Did Saddam Hussein Bury WMD Political Treasure?

Iraq purchased about 90 gyroscopes for Soviet SS-18 Satan missiles in then 1990s according to reliable sources. During the 90s there was a lot of plutonium and enriched uranium easy for the Russian mafia and enterprising military officers and many others to take from unsecure Soviet-era stockpiles and numerous locations.

Apparently enriched uranium that is made from natural rather than reprocessed sources can be handled even without gloves-it doesn't radiate much and is a heavy metal I would guess like lead. If Iraq got a few hundred pounds and the top-secret agent buried it in the desert it could still be there undiscovered.

Obviously Saddam Hussein hadn't the opportunity to build a very large ballistic missile though he evidently intended or hoped to one day. Like Johhny Cash's auto built 'one piece at a time' the late Iraqi leader may have been compiling a piece here and a gyroscope there for a project that never got off the ground.

If the secret of the location of the hot items for bomb-making were not very classified to Hussein and a very few other intelligence agents it would be surprising. It would not especially be surprising that the material wasn't used or found during the conflict or after. Iran too  is likely to have found a way  to purchase enough plutonium and enriched uranium for several bombs one would think-that nation isn't very far from Kazahkstan and Russia, and they had the entire Clinton administration era to stock up. It isn't hard to imagine that an Iranian agent with a million dollars in a bag would have found it too hard to get a Russian enttrepreneur with access to sell a 50 or a few hundred pounds.

The Bush I era Congress and Clinton administration evidently dropped the ball on the issue of security for post-cold war era Soviet radioactive materials of which there was thousands and thousands of pounds of unsecured stuff at numerous locations.

Yeats - The Second Coming

Evidently society has felt a sense of decay before, of wrong political directions that morph into provision for citizens of futility. WIlliam Butler Yeats wrote of such a time in merry old England in his poem:

"THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

The first stanza is probably most apropos for the current time in the U.S. The national sense of a new nation of immigrants forgetting their past culture has been clipped by a surfeit of illegal alien Mexicans arriving without severing the culture they left behind. The experiment in Democractic futurism transitioned to a multi-cultural society of people with a foot in the past. American futurists find refuge investing abroad in China or elsewhere.

America's natural advantages that supported the creation of a new nation were perhaps simply the grace of historical non-renewable circumstance. Like Arab nations keen on living in the past-unable to escape from deep ways of historical folkways and memorabilia the United States is being naturally worn down by the wave trains of historical cultures and isn't any longer a unique nation isolated a little from worldly troubles. To a certain extent the self-opinion of the nation as a special place still arises in international politics in a generally deleterious way sometimes simply in order to advantage it's material resource positions.

It may be that the United States or perhaps any other culture cannot bring meaningful social change through evaluation and design intentionally without coercion or historical pressure. The United States for at least a half century has relied upon natural cultural or social evolution following the lines on the emergent worst social values to change or form meta-social structure. The alternative of revolution is as incapable as natural evolution of forming a functioning Democratic social environment beyond a minimal or even nominal status apparently. A culture must rely upon the grace of God to bring opportunities for social reformation as in so much of Biblical history.

Even so the utility of democratic reformation by design that would provide full employment, a recovering environment, stable population and meaningful levels of social egalitarian with equal protection of the law ought to be a present interest of the citizens of the United States. It is the basic social responsibility beyond personal and narrow self-interest. 

N.Y. Mayor Hopes Romney/Obama WIll Disarm Citizens After Batman Massacre in Denver

If only one of the hundreds of midnight movie goers-many probably on marijuana or other drugs, had been a responsible citizen armed with a concealed .357 mag weapon the 70 shootings might have been halted at just a few. Even with body army a head shot with a mag load or even a chest shot would knock a perp down long enough for other to tackle him.

When citizens become like passive pigs in a sensory pleasure corral they are easily slaughtered by neuro-scientists from San Diego. Probably every dictator in human history would have preferred to have his victims disarmed. Nothing has changed in that regard. One reason Americans are more or less free is because the citizens are responsible armed to defend against the slick political cults that want to rule every one to servility now and then.

The challenges to a free society in remaining free with the chance for moral values unconformed to the image of the beast is in keeping and defending liberal gun ownership.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57476795/nyc-mayor-hold-obama-romney-accountable-on-gun-control/

I wanted to mention that the scenario of terrorist infiltrating a movie theater to kill the people in it has been an element in more than one action-adventure novel the past few years. It was a well-anticipated point of vulnerability that might have been defended against a little better. In one novel I read Denver was actually mentioned as a location for a theater terrorist attack along with a dozen other U.S. cities.


The power of a hierarchical and stratified society presents many dangers to ordinary people. One doesn't want to become absolutely socially powerless and at the mercy of the decrees of a corrupt or any other empower political or social class. The comfortable often don't recognize the undesirable social condition of being the victim of concentrated social power. 

Even to this day the concept that the Colt .45 made men equal is true.

The list of nations that have banned handguns probably approximates a list of nations without real democracy or with various stages of its loss. One might consider Tokugawa Japan or Hitler's Germany (the Jews would have had a better chance with plentiful Lugars of their own on Crystalnacht), Maoist China, the former Soviet Union and Cuba etc.

Guns are a good way to defend against thugs and even resist a corrupt state sometimes, yet the proliferation of biological gene recombination technology applicable to viral DNA weponization makes   more substantial dangers present today than direct state authoritarian disarmament of the populus. The state empowers all many of biological research and supports construction of a difficult, precarious future for humany-it is because their is so much money in it as well as for the alleviation of human suffering.

Democratization of Broadcast Media Spectrum Should Go Ahead

People often say that Democracy is an experiment, yet I don't regard life as a practice for a future temporal state. The broadcast media is the death of democracy. It's an anti-egalitarian exclusivist consolidator of corrupt, illicit power for special interests.

Hence if the media seems to appeal to the masses as their champion they provide the lazy citizens undemocratic representation for them making their 'democracy' a spectator sport. Sartre wrote in 'Being and Nothingness' that the fundamental relation of the listener to radio is impotence.

The technology has existed for quite a while for individual citizens to use the FCC regulated broadcast spectrum instead of giving it out to high bidders. It would be a new infrastructure restoring democracy to the public broadcast discourse. Via Internet radio that is rebroadcast through publicly maintained broadcast facilities (perhaps contracted to private facilities operators) radio freqs would be operated and shared like local highways for all to use locally just as are highways. If public roads were exclusively used by the most rich high bidders they would have as little value as radio and television has had in support of private interests.

Can Individuals or Groups Lie in Defining Evil?

If one lies about their definition of evil perhaps there is a reason for that, perhaps not. One may be disingenuous about definitions of course, or even accidentally wrong about a definition (what does soteriology really mean?), however that tends toward engendering false consciousness I believe.

J. Vernon McGee wrote that the Bible definition of evil refers to bad things of a natural kind, in contrast to wickedness that occurs when humans do 'evil' things such as massacring midnight theater goers at the premier of Batman; The Dark Knight Rising.

Jean Paul Sartre wrote about group lies as serialized 'use-truths' in Being and Nothingness.

W.V.O. Quine the late logician wrote a book named 'Word and Object'. Words can refer to objects of course as well as to the abstract objects of ideas, and of course words can be relational devices for referring to groups of words and obviously words can be used to describe abstract general ideas such as evil or 'redness' instead of a particular thing itself. Plainly different people regard some things as evil that others regard as good. Evil as a general subjective concept for itself is applicable in a variety of circumstances unlike the color 'red' that isn't used to refer to purple or blue as a referent object for-itself. Evil in the trophic hierarchy is a higher level of abstraction. I believe Aristotle wrote about such things in his logic.

Lies are existential utterances interpreted by some other or even for-oneself as being untrue. If individual A tells individual B on a rainy day that the sun is brightly shining then the falsehood of the lie is transparent unless person B interprets the lie as some sort of metaphor or emotive description.

If one lies about a definition of evil for political purposes in order to obtain political advantage for a class (the U6 unemployment rate of 17.7% is all the fault of G.W. Bush) is that uncommon? I think that people seldom lie about evil when it occurs to them for they recognize it as such painfully perhaps. In a social environment where many people live somewhat abstract cubicle lives with sanitized concepts reinforcing values of a dysfunction nature convenient falsehoods such as global warming cannot be caused by human Co2 emissions may be unchallengeable pragmatically in time to do the future much good. Falsehoods of a remote and abstract nature regarding definitions of evil are not directly verifiable for individuals not uncommonly.

The late Ronald Reagan in speaking with First Secretary Gorbachev on nuclear disarmament often said about agreements 'trust, but verify'. The need for that was plain during from 1972 to 1989 when the Soviet Union had signed off on bans on offensive biological weapons yet was secretly running full speed ahead with Biopreparat to develop new synthetic germs and viruses of the lethal kind for war on the cheap

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.