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With N. Korea, Diplomacy Equals Appeasement

Diplomacy has tried and failed to end the Korean Peninsula crisis since the 1950s. North Korea has pushed nuclear weapons development as far as it could afford to under various circumstances, and slowed its pace a little now and then, yet i could always continue researching and constructing weapons infrastructure in part even if not actually enriching uranium. Now it has nuclear weapons and is close to having ICBMs. It is the world's best rogue communist authoritarian state and closet communists probably hope it continues to attacks the core of capitalism and perhaps even nukes DC eventually or a major U.S. city or two. That would collapse the U.S. economy instantly and rewrite world economic and political balances.

Can the U.S. and the rest of the world live with a nuclear North Korea? Of course, until it actually uses  nukes on San Francisco and Seattle, D.C. and Chicago the what me worry approach willwork fine. It is worth remembering that nations and political theorists have made sacrifices in times past in order to advance a particular agenda.North Korea could be the communist's second to last card to play to restore communism to the glory it had before the end of the Soviet Union when hundreds of millions of people in Russia and China lived contentedly under elite dictators and politboro non-representative congresses.

Mutually assured destruction deterrence policies don't work if one party believes its sacrifice is worthwhile if it can advance a broader political cause. Neither would anisotropic one-sided assured destruction policy be effective in the same context if North Korean Dictator Kim Un believes that collapsing the U.S. and world economy is worth the price (since it will bring planetary authoritarianism and corporate-communism to universal power.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41083375 British still think diplomacy is a good idea

Shoes; Jackie Kennedy vs Melania Trump

The mangestream media has brought to the worlds attention the fashionable footwear Melania Trump wore leaving the White House on her way to Texas and the scene of the wrath of Harvey.The First Lady wore high heels aka 'pumps' with a bomber jacket and  aviator sunglasses and the press thought it appeared from spoilt, aloof, red-state and all things unAmerican. So that leads some fashion  inexperts to wonder; what would Jackie Kennedy have worn to a hurricane disaster site?

http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/08/29/melania-trumps-office-obsession-first-ladys-shoes-texas-trip-sad

After so many years it is challenging yet not impossible  to induct exactly what she would have worn; honest democrat party Johnny Unitas blacktop sneakers with matching handbag, white cigarette pants and an ensemble that would be both provocative and awe inspiring at the same time. She would have worn the sequinned bib coveralls made famous in the late farm chic era on the east coast.

Has Anyone Thought of Asking Russia for a Good Moon Base Design?

Could Russia produce a better practical moon base criterion than N.A.S.A.? The United States space program except for the Kennedy years generally gets little done in the way of manned space exploration. In about 70 years no one has gone beyond the space station (except for the Kennedy programs through Apollo). The Apollo program might not have got started except for competition with the Soviets. 

It would be a good idea to ask Russia to produce the most cost-effect, practical moon base for research and industry they can, if one wants to look at a practical design. It could be made to synergize with any private corporate technology, yet government providing a core base catalyst can actually get things moving.

Russia since the end of the cold war has had a platter of problems to deal with including complete economic and social restructuring. It has had to protect its historical lands from global carpet baggers as best it can, and to deal with terrorism, pollution and NATO military threats. It has had little ability to put too much into manned space exploration although it was a vital link to get astronauts to and from the I.S.S. when America's space shuttle program was closed down.

Russia has had to face the fact that the U.S.A. has a military edge and also made it first to the moon staking a claim. Those and other factors have made Russia unwilling to challenge what President Reagan called the high frontier (of the moon). That's too bad in a sense because the Soviet Union and Russia were the first in a few critical space areas leading the way. They also got things done with cheap, practical, no-frills technology. Because the U.S.A. has just let N.A.S.A. largely abandoned manned space exploration and hope that a few corporate efforts lead for the U.S.A., and that is too large a task to get a moon base built anytime in the next decade that has any sort of real economic and scientific development value, one might like to have Russia involved to concept-brainstorm its version of the most affordable and capable moon base that the U.S.A., Russia and the European Space Agency could build in a joint venture. Democrats though would hate that.

Harvey Housing Should Be a Spray-Concrete Formed Experiment

Spray-gunnite concrete emergency homes would be a good innovative upgrade for Texan emergency shelters for those homeless from Harvey. With clever federal leadership able to find a few good ideas the quick construction of spray over rebar forms concrete housing shelters could leave an after-the-gold rush infrastructure that serves some other purpose. I can probably think of many uses for eventually vacated concrete structures built to last in a variety of configurations.

Texas is the world leader at spray on concrete homes. Monolithic Domes of Corsica Texas virtually invented the genre.

http://www.monolithic.org/monolithic-open-house/commercial-dome-tour/monolithic-headquarters-italy-texas

Rather than building just domes and individual homes, various shapes of long and winding tubes could be built and given temporary dividers into housing units that could be taken out later. Quality water pipes could be run the length of the tubes to serve dozens of housing units as could solar powered electrical conduits share wiring.

Monoithic domes could be a kind of 3D print unit, and the Army has recently worked with making 3D printed buildings. They too could practice and coordinate in Texas with Monolithic print housing experts.

https://3dprint.com/185151/us-army-3d-printed-barracks/

Constructing buildings that could later be used for public facilities or that innovate new forms such as artificial mountain ranges is worth doing since the public will need to pay for it anyway; why not get more bang for the buck. Practice some of that Martian 3D printing of buildings near the Texas Gulf Coast. 

https://www.nasa.gov/solve/challenge/3D-Printed_Habitat_Challenge/

With CAD/CAM and the Internet the government might be able to offer building designs that could be selected and spray and sold to buyers before construction, who would agree to let the building serve as an emergency shelter for a couple of years. Buyers would find quality buildings at a fraction of the cost of a completely new structure; perhaps 50% off.

Ecosphere and sustainable energy consultants should be brought in to help place the emergency shelters in the best ecologically useful locations in Texas, and consult with practical sustainable energy criteria. 

http://inhabitat.com/teslas-new-solar-roof-is-actually-cheaper-than-a-normal-roof/


https://www.rmi.org/ The Rocky Mountain Institute

Shouldn't Pres. Trump Create a National Harvey-Jobs Clearing House?

A national, easy-to-find job placement service for all things Harvey-related including displaced locals section and work for all  U.S. citizens ought to be established if it isn't already. President Trump could help with that getting existing job services and employment agencies to tie-in their software to a meta-structure that even google AI jobs could find.

Shouldn't the U.S.A. Give 24 Surplus Pershing 2 Missiles to Japan?

North Korea launched a missile over Japan today, and of course President Trump can do no more than twit about it. Kim Jong Un knows that and will continue to lever missile launches to drive wedges into tactical partnerships while enjoying target practice. Un's Hwasong 12's have a range of 3000 kilometers.

The United States doesn't actually have any short-range ballistic missiles it could give Japan.  The ideal missile would be able to hit North Korea or fly over it into the ocean. The United States got rid of all but two ground-based ballistic missiles after the cold war-and they are ICBMs with a range of greater than 11,000 miles. Because of Hiroshima and Nagsaki some Americans are understandably unwilling to give those to Japan.

Still Japan needs to be free to defend itself. There aren't any smarter people in the world than the Japanese and they could easily destroy North Korea given license to do so, if they wanted. Because Asian policy stabilized somewhat after W.W. 2, not counting Vietnam, Cambodia and some other skirmishes, the balance of power is rather o.k. except for Kim Jong Un. Japan needs to be able to defend itself with some missiles it can launch over North Korea if the they want, as well as some warheads to go on the missiles. Maybe the government has some leftover Pershing 2 missiles. They had a range of a 1000 kilometers and could carry nukes or thermobaric discourager bombs I suppose.

The missiles of the USA have been largely replaced by cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk that can deliver nukes for low cost.If President Trump wants to mak ea statement Kim Un can understand he should send two dozen Pershing 2's to Japan and an assortment of warheads to go with it.Then he should try diplomacy and keep 20 or 30 nukes on Tomahawks flying within range of Pyongpang at all times.

https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/united-states/

https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/mgm-31b-pershing-2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-range_ballistic_missile a list of countries and missile assets

Harvey’s Supply-Demand Labor Test of Trump

After Hurricane Katrina President Bush flooded the south with undocumented workers from Mexico and wherever to work for any wages along the Gulf coast. That policy might be a southern tradition of exploiting labor for the least possible recompense, yet it was bad for U.S. workers. 

The Democratic Party is made of doper-dummies regarding labor value theory. Rebuilding after hurricane Harvey will require a lot of labor. Hundreds of thousands or millions of northerners are unemployed or have poorly paying jobs or even are unemployed and would travel south for the winter to rebuild Texas after Hurricane Harvey if the wages were good and jobs readily available. Democrats used to be a party that understood labor and especially union labor, yet they undoubtedly will demand that tens of thousands of Mexican undocumented aliens be allowed to work in Texas for below minimum wage through waivers.

In the real, adult world of labor wage values supply and demand for labor set prices- unless one can subvert that with cheap foreign or slave labor. President Trump ostensibly looks out for ordinary non-rich Americans. So no Mexican laborers should be allowed to arrive into the nation to take jobs that should be done by Americans- and will if wages are allowed to rise and attract people from other parts of the U.S.A.

There are numerous deleterious consequences for flooding regions of the U.S.A. with cheap foreign labor that continue for years after the work demand subsides. Consider just one effect; that of letting Mexican destroy surplus jobs and short labor supply through waivers; the black cradle to prison pipeline recidivism will not change as blacks on parole won't be able to easily find a lawful, productive and rewarding job rebuilding after Katrina. At any given time there are 7 million Americans in the prison and parole system. Several thousand on parole should be given waivers and supervision to work in the south if wages rise to make that worthwhile. They should not comprise a prison work-gang population, instead they should be no more than 10% of the regular American civilian workforce taking temporary jobs rebuilding from Harvey. Since it costs 35,000 annually to imprison people in the U.S.A. keeping them from going back to the big house is economically desirable.

Cheap Mexican labor is of especial benefit to the rich and labor exploiters that can hire them. Ordinary Americans are left to just lose benefits from federal revenues and get nothing else of benefit from the disaster. The leftist media of course tries to benefit Mexico when disaster strikes the U.SA., advocating for floods of foreign workers to be let in.

Obamacare Regs Rollout to Cause- 15 Days of Darkness in November

N.A.S.A.has repeatedly, unconvincingly, denied the existence of a hidden 15 trillionterrabyte to the Quadtillionth power research paper containing a condensed version of the full Obamacare regulations scroll. Even so there may be plans afoot to release the report from its highly condensed state over the skies of D.C. in Novermber creating total darkness for 15 consecutive days. Congress demanded and finally gwill get to look and see what's in it.

Serious publications like Forbes have tried to discredit the rumor perhaps because Obamacare is good for the corporate world. The skeptical ask however; "Can Forbes really be trusted?"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/08/23/no-nasa-is-not-predicting-15-days-of-complete-darkness-in-november/