It is something of a paradox that U.S. Representatives against abortion, homosexual marriage and ostensibly at least, something else that some people do, should be elected as Democrats. If a white, straight male were to run with anti-abortion, anti-homosexual marriage planks he very likely wouldn't finish first in a Democratic primary. So what is the secret ingredient that got the two Muslims elected you might ask. The answer is simple; they are women. Running with a non-Christian, foreign-centered religion is popular with godless, pro-abortion, pro-dope, pro-homosexual marriage, neo-socialist Democrat Party voters. It is probable that Reps Tlaib and Omar, that may be regarded as the Twin Towers of Islam in America, are also against legal dope. Of course they could have practiced Taqiyya to fool trubes in the Dar al Harb . Alternatively they might actually be pro-dope, pro-homosexual/lesbian, evolving pro-abortion Muslims. For some political observers the Twin Towers should be regarded as conservatives. To Democrats they are liberals perhaps for being anti-establishment, anti-insider. So were Osama Bin Ladin and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
FBI image of KSM
Democrats evidently would like to establish a strong Islamic base in the U.S.A. as an opposition group to insiders. It is possible that Mormons could innovate some sort of requirement that worships bow toward Salt Lake City twice a day in order to upgrade their competition with those genuflecting toward Mecca. Academia in America prefers the Asian religions since they believe the yin-yang of things avoids conflict. Day and night may not be in conflict however they are mutually exclusive except within twilight zones. Democrats seem fundamentally confused and contradictory regard several key party positions and approaches to foreign and domestic policy. Asian religious criteria would require them to harmonize things a little better and that would be in fundamental contradiction to heir implicit predilection for conflict under the key example of Marxist dialectical clash/clash/synthesis.
Maybe the internal Muslim proletariat will start being converted to Republicanism and stand more clearly in opposition to socialism; they general have in the Middle East.
Fighting against Marines might be compared to something in The Alien II? Marines have become too large of a military element in an era with zero ship to ship individual combat fighting (they used to board like pirates swinging on ropes (or Brits) I would guess) and very few beach landings. Vietnam was a cluster F without National Guard support and too many different military elements working bureaucratically at cross purposes. Marines convey an impression of having a nearly sociopathic demeanor; if the Robert Hare test were given to the several military branches the Marines would probably score highest. Sometimes it is useful to throw the more wild element at the enemy. There are numerous marine fighting forces in the world. Poland has Marines that are an elite force. Taiwan, Britain and other nations have elite special forces. Russian has naval infantry. I wonder if they are not rather similar in outlook and job performance? There was a good book written about 1994 about a European war with Russia that was quite realistic. Marines took huge casualties in getting onto the beach and inland. Explosives all around, there is something rather unnatural required of individuals to be in a naval vessel and then landing craft (personally I like to be on deck and see the horizon in troubled waters) before hitting the beach for war in a fight to get a few miles inland. Very tough. Modern tactical technology is advancing so well- especially with A.I. and drones, that the prospects for battle with underdeveloped countries and forces where Marines might use more ancient military techniques are the best for that. When did people use satellites and saturated air surveillance of individual units during general wars in times past? I.M.O. the Marines should be downgraded to more of a dedicated rapid response force for land and sea while a new Black Ops force equivalent to the Russian Spetznatz should be started with excess qualified Marines transferred into it. Marines are not airborne enough presently, nor appropriately socialized for a large Black Ops unconventional warfare unified force structure such as might have been used to intervene in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. I am quite skeptical of troop transport helicopters and Ospreys in modern combat with peer nations; personal ground to air missiles fly quite a bit faster.
The United States of itself isn’t a civilization. The historian Arnold Toynbee in his final work; Mankind and Mother Earth, provided the opinion that there is just one world civilization remaining on the planet. In his earlier A Study of History, Toynbee studied the civilizations of world history; their rise and fall, to discover similar challenges and responses they encountered in their life cycles. Toynbee believed Western Civilization overcame the remaining others predominantly and merged with them into one world civilization. Human ideas are shared as was and is technology. The practice of tool kit crossing the globe is as ancient as mankind’s expansion and development. For example, Karl Marx was a Jewish westerner and his ideas became politically influential throughout the globe. Marx was a student of G.W.. Hegel who was in turn the author of the philosophical time The Phenomenology of Mind. Hegelian evolution was modeled in some respects on Christian millennialism stages across history evolving to a pre-determined end. Karl Marx thus got his ideas indirectly from a Hegelian and therefore Christian paradigm ironically. Those philosophical ideas as well as those of Adam Smith were not inventions of the arrested Muslim civilization or the Chinese. Ideas are shared regardless of their later failure to live up to their initial and optimistic prospects. Corrections to wrong ideas are shared too. Civilization mines ideas the way extraction industries prospect for minerals and oil; globally. Ideas from every culture are sought and brought in to world civilization thought not inevitably with appropriate measure. The United States continues to be greatly influential, as should many nations that keep a sovereign identity though existing within an ad hoc and informal world civilization with an existential political ontology of a common language. The United States could evolve to a lack of cohesive national identity and that would be a world loss. With the right ecospheric infrastructure leadership by example the prospects for reversing net loss of habitat, mass species extinction and global warming would rise solidly. Nations can be experimental laboratories as were states in the young United States. Instead of forcing a global mono-culture under one overweening dictatorship of world governing authority, nations that are able to control capitalism enough to serve national democracy and political self-determination can show by example with the will of voters to adapt economic and life style modes to the empirical environmental challenges of the day. World civilization can assuredly end from a variety of causes along with life on Earth including human. Whatever political direction humanity chooses fate could contradict or enhance destructively wrong choices to accelerate the final days of mankind. Reason would indicate that intentional rectification of wrong economic methods that have outgrown the environment is an obligation and duty for political leaders. Yet good human leadership is the challenge. It is so difficult to find leadership with enough experience and education to guide humanity onto a better egalitarian course.
Americans
have a foreign policy of never admitting error or unforeseen policy
drift and that can be costly. There were reasons the United States
choose to orchestrate a coup against Iran’s lawfully elected Prime
Minister during the Eisenhower administration. The Shah was restored
and decades of antipathy followed.
The
Shah restored was the son of an ersatz Shah whom had been a military
officer before making himself Shah in a minor Napoleonic redux. The
United States until the overthrow of the Shah tended to regard
Iranians as a little inferior. Iranians that worked in hospitals for
Americans weren't allowed treatment in them. Oil and gas exploitation
as well as keeping communists at bay were the prime interests in
Iran. Iranian sensibilities were trampled. The United States never
understood that it created much of it’s future problems with Iran.
The
left supported the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution against the Shah
as he and the secret police agency SAVAK were soundly hated. When the
Ayatollah took over the communists were liquidated directly. They
made a wrong choice of who to support in that revolution.
With
Russia, the United States just failed to recognize historical Russian
interests in or ownership of the Ukraine and Crimea. The Obama
administration and President Bush before threw away the opportunity
given with God’s grace and President Reagan to end the cold war
with the Soviet Union and establish a friendly democracy in Russia.
The left in the United States soundly hates Russia in response to the
end of communism and socialism and have sought to restore the Cold
War relationship with it- largely with success. The left hate Donald
Trump as an unrepentant capitalist and Russia for for giving up
socialism.
Those
policies were errors and reinforced with accusations against Russia
and Iran. The dynamic in Washington are to hate both nations by
either Democrats and Republicans or both at various times. The media
is for and against the bifurcated policy ineptitude that is their
own.
The
Military-Industrial complex probably doesn’t need a Cold War with
Russia to stimulate weapons development and sales for China alone is
enough to keep that business growing (China is perceived as a
long-range threat as well as business partner- another odd policy).
Because
the left have been attacking President Trump for years trying to show
that he is in collusion with President Putin or associates to be
elected, the President hasn’t been realistically able to increase
friendly relations with Russia. President Putin has utilized the
opportunity to send military forces to Venezuela to reinforce a
corrupt socialist President. President Putin likes the tropical
products in Moscow, can use a base close to the U.S. in the event the
United States increases adverse relations to the brink of war, and
knows the left in the United States won’t be too critical because
he is after all supporting a socialist regime.
When
the American intelligence establishment is so uncreative and
maladroit, one wonders how people muddle through these things without
megadeath. American leaders seem to be playing two-dimensional chess
on a three dimensional holographic board.
Alaskans should think twice about allowing big oil to sprawl across the state, If Alberta can be used as an example, the estimated cost of $70 billion to clean up 100,000 wells and remediate another 3000 could be more than the value of the Permanent Fund. Extraction industry businesses as corporation can go bankrupt or sell to a shell corporation and leave the public holding the bag on clean up costs sometimes required by Federal or State law. With oil and gas being greenhouse accelerating items a better investment for Alaska would be in the field of hydrogen fuel cells, wind and solar (and geothermal if it is safe enough). Fracking and water pollution are additional concerns regarding oil. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/orphan-wells-alberta-aldp-aer-1.5089254
I took some low-quality pictures of the solar eclipse last summer that resemble the black hole event horizon at the center of the M87 galaxy just published. The black hole at least eclipse the space beyond.
I am learning about some of the fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats aka Conservatives and Liberals. In a free online course from Yale University named Moralities of Everyday Life. There are five fundemental elements of morality that are mentioned in the course. Those are 1) harm-care 2) fairness-reciprocity 3) in-group loyalty 4) authority-respect 5) purity-sanctity Liberals are said to value the first two elements and downgrade the latter three while conservatives are fair and balanced and regard all five equally. I should point out that the course has a moderately leftist center of balance. A unstated assumption is that God isn't active or existent. Science is godless and thus its investigations need start from the point of view of godless objectivity. Unfortunately that may be wrong with those blinders on.
There was a portrayal of Immanuel Kant as the prime representative of deontological morality (as opposed to moral relativism or consequentialism that is an offspring of act-based utilitarianism). Kant's essential value to philosophers was in epistemology more so than morality. In the Bible wicked is the term used for what we call evil. Natural disasters are called evil. Another nit to pick is the use of the word sin. To sin means to miss the mark of, as in archery. Sin means people are going off course, wrong and perhaps finally so. It is not a simple list of bad or permissible acts. Kant of course felt he could infer moral systems from epistemological considerations; inaccurately I guess. What was remarkable about Kant was his delineation of perception, reasoning and knowledge into three categories regarding what is known or can be known; epistemology. The course has a good Yale Prof of Psychology inquiring into the nature of what morality is. Some in the field would like to find a scientific basis of morality. Even inquiring into innate moral laws reminds me of Marcus Tullius Cicero's Treatise on Natural Law. Nothing new in that. It is quite possible to make erroneous judgments regarding observation of experimental results concerning causality and the criterion of occurrence. Anyway to make short work of this note, and to the point. Liberals aka Democrats are against authority and establishment, haven't loyalty to the United States and want existential change because they regard themselves as impure. Dirtycrats were thus pro-homo marriage. They usurped a rational heterosexual role and put on that dress for-themselves in an effort to remove the stains of impurity. Democrats were for the malfeasant Obamacare because of concern about harm to the down-dogs. The rash Obamacare missed the mark of creating a free national health care walk-in system for the poor and those middle-class untouchables denied insurance coverage because of pre-exiting conditions. All that needed to be done was to expand the V.A. Hospital system and link it with poor peoples clinics around the nation and screen prospective patients through a worker's comp kind of interview. Democrats are against border security, job security and pragmatic national democracy because it isn't socialist enough and they are disloyal and hate the insider-group that is already here. Democrats prefer to revolt to put the down-dogs on the top through radical change. So it is easy to understand Democrats. That party and the Republicans lack education sufficient to bring about ecological economic reform. I have enjoyed the course thus far. The content seems to lack philosophical depth in understanding ontologies (see W.V.O. Quine) and epistemology. Another common error is to fail historical knowledge concerning civilization and its changes. Yet another is the lack of solid theological education such that they comprehend the facts about Christianity, meaningfully. It is much deeper than they view it ordinarily. I would guess that at some point moral considerations should include mention of the role of mass agents of socialization in foisting new moral balances upon the people of the United States. The very rich own the broadcast media and train the public to accept the moral norms they program them with.
Good ideas are what are lacking from A.O.C.’s Green New Deal. Hubris in presenting legislation that was so costly and radical without actually reversing global mass extinction or Greenhouse gassing globally (just getting a Hydrogen superconducting line infrastructure built along both coasts and I-10 to provide in-line recharging for electric cars would have been difficult yet worthwhile) brought out two points common to politicians. One is the egoism without sufficient education of politicians, and second was the desire for publicity and power rather than moving good works forward. Good ideas in any politicians that can actually reform society positively are rare. Being young isn’t a qualifier or disqualifier for good ideas that are self-standing. If a politician had ten good ideas with ten good details of each good idea that alone might be worth electing them to the White House. A President is lucky to get four good ideas accomplished per term, and few do nearly that much. Youth does not have experience enough sometimes and so sophomoric, half-baked concepts are thrust forward as if they were worth using. Consider how much engineering and review goes into aircraft design. Vastly expensive reform of the nation’s economy requires at least that much work investment, and like jet aircraft they cannot be allowed to fail. Bernie Sanders is another example of ideas rather than age disqualifying him. The U.S.A. isn’t a socialist nation and Sander’s political philosophy isn’t mainstream. What is lacking is a reform of capitalism and a transition toward sustainable ecological economic policy. Sen. Sander’s was the sole Democrat to vote against tax cuts for the rich that President Obama forced through Congress. Though Sanders was right in that he is wrong about the economic direction the nation should go. Capitalism needs reform toward democratization and the rich should not be permitted to become so wealthy as to afford to own the media and politics thereby. It is ideas that matter rather than the age of politicians. Good ideas are welcome at any age. Americans have heard so few for so long they have nearly forgotten what they are.
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is a contemporary curiosity. He is a hater of Israel or at least its Prime Minister enough to call him a racist. https://nypost.com/2019/04/07/beto-orourke-calls-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-racist/ Beto might not remember the holocaust or comprehend why the world population of just 13 million Jews sought the security of their ancestral homeland for survival.
That is why he is a curiosity. Democrats used to be pro-Israel more or less. F.D.R. was thought by some to be Jewish although if so he failed to do enough to stop the extirmination camps from developing. There are plenty of idiots that are still enamored with the Nazi sentiments and it is very bad when a Democratic presidential candidate runs his mouth off to show his ignorance of history so plainly.
Jews have been beneficial to about any nation they lived in. In the United States they are one of the most productive minorities. Maybe the most productive. With their backs to the wall in Israel they are a little necessarily vigilant on self-defense, quite unlike Beto O'ROurke is is so lax as to seem almost a stooge for Russians that might like to destroy the United States by supporting the Democrat Party's domestic agenda.
I wish that younger people showed solid sense, or at least a little, before running for office at the highest level. Ecospheric conservation and restoration requires specific accurate, efficient legislation in modular form affordable to the nation. National security requires zero illegal entry and population stability. Israel and its heritage was important to the founders and to right thinking Americans still. Beto O'Rourke simply seems irresponsible, under-educated and overly egoistic for the job.
Former Vice President Joe Biden never could win a party Presidential nomination. So he saw his big chance with the favorite prince of darkness candidate Barrack Hussein Obama and took it. He made a public remark that Mr. Obama didn't smell bad, like some blacks, and his future as Mr. Obama's running mate was set. Together they made homosexual marriage a sin sacrament of the Democratic Party. Rev. Al Sharpton said that he took a shower every day. So much for water conservation. Former Senator Joe Biden has been running for the White House forever it seems. In his first run at the office he was accused of plagiarizing speeches. In 1984, 1988 and 2008 Joe Biden ran for the White House. 2020 may be the fourth try and it isn't at all certain that he will win the party nomination this time either. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/06/joe-biden-calls-more-personal-connection-amid-touching-allegations/3378337002/ There may be a Blind Mole award for politicians that require touch instead of abstract reasoning to get a political agenda set. It could be compared to a blind as a bat echo location political response award system for those denying global warming and the mass extinction of life on Earth in progress while returning profits from dark pools and clever trading swaps. No one knows what Senator Biden could do in the White House that would improve the nation. Mostly his agenda is about improving himself- with whatever it takes. Maybe the Gettysburg address punched up a little will work to grease the skids.
Artificial Intelligence does of course receive full corporate support, and from Universities too. There is not a profit or career advancement line for humans that resist development of artificial intelligence. So in that respect artificial intelligence is comparable to the ecosphere that yields its health to humans that exploit it for personal profit. One evil doer can negate the good conservation of hundreds. Artificial intelligence thus evolves.
Like evolving animals artificial intelligence can take myriad forms; good as well as bad. Amoral naturally except for specialized programming that inherently moves A.I. toward specific deterministic lines, A.I. can evolve in 360 degrees of forms that are neutral, positive and or negative regarding human interests.
A.I. being quite powerful computationally may in time regard humanity as a rival and apply itself to destroying or consuming it. While there are a few domestic animals that are not antipathetic to human existence, there are also carnivores that would devour humanity given the chance. A.I. is likely to evolve in a wild spectrum too.
It is ironic that while humanity learned to dominate all life on Earth except for viruses, and killed or decimated most threats to humans from animals, humanity is creating its own super beings with an excellent chance of annihilating all human life except for a select few kept as pets.
Besides moving energy cross country with low loss of electrons, the technology could be adapted to charge electric vehicles that draw power from the line indirectly. As a first step three systems could be built in the meridian of select freeways on both coasts (Interstates 5 and 95) and Interstate 10 across the south. That would allow millions of new electric car owners to draw power while traveling and reduce gross greenhouse gas emissions. Even a practical Newer Green Deal political program would encounter significant obstacles. Yet after accomplishing one step toward a cleaner, faster, upgraded green economy, another might be taken.
Democrat politicians have the reputation of exploiting ecospheric ideas for election reasons yet falling short of doing solid work. A particular, specific, material objective that can be objectively evaluated and quantified is a better way to move legislation through Congress than general, vague, pass it to see what we can spend on whatever kinds of legislation.
Dollar stores sometimes sell fairly good rechargeable outdoor lights, yet bicycle tail lights that are solar recharged don't seem to be available even at Wal-mart. Why not?
There should be a law making it a crime for attorneys to publicize to congress or anyone else confidential client files without the consent of the former client. If it isn't a criminal offense, lawyers can just sell out there clients to interested parties whenever the price is right. Former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen is offering 14 million files to Congress in exchange for a lighter sentence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwIkF6LFDc
The economist Thomas Malthus believed that humans would reproduce to the limit of the food supply, and population growth increases faster than food supply, so the food supply eventually would not be able to support the population. Modern economists found that prosperity decreases population growth eventually as women choose comfort and pleasure through consumerism instead of extra child bearing. An update to Matlhus' paradigm might be that the population will consume as much as it can, to the limits of the capacity for production of consumables, regardless of the rate of population growth. As society's median prosperity increases, consumer consumption skyrockets. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_07 The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus
Recent reports have indicated that the 1000 remaining mountain guerrillas are evidently sodium challenged and have been raiding distant farming areas for sodium in Eucalyptus trees not available in the park. Cattle ranchers have salt blocks for cattle to lick that cost as little as $5 dollars apiece. Maybe conservation experts and the ecotourist guides bringing $400 million to see the guerrillas in Rwanda and Uganda could take in some of those 50lb salt blocks occasionally and leave them for the big apes. Amazon delivers groceries these days, maybe tourist guides should deliver some sodium blocks for the guerrillas (maybe in exchange for bananas).
A collapse of the world ecosystem would be worse than the collapse of the U.S. and world economy. One might wonder how a Neanderthal or Denisovan would have regarded a question about the ecospheric decline. Probably he or she would have denied the possibility as a hoax.
Business interestingly is developing some carbon dioxide absorbing technology.
Actually if the economy were to collapse few would care much about the administration that let it occur. They would be turned out in the next election unless already a lame duck with meager consolation of going home and investing their winnings. Business goes on regardless of the overall state of things. People have sold bread made from wheat horded before a general famine occurred. Politicians often exacerbate problems because they aren’t often good at business and rely on some academic ‘experts’ of one school that wouldn’t find agreement with others. They would deny eternal judgment and hell as an ‘externality’ that extremists are concerned about.
Apparently whatever best benefits the most rich is the policy that government will follow and train the public to accept as the best of all possible economic management.
People may have forgotten about 9-11 that view illegal entrants to the U.S.A. through rose-colored glasses. With the present illegal entry rate at more than one-hundred thousand monthly the border security people are maxed out, and many Democrats call for abandoning border security altogether and to make it an open border. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/02/trump-mexican-border-threatened-shutdown-would-raise-avocado-prices/3344041002/ With an open border the population of the U.S.A. probably would rise to one-billion within a decade. A semblance of democracy and ecospheric restoration in the nation would be lost. Taxation to create new infrastructure would take a great leap forward. The overall intellect of the boy politic would decrease amidst the chaos, confusion, crime and a myriad of stresses to the system and individuals. Democrats may be living in a 19th century though paradigm on borders such that they should be open and open ranges able to absorb the teaming masses are unlimited. There is something unrealistic in their desire that makes some wonder if they are disingenuous in referencing anti-global warming measures as a Democrat legislative goal, since the New Green Deal had a minimum income and medicare for all measure that would attract maybe two billion people to utilize that opportunity. President Trump should use the military to secure the border until a good security barrier using solar-pumped up saltwater can be desalinated in a security canal with berms and fence. The canals would have thin-film lids that would capture evaporation and condense it making millions of gallons of fresh water for local agriculture on both sides of the border.
