Pres Trump’s Toynbee Rating C+

Pres Trump’s Toynbee Rating C+

The historian Arnold Toynbee wrote a number of history books examining world civilization (s) that was titled ‘A Study of History. In that work he examined 23 civilizations that had existed and developed a thesis regarding similarities in their structures and why they rose and fell. In that context I would like to consider President Trump’s work so far in light of Toynbean criteria regarding the United States. The Toynbee S-R criteria of challenge and response for a civilization is examined with the political leader's work in mind.

Toynbee provided several salient features of civilizations with which one may consider the U.S. situation. It has an internal and external proletariat of Mexicans. It has a (nearly) former majority transitioning to become a repressive minority. It has a wealth class that invests far beyond its borders and lets the nation be flooded by the external proletariat and foreign investors owning business and collecting rents.

Those are not the sole elements of Toynbee’s paradigm the U.S.A. shares with civilizations such as that of ancient Rome and possibly the British Empire among others. The leadership is also unable to change from its old economic infrastructure of fossil fuel transportation and move to the new (such as electric lines in freeways to power electric cars) and thus become surpassed by economic leadership and competition abroad.

President Trump rates a C+ for trying unsuccessfully to defend the border against an inflow of cheap labor from the external proletariat. He rates a D for reinforcing too much the overly mature fossil fuel technology and downgrading electric personal transport vehicles, and a B for trying to stop the loss of American capital investment abroad.

Google, MSN, Edge, Bing,Yahoo Don't Allow News Source Control

Allowing readers to choose what news sources they have on a news aggreegator page used to be standard. Google news still allows a reader to 'hide' news sources yet I have found that doesn't work worth a damn. I have tried to get rid of the Washington Post, CNN and NPR for weeks and so Google news led off with three Washington Post stories and more content from CNN and NPR continues to appear.

Imagine going to a library and discovering that the library staff chose the books you may read. News aggregator pages present a lot of bs and entertainment yet just don't allow smart choices of news sources. The Internet at a bulk level has made news fundamentally, a propaganda and control device for the rich.

I checked out several specialized news aggregator pages and they are basically bull too. Google reader used to work fine, yet it was closed down years ago.

The Internet is becoming less useful and more time wasting in the tradition of MSN... Why does MSN need three pages (Bing, Edge) and none that allow intelligent personal choice of news sources?. People should not be forced to choose to be dumb and have idiots choose their news sources for them nor spend hours researching where a news aggregator that doesn't want to manage your FB page is..

Brit Zero Tariff Trade with US is Contingent on Brexit

Britain needs to cut ties with the EU to have a free trade zero tariff deal with the U.S.A. The U.S.A. cannot allow Europe to piggyback on Britain's special status. 

Britain is slipping into darkness having trouble making Brexit work. It shouldn't be that difficult to employ sappers to demolish the links to the continent, yet they can't get it done. I believe a new British PM might be able to get the job done. The right guy for the job just might be former World Chess Championship challenger Nigel Short.

 GM Short is presently running for the Presidency of the world chess organization FIDE. He could maybe be induced to just jump into the real world of punch and roll British politics and be willing to accept the post of Prime Minister simply to get Brexit done. How difficult can it be?

Maybe President Donald Trump can advise the Brits on how to get Brexit done. I believe he could find a way, shortly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/brexit-chaos-what-happens-next-british-pm-theresa-may-n890151

During the Second World War Prime Minister Churchill was able to face down the evil of the continent with a little American and allied help. If England is not to be effectively annexed onto Europe to serve as a parking lot with fish and chips shops and ye old quaint buildings it needs to reinforce its own national security with the same kind of spirit as Winston Churchill. Britain's back-blast from its age of colonialism could erase it altogether without care. Plainly it needs a Christian spiritual revival and secure borders to bring it into the global arena with free trade without attachment and culture submissiveness.  

Brits May Need GM Short or Pres Trump to Work Brexit for Them

Britain is having trouble making Brexit work. It shouldn't be that difficult to employ sappers to demolish the links to the continent, yet they can't get it done. I believe a new British PM might be able to get the job done. The right guy for the job just might be former World Chess Championship challenger Nigel Short.

 GM Short is presently running for the Presidency of the world chess organization FIDE. He could maybe be induced to just jump into the real world of punch and roll British politics and be willing to accept the post of Prime Minister simply to get Brexit done. How difficult can it be?

Maybe President Donald Trump can advise the Brits on how to get Brexit done. I believe he could find a way, shortly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/brexit-chaos-what-happens-next-british-pm-theresa-may-n890151

Britain needs to cut ties with the EU to have a free trade zero tariff deal with the U.S.A. The U.S.A. cannot allow Europe to piggyback on Britain's special status.

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.