‘Oligarchic tendencies’: The Raw Story

Peter Jocis shared a link via The Zeitgeist Movement Global.

about an hour ago

‘Oligarchic tendencies’:  The Raw Story

The Freedom (freedumb) bluff.
"No reasoning, logic, facts, or science shall interfere with my belief that we are free - for I see and hear the truth on radio, TV, Ipod......every day!"

‘Oligarchic tendencies’: Study finds only the wealthy get represented in the Senate | The Raw Story

www.rawstory.com

Members of the U.S. Senate do not respond equally to the views of all their constituents, according to research to be published in Political Research Quarterly next month. Senators overall represent their wealthiest constituents, while those on bottom of the economic rung are neglected.

Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Uprising?

The Chinese dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing our current world wide Economic design, will completely devour itself without an upgrade of energy definitions, applications, and a return to Wisdom (i.e., ability to survive)............. The Zeitgeist assessment of current affairs are widely accurate, but choke the range of future possibilities with our contemporary narrow energy definition. http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/zeitgeist-movement-extremely-limited.html  

The Promise of Energy for Everyone

http://www.relaxspa.net/TheRadiusOfCurvature12-28-10PPShow2003.pps

 Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Uprising? It took a while, but Wisconsin shows that the poor and middle class of the U.S. may be ready to push back. Madison may be only the beginning. “We demand that before the hard-working, tax-paying families of this country are once again forced to sacrifice, the corporations who have so richly profited from our labor, our patronage, and our bailouts be compelled to pay their taxes and contribute their fair share to the continued prosperity of our nation. We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will NOT be quiet!”

http://energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-24/wisconsin-first-stop-american-uprising

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/wisconsin-the-first-stop-in-an-american-uprising

The goal, according to a statement on the US Uncut website, is “to draw attention to the fact that Bank of America received $45 billion in government bailout funds while funneling its tax dollars into 115 offshore tax havens [...] And to highlight the fact that the poor and middle class are now paying for this largess through drastic government cuts.”


The Politics of Class Warfare
Across the country, the poor and middle class have suffered from the economic collapse: jobs disappeared, mortgages sank underneath debt, and opportunities for a college education evaporated. Much of the bailout that was supposed to fix the economy went to the very institutions that caused the collapse. Many of these institutions are now using tax loopholes and offshore tax shelters to avoid paying taxes.


The tide may now be turning. Inspired by people-power movements around the world, people in the United States are beginning push back. The poor and middle class, those who didn't cause the collapse but have felt the most pain from the poor economy, are now being asked to sacrifice again..............

Can't get blood from a turnip retired workers are told regarding pension cutoff
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/20/sunday/main20034120.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel


The Pension Crisis: Promises unkept
After decades of working for Prichard, Ala., retirees receive no pension payments, are told "You can't draw blood from a turnip"

Begining to look like the so-called terrorists whose goal we are told is to destroy America and constitutional freedoms, have become insignificant WANABES, in contrast to the "Doers" who are indirectly accomplishing this task, the ones flush with obscene CASH and Profits (no not the bought and paid for national, state, local governments who are also moving toward bankruptcy).  Who are these "Doers", these non-tax paying, non living entities who have sucked up all (98%) of the CASH and continue to create Al Capone's casino joint hedge fund atmosphere on Wall Street?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/governors-slashing-spending-cash-strapped-states/story?id=12897157
Cash-Strapped States Facing Budget Crises  Governors Facing Tough Decisions
Republican, Democratic Govs Vow Spending Cuts, No New Taxes in Order to Balance Budget
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41781471/ns/business-bloomberg_businessweek U.S. recovery that is built on low-paying jobs  AThe economy is not creating opportunities

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/borderless-economy-jobless-prosperity/?hp  Why has the economic recovery left workers behind?


But however significant the benefits of globalization , the other side of the ledger reveals significant costs arising from political realignment and efforts to escape regulation and taxes.



Jobless growth is only one symptom of increased social conflict, intensified economic inequality and weakened democracy. The prosperity in jobless prosperity exists only for the rich.



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What's Next for America?

What's Next America? Without an energy upgrade, far beyond the superficial wind, solar, corn, geothermal, etc., the obvious is staring us in the face and magnifying exponentially. Putting a stranglehold on Nature's natural expression, i.e., on both human and energy evolutionary processes, carries with it unimaginable consequences.

Freedom in the Science of Energy Evolution has to be brought to the table as first priority of any and all programs of “all wakeful organizations”. The “common sense” revelations arising from evolutionary energy systems will dissolve and solve every obstacle to survival, sustainability, prosperity, and fulfillment.

What's Next for America?
Jeff Greenfield Examines If America Is a Superpower in Decline, and if Optimism Is a Thing of the Past http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/02
/sunday/main7205489.shtml?

(CBS) At the start of a New Year, it's natural to ask WHAT'S NEXT? That's not an easy question this year. - We begin with a report from Jeff Greenfield:

It is the core American faith - that this is a country uniquely, even Providentially blessed, whose best days always lie ahead of us.

And for much of our history, that faith has been justified by reality. Throughout most of the 20th century - the "American Century," as LIFE Magazine proclaimed it - America WAS the richest, most powerful, most open society on Earth.

But today, a specter is haunting America: A sense that we will no longer be THE dominant world power.

And, more troubling, a sense that our future may NOT be brighter than our past, a sense captured in a recent poll revealing that nearly half of Americans believe our best days are behind us.

In a way, this is nothing new, says author and journalist James Fallows.

"As the early American republic was first taking form, already there were warnings - 'Are we going to become Rome?' - even before there was any sort of great empire to worry about," said Fallows.

And through the last half-century in particular, we worried about threats to America's supremacy.

"I can remember the launch of Sputnik in the late 1950s, and the sort of galvanizing effect that had on American education, especially in science and math," said Fallows. "And then, in more recent history, say, starting 25 years ago, was the Japanese. And, of course, in the recent decade it's mainly been China that's been the comparison by which America is falling short."

This idea - call it "relative decline," the concept that other nations may equal or surpass our economic or technical mastery - may be hard for a "We're Number One!" America to accept. But for Paul Kennedy, who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," it is nothing new - nor troublesome.

"No one stays on top," he said, "and the U.S. has a very hard time in realizing that. Great powers, like the U.S. - like the British Empire, like the Ottomans - rise to a position of prominence over, you know, a century and a half or so, and stay at the top for a long while, and then, usually, gradually decline."

But it's a different idea that you can sense in the public conversation today: A sense that the some of America's most enduring beliefs about itself are in doubt . . . beliefs that are at the center of what kind of country we are and how effective our political system is in dealing with what threatens us.

At the center of the doubts is the wounded American economy: Not just the 15 million who are jobless or underemployed, not just the trillions lost in the economic meltdown of the last few years, not just the millions who have or may soon lose their homes.

It's the broader picture:

"In the last 35 years, the median wage in America has gone down," said Fallows. "Most Americans, in the last, now, two generations, have done worse economically, which is unprecedented in American history."

And it poses a special threat to a pattern we took for granted from World War II through the '70s - blue-collar workers finding secure well-paying jobs that provided them and their families a measure of security and comfort.

Moreover, if America's economic machinery is stalled, it means trouble - serious, potentially devastating trouble - for our governments, and their obligations.

Our federal government has a $14 trillion debt. And in towns, cities, counties and states, pensions and health care costs of public employees threaten to leave those governments literally bankrupt.

Former New York lieutenant governor Richard Ravitch has spent a lifetime dealing with budget crises. This time he says it's different - and worse.

"It is not sustainable - there is no question about that," Ravitch said. "And I think that it's only a matter of time before you begin to see bad things happening, like cities or counties not making payroll, defaulting on debt."

So, is optimism a thing of the past? - The answer (to James Fallows) is yes AND no.

"We could solve what's wrong with this country fairly easily, considering how rich we are, all the resources we have," he said. "Whether we'll actually do that, is a different matter."

The real question may be: Is our 200-year-old political system capable of dealing with today's dilemmas?

"I think we have a very poor constitutional and political system for the 21st century," said Kennedy. "We have a system which was marvelous for 13 independent, loosely-tied states in 1783, 1786," he laughed.

"I've spent a lot of years of my adult life living outside the United States," said Fallows. "People will often say, 'I wish we had X, Y, and Z, in comparison with the United States.' No one has ever said to me, 'I wish we had your U.S. Senate. I wish we had some governing system like yours,' because the ability of our political system to match our great potential resources with the problems we have, that seems different to me from times I know about before."

Which is, says historian Paul Kennedy, why America's most urgent need it to distinguish between what is beyond our reach . . . and what is in our power to change.

"The reversible things are what you do with your national budgets, with your science and technology programs, with your education," said Kennedy. "Those are reversible.

"And, therefore, my answer to you about, you know, is America ultimately in decline is that there's the irreversible stuff. Just forget about it. Concentrate on what IS improvable, what IS reversible - and then we start looking better."
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Corporations, "awash again to the hilt in immediate profits", Seek To Keep Global Warming Data Secret - Push Underway to Keep Some Global Warming Information Secret In First-ever Inventory http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/tech/main6998654.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.11










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Oil Will Run Dry Before Substitutes Roll Out
http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Oil_Will_Run_Dry_Before_Substitutes_Roll_Out_999.html







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Front-Line City in Virginia Tackles Rise in Sea
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/science/earth/26norfolk.html?hp

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Australians Flee Flood of "Biblical Proportions"
Queensland Residents Evacuate as Torrential Rains, Rising Waters Cover Area Larger Than France, Germany Combined http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/01/world/main7203215.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.3

Climate Of Fear

Climate of Fear:
Is Slavery Coming Back With Big Brother as Ruler/King?

• Control the Sources for Food, Housing, Health
• Demand Political Correctness and Focus on Trivia
• Control Knowledge & Science (let the people think the epitome of scientific advances are oil, ladders to space, microwave ovens in space, etc., …..)
• Suppress the minority of scientists who say there exist hundreds of proofs of concepts of new energy devices, ranging from energy from the vacuum (zero point), cold fusion, and special hydrogen and water technologies, all which connect to an easily understood mathematical framework using the Quantity C as the Radius of Curvature of All Natural Law.
• Suppress the understanding that the following applications have long since been possible with our advances in science and technology:
• * Field dependent propulsion
• * Fields & Application of Anti-gravity - polarization of gravity
• * Special hydrogen and water technologies, field related – instant cheap hydrogen for fuel cells
• * FTL -faster than light transportation
• * "Movement"/"Transference" - from one point to another without going through all points in between
• * Transmutation of elements (Periodic Table application from one element to the next))


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/november-unemployment-rises-98/story?id=12297228

"Employers don't need to hire. They are getting more work out of fewer people, thanks to what Daniel Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO's Office of Investment, calls a climate of fear: "There are five applicants for every opening. You have to work harder or your job either will be done away with or outsourced.
In the third quarter, U.S. business earned profits at a rate of $1.659 trillion a year—the highest in history.
As for money-in-the-bank, the S&P 500's non- financial companies are presently sitting on $1 trillion in cash or cash-equivalents.

The last person who saved like that for a rainy day was Noah.

Somewhere between 15 and 27 million people, depending on how you figure it, remain unemployed."

Freedom Times questions: Productivity has risen at an exponential rate. Did slaves work this hard with continously diminishing returns in food and shelter (today's diminishing returns in salery, benefits, ever rising retirement age)?


November Unemployment Rises to 9.8 Percent
Corporate Profits Have Never Been Higher, But Hiring Only Returning Slowly
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/november-unemployment-rises-98/story?id=12297228

Non-farm payrolls rose by a disappointing 39,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent, the government said Friday.

November hiring rose by much less than the 150,000 jobs economists were expecting. The unemployment rate was forecast to hold steady from October's 9.6 percent, but instead it increased to 9.8 percent.

The report is more bad news about hiring at a time when big business is awash in gravy.

In the third quarter, U.S. business earned profits at a rate of $1.659 trillion a year—the highest in history, unadjusted for inflation. That's a sea change from the start of the great recession in 2008, when the bottom fell out of corporate profits and workers were pushed out the door at a record pace.

Walker Lewis, chairman and founder of Devon Value Advisors, which tells companies how to maximize their market value, says his own analysis of profits
(pre-tax operating return on operating capital) shows they have doubled from 15 percent to 30 percent over the last quarter century. "It's a chart with a steady progression," he says, and the direction is up.

As for money-in-the-bank, the S&P 500's non- financial companies are presently sitting on $1 trillion in cash or cash-equivalents. The last person
who saved like that for a rainy day was Noah.

But much to the chargrin of the unemployed and government policymakers, companies aren't lavishing their largess on labor.

Somewhere between 15 and 27 million people, depending on how you figure it, remain unemployed.

"Shameful," DeAnn McEwen, a member of the Council of Presidents of the California Nurses Association, calls the situation. Her members, after layoffs, are suffering: "There's just that much more work for those left behind."

Employers don't need to hire. They are aren't getting more work out of fewer people, thanks to what Daniel Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO's Office of
Investment, calls a climate of fear: "There are five applicants for every opening. You have to work harder or your job either will be done away with or
outsourced. Companies would just as soon open a factory in India as in Peoria."

Despite what he calls corporate "whining" about Washington's having an anti-business attitude, "There's never been a better time for the private sector. The Fed is keeping interest rates at record lows. Washington is telling federal employees to take a pay freeze, while doing nothing about Wall Street
pay."

While CEOs award themselves "outrageous bonuses," says Pedrotty, the little man is hurting.

"Half the people out of work have been unemployed for over six months. They're burned out. They're got the makings of a permanent under-class. We all know
where that leads. Our country is at a point where things are really going to get bad. But you'd never know it, to visit a corporate board room. They're
sitting on cash--holding our economy hostage."

Lewis sees things differently.

"It's no big mystery," says he, why business isn't hiring: For 20 years management has been investing in technology to improve productivity. And for the last ten years, CEOs have been frustrated not to be able to shed people.

A dialog like the following, he says, has gone on between CEOs and their managers: 'Why can't we take advantage of our improved productivity and take
more people out? Why can't we get rid, say, of Old Fred there?' The answer always was, 'We can't do that. Old Fred knows the customer. Old Fred holds the
team together.'

"There was an aversion to risk," says Lewis, so long as it was optional to let more workers go, employers hesitated. But then came 2008.

Getting rid of people became "a necessity." Lewis says the CEOs he knows told their managers, 'Ok, look. I don't give a damn. Yes, it's a risk. It may hurt to get
rid of Old Fred. But we have no choice.'"

The same CEOs, he says, were shocked to discover not only that "it didn't hurt so much to lose these people," but that later, as volume returned, companies
didn't need to bring them back. They found they could get along by using temps and by discontinuing products they knew to be unprofitable.

Rather than sitting on their money, Lewis asserts, the S&P 500 have been using it judiciously, in the following proportions, to accomplish the following
ends: reducing net debt (50 percent), share buybacks (10 percent), dividends (20 percent), and acquisitions (20 percent).

So when will this sea of corporate cash finally translate into hiring?

"My sense," says Lewis, "is that we're another six months away from CEOs' starting to hire. Once they see old demand come back, then they'll start worrying about new demand. They'll start bringing in new
people."

Happy day! And then, after that? "Productivity goes down."

Rescuing Science from Politics –Putting Science Before Politics

A more dramatic and law detailed look at the processes at work in the ongoing sellout of American Democracy and wholesale blockage of expanding democracy worldwide. Note, without the first priority, “Rescuing Science from Politics” (Center For Progressive Reform), all other efforts will be completely futile and a total failure. Energy evolution cannot remain at the bottom or sidelined list of priorities (as in MoveOn’s "other 98%" activities), especially when every known threat to human survival, evolution, sustainability….. stems from, and is caused by, a lack of Understanding and application of advanced energy systems since the late 1940's.

The slightest perusal into the science of energy glaringly spotlights the impossibility of modern science to still be stuck in oil, or in the extremely elementary and deadly form of nuclear energy. Taking Einstein’s “incomplete (but testable and tested portions in the 1940’s) 1928 Unified Field Theory”, opened the doors to infinite decentralized energy source applications for antigravity, field propulsion, transportation of goods point to point without going through all points in between, energy medicine, etc. ….. along with overwhelming common sense insights of what not to do to destroy earth and it’s Life. (see StarSteps)


Rescuing Science from Politics –Putting Science Before Politics

The Center For Progressive Reform
http://www.progressivereform.org/


Rescuing Science from Politics http://www.progressivereform.org/scienceRescue.cfm



Putting Science Before Politics



Excessive Secrecy in Government

http://www.progressivereform.org/secrecy.cfm
Undercutting the Democratic Process and Protecting Corporations from Accountability

Rebecca is a Professor at The City University of New York School of Law and a scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. Rebecca Bratspies, Professor, joined the faculty of CUNY Law in 2004. Her teaching and scholarly research focus on environmental and public international law, with a particular emphasis on how legal systems govern the global commons and how law can further sustainable development. She has published widely on the topics of environmental liability, regulatory uncertainty, regulation of international fisheries, and regulation of genetically modified food crops.
http://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty-staff/RBratspies.html
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=987029##

“A point has been reached in history when we must shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences. Through ignorance or indifference we can do massive and irreversible harm to the earthly environment . . . .”1

The problem is that the world has changed, and the boundaries of authoritative decision are no longer clear. Where states formerly would have pursued their own vision and balance, a world of ever denser interconnection means that the two perspectives, even if wholly valid expressions of community preference, cannot readily co-exist. As decisionmaking centralizes, the struggle over which approach will attain dominance becomes increasingly contentious.

This contest takes place against a backdrop of a world that not only embraces sustainable development, but is also in the throes of unparalleled industrial growth and integration. As such, it is one salvo in a broader struggle for dominance between those who view the world through the lens of the market and its efficiency, and those who would order society according to other values.

Globalization, and particularly the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) radically reconfigured decision making for many important public decisions. International organizations and transnational corporations now play a role in decisions that had formerly been the purview of states. This shift in turn raises questions about democratic legitimacy and whether such decisions are truly “authoritative”

Critics of this shift point to a democracy deficit. They contend that the rising role of the WTO, coupled with the growing influence of transnational corporations both domestically and internationally, means that the key decisionmakers—and the states that use the WTO processes—are no longer democratically accountable to citizens.

The realities of global warming, ozone depletion, desertification, and spreading invasive species make a mockery of the traditional distinction between transboundary and wholly domestic harms. If we are to live together and flourish on our shrinking, warming planet, we must reach beyond oversimplified and dated dichotomies, ones that place international and domestic law in separate realms. In the globalized arena, few, if any, matters are purely domestic. Instead, countless decisions made by individuals, private
corporate actors, and government officials at every level have effects beyond the borders of any single nation-state. The New Haven School’s efforts to grapple with the global community as an authoritative decisionmaker resonate profoundly with the struggle to confront global environmental challenges.

Our current economic system is an aristocracy according to Marjorie Kelly, The Devine Right of Capital. Think British rule of the American colonies. It's based on the divine right of kings: The interests of the king are paramount; the aristocracy alone has a say in government. At the center of the economic aristocracy we have today is the corporation, its authority based on the divine right of capital. Shareholders are king and their interests reign supreme. The aristocracy's primary goal is to pay shareholders as much as possible and pay employees as little as possible.The public good is ignored.
“To rest our hope with ethical leaders is like waiting for the philosopher king. At some point you wake up and realize aristocracy itself is the problem–and you move to democracy–you don’t wait for justice and equality to show up in some noble leader, you build them into social structures.” (Marjorie Kelly)
“The aim is to educate people that the problem isn’t greedy executives or evil individual corporations like Exxon. The problem is the system design. The problem is state law that says corporations exist only to maximize gains for shareholders.”


Toppling the Corporate Aristocracy
Nearly a dozen lawmakers have been honored by university endowments financed in part by corporations with business before Congress, posing some potential conflicts
Current or Former Lawmakers Linked to Endowments Made by Corporations - NYTimes.com

Food Stamp Recipients, Millionaires, on Rise

How peculiar our converted Freedom truly is, as we sit immobilized on freedom's oil highways, contemplating how our freedom rule of laws are created .... and ignore the hungry, homeless, jobless ….. and ignore worldwide, slow murder by poverty, in an age of miraculous science, technology and understanding (see gifts to future generations - previous post), as we make excuses for no jobs in a world exploding in population growth, need and demand.

Food Stamp Recipients, Millionaires, on Rise abcnews.go.com

Our Gigantic Delusion

A 6/12/10 Move On Request: Your ideas for a better democracy - stating " Big corporations from Wall Street to Big Oil, backed by over 17,000 lobbyists in Washington, have been running roughshod over our democracy. For years they've been rigging the rules and fixing the system so that 98% of the country gets little or no say."

It's time to take our democracy back.

There is only one idea that stands the slightest chance of succeeding, and in fact, its omission is the Primary Cause of the “roughshod over our democracy”: Comprehension and application of Energy’s Evolutionary Stages - a Survival Requirement, as natural and necessary as breathing.

As GreenChipstocks’ article (6/12/10) asked: “Will the BP oil spill be an energy game-changer? ....It's the question everyone has; it's the question no one can answer…..Because honestly, no one knows... http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/nicks-title/996

In a free country, why does no one know?

Going beyond the pre-kindergarten concept of energy (i.e., lack of comprehension of the nature and total interdependence of Space, Time, Mass, Matter, Gravity, Fields - with Energy) is a natural fundamental evolutionary survival requirement, a requirement as natural as breathing.

Imagine the consequences, if you did not know that breathing was required for survival.

On a larger scale, Energy is the breath of all Existence in the Universe. Without energy, not even space & time exist.

"Poverty in all its forms is the greatest single threat to peace, democracy, human rights, and the environment. It is a time bomb against the heart of liberty" World Trade Organization Director Mike Moore.

"Inadequate comprehension and application of Energy, in all its forms, in an increasingly complex and evolving civilization, is the single greatest causal factor of poverty - and the vehicle to self-destruct." Decatalyst

"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
http://www.fuel2000.net

Our Gigantic Delusion
Can We Overcome It In Time?
by Doug Page / September 21st, 2009
We live in a culture wide, all embracing fantasy world. It has become our total “reality.” It is our Conventional Wisdom. Paul Ehrlich called this intellectual fog “wonderland.” In 1973 Jonah Raskin called it “mythology.” In 1978, Columbia Professor Edward Said wrote his famous book Orientalism in which he surveyed Western academic literature and novels about our attitudes toward Asia, Arabs, Palestinians, East Indians, and Moslems. He found that even novelists assumed that Westerners were more moral, advanced, and enlightened than Asians and that it was our duty to bring our civilization to them. Orientalism boiled down to racism: Our Caucasian race, our Western way of life, our civilization, our economy is good and clean, and theirs is backward, antiquated, dirty, ignorant. and bad. John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology and Richard York, Associate professor of Sociology, at the University of Oregon, and Brett Clark, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, in a Monthly Review article, “Capitalism in Wonderland,” show that all of our mainstream economists, policy makers, media owners, editors, journalists, and politicians conform to the dictates of this falsified view of reality. President Obama, Lawrence Summers and all his other advisors, and most members of Congress are captives of this false view of reality.
Even when presented with facts that challenge this gigantic delusion, being frightened, hypnotized, addicted, and brainwashed, we reject them. The irony is that the delusion is so grandiose, that one like me who challenges it, runs the risk of seeming to be a grandiose crazy individual.
Our reigning economic falsehood is that our market economy whose principal goal is short term private profit, is the best that humans can create, is the best for everybody, and is in every respect unchallengeable. Moreover, THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. Thus, we cannot have and cannot even consider
Serious measures to deal with the needs of our damaged planet home.
Socialism in any form.
Extensive public hiring and public works.
Caring for ourselves and for each other using the powers of our government.
Directly giving people who want to work, employment to meet our vast unmet needs.
Mondragon type cooperative businesses.
The immorality of a system based on selfish, short term, private greed and absence of caring.
Medicare for everybody or a VA-type public Hospital and doctor available for everybody.
Any health care system that does not provide some private persons with a generous private profit making opportunity from our accidents and illnesses .
Solutions to the ever increasing disparity between the rich and the poor.
Our President and his economic advisors are imprisoned by this reigning market falsehood. It embodies the further falsehoods that our market economy is basically stable, contains no systemic defects, contains no laws of motion or dynamics or anti-social tendencies, and that its minor aberrations can be managed by unlimited expenditures of our tax dollars or by borrowing. The fact that systemic defects caused our “capitalism to hit the fan”1 in 1980 are simply ignored. Thus our President and our government by exhaustive efforts to restore bank lending, seek to create a new credit bubble to replace the housing bubble that crashed. Their stated rationale is that the banks will lend, businesses and individuals will borrow, and that ultimately new jobs will be created. They seek also to maintain and restore the many forms of collateralized debt obligations free of any new regulation. They ignore the basic truth that our economy can be re-started only by directly creating jobs providing enough earned income so that citizen employees can afford to purchase the products of their labor. Moreover, our governmental leaders urge that we must restore “growth” of our existing economy, with its inevitable growth of our emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, of pollution, and our depletion of the planet’s finite resources of oil, soil, and fresh water. As a consequence:
* We are ignoring a basic rule of arithmetic that even “reasonable” growth of 3% per year leads to doubling within an unexpectedly short time. (To get the doubling time simply divide the number 70 by the percentage rate of growth. Thus 70 divided by 3 gives us a doubling time of 35 years. A 4% growth rate would have a doubling time of 17.5 years. A 6% growth rate would give a doubling time of about 12 years. Such doubling continues over and over again so long as the growth rate continues.) Do we really want to double our carbon emissions and consequent global warming? Do we really want to double the consumption of oil, soil and fresh water? Do we really want to double the population of the planet? Is not any talk of growth idiotic? We need a sustainable, stable economy with zero growth.
* We are frightened and uneasy. We are acting irrationally in street marches and in public hearings. We do have to fear fear itself. We have no FDR who promises to meet our needs. We have a presiding eloquent Black Herbert Hoover and not a Black FDR. There are no plans on the shelf for any plausible solutions, and no leaders or academicians promoting them.
* We, of the political left, right and center, with good reason, are worried about how we and our children will pay for all of this vast expenditure of public tax dollars. We worry whether there will be the disastrous inflation experienced by Argentina a few years ago, deflation even worse than the Great Depression of our grandfathers, or, for us, both at the same time.
Then there are the many falsehoods that accompany the extension of this reigning falsehood, our “good” market economy abroad to foreign countries, an extension that we used to call Imperialism:
* Does anybody really believe that our own sons and daughters in the military, and Afghanistan and Pakistan civilian men women and children are being killed or wounded every day as a part of our effort to help them or to bring them Democracy?
* Does anybody really believe that the Honduran military Generals trained in our School for the Americas, financed by loans and grants from our government, using a plane that we financed, landing on the way out at a US military base in Nicaragua, acted without U.S. consent in deposing democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya?
* Does anybody really believe that we are getting out of Iraq when we replace every soldier withdrawn with a hired Blackwater mercenary soldier, and when we are building 4 large permanent military bases in Iraq, and the most lavish US Embassy building in Asia?
* Do we really need 800 military installations in 45 foreign countries staffed with 240,000 military personnel?
Then there is the deepest secret of all, so well hidden in our gigantic delusion, that almost nobody is aware of it. It is the secret Ponzi-like scheme of our private bankers that produces an almost unimaginable annual private profit for them at our expense. This secret private money creating scheme involves the following characteristics:
1. Congress in 1913 delegated the power to create our money supply to the private bankers that constitute the Federal Reserve system. Congress does not use its power to coin our money. Private bankers create 95% of our money supply simply out of thin air. The privately owned “Federal” Reserve Bank simply writes a check out of thin air and issues the money to a private bank. The private bank then loans this money to a private or governmental borrower who promises to repay with interest. The promise to repay becomes an “asset” of the lending bank that it then uses to make many other loans under what is called “fractional reserve banking.” It is thus a fact that 95% or more of our money is based on debt. All existing money thus equals the total of all public and private debt.
2. Our government instead of using its Constitutional power to issue money directly to meet governmental needs (as Lincoln did to finance the Northern side of the Civil War) borrows money to meet its needs from private bankers and pays private bankers interest on what it borrows. Repayment is promised from our tax dollars.
3. Over time, the annual profits for the owners of private banks have compounded enormously. We cannot know how much because the private bankers secured a federal law making it unlawful to audit the activities of the Federal Reserve Banks. One can estimate the annual profit by simply multiplying a probable average interest rate times the total money supply since all money is debt. Is it reasonable to assume that the rate of return is at least 3 %? The total money supply was recently estimated to be $50 Trillion. 3% x $50 Trillion gives private bankers an annual gross profit of $1.5 Trillion per year. This profit compounded over the decades produces an unimaginable stash of total wealth for the owners of the private banks.
4. The private banks use this immense secret stash of wealth to control our government and to override our votes on every issue that is important to banks. Thus it is accurate to say that we have a government of, by and for private bankers. It is also accurate to say that every aspect of the reigning gigantic delusion about our capitalism, including the Imperialism of defending and promoting capitalism abroad, partially set forth above, serves the interests and the profits of private bankers.
5. These private bankers, having the authority to create money out of thin air have created too much money in the recent past and caused inflation, and are now creating too little money and thus are causing our current depression.
In the 1990s, Professor Jared Diamond wrote his book Collapse where he studied four civilizations that had perished in the past and two that survived. The two that survived, managed to overcome their prevailing falsehoods, their Conventional Wisdoms. The four fallen civilizations could not and did not. The question for all of us is: Do we have what it takes to overcome our gigantic delusion? Or will our democratic civilization fall into a new dark age where the only law is the Law of the Jungle?

Contemplate the "gigantic delusion" as you travel down Freedom's Highway

Capitalism: Evolutionary Choices - Fascism or Natural Capitalism

Capitalism: Evolutionary Choices - Fascism or Natural Capitalism

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center http://ucimc.org/content/brief-guide-avoiding-socialism
“Last May, the Republican National Committee condemned Obama and the Democratic Congress for leading America towards socialism.
That's not the only mistake made by those complaining about the threat of socialism.
If Obama is leading America anywhere, it is - like his immediate predecessors - towards fascism.
“Socialism is about the state running things on behalf of the public;”
“Fascism is about the state running things on behalf of corporations.
Adrian Lyttelton in his book on Mussolini wrote that ‘Fascism can be viewed as a product of the transition from the market capitalism of the independent producer to the organized capitalism of the oligopoly.’ It was a point that Orwell noted when he described fascism as being but an extension of capitalism. Lyttelton quoted Italian Nationalist theorist Affredo Rocco: ‘The Fascist economy is. . . an organized economy. It is organized by the producers themselves, under the supreme direction and control of the State.’ ”

Natural Capitalism

Book Excerpts and Downloadable Chapters For decades, environmentalists have been warning that human economic activity is exceeding the planet's limits. Of course we keep pushing those limits back with clever new technologies; yet living systems are undeniably in decline.

These trends need not be in conflict-in fact, there are fortunes to be made in reconciling them.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, is the first book to explore the lucrative opportunities for businesses in an era of approaching environmental limits. In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution-one that promises to transform our fundamental notions about commerce and its role in shaping our future. Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which businesses can better satisfy their customers' needs, increase profits, and help solve environmental problems all at the same time.

Natural capital refers to the natural resources and ecosystem services that make possible all economic activity, indeed all life. These services are of immense economic value; some are literally priceless, since they have no known substitutes. Yet current business practices typically fail to take into account the value of these assets-which is rising with their scarcity. As a result, natural capital is being degraded and liquidated by the wasteful use of such resources as energy, materials, water, fiber, and topsoil.

The first of natural capitalism's four interlinked principles, therefore, is radically increased resource productivity. Implementing just this first principle can significantly improve a firm's bottom line, and can also help finance the other three. They are: redesigning industry on biological models with closed loops and zero waste; shifting from the sale of goods (for example, light bulbs) to the provision of services (illumination); and reinvesting in the natural capital that is the basis of future prosperity. Citing hundreds of compelling stories from a wide array of sectors, Natural Capitalism shows how these four changes will enable businesses to act as if natural capital were being properly valued, without waiting for consensus on what that value should be. Even today, when natural capital is hardly accounted for on corporate balance sheets, these four principles are so profitable that firms adopting them can gain striking competitive advantage-as early adopters are already doing. These innovators are also discovering that by downsizing their unproductive tons, gallons, and kilowatt-hours they can keep more people, who will foster the innovation that drives future improvement.

Natural Capitalism's preface states: "Although [this] is a book abounding in solutions, it is not about 'fixes.' Nor is it a how-to manual. It is a portrayal of opportunities that if captured will lead to no less than a transformation of commerce and of all societal institutions. Natural capitalism maps the general direction of a journey that requires overturning long-held assumptions, even questioning what we value and how we are to live. Yet the early stages in the decades-long odyssey are turning out to release extraordinary benefits. Among these are what business innovator Peter Senge calls 'hidden reserves within the enterprise'--lost energy,' trapped in stale employee and customer relationships, that can be channeled into success for both today's shareholders and future generations. All three of us have witnessed this excitement and enhanced total factor productivity in many of the businesses we have counseled. It is real; it is replicable…" The next Industrial Revolution has already started. Natural Capitalism will prepare you to be a part of it.

The Alternative: The deadly consequences of an economic/corporate system who’s ONLY goal is to maximize profits, regardless of human life, is being verified, disconnectedly, by news reports daily.

NOT TO KNOW CRITICAL SURVIVAL CRITERIA NECESSARY FOR EVOLVING CIVILIZATIONS TO SURVIVE, in the 21st century, especially in the dangerously stagnant energy sector, is beyond bafflement.



Multiple Criteria Fermenting Societies' Decay Stemming from Energy Suppression and Restricted Education

Education
The suppressed Unifying Principle supporting the majority of contemporary new energy claims evolved from the late 40's advanced energy/fuel/propulsion concepts after WWII. These same concepts also brought subsequent advanced understanding of human nature, validating ageless Spiritual and Metaphysical Wisdom within the energy/frequency domains. This Unifying Principle, the radius of curvature of all natural law quantified the radius to the energy differential of the speed of light, shedding insight to many of the MIS- INTERPRETATIONS of the Theory of Relativity, i.e. as in, "nothing goes faster than the speed of light; when an object travels faster and faster, its mass increases (time slows, stops, goes backwards – approaching, at, exceeding VC);" or "As an object approaches the speed of light its mass becomes infinite."

The obvious subsequent realization of such short sighted, mis-interpreted errors swiftly correct to - the 'increasing mass' of the target is only the measure of the kinetic energy differential which exists between them http://fuel2000.net/ . This Unifying Principle completely overhauls the stubbornly persistent delusions, primitive definitions and stranglehold restrictions of E=MC2, permitting advances toward FTL (faster than light transportation), field dependent propulsion, polarization of gravity (anti-gravity), action at a distance, as well as "movement"/"transference", the appearance of motion, from one point to another without going through all points in between.

• About the year 1905, Einstein brought to our attention that the factors of Gravity, Space,Time, and Energy were not the absolute and independent entities that we had always considered them to be, but that they were variable factors, each having a value which depended upon the value of the others.
  
• In short, the quantity C is the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It is the factor which will enable us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which will be brought about by a specified change in the application of the others. It is the factor which will eventually tell us how to place our transport vehicles in either the positive or negative portion of the gravitational curve with respect to the earth or any other planet which we may choose to visit.
  
• When we state that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, we mean simply that if a differential of energy equal to this quantity exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, the natural laws will be suspended. If the energy differential is in excess of the quantity C, the laws will appear to operate in reverse at that point.
  
• As it is impossible to disconnect this scientific unifying principle for advanced fuel and propulsion systems from Human energy systems (same atoms/molecules/ comprised of energy) we find this scientific Unifying Principle begins to validate the roots of ageless Spiritual and Metaphysical Principles. This poses a threat to the current Power Structure. However, suppression and denial of these fourth grade concepts overthrowing relativity delusions, found in StarSteps, does threaten all life in evolving, energy intensive and complex civilizations. StarSteps http://fuel2000.net/starsteps.htm

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***As millions of American sit back and ignore the political system which affects everyone's lives, the monied interests take advantage of the absence of citizen oversight and involvement..........And then the corporate-owned media tells the public "It's the Governments Fault". Then regulatory agencies are further gutted making it easier for the monied interests to write new government policies which further marginalize the middle-class. Again prompting the corporate media to 'blame the government' for "too much regulation." An amazingly effective con-game........(i.e., "Fascism can be viewed as a product of the transition from the market capitalism of the independent producer to the organized capitalism of the oligopoly.")
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Corporate America's huge piles of cash http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/corporate-americas-huge-piles-of-cash.aspx
After throttling down for a depression that didn't happen, companies are sitting on billions in excess money. While many Americans are living on tight budgets because of lost jobs or fear of losing a job, companies face a very different dilemma: They're sitting on growing piles of cash.
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November 16, 2009 USDA: Number of Americans Going Hungry Increases By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/16/us/politics/AP-US-Hunger-Report.html?scp=7&sq=one%20in%20four%20american%20children%20hungry&st=cse Filed at 9:48 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than one in seven American households struggled to put enough food on the table in 2008, the highest rate since the Agriculture Department began tracking food security levels in 1995.
That's about 49 million people, or 14.6 percent of U.S. households. The numbers are a significant increase from 2007, when 11.1 percent of U.S. households suffered from what USDA classifies as ''food insecurity'' -- not having enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle.
Researchers blamed the increase in hunger on a lack of money and other resources.
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November 16, 2009 - Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives in USA By MARC LACEY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/world/americas/16mexico.html?scp=6&sq=mexicans%20send%20food%20and%20money%20to%20USA&st=cse
MIAHUATLÁN, Mexico — During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Mr. Salcedo finds himself doing what he never imagined he would have to do: wiring pesos north. Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States.
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November 29, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?hp
The Safety Net Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades
By JASON DePARLE and ROBERT GEBELOFF
MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs. Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare.
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Rolling in Dough, Still Kicking Out Families
Goldman Sachs Subsidiary Among 'Loan Servicers' Collecting Criticism
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/goldman-sachs-leaves-family-cold/story?id=9403097
By RICH BLAKE Dec. 23, 2009—
There's no place like home for the holidays. But this year, Phil and Barb Kubes and their three children will have to settle for memories of Christmas past. Last month, the Omaha, Neb., family was forced out of their home of 12 years after falling drastically behind on mortgage payments. Having failed to reach a workable solution with Litton Loan Servicing, the Houston-based company that collects their mortgage debt, the Kubes were foreclosed upon and told to vacate.
Litton is by no stretch the largest loan servicing company -- essentially the mortgage industry's version of a collection agency -- but it is among the ones coming under the most heavy fire in the wake of a housing crisis that continues to roil the country. Litton, unfairly or not, has drawn the wrath of legions of homeowners, homeowner advocacy groups, lawmakers, labor unions and class action attorneys alike. One glaring reason Litton has attracted so much of the scorn directed at loan servicing in general: It is owned by Goldman Sachs, proverbial poster child for Wall Street's excess and its percieved indifference to the plight of average Americans. Critics of Goldman's compensation practices say the firm has no business handing out billions to bankers and traders after having been the beneficiary of numerous forms of federal assistance, including TARP money as well as billions in FDIC-guaranteed loans and another $13 billion in taxpayer money given to AIG that was ultimately paid to Goldman.
Though it will derive only a tiny fraction of the billions it expects to earn this year from revenues produced by Litton, Goldman nevertheless finds itself, albeit indirectly, connected to a highly controversial issue at the crux of the housing crisis: Widespread failure by banks to allow homeowners to modify their loans. A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston showed banks have little incentive to modify loans to help homeowners avoid foreclosure because of one simple reason that at this time of year perhaps only Ebenezer Scrooge could appreciate: Loan modification is not profitable for lenders.
No Interest in Avoiding Foreclosure Because mortgages are typically sold off to third party investors, the entities that service the loans, such as Litton, do not have a vested interest in avoiding foreclosure, according to Julia Gordon, senior policy counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsible Lending. "Loan servicers make their money on late fees, so there is a perverse incentive for them not to work out solutions," Gordon said. "Meanwhile, there is zero incentive for them to help a family stay in their home. This is really a deep, serious problem and it has been for a long time."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-workers-rights-report/story?id=9131397
U.S. Far Behind On Workers' Rights: Report
U.S. Lags Other Countries on Sick Leave, Parental Leave; Women May Suffer the Most
By Jenna Goudreau, Forbes.com Nov. 22, 2009 —
A new study released Tuesday, Raising the Global Floor, examines workers' rights across 190 nations worldwide and finds that the U.S. lags behind nearly all other countries. The U.S. does not guarantee paid sick leave or annual leave, paid parental leave, paid time off to care for sick children or even one day of rest per week. And female workers may be suffering the most.
Authors Jody Heymann, founding director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, and Alison Earle, a research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, joined a team of international researchers to examine 190 national policies and look in-depth at the working conditions faced by 55,000 households, creating the most extensive research yet on workers' rights.
The findings do not look good for the U.S. While 177 nations guarantee paid leave for new mothers and another 163 nations mandate paid sick leave, the U.S. requires neither.
The U.S. also falls behind 164 countries that guarantee paid annual vacation, 157 countries that guarantee workers one day of rest each week, 74 countries that offer paid leave to new fathers and 48 countries that allow paid time off to care for sick children. ….

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NYT November 15, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/media/15bloom.html?scp=1&sq=At%20Bloomberg,%20Modest%20Strategy%20to%20Rule%20the%20World%20&st=cse
At Bloomberg, Modest Strategy to Rule the World
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and JULIE CRESWELL
PLOPPED in a white leather chair in a small office in Bloomberg L.P.’s Manhattan headquarters, Andrew Lack knows exactly how to articulate the aspirations of this 28-year-old media and technology company.
“We want to be the world’s most influential news organization,” says Mr. Lack, who oversees Bloomberg’s television, radio and dot-com endeavors.
Very clear. The most influential. On the planet.
It’s a goal several other Bloomberg executives have already mentioned to a pair of visitors. And when Mr. Lack, 62, a former head of NBC News, hears his guests wonder if something funny is in his company’s coffee — a special sauce that keeps all Bloombergians marching so efficiently and effectively to the same tune — he looks a tad chagrined.
“Oh, my! I don’t want to sound as if I’m on message,” he says, laughing apprehensively while also sending a “help me” look to a Bloomberg spokeswoman nearby.
These days, truth be told, the entire company is on message. That’s because the data behemoth that Michael R. Bloomberg created and named after himself in 1981, long before he became mayor of New York, finally has the reach, resources and appetites to try snaring the mantle of Most Influential
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NYT December 26, 2009 At Tiny Rates, Saving Money Costs Investors
By STEPHANIE STROM http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/your-money/26rates.html?_r=1&hp
Millions of Americans are paying a high price for a safe place to put their money: extremely low interest rates on savings accounts and certificates of deposit. The elderly and others on fixed incomes have been especially hard hit. Many have seen returns on savings, C.D.’s and government bonds drop to niggling amounts recently, often costing them money once inflation, fees and taxes are considered. “Open a Savings Plus Account today and get a great rate,” read an advertisement in the Dec. 16 Newsday for Citibank, which was then offering 1.2 percent for an account. (As low as it was, the offer was good only for accounts of $25,000 and up.) “They’re advertising it in the papers as if they’re actually proud of that,” said Steven Weisman, a title insurance consultant in New York. “It’s a joke.. “The unemployment situation and the general downturn in the economy had an impact, but what’s going to happen now as C.D.’s mature is that retirees and the elderly are going to take anywhere from a half to three-quarters of a percent cut in their incomes,” said Joe Parks, a retired accountant in Houston on the advisory board of Better Investing, an organization that works to help people become savvier investors. “It’s a real problem.” Experts say risk-averse investors are effectively financing a second bailout of financial institutions, many of which have also raised fees and interest rates on credit cards. “What the average citizen doesn’t explicitly understand is that a significant part of the government’s plan to repair the financial system and the economy is to pay savers nothing and allow damaged financial institutions to earn a nice, guaranteed spread,” said William H. Gross, co-chief investment officer of the Pacific Investment Management Company, or Pimco. “It’s capitalism, I guess, but it’s not to be applauded.”
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Who put deadly Science blinders to whole populations, offering civilizations such incredible, dim-witted options for survival and what comes after oil – ignoring definitions of light and energy as described above in “Energy Suppression and Restricted Education”?
Energy 2.0: What Comes From After Oil - The Green Eye - CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/22/green_eye/entry6010277.shtml?tag=cbsnews... 12/23/2009
Posted by Michael Kanellos
What happens after the world hits peak oil and prices skyrocket? Or when coal pushes
the carbon count in the atmosphere into the danger zone? Soylent Green might turn out to be
more prophetic than you thought. But, luckily, entrepreneurs are devising new ways to produce
energy even beyond solar and wind. Here are some of the more intriguing and far out ones.
1.Nuclear Goes Mod(ular):
NuScale Power, Sandia National Labs, TerraPower and Babcock & Wilcox all want to build
and/or license small reactors that could produce 45 to 125 megawatts of power.
2. Fusion:
"Not in our lifetime," Moniz said, after eyeballing me. (I'm a young 48.) Others disagree.
Livermore National Labs showed off a system in which 192 high powered lasers focused on tiny
capsule of hydrogen could generate fusion power.
3. Osmotic Pressure Gradients:
You know how you get really thirsty after eating salty food? The same principle serves as the
foundation of osmotic pressure gradients or OPGs.
4. Instant Oil:
Think microwave petroleum: no more slaving over the Permian basin for millions of years
waiting for those hydrocarbons to be done.
5. Gravity Power:
Like the brakes on a Prius, but supersized. Vycon Energy's flywheel captures energy released
when large cargo cranes drop those 30 ton storage containers in the holds of ships.
6. Hot Air.
Thermoelectric devices are semiconductors that convert heat into electricity and vice versa.
While advanced thermoelectric are still in the experimental stage, other companies are looking at
ways to capture heat and reuse it without converting it to electricity.
7. (Freedom Times Editor added) Sun and Wind - Unnecessary Space and Cost Requirements for a Solar Hydrogen Economy - High Tech, Low Inventiveness and Creativity - by Design or Default?. .........Using high tech to make bigger and bigger clubs does not speak much for the advancement of science. Likened to the 5000 year old Chinese rocket concept, where the principle remains the same (i.e., analogous to throwing rocks from a rowboat to propel the rowboat forward), only the technology, the outer coating, gets slicker…….Increasingly today, solar arrays and windfarms are beginning to dot the globe. While it is exciting to see the trend toward natural forces being converted into a clean energy base, I find it difficult to comprehend how science and creativity remain so petrified, oblivious, stagnant in fundamental operating principles. The concept of 'gestalt', the forest and the trees, local global, should be common knowledge so as to avoid the quagmire of losing sight of the forest as we explore the beauty of the trees. Does no one ask why we need so many windmills or solar arrays for a given energy output - beyond the standard, authorized given. Could a single, small solar array or windmill on a rooftop or garage conceivably produce more than enough energy to run a household and small business? Did we miss some fundamentals, (macros - integration) borrowing from other disciplines? ...................... Can less be more? ...............Einstein says YES, in a tiny, tiny atom, the nuclear bomb is only a very small fraction of the energy inherent in the atom.

Judge Thomas Troward, Walter Russell, Barbara Dewey, The Self-Aware Universe - Amit Goswami, Ph.D, refer to light and it’s electrical nature. A majority of wisdom books, metaphysics, religions all make references to Light, in the manner of “Let There be Light” referring to creation.

It turns out that the energy differential of light, the constant C, light’s velocity, does indeed become the radius of curvature of All Natural Law – By Default, The New fundamental principle in Physics. StarSteps http://fuel2000.net/starsteps.htm

LIGHT is The missing and illusive Radius of Curvature described in StarSteps, which completes the expanded view of E=MC2, combining the two seemingly opposed pillars of modern science, general relativity and quantum theory. The magic occurs when we also find this energy differential of light is also equivalent to the total energy contained within each and every atom