Crescent City California tsunami Damage etc.

This time, unlike the giant wave of 1964, there was no loss of life in Crescent City California from the tsunami. A jetty constructed after the disaster of 64 stopped the waves from Japan from hitting the City full force. Thirty five boats in the harbor were trashed and city docks damaged. Sea lions that bask on the docks they regarded as their donated sleeping and recreational spaces would need to look elsewhere for lodging.

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Scientists had predicted an increased possibility of earthquake because of the approach of spring equinox and a full moon. When gravity changes its relation to crust of the earth as the Earth moves slip strike faults of plates may occur-earthquake.

George Norrie's second guest on Coast to Coast Am Thursday evening said to watch the Pacific Rim as he anticipated and earthquake. Other scientists had mentioned a potential New Madrid earthquake in Arkansas because of pumping of wastewater below the surface in drilling operations. The Alaska legislature is considering fundiong construction of a vast hydroelectric dam on Alaska's Susitna River that too will alter the relationship of Pacific Rim weights and gravity adding random factors to Earthquake potential perhaps beyond the obvious faults with the location.

Speculations were duly given to the prescence of hundreds of thousands of dead sardines at Marina Del Rey or some other places in the Los Angeles area as an indicator of a potential earthquake. Maybe someone noticed the sea lions behaving strangely. Perhaps the Japanese should create sanctuary and resting places for sea lions and dolphins along their coastlines in order to serve as sentinels for earthquakes (if animal behavior is actually a predictor of Earthquakes).

The Earth's interior is partly molten and the core may have radioactivity releasing heat. The surface is cool as it encounters the coolness of space and the atmosphere comparatively far away from the hot core. The cool crust is not just one large piece but is instead made of several fragments that adjoin moving over or below, or sliding against other 'plates' of crust. The Pacific Rim is at the margins of an Oceanic basin that is closing and has volcanoes and Earthquake activity, while the Atlantic Ocean is increasing in size and has mid ocean seafloor spreading with magma extruding at the bottom of the ocean from fissures in it.

In the future earthquake predictions may increase in accuracy. I tend to anticipate Earthquakes toward winter solstice, yet spring equinox seems to be a ripe time too occasionally.

Today one may launch a 2U or 3U micro satellite into orbit for 10,000 dollars. Some researchers are searching for changes in the earth's magnetic field as a way to predict Earthquakes with low cost experiments. These little satellites may only way 2 or 3 pounds and be packed full of micro circuits or even telescopes pointing at space or Earth too I guess.

Gitmo, Goose Creek and The Obama Terror Facility

President Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Base Incarceration Center for Terrorist Suspects upon taking office. He did not live up to his promise, and may appreciate suggestions about how to close the water boarding center for the Caribbean. Go North to Alaska! Some Alaskans have suggested selling an almost complete new prison in a remote and secure location to the U.S. Government.

Alaska is nearing completion of a splendid, new 1500 person prison at Goose Creek in scenic Matanuska-Susitna Borough (like a county) where security officials can dig in for the winter. The prison is something of a pink elephant since it will cost about 70 million dollars to operate the facility annually and the state of Alaska has motivation for selling it to the Federal government for cost plus a modest profit for Alaskans. For a very reasonable price the U.S.A. could open a safe new Obama Terror Facility useful for long-term housing present and future illegal combatants and terrorists

Goose Creek would be a secure facility. Prisoners suspected of illegal war activities could be brought to Anchorage for trial. The Federal Government could create a special Court of Terrorists in Anchorage to try suspected terror suspects. The Federal Government has created special courts before for serious social issues such as bankruptcy.

Military tribunals are inappropriate for America today obviously. They would have been useful in trying rogues of war when civil courts aren’t available yet in the modern social and legal context the military tribunal is obviously an inferior court for determination of legal justice. Military tribunals of illegal combatants are a judge and shoot on the fly sorting of affair when patchwork justice needs to supplement, rare, endangered and incompetent civil courts. No such condition exists today, unless one counts bad judicial appointments as comprising an incompetent judiciary.

Thus Goose Creek Federal Terror Processing facility could accelerate the process of getting quality justice for foreign terror suspects. A screening court might decide if a suspect qualifies for processing in the Terror Court venue rather like a Grand Jury determination of sufficiency of evidence to indict an individual. The Congress could set new legal criteria for those reaching the Terror Court venue while the U.S. military could return to its business of killing or being killed instead of making fancy legal decisions and obscuring political control of the Judicial and Executive powers.

Iran, Libya and the Clapper of Freedom

The late Ayatollah Khomeini (aka The Supreme Guide) had the opinion that America was a syphilitic, sunset culture fomenting its own destruction. His Khomeinist revolution brought a radical political sect of Shiism to power in Iran. They are not people without skill in international treachery.

Current events in political affairs bring us to consider the North Shore of Africa as our American concern. We might wonder why with the gas stations of the U.A.E. and Bahrain etc fueling tankers for all points Moammar Kaddafi’s deserts should be on the front burner of CNN. Even Senator John ‘Fighter Ace’ McCain has ideas about implementing a No-fly zone over Tripoli denying thus air superiority to the Libyan Air Force. The rebels of Libya need a quick air force at no cost and might have tweeted the world asking for one. The U.S.A. just might have one to spare in order to provide realistic fighter training to its pilots.

So what would the U.S.A. get in its providing of free air superiority to the rebel army? Well, we could get out of our 7 year old peaceful relationship with the Libyan Government. Also, no matter who wins, the United States could be denounced later as ‘The Great Satan’ that was either overthrown by local fighters or was a sponsor of the former regime.

If the United States provides for the destruction of the Libyan Government enabling a free society to develop a democracy in Libya, then we can be assured that a wealth of international terrorists will arrive to take advantage of the freedom to plot terrorist missions against America and Europe. That will stimulate creation of a strict secret police t repress the terrorist cells, and formation of a new authoritarian state.

Perhaps the prospects for a democratic utopia following destruction of Kaddafi’s Government are not so bad though. Yet even in Egypt changes will develop that will substantially alter the present regional balances of power or not.

The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was an early entrant I the effort to war upon Israel through support of the Palestinians. With much liberty in Egypt for the people that relationship is likely to return, and Palestinians may find much more support from Egypt and Iran too in the effort to wage a protracted low level guerrilla campaign against Israel from all of its borders.

Basically the United States has no idea of what sort of a society would develop in Libya in a post-Kaddafi era. We know that fellow travelers of Khomeinist, Salafist, Al Qaeda fundamentalist movements following in the PLO and Hamas tradition move about quite readily to take advantage of community organizing opportunities (the community of terrorist planners) that arise in the middle east, central Asia and nearly anywhere on Earth that government permits such formations to develop. Though Khomeinists are Shi’ia, they are major financiers of Sunni Hamas terrorism against Israel. It is unlikely that Iran has no part in the North African evolutions of recent weeks.

The U.S.A. should not act as a decisive military belligerent in national or regional conflicts in which we have no idea what sort of government will emerge. To act so would reduce the United States to the position of being an agent of anarchism.

We know that Iran has been taken by Khomeinist neo-Nazis down a road of perpetual radicalization since 1979. An essential plank of the regime is destruction f the United States. The Khomeinist methodology is something like that of the Trotskyite branch of the Marxist revolution in Russia in seeking a global, universal takeover of political power.

In the United States we tend to regard Iran as a radical Islamic power, and that is inaccurate to the extent of being misleading. Khomeinism is more of a political than a religious philosophy using its eccentric Shiite version of Islam as a kind of Vahhalistic motivating faith like Nazi’s of yore.

Shiite, twelver Islam is a fascinating sect to study. Iran is a fascinating country to read of. Khomeinists have mostly repressed the national sense of Persianhood and history. Khomeini even repressed Persian language in favor of Arabic interpretations for moral authority. President Amahdinejab has had conversations with the several centuries dead ‘hidden imam’, and the cult of Shiite twelvers (twelve imams) has expanded the medieval practice of selling indulgences for help with one’s relationship with Allah.

The Cult of Khomeinism that has foisted repression of national Persian consciousness upon Iranians is an historical development that had a chance to probabilistically occur in that politically heavily trafficked region of the world too rich to elaborate upon in this essay. Americans should be aware that Khomeinists provide financial support to anti-American movements all over the world. That the United States did not effect a coup d’état that brought the Shah to power, actually it was quite the opposite. The Shah was a constitutional monarch that had twice legally fired Prime Minister Mossadeq, who had himself fired the parliament. The Shah actually fled Iran briefly as Mossadeq seemed to be taking over illegally, before popular support for the Shah drove Mossadeq to retire from consideration of making a coup occur in his favor.

In reading ‘The Persian Night’ about the Khomeinist revolutionary era by Amir Teheri there are hundreds of useful historical facts presented worth using as elements for construction a regional political theory. One of the most interesting is about the lack of political philosophers, or Islamic philosophers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Teheri was the editor of the largest newspaper in Teheran before the 79 revolution and seems knowledgeable of the major players in Iran then and now. As an American with an avocation in reading philosophy I was surprised to learn that besides the obvious Islamic influences of specialized Shiist sects that would influence the Khomeinists two European philosophers that I am familiar with comprises the most substantial philosophical context. Those philosophers are martin Heidegger and Karl Popper.

Amahdinejab is a Heideggerian (the school in power since 2005) and his guru-mentor is one Mezbah-Yazdi. Teheri writes that Khomeinists have muddled up the philosophy of both Popper and Heidegger to suit their own requirements and incompetence. That’s reasonable enough for mongrelizing philosophy is an ordinary practice as is eliminates the need to spend much time reading philosophy.

Heidegger is sometimes portrayed as pro-Nazi. Popper was the basic anti-Nazi pro-rationalism philosopher. The Khomeinists seem to have entirely failed to understand Popper, yet it is easier to misunderstand Heidegger.

Heidegger was made Education Minister of Nazi Germany yet quit the post before the Second World War started and retired to live in a hut in the forest. Before the Nazi atrocities and such it might have been more difficult for a citizen to turn down a high paying government job with good national socialist union benefits. Conversely it is easy to understand why the Nazis like Heidegger’s philosophy although nearly impossible to understand why the Khomeinists do.

Heidegger in Being and Time (‘Sein und Zeit’) wrote much about language meaning and discovery of the original ‘root word’ meaning of words as a way to get to a more primordial philosophical world-view. It was believed that language controlled world view for a time in 20th century Europe. Lenin was of the same opinion.

Nazi’s were a kind of hype-aboriginal white tribe asserting their primordial aboriginal rights-of-war in the midst of fields of invading species (people from other places). I suppose one might even make an argument for exclusive democratic self-determination fit into such a local context, and hence might a corruption of Popper’s ideas in support of democracy and rationalism ensue.

Philosophically we tend to regard Quinian linguistic ontological relativity as a meta-context for language meanings. That is, we do not find a Platonic universal meaning in words for themselves as might Heidegger. Rectification of etymological word values with contemporary language can be a rewarding practice yet it cannot be philosophically transformed into supplying a Platonic right-of-invasion or right-of-war. The relationship between words and objects or between words and material structures is an intellectual and associative one rather than a material or necessary relationship. Words and empirical reality are different things. An etymological regression into history may help uncover history though it cannot provide a philosophical truth for-itself.

Christians, Zoroastrians or Muslims would need to rely upon their faith and personalized instruction r revelation from God such as exists to supplement scientific knowledge of the world rather than locating a language-meaning of-the-universe that has magically true clues about reality-for-itself. Of course I do not believe that Khomeinists are as naïve as to believe in magical incantations inspired by Martin Heidegger, yet their interest in philosophy is interesting enough.

The United States might have a foreign policy with a rational political philosophy or not. Very likely it is an ad hoc economic-free market classical western neo-liberalism with expansion into a universal phase of synergy with planetary nations. It is an approach without an ability to explain subtleties of Khomeinist or Islamic thought to the masses. Neither has it evolved a post-cold war non-dualistic political philosophy able to work toward a rational nationalism on a rectified economic basis f low entropy economics able to serve as a good example for the rest of the world. Though Iran is not the only nation today without a long range rational political philosophy of comparative advantage to other nations, neither is the United States terribly well suited to act as an informed agent in Middle Eastern political turbulence.

Modern philosophical creations of world views take into account not only the collected works of western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-modern linguistic philosophers, but also of science and history. The challenging historical times of Persia and Europe, Africa and etc fit into deeper awareness retrospectively of the journeys of the human race out of Africa and the dispersion across the globe from 100,000 years before present. On that course language groupings and technology have clustered, formed, progressed and travelled to new regions. Conflicts between social groupings have occurred along with the development of class consciousness and specialized occupational behaviors after the foundations of civilizations.

Humanity has sought perennially to rectify the social relationships created by class stratification and exploitation that inevitably occur with the necessary social occupational specializations of civilizations. Those conflicts include property use and commonly the right of survival issues.

Philosophers are aware of comparative religions, the ecosphere and the scale of the observable universe and of what it is composed of relatively speaking. Philosophers reach beyond adoption of a simple world view to learn what is possible for an individual. Implicit recognition of the simplicity of human cognition and limit of human knowledge is the simple world view within which as much data might be compiled and considered as is practical. This effort to liberate oneself from ignorance simultaneously seeks to liberate social political consciousness from ideologies failing Kant’s moral imperative applied to the level of human peaceful coexistence at a national and individual level. Subjective religious beliefs and the freedom to express oneself are intrinsic liberties of a free society. Such a society is no syphilitic and decadent as Khomeini said. A society liberated from terminally corrupting political philosophies leading to repression of individual self-determination and destruction of the global ecosphere has a better chance of health.

Gaming the Economy-Narrow Self Interests and U.S. Current Accounts Deficit

Recent data released inform us that 35% of U.S. wages are federal entitlement payouts including social security, Medicaid, Medicare and unemployment compensation. Perhaps 10% of U.S. jobs rely on getting that money indirectly through its spending.

Another 30% of Americans work in financial related services and a substantial number are government employees-so the number of Americans in productive material businesses is pretty small. Gaming the system though, and transferring material production offshore to global corporations that pay U.S. taxes, allows or even requires a U.S. economy with a vast distribution of tax dollars to keep the nation afloat.

One could fairly argue that if social security were treated like an insurance program and only the needy received benefits the cost of the program would drop. True, the cost to working people would be small if all paid into social security but only a minority used it. When everyone that pays into social security also draws benefits the cost rises substantially.

Cutting the cost of government is not more important to the U.S. economy than directing where the U.S. economy receives its income from. If only 10% of the U.S. economy is direct material production in-country, we might wonder if even much of that is not done by trans-national corporations. How secure can the U.S. economy be when it is essentially reliant upon foreign production?

Cheap illegal immigrant labor is another way of increasing the standard of living of Americans receiving government entitlements, government workers and those in the financial service sector not producing anything materially. If the present national economic is fundamentally incomprehensive of the empirical economic facts of life, neither is the prospects for redirecting its malfunctioning course good.

The left and the right equally support reliance upon foreign production for the bulk of U.S. economic function. The contemporary political rhetoric is lazily over-reliant on continuity of cold war era paradigms extrapolated into the post-cold war era. Western liberalism before the left-right split and the rise of Marxism had been a perennial economic battle of the masses against concentrated wealth and power. Power and wealth may be controlled and concentrated in a number of ways that repress individual social equality. Concentration of wealth and power remains the true threat to American nationalism still. Paradoxically however liberalism of the left and right have been transmogrified into supporters of concentrating power and wealth.

The right supports corporatism of a global nature and investment in China, India, the Middle East and etc, while the left support reliance upon tax dollars from global corporations paying U.S. taxes. State socialism is as authoritarianist as is autocracy.

Left and right may attack points of the other’s political self-interests while neither works to actually halt the center of effort being relocated outside the U.S.A. A prosperous, easier, uncreative national zeitgeist happy enough with bread, circuses, SUVs and federal borrowing needs more than budget cuts to change. The prospect of tax cuts sent both houses of Congress and the Executive scurrying for cover last December with a vote to renew the Bush II era tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits for two more years.

The U.S.A. today has 413 billionaires, China and Russia more than 100 billionaires each and the world total is more than 1200 this year. The concentration of wealth in the convergence of corporatism and socialism globally is a fact that drafts the world society through a maelstrom of non-renewable exploitation of natural resources while the masses increase in numbers and class consciousness. Eventually the logical development barring a change in economic rationale or significant space colonization is for a restive world proletariat in a stagnant world economy and dangerously declared global ecosphere ruled by concentrated wealth a variety of wise guys. That is a dangerous social circumstance.

The United States of America without a rectification of economic activity based on limiting the size of corporations and number of corporations any citizen may invest in will experience a continuing global corporatist-socialist outsourcing of political and economic self-determination such that national sovereignty is reduced. In the year 2050 the anticipated world population will be 9.5 billion people while the geographic area of the Earth is not anticipated to increase. With foreign control of the national economy the comparative degradation of the national standard of living is logically to follow. Global democratic pressures accelerated with live Internet will bring the new wave of revolutions not to North Africa, but to the U.S.A. as global fellow travelers redistribute wealth and power to a planetary proletariat.

The prospects for planetary economic and environmental security would be increased with American leadership into nationalist environmental economic change with low entropy use of natural resources. An American failure to lead into a disciplined economic direction will encourage a global, neo-socialist consumption of natural resources and decay f the environment with marketing strategies and gaming of advantage for collectivist and even racist self interests overcoming empirical reason politically.

A sustainable American economy seems far away from the ongoing development to globalism. If China and OPEC one day embargo America while the currency collapses, the national economy is likely to collapse like a spent, overly inflated soufflé without prospect for recovery. The present government and Wall Street orientation toward globalism is a product of a post-cold war illogic on many fronts including the badly thought out war against select Salifist and Khomeinist Muslims that tends to be an existential defense against Muhammadan world conquest. Simultaneous decline of U.S. national economic leadership in failure to restore nationalism and ecological recovery with new technology and full employment encourages the globes masses to look elsewhere for leadership.

The Wall Street, banking, mortgage and other finance scandals requiring federal borrowing of foreign money for bail out in 2008-2009 were developed as early as the Clinton administration to set the U.S.A. firmly upon a post cold war gaming of the national economy. That did not occur in a vacuum, there was global competition to scam profits globally through levered self-advantage. The poor and homeless in the united States might at least sympathize with the poor abroad who are the workers at the bottom level of the pyramid of classical economic gaming of economics in the new age of electronic globalism. When global subsistence agriculture is effaced and the world’s peons are peopling the Internet relying upon global corporate farming for food the dangers of economic collapse and planetary famine become even more stark than today. Continuing a gaming of the economy as a national value may bring consequences not even imaginable today to the U.S.A. of the future.

-note on the meaning of ‘concentrated wealth’ in the context of this essay.

Democracy and egalitarian opportunity for free enterprise have over-concentrated wealth and power as its enemy. That is, individuals may build up their own wealth and yet neither be oppressive nor controlling of the wealth and social opportunity of others, and that is good for society. One of the points of free enterprise and individual liberty is to secure and produce the articles personally valued useful. Overly concentrated power is an empirical phenomenon in which owning control of natural and social resources develops in minorities or majorities such that individual liberty for self determination and securing of fundamental resources is precluded for non-members of the ruling class of concentrated wealth. There are various shades of concentrated wealth and power of course. Democracy must determine for itself when concentrated wealth and alienation of political self-determination has reached such a limit that measures such as increased taxation, redistribution of resources or revolt are needed to end the power concentrating wealth.

Individual motivation and determination are fundamental facts of the creative energy that drives human economy. When that energy and individual effort are exploited and repressed, and when oppressive concentrated power and wealth bring dangerous degrees of decay to the ecospheric vitality, democratic rectification of the economic methods may occur to renormalize the economy toward a functioning state founded with individual self-determination within legal and equal effective ecospheric parameters.

Twitter, Facebook, Libya, Illegal Combatants and Acts of War

With the rush to foment revolutions via Facebook and Twitter in North African nations the ramifications of the globalization of sedition, civil wars joined by anonymous posters and several other questions have not been sufficiently addressed for public clarification.

Revolutionaries may conspire to revolt against a government without even forming a guerrilla army then appeal to the International community to borrow sufficient military services to bring off their revolt by wire desire. Secretary Gates probably rightly said that it would be an act of war to force a NO Fly zone over Libya that the rebels have asked for. It would also bring the United States into a troublesome legal and moral situation regarding its own right to try illegal combatants especially when they are snared from foreign nations not at war with the U.S.A. such as Afghanistan of 2001-2011.

France has recognized the Libyan Revolutionary Government diplomatically, and may thus provide weapons and foreign legion military assistance if asked with a more or less legal or logical basis. Or alternatively, must one recognize the recognition of a revolutionary government as an international crime?

One wonders what sort of crimes and protocols might be addressed by International Convention to classify the Internet, global structuring of terrorist, seditious and civil war revolutionary activity. Would it include those offering just moral support, or must they provide some sort of material assistance to actual casualty causing events?

Would foes of the United States or NATO receive different legal justice than those seeking support from the United States or European Countries in overthrowing any given nation?

There are many existential questions regarding the right-to-revolt and the right-to-war that have developed from Twitheads and Faces potential awaiting booking by Danos of jurisprudence. Giant Internet waves of populism or sponsored populism from Chicago to Cairo and Tripoli or even Teheran may enact militancy that crosses the boundaries of politics throwing perplexing legal questions into the fan of nationalism. The moral right may be a smirking confidence some elitists hold, yet it seems that like NPR as a perceived perpetrator of biased propaganda manipulating public opinion, the ability to shape and compel opinion may become a mob rule way of life instead of plain and simple equal justice for all.

PNAS Publishes "Climate forcing due to optimization of maximal leaf conductance in subtropical vegetation under rising CO2"

This interesting article published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences details alterations of plant structure in a world atmosphere comprised of increased levels of CO2. The article abstract relates that "plants reduce the diffusive stomatal conductance of their leaves (gs) dynamically by closing stomata and structurally by growing leaves with altered stomatal densities and pore sizes."



It may be obvious to biological scientists that human global warming caused by greenhouse gassing and CO2 emissions would accelerate select evolutionary challenges and responses to more volatile bioforms such as plants, yet for most of the scientifically uniformed the assumption is that CO2 adaptations would be mostly limited to a vanished Arctic ice cap, polar bear that aren't good enough swimmers being too lazy to swim better than whales and increased gasoline prices because politicians aren't rational enough to increase offshore drilling all along the Arctic ocean shore and out to 400 miles with subsurface robotic drilling.

NPR Foundation President Schiller Denounces Tea Party As Racist

NPR Foundation's senior executive President Ron Schiller was recorded on a video denouncing the Tea Party as made up of seriously racist people. The implicit bias of NPR is not news to most Americans who realize that their objectivity and professionallism went the way of the buffalo long ago.

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The frontiers of freedom may be in decline nationally along with federal fiscal integrity. Over population and under utilization of god-given resources of intelligence bring the U.S.A. to a lemmingway globalism fueled by media controlled by leftists, rightest and immoderate evil empires everywhere.

We learn that Moammar Khadaffi secretly supported revolutionaries against the Shah of Iran, the Israel provided American anti-tank weapons to Iran to defend against Iraqi tanks, and that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowsky believes increased oil drilling to deplete Alaska's paltry remaining oil reserves within ten years is a rational policy to bring down gasoline prices and increase global warming.

Plainly NPR's federal funding should be eviscerated because they are awash in big bucks-even the PLO or Hamas wanted to give them five bills (million dollar ones). NPR didn't even cover the moose being tasered and beaten by a gang of alleged police persons-they don't deserve tax dollars.