The great General Ulysees S. Grant reacted to bad news with a new order that was directed to the problem, erectile and not at who or what had caused it.
The Vatican policies that have influenced the policies of the US and Spain have created the problems we have that we must not blame them for since we are them and they are us and all of us are on the same bus.
The sensible thing for us to do is to accept and identify the problems of over population and pragmatically react to the problems regardless of who or what is to blame.
The major threat to humanity is actually atomic bombs and asteroids.
We can get rid of nuclear weapons, viagra but we must steer or get out of the way of asteroids.
My point is that we have control of only so much and it is an impossiblity for humanity to elimanate the asteroids, pills whereas it is a possiblity for mankind to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Best overall plan for humanity is to build down Space Elevators that Bridge to the Moon and Mars and Venus as if all of Humanity was Holland under Sea Level.
I imagine Spain and The Netherlands leading from the EU on this agendia.
Love, Russell

Article 99 and Secret Negotiations

French UN Association Points for Reinvention of the United Nations includes the recommendation that the Secretary General more often and systmatically present before the Security Council, threats to International Peace.

This is Article 99.

From what I have read of Andre` Lewin’s Points this Article 99 and the subsequent Point I have named them  Blacked Out Security Council Consensus Meetings, these suggestions touch on Presidential Executive Powers and a virtual Cabinet for the World.

For this system to be most effective and acceptable to the entire World Community there must be a strong component of International Law represented in any secret meetings, for which the strong point is made that in such Blacked Out meetings, the representatives of the nations may feel a touch more free to pusue the common goal of International Peace, instead of a National Agenda, that desired war.

In such a Blacked Out meeting with far reaching implications for so many people I would want to know that the greatest minds of International Law where in the room and at the table to advise all parties on the legality of what they are privately contemplating.

The Civil Society Consultant Group composed of Nobel Prize Winners, Leading Academics, Labor Leaders, Poets, Pilots, Philosopers and actually anyone who for one reason or another is somehow recognizable as worthy to be listened to due simply to the power of their vision independent of general status or wealth would present the prospect of advancing interest and loyality towards the UN by offering a more fully palpable feeling of International Citizenship transcendant of National Origins.

Of course I am very interested in being a member of the Civil Society Consultant Group of the United Nations and strongly endorse this Point without any reservations since it is clearly a move towards what I consider true Anarchy and would be a good balance for any secretive systems such as the previously discussed Blacked Out Security Council Situation Sessions.

For such a group within the UN to have a vote equal to Security Council Members would make the United Nations more truely representative of all peoples and constitute a sort of Senate.

So what really is the best order for the implementation and use of these points, which are basically orientated towards Crisis Management?

As the population grows, or contracts due to disease, war, or acts of God, there will be constant predictable trends alongside of surprises both good and bad.

What we as Internationists want to encourge are positive trends and a system for Crisis Management that insures and elevates the human experience. Free Speech and a Free Press have a piviotal role in the prospect of sucess for they are the basis for common understanding of problems and crises.

Fairness and justice for all is not an impossiblity, but it is dependent to a very great degree on objective truth. This is why I have pushed hard for a more universally available United Nations Television Network.

The role of television as a powerful tool of governments either officially operated or unoffically operating obviously has the power to stop or start wars. It is one thing to undertake a war of domination, and another to undertake a war of defense. What we are moving slowly towards are wars that are entirely defensive.

According to International Law, aggressive wars are illegial. The characterization in the Media of a War as defensive may be successful even if the war is in actuality aggressive.

Without a base of objective truth abroad in the World, it will continue to be the case that more wars than are necessary to secure justice for all will occur.

It is obvious that the United Nations has a baseline of value that runs as a bureacracy independent, and powerfully working to the benefit of many defenseless peoples.

The leadership of this bureacracy is in disarray, and needs repair if the overall mechanism is to succeed.

In all great law, it is the spirit of the law that is more valuable than the law, as it is written, for there are always flaws in what is written down, but never a flaw in the right spirit.

There is a conflict between shared property and private property that must be resolved not only to level the playing field for the working classes, but to also simply save the field for all classes.

Air and Water are the basis of the commons.

An inventory, and accounting, and determination of what the full value of any service or manufactured good is required recognizing the private enterprise draw on the commons so that all will have clean water and air.

Hope for mankind rests on an end to off book accounting.

Where nations are cursed with corrupt and weak governments that do not secure even private rights for their citizens, the commons are exploited so much so that a terrible end for all is insured.

The trend that is assaulting the island where coexist Hatiti and the Dominican Republic that Jared Diamond points to as an allegory of the international community as a whole would seem to call for evacuation of Hatiti.

Some lands may be so damaged that they must be allowed to heal and the healing may factually dictate evacuation of the humanity which has innate needs the same as a light or a motor that in order to run pulls a fixed amount of current that will overload and overheat and blow the circuit if it is not pulled off the circuit.

My working class intuition is that it is the responsiblity of The World Bank to make loans and policies based on the full accounting of both the public and private property.

The innate individual draws on the international circuit would seem to me to be possible to calculate against the public sphere and a pro-rated international minimum wage to therefore be possible to determine.

The repeated pledges of compassionate capitalism by American Republican administrations are not compassionate in reality as long as so many American Workers are without health insurance that enables preventative healthcare.

Will the US become the same as Mexico for workers, or like Canada?

Workers are harmed by degrees and worn down and thrown away by the empowered aristocrats who manipulate the self hatred of the working classes who buy hope that is a chimera in the hands of the self interested who change the rules and the laws as benefits themselves and their families regardless of the eventual outcome for all.

In essense the rich say to themselves,

 "At least I’ll be among the last to die."

Apparently that is the story of Iceland.

Trends of Genocidal war, confirm for me the Apocalyptic Riot as more and more general.

To reverse this trend calls for Pragmatism that has as its goal, at the minimum, maintainace of the commons.

The Spiritual and Scientific approach to our unique time in history when we have transformed our planet into an island in the sea of the Universe must face and then love our knowledge of our prediciment as some love death in order to love life.

In science is salvation if the science of history is included in the basis for the experiment that has a goal.

There is the found and the invented, and though they are really the same on one level, the inventions that are found are needed and found most perfectly at the same time.

This would be syncronicity, which was an interesting song by The Police and Sting.

The prospect of Space Elevators does seem to me to be a very pragmatic approach to the needs of humanity for clean energy, as well as a bridge to the prospecting of the Solar System.

I believe that this is the only pragmatic way to face the flaws of the situation for humanity in a capitalist system that needs to offer the potential of 100 percent employment and 100 percent supply of the minimum needs of a First World Citizen and Soul.

I think now of Tom Builder in Pillars of the Earth by Ludlum, and wish that the world would be a Cathedral.

Ending Corporate mechanizations of nations and laws that enable thieft of the required natural infrastructure will take some work that I will need help in accomplishing, both and thrice in means, thought, and actions.

Please think and act with the goal of causing a reform and reinvention of the institutions and the international laws so that neither national capitalism, or corporate, or private is allowed to diminish the commons without at the least an accounting of the true cost and its meaning.

I feel the spirits out there that want to live in a body like mine, and it is my duty to work to maintain the prospect, which depends on true thought and actions in sync.

Love,

Russell 

Used to be that you could find all of the Transcendian writings that were written for therefrigerator.net, and then republished on popwars.com by doing an advanced search of Transcendian War Commentary.
I unfortunately didn’t transfer all of the writings that were there to Transcendia.org, and now it may be lost, or only on one paper copy here in the house we rent.
In the meantime I have read two books by Jared Diamond in the past month and things are bleak.
I listened to the radio as well.
Things are bleak.
I wrote a postcard to President Bush because he has a good deal of power, and postcards are most sensible in the age of envelope murderous microbe assaults.
My postcard said that if John Bolton would endorse the French UN Association points for re- invention of the UN all reasonable objections to his confirmation would be removed.
I reccommended that Jared Diamond be asked if according to the Science of History, he would agree, as a second opinion.
In the meantime I am sad that my work that used to be available has disappeared.
It would be interesting to me if one of my readers would through the I Ching and read the Reading of the day, and write a condensation of the readings for inclusion in the website, transcendia.org.
Russell

Anarchy & Conservatism are similar but full understanding and committment are needed for either to work for the greater good. Otherwise corruptions set in and there is no unity between the rhetoric and the reality.
I wish that they had had a law course for me to take when I was in High School.
Overall it would seem that universally there ought to be a course in international law in all of the schools since overall civilization depends on understood laws and manners and near about anyone may now end up traveling all over the world, medic if not into outerspace.
Somewhere in the work I have done in cyberspace, establishing the space of Transcendia I did attempt to write an Opinion as if I was a Judge on the Supreme Court.
I read the Geneva Conventions on the Yale Avalon Law Project and wrote my Opinion according to the law, as I understood it, in relation to “Detainees” imprisioned at Gantanamo on the island of Cuba.
In the end I determined according to the law as I understood it, it is a fiction that Gantanimo is not under the sovereign power and control of the United States, and that makes the operation of the prison and the treatment of the prisoners, illegial under both international law, and the laws of the United States.
In the case of a beautiful woman we will buy many a lie.
Power will do all it can to turn a lie into a truth when its existence is threatened.
The lesson of the movie The Battle of Algiers seems to have been taken by the Bush administration as the necessity of torture.
I thought that the lesson of the movie was that you are doomed to fail in fighting with that ideology in any way that is historically usual. Or in other words the power of the Theocracy of Islam will overcome weapons of any sort.
Now myself, as a Theologian coming from Priests and Sailors, and the experiences of a Working Class Man have offered to argue sermons from my point of view, with anyone, and most perfectly my greatest enemies, who are those who want to kill me because of where I live, and the citizenship I hold.
Of course I am aware that my citizenship is tenuous since I like to smoke pot, and do not consider it unethical for me to do so, and am likely to have enough to satisfy my needs for two weeks or so at a time.
I particularly like to smoke hashish which came from Lebanon, Afganistan, and Nepal when I was able to buy it when I lived in Canada.
If the International Community by the Laws of the United Nations was to reform International Drug Laws so as to allow Marijuana and all its derivatives, such as Hashish as Legal for international commerce, at least as far as the United Nations was concerned, it would do a lot to diminish any interest in narcotics such as cocaine and heroin, which are nearly as addictive as tobacco.
Ethically this would be a good thing which would also in gradient improve the general morality we attempt to share, and sometimes feel compelled to violently assert as a right worth dying for.
Let me say that I do recognize that smoking pot or cigarettes or drinking or gambling are adult vices. There have even been a couple of times in my life when I had sex that was paid for.
There have also been times when I have paid to talk to a Psychiatrist.
I am absolutely certain that I have paid more to talk to people than I have upfront paid for sex, though my first divorce may have worked out to cost more, which will be all right if my daughter ends up respecting the overall decisions and legacy I live with or leave.
The most simple thing that the United Nations could do to increase the prospects of its success would be to work to enforce with real power the equality of women internationally.
Some of my experience has been as a man who was a mother too.
Wherever women are denied education, or mutilated, subjugated, raped or murdered as part of the life that is supposedly right and a fate they ought to accept because of a morality, ethics must be recognized internationally as a trump over that morality.
This is why the Flag of the United Nations ought to become more common.
Frankly I think it needs more color.
Love -Russell

Would seem to me that the Bush Administration and the Republicans in general are in league with corrupt businessmen who they further want to empower with less regulation and more access to the commons across every bridge from oil in Alaska to retirement and disablity insurance under the name of Social Security.

And that is just in the United States.

Then on the other hand while they speak of the need for less government, treatment they advance as far as they can go in eroding the rights to privacy in your own home.

The best governments whether Socialist or Democratic or Monarchy or Anarchistic or whatever, even Theocratic, are the ones that protect the rights of the minorities as well as they do the majorities.

What the Founding Fathers really meant when they promulagated into the culture and mental landscape of the United States by separation of church and state, was a separation of ethics and morality in the commons since they recognized that morally or religiously based precepts for actions had the potential to cause undo and regrettable harm to innocents, such as witches.

Working Class people generally understand fair play, pulling their weight on the job is a source of pride that gives an honest working man honor enough.

The people in power in the United States have a history of taking advantage of working people by exploiting their fears and prejudices.

People in the United States are digging themselves into a hole by allowing themselves to be manipulated by fear and loathing because they have been adverstised into terminal confusion by well dress professional liars.

I wonder what the Right Wing position is on the marriage rights of Hermaphrodites?

Best- Russell

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The Spanish decendent aristocracy of Mexico says that the worst thing about Mexico is the Mexicans.

The working class of the United States is geographically stuck between the Canadians and the Mexicans.

For the working class of US Citizens the best program independent of nations would be to pay for all illegial immigrants transit to Canada.
In fact it would be wise for Canada and the United States and Mexico to become one nation so that the economic power of China would be obviated as it would have been if Russia had become a State and gotten some contract law.
Transcendians who are investing in land would be wise and recognize the insights of their poor but humorous leader by buying port land in Equador.

Times are tough.

Treatment of labor in Mexico needs to be improved.

Mexicans are disarmed.

We need to get the NRA to help legalize weaponry in Mexico to expand the markets for gun makers at the same time we encourage the Mexican Government to pay for the education of their people who are living in our country.

If the Mexican government was to make having a gun legal if you are a regular person and then tax that and use the money for education of their citizens who they seem to want to leave for greater access to money and work and guns it would threaten to educate peasants and at the same time give them the power that people pay attention to.

This is a weird and true thought.

I bought a nail gun that fires nails into wood powered by gas and electricity this month since I work building houses.

I told the children that live next door that if Jesus was alive today he would be a Rocket Scientist.

Carpentry was the height of technology when Jesus was a carpenter.

Rocket science and space elevator for passive power collection is the height of technology now.

Dinner is ready. My wife calls me to the table. I cannot think about these things anymore today.

Help me.

Thanks, doctor Russell

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Since I was forced to face that philosophically anarchy and conservativism had certain tenets pivotally in common, I have had to find where it is that I feel strong disagreement with the current President of the United States.

In fist fights I knew that I was not a very schooled fighter, but fought a good deal, had to hit the other guy in the face real hard when I could see in his eyes that he was going to do it to me.

So even the doctrine of preemptive strike as ultimately defensive makes sense to me.

In a difficult world filled with violence there are certain realities where I understand a common ground that I operate within even with my enemies.

As a poet and a man I know there is such a thing as fighting words.

The time before the last time I punched a guy out, that guy had threatened my life once, and then came back twenty minutes later and threatened to kill me again.

I started punching him then since I am a grown man and he was a grown man, and I don’t go around threatening to kill people without meaning it, more than once myself.

I have said that I wanted to kill someone once in the heat of passion, but I went away and decided against it.

I never got a motorcycle or a gun till I was in my forties since I suspected that I was not grown up sufficiently to have such things in my kit.

Now I did write a poem in which I said that I ought to have shot some people, but I only wanted to shoot them because my girlfriend had had sex with them, and this is not really a good reason to shoot someone.

I did decide that it was acceptable for me to cause a guy that has taken my wife without permission from me to lose money if that is at all in my power to cause.

Wife in this case and up to the understand of what is civil is used in the general old english way since men sometimes feel that a woman is theirs and a wife when the woman does not entirely agree.

So the only way Transcendian thinking may reconcile itself with the thinking in common it has with the current image of Conservativism that is destoying the lives and hopes of working class people who it has built its power on and who it is abandoning egotistically to make themselves into aristocrats is to emphasize the art of living which typically there is no time for in the American landscape unless you steal it.

After work today I drank a beer and smoked a joint and sat in the car and looked at all the beauty around me. The temperture was perfect. The humidity was perfect. The light of the sun on the trees and the field and the road and all around me was beauty, a messy Southern beauty, but beauty all the same because of the perfect light of the Sun.

The world we live in is a found art even if it is not a made art and we have moments of joy that we love to share that ought not be destroyed by beliefs.

I want all of my ideas to do no harm as if I was a Doctor of Philosophy.

What are the best ideas?

A painter I knew once said that she considered painting the happiest art. This makes sense to me because I have suffered some from some of the things I have written even when I was making art out of words.

Of human value the ideas that are the shared conscious infrastructure of port cities seem to me to be the best ideas in that they enable the port to function.

Tolerance and manners are necessary for the port to function.

It is bad manners to break a contract or fail on a debt without a good reason.

In the case of the starvation of the poor Irish by the landlord English the English who were owed money for rent created a very long term conflict by not accepting that the potato blight had created a situation that ought to have been reason enough for at the least rent relief.

And even though the Irish do not like routine and are not quite like the English the Irish and English had in common a belief in the rules, and good manners, and they as a twosome in conflict, are not generally bureacratically corrupt.

Corruption of the common offices of the states of Africa and many South American countries and much of the former Soviet nations destroys the lives and hopes of too many working class people.

Corruption is endemic and shows itself at the top as Kleptocracies. The current anarchy of the United States is teetering on becoming a fully realized Kleptocracy when you see the continued looting of Corporations by executives that have somehow found themselves in positions of irresistable temptations for the indulgence of infinite greed.

There is an art to living and when Ben Franklin knew he had all he needed and was secure he gave a stove design away.

It is significant that Ben Franklin was a secularist when it came to the government, but enjoyed a good sermon and reported he gave more money to the church when he liked the sermon.
A good sermon informs the heart and the mind but one must keep in mind that there is more than one preacher and a multitude of sermons that even they may give.

Really we don’t need God to know that the Ten Commandants and the Golden Rule are good tenents to observe in our everyday actions.

As far as homosexuality is concerned, or drug use I think that the idea that one ought to do undo others as you would have done to you trumps any morality created or found in writings that come from fear of the different.

I have discovered over time and the length of my life that I was not entirely who I thought I was and had to tolerate the person who I really was. This helps me enjoy my neighbors as well as myself.

So I have come to believe that right now it is a good time to determine what the international minimum wage ought to be that recognizes the end of hunter gatherer life and the end of bands and pushes forward with the fully realized concepts of civilization as has experimentally existed.

I think that all off the book capitalism must end at the same time that we recognize what has happened.

We have made the world very small by overpopulating it so much that we will disable it.

What I want to enable is a regular amount of joy and suffering for all the human bodies to succeed as soul vessals, without undo suffering.
This means I must encourage practical ideas, and nuclear weapons are not practical in my world.

Love – Russell

Prologue

It is a day of a spaceship crash. In human history spaceship crashes, or losses, however you want to state them, are countable. The most common name is anonoymous and I imagine the pilot who built an airplane, flew it, and crashed in it without record or notice as part of the uncountable except by God. I applaud that weatherbeaten soul for the ultimate of sharing and selfishness for you share the joy of God flying around.

I do know one thing about pilots in general, and that is that it is a thing to do that even though it may be fatal, is still a joy to do. For the limited number of take offs and landings, flights, that I have had the gift to accomplish on my own, if I had died, I myself would have had no regrets that would touch my soul as might ethical failure.

Spaceships, SpaceStations and Robots are the Transformational Economic Necessity of our Time. They are pure inventions in that they are ethical exemplifying what is best about us as humans, creatures distinct ordering and inventing culture and civilization so far as to accomplish such a thing as leaving the earth which is like leaving mother, and makes a mother proud secretly to see a child accomplish.

I remember my greatest flight not as my own but the time we went to Schenectacty all together in the DC6 that I even got to fly for 2 hours. I remember walking around in the empty cargo hold on the way back looking out the window at the engine nacelles and watching the propellers turn in their part invisible way.

Everyone was shocked when I got paid for unloading the cargo. The Captain had invited me to fly it, and just because you enjoy a trip doesn’t mean you ought not get paid for it.

Hell I might have gotten killed if the prop governors had gone wild, or the corrosion in some clear air turbulence had bent the fuslelage in half even if I was having a good time with good people. It was all a trip to deliver urgently needed oil rig equipment.

Macheivelli says that a struggle with the environment is not enough to create a nation. These deaths in spaceships are shared by all on Earth in a way that bloodys the stars to make me regret only that I wasn’t on the crew.

Founder of Transcendia Prologue

United Nations Television Channel Update

So far the United Nations Television Schedule exists on paper, which is the best of backups I have discovered since a power surge blew up the other computer and this computer somehow made the disc out of the other one unreadable. The schedule was originally written for Lynne Constantini VP of Programming at Time Warner. She had C-Span ask me for it and C-Span turned it down. Since then I have faxed it or mailed it or handed it to a fair number of people in politics religion or the arts.

It is my goal to post this schedule over the next writing period that I have available. You might Steal This Show. I have come to admire The Grateful Dead Marketing Plan as the Modern Model.

United Nations Television
24 hour sample schedule
started 7/22/02 revised 9/22/02

This schedule starts at 12 midnight and proceeds through the night morning afternoon and into the night with design. The only hope God might give us is to know what we need to know, when we need to know it. Such issues of language translations, subtitles, and local time scheduling are surmountable to defeat the babel and conform the program transmission times to local time zone utility.

This is an ambitious schedule of programming meant to increase understanding and peace among all people.

12 Midnight Transcendian Television- The subject of a Transcendian Television show will vary according to need. Subjects that I imagine initially for close scrutiny during this time slot are what corruption of ideology or actuality exist, or do not exist, endemically in The United Nations. There are many different ideas organizations or personalities that may inspire thematic programs within the parameters of Transcendian Television.

12:30 AM Music From Around the World
Performances from muscians of all of the nations in the world in a revolving alpabetical order.

1 AM World News
World News would focus on long-term trends, and short term trends. Why anyone watching would need to know this news would be determined by its promise or threat to them regardless of where they live. For Example: The possiblity of an Ateroid strike is the prospect of a short term event that could wipe us all out. What people are doing aobut the prospect of an Asteroid Strike is a long term trend. (If Nations are working together to create a Planet Defense System, it is a superior trend signaling awareness of our common human concerns on the planet, as opposed to a unilateral national program benefiting only one nation.) Real conflicts are to be depicted clearly between opposing forces in this news program.

Never on United Nations World News should any reporting be about things like hairstyles of rockstars, since this sort of reporting would be more appropriate in a show somewhere else unto itself.

2 AM My Movie
Movies and Videos made by personal filmmakers from all over the world. It is the Flicker Festival that most closely exemplifies the sorts of films that would be presented in this show. (The Flicker Festivial is held in Athens GA., Chapel Hill NC, Richmond VA, Los Angeles CA, New York NY, New Orleans LA, Asheville NC, and Bordeaux France is a more perfect example of the sort of show I envision here.)

2:45 AM The Obituary Report
Obits of important and interesting people of the day.

3:45 Weather for Farmers Pilots and Ship Captains
Specific Weather and Trends that would enable Farmers Pilots and Ship Captains to get where they need to go in the time they have.

4:10AM International Call In
A Call in show Videotaped in a studio in The United Nations that monitors all transmissions and presents a host who pontificates as well as calling out with any device to anyone who might be able or want to call in on whatever device they have at hand with which to communcate. It would be the ultimate of call in shows in that it might call out over phone shortwave radio internet or anyother communication machine for entertainment, inspiration, or community.

6:00 AM United Nations Report
Listing of the Events Meetings and Speeches of the day upcoming for that day at the United Nations Headquarters.

6:30 AM Pictures From Space
Pictures from Space Stations or Space Ships traveling between Earth and Space. Reporting of the experiments or construction being conducted, as well as significant rocket launches by commercial or national rocket launch organizations. (The Director and Editor will edit and feed image and sound from all available sources.)

6:45 AM The Work Report
Reporting for the Working People of the World from The United Nations.

The Work Report would focus on where things were going well for workers, and where they were going badly, and why. The same as World News it would report long-term and short-term specifics.

7:30 AM The Children’s Television Teacher
-A One Room School Room
The best of teaching from schoolrooms all over the world.

9:15 AM United Nations Peacekeeping Force Report
Reporting on and from anywhere that The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces are stationed.

10:00 AM Break- A Comedy Routine from someone in the world who is funny.

10:15 AM The Secretary General’s Office
Report from The Secretary General, or from his office about world issues and what their office is doing in relation to these concerns or events.

10:30 International Law Report
Report on both standing laws that all nations observe, and the trials that come from them. Particular attention will be paid to cases that might or have changed international law.

11:30 AM Wars
A list of wars that are currently being conducted, as well as answering who is winning and why.

12:30PM Bank Report
The Bank Report would focus on the doings of National Banks as a way of revealing national agendias.

1:30PM 7 Port Fashions
Street, Shop, Salon, Church Restaurant or Bar shots of what people are wearing that day.

1:50PM World Health Organization Report
Who are the healthiest people in the world, and why. A show that contains information about what the Health Organization is doing or anyone needs to know to maintain or improve their health.

2:30 PM International Patents
Review of International Patents of the day.

I will pick up here with the rest of the schedule tomorrow.

Russell Day

Sanctions have typically caused hunger for the common people of the nation that is sanctioned. Those at the top hardly ever starve. North Koreans need food from all that I know, pills and the way they intend to get it is by threatening to bomb somebody with a nuclear weapon.

This may be the time for Pro Active Civil Demonstrations on the part of the United States China and Japan. It would also be good if internationally all nuclear weapons were made illegial.

Things would be better in the world if the rules of war were enforced at the least, purchase and there was a sensible recognition that weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons have lost their value except as they might be useful in Planet Defense against Asteroids or Comets that are so far way that the debris would not hit the earth.

Actually the utility of nuclear weapons is doubtful for even defense of the planet from rocks.

There is a difference between a conventional arm, drugs such as my 32 caliber revolver, and a nuclear weapon. I do not want to give up my 32 and can justify having it since I ought to have a shotgun to go with it, because it is not always people that I need to defend myself from. There is the rabid racoon to think about on occassion.

As well there is the possiblity that I might get so hungry as to shoot an animal and eat it. So far I have only had to use my gun for target shooting, but if I was hungry enough I am likely to shoot something to eat.

Really I ought to get a shotgun, but I do not need a grenade or a larger bomb.

For the peace to be maintained and advanced in Korea, food is be best weapon.

Poor people are starving in North Korea and at some point that could be very painful.

The United States dropped a couple of bombs on Japan to end a war. The use of nuclear weapons these days would be tantamount to an apocalyptic riot, but riots happen.

War is sort of like a sport and the current problem is that the UN has not become a forceful referee.

I think that in the case of North Korea some good may come from the conflict if it is recognized that the North Korean offer of a Freeze is an opening for an international ban.

In all cases of conflicts between nations there is the fact that nations that have been enemies in the past, will be friends in the present or future.

The egos of leaders and the desire of the common people to have heroes to follow repeatedly result in wars that the innocent are not rightfully caused to suffer.

If we are to endorse the rights of man, then we really ought to endorse the right of the common man to live a life that is simply the spiritual quest for the material necessities as enough of a conflict to create a soul.

Work is enough of a struggle in my opinion.
And good honest work ought not be any source of shame either.

To cause simple work to be a source of pride requires that the employer and the employee can all feel ethical pride in their accomplishment.

Therefore if we are to have any prospect of global peace eventually, I suspect that the basis for the value of the money in the World Bank must be pegged to a full accounting of the commons, and that there be established from that full on book accounting a pro-rated target international minimum wage.

The entire elimanation of hunter gatherer societies is upon us at this time in history and this means that money is the earth.

There are only so many sensible things to use money for, and war is not one of them if we are to turn the use of money into a better art than the art of war.

Love- Russell