I believe President Trump would have agreed to relocate U.S. whiskey production to Moscow if he was ‘in Putin’s pocket’. President Putin would have required Donald Trump to wear a turtleneck sweater and a Tonto hat to Helsinki. Yet that would just be for openers.
Vladimir Putin would be made President of Harvard University if enough pressure was applied to POTUS. Through controlling Harvard President of Harvard Putin could control the United States and compel everyone to learn Russian to reach the elite levels of Wall Street.
It is terrible to consider. The U.S.A. would go back to the Gregorian calendar. School lunches at college would have mandatory vodka rations and a half potato. President Trump would dance the Cossack dance at Christmas festivities while singing Go Ye Volga Boatmen and Frosted Flakes boxes would appear with the President’s picture on it.
The
study of history for the purpose of comprehending what has gone
before and to abstract from it patterns of behavior that may be
repeated is an interesting avocation that one may purse for a
lifetime usefully as it fits reasonably well into a philosophy of
history and a philosophical consideration of human behavior at a
general social level as well as that of in an individual level.
Individual do comprise social history though one may view them
concatenated as a society or culture. Subjective psychology or
epistemological content of individuals within organizations from
intra-social micro scale such as dyadic relationships to a corporate
and state scale affect the behavior of the organization.
Organizations such as states at the national or empirical scale have
structures that recur over history into the future though they may be
and often are new synthetic forms comparable metaphorically to the
aggregations of bits of continents that formed the state of Alaska
over eons with tectonic drift.
Individuals learn institutionally within organizational agents of socialization
that indoctrinate and train youth. One found that in the NAZI youth
movement and the content of educational indoctrination for hate is
well expressed in certain Middle Eastern nations regarding Jews and
Israel. History is the iceberg below the surface and the present is
the tip of the burg above the surface that living people experience.
The past does not of course entirely pre-determine present behavior
of individuals or nations and civilization yet the inertial forces of
continuity that comprise the complete economic compresent elements do
have historical continuity that continues into the present.
Nations
and other large social organization have organizations within such
that the entirety might be comparable to a cell with its organelles
and other parts including D.N.A. Challenges and responses occurs from
within and without the nation-cell to the global existential state of
affairs.
An
example of historical continuity might be that of two allies from the
First World War; Germany and Turkey that were then the primary Axis
powers. Maybe they share historical periods of opposition to the
existence of Jews or of the Jewish state. Since each are in NATO and
have excellent military histories the future possible policies of
NATO without the United States being a member are interesting and
complex to consider, and I won’t do that here, instead, because of
limited time I wanted to write a little more about the value of
learning history well enough to develop one's own theories of history
and test them against those of others and actual history.
Writing
on a lunch break; There is concrete present contemporary history
and all of the things people think and national policies and history
that tensor them in particular directions forward in time, and there
is an abstract synthetic analysis of the contents of each of the
nations, civilizations and their history that one might develop and
interpret current affairs and directions with. If one has a good
purpose for learning existential historical analysis (I liked
Sartre’s books such as Being and Nothingness and the Critique of
Dialectical Reason as well as Toynbee’s Study of History”, such
as trying to configure relations among nations in a socially
beneficial direction if possible, it is useful to understand the role
f major historical institutions such as the Catholic Church, The
Muslim World and so forth to comprehend how they affect the formation
of a state and its policies within a heterodox international
political environment. It is useful to understand how economics,
education, and energy plus food productions have determined national
and international policies. T is useful to learn what effect elites
have on determining the structure of state establishment even if one
wants to reform capitalism or transition to ecological economics
nationally.
There
is more to history than just abstract documents of dubious accuracy
that recorded it for present readers; history is that which went
before (such as the history of the Universe of which the present
instant, relativistically framing it, occurs entirely because of the
exteriorities of relations and space-time presentation of the energy
field locked into a steady state through decoherence ( physics term).
Toynbee
noted that the Greek city-states were not able to politically adapt
to the challenge of the new ‘federalism’ or nation-state that
Rome presented, and so they were defeated. Rome too did not adapt to
many challenges not the least of which was the failure to equal the
Huns in the use of horse calvary to travel as much as 200 miles a
day. Today a challenge for the world is to adapt to new and reformed
egalitarian capitalism that coheres within ecospherically synergistic
economic procedures. Unfortunately human lifetime is limited thought
the institutions continue on. There is little time for real learning
much less to acquire the political knowledge of the way to reform
society so that it can adapt to the external Toynbeen challenges of
global warming, mass spices extinction, population and consumption
pressures and so forth.
Vladimir
Putin is, in a sense, the adopting father of his country. He took office after
Yeltsin's hand was placed on his shoulder, and has led the new Russia
almost ever since. even so he is more like Ulysses S. Grant running a
country recently in chaos with great transition and an unsettled
civil economic structure. Total control really wasn't possible for
Grant and neither is it for Putin. He just barely got a little income
tax in place to help pay for the cost of government.
Geraldo
Rivera on Fox didn't know the difference between the K.G.B. and the
G.R.U. One is the former state security apparatus of the former
Soviet Union and the other is Army intelligence. I will give you five
seconds to guess which is which.....ready? The answer is the G.R.U.
is Army intelligence.
President
Putin has had to be lax and strict at the same time in encouraging
development of a free market with the most strong from the former
Soviet Union taking over state enterprises and privatizing them. It
was a very wild economic transition done live and the process is far
from complete. Issues of taxation and redistribution of wealth,
creation of new businesses and legalizing private property and trying
to let people have some while not letting people freeze to death or
starve in a harsh environment would be challenges for anyone.
Then
Russia had the problems of the west seeking to wrest former
territories from Russia and a left-leaning corporatist media that
might really have preferred that a socialist government had followed
the end of communism instead of what may be some sort of market based
economy eventually.
The
former Soviet state had a three part government of KGB, Communist
Party and the Military. In the New Russia it is quite possible that
Vladimir Putin cannot or does not exercise complete control over
military intelligence, or at least it is not so totalitarian that
Edward Snows, Aldrich Aimes and Chelsea Mannings don't appear to work
free enterprise on-line hacking for fun and profit like the legions
of western hackers and governments have. Didn't President Obama have
the U.S.A. actually hack into Chancellor Merkel's private spaces and
record noises for intelligence, fun and profit? I don't think the
practice is rare. Maybe the Brits and French have hacked the White
House. France did sink the Rainbow Warrior, yet that wasn't too
subtle.
It is
better to normalize relations and not have the crass media Putin
bashing they are accustomed too. It is an excellent Orwellian daily
hate that is not good for the nation or the ecosystem that each can
be advanced with constructive engagement with Russia.
Working just to survive has a lot of people that don’t survive. People reasonably aspire to more than being tethered like an ox to a water wheel being fed enough to survive to trudge around for life in a circle going nowhere. For a productive society laws should support patents for actual inventors at low cost or free of charge to stimulate invention and progress allowing quick social adaptation to challenges rather than the inertial resistance of concentrated wealth dominating the way things are. Unreformed capitalism encourage luxury purchases. It reinforces wrong social choices and values counterproductive to actual human interests. Advertising and wealth reinforce luxury and senselessness. Presently there is a young women that people have started a fund for so she might achieve being the youngest female billionaire (she only has 900 million apparently). Reforming capitalism, Christian church structure toward a priesthood of believers, and economics to environmental economics are important yet the former example highlights the detached from more than excess consumerism way of life people are compelled by circumstance to be. One might ask; with interest for savings so low, and banks even unreliable storehouses; won’t people spend their earnings on luxuries rather than save the money as they did in former times? President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to tax the rich at a 100% rate but settled for 90%. After World War Two the national tax rate remained high and an egalitarian spirit prevailed across the nation. Twenty million Americans had been in uniform during the war. The difference between rich and poor wasn’t nearly as great as today. I Suggest reading Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty for a good trove of data. https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850 Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class was published long ago. Leisure in that day was something the Vanderbilts expressed in the Breakers mansion. Conspicuous consumption was a device of the most rich. The idea of progress and the egalitarian nature of democracy with elected governments supported the concept that the ordinary man (and women) should be well off too. Capitalism entailed competition and people had the ethic of self-help, prosperity and a socially governed economy that supported an increase in the capital of the poor and middle classes. Today that has ended to a certain extent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States Wealth is being concentrated in the United States as never before in its history. Taxes on the most rich have been cut so far that their wealth increases orders of magnitude faster than the earnings of ordinary people, even if they just collect rents. The rich therefor can buy up whatsoever they like while the Federal Reserve issues trillions of zero or very low interest loans to big banks so they can mint five dollars in loans themselves for each free dollar the U.S. Federal Reserve issued them. And there is tremendous public debt and millions living in poverty. Fifty millions citizens share less than one-half of one percent of the national income. Federal elections basically go to millionaires and billionaires and rarely a sycophant of an establishment becoming plutocratic who is not yet a millionaire and needs to wait until elected. One percent of the people of the United States control about 40% of private income. US. and media leadership control the agencies of socialization with values that reinforce the way things are. It is difficult to change anything at all. Women and former minorities demand wealth or the opportunity to have it. Foreigners want wealth and will even illegally invade the USA. to try to earn more dollars than they could at home in their own nation. The social forces for keeping the inertia of unreformed capitalism going are strong and met only by a weak and theoretically defeated socialist political rivals. A mixed capitalist-socialist economy in a form called Corporatism under the power of Plutocrats seems to be the prevailing government philosophy. Bread and circuses, soma- dope and entertainment are what the masses require to be held in thrall and without any sort of brainwave that would challenge or even think to challenge the governing philosophy. It is possible to reform capitalism to direct it toward a greater egalitarianism and natural selection of ecospheric synergistic business yet surprisingly to me people seem to be clueless of the opportunity or need to do so.
Using old political paradigms to describe currents states of affairs isn’t invariably a way to make accurate evaluations. Jean Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason described the way people phenomenally interact en mass. The power to totalize control over a geographic area and politically sovereign realm is something that most modern states aspire to. Reasons for that are many; to combat terrorism, infiltration by non-citizens and malevolence from empirical actors, assure citizens that crime isn’t prevalent and that equal protection of the law is being enforced. Human physical assault on environmental health globally could be regarded quite reasonably as a totalitarian imposition of sterility and ecocide. Totalization of political power by an unelected government in the modern realm could occur surreptitiously with one-per centers pulling the strings of elections but controlling all meaningful political and economic large scale decisions for the benefit of their class.
Numerous ways to totalize a nation or planet by ruling powers exist. So it isn’t as useful presently to ask if the United States is a totalitarian government of some form-perhaps because the left wanted to elect Hillary and move the nation toward national socialism and/or corporatism, as it would be to inquire into how far the United States has moved into the government pattern called Corporatism. The Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul wrote a book titled
The limits to physical growth impose constraints on freedom. One sees that in Japan. China has had z.p.g.. for decades and it is enforced with just a little less force since they transitioned to a mixed economy. The ubiquitous broadcast media is a totalizing agency that programs the populous in demotic speech and can purge about any individual citizen from prosperity if they target them with bad publicity, at least in the long run. In the U.S.A. the broadcast media is powerful and corrupt to a substantial degree, yet it’s still not comparable to official state control of media that the late Soviet Union exercised.
The United States will de facto lose more civil liberties as the population increases to such an extent that one cannot just move away from government to a wilderness. If one eventually defines totalitarianism as inescapable control by the social power of others over every aspect of an individual's life-any and every individual, then totalitarianism is out there in the future for everyone on Earth. That’s why people look to space as the new frontier with hope.
The Presidents of the U.S.A. and Russia met today in Helsinki Finland for hours of productive talks on mutual concerns. Unlike the Democrat Party that seeks enmity and hatred of all things Russian, President Trump as leader of the Republican Party had no problem working toward a resumption of post-Cold War social and economic progress with Russia. A salient point of the meeting was the idea that progress in numerous areas should continue even as there are some differences on select issues. Nations need not be policy homos in order to have economic relations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzs15z98P6A
It is somewhat paradoxical that Russia and China are historically allies when it counted in the Second World War. Americans make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse so far as Russia goes, yet both Chinese and Russian economic and geopolitical bilateral relations with the USA are phenomenalities with several ways of meaning and direction. I would guess that leadership in those nations regard the United States within paradigms of ambiguity. Britain was a traditional enemy of the United States with deep ambiguity as well since so many of the founders were from England and English paradigmata were implicitly built into the structure. Americans have never had a terribly good understanding of the bad aspects of British foreign policy insofar as it really is designed to serve Britain rather than the United States preponderantly, in the past couple of centuries. I believe Brits still tend to regard Americans as useful dupes easily corruptible to British machinations. Russian leaders know that Americans are largely ignorant of Russian history and have been conditioned to follow British political opinions about Russia. Russians know the United States doesn’t comprehend Orthodox religious history nor subtleties of Ottoman Empire impact of Russian-far western European and Balkan policy, and neither do they understand the history of Russia, Ukraine, the Crimea or traditional routes of mass invasion and loss of life in Russia from the East and West. China as the Middle Kingdom has an interesting place in the modern world. I suppose they seek moderation and stabilization and are concerned with the volatility at least in the media of the four year cycles of Presidential elections. The United States has several allies continuing from the Cold War and War on Terrorism. One; Israel, has had interesting points of view about the U.S.A. Iran too long ago was something of an ally- before the Mossadegh coup perfidy that ended democracy and restored the Peacock Throne, the Shah and SAVAK. They may wonder now and then how it is even possible to have a relationship with the United States since it doesn’t have very stable political polices and doesn’t actually support democracy (instead of royalty) on occasion. Australia is a traditional ally as is Poland in reasonably amicable relations although Australian leadership has been somewhat nippie recently. Japan is a candidate strong ally yet that is the problem as well as benefit; they are very inventive and skillful technologists and militarist with a Pearl Harbor history- they also were working on a nuclear bomb and had Nazi friends. Taiwan is a recent ally from the Cold War era and might wonder if the United States will sell them F-22s anytime soon. The Kurds might wonder why we haven’t really helped them get a piece of the Middle East they can call their own.
Some covet the GM title and fall into a realous jage nearing GM norms. Though people have acquitted world number one chess GM Magnus Carlsen of being autistic, chess GMs may have implicit autism and need corrective glasses. Some might speculate they are merely idiot savants while others could throw in a manic depressive or bipolar diagnosis as the games bring tremendous endorphin flows winning and sometimes the agony of defeat when a single opfor pawn converts to a Queen promoted suddenly, without warning as the player is consumed- some would say obsessed, with an attack of his or her own they believed was about to conquer the chess world in the glory of victory. None dare call it megalomania though the rook fetish of forward and sideways movement is a dark tower of fantasy subliminally occupying the subconscious mind of a GM living in effect, in a twilight zone beyond space and time. I believe California has made conversion therapy of chess GMs to meaningful non-addictive activity illegal. The majarity of first world people technically fall at some point of their lives into a psychological category of some sort worth headlines if they rise high enough. Table salt may be the cure (though it elevates blood pressure and may be indirectly linked to acrophobia, agoraphobia, aquaphobia, arachnophobia and more).
I visited Germany long ago and found some Germans that didn’t speak English- that made it tough. I traveled about and had to survive on pastry communicating with the natives saying things like bitte Bitte und danke and Wie geht's, before pointing at things with creamed cheese.
I never got a chance to work in Husserl’s phrase-title logische untersuchungen in a bakery though I was looking for the opportunity.
Foreign enemies of the U.S.A. try to get whatever leverage they can. It will always be that way. Some people hate the first place team in their division and inter-league rivals. Britain chose to moon President Trump so far as they could during an official visit recently.
The U.S. government could stop issuing visas to Brits if the Congress wasn’t so full of appeasers. My father fought four years in the second world war- it’s obligatory to say that. The wolf-packs likely sought to sink his ship too the years off North Africa. Oh well.
The Second world war would not have happened if the USA hadn’t entered the First and decided the conflict to the advantage of Britain without fighting to the point of the unconditional surrender of Germany. I don’t believe the German government of Hindenburg was that bad. Their basic problem was their hatred of Russia and Orthodox Christians of Serbia.
Hindenburg bragged that he had never read a book. German foreign policy showed that.
I hope Pres Trump adds British fish and chips to the tariff list as well as Canadian maple syrup until they apologize. I suppose the leftist Nobel Institute won't give President Trump the Peace Prize this year or next even if Kim Jong Un buys a box seat at Yankee Stadium and lets Apple build assembly plants in Pyongyang after Korean reunification.
Becoming a super-power of a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with their Creator with certain inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness- as it is written- would be better for mankind if it was innovative and inventive in restoring capitalism to practical egalitarianism within an environmental economic criterion. Conventional super-power status for a nation is a measure of military power and economic productivity. Unfortunately each of those categories as traditionally structured have a deleterious effect upon the sustainability of the planetary ecosphere. A new super-power with a completely new economic mode of being and production integrated implicitly within a reformed capitalism that rewards ecospherically beneficial enterprise would be a crowd-sourced and supported super-power populism such as should be at the heart of democracy. Surprisingly the next super-power could be any of the majority of the world’s nations. The clever trick to overcome the challenge of envisioning and actualizing a practical way of restructuring capitalism toward egalitarianism and ecospheric synergy is what is as difficult, or really more so, than climbing Mt Everest without oxygen or ropes.
The
U.S.A. would love to have no troops stationed in Europe.
Unfortunately Europeans don’t trust themselves enough to
realistically let that happen. If one looks at European history it is
easy to understand why.
Europe
has started every world war. Without American intervention in Serbia
its hard to say where that would have gone. Some would like to let
Europe and its issues burn themselves out instead of intervening in
the future.
Basing
U.S. forces in Europe is costly. If the United States were to get
them all out of Europe Germany might feel free to re-arm itself as
best it can and just kick any malcontents into the gutter. ..some
would think of opening concentration camps with free train rides for
the recently homeless. The United States could watch. It would be
like reality T.V. or almost as good.
Europeans
are such nice people though that they would never think of increasing
their nuclear weapons infrastructure. They could sign some kind of
mutual love agreement like Hitler did with Stalin and that would
further allow butterflies to fly free in the skies while flowers are
planted along autobahns.
Russia
might be a cheaper place for Americans to base troops in anyway
besides being closer to potential Asian conflicts. Maybe some sort of
security arrangement could be made with Russia if Americans are
booted out of Europe. Then, if there was a need someday to return to
Europe U.S. troops wouldn’t have to cross the Atlantic again.
Russia
is an entirely manufactured threat to the United States. Europe has
invaded Russia numerous while Russia just conquered the Nazis from
the eastern approach. The Austria-Hungarian Empire declared war on
Serbia 28 July 1914. The Balkan League including Serbia and Greece
wanted to rid the region of Ottoman Empire occupiers of Europe.
Germany would have none of that, and Russians supported Christian
Orthodox Serbs; sound familiar?
August
1 1914 Germany declared war on Russia.
Suvorov
did general around Switzerland back in the time of the Napoleonic
Wars of course, yet Napoleon found it convenient to busy himself in
Egypt in those days. With a strong German position in the EU today it
is natural that the EU finds Russia a problem. Large numbers of
recent Muslim immigrants to the EU add to the traditional
anti-Russian position of the EU for Russian support of Christian
orthodoxy instead of state-run religion such as prevails in Germany.
Russia
sold Alaska to the United States to dampen British expansion
ambitions a little. The only conflict with Russia the United States
has had was the cold war and that ideological contest is over. Europe
seems to be the source of ideological conflict with the U.S.A. these
days more so than Russia.
Russia
with such a small population hasn’t visions of global conquest.
They want to keep historical Russia together such as it was before
German annexation of Ukraine at Brest-Litovsk. They seek security
from Western attack as well as Eastern and Southern attack in
addition to hoping not to have nuclear war with the United States,
China, or to be struck by a Muslim bomb.
Germany
only pays 20% of the cost of U.S. bases. The U.S.A. pays billions and
billions for maintaining bases, training troops and building
equipment to defrappe war in Europe. The Rand Corporation reported
that Germany pays 1 billion dollars annually for bases. The European
Deterrence Initiative alone for the U.S.A. is 4.7 billion dollars in
2018. The U.S. defense budget request for 2018 is nearly 700 billion
dollars. A huge part of that goes toward Europe related defense
spending.
About
rearming; Today Germany pays nearly 2% of its economy on defense
spending. Nazi Germany in 1938 spent 17% and in 1939 23%. The numbers
continued to rise during the war of course.
I
am very happy not to have war. My father served in the U.S. Navy four
years during the second world war off North Africa. Germany was a bit
of a problem back then and caused a few U.S. casualties. I visited
Berlin in 1987 and saw the ‘armies waiting to tear one another
apart’…the Soviet equipment seemed rusty. My hope as an army
reservist was for peace and prosperity yet one trained for war.
Why the U.S.A. is a super-power is a good question. It may be interpreted in several ways. Hollywood likes superlatives as does Madison Avenue. Super-sizing French fries was big for some time. It is a prestigious thing for some to be super. One has an ego, then one has a super-ego. Economic and military power combined put the United States in a class of its own. Yet it is how one regards economic and military power that gives an amorphous character to the security or stability of super-power-hood. Weapons of mass destruction have numerous forms and methods of delivery. The world has become a small place in regard to modern transportation and the volatility of allocation of WMD vectors globally. Borders and distance no longer confer the natural security that they once did. Neither are economies of nations secure from disruptions form anomalous vectors. The United States had an insular status free from European military invasions for some time. Natural oceanic borders were helpful. after the end of the Second World War the nations that were nuclear weapons super-powers were all on the allied side of victors over the Axis powers. After the end of the Soviet Union the economy of Russia was not able to attain the kind of growth needed to rival Japan or China as a challenger to world leadership. The Chinese economy is about equal to that of the United States in size, yet they have just 300 plus nuclear weapons versus 6300 of Russia and 6000 of the U.S.A. so they are not considered a super-power in combined economic and nuclear accounting. Neither have they the great military budget expense of the United States for conventional weapons. It should be recalled that larges numbers of nuclear weapons help assure being a target rather than to increase security in some ways. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/ One might like a super-power to be necessarily beneficial to all nations and in some respects the United States tries to achieve that at least indirectly through the vehicle of capitalism and free markets that improve the lifestyles of all people. Modern capitalism unfortunately has numerous unreformed weaknesses in performance and unintended down-sides in development that tend to be uncorrected with philosophical and analytical laziness or even rationalization primarily accountable for that. One of the implicit weaknesses of a super-power is its inability to change and upgrade its economic and social infrastructure because of the inertia of the establishment and its resistance to change and adapt successfully to new challenges. The historian Arnold Toynbee noted that challenge and response of civilizations as a critical element for their rise and fall with the decline being a failure to adapt as well as over-expansion of commercial or military success into a Universal phase (like a star nova before collapse). History does not always repeat the past. So the United States may find a way to evolve an ecologically economic reform of capitalism limiting over-concentration of wealth and transform the social and environmental structure of the planet through positive leadership emulated. Super-power status is however like a time of the day where the sun shines brightly through broken clouds. The historical day moves on though.
Germany is the N.A.T.O. super-power in the absence of the U.S.A. German power could beat the rest of N.A.T.O. combined. If the U.S. wasn’t in N.A.T.O. maybe Germany would transform it into the 4th Reich. Alternatively they could sign up Russia to become the new Soviet Europe or The Europus Corporate Entity led by continental 1%’ers.
If the United States wanted to reform N.A.T.O. and leave it the parameter ought to be that forming large multi-national defense organizations alternatively known as practical, aggressive war structures for explicit expansion are illegal and would be met by ad hoc war coalitions of willing attackers in anticipatory defense.
Only very few, and primitive people, want to eat whales and whale blubber. Knowing that they are eating a semi-sentient species with the largest brains on Earth ruins the taste for modern people. They would rather eat mint-flavored high-protein soy bean applets and cotlets energy snacks with B complex fortification.
Cannibalism persisted in the world until recent times in primitive locales. Whale eaters are like that. So whale steaks and blubber can’t be bought in the U.S.A. except possibly on the black market in Western Alaska, if it exists.
The former Soviet Union started withdrawing its forces from East Germany in December 1988. I believe it was a quarter of a million soldiers that were pulled back. So if they had reversed course in 1989 and invaded West Berlin that would have caused fuel shortages in the Soviet Union for civil consumers of gasoline as all of the Soviet Army trucks would have required fuel. Pink Floyd’s concert at the former Berlin Wall probably wouldn’t have happened. Instead, Metallica would have been commissioned to perform at the battle-line from the trench-works dug around Berlin to contain Soviet expansionism. A-10 Warthogs would have swirled menacingly around Berlin while vast right-wing fireworks displays followed by oil-based fog from machines would have confused Soviet Red Army forces. If there were vast concentrations of explosives buried beneath Berlin in case of invasion they would have been detonated creating in effect, a vast sinkhole that eventually would have filled with rainwater and become a fishing spot of note. Very likely static electric discharges across the sky would have followed a Soviet Red Army invasion of West Berlin. Tremendous Van De Graff field generators with stealth technology and fueled with synthetic cornohal would have been moved under cover of darkness near Berlin and cast crackling power lines over the city before it became a sinkhole. Then, with some softening up, the Meissner field would have taken effect and lifted the city to move it thirty miles west. The psyops team having completely confused the opposition force would have allowed the decoy, holographic Berlin to remain when the real city moved west. It would have been the fake city of West Berlin that actually followed the sinkhole into the oblivion captured in the term; not a bite all day.
Reforming capitalism; an upgrade in theory from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations paradigm published in 1776, is long over-due. It should attack the over-concentration of wealth and power once more as Adam Smith’s paradigm did regarding the monopoly on free trade de facto by the aristocracy. Too much concentrated wealth and power gives de facto monopoly of trade and the channels of capital flow to the 1% aristocrats of the present era. While reforming capital theory and its application in the world it would be a good idea to integrate the new paradigm with an implicit ecological economic structure that advances economic enterprises that are synergetic with recovery of the planet’s ecospheric health.
Election voter tampering probably goes on quite a bit in the world. While 12 Russians indicted by the Mueller team for trying to tamper with the 2016 Presidential election may seem insignificant since they didn't influence much. It does remind Americans that the world is full of election tamperers that should face justice.
It may not be too late to investigate the 1960 Presidential election and overturn the results. It is said that Chicago Mayor Dailey tampered with votes in effect throwing the decisive Illinois vote to John F. Kennedy. If Richard M. Nixon was the true winner it is time to correct that and make him so posthumously.
Was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev a grand master martinet pulling the strings of American puppets gullible enough to vote for the Democrat candidate? Were Soviet GRU agents infiltrating Madison Avenue bewitching consumers with desires of decadence? Could My Favorite Martian and Mr. Ed have been deep covert extreme leftist communist plants?
President Trump's analysis of the prevailing Brexit plan that Brit foreign minister Boris Johnson resigned over in effect kicked the turd into the gutter. British politicians are comfortable with byzantine bureaucratic treachery rather than plain talk. U.S. politicians are just indolent, backward thinking and incomprehending about reform parameters necessary to renormalize economic policy with ecospheric and security criteria. On both sides of the Atlantic they just want to have a freezer full of cash without accountability. http://thehill.com/homenews/news/396732-artist-carves-russian-f-trump-into-crop-circle-ahead-of-uk-visit British artful hatred of American democracy and its executive leadership
A man charged with a federal hate crime for harassing a women wearing a Puerto Rico shirt shows the idiocy of the federal hate crimes law. If the man was perpetrating some sort of crime of assault then he should have been charged with that- yet federal hate crimes for being a partisan against a symbol? If he had harassed someone from Vermont that wouldn't have been a hate crime? The man harassing the women in the video is probably perping a misdemeanor of some sort and even disorderly conduct. People harass people a lot. I was harassed by several hispanics from Chicago to Ashville N.C. riding a bus. In England while sitting in a rural restaurant a pair of guys started harassing me and wouldn't stop until I took out a sharp lock blade knife to clean the dirt under my fingernails. People use words much to harass strangers for whatever reason. It's hateful but is that a federal felony crime? Criminal offenses should be crimes if perped against anyone regardless of race, national or state origin, religion or personal sexual behavior (that isn't already a crime). If one wants to hate Boston for trading dumping Babe Ruth like a turd, can't they without looking over their shoulder for the G-men? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-seen-video-harassing-woman-puerto-rico-shirt-charged-hate-n891051 Laws are supposed to be objective and apply to all people that perp some objective activity. Hate crimes fails that standard royally because politics decides which symbols are protected. A complete list of protected symbols needs to be published on the Internet and updated regularly so people can hate a chance to experimentally hate them and argue about the hate-worthiness of federally protected symbols. Maybe the EPA and Justice could get that done together. Who believes all those symbol haters are very bright? People have been killed for wearing a T-Shirt with some symbol of an opposing football team like the 49ers or Raiders in the wrong part of town. Have Democrats been charged for hating government officials patronizing their restaurants as symbols of President Trump? If one wears a T-Shirt with a Che Guevara beret'd face at some sort of veteran's biker rally that might be problematically dangerous. Does the Democrat Party hate the confederate flag?
If one wears an Uncle Sam shirt and is white in some parts of America that could be dangerous. People react to symbols really stupidly. Loyalists attack and hate on opposition symbols; that is just the way it is. Even overseas soccer fans have hated and clashed in hatred of sports rivals. Hate is a way of life unfortunately. And people are trained to be passionate. A former President famously hated brussel sprouts. Some youth have expressed hatred of lima beans. Advertising and video programming present strong emotion as a virtue. Performers of songs need to seem passionate and persuasive. Advertisers want people to emotionally react to symbols and labels, products and items that can be purchased as emotionally as possible so they would love to buy it. Who make ugly but efficient cars? Cars are as attractive as possible and used to be sold with attractive women sensuously caressing the car as the object of desire. So Americans should be trained not to be too emotional if they want to avoid the paradigm of hate crimes written in to federal law. One can like one's home town sports team and mildly dislike the traditional rivals just a little bit. Hating them is out of the question though. I am sure at least the Democrat Party has eliminated hate of any sort of symbols from their collective behavior patternology (some hate words with the ology ending).
