I was adding some news feeds to Feedly.com that is an adequate substitute for google news (they don't allow me to get rid of CNN, The Washington Post, and a few other sources that dominate, and found a Russian news page in English that is interesting (besides U.S. news sources that shall remain nameless in order to protect the innocent) .They still dress in the red hammer and sickle flag in Russia? I would think they would have made something new with a hologram in a top corner. The page at the following url has genuine photos from polling places in a Russian election. http://englishrussia.com/2018/03/18/weird-todays-russian-presidential-elections-photos-2018-photos/
Fox news has a story reporting that the new Army machine gun NG-SAR intended to replace the SAW has the power of a main battle tank, and that is completely wrong. The weapon's chamber pressure is approximately the same as a tank's cannon at around 60-80 K.S.I. yet the volume is tiny comparatively hence the NG-SAR hasn't got anything like the power of a main battle tank at a 'soldier's fingertips' as Fox reported.
A higher chamber pressure increases the exit velocity of a bullet from the barrel of a gun. Gun-powder has volume limits. Probably electric guns have a much greater potential for exit velocity for several reasons comparable to putting one's foot on the accelerator and brake simultaneously before releasing the brake. In theory one could build a large electric machine gun on the moon and use the Earth as a practice target testing to determine if the bullets could penetrate all the way through and out the other side of that planet. Just kidding. It might be useful as a tool for shooting dangerous asteroids though.
Election collusion candidates + aggregate voter support Insider wealth A +Collusion media group B \ Russian Executive Director A' Payments + Sales + Marketing loop 1 variables A, B, C through Z... unreal numbers vs real numbers ( voters, illegal voters, aliens over the wall, citizens under the wall ) assumed viewer totals vs configured viewer totals = intended influence prior to election outcome Minus adverse influence from video games brainwash, syncopation accelerator, pleasure fuel mpg rollback smog and water quality deposit globally, consolidate power, 1%, everything Oxford axis of Harvard axis of Judgments Wall Street, EU, Chinese Communist Party * WWW subset simeq 2/3 global capital > Clintons To sum it up, the abstract collusion process presently favored is like detaching the retina (voter sensibility) from the optic nerve (seeing the truth) causing political blindness. A strong media punch in the eye with heavy handed propaganda does the trick.
By Artwork by Holly Fischer - http://open.umich.edu/education/med/resources/second-look-series/materials - Eye Slide 4, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24367146
Google News after weeks of my trying to screen out stories from the Washington Post, C.N.N. and N.P.R. still dumps the stuff by the bucketful whenever I look at Google News. Apparently the 'hide stories from this source' button is broke and Google has no interest in fixing it. Still they don't get rid of it because they want to seem like they aren't supporting required propaganda and brainwashing of Americans with Hate Trump news stories. Actually I couldn't find a news consolidator web page that was worth anything. Apparently I will need to make my own page with rss feeds of news source myself, yet the internet companies are supposed to do stuff like that. Google used to have a good page that one could easily select news sources from and delete the leftist-globalist-corporatist ones that require the daily hate and brainwashing of the minions, yet google ditched that and apparently went over to the dark side of the force. If the news is a carefully promoted and unavoidable corporate screed of bs content all the time it would make being an American really really dull.
The
United States today has trouble reforming government. Instead of
reform it keeps the same bureaucrats in office and adds new
government agencies. Government grows rather than reforms. That is a
problem of a vast left-wing bureaucratic government in
quasi-democracy.
The
creeping expansion of large national democracy along the inertial
flow of ad hoc unionism is like the expansion of space-time in the
Universe. New bureaucratic elements requiring increased payments grow
from out of nowhere moving the galaxies apart.
The
new Russia formed from the carcass of the late vast left-wing
bureaucratic Soviet Union. In the chaos of its fall vultures picked
over the carcass looking for profit taking and territory. Boris
Yeltsin appointed the young Vladimir Putin before he died to Shepard
the new Russia in its time of wholesale reform.
A
strongman somewhat short of being a dictator can accomplish in reform
with extraordinary power what cannot be accomplished through
democracy. The inability of new ideas for reform to be implemented is
a traditional weakness for a democratic society. Ossified economic
structures are fought over and get extra investments but If F.D.R.
had not inherited a chaotic time during the depression followed by
the Second World war it is unlikely that he could have reformed the
U.S> Government so far as he did. The genius of Barrack Obama in
corrupting the nation by forcing Obamacare upon it was the ability to
create a new government agency by appealing to the corporate
establishment as well as vast left-wing collusionists for increasing
government globally and synergistically giving birth to a
monstrosity.
The
Veterans administration is notoriously deficient at providing
adequate service to veterans. It could have been united with the
national constellation of poor people's clinics and expanded to
provide direct medical service for Americans that couldn't afford
medical service otherwise as a non-profit. A much needed back
national disaster emergency medical system able to treat 20 million
casualties should that ever be necessary also would have been created
as an ancillary benefit of increasing the competence and scale of the
V.A. hospital system.
The
attacks on President Trump follow the left and corporatist media
desire to resist government reformers even potentially, and to have a
corrupt business as usual. The prospects for ecological economic
reform or for the reform of capitalism to make it more egalitarian
and to assure that all Americans have adequate working capital is
plainly impossible. President Putin though was able to direct Russia
through its chaotic rebuilding period and still troll the U.S. left
and media over elections meddling through advertising and cell phone
hacks.
It
would be wrong to have a semi-dictator in normal times, and never in
the United States, yet from looking at the success of Russia, it does
obviously have its advantages in times when emergency reform is
required for survival.
So far as I know, Arab imperialism, if such can be said to exist without an empire, might be attributed to ISIS that sought to create a Caliphate. Terrorism against Europe wasn’t a good idea as it was bad P.R. for ISIS obviously,yet Arab terrorists have traditionally targeted European soft targets for numerous reasons, all of which were bad. Britain passed the Balfour Mandate that got Zionist aspirations firmed up. Terrorism against Britain has been a long-term policy of terrorists therefore. The jihad by the *mufsidoon* against Christian nations tended to be a neo-populist movement to increase Arab prestige and gain concessions and political power from leftists first by the Muslim Brotherhood and offshoots that hated anyone including Europeans that supported the creation of Israel with U.N. resolution 242 then by entities like the P.L.O. Arnold Toynbee wrote about Islam as being a rival civilization to Western Civilization. Like the Nazi werewolves after the end of the Second World War or as John Wilkes Booth and certain die-hard confederates after the American Civil War some Muslims dream of the glory days when they were attacking Europe on all fronts except the Arctic, and victory. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Hamin al-Huseini was as much of a collaborator with Hitler as he could be. He was “*the leader of Palestinian nationalism before and after the war*”. http://jcpa.org/article/haj-amin-al-husseini-the-nazis-and-the-holocaust-the-origins-nature-and-aftereffects-of-collaboration/ There is a long association of anti-Jewish terrorists with Germany indirectly that shared similar opinions about Jews and Zionists. I am not sure that the distribution of contemporary Muslim terrorism on Europe occurs as often in former axis powers as it does in former allied nations. Muslim terrorism rather than just Arab terrorism; for they must be said to differ since the House of Saud has sponsored Wahhabist Mosque’s in Europe that tend to support terrorists yet probably hasn't perped state terrorism itself directly. Palestinian terrorism isn’t synonymous with Arab terrorism, and some of the ISIS terrorists that moved into Syria and Mosul were disaffected people from all over the world as well as pro terrorist mercenaries rather than just Arabs from, for example, Riyadh. Europe has some fairly loose security and immigration policies developed when the population didn’t have much to worry about from international refugees and terrorists form outside Europe flooding in. European policy still hasn’t upgraded its attitude toward external challenges and neither has the American left. Not only should Europe and the United States develop more secure frontiers, they should increase direct investment in poor African countries. In 2015 direct foreign investment in those nations was about a half a trillion dollars. That sounds like a lot yet amidst such a large chunk of the global population it isn’t. Direct foreign investment by the first world in the third world or second world shouldn’t resemble colonialism nor be primarily to the advantage of corrupt leaders that share nothing with average citizens. A proactive ecological economic foreign vestment policy needs leadership from governments; yet they can’t really even accomplish that for their own nations (ecological economics or a reformed, egalitarian capitalism). Poor education, desperation, jealousy and the primitive desire for expropriation of land and wealth are reason why terrorist attack Europe. The EU does have a lot of godless, atheists of course and that also helps draw Muslim radicals with the traditional Dar al harb paradigm in mind.
Maybe the question of what nations would survive U.S. economic collapse with a spring in their step and a song in their hearts is actually too complex to answer meaningfully- like making an accurate model of the weather five years ahead. Because wealth is concentrated in the U.S.A. and foreigners own a lot of properties here, it is rather difficult to describe a U.S. economic collapse for-itself. Does it mean that the very rich lose money- even Warren Buffet may have billions and billions invested overseas and in China. If the rich lose their shirts should the poor or middle class care? Warrent Buffett seems to prefer U.S. investments. Yet S&P 500 multinational index stocks have a lot of international exposure. Where the wealth is of the 1% is rather amorphous. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/17/a-stubborn-investing-rule-shared-by-jack-bogle-and-warren-buffett.html The tragedy of the rich becoming less rich is meaningful only so far as it would affect an American’s standard of living who isn’t rich, adversely. If Bill Gates loses his American fortune and has to survive in Kenya on beans and bush meat programmers that formerly worked for Microsoft might need to go online to work for the Chinese or French- who can say? U.S. economic collapse that means the government is broke and needs to get out of business and allow reorganization would make the 50 states consolidate into a few regional republics and one or two socialist-corporatist entities. Boston was one of the founding locations of the nation and may be left holding the bag on U.S. public debt (it would only be a few dozens of trillions probably). Safety is also a concept with numerous meanings. In the breakdown of social order those nations that mostly ban gun ownership by private citizens very likely would number among the most dangerous places to live. States with farming surpluses would be good prospects. Russia and the Ukraine might be alright places to live if the planet is in great chaos and the people own an average of 4.3 guns per household. Afghanistan might be alright for Afghans since they are fairly independent people that know which end of a gun is the working end.
As a permanent member of the Security Council the U.S.A. has veto power. Without U.S. membership there would likely be a lot of votes condemning the United States or the interests of friendly nations such as Israel that the U.S.A. has supported in the past.
The U.N. could perpetrate quite a lot of wickedness without adult supervision (joking). Being a member of the U.N. is an opportunity to defend oneself in person; self-defense is important. Without a U.N. ambassador from the U.S.A., the U.S.A. would in effect be convicted in absentia after the trash talking had taken full swing.
President
Trump speaking with Vladimir Putin at Helsinki recently about
building golf courses in Russia after he is exonerated from getting
348 electoral votes because of G.R.U. machinations, inadvertently
disclosed to the Russian President that he is actually part American
Indian- Cherokee, and 23 and Me had verified his ancestry.
President
Putin was quite impressed and said that he was agreeable to investing
in First nation projects in Amerigo Vespucci land if President Trump
would repay with interest certain debts John Paul Jones left unpaid
in Russia during his naval service there back in the day.
The
project President Putin mentioned was a new Coffee Shop franchise for
dogs with canned product too in order to allow New Yorkers to share a
morning Joe with their dogs (a special decaffinated brew with soy). As President Putin described it, the
Starbarks stores would sell human and canine coffee appropriately
packed with anti-worm and anti-coffee lake CPU viruses.
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.
