Energy Independence for the United States -- How?

The foundational base of Reality MUST shift back to an expanding scientific, gestalt awareness of Reality. The shallow groundless EGO prone based concept of Reality (multi-varied , shifting, hearsay beliefs, ideologies, localized single point views) seem to be creating living conditions of nightmare proportions, as the poverty stricken, the vanished middle class, and the degraded environmental/ecological scenario will confirm.

"7/14/11 - A joint government -- university -- industry consortium is required to tackle the energy issue in a similar way that the government invented the computer, the internet and many other high tech societal innovations. With its track record, the United States has proven to overcome challenges time and again. The energy challenge is no exception."  Nake M. Kamrany is Professor of Economics and Director of Program in Law and Economics at the University of Southern California. Vincent Viruni is a research associate of the Income Convergence Research Group in Los Angeles.

How much longer do we keep asking and ignoring this question, especially since this “Apollo” project of advanced energy systems has already been achieved?

New York Times, November 1, 2002: "Meeting the world's rising energy needs without increasing global warming will require a research effort as ambitious as the Apollo project to put a man on the moon, a diverse group of scientists and engineers said in Science magazine today. "

"As systems increase in complexity, their energy intensity and energy requirements to sustain life rise accordingly." Hydrocarbons ceased fitting the energy bill, became obsolete, years ago. Nobel Prize winner , Ilya Progogine

More Energy More Weather Continues to Increase Non Stop: Chicagoans deal with record-breaking rain

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8268085

Energy Independence for the United States -- How?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nake-m-kamrany/energy-independence-united-states_b_898561.html  


This is the right time for the United States to seriously consider embarking on a bold investment of creating technology in energy that would reduce the cost of energy, create energy independence via renewable sources and attendant benefits of favorable trade balance, employment, higher GDP growth, deficit reduction and national debt reduction. The energy independence platform of the U.S. administrations, from President Carter to President Obama, has not met goals for energy independence. This void can be filled by a determined decision to make the U.S. the world's largest producer of renewable energy.

With the advent of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the early 70s, the energy crises ensued in the high energy-consuming countries in Europe along with the United States in which the price of oil was set and by OPEC -- an organized and collusive oligopoly -- a cartel. OPEC was able to shift approximately $2.1 trillion of additional wealth transfer -- above a free market price -- from the American consumers to oil producing countries during 1973-2011.

In response, the West has opted for energy independence attempting to develop renewable energy. But the effort has been meager. For instance 17% of Germany's electricity supply is in renewable energy and only 8% of energy supply draws upon renewable energy in the U.S. Other policy measures such as price control, raising oil taxes, monetary and fiscal incentives have not been effective. The United States' petroleum imports from OPEC were leveled at 41 percent in 2009, a much lower percentage from 70 percent in 1977. U.S. petroleum imports shifted from OPEC to non-OPEC after 1992; although petroleum prices are set by OPEC globally. The United States has had a negative energy trade balance since the mid-50s.

After nearly half a century of struggling with the energy issue in the U.S. the following are obvious:

1. All of the development of renewable energy (solar, wind and others) thus far has contributed only 8 percent of the total energy supply in the U.S. It follows that a large supply gap for renewable energy remains to be filled in the U.S. market. To put this figure into perspective, coal and petroleum comprise 58 percent of total supply for energy consumption.

2. Energy consuming countries remain heavily dependent upon oil imports, most notably in 2010; the United States' import bill of oil had reached $337 billion.

3. Per person energy consumption has steadily increased over time with the rise of living standard outstripping per capita production of all sources of energy. This has contributed to higher prices of energy. Energy expenditures per person have increased from $404/year in 1970 to $4,089/year in 2009. The rise in energy prices has had negative impact upon distributional objectives of the U.S. imposing pressure on middle and low income groups.

4. China and India -- the two emerging countries with high growth rates have entered the buyers' market in energy, contributing further pressure upon oil prices. Both China and India account for 36 percent of incremental increase in the world primary energy market.

5. Oil companies in the private sector while amassing billions of dollars in profits have not solved the energy supply constraint. The private sector which is the logical agent of invention, innovation, and technological breakthroughs in energy technology has not measured up to the requirements of the supply challenge for energy. In the first three months of the 2011, Exxon Mobil Corp. actually increased its performance by 69 percent over last year's and in the process earned nearly $11 billion of profits. The first quarter closed off at $6.3 billion profits for Royal Dutch and $7.1 billion profit for British Petroleum. These companies were collectors of revenues for OPEC not inventors of energy independence from OPEC.

6. Higher taxes on energy have been regressive and have not reduced quantity demanded for oil due to inelastic demand for oil.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?

Since energy independence is a public issue, the government must invest in basic and applied research perhaps in the order of $2 trillion despite the current status of high unemployment, high deficit, high national debt and high unfavorable balance of trade but because of it. A joint government -- university -- industry consortium is required to tackle the energy issue in a similar way that the government invented the computer, the internet and many other high tech societal innovations.

With its track record, the United States has proven to overcome challenges time and again. The energy challenge is no exception.

Nake M. Kamrany is Professor of Economics and Director of Program in Law and Economics at the University of Southern California. Vincent Viruni is a research associate of the Income Convergence Research Group in Los Angeles.

Energy of the Future - It is time to move Evolution Forward

We did not really think that the world of work and labor, whose major outcome worldwide today is ever-increasing debt, exemplifies the optimum economic system, did we?


My suggestion would be to empower the lost American Dream with the supporting ground of advanced energy science to make the American Dream come back real and alive.


Resolving the first item below cures the second item.
• inadequate, prehistoric energy definitions and applications

• inadequate, prehistoric economic definitions and applications

Reprinted with permission from
http://evolution-intelligentdesign-survival.blogspot.com/

It is time to move Evolution Forward

Way back when ........even Nikola Tesla, the father of AC electricity, said, “If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations.” Tesla further went on to state, “With its full development and a perfect system of wireless transmission of our energy to any distance, man will be able to solve all the problems of material existence.”


Possible Futures: The Promise of Energy for Everyone from Peter Jocis on Vimeo.

Future Energy published article: "Energy of the Future" from SuperConsciousness magazine, July, 2008 re-published in their Winter 2010-2011 issue


http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/technology/energy-future
Energy of the Future
Exploring Potential Energy Technologies
Author: Thomas Valone
Photographer: Wikipedia; Tom Valone

Energy, the ability to do work, is the most important dynamic, organic, and vital part of the human drama. For the past 10,000 years, we have simply grabbed some wood, oil or coal to make a fire. Yes, our ancestors did it even back in the Stone Age. It has been an easy way to cook food, heat our caves, and explode gasses in metal cylinders with pistons. Many believe that we should just continue this human family tradition, even if our collective population has ballooned to billions across the planet and the carbon from our campfires keeps collecting in the atmosphere.

It is been scientifically concluded that, since carbon dioxide is such a stable molecule, the CO2 from the first Model T Fords is still floating around in the atmosphere. And what about those cars? In 1950, the US was producing half of the world’s oil and used most of it to power the automobiles. Fifty years later, we don’t even produce half of our own oil. Furthermore, the climate crisis has now burst our bubble of continuing to burn cheap energy, since fuel-based energy is no longer cheap and the effects of global warming are becoming more apparent every day.

Nikola Tesla, the father of AC electricity, countered this trend a century ago when he said, “If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations.” Tesla further went on to state, “With its full development and a perfect system of wireless transmission of our energy to any distance, man will be able to solve all the problems of material existence.”

Today, the wireless transmission of electrical energy is emerging on several fronts. MIT professor Marin Soljacic has a short distance wireless power demonstration with two coils using magnetic resonance and thinks he is following in the footsteps of Tesla.

However, Professor Emeritus James Corum, of the University of West Virginia, can rightly be called a world’s expert on Nikola Tesla’s wireless electricity since he has published dozens of articles on Tesla’s designs with amazing scientific accuracy regarding the earth-ionosphere capacitor circuit that only distributes power when the consumer turns on the appliance. In contrast, the U.S. electrical grid loses approximately 2/3 of its energy on the way to the final distribution point, even if the customer never uses it! At the 2003 Nikola Tesla Energy Science Conference in Washington DC, sponsored by Integrity Research Institute, Dr. Corum stated that Tesla’s basic concepts of transmitting power with high efficiency (over 95%) around the globe had been confirmed from his perspective. Corum has also written about Tesla’s “magnifying transmitter” and his extremely low frequency (ELF) oscillator, which are integral parts of what Telsa’s Wardenclyffe Tower was designed and built for in 1903. Professor Konstantin Meyl from the University of Furtwangen, Germany also has written about wireless power transmission and has a working demonstration model that can be seen on the web, powering a small boat remotely. All of this evidence confidently points to the development of wireless electricity for much of the world in the future.

What else is available for the energy of the near future and how will energy distribution look in the short term, just a few decades from now? One easy answer is that the power grids of the future will mix and match the energy sources in order to network assets. These will include biomass converters, solar, wind, microturbines and geothermal configured as dispersed small-scale generators, combined with other distributed resources such as flywheel storage devices and sophisticated control equipment, in order to avoid investment in large, costly central power plants. This is the plan of ABB Ltd., a Swiss based engineering company that has recently divested itself of building large power plants in favor of community-based energy infrastructure.

Another future trend that holds promise is the concept of “Energy Islands” that provide a diversified, sustainable combination of wind, solar and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) all together on an island. Most of these will be located in the equatorial regions where the temperature difference between the surface and 1000 meters depth exceeds 20°C. The concept will be launched later this year at Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge which offers a $25 million in prizes to innovative solutions that combat global warming.

I am optimistic about ZPE rectifier diodes with “zero bias” as the best solid state means for converting the quantum vacuum fluctuations into single direction, direct current (DC) electricity.

Dating back to the 1980’s, Dr. Gerard O’Neill, MIT professor and author of Space Colonies, developed a plan for space solar power (SSP) which has recently gained support from the Pentagon. SSP is a design that would replace fossil fuel energy generation for major, earth-based centralized power systems. Recently, Space Solar Power Institute presented Congressman Bart Gordon, Chairman of the Committee of Science and Technology, with a draft for the formation of a privately-owned SunSat Corporation. Internationally, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) began testing the ‘microwave power transmission system’ for their planned Space Solar Power System (SSPS), conceived as giant solar collectors in geostationary orbit, with plans to be up and running by 2030.

The National Research Council (NRC) of Canada has developed a relatively cheap, efficient, and non-polluting technology to convert the energy of ocean currents into electricity. The Davis Hydro Turbine, invented by engineer Barry Davis, is designed to produce electricity from ocean tides. At the Second Conference on Future Energy in 2006, in Washington DC, sponsored by Integrity Research Institute, Blue Energy International’s Martin Burger described his company’s available Micro Power System for the remote domestic customer kilowatt needs. He also presented the Midrange ocean turbine for remote communities in the hundred-kilowatt range and lastly, the Mega Power System tidal fence for an ocean inlet megawatt generation. Burger described six prototypes that have been built and tested under the auspices of the NRC, proving the concept is viable.

Another trend that can be called a revolution is the transformation in the solar industry by multiple breakthroughs on all fronts in the early part of this new millennium. Los Alamos National Laboratory has recently broken through the single electron barrier by shrinking the elements of a solar cell down to a few nanometers. Now each captured photon of light can be made to generate not one, but two and even more electron charge carrier. Producing this multiplicity of electrons, a feat duplicated by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), is a sign that photovoltaic (PV) cells will soon be seen on the market with two to three times the output for the same size cell as before (Physical Review Letters, V. 92, p. 186601, 2006 and Nano Letters, V. 6, p. 424). A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years. At half the cost of conventional solar panels, Soliant Energy, a startup based in Pasadena, CA, has developed the new solar modules. Konarka is another breakthrough company that has developed low-cost plastics for solar cells that are efficient across a much broader spectrum of light than traditional cells, allowing them to draw energy from both the sun and indoor lighting.

A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years.

Since its material is lightweight and flexible it can be colored, patterned and cut to fit almost any device. Konarka envisions embedding its material in cell phones, laptops and toys to provide power on the go. Clothing could be woven with the material to supply power for handheld electronics, and signboards, traffic lights and rooftops could be fitted with solar strips. Thus, solar power will become ubiquitous in the near future because of so many current advances in this energy field.

There is also a revitalized and refurbished nuclear industry on the horizon for the near future. Why? Because the nuclear waste problem has been solved. Little attention was paid to the First International Conference on Future Energy, originally scheduled for the U.S. State Department in Washington DC but then forced into a local hotel by official government pressure.

However, notably, the only speaker to “pass muster” during the coerced “peer review” was Dr. Paul Brown, whose nuclear remediation discovery was praised by the only physicist on staff at the State Department, Dr. Peter Zimmerman. His company, Nuclear Solutions, used gamma rays (high energy X-rays) to zap mixed nuclear waste by knocking out one neutron on the average through “giant dipole resonance.” The amazing part is that this process was also independently discovered by the Institute for Transuranium Elements overseas a few years later, also with the nuclear material sealed in acrylic while it is treated with a tabletop gamma ray laser. The treated waste has a short half-life of hours or weeks, compared to the originally unacceptable thousands of years. With the demise of the government’s Accelerated Transmutation of Waste (ATW) program, going the same way of the doomed Tokamak, the door opens for a lower energy treatment that does not activate the waste while trying to treat it, as ATW continued to do throughout its trials. This is where onsite Laser-Driven Photo Transmutation of long-lived radioactive waste finally will step in, reviving the fission reactor program, with heightened security and elimination of off-site radioactive transport or long term storage.

One easy answer is that the power grids of the future will mix and match the energy sources in order to network assets. These will include biomass converters, solar, wind, microturbines and geothermal configured as dispersed small-scale generators.

Energy experts and historians of energy agree that as societies advance and complexify, they need more and more concentrated, intense forms of energy, like rocket fuel instead of gasoline. Furthermore, for mobile modern societies of the future, transportation will be pollution-free and versatile. For example, of the several converging trends for getting around, “ultracapacitors” are being developed for electric cars to completely replace batteries. They have lighter weight and ten times the energy density of lead-acid batteries. The company to watch is EEStor, a startup from Cedar Park, Texas that is collaborating with Zenn Motor (TSX: ZNN) to roll out new highway speed vehicles by the Fall of 2009.

In the future energy portfolio, another surprising development is the permanent magnet powered motors which are an emerging trend bound to come to market. A number of developments, such as the Spiral Wankel Magnetic Motor and other different designs, all point to the use of the “magnetic gradient” in the same way we presently access an electrical voltage or a change in altitude for hydropower. Professor Emeritus Theodore Loder of the University of New Hampshire is a pioneer in the field and presented developments at the Second International Conference on Future Energy in 2006. In addition, Dr. Thorsten Ludwig and I are co-authoring a paper on “Magnetism as a Zero-Point Energy Effect” because quantum mechanics is filled with zero point energy (ZPE) references explaining the spinning of electrons that cause magnetic fields.

A number of discoveries in the field have made zero point energy (ZPE) much more understandable and accessible to the common physicist. A recent book based on a feasibility study has helped to educate the public about the available means in the future for using ZPE to produce useful electricity and even force production. I am optimistic about ZPE rectifier diodes with “zero bias” as the best solid state means for converting the quantum vacuum fluctuations into single direction, direct current (DC) electricity.

While moving away from petrochemicalbased electrical energy for appliances and transportation is important for the future, there is growing interest in new methods of healing beyond petrochemical based pharmaceuticals. The use of electricity on the surface of the human body, for countering free radicals, pain, and a host of diseases, is becoming more popular with the alternative health community, since it is also free of side effects (More about ‘energy healing’ in a future issue of SuperConsciousness Magazine).

Tesla further went on to state, “With its full development and a perfect system of wireless transmission of our energy to any distance, man will be able to solve all the problems of material existence.”

There are many other promising future energy avenues, too numerous to mention. The work of Josef Papp, who used a patented mixture of noble gases in a closed internal sparking engine, is an exciting example being well-funded by the Infinite Horizons company in California. The plan is to run a modified car engine for a few thousand hours on the same mixture of inert gases that minutely undergo nuclear transmutation with each explosion. Every few months the gas will need to be replaced but at a very low cost compared to gasoline and without any pollution whatsoever.

It can be said that the future will be so bright; you might want to wear shades.

References

K.W.D. Ledingham, Journal of Physics D, L79 (2003): 36
Mark McLaughlin and Don Riley Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century Alternative Energy Institute, California , 2001
Robert O. Becker, The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1985
Konstantin Meyl Scalar Waves, INDEL GmbH, 2003 – www.k-meyl.de
“Power Grids of the Future Will Mix and Match” – IEEE Spectrum, 2003
Tony Reichhardt “US State Department gets cold feet about cold fusion” Nature, 6723 (1999): 398
Thomas Valone, Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future Integrity Research Institute, Maryland 2007
Thomas Valone, Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature: Tesla’s Science of Energy, Adventures Unlimited Press, Ohio, 2003

How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class

   Abolish the "Dumbed Down" Program

False evidence cannot be corrected. Distinguish the 'wanna be's' from the real destroyers. Identify the major unskewed factors destroying this country:

• inadequate, prehistoric energy definitions and applications
• inadequate, prehistoric economic definitions and applications

Then make the corrections.

How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113086/bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch?mod=bb-budgeting

Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money

A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+% unemployment rate and the mediocre growth in national output, and they scratch their heads and wonder: Where is the boom that inevitably follows a deep bust, such as we experienced in 2008 and 2009?

But there is no mystery. What other result would you expect from the financial ruin of the once-great American middle class?

And make no mistake, the middle class has been ruined: Its wealth has been decimated, its income isn't even keeping pace with inflation, and its faith in the American economy has been shattered. Once, the middle class grew richer each year, grew more comfortable, enjoyed a higher living standard. It was real progress in material terms.

But that progress has been halted and even reversed. In some respects, the middle class has made no progress in a generation, or two.

This isn't just a sad story about a few losers. The prosperity of the middle class has been the chief engine of growth in the economy for a century or more. But now our mass market is no longer growing. How could it? The middle class doesn't have any money.

There are a hundred different ways of looking at the economy, and a million different statistics. But if you wanted to focus on just one number that explains why the economy can't really recover, this is the one: $7.38 trillion.

That's the amount of wealth that's been lost from the bursting of housing bubble, according to the Federal Reserve's comprehensive Flow of Funds report. It's how much homeowners lost when housing prices plunged 30% nationwide. The loss for these homeowners was much greater than 30%, however, because they were heavily leveraged.

Leverage is an amazing thing: When prices go up, the borrower gets all the gains. And when prices go down, the borrower takes all the losses. Some families lost everything when the bubble collapsed, others lost very little. But, on average, American homeowners lost 55% of the wealth in their home.

Most middle-class families didn't have much wealth to begin with — about $100,000. For the 22 million families right in the middle of the income distribution (those making between $39,000 and $62,000 before taxes), about 90% of their assets was in the house. Now half of their wealth is gone and it will never come back as long as they live.

Of course, rich folk lost lots of wealth during the panic as well. Their wealth is mostly in paper not bricks — stocks, bonds, mutual funds, life insurance. The market value of those assets fell further than home prices did during the crash, but they've mostly recovered their value now. The S&P 500 (^GSPC - News) lost 56% of its value when it crashed, but it's doubled since then. Stocks are down about 13% from peak.

The rich recovered; the rest of us didn't.

If losing half your meager life savings weren't bad enough, the middle class has also been falling behind in terms of income for decades. Families in the middle make most of their money the old-fashioned way: Working their fingers to the bone for 40 years for wages and a modest pension.

Their wages have been flat after adjusting for inflation. In the late 1960s, the 20% of families right in the middle were earning almost their full share of the pie: they had 17.5% of total income. Their share has been falling steadily ever since. Now, that 20% is earning just 14.6% of all income. Meanwhile, the top 5% captured a growing share, going from 17% in the late 1960s to 22% today.

The housing bubble was the last chance most middle-class families saw for grasping the brass ring. Working hard didn't pay off. Investing in the stock market was a sucker's bet. But the housing bubble allowed middle-class families to dream again and more importantly to keep spending as if they were getting a big fat raise every year.

I don't think we've quite grasped how much the bubble distorted the economy in the Oughts, and how much it continues to distort it today. We're still paying the bills from that binge.

During the last expansion from 2003 to 2007, according to an analysis by Fed economists, American homeowners took $2.3 trillion in equity out of their homes through cash-out refinancing and home-equity loans, and they spent about $1.3 trillion of it on cars, boats, vacations, flat-screen televisions and shoes for the kids.

All that spending circulated through the economy, creating millions of jobs here and in China, where they make those TVs and shoes.

During that period, the economy grew at an annual average rate of 2.7%, which is about typical for our economy. But growth would have been closer to 2% if we hadn't had a housing bubble; if we hadn't had the extra consumption financed by the bubble and if we hadn't built millions of surplus homes. That's a huge difference. At 2.7%, the economy can create a significant number of jobs. But 2% is stagnation, not even keeping pace with population growth and productivity improvements.

Now that the bubble has burst, homeowners are putting money INTO their homes, not taking it out. The impulse to pay down the mortgage and the credit card is reducing the amount of money we're spending on other things. Since 2007, instead of taking $2 trillion out of their house, homeowners have put $1.3 trillion into them.

You think that might be having an impact on consumer spending?

Even with trillions in debt being paid off or written off, very little progress has been made in deleveraging. The debt-to-disposable income ratio has slipped from 130% at the height of the bubble to 115%, but that's still far more than the 90% recorded in 2000 or the 80% of 1989 or the 60% of 1976. No one knows how far it needs to fall before American families are comfortable with how much they owe.

The slow growth in the economy is no mystery: Most families don't have any extra money to spend. It will take a long time for the middle class to rebuild its wealth, especially if we don't find some work.

The crazy thing is that our leaders aren't even talking about this crisis. With the upper classes prospering and global markets booming, they don't need the U.S. middle class any more. The market is up, profits are soaring, and the corporate jet is fueled and ready for takeoff.

And if the middle class can't buy bread? Let them eat cake.

Rex Nutting is a columnist and MarketWatch's international commentary editor, based in Washington.



The next, worse financial crisis

Commentary: Ten reasons we are doomed to repeat 2008

1. We are learning the wrong lessons from the last one.

2. No one has been punished

3. The incentives remain crooked

4. The referees are corrupt

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-worse-financial-crisis-2011-07-06?reflink=e2eyahoo

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July 6, 2011, 8:57 a.m. EDT

Caring For Our Families and Future Generations

The Contract for the American Dream is a blueprint for creating an economy that works for all of us. They are looking for the best ideas to rebuild the American Dream and unite thier movement. http://contract.rebuildthedream.com/ /

A cautionary note: The American Dream asks, “What happened to the middle class? The answer stares us in the face – 60 years of repetitious failure by organizations of good intent avoiding the support and “ground” of an expanding science reality.


Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% - "Unsustainable Inequality in the USA” by Joseph E. Stiglitz, will continue unabated until we come off of cloud nine and ground ourselves in a free science, whose current standard model of Physics has been dangerously idle since the late 1940's.

We must entertain the possibility that it is impossible for science to be so stupid as to be stuck in oil and deadly nuclear applications for so long, now seeking help from intermittent and trivial “green alternative” wind, sun, geo, and tide systems. (trivial and impractical when contrasted to evolving global survival energy demands.)

Buried Science Wisdom: http://possiblefuturesfilmcontest.org/film_24402363

I have permission to repost below a relevant comment referencing the following news video and a host of other issues we are facing as it pertains to the title of this post, “ Caring For Our Families and Future Generations"

2011: A year of violent weather - CBS News Video CBS News video: 2011: A year of violent weather - The giant dust storm that blanketed Phoenix, Ariz., is the latest freak phenomenon in a string of strange weather events. As Ben Tracy reports, 2011 has been a year of violent weather http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7372470n        

Comment



• No problemo, it is El Nina, Santa Clause, Chicken Little, and excess flatulence causing these violent inconveniences.


• Now back to idiot screaming commercials, praising our master corporations for their awesome, obscene hoard of cash, profit and wealth


• ....... As 16 Million American Children now go hungry


• Families losing their homes, their life savings in crooked, corrupted stocks , lost home equity, no jobs


• State and local governments facing bankruptcy


• Retirement age soon to be 110 with NO Benefits for the majority


• A majority that are now the most productive low paid slaves on earth, also stuck in nightmare traffic


• Adapting to the perils of global warming while applying “Desperately Seeking Susan” hopes the 2% that have it all can keep the economy booming


• In a world exploding in population and unmet needs (WOW, the marvels of modern science and Dead Energy Wisdom).


How a people could support such unbelievable atrocities was studied by Stanley Milgram in the infamous “Milgram Experiement” about a certain period in Germany’s history. This is "caring for our families and future generations"????