The Kimshi Progression- How War in North Korean-A Nation Without Oil, Isn't Too Likely

Conventional wisdom says that since North Korea has no kn own oil fields, no war shall occur there in the present economic mileau.

World War Two incidentally is said to be the last battle of world war one. There are a variety of theories of why world war one occurred from Marxist to Imperial. Ortega y Gasset wrote 'The Revolt of the Masses' predicting the war as a social empowerment of the masses and political evolution.

The old regime of Europe-the elite class politically tried to hold on to its power amidst an evolving continental trend toward populism from Marxism to Democracy. The national ruling classes of Europe and their complex treaties allowed a mobilization to become inevitable once certain incidents occurred.

It is interesting that in the last German offensive of the first world war German Crown Prince Ruprecht designed and led a brilliant break out offensive into France 250 miles that simply ran out of manpower through attrition, then the allies including fresh American troops rolled up the German Army and in Germany the people revolted creating a popular, non-aristocratic government.

That was a dumb government though. The elites hated to give up control and through the Army General staff probably are the reason the Army sent the charismatic Hitler to take over the German Socialist Democratic Workers Party. He converted it to fascism.

Plainly Wilson's decision to sign a separate treaty with Germany not guaranteeing the security of France left a large opportunity for a future German war on France. Also the U.S.A. did not mind too much Hitler's rise for a time, as we had a common Soviet enemy to the east. Ironically Hitler and Stalin signed a treaty just before world war two allowing them to divvy up Europe, (Russia got Finland) before Germany turned upon Russia with operation Barbarossa.

North Korea will continue to be isolated for some time,as the ruling cliche is comfortable enough. They know the South Korean-U.S. defenders have no interest in a conflict though they would win, because of the atrocious and senseless mass loss of life. China is unlikely to once again send troops over the Yalu River, and nuclear weapons perhaps would first be used indirectly to send large tsunami upon Shanghai with a heavy sub-sea nuke detonation should things get desperate for local allied defenders.

A Korean conflict would make the price of oil rise to 400 per barrel, and the Chinese economy would tend to stall, while in America, Sarah Palin would be assured Presidential election victory as the new war leader.

China may be unhappy with the economic ex-lax the Treasury has given to the money supply inducing quantitative easing recently. Dumping a load of cache purchase of bonds buying U.S. public debt cheapens the dollar and makes Chinese exports comparatively more expensive. Perhaps North Korea-there pit bull, is snarling a little to encourage concessions on negotiations on the undervaluation of the Yuan.

The United States may need to encourage an increase of purchase of kimshi to sell in domestic markets to increase South Korean economic health.

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post script

I've never been to Korea. After reading an article on the specific sequence of events of the conflict, I think perhaps we ought to export some of that hydroponic perch growing technology working in Wisconsin. Salmon farming away from the sea-in artificial onshore pens that recycle the nitrogen emissions to fertilize food crops might work to keep the Koreas from battling about declining fish harvests and other seashore related things.

The Clean Solution to 'Dirty' T.S.A. Airport Security Screening

The Clean Solution to ‘Dirty’ T.S.A. Airport Security Screening

There have been a variety of hypothetical remedies proposed to remove the filthy, pawing, invasive heavy hands of government T.S.A. security screenings at airports, virtually all of the ideas were useless. Psychological profiling that works for Israel will not work for Americans for example; after watching television and listening to the broadcast media they all have special issues. They have porous borders unlike Israel and are a socially polyglot people with craziness as a national norm. I will provide a better idea.

Free showers and air-dry for all boarding passengers-no clothing allowed (it goes through a chute in a basket to check for dirty underwear). In the changing rooms (one passenger at a time) initial computer security screening sniffs for explosives and bad-aft-odor-the close approximation of toe-jam footballs the late John Lennon noted in 'come together'.

Next is the three-minute shower and de-lousing, nothing worse for homeless people boarding a rare flight than to sit next to someone with too much talcum powder and perfume. When I was formerly a trainee Army Chemical specialist, perfume sometimes set off our chemical war detection equipment- beware the fruity smell for it may be fatal.

Leaving the three minute shower, moving into the clean air drying room, the long wavelength naked body inspection equipment built into the walls allows a computer-not a human, to examine the passenger for anything besides nakedness. In fact if the T.S.A. was not cheap it would incorporate some sort of free, health screening equipment into the body imaging so an individual could get some free health benefit.

Each of the four cleaning and processing stations the passenger passes through will weigh the passenger in order that the final dressing room weight will verify that nothing was hidden. Passengers will also be told if they are obese, just fat, smartly fit or pathetically undernourished.

The entire screening process time per passenger should take under 15 minutes. Yet cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Plainly the water should be recycled and purified and ultraviolet light should clean the showers of contaminating disease. An expedited procedure would allow the passengers to emerge naked and be given free use of a flight-suit ensemble jumpsuit to where until arrival when their clothing would be returned. There can be noxious fumes in clothing worn for several hours in some of our fellow air travelers.

I fly at least once a decade or two and hope that next time I go into the friendly skies the government, homosexual touchy feely era is over with the T.S.A., that no passenger has the affluent body odor and travel flatulence, and that the terrorists leave their plastic explosives (a solid not a gel), in the amnesty box outside the airport.

On Cryogenic Cancer Treatment

One wonders about non-invasive cancer treatments such as cryogenic technology provides. Recently someone described the origin of chemo-therapy in the concept of chemical war with the assault upon individual cells instead of just any. With the tradition of surgical removal of cancerous growths along with radiation (see Solzschenitysn's Dostoyevsky-like book 'The Cancer Ward' for 1950's era radiation treatment in a Soviet Hospital) and the modern modification of cellular structures regulating growth there may be more agents to combat cancer available than presently.

A report on cryoablation of early stage breast cancer.... http://www.springerlink.com/content/606trlecvate14du

Still, we wonder if the search for mass produced cancer cures equally search for low cost methods appropriate for delivery of relief to the billions that cannot afford health care. Freezing cancerous tumors away with liquid nitrogen may be a quick remedy, and improvements in delivery of tumor killing cold is perhaps an ongoing work.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5645143_cryogenic-treatment-cancer.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?Prostate-Cancer-Treatment&id=509856

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196304042681401 An article on cryogenic surgery in The New England Journal of Medicine (requires payment)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097-0142(19880501)61:9%3C1889::AID-CNCR2820610928%3E3.0.CO;2-W/abstract A clinical evaluation of cryogenic liver surgery in 60 cases by several Chinese doctors

First American to Reach Europe Sailed With Vikings

New Scientist reported a scientific finding of genetic evidence of aboriginal Americans in the blood of select Icelanders. Mitochondrial D.N.A. evidence was found in 80 Icelanders with forbears dating on the island to 1710. Before that Iceland was basically insular.

The research was conducted by a Spanish Center for Evolutionary Biological Research.

http://tinyurl.com/2exxrnr

"As the island was virtually isolated from the tenth century, the most likely hypothesis is that these genes corresponded to an Amerindian woman who was brought from America by the Vikings around 1000.Curiously, this fact would have remained hidden because this woman was an anonymous character"-Carles Lalueza CSIC-Fox of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/vikings-brought-first-native-a.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Although the Vikings did establish two colonies on Greenland by the 10th century, there is no proof they were the first Europeans to reach North America. Farley Mowatt's book 'The Farfarers: Before the Norse' makes a convincing historical argument that Vikings followed the Albs of Ireland across the North Atlantic from the Orkneys to Iceland,Greenland and New Foundland as pirates.

An alternate hypothesis is that some Americans went boating east and stayed to enjoy Iceland's hot springs.

Republicans Stall on Ratifying Reduction of Nuclear Warheads/Launchers

The Republican Party is stalling on ratification of the New Start treaty, seemingly in order to gain political credit themselves for a future treaty, and perhaps as a tactic looking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election. I hate to think that the Republicans in Congress would jeopardize the future of the nation (well maybe not) in order to gain a few political brownie points

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21baker.html?src=twrhp

Russia and the United States will each be able to keep 1550 warheads and 1700 launchers. Thats enought to destroy most life on earth a few times over not including the cascading extra effects of such mass catastrophe. Besides running huge public debt up, the Republicans of Congress seems hell bent for keeping the use of large numbers of nuclear weapons alive.

Gambling with the future to keep domestic economic power to oppress the poor, destroy quality sports fishing in Alaska, and create a global evil corporate empire is the Republican party. The Democrats are simply the party of moral decay (with Republican help).

Nuclear weapons, global warming, pollution of the environment-the Republican Party should step up with the times a take a step back from nuclear brinksmanship as best as it can manage. The Obama administration does not need help in using bad political judgment in economics, morality or other impolitical factors the voters don't like.

Presidient Obama does need help with getting the reasonable nuclear reduction treaty signed. N.A.T.O. and Russia have agreed to build a new Star Wars Missile Defense together-so let us all move ahead a little. All that required is that the Republican Party stop viewing the Russians as a Boris Badanoff gang of radical unionists. Today the corporatist global evil empire is a danger equal to that of famous evil empires the world over.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11803931

N.A.T.O. and Russia Agree To Build Star Wars Anti-Missile System

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has agreed with N.A.T.O. to invest in the construction of a missile defense shield. A strategic goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance is to defend the United States, Europe and evidently Russia against nuclear attack. Since the Nixon administration the reduction of nuclear weapons dangers in arms limitations talks has been a political goal that is proceeding to better cooperation between former cold war protagonists. N.A.T.O. has stated that Russia is not a threat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11803931

A ten-year N.A.T.O. strategic defense plan statement provides a new N.A.T.O. approach to defense challenges of the 21st century. http://www.nato.int/lisbon2010/strategic-concept-2010-eng.pdf

The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to ratify further arms reduction with Russia, such that our nuclear stockpile would drop from approximately 1750 to 1500 weapons. With a Russian reduction in the agreement, the United States can move on to work on a new and improved Star War laser anti-missile system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21baker.html?src=twrhp

The prospect of constructing an effective anti-ballistic missile system with Russia and N.A.T.O. aboard is an achievement for the Obama administration. It is a will o’the’wisp defense target moving into the realm of reality. Unfortunately cruise missiles with nuclear weapons are a more direct, cheaper and less pompous method of delivery nuclear weapons to targets. Nuclear non-proliferation experts will have that remaining, significant challenge before them.

The United States of America is a member of N.A.T.O.

2012 Presidential Campaign Needs an Independent Candidate

The 2012 Presidential campaign would be a good time for the entry of a new and improved Ross Perot style independent Presidential candidate. The Democrat Party is effectively the party of depravity, and the Republicans the party of concentrating wealth for the rich. Physically, the geography of the United States has been a strength; today it is a determining economic factor as well although to the detriment of the poor and middle class.

Writing critically is sometimes challenging politically for accurate political descriptions are not inevitably welcome. Interstate 35 from Laredo and Mexico north into the heartland admits 10,000 trucks per day to the U.S.A. The border patrol stops perhaps one of three illegal aliens, wealthy urbanites with global commercial empires such as Mayor Bloomberg of New York City really don’t care about the demographic changes to the American southwest as cheap labor and good migrate north. The interests of the 30 million poor Americans cast aside by the surplus labor just lose in the political balances of the interests of the rich, globalist and middle class.

The American middle class has become a toady for global corporatism. Saying nothing and keeping their heads down, making criticism of corporate power equivalent to communism is a good way to kill democracy. Men afraid to put their own name on Internet posts did not build America; the founders did not hide behind pseudonymous symbols. Corporatism will concentrate wealth for the rich and gut public outlays on anything not supporting their infrastructure.

Democracy is a horse of a different color though. The people have a right to set national parameters of development. They have a right to build an impassable yet beautiful border ecological control zone. Intelligence and creative economic conservativism are rational, necessary developments if the United States is to grow within a democratic rather than a depleting corporate paradigm.

I am not optimistic that democracy will return to the United States. The present trends are against it. Easy money and cheap labor disempowering the millions of poor and working class Americans that would like a stable population and full employment with scarce surplus labor appeal to corporations concentrating wealth and requiring political silence from white male execs. The female anti-white male vote in the United States has become a spread and receive fullness certainty that corporations will promote their class existential interests to leadership. Feminine sexuality is wonderful, yet that nature should not convert into political indolence with reliance on global economic promiscuity. There is nothing wrong with democratic proprietary national interest that moves beyond merely personal narrow self-interest.

The homosexual militancy also seeks to graft itself in malevolent political partnerships with a corporatist agenda intolerant of national economic and political security.

There is little reason to be optimistic that a solid independent Presidential candidate will emerge to run in 2012. The nation needs one; the environment and economy require a rectification to high quality, low quantity resource use. The world population wants a stable, ecologically rational if not brilliant good example. Mexico as a corrupt parasite annexing the United States permits a drug distributor border corps to corrupt its domestic politics with so much human illicit traffic economically moving the center politically and economically of Mexico outside the boundaries of its voters.

The present world chess rankings do not list one American in the top ten-that seems reflected in the political-economy of the U.S.A. as well.

http://www.expert-chess-strategies.com/world-chess-rankings.html

The decadent globalist trends of the United States will continue for twenty or thirty years perhaps before some sort of larger global catastrophe brings the imbalanced era of present U.S. leadership to an end. Americans cannot expect much from feudal tithe collecting priesthoods that could have no idea of what a priesthood of believers would be like. Really.

Republicans Stall on Ratifying Reduction of Nuclear Warheads/Launchers

The Republican Party is stalling on ratification of the New Start treaty, seemingly in order to gain political credit themselves for a future treaty, and perhaps as a tactic looking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election. I hate to think that the Republicans in Congress would jeopardize the future of the nation (well maybe not) in order to gain a few political brownie points

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21baker.html?src=twrhp

Russia and the United States will each be able to keep 1550 warheads and 1700 launchers. Thats enought to destroy most life on earth a few times over not including the cascading extra effects of such mass catastrophe. Besides running huge public debt up, the Republicans of Congress seems hell bent for keeping the use of large numbers of nuclear weapons alive.

Gambling with the future to keep domestic economic power to oppress the poor, destroy quality sports fishing in Alaska, and create a global evil corporate empire is the Republican party. The Democrats are simply the party of moral decay (with Republican help).

Nuclear weapons, global warming, pollution of the environment-the Republican Party should step up with the times a take a step back from nuclear brinksmanship as best as it can manage. The Obama administration does not need help in using bad political judgment in economics, morality or other impolitical factors the voters don't like.

Presidient Obama does need help with getting the reasonable nuclear reduction treaty signed. N.A.T.O. and Russia have agreed to build a new Star Wars Missile Defense together-so let us all move ahead a little. All that required is that the Republican Party stop viewing the Russians as a Boris Badanoff gang of radical unionists. Today the corporatist global evil empire is a danger equal to that of famous evil empires the world over.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11803931

Why Mediums of Exchange are Invariably Physical Elements

Everything is physical. One could trade in quantum bits and they would still be physical. The problem is accounting and the desire people have for particular things. Then its a matter of fairness and access. Electronic money replacing cash would create new ways of corrupting currency exchanges, and make accounting increasingly challenging, while advantages would implict flow to those operating the electronic exchange media.

Every bit of data, each piece of information, is associated with a real object. Vedral's 'Decoding the Universe' might help explain that. One can disagree about the Universe being simply information, or D.N.A. as a quantum computer in biological form, in fact there are numerous or an infinite number of ways to construct accounting and representational structures yet they are all associated with a temporal physical structure. Christians believe God donates a spiriutual element-perhaps of conduct-yet that is not an economic element.

Philosophically one may argue about what real objects are, and equally one may differ about the meaning of words and of course history too. I enjoy reading linguistic-analytic philosophy occassionally. I have Quine's Philosophy of Logic and Kripke's Naming and Neccessity as ongoing projects.

Concepts of causality and cash, or causality and war, and a classification system of human social conflicts in wars and non-wars such can be duplicitous. Sophism in conflict definitions such as a Vietnam Conflict, a War on Poverty, A War on Cancer, A War on Drugs, The Korean Conflict, The War in Iraq and so forth are linguistic things different than the things for-themselves. Philosophers of language and logic try to keep that awareness that language is one thing, and things in themselves quite another.

One might read Quine's Ontological Relativity' and discover a synopsis of how language has differnet sets or lexcions in various circumstances. Much language is about translating terms and meanings from one lexicon to another often without success, for many social lexical sets have inherent presumptions and constants that render the data value and words rather inflexably.

Some Christians may find it difficult to understand why everything in the Universal is physical. There are not two natures of substance, yet there may be a class of emergent characteristic that can be considered a qualitatively different genre of substance.

People commonly use water and ice as an example of qualitatively different materials made from same element. Of course because H2o is also partly made of the temperature of the Universe and the local temperature, it is rather disinegenuous to say that water or ice are made simply from water or ice.

Life is an emergent characteristic of inanimate matter. The complexity of the arrangement of the materials of life allow it to support the complex phenomenology of mind.Mind is fundamentally different than matter although each has the same fundamental base elements.

To declare that everything is physical, is just to offer an opinion of monism. Monism is a philosophical opinion that all things are of one basic substance in different configurations. Logic demands that sort of statement from living beings. Yet it is like saying that all things are A. It is saying that all things are of set A, and nothing that exists is not a member of set A.

So a Chriistian might say-whoah! what about the spiritual? God we stipulate is pure spirit and transcends the physical and all existing things. No scientific investigation or theory will ever comprehend God. People are physical, God is spiritual, yet people are created in the likeness of God-how so?

The emergent characteristic of mind in sentient life is how. Mind is a physically-based version of spirit, yet not spirit. If Christians of faith receive the Holy Spirit and God in dwells them, that is as close as humans get to the spiritual. God can transcend and inhabit any should willing to accept the atoning grace of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross as payment for his own original sin nature (of being physical and temporal).

What Would Abe Lincoln Do?

Abe Lincoln would get down in the pit and wrestle the crocodiles. He was a leader that like Reagan sought to enrich all ordinary Americans.

When General Meade defeated Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia the tide had been turned in the civil war. The effort to make men free-in the United States, and to prevent southern state's officers from riding into Northern states to extradite escaped slaves had been reinforced and when Lincoln appointed Grant to lead the Army starting with the Wilderness campaign and to Cold Harbor a year of intensive war setting precidents for later wars was cast.

Lincoln as the first Republican President was not for lawlesness-he did after all order the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. I would imagine that wealthy drug using musicians would not have been people he admired.

Nevertheless Lincoln supported the pioneer ethic of hard work and self-help. Unfortunately in a spoilt society where networks and non-work are given disproportionate compensation, social position counts for far more than work. Sure there are still surgeons, soldiers and painters working honestly, yet unlike European Jews of yore scrimping to become petite burgeois and own their own small business and save capital, todays middle class have huge SUVs, houses and debt. They disregard the poor and kow tow to the rich and doom the poor and middle class in the process. They are trained to spend and consume and have no savings.

Lincoln was a nationalist rather than a globalist like all good U.S. President working for the people, and would not have approved tax cuts for the rich or the middle class in order to pay down the national debt directly. He would have secured our borders against illegal immigration so the U.S. poor could be more financially free to get jobs and better wages through negotiation and scarcity of labor.

Today some politicians even talk about ending the T.S.A. to let private security firms perhaps based in Dubai or Mecca guard the nation's security-you betcha, corporatism seeking to subvert Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Pat Buchanan again.