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.