On World Leadership

What is global leadership? Because of European history at waging war upon itself it has eschewed further military adventures generally. The United States, Russia and China were more or less on the same anti-fascist side during W.W. II and each has carved out a sphere of influence or formed trans-national alliances and ad hoc networks. Each has used military power abroad on a few occasions. Europe has provided some military forces to joint American or U.N. ventures yet not made the sort of commitment to defending freedom militarily that the United States has.

Global leadership may be defined in several ways; technology, military, human rights, environmental restoration to health, space exploration, standard of living for ordinary people and so forth. In my opinion world leadership is a kind of mixed bag. It might even be possible to recognize African Christian increase as a form of world leadership.

It is possible that the world leadership appellation is vain. Those that make the world a better place for ordinary people are from virtually every nation. Those that keep it free and those that would oppress individuals for elitist governments also are found across the globe. Plainly not enough is being done by any government leadership to say that anyone is leading effectively in a good direction such that people would overwhelmingly want to follow.

Huawei and the Trade War

Ren Zhengfei worked for the P.L.A. as a research technologist for about 20 years and then founded Huawei. India regards Huawei as a security risk and the United States generally does as well. Huawei technology is considered a trojan horse to help provide intelligence gathering for elements of the communist party.

It is difficult to say it that is anything to be concerned about, and if so, how much? Providing an authoritarian government the opportunity to develop a communications infrastructure globally that can monitor the mass communication of free nations seems like it might not be wise.

China has other trade issues besides that of providing their own, proprietary espionage infrastructure for the west to use, as if they are complete idiots. It is a separable issue.

What if some guy worked for the N.S.A. for 20 years then founded a communications corporation, built it up and sought to expand into China to provide that nations phone and internet service? Would the Communist leadership be happy with that?

Incredible That Idiots Wanted to Fly the Homo Flag at U.S. Embassies

It is incredible that idiots wanted to fly the homo flag at U.S. embassies. Maybe they got requests to fly abortion flags too. Possibly Mickey Mouse wants to run his flag up U.S. embassy flagpoles as well to make a really good impression on foreigners.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/447834-pence-says-it-was-the-right-decision-to-bar-us-embassies-from-flying

Apparently the Obama administration had allowed U.S. embassies to fly politically charged, partisan flags at U.S. embassies if they wanted to making the United States seems like a clown car for weird political vehicles. Who knew?

The Obama administration appointed a lot of Harvard connected female judges to the Supreme Court too happy to butch up the U.S.A. With luck some of the Harvard homosexual agenda will be reversed in years ahead by more conservative appointments. Maybe opposite gender judges shouldn't be allowed to force select sex law decisions on opposite genders.

Flying any sort of sex behavior flag at U.S. embassies is just weird. Do they have Sodom and Gomorrah flags to run up with the Jolly Roger too?

What About Local Solar Rooftop Co-op Grids?

With large power companies on one side and individual home owners with rooftop and wall solar power systems the tension has been between the rates of sales of private solar powered electricity to the grid vs the harm that does to corporate utility profit from losing monopolization of sales. Yet the dynamic pattern of electrical flow could change; their could be neighborhood solar power grids where the homes with solar connect and share to other homes in the local grid.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062019/rooftop-solar-net-metering-rates-renewable-energy-homeowners-utility-state-law-changes-map

Local co-op grids could pay for their wiring up in several ways and continue to receive auxiliary power from large power corporations. There should be numerous ways of letting individual Americans supply their own electricity and even from it from it wiring the directions and ownership flows of electrical power along with the wiring schemes for the flow and velocity of money.

Hybrid Electronic and Paper Voting Machines Work

It should be rather easy to make an electronic voting machine that marks a roll of voting paper on a roll (like thicker toilet paper) when the electronic votes are cast. In addition to electronic tallies instantly counted the voting paper would have holes punched in the right places as a voter makes his or her or its electronic marks.

The electronic voting paper could be fed into a voting paper reading machine to count the votes too, although at a less than electronic pace. No hanging chads, nothing besides Hollerith holes. 

The circuits from the voting pad to the electronic and voting paper could be different and not connected in order to put a firewall in so people in Moscow and Mexico City can't spoof the voting paper or the electronic counters either.

Maybe the machines already exist.

Joe Biden is an Empirical Threat to the United States

Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden is an empirical threat to the United States in that he is typically weak on border security consistent with pervasive Democrat Party weakness. Democrats are down with giving away national opportunity and infrastructure to anyone willing to arrive here illegally.

Former V.P Biden is also a phenomenal threat in that the Democrat Party phenomenon of superficial live-for-the-day and damn the consequences philosophy is problematic. Without question he is an ecological economic threat for failing to comprehend what ecological economics as an academic discipline is. It is more than what is is's.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-existential-threat-to-us/

Joseph Biden is a moral relativist threat. He is also a utilitarian threat as he conforms his political ideology to what is of most utility for him in getting votes to become elected again.

Senator Biden is a vast left-wing cloud of threats to philosophical pragmatism; philosophical terms such as existential should be left to existentialism and proper use of the idea with Sartre's reference works even though Sartre preferred not to use the term himself for-himself.

While empiricism and A.J. Ayer were one of the stronger threads of philosophical thought for a time, the linguistic philosophy and philosophy of logic also developed along an alternative line in part, and that led not only to W.V.O. Quine’s The Two Dogmas of Empiricism, it led to many fine works such as Elements of Logic, Word and Object, Individuals and Ontological Relativity that surpassed the subject-object paradigm so far as one might in the phenomenon of being with the reef of solipsism and problems of uncertainty.

Joseph Biden is a kind of linguistic uncertainty; a neo-populist dualism of being and nothingness in phenemenality as a cloud of unknowing wherein just the most superficial ideas are thrown up regurgitated like upwelling currents of a roiling storm cloud.

Logical positivism was a stage on the way of understanding the relationship of human being in-the-verse to what can be said about it. Lexical ontologies were understood and the realism-nominalism issue clarified by Kripke and Quine. I think it all worked out. Epistemological analysis was accelerated with linguistic philosophy. It was possible to consider intentional and extentional expressions comparable to the phenomenal, a priori and noumenal. One could sort out phrases that were subjective yet made about the ‘external’ world, and those that were more purely objective though conditional, before Joe Biden took hold of existentialism as a pejorative term.

The Papal Error in Rewriting the Lord's Prayer

The pope is right about some things and wrong about others. The pope approved a rewrite of the Lord's prayer changing 'lead us not into temptation' to 'do not let us fall into temptation'. His idea was to disambiguate a possible connotation that Jesus might lead people into temptation himself. I think it should be left as it was because of possible further, sequential changes that could occur. It is not really possible to make language so exact for meaning that collateral connotations won't exist. It is better to keep the word as close to the original as possible in order not to let the meaning be vulnerable to intentional conformity to the world.

It is a matter of understanding English and how it is used. One can draw inferences from language, find connotations that differ from era to era. The pope is an ESL guy- that may have something to do with his choice. Calvin's ideas about determinism would have the elect saved anyway. That is not on the point of rewriting the Bible to conform to one's own ideas about language-meanings. Asking God not to lead into temptation is simply a request to not encounter temptation on the road God leads upon. I suppose one could compare it to asking a guide on a Mt. Everest climb not to lead us too near the edge on the way to the summit, even though, it may be necessary on the way up.

When God had the angels guide Lot and family from Sodom, what if they had to pass through a notorious red light district to exit the city? Would that have been a temptation Lot hoped to avoid? Would Lot have been wrong in asking God not to lead them to or through temptation hoping in some way to take a scenic route with just desert plants instead of many depraved souls? Ought God have rewritten reality and created a special passage tunnel with the temptations screened out for Lot and family? In other words; 'Do not lead us to or through Las Vegas, CNN or H.B.O.'

After the fall, mankind is already in temptation as something of a natural condition.  One does not need to 'fall' again into temptation. When one is born again- spiritually regenerated and brought out of the realm of the spiritually dead by the Lord. One is saved and the salvation is pre-determined by the promise of God. Some day when many people live in space and micro-gravity someone may want to eliminate the unfamiliar 'fall' as a pejorative reference to gravitational fields associated with planets. They may want to replace 'fall' with 'float'. 'Do not let us float into temptation'. Then someone living on a new water world will find that offensive and change it to 'Do not let us drift into temptation'. Another living in low gravity may rewrite 'Do not let us bounce into temptation' etc.

The Green New Deal IMO

AOC’s Green New Deal that she said would cost 11 trillion dollars, is a kind of sophomoric try- a well intentioned one, at reforming the economy to address global warming. I write science fiction occasionally and have been aware of the problems that humanity brings to the ecosphere with its mal-adaptive economic relationship to the environment a few decades. It forms the minor themes in a couple of novels; where human beings face the challenge of finding new planets and other places to live after they destroy their own original planet’s ecosphere. 

https://sustainablepath.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/what-is-ecological-economics-one-pag-pdf-080123.pdf

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-diagrams-false.html

It is possible to design an economy suitable for the present demographics and condition of the ecosphere yet it is very unlikely that human beings in the U.S. Congress could or would do so. The politicians are very superficial in comprehension of ecological economics as an academic discipline.  One might expect chimpanzees to do equally as well. The politicians do not comprehend political philosophy or the value in reforming democracy and reforming capitalism together instead of migrating to socialism. Neither have the politicians the political capacity to coordinate public support for complete economic reformation compatible with sustaining the world ecosphere, life on earth, spiritual and political liberty. A disciplined, creative ecological economic reform with strong civil rights for individuals are nearly incompatible without very intelligent democratic leadership, and the Democrat party is mostly dead and chasing after every traditional economic goal, power and depraved sexual vector.

Capitalism moves towards monopoly, the concentration of wealth and power. Von Mises understood that. Reform of capitalism to keep it more egalitarian is needed-always, or 1% of 1% become de facto imperials

Democrat Pride Drives Manufacture of Impeachworthy Content

After losses in the 2016 election and the Mueller Investigation House Democrats are struggling to construct impeachable content for President Trump in order to remove him from office. Speaker Pelosi has already said she hopes to imprison the President after he leaves office (if she is still around), or hopes he goes to prison in some way. The Democrats are working tirelessly including bringing in John Dean from the Watergate era to testify before the Nadler committee in a kind of cargo cult approach to getting their impeachment proceedings off the ground.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/10/msnbcs-mitchell-john-dean-appearance-before-house-judiciary-committee-is-theater/


It is not good that the Democrat party and media cohort crank out mostly fiction content in the effort to reverse the election. Of course they should be working good legislation instead, yet that is generally beyond their capacity anyway, yek the appearance to the electorate of a party that would manufacture fake impeachable offenses itself to control the executive branch is a symbol of the decay of democracy and intelligence in the Congress.

New Free EPUB Version of God, Cosmology and Nothingness

I published a revision of God, Cosmology and Nothingness in epub format; this version with footnotes. It is free to download. I hope to work on a substantial revision sometime. I cannot say when.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era/ebook/product-24133371.html

A dichotomy has arisen in the visible Christian church. Inaccurate scriptural interpretation and out-of-time ecclesiastical structure have rendered the Church unable to serve the needs of many modern individuals seeking after a closer relationship with God through worship services. In an era before Universal literacy a priestly structure was requisite for accurate transmission of the word revealed in scripture. With Universal literacy separate priesthoods became less useful and more aloof from ordinary Christian lives. Ordinary Christians should fulfill their role in a priesthood of believers’ liturgical structure rather than a separate class of priests. Theological challenges exist that need be met. How can Biblical issues of Genesis be correlated with Big Bang theory and evolution with theistic creation?

Telephone Invention Ended America as a Nation of Immigrants

Modern technology such as the telephone and internet ended the era of Americas as a nation of immigrants with larger immigrant numbers arriving. When the first paleo-Siberian arrivals made it across the Bering Sea land bridge they decimated several large mammals on their way to found civilizations in Meso-America.  Few stayed in the colder north of the United States and Canada- maybe 4-6 million altogether.

Many Democrats parrot the maxim that 'America is a nation of immigrants' to support loose border control and immigration policy. It is as if they have their heads buried deep in the sand like ostriches. History changes the present state of any society. What was good policy for one era is inevitably good policy for another. That would require thinking and historical analysis to realize. Democrats disdain that in preference for dope and whatever. Unless they continue as self-destructive idiots, the era of mass immigration need necessarily halt.

The first thing post-Columbian Americans of the United States did was to revolt against foreign control. Revolt against foreign nations with large populations that would control the United States. Today Mexico and China are nations effectively working through legal and illegal immigrants to annex the United States, or in effect to colonize it. China has a very large and restive population.

China is especially dangerous. That nation has a billion three-hundred million citizens. With the Chinese economy having long-range growth prospects until they have their first costly war (in yuan), there ability to send even a small fraction of their people to the United States maintaining constant, permanent speed of light contact with their parent country could create a de facto colony of the U.S.A. in a couple of generations.

The original immigrants to America in the post-Columbian era had no instant communication to the old world. Today immigrants do. They also can keep their foreign values and language if they prefer. That is why America as a nation of large numbers of legal immigrants should be over for good. The environment is over-taxed anyway. It's all for the good.

China is the worst possible nation to colonize new planets too. The Chinese will have the most difficult time revolting against their controlling government. In 5000 years of Chinese history the mainland has no history of freedom. Though the races off-world will change and human form will morph quite a lot perhaps, the history of Chinese authoritarianism is a repressive and onerous political fact that would make life in free space challenging.

The President's Mexican Border Tariff Plan Was Worth a Full Point

I think it would be politically difficult for President Obrador to enact some of the measures he agreed to, such as putting more Mexican troops on the Guatemalan border to stop illegals from heading north, without pressure from President Trump and the sanctions. That was realpolitik.

Getting anything done when outsiders believe the United States has a marshmallow border control policy is difficult. I worked at a Taco Bell with a Haitian shift manager who said the United States is like a spread-legged woman. The Democrat Party is the stay-puffed marshmallow leadership party on externally-sourced problems, unless it involves going to war on nations that resist homosexual marriage.

Mexican Sanctions Fall, Chinese Next?

The Mexican tariff apparently was ended before commencement with a mutually agreeable resolution to some of the issues that prompted it. The tariffs of China with luck will increase another 300 billion dollars on select Chinese goods in order to help rectify gross trade injustices that are so great that they threaten to undermine U.S. and western national security physically, economically and socially.

Maybe some corporations investing in China with vestigial patriotism will return to invest in the United States and Mexico. That would be good for North Americans generally. Intellectual properties also require protection from Chinese expropriation. Building up a Chinese economic and military Frankenstein with artificial intelligence isn’t really a good idea, even if the godless, atheist communist nation is attractive to the Democrat Party.

Lakers Should Trade LeBron and Keep the Young Guys

Lebron James is one good basketball player. He is only good for a couple more years though. If the Lakers trade away their young core of players for one player to help Lebron James get the Lakers to the playoffs in two years they will have nearly zero again and struggle to rebuild. It would be better to trade Lebron James.

For two years James can put one of several teams into the N.B.A. finals. He is worth three younger, good players that would let the Lakers rebuild better. If the Lakers were to send Lonzo Ball with James to the Pelicans for Anthony Davis that would be a good trade for L.A. James might like to win a championship again before he fades away into the after N.B.A. life with Larry Bird and Michael Jordan etc.

The Lakers' management seems fairly poor and unlikely to get two stars to help James get another title for L.A. So they should face the fact that a flop trade would gut the future of the team and when James does retire, leave the Lakers barefoot and toothless.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/anthony-davis-trade-rumors-david-griffin-loves-brandon-ingram-several-within-pelicans-loved-lakers-original-offer/

James might not mind commuting from L.A. for a couple of years to win another N..B.A. title in a third town. No one knew that L.A. had incapable leadership in getting an ensemble of championship players together. Now that the shocking fact is starkly apparent - though miracles do occur- it would be a good idea to get the dust out of their eyes and take a sober look and patiently add a couple of good young stars to build for the future.

https://www.thebirdwrites.com/2019/6/2/18649155/anthony-davis-trade-talks-los-angeles-lakers-lebron-james-boston-celtics-kyrie-irving-tatum-knicks

How to Solve the Draw Problem in SuperGM Classical Tournaments

I have never played a game of classical chess- (I hope to play a game of classical chess some day after I find time for shuffleboard)- only blitz-even so I have a remedy for too many draws in classical chess. The reason for that is that the ongoing Norway chess seems to give an unfair advantage to the world's best blitz player with the misnamed Armageddon (Armageddon was the 70 a.d. destruction of Israel and slaughter of a million Jews- Jesus said that would happen before that living generation was gone and it did) format to resolve draws.

Each player in a super-tournament with two hour time controls would be given a half hour advantage as white and as black, so it would be necessary to play four games between every two players in the tournament to determine who is really better at classical chess. Blitz tie-breaks are inappropriate- they really are a different game than classical. 


A classical tournament should have nothing besides longer time controls.

Pieces of Eight - Chapter Orbitron

             I read a chapter of Orbitron from my science fiction novel Pieces of Eight.

                     

The Undesirable Chinese Political Economy

I.M.O. China has an unlikable political template-for-others. People don’t really like authoritarian governance, nor the repression of creativity and political self-determination that are implicit features of communism, fascism, national socialism and so forth. Life needs to be about more than breeding and food, work and entertainment as authorities permit. China does not even permit religious freedom. Crimping spirituality is a definite litmus test for freedom or lack thereof.

China has some brilliant physicists, yet they cannot take their work and simply apply it commercially for-themselves, as they determine is in their best self-interest. That limits technological development. The communists need to expropriate too much and keep the inventors under the eye of the state. A super-power that is super-oppressive may not be the electorate’s choice.

Monolithic Concrete Domes Should Replace Columbine

Columbine High School- scene of a massacre of students by a culturally dysfunctional student, probably will be torn down. Its replacement should be several concrete domes with a R-insulation rating of 100 that are also Earthquake resistant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbine-high-school-may-be-torn-down-because-morbid-fascination-n1015126

High schools should become less dependent on maintenance cost and heating cooling generated by fossil fuels. There should be natural Earth heating and cooling of well-insulated buildings on a college campus like setting with numerous strong concrete domes of various sizes as well as several squarish buildings for school administrators.

https://www.coloradogeothermalheat.com/why-geothermal/how-geothermal-works


Greater Denver has an excellent environment for concrete Monolithic Domes, and the manufacturer headquarters is a state over in Italy Texas.

https://www.monolithic.org/

Amory Lovin's people od the Rocky Mountain Institute should be called in as design advisers to create facilities that affor practical learning for students regarding solar panels, growing plants such as bananas indoors year-around and even mariculture.

https://rmi.org/

Will Uncreative Goons Precipitate Economic Collapse?

An economic collapse isn’t too likely soon. Anything is possible though. So a coup in China by a hard-liner could close down the limited free market there and cut off Apple’s profit chain (as well as numerous other U.S. corporations).

Some day when China has a lot of cash and safe investments it could nationalize all foreign owned businesses, continue to produce the same items with the same Chinese workers laboring for $2 and hour getting richer while cascading collapse and dire straits to the United States.

If Democrats become a majority party again with the Presidency a surfeit of moral corruption made law and loose economic management like that of the Clinton administration could lay a new foundation for collapse such as occurred in 2007–2008 from the home mortgage and banking crisis. people weren’t too aware of the ponzi scheme like irrational exuberant finance schemes then, and they may not be aware of building schemes now besides the obvious add trillions more to the U.S. public debt.

The United States has a history of steady long term growth with occasional recession and even a depression yet it always overcomes that. I would guess that it shall continue to do so in spite of all of the pretenders of the Democrat Party that run for the Presidency and are really not serious leaders in reform and progress whatsoever. Jeez those people are uncreative goons.

How the U.S.A. Could Afford the Second World War

John Kenneth Galbraith, a Canadian economist following in John Maynard Keynes deficit spending, pump priming policies- not entirely dissimilar from Arthur Laffer’s Supply Side Economic policy that advised the Reagan administration, was one of F.D.R.’s wartime economic advisers(Arthur Laffer - Wikipedia) . Galbraith was the Deputy head of the Office of Price Administration that set prices on goods during the war.
John Kenneth Galbraith - Wikipedia

Select goods were rationed during the war, including gasoline. Industry was converted to produce war materials rather than consumer goods. Total war required total commitment of the economy toward defeating the axis powers.

With 20 million Americans drafted into the military during the war years, in a nation with a population of 132 million, labor surplus from the post-depression era with a 14% unemployment rate probably dried up. Wage and price controls and the need for full employment producing items for war as well as national sustenance allowed the United States- a largely self-reliant nation at the time, to devote itself to defeating the foreign enemies of the Republic.

Running deficits, selling bonds and raising the tax rate to 90% on the rich helped finance the war. Economic growth after the war’s conclusion allowed the very large public debt to be repaid rather quickly.