The Devolution of Democracy into Tyranny

Could the Roman Republic have survived into the Christian era if Caesar had not won the Roman civil war? The Roman patricians of the Republic had invested heavily in foreign concerns and cared too little for the nation. Of course they wanted to preserve their class political power yet who exactly was to mind the store?

History presents interesting questions and lessons to learn about human social environments from. The Phoenicians were before the Romans the great naval power of the Mediterranean. With the rise of Roma as a rival they sent their General Hannibal to beat down Rome and of course he failed. Though a greatly innovative and determined military leaders Phoenician Carthage was a naval and trading power instead of one with a history of successful land war. Eventually at the critical moment when Hannibal had Rome in his grasp the Carthaginian financiers cut off his military funding as too costly. Perhaps the Roman Republic could be understood as dying from a similar cause of distracted commercial leaders in political-economic power unwilling to comprehend and support their real national interest.

The charismatic Julius Caesar was a populist supported by the common plebian urbanites who understood their rich Republican rulers were busy concentrating wealth through foreign interests across the ancient world including luxurious villas in France (trans-alpine Gaul) while they had high unemployment and uncertain economic security. Republicanism might have appeared like an aristocracy on a hill, aloof, imperious and callous uttering advice of a stoic nature to the poor to bite the bullet and stuff will trickle down in a hypothetical spatiotemporal time parameter acceptable to proper civil order conserving the interests of the rich. Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon with his legion understood the circumstance of popular discontent. Over the course of the war he met and defeated Pompey’s legion in Greece who then fled.  Winning the civil war he would eventually become with recalcitrance, Emperor. The plebian mob liked it. The imperial Empire buried the Roman Republic for good replacing bad coin with worse. When wealth is over-concentrated concentrated Republicanism becomes a casualty. In the U.S.A. the concentration of wealth supported by Democrats and Republicans could lead to the end of Republicanism and Democracy.

The United States seems to have similar dangers today as did Republican Rome. Its political leaders are tools for commercial global interests. Federal and Wall Street misadministration built up the 2008 financial crash. Federal debt continues to compile and civil leadership to reduce global expenses on standing military and increase ecosphere reconstruction with employment and quality of life improvements are lacking.

Contemporary plebeians experience an unresponsive and aloof, ineffective political leadership class unwilling to reform capitalism that has moved its center of effort offshore. The U.S. Senate is led by a quietist majority leader used to raising daughters so non-dynamic that the President is tempted to be too executive such as to disregard the Congressional right to make the laws and his duty to obey and execute the laws of Congress.

When the United States was founded it inherited the problem of slavery created by imperial government before. Importation of slavery was stopped as soon as reasonably possible in that era-about 20 years after the signing of the constitution into law. It would take fourscore and ten years before the American civil war to end slavery. It wouldn’t have been possible for the United States to have long endured without the slave states sandwiched between imperialists North and South. The experiment in democracy would have quickly ended. The wisdom of the founders brought in the slave states to the revolution and cut off the head of the imperialist leaders, politically speaking, later in winning the civil war. Rehabilitating the southern states into democracy was a time consuming and costly process. The war of 1812 though demonstrated how dangerous British imperialists still were and the need to include the southern states in the revolution of 1776.

The revolutionary era of American history was still on something more of a human level of egalitarianism than today. There wasn’t so much difference between rich and poor and neither did medical procedures give the rich the assurance of longer, healthier lifespan. The revolutionaries fought human beings rather than half billion dollar stealth bombers, nuclear attack submarines, space satellites, and nuclear weapons. I mention this enormous change in the relationship between the power of any government of that era and its citizens and those of today for a reason; to point out that it may be impossible for Americans to revolt against their government today and without that ability, one enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, government power may have no real limit to its ability to degrade democracy and popular sovereignty.

It is difficult to imagine the President becoming an Emperor in this or any of the next few administrations, yet the transformation of the U.S. Government to an insular institution loyal to global financial Plutocracy isn’t. A benevolent dictatorship is an oxymoron however a sham democratic government protected by loyal to the rich broadcast media isn’t. Mercenary broadcast media political opinion hasn’t the same political interests at all as plebian urbanites and rural Americans. More illegal aliens arrive in America every few years than there were American citizens in the early Republic. With open borders and cheap air travel or to the beach of Laredo and Phoenix hundreds of millions of migrants would move if they could, anytime before the U.S.A. runs out of natural resources and jobs to plunder and take. Inrushing masses care little about the national ecospheric, security or civil rights and order issues of the nation-they are in quest of cash and have cell phones and the internet to get instructions from the world with about where to g and what to do.

The President seems to live in the 19^th century on the subject of immigration and not recognize the numbers of people involved. There are more illegal aliens in the U.S.A. today than were Americans in the country in 1860. It has real consequences to let in a few million illegals here and a few more there.  The scalar field increase of resource consumption and inverse reduction of per capita land area available is a fact in the arrival of illegal alien millions that does no good at all to the democratic concept of  self-determination of the people of the United States from within.

American democracy is premised to be a country of, by and for the people with political rule with the consent of the governed. Americans don’t set illegal immigration levels for the year the illegals decide for themselves to enter whenever they choose destroying the sovereignty of the citizens of the United States over immigration.

The people of the United States have historically set immigration levels. Immigrant quotas from Europe were set early in U.S. history. When the danger of anarchists and communist seemed to develop amidst eastern Europeans immigration quotas were drastically cut. Most Americans arrived here legally and were hence acting within the popular sovereignty of the people of United States unlike the illegal immigrants from the south the past 50 years. President Obama has supported the idea of making law breaking of the sovereign laws of the people of the United States a pathway to U.S. citizenship in accord with his tendency toward an imperial executive power.

Control of immigration levels are important for sovereign citizen government designs of policy reacting satisfactorily to public will. Surplus labor supply may be undesired by the masses of Americans without prospects for good jobs or even any job at all so they may not want millions of immigrants in some year or decade. The environment may be viewed as endangered by human exploitation and the public will by a majority may be for zero or low population growth. There are any number of reasons why political will of the majority may oppose high immigration levels yet illegal immigration bypasses the political system completely. Illegal aliens can enter illegally because the Democrat congress and neo-imperial executive won’t defend the border adequately or empower local law officials to arrest illegal aliens and remand them to federal custody for repatriation to real homeland.

President Obama as an executive enforcing laws selectively seems to prefer a plutocratic imperialism down-grading American democracy. Support for mass illegal immigration and refusing to let Bush II era tax cuts expire are imperial policy directions. While there is any public debt the taxes on the rich should not have been cut. The way to cut public debt is to tax the rich. The poor will get off reliance on public support when they have good jobs or good job prospects that won’t happen with surplus cheap labor.  The rich are concentrating wealth in the meanwhile, the environment is in decay, public debt increases at something like a trillion a year more or less and the President sets a new record every week on the number of gold games played in two terms by a President. The broadcast media like imperialism with the people experiencing democracy vicariously through them in a new age bread, circuses (T.V.) and soporifics.

Imperial and brute imposition of alien will from leaders and migrants into the nation is traditionally un-American. The former was a stimulus to the American Revolution. Today the globalist government-corporate entity finds distance non-existent with speed-of-light communication and U.S. ideas about the sovereign political will of plebian Republicans quaint. American Republicans were, to start with, more like Roman plebeians than Roman republicans- that were more like an aristocracy after more century increasing wealth and power. It’s hard to say where it will develop or it what manner reform could occur.

The Roman Republicans might have evolved a broader representative franchise and avoided the transition to imperialism yet failed with their attention focused on concentrating wealth and training foreign mercenaries to serve in their army and substitute for them in military service. The failure of elite Republican leadership to comprehend what comprises and interests the populous seems recurrent to a certain extent. Examples are limited because Republics are limited in number to review over history.

Ronald Reagan understood populism and was a popular Republican leader-it wasn’t just the conservativism of rich. Elite Republicanism detached from the plebian sort of populism that is supposed to be the true foundation (under God) of American democratic government (representative government) probably leads in the same sort of direction as the Republicanism of ancient Rome toward imperialism- even if in a new age form of global plutocracy and Wall Street networking of concentrated wealth (the 5% of the 1%).

Republicanism that fails to lead on ecological economic reform will not get the chance often enough to stop the illegal immigration that will eventually undermine democracy and their own political base. Imperialism ends Republicanism with concentrating wealth rather leading to fewer and fewer Republicans. It is then that the populous feeling repressed support a symbolic popular imperialist (Caesar) to be the benevolent dictator ostensibly working for the masses. Democracy has then died.

Room for Angels in the Modern World

Protestant images of angels are difficult to imagine. Catholics have had an easier time of that, perhaps over-imaging angelic images. In the modern scientific world of drug users and godless materialism one might reasonably ask where do angels fit in to the world view of Protestant Christians?

I think the answer is not much. Protestants tend toward agnosticism on having opinions about angels yet they shouldn't. The theologian Karl Barth believed that since angels are in scripture it is necessary to have faith in angels too. I can live with that, especially after learning more about Karl Barth's views on scripture.

Americans tend to view extra-terrestrials more favorably than angels. Scientists seem to like the idea of extra-terrestrials on exo-planets that just haven't given us a call yet. In spite of all the effort with S.E.T.I. to locate the little green men from red planets and elsewhere the warblings of the creatures of fantasy remain undiscovered' fine-there are probably good reasons for that.

Angels though are comparable to extra-terrestrials I would think in that they are from somewhere else than here; some place not easy to seem with a telescope. Heaven-the place where angels are reputed to live-may be regarded as being of an extra-dimensional location. There may be innumerable undiscoverd dimensions, even string theory posits hundreds of them. Qualitative differences in dimensions may make heaven a place one can't ever by a space flight to. It has some sort of one-way accessability for the elect rhough the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Angels are beings already living in heaven whereas humans are living on Earth. The realm of the Earth could comprise the entire solid state Universe as a material condition I suppose-from the point of view of angels in heaven. An analogy would be that viewed from the moon the earth looks like a blue marble or some sort of potential topaz nugget for deposit in an account in a dark pool faster-than-light trading firm's computer accounts offshore.

Angels may be God's ambassadors or emissaries to Earth persons when the trinity wants to put in a personal appearance through the angels. Barth advises though to not go beyond scriptural references and invent one's own images of angels or imagine their works. Protestants I think tend to worry about the possibility of creating falsehood theologically speaking about the roles and impacts of angels upon humans individually and socially that might distract from thinking about the real relationship with the Lord and work of the Holy Spirit. Even so there is still room for angels in the world. If you ever actually meet one it probably won't require abstract verification.

U.S. Labor Participation Rate Expected to Decrease the Next Decade

U.S. labor force participation is the lowest in 35 years. In spite of a good June employment report of 288,000 jobs the need for several million quality employment positions remains. The bleak job outlook for the nation is a great opportunity for the next Presidential candidate to build an economy for ecosphere renewal to raise that labor participation rate up from 62 million to perhaps 100 million.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FM.ZS ratio of female/male employment in world nations

King salmon fishing in Alaska and the North Pacific is bad not only because of river habitat degradation. The salmon oceanic four-year life cycle is technologically obsolete. The big fish can’t dodge those big drift nets on their easily predictable routes so many years. Pink salmon that are on a two year closer to shore life cycle tend to thrive however. The ecosphere predation economy of humans has outgrown the prey (natural resources) and requires conservation.

Nations with rivers that have or had King salmon runs could agree to not fish in the middle of the ocean any more and just catch fish close to home in limited numbers, yet if they did that they would probably lose out as nations from elsewhere on the planet sent ships to the North Atlantic to take the bounty. King Salmon numbers are doomed by the political economy.

 A new President who comprehends what ecological economics is and who is able to reform and direct capitalism to work within new procedural parameters could stimulate the creation of new work. The low labor participation rate is an excellent opportunity to reform capitalism and de-escalate the concentration of wealth neo-monopoly of Wall Street networking capitalism and return it to the former pluralism through limits on the numbers of corporations one can invest in to three (so that people have to work their own business instead of just owning others).

Probably no one in either party has a clue about what ecological economics is.

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

The U.S. dept. of labor anticipates that labor participation rate will continue to fall in comparison to the past until at least 2022. Young workers aren't entering the work force as much for some reason, and population increase has slowed except for that of recent immigrants.

 http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/labor-force-projections-to-2022-the-labor-force-participation-rate-continues-to-fall-1.htm

Getting good ecologically reconstructive work for more Americans ought to be a goal of Presidential candidates instead of just creating more quick and dirty exploit the environment sorts of work in work procedures of the past.


                 U.S. Labor Force Participation chart from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
                                                   of the millions of Americans working

President Obama’s Subtle War on Women Through Corrupt Federal Courts

When President Obama said that with homo marriage ‘you can marry whoever you love’ he expressed executive contempt for thousands of years of human reason building up the institution of marriage around procreation and protection of women as vulnerable child bearers. To the President marriage is nothing more than a federal legal term like a joint partnership or corporation that ought to be used by any legal adult with whoever. Yet it isn’t as simple as that.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/applause-618293-going-climate.html

Marriage reflects a rational biological content comprising procreation in heterosexual reproduction. It isn’t just a legal arrangement. There are laws against marrying close relatives for instance even if one loves them (meeting the President’s criteria) because of the biological consequences of inbreeding. Marriage laws that are implicitly designed to support heterosexual reproduction cannot just be applied existentially to any adult.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/alimony-women-increasingly_n_1506394.html

The unintended consequences of ending the human institution of marriage and reworking it to be an encumbering legal partnership with rights of inheritance and so forth expanded to include homosexuals would be implicitly structured without equality for heterosexuals and homosexuals. Laws against incest would remain to stop the President’s existential paradigm for marriage. Laws against bestiality would remain so democrats can’t marry the dog they love or the burro the bought in Mexico, and the social bias that one sex has an obligation to pay child support or alimony payments after divorce would stop in order that heterosexuals are discriminated against. Since it is unreasonable to find that one partner of a same sex marriage has an implicit biological, sexed obligation to pay alimony to ‘the weaker sex’ plainly there is a biological foundation for marriage that would end in order that marriage laws apply equally to queers, steers and heterosexuals. That is a war on women.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/kentucky-same-sex-marriage-ban-rejected-by-federal-judge-1404306317

The Federal Courts that are forcing homosexual marriage upon the states seem like a generation of legalists that used too much L.S.D. or cocaine.  Who needs respect when they have the power of military terror to dominate and define social reality? They seem spaced and incorrigibly corrupt and unworthy of social respect. That isn’t a good thing. It is challenging to revolt in the modern world where the Federal Government has so much power and so many goons ready to kill for its pay and ‘really good benefits’, yet the founders in today’s business climate would have found most of Wall Street supporting the British Torrie establishment instead of a minority of radicals. 

With the Federal monopoly on nuclear weapons revolt is effectively impractical, so the inertia of evil corrupt power just rolls on running roughshod over the sentiments of perhaps more than a hundred million Americans. When the republic grew up the Federal Government didn't have a large standing army and vast military power including nuclear weapons and N.S.A. surveillance to intimidate the population into docility. Instead the D.C. government had to actually listen to the people to get them to support government objectives. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely (Acton).

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=united-states-of-america

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/02/4215359/comparison-of-privacy-reports.html

The thing is, none of that was necessary. A new institution especially for queers could have been created that would not have attacked marriage. Maybe that’s a result of insiders seeking to reduce the population forcibly. I regard the preference for moral corruption rather than social education as a bad policy choice.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/29/blame-the-obama-doctrine-for-iraq.html

Besides the empirical result of created a new Caliphate in the Middle East from Iraq and Syria President Obama as attacked American moral significantly. Debatably he has organized international terrorism better than Osama Bin Laden although unintentionally and domestically he has attacked marriage vigorously seeking to end it as a viable procreative institution. Happy Fourth of July.

Parameters of Genesis Cosmology (video)

People have many thoughts about Genesis and in comparison to scientific cosmology. Interesting thing about subjective epistemology though is that it's often or usually wrong or incomplete. This is an introduction to 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal values of Genesis'. A book I put together to examine some of the many possible meanings of the book of Genesis' cosmology content and contrast that with recently learned scientific parameters of cosmology that are incomplete obviously.
 Reading an introduction to Karl Barth's theology noetic and ontic contexts for man's relation to God arise that transcend simple analysis of the natural world investigated by natural philosophy. I note Barth's excellent paradigm in this intro as another point to consider.-I have some decent images of S.E. Alaska for the voice-over.

Ecosphere, Economy and Politics Video

I am not  optimistic about the prospects of electing a quality President up to the job with good ideas in the next few elections-that just isn't necessary for Wall Street to collect rents, wealth to be concentrated or for Democrats to select quietist, uncreative majority leadership or Presidents without ecospheric economics, full employment and security education.

I made a video with images taken on the west side of the Mendenhall Glacier wherein I make some philosophical comments about ecosphere poltics and the problem of perceptions about the effect of housing on the environment. Alice Cooper's Elected video encapsulates the futility of the meaning of the vote for the helots these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVrBzuyhFA

President Obama's Counterproductive Development of Terrorist Army

At first glance President Obama's Middle East policy seems crazy. At second glance it could be his early childhood Sunni Muslim orientation growing up in Sunni Indonesian society. In Indonesia 88% are Muslim and 99% of Muslims are Sunni. A couple of days after Syria got rid of all its chemical weapons stockpile he asked Congress for a half billion dollars for weapons for the Sunni jihadist at war on the Syrian Government. The President subconsciously may see red at Shi'a and Alawite and doesn't mind building up a vast jihadist army in the Middle east without a nation of their own to topple Alawite-Shiist Assad if possible, intimidate Iran with quality terrorist insurgents, eye-down Jewish Israel and look southwest toward oil-fat Crotiun Saudi Arabian royals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVrBzuyhFA elected video by Alice Cooper

ISIS has of course taken much of Iraq already. ISIS is undermining the Iraq government and the President wasn't able to influence Prime Minister Malaki much over the years. Withdrawal from Iraq without security arrangements was followed by building up a jihadist fighting force. Al Qaeda has completely swelled in numbers as a consequence.

Civilian casualties for Syria and Iraq during the President's tenure have been huge and probable will increase. Muslims have a different view of Armageddon than Christians. The President may not be aware of the appearance to Christians of his Middle East policy.

Orion Spacecraft Scheduled for DRO Flight Around Moon in 2017

N.A.S.A.'s Orion spacecraft intended to take space travelers to Mars is scheduled for its first significant mission in 2017 in what is called a distant retrograde orbit. That is a budget orbit around the moon that doesn't require fuel expense to keep the orbit after the spacecraft arrives. L-3 and L-5 apparently do cost something according to an explanation in Aviation Week 7 Space Technology June 23, 2014.       Orion concept image credit-N.A.S.A.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/five-things-we-ll-learn-from-orion-s-first-flight-test/#.U6x505TzZmg

As Buzz Aldrin suggested among others, construction of an Earth-Mars orbiter permanently making the voyage perhaps helped with ion engines could be a method for regular shuttle of astronauts to mars and back. Landers sent from Earth or the Moon on auto pilot could be sent to meet visitors to Mars down to the planet surface from the Earth-Mars shuttle.

It could be useful to design a number of low cost and effective Bernoulli sphere Earth-Mars taxi capsules with cosmic-ray protection for biological life given with water made from ice strewn around the solar system. Nearly ten feet of water are required to defend against cosmic ray damage. One hopes that N.A.S.A. has encouraged with some sort of incentive design competition to get ideas for Bernoulli sphere containers for solar system taxis.

Fed Court Decides Utah Homo Marriage Ban Illegal-Squares Circle

The U.S. 10th Court of Appeals green-lighted homosexual marriage in Utah overturning the state's constitutional ban. The court said that there is no logical reason why not. We appreciate the court's athority on rules of logic. One anticipates the court reasons that squares are circles too, and a2 + a2 = c2.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/utah-gay-marriage/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-utahs-same-sex-marriage-ban-n140656

Time for Washington Redkins to Drop the 'Red'

The Washington Redskins is a potent political symbol of Red State decline of fortune. After the Clinton and Obama administrations the D.C. football team has become a symbol of transition to anachronism failing to change to Obama blue. Blue states have the political power and red states fossil fuel panache.

One would hope that Redskins ownership would change to apostrophe Skins perhaps with a shirtless Mr. Universe or a Green Hulk on the helmet instead of the noble native American warrior.

Linux Mint 17 Qiana Released

The newest version of Linux Mint-an open source operating system fairly easy to install that may be dual booted with Windows was published. It is named Qiana.  Mint version 17 will be maintained two or three years evidently. One can install it from a thumb drive. Learning how to make a bootable thumb drive can take a little time-Ubuntu has a hyperlink for making a bootable thumb drive.

 http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
 http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

If one has a bootable thumb drive and installed uneboot or easybcd its necessary to shrink the volume of drive c where windows is kept maybe 30 or 40% in order to free up room for Mint to install itself.When Mint is booted up from the thumb drive or cd it will offer the option to dual boot with windows and save the existing files in windows-that's a good choice. You can access those files from within Mint.

http://www.linuxmint.com/

Capitalism as Quality vs Quantity Growth for Ecospheric Commerce

Saving the planet from the irrational exuberance of quantitative capital growth that depletes the fund of natural capital is challenging in this anthropocene era were the profound of me-ness in material power has made an atheist god of capitalism. Inflexibility and non-adaptability were thought to be the characteristics of government instead of capitalism generally, yet in the corporatist era of networking and mass broadcast media networking a pervasive ossification has ensued resistant to progress. Here is what can be done to rectify the political economy.

Government direction of economic development toward qualitative rather than quantitative growth is requisite for change. There are existing facts that can't be changed of course. America isn't a leader on environmental economics and the second and third world will want to increase their production of greenhouse gases and extermination of ecospheric habitat in order to upgrade their consumer comfort to something like that of the United States of America.

The U.S.A. can't cut back its carbon emission much-even a 25%  would be shocking and virtually communist to some pundits. Instead the United States outsources its material production to China and blames the Chinese for being the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter. When the American Midwest becomes a desert and the Mississippi River dries up, when Americans try to crowd in to Alaska the argument about reduction of greenhouse gases will be late.

The United States could act a priori and begin a vast desalinization of seawater for irrigation purposes border control canal project if it had the intellectual wherewithal to work macro-physical construction projects of scale any more. Instead it will seek after regulatory, bureaucrat solutions or alternatively through science laboratory packages Those likely policy approaches aren't likely to  work though some believe evolutionary capitalism will get to the right place eventually as needed. End of the

Capitalism doesn't need to be like an airliner taking off along a runway, inflexible and unable to alter direction of lift-off. If terrorists armed with stinger missiles taken from the Iraqi Army are at the end of the runway capitalism can invent in overdrive and qualitatively improve for example taking off straight up with electro-magnetic lift and choosing any direction to be electro-magnetically accelerated in by a charge particle beam until airspeed is sufficient for its jets to carry on. Qualitative change parameters selected for the survival of human life on Earth in addition to full employment well-being of Americans should be national priorities.

Like a draft animal-a stubborn Missouri Mule for instance, capitalism if it is to do more than browse the grass and work sexing like turbo-donkeys as ineffectively as homosexual marriages producing nothing needs to be put to work pulling more than its own weight in qualitatively improving wagons. Capitalism and free enterprise should serve democracy and be given guidelines and parameters for progress to reduce the depletion of natural environmental capital. Actually destruction of the ecosphere is a dumb trade since the creation and context of the environment is far more valuable and intricately complex than the comparatively simple, stupid materials manufacture of human technologists. Be like little gods as they might regard themselves politically seem incapable of successfully responding to the challenges set through demography, capitalism, natural resource limits and the bite of corporatism into democratic self-determination.

As a citizen of a democracy that is ineffective at selecting Presidential and general political leadership it is frustrating to experience the juggernaut of environmental doom unhindered in its development. Additionally the are too many people out of work, national debt is increasing and the flood of illegal aliens is likely to increase. Quantitative growth encouraged by government intention should provide some object criteria for free enterprisers to work within.

On Barth's Post-Calvinist Paradigm of Election & Predestination

In several respects Karl Barth reformed the theology of the reformed church. Issues that persist todays for Christians on the topic of predestination of the elect remain conversational objects especially in the dialogue between believers and the faithless. Usually people draw upon Augustine and Calvin for theological insights into scripture. Karl Barth wrote a new and even upgraded interpretation of the subject of election however, that seems eminently logical and with some support in scripture.

In short-all humans comprise the elect when they are saved. The reason for that is that just one man-Jesus Christ who is God, actually is the elect. God approved/elected Himself. Fairly though, God also rejected Himself in the crucifixion of the Son. Jesus Christ as man bore the physical body housing original sin in the fallen, temporal Universe. Since he was God though he was without spiritual sin and able to overcome the original sin's withering effects on morality. Christians become the elect through faith in the Son. An Introduction to Barth's Theology by Geoffrey Bromley is a succinct accounting of Barth's innovative and realistic insight

I would add the observation that spiritual coherence in the will of God once broken-as Adam and Eve perpetrated in the Garden-cannot easily be fixed. God as God is recognizable only to himself yet as the man Jesus Christ became subject-for-others. Even so God and the Holy Spirit are One with the Lord. Human free will arose with disobedience to God somewhat like symmetry breaking of a perfect unified field without imbalance in an original singularity created rapid expansion and hyperinflation hypothetically of a basic Universe within one physical cosmology theoretical paradigm. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as God can restore the lost, free willed sinners of the realm of broken forms, temporal entropy and original sin to perfection in the will of God.

A Chamber of Eco-Commerce Might Provide Leadership

An Ecosphere friendly chamber of commerce would be a useful tool to pragmatically support development of business and employment that reinforces ecospheric integrity such as is possible. Few politicians or business people have a good notion of what ecological economics are. Entire fields of study have been devoted to it in colleges however. The application of new business to society requires analysis of its political prospects in adverse non-supportive political social environments. A Russian-American or Russian-Alaska Ecosphere of Commerce could help bridge the gap created by the failures of Washington D.C. to move forward with Russia toward a green conservative full employment

Gov. Sean Parnell on the job

There are numerous reasons for the failures of U..S. leadership that I won't digress upon. Alaska of course is subject to political control by oil corporations that support the state government. Imperialism was the traditional way of commerce for the British Empire-a little island with big economic ambitions-and Bill Clinton supported that on Wall Street during his Presidency. Global imperialism through business may be good for Britain yet it's bad for the U.S.A.  Developing easy breezy foreign interests neglects one's national interests-that brought down the Roman Empire and it can bring down the U.S.A. Britain needed imperialism yet the United States always had plenty of resources to support its own development needs. If America can't make it on its own no one else probably can either. The people of the world have too big of economic appetites with natural resources sufficient to support the habit.

Some may say that imperialism isn't the issue. The problem is just that government and business exist in a networking, bureaucrat and finance heavy drug using immoral social environment where government can't really do anything besides occupy the big chairs in the big jobs and plan for retirement with lots of foreign vacations. That may be so. N.P.R. was worried about the Norfolk naval bases flooding in a century from sea level rise. Poor navy-they will need to get boats to save the admiral's homes from drowning.

The U.S. navy could become something of a bureaucracy itself with no surface battles for a century. A zillion micro-drone fast attack force delivery packages could track and sink any significant surface vessel in a decade or less. Maybe the Navy should plan for something else in ruling the waves for bureaucrats and Wall Street. Assuredly people need to be able to get about on the ocean yet new military paradigms could develop that don't comprise copious imperial spending and anachronistic security criteria.

Alaska's Governor has supported minor cross-border exchanges with Russia. It would be good if an Ecosphere of Commerce  were to arise with government and business supported perhaps coordinated by Amory Lovins and other seriously green individuals. The Anthropocene Era of mass extinction perhaps including human life is upon us. One should never misunderestimate the ineffectiveness of government and its inability to created or allow political reform in the era of bureaucratic-financial networking glamor inertia.

Obama Administration on Point With Queer Marriage and Chaos in Middle East

The election in Afghanistan appears troubled with one of two candidates in the Presidential runoff declaring fraud. The Taliban seems the winner with strength in Pakistan and five reinforcing leaders released by President Obama from Guantanamo Bay incarceration. Across the Middle East and S.W. Asia Obama administration policy to subvert lawful governments and replace them with more democratic ones consistent with U.S. values (see Alice Cooper video 'Elected') has brought regime change and development of terrorist rebel infrastructure with a little temporal, tranformational success at bringing one democratic election before hostile takeover by fundamentalists or military junta. Of course we wonder what the long term results of the short-sighted administration policies will be on the formation of Middle East politics.

U.S. leadership could be said to have been somewhat idiotic since the end of the Reagan era in January 1989. The nation has been involved in a series of wars with second and third rate powers unaccompanied by rational political oversight. Vast national debt has built up, the media has grown corrupt and is a propaganda sluzhba influencing political liberty. Church dogmatics have been corrupted and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) following President Obama's homosexual organizing has brought profane policy in accepting homosexual marriage as church doctrine.

Presbyterianism that fails at the elder ideal of leadership in church dogmatics centered on the word of God in scripture such as Karl Barth described in Church Dogmatics departs from the word and drifts into alliance with the profane. Like juvenile delinquents pursuing a naturalistic liberal theology suggesting they love the one they are with for the moment, elder juvenile church leaders seek after a feel good worldliness instead of the freedom of God revealing himself as God in the Lord Jesus Christ. True freedom in obedience to the word is reinforced by accurate dogmatics interpreting or shepherding church doctrines to conformity with scripture and the living Word. I suggest those lost souls of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) read Geoffrey W. Bromley's Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth. Barth was a dissident to Nazi rule and takeover through intimidation of the German protestant church. When church and state are unified it leaves plenty of room for corruption of the church and of church doctrine by the state.

Homosexual marriage politically expropriates an institution developed by countless political decisions for heterosexuals. It is like a communist expropriation of Wall Street to redistribute wealth to those that did not build it. I say this in the abstract in reference to Wall Street of course because networking of financial wealth expropriating capitalism for the few is itself something of a fraud perpetrated upon the masses. Honest homosexual politicians would have built up benefits for homosexual establishments for-themselves such as the public and legislatures were willing to concede. Instead federal judges and a politically butch President simply stole marriage, corrupting and redistributing it to homosexuals. Queering in turn is of benefit to a plutocracy consolidating wealth through their disestablishment of countless social establishments developed created in the absence of a semblance of queer marriage. In any raving social circumstance with chaos and corruption the primary beneficiaries are the rich and the basic victims are the masses. As resistance in the social body politic is killed the power of the wealth increases as juggernauts in the darkness.

Short term political goals of creating democracies in the middle east following regime change have been a staple of President Obama's policy and like the administration of George W. Bush that believed with rose-colored glasses that following a quick regime change democracy would break out conflict rising to the scale of war developed instead.

Past Presidential maladministration has consequences. The media is largely a collage of embedded boofiness supporting the concentration of wealth, the Chinese Communist Party as the remaining idealistic vast socialist left-wing conspiracy remaining on Y'Earth (there are more left-handed people in the journalist trade than in any other), they partner and propagandize for the plutocracy and communists in true boofiness. The interests of the United States decay as the ideal world of irresponsibility is developed by the administration. A clever, intelligent President can like a good chess player win a lot of games while a klutz without much skill loses-it's as simple as that. America elects klutz's charismatic to youth, the electorate or something. The Republicans are mostly tone-deaf and don't get populism (see Alice Cooper video 'Elected'). In any case a candidate not only needs to get elected he needs to be competent in several areas of political skills with leading ideas to work if the nation is to end up without another in the long line of turkey Presidents.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh5J7o4R78w Elected

 ISIS's incursions into Iraqi territory after a long build up with American military equipment and funding from the 'friends of Syria' in order to war on the lawful and stable Syrian government has already created a vast humanitarian crisis in Iraq with more than half a million displaced and stressed civilians along with innumerable civil and military casualties. The Obama administration has called for Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to step down as they called for three years for Syrian President Assad to step down for not being Sunni perhaps yet proximally for not leading a democracy acceptable to ideal U.S. Democrat Party standards with all of the homosexual benefits that includes. More than 120,000 people-mostly civilians-have been killed in Syria. U.S. Presidential leadership should have more than posturing as a requirement for domestic consumption it ought to have realpolitk competence as well if it is to accomplish more than insinuate chaos and civil conflict abroad.

One might speculate that the advantage of vast military power without a conventional and approximately equal potential foe since the end of the cold war in January 1989 at the end of the Reagan administration tempted subsequent U.S. Presidents to use their military buildup without judicious restraint or commensurate, requisite political wisdom. Military force used in a correct way is comparable to a surgical instrument or a chess sacrifice of Mikhail Tal used to secure political goals that realistically work. As in syllogistic reasoning the means must equal the ends, the premises add up to the conclusion if military intervention and/or regime changing through subterfuge, subversion and large-power intervention are employed. Otherwise one brings about policy failure and one heck of a mess as seems to be developing presently in Iraq. Of course Democrat Party and media sycophants would regard that as evolution in action and another story to report on replete with pathos and potential for progress and right-wingers to blame.

Iran has been regarded as a traditional enemy of the U.S.A. since they declared the embassy a nest of spies and captured it during their dangerous revolt against the Shah. Iran released the hostages eventually. Perhaps the United States built up Saddam Hussein's Iraq then and fomented the Iran-Iraq war as a low cost spooky method of exacting revenge-that's hard to confirm, yet the Middle East has been a problem for American policy planners for a long time. It will be difficult to build up good relations in the region as it does seem entirely fluid and destabilized without a foreseeable outcome the next few years.

 One might speculate about potential scenarios of course. ISIS could establish a nation carving out some of Iraq and Syria. Iraq could become a Shia state affiliated with Iran as Syria would be an Alawi state affiliated with Iran. The Saudi regime could be changed and become a Muslim fundamentalist state with terrorism funded by formerly Saudi oil sales to America and China. In the midst of all that mess Israel would stand as God's little nation on the Earth somewhat like Jesus Christ persecuted and oppressed by the establishment surrounding it and harassed by the global media. Well enough of that sort of scenario generating presently.

 Of actual Obama administration opportunities to direct middle east political development cutting off funding to everyone besides Israel and Egypt would be the most affordable and pragmatic option short of intelligent military intervention and taking charge in Iraq that would require a different sort of military leader with good economic sense as well-not Obama admin characteristics at all. The administration is probably busy planning for the loss of Afghanistan to the Taliban before it leaves office in January 2017. It seems to have already accomplished losing Iraq.

 

 

P.M. Maliki Under Fire By Anglo-American Gov Op

The crisis for Iraq of the war of ISIS has been meet by U.S. and British advice that Prime Minister Malaki quit. During a crisis the first thing friends suggest is that the leadership resigns. Regime change must be a good policy since President Obama has pursued that across the Middle East. Voters in the U.S.A. need to wait until November 2016.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/06/20/iraqi-prime-minister-will-not-quietly-foes-friends-say/2Z1t8SVGTzSjrCi9l0ivTP/story.html

After the crisis is over and ISIS rolled up (if that should occur) might be a better time to change leadership. Like all bureaucrats and even American politicians that never fade away gracefully any more Iraq's P.M. has held on. They may need a war leader and someone able to build national unity. It is improbable that President Obama's advisers will offer practical advice on how to stop the violence realistically.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Assembly Votes Homosexual Sin’s O.K

It is a characteristic of history that falsehoods of language and empirical use-truths generate in time what Confucius called a rectification of names. Like skyscrapers built with numerous elements missing because of the lies of contractors that pocketed the materials cost instead of buying building components, social falsehoods given sufficient quantity create weaknesses leading to collapse. False syllogistic structures and wrong church doctrine don’t cohere within truth. The Presbyterian Church ( U.S.A.) leadership assembly overseeing 1.76 million members voted for the politically convenient lie of homosexual marriage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/19/presbyterian-church-gay-marriage_n_5512756.html

  

One of the remarkable elements of the Gospel according to John is the brilliant exposition of theology. The Apostle John was a fairly simple man with an energetic temperament who lived to old age probably in Ephesus where he was able to put together writing about the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is said by Biblical scholars that the Apostle wrote in simple Greek such as learned by one who isn’t a native writer. Greek allows long, complex sentence structures yet those of John are short and to the point using Hebraisms and ideas that are complex. That is the theology of the incarnation of the Universe from the Word whom had pre-existed the temporal Universe is set forth. It isn’t like other ancient philosophical writing though some have noted quite reasonably attributes of mysticism and logic it may share with Platonism and hence some neo-Platonist/Gnostic ways of regarding the world that might best be represented in the 2nd  neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus. John creates a brilliant theological paradigm for cosmology inspired and led by Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God that is very solid.

Biblical writings don’t really change. Subjective interpretation of the Bible and the New Testament may change over time and it has especially since the Protestant reformation. Sin that was said to be sin by the Apostle Paul and known to be sin by traditional Jewish law remain such. When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Assembly decided that homosexual marriage is o.k. they voted in point of fact that select sin is o.k. if it is politically popular. They would have been on the side of the Sodomites and against Lot and his family when the angel visted to bring judgment. That is a wrong choice for church leadership to take.

Christianity in its organizational forms that are denominations and assemblies called churches are in the actual Christian Church of all believers only so long as they share the faith in the Lord and live or seek to live in harmony with the word of God as set forth in Bible scripture. There isn’t the slightest reason for doubt on the basis of Old or New Testament that homosexuality is sin. Christians though forgiven for their sin are supposed to seek to not sin, and further, they should not want to sin. Homosexual marriage is blasphemous sin in effect and a corrupt union the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should denounce rather than encourage.

In the 19^th century the Presbyterian Church was a leading evangelical organization. By the mid-20^th century it had fallen into decline as had many other high churches. Today they have a tiny percent of Christian Church goers and that makes them vulnerable to takeover by persons without Christian values though of course the denomination can still have the shingle on the door, the prestige and the rump infrastructure and positions, even sinecures funded well enough by old money, leftists and homosexual political elites. Make no mistake however, the homosexual expropriation of some American church denominations is an expansion of the realm of Satan. One can only pray that the reprobate direction of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is corrected in some way by a renewal of faith.

The Apostle John and the other first century Christians would never have signed off on any sort of homosexual marriage as acceptable Christian behavior. In the 21^st century it remains wrong. For a church denomination to support homosexual marriage is to leave off the Bible and prefer politics and worldliness. It is as if authorities on the U.S. Constitution said that cannibalism, fascism and state socialism are consistent with the principles of the founders. Instead of lying about it honest people sinners would at least just write a new constitution with that sort of thing in it. The Presbyterian Church instead of lying about the Bible such that they find any sort of acceptance of homosexual marriage support in it ought to just say they think world politics and power are more important to them than the word of God and ready themselves too an explanation at the day of judgment with some sort of plausible excuse.

Presbyters meant elders in Greek used in the day of the early church. Initially it referred to the disciples and Apostles and their place in the church. Then the term declined a little and referred. Presbyter-elders were like Bishops as the church developed. Later presbyters and deacons became less important. During the reformation a protestant church denomination named Presbyterian developed in Scotland. One wonders if the contemporary United Kingdom support for homosexual marriage is a cause for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) decent into accepting the sin of homosexual marriage in the very gay empowering Obama administration.

Perpetrating the frauds of false advertising used to be meaningful in U.S. law. When the U.S. Government and global corporations have evolved ideological corporatism that fails to develop national democracy, secure borders, reign in the concentration of wealth and power through stock sharing, trading and banking networking oligarchies the practice of pejorative use-truth has legitimized fraud as subjective establishment political realism. Christians should beware of false Christian church fronts in the era of mass social propagandizing and keep that King James New Testament in hand. It is far more reliable than the opinion of Presbyters of San Francisco and Wall Street.

Bureaucratic Decay (a poem)

Structural bureaucracy
harmony of lyrical progression
biomass ideas
clocked the work

Population ages, numbers, locations
bits of data and particles of being
dots of energy crowding out reason's last word
massified and gentrified parties of ego

Elected unto never when lightening bolts end
flowing like shadows in rivers flowing through quiet pools
of business networks as time-in-itself

ISIS an Aspiring Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant) Nears Baghdad

The history of ISIS is interesting reading. The term is an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham. The term al Sham refers to Syria. The rebel military terror is trying to take Baqubah-a city they have claimed as the capitol of ISIS.

They were the most powerful rebel group in Syria before the other rebels reduced their turf.  They have been active in Iraq since 2006. ISIS just stole 425 million dollars from a Mosul bank. They are well financed for military neccessaries for the present.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Iraq_and_the_Levant#2014_events

An Haaretz editorial opinion notes that the communists took the rest of Vietnam in just a few days after America left. The dangers of free Iraq falling to Sunni terrorists is apparent though perhaps will be avoided through a number of developments.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.599074

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

One wonders if the release of five high ranking Taliban from Gitmo was a green flag for the most recent operation in Iraq? The politics are rather convoluted for most Americans I would think. The appearance of weakness can draw the beast to attack sometimes.

Iraq's Shia political leadership has said that the Sunni are attempting genocide. I would say that democide is a more accurate term-they are seeking to terminate Shia and western ways rather than fellow Arabs. I would think that even Persian ancestry Sunni wouldn't be massacred under ISIS adult supervision. The Obama administration has sought to secure Sunni, perhaps Saudi help in reigning in the ISIS boys from their over-the-top massacring and marauding in the region. Evidently they have even killed a few in Turkey.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/us-iraq-security-idUSKBN0EP0KJ20140617

ISIS fighters have arrived at the edge of Baghdad. Rather than air power the Iraqi government could probably use a little U.S. expeditionary force help that is simply dangerous-for-others and gets in the way when appropriate. The Obama administration is probably the wrong team for quick military surgical interventions.

 https://plus.google.com/+usnewsworldreport/posts/RmmG2fupwsN

The United States shouldn't be clueless in international events and act just with large conventional forces in a sort of manic-depressive deployment criterion. A little moderate military prophylaxis can go a long way toward stabilizing civil disorder.

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


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Video Essay on Biblical Criticism and Infinities

I read an read an essay on Biblical criticism and another on the topic of infinities. The division of the energy field of the Universe-possible a Higgs field initially may be a logical consequence shaping through quantum apportionment equally more or less as things pull apart and recover. An original imbalance may have shattered the field minimal singularity yet subsequently quantum balance generated the basic balance of power with a direction of time being the factor of recovery. Naturally I see a simile to the history of mankind after the fall from grace in the garden though that isn't mentioned in either essay.

On the several different methods of Biblical criticism I haven't said much; form criticism, narrative interpretations etc. I tend to regard all of these academic styles and well intentioned efforts to learn more about the inspired word of God that is the Bible and the gospel of the Lord. It is reasonable to consider human theories as phenomenal events and beliefs in a phenomenal energy field localized within a brain. The Universe as an energy manifestation is a live phenomenon in-itself and the medium in which the Lord has worked his art of creation evolving mass and energy through changes physically somewhat deterministic.