Oil Platform Haul-outs for Walruses?

Sea lions like to use marina docks as substitute haul outs where natural land or ice features aren’t available. One might think that walrus also would use man-made platforms for haul outs where available such as specially adapted offshore oil platforms in Alaska. perhaps legislation could be made to require oil corporations to attach haul-outs for walrus and polar bear on their offshore facilities. Human compensation for global warming melting of the Arctic ice pack ought to go ahead in an affordable way.

As an alternative remedy the federal government could design special electric engine powered haul out barges that would follow the ice pack recession seasonally to moor in locations where walrus and polar bear formerly had ice to rest on. Permanent moorings could be made so the barges could hook on to anchored tethers with floats that sink beneath the waves in advance of the return of seasonal ice and reappear seasonally when signaled or boat-hooked. The barges could return to the beach of the North Slope in autumn as the ice returns.

Questions About Ebola as a Sexually Transmitted Disease

The obvious unanswered question is ‘Can Ebola be contracted sexually?’ Will sex tourist of Africa take Ebola to the melting flesh-pots of the world? Alternatively, if Ebola is just a viral pool of blood, vomit etc. that expands as people dip into it or are splashed by it, Americans with better sanitation are better off. They might be able to avoid getting into the planetary Ebola pool. With insular housing and metal transportation boxes Americans can stay away from the two or three week time period required for Ebola to burn itself out in new victims, comparable in some respects to forest fires that last two or three weeks and then die, unless the virus if frozen I would guess in a body or blood during a cold winter freeze. Yet if sexual transmission works those with the atheist mind set may become leaders at disseminating Ebola globally.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/04/ebola-might-be-sexually-transmitted.html

The sex tourism route though might be an advantaged course for prosperous American tourists to get the disease. Wilt Chamberlain’s 50,000 conquests might have included some Africans too. If he were alive in the H.I.V. era he might have been one of the early victims. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a giant stamp to honor one of America’s highest scoring sportsmen (he is also the N.B.A.’s all time scoring champ). Sex tourism of Africa as well as Thailand could be dangers if the Ebola pool flows that way. Thank goodness West Nile virus (is that the Blue Nile?) seems not to be a sexually transmitted disease, or it would be pandemic. 

The Secret Service, Fence Jumping Invaders & Kurdistan

When a troubled vet jumped the White House Fence and ran into the East Wing of the White House the President wasn't home and neither was security. One can imagine a suicide bomber jumping the fence-maybe they already brought packages of C-4 from the Middle East over the Mexican border. Illegal boundary jumpers aren't supposed to be troubling to the rich or politicians generally. The President has been on vacation at securing the Mexican border from illegal entry as well and that keeps the value of labor down.

Perhaps the President was getting in another of hundreds of rounds of golf or considering an exit strategy for the Syrian guerrilla war and terror training field training exercise though the Pentagon has said the bombing will go on for years. Like reading tea leaves there is an art to drawing inferences from Obama administration Middle East facts from which inferences about policy could be read.

The President in a speech about the spat of head-choppings by ISIS said that no god would like that, or work that, or something like that. I do not think the President is a polytheist at all, however one knows that the mostly Reformed Christian Cromwell administration benefited from the first regicide in modern European history. God is fairly tough and able too tolerate his Son being cruicified-arguably worse than a head chopping-Jesus was no pansy.

President Obama's statement that no god-not Thor or Moloch or other pretenders that are stone or wood would condone chopping-and one knows that insentient beings cannot vote much less order head chops. It seems like another lawyerly language trick-like what the meaning of is is only with a larger topic.

God is certainly for justice and the end of sin yet one accomplishes that through the sacrifice of the Lord, not with more causal series bombings. If head chopping seems like sin, remember that Islam has no paradigm for sin as do Christians. Instead they have the goal of theocratic world-conquest as an article of faith. Politically speaking even atheists believe generally that ends justify means or at least that there are no moral values that are valid moral criteria for judging ends or means. Instead they simply are. 

The Quran has lots of stuff about war and chopping off of hands for thieving is fairly common. The Middle East has a history of low-budget corrections-even the Iranians had a tow truck with a hoist for a mobile scaffold during the Amahdinijab era I believe it was, cruising around Tehran for swift justice. The revolutionary Jacobeans and the Directorate brought a mobile guillotine to Haiti and elsewhere. ISIS as wicked and silly as it is about forming a government through blood that won't work, is not unique in the application of biased justice to political opponents. There is no question that the broadcast media is a tool of the rich and that airwaves ought to be given over to the public to restore a semblance of democracy in the U.S.A. Wealthy corporations pay money to other corporations that own broadcast networks for political advertising through PACS and the poor and middle class public slurps it up. Add together the collected political works of Republicrat parties and one find pure corporatism concentrating wealth. The media are their tools and PR mouthpieces.




If ISIS will exist for years as a credible terrorist-military force in the region then that must mean the Syrian civil war will continue too and the President will continue to support rebel efforts to depose the lawful Assad government. At the same time that the Saudis will be training 5000 moderates to either attack ISIS with sandals or boots on the ground or sand the Friends of Syria will be sending arms (well weapons rather than arms or heads) and continuing pay outs for rebel and terror salaries to the warriors that may be honest killers seeking to attack Assadites but may have sympathy toward expanding the Dar al Harb and Dar al Islam as well. Keeping a foot on the gas peddle to the metal and another on the brake simultaneously while spinning a Broddie or reverse one and a half end-over-end seems the exciting prospect.

 If the Syrian Civil war is protracted and the battle against ISIS presumes a stable foe as if it were an invading horde of  Mongols led by Tamerlane or Genghis that can be clearly identified and not just slip out and disappear into the local populace perhaps to reform like a cancer in other cells tat will assure continuing Syrian civilian suffering.

There are some that right-wingly call for boots on the ground to pacify the populace and bring peace until the boots march somewhere else. It is probably worth considering what a division or two of tankers or Marines might mean to the area. First though the exist strategy and clear goals to accomplish that might stabilize the presently ISIS-claimed regions might be adumbrated. If ISIS is dispersed won't another succeeding rebel & terror organization draw upon the remaining available resources to war and claim land? Isn't that sort of an occupation of many terror organizations in the area generally that has increased because of U.S. support for war on the lawful Syrian government?

Some might hypothesize a lasting American special forces troop presence in the Kurdistan district of Iraq as a kind of foreign legion able to reinforce Kurdish led military and security activities. A stronger Kurdistan reinforced by Iraq might be a way to keep a frontier post able to defrappe the formation of ad hoc terror ventures precipitated by the dubiously helpful war upon Basher Assad.

Some sort of stability as an ad hoc and continuing political fact that permits a certain measure of economic activity and environmental conservation development would be better than an ongoing ad hoc chaos with conflict effort.

Nature's Way

   Wrong responses to challenges of environmental and global dooming will not solve the problems. The competition of capitalism left to itself will not provide answers to environmental economic questions any more than sports competition will prepare for and provide answers to a science test. Natural forces of capital development may be as indolent and unresponsive to environmental exams as the archetypal coach potato believing that swilling beer and watching the NFL Sunday will evolve the right answers to an end-of-semester science exam Monday morning or ultimate questions on the last day.

Of Nature's Way

In the shadows that flit across the street

meeting places that eroded way

the report of no time remaining

gathering dust like a neutron star's reign

of power concentrating further

the value of truth's costly commodity

leveling packages

was a gong

Minus one twelfth night

another sum of all numbers

where forests of trees cut down fly beyond

enfiladed species erased as dreams

hours echoing in waves formed ripples

cascading through Higg's field

where gravity stands down at last

motion too with global warming dead ahead gone past

Sentient logic circuits in linear progressions

racing through bodies in a world after quarks

where ideas exist for-themselves

darkly immune from the gilt of transactions

shaped like frosting on cakes

ice rhymed winks at states of art

killing of organic life and morals

bereft of spiritual reason.

Post Script to a note on Predeterminism

Predestination is a somewhat amorphous topic. On some days I understand more about it than others. predestination might be regarded as a function of determinism. Since God is omnipotent and omniscient the temporal Universe is necessarily predestined to run its course, and of course God's purpose was not to have it as some sort of contingent, random fluke of luck. Instead, in accord with His physical boundaries determining the force structure and thermodynamic composition of the steady state-entanglement that comprises mass in Universe 1 He foreknew each and every detail and connection amidst particles and even human will.

All know God yet some with false consciousness forget who He is. All are called and few are chosen. The kingdom of God is within-these are difficult paradigms yet consistent with the omnipotent Creator who appeared as the Son that people might have a relationship personally with God.

Free will may occur within the kingdom of God that is an atemporal paradigm cohering in the temporal experience of human experience as a sort of point of contact with the non-temporal eternal presence of God whom is Spirit. Human freedom to choose Jesus Christ as their personal savior atoning for the original sin that put mankind physically into temporal thermodynamics eating of the tree of knowledge enables exfiltration from deterministic causality such as Newton would have well understood and that exists in a sense even in the quantum mechanical paradigm of quantum uncertainty. One might readily extrapolate that the uncertainty is an interface between the pure spiritual liberty of God in His omniscient, omnipotent majesty and the deterministic, entangled quantum order bound in a Higgs Field that mankind experiences. I think that is better regarded as a metaphor for the protocol between pure freedom-in-itself and the deterministic realm for others comprising the paradoxical setting for free will vs determinism issues.

The Tao of American Capitalism

American capitalism in the post-cold war era hasn't evolved felicitously like a development of four season building interior ecosystems optimally adapting in each new transformative directed evolution. Instead capital investment has flowed abroad to new economic frontiers such as China, India and Mexico as well as relocating production over there. In the leaky bucket economic criterion for American capitalism keeping capital investment in the U.S.A. is in opposition to operative Taoist principles of a watercourse way flowing capital overseas to the easiest correspondent pool of capital increase.

Corporate revenue streams may increase in the flow to richer networks downhill drawing in a thousand rivulets into consolidated corporate flows yet the redirection of capital tends to dry up the U.S. National economic opportunities for the majority of the nation whom are poor and middle class. One might envisage a two-or three stage reformed taxation principle of progressive taxation on corporate profit yet the challenges of innovating new forms of enhanced tax structures are substantial. Unlike interior décor that automatically rearranges itself and reconfigures itself along Taoist principles at minimal cost that could be technologically adduced in some futurist scenario taxation or economic reform by Democratic government becomes increasingly opposed by the shear power of concentrated capital flow. Globalization

As capital investment has flowed abroad with labor so one might anticipate intellectual work to flow abroad as well. Globalization of an intellectual labor pool may find lowest cost intellectual piecework competition with Americans on a level field with Chinese and Indian intellectuals. Spanish speaking language requirements will be outsourced to via Internet piecework bidding for work. Capitalism in effect will become alienated from the U.S.A. as a nation as it imports cheap foreign labor to drive down the wage value of remaining American labor.

A bright spot for American capitalists is that taxes may be lowered further with the concept that production will remain or return. Tax rates are perhaps not as meaningful to the decision to outsource work as labor costs and market location. As the second and third world nations move up it would be more efficient to locate production closer to the preferred market consumers.

American workers are encouraged to take on student debt training costs for jobs that may not exist or that will become outsourced. Home mortgages that are indexed through globalization to rates investors are willing to pay through derivatives may rise above the ability of the poor and middle class to afford.

With thirty-year home mortgages, disruption in quality employment may break the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase and pay for a home before old age or death. Plainly divorce and homosexual marriage will change the dynamics of home ownership and increase of capital by the poor and middle class in a stable, affordable environment, and that may well affect the ability for parents to pass on their home as an inheritance with a modest capital value increase to the next generation. The default is toward renting and a trickling upward of wealth from the poor and middle class to globalists' concentrated proprietary capital. Networked outlets of global capital vacuum up the financial floor assets of the middle class and poor redistributing wealth from the nation to a plutocratic global ocean.

Developing of oil field fracking technology has brought a steady increase in American oil field production from previously depleted fields. One might reasonably anticipate global oilfields depleted during the 20^th century also will be partially revived by future fracking and that too will increase production from old fields and lower global oil costs.

Oil per barrel has already dropped to the low $90s and one might anticipate a price as low as $45 to $60 in the coming years. Russia’s depleted Baku oil fields, Iran’s under-productive reserves and those of Pemex, Saudi, Nigeria and so forth will get their fracking steroid shots endangering underground water quality too yet dumping millions and millions of barrels of effective new oil onto the world market. Plainly that calls for Congress to swiftly pass a permanent alternative energy production tax exemption to let solar, wind and fuel cell power plus remain competitive with fossil fuel burning.

Creating a base service economy boom in the U.S.A. the next decade with low-paying jobs as in the Clinton years with increasing deregulation of Wall Street and the rich may concentrate wealth at an accelerating pace. Returning global investments to buy up American properties will also continue as the majority of Americans experience life ruled by a Plutonomy.

Robot Diagnostic Doctors to Lower Medical Costs for the Billions?

The world shortage of physicians to accurately treat disease may be logical filled one day by low-cost robotic diagnostic doctors with memory banks of every disease and symptom known to man. With terabyte SD cards on the horizon building 1000 terabyte robot memory for low cost can be foreseen. The field of manufacturing robotic physicians to diagnose illness with a built in synthetic tool kit of imaging and chemical analysis devices and software for interpretation is logical as well.

One would think that the National Institute of Health could provide a project paradigm for development of the ideal robotic doctor to lead capitalism to radically lower the cost of quality medical care for the billions.  Obviously one might worry about making the beast’s image and consider planting a self-destruct circuit in the robotic doctor if it goes to the dark side of the force-yet I think that the prophesied Evil Leader would find some other vehicle for its rep to appear in. So, returning to the cheaper medical care project…

Dr. Robots able to walk the walk and talk the talk might be able to be trained to illegibly scrawl prescriptions too. Dr. Bots would have a good patient communication lexicon and deductive language reasoning capability to ask and understand any foreseeable human response to probing questions such as does it hurt?

There may be a primary difference between diagnostic Dr. Bots and Dr. Fix--all bots. Obviously some entrepreneurs would seek to package diagnostic and treatment bots together one day in competition one-upsmanship. Some surgeries could be performed by programmable robotic platforms with built in surgical procedures data banks  in field clinics while others might need to be established in permanent treatment facilities although modularizing Dr. Bots Surgeons on hovercraft for location to roadless areas might be useful. They should all have solar recharging capability for powering up as well as fuel cells.

While it is true that human volunteer networks to examine breasts are easy to innovate, checking human health through vaginal or anal data-ports is more of a problem. One can imagine robotic probes with smaller, non-invasive diagnostic imaging tools able to more accurately interpret infrared imaging and perform chemical and biological analysis from a comprehensively broad spectrum of the human eco-complex. A Dr. Bot alien probe should be able to provide one’s genetic ancestry as routinely as making a blood survey.

Alaska Senate Candidate's Parents Donate $300,000 to PAC

A former mayor of Anchorage and active U.S. Marine reserve Colonel's parents donated $300,000 to a political action committee run by Karl Rove. There are media attack ads paid for by those pacs on 'Dirty' Dan Sullivan's rival, incumbent U.S. Senator 'Malarki' Mark Begitch broadcast and that makes me wonder about the fairness of a system that allows the rich to in effect launder campaign financing of ads through partisan pacs. It does not seem that there are limits to giving money to pacs yet ordinary people are limited to what? $1500 donations to a candidate-is that limit on free speech on ordinary people fair when the can buy as much support for their favorite candidate they want?

The media corrupts when it is owned by the rich instead of ordinary people.

Why Compromise and Innovation are Better than Confrontation for Ukraine

Compromise rather than conflict is the better course for Ukraine. Sanctions and bellicose Washington D.C. rhetoric about Russian aggression accompanied with sanctions dividing Russian and European trade and commerce ought to be replaced with realpolitik. It is better to integrate Russian-European economics rather than segregate. It is better to make closer security and trade ties trilaterally with Russia, Europe and the U.S.A. instead of increasing isolation and sanctions. When it is possible with intelligent leadership to innovate progress instead of regressing to primitive cold war posturing one should choose the smart way rather than the dumb.

Ukraine is unlikely to be harmed by making of itself something of a political laboratory for creative political merger accentuating positive, closer ties with Russia and the west simultaneously. Creative political thought did not need to die with the passing of Reagan-Gorbachev era.

Obama administration sycophants complain about the European economy slowing U.S. economic growth as if the sanctions hurting European and Russian economies haven’t anything to do with Europe’s stagnant recovery from the 2008 banking and mortgage crash largely developed through Wall Street and British, D.C. and London deregulation and failure to govern high-speed quantitative trading and packaging of bad debt for sale.

The Obama administration’s failure to comprehend Russia’s 1200 year patrimony of the Ukraine and the unlikely circumstance of a complete acceptance of de-Russification of Ukraine means that the economic and security stumbling block will continue indefinitely even if with a cold war level of simmering maneuver. That is quite different from warm and innovative relations between Europe, the United States and Russia-and that is bad for the economy of the three regions.

The reality of Ukraine permits far more real interaction and adjustment of political formality than the abstract ideological and partisan positions that Washington and its puppet politicians believe possible. The confrontational Washington attitude does not save Ukraine from a return to the evil empire of the Soviet Union. It is quite possible for Ukrainian pluralism to include Russian interests and Ukrainian politicians with very close ties to Russia as well as the west. Ukrainian interests are in drawing benefits from east and west rather than just the west or the east. They have no need of an exclusive relationship to one side or the other beyond its borders, and neither need Ukrainian independence mean being free of affiliations and treaties with anyone beyond its borders.

Ukraine might sight trade agreements with Russia and the west simultaneously-even some of those free trade agreements that Washington leapt into as if they were the opulent new designer economic drug. Ukraine can be the state where synthetic development and inclusion of Russian-leaning separatist regions in their own Ukrainian community of independent state can satisfy the real desire for many to be more Russian culturally than western while west leaning interests can be confident of free trade, freedom of religion and security interests not being taken over by a Russian mafia or onerous policies repressing civil rights.

It is often said that most Ukrainians want democracy and a free economy, yet so do many Russians and Europeans. Realpolitik of history shows that tribal and cultural wars are right up there with wars and conflicts created by aristocracy and royalty over land. Keeping the ordinary citizen free of class caste systems isn’t easy-even the power of concentrated wealth and their media pets make it challenging for some to recognize their loss of earnings power and degradation of comparative social advantage.

Ukraine should seek its own balance in Fullerian social synthetic integration-syntegrity between Russia and Europe innovating new political structures to bring in closer Russian economic and cultural participation while drawing in the west as well. The major sticking point in getting the sanction repealed swiftly is the need for political change away from confrontationism and bellicosity with stark, de trop, black-white us and them paradigmata for ultimatums. Moving through a variety of Ukrainian political evolutions toward a realpolitik of mergism is not only possible, it is a necessary way to move economic progress forward, reduce European tension in the region and return the focus of Europe toward rebuilding the economic malaise that is still severe in several members of the EC.

What Were the Demographics of Failed Scot's Independence Vote?

One wonders about the failed voted for Independence in Scotland where 45% voted yes and 55% said 'God save the Queen'-and even monarchs that are nominally head of the state Church can use salvation of course. Did the woman vote in Scotland swing toward the Queen whereas the men voted for Independence, except for the homosexuals that prefer England's homosexual marriage?

If women are somewhat biologically more conservative perhaps the disruption in income stream that would have occurred if leaving the U.K. overcame the opulent possibilities of independence. Pie in the sky-even good lemon meringue pie, just isn't as good as the present slice of pizza or package of fish and chips.

President Obama has learned well to exploit the gender preferences in politics and with the help of talk radio Rush Limbaugh's quaint concepts about science, global warming and environmentalism (he would probably have called the cfl caused ozone hole a hoax and opposed banning its use the Democrat Party has found easy going. While some don't like the Neanderthal brand of politics implicitly there are still many that believe homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to corrupt society in order to erase the idea that homosexuality is a corruption of human nature. Marriage should rationally be limited to heterosexuals and a 90% tax rate restricted to just the rich.