Joe Visits a Charnel House (1 poem)

 

I would not count Alexander Pope
for essays on criticism emulatable
or rhyming Sopho’s lines
with free verse quite inflatable

  The Rubicon of signs is language to bear
shaggy, woolly, mammoth
saber toothed tares
sewn to the winds bright froth foam to share

Tawddgyrch Cadwynog, Cyhydedd Hir
through woods’ too lonely, dark and deep
with double trouble, soil and grub
lay crenelated rubble- iambic pentameters to keep

  Noh rhyme fated vines to people kind maidens
or fill the fields of echo’s hallowed havens
where warre trod heavily over winter’s mists
for many a son felt death’s fast swift kiss

  Poems were hollow those fated morns
when politicians made themselves living statues
the legend shot out hope with the mind of a gun
leaving good reason no good place to run

  Write, write till the art’s content
of prosody and power, shrapnel and bowers
lives spent without thinking
calculations for-others, tolled bells tinkle hours

  One foot after another
lines march forward through time
pile up bodies of stanzas
with verses and rhyme

Make poems, not war.

Palazzo (poem)

 

The city subsides in time
water lapping stone walks
over the past
bridge of size
executing present work
excavations tourists find
dark canals of history
paintings from the Doge's prime.

Democrat's Ukraine Policy Might Be Daft

 The United States has supplied lethal arms to Ukraine since the Obama administration. Presently the administration is complaining and 'warning' China against supplying the same to Russia, as if China need necessarily comply with the United States on foreign policy goals or ever has.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/u-s-warns-china-not-to-send-weapons-to-russia-for-ukraine-war/ar-AA17GoO5?cvid=7804b5c4952946a7b13e30b3d79dd9bd

Unintelligent leadership can bring less than desirable results. The Democrat Party has consistently demonstrated an inability to comprehend the consequence of their actions. Instead of selecting lines of foreign policy relations that are realistic they select lines that are optimal for-themselves and label their opponent criminal. Democrat lawyer-Presidents believe international law supports whatever they choose to do in effect, as the 'leader' of the 'free' world with less than half of the world's population.

The Biden administration sent its first large shipment of weapons to Ukraine January 2022- before the start of the Ukraine war. The weapons build up demonstrated U.S. intent, especially as it encouraged the Baltic states to send weapons to Ukraine, and may have been a trigger for Russia to invade before things got worse.

From 2014 to the start of the Ukraine war the U.S. ‘committed’ 30 billion dollars to Ukrainian security according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040 -report may no longer be available

https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/22/us-sends-first-shipment-of-military-aid-to-ukraine-amid-standoff-with-russia

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/lethal-weapons-to-ukraine-a-primer/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/us-ukraine-weapons.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/788874844/how-u-s-military-aid-has-helped-ukraine-since-2014

https://news.yahoo.com/us-weapons-sales-in-europe-are-booming-as-russias-war-in-ukraine-continues-to-rage-215801466.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/29/arms-sales-united-states-nato-russia-ukraine-war-the-arsenal-of-democracy-is-back-in-business/

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts

Some have noted the basic inability of Democrats to adjust to the end of Cold War I and form good new relations with Russia. Much of the U.S. economy and several states with Democrat party federal delegations had invested in Cold War production and defense related capabilities. It seems as if the economic base and inertia brought the Democrat Party to revert to hostile foreign relations although for a time in the 1990s it seemed as if a new. better and different footing was growing. The Ukraine War is a logical result of the traditional belligerent U.S. relationship with Russia. Democrat party desire to dictate China's foreign policy regarding Russia is equally an assertion of what might be viewed by China as hegemonic imperialism.

It is possible that China will supply a fraction of U.S. lethal weapons support to Ukraine to Russia in order to defrappe N.A.T.O.'s hegemonic expansion eastward. China has invested much in Russia's arctic and supports development of Russian natural resources including oil and gas in order to have plentiful, stable, cheap energy to replace unreliable western supplies that could be cut off in the future when the Democrat Party deems sanctions appropriate. U.S. leadership may need to accept the fact that China has different interests than the U.S.A. in the Arctic, Russia and Asia and is still a growing economy the U.S. relies upon for manufacturing. With China and India as Russian friends or neutrals the supply of cheap labor may dry up for U.S. capitalists. A realistic foreign policy would have settled the Ukraine affair long ago with concessions to Russia that recognized their historical and valid claims to own much if not all of Ukraine. The E.U. and the Democrat Party have a different narrative of course.

Chinese leadership may supply substantial quantities of weapons to Russia in order to prevent a Russian defeat before the 2023 U.S. Presidential election when a Republican has a better than even chance of being elected. A Republican President probably could bring a negotiated end to the war by cutting off continuing arms shipments to Ukraine. Restoring good relations with Russia is rather important if the United States is to continue to participate in a global economy without a significant east-west split. The split global economy probably wouldn't be helpful for U.S. capitalists at all. The Chinese and Indian economies are growing while the U.S.A. has low economic growth and vast public debt relying on cheap Chinese imports for consumers. U.S. capitalists have invested a lot in China in Asian production.

Present prosperity for concentrated wealth in the United States that owns much of the national income- more than 50% goes to a tiny minority of citizens, may have led Democrat leadership to a certain degree of hubris in its will to power through lawsuits and military force. Peaceful evolutionary economics transition as swiftly as possible to ecological economic durability with such a great population is much preferred to war so far as U.S. national interests are concerned.

Pond of Opulence (the poem)

 Pond of Opulence

The eye beheld opulence
like nature’s melted glaciers
romantic aesthetics’ confluence
just moved with Occam’s razor

Shadows and mist settled on the pond
with rasping sounds frogs croaked the song
of stars reduced to gossamer light
silently moving through borrowed night

Compresence shaped the rising breeze
thermals carried time to dark black trees
fire sought the sole survivor
who dreamt with dawn's designer
of summer-ending freeze.

Dialectical Materialist Capitalism Evolved a Thesis Against Russia

 Karl Marx foresaw paradoxically, the final status of unlimited capitalism in the communist state. That is a non-competitive workers paradise under the benevolent guidance of severe supervisors under the dictatorship of the party elite would compete with thesis and counter-thesis against external enemies of the state. Capitalism evolves in a process of dialectical materialism at a mature stage when corporations compete against rival corporations and capitalization clumps. Corporate logic and power as a thesis encounters counter-thesis with survivors as winners, sometimes in a new synthesis of corporate consolidating merger. Capital increases faster than the wages of labor obviously so wealth concentrates and the dialectical evolution in myriad contests reduces the numbers of competitors until eventually the state itself becomes dominated by the ultimate corporate winner under consolidated wealth and power.

https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/18790/hayeks-defense-of-competition-regulation

In the global post-war competition for wealth and power the number of competitors has reduced especially with the rise of the European Union. Russia is an external rival to the European Union, while China is too yet China is also a great economic producer for corporate profits of the west and is thus somewhat immune from direct western aggression, while Russia is not.

Russia let go of its Soviet system of which it was the core state, an opted for a free society with the promise of western prosperity ahead if it emulated the ways of the west. Unfortunately for Russia the west took advantage of the letting down of Russia’s guard to take most of the former east block countries that had been occupied by Russia in its war against Nazi Germany in the 1940s into its N.A.T.O. military fold and create the power to make integral areas of the former Russia in Ukraine in the dominion of the west and European Union. Russian leadership had misjudged the nature of western society sufficiently to need war to attempt to retake the Crime and areas of the Ukraine borderlands. Russia today is regarded by the west as an external rival to hegemony over Central Europe. The EU thesis and its ad hoc allies are advancing the dialectical materialist front upon the counter-thesis from the east; Russia.

Marx didn’t develop his principle of dialectical materialism/evolution universally, and instead believed it was applicable only to his simplistic model of historical political economies. He saw capitalism as a solid unified member growing from the petty bourgeois to the bourgeois and viewed them as tools of aristocrats without seeing the process of dialectical materialist evolution among groups of capitalists in the modern economy. Dialectical material capitalism is a developing form of communism. Marx saw the communist state arising from revolution rather than evolution, and saw evolution in dialectical materialism as occurring between rival economic systems instead of within the economic system of capitalism itself.

After the Conquest (the poem)

 A poem promoted by Isaiah 60:12

The surge of power flowed upon the land
across the river Eber-nari felt the tide
Assyrians inundating the Levant
with the wrath of imperial power
Tiglath Pilesar II ruled

Government forced upon the separate states
Isaiah saw the good
through the darkness of Marduk’s leash-holders
with Anubis to the south
dogs of destruction
he could see order brought to chaos

Isaiah knew the Lord would correct
Sargon II’s talons of power
he felt hope growing beyond a wave
when conquest descended on Samaria and Judah
even so an imperial presence
altered the servants’ path

With faith in God
though Nebuchadnezzar threw down Assyria
taking Hattu-land like a dream
reigning war and order from a distance
until crumbling a rebellion
and the temple in 571 B.C.E.

Isaiah foresaw the glory of the Lord
rebuilding the Temple in something greater
the temple of God in the heart and minds
living in God’s eternal light.

Replying to the Question; 'Why are fisheries complex to regulate?'

 Fish numbers expand and decline in response to environmental changes like increasingly warm sea temperatures and acidification as well as human predation intensity. Competition for fish drives fishermen to take as many fish as they can even if the high rate of capture sends stocks below reasonable levels of sustainability. Politicians locally and internationally dispute about quotas of fish that may be taken; sometimes leading to conflict. Mining interests may destroy spawning ground health with water spills from tailings ponds. Even hard rock mining can lead to centuries of toxic metal pollution in water that reaches rivers. People develop homes along shorelines of bays and rivers adversely impacting the quality of fish spawning beds. Fish habit was steadily destroyed along the coastal zones of much of the 48 U..S. states and for a while Alaska may have some better protection, though it too will probably eventually have very poor fisheries because of human impact on habitat.

Norway has a multi-billion dollar salmon farming business while the numbers of wild salmon pitiful. Alaskan salmon runs are often canceled as not enough fish exist to return. The snow crab fishery was canceled because deep warm waters kick started too rapid of a population growth with not enough food to eat and the crab cannibalized themselves crashing the stock. Even the loss of sea plankton can harm fish stocks, and off course open sea harvesting of chinook salmon that circle about four years dwindles the number of fish available to return to national waters. New technology such as fish finders and satellites make fish tracking and capture too easy to allow any to escape except those protected by laws. Regulating individual boats would require so much at sea policing to be completely effective that large holes exist very likely in fish numbers reported captured.

Ballons Over Insider Lines- Power Transition Symbols Downwind

 While the west is getting bogged down in the war in Ukraine with concern for it escalating to nuclear, China has sent balloons to the north and west to take better views of what the United States and Canada have there. While the west has created a power transition to the East since the end of the cold war and China has risen to replace much U.S. and western manufacturing, the United States has built up great public debt and may continue to have a cold war era view of trans-Atlantic relations rather than real politick awareness of what globalization means besides profit to Multinational corporations. The Chinese balloons serve as power transition symbols to insiders on interior lines downwind.

The Democrat Party obviously is lax on border security puts out full-bodied support for illegal migration to the U.S. to provide cheap labor and improve demographics they believe will assure support for their homosexual agenda while moving the state toward corporatocracy and socialism. Those goals take front stage over awareness of the power transition and how that may affect the plus 60 degrees north latitude region of the planet.

China and India are neutral to positive in regard to Russia whom has drawn the wrath of the Democrat Party. Together the population of those two nation is north of two and a half billion people while Russia has vast natural resource viewed by the west as shiny objects of desire and corporate profit. China may be interested in future economic resources of the Arctic especially since it has just 4 million people living above the tree line. U.S. policy may develop military defense strategies for what is fundamentally a perennial global war at an economic level in defense of western claims in the north and over the eastern front in Ukraine. That expensive prospect would occur while the west relies on Chinese and Indian manufacturing as well as that of Singapore and other Eastern nations. The position could be difficult in the long run to maintain for the U.S. and could lead to an escalation to resolve the challenge with disastrous result.

Mars Can Be Colonized Without Planetary Magnetic Field

 At least one science expert says building a Martian colony won’t be possible for at least two hundred years. His idea is that since Mars hasn’t got a magnetic field or atmosphere dangerous eruptions from Mars would send dangerous particles directly to the flesh of humans that would need at least a meter of dirt to screen out the cosmic rays or whatever. I believe the scientist must think that advanced tech is required to build Earth or Mars shelters in dirt and on that he is incorrect.

https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/11/colonization-mars-practically-impossible-says-greek-american-space-expert/

Humans have built underground shelters that are easy to assemble for millennia. I will include a few YouTube videos on how to build dirt shelters. Astronauts might need to have a few building panels in lieu of logs or plywood. Yet building panels could be very light and fold-able, held together a couple of meters apart with wire ties, and the space in between filled with dirt.

One would want to build on the side of a hill with natural screening from the sun- a cave might be better and the panels need just for the entrance. Of course one would want a twist and turn in the entryway to screen out direct solar ray access. Sand bags too were invented some time ago and can be filled with dirt to make walls and perhaps covered with foil- space blankets to prevent the sun from breaking down the material. Oxygen barriers could be placed amid sand bag layers to keep oxygen in and the low pressure Martian atmosphere at bay with some lightweight technical improvements.

Emergency shelters for astronauts needn’t always be airtight if they are easy to access and there are good solar flare detector alert sirens to let astronauts know they should get underground quickly. It is possible that if astronauts live in a great canyon like Valles Marineris that light won’t even reach to the bottom of the valley much and living there would be relatively safe from solar particles. Indirect lighting can be brought into dark spaces with fiber optic cables and remotely place photons collectors as may energy from solar panels travel along wires to the Martian caves and dugouts.

Someday perhaps solar panels can convert photons to electrons and power magnetic field generators to cover portions near the top of a few canyons in the Valles Marineris network.

The Arctic Economy Course

 So I enrolled in a short course on Arctic Economy at coursera.org. Because only 4 million people live in the Arctic- the area of the north beyond the tree line, and there is great global interests in the natural resources there. Issues of the sustainability of culture and resources use arise, with the power centers of D.C., Moscow and Ottawa rather distant and sometimes biased toward voters of the comparative south. Indigenous culture had limited populations able to insinuate themselves into the ecosphere without damaging it too much, although of course woolly mammoths were hunted to extinction as humans moved north at the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age circa 25,000 B.C.E.

Modern global economics are predicated upon mass consumption, mass production and flow through regardless of sustainability. Short term profits create capital that can be invested in other interests for the long term. Hence quick and dirty extraction industries can may off great for the primary capitalists and leave the locals holding the bag on a slum, ecospheric damage and toxic waste sites. The term sustainable development is used a lot these days. The U.N. has sustainable development goals packed with all sorts of ideas yet as regards the ecospheric health the term tends to be an oxymoron; development is the problem in regard to the environment, so continuing development even sustainability tends to lead humanity toward the doom at the end of the tunnel that is the bright light of humanity incinerating itself in some way.

Developing sustainable economics would be a better phrase with less ambiguity if one is concerned about ecospheric health. Northern indigenous people certainly are part of any intelligent development of economics in relation to the ecosphere, yet ecospheric economics requires mass demographic action while business developments tends toward the dictatorship of CEOs or individual capitalist acting with ecological apologetics yet not mass demographic support. The numbers of populous mass voters that impact politicians is paradoxically difficult to persuade to support ecological economic reform policies that would require change to a national political economy. Some of the Arctic nations have small enough populations governing large enough areas to make a difference that they may be able to conserve and even use some ecosystem services sustainably.