blogging hurricane issac

There is a reason not to be distracted from the war in china.  An important blog entry written yesterday waits to be posted.  But just as our government is distracted by elections and often ridiculous moral prejudices so I am distracted by the storm.
Some quick notes:  There was a lot of rain.  There is a spillway which normally is topped in heavy rains, but all the alternate spillways were overflowing yesterday (when I walked down to it) and the main spillway was completely covered, perhaps the water was a foot over the top. It was too dark by the time the rain let up for the 30 minute walk to get a picture, but maybe I'll get one today
The night before the storm I walked in the breezy evening as it grew dark, with sprays of sprinkles but very little in the way of thick clouds, the moon often showing through. The bands of these storms is very romantic, curved lines of clouds that herald the problems to come.
It makes little sense to watch the weather as these storms make their own histories, but it is interesting to see what is happening around the area.  I am all over the coast (From New Orleans to Pensacola) for work; so most of the pictures have specific relevance to me, some more than others as places and people close to me are affected to varying degrees.
There are tornado sirens going off in the distance as this is written given a surreal feel to the morning, but this was of much less effect here than in the places where heavy damage occurred and where the flooding was not restricted to waterways, but took peoples homes.  Perhaps there will be more on this later.

politics, triggers and intelligence

One of the problems with quantum movement of economic and military situations is the existence of triggers.
When those are pulled makes a difference in how the disaster plays out.
This blog and the books available at moftheg.com are designed to be triggers, although when and if they will be effective remains to be seen.  Uncle Tom's Cabin is evidence that a book can act as a trigger.
Facebook showed where a "system" could trigger political change.
Other triggers effect the iniitation of  situations.  There was the battle of thermopole which was a timing trigger, the assassination of arch duke ferdinand which was an initiating trigger.
The war with china was triggered by many things.  Perhaps one trigger was the opening of china by Nixon.  The weakening of the US under Johnson who initiated the big society and the expansion of the US military to increasingly substitute military might for economic might.
This led the way to two far reaching problems.  It created a government supported political block and it provided an alternative to minimal wage and piecemeal work which was not only viable but in some ways superior, such as providing free or heavily subsidized health care, housing and food and opening income opportunities in the black market by paying people to have hidden income streams, essentially supplementing criminal income undertakings like gangs, drugs, and the like since those people could work and be paid by the government only for un-reported income.
The war, when it is recognized, must include making difficult choices which will effect this vulnerable block and the shift which will be necessary to create work but also opportunity for this artificial voting block.
What would trigger this change and what triggers eliminating entitlements would leave and the results are the intersection of short term and immediate intelligence.  To compete with China we need to understand and prepare for these immediate and long term  triggers.

3. Hurricane

This is a post from August 27, 2012.  It was never posted, along with well over 100 other posts.
We haven't had a hurricane this year (and I could do with a year without one) so I'm going to get rid of this post, by posting it.
Hurricanes have brought great turmoil and  happiness
I have embraced great sadness but I cannot blame the storms.


Today is a hurricane day, or a pre-hurricane day to be precise.
There is a carnival atmosphere to the sky
 delightful breeze, beautiful sun, curved bands of cloud.
To the south, a solid band of curved clouds of a tightly curved front
Everyone gets excited before a storm, it is pleasant.
Merchants sell a lot of merchandise
if the storm doesn't hit, it can almost be disappointing.
Storms hold a special place for me
I've shared my life with them
The catastrophic ones have shaped my life
often this has been for worse
but overall i have to say for the better
they have given to me the most important days of my life
directly and indirectly
everyone should be as luck as i am to experience this weather
and the life events they gave
as they blow away the past
bring on the future like a flood
in a relentless tide which I have been unable
and unwilling to deny

1. A love lost poem

Here are some old poems being updated and numbered so I can see how many poems I've written...as it were...to you.

The silver of half moon on the water glows 
filling the night with images and memories
I remember the glow of the stars in your eyes
the silver of the sun in your hair
the smooth flow of your skin
The light of the moon, elemental and timeless
like you always a part of who i am
I know if I could follow that gossomer trail
it would lead me to your door
But tomorrow the sun will rise again
yellow light hiding the silver in glare
duty and war will hide the way to you

weaponized economy and the dragon winds of china

Chinese language is based on art, philosophy and culture, thousands of years old.

It was more than sounds strung together.  It included four tonal qualities in addition to the pronunciation. Speaking the language was like playing a musical instrument; everyone who spoke it was a musician.

Every sentence was a song.

The words of China were beautiful, tornadoes were dragon winds, and interior decorating was wind and water. 

They had the wisdom to adopt the strongest portions of the American language and ways of business.  The saw what made the US economy successful and they weaponized it.

Next will be musings on the Silver Moonlight over the water

 

2 Candles and love

As I number these poems (which are apparently going to be more than 100 if anyone is counting) and repost them, some comments seem appropriate to some.
Candles and love, the name, without the poem afterwards, conjures up images of candles providing the only light in a bedroom.  A beautiful woman rendered even more beautiful by the light of the candles and the feelings of affection, and perhaps lust.  I can see the skin, looking more brown than it is in real life in the magical light of burning rope and wax which somehow makes the time more real.
Perhaps it is these type of visions that plague me and have kept me so far from writing the funny little essays I promise myself.  And perhaps nothing is so much like fire as love as this poem reflects.

Love is a candle that lights as it burns
when it goes out it leaves darkness
There are many ways to extinguish love
it may be drowned, ignored or run out of fuel
it may burn out of control
consuming everything in its path
it may grow to surround one life
and may never light up another
it can bring all the colors of the spectrum
or leave everything barren all in its wake

The goal of war, according to the detailed study by Clausewitz in his masterpiece On the Nature of War, is to disarm your enemy so you can bend them to your will. Do we have the manufacturing base to build an army? Where is it?  If modern warfare is based on technology, do we build our own computers or cell phones?  Who builds them?  Do we have the money to rebuild our army?  Who is our creditor?  If you are honest, you will see that we are at war, and we are not winning.  We have almost no time left, because we already lost the war.  Our enemy has disarmed us without ever firing a shot and all that after giving us the playbook by which it would be done.

The Chinese destroyed our factories without dropping bombs, but the factories are closed; the employees are refugees.  Our government stood by and watched this and, to some extent, encouraged it.

This colossal failure of leadership is only possible because of the corruption in our government.

This is ridiculous.  There is a hurricane coming.   It is that time of the year.

short break

I am taking some time writing so the blog entries will be separated by a few days.  The war will continue in my absense just as it will with yours.

world war c

I don’t accept ignoring the war since I am what Jack London called an individualist and what I call a evolutionary economist, paraphrased only slightly, “the race goes to the swift and the battle to the strong.”

We must be strong in mind and strong in action.  We cannot just write about these problems we have to join in the battle.  The war with China is a symptom of a much larger problem, the war against the Universe, but more on that later.

I continue to write love stories, historical fiction and poems.  I would return to those and enjoy life in the absence of writing about what I see as a current horror.  I propose a sense of destiny that resides in everyone as a nearly religious duty.  I also propose that balance dictates that we can enjoy a quiet summer day and still conduct war and fulfill the obligations of duty put on us by short term and long term intelligence.

War With China-basic manufacturing exported

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/03/olympic-uniforms-china-import-favorites/

36 percent china-imports of clothing
85 percent of footwear
58 pecent of furniture
49 percent of appliances

These are the numbers for where imports come from.  What is not missing from this picture is that these percentages represent the conversion of American jobs to Chinese jobs, American savings to Chinese savings, American technology to Chinese technology.

The consumers who are building the chinese manufacturing machine are spending to their own impoverishment.

While it is not too late to act in some cases, it is certainly not too early.

world war c-America exported the middle class

Fact Of The Day #7: Who Holds The Note? Look In The Mirror

China has taken enough debt of the USA to make sure we could continue to export our technology and the massive interest payments on this are making them more competitive with us.
The 6% effective interest on one trillion in debt, is 60 billion dollars a year towards modernizing their army.
This doesn't include the forty cents on every dollar spent in the USA that goes to China.

This country is engaged in an election where the cadidates can't see past the symptoms to the underlying causes of the problems in this country.

They sit around wondering what is happening to the middle class when only an blind man would miss that the middle class has been exported to China.

War With China, The Great Depression and analogies with today

One solution discussed is to have a "controlled war" (much like the Chinese War which we are losing even though we don't know we are in it as a country) based on building & competition as opposed to destruction.  This would be a manufacturing war to bring us out of the current depression much as World War II (a shooting war) brought us out of the so called "Great Depression" of 1929-1936 (you pick the exact dates).

In order to draw this analogy we should have some basis to compare these two situations. The purpose of this log entry is to provide the analogy.
Securities: The great depression was based largely on the 1929 Stock Market Crash.  While we have no crash (yet) we do have a real estate crash which is largely analogous in terms of effect on banking.  Many predict a stock market crash, but we can stay with real estate in order to keep the analogy.

Bank Failures: We have plenty of "too big to fail" bank failures tied to eal estate. The key is the increasing unwillingness of banks to make loans in 1929 and the similar conservative practices today. 

Deflation:  The great quote is that "If you don't like inflation, wait till you see deflation."  During the great depression they ran movie spots explaining why people needed to get out and buy and why growing prices was a good thing.  Those old government sponsored advertisements would be great to see today.  While property and implements were under pressure in the great depression, our problems today are EVEN WORSE!  We have the same deflationary pressures on real estate, but while we have fairly steady prices on consumer good 40 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR IS GOING TO CHINA!  This is worse than just losing jobs because people are not buying.  We not only lose the jobs like we did in 1929, but we are still sending the money somewhere else, exacerbating our debt problems.

Trade: Tarriffs and protectionism were a primary exacerbation of the Great Depression.  In our case, the Chinese War (which only the readers of this blog apparently know about) is much more insidious.  In this case only the exports from our country are negatively impacted, both in their diversity (the number of products we export) and in the amount.  China controls how many cars we sell to them while they flood our markets with cheap goods putting our companies out of business and increasing the marketplace.  They are providing the same recessionary pressures that Tarriffs and protectionism provided; but the failure of our government to recognize this problem for what it is means that the damage is in one direction.  Everyone benefits from fair competition.  War is an example of unfair competition.

The "dust bowl".  Wow! We even have a drought (climate change may be the new lexicon) just like at the time of the Great Depression.  Who would have guessed at the similarities.  I consider climate change to be one of the many "New War" issues we should address, along with a "manufacturing war" which doesn't require us to bomb China (or get bombed by them).

If we can act quickly, we can use the manufacturing war to head off the worse effects of the current Great Depression Revisited.

More on this later.  Everyone have a good weekend.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar

Solutions intro; Philosophy of the impossible; retooling our workforce; Environmental considerations; critical industries; Political change; term limits; litigation problems; recognition of problems; recognition of war with china; provide a competitive labor pool for key industries; currency revaluation; Education; over valuation of life; parental responsibility.

war with china-china's medal and economic model

Not surprisingly, China maximizes their medal count by first going after the least contested events.  This is not the case for all events, many are hotly contested and many reflect historic Chinese strength.
This is the identical startegy they used in targeting the US economy.  One has to wonder how predictable this model is.
You will see, if the model holds truth, a gradual move into other areas until they dominate, leaving only irrelevant events to the others, although who knows how many years this would take.  This, of course, is more of a fantasy.  The extension model may not apply to the olympics but by weakening the other competitors, the ability of others to bring stronger event teams forward may be reduced, will be reduced.
Are they confident that no one will see the parallel or are they so certain in the success of the economic model that they consider success already recognized or perhaps they understand the the political bodies in the US are too weak to react.

Russia the middle east and the war with china

The book concentrates on the systematic process embodied in the War With China (http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Lost-China-Term-Limits/dp/1466424338/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344190407&sr=8-2&keywords=gregory+friedlander).  Russia which has traditionally been a cold war enemy and a hot war friend is affected more directly by US war with China.
While this has not been a part of the subject matter of the writings, it is an interesting and important dynamic in world politics.  Russia is, after all, the largest country in the world.  If world dominion was accepted as a possible option of war and the fictional book-second edition (www.worldwarc.net) coming out this year:  then Russia might seem proximately more concerned.  Also the USA v. Russia cold war model led to the current problems with China by providing a model to the Chinese.
The difference is that the US cold war victory was truly unintentional; reflecting the use of non-military economic "techniques".  One difference is that the US consistently used wasteful active military techniques because of a lack of sophistication.  The current political problems were only developing at that time, many of which started or were "perfected" (sarcasm) with the election of Lydon Johnson.  Perfected is emphasised because we perfected a defective method of handling the electorate
There will be more on this later, but this is to my friends who are connected to Russia who will undoubtedly be a part of whatever comes forward later.
And the middle east? That is the source of Russian and USA common military vs economic errors and will come up more later.

Olympics and the War with China

It is Sunday, so let's do something just for fun: Guess the Olympic Charts. read to the bottom for some additional charts.

As you know my "themes" are the need for term limits (honest government), USA immediate or short term intelligence as govenrment vs china's longer term intelligence, and that we are at war with china (USA v. China) but only the Chinese know about it because our government is blinded by avarice and the need to get re-elected.
The olympic results provide what I consider to be a fun look at the rise and fall of power as reflected by the olympics over the years, so a country like England may disappear even though they earned many medals because I only used data from the top teams each year so it's quicker.  This information just takes the top handfull of teams, leaves out many countries who were temporary visitors to this group but did not make it to the top 3 just to make the summary easier for me to put together.

The chart above shows graphically the rise in "Olympic" power of china relative to the US/Russia superpowers, past or present.  If one can extrapolate this chart to the USA transfer of its wealth, technology and manufacturing to china you can see where the USA failure to recognize a shift in priorities (from Russia to China) has eluded completely our leadership and the danger embodied in that failure.  But really, how can you tie olympic medals to our countries loss in war?    By the way, you can see below where Germany takes huge hits after they lose each of the major world wars as does Japan.
This is not scientific, of course.  It's just for fun on a quiet Sunday morning.
Here is the raw data, please excuse any mistakes and my appologies to the omitted olympic titles which I will try to supplement in the future:

year
1896
1900
1904
1906
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932 la
1936 ge
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
greece
46
2
34
war
us
20
48
239
24
47
64
95
99
56
110
57
84
76
74
71
90
107
94
94
94
108
101
92
103
110
gb
31
2
24
145
41
44
36
22
17
26
24
20
91
21
24
24
20
47
china
28
28
54
50
59
63
100
germany
13
8
13
15
14
25
39
24
101
24
26
42
50
51
106
126
142
142
82
65
56
49
41
france
11
108
40
19
16
42
41
25
20
19
32
18
29
37
38
33
40
sweden
65
63
29
25
24
21
46
35
belgium
42
13
italy
25
16
20
27
31
21
25
36
27
35
34
32
japan
18
20
19
29
25
29
37
soviet union
71
103
96
99
195
132
132
112
63
88
92
72
australia
35
22
18
17
59
49
46

War With China

War with China has gone some way; the theme being that they captured our manufacturing.  There is a great deal of blame laid at our system.   The increase in protests on the economy are better directed than this book, but perhaps they are missing the depth of focus that would allow something to be accomplished in the protests.

It should be noted that some of the most important issues and solutions come from other people’s observations.  Some have even risen to the level of becoming the substance of separate books which may or may not be available at the time you read this.  It is also significant that while solutions are suggested in this book, blank pages using the solutions provided as exemplary or setting out how to implement them would make this more relevant.

Now the equipment of world dominance is gone, loaded on boats which set sail long before congress or business or the general public woke up.  The courts and congress have lost jurisdiction long before any relevant action could be taken. That the same thing had happened around the country surprises no one today but everyone is surprised that our government and industry allowed this to happen without a discussion of the results..  

One original theme was that this was a war and that it was a studied and systematic undertaking, at least at some point.  The final thing taken, is not gone yet but will go with the money and the technology.  It is the schools where the scholarly, soothing catchphrases which calmed a nervous population originated.  Instead of screaming warnings, there were platitudes because the intelligence did not go out far enough.  There was no lack of wisdom, no lack of learning, just too much focus on one area of study, too short term an analysis within that area of study.  Perhaps the moral is that every writing of macro economics should have a section dedicated to the effect on war and extremely long term intelligence or even medium or short term intelligence.  This is a section of this essay, what is the difference between long term and short intelligence and immediate intelligence.

War with China-olympic uniforms

Hawker Beechcraft Chairman Rebuffs Security Concerns Over Sale To Chinese: EXCLUSIVE

The world is not Flat

There are some preaching that the world is flat and that China can do all the manufacturing for us, that the world is too inter-related for war.  That is so foolish that it is questionable why this foolishness was ever written, much less accepted.  The reason is probably that the right answer is too frightening, there is comfort in coming up with a meaning that ignores danger that substitutes empty hope for common sense that means that no one has to sacrifice, that the status quo can stay there forever.  It is better to say the world is flat, than to admit that we were at war and had to make uncomfortable decisions.  Now, as a result, we have to make desperate decisions.

Need more? 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/07/23/why-are-the-us-olympic-uniforms-being-made-in-china/

And the congressional reaction continues to miss the fact we are at war with china: www.worldwarc.net; www.moftheg.com

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/07/18/olympic-fashion-controversy-is-only-thing-made-in-usa/

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Power-grid-failures-a-wake-up-call-for-aspiring-India/Article1-906410.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/indias-power-grid-lacks-excess-capacity.html?_r=1

The power failure in india and the rolling blackouts (government imposed) in Pakistan show that even in the countries that supply us with manufactured goods, power is not to be taken for granted and with power goes modern living.

World War C is finished and should be available on all the markets within 3 months.
While you are waiting, here is an excerpt from the companion philosophy book.

TERM LIMITS, Long Term Intelligence AND HOW WE LOST THE WAR WITH CHINA

PHILOSOPY

The essay at the core of WORLD WAR C

INTRODUCTION

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.  Chinese proverb

Great love sometimes mutes the voice and must be told in poetry so the soul may speak. Also great horror often blinds the mind and must be hidden in prose.  So begins the Novel World War C. 

The first edition used a fictional mechanism to present the themes raised in this essay.  Once the novel written, it was easy to pull out the pieces and to examine them one at a time.  It might have been easier and clearing to write the essay first.  There may have more clarity, but that was a work of fiction in two separate versions and this is an essay.

The first edition-Trust-How we lost the war with China-is available on Amazon.  The second edition is coming out later this year.  Stay tuned here or go to www.worldwarc.net for updates.  Like us on facebook.http://www.facebook.com/moftheg