US Economic Reform Paradigmata

 Republicans and Democrats have supported issuing of trillions and trillions of free dollars to the rich and that seems somewhat like treason. Those quantitative easing loans at 0% put electronic deposits in big banks, and with the marginal reserve rate of 10% generally those banks could loan out 9 dollars for each dollar in their account. That means 16 trillion given between 2008–2011 amounted to 134 trillion minus the 16 trillion that needed to be repaid to the Federal Reserve. Nothing was written in the constitution about a role of government to assure that the rich are given 134 trillion now and then and the poor, nothing. Republicans in the Senate are wailing and lamenting that 430 billion for Covid relief stimulus would bankrupt the country or need to be repaid by survivors of the future.

When the Federal Reserve was started the U.S.A. was still on the gold standard. The Federal Reserve was helpful in assuring liquidity and provided some protection for depositors. When the dollar became free floating during the Nixon administration the stage was set for future unscrupulous use of Federal Reserve loans.

President Reagan and Arthur Laffer seemed to understand that the need to run a balanced budget was as important as during former times. Many viewed Reagan stimulus deficit spending as a white-washed Keynesianism and apparently that view was wrong. It was difficult to entirely revise the classical view of economics to the free floating dollar paradigm.

During the 2008–9 financial crisis their was a paradigm shift in Federal Reserve application of creating liquidity such that enabling hundreds of trillions of dollars to appear out of virtually thin air for the rich has become normative- and that policy has hidden deleterious impacts on democracy, for it reinforces the concentration of wealth and economic segregation of citizens from political power. Georgia Republicans and Mitch McConnell need to trick Georgia voters into believe they are not at fault for withholding a $2000 stimulus check in order to keep control of the U.S. Senate in the January 6 special election. Republicans either do not comprehend the vast unearned political transfer of wealth to the rich or simply are sadistic and enjoy victimizing the poor.

Big business and banks should never be regarded as ‘too big to fail’. banking and making loans is fine when the money arises from the private sector and isn’t just the result of a federal prop. It would be far better for democracy in the United States if money from the Federal Reserve that goes to assure liquidity in the private sector primarily emerged from the people of the United States in a broad base such as social security accounts.

The Federal Reserve could make zero interest loans [periodically to all social security accounts and that money could be managed en mass/concatenated and available for loans to the private sector as big banks do presently. The money multiplier of 9 to 1 would go to Americans broadly as citizens rather than to special, globalist interest. If the private sector needs special free money from the public sector it should be the public sector as actual American citizens that profit from the action as well as private sector businesses directly borrowing cash at a reasonable yet low rate of interest.. This would have numerous salutary effects.

For one thing social security would remain solvent. The U.S. Government already borrows from social security and leaves i.o.u.’s. In the future it might be possible when retiree and disabled American accounts are flourishing to forgive federal indebtedness. Loans to the private sector would be more independent from domination by corporate networks controlled by 1% of the people, and special very low loan rates could be given to students and independent small businesses. There is nothin at all remotely American about the Federal Reserve helping the rich to have more free money in a few years than the poor would earn all together in a thousand lifetimes.

Neither party really has much good sense regarding ecological economics either. When the Federal Reserves enables trillions and trillions to be dumped to the present unsustainable economic infrastructure owners that makes changing the political economy improbable. Because the rich own the broadcast media Americans can be conditioned rather easily to accept being ‘managed’ by a plutocracy. I should mention that I personally am not an optimist about meaningful positive economic reform developing.

One Reason Why Some Consider Heidegger Existentialist

 Heidegger was interested in the phenomenal, root meanings of words. Examining language in such a subjective way might bring some to classify him as an existentialist. In that way of classification it might be said that Plato and realism was in opposition to extremist left nominalism and Heidegger was an innocent bystander. If all language is about language and classification that people make up for pragmatic reasons then it might be fair to say that things-in-themselves differ from words about them.

What can be said about reality in itself- the mass that is the steady state of mass perceptible to humans that completely defines it? Nothing I.m.o. Even structures that are man-made are founded in mass and energy that are described incompletely with word structures. In that circumstance one finds Sartre’s existential parameters congruent with Bishop Berkeley’s Three Dialog s concerning idealism. One cannot really say that the shared energy field that everyone encounters isn’t a complete production of God, or a simulation real for-itself generated by a sentient field.

The Dialectical Evolution of Bic-Coin in History to Self-Awareness

I was informed recently by a friend who is a professor of the philosophy of economic comedy about developments in the field of the dialectical progression of money to self-awareness through history. Evidently the Reagan administration realized for-itself that with a free-floating dollar the Federal Reserve could simply issue low or no interest loans to big banks and with the federal requirement that banks keep 10% marginal reserves on obligations such as cash deposits, the rich that own the banks could in effect electronically mint 9 times the loans to their friends and compatriot rich people. The custom of enabling the Federal Government to in effect give trillions of free dollars to the rich did not really get started in a large way until the financial crisis of 208-9 wherafter it has issued through the marginal reserve multiplication nine-fold of zero and low interest ‘quantitative easing’ dollars, about 200 trillion dollars. I should ask Dr. Mojoke, my professor friend about it, however I believe the world income annual is about 99 trillion dollars, so 200 trillion over a dozen years is a fair amount of easing.

In the process of unbalancing traditional economic relationships with quantitative easing the federal government accelerated the concentration of wealth since they were not issuing trillions of dollars of free money to the poor and middle class who in any event had now facilities for multiplying zero-interest federal loans nine-fold. A different approach to restoring economic slumps that was fair and balanced with equal measures of free money going to citizens equally was required and that would have overstretched the meager economic intellectual resources of classical economic theorists. It was with that realization by Dr. Mojoke seated in a lotus position under an apple tree had his great insight about not only the invention of new cash multiplying structures in federal social security accounts that would manage and loan money to qualified, stable borrowers with professional class investment fund managers, the doctor also foresaw the rise of Bic-coin as a self-aware monad evolving to realize itself through monetary policy over history.

Dr. Mojoke foresaw that electronic currency trading would evolve to self-aware monad of Bic-coin that would as self-aware units be non-counterfeitable and useful in-themselves as well as in electronic trading. Bic-coin in larger clusters would have an increased capacity for artificial intelligence and intelligent thought. A billion units of Bic-coin thinking together would be very clever and in fact able to optimize structural designs for human biological living such as waterless microwave sewage processing in deserts ( I asked the doctor how he found that example and he informed me that he saw the value of propane or electric powered Incinolet toilets used for off the grid structures). Cluster of Bic-coin would become standard units of exchange able for-themselves to organize assembly of planetary materials for print-on-demand lunar and Martian structures or form transport vehicles able to rise from dust and transport Americans along electronic in-line highway grids made of solar photon absorbing and storing materials with a high albedo.

Mojoke said that he didn’t mind the rich loaning out money they’ve worked for, that it was just the Federal Reserve dumping trillions of interest free electronic cash in quantitative easing that was a fowl kettle of fish. Apparently Mojoke believes that the U.S. Government and Federal Reserve should not serve a tiny minority of the public and render everyone else peons of globallists.

I suggested to Dr. Mojoke that the new Biten administration might invest in the development of Bic-coin and innovate better and more egalitarian methods for stimulating the U.S. economy diverging from the evolving history of offering up free trillions to a global plutocracy wishing they would trickle down to Americans and not just runt the government with so much compiled capital. The doctor said; “That’s a laugher”.

Fried Chicken, Stimulus Checks and the Marginal Reserve with Quantitative Easing...

 Fried Chicken, Stimulus Checks and the Marginal Reserve with Quantitative Easing...

(Quantitative Easing gave trillions and trillions to the Uber Rich)

It seems that Republicans don’t understand how the political economy has changed since the 2008–9 financial crisis so they have a preponderance of people that still believe in anachronistic ideas concerning money supply and the rich. President Nixon took the U.S.A. off the gold standard and President Reagan first realized the potential of using easy money to promote economic growth without causing inflation- the rich get the easy money and buy everything on the planet with it or hold on to it as leverage over the government.

During the 2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop the bleeding on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and continuing support with trillions and trillions of zero and very low interest loans to wealthy financial institutions. Big banks are free to issue in electronic loans nine dollars more or less (I am not a banker-the marginal reserve requisite is 10% perhaps) for every dollar they have on deposit so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion) allowed big banks to produce from thin air 90 trillion dollars. The total amount of free money to plutocrats enabled by the Federal Reserve could be as much as 200 trillion dollars. Fortunately Senators like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct payments going to Americans in the present financial stimulus observing that ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ (as if it were the Tongass National Forest the administration would like to strip log with clear cuts). Preventing ordinary Americans from getting fewer than a half of one percent of what goes to the rich from the Federal Reserve incentives vigilant Republicans; the poor or their proplits cannot be allowed to increase.

https://time.com/4238/janet-yellen-the-sixteen-trillion-dollar-woman/

When money was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a currency was tied to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many dollars each would become worth less if the quantity of gold remained the same. When President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard the dollar had nothing besides its value to none in particular to determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that isn’t too unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/13/12-trillion-of-qe-and-the-lowest-rates-in-5000-years-for-this.html

Still, the idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep their Wall Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult for many Americans including myself to understand very well. The treasury prints out paper dollars and the Federal Reserve loans out electronic dollars. Most financial transactions are done electronically these days and there actually isn’t too much cash as a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to keep banks and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments to Americans that earn fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a cup yet one wonders. The answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street got from the Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The original loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they could buy up Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation occurred in the indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that the DOW is now over 30,000.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traceygreenstein/2011/09/20/the-feds-16-trillion-bailouts-under-reported/

Just because the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it doesn’t mean that Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries although they might anyway. There is a difference between real goods, physical corporations and such capital and dollars. A brick is still a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long as Wall Street average share prices rise more or less together there need not be too much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an average worker (just guessing).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp#:~:text=Banks%20are%20required%20to%20keep%20on%20hand%20and%20available%20for,deposit%2C%20referred%20to%20as%20reserves.

The tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred not because Hitler had too many Reichmarks printed; it happened because there wasn’t enough gold to back up the Reichmarks value proportionately. The dollar though is on an economic relativity foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism kickback loop it is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A Guaranteed minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator of Darth Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money doesn’t grow on trees.”

In the free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not be as important as the real material and intellectual properties that can be counted as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the flow of trade and commerce and tight money could be a problem itself. It is possible that avarice in the owner class could prompt corporate to raise retail prices to consumers if consumers have any money to spend in order to have all of the money they possibly can. Political economy managers need to be concerned with such matters as well as for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental parameters.

One of the problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the tendency to develop a particular economic model until it crashes from over-use. The physical infrastructure of a civilization may grow to be inappropriate and destroy the human spirit of workers and designers in addition to building mass species extinction and environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most invested in the present economic system would be the last to know and most resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic continuum.

The 2008-9 financial crisis and decade of ensuing issue of free money to the rich was the wrong way to keep the economy of the U.S.A. Functioning. It was an opportunity to direct coalitions of the willing businesses to participate in ecological economic reform and sustainability. The daft policy of throwing zero interest federal reserve loans to the rich rendered democracy somewhat defunct and put plutocratic global corporatism into ascendance. Intelligence was required in governing and idiot technocrats dumping cash to the rich was what followed. NPR has often called the Covid 19 pandemic the 'pendemic'. Repression of free speech and democratic free expression is quite normal during the rise of dictatorships and oligarchy's of sundry sorts. Some of the broadcast media believe economic exogamy is the be and end-all for existence; self reliance and independence however are not necessarily economically endogamous and strong nationalism can lead in new directions such as ecological economic reform. Coupled with Darwinist inspired atheism and Nietzchian philosophic inspiration an existential abandonment of moral norms and nationalism seems necessary for a brave new world order wherein for Americans the sole economic survivors are plutocratic supermen. The hubris and deceit inherent in the view that enables irrationality to overcome reason and fake populism to alternate with corrupt elites to manage the 'herd' of citizens ought to give some a realization that the death of democracy won't end well for ordinary people.

Plutocrats of the modern era are far more sophisticated and subtle in defeating in detail democracy, potential rival political economic trends and independent innovations of individuals. So long as the populace is stupid, drunk, doped, deceived or misled into unintelligent political economy there are no political issues to trouble the rising minority powers of plutocrats.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

 I wanted to wish readers a Merry Christmas 2020 and a Happy New Year for 2021, though my blog seems to be completely censored for the past few days with zero readers except for a subscriber. The days before I had between 50 and 100 each day.

Since the Obama administration when I criticized N.S.A. surveillance of Americans I lost 90% of the views. Formerly more than a 1000 each day was easy. I haven't got a penny of increase from blogging here the past decade or so when the $67 in the account froze and there it remains in spite of everything I have tried to fix it.

When I dropped the sentence "as if google has never trimmed bloggers" in a post that must have triggered the complete censorship status as present. Well, no problem, then the sound stopped on my Thinkpad so now the sound device manager reads "dummy output" or no device present. So my blogging for the next year will likely be minimal at least for a while with tech issues.

Recently I realized that the most rich were in effect given 64 trillion dollars via quantitative easing. Perhaps corporatism has gone so far as to merge into a kind of imperialism globally with any dissent deleted one way or another. Still, things could be worse, and there is the great hope and faith in the works of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Quantitative Easing Transferred Trillions and Trillions to the Uber Rich

 During the 2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop the bleeding on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and continuing support with trillions and trillions of zero and very low interest loans to wealthy financial institutions. Big banks are free to issue in electronic loans five dollars more or less (I am not a banker) for every dollar they have on deposit so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion) allowed  big banks to produce from thin air 80 trillion dollars. Fortunately Senators like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct payments going to Americans in the present financial stimulus observing that ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ (as if it were the Tongass National Forest the administration seeking to strip log with clear cuts and a spaghetti plate of roads).

 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/global-qe-tracker/

 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1121416/quantitative-easing-fed-balance-sheet-coronavirus/

 When money was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a currency was tied to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many dollars each would become worth less if the quantity of gold remained the same. When President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard the dollar had nothing besides its value to none in particular to determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that isn’t too unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.

 Still, the idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep their Wall Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult for many Americans including myself to understand very well. The treasury prints out paper dollars and the Federal Reserve loans out electronic dollars. Most financial transactions are done electronically these days and there actually isn’t too much cash as a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to keep banks and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments to Americans that earn fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a cup yet one wonders. The answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street got from the Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The original loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they could buy up Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation occurred in the indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that the DOW is now over 30,000.

 

Just because the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it doesn’t mean that Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries although they might anyway. There is a difference between real goods, physical corporations and such capital and dollars. A brick is still a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long as Wall Street average share prices rise more or less together there need not be too much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an average worker (just guessing).

I.M.O. a guaranteed minimum income is requisite to assure that no citizen is excluded from substantial economic participation. Business sadists and networks can have hidden semi-overt and covert agendas and policies that render work impossible. With a totalized national economy under the power of network financial elites any citizen can be deleted from real income.

 The tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred not because Hitler had too many reichmarks printed; it happened because there wasn’t enough gold to back up the reichmarks value proportionately. The dollar though is on an economic relativity foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism kickback loop it is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A Guaranteed minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator of Darth Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money doesn’t grow on trees.”

 In the free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not be as important as the real material and intellectual properties that can be counted as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the flow of trade and commerce and tight money could be a problem itself. It is possible that avarice in the owner class could prompt corporate to raise retail prices to consumers if consumers have any money to spend in order to have all of the money they possibly can. Political economy managers need to be concerned with such matters as well as for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental parameters.

 One of the problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the tendency to develop a particular economic model until it crashes from over-use. The physical infrastructure of a civilization may grow to be inappropriate and destroy the human spirit of workers and designers in addition to building mass species extinction and environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most invested in the present economic system would be the last to know and most resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic continuum.

 A government may rightly help citizens in time of emergency- that is good behavior. yet it should be impartial and stay with the principle of equal justice. When the government simply serves the rich that is bad conduct for a democracy. Providing perhaps 130 trillion dollars of free cash to the rich via the 5 to 1 electronic mint root based on quantitative easing deposits was wrong yet should not be held as a reason to further victimize the poor. The revolution of the rich in a decade long financial coup need be corrected somewhat presently.

Another Parameter for 'Saving the World' and Misc. Blog Topics

 Maybe one should ask what 'saving the world' means in a given context. If the wicked want to victimize others, and the saved have no interest in victimizing anyone then it is plain that the meek need go to heaven and the wicked someplace else such as eternal hell. The people in hell would victimize each other in hell and may hate those in heaven yearning to victimize them. Further, the 'world' someplace in the Universe far from the exact center may be depleted of life because of mass extinctions and global warming and is empty, while some capitalists in hell want to spend the world ransoming it to get themselves bailed out of hell. Maybe some communists believe saving the world would mean enslaving everyone or like the Khymer Rouge deleting intellectuals. and that it is necessary that everyone must get stoned.

I like Hegel quite a lot. The 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' if I recall correctly is a kind of summary of the  'Phenomenology of Mind'. Some might like the idea of the Spirit coming to evolve itself to realization in history, yet the notion of a two-part dialectical evolution seems rather quaint today with quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. I.M.O. God or Spirit is eternal rather than temporal. He issues the Higgs Field rather than becoming created himself within it.

Wave-particle duality hasn't much to do with Hegel I think.  It is possible to regard Spirit as the Author of the Higgs Field of course. GWF Hegel is somewhat removed from that context however. The Higgs Field has two-dimensional energy that can be phenomenally  entangled so it appears to slow down to sub-light speed and have mass. One might consider Hegel's paradigm with Plotinus and the Intelligence though (from the Enneads or 54 Tractates) in that neo-Platonist paradigm.      

There are many interesting historical researches going on today in addition to cosmology that provide much information to consider for Christian philosophers and the thoughtful. I think it is the case that some established church authorities have sought to freeze various structures in place because the contemporary dogmatics support the economic positions of the authorities and that can lead to schisms and reform such as that Protestants established in the 1500s.

There is repression of Christians in China. It may be possible that Chinese authorities may be concerned with pre-trib eschatology as well as social and economic power. Pre-tribbers believe the world is approaching doom and they will be raptured out of it, while post-tribbers such as myself tend to believe the apocalypse of the New Testament occurred in the first century A.D. culminating in the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple and that this is an era to build up the Kingdom of God.

 Secular authorities including communists always want to build up their own power about as far as they can. One need be inventive to liberate oneself and society generally from repressive ruling power when it is not useful for social progress.  I believe a Priesthood of Believers reform is necessary to maximize evangelical and ecclesiastical benefit from the New Testament. During the pre-literate, feudal era a more commercial or pro-priestly class of superior Christians was perhaps necessary to let the peasants learn the gospel, yet that is quite ineffective and almost counterproductive today with mass literacy and mass communication. Commercial priests tend to resemble small business guys primarily interested in their own economic situation receiving tithes. I think a Priesthood of Believers church structure were all share small-group liturgical roles would benefit western Christians and be non-threatening to communist authorities too.

 Chinese rulers are probably mindful of the Taiping Rebellion led by a Christian who believed he literally was Christ's brother. Ten million were killed in the Taiping Rebellion. Poor theological understanding can lead to conflict.   https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19977188

I took a philosophy course or two from a fellow who had a degree in anthropology too. His desk for years had a copy of Barret's book 'Irrational Man' on it. There are other contexts for rationality than the standard apparently at least in regard to social structure. If one reads Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason' one may discover that it is possible to view social behavior something like ant hive behavior. Then the question arises do the ants think about what they are doing as a species applying mass production where it ought to be limited and selected more carefully, really (e.g. mass species extinction, global warming, mobile wheelchair fossil fuel engine society)?  https://www.secondsale.com/i/irrational-man-a-study-in-existential-philosophy/9780385031387?gclid=CjwKCAiArIH_BRB2EiwALfbH1DS3ExaMd9xuyqazDYXhEp3lXZK_VvgXvyn3MEZ_sP0W8ql6jGzEUhoCUKEQAvD_BwE

 I have learned more about the history of the first civilization over time in Summer (southern Mesopotamia). Abraham was from the city of Ur. Summer was established circa 5400 b.c. so it was an old civilization by the time he got the call from God to exodus about 2100 b.c. That was a period when Summer-Akkad was in the final throes of its span and a good time for Abraham to leave.

 Abraham and family journeyed northwest Syria and over to Israel or Canaan. That region was between the two great early civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Learning that some of the information Abraham brought to Israel with him from Ur where he probably worked as a scribe has similar paradigmatic concurrence with ancient Sumerian data such as the flood during the end of the Wisconsin ice age should not be troubling to Christians. Instead they should be thankful that Abraham brought the truth with him.

New Vaccine May Defeat the New Covid Strain Too

 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.

 The Trump administration set a precedent for dealing with the virus that should not be followed by future administrations. It fundamentally let the virus rage and citizens die while waiting for a vaccine to develop. What was needed was an effort to let the economy work and people stay alive together while vaccines were developed though innovation. At the least some sort of infection preventing head gear should have been invented and distributed.

 A policy to just let people die while waiting for a vaccine to develop isn’t something to emulate politically. If a more lethal disease ever arrives the lack of capacity for the nation to survive seems substantial. In an era with vast biological and computational research that would support production of criminal synthesis of designer weaponized viruses political players should have more realistic plans for national defense to viral vectors of biological death.

Mass, Metaphysics and the Higgs Field

 Since the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and confirmation of the existence of the Higgs field a lot of work has gone into producing popular explanations of what the Higgs Field is and how it supports the existence of the mass. Metaphysics could be said to be the physics that one doesn’t know. For me the Higgs Field and the way it supports the apparent existence of mass was and remains mostly metaphysics while for some physicists it is less so. There is a video a couple minutes in length that summarizes how the Higgs Field works to produce the appearance that mass exists.

 Photons and other particles of a class called bosons are massless. Photons are the force carrying particles of the electro-magnetic field. There is a duality of articles as waves. A particle might be said to be like the peak of a wave where strength is greatest when observed. Sub-atomic particles acquire mass and existence simply through bouncing around or being slowed down in the Higgs Field from a massless speed of light condition to a slower than light condition with mass created with the acquisition of a third dimension from relativistic effects instead of the  two-dimensional condition of massless particle-waves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM

 Mass is an apparent state of massless particles  locked into a steady state of slower-than light being observed by sentient beings like humans embedded in the somewhat illusory or virtual mass of the Higgs Field. I have wondered why gravity also travels at the speed of light- it is the standard speed or normal condition of massless particles, and the answer may be that gravity attracting mass is also an illusory or secondary characteristic of mass existing as a secondary or contingent element within the Higgs Field and that also raises the question of the curvature of space with mass as in the general theory of relativity.

 It is likely that several very complex cosmology issues have very simple explanations when they understood.   One might ask what came first; the Higgs Field or the Universe? Since the Universe is simply mass that seems to exist in the Higgs Field and the Higgs Field encompasses all of known space the Higgs Field seems primary with all of its contingent and secondary apparent qualities of mass, space and time occurring within it.

 What is the Higgs Field in-itself? Field theories account for things like the electro-magnetic field, what empowers the Higgs? The Higgs could exist like a dendrite with information in it between two neurons of God; it really is metaphysics to me.  Creating a virtual Universe with virtual space, virtual gravity, virtual mass and virtual time (itself within relativistic criteria) within a Higgs Field possibly of two dimensional energy seems greater than just adding water to a packet of instanverse. The Higgs energy and energy for-itself are just about imponderable. One may discern the effects yet not the energy-as-itself. That may be the prime mover as it were.

 In human history there is a story of Sargon being found as an infant floating in a reed basket and taken to the Akkadian court where he was raised and  became the greatest warrior and king of the bronze age debatably.  He unified the Summerian-Akkadian civilization under the rule of the Akkadians for a change. Moses arrived in a similar way and nearly ruled Egypt as a prince before leading the Israelis from captivity in a similar fashion. The boy in a basket story may be something like the stork method of accounting for arrival for superior warrior-political leaders in ancient history- a simple yet effective lead-in to the salient facts. The apparent characteristics of mass, gravity and space-time observed from within may eventually have simple explanations when another Einstein rolls down the river of time.

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/cloud-looms-over-biden-presidency-with-son-under-criminal-probe

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".