Crytpo for War Finance Flummery

 Cryptocurrencies are marvelous anonymous monetary media for moving wealth silently. One wonders how many of the hundreds of billions of dollars sent by the Biden administration to fund its war on Russia in the Ukraine have found their way in to hidden accounts and the international anonymity of Bitcoin and other lesser known crypto coin. Crypto may be the state-of-the-art venue for political kickbacks and bribes with untraceable secret accounts rivaling those of the Swiss.

The government of Ukraine has been rated as one of the most corrupt on Earth. With so many billions of dollars flowing to a variety of channels the U.S. dollar is probably building up new hidden powers of perfidy as well as paying for vectors of death to kill Russian and Ukrainians forced to the front line of combat.

The Trump candidacy proposes to end the Ukraine conflict and settle with Russia through negotiation; probably Russia would split the wealth of Ukraine land resources in half with the government of the west so long as N.A.T.O. agreed to say away from the Russia border on West Ukraine. Mr. Trump has also suggested that the U.S.A. ought to invest in Bitcoin in a large way in order to reinforce the value of the dollar. That is a good insight since the dollar is potentially subject to destabilization as the rich divest from the dollar and move into crypto currencies and the money of China.

Saudi Arabia decided to allow buyers of its oil to pay for it in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The Biden administration preference to make war on Russia via Ukraine and divide the economy of the world as collateral damage to U.S. economic interests was inexplicable. It seems as if there must be some hidden force compelling N.A.T.O. and Democrat party leadership to act so rashly and divisively on the world. Of course there public reasoning is that Putin is Hitler seeking to restore the Soviet Empire and to conquer Poland, France and all of the west. That Napoleonic fairy tale is not credible at all for those well read in world history. BRIC nations have some incentive to move defecting from the dollar and on to the Chinese yuan than before the Biden term of protracted war on Russian forces seeking to recover some of its historically Russian Ukraine land stolen by the Clinton administration when Russia was weak after decades of Soviet rule.

Crypto currency is a two-edged financial sword that can fundamentally alter the world balances of economic power. Since vacating the gold standard U.S. dollars have been backed by the solely by the power of the U.S. government to tax the wealth of the nation. Investing in crypto currency is a similar paradigm, since the value of Bitcoin is based on what people are willing to pay for it- and it is backed by nothing else. I wonder how many trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve will invest in Bitcoin, and how many billions of tax dollars from federal funds sent to corrupt Ukrainian accounts have already found the way there.

Beekeeper vs Bad Political Offspring

 The Beekeeper was buzzing with his bros in a Camilatown hood when he got a beep from his news alert on foreign collusion. His eyes grew wide and he let out a puff of smoke from his fanny pack becalming the hive of A.I. drones. A report that SCOTUS had been given term limits requiring justices to resign after Republican administrations sent waves of crypto reality agitating his tick tocs and electrifying his toes so he buzzed off to seek and destroy additional politically defective offspring of a queen even if he or she was childless. The beekeeper was a queen slayer and the onerous task of restoring world peace, prosperity and a healthy ecosphere flumped manifestly before him.

U..S. dollars were taken off the gold standard during the Nixon administration and became a floating currency backed only by the ability of the government to tax the wealth of the country, in theory. Then arose crypto currency backed only by anonymous owners of Vipcoin willing to pay to own them. Vipcoin was an excellent way for elites such as dope peddlers and billionaires to squirrel their money safely beyond accountability and vulnerability to the political problems of sundry nations- especially those with vast public debt such as the United States. The U,S, government itself began to buy into Vipcoin as a hedge against the collapse of the dollar in response to its protracted war in Ukraine to expand N.A.T.O. eastward to Russia and reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure instead of the Phoenix Solar Initiative.

The Beekeeper recollected the words of his instructor Obi Wan Ken-o-bee running through his mind before entry of the dragon into an octagon for mortal combat in a South American jungle; “Grasshopper-fear is the peace slayer”. The Beekeeper knew N.A.T.O. believed Hitler would invade Poland and France again since Vladimir Putin wore an impossible whopper mask to hide his full-cloned Hitler body. Though Russia was fighting in great detail, yard by yard in Ukraine at high cost of lives and treasure to recover a semblance of its historical land taken away at the end of the Cold War in the Von Clinton-Yeltsin-Molotov Pact, it was obvious to the ingognoscenti that Russia was preparing a blitzkrieg upon western Europe to follow the easy win. Only the beekeeper’s hairdresser knew for sure if he could protect Europe if the prospect of invasion was real and from fear if it wasn’t. The beekeeper therefore flew to Kingsland GA to sip cool drinks under an umbrella on beach to contemplate the placid blue infinity of unregulated waves.

The Bridge to Nonsense

Like a bridge over troubled nonsense
politics sent in the clowns
like a widget flumping stellar faux pents
foggy days brought inverted frowns

Gray days smiled at me
nothing but gray days do I see
cloudy skies arise from now on
bring the dark clouds banging a gong

Never saw a rain ever so dark
must have been made from dark matter quarks
in drenching rain sun don’t shine at all
the bloody contrast wicks exogenous sprawl

With Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes
God is the one
when a Universe begins
not the house of the rising sun

Thesaurus vs thesaurthem
by hook or by crook
darkness yearns into light
why should pollution sleep easy at night
when liberal craze of autofrackin days
brink plants to survive death rays aright

What is the mist bugged by the west
small drops of moisture to deserts in quest
of ink on lost parchments
directions could be
enclosed right inside
resurrection of the blessed.

Quoth the Raven

 Talking with one of the fortunate five-hundred ravens calculating moves against chess engines of the business cycle I asked if he had any good prospects in mind.

He related that directed energy weapons to take down drones were being short sold since they had a better application powering electric cars and spacecraft than taking down ground hugging, forest flying drones bearing quarts of nerve agent for surprise attacks on American cities. The loquacious bird said that during the summer’s hot weather he had ventured sufficient capital to corner the market on knitted shawls across the nation.

I said that shawls probably were not much wanted during the hot weather. The big bird informed me that was his strategy; ‘buy low and sell high’. Evidently the bird with warehouses of shawls would engineered a shawl shortage letting Democrat voters begin to shiver around the time of the fall election and he would not release any for sale until November, and then only in his new fast comfort foods franchise restaurants from sea to shining sea.

Quoth the raven; “The masses will line up in pre-dawn darkness to take a seat in my Comfortable Fast Foods restaurants to buy authentic knot shawls. They will pay premium prices for cantaloupe stuffed with guacamole, whip cream and delicate, tiny shrimp, baked egg plant filled with tapioca pudding and pay as much as Democrats do for gourmet canned cat food . Chardonnay Smoothies served in genuine steel lined plastic comfort cup replica Republican skull mugs will draw the majority in like flies.”

So I asked what he thought of the quest to make Phoenix the number one solar powered high albedo city I the United States.

Quoth the raven; “Solar powered drones flying in weapons of mass destruction from Mexico like nerve gas and viruses to underground W.M.D. dealers are a down side to buying in to the whole Phoenix big bird thing. Alternatively, it is a good opportunity to invest in my pyramid line Pterodactyl wish bone water-finding division since the boundary salt water desalinization canal and albino asphalt projects fell through congress again. Event so, research continues at my Albino  Asphalt and Feather Company  to boldly fly where no raven has flown before”

An electrifying caw.

A Drone Arms Race

The Ukraine-Russia conflict accelerated field testing and technological development of flying and mobile ground drones for war. It is the era of a drone arms race letting a thousand forms of drones bloom. Extensive field testing and upgrades for efficiency adaptations taking down opposition force armored vehicles, personnel and other point targets honed the sharp edge of the military technology.

The United States for decades enjoyed a lead in development of drones for war. Drones like the Predator and Global Hawk required a skilled remote pilot. Next generation drones will be flown by A.I. chips in the aircraft. That upgrade will free up paramilitaries from needing a pilot for each drone. Instead of having 100,000 soldiers flying drones there will be none; saving a huge investment in personnel and support while building a more lethal, efficient and cheaper combat environment for humans. Drones have barely started on their course of evolution to revolutionize the planetary battlefield; they will become more than flying land-mines and missile launching spycraft.

Conventional military forces and infantry had a form of specialized soldier tasks and deployments of large numbers of coordinated personnel to meet enemy forces in combat. The U.S. Marine corps has planned to change it force structure to use fewer yet more highly trained warriors to defend the pacific regions against larger numbers of Chinese aggressors. In theory the Marines would control high-tech weapons to attack Chinese troops from a distance. Drones tech changes that. The Red Army not only makes personal computers, they can manufacture millions of drones guided by A.I. chips to seek and destroy Marines without risking casualties of the Red Army. Drones will radically changed the way wars are fought, when people are stupid enough to fight them instead of investing in peace, prosperity and a healthy, recovering ecosphere.

The next Hamas war on Israel would have 100,000 A.I. guided drones targeting specific addresses in Israel using ubiquitous g.p.s. for guidance in a sneak attack before the g.p.s. satellites are turned off by Israeli allies. Hezbollah and Yemen would also send waves of drones flying at night. The reason that A.I. chips are more useful that F.P.V. drones is that the A.I. controlled drones can continue to attack if jamming of waveform signals to remote drone controllers blocks control of the aircraft. A hundred thousand drones launched from some third world’s air force warehouse flying about without control would be of little military value.

The security of airports was greatly tightened and very effective after the mass of hijackings of the 1960s and 70s. The 9-11 hijackers were the primary exception to phasing out hostile takeovers of aircraft. The 9-11 hijackings were designed by an American college trained engineer and hijackers trained in U.S. flight schools during the Clinton administration to fly aircraft. Schools and cockpit doors were screened better after that. Terrorists that wanted to blow up civilian aircraft needed to sneak explosives aboard thereafter and that practice too was curbed. Richard Reed who tried to detonate his shoes flying over Chicago after 2001 was the last serious nearly functioning terrorist attempt. F.P.V drones have changed the criterion once more. It will be ridiculously easy for terrorists flying F.P.V. drones to attack European aircraft near runways. No longer do terrorists require direct physical access to aircraft to place explosive on the fuselage, engines or wings.

Drones are very cheap in comparison to regular state of the art fighter and bomber aircraft. Some aircraft cost as much or more than half a billion dollars. Mass produced drones of various kinds may cost as little as $50. Thus even the smallest nations will be able to afford an air force with meaningful attack capability, and the aircraft may be launched from any place in the world such as submarines, oil tankers, balloons and carriers of various sorts.

Armies will field hundreds of thousands of solar power scout drones of very small size to search for opfor soldiers in forest, desert, mountains and plains to transmit locations to A.I. drones coordinators able to dispatch larger ordinance carrying drones to attack. Scout drones may use optical, laser light to signal high altitude relays with data if jammers of radio waves interfere with communications. Conventional troop concentrations and even small, squad size components will be quite and risk in the drone-saturated new world military order of battle.

Terrorists and guerrilla forces will obviously exploit the ability of drones and their low cost to attack cities and military vehicle. The recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars has improvised explosive devices yet very few flying drone attacks, so far as I know. In the future drones will saturate areas of conflict to attack military bases, convoys and civilian targets regarded as of value to the enemy.

None of this speculation involves much change from present capabilities. It is simply a matter of scaling up from the demonstration of the practical of drones for war in Ukraine. If political leaders and the military industrial complex continue to downgrade environment and social welfare globally in preference to manufacturing weapons and ideology for combat the prospects for a radical upgrade in the lethality of the global battlefield looms large.

Candidate Trump Shouldn't take Zelinsky's Calls

 Candidate Donald Trump received a phone call from Ukraine’s political strong man Zelinsky recently- perhaps to congratulate him for surviving an assassination attempt. That raises the question; should Donald Trump take calls from Ukraine’s unelected wartime leader? The Democrats Shiff and Madler might accuse Donald Trump of Ukrainian election collusion if he is elected in November.

Mr. Zelinsky’s term of office expired some months ago and he hasn’t allowed another election to be held because he might stand a good chance of losing. President Franklin Roosevelt allowed elections during World War Two (and he was reelected) so there is a precedent for having elections during tough times. Mr. Zelinsky need not act like a martial law dictator to remain in power and could gracefully step aside to let the public elect someone who would negotiate peace with Russia rather than to extend the war.

If President Trump were to supply weapons to an non-elected Ukrainian leader waging a bloody war with Russia; a leader than has used land mines to prevent draft age citizens from escaping Ukraine and has sent convicts, handicapped and the elderly to the front lines (up to age 45), he might be in peril of being view by international war crimes tribunals as an accomplice to various crimes against humanity. Unelected citizens empowered by martial law that enable mass killing of citizens through combat have a dubious position in regard to morality and legality.

The Ukraine war should be brought to a peaceful, negotiated end with Russia’s peace plan being the best presently available. If Ukraine were to have a free and fair election perhaps a peace candidate would rise in that sad nation.

Democrats won't select their own presidential candidate in 2024

 Since President Biden dropped out of the race for President of the United States recently there won’t be any public vote to select a candidate. Instead special delegates will choose for themselves who will get their nomination for the November election. This is a rather amazing spectacle of not a singe ordinary Democrat casting a vote to select a presidential nominee, The Democrat Party has given up its choice to convention elites. democrats have followed the example of the electoral college and put it on steroids. Four-hundred seventy electors can vote whatever way they choose. Now the Democrat party of populism is now a party of elites in which the members votes are without value or meaning.

Democrats are opting for the most undemocratic process in U.S. history to select their next leader. Sure Joe Biden suggested Vice President Harris yet that is just his personal choice. Voters rejected the unelected President Ford in 1976 and are likely to do so in 2004. Presidential candidates should be winnowed from a large field by popular vote until the best qualified emerges; not foisted on the faithless after long, dark nights of back room deals.

In the 2020 democrat presidential primaries Kamal Harris did not finish in the top ten. Her most memorable comment in that campaign was when she said that her family used to own slaves. She is therefore a suitable choice for the party.

The delegates at the Democrat National convention at the end of August will choose a candidate for the Democrat party in an exceedingly exclusive process. Party elites using secret meetings and calls behind closed doors and negotiating deals will put up their favorite choice at the convention. There is no quest to find a candidate with quality ideas that could secure borders, environment and basic income.

The nominee will say something about the true nature of the Democrat Party. It seems to be one of special interests rather than one of generally intelligent issues affecting all Americans. It seems to be one with superficial environmentalism in order to get votes from the gullible and with an economic policy that cuts taxes on the rich instead of the poor and middle class.. For Democrats like Kamala Harris, homosexuality and abortion are more important than economics and national border security. The party seems like a shop steward for a corporate owned union dedicated to concentrating wealth and flooding the country with cheap labor.

If party elites had real concerns about the will of their electorate they could hold a virtual primary on-line before the convention to learn who the rank and file actually wants. Surely Democrats could devise a plan in a day or two that would find the right candidates for party members to vote for on-line. Alternatively Democrat political minds may have put their personhoods in a blind trust where the rich elites are pulling their strings. When they can’t win by cheating elites may get a good laugh anyway if their agenda and wealth are doomed to succeed.