In reading the gospel book of Luke there is an account of the Lord on the cross. Obviously Jesus Christ was personally experiencing pain abundantly. The account of how the Lord experienced that temporal phenomena is a valuable insight into His attitude toward the phenomenality of mind and it's relation to the body.
Cartesian philosophical duality aside the mind does seem like a stranger to the body sometimes during extreme insult to the body. As the body fails in health as it inevitably will ,one becomes aware that the mind has an unstable, finite temporal vehicle for support. The mind too shuts down as the body dies. Some find that thought troubling, while others anticipate that it is like going to sleep. The Lord, according to the account provided by the Apostle Luke, commended his Spirit unto God before his mind too, died.
Today, in the era of quantum mechanics and the advent of quantum computing, even today when news of the first full mapping of the brain has been completed by science
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/04/worlds-first-human-brain-map-u.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
it might be easier for people to form even a technical idea of how it might be possible to reassemble or resurrect the mind of a human from stored information. It is easy to comprehend that an omnipotent God would have no trouble at all resurrecting the human spirit (whatever that is-even the data mapping of a mind).
As the Lord experienced the agony of the crucifixion and its aftermath it might have been something of a relief to actual feel the impending relief from the pain of life. It is in life that the pain was so intense, and in death-that the Lord evidently experienced completely as he needed to rely upon God the Father to manage His Spirit after death-that the victory of the Lord appeared. The Lord Jesus was resurrected on the third day after his death. That was a victory for all of the elect.
quote from the King James version...
Luke 23: " 40But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."
15 April 2011
A Vote of No Confidence in 2012 Congressional Budget Debate
President Obama generally has continued the Bush policies regarding U.S. economic management acting as a conservative since taking office. He has bailed out banks and forced two manufacturing corporations into bankruptcy. He has signed off on a Bush II era tax cut extension. Some of the Wall Street regulation reforms were eliminated in the 2011 budget. The President left much of the Bush II era economic managers in office such as Tim Geitner, Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers (Treasury Secretary of the Deregulating Clinton administration). The President's policies may lead to further Wall Street, Banking, and Finance Sector perfidy ahead.
Reading Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's 2010 book ('Free Fall') on the 2007-2008 U.S. economic meltdown confirms several observations I have had about the conduct of the Obama Presidency on the economy; the President is a sycophant of policy enabling the Wall Street/Banking/Financial sector swindlers to renew their assault on American employment and earnings security as the produce nothing sector manufacturers new ways to trim U/S/ rubes of their life opportunities.
Fundamentally, there is no choice between Democrat and Republican parties that would make any difference in the Presidential election of 2012. Each party will work against U.S. interests and support those management class M.B.A.s with little equity in the corporations they work for taking multi-million dollar bonuses, outsourcing industry, killing the national ecosphere, flooding the nation with cheap labor from Mexico and discovering new financial instruments to swill the innocent working class. The poor do not exist except as highway lint in the high end bottled water with a sprig lunch set.
Monetary policy is not at the heart of the 2007-2008 meltdown I think. In reading Joseph Stiglitz's 2010 book 'Free Fall' (he won the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics) I got a few more ideas about the issue.
Monetary policy on what interest rate to lend to banks at, and how much money to print is set buy the Federal Reserve. Even with low interest rate the banks can get the money and do whatever they want with it. Banks do not need to lend the money responsibly to small businesses or innovative tech start ups-they in fact can create financial instruments, housing bubbles and a number of financial products to increase their profit in a way that is harmful to the U.S. economy.
I believe now that financial deregulation of banks and a failure of regulation of Wall Street and the financial service sector was the reason for the recession of 2007-2008. Bush II also deregulated war making with Congress going along with the idiot President starting a protracted kinetic military action without oversight.
Wall Street is not self-correcting, and in the raving national broadcast industry communications swamp extolling immorality, corruption of being stupid in the immediate temporal exstasis (now) the moral thermostat is set at jungle for derivatives, credit swaps, predatory lending to home buyers with the mortgages then sold to pension funds etc. President Obama and the Democrats have continued the policy of Bush II in that regard. Obviously neither party has an interest in solid state economics.
Money supply (M1) is important, yet in a rotten moral investment class climate liquidity is no assurance that cash will be spent where it should.
Reading Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's 2010 book ('Free Fall') on the 2007-2008 U.S. economic meltdown confirms several observations I have had about the conduct of the Obama Presidency on the economy; the President is a sycophant of policy enabling the Wall Street/Banking/Financial sector swindlers to renew their assault on American employment and earnings security as the produce nothing sector manufacturers new ways to trim U/S/ rubes of their life opportunities.
Fundamentally, there is no choice between Democrat and Republican parties that would make any difference in the Presidential election of 2012. Each party will work against U.S. interests and support those management class M.B.A.s with little equity in the corporations they work for taking multi-million dollar bonuses, outsourcing industry, killing the national ecosphere, flooding the nation with cheap labor from Mexico and discovering new financial instruments to swill the innocent working class. The poor do not exist except as highway lint in the high end bottled water with a sprig lunch set.
Monetary policy is not at the heart of the 2007-2008 meltdown I think. In reading Joseph Stiglitz's 2010 book 'Free Fall' (he won the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics) I got a few more ideas about the issue.
Monetary policy on what interest rate to lend to banks at, and how much money to print is set buy the Federal Reserve. Even with low interest rate the banks can get the money and do whatever they want with it. Banks do not need to lend the money responsibly to small businesses or innovative tech start ups-they in fact can create financial instruments, housing bubbles and a number of financial products to increase their profit in a way that is harmful to the U.S. economy.
I believe now that financial deregulation of banks and a failure of regulation of Wall Street and the financial service sector was the reason for the recession of 2007-2008. Bush II also deregulated war making with Congress going along with the idiot President starting a protracted kinetic military action without oversight.
Wall Street is not self-correcting, and in the raving national broadcast industry communications swamp extolling immorality, corruption of being stupid in the immediate temporal exstasis (now) the moral thermostat is set at jungle for derivatives, credit swaps, predatory lending to home buyers with the mortgages then sold to pension funds etc. President Obama and the Democrats have continued the policy of Bush II in that regard. Obviously neither party has an interest in solid state economics.
Money supply (M1) is important, yet in a rotten moral investment class climate liquidity is no assurance that cash will be spent where it should.
13 April 2011
Hitler, Lenin and Stalin Were Not Men of Ideas
Hitler, Lenin and Stalin were not men of ideas; they were action figures; political actors timing their ascent to political power. These men were community organizers rather than independent thinkers. Rather than philosophers they were social manipulators.
Posterity has not brought humanity to regard the ideas of Hitler, Lenin and Stalin much. It is fair to say that Karl Marx was a man of ideas-yet he actually failed to be a man of political revolution in fact; Karl Marx spent much of his life working in the British Library and trying to feed his large family instead of organizing a Crystalnacht, planning a Beer Hall putsch, inventing a way to purge a society of many of its people through death or purging the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of its leaders. These acts were the works of men of act; Hitler, Lenin and Stalin.
Ideas are the currency of human liberty, of human invention, of the power to imagine possibilities before actualizing them. Oppressive governments and totalitarian regimes have forever sought to kill free thought. Today the world is rich with oppressive governments denying the freedom of expression and reading requisite for the growth of human social reason. Even corporatism inheriting the world following the collapse of Soviet Communism has tendencies to limit free speech through numerous means. Very few executives venture to express any sort of political opinion that is not sycophantic of their employer’s interest. As the networking of corporate control spreads around the globe real independent political expression may decline for replacement with tidal waves of sycophants even if bifurcated as in the U.S.A. presently.
If Christianity today in the first world needed a reorganized form of ecclesiastical structure of transition from a hierarchical to a priesthood of believers form, the hierarchical priesthood would, as in prior errors, be tempted if not obligated to supported the hierarchical concentrated economic powers of the day-especially now since the hierarchical priesthood would largely demote themselves from their pedestals and become peer Christians if they did. A Christianity dedicated to reinforcement of global corporatism is obviously one in danger of becoming the worldly church putting actual Christians out.
A global corporatism oppressing free thought by their employees and through the communications media they control as well as via sympathetic government actions such as giving radio wavelengths to the wealthy rather than for citizen podcast use is not unlike the historical economic agencies that existed within authoritarian contexts that sought to repress free thought and speech as it was rightly regarded as a danger to the concentrated wealth and power of the day.
Some might argue in error that Hitler, Lenin and Stalin were intellectually productive. Stalin for example as a youth was placed by his parents in an orthodox Christian school-the choice for the poor. He received a scholarship to an Orthodox Theological Seminary at Tblisi.
Some say that the seminaries of that era were something like Madrassa of today in poorer regions of the world; not an excellent place for education, yet Tblisi Georgia was a restive place able to provide free, unofficial readings in revolution against teh Tsar.
Stalin seemed to do well at the Theology school however he reportedly was rebellious and read forbidden materials. Also uncertain to me is the amount of time he spent there. Possibly attending from age 12, he was cast out from the school in 1899. A wikipedia article notes that he missed his final exam possibly being unable to a afford the back-loaded tuition. Alternatively, according to some sources such as Isaac Deutcher I seemed to recollect, Stalin was already involved in revolutionary meetings and was soon imprisoned. Stalin's is not the life of a sincere intellectual, but that of an opportunist, worldly promoter of his own political interests.
Adolph Hitler was not an intellectual either. As atwenty-something drafted into the first world war he was the son of an Austrian wife-beating drunk. The young Adolph walked his father home from the tavern routinely as he was too inebriated to walk the walk of the sober. Eventually Hitler did compose a book-the infamous Mein Kamp while in prison. Yet as an aspiring political party rtevolutionary he needed to write something in order to stay socially relevent while cooling his heels. The book-terrible raving that it is, was dictated to a near-genius (the guy that ended his life in Spandau Prison) who was his Alex Halley. Actually, Malcom X's telling of his story to Halley turned out much better than Adolph's.
Hitler was a man of action surging ahead with the help of the homosexual militant Ernst Rohm and his gayed up S.A. terminating social, poltiical opposition until he in turn purged Rohm and the S.A. of the gay elite in the 'night of the long knives' after cutting a deal with the elite Werhmacht to get support as the Chancellor of Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm
Lenin would be the most close of the three to being fairly regarded as an intellectual. Actually most of his writing occurred after becoming the first among equals in the prot-Soviet state. Lenin was a solid political organizer who out-maneuvered even the brilliant poltical writer Leon Trotsky for leadership of the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party. lenin did not lead the Kronstaadt naval fortress mutiny however, and when the revolution occurred was far away in western Europe somplace.
Lenin was a correspondence school lawyer who's brother was executed for taking part in a plot top assassinate the Tsar. Lenin had little chance of being trusted by the Russian imperial elite and joined the revolutionary ranks against the Tsar. It is not at all certain that the Bolshevik Party would have been successful in revolting against the Tsar if the Tsar had not first completely bungled the war of Russia versus Germany. Tsar Nicholas II was a nice guy and a terrible political and military leader.
Lenin was brought through Germany on a sealed train to take over leadership of the new post-imperial communist government. The Germany elite had probably arranged for their support in exchange for Lenin's agreement to withdraw Russia from the war and give up the Ukraine to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk later.
Lenin was a clever community organizer, an intellectual of many words and few lasting ideas who did design the transformation of the imperial government into a communist government, and a synthetic man of action-political designer of middling success. Lenin was leader of the Soviet Union only until 1924, and Stalin liquidated his political structure of the New Economic Policy as well as virtually all of the Bolshevik Party veteran revolutionary leaders. Thus Lenin was a politician rather than a thinker, and not sufficiently aware of the nature of the people in the communist party. Stalin may have poisoned Lenin some have speculated, in such a way that he suffered a series of strokes, the last of which was fatal, and occurred while Trotsky was far away from Moscow and unable to attend the all-important funery proceedings and political selection of the new fearless leader-Joseph Stalin (Djugashvilli).
Posterity has not brought humanity to regard the ideas of Hitler, Lenin and Stalin much. It is fair to say that Karl Marx was a man of ideas-yet he actually failed to be a man of political revolution in fact; Karl Marx spent much of his life working in the British Library and trying to feed his large family instead of organizing a Crystalnacht, planning a Beer Hall putsch, inventing a way to purge a society of many of its people through death or purging the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of its leaders. These acts were the works of men of act; Hitler, Lenin and Stalin.
Ideas are the currency of human liberty, of human invention, of the power to imagine possibilities before actualizing them. Oppressive governments and totalitarian regimes have forever sought to kill free thought. Today the world is rich with oppressive governments denying the freedom of expression and reading requisite for the growth of human social reason. Even corporatism inheriting the world following the collapse of Soviet Communism has tendencies to limit free speech through numerous means. Very few executives venture to express any sort of political opinion that is not sycophantic of their employer’s interest. As the networking of corporate control spreads around the globe real independent political expression may decline for replacement with tidal waves of sycophants even if bifurcated as in the U.S.A. presently.
If Christianity today in the first world needed a reorganized form of ecclesiastical structure of transition from a hierarchical to a priesthood of believers form, the hierarchical priesthood would, as in prior errors, be tempted if not obligated to supported the hierarchical concentrated economic powers of the day-especially now since the hierarchical priesthood would largely demote themselves from their pedestals and become peer Christians if they did. A Christianity dedicated to reinforcement of global corporatism is obviously one in danger of becoming the worldly church putting actual Christians out.
A global corporatism oppressing free thought by their employees and through the communications media they control as well as via sympathetic government actions such as giving radio wavelengths to the wealthy rather than for citizen podcast use is not unlike the historical economic agencies that existed within authoritarian contexts that sought to repress free thought and speech as it was rightly regarded as a danger to the concentrated wealth and power of the day.
Some might argue in error that Hitler, Lenin and Stalin were intellectually productive. Stalin for example as a youth was placed by his parents in an orthodox Christian school-the choice for the poor. He received a scholarship to an Orthodox Theological Seminary at Tblisi.
Some say that the seminaries of that era were something like Madrassa of today in poorer regions of the world; not an excellent place for education, yet Tblisi Georgia was a restive place able to provide free, unofficial readings in revolution against teh Tsar.
Stalin seemed to do well at the Theology school however he reportedly was rebellious and read forbidden materials. Also uncertain to me is the amount of time he spent there. Possibly attending from age 12, he was cast out from the school in 1899. A wikipedia article notes that he missed his final exam possibly being unable to a afford the back-loaded tuition. Alternatively, according to some sources such as Isaac Deutcher I seemed to recollect, Stalin was already involved in revolutionary meetings and was soon imprisoned. Stalin's is not the life of a sincere intellectual, but that of an opportunist, worldly promoter of his own political interests.
Adolph Hitler was not an intellectual either. As atwenty-something drafted into the first world war he was the son of an Austrian wife-beating drunk. The young Adolph walked his father home from the tavern routinely as he was too inebriated to walk the walk of the sober. Eventually Hitler did compose a book-the infamous Mein Kamp while in prison. Yet as an aspiring political party rtevolutionary he needed to write something in order to stay socially relevent while cooling his heels. The book-terrible raving that it is, was dictated to a near-genius (the guy that ended his life in Spandau Prison) who was his Alex Halley. Actually, Malcom X's telling of his story to Halley turned out much better than Adolph's.
Hitler was a man of action surging ahead with the help of the homosexual militant Ernst Rohm and his gayed up S.A. terminating social, poltiical opposition until he in turn purged Rohm and the S.A. of the gay elite in the 'night of the long knives' after cutting a deal with the elite Werhmacht to get support as the Chancellor of Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm
Lenin would be the most close of the three to being fairly regarded as an intellectual. Actually most of his writing occurred after becoming the first among equals in the prot-Soviet state. Lenin was a solid political organizer who out-maneuvered even the brilliant poltical writer Leon Trotsky for leadership of the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party. lenin did not lead the Kronstaadt naval fortress mutiny however, and when the revolution occurred was far away in western Europe somplace.
Lenin was a correspondence school lawyer who's brother was executed for taking part in a plot top assassinate the Tsar. Lenin had little chance of being trusted by the Russian imperial elite and joined the revolutionary ranks against the Tsar. It is not at all certain that the Bolshevik Party would have been successful in revolting against the Tsar if the Tsar had not first completely bungled the war of Russia versus Germany. Tsar Nicholas II was a nice guy and a terrible political and military leader.
Lenin was brought through Germany on a sealed train to take over leadership of the new post-imperial communist government. The Germany elite had probably arranged for their support in exchange for Lenin's agreement to withdraw Russia from the war and give up the Ukraine to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk later.
Lenin was a clever community organizer, an intellectual of many words and few lasting ideas who did design the transformation of the imperial government into a communist government, and a synthetic man of action-political designer of middling success. Lenin was leader of the Soviet Union only until 1924, and Stalin liquidated his political structure of the New Economic Policy as well as virtually all of the Bolshevik Party veteran revolutionary leaders. Thus Lenin was a politician rather than a thinker, and not sufficiently aware of the nature of the people in the communist party. Stalin may have poisoned Lenin some have speculated, in such a way that he suffered a series of strokes, the last of which was fatal, and occurred while Trotsky was far away from Moscow and unable to attend the all-important funery proceedings and political selection of the new fearless leader-Joseph Stalin (Djugashvilli).
Free Speech May Decline in Dissent as Corporatism Flows
Corporate networking globally may bring about a reduction in free speech as a function of the number of employees as a percent of a nation's population and GDP increases. Advocates of free speech may urge the liberation from authoritarian governments most in locales without substantial or complete global corporate economic control.
In restive Moslem nations such as Iran without free speech pervasively as well as extremely limited U.S. corporate investment a transition in Government friendly to a global corporate takeover is supported by U.S. administrations since the Shah left Iran. One must be aware that the replacement of one sort of oppression of free speech with another is not an absolute political improvement.
The corporate world as a global network of capitalized and concentrated wealth and political power is very reluctant to allow free speech those conflicts with corporate allocations of political and economic power. The repression of free speech via purchase of outlets of free speech or deletion of contents, or a number of other methods such as termination of employment for expressing contentious political opinions is a fact of life that evolves in sophistication as the control of wealth is increased into concentrated elite control. The challenge for democracy and real free enterprise to survive in that environment is challenging, and perhaps unlikely if one believes that even the hiwerarchical Christian priesthood supports the concentration of corporate wealth along the road to Armageddon.
It is possible to change capitalism and make it fit for the modern era by limiting the number of employees that any corporation might have at a level that reinforces quality rather than quantity and networking oligarchic economic control. With a totalized geographic control of human liberty in the concentrated wealth of the few not only is free speech repressed, a free market with fair competition by individual inventive entrepreneurs is repressed too through a vast web of corporate power.
The United States should not operate with a 1920s era political philosophy of a bifurcated capitalist-communist dialectical competition. It ought to modernize, defend real U.S. national ecological, economic and political interests and rectify capitalism that a million business starts might bloom instead of thousands of Wall Street networked relationships take over all of the American economy leading to the poverty of tens of millions for life.
In restive Moslem nations such as Iran without free speech pervasively as well as extremely limited U.S. corporate investment a transition in Government friendly to a global corporate takeover is supported by U.S. administrations since the Shah left Iran. One must be aware that the replacement of one sort of oppression of free speech with another is not an absolute political improvement.
The corporate world as a global network of capitalized and concentrated wealth and political power is very reluctant to allow free speech those conflicts with corporate allocations of political and economic power. The repression of free speech via purchase of outlets of free speech or deletion of contents, or a number of other methods such as termination of employment for expressing contentious political opinions is a fact of life that evolves in sophistication as the control of wealth is increased into concentrated elite control. The challenge for democracy and real free enterprise to survive in that environment is challenging, and perhaps unlikely if one believes that even the hiwerarchical Christian priesthood supports the concentration of corporate wealth along the road to Armageddon.
It is possible to change capitalism and make it fit for the modern era by limiting the number of employees that any corporation might have at a level that reinforces quality rather than quantity and networking oligarchic economic control. With a totalized geographic control of human liberty in the concentrated wealth of the few not only is free speech repressed, a free market with fair competition by individual inventive entrepreneurs is repressed too through a vast web of corporate power.
The United States should not operate with a 1920s era political philosophy of a bifurcated capitalist-communist dialectical competition. It ought to modernize, defend real U.S. national ecological, economic and political interests and rectify capitalism that a million business starts might bloom instead of thousands of Wall Street networked relationships take over all of the American economy leading to the poverty of tens of millions for life.
president Obama Urges Tax Increases & Trillions of Dollars of Future Non-Spending
The President’s new budget plans a near four trillion dollar reduction in future federal spending over a hypothetical twelve year period. He anticipates that the federal deficit could be reduced to just 2.5% of U.S. GDP in four years (still a very large number).
Having been a cheerleader for extending Bush tax cuts in December 2011, the President now urges Bush II era tax cuts be rescinded for those receiving more than a quarter million per year in compensation for their valuable time. The unrealistic expectation that House Republicans might allow tax cuts has less chance for passage in Congress than the proverbial snowball in Cuba.
One deduces that the President plans a summer closure of government to stimulate vacation travel and spending.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6163095n
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-13/obama-is-said-to-target-4-trillion-deficit-reduction-in-12-years-or-less.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110413/pl_yblog_exclusive/obamas-budget-plan-leaves-him-boxed-in
http://usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?title=Military_Industrial_Complex&year=1960_2013&units=p&chart=30-total
Having been a cheerleader for extending Bush tax cuts in December 2011, the President now urges Bush II era tax cuts be rescinded for those receiving more than a quarter million per year in compensation for their valuable time. The unrealistic expectation that House Republicans might allow tax cuts has less chance for passage in Congress than the proverbial snowball in Cuba.
One deduces that the President plans a summer closure of government to stimulate vacation travel and spending.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6163095n
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-13/obama-is-said-to-target-4-trillion-deficit-reduction-in-12-years-or-less.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110413/pl_yblog_exclusive/obamas-budget-plan-leaves-him-boxed-in
http://usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?title=Military_Industrial_Complex&year=1960_2013&units=p&chart=30-total
12 April 2011
President Obama & Democrat Senate Sign Off on Repeal of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Financial Reform Law
Since President Obama has consistently done the bidding of the Republicans during his time in office signing off on repeal of the Wall Street Financial Reform law in this last 38 billion dollar budget cut bill for the last fiscal year, signing off on Bush II era tax cuts, continuing the Bush Afghanistan policy and gaying up the military (a global corporate marketing strategy) it might be better to elect a Republican President (hopefully with hidden green nationalist leanings) to accomplish the job in a fashion that might work. If one is launching an aircraft one must go full speed rather than half-hearted speed to get off the ground safely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/04/962460/-Senate-Republicans-push-for-full-Wall-Street-reform-repeal
Allowing Wall Street to have a round two of trimming the United States and investing abroad is the wrong way to go. Neither has President Obama closed the Guantanamo Bay detention facility or directed the U.S. economy toward and ecological economic direction.
No corporation with more than 5000 employees should be allowed to do business in the United States, and no citizen or foreigner should be allowed to own stock in more than three U.S. corporations. Competition should be increased so a real free market can exist. As it is there is only an oligharchy of free market heirs owning vast financial and business networks concentrating wealth globally. If the founders of the U.S.A. were as unable and unwilling to reform the way things were as the present congresspersons Americans still would be part or the British Empire (or are we still as a sub-unit of a new world order?).
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/05/paul-ryan-wall-street-budget/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/04/962460/-Senate-Republicans-push-for-full-Wall-Street-reform-repeal
Allowing Wall Street to have a round two of trimming the United States and investing abroad is the wrong way to go. Neither has President Obama closed the Guantanamo Bay detention facility or directed the U.S. economy toward and ecological economic direction.
No corporation with more than 5000 employees should be allowed to do business in the United States, and no citizen or foreigner should be allowed to own stock in more than three U.S. corporations. Competition should be increased so a real free market can exist. As it is there is only an oligharchy of free market heirs owning vast financial and business networks concentrating wealth globally. If the founders of the U.S.A. were as unable and unwilling to reform the way things were as the present congresspersons Americans still would be part or the British Empire (or are we still as a sub-unit of a new world order?).
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/05/paul-ryan-wall-street-budget/
11 April 2011
Arab Spring of Fomenting Revolution & Future Gas Prices
Physicians as a first contact with a patient bear in mind the premise of ‘first do no harm’. In making American foreign policy regarding the 2011 spring of populist uprising our policy planners might heed that advice. For those of us out of the loop, those politicians in the noose of broadcast media and populist twittering may occupy uncertain ground-perhaps shaky, regarding their ability to safeguard oil supplies for sale to Europe and the U.S.A.
Of course some of us don’t drive and have more concern for the well being of out fellow human beings abroad than their ability to produce and sell oil for a low price. Even so, the uncertainty in the Middle East and across North Africa and further that was anticipated for some years and planned since at least last year evidently may lead to revolutions, counter-revolutions and experimental states of affairs of government form, sectarian hegemony and economic efficiency. It is easy to imagine a future in which cutting off oil production as a civil economic weapon may become a primary political device for those vying for national and regional sectarian power.
If Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other oil producing members of OPEC with vast oil reserves become destabilized and their oil fields temporarily put out of service one can anticipate world oil shortages with per gallon prices reaching twelve dollars in the United States. The U.S.A. for some time (since the end of the cold war) has enjoyed incompetent political leaderships that has failed to transition to a low entropy-high tech transportation infrastructure and hence is vulnerable to foreign economic control. George Washington’s farewell address anticipated this sort of thing where the nation is reliant upon foreign agreements.
The U.S. foreign policy should be to transition to a new form of national transportation infrastructure that does not require foreign oil. To fail to adapt and to instead travel further down the fossil fuel transportation on highway paradigm is a consequence of the rich investing overseas to the detriment of the U.S.A. The Congress seems like a bought and paid for group of flunkies for globalists. They may be developing a future of perennial crisis, high unemployment and costly gasoline as the Moslem world realizes itself in history as a rising power through populist contests disrupting sale of oil to the U.S. East coast and Europe.
Of course some of us don’t drive and have more concern for the well being of out fellow human beings abroad than their ability to produce and sell oil for a low price. Even so, the uncertainty in the Middle East and across North Africa and further that was anticipated for some years and planned since at least last year evidently may lead to revolutions, counter-revolutions and experimental states of affairs of government form, sectarian hegemony and economic efficiency. It is easy to imagine a future in which cutting off oil production as a civil economic weapon may become a primary political device for those vying for national and regional sectarian power.
If Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other oil producing members of OPEC with vast oil reserves become destabilized and their oil fields temporarily put out of service one can anticipate world oil shortages with per gallon prices reaching twelve dollars in the United States. The U.S.A. for some time (since the end of the cold war) has enjoyed incompetent political leaderships that has failed to transition to a low entropy-high tech transportation infrastructure and hence is vulnerable to foreign economic control. George Washington’s farewell address anticipated this sort of thing where the nation is reliant upon foreign agreements.
The U.S. foreign policy should be to transition to a new form of national transportation infrastructure that does not require foreign oil. To fail to adapt and to instead travel further down the fossil fuel transportation on highway paradigm is a consequence of the rich investing overseas to the detriment of the U.S.A. The Congress seems like a bought and paid for group of flunkies for globalists. They may be developing a future of perennial crisis, high unemployment and costly gasoline as the Moslem world realizes itself in history as a rising power through populist contests disrupting sale of oil to the U.S. East coast and Europe.
That Quantum Elixir ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)
Seventeen colors that arise with the wind
flowing into morning light within
the gem forest gathering
in this place of being
where echoes of waveforms expand
normal dreams of moving toward water withstand without indices of structure
As ideas become hardened
broadcast manure spreaders
comparing ostensive ideas as discrete packeted a priori
clumps of common immorality plastered
ecospheric arguments for integrity
the world is poisoned in pseudoaffluence
nature is forced through factories of maladroit quantum elixr
named necessary consumption.
flowing into morning light within
the gem forest gathering
in this place of being
where echoes of waveforms expand
normal dreams of moving toward water withstand without indices of structure
As ideas become hardened
broadcast manure spreaders
comparing ostensive ideas as discrete packeted a priori
clumps of common immorality plastered
ecospheric arguments for integrity
the world is poisoned in pseudoaffluence
nature is forced through factories of maladroit quantum elixr
named necessary consumption.
Ostensive Objects of Multiverse Philosophy and Forces Delimiting Extra Dimensions
In reading analytic philosophy one may encounter Saul Kripke’s ‘Naming and Necessity’ published in 1973. It elucidates a linguistic, descriptive paradigm of the nature of the relation of words to objects, and of words to words. It is possible to describe objective appearances with words, yet problematic to describe the uncertain with certain name designators. Creating accurate physical concepts of cosmology concepts a priori for empirical testing inspired with scientific observations also implicitly relationships between words, objects, events and processes of the Universe with liberal uncertainty. Where and what the Universe is, how it came to be, what its destiny is and so forth are perennial philosophical questions. Contemporary astrophysics, theoretical physics and cosmology continue to increase the knowledge data base of humanity.
The observable universe may be somewhat less than 14 billion light years in opposing directions from the Earth for a visible horizon of about 27 billion light years. The Universe’s apparent uni-time directional expansion may have begun from a broad membrane base such as Turok suggested and the actual size of the contiguous Universe could be vastly large. The evident Universe did expand into a volume of possibly infinite area, it isn’t presently known, and even theoretical physics seems limited to researching the mass-energy phenomena, and perhaps space atoms and time matrices too if loop quantum gravity theorists are correct on that, yet humans intuitively know that the entire Universe and even multiverse, exists in a Metaverse of unknowable scale, meaning or purpose; that God may have composed all possible things as a venture of meaning constructed like a pointillist painting or aesthetic good in-itself.
One cannot just take the shape of space-time dimensions for granted as given things existing in given shapes. We believe the three dimensions of space are basically unbiased regarding shape and are therefore flat forming a manifold in which matter and energy (and possibly space atoms) might be concentrated generating an appearance of space-time curvature, or coinciding with the appearance. There might be force existing to provide or reinforce spatial dimensions differing from those commonly regarded as forces of the universe.
If there are special forces generating mass and energy in complex ten-dimensional Calibi-Yau space configurations with several small dimensions of less than a Planck length in size we have no reason to believe that the Calibi-Yau geometry exclusively describes the only sort of geometry that could describe compressed matter-energy force dimensional configurations underlying the four space-time dimensions of the commonly experienced Universe; there might be an unlimited- not infinite but a very large number, of potential geometric configurations shaping dimensions, mass or energy underlying the common four dimensions of space-time.
The mathematical constructions of models of the Universe cohering with observable macro-physical quantum facts of observation, experiment and logic are an interesting way to develop cosmological theories; a recent observation of what might be a particle (at Fermilab) associated with Technicolor theory revalidates the premise that the known borders of the Universe continue to recede as further experiment, observation and theory examine the frontiers.
Ostensive descriptions of clumps of physical phenomena may generate names of hypothetical structures of explanations of micro-mechanics. Finding evidence of the structure and expanse of a pre-Universe or post-universe time may always be just inferential and circumstantial extrapolation of preferred mathematical models. Theory in cosmology increases along with new ideas about even basic ideas such as space and dimensions actual are. In loop quantum gravity theory space has been given a discrete, objective texture for-itself with space-atoms in some measure comparable to a particle quantum theory. If space is such an existing thing, it may be that an entirely new field of quantum space mechanics might develop to investigate its fine composition.
As it is, there is enough stuff for the philosophically inclined to contemplate regarding basic macro-quantum relationships between space-time expansion, mass-energy convertibility, motion and virtual particles with relativistic space-time fields and how any extra-dimensions or geometric forms of wrapping down mass-energy could be forced into the state of being within a temporal continuum. One can wonder how relativity affects discrete members of space-time fields. Does general relativity apply only at the macro-cosmic level of solid state physics with the quantum world of possible micro-dimensions never even dragged along into the expansion of the four standard space-time dimensions?
Such a paradigm as the last could support the concept of an idealist Universe existing in the mind of The One-yet of course, one might need to wait a long time for the math to be worked out to confirm that. A better bet might be to read the Bible and accept Jesus Christ as one’s personal Savior. Even so, one can work on the contemplation of cosmological values of a temporal nature if one is so inclined. The unexamined life to paraphrase Socrates is uninteresting.
The ability to form various cosmological paradigms regarding fundamental shape and monadology has presented basic Universe ideas since Parmenides at least. None of these potential metaphysical shapes and quantity has much bearing upon the Biblical theological question of creation. God could well have created more than one universe at a time I suppose, or infinity of Universes of every possible expression if He willed it so. The will of God could well surpass simple Universe promulgating tasks so far as I know, or He may devote His time in eternity toward tweaks of improvement of His Universes for reasons I cannot imagine.
In contemporary and even perennial model construction there are recurrent Universes, multiple branching Universes, Universes that arise out of nothing, and Universes that condense from virtual particles in a dimensionless plenum (a clever way of super-positioning infinite space in a singularity). As created beings of a contingent nature we have limits to our ability to comprehend God. Understanding as we have is given with God’s grace.
The observable universe may be somewhat less than 14 billion light years in opposing directions from the Earth for a visible horizon of about 27 billion light years. The Universe’s apparent uni-time directional expansion may have begun from a broad membrane base such as Turok suggested and the actual size of the contiguous Universe could be vastly large. The evident Universe did expand into a volume of possibly infinite area, it isn’t presently known, and even theoretical physics seems limited to researching the mass-energy phenomena, and perhaps space atoms and time matrices too if loop quantum gravity theorists are correct on that, yet humans intuitively know that the entire Universe and even multiverse, exists in a Metaverse of unknowable scale, meaning or purpose; that God may have composed all possible things as a venture of meaning constructed like a pointillist painting or aesthetic good in-itself.
One cannot just take the shape of space-time dimensions for granted as given things existing in given shapes. We believe the three dimensions of space are basically unbiased regarding shape and are therefore flat forming a manifold in which matter and energy (and possibly space atoms) might be concentrated generating an appearance of space-time curvature, or coinciding with the appearance. There might be force existing to provide or reinforce spatial dimensions differing from those commonly regarded as forces of the universe.
If there are special forces generating mass and energy in complex ten-dimensional Calibi-Yau space configurations with several small dimensions of less than a Planck length in size we have no reason to believe that the Calibi-Yau geometry exclusively describes the only sort of geometry that could describe compressed matter-energy force dimensional configurations underlying the four space-time dimensions of the commonly experienced Universe; there might be an unlimited- not infinite but a very large number, of potential geometric configurations shaping dimensions, mass or energy underlying the common four dimensions of space-time.
The mathematical constructions of models of the Universe cohering with observable macro-physical quantum facts of observation, experiment and logic are an interesting way to develop cosmological theories; a recent observation of what might be a particle (at Fermilab) associated with Technicolor theory revalidates the premise that the known borders of the Universe continue to recede as further experiment, observation and theory examine the frontiers.
Ostensive descriptions of clumps of physical phenomena may generate names of hypothetical structures of explanations of micro-mechanics. Finding evidence of the structure and expanse of a pre-Universe or post-universe time may always be just inferential and circumstantial extrapolation of preferred mathematical models. Theory in cosmology increases along with new ideas about even basic ideas such as space and dimensions actual are. In loop quantum gravity theory space has been given a discrete, objective texture for-itself with space-atoms in some measure comparable to a particle quantum theory. If space is such an existing thing, it may be that an entirely new field of quantum space mechanics might develop to investigate its fine composition.
As it is, there is enough stuff for the philosophically inclined to contemplate regarding basic macro-quantum relationships between space-time expansion, mass-energy convertibility, motion and virtual particles with relativistic space-time fields and how any extra-dimensions or geometric forms of wrapping down mass-energy could be forced into the state of being within a temporal continuum. One can wonder how relativity affects discrete members of space-time fields. Does general relativity apply only at the macro-cosmic level of solid state physics with the quantum world of possible micro-dimensions never even dragged along into the expansion of the four standard space-time dimensions?
Such a paradigm as the last could support the concept of an idealist Universe existing in the mind of The One-yet of course, one might need to wait a long time for the math to be worked out to confirm that. A better bet might be to read the Bible and accept Jesus Christ as one’s personal Savior. Even so, one can work on the contemplation of cosmological values of a temporal nature if one is so inclined. The unexamined life to paraphrase Socrates is uninteresting.
The ability to form various cosmological paradigms regarding fundamental shape and monadology has presented basic Universe ideas since Parmenides at least. None of these potential metaphysical shapes and quantity has much bearing upon the Biblical theological question of creation. God could well have created more than one universe at a time I suppose, or infinity of Universes of every possible expression if He willed it so. The will of God could well surpass simple Universe promulgating tasks so far as I know, or He may devote His time in eternity toward tweaks of improvement of His Universes for reasons I cannot imagine.
In contemporary and even perennial model construction there are recurrent Universes, multiple branching Universes, Universes that arise out of nothing, and Universes that condense from virtual particles in a dimensionless plenum (a clever way of super-positioning infinite space in a singularity). As created beings of a contingent nature we have limits to our ability to comprehend God. Understanding as we have is given with God’s grace.
09 April 2011
Tahrir al-Wasilah by the Ayatollah Khomeini & Misc. Moslem Revo-Evolutions
With the changes across the Arab world, or rather the Islamic world, the meaning of 'Tahrir' or 'liberation' in Arabic draws our interest. Of course we find the Ayatollah Khomeini's book 'On Sex with Children and Animals' right off. The Ayatollah issued his Moslem clarification of the right jurisprudence within Islamic law. We find that if a man has sex with his donkey, he must sell the donkey in a village that his not his own. For Iranians this sort of expert clerical opinion may be invaluable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Wasilah
Finding that the Ayatollah's book has many different names, one of which is named Tahrir-al-Wasilah was just the tip of the iceberg of the wide use of the word 'liberation' or Tahrir throughout the Arab world.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Egypt-Protesters-Defy-Police-Crackdown-119529299.html
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/695/iraq-and-its-tahrir-square
It is possible that U.S. foreign policy should not become one of chasing about after incipient Moslem youth revolutions inspired by twitter and cell phone use. To radicalize global politics simply because technology allows unlimited social organizations rather quickly if not instantly may have unreasoned, even dire consequences in the future.
Yes we can empathize with bad governments and social oppression abroad and in the United States, Mexico and wherever. How can we accept 40,000 dead Mexicans killed in drug wars south of the border as a normal or acceptable sort of thing? Why should we suppose that accepting political turmoil and chaos as progressive paradigms will eventuate the confluence of peace and prosperity when we are aware that stable social evolutions allow better transitions toward a real world ecologically rational political economy?
Better objective systems for removing undemocratic political leadership should be innovated and brought into effect instead of encouraging or appearing to encourage proverbial political change a mile wide and an inch deep. There are numerous social challenges in existence today that will not be solved even with the victory of a happy political change. Human economic use of the global ecosphere is devastating, and the fundamental principles of capitalism are centuries old and in need of evolution in-themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Wasilah
Finding that the Ayatollah's book has many different names, one of which is named Tahrir-al-Wasilah was just the tip of the iceberg of the wide use of the word 'liberation' or Tahrir throughout the Arab world.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Egypt-Protesters-Defy-Police-Crackdown-119529299.html
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/695/iraq-and-its-tahrir-square
It is possible that U.S. foreign policy should not become one of chasing about after incipient Moslem youth revolutions inspired by twitter and cell phone use. To radicalize global politics simply because technology allows unlimited social organizations rather quickly if not instantly may have unreasoned, even dire consequences in the future.
Yes we can empathize with bad governments and social oppression abroad and in the United States, Mexico and wherever. How can we accept 40,000 dead Mexicans killed in drug wars south of the border as a normal or acceptable sort of thing? Why should we suppose that accepting political turmoil and chaos as progressive paradigms will eventuate the confluence of peace and prosperity when we are aware that stable social evolutions allow better transitions toward a real world ecologically rational political economy?
Better objective systems for removing undemocratic political leadership should be innovated and brought into effect instead of encouraging or appearing to encourage proverbial political change a mile wide and an inch deep. There are numerous social challenges in existence today that will not be solved even with the victory of a happy political change. Human economic use of the global ecosphere is devastating, and the fundamental principles of capitalism are centuries old and in need of evolution in-themselves.
British Atomic Powered Submarine 'Astute' Runs Aground (Oct. 2010)
Reading of a British nuclear powered submarine running aground in shallow water of Scotland-possibly while sending a crewman on a beer run, I empathized having run my 26 foot sailboat into shallow water of Chesapeake Bay across from the naval academy where it became stuck in the mud of shallow water. Overnight waves pushed the boat onto a rocky berm sinking it.
The Captain of the H.M.S. Astute was relieved from command. However his boat was towed away sucessfully it seems. When my recently purchased old sailboat was lost, after properly disposing of it I returned to Montana and Alaska for hernia surgery with the hope of repainting homes on the Atlantic coast with a woman from the islands as relief crew sunk into history.
There is video of the Astute at the msnbc story about an enlisted man who shot and killed an officer at close range aboard a differnet British nuclear powered submarine recently.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42492782/ns/world_news-europe/?GT1=43001
The Captain of the H.M.S. Astute was relieved from command. However his boat was towed away sucessfully it seems. When my recently purchased old sailboat was lost, after properly disposing of it I returned to Montana and Alaska for hernia surgery with the hope of repainting homes on the Atlantic coast with a woman from the islands as relief crew sunk into history.
There is video of the Astute at the msnbc story about an enlisted man who shot and killed an officer at close range aboard a differnet British nuclear powered submarine recently.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42492782/ns/world_news-europe/?GT1=43001
07 April 2011
Fermilab Scientists Observe Possible New Particle/Force
The particle may have a mass of 145 GeV. That's in the neighborhood of a technipion's hypothetical mass of 160 GeV. Alternatively the observation could be a statistical error.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20357-mystery-signal-at-fermilab-hints-at-technicolour-force.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
New particles never before observed should have been found in Europe at Cern-a more powerful particle accellerator, yet scientists of the early 20th century were pioneers of quantum theory so its appropriate that the foundation of a new class of particles might occur in Illinois and the accellerator facility named for Enrico Fermi.
In reading over a comment by Peter Woit on the history of technicolor development (see following link) Technicolor , I believe, is mentioned as potentially another sort of strong force. Stephen Weinberg and Leonard Suskind originated the theory that would become technicolor as a symmetry breaking derivative from Quantum Chromo Dynamics in 1978 (independently).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20357-mystery-signal-at-fermilab-hints-at-technicolour-force.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
New particles never before observed should have been found in Europe at Cern-a more powerful particle accellerator, yet scientists of the early 20th century were pioneers of quantum theory so its appropriate that the foundation of a new class of particles might occur in Illinois and the accellerator facility named for Enrico Fermi.
In reading over a comment by Peter Woit on the history of technicolor development (see following link) Technicolor , I believe, is mentioned as potentially another sort of strong force. Stephen Weinberg and Leonard Suskind originated the theory that would become technicolor as a symmetry breaking derivative from Quantum Chromo Dynamics in 1978 (independently).
Kinetic and Non-Kinetic War
The Obama administration rightly described the Libyan intervention as a kinetic military action. The art of kinetic war has been with us for millennia. Slingers of spears in Rome and North America followed up spears that were developed as early as 195,000 b.c. in the Kenyan rift valley. Eventually electro-magnetic rail guns for S.D.I. inspired electro-magnetic guns for naval vessels as well as pistols and rifles. Maybe they will bring a puff the magic drive return of gunships with e.m.g. drives pushing out metal toward specific ground targets.
Kinetic weapons are something of an improvement over explosive weapons. All things considered, unlike the continuing use of explosive propellants for space-flight launches, the e.m.g. kinetic rail gun technology has not yet been put to work for very heavy lifts to space.
In modern conflicts asymmetric wars are common. The rich may try to kick the ass of the poor, or the innocent poor may have no choice besides trying to kick the ass of the rich when the rich decide to colonize them with extreme prejudice. The myriad matrix logical possibilities of asymmetric conflict may be challenging to chart yet sometimes the rich may even attempt to buy the poor into submission. Kinetic weapons of bullets may be used rather than financial instruments of economic damage or quantum propaganda field suppression as on the non-kinetic side of the force.
Kinetic weapons of war may be less costly than explosive weapons good just once. Non-kinetic weapons that are purely electronic, particle beams and such may be even less costly and easier to reload; they require more electricity to recharge batteries, more hydrogen to recharge a fuel cell and so forth. Non-kinetic weapons are a new wave of the future for modern military that deliver speed of light devastation to targets at specified grid coordinates.
The U.S. military is developing airborne and drone aircraft microwave beam technology capable of knocking out opposition force air defense installations and one might guess valuable point targets. In the modern evolution of computer and electronic technology the corporate civilian/military application of knowledge flows in each direction and cycles again.
Obviously weapons systems that require recharging instead of production of million dollar each cruise missiles (a hybrid kinetic-explosive technology) are a better buy in the era of U.S. federal deficits. One must hope that one’s new weapons system is not the equivalent of a Commodore 64 to an enemy with higher technical sophistication.
It’s a paradox that with global population destroying the ecosphere, with a porous Mexican border defense not capable of arresting the flow of illegal aliens into the U.S.A. humanity becomes so excellent at creating weapons of war. With a small world today it is a little bit like the people at the other end of the building developing weapons to kill those at another end and vice versa ad nauseum…there must be a better way of freeing humans from oppression and danger.
Non-kinetic war will combine the full spectrum of electronic surveillance, intelligence and counter-intelligence of course. Ever bit of data on the Internet, every meter of the world observed by remote monitoring systems feeding data into live artificial intelligence analysis loops will support command decisions to pull the electronic plug on civilian or military targets, send power beam surges to terminate resistance or possibly shut off the electric circuits in human brains temporarily or permanently.
Ongoing international alliances in the non-kinetic phase of defense and global corporatism bring tighter networking of the non-kinetic way of war through perpetual upgrades. The umbrella of non-kinetic war demographics brings more nations into the complex canopy of advanced research and development of war contemporary Military technology. If the Congress were half as concerned about fully employing U.S. citizens and restoring the ecosphere locally the American way of life would be much better. As it is the military industrial complex is more concerned about concentrating wealth in construction of a new world order with the U.S. poor and lack of full employment or compensation through minimum income being the collateral economic damage.
Kinetic weapons are something of an improvement over explosive weapons. All things considered, unlike the continuing use of explosive propellants for space-flight launches, the e.m.g. kinetic rail gun technology has not yet been put to work for very heavy lifts to space.
In modern conflicts asymmetric wars are common. The rich may try to kick the ass of the poor, or the innocent poor may have no choice besides trying to kick the ass of the rich when the rich decide to colonize them with extreme prejudice. The myriad matrix logical possibilities of asymmetric conflict may be challenging to chart yet sometimes the rich may even attempt to buy the poor into submission. Kinetic weapons of bullets may be used rather than financial instruments of economic damage or quantum propaganda field suppression as on the non-kinetic side of the force.
Kinetic weapons of war may be less costly than explosive weapons good just once. Non-kinetic weapons that are purely electronic, particle beams and such may be even less costly and easier to reload; they require more electricity to recharge batteries, more hydrogen to recharge a fuel cell and so forth. Non-kinetic weapons are a new wave of the future for modern military that deliver speed of light devastation to targets at specified grid coordinates.
The U.S. military is developing airborne and drone aircraft microwave beam technology capable of knocking out opposition force air defense installations and one might guess valuable point targets. In the modern evolution of computer and electronic technology the corporate civilian/military application of knowledge flows in each direction and cycles again.
Obviously weapons systems that require recharging instead of production of million dollar each cruise missiles (a hybrid kinetic-explosive technology) are a better buy in the era of U.S. federal deficits. One must hope that one’s new weapons system is not the equivalent of a Commodore 64 to an enemy with higher technical sophistication.
It’s a paradox that with global population destroying the ecosphere, with a porous Mexican border defense not capable of arresting the flow of illegal aliens into the U.S.A. humanity becomes so excellent at creating weapons of war. With a small world today it is a little bit like the people at the other end of the building developing weapons to kill those at another end and vice versa ad nauseum…there must be a better way of freeing humans from oppression and danger.
Non-kinetic war will combine the full spectrum of electronic surveillance, intelligence and counter-intelligence of course. Ever bit of data on the Internet, every meter of the world observed by remote monitoring systems feeding data into live artificial intelligence analysis loops will support command decisions to pull the electronic plug on civilian or military targets, send power beam surges to terminate resistance or possibly shut off the electric circuits in human brains temporarily or permanently.
Ongoing international alliances in the non-kinetic phase of defense and global corporatism bring tighter networking of the non-kinetic way of war through perpetual upgrades. The umbrella of non-kinetic war demographics brings more nations into the complex canopy of advanced research and development of war contemporary Military technology. If the Congress were half as concerned about fully employing U.S. citizens and restoring the ecosphere locally the American way of life would be much better. As it is the military industrial complex is more concerned about concentrating wealth in construction of a new world order with the U.S. poor and lack of full employment or compensation through minimum income being the collateral economic damage.
On the ‘Necessity’ of Throwing U.S. Budget Gutter Balls
As a candidate Barack Obama famously bowled a gutter ball filled score of 37. He bowled a score of zero as President failing to veto the Bush era tax cuts renewal last December. He set a new standard for Democratic mediocrity that F.D. Roosevelt and maybe even Bill Clinton would have regarded as unacceptable. Mediocrity in budgeting is no new thing for America today.
Are names not something of inflexible descriptions of unique events or unique sets of attributes of events-even the name ‘America’? What is America? Is it a particular historical concept, a geographical locality, or some sort of variable political identifier denoting sovereignty and a host of other qualities? A name may be a meaning rather than an address. What is meant by ‘America’ may change in time to anything at all, from good to bad.
We might prefer to regard Latinos as a hybrid race better named for Amerigo Vespucci than a minor Roman district named Latia, yet Americans too are what we called citizens of the United States of America because of the awkwardness of calling them Unionists.
American unions have certainly been in decline along with the real income of white men in the U.S.A. since 1971. The U.S. broadcast media has become a servo-unit of global corporatism along with both major political parties of the nation since the end of the cold war. The U.S.A. has a progressive national public debt set to reach 20 trillion dollars by the end of a second possible Obama administration. Public education standards are in comparative decline along with the U.S. standard of living in comparison to the gross national product increases of the second world. One may wonder why, and also wonder if a necessary mediocrity has overtaken the U.S.A. and destined it to a mediocre future not as a leading nation but as an also ran amongst nations trying to lead.
What made the United States a great economic power many have asked? A heritage of a vast under populated continent full of natural resources and an immigrant people of Europe able to exploit the best scientific and technical ideas of Europe and world history in a rich natural frontier with the absence of an hereditary ruling class. The absence of any kind of oppressive social organizations and the low national population density permitted uninhibited intellectual freedom to invent, apply, innovate and adapt ideas to real production. Freedom fro government or private organizations of a ubiquitous or oppressive presence and intellectual and physical room for growth let the brilliance of man and women create such works as they were able to conceive. The intellectual and physical liberty was the necessary condition for economic excellence.
With the nation full with more than 300 million people and immigrants of an illegal rather than a legal nature predominantly, and with the number of inventors comparatively in decline along with the U.S.A. as a destination far removed from oppressive social organizations the United States seems to be moving into a protracted era of mediocrity even though commercial space ventures are increasing.
Wall Street is about global investment and owners more so than national. The prosperous find the silly little borders nothing in technical considerations beyond those of taxation. Telecommunications have eliminated planetary distance and the nation itself is regarded as just one place amidst a world of locations in which corporate and government partners might invest. If nearly 20% of Americans can’t find enough work to sustain a fair living, well, that’s helpful for controlling labor costs.
The United States has become saturated in social networking simultaneously with pervasive business networking. Data acquisition and processing records volumes on the life of every individual American, and ‘liberal’ race, gender and sexual perversion classes have transitioned to leadership of political power as the counterfactual interpretation of corporate led economics. Americans seem determined to make the nation just one mediocre, average society amidst a new world order of Wal-Marts, asphalt streets, cell phones and financial related services. The idea of reconstructing the United States economically into a new low entropy, full employment, self-reliant leading example to the rest of the world of a free society with a stable population reasonably able to venture into space development while restoring the health of the ecosphere is a political goal of virtually no one. Excellence for the United States as a nation seems to fail to reach the public video attention. The nation must descend into protracted mediocrity to expand into a global economy before fading away.
Adam Smith; the brilliant 18the century economist, described a method whereby individual entrepreneurs were better benefiting themselves and society without the oppression of a powerful social organization. In his day that organization was the state. In today’s business environment and pervasive, even totalitalized geographic saturation oppressive organizations are not limited to government, but exist in the concatenated Wall Street extended corporate network as well. Individual Americans experience the corporate/market political way ubiquitous from ATM machines to rft strips between sheets of book binding.
Americans develop class consciousness as youth, elderly, white, black, straight, homosexual, Christian, pagan, middle class, Democrat, republican, Latino far more so than as individuals. Existential and borderless principles of class leveling mediocrity over individual efforts and excellence prevail in the marketplace, consumerism, in ‘reality’ T.V. and budget negotiations in Congress. An economic philosophy of market personal egoism in mass portionality transcended real geographic and/or intellectual individualism.
For the ascent of class consumer values and for its justification the inertia of global mass consumerism and corporate ‘market’ economics has developed velocity. The coefficient of mass consumerism and the logic of hedonistic mediocrity are challenging to overcome with interpolations of individual pursuit of excellence. Perhaps the logic of brilliant individual minds pursuing the good for the nation can emerge like a light in the darkness now and then, yet the occasional illumination may not be enough for the people of the United States to emerge from the night of the underworld that may lie ahead.
Are names not something of inflexible descriptions of unique events or unique sets of attributes of events-even the name ‘America’? What is America? Is it a particular historical concept, a geographical locality, or some sort of variable political identifier denoting sovereignty and a host of other qualities? A name may be a meaning rather than an address. What is meant by ‘America’ may change in time to anything at all, from good to bad.
We might prefer to regard Latinos as a hybrid race better named for Amerigo Vespucci than a minor Roman district named Latia, yet Americans too are what we called citizens of the United States of America because of the awkwardness of calling them Unionists.
American unions have certainly been in decline along with the real income of white men in the U.S.A. since 1971. The U.S. broadcast media has become a servo-unit of global corporatism along with both major political parties of the nation since the end of the cold war. The U.S.A. has a progressive national public debt set to reach 20 trillion dollars by the end of a second possible Obama administration. Public education standards are in comparative decline along with the U.S. standard of living in comparison to the gross national product increases of the second world. One may wonder why, and also wonder if a necessary mediocrity has overtaken the U.S.A. and destined it to a mediocre future not as a leading nation but as an also ran amongst nations trying to lead.
What made the United States a great economic power many have asked? A heritage of a vast under populated continent full of natural resources and an immigrant people of Europe able to exploit the best scientific and technical ideas of Europe and world history in a rich natural frontier with the absence of an hereditary ruling class. The absence of any kind of oppressive social organizations and the low national population density permitted uninhibited intellectual freedom to invent, apply, innovate and adapt ideas to real production. Freedom fro government or private organizations of a ubiquitous or oppressive presence and intellectual and physical room for growth let the brilliance of man and women create such works as they were able to conceive. The intellectual and physical liberty was the necessary condition for economic excellence.
With the nation full with more than 300 million people and immigrants of an illegal rather than a legal nature predominantly, and with the number of inventors comparatively in decline along with the U.S.A. as a destination far removed from oppressive social organizations the United States seems to be moving into a protracted era of mediocrity even though commercial space ventures are increasing.
Wall Street is about global investment and owners more so than national. The prosperous find the silly little borders nothing in technical considerations beyond those of taxation. Telecommunications have eliminated planetary distance and the nation itself is regarded as just one place amidst a world of locations in which corporate and government partners might invest. If nearly 20% of Americans can’t find enough work to sustain a fair living, well, that’s helpful for controlling labor costs.
The United States has become saturated in social networking simultaneously with pervasive business networking. Data acquisition and processing records volumes on the life of every individual American, and ‘liberal’ race, gender and sexual perversion classes have transitioned to leadership of political power as the counterfactual interpretation of corporate led economics. Americans seem determined to make the nation just one mediocre, average society amidst a new world order of Wal-Marts, asphalt streets, cell phones and financial related services. The idea of reconstructing the United States economically into a new low entropy, full employment, self-reliant leading example to the rest of the world of a free society with a stable population reasonably able to venture into space development while restoring the health of the ecosphere is a political goal of virtually no one. Excellence for the United States as a nation seems to fail to reach the public video attention. The nation must descend into protracted mediocrity to expand into a global economy before fading away.
Adam Smith; the brilliant 18the century economist, described a method whereby individual entrepreneurs were better benefiting themselves and society without the oppression of a powerful social organization. In his day that organization was the state. In today’s business environment and pervasive, even totalitalized geographic saturation oppressive organizations are not limited to government, but exist in the concatenated Wall Street extended corporate network as well. Individual Americans experience the corporate/market political way ubiquitous from ATM machines to rft strips between sheets of book binding.
Americans develop class consciousness as youth, elderly, white, black, straight, homosexual, Christian, pagan, middle class, Democrat, republican, Latino far more so than as individuals. Existential and borderless principles of class leveling mediocrity over individual efforts and excellence prevail in the marketplace, consumerism, in ‘reality’ T.V. and budget negotiations in Congress. An economic philosophy of market personal egoism in mass portionality transcended real geographic and/or intellectual individualism.
For the ascent of class consumer values and for its justification the inertia of global mass consumerism and corporate ‘market’ economics has developed velocity. The coefficient of mass consumerism and the logic of hedonistic mediocrity are challenging to overcome with interpolations of individual pursuit of excellence. Perhaps the logic of brilliant individual minds pursuing the good for the nation can emerge like a light in the darkness now and then, yet the occasional illumination may not be enough for the people of the United States to emerge from the night of the underworld that may lie ahead.
05 April 2011
About Philosophical Quests for 'Ultimate' Reality
Ultimate as a modifier on the term 'reality' may be a special use within a linguistic ontology, even so there are several potential meanings of the term.
I won't try to list many of the potential meanings of ultimate or reality here, such as a reality that is eternal and unchanging, or a reality that occurs at the conclusion of the Universe of space-time, a reality at the singularity of black holes where time has stopped and space extends forever. Reality as a perceptible object of human experience and cogitation may be regarded as ultimate if one has wrapped one's mind around all of its dimensions perhaps, yet for Christians such as myself who find the ultimate reality to be a finding of fact and conclusion of purpose of God regarding contingent or temporal reality, ultimate reality is unavoidable and the supreme good.
In reading over a book on loop quantum gravity recently, the sectarian camp of astrophysical irredentist non-string theorist philosophers of the physical universe point of view emerged once again. I believe it is useful to consider points of view of ultimate physical theory such as Hartle-Hawking, Wheelerianism and Venenziano right along with epistemological approaches such as Sartre's that may for-itself be given to support even esoteric science based or even religious viewpoints such as the universe as a hologram or Berkley's ideaism. Even a universe as string phenomenality created by Intelligent design of a super-computational people, or a metaverse set of immediate appearance founded on some sort of monadology by God can be useful if not necessary ideas to consider along the road to understanding how the experience of life is supported by the given.
There may be two approaches to ultimate reality expeditions; one with a possibility of intelligent design of the experience of human beings on Earth in the Universe, and of course the alternate that the universe had no element of a designer in it. Each approach may pursue simultaneous, concurrent objectives areas of inquiry not uncommonly.
Can the elements of a set of self-aware beings infer the content of the metaset in which they are included? Perhaps not. The answers to questions of set structure and content provided by extrapolation from observable or experienced phenomena may be useful even so. Sometimes it is not a good idea to prejudge the values of solutions for an unknown or difficult to solve equation or challenge to understanding.
I won't try to list many of the potential meanings of ultimate or reality here, such as a reality that is eternal and unchanging, or a reality that occurs at the conclusion of the Universe of space-time, a reality at the singularity of black holes where time has stopped and space extends forever. Reality as a perceptible object of human experience and cogitation may be regarded as ultimate if one has wrapped one's mind around all of its dimensions perhaps, yet for Christians such as myself who find the ultimate reality to be a finding of fact and conclusion of purpose of God regarding contingent or temporal reality, ultimate reality is unavoidable and the supreme good.
In reading over a book on loop quantum gravity recently, the sectarian camp of astrophysical irredentist non-string theorist philosophers of the physical universe point of view emerged once again. I believe it is useful to consider points of view of ultimate physical theory such as Hartle-Hawking, Wheelerianism and Venenziano right along with epistemological approaches such as Sartre's that may for-itself be given to support even esoteric science based or even religious viewpoints such as the universe as a hologram or Berkley's ideaism. Even a universe as string phenomenality created by Intelligent design of a super-computational people, or a metaverse set of immediate appearance founded on some sort of monadology by God can be useful if not necessary ideas to consider along the road to understanding how the experience of life is supported by the given.
There may be two approaches to ultimate reality expeditions; one with a possibility of intelligent design of the experience of human beings on Earth in the Universe, and of course the alternate that the universe had no element of a designer in it. Each approach may pursue simultaneous, concurrent objectives areas of inquiry not uncommonly.
Can the elements of a set of self-aware beings infer the content of the metaset in which they are included? Perhaps not. The answers to questions of set structure and content provided by extrapolation from observable or experienced phenomena may be useful even so. Sometimes it is not a good idea to prejudge the values of solutions for an unknown or difficult to solve equation or challenge to understanding.
Space-Time Glazed Donut Singularities ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)
Horizons of time irreversibly sent
gathered amidst stardust
in nights pre-light tents
with dark worlds dimly shone
local futures move away
to black holes ever unknown
where time stops in a minute
stretched in conformal logic
for the persistence of memory
without doubts
Curved horizons of planets, black holes, moons
formed as condensed physics drift
toward edges too soon eclipsed
economic minimalist’s structured thrift
As space emerges from nowhere
pushing worlds farther away
galaxies sent toward shadows
with mass in gravity left collecting day
Somewhere in space mass land waveform sparks
particles virtually present depleting empty space start
elsewhen stops
Balance in singularities beyond covers
send bound particles leaking for no gain
directions reach probability within
without being is the equal pain
topologies to support experience
Space-time curling tighter
gravity shaping place
until time reaches end
all motion locally frozen
in space donut dimensions glaze
Donut singularities across the Universe
sequester mass as atoms of space transcend the limit of locality
waveform super-positions reduced to one push the expansion space-time outside faster than before
Gravity leaves the time memory of mass converted to space under the covers fading away
when nothing more is formed
for night follows day
The mechanics of spirit
do not disappear in mass-energy convergence to nothingness.
gathered amidst stardust
in nights pre-light tents
with dark worlds dimly shone
local futures move away
to black holes ever unknown
where time stops in a minute
stretched in conformal logic
for the persistence of memory
without doubts
Curved horizons of planets, black holes, moons
formed as condensed physics drift
toward edges too soon eclipsed
economic minimalist’s structured thrift
As space emerges from nowhere
pushing worlds farther away
galaxies sent toward shadows
with mass in gravity left collecting day
Somewhere in space mass land waveform sparks
particles virtually present depleting empty space start
elsewhen stops
Balance in singularities beyond covers
send bound particles leaking for no gain
directions reach probability within
without being is the equal pain
topologies to support experience
Space-time curling tighter
gravity shaping place
until time reaches end
all motion locally frozen
in space donut dimensions glaze
Donut singularities across the Universe
sequester mass as atoms of space transcend the limit of locality
waveform super-positions reduced to one push the expansion space-time outside faster than before
Gravity leaves the time memory of mass converted to space under the covers fading away
when nothing more is formed
for night follows day
The mechanics of spirit
do not disappear in mass-energy convergence to nothingness.
Pre-Natural Selection of the Elect ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)
Particle-anti-particle pairs of gravitons
at the event horizon separate under the influence of gravity
the absurdity of space-time splitting gravitons for themselves
instead of drawing in space-time to a naked singularity berift of an event horizon
Under cover of sinking singularities eventually drawing horizons
inward toward harmonic convergence
worse than a sharp chicken bone stuck in the throat
infinitely curved space absurd like the hyperspherical surface well-rounded
-what is the state of infinite curvature of a hyped-up sphere
perpetuates the continua as it flows
Where in the space-time do virtual gravitons emerge race
enshrouded in the shaped field
recursive bootstrapped powers
warping and powering for-themselves
paradoxes of necessary chaos place
ranges of freedom of order without order
the information writ large
like the desperate twit before entropic drift to wondrous space-time structures of existential quantum menace thunderous helium’s red giant phase
phonon waveforms travel through metaphysical clouds
Universes beget universes
through a design of Spirit and substance set with subsets
unable to infer content of the metaset
replicating order of reproducing
continua generating galaxies; planetary islands for souls in creation
from which a few might be saved
Through countless Universes some vast number might be brought unto salvation
Divine selection wherefrom The One
may elect to populate heaven
for the chosen will contemplate
and praise divine Holiness
eternal God in His glory.
at the event horizon separate under the influence of gravity
the absurdity of space-time splitting gravitons for themselves
instead of drawing in space-time to a naked singularity berift of an event horizon
Under cover of sinking singularities eventually drawing horizons
inward toward harmonic convergence
worse than a sharp chicken bone stuck in the throat
infinitely curved space absurd like the hyperspherical surface well-rounded
-what is the state of infinite curvature of a hyped-up sphere
perpetuates the continua as it flows
Where in the space-time do virtual gravitons emerge race
enshrouded in the shaped field
recursive bootstrapped powers
warping and powering for-themselves
paradoxes of necessary chaos place
ranges of freedom of order without order
the information writ large
like the desperate twit before entropic drift to wondrous space-time structures of existential quantum menace thunderous helium’s red giant phase
phonon waveforms travel through metaphysical clouds
Universes beget universes
through a design of Spirit and substance set with subsets
unable to infer content of the metaset
replicating order of reproducing
continua generating galaxies; planetary islands for souls in creation
from which a few might be saved
Through countless Universes some vast number might be brought unto salvation
Divine selection wherefrom The One
may elect to populate heaven
for the chosen will contemplate
and praise divine Holiness
eternal God in His glory.
03 April 2011
Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope on Its Five Year Mission
Occassionally I post reminders of interesting space events for myself. This is one such post.
The Fermi gamma ray space telescope was launched in 2008.
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/overview.html
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
James Webb Space Telescope scheduled for 2015...
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/firstlight.html
The Fermi gamma ray space telescope was launched in 2008.
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/overview.html
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
James Webb Space Telescope scheduled for 2015...
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/firstlight.html
Congress Seeks Ways to Trim the Nation's Poor/Profit from Investing Overseas
When an article in Time reported that 25% of M.I.T. graduates are moving to work in Wall Street's financial sector-that is, the best and brightest including those from Harvard are moving toward the gaming and scamming portion of the U.S. economy instead of building new businesses, it wasn't too surprising, corporatism and globalism have taken over the U.S. economy and outsourced it leadership to that of globalists.
So the other salient fact mentioned, that the five developing economies of India, China, Russia and Brazil will pass the gross national product of the G7 countries within seven years should help to understand why the Wall Street corporate and government leadership have treated U.S. national interests as secondary, or something of a slum in the general scheme of things; the nation can supply military forces to war for foreign resource extraction business interests of more concern to global corporations than American, and consider how to cut programs for the nation's poor while adding debt to the taxpayer future.
President Obama seemed rather spineless in his cheering for extended corporate tax cuts last December; the national budget could have been balanced in two years if he had let them expired-and he absolutely had that power. Now the congress is haggling about cutting medical programs for the poor, and of course Congress lacked the integrity to just create a free medical service for the poor and veterans combining and improving services.
The U.S. military soaks up 3/4 of a billion annually, and the interest on the national debt another 3/4 trillion dollars. Military personnel are paid at very high levels for public servants-too high, and the military retirement system ought to be eliminated and military retirees merged into the civilian social security system at the same rates in order that they too have something to defend and care about being funded.
A military that engages in protracted low-intensity conflict supporting a plethora of corporate military suppliers creates a need to continue expanding wars in order that the Defense Department funding may not be cut. Convenient foreign mullahs protesting U.S. burning of Korans a year later create demands for Congress to submit to the Moslem demands and condemn free expression in the U.S.A. Globalism pressures the U.S.A. increasingly to conform to its will. Some might feel like napalming such demands, and then conform to simple defense of individual liberty even in a market era of pervasive social corruption of national political rights.
One wonders if the Department of Defense has any ability to restrain its deployment whenever corporate and flag officers decide it tempting to start a new conflict such as in Libya instead of finding a way to remove failed rebel protestors peacefully. Could it be possible to reduce Defense spending by half within a year or two through conventional weapons and force reductions with most of the world major powers and soon to be major powers?
The Republican-Tea Party attack on health services to the poor is typical of a corrupt, declining power outsourcing its liberty. The poor should be the last undermine, yet it requires moral leadership to be aware of that fact. Everyone knows that if a Senator or Congressman seeking to undermine Medicaid and Medicare had no medical services him or herself he or she would happily take whatever free medical services are available should they have cancer or a compound fracture on a city street. Realism is not a concern of the federal supply side class of politicians transitioning financial bunk into a faith based distraction from religious integrity as well as financial common sense.
The United States requires a reinforcement of its traditional values of strong national defense, border security and liberation of Mexico from reliance on remittances and drug sales to the U.S.A. that inevitably corrupt the economic pragmatism of each nation. Creating a zero flow of illegal aliens into the United States is requisite for a balanced federal budget and the practical conservation of reasoned financial planning.
It is true that during the middle ages of world history religion was corrupted too far by takeover from simultaneous worldly-political actors driving it to support their own goals. That evolution was a natural consequence of the missiological need to convert a pagan nation's leadership first. The new convert king or queen would then place themselves at the head of the church and find any sort of dissent to be politically threatening. That situation did not work itself out until after the reformation and the 30 years religious wars.
In the U.S.A. the church has failed to transition into being a priesthood of believers and thus often follows the hierarchical, corporate-military industrial complex trail of economic evolution through its permutations at home and abroad. Plainly a priesthood of believers ecclesiastical structure regarding all church members as necessary peers would better draw economic attention to the United States and citizenship instead of corporate, global policy. With the hegemony of the corporate owned broadcast media the upgrading of the United States to a correct contemporary Christian church expression is challenging.
The United States could readily solve its economic difficulties, yet the national leadership is more concerned about abstract global skimming than making the nation the best it can be. There isn't much cause for optimism in the future with the way things are, and federal debt is increasing while the foundation of low-entropy economics hasn't much hope of getting started.
So the other salient fact mentioned, that the five developing economies of India, China, Russia and Brazil will pass the gross national product of the G7 countries within seven years should help to understand why the Wall Street corporate and government leadership have treated U.S. national interests as secondary, or something of a slum in the general scheme of things; the nation can supply military forces to war for foreign resource extraction business interests of more concern to global corporations than American, and consider how to cut programs for the nation's poor while adding debt to the taxpayer future.
President Obama seemed rather spineless in his cheering for extended corporate tax cuts last December; the national budget could have been balanced in two years if he had let them expired-and he absolutely had that power. Now the congress is haggling about cutting medical programs for the poor, and of course Congress lacked the integrity to just create a free medical service for the poor and veterans combining and improving services.
The U.S. military soaks up 3/4 of a billion annually, and the interest on the national debt another 3/4 trillion dollars. Military personnel are paid at very high levels for public servants-too high, and the military retirement system ought to be eliminated and military retirees merged into the civilian social security system at the same rates in order that they too have something to defend and care about being funded.
A military that engages in protracted low-intensity conflict supporting a plethora of corporate military suppliers creates a need to continue expanding wars in order that the Defense Department funding may not be cut. Convenient foreign mullahs protesting U.S. burning of Korans a year later create demands for Congress to submit to the Moslem demands and condemn free expression in the U.S.A. Globalism pressures the U.S.A. increasingly to conform to its will. Some might feel like napalming such demands, and then conform to simple defense of individual liberty even in a market era of pervasive social corruption of national political rights.
One wonders if the Department of Defense has any ability to restrain its deployment whenever corporate and flag officers decide it tempting to start a new conflict such as in Libya instead of finding a way to remove failed rebel protestors peacefully. Could it be possible to reduce Defense spending by half within a year or two through conventional weapons and force reductions with most of the world major powers and soon to be major powers?
The Republican-Tea Party attack on health services to the poor is typical of a corrupt, declining power outsourcing its liberty. The poor should be the last undermine, yet it requires moral leadership to be aware of that fact. Everyone knows that if a Senator or Congressman seeking to undermine Medicaid and Medicare had no medical services him or herself he or she would happily take whatever free medical services are available should they have cancer or a compound fracture on a city street. Realism is not a concern of the federal supply side class of politicians transitioning financial bunk into a faith based distraction from religious integrity as well as financial common sense.
The United States requires a reinforcement of its traditional values of strong national defense, border security and liberation of Mexico from reliance on remittances and drug sales to the U.S.A. that inevitably corrupt the economic pragmatism of each nation. Creating a zero flow of illegal aliens into the United States is requisite for a balanced federal budget and the practical conservation of reasoned financial planning.
It is true that during the middle ages of world history religion was corrupted too far by takeover from simultaneous worldly-political actors driving it to support their own goals. That evolution was a natural consequence of the missiological need to convert a pagan nation's leadership first. The new convert king or queen would then place themselves at the head of the church and find any sort of dissent to be politically threatening. That situation did not work itself out until after the reformation and the 30 years religious wars.
In the U.S.A. the church has failed to transition into being a priesthood of believers and thus often follows the hierarchical, corporate-military industrial complex trail of economic evolution through its permutations at home and abroad. Plainly a priesthood of believers ecclesiastical structure regarding all church members as necessary peers would better draw economic attention to the United States and citizenship instead of corporate, global policy. With the hegemony of the corporate owned broadcast media the upgrading of the United States to a correct contemporary Christian church expression is challenging.
The United States could readily solve its economic difficulties, yet the national leadership is more concerned about abstract global skimming than making the nation the best it can be. There isn't much cause for optimism in the future with the way things are, and federal debt is increasing while the foundation of low-entropy economics hasn't much hope of getting started.
The Tight-Fisted Grip-o-Gravity ©2011Gary Clifford Gibson (poem)
If black holes compress mass infinitely
why aren’t they all the same size
with all mass within crunched to the same infinitely reduced area?
The event horizon; the cover
varies in size in relation to the mass within
the mass continuing to release a gravitational field of proportion
upon space beyond the cover
gravitons escape the gravitational field easily tugging space-time into a curve approaching infinity beyond the cover at the singularity
artful draft dodgers of their own consequence
retired soldiers forever pulling tax dollars into a separate public retirement system
travelling at the speed of light gravitons escape infinite space curvature though not time
Or, alternatively, the cover and its shaped space-time curve is a residual, an artifact of the mass that has infinitely shrunk unto oblivion
a spatial size that reduces mass to non being
Though we think kindly of mass-energy reduced to lowest possible size-such that it has no area at all
it is difficult to forget that even gravity is a kind of energy pulling mass toward its own ends
the end state of mass energy-an illogical choice, for gravity must too be a form of mass-energy convertible a little bit itself into something better
Something a little more noble
something that would let mass and energy drift about space-time in accord with their own will to exist
to form planets and galaxies without gravitational help
to shine brightly where no star has shined before
Mass energy in a black hole with its cover pulled tightly about it
a singularity at the center like a pearl in an oyster of immense power
might have crunched mass and energy to a lowest state of being
something unknown in the present quantum field theory
a quanta stringy or one-dimensional
a monad of metronomic meter
standard versification within a universe
lines of harmonic monads wrapped about the end point of time in a spatial ribbon looping lines into circles on one-time
Gravity that compacts mass to most infinitely reduced size
has something unnegotiable about it
it has its own way nearly infinitely smaller and tighter
to what counterintuitive end?
a one-way city street narrowing to pencil thin
never releasing its grip on time or matter
One day discoverers of scientific puzzles may find
the way to release the entrapped mass-energy of time
time that is halted in its own wrapped space
time that has stopped reducing space to one place
that most steep slope converting mass to just one’s
the unapproachable gravitational field where motion and pressure have just begun
direct lines to the concentrate smallest state of matter
may be unraveled and sent to the black hole centrals
releasing mass through the gravitational-space-time wrapped field
as a new form of energy to power SUV wheels.
why aren’t they all the same size
with all mass within crunched to the same infinitely reduced area?
The event horizon; the cover
varies in size in relation to the mass within
the mass continuing to release a gravitational field of proportion
upon space beyond the cover
gravitons escape the gravitational field easily tugging space-time into a curve approaching infinity beyond the cover at the singularity
artful draft dodgers of their own consequence
retired soldiers forever pulling tax dollars into a separate public retirement system
travelling at the speed of light gravitons escape infinite space curvature though not time
Or, alternatively, the cover and its shaped space-time curve is a residual, an artifact of the mass that has infinitely shrunk unto oblivion
a spatial size that reduces mass to non being
Though we think kindly of mass-energy reduced to lowest possible size-such that it has no area at all
it is difficult to forget that even gravity is a kind of energy pulling mass toward its own ends
the end state of mass energy-an illogical choice, for gravity must too be a form of mass-energy convertible a little bit itself into something better
Something a little more noble
something that would let mass and energy drift about space-time in accord with their own will to exist
to form planets and galaxies without gravitational help
to shine brightly where no star has shined before
Mass energy in a black hole with its cover pulled tightly about it
a singularity at the center like a pearl in an oyster of immense power
might have crunched mass and energy to a lowest state of being
something unknown in the present quantum field theory
a quanta stringy or one-dimensional
a monad of metronomic meter
standard versification within a universe
lines of harmonic monads wrapped about the end point of time in a spatial ribbon looping lines into circles on one-time
Gravity that compacts mass to most infinitely reduced size
has something unnegotiable about it
it has its own way nearly infinitely smaller and tighter
to what counterintuitive end?
a one-way city street narrowing to pencil thin
never releasing its grip on time or matter
One day discoverers of scientific puzzles may find
the way to release the entrapped mass-energy of time
time that is halted in its own wrapped space
time that has stopped reducing space to one place
that most steep slope converting mass to just one’s
the unapproachable gravitational field where motion and pressure have just begun
direct lines to the concentrate smallest state of matter
may be unraveled and sent to the black hole centrals
releasing mass through the gravitational-space-time wrapped field
as a new form of energy to power SUV wheels.
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