course he served along with George H.W. Bush in the Nixon administration-one as the youngest defense Sect. ever and the other as Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The G.H.W. Bush effect on U.S. politics and defense contracting through the era of the Father, the Son and the Rumsfeld-Gates axis has continued for a few decades with some member of that group virtually continuously in service of the U.S. Government. While not exactly a gang it does present an evident appearancee of a conflict of interest with defense contractors, foreigh military engagements and U.S. foreign policy. The drift of thte United States toward making hate crimes a kind of marlin waiting capture by federal authorities also increased in this era, with present Defense Secretary and former Clinton C.I.A. Chief Bill Gates advocating for an open homosexual presence in the U.S. Military.
Since Defense Secretary Gates was so well informed about the Pakistani-Kashmiri-Afghanistan terrorist networks, it is a wonder that since taking office as Defense Secretary the United States has not developed a better policy to conclude the Kashmir-Pakistan-India line of control problems and ran the border legally halfway between K-2 and the nearest glacier to the east. With such a development Pakistan might agree that the presence of any terrorist training bases in Pakistan should put Pakistan non the watch list of nations supporting terrorism.
10/8/10
After Osama Bin Ladin's Abu Jindal Declaration of War on America-Evolution of Economic Attacks?
Since Osama Bin Ladin speaking at his Abu Jindal terrorist training camp in Afghanistan declared in 1998 that he would send attacks upon American targets, U.S. intelligence and military services had had a difficult time keeping up with the latest Al Qa’eda T.O.E. (table of evolution). http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/militia-fac.htm
When the United States allowed al Qa’eda to escape from Tora Bora and Khandahar with the Taliban of Afghanistan the terrorist organizations were able to return to former friendly locales in Pakistan and more recently Kashmir. Al Qa’eda today may have more terrorist training infrastructure than it did in 1998-the year that Pakistan detonated five nuclear bombs at once to demonstrate to India their nuclear capability.
http://www.currentintelligence.net/agenda/2010/7/5/al-qaeda-in-kashmir.html
http://kashmirihindu.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/taliban-al-qaeda-linked-to-kashmir/
Pakistan has had a history since 1947 of support for radical Muslim terrorist organization fundamentally to war against Indian political and military forces in Kashmir. Pakistani intelligence and military services have largely controlled these organizations. Terrorist networks of large jihadist groups such as Hizbul Mujahideen are quite bloody and ruthless even purging rival jihadist organizations by the thousands. These organizations with Kashmiri insurrectionist goals have long trained and even fought in Afghanistan.
Al Qa’eda has declared a new branch for Kashmir named al Qaeda in Kasmir. Without a good regional approach to terrorist management abroad, and a new ecological economic pro-nationalist spin on full employment for U.S. citizens and no immigration of cheap, destabilizing foreign labor the prospects for American defrapping of the fundamentalist Muslim assault upon western civilization funded largely by oil sales profit sharing diminish.
It would be a fine thing if some Nobel Peace Prize winning political liberator like China's Liu Xiaobo emerge to lead the Central Asian Muslim world away from the road to global terrorist jihad, yet that seems unlikely.
Because the U.S. economic structure has moved away from a monetary base with money function generally as an intermediate abstract trade device to one in which the manipulation of money and finance debases the value of real material production the United States has moved into an economic milieu with more regard for the possession of the intrinsically worthless paper than of the well being of citizens.
Financial networking has become the main producer of more money (besides the dubiously honorable U.S. Federal Reserve that may just print up money to buy federal bonds thus further debasing the value of material production). Even home mortgages have become commodified and tradable en masse by foreign concerns. The development of global financial networks that have undermined U.S. material security and production values of material goods in a practical sense have made the United States vulnerable to foreign economic terrorism. In reliance upon foreign oil and a corrupting and implicitly environmentally obsolete economic structure the United States places itself on the auction block of financial terrorism and Muslim intrigue. Plainly if al Qa’eda were to take out the Saudi Ras Tannura oil facility or otherwise close down mid-east oil sales right away the U.S. economy would plunge into depression.
Al Qa’eda is unlikely to destroy the primary source of Saudi, Sunni, Wahhabist wealth. The Arab terrorists training in Pakistan and possibly Kashmir share the same religious and national credentials even if from an antipathetic economic position in some instances.
Not much can be said for American prospects for not merging through much terrorism and financial defeat to eventual Muslim control and even Sharia if the nation’s leadership is simply stupid, lazy and greedy. There is no guarantee of anything politically in the wild kingdom.
When the United States allowed al Qa’eda to escape from Tora Bora and Khandahar with the Taliban of Afghanistan the terrorist organizations were able to return to former friendly locales in Pakistan and more recently Kashmir. Al Qa’eda today may have more terrorist training infrastructure than it did in 1998-the year that Pakistan detonated five nuclear bombs at once to demonstrate to India their nuclear capability.
http://www.currentintelligence.net/agenda/2010/7/5/al-qaeda-in-kashmir.html
http://kashmirihindu.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/taliban-al-qaeda-linked-to-kashmir/
Pakistan has had a history since 1947 of support for radical Muslim terrorist organization fundamentally to war against Indian political and military forces in Kashmir. Pakistani intelligence and military services have largely controlled these organizations. Terrorist networks of large jihadist groups such as Hizbul Mujahideen are quite bloody and ruthless even purging rival jihadist organizations by the thousands. These organizations with Kashmiri insurrectionist goals have long trained and even fought in Afghanistan.
Al Qa’eda has declared a new branch for Kashmir named al Qaeda in Kasmir. Without a good regional approach to terrorist management abroad, and a new ecological economic pro-nationalist spin on full employment for U.S. citizens and no immigration of cheap, destabilizing foreign labor the prospects for American defrapping of the fundamentalist Muslim assault upon western civilization funded largely by oil sales profit sharing diminish.
It would be a fine thing if some Nobel Peace Prize winning political liberator like China's Liu Xiaobo emerge to lead the Central Asian Muslim world away from the road to global terrorist jihad, yet that seems unlikely.
Because the U.S. economic structure has moved away from a monetary base with money function generally as an intermediate abstract trade device to one in which the manipulation of money and finance debases the value of real material production the United States has moved into an economic milieu with more regard for the possession of the intrinsically worthless paper than of the well being of citizens.
Financial networking has become the main producer of more money (besides the dubiously honorable U.S. Federal Reserve that may just print up money to buy federal bonds thus further debasing the value of material production). Even home mortgages have become commodified and tradable en masse by foreign concerns. The development of global financial networks that have undermined U.S. material security and production values of material goods in a practical sense have made the United States vulnerable to foreign economic terrorism. In reliance upon foreign oil and a corrupting and implicitly environmentally obsolete economic structure the United States places itself on the auction block of financial terrorism and Muslim intrigue. Plainly if al Qa’eda were to take out the Saudi Ras Tannura oil facility or otherwise close down mid-east oil sales right away the U.S. economy would plunge into depression.
Al Qa’eda is unlikely to destroy the primary source of Saudi, Sunni, Wahhabist wealth. The Arab terrorists training in Pakistan and possibly Kashmir share the same religious and national credentials even if from an antipathetic economic position in some instances.
Not much can be said for American prospects for not merging through much terrorism and financial defeat to eventual Muslim control and even Sharia if the nation’s leadership is simply stupid, lazy and greedy. There is no guarantee of anything politically in the wild kingdom.
10/7/10
Mini-Submarines as Nuclear Bomb Package Delivery Vectors (The Gomar Khan Factor)
Since 1996 a variety of home-built semi submersible submarines have been fabricated to deliver cocaine to the United States from Columbia. Many of these large smuggling vehicles are apprehended by legal authorities, perhaps some are not. The potential for manufacturing very small, completely submersible drone craft to deliver a nuclear bomb to a harbor city such as San Francisco, Los Angeles or Anchorage Alaska, Boston or Washington D.C. via the Chesapeake Bay is manifest. Launched from an approaching ship, fishing boat or seafood processor offshore, made to carry at bomb at a set depth such as 400 feet at a slow speed, the minimal drone submersible travelling along may methodically make its way to the harbor to explode.
http://www.niuginidiving.com/japsub.html
http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco_submarine
http://www.psubs.org/store
We believe the engineering and fabrication capacity for production of minimallly detectable mini-submarines is well within the ability of numerous fundamentalist Muslim terrorist organizations. If launched over the side perhaps 100 miles from the U.S. coast, or from international fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska, successfully delivery of a drone, automatically guided mini-submarine nuclear bomb package is evident. Besides the Mexican border infiltration route, the undersea route is also quite real.
The Bush administration in 2008 produced a Homeland Security measure to defend against small boat ingression of weapons deliver packages by terrorists, yet we remain unconvinced that a foreign fishing vessel in international waters beyond Kodiak could not introduce a mini-submersible drone to crawl up Cook Inlet to Anchorage, or alternatively from the Grand Banks into Boston Harbor.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/04/28/homeland-security-unveils-plans-to-thwart-small-boat-terror-attacks/
Pakistan has about 100 nuclear warheads and has miniaturized some for use on missiles. It is increasing its plutonium producing capacity, nad manufactures a significant about of plutonium. The Nagasaki bomb used in World War Two had only 6 kilograms of Pu-239. A good plutonium bomb needs only 8 to 11 kilograms, and the Pakistanis spike their bombs with tritium, and a few ounce of that makes a nuclear bomb 300% more explosive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Making a mini-submarine drone able to deliver a 30 to 40 pound bomb of U-239 doesn't seems that difficult. With the I.S.I., the Taleban, al Qa'eda and a plethora of additional terrorist groups good buddies, perhaps new border security control measures should be taken to screen out the big bang the first time it's launched.
http://www.niuginidiving.com/japsub.html
http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco_submarine
http://www.psubs.org/store
We believe the engineering and fabrication capacity for production of minimallly detectable mini-submarines is well within the ability of numerous fundamentalist Muslim terrorist organizations. If launched over the side perhaps 100 miles from the U.S. coast, or from international fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska, successfully delivery of a drone, automatically guided mini-submarine nuclear bomb package is evident. Besides the Mexican border infiltration route, the undersea route is also quite real.
The Bush administration in 2008 produced a Homeland Security measure to defend against small boat ingression of weapons deliver packages by terrorists, yet we remain unconvinced that a foreign fishing vessel in international waters beyond Kodiak could not introduce a mini-submersible drone to crawl up Cook Inlet to Anchorage, or alternatively from the Grand Banks into Boston Harbor.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/04/28/homeland-security-unveils-plans-to-thwart-small-boat-terror-attacks/
Pakistan has about 100 nuclear warheads and has miniaturized some for use on missiles. It is increasing its plutonium producing capacity, nad manufactures a significant about of plutonium. The Nagasaki bomb used in World War Two had only 6 kilograms of Pu-239. A good plutonium bomb needs only 8 to 11 kilograms, and the Pakistanis spike their bombs with tritium, and a few ounce of that makes a nuclear bomb 300% more explosive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Making a mini-submarine drone able to deliver a 30 to 40 pound bomb of U-239 doesn't seems that difficult. With the I.S.I., the Taleban, al Qa'eda and a plethora of additional terrorist groups good buddies, perhaps new border security control measures should be taken to screen out the big bang the first time it's launched.
10/6/10
Kashmir, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan & U.S. Foreign Policy
This is a brief article to describe some elements of the equilibrium of terrorist organization location, activity and relationship in the central Asian region, as I understand it. For an American citizen with interests besides those of foreign policy objectives and analysis there is quite a lot of time consuming reading required to get a meaningful idea of the relationships in this area.
The U.S. Defense budget is just about the largest expense annual in the U.S. federal budget. We as citizens are told by the military from year t year that the 'war' must go on for several years for national defense. We also wonder if the cost is worth the return. Since it is our federal budget, we have no necessity of signing carte blanche these checks too fund military, defense contractors and C.I.A. ventures abroad. National interest might be in making our own nation prosper rather than those of central Asia.
So we wonder; is the premise that installing a friendly government in Afghanistan will halt most al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the United States valid. Another point possible, desirable and so forth. We wonder how many years that will take, and what the opportunity for the United States will be?
The origin of terrorist training camps and organizations in Pakistan goes back to the early 19th century. Jihadist organizations sought to repel the noon-Muslim British occupiers. Yet we will skip over that to the more recent 1940's, 1970s and 1980's when two more recent political conflicts stimulated the formation of jihadist terrorist training organizations in Pakistan.
The first and most significant cause was the sectarian separation of India and Pakistan and their fight to control Kashmir. On one side is the Hindu Indian Government with the legal title to Kashmir and on the other is the majority population of Muslims with decades long support continuing to the present of training of jihadist Muslim guerilla fighters. The 1972 line of control roughly divided Kashmir and Jammu in half and is a good enough permanent boundary, yet neither nation (Pakistan or India) would be happy with that, and the additional problem of Kashmiri Muslim guerrillas fighting for Kashmiri national independence form both Pakistan and India also exists.
The Pakistan Intelligence Service and military have worked for decades in providing training and support for Kashmiri Muslim jhadist guerrilla fighters. Pakistani leaders have supported the constellation of terrorist training camps and have provided arms and munitions including some from the United States.
The Afghanistan war against the Soviets and the Afghan civil war following led to the Taliban taking control of most of the nation. The Taliban were formed in Pakistan and simply move south when American forces are present. It is possible that a natural selection of fundamentalist Muslim leaders are elevated to lead the Taliban and that to negotiate with the United States would be suicidal in effect, for the Taliban would be at the top of one jihadist pyramid and unlikely to receive broad popular support in the jihadist community if they fraternized with the infidels much. U.S. concepts of negotiating with theTaliban seem destine to just create a Hamas effect of shifting the violence to another terrorist organization and infrastructure supported at sometime by the Pakistani I.S.I. (intelligence service).
The United States to reduce the terrorist training in Pakistan would need to settle the Kashmir issue satisfactorily to all concerned parties first. That would reduce tensions between India and Pakistan. Pakistan does not want Indian involvement in Afghanistan and were probably happy when the Indian embassy in Kabul was blown up in 2008.
From my point of view it seems improbable that the Indian-Pakistani boundary, water rights and Kashmir control issues will be solved in the next year or two, and that means more pressure for Pakistan to support Muslim jihadist guerrillas to train in Northern Pakistan to establish terror structures and cells in Kashmir. Whenever Pakistan regulars go to fight in Kashmir as they have in the past against Indian forces it escalates the conflict--and that could lead to a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India potentially.
A comprehensive solution to the problems of Pakistan and Kashmir seems an essential element of a plan to have peace in Afghanistan. It is dubious that peace and stability in Afghanistan would itself eliminate the terrorist dangers to U.S. interests, for al Qa'eda and the Taliban merely moved south and east when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and are flourishing there today.
Perhaps Bin Ladin is in an alp near Nanga Parbat in Kashmir with a few wives enjoying the good, rural life-who can say? At six foot five Oz bin Ladin is a striking king of figure in some regards, and one unlikely to be followed by the paparazzi for some years. Because the U.S. Government does not say what its comprehensive India-Pakistan-Kashmir-Afghanistan policy is, we have no basis to determine if it is competent or not, or if there is not a need to formulate a better and more effective policy to reduce the development of terrorism in the region.
The U.S. Defense budget is just about the largest expense annual in the U.S. federal budget. We as citizens are told by the military from year t year that the 'war' must go on for several years for national defense. We also wonder if the cost is worth the return. Since it is our federal budget, we have no necessity of signing carte blanche these checks too fund military, defense contractors and C.I.A. ventures abroad. National interest might be in making our own nation prosper rather than those of central Asia.
So we wonder; is the premise that installing a friendly government in Afghanistan will halt most al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the United States valid. Another point possible, desirable and so forth. We wonder how many years that will take, and what the opportunity for the United States will be?
The origin of terrorist training camps and organizations in Pakistan goes back to the early 19th century. Jihadist organizations sought to repel the noon-Muslim British occupiers. Yet we will skip over that to the more recent 1940's, 1970s and 1980's when two more recent political conflicts stimulated the formation of jihadist terrorist training organizations in Pakistan.
The first and most significant cause was the sectarian separation of India and Pakistan and their fight to control Kashmir. On one side is the Hindu Indian Government with the legal title to Kashmir and on the other is the majority population of Muslims with decades long support continuing to the present of training of jihadist Muslim guerilla fighters. The 1972 line of control roughly divided Kashmir and Jammu in half and is a good enough permanent boundary, yet neither nation (Pakistan or India) would be happy with that, and the additional problem of Kashmiri Muslim guerrillas fighting for Kashmiri national independence form both Pakistan and India also exists.
The Pakistan Intelligence Service and military have worked for decades in providing training and support for Kashmiri Muslim jhadist guerrilla fighters. Pakistani leaders have supported the constellation of terrorist training camps and have provided arms and munitions including some from the United States.
The Afghanistan war against the Soviets and the Afghan civil war following led to the Taliban taking control of most of the nation. The Taliban were formed in Pakistan and simply move south when American forces are present. It is possible that a natural selection of fundamentalist Muslim leaders are elevated to lead the Taliban and that to negotiate with the United States would be suicidal in effect, for the Taliban would be at the top of one jihadist pyramid and unlikely to receive broad popular support in the jihadist community if they fraternized with the infidels much. U.S. concepts of negotiating with theTaliban seem destine to just create a Hamas effect of shifting the violence to another terrorist organization and infrastructure supported at sometime by the Pakistani I.S.I. (intelligence service).
The United States to reduce the terrorist training in Pakistan would need to settle the Kashmir issue satisfactorily to all concerned parties first. That would reduce tensions between India and Pakistan. Pakistan does not want Indian involvement in Afghanistan and were probably happy when the Indian embassy in Kabul was blown up in 2008.
From my point of view it seems improbable that the Indian-Pakistani boundary, water rights and Kashmir control issues will be solved in the next year or two, and that means more pressure for Pakistan to support Muslim jihadist guerrillas to train in Northern Pakistan to establish terror structures and cells in Kashmir. Whenever Pakistan regulars go to fight in Kashmir as they have in the past against Indian forces it escalates the conflict--and that could lead to a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India potentially.
A comprehensive solution to the problems of Pakistan and Kashmir seems an essential element of a plan to have peace in Afghanistan. It is dubious that peace and stability in Afghanistan would itself eliminate the terrorist dangers to U.S. interests, for al Qa'eda and the Taliban merely moved south and east when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and are flourishing there today.
Perhaps Bin Ladin is in an alp near Nanga Parbat in Kashmir with a few wives enjoying the good, rural life-who can say? At six foot five Oz bin Ladin is a striking king of figure in some regards, and one unlikely to be followed by the paparazzi for some years. Because the U.S. Government does not say what its comprehensive India-Pakistan-Kashmir-Afghanistan policy is, we have no basis to determine if it is competent or not, or if there is not a need to formulate a better and more effective policy to reduce the development of terrorism in the region.
Collectivist Capitalism vs. Compassionate Capitalism
This is actually a fairly simple distinction. Capitalism that grows from an individual or family’s personal work building assets without exploiting other people is compassionate capitalism, while the impersonal stock investment, M.B.A. networking trans-national globalism business approach is collectivist. The collectivists are cold-blooded while the small time capitalist is compassionate and cares about his own work and building up of resources.
Adam Smith, the modern spiritual founder of capitalism, wrote largely in support of compassionate capitalism inclusive of trade. There weren't the sort of large-scale networked corporations in existence in his day that built up huge global capital advantages and leveraging monetary sophistication. It is quite a stretch to transmogrify The Wealth of Nations into a support for absolute abstract modern business practices and monetary policy. One must be disingenuous to extend Smith's Wealth of Nations so far as that.
Adam Smith was a pragmatic economist and held the welfare of the people of England of his day-of the ordinary people, as being of first concern. He sought for methods to understand, improve and describe more ideal forms of economic methods. One of the fundamental challenges of his day was to liberalize trade and business from the corrupting control of concentrated wealth in the form of royal power or taxation that was not spent to advance the interests of the people of England.
Thus in the United States today compassionate capitalists may rightly oppose foreign military spending in badly thought out ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We know that jihad by the U.S. Government in Afghanistan is opposed by jihadists from Kashmir, Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Our jihad is an economic one, for the military industrial complex makes a vast fortune on the enterprises, while the goal of preventing terrorist attacks through the installation of a toady regime in Kabul is unlikely to stop the sources of jihad in Pakistan, Kashmir and elsewhere. Better policy is required. What does the expense do to increase the standard of living of the poor and middle class in the U.S.A.?
Compassionate capitalist support a general increase of wealth in the United States for all citizens and of a healthy ecosystem. They have their eyes open and look at the real world and not just abstract profit and loss statements or throughput concepts and expanding networked, corporate power and market control.
Compassionate capitalist support practical limits on the opportunity for individual citizens to control other through the acquisition of monetary wealth and leveraged investments. Social capital may be perceived as differing from compassionate capital and should be limited. A democracy has the freedom to choose to limit the power that collective business enterprises may gain because of their capacity to oppress the citizenry and harm the security of the nation's ecological environment. It is reasonable that a maximum percent of the gross national product held by any legally individual entity such as a corporation or individual might be set in order to prevent tyranny.
Compassionate capitalists would be concerned that the poor would all have free health care and that the environment is getting better and recovering toward a more natural condition of health viable for centuries ahead rather than in decline perennially. Compassionate capitalists would be aware that all citizens require life-long secure housing and would reverse the legislation that eliminated Glass-Steagle protections on home mortgages. A home should not be a financial chip for of interest to global collective capitalist acquisition.
Instead of the duplicitous policy of building quarter million dollar homes for entry level workers to buy with dubious prospect for three decades of job security ahead the Government rightly should encourage a generation of low cost affordable ecologically no net loss of biota energy generating homes. Compassionate capitalists could readily support low-cost affordable housing that is beneficial to the environment comparatively and realistically is a base for self-sufficiency, home gardening and so forth.
While the collectivist capitalist trait is product disposability, through-put for profit and impersonal conformity if citizen reasoning the compassionate capitalist endeavors to assure that all citizens are secure in their home and possessions and that a conservation principle of ecological husbandry overtakes and corrects the wastage of collectivist capitalism.
Adam Smith, the modern spiritual founder of capitalism, wrote largely in support of compassionate capitalism inclusive of trade. There weren't the sort of large-scale networked corporations in existence in his day that built up huge global capital advantages and leveraging monetary sophistication. It is quite a stretch to transmogrify The Wealth of Nations into a support for absolute abstract modern business practices and monetary policy. One must be disingenuous to extend Smith's Wealth of Nations so far as that.
Adam Smith was a pragmatic economist and held the welfare of the people of England of his day-of the ordinary people, as being of first concern. He sought for methods to understand, improve and describe more ideal forms of economic methods. One of the fundamental challenges of his day was to liberalize trade and business from the corrupting control of concentrated wealth in the form of royal power or taxation that was not spent to advance the interests of the people of England.
Thus in the United States today compassionate capitalists may rightly oppose foreign military spending in badly thought out ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We know that jihad by the U.S. Government in Afghanistan is opposed by jihadists from Kashmir, Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Our jihad is an economic one, for the military industrial complex makes a vast fortune on the enterprises, while the goal of preventing terrorist attacks through the installation of a toady regime in Kabul is unlikely to stop the sources of jihad in Pakistan, Kashmir and elsewhere. Better policy is required. What does the expense do to increase the standard of living of the poor and middle class in the U.S.A.?
Compassionate capitalist support a general increase of wealth in the United States for all citizens and of a healthy ecosystem. They have their eyes open and look at the real world and not just abstract profit and loss statements or throughput concepts and expanding networked, corporate power and market control.
Compassionate capitalist support practical limits on the opportunity for individual citizens to control other through the acquisition of monetary wealth and leveraged investments. Social capital may be perceived as differing from compassionate capital and should be limited. A democracy has the freedom to choose to limit the power that collective business enterprises may gain because of their capacity to oppress the citizenry and harm the security of the nation's ecological environment. It is reasonable that a maximum percent of the gross national product held by any legally individual entity such as a corporation or individual might be set in order to prevent tyranny.
Compassionate capitalists would be concerned that the poor would all have free health care and that the environment is getting better and recovering toward a more natural condition of health viable for centuries ahead rather than in decline perennially. Compassionate capitalists would be aware that all citizens require life-long secure housing and would reverse the legislation that eliminated Glass-Steagle protections on home mortgages. A home should not be a financial chip for of interest to global collective capitalist acquisition.
Instead of the duplicitous policy of building quarter million dollar homes for entry level workers to buy with dubious prospect for three decades of job security ahead the Government rightly should encourage a generation of low cost affordable ecologically no net loss of biota energy generating homes. Compassionate capitalists could readily support low-cost affordable housing that is beneficial to the environment comparatively and realistically is a base for self-sufficiency, home gardening and so forth.
While the collectivist capitalist trait is product disposability, through-put for profit and impersonal conformity if citizen reasoning the compassionate capitalist endeavors to assure that all citizens are secure in their home and possessions and that a conservation principle of ecological husbandry overtakes and corrects the wastage of collectivist capitalism.
Bike Ideas & The Kashmir Concept©2010 Gary Clifford Gibson
Recently I broke several spokes simultaneously on a bicycle. With winter approaching and the prospect of riding becoming more dangerous with an increased chance of crashing on asphalt or hard packed snow I thought it might be good to change the usual structure of bike wheels and tires to a more snow and ice friendly format.
It can be challenging to fix a flat tire in the snow, and larger rubber tires weigh more than thin tires yet a wider tire offers a better surface for riding on snow and icy surfaces. Why not increase the tire size and reduce the weight while eliminating the possibility of getting a flat tire?
There are several no-flat tire systems in existence that tend to weigh a lot or be fairly costly. It could be best to change the shape of bike wheels and tires together.
Of course I think a three wheel trike with two wheels and a cargo boot aft would be safer than a two-wheel bike for riding on ice and snow, yet the new wheels and tires should work equally wheel for either and the tires and wheels should work well in warm environments as well.
The new wheels would be of a convex shape something like a half-moon with the curved surface facing outward and a few thick spokes meeting the hub. The tires would be half moon shaped also and not inflated with air at all. For shock absorbing they would be a little like those running shoes popular nowadays with a little built in pseudo spring or shock absorber-yet not made of steel.
The half-moon tires might be of double thickness with a little air space and a lot of small half-inch or so shock absorbers. The tire could be in curved sections instead of in a completely round shape since they are not inflated and are lightweight. It would be possible for these pseudo-tire riding surface to just bolt on to the wheel in various sections-perhaps quarter wheel sections in order to permit alternate bolting on of studded tires for winter riding on ice.
The back of these tire sections could have a curved backing of fiberglass, aluminum or some suitable material to contact the wheel-actually there are innumerable methods of attaching the tire halves to the wheel.
It might be possible to make some sort of a film for-profit about a bicycle designer who goes to live in Kashmir in order to design the fastest bicycle wheel and bike design for competitive road racing. Perhaps he could be a former world champion bike rider who was injured after winning his first race and lost his medal because of a false doping charge later.
The fortyish bike designer could still be in excellent shape and meet some woman who has a father that was involved in some local political movement and killed unjustly by either partisans or government forces or foreign agents.
The designer and the Indian woman could together survive numerous efforts by foreign agents to steal the new bike in order to allow a sectarian rider to win the tour de France and provide a platform for rebellion and a coup d’etat of Jammu and Kashmir to form a terrorist training base.
Of course the bike designer could ride his new bike at high speed across the Himalayan and over the Indus River headwaters on a bridge while being pursued by terrorist jihadists firing full metal jacket AK-47 bullets at the bike designer. I won’t give the ending of the story away. Let’s just say. The bike-riding champion also enjoys skydiving.
It can be challenging to fix a flat tire in the snow, and larger rubber tires weigh more than thin tires yet a wider tire offers a better surface for riding on snow and icy surfaces. Why not increase the tire size and reduce the weight while eliminating the possibility of getting a flat tire?
There are several no-flat tire systems in existence that tend to weigh a lot or be fairly costly. It could be best to change the shape of bike wheels and tires together.
Of course I think a three wheel trike with two wheels and a cargo boot aft would be safer than a two-wheel bike for riding on ice and snow, yet the new wheels and tires should work equally wheel for either and the tires and wheels should work well in warm environments as well.
The new wheels would be of a convex shape something like a half-moon with the curved surface facing outward and a few thick spokes meeting the hub. The tires would be half moon shaped also and not inflated with air at all. For shock absorbing they would be a little like those running shoes popular nowadays with a little built in pseudo spring or shock absorber-yet not made of steel.
The half-moon tires might be of double thickness with a little air space and a lot of small half-inch or so shock absorbers. The tire could be in curved sections instead of in a completely round shape since they are not inflated and are lightweight. It would be possible for these pseudo-tire riding surface to just bolt on to the wheel in various sections-perhaps quarter wheel sections in order to permit alternate bolting on of studded tires for winter riding on ice.
The back of these tire sections could have a curved backing of fiberglass, aluminum or some suitable material to contact the wheel-actually there are innumerable methods of attaching the tire halves to the wheel.
It might be possible to make some sort of a film for-profit about a bicycle designer who goes to live in Kashmir in order to design the fastest bicycle wheel and bike design for competitive road racing. Perhaps he could be a former world champion bike rider who was injured after winning his first race and lost his medal because of a false doping charge later.
The fortyish bike designer could still be in excellent shape and meet some woman who has a father that was involved in some local political movement and killed unjustly by either partisans or government forces or foreign agents.
The designer and the Indian woman could together survive numerous efforts by foreign agents to steal the new bike in order to allow a sectarian rider to win the tour de France and provide a platform for rebellion and a coup d’etat of Jammu and Kashmir to form a terrorist training base.
Of course the bike designer could ride his new bike at high speed across the Himalayan and over the Indus River headwaters on a bridge while being pursued by terrorist jihadists firing full metal jacket AK-47 bullets at the bike designer. I won’t give the ending of the story away. Let’s just say. The bike-riding champion also enjoys skydiving.
Federal Over-Regulation of Select Labor Concerns May Reduce National Competetiveness
The United States is a republic at the Federal level and a democracy at the state’s level. The Federal government foisted media rule of wealth on the nation, and it is a pervasive force for aristocracy and evil. It is important to remember that the United States had an implicit competitive factor amidst them that can be defeated by federal uniformity requirements. For example, if the minimum wage is standard the states can have no regional wage labor competition advantage over others and employers that exploit cheap labor must relocate to Mexico or destroy wage labor values by making the Mexican border transparent to illegal workers and jihadists.
It does not require communism to be politically in opposition to rule by the rich, the few and the aristocratic--remember the American revolution? it also had land reform in it-a concept that would make today's toadying conservative tremble with rage that their master's share could be diminished.
It is a common error of sycophants to mistake one form of totalitarianism or tyranny for another--if not on column A then it must be from column B. The logic is faulty. Such people tend to believe that democracy and equal access are in some way 'communist' and they are completely wrong.
The broadcast media control by the rich is plain political corruption. Today's politicians are incapable of political reform that would better defend national interests,; they are runts of a sort bought and paid for by the rich.
A Rush Limbaugh will come out swinging in support of tax cuts for the top two percent, while a Billionaire Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway comes out in t against the tax cuts because the rich can afford it and the nation is in financial crisis. He is a patriot while Rush Limbaugh is a kiss up.
I am a supporter of free speech equal opportunity to the broadcast wavelengths for myself and all other citizens on a realistic basis. If I advocate for my own interests it is not therefore 'communism'. I am not a commune myself.
Sometime I will write about the differences between Collective Capitalism vs. Compassionate Capitalism. Perhaps the nation has forgotten that boundaries and real concern for neighbors and nation are at the core of the American Dream.
It does not require communism to be politically in opposition to rule by the rich, the few and the aristocratic--remember the American revolution? it also had land reform in it-a concept that would make today's toadying conservative tremble with rage that their master's share could be diminished.
It is a common error of sycophants to mistake one form of totalitarianism or tyranny for another--if not on column A then it must be from column B. The logic is faulty. Such people tend to believe that democracy and equal access are in some way 'communist' and they are completely wrong.
The broadcast media control by the rich is plain political corruption. Today's politicians are incapable of political reform that would better defend national interests,; they are runts of a sort bought and paid for by the rich.
A Rush Limbaugh will come out swinging in support of tax cuts for the top two percent, while a Billionaire Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway comes out in t against the tax cuts because the rich can afford it and the nation is in financial crisis. He is a patriot while Rush Limbaugh is a kiss up.
I am a supporter of free speech equal opportunity to the broadcast wavelengths for myself and all other citizens on a realistic basis. If I advocate for my own interests it is not therefore 'communism'. I am not a commune myself.
Sometime I will write about the differences between Collective Capitalism vs. Compassionate Capitalism. Perhaps the nation has forgotten that boundaries and real concern for neighbors and nation are at the core of the American Dream.
10/3/10
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges; Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Lashkar-i-Taiba
U.S. Foreign policy is presently engaged in the midst of a political quagmire with Pakistan. Since that nation formed in 1947 in a divorce form India as the British gave independence, each nation has fought over turf and water. Kashmir and Jumma-a former princely kingdom has the headwaters of several important rivers that flow south and west useful for irrigation and drinking. Perhaps the fight over a divided Kashmir and Jumma is fundamentally about water rights as much as real estate.
The allocation of Kashmir and Jumma was made by a British administrator drawing a line on a map and neither India or Pakistan has been able to reconcile to the difficult boundary apportionment. Pakistan trained as many as a half a million terrorists or guerillas to fight Indian forces in Kashmir the last 30 years. One of the essential terrorist training entities is Lashkar-I-Taiba.
Pakistan’s main intelligence service named the I.S.I. worked closely with establishing several lashkars (tribal militias) in the Northern Territories of Pakistan to trained jihadists to fight the hated Hindu military in Kashmir. The American C.I.A. also got involved in supplying and encouraging terrorist-guerilla fighters to battle the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The constellation of jihadist training camps has also supported the Taliban of Pakistan and the Taliban of Afghanistan in addition to Al-Qa’eda. The I.S.I. haven’t much interest in ‘turning off’ these Sunni terrorist training facilities much because of Pakistan political concerns.
Pakistan has a perennial concern about renewed war with India. Neither does Pakistan want Afghanistan to become influenced much by Hindus of India. Pakistan is a poor nation with an officially Sharia based constitution and like the U.S. Congress avoids intelligent policy decisions because extremists in each major party compel extremism.
Pakistan has a weak civilian government and education system. It is under funded and not very powerful. Often the military is called in to rule for a time, and the military is paradoxically the most secular of the major political forces in Pakistan. The Intelligence service is rifled with fundamentalist sympathizers, as increasingly is the military. When the United States alerted Pakistan that it was sending cruise missiles to hit Osama Bin Ladin in 1996 (I believe it was), he was alerted within minutes and departed the scene in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has a protracted and difficult to manage internal political economic and an ambiguous relationship with India regarding stability. The Kashmir status is unsettled and has hundreds of thousands if not millions of economically and socially challenged people with allegiance as much to fundamentalist concepts including jihad as much as to any particular government ruling entity. Many rural people would prefer to simply live well, yet the nature of western capitalism precludes the good neighborliness approach any way from being a practical economic development paradigm. Even in the U.S.A. corruption in economic networking can lead to vicious repression.
The United States spends hundreds of billions to finance a military in Afghanistan and only moderately effective economic assistance to construct a stable, de-volatilized society. Yet Pakistan has a long-range interest of controlling the Afghan government through a sponsored Taliban or other proxy organization. Pakistan is happy enough with a friendly jihadist Sunni government in Afghanistan as a way to secure its northern border.
Kashmir and Jammu might be a direct route to connect with India in some hypothetical future and that would not be to Pakistan’s liking. Afghanistan could also connect to India via far western China if mountain routes can be transcended with engineering, and that could change relationships too.
The United States sends billions of dollars in military aid packages to Pakistan for who knows what reason-ostensibly to buy assistance in sending predator missiles to hit Taleban human targets as well as al Qa’eda targets in Northern Pakistan, and also to allow the U.S.A. to offload military supplies from ships and drive overland from Karachi to Afghanistan. Payments are made by the United States to Taleban and Al Qa’eda connected neo-terrorist gangs on the route for ‘protection’ so the convoys won’t be attacked.
Even if the United States can attain a kind of low level of violence in Afghanistan in a couple of years, the longer range prospects for eliminating the constellation of jihadist training facilities and support in Pakistan seems a kind of ‘out there in the distance’ prospect. AN interesting point regarding Afghanistan security is that the Sunni terrorists can always relocate too another nation in the area for training purposes. It is also somewhat unusual that Al Qa’eda prefers the para-military form of terrorism requisite for war in Kashmir in attacking western targets rather than conventional tradecraft of espionage and clandestine saboteurs engaging in economic war.
The U.S.A. does not face a real convential military threat from Muslim fundamentalists at all. Good intelligence and border security work could halt terrorists from reaching the United States at far lower cost. Newer and more effective economic engagement relationships founded in low entropy environmentalism could be innovated simultaneously with newer and more cost effective defense strategies. A better long-range policy for Pakistan should be developed that would allow Internal Pakistani economic development and political actualization for a populist regime that does not require bilateral antagonism with India.
The United States for decades has been one of Pakistan’s major foreign aid contributors and our policies have in part helped shape the present situation. Our policies definitely seem to require correction and more of an intelligent design considering all of the elements involved. Afghanistan also shares a border with Iran and Uzbekistan and each have real concerns. Iran is of course also a neighbor of Iraq, and Turkey and the Kurds have issues as well. Our policy cannot be simply isolated in its applications for the displacement of various political parties and shifting of relationships occurs whenever change is brought to any portion of the region. It is not simple yet not terribly difficult either. It is an obvious multi-year project to attain regional economic stability along low-entropy principles of ecological economics and respect for religious beliefs and humanitarianism together. The U.S. administrations of the present and future should be aware that the defense budget is a little larger than the interest on the national debt annually and contributes to its increase.
The U.S. national economy is ill founded on to axes. One is its high-entropy anti-nationalistic globalist approach concentrating wealth and increasing poverty and harm to the environment—even Pollock in Alaska are over-fished and may lead to a crash of the fishery health similar to the problems with Atlantic cod- Fishing should largely be restricted to sports fishing and subsistence use the next decade to give the fisheries time to recover robust health. Soybeans are an excellent source of vitamin D.
The second ill-foundation of the U.S. economy is the Clinton-Obamonics of Wall Street and Financial sector skimming of wealth instead of low-entropy economic manufacturing being the foundation of the economy. Protracted foreign wars and foreign economic and military engagements are harmful to U.S. national interests and should be rolled up and stowed in the bad policies of the past bin.
The allocation of Kashmir and Jumma was made by a British administrator drawing a line on a map and neither India or Pakistan has been able to reconcile to the difficult boundary apportionment. Pakistan trained as many as a half a million terrorists or guerillas to fight Indian forces in Kashmir the last 30 years. One of the essential terrorist training entities is Lashkar-I-Taiba.
Pakistan’s main intelligence service named the I.S.I. worked closely with establishing several lashkars (tribal militias) in the Northern Territories of Pakistan to trained jihadists to fight the hated Hindu military in Kashmir. The American C.I.A. also got involved in supplying and encouraging terrorist-guerilla fighters to battle the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The constellation of jihadist training camps has also supported the Taliban of Pakistan and the Taliban of Afghanistan in addition to Al-Qa’eda. The I.S.I. haven’t much interest in ‘turning off’ these Sunni terrorist training facilities much because of Pakistan political concerns.
Pakistan has a perennial concern about renewed war with India. Neither does Pakistan want Afghanistan to become influenced much by Hindus of India. Pakistan is a poor nation with an officially Sharia based constitution and like the U.S. Congress avoids intelligent policy decisions because extremists in each major party compel extremism.
Pakistan has a weak civilian government and education system. It is under funded and not very powerful. Often the military is called in to rule for a time, and the military is paradoxically the most secular of the major political forces in Pakistan. The Intelligence service is rifled with fundamentalist sympathizers, as increasingly is the military. When the United States alerted Pakistan that it was sending cruise missiles to hit Osama Bin Ladin in 1996 (I believe it was), he was alerted within minutes and departed the scene in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has a protracted and difficult to manage internal political economic and an ambiguous relationship with India regarding stability. The Kashmir status is unsettled and has hundreds of thousands if not millions of economically and socially challenged people with allegiance as much to fundamentalist concepts including jihad as much as to any particular government ruling entity. Many rural people would prefer to simply live well, yet the nature of western capitalism precludes the good neighborliness approach any way from being a practical economic development paradigm. Even in the U.S.A. corruption in economic networking can lead to vicious repression.
The United States spends hundreds of billions to finance a military in Afghanistan and only moderately effective economic assistance to construct a stable, de-volatilized society. Yet Pakistan has a long-range interest of controlling the Afghan government through a sponsored Taliban or other proxy organization. Pakistan is happy enough with a friendly jihadist Sunni government in Afghanistan as a way to secure its northern border.
Kashmir and Jammu might be a direct route to connect with India in some hypothetical future and that would not be to Pakistan’s liking. Afghanistan could also connect to India via far western China if mountain routes can be transcended with engineering, and that could change relationships too.
The United States sends billions of dollars in military aid packages to Pakistan for who knows what reason-ostensibly to buy assistance in sending predator missiles to hit Taleban human targets as well as al Qa’eda targets in Northern Pakistan, and also to allow the U.S.A. to offload military supplies from ships and drive overland from Karachi to Afghanistan. Payments are made by the United States to Taleban and Al Qa’eda connected neo-terrorist gangs on the route for ‘protection’ so the convoys won’t be attacked.
Even if the United States can attain a kind of low level of violence in Afghanistan in a couple of years, the longer range prospects for eliminating the constellation of jihadist training facilities and support in Pakistan seems a kind of ‘out there in the distance’ prospect. AN interesting point regarding Afghanistan security is that the Sunni terrorists can always relocate too another nation in the area for training purposes. It is also somewhat unusual that Al Qa’eda prefers the para-military form of terrorism requisite for war in Kashmir in attacking western targets rather than conventional tradecraft of espionage and clandestine saboteurs engaging in economic war.
The U.S.A. does not face a real convential military threat from Muslim fundamentalists at all. Good intelligence and border security work could halt terrorists from reaching the United States at far lower cost. Newer and more effective economic engagement relationships founded in low entropy environmentalism could be innovated simultaneously with newer and more cost effective defense strategies. A better long-range policy for Pakistan should be developed that would allow Internal Pakistani economic development and political actualization for a populist regime that does not require bilateral antagonism with India.
The United States for decades has been one of Pakistan’s major foreign aid contributors and our policies have in part helped shape the present situation. Our policies definitely seem to require correction and more of an intelligent design considering all of the elements involved. Afghanistan also shares a border with Iran and Uzbekistan and each have real concerns. Iran is of course also a neighbor of Iraq, and Turkey and the Kurds have issues as well. Our policy cannot be simply isolated in its applications for the displacement of various political parties and shifting of relationships occurs whenever change is brought to any portion of the region. It is not simple yet not terribly difficult either. It is an obvious multi-year project to attain regional economic stability along low-entropy principles of ecological economics and respect for religious beliefs and humanitarianism together. The U.S. administrations of the present and future should be aware that the defense budget is a little larger than the interest on the national debt annually and contributes to its increase.
The U.S. national economy is ill founded on to axes. One is its high-entropy anti-nationalistic globalist approach concentrating wealth and increasing poverty and harm to the environment—even Pollock in Alaska are over-fished and may lead to a crash of the fishery health similar to the problems with Atlantic cod- Fishing should largely be restricted to sports fishing and subsistence use the next decade to give the fisheries time to recover robust health. Soybeans are an excellent source of vitamin D.
The second ill-foundation of the U.S. economy is the Clinton-Obamonics of Wall Street and Financial sector skimming of wealth instead of low-entropy economic manufacturing being the foundation of the economy. Protracted foreign wars and foreign economic and military engagements are harmful to U.S. national interests and should be rolled up and stowed in the bad policies of the past bin.
10/2/10
Life Sciences, Evolution, Theoria of Determinism and Fundamental Cosmological Questions
Evolution indoctrinated life scientists do not generally have a cosmological perspective on determinism and chance from what I encounter reading their works. They tend to make a randomized natural selection paradigm assumption without a general awareness of the determinism/indeterminism theory issues and how they pertain to bioscience and the evolution criterion.
I believe that much of the somewhat myopic bias for indeterminism in evolution arose in the dialectical political and intellectual argument with ecclesiastical authorities of the enlightenment era. Their natural assumption is that random chance and natural selection is a necessary contradiction of the sole opposite opinion found within a particular kind of religious, sectarianist opinion upon genesis matters.
As intellectual discovery advances and enlightens humanity so far as the relative veracity of knowledge permits, it is useful to increase the social, historical, philosophical an Biblical data base in light of scientific concerns as well as science. Scientists may labor under mistaken ideas about intellectual areas beyond their window on the world that is a biological Weltanschauung.
In reading the New Testament of the Bible there is virtually nothing that directly contradicts scientific data, and the Old Testament-which is the Old Testament after all, itself may be interpreted in several ways such that it is neither in contradiction move to particular evolutionary concepts. The knowledge of the Old Testament is very special, and must be treated with respect and regarded as truth if one wishes to relate it to what is known through careful scientific thought about the world, of life and of the cosmos.
A point I recently drew from comparing Old Testament paradigmata to that of life sciences is that of the ages of the ante-diluvian patriarchs. First, Eve succumbed to the temptations and misdirection of Satan in the Garden of Utopian environmental health and recommended to Adam that they alter the nature of the environment through development—that is they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Mankind today continues to mess with what was a healthy natural ecosystem and affect it badly exterminating countless life forms. To move beyond the original sin of not leaving the environment alone when everything was absolutely perfect.
Adam and Eve in the Garden were assumed to have infinite life spans without aging or even the phenomena of birth. Cast out of that metaphysical Eden and pre-determined to alter the ecosystem and in fact become a natural part of it, Adam and Eve and their descendents had increasingly shorter life spans. Leaving a virus and stress free environment they were reduced from multi-thousand year life spans to just a hundred or so, then of course the average life span of humanity would in the non-Biblical world be reduced to just 20 to 30 years.
Modern man has increased his average life span four fold in the last two hundred years nearly reaching age 80 in developed countries. Like Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long, he has his sights set on two or three thousand years. The fiction write Khouri in the Sanctuary offered an opinion that some believe human life span isn’t pre-set to an end, but achieves death mostly through stress and illness.
Perhaps nature may not have had time to evolve a necessary end to human life, but instead specialized upon achieving reproduction instead, yet at any rate the Biblical and the contemporary scientific paradigms on aging have a kind of interesting symmetry.
There are numerous other symmetries of paradigm between the Biblical world and the scientifically created worldview, and it is also known that the scientific worldview is incomplete and just a slice of the possible philosophical pieces of the facts of universal existence for itself.
Life scientists tend not to factor in even gravity theory into their ideas about evolution. It isn’t that evolution is wrong; it is simply that it presents a limited set of data. One may consider quantum cosmology simultaneously with all of the life science’s evolution criteria for example and find determinism rather that random evolution in virtually everything living.
Given the boundary conditions of the early Universe that may be known only proximally (in the last 13.7 billion years), it is easy to regard everything material that followed the inflation of the Universe (or whatever process actually occurred) as determined from those initial allocations of resources. It is popular enough to say that their was no design in evolution, yet the structure of everything in the beginning inevitably pre-determined the nature of everything later including the development of life on Earth and perhaps elsewhere.
The emergence of matter over anti-matter by the smallest fraction provided a Universe of matter in the particular locations it has. The clumping of matter is generally associated with the WMAP imaging of early universe structure. Where galaxies would form, how gravity would condense mass, was determined in the beginning. In fact all of life forming on planets is a continuing necessary evolution of the original design or allocation of resources.
Life tends to form from the smaller stages to the large on planets. Matter also formed from the most simple, hot and basic structures toward the larger, cooler and more complex, yet none of that is by random chance, but instead follows the laws of physics with inexorable logic. Though it may be difficult to imagine, the evolution of each living thing was determined by the environment and interaction as the boundary conditions permitted. Only Eve in the Garden had the opportunity to do anything different and to alter nature against the inexorable function of the laws of physics through the supervention of human intelligence.
Not to accentuate the power of human thought over much, although God said in the Garden that Adam and Eve had become as little goods and must be subject too temporal conditions in order to limit their power, comprehending the freedom of though within a determined physical cosmos is one of the interesting contemporary scientific as well as classical philosophical and religious questions.
I believe that much of the somewhat myopic bias for indeterminism in evolution arose in the dialectical political and intellectual argument with ecclesiastical authorities of the enlightenment era. Their natural assumption is that random chance and natural selection is a necessary contradiction of the sole opposite opinion found within a particular kind of religious, sectarianist opinion upon genesis matters.
As intellectual discovery advances and enlightens humanity so far as the relative veracity of knowledge permits, it is useful to increase the social, historical, philosophical an Biblical data base in light of scientific concerns as well as science. Scientists may labor under mistaken ideas about intellectual areas beyond their window on the world that is a biological Weltanschauung.
In reading the New Testament of the Bible there is virtually nothing that directly contradicts scientific data, and the Old Testament-which is the Old Testament after all, itself may be interpreted in several ways such that it is neither in contradiction move to particular evolutionary concepts. The knowledge of the Old Testament is very special, and must be treated with respect and regarded as truth if one wishes to relate it to what is known through careful scientific thought about the world, of life and of the cosmos.
A point I recently drew from comparing Old Testament paradigmata to that of life sciences is that of the ages of the ante-diluvian patriarchs. First, Eve succumbed to the temptations and misdirection of Satan in the Garden of Utopian environmental health and recommended to Adam that they alter the nature of the environment through development—that is they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Mankind today continues to mess with what was a healthy natural ecosystem and affect it badly exterminating countless life forms. To move beyond the original sin of not leaving the environment alone when everything was absolutely perfect.
Adam and Eve in the Garden were assumed to have infinite life spans without aging or even the phenomena of birth. Cast out of that metaphysical Eden and pre-determined to alter the ecosystem and in fact become a natural part of it, Adam and Eve and their descendents had increasingly shorter life spans. Leaving a virus and stress free environment they were reduced from multi-thousand year life spans to just a hundred or so, then of course the average life span of humanity would in the non-Biblical world be reduced to just 20 to 30 years.
Modern man has increased his average life span four fold in the last two hundred years nearly reaching age 80 in developed countries. Like Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long, he has his sights set on two or three thousand years. The fiction write Khouri in the Sanctuary offered an opinion that some believe human life span isn’t pre-set to an end, but achieves death mostly through stress and illness.
Perhaps nature may not have had time to evolve a necessary end to human life, but instead specialized upon achieving reproduction instead, yet at any rate the Biblical and the contemporary scientific paradigms on aging have a kind of interesting symmetry.
There are numerous other symmetries of paradigm between the Biblical world and the scientifically created worldview, and it is also known that the scientific worldview is incomplete and just a slice of the possible philosophical pieces of the facts of universal existence for itself.
Life scientists tend not to factor in even gravity theory into their ideas about evolution. It isn’t that evolution is wrong; it is simply that it presents a limited set of data. One may consider quantum cosmology simultaneously with all of the life science’s evolution criteria for example and find determinism rather that random evolution in virtually everything living.
Given the boundary conditions of the early Universe that may be known only proximally (in the last 13.7 billion years), it is easy to regard everything material that followed the inflation of the Universe (or whatever process actually occurred) as determined from those initial allocations of resources. It is popular enough to say that their was no design in evolution, yet the structure of everything in the beginning inevitably pre-determined the nature of everything later including the development of life on Earth and perhaps elsewhere.
The emergence of matter over anti-matter by the smallest fraction provided a Universe of matter in the particular locations it has. The clumping of matter is generally associated with the WMAP imaging of early universe structure. Where galaxies would form, how gravity would condense mass, was determined in the beginning. In fact all of life forming on planets is a continuing necessary evolution of the original design or allocation of resources.
Life tends to form from the smaller stages to the large on planets. Matter also formed from the most simple, hot and basic structures toward the larger, cooler and more complex, yet none of that is by random chance, but instead follows the laws of physics with inexorable logic. Though it may be difficult to imagine, the evolution of each living thing was determined by the environment and interaction as the boundary conditions permitted. Only Eve in the Garden had the opportunity to do anything different and to alter nature against the inexorable function of the laws of physics through the supervention of human intelligence.
Not to accentuate the power of human thought over much, although God said in the Garden that Adam and Eve had become as little goods and must be subject too temporal conditions in order to limit their power, comprehending the freedom of though within a determined physical cosmos is one of the interesting contemporary scientific as well as classical philosophical and religious questions.
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