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Turkey Declares Enmity With U.S.A.- Boot it From N.A.T.O

Apparently Turkey's P.M. has declared the U.S. to be an enemy for supporting Israel. Turkey has plainly chosen Russia as it's arms supplier and military friend rather than N.A.T.O. The United States should sever diplomatic ties with Turkey and boot it from N.A.T.O.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/world/europe/turkey-russia-missiles.html

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-push-relations-with-russia-forward-minister-144802


https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/turkey-stockpiled-f-16-parts-ahead-getting-russian-s-400-anti-air-system-69382

https://tass.com/economy/1070657 Russia-Turkey Joint Helicopter Production

Turkey is still something like the Ottoman Empire in its attitude toward other nations. It is also a Muslim state with fundamentalist tendencies. Plainly it is an enemy that should not be trusted. The only reason to allow Turkey in N.A.T.O. to start with was its opposition to Soviet Communism. Since Turkey has moved to the Russian side in support of Russian goals for Middle east hegemony through an expanded Sunni presence across the Middle East and North Africa in order to reassert an Ottoman Empire-like presence , that day has long passed. Turkey has long range goals that are in conflict with those of the United States, some of N.A.T.O. and free people lucky  enough to be free of Muslim government.

Actually N.A.T.O. has dubious reason for existence. With the Turkish defection to Russia's sphere of influence, the French neo-neutrality of an historical character during the Cold War, and the pacific and treacherous English stance, not to mention Western European nations that hate any sort of U.S. militarism, N.A.T.O. would be better phased out as a security threat to the United States.

Turkey may buy Russian S-35 fighter jets in the future. They are a very good aircraft. Besides not being a nation with homosexual marriage, Russia is a friend of China; Turkey can buy all the cheap things it needs from China to satisfy its consumers.

European nations should pay entirely for whatever defense they believe they need. Germany should have a chance to rearm and defend itself against Russia if it wants to. With a more active European role with Russia that does not involve the United States the relationship between Russia and Europe might work out better, equalizing to a sustainable balance.

Forming a coalition of the willing to counter global dangers might be more useful than being bogged down in the security leak that is N.A.T.O. If Europe again becomes a threat the United States can deal with that later. If countering Chinese expansion requires multi-state remedies again a coalition of the willing might be more effective.

Allowing Turkey to benefit from allied defense between Europe and the U.S.A. is a mistake. Turkey views the Middle East through Muslim eyes envisioning an Israel that does not exist. It would be far better if Turkey did not exist and Greece reclaimed Constantinople.

Turkey's purchase of Russian air defense missiles plainly was taken as it views N.A.T.O. and the U.S.A. as a threat to its power goals.

https://www.rt.com/news/465342-turkey-slams-israel-us-palestine/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/29/sanders-netanyahu-leads-extreme-right-wing-government-with-many-racist-tendencies/

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/07/russia-turkey-bilateral-cooperation.html

Israel is a permanent friend of the  United States. Russia should regard Israel as a friend as well, rather than Muslim states that one day may nuke Moscow in the hope to converting Russia to Islam. The administration in Washington D.C. is not too warlike; rectifying the relationship with Turkey may need to wait until a former General is elected to the White House.

Dealing With the Alaska Ferry Boat Union Strike 2019

It was a terrible time to strike, with the state budget already cut so far. I recall talking with a guy from the Philippines via Las Vegas who had arrived to work on a ferry- he asked for directions in Juneau. The marine 'highway' system has its own interests in mind rather than those of Alaskans.

The Marine Highway union barricade (strike) is equivalent to a state disaster affecting thousands of Americans. The blockage of an international highway should merit federal action to keep it open. It could even be regarded as worthy of FEMA relief management as a disaster caused by a Union.

Is it possible to get Coast Guard or naval reservists to run a few boats while the strike continues in order to not impact everyone's business? What about hiring a private firm to go from Ketchikan to Hollis and use the existing system to Northeast P.O.W. to Wrangell? If there was a permanent shuttle from Wrangell to Mitkov Island that would at least allow most of the southern half of S.E. to be accessible via land and boat.

Then a northern boat from Petersburg to Juneau to Sitka could circle, and a Juneau to Haines-Skagway. Three large boats and three shuttles; not too many to improvise crew for.

Probably there should be one boat to Kodiak from Whittier- so four large boat altogether.

Unions may coordinate with global socialists to do the most damage they can to the Alaska and U.S. economy. The ferry union has international connections. What if there is collusion with China or Canada?

Tighten Up Perfidious Canadian Border Crossings

Canada has fairly loose, importunate standards of immigration. Not that one should care what Canucks do implicitly- it is just that they comprosie a threat to U.S. security.

Canada is something of a shill for British policy initiatives such as homosexuality, drugs, imperialism and destruction of an independent United States. Not only should a wall be built that keeps illegal aliens out of the United States, it would be a good idea to tighten up Canadian entry into the United States in order to secure the back door to the U.S.A. that allows evil to enter from that vector.

Canada has been something of a tradition frenemie status that requires increased vigilance to defend against. Mapleville has very cheesy politics with  loony spin regarding the interests of democracy and ordinary Americans that still want a storage unit of their own free from international terror. Canada is an aloof critic that mocks Americans from a safe haven of incipient socialism.

Irresponsible Canadians media scum sometimes throw mud at Americans that support democracy and nationalism labeling us fascists. They condition their minions for sycophantic speech. No one that takes democracy seriously needs that. I hope the Pentagon has a plan for Canada in the event those neo-Communist imperialists go too far in support of transnational terrorism, evil and alignment with adverse foreign interests.

Rep Cumming's Maryland 7th Congressional District Got $16 Billion from Feds in 2018

Congressman Elijah Cumming's 7th Congressional District in Maryland got $16 billion dollars from the U.S. Government in 1018. That is not a small amount of money. One would think the condition of the 7th district is reasonably well known or the federal Government should not be spending so much upon it.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/abandoned-baltimore-ghetto-photos#1

https://planning.maryland.gov/Redistricting/Documents/2010Maps/Cong/Dist_7.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/magazine/baltimore-tragedy-crime.html

https://www.fbi.gov/@@search?SearchableText=baltimore+gangs&pageSize=20&page=1&sort_on=&sort_order=descending&after=

If there is much illegal drug use, and many derelict houses, garbage strewn about and unsafe streets that most Americans would be uncomfortable walking on after dark, that should be manifestly known to those that investigate the concern. The President is either correct or not in disparaging the home district of one of his most vociferous critics. 

If the district actually is in good repair with a low crime rate, and if the Congressman has brought spending to his district that catalyzed average national employment rates within it, if there are few visible areas with garbage strewn about and illegal drug use is not common then the President owes the Congressman and apology. If it is in a sorry state House Speaker and others owe the President and apology for calling him racist for pointing out the faults of the work of one of his major attackers presently, for he was only speaking the truth.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/baltimore

https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Demographics https://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-worst-baltimore-neighborhoods/


https://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-most-dangerous-cities-in-maryland/

Foreign Aid is in the Interest of the United States Too

Foreign aid can be a very good thing if administered intelligently. Usually the U.S. Government hasn’t a surfeit of intelligence operating that is dedicated to public service so much as self-service. Funding the U.N. millennium program for example would have benefited much of the poorest regions of Africa, and the U.S. wouldn’t. So China’s financial loans for economic development to Africa have a larger effect, one that might not be much in African or U.S. interests.

Nature abhors a political vacuum. If the United States is so obsessive that it simply builds its own advantage or trades with poor foreign nations and their most powerful and sometimes corrupt political economic members, the development of those nations may not be sympathetic toward democracy and the United States. Good neighbors and friends are actually helpful in hard times. Some operations require community work although the issue is at a distance or over the border.

The Obama administration funded a host of rebel war movements across North Africa and the Middle East that continue to cause harm. That sort of foreign aid may please arms sellers but it can be counterproductive to long-range costs for American interests that need to spend more on defense and defrappe terrorist actions toward the United States. Building stable, peaceful societies rather than allowing nations to fall into non-democratic chaos of repression and or war is cost effective for taxpayers. That requires intelligent foreign aid- and that is the challenge isn’t it?

Another value for aid to foreign nations is in building infrastructure across the globe for ecologically sustainable economic infrastructures and methods of existence, Benefiting human health everywhere can be moved forward through construction of a reformed economic system that has as low of entropy and destruction of the environment as possible and that even recovers damaged planetary ecosystems. The value to Americans is that it will help sustain all life on Earth including people of the U.S.A. That requires substantial intelligence and leadership to accomplish. Foreign aid is a very small portion of the U.S. budget that can bring far more benefits in return than the initial cost.

If good sense and spirit is lacking in leadership, they should at the least consider the parable of the crooked steward from Luke 16;

“1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

Gel Concrete Blocks That Don't Dry Until Uncovered Could Be Useful for Desert Areas

Some kind of pre-formed gel concrete block in a plastic package that wouldn't harden until activated after being put in place- such as in a building foundation ditch, would be useful for construction in very dry areas without water.

Concrete dries with a chemical reaction rather than when exposed to air. Even so some chemist experimenter might have design concepts in mind that would make pre-formed wet concrete blocks available for production and sales in building supply stores.

Concrete blocks can have a high thermal mass. When  mostly solid they can collect solar energy and release it at night warming a building interior and cooling it during the day. With a few layer deep of concrete pre-formed blocks rising from the foundation simple desert buildings that are solid might be easier for individual home builders to piece together.

It might be desirable to be able to readily lock the pre-formed wet concrete block packages together in place to facilitate corner and multi-level installations.

While on the topic, it is worth mentioning that current methods of making concrete produce a substantial portion of human caused Co2 emissions. Redesigning the process to lower that percent could be useful too, synergistically.

Some Welfare is Good for the Economy

Welfare has a very tarnished reputation. In a society with a work ethic it symbolizes urban ghettos and repressed minorities that spend generations in rat-infested public housing projects. The well being of a society does include the standard of living of the worst-off individuals as well as the best. Some theorize that the stimulus of poverty and its negative reinforcement drives the poor to seek work if they don’t have the alternative of living on welfare. The criterion is maladroit.

Political economy lacks sufficient positive mechanisms made through law to enable people to escape poverty readily and work. Without food stamps, some employers would use starvation as a lever for lowering worker wages. It is a social insurance program in that respect to prevent corporations from using starvation as a tool of extortion to force people to work at low wages in harsh conditions. People are not all really wonderful, and would enslave others if they could, if not eat them.

The Democrat Party does not know how to reform a capitalist economy in a democracy. They try to get as many people as they can on some government pay-out in order to implement socialism through the back door. That problem differs a lot from trying to make a free enterprise foundation workable for every citizen. Democrats will even flood the nation with illegal workers in order to subvert the wages and labor-side of employer-worker wage value and negotiations. There is another benefit of flooding the USA with illegal aliens for Democrats; it degrades the ecosphere faster creating environmental emergency and additional Democrat leverage for socialism through government environmental powers.

It would be practical to pass a law that provides tax breaks to employers in relation to hiring and employing people that were out of work longest. Putting the hardest to hire people to work would relieve welfare rolls. Democrats have no interest in that.

American youth had to pay a sort-of-tax for Obamacare. Now the Democrats would like to force youth to pay for Medicare for everyone not presently qualified. Today people over 65 qualify for Medicare. If those under 65 get Medicare too then the worker contribution for that might rise ten or twenty time. Democrats might say they would tax the most rich to pay for that, however the tax if passed- and that would be very hard to get done, would bring money to the general fund and perhaps instead pay for the soon to be trillion dollars of interest bill dues annually for the 22 trillion dollar U.S. Government debt.

Democrats should have expanded the V.A. hospital system and joined it with community hospitals and clinics for the poor and simply provided free direct medical service to those that are screened by the federal Government to actually be too poor to afford medical treatment. Such a non-profit is the least expensive way to bring medical coverage to all citizens. Single payer systems are a further support to enslave the public and bring corporatism and socialism in a world government into being.

Present administration of the V.A. hospital system may be somewhat inefficient at delivering quick, quality health care however reform is always possible. One issue may be the problem of tenured government employees without production incentives. That might be corrected with contractors to provide services in the V.A. equivalent to contractors employed in the military, motivated for production. Some leaders are incapable of improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness while others rise to the challenge.

Reducing the period of patent exclusivity to three years with 10% royalties to inventors after three years when anyone produces profit from using the idea would accelerate economic innovation and progress and give a better chance for poor inventors to profit instead of reinforcing the trickle-up system now in effect. The entire patent process as well as defending it is simply not something a broke, intelligent American can reasonable afford. Poor people often don’t prefer to gamble 300% of their life savings on speculation, yet they may have good ideas.

A Synopsis of Why Russia Fell to Communism

Russia was weakened by war. Its political immune system was suppressed and disease was free to enter the body politic.

The Russian revolution was the first success of several revolutionary movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries seeking to bring about communism. The institution of the Tsar was oppressive. The table of ranks of elites rendered ordinary people nobodies beyond the first 50 ranks. An international movement sought any place available to revolt. The revolutionaries moved about. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and others journeyed from nation to nation as the royal establishment kicked them out or hunted them. Russian royalty made a fatal mistake in the social contest between revolutionaries and aristocrats; it got involved in a war with Germany and the Tsar was not a good military leader. His pre-emptive attack on Germany led to great German advances against Russia. Germans sent Lenin in a sealed train to lead a revolution and sign a treaty with Germany that gave away most of the Ukraine and other land.

Russia had anti-tsarist revolutionary movements for a very long time before the October Revolution. There had been experiments with democracy a little, briefly. It was possible that a constitutional monarchy might have evolved something like that of Britain given enough time, yet the pressure of the first World War that reorganized much of Europe was sufficient to bring more force to the fault lines in Russian leadership.

The Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset wrote a book named The Revolt of the Masses-published in 1929–30 that anticipated the restiveness of European society because in part, of technological changes and mass communication, transport etc. The work anticipated the 2nd World War, though not exactly concise in anticipating the rise of Hitler and the 3rd Reich.

I believe it worthwhile to mention that several nations did join the communist camp through force after the Second World War. War is a traditional means of bringing communist-socialist systems into being. Usually the desire is to remove an oppressive ruling elite. Then at the conclusion of the war the choice of the leadership is for communist dictatorship rather than democracy not only for ideological reasons, but for practical reasons too; suppressing counter-revolutionary werewolves is easier with dictatorship than ballot boxes.

In places like Vietnam and China communism prevailed yet later moderated itself with some evolution toward market political economy. The perennial war of ordinary people to rid itself of oppressive ruling elites never ends. Democracy and free markets seem the best remedy.

U.S. Political Economy and Potential for Collapse; Seriously?

If Democrats retake the House and the Presidency in 2020 there is a good chance recession may follow. Democrat policies concerning the economy are very weird and there are innumerable serious spending plan increases in the party for a variety of programs that would tend to be recessive. Collapse is a strong word though.

The U.S. economy has always grown with brief times of recession or depression occasionally. It always recovers after periods of irrational exuberance, too rapid and unsupportable expansion and collapse and recovery as in the 1929–30 crash. It is because the basic structure and resources of the United States are strong.

When the federal government fails to adapt in time to empirical challenges internationally that can bring about economic problems requiring rectification of means. Several challenges face the United States today that seemingly are not being adequately addressed.

One is too much illegal immigrant population. The U.S.A. has about 320 million people presently. That may be regarded as about 100 million too many for ecospheric health. If another 20 million illegals arrive, and though the population growth rate for American citizens living here is zero, the birth rate increase for the next illegal generation could drive the U.S. population up to 400 million very quickly, and that would require a large increase in the cost of government.

Another challenge is simply globalism and the desire for Democrats to ensnare the U.S. in networks of global treaties for ecological reasons. It would be better and more effective to simple direct U.S. economic policy toward constructive, synergistic environmental economic infrastructure changes.
Global trading competition, global corporations and multinational ownership and finance along with global electronic currencies present challenges that are fairly complex for national political economy to correct. because the majority of Americans have only a small percent of national income and so much goes to the 1%, economic collapses can be regarded as sometimes intentional or acceptable readjustment losses that might harm ordinary Americans but profit the 1%. That is, the nation does not experience economic shocks together. The specialized nature of employment occupations has also reached the economy of the nation. One business on Main Street may close down while another across the street expands. That principle applies to the entire planetary economy now.

U.S. public debt appears to be a problem. At the least it is offensive to those citizens that do not want debt in their personal accounts. Public debt seems to indicate incompetent management in U.S. Government policy. I have no idea what can be done to repair the damage of 22 trillion as it is presently.

When the British financed the revolutionary War defense costs of the battle against the United States their government debt borrowing wasn’t repaid until near the start of the First World War. The effect of financing the debt was to cost the people of England reduced social benefits for a very long time, and taxation to pay for it. The U.S. public debt may have the same effect. It may not bring about an economic collapse. Instead, with global electronic currency and multinational corporations the economy of the United States may with away as global financial systems transcend it. That development would be unfortunate yet should require a decade or so to fructify.

A few good researchers have suggested the carrying capacity of the world is two billion people at the present rate of consumption. The United States seemed good enough when it had 200 million people. With 320 million it seems overpopulated and going through the ecosphere at an alarming rate.
The nation mostly has zero population growth voluntarily except for a few minorities and the notable exception of Hispanics and illegal alien. A few million more illegal aliens with the large birthrate could fairly rapidly drive the national population to 400 million. That seems somewhat crazy, although the new normal phenomenon and brainwashing media would make it seem o.k.

What is of little help is the wrong eschatology theory popular with some fundamentalists that there will be an Armageddon and apocalypse to usher in a new age. The Bible actually, read correctly, in my opinion, provides more evidence for an end-times apocalypse occurred in the first century A.D. as Jesus said it would before the end of that generation. After that the kingdom of God was supposed to slowly increase, and it has with more than a billion believers today. Muslims share the wrong pre-tribulation theory- even Iranians with their Twelvers that believe a hidden Imam that disappeared in a well will reappear after Armageddon.


Establishing sustainable, discrete national economies with zero net loss of biota is a very good idea.