Curbing Free Expression to Enrich Elites

 In theory American democracy is a level field in regard to political opinion and free expression of it. In fact, free expression is on the decline in social media through a variety of means and that primarily is for the benefit of elite, wealthy insiders whom may view democracy as messy, sloppy and somewhat communist rather than serving a nice, neat hierarchical society with the richest plutocrats at the top of a social pyramid. If governments that are democratic only do things with mass public support or that benefit plutocrats and one-percenters, censoring the masses with good ideas will prevent the popularity of good ideas rising to be used by government and the established economic practices owned by plutocrats will be unchallenged.

  Corporate inhibitions on free expression in social media are broadly applied. If a writer has used politically incorrect words at any point in his writing of articles all of his work may be eliminated or obscured with search engine burials. Elite insider collusion on select political goals allows sycophantic yes-person expression in social media obviously. Opinions that benefit ‘uppers’ are almost never repressed. Democratic free expression is a traditional enemy of ruling elites and a necessary tool for democracy. Minorities often look toward elites for support and trade repression of their own political points of view for allegiance to rich insiders. It is a reinforcing cycle with various social incidents in the news and political opinions antipathetic to the rich becoming curbed, diminished and eliminate or confined in solitary to the darkest, most remote data dungeons. Over time free expression of the demos, or people of democracy; the electorate, is reduced to a range that permits supports for policies rich insiders prefer and nothing else. Corporatism is not dissimilar from communism in that regard; though taking different courses to eliminating free speech each arrives at the summit of highest political empowerment concentrated for a few.

 The strength of democracy is found in the liberation of free speech and the generation of new ideas rather than in their suppression. Democracy is strong when individualism is strong and private property and private interests are expected of a people rather than permitted. Over-concentration of wealth is inimical to democracy. Overly concentrated wealth almost inevitably coincides with the decease of democracy. The masses have more ideas than the few. Concentrated wealth suppresses those ideas as it has control of the marketplaces of ideas and business. Positive social change does occur even when a majority have wrong ideas on domestic and international politics if the infrastructure of free expression isn’t repressed.

 The majority of people are fundamentally in support of equal protection of the law; it is elites that direct foreign wars or slavery and etc. Some moral issues can divide a society. When those issues arise, the elites will exploit them to serve as opportunity to decrease free expression. Almost any issue that prompts emotional reactions can be politically exploited to help curb free speech and concentrate wealth. The hate speech legislation of Congress is a case in point. Individuals should not be, and are not legally allowed to encourage or coordinate crimes in speech obviously, yet using politically incorrect language to political opponents should be protected free speech. It is a threat to democracy only when that language effectively shuts down social media of free expression. Suppression of free speech is a 360-degree universal threat a democracy should have vigilance of. If a writer that is on the repression roster advocates presently for new government leadership in developing homes during the housing shortage that are radical in comparison to established stick-frame home paradigmata, the new housing paradigm will be suppressed. Ecological economic logic suggests a new paradigm for U.S. human housing such as hollow artificial mountain ranges with interior condos for hundreds of thousands with mariculture, agriculture and rivers within and usable surface exteriors without for example, yet that would require government leadership as individual home builders haven’t the capacity or venture capital to get started.

 There are some people happy with imperialism and the relation of being subject to what they regard as benevolent royalty. A similar acquiescence to concentrated political power exists in the modern political form called corporatism; a policy first applied by Adolph Hitler developed when his wealthy former aristocrat supporters saw a way to co-opt the German nationalist social workers party and bring it to serve rich corporate leaders. Corporatism is a partnership of corporations and government - invented by the journalist and dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini.

  Life as a kind of amoral fish in a tank without real concern trusting in benevolent plutocrat guides is for some, what democracy means today. The elites take care of pet fish in their aquarium and knowing what’s best for them. Sometimes the interests of elites are more important to elites than concerns of fish in the tank. The tank may be left uncleaned or water unchanged, overheat or freeze solid; who knows what the fate of pets will be. Fish have less than political self-determination prospects at that point. Perhaps they will be converted medically into being useful attackers in war against Oceana or sent to the Eastern front.

Simple Reasons for War in Ukraine

 Reasons for the war in Ukraine are simple; dueling narratives about Ukraine and its history conflict. To Russia, the west took the Ukraine and made it independent as a proplit cherry in 1994 when Russia was weak and emerging from decades under Soviet rule.  Before communism the Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries. At the end of communism Russians wanted to take back Ukraine. Russian proletarian/peons were informed from Olympian heights of the new world order designed by President Clinton perhaps with help from P.M. Major and Boris Yeltsin or alternatively, blind random chance. Leader Yeltsin wrote a new Russian constitution then died not too long after giving up Ukraine somewhat imperiously without consent of a Russian legislature that needed to be created.

 For EU, N.A.T.O. the Von Biden faction and bureaucrats, Russia is a foreign aggressor trying to reestablish turf of the former Soviet Union. They say Ukraine was stolt fair and square. In other words the land acquisition to the EU is fair dinkem. The narrative is wrong though politically convenient since western bureaucracies like others tend to defend wrong institutional decisions of the past until they are no longer defensible. In this post I want to point out developments leading to a possible second nuclear war (the United States waged the first 77 years ago on Japan) on a scale like that of the first nuclear war.

 Unfortunately, unlike Procopius writing the secret history of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his career whore wife Empress Theodora, I don’t have an insider perspective of U. S. leadership of this era. For instance, I will never know the truth about Bill Clinton’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (who died while in prison) and British royals concerning procurement of young women. Perhaps that matter is trivial data in comparison to contemporary affairs of war, yet Procopius knew of such matters concerning Theodora from a view court-side. She is said to have had sex with 50,000 men, possibly setting an all-time record. Inside historians have some advantages.

 Britain is an old imperialist, former colonialist power that has sought to find ways to recover some of its lost power through other means since the 1960s. Using American military and compliant administration leaders to accomplish its goals is de rigeur for EU and British objectives to make Ukraine part of the EU. They even invoke NATO leadership and power to intervene in conflict in a non-NATO or EU nation (though Europe has just taken steps to make Ukraine part of the European Union). Occasionally British and American interests coincide on international affairs and conflicts. In the Ukraine conflict the American interest should be in supporting a revision of the 1994 decision so Russia has control of the east bank of the Dnepr, war is ended and sanctions on Russia ended in return for a real peace.

 The United States should be wary of building up to strong of an EU. By no means is it assured that the EU will not be a military foe of the United States sometime in the future. World War Two had European powers as the primary enemy, along with Japan. Japan is probably more reliably a U.S. ally in the future than Europe- that is a matter of national character of the people. A strong Japan and Korea working together with the United States is a strong military power for the far East to offset Chinese power. Yet alienating Russia in the long term is a definite subversion of U.S. military and economic interests. Europe may choose to work with a diminished Russia as they prefer through back channels and overtly, yet Russia would remain on America’s nunca list until Vladimir Putin is gone and a DC sycophant accepts everything the Democrat party wants for Russia.

 Russia as a strong independent power working well with the United States in economics would balance Chinese tendencies for Asian hegemony and comprise a barrier to European aggression against the United States or Latin America and Chinese as well. The United States cut off from Russia completely and at odds with the Chinese while the EU is very strong, expanded and in control of N.A.T.O. significantly diminishes the position of the United States in the world militarily and economically; it’s is just one of the girls under the power of global elite plutocrats. Russian leadership may not choose to be backed into a corner in a manner of speaking with loss of access to warm water ports, a diminished military and reliance on China as a support prop against regime change and further European-American expansion eastward.

 Kievan leadership plans on negotiating in October with Russia. Apparently, they fell that more weapons from the United States and NATO members will allow western forces to move Eastward and push the Russians away from the Dnepr and maybe even Crimea. That idealistic viewpoint has support from the British PM and N.A.T.O. leader Stolenberg. Evidently Russia is expected to expend its military weapons and attrition of soldiers to the point they will want to quit the struggle to keep some of its traditional ownership of Ukraine and Crimea. At that point they will negotiate a peace and Russia will live without Black Sea access or river access from Moscow to the Dnepr and warm water points south. In my opinion the west is overlooking an important point.

 Russia may use tactical, battlefield nuclear weapons as a last resort to hold its Ukrainian positions. If Kiev were hit with two or three tactical nuclear devices that would probably end the war without bringing British nuclear attack, or that of France, and the United States would probably not risk unlimited nuclear exchange with Russia either. As the United States ended the war with Japan by nuking two cities in order to save the lives of U.S. soldiers, Russian leader may select destroying Kievian resistance and leadership by vaporizing it.

 Russia is already experiencing sanctions that could hardly be increased after destroying Kiev. Europeans probably would not want to risk further increase of nuclear war to the west and likely would support an end to the war. The only difference between a settlement before the nuclear termination of the conflict (unless President Biden chooses to escalate and nuke Moscow for spite to show that Democrats can force anything their way) would be the non-existence of Kiev.

 Kiev could be rebuilt in twenty or fifty years- like Chernobyl perhaps.  It is probable that proud elites can also be the stupid. Reiterated use-truths/narratives concerning the reasons for the conflict and Russian ‘aggression’ are intoxicating to people trying to be righteous without being so. Nuclear war is a disaster obviously, yet Harry Truman chose to use it in a comparable circumstance that Vladimir Putin finds himself in. Perhaps Mr. Putin’s situation is even worse.

 President George Washington, in his farewell address to the nation, warned against making permanent foreign relationships and the present circumstance is bearing that out. A strong, independent United States would be far more adaptable and able to form ad hoc international relations balances than the present one. The United States is entirely to entangled with Europe and it’s paranoid, self-serving fictitious narrative about Russia.

 President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister John Major wrested Ukraine away from the re-emerging Russian nation with the help of the old alcoholic, last President of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin, who was an important transitional figure in a very difficult situation. PM Major was selected to be President 41 Bush’s junior partner and was just a high school graduate, while President Bill Clinton was an Oxford educated anglophile without good sense concerning Russian history or how it would never give up Ukraine or the Crimea without a fight down the road to retake it if lost. Betting the security of the United States to force a policy of indirect war on Russia in order to expand the EU’s power and wealth seems counterproductive to U.S. interests. In football training one is sometimes encouraged to give 110% or to tackle through the center of mass of the opponent. In politics one should seek after the best possible outcomes or formations; to be a Utopian, even knowing that human character and ignorance inevitably will generate dystopian paradigms. If one does not make the effort to create optimal conditions it isn’t likely they will emerge through blind chance.

Gov. Ron Desantis apparently is qualified to be President

Apparently Ron DeSantis is more qualified than Democrats to be President. He graduated Harvard and Yale and is a lawyer. Democrats love lawyer Presidents and won't select anything else. DeSantis was also a Navy Seal; quite commendable if videom games portray them accurately. Harvard, Yale and the Navy may not teach students about germs though. During the height of Covid 19 the Governor of Florida seemed to flunk understanding of hygene matters and common sense. If germ war breaks out would be instruct the nation to go unmasked.

I suppose it's all a matter of politics and giving voters what they want- at least red meat Republicans. Well, if DeSantis is the candidate he is better than most of either party.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis

Elon Musk like Mr. DeSantis esq. Maybe the Governor is not antipathetic to electric cars.

Democrats Need Conversion Therapy to Become Republicans and Libertarians

 Democrat party cadre are sorely in need of conversion therapy to become Republicans, Libertarians and Independents. Having drank the Kool-aid they need be talked down from their ledges where they view the world as elite gargoyles with fish-eyes.

The Russian-Ukrainian war might have been avoid if Democrats weren't hell-bent on stealing Ukraine from Russia during the Interregnum and chaotic transition between governments when the Soviet Union dissolved. When Russia retook the Crimea the Democrat Party sanctions made Russia more dependent on oil revenues. When the price per barrel of oil crashed and the U.S.A. and Europe kept piling on sanctions going to war to retake Eastern Ukraine and drive up the price of oil as even a freshman would know it would might have presented an irrsistable attraction to some Russian economic managers.

President Biden is pleading for oil companies to make gas cheaper than five dollars a barrel. Supply and demand is what it is and cutting the world off from Russian oil and gas reduced supply- except to the world's non-aligned and independent or adversarial nations. Stopping Venezuelan crude compounded the effect. Democrats jetisoned their campaign content of reducing global warming effectively and want cheaper and more fossil fuels- integrity and reasoning is deficient, so conversion therapists need to engage with Democrats on the coach and discover the origins of their misinterpretation of economic reality and foreign relations.

 Democrats rely on a reinterpretation of standard moral postures of the nation for votes. They have decided nothing is wrong if it does no harm, and use harm as a middle term to for tautological purposes, in agreement with themselves, for-themselves. Yet they have an aversion to economic and environmental competence finding their way in to politics after an election season is over. They packaged global warming reduction behind day care for Democrats and pouted when they couldn't have their way. So much for global warming; plead for cheaper gasoline instead. Tax credits for electric cars and solar panels would require genius to envision; yet not after conversion therapy perhaps. It is still possible that some Democrats could be saved and forsake the dark side of the force.

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-issues-executive-order-cracking-202156245.html

White House Should Eliminate Taxes on Solar Power and Electric Cars

   The White House should trust the market to set poil prices and simply promote green, American energy relying on the service provision of the sun to provide cheap (free) energy to entrepreneurs and consumers alike. The sun is a stable energy source with enough photons to supply U.S. energy needs more than a century. The administration should accentuate the positive instead of seeking to increase reliance on oil.

https://www.harborfreight.com/100-watt-monocrystalline-solar-panel-57325.html

Oil should be conserved for use in plastics and other manufactures.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/15/white-house-oil-companies-have-patriotic-duty-to-lower-gas-prices/

Good Ideas are Parts for Inventions

Good ideas are parts; pieces of construction elements that may be added together to form something new. Whenever individuals excel at building something new, with innovative designs unknown before, besides creating something people will use and others imitate, they have made a part that may be synthetically combined with other good existing ideas to construct something entirely new.

 Without the presence of good ideas contributed to common knowledge by others it would be pretty difficult to originate all of those ideas for-oneself and put together new concepts that may be actualized and potentially become facts in real construction. Skydiving is a greatly innovative and excellent thing for example yet it would not have risen to its heights without the prior invention of balloons and airplanes. Cliff jumping might not have had as great a utility as aircraft jumps.

 The construction of building in space; in micro-gravity, is obviously a field with tremendous potential for good ideas to arise in. With so many different gravitational field strengths and light content varying in space and time the number of different kinds of structures and materials that could be used to fulfill designs is very large. Interestingly many or most of the good ideas and designs will never be actualized in the lifetimes of the designers presently working for there is far too little construction ability in relation to the quantity of ideas already existing.

 The sun for example may be used as a de facto blast furnace for metallurgical manufacture. Minerals extracted far out in the solar system may be sent in with gravity to facilities located near the sun. Sunlight may be collected close in, converted to electricity and exploited to power lasers or particle beams to react with the cargo carrier space transit modules to move finished products to the outer solar system. Various local gravity fields of moons and planets may be used to shape construction grains dispersed upward into a field that will collapse downward in the g field to form perfect parabolic shapes and freeze or dry into those configurations. Vast building components could be assembled exploiting natural forces.

 It is said that aluminum naturally fuses in micro gravity. One might be able to spray aluminum grains  onto screens in micro-gravity to fuse solid as if it were gunnite concrete sprayed on to form Earth domes. Plainly the manufacture of spherical structures in space should be as simple and natural as nature’s siliceous tests from plankton that built up the cliffs of Dover. Sunlight collected, concentrated and focused as particle beams and/or lasers should be reflected and amplified to power a solar system-wide grid for space module ships to draw power from. Mass drivers located on low-gravity moons without much atmosphere could send space ship modules on their way to a space transport network power grid.

 Dyson spheres wherein one surrounds a star with the ground up matter of a solar system’s planets at an optimal distance for the normal gravitational and heating standard of the parent planet of local stars or more. Freeman Dyson’s idea was very far ahead of its time of creation and may be combined with other good ideas to make something new and presently unknown. It would be interesting if gravity becomes more understood, to exploit gravitational fields for kedging spaceships around local star groups at relativistic speeds. One wonders if concentrating mass at relativistic speeds might be useful for advanced construction procedures if the accelerated mass could be locked in to place perhaps with juxtaposed or intersecting, focused gravitational fields.

 One might design electromagnetic fields empowered with energy from the sun converted and reconverted from photons to electrons to laser beams back to electrons and electromagnetic fields. Fields generated on moons could be used to backstop oppositely charged electro-magnetic fields in space that are shaped and sequentially switched on to acellerate mass ships and modules to relativistic speeds on set course making Pluto two months away from the inner solar system. Shaped magnetic fields with select activation could be routinely used for constructing modules in micro-gravity. There are unlimited possible invention ideas waiting to be syntheticly recomnined from existing ideas and technology.

 

On Earth one might design hollow mountain ranges for buildings for people to live within and double the potential useful area per construction unit because the exterior of the structures could be used as well as the interiors. Plants and wildlife could use the exteriors as well as agriculture (the hanging gardens of Babylon may have been agricultural as well as decorative with ornamental, flowering plants). One concept interesting to me was the idea of using water from rain and snow (or sandstorms and dust or sand) that settled on exterior surfaces to generate electricity that could be used multiple times with catch and release to turn generators. For example; the initial deposit would build up on a collecting/concentrating surface that could sink under the weight and crank up a spring that would release upward when the water or sand was released. That would allow the spring to power a generator as it rose. The water could be spilled from the spring through a turbine downhill powering a generator producing the second round of power and that process could be repeated. The exterior surface of a rightly designed mountain (I traveled through the ersatz Matterhorn at a theme park Disneyland or something at the 1960 world Fair in N.Y. or elsewhere and that suggested the idea to me later of building vast artificial mountains that would be constructed with steel beams etc later) could produce electricity from alternative sources including wind, solar and water or dust and sand). Could produce power, grow food and shelter tens of thousands of people while not displacing the ecosphere if location selections are well chosen.

 Good ideas are abstract parts or elements that may be recombined in new structures (ideas).

 

Republicans should run a normal kind of Presidential Candidate in 2024

 Winning the 2024 Presidential election should be easy for the Republican Party. If they don’t run Donald Trump or Ted Cruz it would be hard to lose. Senator Cruz is foreign born and an automatic no for many conservatives. If he focuses on doing a good job for Texas in the Senate he might win his next re-election campaign and pick up more seniority in the Senate and continue doing good work in what is actually an important job.

Republicans won’t find any sort of Gov. Dan Evans of Washington circa 1970s or one who understands environmental economics. They have got Gov Abbot of Texas, Senator Rubio and former V.P. Mike Pence of course; and each could probably do a good job in the White House, yet finding a young Robert Redford- a candidate with charisma, skills and moral conservatism, would be an obvious way to win against the soon-to-be-octogenarian, Mr. Five Dolla-gallon President Biden. The Republican nominee will want a female running mate- someone ideally, like former Senator Barbara Boxer- Bill Clinton’s cousin, if only she could be drawn to the Republican side of the force. Her name is ideal for a female Vice President.

President Biden was Barrack Obama’s understudy perhaps trained in the ways of the dark side of the force. In the Middle East President Obama helped cascade a generation of violence into being and becoming. Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East could perhaps catalyze a new round of violence and undermine the progress that President Trump accomplished in bringing peaceful relations to the region. Ukraine never was an independent nation before President Clinton deemed it so. It was always part of Russia except when foreign invaders or communists surged in for a time. That is why Russia has said that Ukrainian independence is a fiction and has fought to retake it. I mention that simply to point out the inept way NPR reported on efforts to end gun violence in the U.S.A., using the word ‘fighting’ to end gun violence liberally, instead of using some term like ‘working’. Some of the left prefer to escalate language use toward violence themselves, desensitizing the nation, like video games, to actual violence. Escalating the Ukraine conflict for the Democrat Party and the rich wing of the Republican Party, was as natural as breathing.

Whoever gets the nomination will want to have a female running mate to get the female vote. A younger Republican candidate for President will get more votes from dissatisfied Democratic youth unhappy at having their constitutional rights impinged who are becoming burdened with onerous regulations buying an assault weapon on their 18th birthday.  And remembering that Obamacare taxed them in particular. Maybe voting requires less competence than owning an assault weapon; so Democrats aren’t seeking to raise the voting age to 21 or have additional background checks for mail in voting.