The Obama-Reagan Doctrine of Force & Mass Drivers for Deflecting Asteroids

President Ronald Reagan developed a large military capability yet rarely debauched its content in war. Though Star Wars research created new military technology it also produced applications for civilian use proving up the feasibility of advanced concepts. One of those was the mass driver and kinetic weapons technology.

Real conservatives are conservative on war spending too. What Americans really didn’t like about the G.W. Bush administration was the incredibly profligate use of military spending to change a regime in a second world country in which America dropped more bombs than the entire Second World War. The cost to the United States has been estimated to be about 3 trillion dollars including the cost of lifetime V.A. care for injured and traumatized vets, and that was just crazy. The G.W. Bush estimate of the cost of rebuilding Iraq was just 16 billion dollars. After winning reelection President Bush II said he had a lot of political capital to spend-and he meant it with a spending spree approach to transferring wealth to Halliburton and other defense contractors.

Of course conservative Presidents use military force when or where necessary-yet unless they are Genghis Khan emulating war aggressors, they will apply Occam’s razor to conserve military field deployment. Seeking non-military remedies for ongoing and emerging political concerns should be prioritized by conservatives even in an era where liberals have joined with corporatists to prosper from military contracting or networking through Wall Street.

President Obama has generally spent far less on war than the Bush Presidents. Like Ronald Reagan he seems recalcitrant about making military investment convertible, disposable outcome. Not to say that the Obama administration's Middle East policy is top drawer or effective-far from it, and neither has he seen that dividing Europe and Russia won't advance European security against Muslim terrorism. Russia is the strong player able to defend the S.E. flank of Europe from terror ingression rather than the Dutch-who provided the Pakistanis with the technology to construct nuclear weapons, or the British just looking for a few hard targets for head shots and trade advantages. Russia is the strong defense player with a 1200 year commitment to the Ukraine with a real interest in keeping that region free of Muslim expansionism. The United States has proven itself unwilling to effectively defend even its own southern border against illegal immigration and allowed ISIS to take a smorgasbord approach to land grabbing in Iraq and Syria.

However the Obama administration policy of fiscal conservatism on war investment in a better economy would free up public money for space defense research. As it is a tough time financially with clouds on the horizon it may be useful to remix Reagan era Star Wars space research to develop a weapon against the natural threat of incoming asteroids that ought to be deflected lest they destroy life on Earth. Apparently that is a real possibility that human society ought to be prepared to defend against before the need arises.  It may be that the electromagnetic mass driver technology could be field tested on the lunar surface and advanced to a state of readiness for rapid deployment on an incoming asteroid.

Actually three mass drivers powered by a small nuclear reactor and using the mass of the asteroid quarried into bite sized chunks for launching could direct the asteroids course away from  the Earth with more force than an ion engine. The mass of the asteroid would also be reduced by the continuous removal of rock accelerated through the three mass drivers in the right direction to deflect the asteroid from impact on the Earth. Advances in robotics and programming could make it possible to package asteroid deflection tool kits on the moon ready to journey to incoming asteroids, launching with a mass driver from the moon and accelerated with ion and chemical rocket engines to intercept the threat at a distance.

Name Your Poison; Mark Begitch or Don Sullivan

Alaska’s race for U.S. Senate this year pits an extremist incumbent against an extremist challenger and I suppose Sen. Lisa Murkowski is to blame. She defeated the Republican primary winner in the last election forsaking the Republican Party to run as an independent and defeated the Yale Law, Univ. of Alaska Economics, Federal Judge and Army officer Bronze Star winner Joe Miller with cross-over Democrats and women of both parties.

She ought to have let Miller go-ahead and win the Senate seat and run against Begitch this year. The Republicans would have two winners instead of at best an extremist or two. I suppose Alaskans can write in Sean Parnell for Senate-he is running for re-election as Governor yet if elected perhaps he could name a replacement and move east.

Lisa Murkowski is a natural Democrat supporting abortion and homosexual marriage as does Sen. Begitch. Don Sullivan is an active Marine Reserve Colonel who might light to tell the civilian populace what to do as well as control the military. That leads to another point-America’s Middle East policy is ineffective. Bulls want to attack every Red Flag they can see in each and every Muslim terror group as if there was a purely military remedy to the borders, cultures and religious affiliation issues plus oil and security; there isn’t.

Syria has three or four distinct population groups with different interests thrown into one nation not by consent but by the power of the allies diving up the former Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The idea of a democracy working in that context is rather silly. Only if a Dictator beats down the people enough would they submit to a uniform nominal Democratic rule with a dictator for life winning 100% of the votes each Democratic election cycle in the People’s Republic.

If ISIS were ‘defeated’ or dispersed by alliance of the willing bombing other terrorist organizations will fill the void of power in Syraq. ISIS cadre will infiltrate in to other groups-probably the ones being trained by Americans in Saudi Arabia in order to take over the new moderates who are removed from their posts as ‘shop-keepers’ and ‘clerks’ to fight against the extremists.

Washington D.C. legal literalists don’t want to change the boundaries of Syria and partition the country between Sunni and Shi’a-Christians or have the Israelis go over the Golan Heights to take a chunk of land on the Iraq border. The idea is that legalism is the answer to everything. Litigation and law-every legal pretense is the right excuse for bad or unjust policy implementation-and all the government retards like to go ahead on the 2 dimensional notion of rational international law regarding borders as sacrosanct.

Thus the right way for the Obama administration to circumvent the idea of international border sovereignty to implement regime change is to support international terrorist cadre training, or rather freedom fighter or revolutionary training in some other country so they can cross borders and leave the legal fiction of respect for the international boundaries intact. I perhaps didn’t write that plainly. It is something like the paradigm of the old covenant of the law and the new covenant of the Lord Jesus Christ that transitioned in the first century a.d.

The Jews had been given the Mosaic Law and followed it as well as possible. Not only the Ten Commandments were presented-there were Levitical priesthood rules and other instructions given for social behavior. The laws of God were liberating to a very corrupt society amidst corrupt societies and the chosen people were always straying. The Jews as the rile models for a perfect society tended to fail and God’s corrections through international affairs of Jewish society were tough on the people. Original sin and a fallen human nature needed more than laws to cohere within. They needed the Lord Jesus Christ.

It was said by God to the prophet Jeremiah that the laws of God would be written on the hearts and minds of the faithful one day. Jesus Christ saw that the legalists of the major Jewish groups failed to have the right heart in applying the law as the end-in-itself. It is quite possible to apply the law in social and international affairs and go wrong. We see that situation in Syria today and it existed in the first century and day of the Lord too. The technical boundaries of Syria may be respected yet the people within and without suffer from war. Though the abstract legal border is respected by governments they flank the boundary sovereignty principle and fund terrorists to cross through it as if it were thin air-it hasn’t that much substance actually.

The United Nations may need to develop a facility for recognizing the relation of people to international borders in order to serve the people and not just governments and elites. If it is necessary to partition people and redraw a border such as in Syria where each major groups should have its own independent legal power for self-rule then it should. The old borders created by a prior legal body rather than the people just might need to be changed to reflect the new social reality.

It is very easy to imagine Hezbollah or some other groups expanding into a part of Syria-or for Al Qaeda to continue to develop relations with Wahhabists and other extremists that would radically influence local political evolutions. It is more difficult to imagine a police and security presence unaffected by and able to control the militarized citizenry of Syraq without being under the influence of a terrorist groups like Hamas. Hamas or another version may be the next Syrian government if the Obama administration policies continue to undermine the Assad Government and the U.N. does not support a partition.

It is challenging however to see stability in the Middle East with a Syria governed by the Muslim Brotherhood with a purge of Christians and Shi’a or if even a more radical government were to take power. There are a number of political conflations possible. Thus I believe a partition and some sort of stability reinforced with international supervision in each part of the former Syria would be the better policy. Of course the U.S. Government just doesn’t have rational Middle East policy oftimes, so there isn’t much to hope for in that regard.

Whoever wins in the U.S. Senate, they ought to ask for replacement of America’s present U.N. Ambassador in order to install someone with a competent, independent point of view.  There are several international affairs involving this heart versus legal pretense issue-especially in Ukraine were Russia’s 1200 year patrimony was disregarded by the cheesy Clinton era swiping of Ukraine from a distressed Russia. Law is important-yet equally so is truth. Hitler was legally elected-yet we know where that went.

Gather.com Finally Kicks Social Networking Content

Many were sad to see gather.com's social networking content bite the dust recently. For a year and a half it hadn't allowed photo or video uploads and now all of the text content by all except a very few semi-pro writers has gone offline.

I uploaded hundreds of photos videos and essays-actually thousands for several years, so that's quite a deletion from the www. Helium.com-another Boston based company censored, deleted and then banned me from writing, and N.P.R. took down it's Your Turn-Discussion open posting content a few years ago. Those and a few others have sequentially deleted my content from the Internet Since they all seem like left-leaning sites it leads me to wonder if the Demos aren't the main Internet de facto censors.

If a writer's page has anything to do with Massachusetts and you haven't  left-leaning style beware-the content may eventually disappear one way or another.

N.A.S.A. Earth Images Via Pink Floyd (video)

The idea of putting men and women on Mars should continue with long-term build up of supplies for living including crackers. These could be delivered in occassional packets to a specific location. It would also be good to ask Boeing to design an electro-magnetic linear accelerator-mass driver system for Earth to orbit heavy-lift launches.

In the age of exploration ships such as that of Columbus had to be self-contained with nothing sent ahead. Mars is not like that however. Earth can view Martian sites directly and communications with lasers can be instant. It would be a good idea to begin building up stuff and components the next decade in order to synergize invention and innovation on-site.

The Mars exploration start ought not be a Super SUV packed for vacation style all or nothing dice throw with fair odds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YMI39sObY

U.S. Public Debt May Reach 18 Trillion This Year-51 New American Billionaires

Thought the U.S. public debt today is 

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

there are reportedly 51 new American billionaires this year with an average worth of more than 3 billion each. The world's 2600 billionaires have 7.3 trillion bucks. Its lucky they run personal finance better than the public sector. 

Have NFL Spectator-Drunks Added to the War on Women?

One wonders if the violence of the NFL that is an alleged culture of corruption might promote violence against women indirectly through alcohol fueled beatings? When Women's suffrage grew in the early 20th century women supported prohibition. For 13 years the nation was dry-during that time called the roaring 20s the 18th amendment had prohibited booze in America. Wall Street built up a huge flam pyramid of unsupported investment without the dampening influence of booze. In the 1990s that was accomplished without sobriety on Wall Street-that is prohibition was was repealed with the 21st amendment in 1933.

A new prohibition era might reduce violence against women-at the very least Sunday Blue Laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages would be a moderate way to begin to deescalate the violence in culture, if alcohol is partly responsible for the violence. Advertising beer sales on any given Sunday seems a little to irreverent for a sober society.

It is something of a social philosophical issue when tens of thousands of drunks watch violence growing animated with emulative emoting. When sports media sneaking into Soldier field to swill alcohol from plastic cups and report the game developed a social conscious (just kidding) and sense of honor they might have thought that prohibition should be restored and violence against women reduced, yet that would be against the odds. Jim McMahon could have received diagnostic imaging for brain damage to determine the extent of damage to health during his career. There should be objective measurements and allowable levels of brain damage any NFL player can experience before mandatory retirement. Alcohol too damages brains as well as livers not only of drunks but of those they beat down as well.

Free Scotland to become 51st State Next?

If the Scots vote to be free in the independence vote tomorrow, taking control of their natural resource wealth, one must wonder if they will petition to become a territory of the United States and then a U.S. State next? There is a certain blingy zinginess about Scotland and single malt scotch as as American. For one thing Scotland can have its own vote in the U.N. before it joins the U.S.A. and seek a position on the Security Council where it can press for better anti-oil spill laws. As an American state it can at least for a while ban homosexual marriage that Britain forced upon them. The fine print though would exclude 18 U.S. states where Federal District Courts have rather forced homosexual marriage upon the people.

It is possible that after the divorce with England that Scotland will ask for foreign banks to move in and replace those that fled to the Thames for comfort and royal security blankets. I recommend that they avoid any banks without a certain percent of real assets versus loans. maybe the Scots will seek union with Denmark because of their fine cheeses or  Germany because of black forest hams. If I were a Scot myself I think I would look for a partnership with a good potato-producing country and have a free trade agreement in place right away.