Bipartisan Politics in the U.S.

GaryCGibson - 05:10pm Jan 31, 2005 EDT (#35 of 35)
Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

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You don't represent liberalism well; it would be a Harvard Lampoon at best, perhaps like G.W.'s MBA, besides the straw man technique to obfuscate corrupt government policies isn't a useful method.

Extreamist party politics simply attack, often erroneously, some other party to obfuscate issues and their own corruption, incompetence or so forth. With just two parties it works quite well, and disserves the U.S. Public effectively, although with their propensity for couch potato politics and aloof comfort perhaps the U.S. constituency deserve what they have in office.

A more literate, thoughtful, philosophical electorate would insist on better primary candidate choices, and their electibility would be more thoroughly vetted. The nation would not run a nice self-described war criminal against the oil sogoshosa heir and allow its energy and transport infrastructure to become coopted by transnationalization, nor be indifferent about 3 million illegal aliens annually roaming over the southern border while a crank trillion dollar homeland security policy busts the federal budget to the advantage of certain soshogosa.

A more effective defensive posture could have protected the nation for a tenth of the cost even if it had to run all airplane immigrants through creme de minthe sheep dip.

It is more helpful to address issues in a rational way, methodically, selectively and carefully in order to have some chance of making meaningful political analysis and consequences follow. Government should be in the public's interests, and business should look after it's own interests. A Government-Transnational Corporate Symbiosis is not inevitably in the interests of the people of the United States.

Iraq's Oil

GaryCGibson - 04:25pm Jan 31, 2005 EDT (#30 of 30)
Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

The question about what the oil of Iraq will mean to Iraqi individuals is an interesting point.

In the United States politics tend to become dominated by extreamists of the left and Neo-Corporatist right that annihilate individuality, individual and independent opinions and so forth from the political debate. Then, of course, trans genered sexual preferences meeting trans-national political corporations tend to eclipse mere independent and personally conservative political concerns too.

No one in Iraq rightly owns the oil fields presently. Perhaps the government could be said to own it, yet it is almost certain that transnational corporations will presure the Iraqi government to sell out the fields. Eventually restive Iraqi nationalists will seek to renationalize the oil fields to be on par with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The Alaskan North Slope Oil Field ownership situation is a comparable case in point. The people did get a bit with the permanent fund royalty investment, yet who will do that for ordinary Iraqi's? A permanent fund to distribute a thousand dollars a year if possible to every Iraqi citizen would be a good way to buy votes and loyalty for a new Iraqi Government.

Essentially the Alaskan Permanent Fund experiment was a modest success, yet concentrated wealth stymies diversified progress, government ownership of resources sold for profit also tends to corrupt, in partnership with Corporate kickbacking crooks of course. Governments should conserve ecosystems yet permit fair apportionment or privaization of natural resources to citizens that should inititally have some sort of 'aboriginal' right of citizenship/ownership worthy of compensation when public resources are sold.

Iraqi citizens have never had a part ownership of the oil fields historically, and certainly carpet baggers possibly supported by U.S. and British military forces will seek to dominate the profit end of the pipeline when possible.

Of course, the analysis of some Americans will tend to stop reasoning at Halliburton, Exxon, Bush, Zapata and so forth trusting that faith in the oil extraction process is morally the high ground, and that ownly the left, with support from the gist of Lenin and Castro, could possible see anything else than the Halo surrounding Secretary Rice (Rice U denied me admissio to the graduate philosophy program) and VP Cheney, or the certain divine inspiration leading Pres GWB. toward the promised oil fields and SUV's ahead, with talk of Hydrogen vehicles 'out there' enough to obfuscate the next four years of oil lethargy, infrastructure rot, and the termination of independent issue leadership and progress from U.S. politics.

The view from poverty perhaps provides a cold light that differs from the view from a continuum of comfort.

Oil & Foreign Policy Triffles

GaryCGibson - 04:06pm Jan 31, 2005 EDT (#27 of 28)
Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

The bulletin of Atomic Scientists ran an article on Nigeria and it's prospects for a civil war. One interesting point raised in the article was the possibility that Shell Oil inflated its reserves of oil in that nation in order to cooperate with the Atcha Administration's (I don't believe that it was the Obisanjo administration (sp.) desire to have a higher OPEC production ceiling.

Nigeria has vast reserves of Luscious Sweet Crude Oil ideal for American refineries, has earned more than 250 billion on oil sales, and yet the nation is exceedingly poor.

The article also reported that the U.S. Government or U.S. Oil interests have been working against reform efforts by the Obisanjo administration to reduce corruption in Nigeria.

The American public always misunderstimates (GWB) the power of international oil companies to affect politics and international relations.

Iraq Election

GaryCGibson - 01:38pm Jan 31, 2005 EDT (#6 of 12)

Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

The Iraq election is a milestone considering the etiology of events leading to it. I offer my congratulations to the people of Iraq and the administration for bringing it off.

Yet readings recently in Ezra and Nehemia, Haggai and other minor prophets have brought to mind the intrinsic problems of political stability and transition in mesopotamia, as well as the history of Israel in being attacked by hostile neighbors as the struggled to rebuild the walls of the city of David.

It should be hoped that an American withdrawl of military forces from Iraq can proceed in ratio to the need of the Iraqi Government to have foreign troops to police their own society against the ravages of International Terrorists.

In the old testament scriptures it is recounted that God had repeatedly employed foreign armies to correct Israeli transgressions, and in turn the foreign armies were destroyed along with their governments by other foreign militaries. The history of the middle east seems a progression in teleology that continued even to the modern era to allow the word of God and opportunity for salvation through faith in His Son Jesus Christ to be heard by the masses of the world.

Even as recent of hisorical progressions as the muslim invasion of Spain stimulated a more rapid and evangelical Christian response in Europe. The Muslim occupation of the middle east retarded that civilization's development sufficiently to allow European nationalism to grow, and to withstand the incursions of the fierce mongolians.

As the faithless Soviet empire withered away, some of the gospel of Jesus Christ was able to reenter throughout the former empire. Muslim fundamentalist challenges have prompted a renewed interest in correcting decadent elements of western civilization, and brought the possibility of a nascent democratic action to the fertile crescent, albeit one challenged implicitly by an overweaning transnational Corporate force that presents greater challenges to egalitarianism than the British and the stamp act did to Bostonians.

Democracy is a political function of the union of individualism in common civil rights. Forces of socialism and neo-Corporatism oppose individualism, especially internet writing individualism, as do theocratic governments, ad hoc pharisee hegemonic neo-Corporatist trans-national corruptions, and power cliques for-themselves.

History has so many paradoxes. One of the names for ancient Jewish leaders was nasi. The Bhagivad Gita may have it's leading phoneme etymologically from an ancient Persian word for God; Baga. The Persians and Medes historically were the Aryans that invaded the Indus civilization circa 2500 BC to give a different religious leadership and caste system to those interesting Indians that has lasted nearly to the present.

Cyrus, it shouldn't be too controversial to say, did not provide for the restoration of the Jewish Temple of God soley, he also repatriated all the statues and implements of worship to all the captured and pillaged people of the empire he conquered in Babylon.

Good luck Iraq, may you have many millions of gallons of McCloskey 20 year self-priming exterior acrylic paint ahead of you (available at Wal-Mart).

Elements of Cosmology & Creationism

Psalm 75:4 "and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns. 5 Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with outstretched neck.'"

Inflation has passed the Big Bang as a likely cosmological origin in the present era I believe. Space-time is believed to have coexistentially expanded analogous to a balloon famously.

Many people make invalid dysjunctive propositions conclusive for themselves especially regarding Christian cosmology and scientific cosmology. It is like saying the dumpster at McDonalds or Burger King, when there was a third choice of eats perhaps without a dumpster at all.

The Biblical chaos preceding the spoken word to begin order is considered by some eqv to the pre Higgs field inflationary chaos of high entropy.

The Higgs field expansion of course accelerated space and time, and the gravitational force eventual brought some of the field to contract and form into galaxies etc eventually. After 6 billion years that period was over, the Universe resumed acceleration at 7 billion years-God rested on the 7th day, and cosmologists speculate that the present expansion toward high chaos/entropy (all the hills made low, the sun going red giant, more signs and shaking in the heavens) will continue until a state of highest possible entropy resumes.

2nd Peter 3:8 "8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

I think Peter was generalizing as best he could, the special theory was a bit beyond him at that date.

The cosmological constant, another Higgs field possibly, is thought to be the element pushing space-time outward as a sort of anti-gravity.

The Higgs field may be what give all the other mass-like particles a seemingness of mass...that is it is relation to how they interact with the Higgs particles.

Light quanta have no mass traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light time does not exist at all. Time exists proportionally, maybe in ratio to the Lorenz transformation, to speed in any object. The faster one goes the lower the value of time one-object experiences within the special theory of relativity.

God of course isn't subject to the time dimensional effects Himself unless he choose to, because He is a spirit and certainly not interacting with a primordial Higgs field to experience time or speed necessarily within a contingent cosmos of his creation...

Brian Greene phrased the way people experience sight in an interesting way in the 2004 book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'; he said (paraphrased) that certain waveforms (I interpolate of the M-Theory matrices strings or branes assortment) stimulate certain chemicals in the eye to give the experience of seeming to 'see' in the brain.

That interesting point should stimulate some theological and philosophical cells perhaps asleep to consider the phenomenality of the cosmos as a for-itself, as what seems to be, even within an 'evolved' paradigm, and even how 'things' seem to have 'weight' within a Higgs field and within one's own senses within the Higgs Field and spacetime possible 3brane.

Some cosmological theorists point out that the entire universe could have been created from 20 pounds of 'mass' that was hyperinflated in a Higgs Field.

20 pounds and all this exists...not exactly illusory, yet relative and very temporal. In physics theories even time is reversible or isotropic. The problem is entropy...it is a statistically modeled exemplar chaotic distribution of everything toward disorder. Time can't improbably assembly particles or mass from disorder to order.

At the beginning, somehow from extreme chaos and entropy, the Universe and space-time immediately came into being with the most concentrated possible order. The spoken word to begin, the order for the right strings and branes to vibrate or resonate, whatever God choose to will to be, and eventually human life too.

God's intervention in social reality, in order to give the sentient elements of His creation an opportunity to become reconciled unto his will, doers occur within the context, for human beings, of the cosmos which he created.

Of course there is prophetic material in the Bible, and I would not stipulate that 'theology' is the prupose of all scripture, or even most of it. http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/theology

However it is certain that God has 'superior knowledge of the cosmos and physics to humanity. It is humanity that sees through a glass darkly and is continually revising its cosmological opinions often for the better. The Bible is truthful and even its cosmological ideas will be consistent with what ultimately is.

I believe the prophets and apostles were often right about cosmological concepts even though they would have needed to have been ignorant about it from a worldly basis.

If one reads the pre-Socratics and other aboriginal traditions about creation the Bible is remarkable for what it does not say in error on the subject, and what is does have to say.

Obviously it will have ideas that were simple and appropriate for the time written, yet will not become inconsistent with an increased understanding of the truth. Plainly the Bible could not alter its content periodically to coincide with the Ptolmaic,Copernican,netonian, Einsteinian and M-Theory versions of understanding what the Universe is.

Peter said in 2nd Peter “20Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. 21For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Peter plainly said "5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water."

The Universal matter 'condensed' from a hyperinflated Higgs field into matter such as galaxies and the Earth. It resumed a higher rate of expansion after 6 billion years, when God rested.

Some cosmologists writing about M-Theory call the primordial Higgs Field and the Higgs Cosmological constant field an 'ocean'. Hydrogen is the most abundant element universally yet the 'water' Peter conceived was a simple waveform ocean given high order by God and hyperinflated into being, probably.

That isn't Earth, Air, Fire and water, it isn't the Universe on the back of a turtle, or even point particles of Democratis...its just water, or a high entropy Higgs Field perhaps stirred by quantum jitters into hyperinflation space-time for moderns perhaps.

Throughout the context of western civilization, and especially since the scopes trial, humanity has interpolated its own ideas about cosmology into the Bible to a certain extent.

It is remarkable that the history of the Bible, archaeology and scientific knowledge would at some point harmonize toward rational ideas regarding the Universe, as understanding increases generally.

The ideas about cosmology in the Bible is often quite accurate regarding something the ordinary apostles did not comprehend. Teleologically it would have been difficult for God to provide much quantum ideas to the people of the first millenium bc without altering the course of human history. I would imagine they would have long ago destroyed themselves with nuclear incineration if in possession of that sort of data for two millenia already.

I agree that the providing of superior cosmological knowledge wasn't an evident purpose of the Bible ideas...the cosmos is de trop compared to one's relation with God.

Jesus said that all things would pass or fade away, yet his words would last eternally. That is a point consistent with the Universe moving toward high entropy and perhaps Universal dispersion into formlessness of all mass, while His words as transcendent Creator are eternal and non-contingent upon the material Universe

GaryCGibson - 01:25pm Jan 28, 2005 EDT (#78 of 78)
Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

Brian Greene wrote about entropy in another way.

Physics has no implicit time direction in many instances. Instead time can reverse in most cosmological theories, I believe. Yet obviously time in this real Universe seems to have a particular direction. Mass moves in a singuar way, and does not reverse course.

Evidentally the proximal explanation is that the physical process of entropy, or stabilization of matter in the least complicated order, is what lets time not reverse course.

Time seems to be a statistically observable process of entropy taking an originally very ordered Universe and moving it toward the most simple form. The complex does not spontaneously arise from the simple. Broken glasses do not fly off the floor and assemble themselves into a drinking glass...etc.

Greene in the Fabric of the Universe' used Tolstoys 1000 page book 'War and Peace as an example.It takes a lot of order and arrangement to put the book together. If one takes the binding off the book and tosses it int the air letting the pages fall where they may, there isn't much of a chance that time will reverse and the pages reassemble themselves in order.

The Universe had much order to start with miraculously. Even in recurrent membrane theories or pre-creation theories the Universe has parts that are in a very high entropy (simple) form. Where does the order so concentrated even in a hypothetical singularity come from?

When the Universe goes through a hyper-expansion because a Higgs Field has experienced quantum fluctuation as a consequence of their quantum waveform nature of probability, it has mtremendous and most intense order, or low entropy.

The hyper-inflation continues for a part of a second, and for 6 bilion years gravity collects mass from the Higgs Field residue into galaxies and stars, planets and so forth. After 6 billion years the background Higs Field and its anti-gravity pushes space-time to accellerate faster and faster.

To simply that point-after 6 ('days') billion years God rested.

The Universe is expending its original endowment of masss order and ow entropy increasing to a state of high entropy. If God doesn't intervene to cut it short, the Universe may expand outward for a trillion years reaching farther to high entropy and low energy, until t is perhaps just a simple Higgs Field with no mass at all. Iraq may have peace by that time.

The interesting point that Greene made about the possibility that the Universe is a product of random quantum waveform fluctuations that instantaneously popped the Universe into existence as it is, is that if that were so even memory could not be trustworthy much less theories of the past and 'scientific' evidence. Greene discounted that possibility, for some reason I can't remember.

GWB's Tortilla Reform

GaryCGibson - 10:17am Jan 31, 2005 EDT (#51 of 51)
Why don't gravitons just flow out of all dimensions as loop particles that don't interact with dimensional walls as a sort of Hawking radiation and remove all mass/energy from the Universe?

"Baga' was an ancient Persian name for God (p.145 Ezra and Nehemia-Tyndale series) familiar to Jews of the 5th millenium bc. Jerusalem has been reformed many times through construction and conquest over the millenia. President Bush has some ideas about reform too...

Reform is at the top of the Presidential to-do list. The highest placed leaker on the Druplican Tri-Commission has mentioned the existence of an acrostic versification plan that is the unseen yet formidable mover and shaper of the administration's next 3.78 years.

Mr. Bush has already contemplated the letter 'T' to stay ahead of what the opposition might expect next. The high, confidential source suggests that Tortilla reform is the centerpiece of the policy. Mr. Bush has been interested in Tortilla Reform since twice being denied admission to the U.T. Law School. On the essay portion of a qualifying exam he suggested that torts could be improved with jalepino sauce, and the second time suggested the novel reform of the ingenious addition of barbeque sauce, beans and guacamole.

Presidential advisers in the Druplican Tank have corrected the President's course to 'Tort Reform' being centered upon 'Torture abbreviated'. Torture reform in the administration to delete quaint objections has more utilitarian value for the White House presently than tortillas in eliminating the threat to Global Corporate consolidation.

'T' is an important element of the acrostic to the President; he knows it is right after 'S' for Social Security Reform, and just before 'U' for Upper Class Tax Cuts.

The President assigned his Ambassador to Mexico to study transnational tax cuts for the wealthy in Mexico and the United States. The ambassador just became engaged to one of the 400 wealthiest people on Earth, a Mexican beer heiress, and more tax cuts on both sides of the border may be ahead. Yet the President is still fixated upon the letter 'T'.

On the Torture Reform plan the President has drawn upon the advice of his fellow southerner Fidel Castro. Our fearless leader, after sufficient schooling, is reported to have said "Let it be said that in America, as in Cuba, justice does not pay".

Does the profit motive work in business, environmental reform, medicine or real estate? Why should it work in law, the commission queried?

President Bush wants to keep tortures cheap to protect business from consumers seeking justice. Eventually business too will have it's profit incentive's 'reformed' and capped to protect consumers from evil MBA's with latent profit motives.

When public defender wages are the maximum allowed to lawyers seeking punitive and compensatory damages caused by corrupt businesses that have wreaked havoc, mayhem and lifetime personal deformations on consumers, illegal aliens arguing for 2.50 an hour can take up the cause of public advocacy against the generous and unfairly inhibited Neo-Corporate government-business benefaction.

Transnationalism & U.S. Foreign Policy

Gary C Gibson - 05:33pm Jan 26, 2005 EDT (#14 of 14)

The U.S.A. is an aspect of transnational capitalism amidst a storm of other transnational entities vying for power. Nations are blamed, locals are denied rights, borders are corrupted, yet the investors and owners are transnational.

Some have tried to form a maslowian pyramid of 'national brehaviors', and macro-ecomnomists have written of various forms of investment strategies for nations at various stages.

The notion that the U.S.A. is still in some sort of a 19th century formation is quaint.

WHat the nation could do, if people actually cared about politics in an informed way, would be to insist that the government represents the national interest first instead of trans-national business or socialism, and that it support a balanced budget, investment in trade deficit reducing tech businesses, and energy independence tech businesses.

It cannot have an either/or false alternative of transnational capitalism or socialism, isolationism or globalism. Free trade and global businesses will exist, yet the government must encourage alternative and domestic fuels that eliminate trade deficits, and favor businesses that prosper Americans first. The government would stimulate an ecponomic maintainence infrastructure in pernnial revolution to remain out of debt while allowing the transnationals to compete for-themselves.

When the nation was formed of course broadcast media did not exist, if it had it would have been severly restructed because of its incalculably destructive affect upon civil liberties. It is a monster that snuck through the keyhole of first amendment rights when print and interpoersonal talk was all that was technically possible.

At one time human beings were the limit of technology and social interaction, and thats what the constitution was about. A print media was entirely accountable, and no citizen ever had to be concerned about a broadcast media interference or social and poltical organization inimical to individual rights and opportunities, especially one owned quite often by transnationals.

The U.S.A. is still treated by some as if it were a 19th century political power in a fairly simple to understand formulation, yet it is obviously not as simple as that.

On the subject of spooks and their memoirs...they always make good reading, and more should be written. Peter Wright's book 'The Spycatcher' for instance, was very fine reading. I can imagine what a book contract advance a 'The True Story of my Friend Os' would get if writtewn by his personal bodyguard and travel planner. What a book!