Maybe the new vaccine will defeat the new strain of the Covid 19 virus. One hopes so. The new British version of Covid 19 (is it Covid 20) that is easier to catch has appeared with a terrorists timing just after the start of vaccines against Covid 19. Like a terrorist that bombs someplace saving a second device to use when first responders arrive, the new version of Covid 19 has appeared after a year developing a vaccine for the virus that has killed about 320 million Americans. If new lethal versions of the bat shit virus appear as commonly as common colds it may require so sort of new protocol to adapt human life and economic procedures.
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12/21/20
New Vaccine May Defeat the New Covid Strain Too
12/20/20
Mass, Metaphysics and the Higgs Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM
12/18/20
US Government Never Hacks Anyone, Unlike Russia
The U.S. Government never hacks anyone or foreign governments unlike Russia credited recently with hacking into U.S. Government computers.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-dick-durbin-alleged-russian-hack-virtually-declaration-of-war
The U.S. Government doesn't 'hack' into telephonic communications anywhere without a good reason, and the American broadcast media never listens in to cell phone communications. Neither has Facebook or Google ever rigged or hacked emails or chatrooms nor have their employees ever rigged search results or skimmed earnings from bloggers. Unlike the Russian Government the U.S.A. only does defensive hacking for self-defense purposes; never anything offensive or splicing like in to trans-Atlantic broadband cables under the oceans or elsewhere. Apparently the U.S. DOD Cyber Warfare team may have planted malware in the Russia electrical grid yet if they did that was probably a charitable effort to increase its efficiency and was misunderstood by nandering naybobs of negativism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_States
Dick Durbin has expressed a broad Wall- Street sentiment to marginalize Russia even before the new, honest Biden administration takes office. The President elect has explained convincingly that his brilliant son Hunter is a victim of political opponents trying to get to him. There obviously was no chance that Ukrainian entrepreneurs were trying to get to him for influence and military supplies to war eastward on traditional Russian lands. The $400,000 of undeclared income from Burisma in Ukraine for expert advice from someone without any experience might have put President's Trump 2016 campaign designer Paul Manafort in jail perhaps, yet Manafort was guilty of packaging Mr. Trump properly to win, unlike 2020 when he was finally nabbed by the Mueller Investigation.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf
Plainly Republicans may seek their own Jerry Nadler to nail President Biden with high crimes and misdemeanors if they can win the House in 2022. In my opinion what is obvious- even more than a Pompeo win over President Biden in 2024, is the problem of Americans seeking antipathetic relations with Russia for short-term Wall Street proplits presenting great long-term externalities of lost opportunities to the United States. Seeking amicable relations requires intellect Democrats lack. With a strong Russian integration into western economies defense costs and threats to the United States will be far less than with Russia forced to ally itself more with China and various anti-American global alternative actors. China requires U.S. investors to surrender to Chinese owners 51% of the stock of any corporation doing business there. Russians may offer a better deal for U.S. investors. Its good to get in on the ground floor sometimes.
There are some that feel Capitalism unto enslavement of the masses for their own good is the only alternative to socialism and communist dystopia. Actually there is democracy and egalitarian free enterprise with intelligent ecological economic political economics as a middle ground that is more feasible for human survival on Earth- if that is a concern to some.
Someone wrote that U.S. politics has become dominated by emotion instead of reason and that plainly seems true i.m.o. Best one can hope for is a Pompeo vs Biden 2024 race and Biden loses, then in 2028 it will be Pompeo vs. Harris and the latter may win. I would like a candidate with a degree in Ecological Economics with a semblance of classical political pragmatism regarding a democracy, yet that is as unlikely to happen as a million dollar per citizen stimulus check. I ran across a good quote in a book I read recently; "The truth is treason in an empire of lies".
12/17/20
The One and the Many
Is the ocean one thing or a word describing countless (though finite in number) molecules of H2O? The question of monism and pluralism is fundamental concerning everything that exists, and of events and processes, therefore it was a common concern of pre-Socratic philosophers not simply because they might have shared the issue once it was thought of by a single individual. Parmenides and Heraclitus approached the problem of monism and pluralism from different yet not antipathetic points of view. In that regard they share a concern that hasn't been terminated as worthy of inquiry from fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, Multiverse theory and perception. Compound objects composed of numerous parts in solid objects and sub-atomic particles entangled in three dimensions with the Higgs field reflect the one and the issue as do organic beings.
One might wonder what logic is and how it exists in relation to epistemology. It is also possible to ask if logic is static or if it is subject to relativity (as reshaped by spatial deformation vis Einstein's General Theory for example). If logic is recognition of relationships among objects or ideas as objects then it could be that logic is a kind of pattern recognition with which one may process information and make extrapolations from a given position concerning a series as in math theory or mathematical metaphysics.- If one is looking for a consistence in logic, that would be a necessary consistence of relations and patterns, shapes and occurrences that would comprise a system of logic. It is therefor challenging to say that logic is inflexible or must be regarding certain relations that must transcend particular logical systems and need be present in every logic system.-Because the issue becomes a little obtuse I shall leave it here for the present with the observation or agreement with a point made above concerning the utility of valid logic within a given system of logic rather than considering a Universal logic, though the Universe itself materially as particles embedded in a Higgs Field apparently seems to have a logical structure for everything in it at the quantum level.One may have classical logic-Aristotelian logic and move through history to Leibnitz's mathematical logic, Frege and modern symbolic logic and onward to deontic , modal and other new logic systems. Maybe the proliferation of systems of logic supports the concept of logic as a formal system for representing abstract relations of fact and fiction useful for inductive as well as deductive reasoning.
12/15/20
Inexplicable; Excellence and Punky Billionaire Presidential Behavior
When the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Barrack Obama people were surprised since he hadn't done anything yet besides being black and elected. It turned out during his terms of office that he would have better deserved a Nobel War Prize that even his speech acknowledged. Donald Trump actually deserves a Peace Prize for his excellence at bringing four Arab nations to sign off with diplomatic relations with Israel. What is inexplicable is how someone able to bring off a diplomatic coup that wasn't accomplished since Egypt did in return for the Sinai acts like a spoilt punky billionaire following his re-election defeat. To this time he is still in denial claiming he was cheated.
President-elect Biden is a threat to turn back salutary Middle East developments and that should be a concern for national politics. He may also return to stepped up hostility with Russia in order to make Hunter Biden's Ukrainian pay-masters happy and persuaded that their real estate interests are swelling. president Trump should be awarded a Nobel for his Middle East work next year even if the Biden administration is more to Sweden's liking politically.
The Republican Party may have a problem former President trying to be in the spotlight for a few years more as a kind of never-goes-away Clintonesque figure. He is the best chance the Biden administration has for winning re-election in 2024. If Sect. Pompeo or some other fellow with capability is the party nominee Republicans might actually retake the White House.
12/13/20
Stimulus and the Corked Bat of Special Interests
Special interests have taken over the U.S.A. and government of the nation. A special interest in regard to the founding parameters of the United States could be regarded as an interest or organization limited to just some of the citizens all of the time. Today virtually any corporation, church denomination, civic and social organization, fort profit and non-profit business could rightly be considered to be a special interest in regard to federal legislation. The federal stimulus conundrum that cannot get passed because of partisan wrangling about special interests rather than those of all U.S. citizens this year drew my attention.
Free federal dollars flow to special interest citizens and aliens rather than to all citizens equally- that helps establish corporatism and its socialist junior partner.
12/11/20
US Senate Letting Covid Relief Bill Die
The U.S. Senate is letting the 2nd Covid emergency relief bill die for partisan reasons. The Senate leaders seek partisan advantages and cannot agree to let that go and simply pass a plain cash stimulus check to Americans to use presently.
Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi care more for funding their vast left-wing state governments and funding deficits than for ordinary citizens of the U.S.A. even in their own states. The best simple compromise is to pass immediate $2400 cash relief stimulus checks for all Americans let Senate and House leaders clash over their special interests with mace, swords and shields of rhetoric after Christmas. A third Wilder-Fury fight or a Joshua-Fury or Wilder-Fury battle have been put off; what should not be put off is immediate cash relief for the poor and middle class that need pay rent, pay for classes or fund tooth extractions. I recently heard an elder gentleman trying to get a loan to pay for an elder brother’s covid 19 hospitalization; apparently he lacked free Bethesda hospitalization.
12/9/20
Basic Police Reform- A Modern Primer
Basically there are two kinds of people in the world; those that want power over others and those that don’t. Politicians tend to want power and reform is an issue that puts them in the spotlight for a term or two without actually needing to get anything meaningfully done. Police reform to protect the public from police as well as criminals is growing in popularity since the tradition of urban riots by blacks whose lives matter have discovered the police seem to serve the non-black population more so than themselves. Defunding police has been held to be an effective way to halt police interference with black sin cities, some of who are alleged to perpetrate crimes.
Two models and goals for
police structure seem to exist in the present context of reformed structure and
traditional structure. ‘The Art of War’, I believe it was if I recall the book
I read decades ago, mentions interior and exterior lines for attackers and
defenders. ‘The Art of Reasoning’ informs us about classical and symbolic
logic. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ might have suggested, if the modern political
environment and broadcast media had existed in his day, of the logical value of
fast transition of exterior and exterior lines reversing roles of attackers and
defenders, The reformed model of the Democrat Party and non-white ideal would
end the perceived defense of white people as a majority party by police
departments. Policing could be flip-flopped to change their role from one
defending white controllers on interior lines to one of attacking dwindling
whites from exterior lines of black and minority based community policing.
A new reformed law enforcement agency would be
community-based while the existing police departments would be defunded and
eliminated largely. A similar paradigm for reform existed in pre-war nazifying
Germany when under Hitler’s leadership the brown shirts of the national
socialist party took over society. Local police department constables at some
stage needed to stand aside to let the new political and social facticty of
change take charge. Brown shirts or storm troopers could enforce the political
will and decide in a fresh paradigm who the real public enemies are. The
broadcast media would easily inform the public of what worked and what did not.
The broadcast media has great offensive and defensive political power and
returns periodically or partially to its role of enforcing political will to
power.
Eliminating police
departments in the United States so a more Democrat Party led law enforcement
structure can take control would not exactly duplicate Hitler’s model although
there are obvious similarities. Community based police models could include
mafiosa enforcement agents and mass public disarmament to render political
opponents easier to subjugate. As in the former Soviet Union criminal activity
by non-state actors would be very low. The public internal security forces
strengthen to such an extreme that dissent becomes unfeasible.
If two models for police
structure exist in the United States today- traditional and Nazi, they would
require a segregated civil structure if each were to exist simultaneously with
traditionalists in white communities and tribal mafiosa-goon Democrat thugs
under bosses in non-white communities.
Unfortunately, or luckily as one may regard it, the economy of the United
States is not designed to be racially segregated. It is somewhat amusing to
consider the impracticalities of segregating products and services along racial
lines in America with Wal-mart using different personnel to deliver black soap
to black neighborhoods and white soap to white neighborhood etc. Amazon could
use drones to deliver to all areas of course since machines are racial only in
a nuts and bolts sort of way, and it might be possible to stop taxing products
purchased from the internet so local manufacture of high-tech products in rural
Alaska for example won’t face unfair competition from products made in China or
white neighborhood colleges like M.I.T. Basketball and football would require
separate leagues and audiences only of appropriate race with television
commercials directed to appropriate viewers. Federal oversight of Wall- Street
would require special black and white law enforcement with community police
mafia on one side and traditional law enforcement structure on the other with
each working only to secure corporate behavior of the apposite race. It seems
rather expensive and corrupt actually.
12/8/20
Lincoln Didn't Include Baltimore in the Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln didn't include Maryland and other border states in his Emancipation proclamation. It took a third Maryland constitution years later to free the slaves. That interesting fact is useful here because it is part of the problem of displaced former slaves after the war thrown into homelessness en mass usually without a legal right to inhabit their former plantations. As a northerner during school before college long ago learning technical details of mass black homelessness after the civil war didn't occur. There were few blacks in the Pacific Northwest until the Second World War. School kids learned generalities of U.S. history and state history (Washington state for my experience). I took a world civilization course too. Three history course at a high school level is pretty shallow actually.
William Grose was the first black businessman in Seattle. Yet it wasn't until the federal government needed military support personnel in the war with Japan that many blacks moved to the Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grose_(black_Seattle_pioneer)
The two small cities I grew up in had no blacks not because of segregation-simply because none had moved in large numbers that far from the south, and race riots didn't exist even until after the Vietnam War by which time there was a substantial black population in large cities. Researching the black city migrations and rioting development as a topic would need to wait until opportunity arose for graduate research.
Since I am dead reckoning history here I will say that I am interested in the mass relocation of former slaves after the war. It is well known that many went on an exodus to northern cities creating the problem persisting to this time of mostly black urban ghettos and/or aka challenged neighborhoods and educational facilities, and in some a legacy of neo-apartheid with legally segregated housing such as in Baltimore that persisted for some time.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
In my opinion the entire phenomenon could have been nipped in the bud immediately after the war if the vast plantations that formerly sheltered black slaves were cut up into chunks of a few acres and redistributed to the former slaves who certainly had a fair claim to own the land rather than their former masters- or at least equally. It is one of the sad missed opportunities of history that many slaves after the war were legally landless people. Homelessness can be very challenging to get out of.
Apparently some plantation owners did give some land to the former slaves. Some of that was sharecropping that wasn't too far removed from slavery. Yet much land did remain with the families of plantation slavers; and that stimulated movements such as the clan seeking to perpetuate race-based economic advantages across the south with logical inertia.
If all of the former slaves were given 5 acres of real estate to own at the in 1866 it is possible that development and race relations of the United States would have been quite different.
12/7/20
No Stimulus Check = Republican Loss
With so much money going to Republicans and Republican businesses
during the McConnell era domination of the U.S. Senate voters put down the
Trump re-election since many of their pockets were empty. Repeating that
mistake will likely result in the Republican loss of the Senate to Democrats in
the Georgia run-off election in January.
In a sense Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Maine Senator Susan Collins are already neo-crats that vote blue on most feminine issues and numerous other Democrat agenda items that reach the Senate. Senator Murkowski does support the pirate team plunder of ANWR of course while Senator Collins may demure. The loss of the two Georgia Senate seats in the runoff election will seal the deal of U.S. Senate control by the Democrat party for the better part of a decade. Early voting starts December 14th. https://georgia.gov/vote-2020-runoff-elections
The actual election day is 5 January 2021.
The U.S. Government for several decades has turned toward giving hundreds of billions and sometimes trillions of dollars to corporations and small businesses asymmetrically regarding equal allocation of government giveaways to all citizens. In a way it could be said that sucks. Voters may not need to wait until January to determine discern if Senators are pips or pugs.
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