terrorism and the fear of a mumbai type attack against students

I want to apologize in advance to anyone who does not want to consider the horrors of terrorism.  this is only being written in the hopes that if what is suggested were to come to pass, that someone would be prepared. Terrorism is a constant theme in our society, but one which we largely chose to ignore.  It makes life more pleasant.  We have learned, in our complacency, however, that the terrorist is the most barbaric and inhuman of adversaries. They have no regard for the pain they give to others and this is reflected in their lack of concern for their own lives.
It means that we must be vigilant and we must not shirk from the worst horrors imaginable which is a pleasant thing to these monsters and make no mistake they wish to be monsters and therefore they make themselves into them.
The recent threat to various colleges raises some disturbing possibilities, the least of which is that it is a prank.  The worst, I believe, is that they are conducted by terror monsters.  In which case we must discern their purpose.  I believe that an armed populace is necessary for us to defend ourselves from outside threats and our own government.  However, the availability of guns to honest citizens implies the availability to criminals and worse still to terrorists.
Mumbai gives an example of what can happen when terrorists are combined with weapons in a peaceful population.  The Tet offensive is a more rigorous example.
What worries me about the evacuations is that it could be a method of targeting the young.  In school, they are in a controlled environment where they can be "locked down".  But if they are evacuated during a bomb threat, they can be moved, using the school staff, no less, to an uncontrolled environment along a known path according to the timetable of the terrorist.  This type of scenario is one reason why almost no type of response is too violent to terrorism.
The solution would be difficult, but I can see two ways of ameliorating the threat.  1) Make sure that when schools are threatened that the police presence in the evacuation routes is heavily increased.  2) Train the students in techniques for protecting themselves in the event of an attack and make sure they understand that a single method may be ineffective if the terrorist are aware of it. 3) This one is added-I think policing regularly and with experienced anti-terrorism experts the routes that would be used for signs of such an ambush would make sense and would be more proactive than the other two.  I'm sure there are other ways to protect against this type of terrorism and I hope that others who understand consider this and other scenarios that are suggested by the rash of threats to universities, so far benign.

President sends usa rowboat against chinese aircraft carrier

NEWSBREAK!  PRESIDENT TRIES TO CO-OPT GMFBOOKS WAR
MISSES POINT ENTIRELY

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-china-trade-obama-09172012,0,3681578.story

President Obama fires pop gun in face of canons.  It is bad that he is taking some credit for my war, but he is using spitballs against an elephant which is worse

china defeats the usa one product at a time using monetary policy

china defeats the usa one product at a time using monetary policy:

There was still little understanding of the occurrence and long-term effect of the Chinese attack.  This was partially as a result of Chinese bolstering of the US economy by underwriting reckless loans to undermine the economy in secrecy.  The result was the US currency had no value supporting it as manufacturing was exported overseas.  The Chinese currency, appeared less valuable based on an artificial exchange rate.  At any moment China could reveal the truth and reverse the values merely by removing the open and notorious false exchange rate.  The US government was unwilling to challenge this because they were weak and addicted to the cheap goods to keep the voters complacent.  The goods were not cheap, because the price was the value of the US currency and, more importantly, the manufacturing might and accompanying world respect of the United States.  The Chinese did not reveal this, even when the balance was tipped irretrievably in their favor, because they were using this false valuation which they created in order to steal all manufacturing and technology from the US and to have the US pay for the transfer.  Had they bombed Detroit, perhaps it would have been more obvious.  It would not have been more effective.

world war c-second edition coming soon

Here is part of the afterward from World War C (Also Trust, how we lost the war with china) available from Amazon, second edition coming out later this month.

This book may look like political horror fiction or science fiction. In fact, everything in this book has happened.  It was written as speculation, but it has been overtaken by facts.

It is difficult to give all of the examples, but some are in order.  When the US Army contracted for a round of night vision glasses, the specifications ended up in China because the contractors could find no one in the United States to make them.  The Chinese actually told the US Army they would not place hidden algorithms in the computers they were selling.  The advances in Chinese education are legion. The emptying of the clothing, towel, furniture, automotive part and tool manufacturing factories in the US started years before this book was written. In fact, the genesis of this book lies in a local factory that made battery and spark plug wires which closed due to Chinese competition.  In truth there was a time 30 years ago when this was put solidly in front of me.

The corruption of congress is well known, but for those of you who need an example, please see the article In Time magazine May 15, 2000 DONALD L. BARLETT AND JAMES B. STEELE penned a well researched article entitled “Soaked by Congress” which discussed in detail how Congress was paid to enact this legislation.  The lead into this article used the language “Lavished with campaign cash, lawmakers are "reforming" bankruptcy--punishing the downtrodden to catch a few cheats”. 

The election problem, successive, increasingly short term elections, was pointed out to me by a congressman.

Reserves and lifespans in time of war

World War C-the second edition of trust-how we lost the war with China, should come out in print next week.

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Tom Boersig and I used to sit around after a long day together, sipping scotch, which was too sophisticated for me.  His dog would sit at my feet and Tom would smoke cigarettes which would eventually catch up with him.

He had gone back to school so he was older than I was, but he was one of those rare men who can hold onto their youth while developing their maturity. 

Rarely, he would share his time in the military and on one such occasion, he told me of his platoon. Their job was to reload the missiles in an attack helicopter in the event of an all out land war with the Soviet Union.  His description of the process is lost to time. What remained was that his group had a survival window of 15 minutes in war, enough time to reload the Helicopters at full speed a single time.  Their job was to slow down the enemy.  After that it would be up to the reserves.

In any history of World War II, the description of the experience of the German army in Africa is that they were not out fought, but that they were buried with the immense material strength of the American manufacturing might.

Even in 2001 it was obvious that our manufacturing might which made up the arsenal of democracy in World Wars I and II was being delivered wholesale to our enemies, and in particular to China.

I miss Tom and I miss having a country with a middle class built on manufacturing and development, because with manufacturing so goes manufacturing expertise and innovation.  We stand at the cross roads.  In one direction is the prior greatness of this country, in the other direction is the path of Egypt and Ethiopia, once great countries laid low by retreating into the greatness of the past, their failure to have a clear view of the future.  A triumph of immediate vs long term intelligence.

I hope this book will wake up the country before it is too late.  I hope it will prevent a shooting war with China by keeping us strong enough to prevent it.  I hope it will get rid of the corruption that plagues congress.  I hope that it will inspire the country to find a consistent moral compass which allows minority views while having a strong majority view tied to long term and medium term intelligence.

I live on a hill with  cats which seem to congregate in a yard that attracts birds and squirrels and a dog bred to hunt lions in Africa.

mog-world war c-the congressional reform act and term limits

Congressional Reform Act—Men of the Guillotine

1) Term Limits: The following will apply immediately after passage by fifty percent of those entitled to vote:

A. Two five-year Senate and House terms

B. At the end of each term or when replaced, a congressman is entitled to up to one year of paid consulting, exclusive of any other employment, for his replacement unless or until his replacement rejects his employment.  During this time, the consultant ex-congressman must pay his own expenses and has no access to the capital except as provided by his replacement.  His pay is set by congress at no more than his salary when in office.

2. No Tenure/No Pension:

A Congressman collects up to one-year salary while serving as consultant under 1(B) until terminated.  After the end of that one year or upon termination from that position by his replacement, he/she collects six months of his salary during the time when he/she is resettling.

3. Congress (past, present and future) participates in Social Security or other retirement held by the rest of the general population.  No federal retirement applies, and all funds in the Congressional retirement funds move to the Social Security system.

4. Congressional pay raises:

Congressional pay will fall proportionately with GDP but rise only by constitutional amendment or vote of 90 percent of each house and only for congressmen entering after the vote, except that it will not fall below the lowest state congressional pay for state congress nor be higher than the highest state congressional pay plus 10 percent.

6. Congress participates in the same healthcare system as the American people and may pay for any other health care from their salary.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void.

9. Lobbyist:

No Congressman may act as a lobbyist while receiving money under any provision of the law or for four years thereafter. A congressman may run for congress again after a period off of seven years unless they serve as a lobbyist, in which case they may run seven years after they last serve

www.moftheg.com:

LEGAL JUSTIFICATION

This law is valid notwithstanding executive, legislative, or judicial decision under the following provisions of law:

1.                  The constitution states it is by “We the people,” which implies that any provision to the contrary is invalid.

2.                  The declaration of independence recognizes the right of people “to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,” and it is inherent in this that they can amend those bonds.

3.                  Because political establishments are “deriving their powers from the consent of the governed…whenever any form of government becomes destructive,” it is inherently within the power of the governed to change the laws. www.moftheg.com

plumbing the depths of the hologram universe

This is a holiday break from the war with china and the term limits arguments that will come up later.  See the earlier posts if you want to follow that part of the blog
This examines some of the questions raised by current theories of the universe.  This one, supported by some of the writings of Einstein, Hawkins (The Universe in a nutshell) and others, is not a finished model, so I take the liberty of assigning certain features to it which may or may not be consistent with the model.
One of those "assigned features" is that everything has already happened.  Time is just a method of allowing someone to "walk around" the universe and see what is happening at any point in time, just as in a laser-hologram you can walk around in one direction and see a banana peeled and then go in the opposite direction and watch it closed back.  Hence, one question of the hologram universe is whether it is possible to go around it and see in them the past and go in another direction and see the future.
We have seen that the past is visible and easily visited, at least on a macro scale.  You do this every time you look into the night sky; starring eons into the past of galaxies and stars.  Even when you see sunlight you are looking a short time in the past.
Light is the speed limit of the universe, at least in the dimensions that we live in, and it is also a way to walk around the hologram for distant objects.  The fact that it does not, at least the way we have observed light so far, allow us to look at near objects in the distant past or any objects in the future raises the question of whether there is another way to look at light so this would be possible or to find the source of light or of the projection of the universe so that we could go walking around it.  This would give us the perspective of the hypothetical "god" which presumably created the universe and who could, by walking around it, on a micro level, see the beginning and the end.
This is not science fiction if the hologram universe allows for this type of view and if it is merely a projection of something that already exists and but for the artifice of time has already happened.  In fact, there is little reason to believe in the bubble theory that there are not an infinite number of universes, each with an infinite number of ways of things happening being viewed by whoever created them with interest or without interest just as some of us look into the sky with great interest and some out of boredom; why some see the full moon and are filled with romantic thoughts and others are merely aggravated that it is not dark enough to sleep.
In a future blog, perhaps we will discuss who is viewing these holograms.  Are they exhibits in some god museum or are we merely the bubbles formed while some great being beyond the scope of our comprehension bubbles water for tea?