Pres. Obama to Arm Rebels, P.M. Cameron Claims Syria Used Sarin & Killed 150

Though Germany invented Sarin gas in 1938 the United States and Britain developed large stocks and perhaps the first casualty was a British test subject at Porton Down. Sarin is about 500 times more powerful than cyanide and can kill  in a minute. Sarin is a nerve agent and messes up neuro-chemicals. The administrations of the U.S., Britain and France claim the Assad government used Sarin on the rebels and killed 150 of them. We are a little skeptical because it is a potential excuse for U.S. intervention on the side of the rebels.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE95C16L20130614

If the Assad government used a chemical weapon it would be quite bad (it was outlawed by the U.N. in the 1990's). We wonder though why Assad would use such a politically dangerous weapon to kill just one-hundred people instead of conventional yet effective weapons of which he has plenty. We wonder if the claim is another Gulf of Tonkin resolution or W.M.D. in Saddam Hussein's Iraq quanta of political flim flam? Twice-burned once shy.  With defense outlays for Afghanistan winding down in 2014 the military-industrial complex may be searching for new places to drop munitions for profit (defense contractors need to resupply the U.S. military for profit).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22908836#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Senator McCain has already called for U.S. intervention to ground the Syrian Air Force. Cratering explosives on airfields and maybe Stinger should-launched missiles for Al Qaeda visiting rebels might do the trick. One wonders if the Syrian Air Force was used to kill just one-hundred rebels with Sarin by air drops of bombs?

In 2004 Iraqi rebels used an artillery shell with two-part Sarin precursors to attack a U.S. convoy ineffectively because the shell needed to rotate at high speed to mix the Sarin and an I.E.D. wouldn't do it. Syria has artillery and tanks to launch Sarin-precursor filled shells (not like creme-filled donuts) if they wanted to, so where is the effectiveness of a no-fly zone for controlling a possible Sarin attack from the air? It seems possible that former Iraqi rebels have a store of Sarin-precursor filled artillery shells that they might be able to use as guest-rebels for Team Sunni in Syria. We are skeptical about the Sarin fog of war, and hope for restraint from the Condor legion wing of the U.S. Government lusting for no-fly zones abroad until use of chemical weapons becomes a solidly witnessed and documented fact. 

A substantive approach to verification of quanta of contemporary history requires a probability curve of use consistent with military objectives in the given political environment. The allegation of technical use of Sarin gas by the Assad government of Syria thus far is not convincing. It seems to be a managed political level akin to claiming the unemployment rate was 7.9% before the Nov. 2012 Presidential election rather than 8.0. True or not there were still 30 million souls out of work in the U.S.A.


Image credit of Rocky Mountain Arsenal 1970 Sarin dtest rabbit-Library of Congress photo taken by U.S. Forest Service employee.

Evolution as Intelligent Design- Evolving Moral Positions and Intellectual Content v.2

 Sartre once said that he had evolved a new idea on what an intellectual is. President Obama used the phrase that he was evolving a new opinion about homosexual marriage decades later. Evolving subjective intellectual content is a self-regarded activity these days. One cannot be sure if such intellectual development evolves because of random chance or the natural selection of saying what the people want to here most in order to get political power (regardless of the merit of the idea). If evolution of ideas is powered by conscious, intentional thought then evolution comprises design. That paradox is ponderous. It means that evolution and intelligent design are synonyms. Evolving an opinion about the whore in the harbor of Babylon the Great trading with all the nations of the world might be easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8JVK4Fppw Sartre on 'What an Intellectual Is'

If morality is what people actually do in a social context, then perhaps ethics is a description of the normalized procedures for implementing moral choices. Certainly people seem to choose to do wrong often enough with select ethical criterions, yet perhaps for atheists without belief in a transcendent moral structure there is no wrong, but only evolution. How can it be wrong for Hitler to invade Poland within an evolutionary criterion? For Christians and Dietrich Bonhoeffer that wickedness of the Reich should have been morally and actually opposed?

One may reasonably oppose the existence of a logical condition as being present if there is present some sort of factor that cannot coexist simultaneously.

Not (A & B).

A or B

A & B

If one can prove these simple conditions to be valid for select, or Universal circumstances inclusive of an omnipotent God then I suppose one would have a hard to defeat bunker position with a clear enough logical field of fire, yet I believe that the presence of evil (if one recognizes evil and is not just atheistically 'evolving' an advantageous position does not satisfy the Universal disjunct logically.

Not simply because complex numbers evidently are used for description in quantum mechanics and one day for quantum computing that transcend the binary 0 or 1 criteria of computers today, but for the reason that God stipulated right out that people have original sin and a fallen nature. The premise is that given immortality mankind might become even more wicked than now. Mankind is given to labor and women to go through childbirth and mortality would abbreviate the evil of human experience.

That doesn't mean that human beingness is bad-only that the human nature to go wrong needs to be overcome through faith, yet I wanted to remain on logical grounds rather than that of faith for the present.

I have no idea what sort of things God might want to accomplish in eternity. I believe that God is tougher than NFL players with those concussive head injuries however, and he might be able to withstand tough things in the Universe that he creates perhaps as stress tests. Certainly human beings going through some of those horrible times were quite remarkably tough. Those Christians eaten by lions or burned alive for their faith were of strong moral character. Even some Buddhists that have burned themselves in protest of war showed a certain ability to overcome the horrors possible of the mortal coil, yet one would think that it should be evil rather than one's self that does evil in-the-world.

I think that the problem of evil is not something that precludes the existence of the Divine being-especially since He exists for eternity, sent His Son to share the experience and is has enough time to make things right.

U6 Unemployment Rate at More Than 13%

The U6 unemployment rate for the United States is still more than 13%. Its a very soft labor market across the nation. The U6 rate for blacks may be twice that if the numbers are comparable to the U3 unemployment rate of 7.6% for all and 13.% for blacks. The Union of the Unemployed web site reports the real May 31 unemployment rate at 16%. Many of the new jobs pay minimum wage. Neo-liberalism is a sorry approach to take in the U.S. democracy today. It throws in the towel on globalism, global warming and mass extinction.

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

http://www.unionofunemployed.com/blog

Fake Conservatives Seek Amnesty for Illegal Aliens- They Won't Fix the Border Problem Though

Republicrat Senators seeking a sweet deal for illegal aliens foist a pseudo-conservative theme (they may believe it's easy to fool the conservative crowd ) of immigration reform. The plain facts are in contradistinction to the false-conservative claims.

Illegal aliens would certainly get their neo-amnesty. That's just a paper deal that corrupt politicians believe would get them votes from Hispanics (whom may not all be racists against full employment for present U.S. citizens). The part about a border being made secure is pie-in-the-sky though. Maybe that would be funded, maybe it would be effective, maybe. What is certain is that cheap labor numbers will swell in the U.S.A. 

Rational and honest politicians would secure the border first. Not simultaneously, not later-before any consideration is developed about anything concerning a change in the illegal status of illegal alien immigrants. If the issue of securing the Mexican border was easy to resolve its hard to believe that Republicrats wouldn't have gone ahead and done that already. Why didn't they? Was it too difficult? Were they too aloof and corrupt to be concerned about the flood of cheap foreign labor that cut down the real wages of lower class American citizens?

Fake conservative ads warn of the danger of an unsecured Mexican border and prescribe the remedy of legalizing millions of illegal aliens followed by the green-cheese-of-the-moon-will-fall-to-the Earth-thus feeding-us-all assurance that later on the border will be secure. Anyone knows that the premise is no more than b.s. At least a half million will still be able to wander over any time they feel like it. 

The fake conservative policy is like making concessions to terrorists in order to secure the well-being of the nation. Sure thing Einsteins.

If  Republicrat and Democrat Senators ever took substantial action that would reduce illegal alien numbers through illegal border crossing to fewer than 10,000 souls per year sober deliberation upon the number of illegal aliens that should be normalized-perhaps through military service or some other form of social restitution that wouldn't affect the unemployment rate might be considered. Needless to say, if the national unemployment rate is higher than 3% it is unconscionable to even consider welcoming millions of illegal job takers.

Dark-Disc Universe- The Paper on a New Kind of Dark Matter

The concept by Andrey Katz and others published May 23rd in Physical Review Letters is an interesting theory designed to account for the 'missing' source of gravity keeping spinning galaxies from flying apart. The regular mass of galaxies generally isn't sufficient to keep them together. Such facts make it seem like no surprise that the omega factor of mass in the Universe is dubious- Enough mass to make Universal  mass collapse toward a Big Crunch although close-on the basis of observable mass - seems to be insufficient after the 1990's determination that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. If there were much more unobserved 'dark' matter one would think that the Universe should be slowing down or reversing toward a Big Crunch.

Dark-Disk Universe 
JiJi Fan, Andrey Katz, Lisa Randall, and Matthew Reece 
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 211302 (2013)

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/print/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.211302

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i21/e211302

http://www.space.com/21508-dark-matter-atoms-disks.html

It is of course difficult to be entirely accurate about cosmological theory and it's logic these days especially for those of us that are house painters, writers or file clerks. If there is a lot of undiscovered dark matter keeping galaxies together as hidden sources of gravity the stuff of the Universe should be much more. Dark matter doesn't seem to exist or interact with anything except the space-time field. Hopefully untaxed and possible unregulated dark matter isn't some sort of counter-intuitive time reversing subversive agent of forward progress.

Yet dark energy is also believed to exist as a kind of anti-gravity that pushes space into increased expansion. If there are cosmological constants they must be of a qualitative rather than a quantitative kind for new dark energy and mass. Does such new dark matter and dark energy mean fine-tuning values are off? Was dark energy factored into Einstein's field equations of General Relativity?

I wonder why dark atoms of a dark-disc universe aren't evident on Earth? Regular mass is certainly present, yet if unknown dark atoms exist there should be dark objects, dark planets and dark stars if the dark matter can form. Without dark star novas one wouldn't think complex dark mass would be produced through the dark fusion parallel of normal matter. Dark matter existing in a separate but equal form would still need to interact with regular mass enough to keep the aforementioned galaxies together. 

So dark matter cannot be entirely segregated - it must share the water fountains of a Jim Crow Universe in some way to help compile the total gravitational field of any given galaxy. The galactic city has all these undocumented workers of force in a complex, invisible to us, alternate  part of the Universe.

 One can hypothesize about dark matter in addition to light matter, yet the determination of its potential for being extra crunchy or not is up in the air.  One can hypothesize that Dirac, Pauli Weinberg and Heisenberg didn't get all quantum field mapped out well enough and that maybe space isn't really warped-its just the way mass interacts that seems to be warped space.

I have no idea how much of the Universe has dark matter or if it's development of structures would be equal to that of normal mass and galaxies. Perhaps dark matter has just a comparative portion of the wealth of mass and power of the non-dark elites and cannot form it's own structures but just 'trickles up' it's gravitational power to let our Universe have a reasonable standard of living. Well, sacrifices must sometimes be made for the good of the power majority.

Seriously though the interesting connection between hypothetical dark matter is the at the core of the inquiry. It may be some kind of unknown small particle like a graviton that drifts about looking from a cold, dark Universe into the window of a warm, convivial dinner party of regular mass. Alternately it could be that space isn't  warped by mass, and instead gravity affects only mass in complex ways unknown to present theorists. That is, mass acts upon mass and space is simply the volume in which mass exists. Space however has no quantifiable physical characteristics.

Gender Wage Gap is a Good Democratic Political Trick

President Obama has developed the disparity between average male and female wages to his political advantage. He noted recently that females average only about 70% of male income in the U.S.A. and that change needs to happen. Part of the trouble is in comparing different occupations; should a file clerk get the same pay as a roustabout with 8th grade education, more or less? Is an office worker with a college degree comparable to the hard, dangerous life of the offshore oil patch?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/obama-equal-pay-act_n_3416121.html

In a perfect world a worker working ten quanta would be paid for ten quanta objectively and impartially. The sex, age, race or perversion of the worker would just not be a factor. Yet U.S. politicians instead develop a zillion laws to make 'corrections' to social inequality that have a cumulative of institutionalizing unfair and irrational economics.

Perhaps the President expects male wages to drop another 30% or females to get 30% raises to create an even field where work contribution is secondary to the personal characteristics of the person's class making a contribution. That is not an ergonomic compensation field.

We know that government work is largely neutered and machines can do the heavy lifting. Everyone has a swell paycheck and benefits in government. With the college degree and the desk, smart phone and tablet government workers twitter equally. Yet government work isn't on a free enterprise foundation and cannot be a model for reform of the private sector through swelling too-big-to-suffer-consequences-for-rash-risk corporations and making them homo-friendly.

President Obama supports legalization of millions of illegal aliens as new cheap American workers. That would help lower male wages to a certain extent following laws of labor supply and demand. Yet wages for men in the non-service worker sector probably won't drop enough to please Mr. Obama and his Harvard economic elite martinets even if new illegal aliens arrive to do the dirty and dangerous or difficult work if the wages drop too low. The primary benefit for the President will be in continuing to drive a wage between female and male Republican voters. More Republicrats may be elected. The nation can go further along its course of decay.

If one writes about economic reform and finds the Republican corporate powers unfair, the Democrats will lend a sympathetic ear. Yet what they mean by reform and what and intelligent soul means are quite different. Democrats mean redistribution of income from Republicans to gender, race and perversion criteria selected constituents while the intelligent soul may mean things like capping the size of government and corporations, transitioning to full-employment and ecological economics, and assuring that even minimum wage provides a descent standard of living. The intelligent soul will be disillusioned.

The gender wage gap exploits male workers as well as females politically. Instead of work being regarded qualitatively and quantitatively objective it's inherently class biased. The U.S. Government, comprised of so many incompetent, and uncreative individuals better-suited to communes or corporations than self-employment pose and posture very well-even with Hollywood Stars and pass laws that are a patchwork of illogic and economic contradictions with unfair compensation to compensate the rich for risk biased toward the poor. How otherwise could Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey and New York get $60 billion for storm damage and high water? How can the government provide easy sweetheart bailouts to corporations and banks and those that build or buy homes in floodplains? President Obama forced through the Nixon-Romney corporate health care act to create another vast and complex opportunity for pork barrel flummery. Free health care for the poor inn quality expanded V.A. hospitals would have been faster, cheaper and better. That would not have helped the aging immaterial work sector Democrat majority afford $250,000 per year health care to let them live to age two or three hundred if possible. It's questionable that the original intent of F.D.R. was to let workers or foreign workers contribute enough to let the middle class live like the rich in retirement or before.

Effete electron pushing house flippers and the swollen financial service sector making up 30%- of the workforce produce nothing material nor do physical work. The heavy lifting isn't a language activity. The non-dirty, dangerous or heavy lifting workers just want to reallocate a little more profit unto themselves.

Ideally work should be viewed entirely quantified -not considered through the lens of gender, race or perversion paradigmata. If one lifts 100 pounds ten times a day that should pay more than lifting 10 pounds five times a month. In America the threat is development of non-objectivity in work compensation. Equal opportunity to work should be foundational. The quality and quantity of work an individual does should be objectively measured and receive objective pay.

Those inclined to exploit others for profit have forever developed temporary methods for doing so. The Democrat party today is in the line of developing non-objective criteria of compensation and opportunity. Work opportunity should never be closed to an adult American citizen during their life. Work is an inalienable right and piecework for independents is probably the ideal social direction to evolve in.

The move of a majority of Americans into non-production service sector jobs without heavy lifting brings some enmity toward those saturation divers, professional athletes, building tradesmen and industrial workers that receive good compensation largely for males. The elite trend has been toward degrading that work and skimming wages to the immaterial work sector of the majority. President Obama has adroitly exploited the lower average income status of women and omitted mention whatsoever of fairness for all workers that should be on an objective basis.

Writers like to get paid by the word sometimes and get fair pay for their work. Of course it's difficult to assess qualitative values outside the marketplace. One could use MSword's grade level function and pay more for writing at a grade 16+ level than for level 8-. The marketplace has an element of unfair advantage to it as well as supply and demand. Location being everything it's sometimes difficult to get around corrupt government bureaucracies to legislate real change. President Obama should stop playing the gender card politically and instead seek a rectification of fair pay for objective work in the workplace and every worker. In the absence of social justice venality, corruption and the evil of iniquity forces concentration of wealth with decline of ecosphere and economy.

Republicrat Sen. Ayotte Throws Support to Illegal Alien Job Upgrades

The U.S. Senate is considering legislation to upgrade job prospects for 10-20 million illegal aliens this week. Republicrat Senator Ayotte of New Hampshire says she will support the measure to bump more unemployed Americans further off the ladder to prosperity. The Senate of course is expressing no interest or knowledge of the tens of millions of discouraged American job seekers experiencing long-term unemployment or underemployment. Instead the Senate smiles with approval on trillions of dollars of bail-outs to too-big-to-suffer-the-consequences-of-risk banks and automobile corporations while enjoying the rise in Wall Street values as the Federal Reserve issues hundreds of billions of zero-interest loans to banks so they can buy up distressed homes.

Unemployed American citizens are broke rather than the immigration system. If the Senate would pass a law letting all U.S. law enforcement agencies arrest and remand to federal custody undocumented aliens for right-of-return to their own nation, the problem would dry up soon enough, even without creation of a comprehensive Mexican-American border ecoszone to filter out illegal entry.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57588391/ayotte-announces-critical-gop-support-for-senate-immigration-bill/

Traditional Quality Leadership for U.S.A. in 2016?

The United States has failed to produce substantive quality leadership in its Presidential campaigns the past several years. The desire to select race or gender candidates has taken priority over economic and ecospheric management quality. With the form-over-substance criteria the United States has entered a period of comparative economic decline and poor management of protracted wars. We not only liked Ike, the nation experienced general prosperity. Dwight D. Eisenhower had integrity and credibility.

 Former four-star Army General McKiernan is a where-are-they-now kind of leader with advanced degrees from Stanford, Harvard (we don't hold that against him) and elsewhere. McKiernan is the kind of Republican candidate that no longer stands for office, yet the Republican party certainly could use a few like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._McKiernan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/homepage

There seems to be little prospect for a Ralph Nader with military experience and an advanced degree in environmental economics. The build-up of large public debt, outsourcing of production, perennial high unemployment, decline of the environment and so forth are simply the line-up for the way things are.

The war in Afghanistan seemed to be a consequence of the bureaucratic inertia of the Eastern elite organizational intertia in which there was no good leadership. Afghanistan has a zillion valleys and locals that fight rival valley tribes and foreigners. We should have done better by just being a supplier of goods, economic ideas and support and military equipment for locals seeking autonomy instead of seeking to foist a large central government on those people that disdain such entities. Our Syria policy might actually have worked in Afghanistan. In Syria we seek to disestablish a central government authority through support of a zillion militias while in Afghanistan we seek to fight Afghanis accustomed to local autonomy and force them into  submission to a modern, centralized state bureaucracy. After 2014 that entire structure may collapse like a phase transition to a more stable, lower energy level.

One wonders if the nation can even consider electing a Presidential candidate without a Hollywood shine and pooffiness of character acceptable to the Gay-Lesbian-Transgendered-Neutered-Bisexual foundation of the Democrat party today, or one that isn't simply sold out to global corporatism? 

Preview of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis 2nd Ed

I have a new preview for the second edition of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis providing a better idea of the content. Quite a few topics on contemporary cosmology are new to the second edition, and there are new ideas from a number of sources on Biblical development and history as well.

http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_75/13007000/13007143/20/preview/Preview_Creation__Cosmos_The_Literal_Values_of_Genesis_2nd_Ed.epub

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/creation-and-cosmos-the-literal-values-of-genesis/ebook/product-20564034.html

Social Network Analysis to Help Infected Chimps-What About Humans?

Social network analysis technique may be used to help prevent disease communication among chimps. Obviously some will note that social network analysis among humans may be used for evil as well as good.

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/rHXkrYcG7ec/130605104438.htm

Criminal networks may use social network to enfilade prey. Predatory capitalists may use social network analysis to identify easy pickins and political organs may use social network analysis to package the right disinformation with on-time delivery to the right e-mail address or social network user.

Chimps and humans have many similarities obviously. Each have five fingers and toes, like bananas and are ethically challenged. Humans at least have recognition of original sin although some evos are trying to erase that notion.

Chimps may not benefit from social networking sites as some humans do.That is chimps may not enjoy twittering although I doubt that an experiment to determine that has yet taken place. Chimps are more immune from the downside of social networks as well as the good. Social networks on the Internet can help for a kind of popular intellectual gridlock through the ubiquitous mass communication of ideas. Ideas can be disseminated quickly of course, and the power and intertial development of wrong or of a limited false alternative range of ideas can prevent the development of creative thought and good ideas through displacement.

image credit: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net

The Syrian War Is An International Project

The Syrian war seems something of an international project that would not have developed so far as 80,000 dead without much international support including that of the United State's Obama administration. There is something about supporting the development of avoidable foreign conflicts that appeals to some when their own military is not engaged in action. Death of civilians is sometimes  not a problem sufficient enough for an Obama administration to carefully consider a priori what consequences their support for the incipient Syrian conflict would occur. Reasonable people know the nature of the Syrian Government and regional circumstances enough to know that it would not easily relinquish power.

The United Nations has reported the probable use of chemical weapons in Syria by one side or the other in the conflict-or perhaps both, yet since the U.S. propaganda about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq turned out to be as bogus as the facts used in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution we are somewhat skeptical about the veracity and language used in media releases of casus belli for possible intervention or escalation of foreign military action in 3rd party conflicts.

The U.S. administration's logic is difficult to follow on Middle East policy. President Obama appeared to have stimulated and green lighted the Arab Spring with his Cairo speech and of course supported the Libyan revolution. American interests in repressing Al Qa'eda-a Sunni extremist organization coincided with ideas about fostering the development of democratic government in the Middle East that weren't evidently overly practical. The Saudi Royals are anything besides democratic, our friends in the Hashamite monarchy of Jordan are nice yet royal too, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt of which the President of Egypt is a member appears to be at least mildly interested in developing Shria Muslim law and so forth. Democracy is not a traditional form of Arab social organization and might require deep sociological changes before such an experiment might ensue successfully. We tend to believe that Arab democracies would slip into the  French  republic into Napoleonic leadership autocracy mode for a few generations before they reached the perfection of a Nixon or Obama administration in enforcing equal protection of the law.

If the Obama administration is concerned about destabilizing Syria and accomplishing some form of adult abortion service for that region in harmony with the partisan political action committee Planned Parenthood's agenda on a global scale or not the greater objectives of containing the Iranian Government and President Amadinijab (to cannot run for another term as Iranian Preident) and his threats on Israel may seem to be advanced with a Syrian conflict supported by Sunni wealth, visiting Al Qa'eda terrorists and financial and equipment contributions to rebels from the United States.

Russia has of course contributed military weapons to the Syrian Government while N.A.T.O. has seemed to provide support for the rebels along with the Friends of Syria organization. Russia has naval facilities in Syria that allow their vessels to have a warm water port outside the Black Sea-a concern the United States ought to keep in mind. It is an historical concern of Russia that should not be lightly disregarded as unimportant value to Russians they can bite the bullet on. Russia's other interests in support of a non Sunni Muslim presence below it's southern border may be related to its concerns about domestic Russia terrorism from the Sunni of Chechnya or elsewhere. It may also be that Russia seeks weapons sales as much as the United States for economic purposes. Perhaps the Obama administration should consider buying a few Migs to improve Russo-American relations.

It still seems to me that the best thing that could be done to reduce the Syrian conflict would be for the Obama administration to stop making statements in support of the rebels and to quit providing material assistance to the rebels. Quantifying the effects of a violent transition in the Syrian Government upon the Alawite and Hezballah of Lebanon is not easy. It is probable that some sort of new era of purging and terrorism could develop, and some sort of flight of those people  to Iran. Perhaps those people might also develop more support for the Northern alliance side of Afghanistan in a post-American military era in that nation. If the Syrian Government of Assad is driven out of office even with strong support from his own tribal group the Sunni forces of the region make look with a swell of pride toward new objectives in Afghanistan in the belief that renewed and increased terrorism might drive the minority Northern Alliance out entirely and purge Afghanistan of non-Sunni political power.

It would have been best if the Syrian war had not developed but of course the Mr. McGoo foreign policy approach seems to work for the Obama administration, and it is a foreign war without American casualties. It would still have been better to have let democracy develop through peaceful twittering without a military component. Evolution inn politics through gradual change can be better than the bullets and explosives, chemical weapons and foreign interventions of deep water internationalism.

Wall Street Virtual Bunnies Too Big to Fail (poem)

Quick like a virtual bunny
running through galaxies of political Universes
time exhaled mighty breaths
inflating fields of fantasy
called balanced budgets and e-dollars

Ships-of-state sailed over borders
eroded from below in waves of time's syncopated rhythms
crashed on shoals of semi-scientism edging forward
engines broke through bulkheads
firewalls on fire
melting steel in deep pools 
reflecting shiny precipitated prestige of power

Smoke and mirrors breezed through that subdivision's heat
stopped by nothing like snow, hail or sleet
broadcast spectra of extra dimensions
concentrated gravity like tomorrow's tornado'd pension
nothing structured to withstand the blow

Banking singularities too big to fail 
in the nest of Phoenix cuckoos of crisp design
wrote the new algorithms of Monte Carlo
harvest moons of reallocated cash
supplied on demand.

Neanderthal Oilcans Global Warming Death vs. EvoLizardFagocrats in 2016

U.S. politics leaves little to be desired in the tabloid paradigms clashing in dialectical mufsidoonisms. Backward looking Republican leadership squeezing more and more oil, SUVs and asphalt paving in wilderness and farmland run against godless atheist Democrat evolutionists with a 'nothing is real' ethos of anti-nationalism and homosexual center of effort of the ship of state.  Lizardcrats may believe love is the answer failing to realize that sin is a form of hate. Homosexuality is sin.

Neither major political party platform is very encouraging for just plain old poor, straight intellectual-athletes seeking change toward the ideal restorations of individual civil rights, ecosphere, national interest free enterprise with caps on the size of corporations, government, finance sector and with directed transition toward a fossil fuel free, no mass extinction of species America with zero involuntary unemployment.

At least the U.S.A. is no longer a good example for the world to follow on ecospheric friendly economic activity-if it ever was. The nation is stuck in the past or with its head up its a politically speaking, and shall remain in that dark place for some time I would think as the economic center of effort has shifted overseas through globalism.

A philosophical video on the Problem of Space treated as a Substance in General Relativity

A philosophical home-video on the problem of space being treated as a substance in Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.

Space is treated as a substance within General Relativity in order to model the actual cosmos. Logically thought, space is only a metaphor for the too-difficult-to-describe quanta of mass-energy comprising the physical Universe. Space in-itself is nothing at all-perhaps the ultimate contingent paradox. Space is infinite at all points, space has no location or extension, and is a volume of infinite extent without existing at all. Space ought not be regarded though as having vacuum energy. 

Instead spatial curvature in General Relativity should be refined to describe relationships of mass-energy tensors. Mass-energy relationship quantification in specific formulations ought to equal  gravitational fields of local systems in given time paradigms.

Logically mass-energy force tensors might take curved trajectories creating an appearance of spatial curvature.

Republicans Fail to Run Popular Candidates for President-Evolution of National Decline

Robert Redford starred in a film named 'The Candidate' long ago, one would think the Republican Party capable of comprehending political marketing strategy well enough to select a winner. But no, the Republican Party seems not to comprehend that Democrats run candidates with charisma and minimal qualifications economically speaking and that's good enough to win. In the meanwhile Toynbean historical cycle of national decline is overtaking the nation while no one is minding the store.

Marketing strategies for products work well for Republicans-they could rival George S. Parker in that field, yet they seem to pick the most uncharismatic candidates they can find for the White House without characteristics appealing to women. In the post-Oprah media world appearance is more valuable for getting elected than substance. Or rather, the substance is the appearance.

Voters don't want to feel saddled with an unpleasant President elected because the alternative is worse. Republicans need to pull out all the stops and use full court pressure even to have a chance at getting 50% of the vote in recent elections because they aren't running top-drawer individuals. Why not?

The answer could be that the U.S.A. just doesn't matter so much to the rich party anymore with China and Mexico being better places to invest capital for profit. Besides, the Democrat Presidents are doing the Republican's work in economics for them except for the debt, yet public debt perhaps isn't too meaningful to global capitalists networked abroad. If U.S. interests decline the value of their foreign interests shall rise.

Evolution theory has developed in politics as a buzzword for fate. Evolution political theory is a blind historical force determining political development rather than intelligent design inclusive of the well being of all U.S. citizens in the U.S.A. today. It is a convenient excuse enabling the concentration of wealth and political power in privileged elites. Political evolution theory applied as an equivalent of the oriental joss (fate) may be satisfactory for select scientific classes of epistemological extremists on the left and right with a point of view of human mind upgraded in the worst of B.F. Skinner's; The human body theory goes, is meat and mind is no more than a bio-chemical apparition within.

There is just no political demand for full employment and a balanced budget in the U.S.A.  with existentialist individual value satisfaction being the reality check on Wall Street. That is the Democrat Party does not run candidates with competence in economic realism any more. One postures and tries to fund partisan interests and lets the public debt absorb the not realistic approach to holistic national economics.

Every American needs a minimum income-there is simply a cost of living and jobs are hard to find. Even college graduates are unemployed or underemployed not uncommonly and the cost of getting good skills is very high especially with corporate permanence in the U.S.A. being decreasingly something to count on. Occasionally the nation selects a charismatic and competent individual with economic realism to be President, and that rare event seems like radical reform even if it is only moderately so. In 2016 the Republicans should actually make an effort to find an economic realist capable of generating full employment, ecological reform and moral leadership concurrent with destroying public debt in the short-term. The nation ought to step back from the brink of the 4th phase of the Toynbee cycle of decline from the universal phase.

Rectification of Names; Chess is Not a Sport

Chess is not a sport-it's a game, an intellectual game. Language has definitions within given ontological relativism of meanings. Lexicon A may or may not share some common terms with lexicon B, C etc. Lexicons are constructions and nominal rather than of a Platonic realist nature.

Chess and monopoly, tic tac toe and poker while competitive cannot be well said to be sports without Morphy'ing the meaning of sport so far as to relinquish its ordinary meaning.

We believe without bias that quadriplegics too can be champion chess players, or that even blind, quadriplegic chess players can rise to G.M. level if applying themselves with modern technology position-sounding chess boards (perhaps each piece would have a distinct pleasing sound when a hand is waved above it)for them. It would still seem an error to consider chess as an athletic instead of an intellectual activity.

Some can argue that the brain has neurochemistry that works-that it increases energy consumption with intellectual effort. That is true enough. Yet one can't regard chemical energy burning of plants as sport or  even that of an individual in a coma arising to r.e.m.sleep and increasing brain activity.

Intellectual activities are worthwhile ventures for-themselves. One would not use intellectual and athletic as synonyms, or consider Curlie, Moe and Larry as great intellectuals nor Albert Einstein a great athlete.

Philosophers assuredly do consider material things as well as abstract entities that have no material existence (if anything such could be said to exist) if that were possible. Within the greater metaphysics of monism-all things that exist would be material, spiritual or whatever other term one wanted to label everything that exists with.

The Olympics got rid of wrestling-one of the original sports, and might like to add chess one day in order that Norway could get more gold medals in areas besides sky jumping, giant downhill or shooting targets while cross country skiing. The most difficult question for the I.O.C. would be is chess a summer or a winter sport?

The Icon & the Axe, The Cross & the Switchblade, The Queers & The Rich- The Toynbee Cycle of Contemporary History

 The historian James Billington once served as the Librarian of Congress. Billington also wrote a book named The Icon and The Axe. The work of  history of the Rus from the arrival of Vikings to lead as royals at Kiev continuing through the arrival of orthodox Christianity and icons of the faithful is a portrait of the evolution of a civilization. Of course we know that Ivan the Terrible began a centuries long battle to recover land and political power lost to the Mongol invaders after Genghis Khan. Americans often lack a sense of history and fail to learn lessons of history, yet we have great world historians such as the late Brit Arnold Toynbee to help us understand the way of the world and its recurrent political cycles of evolution.

The United States experienced a manifest destiny on a lightly populated North American continent and a vigorous, healthful, rising culture of immigrants and new American-born sons and daughters of the frontiers of ingenuity, free holding pioneering, faith and invention. Democracy was a natural fit for people without an oppressive ruling class located in Europe. The American Revolution to cut away that cancer was an example for the world to follow. France and Russia would accomplish the same revolts against corrupt powers of concentrated wealth with different results.

The Russian revolution did not occur in a vacuum. Russia was faced with continental powers and even American military resistance yet overcame only to be co-opted by corrupt an oppressive ruling class leadership and bad political philosophy leading to the termination of individual free enterprise in the Soviet society. Today Russia as an emergent democratic society faces the challenge of an ad hoc global ruling class of concentrated wealth that would buy everything in Russia and repress the locals if they could. The ordinary people of the United States have already experienced their own post cold war reduction under the deregulated power of Wall Street banks, corporations outsourcing production, large scale immigration of cheap labor and bad political leadership that has failed to show any interest in ecological reform of economics or full employment for all U.S. citizens. Wealth and power is increasingly concentrated in the U.S.A. and globalism through a hoc Wall Street networking has progressively reduced individualism in economics in preference for ad hoc corporate and government collectivism.

 The Cross and the Switchblade was the title of a film with the actor Pat Boone highlighting the difficult moral choices of a New York gang member. We see that the weapon of choice had moved downscale from the war axe to the switchblade; a smaller, more concealable weapon selected for a modern urban culture. The sort of individualism that might have made Erik the Red a good Viking explorer and outlaw of Iceland had been suppressed by the N.Y.P.D.  Individualism in New York and America still flourished in the 1950s- an era before the rise of the World Wide Web and instant global stock trading.

While personal weapons have downsized, in the collective era social weapons have vastly increased in scale. Nuclear weapons, microwave cookers of mass destruction, designer biological society terminators and innumerable others have made the future of humanity dubious. As individualism has been drowned out by collective social environments and as the ecosystem has declined in health with a vast repository of insults by economic activity social irresponsibility has increased. Personal egoism developed as a Wall Street philosophy and the capitalist philosophy of Adam Smith was transformed into a Frankenstein monster running roughshod over the moderate purpose of democracy and its ability to adapt to the dense population era. The poor increased in the United States as wealth was concentrated consistent with party political theory.

 Contemporary U.S. political leadership has made this an era aptly titled The Queers and The Rich. The Obama administration made homosexual service in the military and homosexual marriage it's basic political goals along with creating a corporatist national health care infrastructure. It has failed to close Guantanamo Bay incarceration centers or prosecute 2008 Wall Street collapse actors sufficiently to put a single principle in prison. The administration has supported Federal Reserve printing of 90 billion dollars per month of free no interest loans to banks too-big-to-fail and supported development of war in Syria. These are the actions of a nation in Toynbean decline piling of vast national debt and moving into a Universal economic phase of civilization.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_of_History

 Before the modern trends of decline in the U.S.A. Arnold Toynbee wrote his 'Study of History' detailing more than 20 civilizations that had arisen and fallen and considered the reason why. America seems to have little interest in not proceeding to it's own fall. That fall may not coincide with the apocalypse at the end of the world foretold by three or more different religious faiths. Instead the failure of U.S. political leadership may simple place the U.S.A. in receivership or get its population decimated by global warming, mass epidemic or collapse of political institutions and infrastructure.

 The major political parties essentially serve the queers and the rich. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are mutually exclusive of ends or means. Democrats are the shop stewards to the global corporatists. With the Obama administration the apostles of global homosexual marriage propping of Wall Street the Democrat Party has no leadership cognizant of ecological economic reform or an interest in full employment. It has not even built trans-continental express bicycle lanes for the unlazy or those with electric engines for their bike.

 In the age of fracture with existentialist atheism supporting an ethics of social irresponsibility well serving to concentrate wealth and power ad hoc collectivism has repressed the American ideal of individualism. De facto collectivism in the ad hoc corporatist state has little interest in rebuilding or reforming public works. It seeks tax cuts for the rich-perhaps a flat tax-and is happy to pile up vast public debt to support Defense contractors for superfluous foreign military activities.

 Contemporary collectivism with an evolutionary stamp of godless approval finds no reason to believe in meaning or ethics. Nationalism and pursuit of national interest, the conservation of the environment or restoration of democracy through reallocation of the broadcast media wavelengths to citizen podcast broadcasts locally to take away the power of concentrated wealth to concentrate mass communications power a little.

 Then there are more elections in 2014 and 2016, yet there are few capable candidates with any visions of national change.