So that was when TRW contacted my dad to design the infrared apparatus to put into the satellites.

I wanted to put into perceptive. My dad was not at all part of the space program at first. Americans were focused on getting into space. So from 1960 until 1965 he was in business for himself. [He had invented a super sharp copy mate machine]. So his invention of the infrared telescope was simply in his past at that point. [Life Magazine July 26 1954 pages 24-26](https://books.google.co.il/books?id=D1QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false) Sure the USA and the USSR were desperately focused on getting ahead of each other in space. Only at some point the USA decided it needed infrared satellites over the USSR as an early warning system.[In case the Soviets decided to launch --God forbid]. So that was when they contacted my dad to design the infrared apparatus to put into the satellites. By the end of the 60's that job was done, and then they put him in charge of a different satellite program--laser communication between satellites.

[That was never implemented until the 2000's when TRW got back into the space program. Before that, TRW was out, since a spy was discovered there working for the KGB. So TRW lost all its contracts at that point. But my dad had already left at that time. My dad left because his work on the laser was finished and he decided to tackle other challenges.]

global warming

It helps to get an idea of the "big picture" as the Gra said [brought in the introduction to the Translation of Euclid into Hebrew by a disciple of the Gra.] One single lack in any of the seven wisdoms will result in a hundred fold lack in understanding of Torah.

For me getting to know the big picture was a kind of amateur interest in Dinosaurs. [Surely the fascination of all young kids--but it stuck with me even after childhood.] But just by getting to know the environment of the dinosaurs I happen to have an idea of what the carbon dioxide levels were back then   and also world wide temperatures. So the whole global warming scare always seemed to me to be less than meaningless.

יאשיה המלך Yoshiya the king is on one hand a sad story

יאשיה המלך Yoshiya the king is on one hand a sad story. However there is a deep meaning behind it.
We know אל תתגרה ברשעים. [''do not start up with the wicked.'] So he must have been aware that getting rid of all idolatry in Israel that the evil would stick in him and his children. You can not fight someone in the mud without getting muddy. But even though he was aware of that, he decided to get rid of idolatry from Israel forever.--even knowing it would be the end of the Temple and his own children.
The reason was תמות נפשי עם פלשתים. [Shimshon  said let my soul die with the phelishtim. it was of for him to be destroyed as long as he could take  down the dark side while at it.] That is: it was worth it to make sure that idolatry would never again be a part of the accepted teaching of Torah in Israel

But that has become weakened. Now idolatry is very much an essential element of Torah as taught in the religious world. This is because the signature of the Gra was ignored and so idolatry is now a part and parcel of Torah as taught in the religious world.

[The basic event that I am referring to here is that that king got rid of all idolatry in Israel, and right after he died his sons took over and the Temple was destroyed and his children were either killed r became servants in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.

there are many values that are true but not reducible to feeling nor reason.

Even though the Kant-Friesian School of thought of Kelley Ross is based on Leonard Nelson and Fries, it also has a few additions like the idea of that there are many values that are true but not reducible to feeling nor reason.
This seems like an important aid to self-understanding.
At least for me, it helps explain how during one period of time I might have a spark of the need to learn Gemara. At a later time, I might have a different spark. It explains a bit how Mozart, may have been talented, but his music is not reducible to talent.

That is there are objective values--not just values reducible to reason.
 

[It is hard to see philosophers as being on the same page, but you can actually see the importance of the Kant Friesian School by the critique that Robert Hanna presents on Analytic Philosophy.

Christians have an understanding of Jesus that suffers from two weak points. One is that Paul had what looks like a very different understanding of the commandments of Moses than did Jesus.

On one hand the audience of Paul was gentile and the audience of Jesus was Jewish, so by that in itself there is bound to be a discrepancy.

But even allowing for that does not really get to the degree of Paul's being downright against keeping the Law of Moses.
I am sure that reasonable answers have been proposed for this. However I want to point out now that regardless of how you evaluate Paul, the approach of Jesus himself could not have been more clear One must keep all the commandments including those from the words of the scribes. ["The scribes sit in Moses's seat, therefore all that they teach and command that you must listen and obey."]

All the controversies that are in the Christian world could be easily answered by this one simple observation.

[In Bava Batra: "Three are called by the name of G-d, tzadikim, Jerusalem,.." But no one prays to Jerusalem. It is more or less a Plotinus approach that they emanate from God.]

Litvak yeshivas tend to be a mixed bag.

Litvak yeshivas tend to be a mixed bag. Not all perfect,  but they have a lot of good. The main good is they introduce one to authentic Torah,- Torah as opposed to Torah of the Sitra Achra (Torah of the realm of Satan). [i had the great good fortune to have been in to great Litvak yeshivot, the Mir and Shar Yashuv]
But if you realize from where the good energy of the great yeshivas derives from--the Gra, you ought to be able to bypass any institution and simply work on Torah yourself with the need of any group.--Just by following the path of the Gra yourself.

The trouble seems to be that they really do not follow the Gra fully--which anyway I understand can be hard to do. After all the signature on the letter of excommunication is a start. Next would be the individual to get through the two Talmuds with Tosphot, Pnei Moshe, Maharsha and the two sets of midrashim, legal and agadic.]

[I would also add the Hidushim of Rav Chaim of Brisk and the Avi Ezri of Rav Shach.

In high school, communism and Leftist ideas were being introduced way before people knew that the education system had been infiltrated and seeded by the Frankfurt School.

In high school, communism and Leftist ideas were  being introduced way before people knew that the education system had been infiltrated and seeded by the Frankfurt School. So on one hand American Classical  Education retained some of its structure. For example: as a senior, I took English Literature, and we learned Chaucer. And as a sophomore we learned, The Book of Job. But also Camus!! How did he replace Shakespeare?
[Note--my teacher for Chaucer said in the short story about the cook that used lots of spices, the intent of Chaucer was to be ironic. [Meaning-- that he was a incompetent cook covering it up with spices]. I think this is incorrect. In the Middle Ages a bag of spices was worth a small fortune. Spice was the reason for going to India, and later was the motivation of Magellan to find a fast route to the Spice Islands. The average diet was bland. People would pay tremendous sums for spices especially pepper.


So how did Marxist ideas take over the Department of Education in the USA?

I had a friend who used to be in the KGB, who told me that he thought the KGB simply did not have the means to cause all that on its own. And I tend to agree. It had to have been native, naive Americans.

But after my own studies over the years, I was pretty sure that Marxism simply did not hold water.
[It is based on the Labor Theory of Value. That theory says that the amount of value something has depends on how much labor went into it. Since that value comes only from the physical labor, therefore the owner of the factory is extracting excess value from the workers to feed himself and give them low wages. However that theory is false. If a worker works on making a needle 24 hours a day. That does not make people want the needle more than if he worked on it for two minutes. ]

However being in the former USSR, I realized that there was a stabilizing element to the chaos that existed before and after the collapse.  No one ever told me things were better after the fall of the USSR. No one. So I realized that a lot depends on the people and situation. When things are in chaos and you need wide agreement of people to a central authority, then Marxism, though false, gives a core belief that will unite people--kill the filthy rich and take their stuff. At least you get the vote and then can impose order.
And being in Ukraine, I noticed a lot of people like to steal just by force of habit. It is not at all a kind of place that an American Constitution could have worked. Once you get a certain percentage of the population that like to steal, then the fact that the majority are angels makes the whole system fail. 

So I can see the point of the Bolsheviks in the USSR.
But the same system that the Left is trying to impose on the USA will result in the collapse of the USA. Personally, I would arrest every single rioter and put him on trial for treason.