05 May 2012

Why the U.S.A. Has Become a Slum Economy


The United States has become a slum economy since the end of the cold war, with the people experiencing the slump of center of effort of national economy development (it has moved much closer to China) being prevalently the poor and the middle class.
At the close of the Clinton administration U.S. public debt was less than six trillion dollars. At the end of the Bush II administration the debt was a little more than ten trillion and now in the last of the first term of the Obama administration public debt has reached nearly 16 trillion dollars. Public debt eventually requires cuts in public spending in order to pay interest on the debt and has many other dangers.
The Clinton administration got the slum rolling with deregulation of finance and flood of illegal alien workers and flimsy, pyramid scheme resembling finances for banking and commodified home mortgages simultaneous with outsourcing of economic renewal to China. The Bush II administration extended and increased the bad financial footing after 9-11 with the military spending of two protracted wars and large federal deficits. When the Banking and mortgage crash occurred in 2007-2008 the new U.S.A. as a slum emerged.
Five trillion dollars of new public debt after Wall Street's crash and automobile bailouts, the slum footing of the economy hasn't changed. The rich are getting richer and the middle class employed isn’t too bad off while the poor and unemployed have increased their numbers becoming a permanent and separate domestic underclass. Radical economic reform of free enterprise to reign in corporate networking advantages might be welcome by individuals seeking a restoration of individual entrepreneurial opportunity.
China is the plum for The Street and globalists and the United States is a slum second rated in economic development plans. The Street is not concerned about profit for the people of the United States nor national economic renewal; they are concerned with making a profit for shareholders. The U.S. Government, and especially the President of the United States is supposed to be setting economic parameters of advantage to the people and not stand idly by as President Obama waiting for The Street to begin employing Americans in good paying jobs and just deficit spending to in the meanwhile.
With the aloof prosperous investors in China and elsewhere overseas agitating perennially for tax cuts and the Democrat Party led by comfortable millionaires without any concept of economic reform (only increasing taxes on the rich minority but not on the middle class) there are few immediate, evident prospects for ending the inertia of a slumping nation. Basic American reforms to limit the scale of corporations and collectives is not on the political radar screen, and politicians and business people seem to live in a fantasy world regarding the decline of the world environment, basically ignoring it.

03 May 2012

The Malvinas Should Be Peacefully Returned to Argentina

Argentina should be given its Malvinas Islands back from British imperialists in accord with the Monroe doctrine of 1823 that provided reproof for the evil of colonialism in the western hemisphere by European imperial powers. 

The Malvinas, a.k.a. 'Falklands' islands have been settled by five different nations. The Malvinas, a.k.a. 'Falklands' islands have been settled by five different nations over the course of history. British naval prowess induced that nation to continue efforts to dominate the Malvinas with force. Because of the first and second world war alliance the British were allowed to sneak back in, and of course they were more helpful that Argentines in the cold war era at anti-Soviet activity in the South Atlantic. Payment for military support by sacrificing the liberty of an Argentine island group to imperialism should not be a part of U.S. history however.
The British were one of the powers that let its subjects dwell upon the Malvinas, yet the British settlers vacated entirely after 1774. The Spaniards did not flee until 1811.
Later in 1820 and again in 1829 some British and Argentine privateers dwelt again on the Malvinas and asked protection from Britain and Argentina. The privateers under one Luis Vernet were given reproof by a U.S. Naval vessel-the U.S.S. Lexington.
The islands were declared free from all Government by the U.S.A. and the privateers were arrested and released in Montevideo. This was in accord with the principles of the Monroe Doctrine and self-determination for free people of the western hemisphere throwing off the shackles of exploitative globalist rulers.
Efforts by colonialist powers to interfere in the affairs of the western hemisphere were to be viewed as acts of aggression. That included the Malvinas Islands.
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02 May 2012

European Migration to America (HaplogroupX) 30-20,000 B.C. With Siberian Immigration?


The topic is controversial; did Europeans reach North America before the first migrants across the Bering Sea land bridge, with it, comprise a late wave or is the theory all horse puckey? Recent D.N.A. researches have found evidence of European population genes in some American Indians, or have they?
Haplogroup X and its two population groups after dispersion 30,000 years ago are one possible source of European genes in some American Indian tribes genetic history. Some would view that opinion as politically moderate since the Siberian Altaians are migrants from Europe long ago. Algonquinians have as much as 25% mDNA types, Navaho 7% and Yakimas 5%. The Cherokee may have some of the wandering European genetic compliment-even Elizabeth Warren with her 1/32nd% Cherokee ancestry.
This research is of course all fascinating. One looks at the flowchart for the history of human mitochondrial D.N.A. and is astounded. Its almost as good as watching a superbowl, nearly.
The Druze have the highest percent of Haplogroup X in their mitochondrial D.N.A.
Haplogroup X diverged from Haplogroup N about 30,000 years and ago and not long after that, in 21,000 B.C. when glaciation was at its peak the X group wandered around the Mediterrainian and Europe and evidently to Siberia. It is easy to guess that some of those people also took the Berengian land bridge route to America. So the question arises; how European were those SIberian Altaians about 20,000 years ago and did they sunburn easily?
An alternative Soultrean hypothesis exists postulating that group X moved by boat along the edge of the ice about 18,000 B.C. to America. That seems reasonable too, for it was an early route for Albs also originally from the Mediterrainian Sea islands perhaps.

Will U.S. Public at the End of Another Obama Term Reach $30 Trillion

The Obama administration could have let the Bush tax cuts expire in Dec. 2010 and let the budget return to balance in 2012. It might have recovered some middle class tax cuts from a position of strength through congressional negotiations. It could have given some concessions to Republicans for cuts in government spending, it chose not to. The Obama team set the agenda for a future era of forced smaller government when the reality of vast public debt sets in.
The U.S. public debt is about 15 trillion 700 billion dollars presently and will hit 16 trillion before the end of this year. If President Obama were to be re-elected the public debt by the end of a second term might reach 25 or 30 trillion dollars. Then one might guess Democratic leadership would decide to hand the ball off to Republicans and let them fix it.
A better policy would be to elect Mitt Romney in November and hope he can not only cut federal spending, but reform and improve the quality of federal spending as well. In bureaucracies a buck slip is an inter-office paper routing order and a customary policy on difficult work is to pass along the paper with a buck slip moving it somewhere else. Passing the buck is the sine qua non of modern government.
It is obviously the poor, the environment, American independence and individual free enterprise that will suffer most from an epoch of vast public debt,huge interest payments, reliance on foreign products producers and an effete globalist financial sector employing 30% Americans.
Debt increases and wealth concentrates as the U.S.A.moves down toward the upper tier of the second world over time. While U.S. domestic economic growth is only about 2% annually continuing reliance on the Reaganomic idea of increasing economic growth  and tax revenues faster than public debt increase is apparently a daft idea for the President to keep.
The President appears to have no interest in Federal economic leadership to reform free enterprise and corporate scale enabling better individual competition against established corporate collectives and networks-even on the Internet. The President seems to want to rely upon Wall Street to create employment and form rational macro-economic policy when of course the Street  is a global phenomena concerned about profit and unconcerned with U.S. public debt except incidentally. In the meantime he is contented on increasing public debt for he may at some point believe the government can counterfeit its own currency and by up its own debt without damage to U.S. economic interests. 
It is still possible that the dollar may crash in value with a mass sell off of foreign held reserves.
Europeans tend toward being a godless political ensemble these decades without over-much concern for anything perhaps as the result of that century of wars and mass killings. One can look back toward the 19th century when civilization in Europe was more like today's American society and global economic power policy with economic exploitation of anyone or everyone not-an essential concern.
In the 19th century royalty was endangered and aristocracy in decline. Free enterprisers and middle class capitalism were on the rise without much consumer protection. Social classes were in competition and transition and individual with militarism too in the mix stimulated change along with bad social health and pervasive economic insecurity concurrent with expansion and environmental habitat destruction; what a time!
Today's global exploiters are organizing into class collectives with corporate and government networked relationships. While the immorality ethos is personalized through micro-moral decay the collectives simply co-opt individualism empirically.
Corporatism is still corporatism even if it's in the form of big corporations and small governments or of big governments and tamed corporations. A neo-socialist state with corporate leadership emerges in either case.
Untreatable Gonorrhea from Asia is increasing in the U.S.A. The Clap is the second most common infectious disease among Americans with more than 600,000 new cases each year. The untreatable version may comprise as much as 1.4% of the new cases and seems on the rise. The Obama administration economic policy shares phenomenal attributes with Gonorrhea finding the economic malaise untreatable. with conventional and measures.
Not only must the economy be reformed so the poor are employed in realistically quality standard of living providing positions, the entire economy needs to be moved toward a sustainable new foundation ecologically-and that is a tremendous challenge resisted by human beings that believe their is no end of the Earth as an inert object in itself supporting the stage of human technical increase.
Myriad global problems including that of the economy are a distraction from the vital economic and economic reform challenges disregarded by U.S. administrations. The Obama administration may cite its foreign military policy record of letting Iran and North Korean nuclear weapons programs continue, or assure Americans that India's new missile able to launch on Beijing bring stability to Boston and Washington D.C. Those are however only the tip of the iceberg of global issues that should be of secondary importance to the economic security of the poor in the United States.

01 May 2012

Moslem Turnout May Be Key to Sunday's Presidential Election


France's next President may be determined by how many French Muslims get out to vote against the centrist candidate and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. The right wing candidate Marine Le Pen took 18% of the vote in the primary, so Sarkozy is courting the right to enable him to overcome the leading socialist candidate Francois Hollande.
Muslim immigration to Europe displacing a formerly Christian culture is a perennial political issue. 2011's Norwegian bombing and shootings by the right wing youth Anders Behring Breivik higlighted the point of resistance to lax immigration policy, and that is a paradox.
For the Muslims presence is an inherent conservativism on morality for-itself that runs counter to the trend of European and American moral decay. When the right opposes Muslim immigration it opposes reinforcement for morally conservative positions. It is the left that support Muslim immigration that would extirminate their moral outlook if possible, and the right that oppose their co-moralists even if not co-religionists.
Europeans tend toward being a godless political ensemble these decades without over-much concern for anything perhaps as the result of that century of wars and mass killings. One can look back toward the 19th century when civilization in Europe was more like today's American society and global economic power policy with economic exploitation of anyone or everyone not-an essential concern.
In the 19th century royalty was endangered and aristocracy in decline. Free enterprisers and middle class capitalism were on the rise without much consumer protection. Social classes were in competition and transition and individual with militarism too in the mix stimulated change along with bad social health and pervasive economic insecurity concurrent with expansion and environmental habitat destruction; what a time!
Today's global exploiters are organizing into class collectives with corporate and government networked relationships. While the immorality ethos is personalized through micro-moral decay the collectives simply co-opt individualism empirically.
Corporatism is still corporatism even if it's in the form of big corporations and small governments or of big governments and tamed corporations. A neo-socialist state with corporate leadership emerges in either case.
While the Obama administration could have let the Bush tax cuts expire in Dec. 2010 and let the budget balance giving back through congressional negotiations some tax cuts for the middle class and reductions in government spending, it chose not to. The Obama team set the agenda for a future with smaller government with more debt and concentrated wealth as the U.S.A.moves toward the upper tier of the second world over time.
The French will be alright short of nuclear or biological depopulation. Muslim immigrants might help them to get a hold on the slippery slope of absolute moral decay and remain out of the pit of doom. Norway's Breivik paradoxically opted to oppose the moral force against decay of Norwegian society-understandably since their must be many nostalgic for the good old days of yore when one could go a vi-king with a long ship abroad without concern for one's homeland security. Racial conservatism is difficult to defend these days-especially in the absence of moral conservatism. France may gets its share of Wahhabists and the Salafi if the socialists can get their man Hollande in to office.

30 April 2012

On Philosophical Use of Words and Accuracy in Meanings

Philosophical concerns are more than problems. Language enables things to be said about anything. Perfection in language formation may be grammatically possible however meanings and referent object content can be in error as may additional constructions.

"Any honest intellectual would agree that the green cheese of the moon will fall to the Earth thus feeding us all' is amusing yet has some obvious difficulties with veracity for most circumstances of use.

I believe that logical positivism brought some efforts to limit language to objectivive, scientific criteria, however Quine's 'The Two Dogmas of Empiricism' brought an end to that. 'Ontological Relativism' brought out the idea of lexicons for ontology with dedicated meanings. For example, the vocabulary of the home builder ontology is not the same as that of the government bureaucrat ontology, nor that of a non-academic philosopher. The meanings and reference ontology of Dawkinian atheists of a bio-evolutionary orientation is not that of philosophically minded theists; they tend to talk past one another. One must clarify one's word lexicon and consider what users will share its meanings for various projects. Words are a kind of address for meanings.

Plotinus believed that The One had no need for questions because omniscient Being is not uncertain about anything, yet philosophically minded people are not omniscient and have questions about Universe and etc that are not answered satisfactorily.

One might conjecture that the problem with science and cosmology is that the formulations and equations are faulty in a way comparable to that of philosophical problems, and certainly perfect formulations of questions understood well would leave no problems unless new ones were conceived, yet that next Einstein ++ upgrade is late in arriving to provide the correct equations for absolutely everything that might be thought of meaningfully in science and cosmology. 

Sarah Palin Considered for the Presidential Menu?

At the recent annual media roast President Obama trotted out his dog-eat-dog sense of humor with a joke about Sarah Palin and pit bulls. Evidently in President Obama's youth he was an eater of dogs in Indonesia. He remarked that Sarah Palin had recently returned to 'the game' by hosting the Today Show. That T.V. appearance evidently made her fair game for the President's dinner jokes therefore, so he asked 'What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? The pit bull is delicious.
Sarah Palin  should definitely not bring barbecue sauce to any bi-partisan dinners where democrats comprise a majority.

A Rubáiyát of Political Deficience (poem)

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