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Russell Day
Much of the early writing of Transcendia.org is not sufficiently focused to be of much use, see and I am in the process of throwing out, buy order | and deleting those writings.
If you are a reader, and are interested in some of the early writings in the archives be aware that things noted as dubious are on the chopping block and may soon disappear.
More War Plan/RSD/Transcendia
My past is your future.
What are the precedents or experiments of humanity with situations similar to the situations that currently exist?
My past is your future is what I say over and over is one thing the United States History says to other nations of the world.
Of course the History of Greece and Rome and the British Empire can say the same thing to the US.
We are now in a period of multipolar power balance that calls for a much more powerful United Nations since Weapons of Mass Destruction exist that have never been around before and are equivalent to the strike of Asteroids that elimanted the Dinasours.
My past is your future…
Permanent war is a fact of life.
I am not a pacifist. It is not practical.
I also recognize that young men will fight. They fight to defend or possess their women.
Work is the great spiritual struggle for the material necessities.
Work is a struggle and the right fight and in the case of the international workers. It is they whom the armies and the police ought to rightly serve.
Buying and selling things in an honorable fashion is work, but it is dependent on another class of workers.
In the case of the merchants I believe even they would understand that if I were directing an army and police force they would benifit if I was directing that army and police force to preserve and protect the infrastructure and those that maintain and expand that infrastructure before I protected their stores.
A good leader is essentially a good mayor.
At this time and in this day and age I wonder who the greatest mayor in America is and would like to examine them as potential Presidents even over Senators or Lawyers.
I would expect a Mayor to be practical.
A Mayor would know that they have limited powers and resources and if we consider priorities from our limitations we are more likely to be practical.
Persian and Arab Mayors and Mayors of the US and EU Cities of note would be sensible to convien together to produce strategies for peace in all areas of War and Peace.
My war plan from the viewpoint of one of the working classes is that I and my class deserve fair treatment and that my governments either local national, or international ought to have to tools to serve and protect my class.
The rise of International Law is good from my point of view as part of the Working Class.
I survived in Manhattan partly because I did not have a regular schedule.
No one on the street really knew when I might depart or arrive or much really where I went.
As I live now I have a regular sort of schedule and see much the same people at the same time of the day.
Those who do have regular schedules and duties need a bit more protection than those that don’t.
In Iraq with whatever forces I had, taking a page from my hero Grant, I would capture and defend the infrastructure, which is what General Grant did when he took over the Mississisippi.
Lee lost because he went to Gettysburg, where IKE played golf.
We are in a time of World War.
It is very nice where I live.
My only real complaint is that I’m not rich.
The garbage gets picked up, the kids go to school, the water and electricity runs when I turn the facet or flick the switch.
The local doctors even saved my life about 6 months ago even though I did not have health insurance.
I’ve got a big bill but at least I’m not dead.
It would have been an agonizing death.
Things are good.
The infrastructure is working, I have a wife and some friends and a regular schedule inspite of the world of permanent war.
When I was up for the lottery draft during the Viet Nam War I went to Canada before my number came up and lived in Rochdale College.
I ended up as a poet newspaper editor and Security Guard for Rochdale.
Rochdale for me was a better education than Yale has been for Bush apparently.
Certainly I do know the difference between an enemy and a "Real" enemy.
In my role as a Security Guard for Rochdale which had legalized all the hallucinegenic drugs in the building at 341 Bloor West up 18 stories, I and the regular police had a floor of common interests, which were keeping the peace and protecting people from violence regardless.
I’ve told people that I suspect that had I gone to LA or New York when I was 19 and of the seditious mind I was, I probably would not still be alive.
Canada and Toronto were good to me.
Last time I lived in Fort Lauderdale people threw eggs on me when I was riding my bicycle.
Nothing like that ever happened to me in Toronto.
I am sorry I don’t know who the Mayor of Toronto was or is.
Let us now look at the functioning International entities like airports and draw from them for balanced government.
I recommend that there be UN offices at every International Airport for instance.
Sociologically port cities are multicultural and successful over long periods of time.
New Orleans is very significant in exposing the pus of festerings in the soul of the US mindscape.
The combination of the Napoleanic Code and laws that mimic Islamic law, along with its history of endemic corruption are a ying and yang that are explosive and educational.
You can find every sort of madness in the United States and its states that you can find in the world and all its nations.
Love Canal in Buffalo is as terrible a story as Bohpal for instance.
Around where I live the Mayor of Apex failed to protect Apex from a Chemical factory and storage facility that melted down and caused general evacuation.
The threats to the working classes who cannot afford to not go to work to get their daily bread from wages are more ubiquitious than recognized by people in Iraq or Africa.
The thing that the US does have going for it is that it is very rare for cops on the street to ask for a bribe.
I find it extremely interesting that the law codes, that on their face are most fair are most corrupted and corruptable.
Persian and Arabic law is not the same as Western Common law, but is similar to Mormon Utah and Louisianna law where people do some extreme things claimed to be right with God as spoken to them in their heads.
Every good working person ought right to cleave to their class and their work and their fellows at work and after that worry about understanding God, more than doing things they think God told them to do.
Killing people prevents them from working, and really work is more honorable than war and is struggle enough.
As far as a Working Class War Plan I suggest protecting workers as legitmate work for armies and police and will leave it at that.
War Plan
As far as Iraq is concerned I would protect infrastructure and infrastructure workers with the army and police as the most sensible use of my forces if I was met with the fact I only had but so many forces to work with.
The electricians of Iraq are very likely to be very important and blunt more than the carpenters.
Of course it is plain that carpenters are a bit more easy going than electricians.
What I’ve Been Doing, or How I got a Hobby
For some reason I got interested in making batteries and have discovered that some guy has made what he calls a nuclear battery. It is just like a Duracell to his mind. Comes in a stainless steel drum the size of a car, and when it’s used up, you just throw it in the landfill, or maybe better yet leave it with the other batteries at the landfill.
I’ve gone so far with my hobby to dip into the toilet for some electrolyte when I ran out of acedic acid, or vinegar. I’ve been cutting up strips of copper and tin from roofing materials left on the jobsites and putting wires on them and putting them in glass containers and seeing what my meter tells me they are putting out.
My meter says I’ve got at least a volt, and near two on many of the bottles, vases, or jars, but I’ve not gotten any light bulb to burn from the alligator clips off the wires to those lamps yet. -I’m depressed about it.
Otherwise I haven’t been able to put pictures on Gamma Rays and send them through Wormholes either.
I prayed about something the other day, but so far the prayer hasn’t been answered.
BUREACRATICA
Russell Scott Day
Bureaucrat
It is discovered in the dictionary I have that a Bureaucrat is typically regarded as negative. They are officials in a Bureaucracy is the most neutral part of their definition.
A Bureaucracy is government by central organization.
It is a shame that Bureaucrats have not worked to improve their image and that they are so negatively defined in the Oxford Dictionary.
When I started out this website I wrote that I knew that I needed good bureaucrats working for Transcendia, ampoule if it was to succeed.
It was encouraging for me to read that Ban Ki-Moon was asking for the resignations of 30 top UN Bureaucrats after my go arounds with them over UNTV and my Weapons of Mass Destruction Art Event Proposal.
My friend told me I was a barometer and I found it ironic that I had bought the domain name Bureacratica, which is the way it sounds to me and I am debating with myself about whether or not to put the site up with the name I own.
My go arounds with the Bureaucrats of the UN had caused me to come up with Bureacratica and I got excited about it and bought the name and then thought about what sort of site it ought to be under that name.
For Travelers a site that reported on the nature of national Bureaucracies would be of value. It would also be of interest to spies and the intelligence community in general.
You could argue in relationship to the War in Iraq, and the lack of power in the hands of Congress to control the Executive Branch that the US has become an inflexible Bureaucracy more than its intended Republic as a Democracy.
Bush for all his Texas swagger may wake up one day and recognize himself as no more than a Bureaucrat in all of the most negative of its definitions.
It ought to be that a cadre of Bureaucrats help their fellows do things in order so that the nation benefits from the efficiency of their efforts in a spirit of comradarie.
This is the sort of Bureaucrat I would want to work for Transcendia, and I hope it is the sort of Bureaucrat Ban Ki-Moon has in mind for the UN.
Changes
There are things to change, ambulance and things not to change.
My class does not profit from war, generic | though there are classes that profit from war.
I am very tired and sore from work and keep thinking that a war against weapons of mass destruction is something the working classes ought to pay for regardless of what the nations or UN do, for the UN and the nations are failing to protect the working classes from war.
I am extremely beat down feeling this evening.
I am aware that if I turn on the TV I will be further beat down into submission if I tune to the wrong channel.
My next systems invention will take the profit out of war.
Russell
12/27/2006
The Good Shepard
There is a lot of reality to the movie The Good Shepard. Maybe I ought to have seen a comedy on my birthday since I became withdrawn and depressed after watching the movie.
Today I thought of a comedy about Iranians who get an atom bomb and blow up New York City for the fun of it, so as to shake off my depression.
Homosexuals are inherently trained to be spies since they start out with a secret.
My study of spies and espionage prompted me to tell my daughter that she has a right to her secrets.
We are all spies in our private lives even with our secret thoughts that we never have need or time to tell anyone.
Edward Wilson is James Angleton, or the same character of Harlots Ghost by Norman Mailer, which I consider his best book since The Naked and the Dead.
Similarities between the movie and Mr. Mailer’s book are great even so far as the tone and rythum of the movie.
There is truth to both works that comes from the reality of the story of these people and the conflicts of our times.
The bottom line is that it is all personal.
President Bush doesn’t seem to get that when we consider his handling of the letter by President Ahmadinejad.
-but that is an aside.
Current realities of relentless war have intruded into my thoughts and I think in counterpoint that the attack on Saddam was maybe too personal.
Money and Ideology, Compromise and Ego are what make spies do what they do.
Spontanious affection also makes people do what they do.
None of us is invulnerable.
We are vulnerable and Americans are very vulnerable because we want to tell people our secrets.
The Good Shepard was extremely well photographed and I was pleased to see in the credits the names of two people I worked with in New York, Jimmy Mah and Peter Betula.
Jimmy was Best Boy Electric, and Peter may have been Key Grip.
I’d have to find an old Call Sheet to find the confirmation for Peter’s last name spelling but it does please me that two of my old friends and co-workers worked in important positions on the movie.
Russell
ProActive Civil Demonstrations/Working Class Corner
by Russell Scott Day
When considering the conflict between the Palistinians and Israel I call for a Menu for Peace instead of a Road Map to Peace.
This is not to me a subtle distinction for what you name a concept, is just as important as the concept.
The concept of ProActive Civil Demonstrations comes out of concepts of Civil Disobedience which come out of weakness. Civil Disobedience is reactionary in opposition to injustices.
The powerful nations have so far failed to make demonstrations ProActively that in brevity have then the dramatic impact that peacefully advance civilization.
I have experimented with ProActive Civil Demonstrations.
I have discovered that one must account for the Law of Unintended Consequences when creating a ProActive Civil Demonstration.
So far my most successful ProActive Civil Demonstration has been the Transcendian Message Rocket Launch Program.
The point of it is now to illustrate how a thing can be good or bad entirely dependent on how it is used.
It is a tragedy for mankind when a good thing, is used for a bad purpose.
The little cardboard and balsa wood and plastic rockets we launched in Manhattan during the First Gulf War, cheered some people up.
On the Fourth of July in the US fireworks are launched as spectacle and harmless and celebration of freedom.
Christmas in my culture is an internationally shared holiday.
As a ProActive Civil Demonstration it would be helpful if there was an International Workers Holiday detached from any religion.
The Menu for Peace and Border Picnics for War Threatened Nations ProActive Civil Demonstration at border crossings between Palistine and Israel, would be vulnerable to the Suicide Bomber.
This is the component of the ProActive Civil Demonstration that must be accounted for in constructing such an event as enemies eating together as an insidious movement towards Civil Peace.
Therefore the construction of Food based ProActive Civil Demonstration must be progressive and intended to culminate in the event of a Border Picnic for Peace that is not the scene of sabatoge.
Peace means Police.
Therefore I would direct Police forces of the Palistinians and the Israelis to share meals together first.
Then in conjunction I would direct that food be available and shared at border crossings between the Palistinians and Israelis.
Progressively I would aim to make a large border picnic happen.
The menu will have been tested.
I’d like to see the children launch their rockets made of cardboard and balsa wood with their messages on and in them.
Now the really brave would be Balloon Riders.
During the Iran Hostage Crisis my ProActive Civil Demonstration concept was for Balloonists dressed like Clowns in low flying balloons to throw money and flowers down to those below.
This was impractical I discovered during my divorce which was so horrible and adversarial that I recognized that in all liklihood the balloonist clowns would be shot down and that this would be counterproductive as far as my goal of achieving peace was concerned.
However an SR 71 sort of aircraft might be able to successfully bomb their enemies with food and toys, and might eventually be tried.
Now the legacy of John F. Kennedy is much really dependent on the Peace Corps.
The Peace Core is an example of proactive thinking. It is something that could be built on.
Now somehow if humanity is to get through the bottleneck when it is obvious that civilization itself is threatened it is only the working class that can save humanity.
I say that because if the working class demands international equality based on the value of their labor, with the entity of the corporations, that are allowed by unjust laws and the sellouts of corrupt despots enabled by entrenched beauracrats transcendent of religion, only then will the motives for mass murder and war be subdued.
The working classes do need to unite and recognize the power of the corporations that is greater internationally than either their nation, or their religion and manipulates them through international laws so as to deny them forum and be the cause of wars that destroy their homes and workplaces.
It is sad that income for something like the UN was not consistently generated from a tax on weapons, since that would elimanate dependence on donations.
It is sad that the UN does not have as much respect for the Working Class as it does for the Vatican.
It is sad that the resolution of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States did not result in Statehood for Russia.
Why is May Day a distress call?
It comes in the summer.
Maybe it illustrates knowledge of the future when it is recognized by those being robbed that things are okay for a moment and they might as well try to forget about it for awhile.
What if there was a Bureacracy of International Infrastructure Engineers and Labor with an army paid to protect them when they were working?
This would be a ProActive Civil System as opposed to a ProActive Civil Demostration and in my progression, I end this train of thought.
Working Class Corner Holiday Season Letter
From: Russell Scott Day/Founder of Transcendia
Dear Readers,
As we of our Western Culture come from a Christian Spiritual Season that co-opted a holiday season that came from a common need for a holiday simply due to the common influence of the weather on us.
When I lived down in Florida I sort of thought people went a bit crazier there than other places where I had lived like Chicago, or Toronto, or North Carolina, and New York because the seasons were less demarked.
It is not surprising that a year comprised of Summer and Hurricane Season would have general influence on the shared consciousness.
To get through the winter you really need some days off and a bang of food to get through it.
Whether or not God exists, since the boss might not on his own give you a few days off you might be encouraged to invent God so as to get some time off.
At any rate it is the Holiday Season around where I am and what I want is Peace and Joy in the world.
There are ongoing wars, and potential wars that threaten my work.
I wouldn’t mind dying so much if I thought my work might survive.
Every now and then I get out or come across and read my father’s short stories or his play, or his war journal.
I love, respect, and understand my father more and more the longer I live.
I try and take care of his work and have discovered it mixed in with my own work.
He was a combat soldier during the Holiday Season in the Battle of the Bulge, and I am sad for all soldiers in this Season stationed in battle zones.
Seems like the United States has exported its Drug War to me when I think of Police Work in LA, or NYC.
I don’t feel as sad about the Police since they get to go home at night and I would have been a very good Policeman if pot was legal, since even when I imagine myself or have not liked to smoke pot, I would never arrest anyone for possessing it.
Peace is impossible when the laws are unjust and strip others of equality.
Peace pivots on very simple things.
An abundance of food is number one.
Number two is equality.
My mother says, "No shame in honest work."
It is terrible and a source of conflict that under international law drugs that are produced in Afganistan are illegial.
Everything has gone to hell in Iraq over oil, and all to hell in Afganistan because of drugs.
The prospect of international peace does depend on legalizing trade in drugs between Amsterdam and Afganistan more than what President Bush thinks God told him.
Hell, President Bush is the classic dry drunk from what I know about drinking and reformed drunks who don’t go to AA.
AA is a terriffic example of a successful anarchy in crisis management.
As far as peace is concerned and the President Bush is concerned, I’d expect a good decision if he started drinking again, or went to AA meetings instead of Cabinet meetings.
Of course my hero, flawed like a man, is Ulyesses Grant.
I love to drink beer and smoke pot, and my favorite drug is hashish, and at least beer is legal.
Last time in my life hashish was plentifully available in the US was when Carter’s CIA allowed it in prior to Congressional Approval of Military Aide to Afganistan.
It is then that hashish ought to have been legalized.
My addiction to nicotine is where all the founding wealth of the United States came from.
If it wasn’t for morphine after my fall to the concrete through the open stairwell, and when my small intestines became blocked it is hard to believe I could have survived the agony.
So really morphine that comes from poppy and can also be heroin which might be useful at the painful end and comes from Afganistan needs to be legalized along with equality for women regardless of what anyone thinks.
And that is my Holiday Season letter so far today.
Love, Russell
the pragmatist like William James, sort of.
Ingredients of Peace
They are food and isolation from dependence on others.
Otherwise they are equality of stature for all under a just set of laws in the modern corporate world.
The pivotal demarcation is illustrated by equal rights for women agreed to and enforced regardless of national boundaries.
: this is an extreme condensation of a longer letter I wrote that disappeared into the ether.
Russell