Will Crypto Currencies Further Flim-Flam U.S. Dollars and Government Policy?

 Since the Reagan administration began running vast federal deficits under the Rubric of Lafferian supply-side economics the dollar has developed a dubious, curious nature of being valued on the basis of the full flim-flam of the U.S. Government that relies on the wealth of public and private resources to give the dollar value. That is, since the end of the gold standard in the Nixon administration the dollar has value simple because people believe the government can make good on it through taxation if it needs to. Taxation on the rich though has progressively been reduced since 1981 having the effect that wealth is concentrated like unto that of the gilded age before the great Wall Street crash of 1929-30.  Crypto currencies are an alternative to the dollar. Crypto values may be set by the market.

 Rave speech demotic by the broadcast media has served to subvert perceptions of integrity of broadcast media and neo-government for a few decades. The present social ethic is that power works and that real constitutional rights are those of pragmatic power rather than those on paper. The public accepts passively the slide of financial power to 1% of the people of the United States and chronically porous borders that allow subversion of the labor wage values within the U.S.A. The gradual closure of internet free speech emasculating dissent and subjugation of politics to  policies of interest mostly to global plutocrats have been assisted bite the unanticipated rise of the era of global crypto-currencies that are already a favorite for global computer hacker-extortionist ransoms.

  It is ironic that in an era where terrorism and asymmetric war may become the sole effective means of communicating dissent to repressive government policies fructified in one-party rule, that anonymous use of crypto-currencies to create a new infrastructure for the rich for the new world order the potential for a free marketplace of ideas in social media to communicate dissent with less violence is the first free media gutted through leftist, neon-fascist corporate controls. Violence is a form of communication. Violence is a muted, dumbed-down, unintelligent form of expression unsuitable for intellectual and/or artistic messages. Sometimes over the course of history violence was the common language an establishment shared with the poor.

 Christianity and faith in the Lord is a completely different ethic to that of worldliness. It largely negates the utilitarian calculus of war as politics through other means familiar to Clausewitz.  Civilians as elements of economics that use war as an economic tool are not considered as such. Instead they are regarded as sinners unless saved, strutting about on a comparatively meaningless temporal stage.

    I would like to comment here about the rock, paper, scissors nature of the broadcast media power to control or shape public thought; the zeitgeist, in support of their interests of reinforcing the increase of power and wealth for special interest classes as they interact to repress dissent and alternative directions of development of the political economy of the U.S.A. including that of ecological economics. Rather than using perpetual revolution the broadcast media organs of the rich utilize perpetual propaganda or deconstruction dissimulation for effectuating repression. The endless sort of social strife generated as everyone pursues narrow self and special interests increases in the U.S.A. as the ideals of the founding philosopher-warrior political class is deconstructed over-much. Each generation of the 21^st century need become as wise as serpents and be spiritually as gentle as doves to pursue the necessary ideal political economy, as ideal as that envisioned by the founders, if it is to adapt the national and world economies that has far too many people using the planet’s finite natural resources in a very inefficient system ecologically speaking.

     Relying upon blind chance evolution of an ideal temporal political economy through concentrating wealth in an ostensibly free market of global corporatism owned primarily by 1% of the people probably is the path to very dystopian futures with civilians and all people being legitimate targets of war by insiders and outsiders as everyone is an element in a self-destructive global system. In war a legitimate target is one that well supports victory. That is, utilitarian principles guide a government’s conduct of war at the core (e.g. fire-bombing of Dresden, nuclear incineration of the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), including public relations consequences and propaganda choices.. Utilitarianism can have an abstract object group it seeks to benefit or bring the most good to; that is it could be the greatest good for the richest, most powerful or revolutionary. Utilitarianism can have a moral relativism and implicitly has subject-object variability.

     A factor exacerbating determinative social fatalism is false eschatological beliefs held by some Christians, Muslims and godless atheists (they believe pre-tribulationism is the essential rather than just a popular Christian eschatology) alike that an apocalypse lies ahead. That apocalypse occurred in the first century A.D. with the destruction of Jerusalem. The Lord Jesus Christ will return in his own time perhaps after the maximum numbers of people possible are saved (an indefinite time paradigm).

    Crypto-currencies are private and secret and appear to be a solid alternative to the dollar. Early in U.S. history the U.S. government expropriated the right of banks to print their own currencies and the U.S. government became the sole entity with the legal ability to issue currencies of legal tender. Without legislation they government has relinquished that right and has stepped aside to give crypto-currencies the inside position as a reliable substitute for the dollar that may be able to survive possible deflation of the dollar that could arise as confidence in flim flam deficit spending policies, accumulated vast public debt, great tax cut  for the rich support of the Obama and Trump administrations and networks of secret crypto-currencies serving rich plutocrats like a global invisible empire of a plutocrat Klan arising to degrade U.S. dollars to the status of slum dollars for those holding the bag of public debt.

 Like the vast mass switching of allegiance that is exemplified in the prisoners and diner’s dilemmas the dollar may at some future time experience a great exodus from the public perception of it as a potential slum currency to the more attractive realm of crypto-currencies backed by the market . Full faith in the invisible monetary empire of plutocrats buying into crypto-currencies like Elon Musk may make the trickle become a flood stimulating the collapse of the dollar. It wouldn’t be too surprising to discover that plutocrats like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates buy into or start crypto currencies themselves. Crypto-currencies of solid value that rise in value like gold when the dollar collapses might let the 1% that already own more than 35% of national income and control most of the other entirely purchase vestigial independent elements of the private sector if the dollar collapses. Crypto-currencies without borders relying on market values and with the full faith and credit in the worldly rich holding it could be an excellent tool to subtly accelerate the decline and fall of the value of the U.S. dollar.

 One might wonder if Vladimir Putin, Bill Clinton and English royalty have bought into crypto-currencies, or if Belarus has a high cost of living. The U.S. government to remain solvent may need to invest dollars in crypto currency speculation. Alternatively some future administration may need to relocate the U.S. capitol to Belarus after the Washington D.C. capitol is sold off for crypto-currency with other U.S. public properties like Mount Rushmore to pay down public debt.

 

Inflation Just Might be Good for the Rich

 I should have been an economist and learned all about ways to make money with theory and speculation.  Inflation could just be good for the rich, including economists. The entire topic of what prospers the rich while seeming to be harmful to the poor and lower middle class isn't as simple as finding a diamond ring dropped into a muddy lake .

 Inflation drives up prices. The rich own the things being sold and pass on the costs to you. Real estate goes up in value, and the rich own those rental builds that working people try to pay for. Lesson one; it is better to own a building rather than renting an apartment. The rich collect rents from about everything besides owning stock shares that might increase in value along with inflation (that is a challenging topic to consider).

It seems to me that if 50 million Americans take home less than a half of a percent of the national income that inflation can be a pretty effective way to skim that 1/2 percent back to the rich. People need to have enough income to work and the rest I suppose is targeted for return to the rich through a variety of means. It might be better to have an ideal society or at least make some progress toward building one rather than just letting everything ho in the most loose, stupid version of neo-capitalism the society can tolerate while it is fueled with theoretical dollars backed only by the full flam credit of the U.S. Government (not exactly the same as the gold standard) or planetary plutocrats. I wonder if Congress will charge more people with contempt of Congress since contempt is almost a common opinion regarding the quality of that August body's works in regard to public debt, social egalitarianism, border security and so forth.

There are many things to capture one's attention if they attention to news. I live in a place that hasn't cell phone service, and hence no internet, electricity or whatever (or a road to a store) so I value the news somewhat objectively when I encounter it, and it seems rather stupid so ordinarily that I am concerned that writing about it might give the impression that I believe that everyone making news is stupid- and that isn't the case at all. Instead I believe that society is uncoordinated rather like the L.A. Lakers when Lebron James is injured, and that people have some erroneous notion that capitalism builds or evolves the best social environment willy nilly without need for competent government and good ideas. Alternatively maybe the politicians and media regard everything that passes like water under the bridge is good retrospectively, simply for being past.

It was said of old Russia that when the Tsar was having troubles he would send someone to foment a pogrom against Jews in some regional capitol. I have wondered if inflation causing incidents aren't also used to keep democracy down and under the thumb of the rich. No one wants to talk these days about raising taxes on the 1% when inflation and Covid 19 are on fire. It doesn't seem like a good idea to be concerned with abstract economic situations that might make the too big to fail Corporate 1%ers think about relocating somewhere else to build their widgets (like China or someplace that is really loyal).

A Capital Tax is a Substitute for Haitian/French Style Revolution

 A tax on concentrated capital held by ultra-millionaires and billionaires is a satisfactory replacement for revolts like those of Haitians against slavery and the French against royalty and aristocracy where the masses yearn for a semblance of egalitarianism. With wealth so grossly concentrated in one percent of the people economics and Wall Street are basic threats to democracy, as much as was the British aristocracy in 1776.

 Concentrated wealth owns the broadcast media and controls internet social media sites preponderantly. Hence forms of censorship and repression are common. Like the impossibility of criticizing one’s employer corporations publicly and keeping the job, repressive controlling structures- part and full time controllers, limit public expression not only in repressive government forms like socialism, they also do so in nominally free enterprise systems like corporatism when wealth becomes concentrated so far as to bring into being an ad hoc aristocracy.

 Designing tax structures to address the problem of concentration of wealth and power shouldn’t be too difficult especially with the help of computers and artificial intelligence systems that would tax the real value of capital on a given day of the year and verify the value of capital and the commensurate tax on a given day of the year when payment is due electronically, say, with bit-coin or a federal crypto-currency.

 My opinion is that the masses should control at least 51% of the national capital, and that individuals should not have more wealth as a percent of national income than a tiny fraction in order to prevent inappropriate and threatening political influence. A certain percentage of people benefiting from or seeking to benefit from a repressive political system will always speak in defense of it. With government officials like Chief Justice Roberts and Senate Republicans so heavily invested in Wall Street it is challenging to foresee a prospect for solid legislative remedies in favor of the people of the United States.

 Since the 1970s the rich have divided and conquered the U.S. electorate with a number of policies that eliminated the strong white male middle class through promotion of cheaper, restive workers from minority and female portions of the economy that had neither awareness, coordination or temperament to defend a democratic and equitable tax system. The new majority simple wanted to bump out strait white middle class males in the economy rather than to rise to equality within the tax paradigm that had existed since F.D.R. had the balls to tax the rich and end the depression (unlike Barrack Obama who forced the permanent renewal of the Bush II tax cuts by refusing to let them sunset).

 There is no certainty that concentrated wealth is the most productive form of free enterprise. Free enterprise does not requires gross concentration of wealth. In a world with finite resources concentrating ownership of enterprise into an aristocracy can be counter-productive and inflexible as might be witnessed with the inability of government to find and adapt working global warming reduction systems. The new majority seems to be happy enough to just play dress up and put on white middle class male economic clothes instead of taking charge of the body politic in an F.D.R. kind of way and restoring a 70% tax on income of ultra-millionaires and billionaires and making a 3% annual capital tax upon the excess capital concentration of the ultra-rich.

 From a practical point of view the experience of living in a corporatism or socialist system may be similar if the economy is advanced. Even so the experience may be quite bad for independently minded individuals that like free speech. Recently I tested Obamacare to discover how it works for single males living on $600 of social security in Alaska. I discovered that Obamacare could be purchased for just $1000 a month and that would be quite a nice opportunity for the poor to imagine they could afford if they could have earned more money in a non-repressed life (Medicare medical would cost appx .275 monthly and leave the poor $600 a month guy about $375 a month for luxury goods like food, shelter, clothing, electrical connection, phone etc.). If the poor were meaningfully employed to given real opportunity to advance they might do better.

  President Obama created a nice system for middle-class women and homosexuals with a health care system that dumped all of their health information to corporations so they can examine the data and decide who and how to breed.

 Not only is the economy and corporate infrastructure too big to fail, it is also too big to allow violent revolt to end the existence of the 1%. The vast supremacy of government military over the citizenry makes real revolt very improbable. The government fundamentally is a servo-unit of the 1%. For pacifism to be a virtue it should be in defense of a free and unrepressed human condition rather than one of fatalistic subjugation. To allow islands of freedom or social classes to fall into subjugation under repressive dictatorships or classes of concentrated wealth should be anathema to a majority. A tax on capital and raising the income tax of the rich is a clear and present remedy to the challenges presented by inimical wealth.

 The inheritors of the former white middle class male American tradition still look to the Republican Party for hope in self-delusion since Republican leadership represents corporate wealth and the 1%. In recent years the masses of working class Republicans, disenchanted with the immorality of homosexual marriage, abortion and undermining of citizenship through mass illegal immigration have looked toward a splinter Tea Party/and Donald Trump billionaire in-party alternative. Looking to a billionaire to reform taxation means cutting taxes on billionaires and in the case of Donald Trump, electing an extremist global warming denier whom has biodiversity blindness. The complication of homosexuals on politics have made words like bye, and even morphemes like bi, disreputable and replaced with words like ‘bite’. Using rave jargon people don’t have much political circumspection. Actually there is about a zero percent chance of a good presidential candidate from either party in 2024.

 While Hillary Clinton operatives apparently did sponsor the false accusation of 2016 Trump-Russia campaign collusion leading to four years of extremist Democratic politic persecution of President Trump culminating in the January 6^th riot at the Capitol in knee jerk reaction, the mass Republican movement blindly submits to Wall Street leadership that is very unRepublican philosophically speaking. Neither party has its oars in the water; each reinforce corporatism/socialism and the concentration of wealth and power in 1% of the people (actually a global plutocracy).

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-ties-to-steele-dossier-durham-probe

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-grand-jury-indicts-lawyer-who-represented-clinton-campaign-2021-09-16/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41752908

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-dossier

 A successful revolt might resemble an anarchist apocalypse that would reign destruction upon everyone and grease the skids for a repressive dictatorship of some form dissatisfactory to about all except those that are in the pocket of repressive regimes. The point of good government in the modern sector is to assure that all of the citizens aren’t experiencing repression from corrupt networks or the power of concentrated wealth. A national minimum income free health care for the poor and free college education would go a long way to bring the U.S.A. into a modern political state rather than in-growing within a hybrid system of traditional repressive government and economics on a very large scale. If it were based upon sustainable, green ecological economic reform that would be better.

International Forums Substitute for Do Nothing Congress on Global Warming

It is well known that the U.S. Congress isn't capable of decisive and adequate action to radically slow global warming. Fundamentally people aren't bright enough to comprehend the problems facing everyone nearly as well as their own, so they vote for personal pork and run exhaust into the atmosphere without concern. At election time Democrats talk a good game on global warming then do nothing. It would be great if the problem were solved and humanity could move on, yet that just doesn't happen any more than the federal deficit is reduced.

 Democrats ran on global warming campaigns even including building a sunscreen at L-5 in space. Now they have set it on the back burner with day care and parental leave for homo-couples and some straights on the front burner. https://news.yahoo.com/obama-urging-governments-action-un-120628866.html

At least former President Barrack Hussein Obama was explaining everyone  rowing in the same direction (no mention of oars needing to be in the water though) to get somewhere at the Glasgow conference before chastising Russia and China for being in the eastern hemisphere or something like that (or it might have been for not showing up to confess their polluting natures).

Some people believe the world will end and so nothing is required t repair the atmosphere's health, and they may be correct since not fixing global warming and increasing population and immorality may result in some sort f global catastrophic change. At least bitcoin can be counted on not to crash in value from its near 70,000 dollars for one if the dollar collapses after the internet collapses and EMP blasts wipe out data on computer memories.

  It would be interesting to remake James Stewart's Its a Wonderful Life and have Big Bird or the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man replace Harvey the Invisible Rabbit who it is revealed is a global warming denier persuading Stewart (maybe John Stewart could play Jimmy) to join the dark side of the force. 

So long as the U.S.A. can blame Russia and China nothing will be required of Congress for the next few years.

Tricycle baby carriage and LA Lakers issues

 One might wish it was as easy too invent an LA Lakers line-up and game plan as easily as it would be to manufacture sit-down, high quality tricycle-baby carriages; even electric ones for a reasonably price. With a very interesting team the Lakers seem to lack a cutting small forward like Talen Horton -Tucker who could sharply go to the hoop with a reverse layup; he is injured. Lacking Alex Caruso's tenacious defense since the trade the Lakers have two important elements missing/

LeBron James though very old in basketball years is still in the top 2% of people anyone wants on their team. He does seem to be the sharpest passer the Lakers have, and when he is out of the line-up do to injuries to ankle that recur when opposition yippies target his ankles because they can't compete otherwise with the old fellow, the Lakers suffer.

If the Lakers can hobble through the regular season and the other old fellow Carmello Anthony can on occasion contribute a few twenty points in twenty minutes games off the bench, and if Russell Westbrook can figure out how to pass as well as Pete Maravich, and if Anthony Davis can play good defense without injury an Achilles they have a good chance to win the title. All in all its the most fun team to watch in years with something like an older all-stars with younger going up against mostly sharp younger teams with decent centers and good three point shooters.

Lacking a John Havlicek kind of guy who can use Anthony Davis like  Larry Bird or Danny Ainge used Kevin McHail Davis has a little too much coverage on him. When LeBron was five years younger he drew defense to him like flies and that would have worked. Unfortunately James in now probably perceived as an equal threat to Davis and when James is on the bench there isn't another forward shooting threat. maybe Dwight Howard's offensive skills could be dusted off and used more on special occasions close in.

Metaverse Grunge and Natural Theology video

 I've published a video...

https://youtu.be/7n2AZSGJU9g

Democrats’ Social Pork Technology Failed to See Lisa on the Horizon

 Like ships passing in the night echos of prior political eras (41 and 46) the triple B’s pf Presidents past and present juxtaposed aspects of dubious temporal zeitgeist deleteriously. The build back better plan arrived like a cloud of flies on dead meat; the corpus delecti, of the green environmental reform movement that floated President Biden’s boat a year ago. When the word green or environmental show up in contemporary affairs around election time Democrats arrive to take the issue unto-themselves as a spearhead for social programs.

  While honesty is lacking in the use of global warming and green economic reform to camouflage social spending bills that appear suspiciously like pork for constituents, if the build back better (or back biting bitch as 41 bit-coined the triple B term) putsch for inadequacy had poltical ergonomic efficiency it would have dwelt allocating 5 billion bucks or so to buy a single Republican vote in the Senate. That should have been easy.

  Of the initial 3.5 billion dollars in the BBB plan just 500 billion was (appx.) for green tech investments to slow global warming acceleration. That five billion invested in purely green projects for Alaska might have brought Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski around to support the triple B plan in its present reduced size. Select insider politicians have a Boston-Harvard-DC axis of investment kickbacks that sometimes is blind to common sense politics that essentially are alien and external to it.  DC politics preponderantly are a dull kickback of power pork.

 

  Alaska is divided between those that hate government regulation and want to actualize under the pursuit of happiness article of the constitution, the right to launch car to car missiles whenever rodent scholar rage motivates them (as well as getting rid of traffic signals that impede happiness and freedom (like seat belts do too), and those that love government regulation and regulators and want to compel every home owner to have a uniform tori/spirit gate regulator perch on his/her or its property for the happiness of visiting regulators to land upon.

 Alaska has a population of fewer than a million people and many live scattered over a constellation of roadless rural areas. High arctic air pollution might have a stronger effect than mid-Earth air pollution proportionately acting as a catalyst for permafrost melting and release of vast quantities of methane gas into the atmosphere. Investing five billion dollars in fuel cells, wind, solar and geothermal energy production for every Alaskan city with more than 100 people living there might have attracted the Senator’s vote because she is facing an election.

  Her constituents could regard her choice to kill plentiful low cost green energy unfavorably when the temperature is forty degrees below zero and oil stove fuel is running low with exorbitant prices only Boston and San Francisco millionaires and billionaires could find trivial.

 Five billion dollars of spending on home energy with green refueling locally is preferable to some paying oil companies cash forever that would be better spent on food and warm boots.

  Alaska’s government following Jay Hammond, with the exception of Steve Cowper, was usually uncreative and reliant upon oil sales revenues to fund itself. One could write suggesting energy and business diversification for decades and Alaska politicians would be like cold stone walls of disregard falling back to their natal streams of reliance on oil revenues to fund state government spending.

  The kind of people elected to government at the state and federal level serve corporatism far more than democracy is at any rate generally toady to corporatism these days. One gets elected to share the rem of oil revenues, public debt, and Wall Street percs.

 

Hyper-sonic missile is 'transformational; once in a generational for war progressives

 New hypersonic missiles that travel from mach 6 to mach 17 have taken center stage recently in the global race to annihilate itself. Fortunately the Chinese have joined the Russians in owning the fast and nearly direct fire missiles that can shoot under the radar to hit sitting duck targets defending by anti-ballistic missiles.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/27/us-general-china-missile-test-very-close-to-sputnik-moment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Range_Hypersonic_Weapon

https://www.military.com/equipment/weapons/why-russias-hypersonic-missiles-cant-be-seen-radar.html

These hyper-sonic weapons are a great advance over the old, slow, mirved, marved ballistic missiles of your dad's day that merely delivered high trajectory packages of city incineration and global winter. The hypersonic items can be launched soon from a number of platforms such as submarines and any old sort of surface ship traveling the oceans and possibly even dropped like cruise missiles from an airborne platform in the near future. Thus plenty of boom is promised for everyone without any sort of supply shortages.

Once more global political leadership is making great strides of progress to kill everyone thus saving money and bitcoin on the problem of global warming that has taken a minority portion of the comfort food economic budget of the Democrat party. One can't tax those millionaires or their poor relative millionaire kindred and keep the economy going.

A Thought of Infinite Being (a science fiction story)

 I have published a science fiction book. It's named A Thought of Infinite Being.

A Thought of Infinite Being

Here is the description I wrote for it.

A science fiction story of metaphysical speculation, defense response to networked terror, social philosophical analysis and meta-cosmological circumspection with a Christian spin. Protagonists consider implications of a Multiverse for metaphysics, morals, creation, the natural theology of God, and select works.

Fix Depleted Yukon salmon fishery with Steelhead and Kokane?

The tragedy of over-fishing Yukon River salmon fishing to the point of the brink of extinction is a natural human fish management course of events. Humans ordinarily over-utilize a resource and through competition and social inertia continue to do so. Rivers are especially easy to over-fish in regard to salmon that obligingly return to their ancestral rivers from the sea every few years making them prey for nets put in their path. Could land-locked salmon like Kokane and steelhead that re main in the river for life and hence escape the international fishing fleet in the Bering Sea stand a better chance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokanee_salmon

I stipulate that I know little about the Yukon or salmon fishing there. I live about 700 miles away in Wrangell Alaska about fifteen miles from British Columbia. The only pro fisheries guy I knew was from Argentina and studied in a graduate program at the University of Alaska at Juneau. Therefore I am just suggesting the creation of steelhead and Kokane hatcheries along the Yukon designed expressly to replenish the emptying out of the river from Bering Sea over-fishing. I got a couple of undergraduate degrees yet never could afford that graduate degree I wanted to be an educator in East Africa or Eastern Europe so I generate some ideas that aren't pro career stuff now and then.

In theory (a philosophical theory rather than a graduate of fisheries theory) nature abhors a vacuum. If salmon that formerly dominated the Yukon are gone something else might or even should replace it. Rather than flooding the river with a sort of fish less desirable than a salmonid, the good human policy of intervening to synthetically balance nature (they habitually unbalance the natural balance) might be applied.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-or-trout-what-the-heck-is-a-steelhead-anyway-1.4461827

Sure the Yukon would be a cold place to have a fish hatchery with the annual hard freeze. Maybe some sort of geothermal heating of water enough to keep the hatchery waters from freezing within an indoor ecosystem along the river would work. Maybe geothermal heating could be used to generate electricity as well.

A Yukon River stuffed to the gills with salmonids, albeit smaller than king salmon, could be a good subsistence harvest for humans and returning kings as well.