The Tao of Pacifism

I do not wish to overly upon the philosophical concepts of Taoism to metaphorize the watercourse way of flowing social and empirical events. It is merely convenient to borrow the metaphor of a continuum of change; of force flowing, in order to describe the interactive phenomena of pacifist actions in a phenomenal world of force.

Social and worldly change is about force and of course violence is regarded by some as the use of force. Flowing water has force only in relation to other objects-for-themselves, and also when the water is confined to a finite area from which it seeks to release or be renormalized to a state of non-force equilibrium.

The universe is a phenomenality of force fields and elements in deteriorating states of equilibrium. The tremendous mystery is how the initial state of the Universe began in perfect order without entropy only to expand and decay toward a new equilibrium at the lowest, coldest energy state at some future time not yet achieved. Us Christians believe that God spoke the Word and the Universe began ‘let there be light’, and there was light’. Well, that is a more parochial topic for the time being.

If one philosophically is in opposition to violence on moral grounds, perhaps reasoning that violence is stupid because there are many smarter things to do in life, should one then choose to act upon others and force one’s belief in the use of non-force upon the unwilling, predatory and ignorant hordes?

Perhaps acting within the world-for-others or within the dialectical social materialism of the era one might divert violent actions and policies toward non-violent, more productive applications of force. Human dynamics are within a violent continuum in-themselves and simply direct action to stop violence tends to produce violent such as in particle accelerator collisions at CERN.

Obviously redirecting violence to non-violent directions within a real social environment with semi-autonomous, moderately intelligent persons being the context of violent action, secular hypocrisy, deceit and so forth might require that one be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove. Well, that worked for Jesus Christ until the arrest, trial and suffering unto death of The Lord.

Even if only God could divide the waters allowing the Jews to flee Pharaoh’s secular violent cavalry and power of slave-owning, pacifists today might moderate the social flow indirectly putting intention to transition states of affairs into non-violent contexts. It wouldn’t be easy I would think.

Obama 2012 Budget-Chinese 2012 Budget-Pres Obama Meets Vice President Xi (pronounced She?)

President Obama's 2012 budget has been criticized for kicking the debt further down the road and borrowing money to squeak through a second term. The 'after me the deluge' approach worked for President Bush II so why not for Obama I?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/us-usa-china-idUSTRE81D08R20120214?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Of more interest is the Chinese 2012 budget that was released in December. It has an anticipated GDP growth of 8%, and as the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business advertised in The Economist 'A new world operating system is now running.'

What that means for Americans in effect is that China has a moderately effective one-party political system that plans and structures its national economy much better than America's polarized democracy that has substantively schizoid political philosophy underwriting it . American democracy is owned by the rich from Super Pacs to ordinary run of the million dollar congressional campaign seats, and the populous is about ass incompetent as it could get with all of the confused, incompetent ideas from their leaders even about what the U.S. economic goals should be. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the roll model for Lenin's notion that 'capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with'..

America's democracy in head to head competition with China's one-party system may lose the economic race because the middle class and rich are just too damn comfortable to think about political philosophy enough to do the nation any good.

Eureka! Wall Street and the U.S. Economy

It is well known that the modern quantitative trading programming of elite Wall Street firms began in the 1960s with the adaptation of a Monte Carlo algorithm invented by John Von Neuman in the 1940s to winning at Black Jack by card counting and calculating odds (How to Beat the Dealer) to stock trading. in the 1960s Actual gambling casinos soon learned to recognize and ban card counters from playing yet free enterprise continued in I Vegas. On Wall Street alternatively quantitative computer managed ‘card counting’ was allowed and invested in heavily with supporting government deregulation. The result is the national concentration of wealth.

http://www.columbia.edu/~mh2078/MCS04/MCS_framework_FEegs.pdf

When ordinary free enterprise risk is submerged within a meta-structure of quantitative trading gaming of the system capitalism has become detached from its incidental role of building up as a result of meritorious free enterprise. The house loses when quantitative trading card counting’ quality trading programs skim vast amounts of investments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhC1Qb-PQ5Q

http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa_download

There are new artificial intelligence algorithms emerging these days that will also affect Wall Street and reinforce new ‘card-counting’ players. I would like a word processing program that respond to my verbal instructions to insert page breaks or headers wherever I say, such as at any words in bold type, yet that kind of word processing though resembling A.I. would have none of the deeply analytical quality of Eureqa-a new program to distill equations for physical systems such as gravity.

Governments should at least be cognizant of the .A.I. gaming potential for economics and instead of degrading citizens to abstract units while raising the value of elite Quantitative programmers of wealth concentration it should detach ordinary business and citizen capital from subjection to the pervasive, networks and predatory traders.

New Science ran an article on Eureqa in January and reported that the free to download program has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. It is a first rate program that could be tasked by people for purposes of forming analytical structures and equations able to game up Wall Street better indirectly dumping more disadvantage on the mere inventive enterprisers with a streak of Thomas Edison in their spirit.

Evidently Eureqa can be given select parameters and select data and calculate what equations would represent the relationships amidst the data accurate. In time such programs as Eureqa might allow development of artificial intelligence computer viruses able to adaptively conceal their existence within a data structure perhaps arriving in bits to infiltrate firewalls and reassemble before dispersing for cellular community organizing of guerrilla insurgencies.

Adaptive artificial intelligence systems for quantitative gaming of Wall Street might be a logical step beyond the next step of predation upon traditional capitalized business structures listed electronically on Wall Street. Trading structures for quantitative artificially intelligence directed leveraging for arbitrage is one possibility for the too rich to govern and too politically challenging to regulate corruptions of democracy in the U.S.A. along with the primary institution of independent, home free enterprise.

When the card-counters enter the game all of the house mortgage holders lose.

Santorum Finishes 3rd in Maine Without Campaigning

Rick Santorum's 18% of the vote was not too bad for a candidate that did not campaign in the state. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul who did actively seek after Maine support finished with 39% and 36% respectively.

Arizona and Michigan are the next stops on the Republican primary battleground. February 28th will determine if Santorum or Romney are equally popular in t state two non-partisan North and Southwest.

Mediterranean-Dead Sea Canal Update

For generations visionaries have sought to bring the Dead Sea back to life.

With a 1200 foot difference between sea level in the Med and Dead seas the concept of filling the 1200 feet below sea level canal has been considered at least since 1855. The most recent idea is to exploit the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway tunnel to run a pipeline.

Some objections to resurrecting the declining Dead Sea might be made by the lucrative brine to sodium, potassium, magnesium chloride businesses as well as others.

It is hard to guess what archaeological treasures might be lost forever if the water level is raised 1200 feet; maybe ancient scrolls?

If the project could help Mediterranean tuna recover to robust numbers the canal route might be better. First though, the depths need to be scoured for artifacts by drone submersibles until nothing could be overlooked including evidence of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah though there may be nothing at all left of those best forgotten settlements of reprobates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Canal

Quantum Simulations Study Hydrogen Under Pressure

Hydrogen is the simplest known element. One might argue that fields-even dark energy fields and gravity comprise different kinds of elements I suppose. Hydrogen with a single proton and neutron and one electron per valence shell was the basic element of matter generated through the particle-wave zoo at the start of the present phase of the known Universe. Scientists have simulated how hydrogen behaves under intense pressure and increased heat...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100623165125.htm

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

Hydrogen behavior under pressure is interesting because as large clouds of hydrogen drew together under gravity pressure increased perhaps as in the simulation. Large gaseous planets may have formed and used similar phase transition processes.

Electrical exchanges increased under pressure and maybe that generates heat (the physics report did not explain, although sometimes electrical wires get warm with a lot of flow through too small of a wire).

I should mention that hydrogen has more than one form. With exchanges or loss of particles such a a neutron the charge of hydrogen can change. If deuterium forms then helium and fusion may occur with enough material and of course if stars form and nova in time other elements are produced that can go into the formation of different clumps of matter.

Smart Pebbles Developments For Anti-Aircraft Evolving?

The smart pebbles Star Wars anti-missile development program may have evolved a modern high-speed direct-fire kinetic anti-aircraft weapon trend for shooting at aircraft with a muzzle velocity of 20,000 M.P.H. -who can say what government and industry spend money on?

http://www.9abc.net/index.php/archives/7369

The electro-magnetic anti-aircraft gun isn't like the WW II Bophurs anti-aircraft cannon. Anti-aircraft weapons were largely replaced by anti-aircraft missiles after the Korean War. The newer era of anti-aircraft weapons may be another reason why conventional human-piloted aircraft are slowly being replaced by drone aircraft and stealth; they are smaller and less valuable and easier to conceal from ground crews.

The entire issue of proliferation of electro-magnetic 'cannon' is one that should concern civilians as it could be a future inter-continental ballistic 'stone' technology able to hit cities with conventional sabots. It human beings were as smart at reforming capitalism, communism and other global networks of power that inhibit individual free enterprise as they are at weapons development they would have a better chance for survival beyond a few decades on Earth.

I would guess that for the defense industry finding enemies may be an essential part of the dialectic of defense weapons development. Without credible enemies the rationale for developing large scale weapons programs is difficult to politically justify.

The possibilities for direct electro-magnetic kinetic weapons uses in space may be a driver for the future development of mass-driver accelerators of sabots to supplement the usual laser 'speed of light' technologies.

President Obams's Effort to Force Prophylaxis On Church Organizations and Schools Fails

President Obama's effort to force churches and schools to provide free birth control to employees has failed for now. One wonders about the idea that birth control is a health issue at all.

Certainly food is a health issue; without food one dies. Without intercourse one can survive indefinitely-even sailors adrift in lifeboats at sea have been known to survive several weeks.

A legal problem may exist in government regulations to require that anyone supply birth control paraphenalia to minors for whom sex is probably illegal in many circumstances. So the issue is actually reducible to sex between married couples. The Government might give a few free rubbers to adults, yet on a sustainable basis they should get rubber stamps or something to ditto the decrease of population from the I.R.S. as a tax rebate or give one dollar to a Presidential campaign fund.

I really don't know if birth control pills require a prescription. If they are available over-the-counter then married couples should get rubber stamps generically useful for pills if they can prove they are very poor and don't want to have kids, or more kids. Perhaps the Obama administration will next also seek to legalize happy suicide pills eventually as health care for society to reduce over-population.

Unmarrried should be able to afford birth control for-themselves for a quickie or two, and for protracted fornication they should really not expect taxpayers to supply the condomnations.

Actually men's gas station restrooms sell rubbers for 50 or 75 cents. Maybe women's restrooms should have those to so females can whip out a rubber from their purses when they feel the need to liberate their libido with close contact of the sexual kind.

If minors want to perpetrate sexual activities leading to pregnancy and gestation plainly they should expend on a super-deluxe rubber if they don't want to make the spring planting a family thing in the future.

It is good that the President has rolled back his decretal that a saturation of church groups and organization with rubbers and whatever to stop births. Maybe a new committee can be formed to investigate the several important issues in Congress.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/us-usa-contraceptives-idUSTRE8181MX20120210?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

PDF/EPUB Computer Program Upgrade Criteria?

I saw a woman using American sign language to talk with someone else today via the internet camera. That makes me wonder if there are visual sign language translators to change that into synthetic speech.

Adobe's speech synthesizer in version nine reads well enough yet still sounds rather flaky. I hope they can improve it.

One place they can definately improve things is in adapting PDFs to become EPUB files more easily than the present EPUB format that is not at all friendly for poetry and books that aren't written with just chapters such as in prose fiction. If one wants a chronlogical order without conventional chapters to use custom line indentations it is difficult.

A writer should not need to adapt his book to a computer language format designed for programmers instead of literary needs, and PDF should be able to let simple conformal criteria for placing breaks in existing PDF files enable PDF files to meet EPUB logic for book sales purposes.

Reasons Why (a poem)

If wind is a metaphor of illimitable change
through which appearances in existence of crumbling shadows
arising as so many dawns and dusks structured
with nothingness transformed into colors
for moments and nothing else
buildings moved through paper
cast within history's stream
of ticking clocks

Adjusting to the adjustments of gravitational compaction
drawing substance dispersed to a membrane of ever
itself a contingency in timelessness
events and space crashing before time
changes micro-data bits to things with wings

The One is before and immediately for the appearances
standing upon eternity's edge
every transcending beingness collecting the waters of time flowing with the amazement of change
reduced to everywhere.

Washington State Legislature Transforms Marriage into an Institution of Fiction

Marriage is a codification of the human reproduction configuration among the non-corrupt. Politicians of a political elite like putting legal fictions over on the public in order to erode civil rights, and the Washington State Legislature and Governor has tossed one of the classic social lies into the ring: homosexual marriage.

There are a variety of ways to conserve civil rights of citizens that practice homosexuality amidst those equal rights of all individual citizens. A psychological lunysization of objective facts subverting the constitution was already accomplished with hate speech legislation to double up on criminal law for specially labeled classes of society. The corrupt governments of today make paper solutions and fictions to address real world issues ineffectively.

The hostile takeover and degeneration of marriage by the elites in the political and judicial realms of power and privilage was never necessary. May string pullers being seeking to corrupt society sufficiently to create a plausible context for random, high-tech, sudden mass social culling of excess planetary population down to a sustainable level of 1 billion? It would be far better to go forward with off-world and on-world full employment, high-tech reason with strong individual rights for all.

The Apostle Paul wrote about homosexuality as a genre of the lie. Nearly 2000 years later that same old lie is being formalized by a decadent-era Washington state government into law. Perhaps decent people don't want to be politicians or judges so prosperous rift raft of a socially swinging set moves in and takes over to pad their nests with hip. Unfortunately when the reprobate lawmakers bring down the nation in time everyone suffers. The idiots in government force the corrupt way through instead of having any concern about pleasing God at the same time that they make their perverted constituents content. Lawmakers need to satisfy God as well as the stupid or incur the wrath of God some time I would think.

To reiterate; because women get pregnant in sharing eggs and sperm with men in a 'marriage' and because a new human is born subsequently composed of a marriage of the parental genes the institution of marriage was established to recognize and reinforce that phenomenon. It legally is wrong to create a bastard legal structure now that adulterates the fundamental premise of marriage making of the term a lie.

quote from the King James Version--

Paul wrote in Romans :

1 "16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"

Bank Ratings for Cash to Debt Obligations Ratio?

Depositors might want to know what their bank's cash to lendings ratios is. That is banks exploit risky investment strategies with their capital these days and ordinary people might want to have ratings so they would know if their personal capital is invested in a safe place.

Banks are little more than investment houses these days that use the cash from depositors as chips to play on the market through high return quantitative investing buying and selling competetively with the best purely quantitative stock and bonds trading firms on Wall Strret.

If Banks risk ratings were made then some banks could be given conservative AAA ratings and others junk bank status. Bank books should be open enough to Federal inspection that accurate rating can be given so depositors and mortgage buyers know if their banks has a 1to 1000 cash to debt obligations ratio.

Scientists have found that at least one mammal communicates in pure ultrasound. Philippine tarsiers screech inaudibly to human at 71 Khz and here at up to 91 Khz. Quantitative brokerage trading is like that-inaudible to humans.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21443-the-only-primate-to-communicate-in-pure-ultrasound.html

Slavery Was Business as Usual Globally Until 18th Century

For most of human history slavery was a normal social institution. The practice was not learned in the Americas from Columbus and the Spaniards. Cortez met a peer slave owner in Montezuma who was also accomplished at human sacrifice.

It is difficult today to realize how recently in history slavery was abolished universally except for regions of the Earth where it is surruptitiously exploited as an economic vice on disadvantaged workers. Genoa Italy sent its prisoners to five-year sentences aboard slave galleys with life expectancy about two years in the 17th century. Christopher Columbus was from Genoa.

Tribal reaction against slavery and class exploitation has been severe to when the oppressed overcome the oppressors. Haitian slaves in revolt annihilated all white people on the Island. German Nazi’s in a confused social environment sent to death camps most non-Germans and especially Jews tat were regarded as wealthy trans-national oppressors.

One might look a little farther east and be aware that V.I. Lenin purged from Russia all farmers with more than two cows as wealthy and about five million Kulaks perished in Siberian relocation camps. One could not have expected German communists to be too sympathetic with any Jew with gold.

People never have enough money or power. Rush Limbaugh would never give up his global E.I.B. microphone and become a Christian evangelist in Tibet. The Chinese Imperial Government had their peons, serfs or chattel even until the 20th century trailing behind the liberal Russian Imperial Government in ending their oppressive institution called serfdom by more than a half-century. India and other nandering naybobs of negativism might regard their Imperial overlords-the British as oppressive neo-slavers of a sort right until mid-20th century, yet of course they had their own institution of the caste system to keep the undesirables down economically until quite recently.

Sometimes politics continues as today in the U.S.A. in a broken form incapable of fixing the economy and creating full employment. With more than 1% non-citizens in the U.S.A. a variety of corruptions flourish in employment numbers too high, in elderly people being excluded from social safety nets, in compelling a minority of Americans to pay taxes for the majority and so forth. The middle class and business want to cut spending on the poor to balance the budget. EVen if the poor were to not get their 1.2 billion each year for twelve million cell phones it would not balance the budget when the rich spent billions each month in Iraq just for the hell of it and to give defense contractors income streams.

Because pay phones have been phased out the poor without phones cannot communicate for emergency calls, to be hired by employers or to let the N.S.A. and F.B.I. listen to their ghetto conversations. Cell phone subsidies let the government track down terrorists through a process of elimination. It is not out of the goodness of the heart that the billion dollars is spent on cellular lifeline service.

American slavery was an inherited social institution pre-existing the American revolution of 1776. It is a complete misunderstanding of history not to comprehend that the founders new they could not eliminate slavery right away and instead banned the importation of slaves as soon as the Government was a little stablished in the early 19th century. Eliminating slavery would require a civil war-basically an economic war in 1865.

The Confederate slave owning class-the 1% of its day-was as unwilling to give up property; they regarded slaves as property, as middle class Americans today would be to give up fossil fuel vehicles or pay higher taxes. Human beings have had a universal willingness to exploit to death their fellow man especially when they are not of their own tribe or social class.

Africans first and foremost followed later by Moslems from Arabia and then the Portuguese created slavery in Africa. When the New World was discovered existing American tribes and their slave practices became anachronisms and were dwarfed by European slavery entrepreneurs selling their cargo from West Africa to colonists in the New World.

Gosh, people are rotten.

Rick Santorum; Does He Need a Super PAC to Run Against Barrack, Newt and Mitt?

With three quick primary victories Rick Santorum has better prospects in the Republican primaries ahead that will put up a challenger to President Obama. Rick Santorum has a simple campaign donation web-page, yet he hasn't advertised for a Super PAC such as the President has or that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich benefit from.

https://www.ricksantorum.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1&gclid=CJjKn_73j64CFQ5ihwodXBsdgA

In the lengthy primary trail the candidates have many rivers to cross in the battle to set the political borders meaningfully. Rush Limbaugh who occasionally claims to be a conservative (no conservative would have supported an end of don't ask, don't tell as did Rush Limbaugh). Mr. Limbaugh seems to be an ordinary sycophant for concentrated wealth presenting 'safe-conservatism' as do so many others since the end of the cold war.

I can't believe they have made sweater-vests an issue for Santorum. He should just wear used clothes from the best Phoenix thrift stores and get barbers to cut his hair that cost 5$ to be a trend setter on thriftiness.

Kinetic Military Action & Next Generation Debt- Waveform Politics 10/Matter of Spirit-new ebooks

I have published an edited collection of my essays named 'Kinetic Military Action & Next Generation Debt- Waveform Politics 10'

This was the final book in the series of contemporary historical analysis, philosophical and political essays I started around 1999.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/garycgibson

I have also published an ebook of my recent poems titled 'Matter of Spirit'.

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/matter-of-spirit/18861699?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2

Kinetic Military Action & Next Generation Debt- Waveform Politics 10/Matter of Spirit-new ebooks

I have published an edited collection of my essays named 'Kinetic Military Action & Next Generation Debt- Waveform Politics 10'

This was the final book in the series of contemporary historical analysis, philosophical and political essays I started around 1999.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/garycgibson

I have also published an ebook of my recent poems titled 'Matter of Spirit'.

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/matter-of-spirit/18861699?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2

Judicial Elites Toss Out California Proposition 8

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a homosexual lower court judge's decision to rule that voters haven't a right to define marriage as between two sexes instead of between on sex. Legal fictions are a contemporary fact of life where wealth and power have concentrated through globalization and judicial tyranny may decide law in favor of the rich.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57372620/court-calif-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/

The decision followed the NFL 'butch bowl contest between two powerful homosexual marriage states; New England vs, New York, with the Giants being the butch victors over the Patriots who as Massachusans are a little tarnished anyway. The President also announced he would accept help from a Super PAC and so perhaps also anticipated some pay back from a happy gay corporate world that devalues individual free enterprise. The Corporate world has purchased so much political influence that individuals are kind of dragged along to rubber stamp candidates conformed to the interests of the rich.

The salient point about the corporate-homo assault upon marriage is that the corruption of civil history was never a necessity to assert the rights of any individuals to have protection from civil abuse. That is, it was necessary to throw out the meaning and phenomena of matrimony in order to put homosexual males living together on an equal footing with pregnant women raising children with a husband who have shared genes to create new, synthetic human beings.

It is simple false that homosexuals must be socially repressed or degraded if they are not regarded as the equivalent of couples sharing pregnancy with traditional reproduction. The basically atheist attack upon traditional families is a way to dissolve the bonds that hold the United States together. In theory when a judiciary becomes consistently corrupt there is no remedy for the people except to end the government and form a new one. Maybe that is in the cards a long way down the road.

The homosexual crowd should have simply established external social welfare policies that make the advantages of marriage superfluous (besides increasing social diffusion of prosperity). They might have also changed contract law and reformed inheritance laws and provisions to enable people not related by blood to have specific rights of inheritance-yet those things exist in some way already and could have been simplified and packaged for the benefit of the perverse.

What Is U.S. Syria Policy? Any Link to R.F.K. Assassination?

What is the U.S. administration's actual Syria policy these days? In the good old days Syria was simple an enemy of U.S. Middle East interests as a foe of Israel and ally of the Soviet Union. Times have changed of course and we are left with the Obama administration policy of fanning the flames of civil war and mass bloodletting.

It is difficult to imagine that the present Syrian Government could simply retire to sailboats and enjoy the afterglow on the golden Mediterranean pond. The Alawites and perhaps Christians too would likely experience the usual sort of purges that follow decades of civil enmity. Maybe it would have the potential for being a former Yugoslavia, yet a regime change and new Sunni Government probably would not treat their former rulers as friends and neighbors. Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970 and his son rules today.

It seems to me as an American rather wicked to drive any nation toward civil war and blood purges even if they can sing it away with 'we didn't start the fire' media prop. The secular Baa’th coup in Syria in 1963 allowed the Alawites to take power. The Sunni comprising 74% of the population are The Alawites probably did not send Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert Kennedy.

True Sirhan Sirhan is Syrian and the Syrians had a regime change in 1963 the year J.F.K. was killed and might have seen it in their stars as good luck (it seems like another weird conspiracy theory though), yet that is probably coincidence alone.

If it isn’t and if there was some sort of hidden Alawite Syrian plot record in the Assad archives probably it will never survive the chaos of fires of the civil conflict ahead that could ensue if the Syrian Government is transitioning through its protracted decline and fall process today.

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

The U.S. Government these days seems to be moving closer toward the kind of New World Order butch hegemony that regards democracy as rule by corporate concentrated wealth elites. Perhaps a Sunni takeover of Syria would end the Iranian influence and weapons trafficking routes to the Sunni Palestinian territories yet it is more likely that it would accelerate the affiliation of the Sunni ((orthodox) Moslem world and the rise of a Sunni Caliphate. Incidentally the word 'Caliphate' means successor. The west too under the Next Bush, Clinton or new corporate pick may emerge as a Caliphate for-itself as time rolls by.

The U.S. State Department has consistently failed to provide the public some sort of insight into what they expect a post-revolutionary Syria, Libya or wherever to be. The public cannot have a blind trust on foreign policy since the protracted Gulf and Afghan nation building. An out of civil control foreign policy is far too costly to the United States itself in lost opportunity for development as it goes into an economic hold pattern in order to support the Defense Contractors.

On that point I wanted to remark on the base realignment and closure round ahead and how if effects Alaska. Some of the state's Congressional delegation want to freeze the F-16 and F-22 deployment locations so the base at Fairbanks can stay open instead of sending it's plains to Anchorage wear they would be closer to intercept Chinese warplanes should they attack. Russia isn't too likely to squadrons of attacking aircraft next year, and it might be more cost effective to establish dog sled racing from Alaska to Moscow and an Alaska-Russia sailing society with lots of ports on the northern littoral instead of war gaming.

Actually it might be fun to have a Moscow to Fairbanks jet aircraft race around pylons each year for civilians including used fighter aircraft. ESPN might televise it and the race could be viewed by satellite as well.

Returning to Syria; It seems probable that an embattled Assad regime will fight to hold on while the Moslem Brotherhood expects N.A.T.O. to intervene eventually in order to have a base closer to attack Iran if necessary in order to defend against Iranian nuclear proliferation. Syria hasn't got oil so that can't be an incentive.

The Government may not be able to support a nice government in every nation around the globe. The means to an end as important as the end for-itself in cases where a lot of civilians perish. Is it a good idea to continue to stimulate a possible Syrian blood bath down the road ahead? Aggressive war is evil, yet aggressive proxy conflict seems to be more acceptable amidst some diplomats. Perhaps the real human costs of change should be evaluated as well as the end. In the future perhaps democratic individualism will be inevitable globally if concentrated wealth and power are set aside by technological diffusion.

Mitt Romney vs. Obama Super Pac: The Matchup

How would Mitt Romney do in the advertising campaign this fall against President Obama and his super PAC?

Since the President has decided to accept unlimited donations from the world or whomever to attempt to buy a second term in office his ethical choices now present a different menu. The President has decided to return large campaign donations from the brothers of a Mexican fugitive charged with Mexican political bribery, assassinations and possibly drug trafficking. That 200,000 dollars is going to be returned to the Cardonas brothers to harmonize with the Democratic Party's highest ethical standard.

The Obama campaign team can count on maybe another billion from vague offshore or extraneous donors that would prefer to have his political style another four years. They would have a tough time matching up with Mitt Romney on two important issues in the advertising war though. Attacking Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts would attack the constituency of the President's second 'sponsor' state, and attacking Mitt Romney on health care would in effect be an attack on Obamacare.

How would Newt Gingrich fare against the President's billions (presumably including Warren Buffet whose Secretary was given the special seat of honor in the recent State of the Union address)? Newt Gingrich would probably lose the advertising battle with his background in comparison to the Presidents.

Newt Gingrich was one of the primary designers of the 90's flamonomics that built up unto the 2007-2008 banking and home mortgage crisis and is an essential opponent to patching up Wall Street. Mr. Gingrich is also a probably target of pervasive and protracted personal attack by Mr. Obama's homosexual supporters as the butch effort to compel through law a civil rights hegemony over straight males is a preference of many and of some wealthy elites seeking after concentration of wealth, power and the degradation of the common man. Personal attacks instead of reason are the consistent modus operandi of that political vector.

Former Speaker Gingrich's personal ethics vulnerability to counter-propaganda by the Democratic PACs would be a phenomena lasting several months, while a few debates; three or four at most would not provide the Speaker with any compensating decisive advantage able to nullify the advertising defeats. Mr. Gingrich might run against the President's history before he took office in affiliating with various Chicago personalities yet that is to a certain extent old business while the neo-scandal of Mr. Gingrich's past would be as persistent possibly as Edward Kennedy and Chappequidick was in the talk radio egosphere.

Dzántik'i Héeni

Juneau does have an interesting history. It's name before Joe Juneau and Frank Harris swapped eponyms for the place named 'where the flounders gather' (not thinking ahead to the Alaska State Government's environmental policy at all) was Dzántik'i Héeni (in Tlingit).