The Odds of Smallpox Virus or Nuclear War in the Syrian Conflict

Sometimes there can be hidden dangers of pushing too far on people with nowhere to go. President Assad of Syria and his relations have nowhere to go except to the Hague perhaps if the war can push the regime out of office. Is the U.S. Government prepared for a possible outbreak of weaponized plague or smallpox viruses in case some former Soviet citizen sold a pound or two to Iran or Syria in the 90's and it is used as a last resort to create a world of chaos better suited to a fleeing despot?

Reading through a book on the history of the end of the Soviet-U.S. Cold war and specifically on the problem of weapons of mass destruction I developed an awareness that smallpox that was made quantitatively and improved to resist anti-biotics (16 flavors) and also to attack the immune system in a second wave to kill off survivors had a reasonable chance of being hidden by former military officers and mobsters during and after the end of the cold war. With so much in existence and with low security hiding a gallon or two of smallpox virus in Siberia or selling one to Iran wouldn't have been too hard.

Because Iran sent agents to buy radioactive materials and hired former Soviet Biological weapons designers to lecture on manufacture of bio-war agents it is reasonable to speculate that some few pounds of plutonium or bio-war agent may have walked over to  Syria at some point.

The 2009 book 'The Dead Hand' has interesting details on the vast quantities of unsecured plutonium and highly enriched Uranium available in the former Soviet Union during the 1990's. With its value being so high-Iran would have paid a billion for enough plutonium to build a bomb, it isn't likely that a lot of that stuff didn't end up underground with remote g.p.s. coordinates to the buried treasure existing in someone's memory as the sole clue to its existence. Evidently many Soviet weapons and radioactive research facilities didn't even know exactly how much of the stuff they had.

The Soviet Union had a hidden bio-war design program from 1927 to the 1994, and apparently there are still three major and several minor biological war research and/or production facilities in existence in Russia that are not open to inspection. Well, Russia is a dangerous place with all the hidden stuff perhaps held by mobsters and communists etc. Perhaps Putin wants to be able to be competitive on a live agent battlefield.

Made-In-China U.S. Olympic Uniforms/Shuckin and Jivin the Way to 21 Trillion Dollars of U.S. Public Debt

I wrote this post when someone said out of the blue that white males have a seething hate for Barrack Obama because he is a negro. The support for that offered were the phrases 'shucking and jiving' and 'picking up stitches' that I used in a post about the U.S. Olympics uniforms made-in China issue that hadn't anything to do with the President. In don't think Barrack Obama had anything to do with that pro or con. Maybe the left hates the Chinese for not being whatever and attack white men as a political tactic in a two-for-one shot.

I don't think that the President can run his campaign on a foundation of racism. Independents regard issues objectively and evaluate a President's achievements of failures critically. Sure there are a lot of Americans that aren't white males so stimulating the anti-white male vote is a good tactic for those that are divisive and disingenuous. Yet if one cares about the nation enough to advocate for equal protection of the law and full employment for all American citizens it is useful to stay away from the racist smears.

The President has kept a real unemployment rate-U6- of about 18% and that is unacceptable for us long-term unemployed house repainters. Goodness-the Democrat media even tried to make house painting a 'clan' activity as if white repainters wouldn't repaint a house belonging to a Negro, Chinese, Vietnamese or Hispanic.

The President has created an alarming and rather depraved social environment for youth with his advocay of homosexual marriage-and that concerns those of us with traditional values. It is my experience on writing on the Internet for a decade that the homosexual lobby invariably makes personal attacks on political opponents rather than arguing objectively on the merits of issues. I think that is a long run strategic error on their part and indicates a social inability for that group to co-exist peacefully within a democratic context where free expression of political ideas is valued rather than excoriated.

The President being a negroe just isn't the issue. The issue is his complete lack of competence in economic affairs and his roll over of advisers from prior administrations including those such as Geitner on a non-reform economic team.

Those of us looking ahead to a better society with low entropy economics, full employment and no public debt are not encouraged by the President's plan to run the national debt up to more than 20 trillion dollars if re-elected. That much debt requires more than a trillion a year in interest payments and may stimulate various forms of national economic failure of a deleterious nature we ought to avoid.

Shucking and jiving can be cool in most instances. Those American colloquialisms are not racist. Neither is the word 'duds'. That was a fairly common word for clothing in the 1950s. 'Picking up stitches' is a sewing/seamstress concept I heard from a long ago. It was also used by the very square musician Donovan as a lyric.

Since so much of the current ado is about the outsourcing of work to Chinese sewing  seamstresses, gender neutral stitching associates or automatons on U.S. Olympic uniforms I thought it apropos.

Incidentally Mitt Romney's father may have been one of the first Americans to suffer significantly from outsourcing of production overseas as President of American Motors. One would need to research the time better than I have time for presently, yet Detroit in the 60s and 70s underwent major changes in competition with the world auto market. Detroit went through a severe recession and in a way never recovered market share.

Japanese and German auto production became serious rivals for the U.S. market after the U.S. helped restore those nations to economic competitivity with reasonable support (e.g. The Marshall Plan for Europe) and prevention of Nazi and Imperialist recrudescence.

After the end of the cold war there were other challenges from the world again with an expanding labor pool by 2 billion or so that had been unavailable more or less.

Contemporary Americans may have better language for workplace terminology descriptive of manual labor 'getting in the grove' with everything going right-yet I don't know what that would be. Maybe the oyster catch has recovered in Louisiana recently after the oil spill. In Alaska they just cancelled the Kenai River King Salmon fishery this year because there aren't enough fish perhaps even to repopulate the run.

Atmosphere at a Glance?

I hope to find an atmosphere-at-a-glance web site with a live model representing the planetary chemical state of affairs in real-time accounting for the various input levels from national sources and that quantifies the atmospheric chemical elements reacting with the human and other contributions? if there was a live and detailed model it might be easier for people to understand the ongoing changes in the air people breath and exist in inclusive of thermal variations.

The advancing change of American energy production in the coal patch to natural gas should place a lot more methane in the atmosphere-where will those chemical reactions occur and to what effect?

Nihilistic Power Radio Investigates Injustice of Voter & Liquor I.D. Law (satire)

Nihilistic Power Radio's investigation of the injustice of state voter photo I.D. laws was able to find to more areas of political injustice obstructing Democratic voter: one such issue illuminated was the requirements of photo I.D. for alcohol purchases.

The N.P.R. team found that Baby Face Nilsson was a rickshaw puller from Washington D.C. that carried a Massachusetts congressman to work every day seventeen miles from his Maryland home for ten cents a mile. Baby Face is 40 years old and has worked 25 hours a day pulling rickshaw since fleeing persecution of his Dopamine Sect of Transsexual Reformers in the poorest section of Burma near where a Nobel Prize winner once visited.

Nilsson looks 15 years old and explained that he lost his photo I.D. card in a hurricane when a crocodile attacked from the gutter of a prosperous neighborhood he was working and he can't buy liquor anymore to deliver to his clients for the extra proplits he needs to pay for a water-repellent spray for his cardboard box home.

The photo I.D. issuers of the state Department of Motorized Vehicles won't let him have none because he don't look old enough and hasn't got no paper documentation that got left in Tijuana during a shootout with the Gulf Cartel.

If the cruel and oppressive photo I.D. law was rescinded Baby Face could have hope for a brighter tomorrow and find shelter from then threatening storm.

Federal & State Governments Outsource American Capital

When Americans invest their money in foreign nations that capital is lost to American investment directly. For decades union and other public funds have invested in foreign corporations and public offerings diverting domestic capital abroad. CALPERS was a leader at divesting in South Africa long ago yet they did of course keep the rest of their foreign portfolio. Outsourcing capital insourcing is deep in the present economic procedures and advantaging domestic investment needs to be accomplished through other means such as reforming capitalism such that no individual could invest in more than three corporations and no corporation doing business with America could employee more than 5000 workers. Competition of intellect rather than networking in collectivism and organization scale domination could be useful points of reform.

http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/investments/assets/home.xml

http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/investments/assets/fixed-income/home.xml

 Investing in foreign nations instead of the United States has been a common practice for decades, and then the Clinton era commodifying of home mortgages allowed the global derivatives trade to flourish making even the most conservative investment be a way to pay foreign holders of the debt.

Foreign direct investment in the U.S.A. is almost 200 billion annually and the actual cumulative invested is equal to about 16% of America's G.D.P. China receives a little more and the U.S. is one of the investors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment

 The Alaska Permanent Fund invests globally like so many other state funds. Recently they invested in a corporation that is buying up distressed home mortgages in Wisconsin and elsewhere and converting them into rental properties. Foreigners are also buying up U.S. homes and converting them to rentals and that is one resign why the toxic mortgages from the 2007-8 crash are slowly drying up. Obviously smaller, affordable super-insulated and very strong dome homes would have been a better investment for the ordinary American and still would.

 The Federal Government has been a leader in the outsourcing of investment by selling Treasury Securities to anyone in the world including China and Japan. Much of the Chinese investments in the United States such as in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac let Americans invest their capital through mortgage payments directly in foreign nations.

 The Department of Defense costs tax paying Americans trillions and trillions each decade defending America from nations such as China in addition to terror cells of people with box cutters. The U.S. Government through the taxpayers also pay billions and billions each decade to the Chinese Government through interest payments on the Treasury securities so the Chinese can have a profit to invest in building up their Defense infrastructure. By the end of another term of President Obama the interest on the national debt would be about a trillion dollars per year.

 President Obama's campaign rhetoric has suggested that Americans would be silly to do the same thing again if it didn't work the first time. That can serve as campaign advice in judging the Presidents first term of office.

 The first Obama term has left a U6 unemployment, underemployed and discouraged worker rate of about 18%. Only the comfortable and aloof could imagine that anyone in that U6 category would be silly enough for vote for another four years of a president with that record. President Obama silly had not the ability to organize anything about the economy to bring anything like national debt reduction, full employment and a recovering ecosphere into being. Not everyone in America is incapable; time waits for none and the voters need to change Presidents every four years unless the presider in chief puts up an economic oeuvre worth seconds.

Soviet Biological Weapons Research Continued After 1972 Treaty

In the aftermath of the end of the cold war much information has been found about hidden Soviet weapons programs especially in the development of biological weapons of war. It really is rather remarkable that work continued on weaponizing anthrax, tuleremia, plague, smallpox and a number of additional bacteria and viruses. Evidently the Communist Party leadership and the military developed complimentary weaponization programs for biological war after signing off on a treaty with Richard Nixon in 1972 banning development of offensive biological weapons. There is a book named 'The Dead Hand' that recounts some of the Soviet biowar development history with quotations from principals in some instances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_program

One of the reasons biowar is especially of concern today after the conclusion of the cold war is the potential use of biological war by randomized terror cells even of one. With the vast quantities of biological information development and broadly disseminated in a variety of venues it is not improbably that covert and even overt research continues on how to weaponize viruses, toxins and bacteria.

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-dead-hand-the/

Bacteria can be re-engineered to be immune to antibiotics and viruses have been investigated such that they would make the immune system attack the host if they were to survive a viral attack. The possibilities for recombinant genetic engineering of viruses is unlimited, and of course nano-viruses of inorganic inventions have unlimited potential for altering human biological structure deleteriously.

During the cold war era the Soviets tested a number of virus and bacteria delivery systems. The fact that weaponized viruses and bacteria can be so easily and broadly spread about is what might be most concerning to those observing the human social phenomena of producing dangerous technology in the 21st century.

Team Obama's Head Shots at Romney's Dual Presidential Hats/Safer Swiss/Bermudan Banks?

Team Obama's mud slingin at Mitt Romney-a lot of allegations and maybe ifs with no legal support are an alarming way to run a political campaign. If Mitt Romney is indictable for something then the administration should put up or shut up and not just toss mud all day. If it illegal to have overseas bank accounts does that include J.P. Morgan Chase? Are smaller foreign banks safer places to stash retirement savings than too big to fail U.S. banks and minion subsidiaries? If tax liability extends only 7 years then why should Romney provide data for 1999, 2000 or 2001?  Is the Obama administration planning to set the I.R.S. records to audit everyone the past decade or two?

No one assumes that there isn't corruption or bias in politics. The containment of corruption is an effort of those opposed to corruption. Bill Clinton was the President of the United States during 1999 and 2000-the years the Obama administration seems to focus upon as possible years where Mitt Romney may have  defrauded the public by wearing two Presidential hats at once as if he were Bo Jackson while claiming more than a decade later to have been president of just one Olympic games without any corporate leading at that time.. For all I know the Clinton Justice Department could have investigated if there was anything that needed looking in to. Some did believe the Clinton administration was corrupt in some respects though. It seems improbable that the Clintonistas would have been biased toward the future Republican Governor of Massachusetts.

The concept of a political 'system' is in itself interesting. The constitution 'system' of the United States was designed to enable freedom in social and civic relations for individuals, and that system needed to evolve to explicitly recognize the corrupting effects of slavery and non-enfranchisement, yet it fundamentally achieved that.

  The civic sector today in-itself may be implicitly corrupted by over-networking and /or economic totalization of opportunity within the control of elites such as the former communist party of the Soviet Union, or by aristocrats on the right advancing through various means such as oligarchy to plutocracy and monarchy, war and juntas with military dictators and so forth. Dissidents to the regime regard the system as corrupt implicitly while the powerful regard that as correct. The Obama administration has consistently added accelerant onto the civil conflict of Syria-helping to get it started in some respects, and the death total is now over 15,000. Evidently the end justifies the means to the President, with the end being the removal of the Alawite Regime and establishment of a Sunni sectarian government with a nominal democracy.

I ought to clarify that a little because some might willingly disinterpret the reference objects and time literals for political advantage rhetorically speaking.

The abstract consideration of political 'systems' differs from any particular political circumstance in space and time as logic pro forma differs from a particular application of logic.

The basic civil liberty is freedom from the encroaching, exploiting power of others for-themselves. The Soviet system of state absolutism totally subjects individuals to the power of others-a vary repressive social phenomenalism. The Obamacare tracking of poor individual citizens is about as bad as the Yuk Point N.P.R. show today on data mining and tracking of people with smart phones for financial transactions. State authoritarian creates a dumbed down populace with human creativity and inventiveness stifled substantially. It is a bad direction to go in that is as silly as the relief of corporations from meaningful legal accountability via the legal fiction that they are individuals.

That argument is itself an example of what the disputants regard as corruption on the opposition side when it is simply a political situation within the constitutional context enabling it. Some regard social reality as transcendently more real than existential, natural concerns for environmental conservation. There is of course a substantial disingenuity in the left tactic of attacking corporate social reality as legal individuals in that they seek not a reform of capitalism to fit with the times that would maximize free enterprise and social welfare but instead want to move in the aforementioned direction of statism even of a global scale.

Alaska Bear Drops Heavy Load in Forest

 In the news cycle before the party political conventions there isn't too much of compelling interest, so I turned to local sources for something to write about. Recently I observed an exceptionally large deposit of bear scat in the woods, and that seemed newsworthy since a bear had recently broke into my tent.

 If one closely observes the bear scat one discerns the textured content from eating branches, leaves and such in order to get to the blueberries without picking them individually-a difficult task when one has large nails (aka claws) on their four paws. I think that bear digestive systems without a fish diet may process more slowly, conservatively, and so after it ate half of a container of fine Danish Orchard jelly and two pieces of bread there was an immediate purgative effect. The bear left the tent relatively soon and with so much sugar probably jogged along the rest of its usual circuit.

 Black bear developed from a different species than brown bear. Black bear periodically 'borrow' food items from a tent yet make themselves scarce as soon as possible. While the bear was getting its summer snack I was looking at an Internet photo of a brown bear attack on a tent site outside Yellowstone several years ago when a few campers were injured and the partially eaten corpse of a camper formerly asleep in a tent was found some distance away. The black bear that raided my tent went in through the partially open front door and left only about 70 stitches worth of sewing repairs to the tent that it made as it scrapped out the remainder of a block of mild cheddar cheese from near the side of the tent under clothing.

 The bear basically took items that were inessential. The jelly was an extra one in fact that I would have had difficulty doing anything with this year before moving to the next location. I have wondered about interspecies communication now and then, having experienced a few unusual coincidences in the appearance of whales.

Mitt Romney Gold at Bain Capital & Salt Lake City Olympics Simultaneously?

An Obama election clave claim that Mitt Romney excelled as President of the Salt Lake City Olympics being organizer of that concurrently with making millions and millions for shareholders of Bain capital seems absurd. How can anyone be expected to believe that Romney is that sharp at organizing profitable private and public enterprise?

 If Romney had moved on to the Olympic games management before formally quitting his day job can anyone blame him? In the real world quitting one job before starting another can result in no work at all.

 If an interim or transitional management team at Bain capital actually exploited government rules and law to turn a profit sending some jobs abroad it is difficult to fault those players rather than the U.S. Congress for setting the rules of the game. We run right into the parable of N.B.A. rules.

 Can the Obama team expect the Miami Heat to not stuff the basketball in the hoop even if it regarded as an unfair advantage over the shorter players? N.B.A. rule makers would need to ban stuffs and egregious jams if they wanted to stop the advantage that the taller players have over the smaller. If the Miami Heat as honorable and nationalistic players refused to stuff the ball because it did harm to American players (they are the shorter domestic players) then they would lose to the teams that were willing to exploit the jamming/stuffing outsourcing opportunities.

 Plainly it is the role of the Congress to pass laws that advantage American economic players in the 50 states. They cannot rely on corrupt global officiating or an honor system on Wall Street. There is no substitute for plain, simple and well-designed rules that promote the interests of U.S. economic players on then home court.

The advantaged, taller players want to stuff the economic balls globally while the shorter U.S. team wants to create a rule infrastructure that encourages national economic development and full employment. Easy economic treasons are the global convenience of the era of instant global communications and it would require and intellectual brain-trust to reform U.S. nationalism sufficiently to conserve and recover economic and ecospheric development.

Without federal legal reform of economic philosophy that advantages national free enterprise in smaller corporate units and delimits the opportunities for intercorporate shareholding and networking a new global class of taller players without borders will become a politically unaccountable ruling class. That unofficial aristocracy will make a joke of local, national politics fundamentally subverting U.S. nationalism in the political paradigm of the founders of being independent and democratic.

 One hates to think that young players at Bain capital took advantage of the absence of Mitt Romney gone too organize the Salt Lake City World Olympic Games to make quick, cheap profits by outsourcing jobs to China or wherever. In the absence of Mitt's supervision there might have been a breakdown of patriotism in Massachusetts's windows on Wall Street.

An Informal Comment On Free Enterprise vs.Corporatism Historically

I believe that over the history of the United State individualism has been gradually replaced by collectivism in corporations, education, government and so forth. I believe that is circumstantial rather than necessary, and that the concentration of social power is an evolved fact that tends to harm human society as well as help if. I read Sartre's 'Critique of Dialectical Reason' long ago and have since viewed human social organization rather more phenomenally and existentially. One might find a pre-determinism element in Christian Church history however I think even the ecclesiatic organizations are largely gone off course without much of the right priesthood of believers aspect they should have.

 These uncorrected social formations occasional are terminated by revolt or war yet I think the phenomena of social scale remains even following major disasters such as World War Two. The Zaibatsu were taken under the wing of the McArthur administration and corrected with the feudal power ended as well as the religious power of the Emperor yet the size of Japanese corporations grew even so as did the government numbers with democracy. It is a paradox that U.S. democracy has grown so large with concentrated power for-itself tied into granting contracts to preferred corporate bidders or non-bidding contractors as on occasion happened with Haliburton during the Iraq nation rebuilding regime.

American history was fundamentally different from that of many other nations because it started later and with more enlightened leadership. Unfortunately that advantage of individual enterprise and leadership is being subsumed in the corporate greed expansion uncorrected.

One is aware of the European and Chinese history of imperialism of one sort or another, or that of Ghengis Khan and the Mongol hordes ranging across Eurasia. The history of the Middle East and of Mesopotamia from Sargon of Assyria to Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and of ancient Egypt are examples of countries without a foundation of free enterprise. The imperial characteristic of human society is perennial and re-emerges in uncorrected democratic dynamics with problems of scal and failures of enlightened government public leadership.

In the first century of the existence of the United States land and work for-oneself was more liberally available than today. In 1988 I briefly held a 20-acre federal homestead tract on the Kantishna River north of Mt. McKinley. I could afford remote survey costs and let it go. The program closed down for good shortly thereafter.

Earlier in U.S. history land for homesteading was rather plentiful, and because works wasn't concentrated in corporate control, and because corporations if they existed at all were of far smaller scale individual free enterprises were the norm. Sure large projects and companies came to exist from Salt Works in New York to the construction of the Erie Canal, yet the preponderance of individual enterprises and smallholdings was more of a common fact than today.

One might consider the history of U.S. Grant after he quit the Army in Eureka California because he wanted to go home to Illinois to be with his wife whom he'd seen little enough during the prior years in which he was passed over for promotion. Although he was finally made Captain he'd already sent in his resignation.

Grant worked in Missouri on his own ranch-farm/wooded property cutting wood for-himself to try and survive for a couple years. There was much unemployment back then in the countryside and people found work and life style with their own free effort without waiting to be hired by the large global corporations.

Grant struggled to feed himself and his family and finally had to go to work for his father-in-law as a hardware store clerk in Illinois I seem to remember. It was the outbreak of the Civil War and his advancement as a West Point Grad and history as a quartermaster that led the Governor to appoint Grant leader of the Illinois National Guard and he made the most of his opportunities before taking a commission in the regular Army.

Sure we know about Andrew Jackson's desire to get a fair trading status on the commodities of the Tennessee River with 'globalists' of New York, or of the effort of Ben Ficklin to build a southern route for a trans-continental railroad before the Civil War through Texas to replace the Butterfield Stage line, yet the concentration of wealth in global corporations and it's volatility as in Diamond's Chase 6 billion dollar gamble and loss was not anywhere near as common.

The phenomenality of large corporate networking has increased far from the days when the British Hudson's Bay Company and the East India Company were the closest things to large corporations that existed. Its simply a matter of scale and domination of the geography and marketplace by the corporate globalist world that displaces the free enterprise of the majority reducing it to a vassilized, dependent status upon corporate patronage.

The word 'ret' in the earliest Egyptian language use meant 'red'. Rhett Butler as a symbol for the old south and of the 'greed is good' nature of the slave trade was a character is a liberal tract on the evils of human nature. 'Ret' appeared during the lead up to the complex social allegiance choices between fascism and socialism. Free enterprise was always the right choice-a free enterprise at a human scale within a governed context-yet politically people tended to select the most extreme dysjunctive examples because it is simpler to be rhetorically dogmatic rather than philosophical for most.

Not only did Eisenhower warn of the danger of the military industrial complex even during an era of cold war arms escalations that would eventually lead to one million times the blast power of the Hiroshima device being jointly held between the Soviet Union and The United States, the Vietnam War and of L.B.J. and Secretary of Defense McNam(era) became a kind of corporate McDonald's trillions and trillions of burgers sold in defense procurements to Americans for a series of wars that helped concentrate wealth.

In some of the grand scale of corporate globalism today there are vast planetary empires of networked businesses interfaced with special government projects and politicians kickbacking wealth as a phenomenon displacing alternative free enterprise by the majority of Americans. As wealth and power are concentrated free enterprise inventiveness commensurately declines amidst the polity. There are very few goods or services produced today that could not perhaps be duplicated or developed better with smaller corporations in a more competitive setting.

Corporate franchise feudalism with the Earth spaces controlled by powerful with a variegated yet syncopated concentration of wealth and power in an out of government means renting the right to exist to a degraded humanity seems to be the most likely course of development today. I believe its good to advocate for the taming of the corporate monstrosities to reinforce a more competitive and inventive milieu of free enterprise.