Alaska Bear Drops Heavy Load in Forest

 In the news cycle before the party political conventions there isn't too much of compelling interest, so I turned to local sources for something to write about. Recently I observed an exceptionally large deposit of bear scat in the woods, and that seemed newsworthy since a bear had recently broke into my tent.

 If one closely observes the bear scat one discerns the textured content from eating branches, leaves and such in order to get to the blueberries without picking them individually-a difficult task when one has large nails (aka claws) on their four paws. I think that bear digestive systems without a fish diet may process more slowly, conservatively, and so after it ate half of a container of fine Danish Orchard jelly and two pieces of bread there was an immediate purgative effect. The bear left the tent relatively soon and with so much sugar probably jogged along the rest of its usual circuit.

 Black bear developed from a different species than brown bear. Black bear periodically 'borrow' food items from a tent yet make themselves scarce as soon as possible. While the bear was getting its summer snack I was looking at an Internet photo of a brown bear attack on a tent site outside Yellowstone several years ago when a few campers were injured and the partially eaten corpse of a camper formerly asleep in a tent was found some distance away. The black bear that raided my tent went in through the partially open front door and left only about 70 stitches worth of sewing repairs to the tent that it made as it scrapped out the remainder of a block of mild cheddar cheese from near the side of the tent under clothing.

 The bear basically took items that were inessential. The jelly was an extra one in fact that I would have had difficulty doing anything with this year before moving to the next location. I have wondered about interspecies communication now and then, having experienced a few unusual coincidences in the appearance of whales.

Mitt Romney Gold at Bain Capital & Salt Lake City Olympics Simultaneously?

An Obama election clave claim that Mitt Romney excelled as President of the Salt Lake City Olympics being organizer of that concurrently with making millions and millions for shareholders of Bain capital seems absurd. How can anyone be expected to believe that Romney is that sharp at organizing profitable private and public enterprise?

 If Romney had moved on to the Olympic games management before formally quitting his day job can anyone blame him? In the real world quitting one job before starting another can result in no work at all.

 If an interim or transitional management team at Bain capital actually exploited government rules and law to turn a profit sending some jobs abroad it is difficult to fault those players rather than the U.S. Congress for setting the rules of the game. We run right into the parable of N.B.A. rules.

 Can the Obama team expect the Miami Heat to not stuff the basketball in the hoop even if it regarded as an unfair advantage over the shorter players? N.B.A. rule makers would need to ban stuffs and egregious jams if they wanted to stop the advantage that the taller players have over the smaller. If the Miami Heat as honorable and nationalistic players refused to stuff the ball because it did harm to American players (they are the shorter domestic players) then they would lose to the teams that were willing to exploit the jamming/stuffing outsourcing opportunities.

 Plainly it is the role of the Congress to pass laws that advantage American economic players in the 50 states. They cannot rely on corrupt global officiating or an honor system on Wall Street. There is no substitute for plain, simple and well-designed rules that promote the interests of U.S. economic players on then home court.

The advantaged, taller players want to stuff the economic balls globally while the shorter U.S. team wants to create a rule infrastructure that encourages national economic development and full employment. Easy economic treasons are the global convenience of the era of instant global communications and it would require and intellectual brain-trust to reform U.S. nationalism sufficiently to conserve and recover economic and ecospheric development.

Without federal legal reform of economic philosophy that advantages national free enterprise in smaller corporate units and delimits the opportunities for intercorporate shareholding and networking a new global class of taller players without borders will become a politically unaccountable ruling class. That unofficial aristocracy will make a joke of local, national politics fundamentally subverting U.S. nationalism in the political paradigm of the founders of being independent and democratic.

 One hates to think that young players at Bain capital took advantage of the absence of Mitt Romney gone too organize the Salt Lake City World Olympic Games to make quick, cheap profits by outsourcing jobs to China or wherever. In the absence of Mitt's supervision there might have been a breakdown of patriotism in Massachusetts's windows on Wall Street.

An Informal Comment On Free Enterprise vs.Corporatism Historically

I believe that over the history of the United State individualism has been gradually replaced by collectivism in corporations, education, government and so forth. I believe that is circumstantial rather than necessary, and that the concentration of social power is an evolved fact that tends to harm human society as well as help if. I read Sartre's 'Critique of Dialectical Reason' long ago and have since viewed human social organization rather more phenomenally and existentially. One might find a pre-determinism element in Christian Church history however I think even the ecclesiatic organizations are largely gone off course without much of the right priesthood of believers aspect they should have.

 These uncorrected social formations occasional are terminated by revolt or war yet I think the phenomena of social scale remains even following major disasters such as World War Two. The Zaibatsu were taken under the wing of the McArthur administration and corrected with the feudal power ended as well as the religious power of the Emperor yet the size of Japanese corporations grew even so as did the government numbers with democracy. It is a paradox that U.S. democracy has grown so large with concentrated power for-itself tied into granting contracts to preferred corporate bidders or non-bidding contractors as on occasion happened with Haliburton during the Iraq nation rebuilding regime.

American history was fundamentally different from that of many other nations because it started later and with more enlightened leadership. Unfortunately that advantage of individual enterprise and leadership is being subsumed in the corporate greed expansion uncorrected.

One is aware of the European and Chinese history of imperialism of one sort or another, or that of Ghengis Khan and the Mongol hordes ranging across Eurasia. The history of the Middle East and of Mesopotamia from Sargon of Assyria to Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and of ancient Egypt are examples of countries without a foundation of free enterprise. The imperial characteristic of human society is perennial and re-emerges in uncorrected democratic dynamics with problems of scal and failures of enlightened government public leadership.

In the first century of the existence of the United States land and work for-oneself was more liberally available than today. In 1988 I briefly held a 20-acre federal homestead tract on the Kantishna River north of Mt. McKinley. I could afford remote survey costs and let it go. The program closed down for good shortly thereafter.

Earlier in U.S. history land for homesteading was rather plentiful, and because works wasn't concentrated in corporate control, and because corporations if they existed at all were of far smaller scale individual free enterprises were the norm. Sure large projects and companies came to exist from Salt Works in New York to the construction of the Erie Canal, yet the preponderance of individual enterprises and smallholdings was more of a common fact than today.

One might consider the history of U.S. Grant after he quit the Army in Eureka California because he wanted to go home to Illinois to be with his wife whom he'd seen little enough during the prior years in which he was passed over for promotion. Although he was finally made Captain he'd already sent in his resignation.

Grant worked in Missouri on his own ranch-farm/wooded property cutting wood for-himself to try and survive for a couple years. There was much unemployment back then in the countryside and people found work and life style with their own free effort without waiting to be hired by the large global corporations.

Grant struggled to feed himself and his family and finally had to go to work for his father-in-law as a hardware store clerk in Illinois I seem to remember. It was the outbreak of the Civil War and his advancement as a West Point Grad and history as a quartermaster that led the Governor to appoint Grant leader of the Illinois National Guard and he made the most of his opportunities before taking a commission in the regular Army.

Sure we know about Andrew Jackson's desire to get a fair trading status on the commodities of the Tennessee River with 'globalists' of New York, or of the effort of Ben Ficklin to build a southern route for a trans-continental railroad before the Civil War through Texas to replace the Butterfield Stage line, yet the concentration of wealth in global corporations and it's volatility as in Diamond's Chase 6 billion dollar gamble and loss was not anywhere near as common.

The phenomenality of large corporate networking has increased far from the days when the British Hudson's Bay Company and the East India Company were the closest things to large corporations that existed. Its simply a matter of scale and domination of the geography and marketplace by the corporate globalist world that displaces the free enterprise of the majority reducing it to a vassilized, dependent status upon corporate patronage.

The word 'ret' in the earliest Egyptian language use meant 'red'. Rhett Butler as a symbol for the old south and of the 'greed is good' nature of the slave trade was a character is a liberal tract on the evils of human nature. 'Ret' appeared during the lead up to the complex social allegiance choices between fascism and socialism. Free enterprise was always the right choice-a free enterprise at a human scale within a governed context-yet politically people tended to select the most extreme dysjunctive examples because it is simpler to be rhetorically dogmatic rather than philosophical for most.

Not only did Eisenhower warn of the danger of the military industrial complex even during an era of cold war arms escalations that would eventually lead to one million times the blast power of the Hiroshima device being jointly held between the Soviet Union and The United States, the Vietnam War and of L.B.J. and Secretary of Defense McNam(era) became a kind of corporate McDonald's trillions and trillions of burgers sold in defense procurements to Americans for a series of wars that helped concentrate wealth.

In some of the grand scale of corporate globalism today there are vast planetary empires of networked businesses interfaced with special government projects and politicians kickbacking wealth as a phenomenon displacing alternative free enterprise by the majority of Americans. As wealth and power are concentrated free enterprise inventiveness commensurately declines amidst the polity. There are very few goods or services produced today that could not perhaps be duplicated or developed better with smaller corporations in a more competitive setting.

Corporate franchise feudalism with the Earth spaces controlled by powerful with a variegated yet syncopated concentration of wealth and power in an out of government means renting the right to exist to a degraded humanity seems to be the most likely course of development today. I believe its good to advocate for the taming of the corporate monstrosities to reinforce a more competitive and inventive milieu of free enterprise.

Quantum Teleportation of Information Making Progress

Quantum teleportation experimentalists in China and Vienna have recently made enhanced distance and quantity of photons entangled records. Chinese scientists set a distance record recently of about 100 kilometers. In 2007 a Vienna Group sent entangled photon data in between a pair of Canary Islands 143 kilometers. New efforts may target satellites as receivers for entangled quantum photons.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341197/title/Quantum_teleportation_leaps_forward

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/quantum-teleportation-distance/

These experiments aren't like those of Star Trek's transporter room. The information from entangled photons is sent rather than the photons themselves. Science News has a good article on the progress of Zellinger's Vienna team and of the Chinese.

image credit GNU Public License via Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quantum_teleportation_diagram.

President Obama is Not Serious About Eliminating Bush-Obama Tax Cuts

President Obama has suggested that Bush II tax cuts he signed off on in December  2010 be extended again for all except the rich. That seems a campaign ploy. Like the 2010 renewal the President is unlikely to do more than sign off on them again before leaving office.

If the President was serious he would let the tax cuts expire for all and let Democrats in Congress have that leverage for getting concessions on important ecospheric and economic reform legislation in return for a 1% tax cut for the middle class here, and a 2% tax cut on the poor and working class there. Its the only realistic way to go. Gradual reform by a thousand budget cuts and reforms are more practical than the big bureaucratic package compromised to death.

http://whtc.com/news/articles/2012/jul/09/obama-to-seek-one-year-extension-for-some-of-bush-tax-cuts/

Romey's Bermuda Retirement Account, Obama's Foreign Origin and the Problem of Globalism

The poor at least (who are U.S. citizens) would like America to be for Americans and the rich to invest in creating good jobs in the U.S.A. Many of them don't prefer to have a president raised offshore in Indonesia eating dogs with or without barbeque sauce who won't reinforce Arizona border security or U.S. immigration laws, neither are they thrilled about numbered Swiss accounts, no-tax havens for the prosperous in Bermuda (e.g. Mitt Romney) or Rhodes scholars running for political office in the U.S.A. Bermuda is also a British possession and no right-thinking Republican candidate should touch that empire's financial assets and institutions with a ten-foot pole.

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/13/156701493/why-would-romney-bury-treasure-in-bermuda

Some of the poor deplore Bill Clinton's Oxford academic treason as well as Tom Harkins Bermuda vacation home. They may hate Charlie Wrangell's Santo Domingan condo properties and wonder why they aren't in Puerto Rico. How can President Obama advocate for illegal aliens as he recently has and let Samoan Americans languish without citizenship-everyone should be a citizen of one country and no more-American Samoans living in a U.S. territory have none.

Americans today are plundered by globalism and existential economics of unaccountability and global irresponsibility. From a Diamond President of Barclay's Bank to a Diamond President of Chase losing 6 billion on the roll of dice the climate of global existentialist self-interest prevails in U.S. politics. Deregulation has made a diner's dilemma macro-social gradual decline into a pit of unprofitability for the national interest. 

Democrats have made the Romney tax-free retirement account holding in Bermuda a campaign issue. It indicates the need for pervasive reform of capitalism such that U.S. free enterprise is featured and the prosperity of all Americans is a concern preponderantly in politics. Americans are global investors in mutual funds and a plethora of other financial instruments yet when everyone pursues their narrow self interest the systems tends to fail just as if everyone at a football game with a 100,000 people sought to pursue their best self interest using the restrooms at half-time making the process inefficient.

Adam Smith and David Hume were friends and philosophically minded. They advocated for capitalism with values in their day adapted to the prevailing empirical conditions of trade, commerce and allocation of personal and public resource. Hayek and Von Mises inquired into the nature of capital and what it is-plants, cash, gold, social structure and so forth. Smith and Hume realized that the pursuit of the good might be construed as capital, for capital is a good that secures the well-being of the individual as well as of the many. The concept of common wealth and ordinary capital build up is a function of the description of the literal, variable meaning of capital at any given time.

In one era water may be the most valuable capital good, in another it might be an oar or a sail. Tradable commodities such as gold may represent capital, or seashells or good social structure such as in a well-trained mercenary army for hire. Capital is an abstract expression of concentrated point phenomena of good states of affairs. It is a failure in modern social and economic theory to recognize ordinarily the concept of capital as a variable representing the epiphenomenal object of goodness to the experience of human life that brings automatic and mal-adapted economic iterations and ideas such as existential deregulation of social commerce to dominate the present mal-adaptive global economic system.

The nature of capital and of ecological economic philosophy is too broad of topic to pursue far in this essay. Yet it should be possible to reform American capitalism such that free enterprise is again accentuated over concentrated wealth through collective corporate structures. The number of individuals employed in any corporation should be limited to 5000 and the number of corporations anyone could invest in would be limited to three. A new age of qualitative economic competition and free enterprise should develop. Yet it needs to develop with the criterion of ecospheric renewal through the necessary vehicle of government regulation, zoning and incentives.

Condolizza Rice Moves Up in V.P. Ranking Competition

Former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser and current President of Stanford University has received recent media attention as a top-ranking potential V.P. choice of Mitt Romney. We hope he does bring the Republican into the 21st century beating the Democrat Party to the punch in placing the first woman inn the Vice Presidential post. The Republican Party ought to recognize that when a quality female candidate-especially a black woman-with the best qualifications to serve the nation is eligible yet passed over it diminishes the trust minorities would place in the party that their personal effort would receive commensurate reward.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577523631390995126.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The late President Ronald Reagan modernized the White House doomsday communication system informally when Soviet subs off the East Coast launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike would only give the President six minutes to determine if he ought to launch America's missiles at the Soviet targets before Washington D.C. was incinerated. The President decided that instead of evacuating the Oval Office at first early warning to fly to a safe location he would remain right there managing until the last the world's fate. Yet three teams of successors would leave earlier to go to different, safe and undisclosed locations; the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and the Secretary of State. One believes that if some disaster affected American and world destiny one day that Condolizza Rice would be capable of filling the role more than adequately in the emergency.

If a President Romney selects Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State he will have a capable third team member with valuable experience in world affairs and running a large organization.

Political Mechanics Interview of Administration Economic Guru Tim Gagner

Political Mechanics obtained a priority interview with Administration economic guru Tim Gagner recently. In the fabulously well-appointed hall of curvaceous mirrors we were served neat mint juleps and tiny ornate cookies to munch on though less filling than we deserved.

P.M.- Thank you for consenting to this interview today, we know you are a busy man. Tell us, and truthfully mind you for we know that the truth would agree with the answers I have written here to my questions how you rate the President's first term performance in advancing gay power?

Gagner: He sucks.

P.M.-Well then, that might have been enough for first term supporters, what does he have planned for a second term if re-elected?

Gagner- The President will add enough public debt each year to raise the public debt total to 22 trillion dollars enabling future generations to pay a trillion dollars in annual interest from a five trillion dollar annual federal budget without reducing the debt at all. That plan may not be enough to win over hard-core red state voters, yet I have more leverage that isn't disclosed.

P.M.-What is it?

Gagner- It is our plan to cut taxes and the federal budget from five trillion to three trillion with one trillion set aside to pay down the national debt annually eliminating it entirely in 22 years starting with the next administration following us. The public would have three trillion to spend on frills such as infrastructure development and environmental protection and pay another two trillion for debt reduction and interest on the debt-a trillion apiece.

P.M.- That seems to add up to a five trillion dollar budget to us. How will the public accept the extra two trillion dollars in taxation?

Gagner- It's not a tax. We will require Americans to buy existential insurance from government-approved retailers on a window shelf exchange for a piece of the American dream. It will be a penalty made upon all Americans for breathing.

P.M.-Interesting. What else have you got if that doesn't sell?

Gagner- We have a special on home-built cold molded cruise missiles for fewer than $299. These babies have a range of 100 miles and can deliver a hundred pounds of dissent with off the shelf prop and motor, g.p.s. and optical guidance.

P.M.- That's sure to win a few more votes.

Gagner- You ain't seen nothin. We plan to halt the funding of the communist military and entirely privatize soldiering and the art of war. That will also save trillions of military entitlement programs. Several different private armies and navies in competion for rich contracts will relieve taxpayer of the burden of self-defense. 

P.M.- Anything to increase the single female vote harvest?

Gagner- The President believes that the undermench can be liberated further by placing a penalty upon smiling. Smiling is a way that the undermench show sexual submission to the taller mench.

P.M. -So that's it? Will the President be at the Olympics ?

Gagner- Of course. He would never miss a celebrity happening. He may announce the end of nuclear national competition and outsource ballistic missile leases. We believe that long-range ballistic missiles can lease for a billion dollars per year with full MIRV and MIRV capability, and shorter-range missiles at a discount rate.

P.M.- That is a brilliant plan. Why would Iran develop a nuclear weapons program if they could rent one of our big bangers for just a billion bucks?

Gagner- We will also replace Secretary of State Clinton with the more likable diplomat Sir Don Rickles. The innovations will flow like a million glaciers melting.

P.M. What could be a bigger fulfillment of change than that?

Gagner-Electing Mitt Romney.

Sleeping on a Mattress vs. Sleeping on the Ground

I had an opportunity to write an article on the topic of how the mattress one selects can influence one's quality of sleep. Sleep quality is very important for WashingtoniD.C. insiders, so I wanted to commend sleeping on the ground as well.

I have slept on the ground for several years in Alaska and learned that one tends to belch turning to one's left rather than to one's right. I believe the stomach isn't symmetrical so that is a gravity channel phenomenon. Sleeping on the ground lets one feel every sort of vibration and earthquake travelling through the muskeg or dirt. One discerns the difference between the short earth waves, the back and forth jigglers and the ocean-like longer length waves. Earth tremors and an important and relaxing benefit of sleeping on the ground.

The opportunities for encounters with nature and wildlife are greater sleeping on the ground that on a mattress as well. One discovers the eagles are out and about early and late singing their calls through the forest, and occasionally one may have a bear, porcupine or adverse humans approach one's sleeping site to enliven the time. These features of sleep are absent from the mattress placed indoors-though one has the advantage of stepping down to earth from the mattress rather than getting up from it-especially important when the weather is inclement or cold enough to remain below freezing all day.

The perfect sleeper indoors may dream of paper clips and provisions for the condo. The ground sleeper tends to remain alert for danger, falling trees (last year in Wasilla there were so many of the freeze dried things crashing about that even the moose must have taken notice), moose kicking the tent sharing a winter trail, large clumps of snow falling to crush the tent from trees, or in Colorado,Texas or Florida occasional high winds flattening the tent like their hurricane cousins. Sleeping through the approach and passing of Hurricane Wilma years ago was informative.

Why would any politician choose to sleep on a comfortable mattress instead of the ground?

Actual Dimensions; Fewer Than All Possible Dimensions?

One might wonder what dimensions are made of. It would be a tautology to define them as made of either mass or energy-things that are contained in dimensions or at least provide color content so that one might 'see' the otherwise transparent directions.

Mass and energy existing in dimensions even in a basic form such as strings or membranes ought not to be able to flow into dimensions that do not exist. One might tie a complex string knot in a finite number of dimensions, yet unless the nature of dimensions is that they can be infinite in number, their should be a limit to the number of dimensions a knot of mass and energy can take.

One must wonder if the number of dimensions any given universe might exploit is driven upward through cosmic evolution to the maximum number of dimensions possible, or if the number of dimemnsions that are possible for mass and energy to take is fated to be fewer than the potential number of dimensions that can exist potentially. One might ask if the potential number of dimensions that might exist must be the same as the number of dimensions that actually exist in the absence of mass or energy.

The obvious question though is; can larger meta-dimensions that surpass all possible universes in their contingent dimensions be anything besides omnipresent in relation to the contingent dimensions of mass-energy Universes?

September 26, 1983; Close Call for Nuclear Wipeout

September the 26th 1983 was an interesting day. Evidently the first world was within six minutes of being incinerated in a global thermonuclear war. The event in a Soviet military facility that day is recounted in a book named 'The Dead Hand' by David Hoffman. Yes it does read as well as a basic action adventure novel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501387.html

Evidently the Soviets like their U.S. counterparts had less than 12 minutes from warning of opposition force attack to make a decision to launch a retaliatory strike. Since the U.S.A. had 1000 ballistic missiles in Minuteman silos pointed at the Soviet Union and they only need 35 minutes to reach their targets the balance of the nuclear scythe of the respective nations was precarious.

Soviet satellites watched the U.S.A. and the computers processing the data made a mistake signaling a U.S. launch. Some Soviet officer named Petrov had to make the decision to advise Chairman Andropov if the attack was real or not. Andropov had little time to decide to wipe out Washington D.C., Boston and N.P.R. forever before Pravada, Tass and Izvestia were also incinerated. Petrov trusting his gut that the super-computers processing the data were wrong said the attack signal was wrong. His choice stopped the unprovoked Soviet missile retaliatory strike. There are many other interesting stories in 'The Dead Hand'.

With computer viruses existing on the Internet one might wonder if someone might launch the missiles by remote control one day. Well, it's an interesting world with innumerable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of people that don't even know what sex they are supposed to function with much less balance a budget and have full employment and a recovering ecosphere.

Obama Term 1: Four Years of Extended Tax Cuts, Five Trillion More Debt and Four More Years of Guantanamo Bay

President Obama has a plan for the nation, or at least for a re-election campaign- renew cheer-leading for Bush era tax cuts excluding the wealthy with a snowball's chance in hell of passing through Congress. That would let the President cave in at the last minute again in return for peanuts for his Chicago supporters and possibly the gay union to include the rich in tax cuts for another two years. The cost of another Obama Administration term would be at least another 5 trillion dollars of public debt. The national unemployment rate has remained above 8% and may get worse if any of several economic dangers arise including global warming events.

Long ago when Barrack Obama was a young lad growing up in Indonesia and later Hawaii, the Democratic Party was a realistic advocate for the economic rights of the poor. Democratic leaders were not sycophants signing off on tax cuts for the rich now and then. Neither did they demote the interests of the poor and regard them as illegal aliens or first generation American Hispanics prevalently. Democratic administrations were not drunk on the champagne of celebrity and glitter of stars and globalism; they were able individuals with a sober view of national interests and practiced real-politick post-World War Two that brought about the rise of prosperity of all classes of Americans.

The Soviet Union formed during the lead up to the First World War. Since the U.S.A. made its wrong decision a century ago to invest in foreign wars the need to battle against political situations of its own creation has been a recurrent theme of political class. That unaffordable policy ought to stop, as should abortion of the health of the world ecosphere yet the President has no apparent capacity to escape from a political economy of cephalic idiocy put upon him by his Rasputin Cohort of Advising bankers seeking to just concentrate wealth as bankers occupationally do.

The President might have mentioned the heresy of making banks non-profit institutions and been convicted of impeachable offenses of course, yet he hasn't taken even simple steps to reduce unemployment such as halting all illegal immigration so the labor market can tighten up and wages rise in the U.S.A.

Because the broadcast media is owned by the rich with the Gay Pride C.N.N. and M.S.N.B.C. on the left and Rush Limbaugh on the right the non-party political system seems a fact with idiotic, unreformed market economics plundering social reality nationally and globally the usual advocate for elevation of short term profits to the front of the political agenda.

Rush Limbaugh mentioned that the poor receiving food stamps haven't enough pain. Pain is some sort of incentive that people require to look for work in Mr. Limbaugh's view. Some of his ideas are a big pain for-others of course, yet it is the fact that he hasn't any meaningful competition that allows him to concentrate wealth and bespeak road apples of ignorance on environmental affairs.

Without reform of the broadcast media such that all Americans can have a time slice on a local frequency via the Internet the concentration of political power through the corruption of the rich owning the broadcast spectrum isn't likely to change. President Obama hasn't taken a step in that necessary direction either. He seems to be contemplating how to add another five or ten trillion dollars of public debt for the next generation to struggle with if he can get re-elected.

Lagrange Point Global Cooling Product Hypotheses

There are many ideas for installing sunlight filters to reduce global heating on Earth. Some would place various filters or sunscreens at Lagrange points in the Earth-Moon system where they would be stationary. I would like to add the suggestion that constructing mirrors and polarizing filter screen adjustable units on the moon for easier low-gravity launch into orbit with lower per unit lift cost reach Lagrange Point 1 might be a cost-feasible approach if the construction on the moon is made with automatic robotic 'factories' built on Earth for delivery to the moon.

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

There are probably innumerable ways of making cad/cam jet-sprayed mirrors on the Moon using lunar materials. An electromagnetic linear mass driver would launch the mirrors off the moon as independent components for assembly at the Lagrange point snapping in to place. The polarizing filtration should allow whatever spectrum of light wavelength in quantatively and qualitatively adjustably as science requires for appropriate reducttion of temperature. This should of course only be used as a last resort, yet of course it would still take a dedicated production program to ready ahead of time.

If the global heating problem is eventually solved by eliminating the surfeit of greenhouse gas emissions, the mirrors out to be moved and relocated for use as a very large reflector space telescope.

image credit: N.A.S.A. Lagrange Points Sun-Earth System with Gravity Field

President Obama Failed to Reach for the Stars

Reading through Jeff Sach's 'Commonwealth' on global challenges one discovers simple paradigmatic appraisals of the world's major challenges regarding demographics, environment and poverty and feasible approaches for solving them. President Obama has failed to nuse the bully pulpit of the Presidency the past four years to educate Americans on several basic points-and they need to know if federal foreign and domestic policy is to ever change from the same old, same old.

The population of Africa is expected to more than double from one billion 2.2 billion by 2050 while Asia's will increase by 1.3 billion. Europe and Russia's population will decrease from 713 million to 630 million appx. Italy's present 1.3 per family rate of population decrease would bring the present population of 58 billion downward by the year 2300 to 600,000 people. Evidently, and hopefully perhaps, population nexplosions can change to poulation implosions reducing population without war, plague or famine.

Most future wars are expected to be in the regions of high populkation growth and poverty, With prosperity the population growth halts and perhaps eventually reverses. Because of heterosexual facts no genetic loss need occurs with population reduction, and the infusing of the human genome may create a genetically rich human population on Earth stabilizing at whatever number is desirable.

Inn a way the demographic growth and war on the environment is a kind o9f battle of the bulge that humanity can win. Poverty needs to be eliminated and full employment occur within a rational free market with competent government. Fossil fuels generate 29 Gigatons of CO2  annually and deforestation seven. With smarter people, better politicians educating the public and a recovering ecosystem stopping loss of existing species humanity has hope that nit can remain alive and reach for the stars.

Weak Job CreationPerformance/Loss of habitat Area for Endangered Species

The dismal job creation rate of the Obama administration is of course a consequence of the social environment. The economy is not an ossified practico-inert structure that functions automatically and from which Americans must merely equally harvest the output. Politically the two parties seem to regard it as such with the results being weak job creation performance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-added-80k-jobs-in-june-unemployment-remains-82percent/2012/07/06/gJQAP9WhRW_story.html

It is possible to create a positive social environment with full employment for Americans and a good ecosystem recovering from a couple centuries of over-use and abuse yet the blind consumption/greed is good way of viewing politics and life reinforced by the broadcast media isn't likely to move in that direction. Necessarily therefor it is the poor and the ecosystem-the commons and life on Earth beyond the yuppie mirrors and gold-plated bathroom fixtures that take a beating.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/07/protected-habitat-shrunk-for-us-.html?rss=1

Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis 2nd Edition

Happily I released an epub second edition of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis today at my lulu book store http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/garycgibson

The second edition has much new and improved content over the first that was published in 2005. I liked that edition yet it didn't convert well to epub format. I was able to get a lot of cosmology and philosophy read since 2005 that helped reshape the book.

Epub books are really fairly cool. They have an index that is something like a hyper-text outline that takes the reader to each section of the book. One can download a free epub reader from Adobe. 

The book is available today only at my bookstore-it will be a few weeks before it is available elsewhere.

The Anti-Free Enterprise Effect of Corporate Collectives

In the time of Adam Smith and the Founders of the United States-the 18th century, there were few large non-governmental organizations. In the present era vast corporate conglomerates wield extreme political influence and are essentially antithetical to democracy based on individual rights and competition.

Consider the parable of the Pro Basketball League with a team being regarded as a corporation for illustrative purposes. Each team has a cap upon the number of players that can compete on the floor at one time at five. What if there was no limit on the number of people a basketball team or corporation could hire and play in the game?

The Chicago Bulls with a strong budget might hire 100 strong, tall men to their team to play next year. Because the Bulls are strong and numerous and since the Dayton Doppelgangers can only afford two players the Bulls win each year brushing aside the Celtics and Miami Heat. Investors pour cash into the Bulls and soon the City of Chicago is the entire team although they can't fit on the basketball court at one time. The Dutch Harbor Destroyers have trouble affording enough players to beat Chicago, so the Bulls increase in power and number winning several championships in a row. Without a limit on the number of players or employees a corporation can have at a reasonable number such as 5000, free enterprise competition fades away into a memory with the preferred locations and advantages of global concentrated power buying up everything and even prostitute-broadcasters to kiss their rears extolling the virtues of large corporations.

A simple reform of capitalism and corporatism to promote free enterprise, competition and rectification of individualism in business would cap the number of employees of a corporation at 5000 and the number of corporations an individual could invest in at just three. Microsoft instead of having a preferred location in the software world able to displace through size and power select competition would need to excel through plain intellectual excellence.  Like the 2012 Miami Heat a corporation would need to win through individual excellence of its players, coaches and training rather than dominate a market through gross large scale and political influence.


In pre-Columbian North America just before colonization the most popular Aboriginal sport was a war-like game crossed between field hockey and rugby in which anything was fair except murder. Many died of course getting punched, kicked and hit with sticks. It was a decadent era in which the more refined sport of javelin hurling at a rolling puck on a fine clay court had been lost with the fall of Cohokia. The logic of global Corporate expansion and decrease of government competence is to move toward the vast, unregulated sport of anarchy ball war before falling under corporate-communist global tyranny by a few elite representatives.

Large multi-national corporations decrease competition and corrupt local politics. Politicians are bought and paid for by multi-nationals and environmental and social agendas are corrupted in favor of the powerful. Broadcast media outlets are owned by concentrated wealth and power while politicians are unwilling to reform federal law to reallocate wavelengths for democratic, local podcast citizen use.

Corporations are after all just phenomenal large collectives of people not dissimilar to large Soviet collectives. One might read Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason' and get a clue about the phenomenal nature of social collectives such as corporations and communes. Governing a nation of individuals with a free enterprise ethos and rationally regulated corporations advancing ideas creatively and taking market share through superior creativity would be far less expensive and corrupted than as in the present era. The founders would have been quite concerned about the influence of huge non-governmental organizations and their anisotropic political influence upon public affairs.