Novichok; The Affordable WMD

The nerve agent Novichok recently used in London is eight times more powerful than the three strongest previously mass-produced nerve agents GA, GB and VX. Novichok has a greater danger in that it can be made into a solid form as powder. It is thus a persistent nerve agent unlike the liquids and gases that etherialize into disappearance in the warm sunshine.

Iran has made five varieties of Novichok and several western nations have made a batch for 'research' purposes. Plainly the U.N. is remiss if it hasn't already voted to outlaw Novichok and invention of any more persistent nerve agents.

Speculation regarding the source of the attacks in the U.K. continues. Of course the source was most likely a state agent though it might be possible for a prosperous chemist to manufacture the item secretly. Even more important than the attacks is the fact that it brings publicity to a very dangerous weapon of mass destruction that can be placed upwind of high population density civil areas to create hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths.

Plainly Novichok should get some serious attention until it is eradicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent

Google's News Source Screen Doesn't Work Well

  Google news has an option for each story to hide all stories from each news source (it should just say cancel them) that doesn't work at all well. One spends more time repeatedly trying to get rid of stories from CNN, The Washington Post and NPR then actually reading news. Seriously; each day for the past week or two I have selected the best no more stories from CNN, NPR and The Washington Post option available at least 30 times and yet the stories still reappear. It is as if Google is a partner of the leftist brainwashing, propaganda hate the President.

The Internet's strength is free choice designer selection of content to review. When heavy programming power forces choices and works to subjugate readers that isn't good.

Alternatively Google might just be cheap. After all they might not profit from the news page and just let their leftist, anarchist programmers maintain it (one or two fellows that are in the Google equivalent of exile to Siberia). I now regard the Google news page as the moral equivalent of Windows.

Did LHT Pressure Coerce Pres Trump to Oppose Breastfeeding?

President Trump insulted America's excellent Ecuadorian allies by opposing a breastfeeding support resolution at the U.N. Corporate didn't like the promotion globally of breastfeeding over artificial bottle formula, and corporate is notoriously homosexual and LBLT. Is President Trump really a good political supporter of anti-homosexual hegemony and their Borg principle of collective coercive rights over individual rights?

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/8/17546142/trump-breastfeeding-new-york-times-ecuador

President Trump will need to send some sort of computer and solar power package to Ecuador to make up for the blunder.

A Third of a Billion Tons of Auto CO2 Annually in Atmosphere

Automobiles put about a third of a billion tons of CO2 into the Earth's atmosphere Each year. 

https://www.livestrong.com/article/156537-facts-of-car-pollution/

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data

Other sources point out that humans put 40 billion tons of CO2 into the world atmosphere overall. The mass of the atmosphere is 5 quadrillion tons. It was in balance naturally before the additional greenhouse gasses were added by humans, such that it could sustain life. Humanity arose in intelligence within an oxygen rich atmosphere with lower carbon dioxide levels. Adding powerful greenhouse gasses, increasing CO2 and decreasing the percent of oxygen isn't good.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/20/atmospheric_co2_humans_put_40_billion_tons_into_the_air_annually.html

Human polluters also release extra nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons.

The oceans absorb and remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it, yet storage space is limited- like that of a computer hard drive or ssd. When it it full the stuff just stays elsewhere. In the meantime the oceans become more acidic as CO2 reacts with ocean water. That is bad for shellfish and sea life generally.

https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/story/Carbon_Cycle

Apparently the ocean has  sucked up a lot of that human produced CO2 since the Industrial revolution began- more than 550 billion tons. The Smithsonian says that each day it is getting a quarter of the CO2 produced by coal burning plants- so hurry up and kill off the oceans, Alfred E Newman might blunder...it's a place where commie pinkos hide out. Oceans have become; "30% more acidic in the past 200 years". What- me worry?

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification

image credit: N.O.A.A.

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification

Soy May Have a Thousand Ways of Non-Perishable Presentation

Soy bean farmers should get tough and creative instead of complaining about how much they miss selling their crop sales to the Chinese Communists. The communists choose to eschew the marvelous protein-rich bean as a negotiating tactic. That choice should provide opportunities for farmers to sell their crops to new locales where it has never gone before. They might also invent a new product that would preserve the beans far beyond their usual expiration date.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/395986-us-soybean-farmers-warn-trump-trade-war-with-china-will-cause-serious-damage

Some sort of soy-protein mint-flavored energy bars might be right. Soy protein and apple and apricots such as applets and cotlets are made of might be a popular product in protein deficient regions of the world. Soy and fruit together in a sugar-beet powdered sugar-coated mint bar could supply needed nutrition for people in Nepal or Tibet (or are the communists intimidating those areas still?). India might a market that could use non-perishable products that are very low cost, nutritious and cheap.

Quality non-animal protein food sources are just not dumped. I recall one winter scrapping muscles off beach boulders for protein and their wasn't much to the things. Not every place on Earth has lots of protein even at dollar stores that are affordable or even existent.

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/missouri-soybean-farmers-fear-worst-if-chinese-tariffs-go-effect#stream/0

KJ Un Chooses Nuclear War Path instead of Peace and Prosperity

Choosing peace and prosperity when the opportunity arises instead of war is nominally at least the better choice. North Korea's Kim Jong Un apparently is duplicitous about his desire for peace and prosperity. His signals to President Trump regarding denuclearization were nothing more than deceit to continue nuclear development through other means. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pompeo-cites-progress-in-north-korea-nuclear-talks-1530967772

 North Korean leaders played the Clinton administration famously even getting Sect. of State Madeleine Albright to synthetic belly-jig dance . President Trump is unlikely to be so compliant in return for sweet nothings for the media that mean nothing.

KJ Un may be looking to the mid-term election and playing for time hoping that loose democrat party appeasers will return to take over government. Its not really a bad tactic yet it might not work out to well.

 When the former Soviet Union and President Gorbachev faced a similar probably of occupying an inferior strategic military and economic position the leadership choose to just allow glasnost and perestroika to run full course. Peace and prosperity were a better direction than war. Other than Democrat Party failure to work well with Russia after the end of the cold war bringing distrust to those considering letting down their guard and choosing to join mainstream western economics, the decision to change for Russia worked out reasonably well with few casualties, no war and debatably an improvement in the lifestyle of Russian.              

If North Korea rapidly denuclearizes, allows free expression and travel between north and south for business, and officially ends the Korean War, it would be better off quite swiftly and remarkably. Korea could become a technology strongman comparable to Germany. American soy beans could flow by the hundreds of thousands of tons to bring quality vegetable protein to the undernourished. There would be no chance of civil war between northerners and southerners. Therefore I believe Rocket Man is not playing with a full deck.

Roman Empire Teleology

Caesar's conquest of Gaul was a necessary historical progression. Transalpine Gaul became a vast producer of produce for Rome in addition to other considerations. In a way it was necessary for Rome to conquer Gaul after the invasions from northerners that Caesar's uncle Marius thwarted (he buried 150,000 at Marseilles and the fields were said to be rich with fertilizer for produce).

Gaul was colonized by upper class Romans that enjoyed vast estates. They had too enjoyable of a lifestyle and it was somewhat rotted from within. It is worth recollecting that it was the Huns and their speed of light comparatively speaking cavalry that showed the way to end the Roman Empire. The Legions couldn't move as quickly, and were corrupted with foreign recruits. Rome had a kind of natural lifestyle and ended rather naturally. It was a bridge nation between old civilizations and the new Europe and became a vehicle for the dissemination of Christianity. Really quite remarkable. A divine plan.

On the Proposition that Ideologies are Subititutes for Religion (Nietzsche)

Good ideas exist in-themselves after they are made and used by others. Formalizing ideas and using them politically instead of thinking for-oneself is a problem of course. Today a generality for political platforms is that they elect inertially normal social symbols that cannot reform social structure or economics as required externally for-itself.

Nietzche was wrong about a lot of things. Only one guy attended his college philology lectures- a janitor at the school. He regard the people as unthinking ants following customs in the village globally while he probably saw himself as Zarathustra living on a hill looking down upon the comedy-tragedy, metaphorically speaking.

Is political ideology the same as or a replacement for religious and theological belief? The answer to that is of course no. Political affiliation has no potential for providing salvation unto eternal life through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Can prople that just pretend to be religious with an imitation of Christianity behave empirically in some way as comfortable Democrat Party cadre if they jump ship because they believe Christian association isn't socially as valuable in the present godless, mindless epoch? of course.

Sociological behavior is different than what ideas are. Organizational structures may have similarities yet with different intellectual content or the lack of it. It depends how one is viewing human behavior; as an atheist and empirical scientific behaviorist, as a theolgican with true faith, as a social self-promoting opportunist etc. and so forth.

The First City in Europe Was Discovered by Manojlo Milošević

It depends on what the meaning of 'bigger' is. Akad and Sumer where marvelous civilization with the famous ziggurats. Square miles or the size of structures and temples might be criteria for example.  Fragments of the Tale of Gilgamesh on clay tablets date to 5000 B.C.

Europe in the mesolithic and the early neolithic was less civilized or structured. Yet a Serbian farmer named Manojlo Milošević in 1960 discovered a city site dating to 9500 B.C. that continued may be until 7200-6500 B.C. Keep in mind that Jericho dates to 10,000 B.C. or earlier.

 The Serbian city-the first in Europe, ws on a good fishing spot on the Danube and named Lepenski Vir. It was a small town rather than a vast civilization. Yet its architecture had its Frank Loyd Wright moments with earth houses  of triangular shape and concrete-like floors. In some respects human urban design hasn't improved much the last 12,000 years and has the same basic reasoning for its shape and resource use.

  Much cvilization technology moved through Anatolia into Europe. Europeans had been living in Europe for tens of thousands of years though without much in the way of urban design. Lepenski Vir was a definate upgrade in style and permanence for Europeans.

By 3500 B.C. there were some fairly elaborate smaller cities made of stone and wood even as far as Scotland. I have omitted mentioning the Mycenain civilization in the early to mid second milenium B.C. The first alphabet and writing in Europe arrived with them. They were probably from the Minoan civilization of Crete and Thera originaly and may have fled after the great explosive volcanic eruption that destroyed the primary city of that civilization and gave rise to the legends of Atlantis.

The first alphabet that was phonetic likely was formed by Moses.

Nothing In London for Pres Trump to See

President Trump apparently must make a trip to England as a kind of Presidential duty. Somehow with his knowledge of the place he has managed to avoid going to London. I visited England in 1987 and flew aboard a PanAM flight that cut over a bit of Scotland on the way to Heathrow. Iceland is really the feature attraction of flying to England. After Iceland its all downhill in a land without glaciers. It was late November and I stayed in London a night. There really isn't anything in London that one who has visited Des Moine Iowa would miss.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/06/donald-trump-to-avoid-london-during-uk-visit

The British Museum of Science is there and it is kind of neat. There is a moving sidewalk around outside of it that lets one walk very briskly. The Tower of London has a nice weapons collection in the basement and there is a good fish and chips vendor on the street some distance away.  That's about it. London has a lot of people, subways with deep escalator rides that lose novelty quickly, yet it's a good place to rent a car and drive to Lands End or Liverpool to catch a boat to Ireland.