Happy New Year

                                                            Happy New Year!

ZIRP, Recession and Concentration of Wealth

Federal reserve policy is gone over fairly well in a reasonably brief article here...

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/15/blame-the-next-economic-crisis-on-the-fed/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

Since the Obama administration has let the labor participation rate to the lowest levels since the 1970s and sluiced so much cheap or free money to banks, the corporate world has a lot a cash it has no reason to invest to get interest payments and prices of consumer goods seem to increase. Apparently a recession may be in store. Like the Clinton, Bush administrations the Obama administration created a moderately Potemkin sort of economy with a lot of vicious undercurrents and dark pools.

Freedom is a Free State; Antonym of Slave State

Freedom Is Isn't Free. Multiple meanings for many words and phrases exist. Some are intentionally purposed to advance proprietary ideas and values. Use-truths in organizations were something Sartre wrote about in The Critique of Dialectical Reason. I recall that is was a chapter on colonialism and the way the insiders viewed the natives. Free people are free and may say what's what while the rest need to fear violence, starvation, exile, ostracism etc.

There is an old bumper sticker that reads; "Freedom isn't Free". One knows what it means, yet it is still somewhat onerous. Free is free basically. If one must sacrifice for one's corporate CEO or die in war to keep the administration happy, then one at least is not as free as a wandering native hunter in North America circa  1200 a.d. who would recognize the sophism and nonsense of social reality wherein enslavement occurs. In the sophist world freedom is closer to meaning something like the Nazis of Auschwitz had for the Jews "work will make you free".

If one must use Orwellian lexicons in order to exist socially then the society is not one with real actual freedom. It is conditional freedom where one is free to do as demanded yet not otherwise. In a real Democracy all the citizens serve militarily speaking if they need to, yet in a corporate society the pros of war paid by globalists, corporatists and such, are motivated to force narratives and ideas consistent with the will of ruling powers and creators of the right social lexicon. One of the reasons for the decline of quality American political leadership is that bright people in the corporate world need to shut up and keep their heads down or be fired much less dissent with any sort of corporate policy. In China though they just jail ya-even Christians sometimes. ISIS are more inclined to be head choppers however, while U.S. elites like financial sabotage to suppress dissident ideas.

The ability to have equal social standing cuts in all directions lexically. Blacks and women want equal power with white men and proscribe speech that would not support that. Corporations sometimes want to control electorates to silence environmentalists. Administrations want to annex Ukraine and perforce action novel writers make Russia and efforts to control their ancient homeland villainous. Even President Obama would not stand with Israel and veto a U.N. condemnation of settlements. On occasions politically correct speech is used to drive actual political movements. What else is new?

Trump and the Atomic Bomb Race

President Trump recently has said some things about nuclear weapons that stimulated the media to a mini-frenzy. America he said would win an arms race, or there may be an arms race, whatever. The news is less exiting than the cars driving around an oval track; where will it lead?

Since Richard Nixon started the SALT talks with the former Soviet Union the United States and Russia have moved toward limiting though improving nuclear and atomic bombs. With the end of the Cold War reagan's plan of eliminating nuclear weapons received impetus forward, yet it froze at somewhere around a couple thousand warheads apiece for Russia and the U.S.A. with misc. warheads scattered around former oviet Republics.

Testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere was banned long before except for rogue nations. Eventually the U.S. used computers and blast models to test nuclear weapons. Since much of the nuclear technology in each arsenal dates from teh era of B-52s many in government have wanted to upgrade the weapons to make sure they still work if Iran, North Korea, Pakistan or whomever decides to attack Boston with megatons.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-weapons-life-extension-us-russia-2015-11 trillion dollar upgrade

What I mean is, the issue of upgrading weapons isn't new. Its alright for President Trump to mention it. Apparently he has a political style different from non-business actors wherein he says some larger things and maybe settles for less. If his tactics work for the citizens of the U.S.A. and peace breaks out all over the world with the dawsning of the age of the Universal Widget- who can argue with that? The Von Obama trillion dollar military nuke upgrade was done quietly and the media didn't care since he won a Nobel.

The Clinton Effect

Since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 the Democrat Party has taken a turn toward the fiscal right and moral left. President Clinton's cult-like following made it difficult for a normal political recovery from the 'excess exuberance' of the era. The U.S. Presidency since the Clinton administration has never been taken by a mainstream candidate.

Perhaps Al Gore would have been elected in 2000 except for his association with Bill Clinton. Of course some would blame his loss to the definate not-top drawer G.H. Bush candidacy on Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman from a state with few electoral votes. It is likely though that the close election would have gone Al Gore's way if not for the Clinton spoiling effect.

In 2004 John Kerry was taken down on his own merits. Memorable though was the political use of his declaration that Vietnam vets were war criminals decades before. Hillary Clinton did not run in 2004, yet a return of the Clintons was inevitable given Bill's swingy, too-confident persona.

The American need to move past the Clinton conundrum was overcome by Clinton spoiling effect.  Party leaders saw a way to avoid running Hillary by running a safe black candidate from Chicago and Harvard; Barrack Obama. Obama was a rather underqualified candidate with accolades piled on like smorgasboard condiments even from the Nobel committee. His performance was exceptional at golf and basketball, poor at bowling, and in economics concentrated wealth and deepening public debt more than any other U.S. President.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-barack-obama-beat-donald-trump-tweets-20161227-story.html

The Clinton effect returned with a vengeance in 2016 to sweep the Democrat field of candidates clear allowing Hillary to campaign against Donald Trump- a man the nationlooked toward hoping he would help get the nation out of the stuck-in-the-mud quagmire of debt, porous borders, terrorism, antipathy and bad terms with Russia, concentration of wealth and basic bad times and immorality that followed the on of Bill Clinton after the end of the cold war.

Its a tall order for Trump to move the nation ahead to reduce poverty, restore moral basics, conserve U.S. border security, eliminate the federal budget deficit, restore the challenge ecosphere environment and so forth. It is even more difficult for Americans to believe that the Clintons and the Clinton effect may finally be gone. 

Jesus Christ: Fully Man, Fully God

On the Birth of God

Some 2020 years ago Jesus Christ was born. He existed from eternity as the Son with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Each are personalities, or persona, of one God.

Some wonder how the infiite spirit that is Jesus Christ could be reduced to a finite form as a baby born of the virgin woman Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost. We may wonder in human terms and desire an answer using what physics and concepts of space and time that we understand.

God, many would think, being of infinite intelligence also has infinite size, though as spirit. While God is omnipresent human ideas of space and time don’t apply to God, the Son or the Holy Spirit...they transcend that.

So rather than wondering how the reduction might be accomplished theoretically it might be more useful to consider that God being omnipowerful too, would find a way for His will to be done.

We might wonder if part of the persona of Jesus Christ was he still in heaven while part of his spirit was on Earth yet again, the categories concerning human mind and body do not quite coincide with that of the infinite God of whom Jesus Christ is along with the father and Holy Spirit. Some questions can never be known. We know that Jesus Christ was fully man and fully God though, thankfully for us.

Merry Christmas

                                     Merry Christmas and blessings for the new year.