U.S. Government Torture and Other Mualadroit Policies

Government torture of Al Qaeda suspects was bad policy yet the Bush II administration and A.G. Gonzalez felt that it was necessary. Federal sadism is an abuse of power in an era when abuse of power with nominal excuses seems to be the rule instead of the exception. A politician or chief executive needs plausible blamability of someone else for effective implementation.

While Al Qaeda did tremendous damage to New York and Arlington Va on 9-11 so did Clinton era economic policies that let Wall Street establish flam as the norm. President Bush II doubling down on his own enrich Halliburton method of ops with no-bid contracts in a 3 trillion dollar war didn't no that his own method of spending his political capital would enfilade President Clinton's hidden method of transferring wealth to the rich already in effect nor the effect it would have of bringing a financial crash to Wall Street. President Obama hasn't really changed much to correct that. Instead he has developed a new upgrade of abusing executive power in serialized neo-imperialism though he did take over the Colbert Report recently to the relief of the unemployed.

Torture is bad policy that wasn't necessary to elicit information leading to old man Oz hidden near the Pakistan Military College. The U.S. Government has lots of bad policy like any other government though except Sweden. Sen. Feinstein assures us that democracy is open and so spilling government secrets must therefor be good for democracy, however Democracy may be more common in Africa than any other continent and it has had a debatably positive effect compared to some hypothetical better form of government yet to be invented.

Africa at least got rid of its Kings and left the savage past behind unlike Europe with its atavistic royals of Norway, Britain and elsewhere. It may be the higher neolithic genetic content, yet that could be a good thing too-it brought them out of being slavers quicker than some other places.

Bad policies of torture like bad public radio harms particular individuals whom haven't practical recourse. The legal system is already too expensive and doesn't correct very well. One might say that sadism is in its blood.

There is good news on the religious front though...post-millennialism seems to indicate that the areas of the world positively influenced by the saved is likely to increase. One might be skeptical since the Nixon Corporate health care plan that is a nearly half-century old was laundered through the Romneys and President Obama then forced into law when the Democrat Party used the nuclear option. If one has learned anything from the past few years it is that more political silliness from a neo-corporatist government will not fix the problems with Mexico that send so many illegal migrants to the U.S.A. to compete with jobs with suffering Americans unemployed and dropped out of the work force so the government can put a happy-face unemployment statistic out when there are probably more working age Americans not working than are.

Mexico should have a European standard of living and then like Europeans it would not send many illegals here to the U.S.A. One must halt all illegal immigration with a salt-water moat to desalinate water then create a Marshall Plan for Mexico to bring full employment about. The people that like cheap labor however will never allow things to change. If Mexico no longer sent illegal workers north the cheap labor people would get them here from China or elsewhere...and dirty wars that cost a lot will probably recur too.

Free E-Book for 2014- A Universal Widget- In the Realm of Forms

Plato's idea about a realm of forms where the originals of all things that exist provide patterns for all things that exist is an idea that many have forgotten about as it dropped off the radar screen of actual intellectual pursuits to a certain extent with the rise of scientific method. Yet the Higgs field and inferences about the quantum structure of mass and energy that were discovered by physicists remind one of the fundamental forms that matter and perhaps dimensions can take-even sentient brains tend to be spherical to optimize shortest routes of travel for neuron signaling-one might say that nature repeats certain forms existentially over others, and one wonders where the original context for a particular Universe 's laws might cohere.

That is the topic of the science fiction novel 'A Universal Widget; In the Realms of Forms'. Rather light reading in a philosophical vain to explain a few ideas regarding the potentials of being and nothingness.

It is available for a while free to download as an epub file from my book page...

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/a-universal-widget-in-the-realm-of-forms/ebook/product-21696277.html

Why Some Scientists Have Trouble With Evidence and Faith (video)

Explaining the 2014 Presbyterian-U.S.A. Perversion of Marriage Act

I read part of a Presbyterian Theology publication with a minority report dissent to degeration into sin as renormalized hunkie dorrie policy on the homosexual marriage issue. In June 2014 the Presbyterian General Assembly approved a perversion of marriage act believing the Bible doesn't indicate marriage is a sexual thing (meaning heterosexual reproduction) between two sexes. Apparently they view the New Testament and Old evidence to the contrary as quaint and apply the principle of moral relativism apropos to a given historical era as better. 

With the problems of hierarchical church leadership instead of a priesthood of believers as the norm it is difficult for a populist bottom-up laity to resist imposition from the powerful above. A majority of 172 regional Presbyteries seem to have been taken over by insiders with homosexual sin affections. I suppose secularist corporatists would like the church generally to reflect corporate values. I am not sure how this plays out in regard to the pre-mill-post-mill-amill views about the future. With so much closet Hegelianism in politics affecting everyone's ideas about evolution and destiny it is easy for elites to lead people down the road to perdition.

Safer Arrest Technology Could Avert Police Resistor Casualties

Public protests about white police officers that have had the misfortune to kill a subject resisting arrest have grown in recent months yet little has been said about ways to make it safer for police officers to arrest those resisting arrest with violence or the threat of violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/justice/new-york-grand-jury-chokehold/

Police officers are not all world champion wrestlers or martiall artists with the ability to effortlessly subdue a physical resistor to arrest. Police officers encounter those with an itch to kill  them or those that are on hyper-activity drugs such as pcp or drunk and rowdy people. Additionally there are those plain dumb and without common sense that to commit a crime on a po,lice officer directly by resisting arrest is a very bad idea and should never be attempted unless one really needs to return to Al Qaeda, some foreign intelligence agency or a whatever such that a death sentence probably will follow if taken in to custody.

Police officers sometimes are spread kind of thin. They may be working alone in a patrol car to get twice the coverage from the same number of personnel. If they must arrest someone-even a black person, it can be dangerous. If someone resists arrest they may not be able to wait until help arrives or even be able to call for help. If it is a mano y mano conflict the police officer must win generally-and victory all the time is difficult-not even Muhammad Ali was able to accomplish that.

Unless a police officer has a guaranteed knock out punch there aren't a lot of options to choose from without a black belt-hit em with a flashlight or nightstick maybe, and of course there is a gun. So police officers may use the choke-hold like a lot of inexperienced fighters-the body follows the head.

Can a police officer use a headlock? Sure-yet he may spend more energy in applying the headlock and controlling the suspect than the subject he is trying to arrest and when he eventually lets go the subject is ready for round two. Applying a headlock means that the police officers hands aren't free to apply hand cuffs either-so what is he or she to do?

One imagines some sort of a derringer up the sleeve contact-taser that is voice activated so a police officer could knock out the subject with a jolt after saying the activating code-word-and maybe that would make it possible to get hand cuffs on the individual being arrested.

To avert accidental police caused fatalities of suspect resisting arrest some kind of tech solution producing a Judge Dred taser might be the remedy. The hopefully the government can go to work solving the problem of blacks shooting blacks in Chicago and other American cities. Though they aren't police officers doing the shooting the victims still perish.

Mal-Administration of Russ-American Relations with Ukraine

It is wrong to undermine the positive resolution of the cold war with a nit-picking corporate desire to consume all of the Ukraine from the historically Russian patrimony. The U.S.A. too suffers from the schism with Russia toward a better democratic future with free enterprise-yet corporatism is prevalently collectivist after all primarily benefiting elites.

Plainly the west doesn't get it generally on Russian Ukrainian interests; they need their traditional Black Sea frontage and Dneiper River access to the Russian heartland. The west just wants more land and Bill Clinton got a transitional Russian leader-inebriate under stress to sign away the Ukraine. He could not sign away Russian history,sentiment or Geo-political economic interests.

The west these days has evolved under atheist political trendiness toward corporate Blob status in an upgrade of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Corporate interests and the concentration of wealth to global plutocrats matters-morality or mind, private interests or anything else not within corporate networks must be absorbed including Ukraine.

A practical settlement for Ukraine would let the Russian speaking areas on the Black Sea and Dneiper become part of Russia if they want yet Russians and Ukrainians would sign a free trade agreement and citizens of each nation would have the right to buy 5 acres of real estate in the other if they wanted. Besides voting or Military conscription the freedoms of each party in both nations would be liberal. Everyone knows the oligarchs and Blob insiders of both nations will eventually be transnational investors anyway-it is the ordinary people that will be missing body parts and land, buildings and hope will the Blob increases its mass.

U.S. Presidents should be more than mouthpieces of the Blob. President Putin may as well be negotiating with a corporation that characteristically would never yield, compromise or discover a creative new course to conflict resolution. Americans haven't had a national war for a century and a half. American leaders should not lightly foist civil conflicts upon foreign nations nor take actions to encourage them such as in Syria and Ukraine. The cold-blooded M.B.A. analysis of profit and loss should not be the paradigm for political postures/relations internationally. Artificial intelligence can be difficult to differentiate from human thought when human thought becomes too machine-like.

Miracles and Quantum Uncertainty

With quantum mechanics and uncertainty technically anything is possible including those configurations of quanta that seem miraculous. I think the word 'miracle' as a middle term or indirect referent object applicable in theory to a structured genre of event-processes is somewhat confusing and perhaps a source of doubt. Reason either inductive, deductive or a posteriori probably is skeptical about anomalous events, and miracles may not be all of one sort of causal structure anyway-God of course hasn't a context whereby He is subjective being or causality. One can understand how faithless people have existential doubts yet Christians too are not certain about a schedule of uncertainty either...simply believers in God's preeminence over the entangled field quanta that appear to be mass-Universe.

Carlsen Keeps World Chess Title 6.5 to 4.5

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen won his title defense against Vishy Anand in Sochi Russia taking game 11 and the match.

Illegal Aliens In, SecDef Hagel Out

Secretary of Defense Hagel resigned following the controversion by the President of U.S. immigration law changing the status of millions of illegal aliens in the U.S.A. to Obama-certified legal status. As a loyal Nebraskan veteran the former SecDef may have dissented from being a policy accomplice after-the-fact. Alternatively former SecDef Hagel may have wished to spend more time nurturing peace.

The SecDef does more than defend the nation against foreign business persons of interest that would change all the world's natural resources including people into exclusive product with gross value of one cube unit (except for a few ha'yumans left around to buy and consume product to keep the economy recycling). After SecDef Hagel the way is unclear.

What sort of poinkery may follow is anyone's guess. Abraham was told his descendants would as be numerous as the stars yet that is an inexact figure in context. Did God mean the visible stars (about 5000 for AVRM and somewhat more for God? Or did he mean all of the stars in the Universe or just the part of the Universe AVRM was looking toward(about a fifth of the stars). In one case AVRM's heirs aren't so numerous while in the remainder Earth wouldn't be large enough for them-they would need to boldly create habitats in space to dwell upon. That would require conservation of the present Earth ecosphere for several reasons. Slow population increase for space colonization in proportion to ecospheric carrying capacity. A SecDef has several scenarios to choose-it is almost assured that the next few Presidents will be dumb and dumber versions 4,5,6...

If there is the usual pundit poinkery from the BBC providing news analysis of distant events in D.C. we may learn if N.P.R. will increase its musical content between leftist kultur kempf intent more or if the next SecDef to put on the Cowboy Hat of Office can speak Russian fluently or find a new way to thwart incipient Iranian democracy and restore a cooperative royal lackey that shops at Wall Street's zero-interest loans store for the rich so they have abundant cash to invest in China.

The rich of Boston have probably considered it necessary to cut down world population starting with America in ways more aggressive than normal policy can produce. Putting women in Marine combat units is being contemplated, developing Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages into policy that would stop population growth with vigorous worked pressurizing expropriation of affordable capital investments of the poor in real estate so that even if they have food to biologically breed they would have no private place to live is realpolitik. The new wearer of the Cowboy Hat of Defense may want good understanding of global political-economy in order to discover optimal ecological economic intervention tensors that would best create prosperity, space exploration and real economic growth for others and avoid being another bull attacking the next perceived red-wearing foe as a policy end in-itself. With a quarter century of bad Presidential leadership the nation relies upon the Cowboy Hat Leader for security too much.

If the President is bold he will appoint Hillary Clinton to be SecDef so she can bring the wrath of feminist bureaucracy down like Maxwell's silver hammer to over-watch all that poinkery slowing down peace and sisterhood in the Middle East. How long the suffering wonder, will it be before a SecDef builds a saltwater-desalinating via evaporation and condensation capture moat to keep infidels south of the Mexican border? Thousands of jobs making fresh water for the desert could be made building the saltwater-pumping pipeline and moat-canals. Thousands of space technicians need to have an electro-magnetic linear mass-driver built on the moon in order to provide shovel-ready jobs to feed their families. And then there is the South Sudan-they need agriculture education and cheap water-making training. Somewhere on the horizon, emerging from a bright sunrise, a smog is forming to cloud up the sky. The new SecDef may stop those exhaust emissions-who can say?

Supreme Legislator President Yobama Promotes Illegal Immigrants (satire)

President Yobama growing tired of Republicans and unhappy with sweeping republicans victories in the recent congressional elections decided to rewrite U.S. immigration and decide for-himself who may be in the United States or be deported. Controverting bad laws he don't like to change illegal to legal the President has decided to deconfuse the dum and dummer Congress benevolently. As a lawyer able to decide what the meaning of is is better than Congress the President found adequate litigious loopholes in legal authorization to effectively make laws temporarily without the excess drag of Congressional opinion slowing him down.

President Yobama as a graduate of the Harvard School of Advanced Theoretical Political Philosophy (aka. Law) as start tested the waters with a North American Free Illegal Alien Act that when signed into law or shouted out by decree would let U.S. citizens illegally Migrate to Mexico and eventually have a pathway to dual citizenship following the Mexican top-court's decree that homosexuals can marry and thus produce fruits of social improveremt.

For those without depth in reading the historical setting for Democracy I shall provide a refresher now. The tripartite government was made in order that one branch of government would not evolve dictatorial power. The Congress would make laws and the Chief Executive would faithfully execute those laws as close as possible to the will and intent of the lawmakers. The Judicial branch would decide if the laws were in conflict with the constitution and were thus illegal.

In order to expedite leftist Kulture Kampf to reverse colonialism and restore the name First People to the Washington Redskins President Yobama will increase illegal alien immigration quotas from Mexico,Asia and Kenya.

President Yobama has discovered or perhaps to use an Al Gorithm, invented a better and more efficient political method whereby the he decides by-himself what is lawful left and proper, makes laws and enforces them to rule by decree. The Congress thus has more time to campaign and make silly partisan speeches while the Chief Justice is free to spend more time nurturing Wall Street globalist stock portfolia.