Japan and Korea Should Settle Differences Right Away

Japan and Korea should quickly settle their dispute over reparations for Second World War Japanese harm to Koreans forced into slave labor, prostitution and so forth. The United States learned to forgive war reparations damages because it exacerbates bad attitudes and feelings in the defeated party left over from the war. It is better to move forward when possible. The U.S.A. did not seek monetary compensation of post-war Germany or Japan for their terrible acts and perhaps in part because of that they are regarded today as good enough allies. Korea is in the same position today and could choose not to be won-wise and yen foolish.

It might be better for Korea to forgive Japan's war debts once and for all, through law. Korea probably can benefit far more financially from working with the Japanese better than in pursuing seventy year old litigation against war-time enemies.

North korea may be watching the lessons about South Korea and japan too. The Dictator may be concerned that if peace breaks out and relations are normalized the South and others may seek reparations and legal damages that would cost North Korea a bundle. Hence it might be that nuclear weapons development are the sole way out.

 To labor the point a little; a forgiving South Korea and a cordial Japan might be better partners ahead for North Korea than belligerents fighting over every scrap bitterly. A better Korean social safety net might obviate the need for Japanese payments to the poor and long-suffering of South Korea.

Extinction Rebellion; Too Many People With Too Few Reform of Capitalism Ideas?

The Extinction Rebellion movement in reaction to global warming danger is handicapped-severely, by a paucity of good ideas about how to reform capitalism such that it would be transformed toward a sustainable ecological economic foundation. 

https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/

Capitalism and democracy are the best tools for reforming economic infrastructure quickly, with structural adaptations to combat the world of environmental problems created as a result of human technological evolution and too many people living on Earth consuming its natural resources and polluting the air with greenhouse gases.

The leftist approach is to use global treaty agreements that reinforce global government and repress individual human rights. It is a wrong approach that leads to social conflict with great opportunity costs in dividing the electorate and rendering the default of concentrating wealth and power for corporate and communist elites inevitably reinforced. They need to understand that simple actions can go a long way toward reforming economic infrastructure that pollutes and harms the ecosphere; there are far more ecosphere problems than global warming that require remedies directly.

https://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Second-Principles-Applications/dp/1597266817

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2019/07/ossified-invention-in-us-political.html

The best tools of national government for ecospheric remediation are being left unused. Not a single nation on Earth has a sustainable ecospheric economic infrastructure. Global treaties won't change that.

https://sustainablepath.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/what-is-ecological-economics-one-pag-pdf-080123.pdf

http://www.ussee.org/ U.S. Society for Ecological Economics

Didn't Britain Expect the Iranians to Retaliate in Gulf?

The recent second seizure of a British oil tanker was  captured on video by an Iranian spec ops team rappelling from a helicopter. One wonders why the British were so characteristically unprepared to defended registered flag oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Lax defense measures can encourage hostile actions.

English leadership must have known that Iran would be likely to retaliate after the seizure of an Iranian vessel earlier in retaliation for the seizure of another vessel and mines placed on oil tankers in the region by Iran. The capture video showed a turkey-helicopter of immense size hovering so close and slow that a blind and deaf soldier could strike it down with a javelin S15 should-fired missile. A little prep defense work goes a long way to stop state-sponsored piracy.

A few SBS personnel with guns and a couple of Stingers or Javelins might accompany British vessels travelling near Iran. Those people could arrive and depart via helicopter. It might be a good idea to have some kind of a vstol jet fighter close to back up mobile boat defense teams at least until the Iranians decide to make nice with good coffee-perhaps French dark roast.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/07/21/report-iran-warns-uk-against-dangerous-and-unwise-moves-after-tanker-seizure/

Private civilian contractors might not be allowed by British law to own shoulder-fired surface to air missiles that are required for air defense against hostile air mobile ship attackers. They may not be allowed to have anti-tank missiles or .50 caliber machine guns either. Plainly the British civilian government should provide military personnel allowed to bring such defense items to the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXIvKmU8I10

U.S. Has Three of Top Ten Highest Rated Chess Players Today

A mild surprise is the appearance of newly christened American Chess Federation player Leinier Dominguez-Perez in the world's top ten live ratings list. The other two are old, familiar top ten players. Missing from the top ten is former world number two Hikaru Nakamura, or the U.S.A. would have four of ten.

That's not bad for a country that had just one world champion; the late Robert James Fischer.

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/dortmund-2-4-dominguez-up-to-world-no-7

https://2700chess.com/

I learned chess at age 57. Most good players- class A players, start much earlier. Grandmasters almost always begin learning the game before age 12. It's hard for adults to find the time to invest in chess quantitatively enough to be very good at it. 

Dominguez-Perez  has a classical chess rating of 2763 and blitz of 2703. One improves watching the games of better players.

I.M.O. If one reaches 1600 one has a fair club chess game (at blitz). My blitz rating is 1403. 
https://www.chess.com/stats/live/blitz/garrison_gibson

Democrat Party 'Hit Squad' Continues Attack on President

The Democrat party self-styled 'squad' of radical pro-illegal immigration advocates is continuing its vociferous, interminable attack on the President of the United States. He is labeled a racist every opportunity they can get. Some interesting points about at least one member of the Democrat Party hit squad has emerged concerning Rep. Ilhan Omar; that she did have false elements with her own asylum claim.

It is challenging to know if that is real or fake news. A Minnesota State ethics panel is investigating the issue. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/18/powerline-blog-ilhan-omar-married-brother-asylum-false-name/#

https://www.newswars.com/omar-referred-to-somali-as-our-nation-back-home-in-2015-speech/

Rep Cortez is claiming that U.S. border control policy of the Trump administration is entirely racist. She is a Hispanic herself advocating lax enforcement of border control of illegal Hispanics primarily (though people as far as Africa also enter illegally). She apparently is unaware of the racism implicit in her own position.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/454019-ocasio-cortez-tears-into-trumps-immigration-agenda-its-about-ethnicity-and

Americans have been concerned about over-population since the 1960s. It was a cause for Planned Parenthood to exist and for a good part of three generations of American babies to be aborted. There have been more than 60 million abortions since Rowe vs. Wade in 1973. It was not just about women not wanting to have babies. Neither was that the problem with China. China forced a one-child per family policy because of over-population. A.O.C.'s policy of supporting millions of illegal immigrants is blind to demographic reality. 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-dem-support-for-squad-accuses-progressives-of-trash-talking-us

There are already more illegal aliens in the U.S.A. that the entire population of the country in 1860 when the civil war started. Bringing in millions of people more illegally is fundamentally crazy politics. People that don’t pay income tax yet live in the U.S.A. still require government services and spending for that. With twenty-one trillion dollars of public debt increasing public spending won’t help to reduce that or the nearly trillion dollars of annual payments for interest on the debt. Sober, legal immigration control is requisite for any sort of environmental policy of conservation to have a chance to become law or work in the U.S.A.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/21/video-knucklehead-rashida-tlaib-being-forcibly-ejected-security-2016-trump-detroit-speech-resurfaces/

The illegal immigrant attack on America is the present live manifestation of the global north-south hemisphere divide issue that has been anticipated by academics since the 1960s. Poor, highly fecund southerners would seek to migrate north. The numbers are so huge however that it presents issue of national survival to norther nations. The compassionate plan was to better the lives of southerners. How and what to do, and who would pay for a practical intervention was subject of debate. To do nothing and allow the worst case migration of hundreds of millions with other world ecosphere problems increasing plainly seems very dangerous for all. Like the national public debt, politicians tend to want to ignore the real challenges of addressing the issue. Awareness of the long-term consequences of doing nothing are substantial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_divide

Three hundred and twenty million people in the U.S.A. already, is huge. The environment is in decay- and A.O.C. is one ostensibly concerned about the environment with the Green New Deal. It was apparently more of a Red New Deal than an environmental concept. 

How Conservatives Have Experienced Trickle-Down Economics

Conservatives don’t get an equal share of corporate profits when they don’t own the corporations. That is plain. If one compares the average lifestyle and standard of living of a conservative American citizen over the past century, during which time the rich got richer, the standard of living of conservatives has improved. Many can now afford to go on surfing vacations in Hawaii or farther (South America has good beaches for surfing?), few are barefoot and most don’t need to grow their own potatoes.

Many things trickle down in economics including prosperity, crap (the sht runs downhill principle), bad moral examples, good moral examples (yes there was one once and it’s not a myth) etc. Trickle down economics is never implemented; the rich might prefer to stop such leaks, it simple follows that some prosperity escapes the concentration of wealth because of the necessity to pay some kind of wages instead of the cheaper mode of enslaving workers.
In environmental economics there isn’t much of a trickle down or supply-side. 

The average conservative has a worse hunting-fishing experience than fifty years ago. The rich have fewer elephants to kill on safari. The supply of available wilderness is decreasing on Earth. Liberal economic policies of globalism and planetary human versus natural capital implementation have trashed environmental prospects.

Moon Landing was the Greatest American Tech Accomplishment of a Century

The Apollo 11 moon landing a half century ago was the apogee.

Apollo 11 Mission Overview

The second might be the invention of the transistor.

History of the transistor - Wikipedia

Who invented the transistor?

The third would be Watson (U.S.) and Crick’s D.N.A. insight. Maybe this was an Anglo-America invention. Watson was from the U.S.A. Linus Pauling published on the alpha helix structure of protein in 1951. He published a 3-part D.N.A. helix article in 1951. It was a two-part helix for D.N.A; an error Watson and Crick corrected working at the Cavendish lab in England.

The Hubble space telescope gets an honorable mention. Deep Field photo…

The greatest foreign technological achievement of the past century not by Americans were insights in quantum mechanics and cosmology by several foreign physicists. Theoretical physics discoveries led to innumerable materials applications.

P.A.M. Dirac | English physicist

Werner Heisenberg - Wikipedia

Max Born - Wikipedia

Erwin Schrödinger - Wikipedia

General relativity - Wikipedia Albert Einstein 1915 four years before the century metric parameter- not too much relatively speaking)

Karl Schwarzschild - Wikipedia also 1915- exact solution of select GR parameters

Georges Lemaître - Wikipedia