White People, Africans and Asians Briefly

Here is one version based on d.n.a. and archaeological analysis. Apparently white people became white about 8500 b.c. throughout Europe. Before that the whites in the far north evolved white skin  and were the parents of those farther south. The Arctic shores saw the arrival of humans about 25,000 b.c. Fifteen thousand years was enough time to move from Africa and reach the Arctic. Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to Europe about 40,000 b.c. and some of those that had gone far north first became white and interbred with more southern Europeans that lost their dark skin under the clouds and with the new genes. Those from Africa that went to Asia made the trek about 100,000 b.c. so they evolved different traits than Europeans or Africans. Finally there was some interbreeding of Asians and Europeans wrenching the works again creating confusing questions for people in the 21st century.

How Europeans evolved white skin

Teeth from China reveal early human trek out of Africa

Asians and others arrived in America via Berengia. Lots of interbreeding. etc. Some Inuit have oriental looking eyes. Amazing.

Why Players Skip Chess Lessons

A slow wireless connection has probably discouraged a lot of casual players. One can watch chess videos, study Super GM games and then play a blitz game with a winning position before the connection breaks and one forfeits the game being timed out.

Chess takes a lot of time to learn, and the opportunity cost for playing that game too much is quite high-especially if one becomes and adict and quits their job to play chess. One could be studying how to become a physician assistant or grow corn, the problems of reform in Russia and how that is affected by sanctions in slow economic privatization or if humanity really should give up on trying to save the environment because its too late and learn to love living like ants in eco-disaster survivable hives.

Chess is great fun yet very demanding on time for non-pro players that need to work for a living. Also, some chess players may not want to antagonize their emotional support rat or alligator taking time to study the violent conflicts of chess.

Fortunately players with such issues may moderate their chess learning and schedule a modest hour or two a week for learning chess openings and slow improve their game instead of full-time indulgence of their chess addiction and end up in the gutter although playing with a sharp 1850 rating.

A Theory of Minarchist Evolution

There aren’t many hooded minarchists demonstrating these days. The United States was founded in an environment that didn’t require much government supervision; there was a sparsely populated land and people helped themselves. It was so minarchist naturally that Southerners could continue the tradition of slavery the British founded in North America. Federalism ended that trouble for those enslaved later at some cost.

I am taking a course in post-Soviet Russian governance and that has given me the occasion to compare and contrast the foundation of the United States and its evolution of government with that of Russia in 1990. So far the main difference is just that the Russians had to form a new democratic government with an existing yet obsolete industrial economic infrastructure and more than a 100 million citizens that required some government social coordination to survive as most modern nations with large populations do, while the United States alternatively, in 1776, had a population estimated at about 2.5 million. The founders were able to compose a philosophically inspired Declaration and Constitution of ideal sorts without any immediate hard technical requirements for external reasons that required the creation of large social institutions and government bureaucracies immediately (so far as I know). Creating a military was a natural response for the founders to external challenges posed by the British army. Even so the founders were wary of a large standing army and preferred an armed militia for long range defense.

Russia passed through a minarchist moment perhaps during the 1993 coup attempt and conflict between Yeltsin’s forces and the supreme Soviet communist remnants in the White House (seat of Russian congressional-style government) when the former Soviet government was decisively, conclusively broken and buried (although 20% of elected officials in the Duma remain communist party members). Yeltsin tried to privatize allowing oligarchs to take much of the former state properties of value, yet nationally the economy collapsed in 1998. Yeltsin eventually appointed Vlad Putin to lead the government and he was elected for-himself as President later. Yeltsin had enabled the President to have super-powers to in effect redesign the structure of government quite a bit as well as to conduct foreign policy. For Russia was redesigning itself and that process continues today-many Americans don’t understand that.

I tend to regard organizations as more or less equal. Any large organization can govern itself and sometimes they govern others outside the organization. It seems to me that organizations diminish individual power. It also seems that governments should reduce to a minimal size for operating efficiency, just as an automobile engine doesn’t need to put on a lot of extra parts and weight to work optimally.

Organizations should be limited in size in order to be more governable by the government that needs to be large enough to govern the largest organizations and all of them as well as individuals. The larger the non-governmental organization is the greater are the challenges that it can present to the organization that officially is the government.

The problem of concentrated wealth today in the United States is a problem of large organizations partly owned by individuals invested in many of them. When too much capital is concentrated in the few the many have little chance of advancing social policy or private enterprises without first submitting to the will of the non-governmental organizational powers that hold most capital.

Achieving a minarchist state that is efficient in the United States would require a reform of capitalism in order to break up the concentration of wealth and size of private corporations. Government might then be reduced in size too, and networks of social services coordinated by the government might be innovated to enable private sources to supply private needs of citizens better than usually occurs in many societies where the natural revenues of the land have been historically expropriated by human overuse and people are left to fend for themselves within a totalized urban environment as derelicts and cast-off waste elements of capitalism.

To innovate government and capital theory upgrades Congress would need to pass some laws that prompt the changes. For instance, patent exclusivity could be reduced to three years and inventors would receive 10% royalties after that from anyone with the capital that produces the product and sells it. Government would not own business,yet governments would pass laws that screened businesses start-ups and prioritize those for advancement that are ecospherically most efficient and synergetic.

No corporations could have more than 20,000 employees. The upper tax rate would be 90%. The government revenues would enable better screening and discretion of start ups, ecosphere recovery and continuing free education.

Numerous other changes would need to be made that would allow an ecospheric economic management synergy with ecospheric recovery and sustainable though gradual economic qualitative progress that guards the well-being of all citizens simultaneously. Government size reduction can be compensated for with increased government networked intelligence as a discrete rather than monolithic governing structure.

In a totalized social-territorial national paradigm all citizens need work or basic necessities from some source. Private enterprise can provide those needs or government may, yet a government-private sector cooperative structure that assures that all citizens are assured of meeting basic needs and lifelong education would be possible and a good way to coordinate with ecosphere repair and maintenance. The failures to screen businesses for ecospheric synergy or neutrality and to keep citizens from being broke at the bottom with national job insecurity are problems implicit within the economic and government structures that could be corrected reforming government and corporate structure.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-being-homeless-illegal-ohio-court-rulings-raise-the-question/ar-BBLWc2v

The United States accomplished over two centuries solutions to challenges Russia has been presented with since 1990 for governance and government mass private organizational business relationships. The Russian creation of new developments is more challenging than the fast-track evolution required of Russia, yet the structure of the United States is paradigmatically obsolete in several respects. It is as if old structures of business never were replaced or upgraded; merely expanded. Government-capital relationships has mostly just grown larger with new institutions added over the centuries instead of being philosophically evaluated for relevance to the very different social and environmental challenges of the present day than those of 1776.

Canada Continues Drift Toward Leftist-Corporatist Globalism.

The U.S. Government is nothing like extreme right wing. Corporatism and the left are so firmly entrenched bureaucratically moving toward globalist union, and the broadcast media so corporatist-leftist, that it will be difficult to shake. President Trump is a moderate, yet compared to the extreme left that is the incipient and latent leadership of the present Democrat Party the partisan rhetoric paints him as far right.

Canada is sold out to globalism and all things British and isn’t likely to change. No way it could become far right or conservative-libertarian. Canada I believe will continue its moral disintegration into globalism under one world government so far as it can, merging into intensified telecom treason offshore so far as it can willingly comply with plutonomy’s objectives.

American Broadcast Media is About 25% BS

The American  broadcast media is about 25% truthful, 50% emitting content loosely grounded in some true element and 25% complete B.S. The American broadcast media is mostly a for-profit entertainment business unfortunately over-influencing national governance, democracy and foreign policy adversely. It is also mostly a tool owned by the most rich globalists to control the masses with propaganda and agit-prop. One might wish it was plain honest and discretionary, but it ain't.

The U.N. fellow that accused President Trump of about inciting violence with criticism of the broadcast media is absolutely full of shit himself or herself. The President is speaking the truth while the U.N. official isn't. The problem is after all a national rather than an international problem. Foreign countries have their own media issues. In Russia most of the media is state-run and 75% of the people trust it and President Putin might extol it for its quality. I suppose the U.N. human rights chief would like such tranquility in the U.S.A. or even better, to let the nation be run by globalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/united-nations-human-rights-nearly-impossible-to-defend-zeid-raad-al-hussein

Free speech (first amendment protections)) are applicable toward criticizing the commercial media too. Organizational use-truths and their incessant re-enforcement through mass communications power and sycophancy elicit partisan support. The mass media have numerous ways of disseminating propaganda. Many of the largest are tools for the 1% these days.

Turkey Economic Collapse Could Create Opportunity for Germans to Supervise

Germany and Turkey are friends. If Turkey collapses economically it will provide an opportunity for Germany to send economic managers to order the mismanaged economy. Militarily Turkey is solid enough except they give a cold shoulder to Kurds that could be good citizens in their own federal state. Yet Turkish leaderships hates Kurdish independence of any sort and likes to persecute them as if they were still the Ottoman Empire.

The United States should be on good terms with Russia and then it would be simpler to finesse Turkish willingness to reason about Kurds and tolerance of Christians. Yet fully stocked refrigerators of economics aren't likely to start for Turkey again until they lighten up a bit and except the fact that they are radical and unstable and need German help.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-if-turkey-collapses-from-lira-crisis-iran-russia-syria-are-waiting-2018-8

Status of Emotional Support Animals; Pit Bulls and Alligators

When a 14 year old with allergies was kicked off a aircraft in Alaska because of the presence of a cat as an emotional support animal she could not live with, the problem of what animals ought to be allowed aboard a plane for emotional support arrived glaringly. Should alligators and pythons be accepted as emotional support animals for Democrats? And what about pit bulls for Republicans, or maybe small tigers?

Frequent fliers with need for emotional support animals ought to have their own section of the plane with special air filters so as not to disturb passengers with emotional issues regarding animals on the negative side, in addition of course, to allergies.

Sanctions on Turkey are a Writ of Habeas Corpus

Turkey really ought to let the imprisoned Christian pastor go. The Erdogan regime does not benefit itself persecuting Christians nor compelling the Trump administration to defend wrongly charged U.S. citizens by imposing sanctions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/turkeys-erdogan-claims-trump-sanctions-are-a-stab-in-the-back.html

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

Though the Erdogan regime may be so hated domestically that it needs to try to prop itself up by arresting anyone vaguely associated through six degrees of acquaintance (alleged) with its own rebellious souls, selecting Christians to persecute is silly. many Americans hope the sanctions continue and intensify to the point of keeping Turkish apricots out of U.S. markets, until P.M. Erdogan releases Andrew Brunson from persecution.

What the Trade War

It is difficult to know what will happen with a full-scale trade war. Do they inflate upward too without distortion? Trade wars occur with just a limited number of players. It would at best be as leaky as the U.S. border to illegal alien entry and dope importation is. During the sanctions on Iraq the weak died and Saddam Hussein grew stronger. China may reach out and touch some ones-like Europe, and dump product there, while American movie releases in China are cut 50% from 10 a year to 5. If the U.S.A. doesn’t make anything anymore and provides services mostly that may not be affected by trade war; China might not let US accounting and security firms handle much of their government contracts anyway. Maybe the administration will continue the trade corrections until China quits trying to intimidate and subjugate Taiwan under its boot-heel. Taiwan has one of the few female Presidents and the Chinese Communist Party leadership may feel it can bully her to the point of making the island nation lay down.

http://time.com/5365147/taiwan-us-china-tsai-ing-wen/

Some nations would eventually grow stronger trade relationships with the United States while others would weaken. The 1929 stock market crash was the result of an investment bubble and concentrated wealth that burst. Companies didn’t really have the cash to back up the irrationally exuberant expansion of the gilded age. The concentration of wealth in the U.S.A. now is about what is was then.

So a trade war is something like a stress test that the flimsy don’t want. In 2008 many speculative businesses collapsed along with home derivatives and cheating big banks that were running Monte Carlo algorithms for dark pool trading. The real problem is the environment though- and a failure to adapt economics to synergize with ecospheric sustainability. Interestingly the inventor of the Gaia hypothesis thinks now that people should wimply give up trying to save the ecosphere because it’s too late, and actualize their ant-like nature and build hives that will survive the total collapse of green life on Earth and mass desertification within two centuries. Global trade and the vast eco-destructive gases released into the atmosphere conducting it accelerate greenhouse break down of the ecosphere. Local production is more efficient.

If Canada didn’t act like a wise-guy foe they might benefit from a trade realignment. sadly I think they are lost to the dark side of the force. A trade war could create a black market in cheap MP3 players. I just bought a couple from an unnamed country for a $1.50 each yet will need to wait several weeks for them to arrive I guess. It is possible the price could double for that in the future with tariffs.

Because of all the global and regional trade agreements already in place, a return to the way it was before would seem like a trade war, though it formerly was SOP. Not being an economist I will need to wait for the next Stiglitz or Krugman book to find out what’s going on.

Will US Sanctions Affect Russian Transition to Market Economy?

Russia since the 1998 financial crisis and default has only slowly yet somewhat steadily moved toward reform such that a market economy prevails. It was not so many years ago that Vladimir Putin ended the oligarch domination of the economy and distribution for former Soviet assets that they had taken much of. That order of oligarch power was regarded as an unfair distribution of wealth, yet was left somewhat as it was. From there the economy moved toward liberalization.

The process was advanced by the rise in world oil prices in the 2000s that continued until the crash following fracking of old oil fields to renew supply. A surfeit of world oil production made oil dependent states lose much revenue. Alaska in the United States faced a government budget crisis and Russia too lost nearly half of its GDP.

If bad actors are targeted, the principle of mass punishment should not target the innocent too. The U.S. should encourage Russia to continue developing a market economy along sound ecological economic principles.

Even so Russia continued a slower advance toward a market economy though the state held some major banks and oil companies. It began an income tax of a modest scale though it had difficulty collecting that. Russia faced many internal and external challenges before the regime of foreign sanctions began to appear for international contention to permanently wrest away the Ukraine and Crimea from Russia.

The second largest party in Russia is still the communist party. The United Russia party- by far the largest, is basically a coalition of four formerly separate parties that joined to beat the communists. The economic and social dynamics of economic reform is occurring concurrent with reform of government, and eventually constitutional structures, and stimulation of business and new infrastructure development. All of that is challenging and expensive. While the United States and Europe tend to place themselves into a belligerent and adversarial as possible position comprising something of a threat to Russian security.

My concern is that the sanctions and hostile external relationship with Russia will retard the growth of Russia as a market economy and in the long run solidify less than free enterprise elements in Russia.

Apparently Russians have a trust in state run media and state ownership of business because of historical reasons that lie in the fact that authoritarian or Tsarist government were the fact of Russia for 1000 years. Only since the end of the Cold War has Russia had a pluralist government, although a multi-party Duma/congress existed briefly, shortly before the Bolshevik takeover to end that and the tsar.

Ronald Reagan had a policy of constructive engagement with South Africa and that led to the DeClerk government and end of apartheid. Reagan also ended the Cold War along with President Gorbachev in part because of hi affable character engendering trust. The United States should think deeply about its reckless and fay sanctions on Russia, since they may harm U.S. interests more so than Russian, in the lang run.