The One and the Many

 Is the ocean one thing or a word describing countless (though finite in number) molecules of H2O? The question of monism and pluralism is fundamental concerning everything that exists, and of events and processes, therefore it was a common concern of pre-Socratic philosophers not simply because they might have shared the issue once it was thought of by a single individual. Parmenides and Heraclitus approached the problem of monism and pluralism from different yet not antipathetic points of view. In that regard they share a concern that hasn't been terminated as worthy of inquiry from fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, Multiverse theory and perception. Compound objects composed of numerous parts in solid objects and sub-atomic particles entangled in three dimensions with the Higgs field reflect the one and the issue as do organic beings. 

One might wonder what logic is and how it exists in relation to epistemology. It is also possible to ask if logic is static or if it is subject to relativity (as reshaped by spatial deformation vis Einstein's General Theory for example). If logic is recognition of relationships among objects or ideas as objects then it could be that logic is a kind of pattern recognition with which one may process information and make extrapolations from a given position concerning a series as in math theory or mathematical metaphysics.- If one is looking for a consistence in logic, that would be a necessary consistence of relations and patterns, shapes and occurrences that would comprise a system of logic. It is therefor challenging to say that logic is inflexible or must be regarding certain relations that must transcend particular logical systems and need be present in every logic system.-Because the issue becomes a little obtuse I shall leave it here for the present with the observation or agreement with a point made above concerning the utility of valid logic within a given system of logic rather than considering a Universal logic, though the Universe itself materially as particles embedded in a Higgs Field apparently seems to have a logical structure for everything in it at the quantum level.

One may have classical logic-Aristotelian logic and move through history to Leibnitz's mathematical logic, Frege and modern symbolic logic and onward to deontic , modal and other new logic systems. Maybe the proliferation of systems of logic supports the concept of logic as a formal system for representing abstract relations of fact and fiction useful for inductive as well as deductive reasoning.

Inexplicable; Excellence and Punky Billionaire Presidential Behavior

 When the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Barrack Obama people were surprised since he hadn't done anything yet besides being black and elected. It turned out during his terms of office that he would have better deserved a Nobel War Prize that even his speech acknowledged. Donald Trump actually deserves a Peace Prize for his excellence at bringing four Arab nations to sign off with diplomatic relations with Israel. What is inexplicable is how someone able to bring off a diplomatic coup that wasn't accomplished since Egypt did in return for the Sinai acts like a spoilt punky billionaire following his re-election defeat. To this time he is still in denial claiming he was cheated.

President-elect Biden is a threat to turn back salutary Middle East developments and that should be a concern for national politics. He may also return to stepped up hostility with Russia in order to make Hunter Biden's Ukrainian pay-masters happy and persuaded that their real estate interests are swelling. president Trump should be awarded a Nobel for his Middle East work next year even if the Biden administration is more to Sweden's liking politically.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/15/saudi-arabia-hires-new-lobbyists-ahead-of-joe-biden-administration.html

The Republican Party may have a problem former President trying to be in the spotlight for a few years more as a kind of never-goes-away  Clintonesque figure. He is the best chance the Biden administration has for winning re-election in 2024. If Sect. Pompeo or some other fellow with capability is the party nominee Republicans might actually retake the White House.

Stimulus and the Corked Bat of Special Interests

 Special interests have taken over the U.S.A. and government of the nation. A special interest in regard to the founding parameters of the United States could be regarded as an interest or  organization limited to just some of the citizens all of the time. Today virtually any corporation, church denomination, civic and social organization, fort profit and non-profit business could rightly be considered to be a special interest in regard to federal legislation. The federal stimulus conundrum that cannot get passed because of partisan wrangling about special interests rather than those of all U.S. citizens this year drew my attention.

Free federal dollars flow to special interest citizens and aliens rather than to all citizens equally- that helps establish corporatism and its socialist junior partner.

  Today is Sunday so I will write something concerning church structure as an upgradable special interest (that doesn’t require federal bail-outs). When the U.S.A. was founded there were no corporations in the nation and far fewer special interests seeking to benefit from preferred federal legislation transferring money to them. The Hudson Bay Company and East India Company were the two entities that most closely resembled corporations in North America and India respectively. The Catholic Church in the U.S.A. might be thought of as the largest corporate structure in the U.S.A. of that era. Church structures might be thought of as having ossified in forms created during or before the reformation era circa 1500-1600 with church pastors of Protestant churches shepherding ecclesiastic formations adapted to village life of illiterate peasants. In the United States presently there actually are few places like that. Another reform to place Christians on a level ground sharing liturgical tasks in small groups within a Priesthood of Believers would be more appropriate. A national work-credit and job bank with attendance and participation records, referrals and sharing could keep all Christians active, evangelical and free of certain emergency medical and financial troubles.

 Special interest legislation and/or end-times theology along with anachronistic clerical forms can take Christians fairly from meaningful participation in Democracy and accurate Biblical hermeneutics. A wrong understanding of the constitution of the U.S.A. and founding democratic principles can lead politicians to seek legislation that benefits corporations and busy-ness as a special interest prioritized above that of common citizens of the United States. Legislators wrangle over how to benefit people that own corporations and other busy-ness activity instead of all of the people of the United States during the pandemic. Real shareholders own corporations hence the U.S. Government has no legitimate right to transfer wealth to them instead of every citizen of the United States equally if it chooses to give away money normally or during an emergency for relief. Competition in a free enterprise environment isn’t supposed to end when it becomes tough for the established whereat the government will bail out the prosperous and/or filthy rich. Corporations are special interests that politically incompetent legislators have learned to worship. Actually citizen busyness and free enterprise could develop in innumerable other forms; it wasn’t necessary to evolve Wall Street monopoly of busyness and over government.

  In Washington D.C. politicians and pundits generally have forgotten that the people of the nation who own the nation politically in a manner of speaking are everyone rather than special interests named corporations. To send federal money as grants or loans to special collectives of people; to favor select persons as special interests of congress above that of the people of the United States is to support and ossify a particular non-democratic approach to governance that does in effect changes democracy into corporatism, oligarchy or plutonomy. Some socialist like the corporate approach because it does annihilate the principle of individual sovereignty and free enterprise in favor of corporate enterprise and other forms of mass collective business that readily morphs into socialism through a number of means. There is a false dialectic emitted from each side that has corporatism vs. socialism rather than corporatism and socialism as collective entities versus democracy, individualism and national sovereignty with secure borders. Corporatists and socialists are globalists that run roughshod over national boundaries.

 In the Internet era corporate hegemony allows self-tightening consolidation of wealth and power to plutocrat-led corporations. Every written communication can be scanned by insiders and a percent or all financial value harvested/skimmed from the work of everyone utilizing the ubiquitous corporate internet sites. With the U.S. Government ordinarily transferring wealth to large banks with zero or very low interest loans that lets those banks owned by Plutocrats electronically mint five times the amount loaned to loan out or invest themselves ordinary citizen free enterprise become as laughably non-competitive as laborers are to international dope traffickers who can afford to buy the business they labor for. The sole advantage of under-the-table illegal alien labor is that they can at least find work outside direct corporate employment yet. Corporate networks can ban any individual inconvenient from their optimal profit narratives they choose to.

 Corporations as special interests and their CEO’s attract a common kind of individual worker-tool seeking money and power. Like herbivores attracted by thirst to a water-hole along their own route, corporate leadership share the same goals and exploit similar methods to subjugate and harvest profit from every empirical facticity within their power- hence they expand their power and wealth with insatiable drive. That has a very dampening effect upon individual citizen free enterprise and liberty to express dissenting personal opinions on-line without reprisal.

US Senate Letting Covid Relief Bill Die

 The U.S. Senate is letting the 2^nd Covid emergency relief bill die for partisan reasons. The Senate leaders seek partisan advantages and cannot agree to let that go and simply pass a plain cash stimulus check to Americans to use presently.

 Senator McConnell wants to give blanket immunity too corporations from Covid 19 lawsuits. Instead of concern for cash-strapped citizens that need cash today he cares about corporations and corporate profits next year.

  

Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi care more for funding their vast left-wing state governments and funding deficits than for ordinary citizens of the U.S.A. even in their own states. The best simple compromise is to pass immediate $2400 cash relief stimulus checks for all Americans let Senate and House leaders clash over their special interests with mace, swords and shields of rhetoric after Christmas. A third Wilder-Fury fight or a Joshua-Fury or Wilder-Fury battle have been put off; what should not be put off is immediate cash relief for the poor and middle class that need pay rent, pay for classes or fund tooth extractions. I recently heard an elder gentleman trying to get a loan to pay for an elder brother’s covid 19 hospitalization; apparently he lacked free Bethesda hospitalization.

 What should matter now are the people of the United States. It’s their federal government; special interests can wait. New York can freeze rent payments for police and firemen. California can ditto that. State employees then can work for half-pay. Corporations can suck an egg on immunity from criminal action during the Covid 19 crisis...

Basic Police Reform- A Modern Primer

 Basically there are two kinds of people in the world; those that want power over others and those that don’t. Politicians tend to want power and reform is an issue that puts them in the spotlight for a term or two without actually needing to get anything meaningfully done. Police reform to protect the public from police as well as criminals  is growing  in popularity since the tradition of urban riots by blacks whose lives matter have discovered the police seem to serve the non-black  population more  so than themselves. Defunding police has been held to be an effective way to halt police interference with black sin cities, some of who are alleged to perpetrate crimes.

I believe there are numerous ways to regard and interpret history. Historical analysis that is accurate and useful as well as comprehensive is requisite for determining how to correctly address an issue and act upon it to bring it toward a desirable state of affairs. There is a fundamentally correct comprehensive analysis and several proprietary and fragmented and possible true perspectives that are insufficiently comprehensive for basic application to correct an issue.  Police it should be noted worked with some harshness in some cities before the era of large scale black neo-integration in schools and so forth. In somewhat segregated areas crimes did apparently exist that stimulated the non-black public desire for effective police. Police corruption in those circumstances tended to revolve around insider economic crimes when they occurred.

 It does seem that there is a conflation of race identity politics and economic concerns with police acting for-themselves inappropriately. Police force is regarded by some apparently as a de facto segregation mechanism and by others as a defense line of protection from young savage hordes. Obviously police have a civil function that has awkwardly discovered itself in the midst of historically evolving racial demographics and economics politics on the front line as it were. What can be done to allow traditional civil police functions to continue in cities where contentious political restiveness makes them appear as a political antagonist?

 Traditionally analysts have espoused racial integration of police as a remedy to racial enmity. Realistically though with the breakdown in trust in police and politics and rise of communication I would guess that technology and privatization augmenting police law enforcement as well as integration of internet broadband communication and public participation is likely to develop slowly. That is, drones, robots and public participatory oversight of police work will grow to enhancement and follow police tracking of criminal and suspected criminal activity. 

 I am not saying that contracts to the Interrogation and Death Corporation robotic division will clear the streets with Robocop; simply that Sally’s On-Line Security service will field insect drones to buzz around police cars and hives and follow criminals about dark city streets and into dens of iniquity when the lawful need arises. Something like that will comprise police reform as public participation in police work and evidence gathering in non-traditional technological ways arises.

  Some will be concerned about corporate takeover of law enforcement and the nation, and that is well taken. If the Department of Dense has a Four-star General who can upgrade to Dictator for a Year should need arise as did Roman Empire Consuls during time of war, who is able to return fire for fire and Sarin-dippitze foe nerve agent communicators, that would be keeping in line with the trend toward national corporatist governance aided and abetted by communist collectivist leadership and 1% plutocrats in the U.S.A. and ironically, in China. Godless atheist leadership in crowded demographics leads to certain forms of social interaction that are more or less problematic when people are unintellectual worker sex-tools and drones bereft of nuclear families developmentally speaking. Scientists at some point tend to find the one degree of elimination of surplus undesirable population for scientific reasons so the world may be saved. Less than a cuddly scenario of course, so Democrats may seek some other Draconian and repressive way to bring utopia to the world during the Anthropocene mass extinction phenomenon. Hell wasn’t built in a day, so effectively stupid governance takes many generations of politicians and broadcast slut-media-sewers to fructify hell on Earth before survivors can flee to Mars and elsewhere.

 There are innumerable political viewpoints in the U.S.A. today without comprehensiveness that are often in contradiction or conflict with others. Maybe 3% of political world-views are valid and would be effective if promoted, and the rest are simply varying degrees of incorrectness. Luckily for Americans political grading is done on the curve so even failing ideas and work can rise to the top as major party content platforms as they have with bi-partisan success. Police reform ineffectiveness is just one of many planks of contemporary political platforms with a good rate of disfunction.

Two models and goals for police structure seem to exist in the present context of reformed structure and traditional structure. ‘The Art of War’, I believe it was if I recall the book I read decades ago, mentions interior and exterior lines for attackers and defenders. ‘The Art of Reasoning’ informs us about classical and symbolic logic. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ might have suggested, if the modern political environment and broadcast media had existed in his day, of the logical value of fast transition of exterior and exterior lines reversing roles of attackers and defenders, The reformed model of the Democrat Party and non-white ideal would end the perceived defense of white people as a majority party by police departments. Policing could be flip-flopped to change their role from one defending white controllers on interior lines to one of attacking dwindling whites from exterior lines of black and minority based community policing.

 A new reformed law enforcement agency would be community-based while the existing police departments would be defunded and eliminated largely. A similar paradigm for reform existed in pre-war nazifying Germany when under Hitler’s leadership the brown shirts of the national socialist party took over society. Local police department constables at some stage needed to stand aside to let the new political and social facticty of change take charge. Brown shirts or storm troopers could enforce the political will and decide in a fresh paradigm who the real public enemies are. The broadcast media would easily inform the public of what worked and what did not. The broadcast media has great offensive and defensive political power and returns periodically or partially to its role of enforcing political will to power.

Eliminating police departments in the United States so a more Democrat Party led law enforcement structure can take control would not exactly duplicate Hitler’s model although there are obvious similarities. Community based police models could include mafiosa enforcement agents and mass public disarmament to render political opponents easier to subjugate. As in the former Soviet Union criminal activity by non-state actors would be very low. The public internal security forces strengthen to such an extreme that dissent becomes unfeasible.

If two models for police structure exist in the United States today- traditional and Nazi, they would require a segregated civil structure if each were to exist simultaneously with traditionalists in white communities and tribal mafiosa-goon Democrat thugs under bosses in  non-white communities. Unfortunately, or luckily as one may regard it, the economy of the United States is not designed to be racially segregated. It is somewhat amusing to consider the impracticalities of segregating products and services along racial lines in America with Wal-mart using different personnel to deliver black soap to black neighborhoods and white soap to white neighborhood etc. Amazon could use drones to deliver to all areas of course since machines are racial only in a nuts and bolts sort of way, and it might be possible to stop taxing products purchased from the internet so local manufacture of high-tech products in rural Alaska for example won’t face unfair competition from products made in China or white neighborhood colleges like M.I.T. Basketball and football would require separate leagues and audiences only of appropriate race with television commercials directed to appropriate viewers. Federal oversight of Wall- Street would require special black and white law enforcement with community police mafia on one side and traditional law enforcement structure on the other with each working only to secure corporate behavior of the apposite race. It seems rather expensive and corrupt actually.

Lincoln Didn't Include Baltimore in the Emancipation Proclamation

 President Lincoln didn't include Maryland and other border states in his Emancipation proclamation. It took a third Maryland constitution years later to free the slaves. That interesting fact is useful here because it is part of the problem of displaced former slaves after the war thrown into homelessness en mass usually without a legal right to inhabit their former plantations. As a northerner during school before college long ago learning technical details of mass black homelessness after the civil war didn't occur. There were few blacks in the Pacific Northwest until the Second World War. School kids learned generalities of U.S. history and state history (Washington state for my experience). I took a world civilization course too. Three history course at a high school level is pretty shallow actually.

William Grose was the first black businessman in Seattle. Yet it wasn't until the federal government needed military support personnel in the war with Japan that many blacks moved to the Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grose_(black_Seattle_pioneer)

The two small cities I grew up in had no blacks not because of segregation-simply because none had moved in large numbers that far from the south, and race riots didn't exist even until after the Vietnam War by which time there was a substantial black population in large cities. Researching the black city migrations and rioting development as a topic would need to wait until opportunity arose for graduate research.

Since I am dead reckoning history here I will say that I am interested in the mass relocation of former slaves after the war. It is well known that many went on an exodus to northern cities creating the problem persisting to this time of mostly black urban ghettos and/or aka challenged neighborhoods and educational facilities, and in some a legacy of neo-apartheid with legally segregated housing such as in Baltimore that persisted for some time.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation

In my opinion the entire phenomenon could have been nipped in the bud immediately after the war if the vast plantations that formerly sheltered black slaves were cut up into chunks of a few acres and redistributed to the former slaves who certainly had a fair claim to own the land rather than their former masters- or at least equally. It is one of the sad missed opportunities of history that many slaves after the war were legally landless people. Homelessness can be very challenging to get out of.

Apparently some plantation owners did give some land to the former slaves. Some of that was sharecropping that wasn't too far removed from slavery. Yet much land did remain with the families of plantation slavers; and that stimulated movements such as the clan seeking to perpetuate race-based economic advantages across the south with logical inertia.

If all of the former slaves were given 5 acres of real estate to own at the in 1866 it is possible that development and race relations of the United States would have been quite different.

No Stimulus Check = Republican Loss

 With so much money going to Republicans and Republican businesses during the McConnell era domination of the U.S. Senate voters put down the Trump re-election since many of their pockets were empty. Repeating that mistake will likely result in the Republican loss of the Senate to Democrats in the Georgia run-off election in January.

Senator McConnell could more convincingly play the Christmas scrooge putting a lump of Kentucky coal into voter's stockings if he didn't give preponderantly Republican owned small business free grant money by the hundreds of billions. There is nothing constitutionally agreeable about giving free money to preferred special interests instead of to all citizens individually and equally more or less.

In a sense Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Maine Senator Susan Collins are already neo-crats that vote blue on most feminine issues and numerous other Democrat agenda items that reach the Senate.  Senator Murkowski does support the pirate team plunder of ANWR of course  while Senator Collins may demure. The loss of the two Georgia Senate seats in the runoff election will seal the deal of U.S. Senate control by the Democrat party for the better part of a decade. Early voting starts December 14th. https://georgia.gov/vote-2020-runoff-elections

The actual election day is 5 January 2021.

The U.S. Government for several decades has turned toward giving hundreds of billions and sometimes trillions of dollars to corporations and small businesses asymmetrically regarding equal allocation of government giveaways to all citizens. In a way it could be said that sucks. Voters may not need to wait until January to determine discern if Senators are pips or  pugs.