Hamas' Indiscriminate Rocket Attacks on Civilians From the Gaza

Like terrorist kids with new toys, Hamas has built up its rocket forces to attack Israel. Probably Israeli security concerns will require maintenance of a territorial buffer around the state to deter easy rocket launches on soft targets close by. Because Hamas is a terror organization, the best terrorist organization the Palestinians presently have, it has emerged through the competitive league of terrorist organizations that ran refuge camps as the victor.

The gangland leadership of Palestinian refuge camps produced a Wily Coyote terror infrastructure seeking after new and improved weapons to attack Israel with. Developing weapons for paramilitary terror organizations required cowing the populace into submission and keeping things dumbed down-tried and true milling social policy to reinforce neo-feudalism in a post-modern context.

The sitz im lieban-life situation of the Gaza Strip is tilted toward institutionalized gangland violence with liberal foreign support to the end of attacking Israel. A gestalt of existential evil is expressed in the effort to develop drone attack aircraft, dig deeper tunnels, created better impersonization of a non-terrorist human being identity techniques for infiltration and crass foreign political power to pressure Israel to give up land ‘for peace’.

The expansion of U.S. administration support for Sunni terrorist attacks on the Syrian government had the consequence of destabilizing the region allowing a Sunni Caliphate to declare independence in parts of Iraq and Syria. Israeli security responses probably required enhancement because of the proliferation of weapons given to terrorists in the war on Syria, from the dispersion of the arsenal of the late dictator Moamar Khaddafi and Muslim Brotherhood empowerment temporarily in Egypt. Hamas is a descendent of the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of the P.L.O. Egypt and Israel will need to defend more strongly against the surge of power given to transnational Muslim Brotherhood hydra offshoots warring upon all proximal non-Sunni powers it has opportunity to attack.
Hamas' Qassam rockets are indiscriminate weapons of terror that cannot be specifically targeted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
image credit: I.D.F. 2007 Qassam rocket site Gaza
 Sunni terrorism in the Middle East is harmful to the environment and is likely to continue for some time as instead of falling into depletion, Sunni Arab oil fields are given over to the resurrection of fracking sometime down the road in effect refilling their oil reserves. Russian and Iranian fields also may be fracked-up perpetuating the axis of fossil fuel military-political power. It becomes even more important to the Sunni powers that terrorism continue in order that Iraq’s oil field may in some way be wrested away from the Shia of Iraq led by the undiplomatic Premier Maliki who should perhaps take an early retirement and buy a villa in the south of France for the good of his country.

Israel is blessed to have no oil reserves. Democracy works better in places without concentrated crude oil and gas based economies wherein education and ingenuity, independence and human rights are less important than one’s position on the trophic hierarchy of the oil spigot. Innumerable terrorist ideologues have their place downstream from the primary spigots of power crushing free enterprise and reform of capitalism. Israel is in a tough place, yet location is everything and they are at the crossroads of the world. I would think genius and good will survive in the long run.

Obamacare's Wrong, Convoluted paradigm in Political Philosophy

Obamacare's wrong political and philosophical foundation continues to generate legal problems dividing the nation on the subject of Democrat Party movement toward establishment of corporatism as a back-door to state socialism. Corporatism leads to corporatism not socialism. Two Federal appeals panels have split on the legality of Obamacare to give free money/subsidies from Federal rather than state run exchanges. The later would be more of a socialist coup for Obamacare-one unauthorized by Congress evidently that has demurred on giving support for Obamacare since the bill was forced through by Democrats without Republican support.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101819065#.

A better, cheaper, practical plan easier to implement would have expanded the V.A. Hospotal system and united it with the nation's low cost community healthy clinics in order to provide free treatment to those that can't afford it. It would be easy to get support from both parties for such a system. Obamacare an the contrary has few Republican supporters nor much from those wary of Orwellian corporatist-socialist government power invading privacy and usurping privacy. The requirement that people buy health insurance vioolates their right to privacy from public access to their personal medical records. Obamacare insurers will porbably distrubute all of their data globally through subsidiaries and buy and sell that private information as fast as derivatives tranches.

On the Synoptic Problem

The synoptic problem of duplication of material in some of the gospels basically is not a problem; it is an advantage to have one gospel viewed in different perspectives. The apostles were individuals with individual points of view-they weren’t a collective issuing a manifesto from an international convention. The gospel writers wrote to different audiences of readers and used differing styles in accord with their writing talents, selecting features to accentuate according to best interests of the reading public. There was quite a lot of difference between disparate civic audiences back-in-the-day; they weren’t all tuned in to the World Cup or Jihad Today.

There was evidently a lost gospel-one written to the Hebrews that one hopes will turn up one day in excavations of Jerusalem. The lost gospel to the Hebrews is not the existing book of Hebrews probably written by Paul’s friend from Corinth, Apollyon.  It is not surprising that the gospel of the Hebrews was lost perhaps during the destructive trashing of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Roman soldiers were so bored crucifying thousands of Jews that they invented new positions to nail ‘em down.

It probably would have had similar material perhaps written in Aramaic or Hebrew instead of Greek. I would think that Peter could have been the author of that. Maybe it was sent to Jerusalem from Rome. Maybe archaeologists will resurrect it one day from an ossuary box deep below Jerusalem.

The Diatessaron by Tatian  published about 150 A.D. was a harmonization of the four gospels books into one. One loses some nuance of the authors in combining them. If one took the testimony of four witnesses to a legal issue and reduced it to one harmonized account one would probably lose some material. If one took for points of view of physical cosmologists and harmonized them into one account a meaningless theory might result. I like the idea of combining a holographic Universe theory with inflation theory, super-string theory, quantum gravity, variable speed of light and quantum time theories into a feature-length movie for review in Physics Today.

The Syriac Diatessaron  perhaps had a purpose for-itself that made it worthwhile even so. With the different thematic development of each of the four gospels it might have required a theologian of a later era to appreciate the differences and intentions of the authors. That might have made it less easy for people not in the target audience to understand.

I didn’t write that well. Syrians getting a gospel account such as Matthew’s designed to make point important to Jews might have had points not understood by the Syrians-especially if translated into another language. Then again, if Tatian was translating the gospels instead of picking one to translate into Syriac he pragmatically brought material from all four.

John’s gospel language is Greek that notably uses Hebrew style expressions that would have been perhaps lost translating in to Syriac. Tatian may have had practical language and cultural considerations in bringing the gist of the gospels to his readers.

Parables of the Way of Salvation Through D'Evil-ish Ethics and Usury

The parables of the lost coin, the unrighteous manager and the prodigal son are about the return of the lost to God and notably they have much to do with money. Money can be considered unrighteous mammon or material that dominates an individual’s character to his eternal loss. Today axiology (value theory) is largely disregarded in politics and society as people pursue cash for its own value without recognizing the purpose of money to serve as a tool for the improvement of society, environment, trade and quality of life. Christians sometimes have failures in value theory too, and err in implementing the application of money to improve social well-being and even bring the gospel to the lost or to materially benefit challenged Christians empirically. Political wisdom is hard to find. Jesus noted that some of the unrighteous have more wisdom/pragmatism about worldly values than the righteous.

The money people stampeded over the message of the Lord like a herd of buffalo running across a field of lilies. The Lord knew that some people inclusive of Pharisees sought to bring legal righteousness and monetary policy together for their profit. Yet He said one can’t have two masters. One can serve the Lord and inherit the kingdom of God or godless, immoral worldliness. Some try to place the morality of the kingdom of God outside the bounds of relevant moral conduct in the world, and that is a mistake. The moral and ethical conduct of Christians in-the-world is such that the world actually works better with it too. It is not just an ethics theory for the next-world. Resurrection is for the next world, and all will encounter that day of death where the fork in the road to eternity follows.

Because the worst-case social behavior of personal egoism, avarice, dissimulation and etc. strives against inhibiting moral concerns a false-alternative paradigm of no-ethics worldliness vs. Christian ethics is common. 

There are of course some societies without a concept of sin or a need for salvation from their condition of original sin encased with a temporal form. These lost souls require the hearing of the word of God, perhaps in a reformed priesthood of believers with ecclesiastic egalitarianism and honest tithing of 1% (higher than what the Federal Reserve has been charging the major banks in zero-interest loans).  When the rich get billions and billions without usury and the poor get high interest pay day loans and so forth there is an obvious wrong.

With a straw man argument to knock down (that Christian ethics is not an option for tis world) there is an effort to impeach the veracity of the gospel and the resurrection. The love of money drives the dissent to salvation, resurrection and eternal life with the Lord.

WIth Record Planet Average Atmospheric Temperature Why Not Make Fresh Water?

May 2014 was the hottest in world record history. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/06/23/may-climate-report/11260723/

With the long-term trend of global warming producing the highest annual average temperature for Earth last year ( records place 2013 between 2nd and 6th) why not build a saltwater evaporation border control canal using siphons and pumps to bring cool Pacific water to New Mexico to let it return down slope east and west? It might moderate climate in the Southwest and produce a lot of fresh water besides controlling illegal immigration better. Its a lot of jobs of course yet better than a sterile fence.

http://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2014/02/build-border-security-canal-for-drought.html

http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/climate-records-shattered-in-2013-140719.htm

Way Out East in Ukraine, the Rush Was On

I am late getting to the topic of the next triple seven throw of the aircraft to roll for the media. Way out east in the Ukraine the rush was on to get the first pictures of the bodies that are worth their weight in gold. Probably ground guides were hired and satellite photos scanned to find the body fields where the tragic corpses were located like casualties of a Napoleonic battle.

It’s not my fault I’m late-I was trying to figure out how to get MSWord’s speech-to-text stuff to work. I didn’t know it existed. Evidently one can just talk to one’s pc and make a book get written down.  I like the idea a lot. It will be easier to get natural sounding writing. (mmm-hmmm, neva staat a song-ya- wrote with well I)

So fist things first; the bodies in the Eastern Ukraine. Will they be held for ransom or auctioned off on EBay so President Vladimir Putin can prove to the west that he is not a closet commie?  Those bodies have value and have already disappeared in sealed train cars for Moscow maybe, or perhaps the long way round to the Netherlands via Upper Skype and a Journey from Petersburg to Rome. The media will have a field month following the money.

My civilized world college professor Rurhwin Gory, said that Russians must never forget they owe us big time for liberating Eastern Europe form Volk-Nazis in the Second World War. Why are they biting that hand that feeds them risking the pollution of precious bodily fluids all around? Electronic cars are cleaner than dinosaur-mobiles.

Four scorned decades ago Elvis Presley might have twitted like a jailbird canary singin for the dough about being a-hunk-a- hunk of burnin aircraft yet wisely he didn’t. In the golden age of the 60s burning aircraft and the paparrizzi had a less volatile relationship in the pool of propaganda and publicity. Investigators soberly sought proximal rather than political causes for made-for-television events staged in the theatre of the absurd.

So today we can speculate about Malaysian Air sending a 777 loaded with citizens of their former colonial power gotten rid of only through protracted, bloody war repeatedly through a war zone and wonder why they would do that?

Death is tragic yet let the dead bury the dead has good practical meaning. The saved are in the kingdom of God already.

We wonder why defenders of Mother Russia in the Ukraine are called terrorists pejoratively by the Western media, and why the Nobel Prize committee gave President Obama a Nobel Peace Prize for what would be the foundation of the protracted unintentional development of terrorist organizations across North Africa and the Middle East and creation of a Caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq where Christians were expelled on pain of death? Perhaps it was for supporting theft of the Russian Ukraine by the Clinton administration boozing up Boris Yeltsin?

Irregular military forces perpetrate the most war crimes because they haven’t got the military discipline. Stuff such as that is well known and predictably in the fog of war if one sends aircraft into areas defended with anti-aircraft missiles some will get shot down. Rebels don’t have good VACR training and probably have bad vision for seeing at 30,000 feet where the bombers like to hang out above-it-all. Homeland security defenders of the Eastern Ukraine also don’t have electronic technology in their missiles to identify friend or foe e-prints to avoid hitting friendly aircraft as U.S. and N.A.T.O. missiles have. It’s not that the average gay-pot smoking, hip hopping N.A.T.O. cadre with a stinger is a more responsible shooter of aircraft than a rebel-he, she or transgender it has better idiot-proof rockets in his/her or its bag of tricks to eradicate the sky of perpetrators and make the world safe for the innocents ready to buy up the country at bargain prices, package and resell it on EBay or in Shanghai.

There is an ancient Zen koan that originated in West Texas that goes ‘What goes around, comes around’. Correctly interpreted the right answer is; a circle. Squaring the circle only makes the answer better and worth more.

Plainly I have probably written enough on this uninteresting topic already. I will leave off the efforts of the administration to increase Muslim terror organization in the Eastern Ukraine since Russia is no longer our ally in the war against resistance to development of a Caliphate since it already exist. There is lots of kitsch to add to the borscht of cabbage patch consumer stew that has to be omitted for due to time limitations. Remember though, Russia is the biggest geographically Christian country on Earth. Russians could be concerned about the rise of the Caliphate- the U.S.A. isn’t. So the administration says; sanction you!

Tri-Chess; Third Party Interventionists

Chess traditionally is the ultimate two-party board game. In the present computing age it is possible to introduce a third opponent to the game, possibly as a mysterious alien power that interpolates its pieces into ongoing games to attack or defend whosoever it will. Players would need to determine if they should attack or defend the new pieces of uncertain purpose, or if they continue to attack each other or adopt cooperative strategies against the mysterious appearing extra-dimensional pawns, bishops, knights, king and queen. Obviously there are innumerable contexts and quantities in which the pieces might be made to appear by the operating system program.

If someone hasn't written the program for Tri-chess, if might be fun to create. 

Evolution Theory Pedagogues Raising Ethical Vegetables?

Evolution theory in the moral sphere seems to lead to retreat from morality with Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil as a guide to a renormative condition. With the abandonment of any sort of philosophical realism and with an amoral ideal of intellectual meaninglessness presiding anti-moral authorities make it possible for society to drift into meaninglessness as the right way of being. Evolving genes and pragmatic personal egoism are the nuevo shining path vacating even the concept of natural selection as too cruel. Nothing matters better than nothing. The center for disease control is a pragmatic survivor of the culling of what is regarded as empirically meaninglessness objective realism governing evolutionary ethical vegetables.

Reading moral relativism into any social circumstance as an evolutionary exercise of phenomenal diplomacy stimulated amoral lying and dissimulation evolved to high art. Inertially moving forward like a vast social amoeba the evolutionary market favoring corporate and government collectivism with same-sexed do-oozing of evolution is regarded as the highest personification of Hegel's dialectical evolution of the state devolved to a material, atheist formlessness ethically void of need for theory, description, management or correction.

I believe that some sort of Platonic or neo-Platonic realism of forms and categories is necessary for sentient thought without too much analogue computer dyslexia with the cursor skipping mid-sentence anyplace at all-even to an alternative paragraph. At the social and media level the social attention follows the day's headline as if that were the important political issue. If a border needs to be adjusted for corporate market strategies the right stories will emerge. News stories on demand to sate the zeitgeist of the spiritless evolving social collective blob.

One might move beyond any sort of Platonic realism theoretically, perhaps with Barth and Tillich as theological inspirations, and with Quine, Kripke, Sartre, Plato and contemporary cosmological paradigms of physics in mind without letting the temporal phenomenalities of evolution mechanics overwhelm reason.

Educating Americans effectively in a condition of unethical evolutionary thought seems a direct consequence of the paradigm of evolving and ethics for evolution theory parameter renormalization. Evolution theory, the preeminent educational instruction in public schools, without accompanying philosophical education about where temporal biophysical mechanics fit into subjective and social epistemology and even the sentient capacity for cognition and reasoning leads to a social acceptance of ethical death and epistemological meaninglessness with mind explained as a meaningless phenomena interpreting just atoms.

Even within a purely physical cosmology there is more to the steady-state field in which the material Universe and evolutionary history occurs. That metaphysics or meta-evolutionary research is transformative from the meaninglessness of ethical vegetation and spiritual death that too many elites believe is a necessary strict inference being informed by evolution theory. Nothing could be farther from the truth of course, and truth does exist in several contexts-not only that of disquotation theory.

Administration policy in the Middle East and the Ukraine seems informed by the vegetative ethics ending at the death of soul following evolution theory. Lawlessness-what the ancient Greeks called anomia - developed with administration policy in Egypt, Libya, Syria and Iraq with the vacuum filled in by ad hoc terrorists and strong men. It appears that the same drift toward anomia may be developing with administration policy implementation in Ukraine. In the absence of U.S. interference Ukraine would naturally be in the Russian sphere of influence and move through history without the breaks of violence and political contentiousness that have occurred with loss of life.

There are real social consequence to taking up and promulgating globally a vegetable ethics of evolution and no-mind-you that matters. Anomia may be the consequence of organic corporatism and government collective efforts to glom up territory and power in vulnerable regions- bullying them in to submission . Chaos and protracted civil wars may arise, local leadership may find global patrons providing weapons and financial assistance for their allegiance to a new ethics beyond good and evil. The race to the top of education may become a race and gender policy of class redistribution of power in replacement of discredited intellectual enterprise and high ability for creative thought. In such an era might the Nietzschian supermen of transcendent political effectiveness arise.

Fracking Up Slope & Down Below the Ocean

Alaska’s oil fields are running down. The state has cut oil corporation taxes in order to stimulate production. Voters will have an opportunity to repeal that tax. It’s a controversial issue especially since oil corporations will one day probably frack the existing fields and return oil production to the original levels. Fracking the North Slope and Cook inlet oil and gas fields are more controversial issues.

The state government collective for mutual prosperity relies on oil taxes for the majority of income. It has obligations of billions in pensions.  The government has reliance of oil sales taxes/royalties for funding. It has conflicts of interests in environmental conservation affairs all the time. Development is usually decided in favor of development. More roads, more oil drilling, more logging, more fishing, more hunting-less diversity of life in Alaska and decrease of environmental health.

Probably no one has done a study of potential effects of fracking on Alaska groundwater or of fracking below permafrost subject to global warming melting. It’s an interesting concept though. Oil corporations might find fracking cheaper than exploring and drilling new holes in the ground on and/or offshore. I suppose they will like tax cuts regardless.

Administration Should Use Restraint in Criticism of Russia/Ukraine

American support for separation of Ukraine from Russia is something like Russia supporting a Canadian annexation of New England. Ukraine is the place Russia started. Only in the confusion of the gentlemanly end of the Soviet Union did a brave yet drunken Boris Yeltsin found wandering in a stupor around the White House lawn sign away Ukraine to a particular band of rebels. America has a post-Korean history of becoming rather swollen with military power on political affairs internationally yet short on intellect, diplomacy and understanding of real politics. Richard Nixon had an abundance of that, yet flamed out domestically with Watergate.

I do not understand the American trait of choosing belligerence over friendliness. Some believe one needs to be mean to be wealthy, or that the wealthy are not lambs. If that is so, neither does intelligence find its natural occurrence within the characteristics of cruel or predatory behavior. Perhaps the stupid and cruel or treacherous and deceptive are the scum that rise to the top of politics? Well, we will leave that philosophical question and consider the real-world potential for creating a long-term bellicosity with Russia a little later in this essay.  Russia could just launch some nukes on the U.S.A. and vice versa I suppose, yet there is a plethora of adverse elements that could arise even if it is just not sharing intelligence with the U.S.A. about Muslim terrorists.

The Obama administration has completely misunderstood the Muslim world and its ability or interest in democracy. It continues to view the world as if everyone wanted and American style democracy while losing much of America's ability for moral suasion. While the United States still has much wealth it also has much debt. The present administration fiscal policy seems likely to build up Chinese industry more so than that of the U.S.A. and transfer American investment into China though the stock market is at a record high with the surge of Chinese growth preponderantly. That policy won't necessarily be of benefit to ordinary Americans down the road with political and economic leverage transferring to the Chinese side of the Pacific.

When Ronald Reagan enabled the Soviets to choose free enterprise America and the world averted a potential nuclear conflict of vast scale. Follow up Democrats of course became rather swollen about American power and continue to do so. Russians were not militarily defeated any more than the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Viet Cong or Iran. American leadership has often started large conflicts with second and third world nations bringing about the death of millions altogether without competence in understanding the potential for building a peace in case a military victory does not end the political cancer perceived by Washington physicians of war. Russia resisted Napoleon and Hitler and may be recalcitrant about yielding to a gayed-up Washington D.C. democrat party. Neither was it a good idea to fail to treat Russia as a peer and business partner and get really involved while accepting Russia's right to its own values. Formerly the French became protective about their culture from Americanisms and we learned to accept that. Not everyone wants a global plutocracy or Washington D.C.-Wall Street axis of corporatism determining the composition of their culture, people or economic structure.

Russia post cold war with America's failure to get enthusiastically involved failed to secure its plutonium and highly enriched uranium. As late as 1999 shoppers could walk into a warehouse in Kazakhstan and evidently bid on the latter material. Iranians visited shortly before American inspectors. It is impossible to say what they got.

Within thirty miles of Moscow plutonium was stored in a building anyone could drive a truck up to secured only by an ordinary locked door. In the Soviet Union internal security wasn't considered necessary because of the draconian power of the K.G.B. Very likely the mafias and others seeking materials of value that plundered the entire nation spirited away some. No one will ever know.

Additionally biological war materials were developed at the Caspian Sea site and through Biopreparat. Much of the materials were destroyed eventually however tons were simply buried in Siberia. The Soviets had worked on making two-part biotoxins such as a pneumonic plague that would be followed up for survivors with an attack on the immune system. Russia has a host of great scientists and can sell whatever it invents to China too I suppose if America sanctions it too much. Russia's ability to drive up American defense costs by selling technology to China is very high. While Russia won't afford to build a blue water navy able to challenge the U.S. Navy it can sell 1000 mile per hour torpedo schematics, advise on building nuclear submarines and drone submarines and provide technical assistance for construction of stealthy drone aircraft carriers-perhaps even submersible ones, and help with the Chinese Space program or even that of Qatar that seems determined to fly a craft to Mars.

Traditional American political belligerence doesn't always work nor is it always the right approach. Now and them discretion and cooperation is advised and skipping the repress the rivals path should be avoided. The administration should be careful about being international martinets, and do so only with caution if at all remembering the real-world public debt, unsecured Mexican border and further advance of transportation and communications of the rest of the world to America borders and interests. At some point China alone could shut down the U.S. economy just by stopping exports to the U.S.A. for a few months. D.C. isn't looking ahead.