Honest History - Volume Four

By Garrison Clifford Gibson

Gary Clifford Gibson wrote contemporary history as a mosaic of essays on contemporary American affairs from an independent point of view. Emphasis on philosophical interpretation. Institutional bias often shapes retro-historical recapitulations so it's worth reading an ordinary citizen's point of view.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329298453

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Honest History - Volume Four

Honest History - Volume Four

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Honest History - Volume Four ©²⁰¹⁵ Garrison Clifford Gibson

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Forward

This fourth volume of Honest History includes the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision green light to the vice of homosexual marriage that will affect the course of the nation, and fast track trade authority for the President. My  writing of essays  published on the Internet have experienced diminished readership during the years of the Obama administration with reduction of visibility. It seems almost counterproductive to write more essays that draw the ire of the left and of corporatism alike. The more I write the more do web sites where I write ban me, or go out of business themselves after takeover by  corporate entity, etc. It is even possible for technical manipulation of search engine listings and Internet discovery by potential readers to occur.  De facto censorship of the Internet is something more like corporate or government elimination of competing opinion with finesse rather than a Catherine the Great or Caliphate direct style. It can happen to anybody. The good news is that Billy Graham has published a new book-at age 96!

For a while I was getting as much as a thousand views a day before I criticized the N.S.A. for one of its domestic surveillance programs article views were upward to 1000 per day and rising  Thereafter my reads dropped down to 20 or 30 per day and it took a year the better part of a year to build it back up to 100. Being an opponent of homosexual marriage-it's a kind of social-political cannibalism- was another factor in getting web sites banned or deleted and sundry sabotages that aren't transparent at all; the corporate Internet has a profusion of homosexual partisans that don't play by the rules. Neither did Hitler's S.A.

Not that this volume has intrigue or radical political views. On the contrary Honest History Volume Four is just more  objective, analysis of contemporary events. My own point of view is shaped by with lifetime reading of classical works of the west in philosophy, theology. history, science, arts and social sciences. I still believe that classical virtue is important as well as Christian ethics in a time where Darwinian ethics form the dark undercurrent of the U.S.A.

In Darwinian ethics there are subtle metaphysical drifts toward getting the better of others and putting them down in order to have an evolutionary edge. In Darwinian ethics it really is better to kill one's fellow citizen before they can victimize you-just don't tell them that. Anti-Christian ethics are rather popular in the broadcast media. Developing personal egoism skill where the smile and assurances of goodness and sharing mask the heart of darkness is one side of the two-faced coin of the state with the other being the stay-puffed marshmallow joy citizen.

One might believe that the heart of darkness at the core of what seems alien national political leadership is working for the advancement of a global corporate-communist collectivism with plutocrat martinets developing a better world for-themselves. Even Mexico involved with the U.S.A. will perhaps become a clone of the leading perverted society. When the global populace is shaped like a bowl of doped up queer jellyfish without the slightest political moral sense it would be a small thing for the powers that be to delete them leaving a sustainable world for the uber-rich 5% of the 1%. There were and are better courses for human development.

Essays

Age of Developing Historical Theory Over?

4 Oct. 2015

Developing theories in the social science in parallel to those of science emerged early in the human social history of ideas. Ancient man having ate of the tree of knowledge inquired into the nature of everything and asked how it worked, and why? Historians also developed that characteristic. famous Historians like Toynbee, Spencer and others developed theories that explained cycles in human history-such idea even made it into science fiction with Isaac Asimov's Seldon Plan in 'The Foundation' trilogy. The age of developing macro-historical causal theories may be over now.

This is an era where micro-history and macro-introspection has supplanted viewing the world over-all with detachment for the purpose of analysis, except perhaps as cold scientific objectivity regards society with a sociopath's eye. In what has been called the age of fracture modern technology and the smallness of the globe have made historical theories of mass human behavior with recurrent cycles seem quaint; obsolete. In live real time, reality TV drones with optics and dark pool computer generated quantitative trading cyclical history seems absurd-as do any long cycles in nature such as those scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere.

The demise of historical theory ended a grand trend that could be said, rather inaccurately, to have started with the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel's epic 'Phenomenology of Mind'. Hegel brought secular history into a theistic evolution. Inspired by the paradigmatic structure of the Bible where God's teleology has a purpose for human existence extending through history, Hegel's viewpoint might be construed as being a sort of first cousin of post-millennialism wherein God's plan to grow a majoritarian Christian society through time following the tribulation of the first century and crucifixion of the Lord Jesus established on the foundation of the Lord's securing of the kingdom of God for mankind of faith to enter. In Hegel's post-millennialism God is realizing himself in history and the German state of his day was the highest realization yet attained by mankind.

Hegel did not preclude other societies of the day from being of equal standing in regard to comparative theistic realization; it was simply that Hegel had himself become aware of the post-millennial advance and teleology of God, so he therefore appropriately viewed that state of knowledge as of the first spiritual rank among mortals. Philosophers and historians have almost never viewed Hegel's philosophy as being post-millennialism, yet to me now it seems to be purely so, rather than theistic evolution detached from a scriptural context. After all, Hegel was writing in post-Lutheran Germany.

Hegel's Phenomenology infused with post-millennialism was learned by Karl Marx and converted into pure secular material evolution devoid of spirit. Following the end of the cold war American Presidential administrations led away from spirituality toward materialism with rash military engagements, reallocation of world political order so far as they could to benefit Wall Street investors, and whole-hearted support from Hollywood for an immoral new world order beyond good and evil as a synthetic version of corporatist atheism borrowing much of the Marxist premises of social equality in spiritless meaninglessness. If Karl Marx could be transmogrified into a Libertarian corporatist he would fit well in modern American society as a broadcast journalist.

If modern America was too willing to throw out macro-historical analysis and dispose of objective reason in line with Dewian principles of the relativity of truth theory so far as to negate it, along with reality as a subjective experience solely without an objective for-itself status, it was ready to accept science and elite opinion and paradigms in there stead.

In the 18th century scientific and historical theory were not so far apart as they latter developed. It was reasonable to create hypothesis about mass social behavior as it was about gravity. In a contemporary litigious era where expert and fine, mathematically precise opinion can be proven or defended but historical generality cannot, there is a natural deemphasis upon general social and historical theory, however that does not preclude the possibility of the formation of accurate historical or social generalities.

While Aristotle might be regarded as the first extra-scriptural writer of historical cycle theory in his treatise Politics, in an era where democracy still breaks down through lack of mass democratic participation with intelligence and determination to maintain democracy in health, it is a reciprocal fact that too few discern the applicability of the doctrine to the present time.

Obama Force Snuffs 19 at Kunduz Clinic

3 October 2014

U.S. military forces evidently bombed the main Doctors Without Borders trauma center in Kunduz Afghanistan for 30 minutes until no life remained within. In the effort to retake Kunduz for the Afghan Government Obama forces provided U.S. Air power to deliver a precise, surgical attack causing some collateral damage. Doctors Without Borders said they had called the U.S. Military and asked them to stop the attack, and had already informed the U.S. Military of the location numerous times, yet that was to no avail preventing death from above when Maxwell's silver hammer dropped upon their heads.

The Doctors Sans Frontiers organization said they will close the trauma center.

Brit Immigrant Harper-Mercer Killed 9 at Umqua CC-Why?

2 Oct. 2015

Christopher Harper-Mercer (the shooter at Umqua CC) was a British immigrant as a youth. The dual citizenship and inherent ex-pat status may have formed complexities for his reasoning. I think the cultural disconnect helped shape his ideas, and all of the changes in Oregon and DC also morphed the social environment. When I was in the Oregon Army Guard in 1982 this sort of thing wasn't a part of cultural history-it started with the Clinton era.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/oregon-shooting-umpqua-gunman-chris-harper-mercer-what-we-know-n437351

A 26 year old from Oregon growing up in the 90s and 00's was likely to encounter an awful lot of bad underground trash lyrics in music. radio Satan (informal) from Sacramento was an influence too. Social conditioning was rather degenerate. Much illegal immigration has saturated Oregon since the 80's. It is a place where some young white guys can feel marginalized and perhaps jealous of the loss of a beautiful land in an unrealistic way. With a dual citizenship tie to Britain it is not unlikely that a latent colonial supremacist sentiment for his tribe incentivized his thought.

Shooting up a school is unthinkable though. yet Columbine and the slaughter at Eugene were punk trend apparently aging a little in the Obama years. To a certain extent every life has an element of trimish punk about it, it is just that some people deal better with the anomie aspects better than others.

U.S. Post-Moral Era Impact on Foreign Policy (with video)

30 Sept. 2015

When the Clinton and Obama administrations with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court progressed into turf traditionally considered immoral and moved a post-industrial nation into a post-morality status with homosexual marriage added to an existing corpus of corruption of moral norms such as abortion, making effective foreign policy became challenging. For who in the third world would really want to be like the U.S.A. morally? While the Clinton drip of e-mails continues her descent in the polls, as the Pope presents a sacerdotal priesthood militant hierarchy of imperialism as an elite caste of Christians is rife with child abusers, the public is assaulted with broadcast media intimacy that in prior eras who have comprised pornography. What is lacking is good macro-economic sense as wealth increases its concentration. As a sense of sin decays, so does democracy and democratic responsibility. When democracy transitions to moral irresponsibility wealth and power concentrates as the masses are misled to believe that the financial insiders are responsible for maintaining political health instead of themselves.

In most of the Muslim world the prospects for reaching an equivalent post-moral status, beyond good and evil. within the next century, are quite poor. A completely corrupt broadcast media is required for mass brainwashing support for bum-rushing decadent laws along with a dominant libertine judiciary to force the masses into immoral acquiescence. In some cases additional factors such as contraception and a high standard of living for women are required to get sufficient support for abortion. The Muslim world simply hasn't comparable social institutions to compel immorality on the people as does the U.S.A. Neither have undemocratic societies a good prospect for selecting corrupt and ineffective political leadership sold out to wealthy minority interests in show business that prefer dope, homosexuality, abortion and extended life spans through fetal research or even cloning and cyborg transition.

It is possible to simple make new, positive, rational political planks to move toward moral upgrade and ecological economics with lowest possible entropy increase to earth consistent with technological and material progress-it does require intelligence rather than pervasive destruction of traditional morality.

American foreign policy has decreasingly plausible match-ups to foreign social interests such that would bring them to mate with the immoral condition of the District of Columbia, Boston and etc. that are formative of American immoral conditioning through politics and the media.

In the post-moral era the U.S.A. has a detached from scriptural reality Christian evangelical community with a pre-tribulationist end-times theory waiting for Armageddon and rapture into thin air. They have wrong eschatology. They believe the Beast of Revelation could be President Obama, Hillary Clinton, an evil clown, a foreign political leader or CEO of a major corporation etc. , yet it was the first century Roman Emperor Nero-working tribulation on Peter Paul and other Christians. There are plenty enough real things in politics to worry about and fix to chase after spore of deficient hermeneutical method. If millions are living voodoo-cracker eschatology expecting a Sky Dragon , marks of the beast, and Babylon the Great Whore (some wonder, could it be the U.S.A., China or Iraq?-probably it was first century Jerusalem approaching 70 a.d.) )to appear like the Great Pumpkin before they fly like O.J. out of the Hertz rental car seat into the sky (an ancient TV. ad) they will be handicapped in seeming to have political competence. Some enterprising politicians would likely try to make their expectations come true and brand people with 666 after the zombie fad of atheism debauches itself into the desert dirt.

Wrong end-times theory evangelicals may have reasonable morals yet their political competence is lacking. How can people that believe the social environment is going to be ruled by Satan before Armageddon have anything beside an escapist, pessimistic point of view wherein they hope for rapturous removal to heaven? In fact the tribulation and Armageddon occurred in the first century a.d.,. Jesus had established the kingdom of God and a slow build over history to a point where a majority of the world population would become Christian and set it into motion before his crucifixion. It is a kind of growth prospect over the long run comparable I suppose to that of Wall Street's historical long term value rise.

Catholics, Britons and Muslims all comprise extraterritorial, global imperial interests with political orientations profoundly different from nationalist democracy in the U.S.A. not to mention India. Britain is of course America's mentor in immorality and led the way with influences such as Elton John to homosexual marriage. Actual American values with the post-tribulationism or rather post-millennialism of Puritans like Jonathan Edwards are lacking. Defenders of democracy and morality have faded away as corporate interests have promoted wealth globally mostly for themselves and demoted morality. The complexity of finding a democratic core in the United States and forming a pragmatic and moral foreign policy seems remote.

Cold financial calculations such as that of taking historically Russian Ukraine and transferring ownership to global corporatism through a puppet proxy state of Ukraine must have guided the Clinton administration's leverage on Boris Yeltsin. The Obama administration has urged Ukraine to deny Russian even the Eastern side of the Dnepr lands. What should have happened, and still could, is peaceful Russian separatism and eventually east-west coalition into commercial and social trading and business informal merger.

The post-moral policy of the Obama administration is influencing events in Afghanistan. Kunduz has been retaken by the Taliban, and why logically not? Disaffection from American immorality along with withdrawal of direct U.S. combat troops to occupy the nation helped the Taliban rather than U.S. and allied territorial prospects in Afghanistan. American perfidy in the Middle East seems more emergent with Syrian, Kurdish, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Israeli, Iraqi and Iranian relations. It seems that it must be more than a little challenging for people of those nations to trust the U.S. at all, though it would be impolitic to say so.

America's European 'partners' have experienced the post-moral policies from the U.S.A. producing fruits such as Syrian mass-migration to Europe. The post-moral era seems to stimulate end-of western-civilization social values, and the left appears to value that prospect, while people of the second and third world tend to admire the wealth owned preponderantly by a small percent of Americans and devalue the immorality, if they are from a nation with any sort of morally reinforcing values. National values really matter. As in the I.Q. phenomenon where one doesn't know what one doesn't know and doesn't have an awareness of being in the dark, a society may lose moral and national political values and become entirely unaware of that. It may even be difficult to remind a decaying society that they are going on a path that does not lead to prosperity, security or eternal life with the Lord.

The administration policies affect the security of Christians in Nigeria as well as the Middle East who have fled due to terror and government purging. Clinton-Obama policies have built up deviant sex and broadcast media language use and decreased public perceptions of Christian values. As the administrations seem to try to degrade Christianity nationally that harms global prospects for Christian evangelization and conversions for proselytes. It makes it easier for political actions against Christians abroad as it is believed that D.C. is itself a Satan led anti-moral leader.

While it appears bad enough it is remarkable that post-millennialist interpretation of scripture such as Kenneth Gentry has described in 'He Shall Have Dominion' views the long-range prospects optimistically. At some point a turn to Christian moral norms and ethics will transition into being as a majoritarian Christian global population develops. With ecological economic evolution and godly democracy for a people mostly living within the kingdom of God the future looks bright. It is remarkable though, how many vicissitudes the world goes through as its leaders lack enough good information and faith to even consider coordinated and effective remedies for the world of challenges.

Alternative Energy Prospects Increasing

29 Sept. 2015

Discoveries in alternative energy production still require implementation of product. The state of Alaska ought to invest something in fuel cell power plants in remote locations to power toaster-incinolet privies and microwave ovens. All of the wood-burning stoves and fires for cooking in the world's poorest villages could be replaced by several fuel cells per settlement along with a fuel cell, wind and or solar power if donors wanted to develop such a planetary infrastructure.

https://badgerherald.com/news/2015/09/29/uw-discovery-could-make-hydrogen-a-more-affordable-alternative-energy-source/

Solar water stills and other technologies to make life better for the poor might be other areas to invest in.

Does Latino Pope Francis Recognize U.S. Border Sovereignty?

28 Sept. 2015

An Argentinian, Latino Pope that said all immigrants including illegals should be treated equally while speaking in the United States did not perhaps recognize the equal treatment of the law for all people in the sovereign lands of the U.S.A. It was as if people breaking the law should be given special status and regarded as not breaking the law.

It is a rather amusing topic for a Latino Pope to be counseling the nation on behalf of illegal immigration of Latinos to the U.S.A. as if entirely Latino countries south of the U.S. border aren't enough and they need to take over the U.S.A. It is a fascinating historical issue since Argentina purged its nation more completely of aboriginal Americans than any other in the western hemisphere, and also had a semi-fascist military junta that disappeared lots of people and sought to conquer the Malvinas Islands. Failing in that effort during which time Francis was not especially outspoken in opposition evidently he can look to expand his flock northward into the U.S.A. through the soft underbelly of liberalism.

Perhaps I am not writing about this issue very well-it really is rich in history.

Pope Alexander VI issued a bull-the first Inter Caetera before the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. The bull banned;  all persons, no matter what rank, estate, degree, order or condition to dare, without your special permission (the Pope) to go for the sake of trade or any other reason whatever, to the said islands and countries after they have been discovered and found by your envoys or persons sent out for that purpose.

http://www.thehistoryreader.com/medieval-history/treaty-tordesillas-1494-decision-still-influencing-todays-world/

The Pope claimed half the the world-that was a good example of imperialism. When England and other nations developed good navies and effectively dominated much of North America while the Spanish took much of the south an  America treaty was reached in 1670 whereby, in effect, a line east-west was made across the Atlantic with the Northern part going to the Protestant British and the southern portion to the Spanish Catholics, Habsburgs. Some people still want it all evidently

There is indeed a rich history in Pope Francis seeming to flunk recognition of border integrity and freedom from Southern expansion northward. I tend to think that if the U.S.A. formed in the South, and the Spanish took the North, that Pope Francis as a Philadelphia Argentinian would be arguing in support of Hispanic migration south in order to expand the Catholic realm of imperial influence. As Pope over a former great world imperium via proxies global domination is still latent desire. Not that all of the people of the world shouldn't be Christians-they should. The Burj Caliphate replaced the World Trade Towers with the will of those that want to expand a Caliphate to global domination by a false prophet. Neither of those imperial entities are just plain Christian with Jesus as Lord, yet the Catholics are probably close to the spirit of God than Muslims. Well, at least neither are former British imperialists seeking global domination through finance.

In my opinion people are poor for circumstantial and historical reasons involving a lot of history geography and a prevalent inner drive toward imperialism wherein everyone wants to be at the top of their own social pyramid instead of growing a garden.

What Does Burj Khalifa Symbolism in Islam?

28 Sept. 2015

The tallest building in the world known as the Burj Hkalifa has symbolic meaning to Muslims. I suppose it means something like Burgeoning Caliphate to westerners. It is no wonder that ISIS also swelled into prominence during the construction phase and opening of the tallest building.

http://www.factfixx.com/2012/01/04/burj-khalifa-tallest-building/

Quoting from Islamic world.net on the meaning of khalifa obe finds 'KHALIFAH is an Arabic word literally meaning one who replaces someone else who left or died (English: caliph). In the context of Islam, however, the word acquires a narrower meaning. The Muslim Khalifa is the successor (in a line of successors) to Prophet Muhammad's position as the political, military, and administrative leader of the Muslims"

and

"Prophet Muhammad 

said:There will be Nabuwa with Rehma (prophethood with Mercy). The there will be Khilafah with Ba’yah (pledge). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Mulkan ‘Adoodan (Rule by force). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Mulkan Jabriya (against people’s will). Then Allah will change it when He wishes. Then there will be Khilafah Ala Minhajin Nabuwa (on the path of prophethood). The earth and the sky will bestow their treasures. (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Courtesy of Khilafah.Org)"

U.S. Public Debt at 105% of G.D.P.

26 Sept. 2015

Econoblog has published an informative piece on the public debt 'overhang'-something like an avalanche snow cornice I suppose, that may account for the slow economic growth.

http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2015/09/united-states-government-debt-is-in-uncharted-territory-2/

There is also an ecosphere degradation overhang-its much more than just global atmospheric heating. The mass extinction of species is in a sense a loss of a data bank and library of critters that could be helpful for populating exo-planets with life (it ought to be more than just humans and robots).

The nation needs to transition to ecological economics, yet that requires intelligent government leadership, so I suppose it is only a joke to consider.

Foreign Migrant Labor Mainly Benefits Imperial Management

26 Sept. 2015

It seems as if mass foreign migrations, often illegal, usually benefit management. Labor supply and demand is comparable to product supply and demand. international trade agreements exist to prevent dumping of product that would harm foreign management/investors, yet politicians and some clerics reinforce dumping of migrant labor that is harmful to labor supply in the nation receiving the migrants. Since the world isn’t primarily a commune and ‘rich countries’ aren’t either and instead have real supply and demand capital systems, moving large numbers of poor workers to ‘rich nations’ simply harms labor values locally and globally.

Economic and social theorists ought not be so intellectually disingenuous as to ignore the perennial intervention in labor market value with that result in dumping cheap migrant labor. capitalism is not really then given a chance to work as it should with so much ‘goaltending’ keeping labor value as low as possible politically.

The slowest to improve the plight of the poor is the result of effective imperial quality politics driving international mass migrations. The way capitalism is supposed to work is that when the labor market tightens in a nation wages go up. Management that wants cheap labor move their factory to a country with cheap labor supply and the poor in that country have better lives. Because relocating factories can be costly there is a certain degree of social stability as management/investors are recalcitrant about moving. A stable society and population has less crime and better prospects for education and compilation of micro-capital. The costs of government are less with social stability, zero unemployment and excellent wages.

Imperialist prefer social chaos and confusion with low or no wages, cheap labor supply and poverty with political power and wealth concentrated. Creating political situations that cause mass migrations accelerates conditions harmful to labor and of benefit to management. Generally lawlessness and disorder harms the poor more than the rich Orderly progress with rational expectations support hope for a better life.

Because some would perhaps confuse the state of Christians being free from the law and given to live by the spirit, in the modern context, I will note that the law that Christians are free from is not contemporary civil law, but the Jewish laws that existed in ancient Israel. Those laws could be inaccurately complied with even without the right spiritual relationship to God. Jesus Christ enabled those of faith in the Lord to live in the spirit and fulfill all the requirements of the law through the saving grace of Jesus Christ, the Father and Holy Spirit. The destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. by the Romans accentuated the point. The ancient laws and sacrifices at the temple had been surpassed.

Christians are obligated to obey civil law except where it conflicts with laws of God as given in scripture. Jesus said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God things that belong to God. Plainly that has more than one meaning, for Christians belong to God, and the lost belong to the world.

The word for land or earth was pronounced 'gay' in ancient Greek (spelled GE). The temporal experience and the land comprising it that the unsaved lust after isn't heaven, and the experience of it won't go on forever. While the worldly are spiritually dead and must live under the law, except so far as they choose not to as anarchists, it isn't the ancient Jewish law that they must live under; it is that of the civil government where they are. Laws in a democracy are the property of the people, made by and for the people, until the laws are corrupted by power, or the people themselves become corrupt and incapable of making and enacting just law. Spiritual correctness prevailing in a society requires fewer laws; love one's neighbor as thyself.

It is possible for governments and donors to provide training and emergency help to poor nations in order to allow them to help themselves. Yet when cheap labor travels to ‘rich nations’ to expand the labor supply and lower wages there is less need to look abroad for cheap labor to exploit. Exploiting cheap labor is the imperial way-that is what slavery in the America was about after all-importing slaves was made illegal very soon in the history of the U.S.A. as a democracy.

The longest path to ending planetary poverty runs through a perpetuation of shifting mass cheap labor about from country to country. Destroying social structures in poor countries that do exist will require extra time and cost to bring into a stable state of order in they ever attain a better standard of living. Like military units with a stable history being disinclined to perpetuate war crimes in comparison to newly formed and irregular forces, civil societies that are made into ghettos or destabilized and made to lose many to emigration are challenging to restore to a stable condition. Shifting about of mass migrations of labor in the modern context perpetuates rather than relieves poverty. Imperialists welcome cheap labor and degradation of civil equality.

John Boehner Considering a Run for the White House?

25 Sept. 2015

With many republican and Independent voters mildly dissatisfied with the field of candidates running for the Presidency in 2016 Speaker John Boehnor's decision to resign his post may indicate a potential run for the White House.

Bill Clinton entered the 1992 election only about January 1992 unfortunately overshadowing the late Senator Tongass' earlier entry into the virtually absent field of Democratic candidates. While it would have been better if the royal families of Clintons and Bushes had not ever run for the Oval Office viewing it as a family bad of Lay's potato chips in that they can't stop at just one, John Boehner may have the general public trust to serve credibly in the White House if the Trump candidacy or that of Ben Carson doesn't rev up sustainable public interest through fall ratings season.

Entry of a candidate into the dragon flames of campaign pressure might be comfortable for one already in the octogon of electoral combat.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/25/9397467/john-boehner-resign-reason

U.S.-China Collective Accord; No Internet Economic Spying

25 Sept. 2015

Some actually believe that China and the United States will not conduct economic espionage in cyberspace as a new bilateral agreement stipulates. No hackers, no crime, government owned businesses included or excluded? etc. and additional interesting items to consider make it seem like some sort of plastic watermelon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-us-and-china-agree-not-to-conduct-economic-espionage-in-cyberspace/2015/09/25/1c03f4b8-63a2-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

If the world has three fundamental collective ad hoc unions including investors, government bureaucrats and ordinary people, maybe two of the three have a balance of economic power tipping the scale in a particular direction. It does seem though that the U.S. Government doesn't  trust capitalism enough to let Lunar development of ecosphere industrial research adn development plots of a thousand acres each be offered to anyone in the world that has the ability to industry-stead on the moon. Monopoly is not well regarded in capitalist theory and competition is; so why the continuing U.S. monopoly on Lunar development such that nothing ever happens?

Shouldn't the Pope Have Supported Legal Immigration?

24 Sept. 2013

The Roman Pontiff in a speech to Congress in D.C. appeared to say that the U.S.A. is hostile to immigrants, and failed to recognize the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. It is just wrong for clerics to support law breakers subverting civil order and rational government; political leaders have enough trouble as it is. Ordinary people deserve rational expectations about demographics and environment to form a continuum that is true and stable.  Not every American is rich...many live from day to day.

The United States is a nation where all people had immigrant ancestors at some point yet that does not mean that a democracy ought to have open borders and no effective civil justice and equal opportunity for the citizens of a nation in a demographically challenged world replete with terrorists.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-pope-usa-congress-idUSKCN0RO1O320150924

Plainly the world need ecological economics engineering to syntegrate with politics and political thought in order to transition to sustainability, yet subverting existing populations and their educational base and cultural politics and initiatives to advance to more modern structures able to meet demographic stress on the ecosphere. Mass population migrations defeating social planning efforts for conservation, education, employment and sustainability don't help if they are mass illegal movements.

The Pope said to welcome the stranger in our midst. True-if he isn't law breaking and complies with law and order. When I visited the Vatican during the reign of Pope John Paul the II I was initially denied entry for wearing shorts. I went around the block, changed clothes and returned. Even strangers must comply with house rules.

Loving one's neighbors as oneself does not mean letting them move in and take possession. First one should try to fix the neighbor's place if it doesn't work-and that should be ecospheric economics. President Obama stimulated civil war in Syria for years causing quite directly the present flight of hundreds of thousands to Europe (because it is richer than Africa in some senses and hence a better place to go).

The Pope should have just stayed with criticizing the President's lack of christian morality in forcing through homosexual marriage. The President doesn't realize the importance of marriage in that it is a paradigm of the church uniting with God through the Son as the bride of Christ. For the church to take up sin as official doctrine as some have (e.g. the P.C. U.S.A.) is to send a lot of people to hell.

Everyone wants to emphasize the benefits of salvation while few describe the terrible penalties for failure to follow the correct way of the Lord.

Wholistic Extra-Terrestrial Ecosphere Manufacture Goals

24 Sept. 2015

Contemporary science has learned a lot about ecosystems and biology. On the Earth however there is no opportunity to apply all that knowledge to create a complete living ecosphere; for one planetary ecosphere already exists. So science without any practical opportunity to develop an ecosphere on this world must look to others to apply concepts as practical works.

Science is not exclusively owned by government of course; the private sector applies science to manufacture items of value and also funds research. The government could take a small step for mankind in zoning ecosphere manufacture plots on the moon of a thousand acres each in a variety of lunar environments for the use of any corporate research and development entity that wants to locate a grow your own ecosphere on the moon. No nation should be excluded from the opportunity to create a demonstration ecosphere on the Moon of the Earth if it is willing to try.

There is a lot more barren rock with no atmosphere in the solar system than human friendly, verdant worlds. Ecosphere Engineering needs to get started on learning how to really make green environments where there is only cold death. Maybe some of the articficial ecospheres will have a different color motif for photosynthesis, or base growth on heat from a planetary core, microwaves reflected from a star or etc.

Obviously there is an obligatory need to roundly trash talk politicians and human leadership as idiots, greedy varmints, ##!! etc. I trust that recognition is sufficient to allow me to proceed. Plainly investing in practical works is not a normal government activity these days in a psychological age of fracture with plenty of Hollywood special effects, drugs and globalism.

The U.S. Government as unofficial owners of the moon by primitive right of first dibs should make industrial lunar plots of a thousand acres for ecosphere building available to anyone that can get to the moon and build one. It would be rather like the frontier homestead program adapted for large-scale ecosphere experimentation.

There are innumerable and different approaches to building a self-contained ecosphere on a planet or moon with zero atmosphere and near absolute zero temperatures. Little thousand acre experimental plots could provide room for proof of concept manufacture. There is no requirement that an extra-terrestrial body be entirely converted to human habitability. It would be sufficient to manufacture cellular habitats of a thousand acres or so in such quantity as is deemed useful.

Building self-sustaining real ecospheres in extra-terrestrial local would require ecosphere engineering of an intellectual scale challenging to the do it by the book bureaucratic collectives flourishing on Earth today. What is learned on the Moon could benefit recovery of the Earths dwindling ecosphere as well as being used as a way to improve human prospects on Mars.

Human beings need to improve their use of natural ecospheres such that they are more efficient, more conservative and reduce added entropy to a minimum while continuing production. Even so expansion of new ecospheric regions around the solar system is requisite for sustainable human development. Recovery of a healthy Earth ecosphere, perhaps using fishing as a measuring tool-the earth should attain fish population health like that existing in 12,000 B.C.-ought to be a goal of a mature ecosphere manufacturing industry.

Government tends to want to encourage construction of faster space engines and flimsy Martian temporary housing yet if humans arriving at distant places off-world have the same inability to build healthy ecospheres and just consume and destroy them as at present, their prospects will be pretty poor as they are in effect running from themselves and their own nasty habits.

Concerning Governance of the Tongue

23 Sept. 2015

In about 1655 Richard Baxter published one of four volumes of Practical Works titled 'Ethics'. Baxter was something of a brilliant reformed theologian. He described time as being the place where we have the opportunity to experience life. A unification of space and time such as they are each dimensions was a common social perception then, surprisingly. His brilliance pertained to practical christian concerns generally, as he was cast out of the church along with other independent minded churchmen by the Cromwell administration and he did not have much of a library to take about the countryside with him. I have made a few comments about chapter none of 'Ethics' as they concern contemporary states of affairs generally.

Concerning Chapter 9: Directions for the Government of the Tongue

Baxter cites psalm 7-4 our lips are own own, who is lord over us as an example of those that regard words and thoughts as trivial and of little consideration, who then use language inconsiderably. The raving broadcast media is exemplary in that regard with demotic slurring and morphing of words often to confuse truth with falsehood. If words and thoughts were indeed of such trivial concern it would be a different world than it is.

I think that the basic casualty of slop-talk by the media is the civilian properties of rights and democracy. With mass confusion political power becomes concentrated and is regarded as a lighthouse in the fog. Voters may elect prominent objects that appear through the fog for a time yet never organize or think for themselves. In the collective broadcast news media class creative social destruction enables the concentration of wealth and plutocratic imperialism globally. Media slop-talk runs roughshod over individualism and individual (bright) political ideas such as ecological economic development.

Words and language are in a sense mankind's best attribute; they express intelligent thought and content of the mind. Words can be used to praise the glory of God, and they can also be used to debase the soul and create envy and strife.

The Holy Spirit is a remarkable concept to regard. God as a spirit; the primary spirit is of course known to humanity as three persons, and we are saved through the Son, yet the Father is too spirit, as is the Son who took on flesh...

Spirit that can create or phenomenalize matter and energy in space-time is concerned that humanity (so far as I know) advance to intelligent thought cognizant of spirit. Falling back into creatureliness and a troubled sleep as existential clumps of mass without regard to godliness, rational governance of mind or having a right relationship to the Spirit (Father) through the Son with the help of the Holy Spirit is a prevailing malady for much of society. One can hear in the mass broadcast media archetypes of the social collective ungodliness that is like Platonic language forms from a broadcast media realm of word forms manifested in ordinary imitation as little particular forms by the masses in ordinary intra-social speech. When the government itself corrupts the tongue and works evil, when sin has itself taken over governance of social discourse, it is not good.

The tongue may be used directly for sin, such as with blasphemy, false doctrine (that probably includes pre-tribulationism and dispensationalism), ridiculing godliness, lying, forbidding preaching of the word, boasting, talking about common things too much in a holy setting, tempting to sin, carnal handling of holy things, traducing superiors (this does not include truthful and objective evaluation of and participation in peer proceedings of democracy or of those appointed to serve the public in office who fail to execute their tasks competently and honestly, or to publish opinion about public policy, international relations, environment and of the conduct of those in office, and of those concerned with creating public problems of commensurate scale. In fact for Christians to fail to speak their opinion about public issues in a democracy when they know the facts about an issue accurately, and to allow wrong policy to proceed with maladministration and maladministrators is a kind of sin of omission by the citizen to fail to perform his or her civic or ecclesiastical duty.)

Fish In Ocean 50% Down from 1970

22 Sept. 2015

Scientists have found that fish have dropped in quantity by 50% since 1970.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-fish-numbers-cut-in-half-since-1970/

That's bad for fishing prospects with the world population maybe doubled since then.

On the other hand, wages for white males have stagnated since then too, and there are only as many Americans working now as there were in 1977.

http://www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/budget/toward-the-looming-us-fiscal-crisis.html

On the bright side though, in 11,500 B.C. fishing was good on Alaska rivers and early Americans caught and maybe traded salmon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0922/Ice-age-Alaskans-dined-on-salmon-say-researchers

As a practical matter the broadcast media psychs the collective so they believe whatever they are told about national prospects to a certain extent making people believe that worse is better and decay is progressive.

If ecological economics could be used to make self-supporting, self-sustaining green living ecospheres with fish and a variety of species on the Moon or Mars, that would be encouraging and dissipate the sense of eco-doom quite a bit. In science fiction at least, anything is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics

'Directions for the Government of the Senses'

20 Sept. 2015

Governing the senses, rather than being governed by the senses, is an implicit human characteristic of reason. Reason is a process of mind sorting through a large body of sense data that is evaluated to comprehend and implement behavior in best self-interest. Chapter eight of Richard Baxter's 'Ethics' concerns governing the senses. It is another brilliant essay in 'Ethics'. I think Baxter's acute philosophical thought would surprise many philosophers. After all, Baxter wrote this book circa 1655-a contemporary of Descartes and prior to Hume and Sartre. Perennial ideas concerning mind, reason, perceptions, sense data and the relation between the temporal world and the atemporal eternal reality from which the Universe condensed or precipitated perhaps phenomenally like a hologram or more substantially as a steady state of quantum entanglement of energy packets are of continuing interest and have beginning for the west with pre-Socratic philosophers besides the obvious Athenians Socrates, Plato and Democritus. Baxter's applied use of the salient philosophical concepts is entirely within a theological paradigm however and might easily slip past the review of overly technical contemporary philosophers and philologists interested in the history of ideas.

To a certain extent encountering sense-data is a forced rather than an optional experience. A mind without sense data input fundamentally would need to be non-existent or without a body and hence non-existent. It may be possible for a human spirit via the grace of God to exist without a body, however the human mind seems to be a concatenation of human physiology existing as a processor of information at a conscious and subconscious level.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in his book 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' a piece examining the relationship of mind to sense data. That is a perennial philosophical line of inquiry. Bishop Berkeley for instance developed ideaism (aka idealism) through the consideration of the mind to sense data relation). Schopenhauer showed that mind can input and reconfigure sense data in such a way as to get more out of sense data than the mere physical input provides. The example he used was that of 3-D vision.

Sense data actually provides flat-screen 2-dimensional visual input and the brain with a little training uses the different angles of input from the eyes being set apart to create a virtual 3-D appearance. That has since been a well-researched field of study that has been broadly applied to horses and creatures that look up from the ground or down from above and so forth regarding the position of their eyes on the skull.

Not to get too far into that particular sense data inquiry, the relationship of mind to sense data and of reason to sense data is of interest for Christians; sanctification according to the measure of God's grace permits reason to develop a spiritual and eternal capacity rather than simply a temporal relation and capacity for reason-and that is a profound difference concerning actual individual and social human behavior.

Contemporary American psychology largely concerns empirical and temporal reason and physiological relations of mind to body and sense data. Because it is fundamentally empirical it has lent itself to an anti-eternal bias. It is like Plato without a realm of forms, or Socratic virtue without eternal reason. As American psychology is a temporal and reductionist study discovering 'mechanical' or innate causality for sense data and cognitive processing it has tended to move toward a fracturization of reason in the temporal and nihilation of reason concerning eternal, non-phenomenal things.

That observation isn't new of course. David Hume was the first of philosophers to formalize the maxim that if a book isn't about sense data input, concrete things one should burn it as sophistry. That point of view seems commensurate with contemporary British imperialism through corporatism and the destruction and degradation of civilian rights, morals and reason in order to default to rule by financial elites without actual democracy being developed.

Baxter has a great page or two (actually most all of them are compared to much writing today) describing the fundamental state of human reason in comparison to that of brutes (or purely materialistic feminists and others seeking pure class ego advancement and advantage without reason of eternal values).

The quote from chapter eight, direction 1; Reason is dethroned by sin; and the will is left unguided and unguarded to the rapes of sensual violence. Reason must be restored, before sense will be well governed; for what else must be their immediate governor? it is no sin for brutes to live by sense, because they have not reason to rule it; and in man it is ruled more or less, as reason is more or less restored. When reason is only cleared about things temporal (as in men of worldly wisdom,) there sense will be mastered and ruled as to such temporal, as far as they require it. But where is reason is sanctified, there sense is ruled to the ends of sanctification, according to the measure of grace.

I think the development of reason is not so well respected today by select elites though there is more knowledge than ever before. There is perhaps a variegated advance along the social front regarding knowledge, reason and spiritual discernment that does not occur at an equal pace everyplace on Earth in space and time. So if reason falls victim now and then to politics and mass psychology martinets, it probably recovers eventually after some mayhem and destruction, despair and chaos. The U.S.A. presently has a non-reasoning sense-data kind of foreign policy vectors in the Middle-East and Ukraine, and the President has levered through homosexual marriage and a homosexual nominee for Secretary of the Army. Since pre-trib evangelicals also are simplistic and non-reasoning enough concerning their choice of eschatology it seems apropos that so much of U.S. foreign policy and domestic social development is off-balance and non-reasoning about eternal values and principles. Maybe that will again change yet one should never misunderestimate the powers of mass error under the tutelage of the broadcast media. One cannot expect Americans all to be John Rambo disregarding pain as easily as the mythical Buddhist monk for whom all is illusory and when the bell tolls it is silent or no bell at all. It is possible however to develop reason about the senses such that objectivity concerning the senses and sense data builds up. For Christians original sin tolls the bell for all and thee, yet it is not the signal for an, unreasoning temporal spree. Reason with an eye to the eternal world lets the Lord shield one with grace . From sense data that would overcome reason, and resonant bells sounding Satan hellish pace, the Lord Jesus navigates one through temporal, sensory shoals to the eternal place of God.

It is also the case that experience really changes reception of and reaction to sense data and empirical circumstance. Consider how one can prevent blisters from walking in boots through a variety of means, or that infected blisters can cause blood poisoning and death fairly swiftly. The naive walk right into disaster, while the experienced applying the benefit of knowledge with reason act to prevent such development from occurring. Christians too have innumerable sensory traps that might be avoided with reason and experience, and just relying upon the word of God, that are common and recurrent to all that experience life.

Concerning Baxter's Directions to Weak Christians for Their Establishment and Growth

20 Sept. 2015

There are numerous practical instructions in the second chapter of Richard Baxter's 'Ethics' for the safe development of an individual's Christian religious practice as he is new to the faith or young. The several points that Baxter makes are remarkably clear and apply to areas even beyond Christianity. This is another chapter with theology amidst the practical that is excellent for philosophically inclined Christians to encounter as well as anyone else.

Points such as the attraction of the new and novel to people, including religion, and how people may move after a time to the next new thing and fail to increase their understanding of God through the Lord Jesus Christ are plainly right. In contemporary politics forgetting the past and disregarding present points of view-if not suppressing them, that are politically inconvenient is standard operating procedure for the federal government. Farther into the chapter Baxter warns against leaping into every controversy and distracting oneself from deeper understanding of God. He illustrates the fact that several character traits may be overdeveloped in controversy, and I would think that the temporal view and circumstance may be overly accentuated eclipsing thereby the eternal. Too much ego can make one miss the subtly and immanent end of the temporal experience. Jesus Christ is the doorway to eternal life with God. That is an epiphenomena l and narrow circumstance, or extrusion of the eternal into the temporal that it is too easy to lose sight of if overly preoccupied with sundry social, or worldly concerns.

I think it was Baxter, yet perhaps it was Gentry, who wrote that worldly in the Biblical context, or 'the world' referred more to the social order and social reality than the geophysical. Worldliness can thus mean the social and temporal order. It is in the social and temporal order that controversy occurs and zeal for wrong ideas may develop. Zeal to prosecute doctrine that may be in error can lead to some great and marvelous irony.

Though Athenasius and Augustine basically held post-millennial viewpoints, and Jesus said that within his present generation all of the end times things described in Matthew would be done (and the Temple was destroyed about 37 years after crucifixion), there are millions and millions of pre-tribulationist Christians with zeal for the wrong eschatology. It is a great example of what Baxter was writing about in this second chapter of Ethics.

For example, creative adaptive pop-eschatology could consider it possible that the James Webb Space Telescope may catch first sight of a vast left-wing dragon seeking to put the bite on and consume a woman in space who will flee to the wilderness of Proxima Centauri for refuge. That is a long way from the sober partial preterist first century interpretation of Matthew's eschatology and that of the Revelation.

And they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?" (Rev. 13:4).

It is evident that the initial, paradigmatic role, extreme cruelty, and length of Nero’s persecution of Christianity fit well the role required in Revelation for the Beast. Nero did wage war with the saints to overcome them (Rev. 13:7). And he is the only Roman emperor of the first century to have done such. Not only so but he did it for the length of time specified in the Revelational record: 42 months. Surely Nero is before us in Revelation 13 as the specific manifestation of the Beast.-Gentry, page 55 The Beast of Revelation

It is possible to create and offer a course in first century Christian prophecy and prophecy fulfillment that would illuminate the tremendous, living power of God to structure, decree and fulfill events in world history. There are few accurate presentations of preterist, post-millennial paradigmata from Matthew and the Revelation brought to the public in concise form that summarize the incredible accuracy of Jesus and John. Kenneth Gentry describes all of the criterion in two books; The Beast of Revelation, and He Shall Have Dominion, yet too few Christians ever encounter or read those books. In other words most Christians don't know the truth about their own religion, and what a difference it makes. Imagine if people thought the prophecies of the Old Testament were never fulfilled and were yet to occur.

Some Christians await a Jewish sort of Messianic paradigm to emerge as if they were zealots expecting an imperial ruler; something like the Emperor-Dragon with the Caesar's made in his image to rule with an iron fist and put down evil opposition. Instead a gradual build up of Christians to a majority of the population will occur even though pre-tribbers expect a doom and dwindling of believers until a new Anti-Christ world ruler takes over like Nero of old. What a difference.

A Secular Syria and Other Fantasy Sports Plans

20 Sept. 2015

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States and Russia share the same goal of transitioning to a secular Syrian state that is stable. Some would like to have the Moon made into green cheese, and that may be equally likely. The administration should take a look ahead and imagine a post-Alawite, Sunni Syrian state.

The fundamental orientation of Middle Eastern states is that of sectarianism. Sunni states do not tolerate Shi'ite mosques and vice versa. Muslims do not tolerate Jews except if absolutely necessary, and few tolerate Christians except as an oppressed minority. The best prospects for a secular Middle Eastern state was that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The inventor of Baathist secular socialist politics was from Syria. Re-establishing a Syrian socialist party with no religion too may be an Obama administration goal, yet it seems completely daft or disingenuous.

No one in the U.S. administration seems able to comprehend that removing the Assad and Alawite government from Syria-perhaps in order to liberate 140 billion dollars in gold bullion the Assad Government is rumored to have-will result in the purge of all sects besides the winning Sunni, and that won't promote stability. Once the Alawi and Christians are purged from Syria by U.S. design or malevolent negligence it would be impossible for them to lead any kind of return to power. The effective real Von Kerry plan is a permanent transition to a new Sunni state in Syria and that won't be at all stabilizing.

Instead the most likely outcome is for a steady transition to a right, conservative fundamentalist Sunni government that seeks overthrow of Saudi, Jordanian and Gulf States royal government. It would also pressure Turkey to become more fundamentalist and end its pro-western tilt. A secular Sunni Syria would need a western puppet military dictator to exist at all other than a Baathy socialist dictator of a cruel disposition.

Turkey 's leadership generally has favored westernism since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire when the young turks saw the writing on the wall of the future. A Christian, white Europe with a better military and technology was a better direction than affiliation with backward Muslim powers. That situation is changing though. It ought to be recalled that western leaning military leadership in non-royal Sunni states is the primary reason why Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey are not led by clerics. I will not include Asian Muslim nations in that paradigm, though they purge minorities too.

The Obama administration support for the Syrian civil war has stimulated a flood of Muslim migrants to a more godless, atheist and secularist Europe while the fortunes of Muslim states including Iran and Palestine is rising. Turkish fundamentalist may feel the pressure and opportunity to terminate secular leadership in turkey in the years ahead-especially in a decade or two when Iran resumes producing nuclear weapons components and a populist Shi'ite fundamentalist clergy remains highly influential politically.

A post-Assad Syrian government will be implicitly unstable except as it is dominated by one power. Since the Allenby-Balfour era the former tribalism within an Ottoman Empire that had kept a state of peace generally existing has not existed. The nation-states created by the British at the end of the first world war that excluded the Kurds from having a homeland in the Middle East have been often in conflict within and without, and several times protagonists have been involved in conflict with Israel. Tribal and ethnic collective associations remained the basic foundation of every Middle Eastern state; the Lennonist dream of doped atheist citizens in godless prosperity mindlessly glowing under Imperial rule remains nothing more than a slithering p.r. dream for the Obama administration and Sect. Kerry that cannot be fulfilled by arming thousands of rebels to subvert the lawful Syrian government. Not even a U.S. army under a homosexual Sect. of the Army could inspire Sunni militants to move farther toward the west. Recruiting of youth with 'Gay Uncle Sam Wants You' might not work in the Muslim world well, though it inspires those of Boston..

If the Syrian government is finally deposed the most likely aftermath would include Sunni leadership transition to cali0hate militancy and war upon Lebanon to drive the Shi'ite out. Christians might be viewed as foes of Hezballah as well as ISIS and AL Qaeda of Syria that would perhaps have the same relation to the Next Syrian government as Hezballah does to Iran.

A protracted Lebanese civil war that would establish a Sunni majority and send Hezballah packing would permit a caliphate state from Lebanon to northern Iraq and even Turkey. Yet it would include Palestinian territories and Jordan as well in addition to Saudi Arabia.

Obviously Iran could act to interdict Sunni expansionism yet that would also fail to produce more than protracted conflicts that the United States could not end nor rationally take sides